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Jocketty Aiming High
According to a source close to the Cardinals, Walt Jocketty is shooting for the stars if he is to trade prospects for a starting pitcher. Word is that the Cards will either acquire a front-line pitcher - Dontrelle Willis or John Smoltz - or none at all. The team does not have interest in the second-tier names floating around.
Beyond Willis and Smoltz, could any other top-flight starters be had? Purely my own speculation, but St. Louis could also consider attempting to deal for Jason Schmidt, Barry Zito, Gil Meche, or Brett Myers. Problem is, the first three guys are on teams that are very much in contention. The Phils are 6.5 games out of the wild card, but may try to rid themselves of Myers regardless. Myers doesn't fit with the Cards' classy image, but then again neither did Sidney Ponson.
Although Jocketty is not going to trade decent prospects for the Cory Lidles of the world, Jeff Weaver still could be worth a flier. Viva El Birdos points out that Weaver would cost just $115,000 for the balance of the season now that he's been designated for assignment.
HalosHeaven: White Sox Interested In Figgins
Interesting post by our good friends at Halos Heaven. I can vouch that the author of this site has several solid, independent sources close to the organization.
A lot of interest in utility superstar Chone Figgins, who is hitting just .253/.322/.347 this year. Figgins draws a walk about 9% of the time, which is fine for a leadoff hitter if he can hit .290. Halos Heaven notes that if Ozzie Guillen elects Orlando Cabrera (.305/.364/.436) to the All-Star game, the relationship between the two teams could improve enough to facilitate a trade.
The Angels view Figgins as more expendable than Adam Kennedy, who has become the clubhouse leader. I'm told Kennedy desperately wants to stay in Southern California, and will offer the Padres or Dodgers a huge discount after this season. It does seem that Kennedy could block Howie Kendrick for the rest of the season.
The latest on Jeff Weaver is that he'll be gone before the All-Star break, possibly back to the Dodgers. The Angels will eat his entire salary to get a decent bat in return.
Jeff Weaver's Value Plunges
My best Angels source indicates that scouts from as many as eight teams were in attendance Tuesday night to watch Jeff Weaver pitch. Weaver didn't rise to the occasion, taking his tenth loss after allowing six runs in just two innings to the Rockies.
Weaver's been an absolute mess this year, thwarting Scott Boras's attempt to replicate his success with Kevin Millwood. Boras didn't find the right multiyear deal for Millwood before the 2005 season, so he settled for one year with the Indians. After Millwood had a career year, Boras got him a massive five-year contract. Weaver makes $8.3MM this year in a deal that seemed wise at the time.
The 29 year-old righty has given up a ridiculous number of hits this year in conjunction with way too many home runs. His strikeout and walk rates have remained fairly stable. Can any of his problems be attributed to team defense and/or bad luck? Weaver's .332 BABIP exceeds his team's .293 mark, so some of those extra hits could be random.
Another stat to check out is home runs per flyball. Ron Shandler's work tells us that "pitchers do not have much control over the percentage of fly balls that turn into home runs." This figure tends to be about 10%, whereas Weaver is at 16.8% in 2006. That mark is the 9th worst in the game (browsing this list helps explain the unexpected misfortunes of several fine hurlers this season). Pitchers do control the number of flyballs they allow overall, and Weaver's 2006 level does not differ dramatically from career norms.
Maybe this is a stretch, but if we substitute Weaver's hit and HR rates with league average levels but hold everything else constant, his expected ERA comes all the way down to 3.84 with a 1.28 WHIP. That's right about where we expected him to be this season, and it would've been a bargain. I have to think several teams realize that Weaver has not pitched as badly as it seems. Acquiring Weaver still makes sense for savvy teams like the Red Sox or Cardinals.
Tigers Give Larry Walker A Call
I don't know about you, but I almost missed this interesting nugget buried amidst Lynn Henning's Q&A about Bobby Abreu to the Tigers rumors. According to Henning:
"Just because it made perfect sense for both parties, a call was placed last week with Larry Walker, the ex-Cardinals, Rockies and Expos star who would be precisely what the Tigers need down the stretch. He, of course, retired after last season, but he is only 39 and various aches and pains that helped bring about his retirement have all but vanished.
