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• Give examples of the applicant's work or activities that are too far in the past. Keep it current and forward-looking.
• Be overly effusive, use vague platitudes, "left-handed compliments", faint praise or comments that could be misinterpreted.
• Use hearsay or other unsupported evidence.
• Fill the letter with jargon or "50-cent" words.
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On May 18, Stu Bykofsky, a Daily News columnist who regularly reports on animal control in Philadelphia, published a column in which White admitted previous delays and framed them in a specific period of time.
"After first denying the allegations," wrote Bykofsky, "CEO White admitted that during a 10-day period in February protocols fell apart, a situation that was resolved when Dr. Lee came in and cracked the whip."
Dr. Rachel Lee is a veterinarian who was brought over from the Erie shelter to fulfill the role of medical director at Hunting Park on March 16, 2009.
Last week, White reiterated that vaccination delays no longer occur and only happened during a specific period of time—though now, White could not recall the exact dates. Or month.
"January and most of February I cannot speak to because I was not here," White said. "In my knowledge, January and February were fine. There was no problem until, probably mid-April. Well. We can get the dates." When asked how these multiple stories can reconcile with one another and with records, White replied, "What dates do you have?"
White concluded it must have been a 10-day period just prior to hiring Dr. Lee.
Dr. Lee says the shelter follows written protocol that she compiled for Erie in November 2008.
"We comply with the vaccination protocol put out by the American Animal Hospital Association," said Dr. Lee in a recent interview. "There are certainly cases in which we don't do that: bite cases, if the animal is incredibly aggressive or incredibly nervous, we give them 24 to 36 hours to see if they'll handle the environment."
The two shelters suffered what Dr. Lee called "a scare" (though not a full-blown outbreak) of feline panleukopenia, a parvovirus that targets mostly kittens also referred to as feline panleuk or feline distemper, the weekend of May 16. Feline panleuk is a very common outbreak in shelter environments. Dr. Lee says they did not have to "depopulate" many litters to control the spread of the disease since quick action was taken to quarantine the contaminated animals.
Meanwhile, as rescues continue to report that animals pulled from ACCT are more frequently and severely sick than at other shelters or in the past, White, Board President Harrise Yaron, Board member Shauna Binswanger and Dr. Lee say that they haven't heard any complaints about unusually sick animals at all.
"I heard nothing other than what I read in the paper," said Binswanger.
"On Friday, one volunteer approached me about one issue that was resolved in about 30 seconds when I picked up the phone and called Dr. Lee," echoed White. "So I honestly have not heard anything. And I tend to agree that a lot has been blown out of proportion."
"At any given time you can take a healthy dog or healthy cat out of here, it can be vaccinated in a timely fashion, you just don't know what it's harboring," said Yaron. "I have rescued dogs that got sick who were well when I picked them up. Unfortunately, we can't combat that 100 percent of the time."
Melissa Levy, Director of Development at Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), says the nonprofit still has to nurse the "vast majority" animals they pull out of the ACCT facility.
"Pretty much every dog that we've pulled has kennel cough. It's been the typical kennel cough that you often see in shelters and it responds well and easily to antibiotics, but it's been pretty much across the board," said Levy in a recent phone interview.
Levy estimates that PAWS gives antibiotics to about 80 percent of the dogs pulled from ACCT to get them healthy before putting them up for adoption.
There are two major problems when animals coming out of the shelter require nursing and medication. The first is that in a larger rescue outlet like PAWS, the convalescence delay between exiting the shelter and being adopted clogs up the lifelines: For every dog or cat recuperating in a cage on antibiotics, there's another still caged at either ACCT or Erie waiting for its turn.
The second major problem is the financial burden. More often than not, rescue "organizations" are just a few animal lovers who dedicate their free time and own money to helping homeless animals.
Denise Gareau of Eskies Online, a Boston-based rescue partner that pulls American Eskimo dogs out of shelters all along the Northeast corridor, says she rescued two dogs out of ACCT in the last six months—and the expense almost tanked her small business.
"It's not only expensive, it's fatal," says Gareau. One dog died and the other, Topper, survived—but not before costing Gareau $1,800 in vet services.
""They say the rescues that talk about sick animals are simply biased, trying to tear them down due to personal agendas and lingering allegiances to PACCA."
I'm a board member with Stray Cat Blues and Barry Watson pulls many cats/kittens from the PSPCA for us. I was quoted in several articles as having fostered a total of 24 kittens since the first of the year and losing all 24. Adults I have fostered have been ill as well.
