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From where I sit, a member of the local school board and head of our board's curriculum committee, I appreciate what No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top have meant for our district: forcing accountability on a school district that pushes inexorably against it. And I see the Common Core as promising us a curriculum where none has ever existed.
Sure, we have plenty to worry about when it comes to the role of the federal government in our lives. The current cover story in the Economist is about an "Over-regulated America," smothered by a wave of "red tape" that may crush the life out of America's economy. It sure seems to have already crushed much of the life out of America's public education system.
Coming at the question from a different direction, David Brooks recently suggested that the United States is just as freighted by central government as the Europe is; we just do it differently—and not so well. Our economic briar patch, says Brooks, is in the tax code.
There should be a lesson here for our education policy-wonks and -makers: instead of getting hung up on which government agency is making the rules, let's dig a little deeper into the question of red tape, at all levels, and find out exactly which ties are binding so...
The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, received some well-deserved praise last week for bringing the state education department and the teachers unions together on a new teacher evaluation rubric. (See here. And here. And here and here and here and here.) As Joe Williams wrote in the Daily News:
Though there will be much grousing about how common-sensical it is to judge teachers based on how their students do on standardized tests (40 percent of the evaluation)—"it's a dark day when politicians impose an untested scheme on educators," wrote Diane Ravitch—the more fascinating part of this story is the New York City subplot.
The United Federation of Teachers, which represents Gotham's 75,000 teachers, negotiated an additional deal (also with Cuomo's help), to include, according to the UFT, "third-party, independent validation of teacher ratings." Though this applies, ostensibly, only to the appeal of decisions about a teacher's effectiveness, it introduces an...
This is not the time for federal intervention is what they would say. But I would imagine most of our great presidents would be somewhat appalled by the barnacled bureaucracy that now counts as our public education system. I would love to hear what they had to say about these four recent stories:
Every time I see a "poverty and education" story I think of the famous line from the New Testament in which Jesus says, "The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want."
So, with education. Want a convenient scapegoat for our problems? Poverty. It's there, it's handy.
I sat through an hour meeting of our small school district's budget committee last week, most of it devoted to bemoaning our fate as a "poor district" (over 60 percent of our kids qualify for free and reduced-price lunch, the standard definition of "poor" for schools) in these recessionary times. State aid has been nearly flat and the Governor punched through a two percent local property tax cap. Woe is us. There goes sports. Not mentioned was the fact that we spend over $22,000 per student!
Diane Ravitch has been hitting the poverty gong for some time, most recently in Cleveland, where, she says, "the level of urban decay is alarming." I was just in Cleveland and, while I can appreciate the sentiment, I fail to understand how she gets to the next sentence: "Yet its municipal leaders have decided that their chief problem is bad teachers."
I visited a couple of successful Cleveland public schools during my visit—successful in educating...
In the midst of the waiver news last week—which set many a reformer's teeth on edge—came a few events and reports that provide some interesting ringtones for the current debate over the federal role in education.
Let the dollars follow the child was the proposal from the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force, which also makes a compelling case for the federal government's "central role" in our nation's education future. Let the feds butt out was the message delivered by Rep. John Kline, Republican chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, as he explained two ESEA rewrite bills at an American Enterprise event. And Unconstitional! was the Pioneer Institute's conclusion about the federal government's support of the Common Core:
I hesitate to invoke Civil War analogies here, but there are some troubling signs in the current dust-up that make one wonder whether "states' rights" are being invoked to cover up the very inequities—the "soft bigotry of low expectations"—that No Child Left Behind was determined to remedy. In a...
I came to the world of public education late in my career, but through a golden portal, E.D. Hirsch, Jr.'s Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, a book of such broad intellectual depth and revolutionary import that it was a national bestseller in 1987. Amazingly, more than twenty years later, very few educators have read it (see here). That's too bad. If they had, they would not make statements like the one Josh Thomases, deputy chief academic officer for New York City's Education Department, gave to the New York Times just the other day:
Wrong. The problem of literacy is that the transition from decoding skills to comprehension should happen long before middle school.