The question was whether a left-handed hitter of his prowess, with the ability to play outfield, first base, etc., might be interested in joining his old manager, Leyland, for a half-season playoff run?
Walker appreciated the inquiry but said he was happy in West Palm Beach, Fla. He also said he was not interested in a Roger Clemens-like "un-retirement," which is a response to be respected."
Unfortunately Walker didn't leave much to the imagination about a possible comeback. Walker is one of the few who managed to retire on top his game: .289/.384/.502 for the Cardinals in 315 ABs last year. One of the best glazes of glory in recent memory: Will Clark, after his 2000 trade to the Cardinals. Clark proceeded to hit .345/.426/.655 in 171 ABs and then retired.
I'd really love to see Walker step in, maybe do some DHing for Detroit. His back and knee have got to be feeling better after the time off and he could be quite a weapon. Walker played for 18 seasons but never had the luxury of DHing regularly.
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D-Rays Complete Deal With Dodgers
After successfully completing the Danys Baez trade in January, the Dodgers and Devil Rays have matched up again on a multi-player swap. This time L.A. sent Jae Seo, Dioner Navarro, and a PTBNL to the D-Rays for Toby Hall and Mark Hendrickson.
With a .258 batting average on balls in play, Hendrickson has been the 11th luckiest starter in baseball this year. Given the D-Rays' team BABIP of .316, we can be fairly confident that the 32 year-old southpaw will not maintain his hit rate of 8.13 per nine. His peripherals are otherwise unimpressive - 3.4 BB/9, 5.1 K/9, 1.0 HR/9. Prior to this season, Hendrickson had allowed almost 11 hits per nine innings in the Majors. His control is better than this, but he's in for a steep decline overall.
Despite an ERA near 6, I'm not sure Jae Seo is much worse than Hendrickson. Though no one seems to trust Seo to succeed, he has managed a 3.85 career ERA in almost 400 innings leading up to this season. Hendrickson doesn't seem like a significant upgrade, especially half a season worth of him.
The exchange of Toby Hall for Dioner Navarro is another clear win for Tampa Bay. Navarro is still just 22 and hasn't had a full trial in the Majors. Any backstop that young who can draw a walk 10% of the time has value.
I think this is a disappointing move for the Dodgers. While it's true they may not miss Navarro or Seo, Hendrickson is not the #3 starter the team needs to run away with the NL West.
Lining Up For Shealy
It might be helpful to summarize all the Ryan Shealy suitors from the last few months, just so we can keep them straight. These are all from various newspapers.
The most recent one is that the Red Sox offered 23 year-old southpaw starter Abe Alvarez. Alvarez posted a 4.85 ERA but a solid 1.20 WHIP in Triple A last year. This season, he's at 4.46 with a 1.36 WHIP. He's had little opportunity to prove himself in Boston. Random bio: Alvarez likes to wear his hat crooked, is legally blind in one eye, and is known for pinpoint control. Actually, those first two facts aren't so random - Alvarez wears his hat that way to balance the lighting for that eye. Sounds like a good kid who has overcome quite a bit of adversity, but the Rockies are looking for more.
Then there's the Orioles. Baltimore has little in the way of first basemen waiting in the wings, but they balked at the Rockies' request for Hayden Penn. It's said the team would prefer to deal Javy Lopez, but they've been trying to do that for ages. The Rockies could use a decent catcher for their unlikely pennant run, and Lopez is hitting .282/.329/.437 this season at 35. That's not particularly young for a backstop, and Lopez has only caught 12 games this season out of 56 played. He'd make an interesting addition to a lot of teams, but at $8.5MM this will probably just be a salary dump. The O's will have to surrender a young player to get Shealy. Adam Loewen seems like too high a price, but I am not an expert in the Orioles' farm system.
It's been noted that the Blue Jays are interested, so a third AL East team is in the mix. The Jays already have Shea Hillenbrand and Eric Hinske clogging up the DH spot, so something would have to give before they acquired Shealy. Toronto doesn't have much in the way of Triple A starters who could be swapped with the Rox.