I have no interest in politics or what name is on the door at the shelter. My only concern is for the animals. I love fostering, plain and simple, and my specialty is bottle babies.
Stray Cat Blues is a very dedicated group of volunteers and they have been very supportive in our efforts to help the PSPCA. However there is a limit when each animal we pull from the PSPCA runs up many dollars in vet expenses and ends up spending months and months in our foster homes before they are healthy enough for adoption.
The PSPCA board and the people in charge need to make new vaccination policies in which animals would be vaccinated immediately upon arrival. While that might not stop the spread of disease it would provide some protection. If the board was not aware of all the disease then there is certainly a communication problem between the wonderful PSPCA workers and the folks in charge that needs to be addressed.
"Please sign the "No-Kill Mandate"
"I will admit I have no been inside the Hunting Park Ave building since the takeover, so I have no idea of the medical program actually in place. However...as a shelter vet I will agree that vaccination should be done immediately on intake...preferrably even before the animal gets into the shelter population. Sure there are exceptions to that rule (Severely aggressive, fractious, obviously ill, etc...) but delaying vaccination even those 12 hours at times...well...if the exposure has already occurs...the vaccine really does not do much. As for those that say where are those 30,000 animals going to go...they are absolutely right. There is no way this problem will be solved overnight...or even in 5 years. However...it is the progress towards that goal that is important. I think that is what everyone is looking for...and at least by the stats...are not seeing....at least not yet."
"It is beyond comprehension that the Health Dept. would condone the behavior of calling cats "live releases", only to be euthanized in another building a couple miles away. Who is telling the truth here? Even the Health Dept is not dumb enough to buy into allowing cats to be called "saved", and contribute to the "save rate", to be killed thereafter at another site.
Where are all the PSPCA employees/volunteers who defended the PSPCA administration and board of directors and voiced outrage that anyone would even suggest killing cats after being "transferred to Erie"? Much of the 250+ blogs following the "The (Scary) Truth About Cats and Dogs" were attacks on the author for suggesting that this was even a remote possibility. You felt "tar and feathering" of Tara Murtha would have been appropriate when this story was published.
Speak up folks! You were outraged by the mere suggestion that someone could carry out such a heinous act, especially your beloved PSPCA. Where is your outrage that you served as pawns supporting your leadership, when these were lies from day one? Yes, the PSPCA board now says it must re-do numbers from January. Hmmm…. Anyone want to venture a guess as to which directions these numbers will go??????
"Did PACCA/PAWS adjust live release or save rate numbers for deaths post transfer? I applaud the PSPCA for adjusting the numbers and providing more transparency in reporting than ever before (including PAWS). Don't miss the forest (12,000 animals euthanized annually or 31,000 unwanted animals) from the trees (the 100 animals for two months pending adjustment).
The changing stories of vaccinations are suprising, but the facts all get murky here. The story states $300,000 under bidding by the PSPCA. The contract is a 6 month contract and PAWS bid 1.5 million for the 6 month contract and the PSPCA bid 1.45 so the difference is 50,000 not the 300,000 in the article.
I honestly can't blame anyone for not wanting the contract. Who needs all this?
Sadly, the animals suffer while we all blog and fight."
"Am I to believe that the PSPCA has chosen Sue Cosby as CEO? The PSPCA spent nearly a year tearing PACCA to shreds over the way PACCA executed the animal control contract. As COO, Cosby was the most influential person, the highest level executive, who established and implemented policies reflected in PACCA's day to day operation. That was her job.
And of course, she will bring back former PACCA staff and employees. That's exactly what CEOs do and are expected to do.
Is the PSPCA now saying that PACCA had it right all along?
The council hearings should be very interesting, if not entertaining. How is the PSPCA to explain to the citizens of Philadelphia, less than 6 months into the contract, and after trashing PACCA top to bottom, that the former PACCA COO is just what will fix the city's animal control problem?
Perhaps reality is truly stranger than fiction!
"To 11-12. Anonymous
The issue is not the hundreds of animals killed at Erie ave during each of the first three months of the PSPCA running animal control. It's the fact that the PSPCA Board lied to the Public and only under extreme duress and threat of hearings did they change their numbers.