Thomases means well. And he's trying to clean up the anti-academic middle school mess that has persisted for far too long (see my Ed Next story). But like far too many educators (including the authors of No Child Left Behind, who wrongly set reading up as a skill divorced from content), he misunderstands the nature of reading. As Hirsch writes in his second, and arguably more important, book about education, The Schools...
My email crackled early the other morning, a message from a friend who monitors the Police band on his CB*:
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Ah, yes, the walking school bus. An idea that seems to be sweeping the nation, conquering the obesity problem, saving gas-guzzling millions—not here. We've been discussing it for a couple of years. I was pulled aside in the bank a couple of weeks ago. "I heard you're for the walking school bus," said the woman, an African American mother of six. It was not a question. "Don't you know about the perverts?" That too was not a question.
A few days later, I received an email from a local real estate broker. It had a "busing" subject line and began "What a...
I'm not sure what was more disconcerting from the blogosphere last week:Deborah Meier's comparison of KIPP schools' "ideology" to that of Nazi Germany or Jay Mathews' hesitation in suggesting that Washington, D.C., shouldn't be a city of charter schools.
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Yikes. That's quite a leap.
In his Washington Post column Mathews, who wrote a book about KIPP (Work Hard, Be Nice), was describing a new report that suggested that the D.C. public school system either close 38 struggling schools or send their students to charters. Mathews notes that charters are already so popular in the nation's capital that 41 percent of the city's students attend them with more on the way. He writes:
In case you missed them, a few notable events from the last month (or so):
An amazing story from Erik Robelen at Education Week begins…
Robelen quotes Fordham's curriculum guru, Kathleen Porter-Magee, leaning toward parents:
This is certainly not the first shot fired in what will be a prolonged battle to decentralize education, but it surely brings the fight to the curriculum trenches.
Teachers really really do count. Kudos to Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times for appreciating the stakes of the debate over the Chetty-Friedman-Rockoff study called ...
In a recent New York Times column about Steve Brill's Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools, Joe Nocera, says
Wrong. Like many education establishmentarians, Nocera makes the mistake of confusing pedagogy and governance. The former—e.g. great teaching—is a hard nut to crack and Nocera is right to suggest, as does Brill, that there perhaps aren't enough great teachers in the pipeline (or in charter schools) to educate all 50 million public school students.
But there is certainly no such impediment to `scaling' charters. Every public school in America could be a charter school tomorrow if policymakers would allow it. Would that "fix" America's schools? Not necessarily. But it would help.
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Try numerically by primary Pantone ink color.
I tried to take a cell pic of my collection, but it seems to have gotten lost somewhere between my phone and photobucket. I hang most of my (well over 100) woot (and some teefury, threadless, etc.) shirts. I got one of those cheap 2 rod clothing racks at walmart, and keep the shirts ok for work on one bar, and NSFW on the other. I keep holiday/seasonal shirts on a shelf. My husband keeps his rolled up in standing and hanging wine racks.
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Wine racks! I didn't think of that. Very cool idea.
Mine are presently in two stacks of plastic stacking drawers (NYC grime & dust gets on *everything* otherwise.) I subdivided them based on 1) shirts I wear the most/least often, then 2) by colour. The new 'filing system' has only been in place for less than a week ... still waiting to see just how well it will work out.
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I have surrendered my closet to woot shirts. All my closet clothes are now sitting on my kitchen table. Thank goodness I've never used it for an actual meal, I might miss it.
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Heh, I feel less guilty about finally devoting one whole armoire drawer to t-shirts. 'Tis organized haphazardly, according to whatever comes out of the dryer in whatever order. Oftentimes I'll try a shirt on and decide against it for the day/outfit/mood, taking it off and and folding it back into the drawer, inside-out. Most of the drawer is unrecognizable, then.
geekfactor12 wrote:Mine are on shelves, arranged by color: It makes it reasonably easy to find a specific shirt if I need to.
that's a pretty nifty idea. i should think about that though thanks to my stupidity i'd also have to write a note of which ones i have too. i have the 2nd largest bedroom, but the smallest closet so right most of mine are stuffed in some rubbermaid container wih a few in a drawer.