The Cubs poked around in May with their first base vacancy (albeit two weeks later than they should have). Recent word is that Cubs offered reliever David Aardsma. Besides having the first name in the baseball encyclopedia, Aardsma has 20 solid Triple A innings to his credit. He hasn't shown much in the Majors this season. The persistent walk problem remains. Assuming Shealy was healthy enough to play left field, the Cubs should step up their offer to at least Rich Hill.
One of the papers mentioned that the Indians inquired within the last year, but there's no longer a fit. Ryan Garko is not setting the world afire at Buffalo, nor is Ryan Mulhern at Double A. Michael Aubrey has been on the DL with a knee injury since late May. So I'm thinking the Indians would still like to acquire Shealy, but maybe the Rockies were asking for too much.
Shealy is doing well in Colorado Springs (though of course in a hitters' environment). He's at .284/.357/.593 after 43 games.
Gammons: Braves May Explore Andruw Jones Deal
Interesting note from Peter Gammons's blog a couple of days ago:
"The Braves were heavily involved in the Joey Gathright deal and still could get him from Kansas City. Yes, they need a leadoff hitter, but there is the possibility that they will explore dealing Andruw Jones at the end of the season."
A lot of folks have emailed me asking whether I thought Gathright could end up with the Braves, and my knee-jerk reaction was to dismiss the idea because of Jones. But Gammons makes a good point. Andruw Jones makes $13.5MM next year in the last of his deal. He's reaching the point where his next contract will not offer a positive return on investment for the Braves.
According to Baseball Prospectus, Jones will be worth about $9-10 mil from 2008-09 before the real dropoff begins. Obviously John Schuerholz understands this, and it seems highly unlikely that the Braves will enter the bidding for Andruw's next deal when you have to offer 5/65 just to get in the door.
The Braves always seem to be one step ahead. They don't have much in the way of top-shelf outfield talent now that Jeff Francoeur has been called up. It's time to snatch up a couple more Major League ready outfielders, and the Braves have what everyone wants: starting pitching. The Yankees and Red Sox should come calling for John Smoltz and Tim Hudson. And don't you just have this feeling that Kenny Williams will make some phone calls, just because he understands that you can never have too much starting pitching? He hasn't been shy about trading his best prospects and Josh Fields is taking care of business at Triple A.
The Brewers and Nationals were scouting Philip Hughes recently, but that seems to be related to the Yanks' outfield vacancies. It just doesn't seem that New York can acquire any big names while keeping Hughes.
2007 Free Agent Market: Third Basemen
Updated 1-2-06
Here we have info on the free agent third basemen market.
2006 League Averages for Third Basemen
Sorry folks - there are no free agent starting third basemen on the market anymore.
The Yankees and Jacque Jones
Critics of Jacque Jones have backed off this season, given that he's currently hitting .296 with 13 home runs for the Cubs. He's been one of very few decent hitters on the team this year. Nonetheless, this trade rumor from the New York Daily News is a breath of fresh air amidst a dismal Cubs season.
If the best Jim Hendry could do for Jones was a bag of baseballs, he should make that deal. Even if it'd be kind of dumb from New York's point of view. Jones is owed $9MM for 2007-08, his age 32 and 33 seasons. Baseball Prospectus figures him to be worth just a touch over $4MM over that span. Now is the time for Hendry to sell high. Jones has a mediocre but excellent for him OBP of .329 right now. It's entirely propped up by his .296 average, which is highly unlikely to last when he's putting the bat on the ball less than 80% of the time. One would also expect his .522 slugging percentage to plummet, as he hasn't been over .500 since 2002.
The Cubs' outfield replacement options at Triple A are grim: Michael Restovich, Buck Coats, Felix Pie, Luis Montanez, and Brandon Sing. None are good options this year, but it's a lost season. Just shed the Jones contract and take another crack at fielding a decent outfield next year. Hendry failed this past offseason in that task, and can consider options like Kenny Lofton, Cliff Floyd, Luis Gonzalez, Carlos Lee, and Alfonso Soriano in the upcoming free agent market. Adding a second Lee to the middle of the lineup should definitely be a major consideration.


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GQ Accused of "Borderline Pedophilia" For Provocative "Glee" Photo Shoot
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of these GQ photos of three young stars from FOX's popular "Glee," it's tough to conjure up more than a couple syllables. These shots are just the tip of a very provocative iceberg.