BILL - Talking about PACCA not adjusting numbers of deaths after transfer is a ridiculous statement. First of all that number is nominal and statistically insignificant. Second, PACCA lost the contract right? Third, PSPCA doesn't do this now either. They are only adjusting the numbers of animals WITHIN THEIR OWN ORGANIZATION simply transferred 1 mile up the street to a different building."
"If the PSPCA were open/ honest and transparent the animal welfare community would be able to step in and help, but how can anything be made better when the organization that needs the most help lies about their relative success. A 50% save rate in the slowest time of the year is abysmal.
We need a plan."
"Asked who should keep their mouths shut, Yaron says, "The media." Interim CEO White echoes, "The media and the Garrett Elwoods of the world. No one has stepped up to say, 'Gee, I'll do that till you get someone else and I'll do that best that I can.'"
You HAVE to be kidding me. If the media and the "Garrett Elwoods" -- along with the infamous "DFE's" -- of the world kept their mouths shut, NOTHING WOULD BE CHANGING.
We need the media and the Elwoods of the world to provide the transparency and truth that PSPCA has tried so desperately to hide, for fear it would destroy their donation machine.
We're finally starting to go down the right track -- BECAUSE of the media."
"So the PSPCA finally gave into the media and admitted shortfalls they had been accused of (not vaccinating animals, finding a weasel way to report save rates, can't get infection under control). Man, what an organization! A lot of fudge slinging on the part of former PACCA types is unfortunate and largely unfounded, but ya gotta admit, they were right about the above 3, I wonder what else.
So basically what went on is PSPCA underbid PACCA for the city contract by $300,000 (now I'm hearing $50,000), took over in January and managed in 5 months to fudge the save rate, lose their CEO, told free neuter/spay from UPENN to hit the road, and have a widespread infection going on that is keeping private rescues away. And now after underbidding PACCA by $300,000 they are now asking for an additional 1million dollars. Lol, now PACCA has them underbid, and with a lot fewer problems and a similar save rate.
From an outsider's perspective, it seems that PACCA managed to do more with less money. I get the sense that behind all the politics what basically happened is the PSPCA thought they were ready to take back the contract, underbid PACCA for it, realized it wasn't as easy as it looked to handle an intake increase from 8,500 to 31,000 and so panicked by fudging numbers and fighting internally. The evidence that the PSPCA doesn't know what to do is they have hired most of PACCA's former staff, and most importantly chose a former PACCA COO to be their new CEO. Something tells me they opened pandora's box and now wish they could go back to when PACCA had the contract. Perhaps they should have increased their intake numbers at a slow pace and worked their way up to 31,000. Then they wouldn't have to look toward former PACCA employees for expertise. Yikes what a mess."
""First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mahatma Gandhi"
"Anyone can fudge the figures or cook the books.The moment of truth comes when you count the dead animals.If you thought PSPCA is bad look at PETA with atrash bin full of dead animals that no one even tried to explain."
"People are talking about the adjusted save rate being comparable to PACCA's save rate. But if most of the cats being released to fosters, rescues, and other shelters are dying shortly thereafter -- wouldn't the save rate actually be much, much lower?
I wish there were a way to see the actual numbers, including the animals who die right after leaving ACCT for other organizations and fosters.
I'm guessing their save rate is actually horrifically low when you take those animals into account."
"Just adding on to my last comment.
I wish the PSPCA people would stop complaining about people "bashing" them. People SHOULD complain when there is a problem this huge, and it's only because of people complaining that anything might be improved. It's not personal; people just want to make things better. And I get the sense most of the posters are already helping by volunteering, fostering, etc.
Ultimately, the heart of the problem in Philadelphia is underfunding. If this city wants that looming 31,000 animals a year to ever go down, they need to have a budget closer to 30 million than 3 million. It's terrible that the city values animals so little -- 3 million is like a half of a penny in government terms.
We need an aggressive city-wide government funded TNR program (trap, neuter, and release for feral cats). We need mobile spay/neuter clinics to get into low income neighborhoods and get people's cats taken care of. We need free, government subsidized clinics to provide neutering and basic care for all Philadelphia pets, 12 hours a day. The problem of over-population is both a financial problem and a cultural problem, so we also need an aggressive public awareness program -- again, funded by the government -- to combat backyard breeding and animal abuse.
Until Philadelphia actually gives its animals enough money to live on, things aren't ever going to be perfect. But the actions of the PSPCA in the last year have made things a lot worse. It's not "bashing" when it's the truth, and said with the best of intentions."
