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OAKLAND -- BART will focus its environmental planning for a rail extension to Livermore on a first segment along Interstate 580 to Isabel Avenue.
BART board members said Thursday that they will hold off on environmental studies of any other Livermore site that would require a decision on whether to stay along the freeway or lay tracks to downtown.
Board members and planners delivered that message in their meeting Thursday night to Livermore leaders, who wanted the rail system to pledge it would never study the downtown alignment as an option.
BART's answer: It's premature to bar a route for a segment BART won't even do environmental studies on for years.
"It's not the right time to exclude an option, even though I strongly agree BART should not go to the downtown," said John McPartland, a board member from Castro Valley.
For now, BART officials said they are studying alternatives for a 5-mile, $1.2 billion rail extension from the end of the line at the Dublin-Pleasanton station to a proposed new station near Isabel Avenue.
To meet environmental laws requiring an examination of alternatives, BART also is studying options for express bus service and a diesel train, both less expensive than regular BART service.
The environmental review is expected to be complete in 15 to 18 months, setting the stage for the BART board to approve a project and then seek funds to build it.
BART would get $400 million for the first phase of the Livermore extension if Alameda County voters approve a November ballot measure to double the county transportation sales tax from a half-cent on the dollar to a full cent.
Livermore Mayor John Marchand asked the board to swear off any consideration of the downtown route, which is opposed by the Livermore council and 8,000 local residents who signed a petition.
Marchand said he is concerned that leaving the door open for a downtown route could hurt the political campaign for the county sales tax increase in November.
BART officials, however, said it would be premature to oppose an option before it is studied, as required by state law.
"If you haven't studied all your options, you haven't done your job," said Director Tom Radulovich, of San Francisco. "You leave yourself open to legal challenges.
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DAVENPORT | A 68-year-old Davenport woman was killed early Tuesday when the van she was driving crashed into the rear of a semi-truck stopped on Interstate 4.
According to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, about 1:40 a.m. Bonita Cerasaro was driving a 2011 Kia Sedona westbound on I-4 just east of U.S. 27 when she crashed into the back of a 2000 Freightliner semi-truck towing a 53-foot trailer. The trailer, loaded with tires and engine parts, was stopped with its hazard lights flashing.
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Palo Alto is taking a more comprehensive approach as it looks to maximize usage of its downtown garages through technology.
On Monday, the City Council voted 7-0, with Pat Burt and Gail Price absent, to proceed with a request for proposals that combines "parking guidance systems" and "revenue and access controls."
Parking guidance systems would provide real-time information about the number of spaces in a structure via digital signs, while revenue and access controls would allow visitors to pay to park beyond the current three-hour limit. It would also enable the transfer of permits.
The council could have proceeded with an immediate request for proposals for parking guidance systems only and had them in place early next year. Such an approach, however, carried the risk of waste. The technology might not be compatible with revenue and access controls added at a later date.
"I think we want to be thoughtful about this," said Councilman Greg Scharff. "It really would strike me that it would be a scandal if we spent $500,000 and six months later ripped it out."
"It seems inconceivable that we would go into it knowing that could happen," he continued. "Then it could also seem inconceivable to decide that we're going to go ahead and choose the wrong technology and then be wedded to it when it's clear it's the wrong technology."
Councilman Larry Klein agreed.
"If there were magic bullets out there to solve parking problems, I'd presume everybody would be buying it and whatever company was providing that would be one of the more successful companies in the world," he said.
"This is a difficult problem, one that we have to act on, but I don't think that we want to act precipitously."
The council's decision to incorporate revenue and access controls will delay the issuance of the request for proposals by several months, according to a report from City Manager James Keene.
"We don't think there's a wrong choice here," said Planning and Community Environment Director Hillary Gitelman. "We're going to end up in the same place eventually."
The request for proposals is the latest in a series of efforts to address a parking crunch in downtown.
The council voted last week to award a contract for the design and environmental review of a satellite parking lot on Embarcadero Road. And by the end of the year, the council is expected to approve a citywide framework for establishing residential permit parking programs.
Data collected in May, June and July showed the average parking garage occupancy was 68 percent for permit spaces and 70 percent for hourly spaces, according to the report from Keene.