The Parents Television Council (PTC), "a non-partisan education organization advocating responsible entertainment," thinks GQ's spread "borders on pedophilia." That may be a bit of hyperbole, but their concern is not without merit. Continue Reading GQ Accused of "Borderline Pedophilia" For Provocative "Glee" Photo Shoot…
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The following is a guest post written by Aaron Walker.
With Manchester United taking its 20th Premier League trophy with four games left to play in the season, soccer fans are already looking to the next season for their team to steal the glory. But before that comes months of player trials, trading speculation, and the updates on rigorous training for their team in off-season. Fortunately, the time goes fast. That's because during the 3 months of off season, luckily for us United States citizens, we're able to see some of the world's most prolific soccer teams come to play on our own home turf. Here are some of the big games going on this summer.
While this is still a tentative match with no conclusive date, soccer bloggers and online publishers are all buzzing with gossip that one of the world's biggest soccer brands, Real Madrid, will be coming to Los Angeles on August 1st, to play the home team. As part of the International Champions Cup, an annual soccer tournament to mix some of the biggest teams from across the world, Real Madrid will hope to finish on top of their group, allowing them to play the final in Miami on August 11th. Surely with Real Madrid having one of the largest sports fan base to span across the world, this will be a popular event. So make sure you reserve your tickets fast!
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The USA is the land of many things but there are two exports that, when married together, are the perfect pairing. Folk festivals are hugely popular across the world, and no-one does a folk festival quite like the Americans.
If you're into this niche of music and know your Billy Dean from your Dean Para, you will be no doubt counting down the days until your next festival. Here is our pick of five top US folk festivals happening in 2013:
The Central Ohio Folk Festival always takes place on the first full weekend in May, and lasts for three days. This folk festival is as much about the teaching of music and jamming sessions, as it is the music and performers. You can watch artists such as Cathy Barton and Dave Para in the day; and enjoy workshops, jamming sessions, and even a worst song contest in the evenings. If you're heading to Ohio this May, be sure to take your instruments along and show off what you can do.
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There has been much speculation around the quarterbacks of this draft class and much debate if any of them are worth a first round pick. The leaders of the draft are Geno Smith from West Virgina, Matt Barkley from USC and Ryan Nassib from Syracuse. These are the standouts and what you would consider the cream of the crop. Nothing compared to what we had last year with RGIII, Andrew Luck and Russell Wilson. Many scouts don't even think that any of these quarterbacks are worth going in the first ten picks, let alone the first round.
However, you can read just about any mock draft online and you will see that they have Geno Smith going in the top ten and Matt Barkley going in the first round as well. So this brings up the question: are teams going to draft these quarterbacks just to draft one? Are any of these franchise guys? The answer is yes: teams will draft quarterbacks early, and no: none of these quarterbacks are franchise material.
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There's no doubt about it: MMA is a very brutal sport.
From popped knees to cuts and bruises, the highest leagues of the mixed martial arts world aren't unfamiliar with serious injuries and nasty post-fight conditions.
We've tracked down three of the most devastatingly scary injuries in MMA for your viewing… pleasure?
Read on to see MMA's craziest injuries and prepare for an outburst of sympathy or schadenfreude, depending on which fighter you support.
During UFC 129, Mark Hominick experienced an injury that made both fans and judges squirm in their seats. After sustaining a series of facial punches from reigning featherweight champion Jose Aldo, the Canadian fighter's forehead swelled to truly cartoonish proportions.
Despite the alien-like appearance of Mark Hominick's face during the later rounds of the fight, the doctors at UFC 129 determined that the injury wasn't serious. The fight continued with Aldo claiming a unanimous victory, in one of the year's best matches.
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What was once a sport consigned to feature only on the fringe of sports programming has now evolved into a phenomenon that's captivating millions. The Cinderella story of MMA Fighting is no different than the stories its characters share. We've seen the sport grow. Watched its characters evolve. We've roared with joy when they were triumphant over their competitors, and felt each blow as they were defeated. And in the past 10 years, we've witnessed some amazing moments and sensational fights.
And throughout it all, some characters have made the MMA story much more enjoyable. These fighters have earned their place in the history books but still continue to fight for their story. These are the top 5 deadliest fighters still in the game.