"Re: the supposedly "polarized" animal welfare community... More spin does not equal more members. Yes, the PACCA and PSPCA partisans choke these message boards with their arguments and create blogs containing fantastic (often false) accusations. Ever stop to think it could be just a couple of individuals on each side that do all the postings??
If you took a poll of the folks out there every day walking dogs, fostering sick dogs and baby kittens, promoting adoption events, and just working like mad to get animals out of the shelter alive, the majority would tell you they don't care who runs animal control. We just want it done right!
(And sorry, Garrett is not a "third party". While I applaud his efforts to focus the PSPCA and the City gov't on the goal of no-kill, his attacks on the PSPCA reek of personal vendetta.)
Concerned animal lovers: the #1 way you can help is to GET INVOLVED!! Foster a dog or a litter of kittens. Walk dogs or socialize cats. Help the overworked staff by lending a hand in the office. There's a friendly, supportive group of volunteers ready to show you the ropes and make volunteering a fun experience. Regardless of who's in charge, it's the volunteers that GET THINGS DONE!"
"I agree with the previous poster. Garrett will never be effective at anything until he learns to communicate like a grown-up. In the mean time I must admit I do find him very entertaining. Garrett you are truly a legend in your own mind!"
"I know Sue very very well, I have known her since she started at AWA. She has improved AWA's adoption numbers greatly, and PACCA was not a good place to be. Please don't talk about Sue and PACCA unless you know the full story, but I just know she will be a great influence on the PSPCA and she will impress you all"
""...says Yaron. She says rescues who claim the animals are unusually sick are "unreliable."
Like Judy Gross, my mother has a rescue agency - Treetops Rescue - that has worked with the PSPCA and PACCA before, and now - especially after the recent quarantine - simply cannot afford to be taking animals for them because of the alarmingly high rate of VERY sick animals. Most rescues are non-profit and are foster based and neither fact is very conducive to caring for a very sick and sometimes contagious animal (as most of our foster parents have one or more animals themselves). I firmly believe that the vast majority of these rescues are NOT interested in the politics of the PSPCA or intensely against them and "for" PACCA - they simply care about the welfare of these animals and because of the problems with the PSPCA as of late, it simply makes more sense to spend their time, money and resources on other rescue animals."
Since last year, the PSPCA has been working with the city to set up, and transfer animal-control duties to, a new city-related nonprofit called the Animal Care & Control Team (ACCT Philly). ACCT Philly formally takes over the contract and the city-owned animal shelter on April 1.
Insiders say Philadelphia shelter conditions have gotten so bad that animals need to be saved from the very place they go for protection. UPDATE: Councilman Jack Kelly's speech citing PW's cover story.
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Between two sandy beaches in a quiet part of the resort of Costa Teguise on the north-east coast. This is a good base for exploring the island by car, with several Manrique attractions a short drive away.
César Manrique designed the gardens and the pool, so you really sink into the unique Lanzarote vibe from the moment you arrive. It is all colonial splendour inside, with a waterfall in the huge, plant-filled atrium. There are good sports' facilities, including tennis courts, mini golf and a gym.
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Knoxville (WVLT) - If you can't show proof that your Social Security Number is, indeed yours your bosses have to fire you, or face fines themselves.
Volunteer TV's Gordon Boyd has more on Homeland Security's latest push to deal with the flood of what some call undocumented workers, and others call illegal immigrants.
Coincidentally or not, this crackdown comes the same day a number of folks are taking the oath as new citizens.
What many of us may know by rote, or take for granted, "to be finally an American," says Frank Keller, an emigrant from Liberia.
For 92 men and women, hailing from 34 countries.
"I can really think about the things I wanted to do when I was in my country," says Sophia Rengifo, an emigrant from Peru.
"It is a long and arduous process, but America remains the beacon of light," says US Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe.
"I decided when the time was right, when I felt more American than English, I would apply for my citizenship," explains Kim Holder.
"Fourteen years of civil war, in my country. I was in a refugee camp for like 5 years before I migrated to the US," Keller says.
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"It took, uh five years, my Daddy was a citizen first," says Sophia.
"I have to be fingerprinted in one place, I had to go to Nashville, interviewed in Memphis," Kim says.
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"The magnet that brings most economic migrants into this country is work. If we have worksite enforcement directed at illegal employment we strike at that magnet," explains Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security Secretary.
Raise the fines for hiring illegals, he says, you shrink the demand and therefore the supply of illegals.