I'm thinking maybe hanging would be best. Quicker than folding and easier to see. However, I'm worried about my t-shirts getting those "shoulder bumps" from hangers. Maybe I'll clip them on like a clothesline. Or continue with my smooshed pile method.
I try to put all my Woot shirts together on the shelf. Well, actually my wife does. She's a great woman.
I have over 100 with woot, threadless, a couple teefury, a few dbh, a few tilteed and a tenbills. I hang all of mine so I can see them but sorted in color. I use these giant plastic slowly rounded hangers from Ikea. They have softer curves to prevent shoulder nipples. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10160050 They are the best thing ever for clothes!
I have two rods in my closet -- one for t-shirts, one for everything else I own.
thatrobert wrote:I have two rods in my closet -- one for t-shirts, one for everything else I own.
Me too. Well, I actually have 3 rods, but if I put too much on one, it blocks a shelf. 1 rod has work clothes. I have 1 1/2 of the other rods crammed full of hanging tshirts. I have a sorting system, but it only makes sense to me. I don't have a problem with shoulder bumps from the hangers...my problem is the shirts get huge wrinkles in them from being crammed together so tightly. I need to find a better way to store them. lol
I don't have nearly as many but they take over one section of my closet. I hang them. My hangers are big enough that I rarely see the shoulder humps. If so, they're easy to iron out.
ThunderThighs wrote:I don't have nearly as many but they take over one section of my closet. I hang them. My hangers are big enough that I rarely see the shoulder humps. If so, they're easy to iron out.
wut iz ironing?
Good golly, man!
jabberjaws13 wrote:wut iz ironing?
Is the thing I avoid doing by using Downy Wrinkle Releaser. LOL
I scouted out my linen closet last night and there's plenty of room to hang my t-shirts in there. I think I'll get a big lot of wide hangers on eBay. I tried hanging a few last night sorted by color and the geek in me loves the way it looks. If I had the room in my apartment, I'd want one of those circular retail hanging racks. It'll be like a piece of art in the middle of the room. :-D
SailorButterfly wrote:Is the thing I avoid doing by using Downy Wrinkle Releaser. LOL
yeah i don't even do that. half dry them inside out on delicate, lay them out flat all over my bed, voila!
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Sorry, neither. EVGA GTX in the workstation. I've got one HIS X1550 in the firewall because I wanted to reclaim the system RAM from the GMA4 IGP. One in the media PC (Windows) because that's what I had available. Everything else is using Intel IGPs because it doesn't need anything better or it's a laptop where I didn't have any choice at the time, or cheap NVIDIA boards.
I know reclocking was just implemented. I don't want to have to go through the hassle of trying to backport kernel patches myself. Building my own media players and back-end libs is already too much like work; screwing up a kernel backport could really ruin my whole day-- esp. while ext4 and btrfs are neither of them fully-baked. I'd really rather something I can just use.
I'd like to totally offload at least one full video decode stream from the CPU(s) and have tweakable upsampling, downsampling, and artifact removal. I don't know if VDPAU / VA-API allow anything at all besides offloading, but at least it's something, and I'm looking at Atoms and ULV Ci3/Ci5 which could really use the help. Even MPEG-2 offload (and esp. upsampling / processing) is more strain than I want while a bittyamd64 is trying to render a web page in, i.e., Fox 4.
(Has anyone ever determined whether GPUs or dedicated DSP solutions like the new BCM cards can or do use less power than on-CPU decode? I'd be interested to know.)
It's been a while since I was lurking on Freenode and politely nudging to know when >= R6x0 support would be finished, so I'll grant I may be out of touch.
Yes. Phoronix and my own benches seem to quite clearly bear out the theory that the Windows drivers are far, far faster, "Direct2D" or no.
Bringing this back on-topic: It doesn't even matter any more. I'm decommissioning all the old junk, so the question is about R700/R800 AMD and 200- / 400-series NVIDIA.