Since entering the MMA World over a decade ago, in 1997, no one can doubt Silva's position in this top 5. His impressive record of 33-4-0 says it all, having only ever lost 4 fights. Silva wasn't blessed with an amazing fighting education filled with college and daily classes. He had to learn by practicing with neighborhood kids that could afford to take Jiu-Jitsu classes. Regardless, this unconventional training didn't halt his growth. Even UFC President Dana White has called him the "greatest mixed martial artist ever." Silva holds the longest winning and title defense streak in UFC history, as well as having been Middleweight Champion for both Cage Rage and UFC. And when you're already the champion for 10 consecutive seasons, there aren't many new accomplishments to gain.
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United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Rudolph Deleon, 63, of Lincoln, Nebraska, to 292 months in federal prison for his part in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Lincoln, Nebraska.
In September of 2011, Investigators with the Lincoln Lancaster County Drug Task Force contacted Rudolph Deleon at his residence in Lincoln, Nebraska. Investigators had received information that a fugitive with felony warrants might be with Deleon. Deleon denied that anybody other than his grandchildren was in his residence and gave the investigators consent to search his residence. During this search, the investigators located a bag of suspected methamphetamine sitting on the bedroom night stand along with a methamphetamine pipe. Investigators then obtained a search warrant for the residence. Upon conducting the search, investigators found an additional 2054.6 grams of suspected methamphetamine which was located in Deleon's bedroom inside a black cooler next to his bed. Also found were numerous baggies of various sizes containing methamphetamine, pipes and $10,020.00 in cash.
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5) GSA claims its employees are overworked and can no longer handle additional and/or existing vendors. All existing employee manual operations should be analyzed via GSA's Software Engineers to automate current manual human labor. It may be possible to handle unlimited vendors and buyers once this project is completed. Each new additional GSA Human assignment should be analyzed by software engineers for possible automation. 6) I strongly believe an independent software company should be allowed to give alternative 21st Century solutions versus FSSI. 7) There will be very little motivation for these very few FSSI vendors to vigorously compete via price / best quality. All prices are available via gsaadvantage.gov and each vendor will easily identify competitors. 8) Reduce the number of schedule solicitations. Currently GSA claims it costs $3,000 per year, per contract to maintain each contract and numerous GSA employees. There are 40 solicitations (GSA and VA). The solicitations should be consolidated down to a handful—with a goal of a single solicitation (contractors could then choose to consolidate their contracts or maintain separate contracts depending on their business models). 9) It is this writer's belief FSSI is nothing similar to Corporate volume purchasing. Example lets take Walmart. They currently have 66,000 vendors and counting each day. FSSI eliminates virtually all competition with possible oligopoly price fixing. Keep in mind all vendor prices are available via gsaadvantage.gov Giving very few companies exclusive selling rights via a long term contract and eliminating competition is not the answer. Why have 1,000s of existing GSA software programs go to waste monitoring a few vendors. GSA needs to enhance existing software to truly and easily maintain a vigorous open competitive market via existing web sites (gsaadvantage.gov and other existing procurement sites). Programmatically controlling the buyer via software is the 21st solution.