"It's gonna have unintended consequences," East Tennessee Activist Lisa Barba sees the target as Hispanics and claims a crackdown not only will cost legal immigrants work, simply on suspicion. "They're separating families, they're taking employees away from employees who really need them."
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4) Don't whine about your BO on COTH because people will just tell you to move your horse, but don't compromise your horses' safety because you are too lazy to find a new barn.
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This is an article on the Tulu Films Oriyardori Asal (one up man ship). It is a comedy film based on the same titled play. The play was a success and the film also has crossed 100 days of show in Mangalore.
A Tulu Film for Coastal area People
This is a film about a 'vattara', homes in the same compound. This particular vattara is bout 3 families living in the same compound. It is a story of the conflicts and misunderstanding between the landlord and his tenants. Their day to day life incidents are depicted in the picture in hilarious way. Within the story the love tangle between the son of a tenant (played by Likhit Shetty – as hebri) and the daughter of the landlord (played by Ramya Berna) is the central theme. The movie is enjoyable throughout its duration. This is based on a famous play by the same name which was a runaway hit in the coastal area of Karnataka and in Mumbai and Goa.
Risk Factor of Investment
It is to be noted that the cinema in the country is at its worst crisis due to change of culture and the piracy of the films. In that background someone had shown the guts to produce a cinema for a limited audience of the Mangalore district and a few isolated places outside where the Tulu speaking population settlements are found. And that someone is Sri Vijaykumar Kodialbail from Mangalore. He was the producer of the play with the same name staged in February 1987. That play was a success story. He took the risk of producing the film but is rewarded by the success of the same. The film has completed 100 days of 4 shows per day in a theatre in Mangalore. In Udupi It has completed 75 days, and in other centers of Mangalore and Udupi districts the film has completed 75 successful days. This film is yet to be released in Mumbai and Dubai where there are large number of Tulu speaking population. It can be expected to be a success in these places also.
Cast – Actors
Likhit Shetty, Naveen D Padil, Aravind Bolar, Rajesh Bantwal, Suresh Mangalore, Ramya Berna and others.All the actors have done their best and is effective.
Producer and story, screenplay, dialogue and lyrics writer
Vijaykumar Koddialbail.he is a veteran in the filed of plays and with this film he proved his mettle in this field of film also.
Production Banner
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Director of the film
H S Rajasekhar. He has proved himself as a successful director.
Music of the Film by
A K Vijay's music is enjoyable.
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Janice Dickinson thinks Britney Spears is a hick
Janice Dickinson told The Book Standard that Britney Spears is in desperate need of a makeover and should dump Kevin Federline. She says:
Janice Dickinson told The Book Standard that Britney Spears is in desperate need of a makeover and should dump Kevin Federline. She says:
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whooo 3rd post……there both hella ugly…except brit would look good if she droped a dfew pounds
True story;
I got high in the back of a van with Mario Lopez a.k.a AC Slater. He said that "Saved by the Bell", ruined his life. He didn't even give me his autograph…
she just said what we were all thinking. way to state the fact, captain obvious!
Janice Dickinson was at a party I was at and she weaved up to me and called me "snapperhead", and told me to get a haircut. Which would have been funny, but she was also really drunk and kept offering the bartender a "wet blowjob for a dry martini" even though the bartender kept explaining to Janice that the bar was open, and that she was a girl anyway and didn't have a penis. I really felt bad for Janice.
Jesus loves the Superficial filters.
What she says is completely true, but….too bad it's not coming from someone who looks like an old tranny.
I'd Hit It!!
I don't even recognize her–wasn't she one of the Price is Right chicks???? She looks like an old worn out Madam of some brothel somewhere…..talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
Her comments make sense. However, she used to screw Rambo and doesn't have good taste in men either. She is looking more like that Aerosmith dude.
Britney may be a hick – but I think Janice Dickinsen has a dick.
In related news, Saran Wrap announced that Janice Dickinson will be their new spokesmodel.
Hmmm… hick or freak? I just wouldn't be able to decide.
i thought karen black was dead??????
i thought karen black was dead????
hmmm… Superficial hates Jesus? You are REPORTED!
…the filtering nazi's are at work…awaiting post results…WHAT'S UP DUB'YA!!!!
Janice Dickinson is desperate case
Haha slater has a mullet!
And I think Janice is an ugly,washed up, sometimes funny whore.