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A Contemporary History of Eastern Yacht Club Aurae Vela Vocant - "The Winds Call to the Sails". Yachting in America was dynamic in 1870 when the first defense of the America's Cup took place in New York Harbor. That was the year when 12 yachtsmen founded the Eastern Yacht Club. This 54-minute film uses narratives from 25 Eastern members to tell a rich and storied history of one of the oldest clubs in the U.S. KUSI-TV News Story on 2011 Induction of National Sailing Hall of Fame Features interviews with Dennis Conner (who grew up & sailed out of San Diego Yacht Club) and Ted Turner. 2010 Newport to Bermuda Race Join narrator Gary Jobson and the crew of AURORA as they compete in a fleet of 183 yachts in this fun and challenging offshore race. Learn about the storied history of the race and get a taste of what it's like to crew aboard a go-fast yacht in a 635 mile endurance test. 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Henry Rodgers Ship Model Collection - U.S. Naval Academy Museum See the remarkable details of the Henry Rodgers Ship Model Collection, which includes 108 models of sailing ships and boats dating from 1650 to 1850, many scale models built for British Admiralty. In 1935, Colonel Henry Huddleston Rodgers bequeathed this collection to the U.S. Naval Academy. Using cameras typically employed in medicine, the video uncovers intricate details of below-decks portions of the ships - sights not seen since these antiques were built. Nantucket Race Week 2007 Nantucket Race Week has evolved into one of the premier summer sailing events in the USA. Honorary Race Week Chairman Gary Jobson recently produced a film on the 2007 event, with a special feature on the famous Opera House Cup, featuring boats from the vintage America's Cup 12-meter class. 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All employees are required to report any incident that may put a patient at risk for harm such as a fall, medication error, equipment issues or treatment delays. These events are handled immediately by the staff who provide the direct care and monitored for any concerning trends so that actions can be taken to prevent their recurrence.
What are we doing to increase patient safety?
Our surgical infection rates are well below national averages. We are currently investing in excess of $15 million in new information technology to improve patient safety and support the implementation of a fully electronic medical record by the end of 2007.
What does it mean to be timely?
Timeliness means prompt access to diagnosis and treatment. We measure wait times in the Emergency Department, monitor surgical delays and discharge times, and compare ourselves to other healthcare systems and hospitals around the country in order to establish targets for improvement. Cottage has applied proven methods to reduce redundancies and waste so that our patients do not wait needlessly.
How timely is the care we provide?
Our length of stay in the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Emergency Department averages about 2.5 hours from arrival to discharge, or 4.5 hours if you are admitted. While these times are now at or below the national average for EDs, we are working hard to reduce them even more. The same group of emergency physicians staff both Santa Barbara and Goleta Valley Cottage hospitals. Because GVCH is often less crowded, wait times may be shorter there.
What does it mean to be effective?
Effective means practicing "evidence- based-medicine." We monitor compliance with the best practices across the country for pneumonia, heart attack, heart failure and surgical infection prevention. We publicly report these measures so that our patients can compare our performance to other healthcare systems or hospitals (see links to other Public reporting sites). The trauma, critical care, cancer, cardiac surgery, bariatric surgery, and catheterization laboratories each have a detailed outcomes database to monitor and support improvement efforts.
How effective is our care?
The Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital emergency and critical care departments have recently implemented protocols to ensure rapid diagnosis and treatment for sepsis, or severe infection. The mortality rate for sepsis shock — the most severe form of sepsis — is less than half the national average as a result of our efforts to implement evidence-based practice guidelines in the emergency and critical care departments.
Also, over the past two years, implementation of nursing protocols has led to a three-fold increase in the number of patients receiving a pneumococcal vaccination upon discharge.
In addition, CareScience, an external quality rating organization, just recognized our cardiac surgery and stroke programs as being in the top four percent of performers nationwide.
What does it mean to be patient-centered?
Patient-centered means that each patient is treated with dignity and respect and that their experience is overwhelmingly positive. We distribute over 4,500 surveys a month to our patients. Results are tracked and reviewed on a regular basis by managers and staff. Patients are visited by nurse managers during their stay to address any concerns or special requests. A full-time patient advocate is available to ensure concerns are addressed in a timely and satisfactory manner.