FSSI eliminates virtually all competition with possible oligopoly price fixing. Keep in mind 1,000s of government buyers purchase via government purchase sites similar to amazon.com. I wanted to summarize a 21st Century Open market solution vs FSSI. I strongly believe GSA should modify existing software to control buyers rather than eliminating competition via the FSSI procurement program. If buyer breaks protocol hence buyer would be disciplined. This software project can be done without additional funding. GSA, DoD & NASA can prioritize this software project via existing employed Software Engineers. It takes the will and priority to make this happen. From what I can see there are some really big holes in the procurement process. 1) Via this GAO report http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-705T most purchases were made outside of GSA procurement web site www.gsaadvantage.gov. A solution to this problem would be take away the buyers PHYSICAL credit card and store the credit card information online via www.gsaadvantage.gov Again this can be done with no additional funding. Amazon.com is a perfect example. I know the government is not a company but I am certain GSA has great software engineers to accomplish this task via a top priority and no additional funding software project. For open market purchases buyer currently utilize fbo.gov and/or other existing procurement sites. The same projects can be accomplished via these sites. 2) An independent software company should be allowed to screen scrape information from gsaadvantage.gov to prove selected FSSI Vendors "DO NOT" offer the lowest prices/ best quality. 3) Via Vendor uploads develop back end software to monitor and reject outrageously priced items. Example a $25,000 toilet seat or $5,000 hammer. Statistical databases exist via the free market to determine low / high prices per item hence halting outrageously priced item(s) uploaded to gsaadvantage.gov. GSA software engineers would need to create software to utilize this database. 4) I believe various government buyers have different volume purchase requirements. FSSI is not a one size fits all solution. Example many government buyers have less than a $3,000 requirement. Internet purchasing may be more advantageous for this type of purchase. Example open competition via gsaadvantage.gov
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"Gourds are an interesting crop to grow in your garden. The plants need no special pampering and the gourds are decorative on their own or in craft projects. There are two types of gourds. The small, oddly shaped colorful gourds often seen in autumn decorations are soft-skinned varieties of the Cucurbita family. These little gourds can be dried and saved, although their bright colors tend to fade over time.
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Making effective communication, a human right, accessible and achievable for all.
What is the purpose of NOMS?
The purpose of NOMS is to collect aggregated national outcomes data in order to assist ASHA members as well as the Association in demonstrating the effectiveness of speech-language pathology and audiology services. For more information about NOMS development and the financial and nonfinancial relationships of individuals who developed or modified the NOMS self-study trainings (i.e., NOMS Adult User Training, NOMS Pre-Kindergarten User Training), please view the disclosure statement.
What is the cost to participate in NOMS data collection?
NOMS is a member benefit and there are no additional costs for participation. In exchange for submitting data to ASHA, your facility will have access to data reports profiling your organization against national data, and if applicable, system data. Facilities may also run customized analyses of their data, as well as national data, using our Web-based reporting system.
How can I participate in NOMS data collection?
Participation in NOMS is at the facility/school or system level. Organizations must meet basic eligibility requirements and may choose to participate in the Pre-Kindergarten and/or the Adult Component(s) in one of two ways:
How do I register for NOMS?
First gain the approval of your organization or system. Next, complete the NOMS registration which identifies the NOMS component(s) your organization chooses to participate in and provides ASHA with the necessary information about your healthcare facility(s)/school(s) and clinicians. Additionally, the registration includes a Community Subscription Agreement outlining the terms of NOMS data collection and the agreed upon commitment between ASHA and your organization. Only one registration needs to be submitted for the organization or system. Individual clinicians do not need to submit a separate registration and the Subscriber and Administrator will be asked to sign a Community Subscription Agreement stating that you have authority/permission to release the data to ASHA for purposes of advocating for the profession on behalf of your organization or system.
What are the responsibilities of a NOMS Subscriber?
A Subscriber, often an administrator or designee, is the liaison between ASHA and the organization that is collecting the NOMS data. The Subscriber must be a certified ASHA member and obtain any necessary approvals from the organization prior to participation in NOMS. The responsibilities of the Subscriber are to coordinate the training process, to ensure that all staff become Registered NOMS Users and to ensure the timely initiation of data collection and submission for the organization. In addition, the Subscriber informs ASHA of any organizational changes affecting NOMS data collection, including the addition or elimination of programs or staffing changes. The Subscriber must also ensure that all applicable patients/clients are included in the NOMS data collection with regular submission of NOMS data to ASHA.
Who is a Registered NOMS User?
A Registered NOMS User is an ASHA certified member who successfully completes the NOMS training. All speech-language pathologists who will be collecting NOMS data for a facility or organization must become Registered NOMS Users by completing the self-study training program and individually taking the User Registration Test.
Can Clinical Fellows participate in NOMS?
Yes. Clinicians currently in their clinical fellowship year are eligible for NOMS on a time limited basis. Upon completion of the CF year, clinicians must become ASHA certified in order for their participating organization to maintain eligibility.
What is required for staff training?