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Those are words employers hear and shudder with fear. The regulations involved are numerous and intense. Having an employee injury or being out of compliance is something all employers want to avoid. The good news is you can. Knowing what your responsibilities are as an employer is the first step.
There are many requirements for safety and workers' compensation imposed on employers in California. It is vitally important that you know and understand these requirements and how to incorporate effective safety plans.
Depending on the size of your company, you may be required under OSHA standards to create and distribute several prevention and emergency plans. Every company in California must create an IIPP (illness and injury prevention plan), which contains a generalized plan for keeping its workforce free from work-related injuries and illnesses. If you have 10 or more employees, this plan must be in writing.
Other required plans include: the emergency action plan, which requires you to have a plan for handling emergencies such as evacuating employees, providing medical attention and reporting emergencies. The fire prevention plan requires you to know the fire hazards your employees are exposed to and have a plan for handling fires. If you have 10 or more employees, this plan must be in writing. The repetitive motion injuries standard requires employers to address workplace injuries because of repetitive motion. This also is commonly referred to as ergonomics.
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East Cobb Braves are 18U national champs
Jim Ecker
Monday, September 07, 2009
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Kevin Baldwin admits he was "shell-shocked" when the East Cobb Braves gave up nine runs in the fourth inning and trailed the Florida Bombers, 9-0, in the finals of the WWBA 18U National Championships at the Braves' own complex in Marietta, Ga., last month.
"Our goal was just to get back in the game so we didn't get run-ruled," he said. "I just wanted the kids to keep fighting."
They did better than that.
The Braves came all the way back and stunned the Bombers, 11-10, to capture the 18U title that day. That's one of the reasons the East Cobb Braves, technically a 17U club, have been named the top 18U team in the country this year by Perfect Game USA.
Their remarkable comeback took place on Monday, July 6.
"It was one of the most unbelievable things I've seen on a baseball field," said Baldwin, "and I've been coaching for 15 years and played all my life."
The WWBA 17U National Championship tournament began the next day in Marietta on Tuesday, July 7. The Braves, drained by their improbable comeback and fifth victory in two days, were understandably flat for the 17U tourney and compiled a 2-3 record in pool play and failed to make the playoffs, but nobody was too upset about that. They had the championship trophy from the 18U tournament in their tired hands and a big smile on their weary faces.
The Braves finished the season with a sparkling 67-8 record and sent five players to the Aflac All-American Classic in San Diego, the most Aflac All-Americans in team history. It was a talent-laden club whose players have committed to Auburn, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia Tech, Tulane, Florida, Florida State and other top schools, making college coaches happy all over the south and southeast.
At last count, 19 of the 25 players on this year's roster have committed to NCAA Division I programs. Baldwin thinks this year's team compared favorably with the 17U club he had in 2007 that produced 11 draft picks and 6 of the top 88 picks overall. "It's hard to tell where it's going to end up," he said.
The East Cobb program has been blessed with outstanding players for many years. They've had 28 draft picks in the last five years, including seven in the first round. Brandon Phillips, an East Cobb product, is currently playing for the Cincinnati Reds.
The future also looks bright for many of the players who performed for the 17U Braves this year. Stetson Allie, Zach Alvord, Chavez Clarke, Trey Griffin and Karsten Whitson played in the Aflac Classic on Aug. 16, giving the Braves 5 of 40 spots in the game. Allie, armed with a 100 mph fastball, struck out 32 batters in 15 innings this season for the Braves and allowed only two hits. Alvord hit 14 homers, tying Eric Arce for the most on the team. Clarke and Brandon Roberts were the table-setters and stole 74 of 78 bases. Griffin starred as an outfielder and pitcher, while Whitson was one of the mainstays on the mound.
The Aflac All-Americans were not the only stars, however, not by a long shot. Arce was named the MVP of the WWBA tournament and led the Braves during the regular season in batting average, home runs and RBIs. Kyle Burchfield emerged as the ace of the staff, according to Baldwin, with a 10-0 record and three saves. Patrick Merkling and Hudson Randall both finished with 8-0 records, enjoying perfect years. Blake Crohan, one of the catchers, finished in the top-3 in most offensive categories and was the "emotional leader" of the team, according to his coach.
Baldwin has coached in the East Cobb program for 15 years, including the past seven years with the 17U Braves. He said it's a pleasure to lead a team with so much talent. "It's a lot of fun, obviously," he remarked.