The city has set aside a total of $2 million for parking guidance systems and revenue and access controls.
Vice Mayor Liz Kniss, meanwhile, said she was surprised to see the council chambers so empty Monday.
"This is such a hot issue," she said. "One of my first questions would be where are all our constituents who have been so anxious to have this come forward. I'm rather surprised to not see them here tonight."
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'Peds to Parents': Adding dental care to well-child appointmentsThursday, December 19th, 2013
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Project Title: APOE AND THE EFFECTS OF MALNUTRITION ON COGNITIVE AND INTESTINAL DEVELOPMENT
Abstract: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In long-term studies, we have discovered important associations of impaired cognitive development, physical fitness, and growth with early childhood diarrhea and malnutrition in favela (shantytown) children in Northeast Brazil. Having found that an "Alzheimer's-like" deficit in higher executive function and semantic fluency were most affected, we then found a striking association of the "Alzheimer's gene," APOE4, with protection from the cognitive developmental impairments. Hence we postulate that early childhood diarrhea and its consequent malnutrition have their greatest impact via lasting impairment on cognitive development effects that are accentuated in individuals lacking the "protective" APOE4 allele and that specific micronutrient interventions can ameliorate this effect. In order to directly test our hypothesis that intestinal and cognitive impairments involve ApoE and that specific micronutrients can ameliorate these effects, and to examine potential mechanisms involved, we have established murine models of early malnutrition, growth, and cognitive development in both wild-type and APOE-knockout mice in our collaborations at the Federal University of Ceara (UFC) in Brazil and at the University of Virginia (UVa) respectively. Furthermore, with a synergistic new collaboration with colleagues at Duke University, we can specifically examine effects of APOE4 using human APOE4 targeted replacement "knock-in" mice to "close the loop" on our hypothesis and directly assess whether and how apoE4 is protective against intestinal and cognitive effects of malnutrition, studies that will have direct implications for the optimal health and development of children throughout developing areas. Hence our specific aims are to define the effects of malnutrition and specific micronutrients on intestinal, brain, and cognitive development in a murine model using outbred and inbred wild-type, ApoE knock-out (ko), and human ApoE4 targeted replacement "knock-in" C57BI mice. We will define the effects on intestinal and brain histology and maturation using immunohistochemical methods and studies of developmental milestones and behavioral ontogeny. We will seek to identify potential mechanisms of these effects in the intestine and brain including studies of IGF-1, and will examine the effects of glutamine, zinc, and arginine interventions.
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Hospitals must achieve a difficult balance when scheduling nursing shifts. Nurses often make the difference in life-and-death situations and play a central role in quality of patient care. Having too many nurses, however, causes budgeting problems, as nurses' compensation makes up the largest component of hospital budgets — typically more than 50 percent of all costs.
When assigning nurses to clinical units, a hospital must consider numerous factors, including current patient level, anticipated admissions and discharges, patient severity levels, availability of support personnel and pressure to keep costs down. To complicate matters, hospitals are also confronted with a nationwide nurse shortage.
In the face of these challenges, many hospital administrators implement one of two widely used methods to determine staffing levels.
One method assigns nursing staff by estimating the hours of care each patient must receive from a nurse. The American Nursing Association has criticized this system for its simple quantification, which only takes into account the average time required to care for patients and doesn't consider the varying needs of patients with different diagnoses, ages and multiple ailments.
The more commonly used method is ratio staffing, which dictates a minimum nurse-to-patient ratio. California mandates ratio staffing, requiring its hospitals to have one nurse staffed per six patients in medical-surgical units, but that rule doesn't consider other crucial factors — for example, weekends, which are typically slower than weekdays. With fewer patients coming into the hospital on weekends and fewer procedures scheduled, each nurse could take on a larger load. Ratio staffing is also inflexible and doesn't account for varying patient needs, varying lengths of stay and the differences among hospital units. Still, several other states are considering implementing similar mandates.
Professor Linda Green maintains that ratio staffing is too simplistic for such a complex situation. "The one-size-fits-all approach doesn't make sense," she says. "Under some circumstances, it results in understaffing, which isn't good for patients. In other circumstances, it results in overstaffing, which costs the hospital money."