Each clinician will be granted access to the Web-based NOMS training, which is designed as a self-study program. The NOMS training provides an overview of the data collection procedures and includes a User Registration Test that each participating clinician must successfully pass to ensure the integrity of the data reported to ASHA. Some of the larger departments currently participating in NOMS have reported that the staff has reviewed the training materials and discussed the contents as a group to prepare for the User Registration Test. Other groups have left the training up to the individual clinicians. Regardless of the training format, each clinician must review the materials and individually take the User Registration Test. Clinicians may earn 0.2 ASHA CEUs for successfully completing the training to become a Registered NOMS User.
How much time is required for data collection?
Clinicians are asked to collect data at two junctures, when speech and language intervention is initiated, and again when it is discontinued. Data collection takes only a few minutes per patient/client and includes easily accessible information that is already a part of the speech and language record.
How do we submit NOMS data?
All NOMS data will be submitted via our secured online data collection and reporting tool. Clinicians will be granted immediate access to the Web-based tool upon completion of the NOMS training.
Must all staff participate in data collection?
Yes. 100% participation is necessary. In order for you to obtain meaningful data, outcomes information must be collected on all patients within any program that is participating in NOMS. It is, however, not necessary that all programs at a single facility be included in the data collection. For example, an organization may decide to collect data in inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient and home health settings, but not include acute care treatment. That is acceptable as long as all of the staff meeting the registration requirements collect data on all of their patients in each of those designated programs.
What volume of data submissions must an organization generate in order to participate in NOMS?
There is no minimum number of submissions needed to subscribe to NOMS; however, all patients/clients within a participating program must be included in the data collection. The number of records submitted into NOMS is not important. However, the larger the database, the more reflective the outcomes will be of your practice. We recommend that the analysis of any data containing small sample sizes be used cautiously. If a speech-language pathologist is in a solo private practice, it may take longer to build this database, but the outcomes information will still be useful in shaping clinical practice.
De we need to begin submitting data to NOMS by any specific date?
Yes. We ask that you complete the training and begin data collection within 90 days of your organization's registration. You may choose to begin collecting the data in a few programs and then gradually introduce additional programs, as you deem appropriate.
What length of commitment must an organization make in order to subscribe to NOMS?
Organizations sign a Community Subscription Agreement committing to the submission of data to ASHA for a minimum of one year. However, we hope an organization will continue to collect data on an ongoing basis because this will provide the most useful information about trends, clinical practice, and changes in the industry.
Do we need to obtain our Institutional Review Board's approval or notify the patients/clients and their families before we can participate in NOMS?
It depends on the policy of your organization. However, this has not been necessary for most organizations. ASHA is not asking you to withhold or change treatment intervention in any way, nor is ASHA asking for data that will allow us to identify individual patients/clients (i.e. name, date of birth, etc). Rather, you are being asked to centralize data that are already a part of the speech and language record.
Additionally, all of the data elements collected in NOMS are de-identified and not considered to be protected health information in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. Each individual entered into NOMS is assigned a computer-generated record number and ASHA will have no way of identifying individual patients/clients. Confidentiality of the data will be maintained.
Can university clinics participate in NOMS?
At this time, data from university graduate programs are not included in ASHA's national registry. However, university programs can incorporate NOMS data collection and ASHA's Functional Communication Measures into their curriculum for the purpose of understanding NOMS and the importance of outcomes data. View the University Clinic Registration Form [PDF].
Should any population be excluded from the data collection?
At this time, the Functional Communication Measures (FCMs) have not been adequately designed to meet the needs of patients/clients seen for an evaluation only, adults with developmental disabilities, or children with only voice or fluency disorders. In the future, we hope to address the needs of these and other populations.
Can we use the Adult FCMs with adolescents?
The Adult FCMs have been designed for persons 16 years of age or older who receive speech and language intervention for an acquired cognitive-communication and/or swallowing disorder.
Do we need to use any specific tests or protocols besides the Functional Communication Measures (FCMs) to participate in NOMS?
No. The FCMs are functional descriptions of an individual's communication and/or swallowing abilities and are not dependent upon administration of any specific assessment tools, method of intervention, or therapeutic techniques.
For more information about the Adult NOMS component, please contact Tobi Frymark at 301-296-8736 or firstname.lastname@example.com. For the Pre-Kindergarten component, contact Tracy Schooling at 301-296-8741 or email@example.com.
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