Fourteen of the players on this year's club were from Georgia, but the Braves also had players from Florida, Ohio, Alabama, Michigan and Massachusetts. "The common denominator," said Baldwin, "is that every kid is focused on what they can do to further their careers.
"I don't go out recruiting," he said. "That's something I don't like to do."
Instead, top athletes come to him. Baldwin said players, family members and coaches contact the East Cobb coaches to nominate guys for the program. Baldwin said the East Cobb coaches do a background check on the players, then watch them play or invite them to tryouts. The teams are selected from there.
Baldwin, who played college baseball at Western Carolina and Kennesaw State, is a full-time member of the staff. "It's a 365-day-a-year job," he said.
The reward this year was a national title.
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Excellent comment, quite appropriate.
But it leaves two important questions unanswered: (1) are HY bonds appropriately priced in the current market, considering their risk/reward balance? (2) If the first answer is "yes", then what is the likely time horizon for continuing to hold these bonds? If the first answer is "no", what are suitably-priced alternatives for yield?
The "ideosyncratic risks of single companies" don't exist for a well-diversified investor. Furthermore, investment theory tells us that bond prices should not reflect risk that can be eliminated by holding a diversified portfolio of bonds. In a world where some of our politicians are willing to see the U.S. government default on its debt payments, it may not be irrational to conclude that a diversified portfolio of high-grade corporate bonds carries less risk than Treasurys. We might question that judgment, but it doesn't smack of drunken teenager craziness.
Bernacke wanted investors to move into risky assetts so he could help people who bought houses they
Couldn't afford.
They have Granted his wish.,well except. For stock funds.
By design, the ETFs can only buy in the same high yield universe. Thats OK while money is rolling in and the high yield paper is on a consistent mark-up. However, when a hiccup occurs and retail hits the bid on the ETF those mark-ups turn to mark-downs and it becomes a fire in a movie theatre.
Nice use of hyperbole, but exactly which "Corporate bonds, still carrying all the idiosyncratic risks of single companies, are priced as if they were safer than Treasurys"? Last I checked there was still a thing called a "credit spread".
The same headline could be re-written to read "do stock fund buyers have garbage for brains" as there is always somebody ready to proclaim the stock market is going to crash. I have two posts on my blog that address this issue. The first is "are high yield bonds worth the risk" and the second one is "dividend stocks are not an equal alternative to bonds" http://www.yourwealtheffect.com
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The rand strengthened to its best level against the US dollar in two weeks' shrugging off the weaker-than-anticipated gross domestic product.
At 4.10pm' the rand was bid at R8.8133 to the US dollar from Monday's close of R8.8460. The local currency was bid at R11.4028 to the euro from its previous close of R11.4887 and at R14.1340 against sterling from R14.1781 before.
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4. Hiring of Mack Brown: In 1998 the BCS system was introduced, and that same season Dodds hired Brown from North Carolina to rebuild the Texas program. And for over a decade that decision worked perfectly.
Brown led Texas to the 2005 national championship, a title game appearance in 2009, two other BCS bowl game victories and 12-striaght seasons of nine wins or more from 1998-2009.
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At least five people died and about 20 were injured after two earthquakes measuring 5.7 and 5.6 on the Richter scale hit a mountainous area of south-western China within an hour on Friday.
The first 5.7-magnitude tremor was felt across a wide area of neighbouring Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces at 11.19am (5.19am SA time), the China Earthquake Administration reported on its website.
A 5.6-magnitude quake with an almost identical epicentre hit the same area at 12.16pm.
The epicentre of the quakes was about 15km from Yiliang county town in Yunnan province, the administration said.
An official in Yiliang told dpa by telephone that at least five people had died and more than 20 were injured in the county, according to a "preliminary estimate."
The county seismological bureau reported that some houses in Yiliang had collapsed, while the official Xinhua news agency said about 20 000 houses were damaged or had collapsed.
The quakes also caused landslides and cut an electric power line in Yiliang, but all main roads remained passable, the seismological bureau said.
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When the beach gets just too lazy, head off into the jungle to see the interior of the island, and spot a monkey or hornbill.
Footpaths of varying difficulty connect Saracen Bay to the western beaches and the southern lighthouse.
Saracen Bay to Lazy Beach is an easy 20-minute-walk on a flat sandy path through jungle and open scrubland. The trail begins just past Sun Island ECO Village resort on Saracen Bay and emerges behind the bungalows at Lazy Beach. If you're going to watch the sunset, it's helpful to bring a torch for the return leg.