How do our patients rate their experience?
Patient ratings of how well the Emergency Department staff kept them informed about their medical condition and treatment placed us in the top 10 percent of hospitals nationwide. We strive not only to meet but to exceed our patients' expectations for their health care and will continue to move forward with evidence-based practices that not only improve the quality of care provided but that keep Cottage on the cutting edge of medicine in the country.


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The debate rages on about the viability of the cloud for the healthcare industry, mainly weighing security risks against the benefits of lower costs and improved outcomes. Private, closed systems can be Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant and meet Stage 2 Meaningful Use requirements to allow at least half of patients to access their own medical records electronically. However, these closed systems, unlike the cloud, fall short of enabling more far-reaching benefits for patients, such as a more connected, collaborative and efficient healthcare system throughout the U.S.
Patients say: give me access
If you've ever personally dealt with a health issue requiring referrals to specialists at different healthcare organizations, you know first-hand how frustrated patients get shuttling medical records and images back and forth, requesting copies to make sure records are accurate or not knowing if doctors are reading each other's notes. This frustration may be why — despite the fact that many patients have concerns about security of their health data in the cloud — nearly all patients (90%) want the ability to access their health information online, according to a 2012 study by Accenture. And, when patients get online access, 80% of them use it, according to a 2012 study conducted by Harris Interactive for the National Partnership for Women & Families. This study also reveals patients believe electronic health records (EHRs) help doctors and staff correct errors or fill in incomplete information, as well as avoid medical errors in the first place.
We've all heard the medical error horror stories: the wrong kidney is removed; the patient is never told he had a small heart attack and now has advanced heart disease; a risky procedure needs to be re-performed because results aren't accessible to the specialist. I could go on. These situations can be the result of poor communication and a lack of access by patients and doctors to medical images and medical records from consulting facilities.
From a patient's perspective, I think the most important benefit of the cloud is transparency and availability of medical information — for improved collaboration and communication between healthcare professionals, of course, but also for ensuring access to patients' images and medical records so they and their caregivers can be informed advocates for their own health.
Make access easy and convenient, please
Obviously, not all patients are insisting on access to their medical images and records through an online portal — but I think some of this may have to do with a lack of information. (The Accenture study states that 46% of patients don't even know if their records are available electronically.) This may also be due to the perceived level of effort it might take, especially if a patient doesn't have easy access to a computer. That's why using mobile technology to access online patient portals in the cloud is so exciting. Studies show that when a mobile app is introduced, it engages patients. For example, a year and a half after releasing its first mobile app, Kaiser Permanente is seeing 22% of portal traffic come through mobile devices.
The cloud is gaining traction
Despite its slow start, I believe the tide is finally turning. Implementation of electronic medical records (EMRs) by hospitals and health systems is rapidly accelerating, and corresponding physician adoption is growing fast. Two recently released data briefs from The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) reported a 72% rate of physician adoption of EMRs in 2012. The report also noted that 59% of physicians are already accessing imaging within the EMR.
These are the first concrete steps to providing more patients and their providers with access to important health information — making it electronic in the first place. Further, the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) is expanding the RSNA Image Share network, a cloud-based system that allows patients direct access to their medical images. There currently are five major healthcare systems involved — the Mayo Clinic, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, the University of California San Francisco, the University of Chicago Medical Center and the University of Maryland Medical Center — and over 20 more organizations plan to join or are in the process of doing so.
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You have earned a masters degree. Congratulations! Now what? There are a number of things to deal with after earning your degree. Loan repayment, job prospects and the possibility of further education are just a few.
Employers' Views of Online Degrees:
How employers view online masters degrees depends on several factors such as accreditation and personal preference. If your school is accredited by an agency approved of by the U.S. Department of Education and your degree is relevant to the work that you will do for an employer, then it should not matter whether or not you earned your masters degree online. Even so, some employers may still prefer degrees earned at traditional brick-and-mortar schools simply because they are more familiar with them. If an employer or potential employer is unsure about your degree, politely explain why it is important that your institution is accredited, the kind of work that you did for your degree and how you and your degree can contribute to the company or organization.
Jobs with an Online Master's Degree:
It is best to enter graduate school and pursue a masters degree only after you know what you want to do. If instead you choose a field of study and a program based on where you believe jobs will be in the future, you might miss out on some rather important details.
In 2008, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a list of the fastest growing occupations and the level of education needed to practice these professions. At the top of the list for masters degrees are mental health counselors and mental health and substance abuse counselors. Although licensure and educational requirements vary by state, mental health counselors and substance abuse counselors must have masters degrees from accredited programs and institutions in order to practice. However, there are no accredited fully online masters degree programs for psychology or counseling, and only a few online masters degree programs in social work are accredited. If you were to enroll in and graduate from an unaccredited online masters degree program, it would be a rude surprise to discover that you could not practice with the degree you just earned. Do your research when it comes to pursuing an online masters degree, especially in the fields of psychology, social work and health.
Working in Academia:
Working in academia with an online masters degree can be tricky. If you are aiming for a teaching position at a brick-and-mortar institution, a masters degree from an institution where you had teaching assistant experience will carry more weight. These teaching assistantships almost always come from on-campus graduate programs. If you are planning on working in the administration side of academia, having earned your masters degree online may make little difference in your hiring potential.
Moving Forward in Academia:
Moving from an online masters degree program to an on-campus PhD program depends on your field of study, the accreditation of the school where you earned your masters degree and on the work you produced. Schools and employers are far more likely to be concerned with what you bring to the table than what school you happened to graduate from. Still, accreditation is an important part to being able to move forward in your studies.
Paying Off Student Debt:
Loans for your education are still loans and they have to be repaid. The nice thing about federal education loans is that you will often have more repayment options to choose from.
- Standard Repayment Plan: Under this plan, you would pay a fixed amount for a set number of years, usually ranging from 10 to 30, and will likely pay the least amount of interest over the life of the loan.
- Graduated Repayment Plan: This plan is designed so that your monthly payments are lower right out of school and increase every few years in the anticipation that your salary will increase over time. This option is great if your career is starting off slowly. Be warned that the loan's interest will add up quickly and you will owe more over the life of your loan.
- Extended Repayment Plan: With this plan, your monthly payments are lowered by extending the life of your loan from 10 years to between 12 and 30 years. Again, the payments will be lower but the overall amount due will increase.
Loan Deferment:
Another nice thing about education loans is that it is possible to defer these loans. Deferment means that you do not have to repay your loans while you are in school. Interest usually continues to accrue, but you are not penalized for choosing to remain in or go back to school.
Loan Consolidation:
Consolidation, or the combining of your student loans into 1 overall loan (and thus 1 overall payment) can be a great way to repay your education loans. Not every student and not every loan are eligible for consolidation. Also, there is a difference between consolidating both unsubsidized and subsidized federal education loans and private education loans. Once you consolidate your loans, they cannot be consolidated again, so be sure that you understand the terms and payment options before you agree.
- Consolidating Federal Education Loans: One of the advantages of consolidating federal education loans is that your new interest rate will be fixed, meaning that it remains the same for the life of the loan, and can often be much lower than your loans' original interest rates, thus reducing your payments. Interest rates for consolidated federal education loans are capped at 8.25%. To consolidate federal education loans you might need to be finished with school or attending less than half time and owe more than $10,000 in total.
- Consolidating Private Education Loans: The bank or financial institution that issues your private education loans will have different stipulations for consolidation. If your private education loans are eligible for consolidation, pay attention to whether or not you will receive a fixed interest rate or a variable interest rate. If the interest rate is variable, it means that the rate changes depending on market standards and you could have a range of monthly payments. There is no cap on interest rates for consolidated private education loans.


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Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management officials say they have completed the first phase of a project that upgrades the wireless 911 network to an Internet Protocol system. That type of system has a much larger capability than older style technology used since the 1960s.
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Detroit — Damien Brunner's redemption song began as more of a catcall. Or a punchline.