Saracen Bay to Sunset Beach -- home to Robinson's Bungalows and Huba Huba -- is a more challenging 45-minute-trek on a jungle track, with a steep climb and equally steep descent close to Robinson's beach. Flip-flops not recommended. The trail begins behind The Beach on Saracen Bay and emerges on the beach close to Robinson's Bungalows.
Allow five hours for a round trip from Saracen Bay to the lighthouse at the southernmost point of the island for stunning views of the islands. Trail begins past the northernmost pier on Saracen Bay. Take adequate water and food, and flip-flops are not recommended.
Trails are clearly marked at their start with timings and are obvious to follow as they are well-trodden.
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Physicians are central in determining health access, coverage, and reform. After all, physicians are the primary professionals licensed to practice medicine and deliver care. Yet physician voices remain curiously muted. Pundits, politicians, employers, health plans, and health-firm executives dominate the discourse about healthcare change. There are many reasons for the silence:
Signs of Change
There are signs things are changing, however--doctors are marching on state capitols and Washington, D.C. over Medicare cuts, suing health plans over quality rankings and patient steering, engaging in battles with community hospitals over doctor-owned facilities, and resisting pressures from health plans and governments to install electronic medical records (EMRs). No signs exist, however, of widespread unionizing.
Other events happening include:
Demand-driven leverage. Physicians are in short supply. This problem dates back to the 1980s and 1990s when medical schools capped enrollment. Schools foresaw a doctor glut; they were wrong. In a now famous 2002 Health Affairs article, Richard Cooper, MD, predicted a 50,000 shortfall by 2010 and 200,000 by 2020. The shortage is most severe among family physicians and general surgeons and bites most deeply in rural America.
This high demand gives doctors more power to dictate the terms of their employment. New medical schools, accelerated enrollment in existing schools, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and retail clinics, will not close the physician gap soon--it takes five to six years to produce a newly minted family physician, and six to 10 years to educate a competent specialist.
A sense of outrage. Physicians are also mobilizing out of a sense of outrage. They are beginning to suspect something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Medicare payments, slated to drop 10.6% this year and 15% next year, are becoming so low physicians are turning away new Medicare patients to meet payroll expenses and the bottom line. Health plans predictably follow Medicare payment patterns in lockstep. This means across the entire public and private system doctors will bear the full brunt of cuts to contain runaway Medicare costs.
Physicians don't want to keep begging government for adequate payments. We are not beggars; we are highly trained professionals trying to make a difference in the lives of our patients while trying to make a living. Many physicians are outraged that senior hospital executives pull down over $1 million annually while health plan CEOs average $10 million to $15 million, with some, like Bill MGuire, MD, of UnitedHealth, accumulating fortunes exceeding $1 billion.
Another large physician organization rises. In the early 2000s, 19 state and local medical societies lodged a class action suit against major U.S. health plans for delaying, lowering, and artificially bundling physician fees. The physicians won the suit in Miami federal court in 2003. Since it was logistically impossible to pay back physicians individually, terms of the settlement were for Aetna and Cigna to spend a total of $35 million to create two 501C3 foundations to give grants to physician organizations that created models to install EMRs and took other measures to improve efficiencies, patient safety, and outcomes.
The agreement was that Aetna would contribute $20 million and Cigna $15 million to form two foundations. The original health plan investments have grown to over $100 million. Those foundations subsequently merged to form one: The Physicians Foundation for Health System Excellence, which has given over $20 million in grants to physician groups around the country. The foundation is conducting a massive nationwide survey to highlight the collective opinions and troubled economic status of physician practices, many of whom are barely making a go of it, and to serve as a unified physician voice for correcting deficiencies and improving the system.
Internet empowerment. Although many Internet firms--WebMD, Revolution Health, Google, and Microsoft--talk glowingly about the Web empowering consumers, physicians are starting to realize the power of the Internet to mobilize and transmit information about their concerns as well.
Examples of these sites are:
Physicians find their voice
For various reasons, including the feeling that the deck is stacked against them by government, health plans, and others, physicians are collectively mobilizing, uniting, expressing, and empowering themselves. This empowerment is partly due to a sense of outrage at current practice conditions, system inequities for patients, and a desire to improve care. Physician shortages, the demand for more physician access, the laws of physician supply and demand, emboldened physician organizations, and social networking physician Web sites contribute to this new sense of physician empowerment.
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