But it ended Monday night with the beautiful sound of a horn — and the happy screams of his teammates — as the Red Wings' rookie forward scored the overtime winner to beat Anaheim, 3-2, in Game 4 of the Western Conference quarterfinals at Joe Louis Arena.
For the Wings, it was the biggest goal of the season, knotting this best-of-seven series at two games apiece, avoiding an elimination date Wednesday in Anaheim and ensuring there'll be at least one more playoff game in Detroit this spring.
And for Brunner, it was easily the biggest goal of his hockey career, which began in his native Switzerland, where he played professionally for six seasons before making the jump to the NHL, signing with the Wings as a free agent last summer.
"I had a series winner in Switzerland once — in overtime — to go to the semifinals," Brunner laughed, "but I would say this one tops it."
More important, it trumps the awful feeling he'd experienced barely 48 hours earlier, when his open-ice gaffe proved to be the back-breaker Saturday night in the Wings' 4-0 loss in Game 3. Brunner's unforced, defensive-zone turnover led directly to Anaheim's Ryan Getzlaf scoring the second goal of the night.
"I blamed myself so much," said Brunner, who also had a three-point outing in the Game 2 overtime win in Anaheim. "I had a terrible night, I couldn't sleep. … Obviously, it was my fault that we didn't have a chance to come back in the game."
Joke's on Brunner
But the next morning, when he showed up at the rink, the blame game took a decidedly sarcastic turn, starting with defenseman Brendan Smith.
"Smitty told me I made the highlights in the morning," Brunner said, smiling as he rattled off a list of oh-so-clever comedians. "Pav (Pavel Datsyuk) made some pretty good jokes, too. And my friends in Switzerland told me I should call the league and make sure I got that assist."
And with friends like that … right?
But really, laughter was the best medicine for Brunner, who started fast after making his NHL debut back in January but slowed considerably as the season wore on — 10 goals in his first two months, and two in the last two.
"You've got to get it out in the open so you can get past it," Smith said. "The biggest thing is to get past it. And Damien's a great guy like that — he's all for laughs."
Said Brunner: "You know, it was the best thing. The guys did a great job of keeping my head up, tapping my shoulder, and it felt really good. It made me feel needed for the next game."
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Everyone is needed in the playoffs, of course. But particularly the goal scorers on this offensively-challenged team, one that for a long while Monday looked as if it might make history, joining the 1945 Red Wings as the only teams in franchise history to post consecutive shutout losses at home in the playoffs.
And after Smith got his Ducks in a row to break the ice early in the third period, and after Datsyuk dented the water bottle behind Anaheim goalie Jonas Hiller to tie it with 6:23 left in regulation, there was an urgent need for a playoff hero.
So why not Gus and The Goat and the rest of the kids?
Jakub Kindl's outlet pass found rookie Joakim Andersson, who found another rookie, Gustav Nyquist, who used his speed to split a pair of defenders and then race to put a shot on net. And as the Ducks got caught up in the commotion, it left Brunner alone with a golden opportunity in front of a sprawling Hiller.
"It came out perfectly and I just had to lift it over his pad there," said Brunner, who'd been all but benched earlier in the night, with one shot on goal all game prior to the winner — and only two shifts in the entire third period.
"It was not my best game tonight again," he acknowledged.
And his coach concurred, having given him just 11:16 of ice time Monday -- the fewest minutes of any player on either team.
"We used him more sparingly tonight just because other guys were playing heavier on the puck," Mike Babcock said. "But he's a guy that just flat-out scores, knows how to score. He's gonna be a good Red Wing in time. He's gonna learn how to play right, he's gonna learn how to play heavy. You don't have to be heavy to play heavy. But he'll figure all that stuff out."
Until he does, he'll have to keep figuring out ways to convince his coach he belongs on the ice.
"When you're not getting the ice time you want," Babcock added, "then you find a way to do something about it if you're a competitor, and he's that."
He certainly did something about it at the end of this game. And when asked if that meant he'd sleep better Monday night — or what was left of it, anyway — Brunner couldn't help but laugh.
"I guess," he said, and you could tell he was already bracing for his teammates' jokes in the morning.


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