One reason for California's implementation of ratio staffing is that the healthcare field is confronting an ongoing nurse shortage. "Essentially, the law says if you can't hire enough nurses, you have to admit fewer patients," Green says. As a result, to maintain the mandated ratios, hospitals may have to cancel elective procedures, divert ambulances to other hospitals and wait longer to admit patients.
Green and doctoral candidate Natalie Yankovic developed a queuing model that will help hospitals to more accurately estimate effective nurse-staffing levels.
"I started to think about what would make sense as a methodology," Green says, "and was excited about the prospect of measuring the demand and workload for nurses to see how nurse staffing was related to performance, in terms of responsiveness to patients and patient satisfaction."
When there aren't enough nurses in each unit, the quality of care suffers in several ways. Immediate attention to patients in need can be jeopardized. The emergency room can fill with patients waiting for beds, even though beds may be available, because there may not be a nurse available to admit patients. Conversely, patients who are ready to leave may have to wait for an available nurse to discharge them.
"A shortage of nurses has been shown by research to result in increased medical errors and deaths," Green says. "Nurses are one of the primary mechanisms by which errors made by other people, like doctors and pharmacists, are caught and corrected."
Green and Yankovic's queuing model bases nurse staffing for a clinical unit on patients' needs such as admissions, discharges, administration of drugs, preparation for procedures and responding to call buttons; the time it takes to respond to those needs; the number of beds; length of stay and patient movement in and out of the unit.
Obtaining electronic data and sources of information for all the variables was more difficult than Green expected. This may be one reason that queuing theory, which has been used for a century, hasn't been previously applied to nurse staffing. (Green has used a queuing model to allocate doctor staffing in emergency rooms.)
"A major part of this two-year study, working in conjunction with the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York," she says, "is trying to collect data and identifying electronic sources of information so that any hospital can replicate this model by plugging data into the equations."
Green hopes that this will be a model by which all hospitals can easily and effectively staff nurses.
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Linda Green is the Armand G. Erpf Professor of the Modern Corporation in the Decision, Risk and Operations Division at Columbia Business School and a founder and codirector of the Columbia Alliance for Healthcare Management.
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But isnt he is a faith healer & a practicing exorcist?
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These are the type of dudes who share prostitutes & get them to wee on them.
Then kill them.
I think they like things dirty & germy and covered in cocaine.
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They're the types of dudes that get fresh crisp hundred dollar bills. They would never touch or put dirty money in their mouths, ever. They've got their reputations on the line here. God, get it right already.
But on second thought... They probably give high fives to each other while doing blow off a dead hookers chest. Oh the good old days!
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Who keeps perpetuating the dead hooker/cocaine/Yale myth?
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That ad was pretty awful even before the smoking part. Whoever decided it would be a good idea to put that dude on camera should be fired immediately. He had some of the worst camera presence I've ever seen, like what the fuck was with all those unnecessary pauses? And then there's the smoking part... I don't even know what to say about that. There is literally nothing to gain and everything to lose by including that. Oh, and that fucking song at the end, what the fuck was that? (Also, was I the only person who thought the song sounded awfully similar to "America, Fuck Yeah!"?)
If this what Cain HQ is coming up with for ads, then he's dead in the water.
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Cain derps out on Libya.
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People are saying Rick's campaign is over coz he could only name 2 of 3 tiers of government or something.
I reckon this is the sort of boost his campaign needs.
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You would think that by now we would have "supp'd full with horrors" on the New York Times op-ed pages. What could be worse than the atrocities that have filled those gray columns in the past few years, the loud brays for war, the convoluted excuses for presidential tyranny, the steady murmur of chin-stroking bullshit meant to comfort the comfortable elite and confirm them -- at all times, at any cost -- in their well-wadded self-righteousness? Surely, you would think, we have seen the worst.
If this was your thought, then alas, alas, alack the day, you were bitterly mistaken, my friend. Comes now before us the portly, fur-lipped figure of Thomas Friedman, Esq., who today has penned what must be the most morally hideous and deeply racist column ever to appear in those rarefied journalistic precincts: "Ten Months or Ten Years."
It seems that this very enthusiastic promoter of the unprovoked war of aggression against Iraq - which he proudly called "a war of choice," apparently not realizing that he was parroting the propagandists of the Nazi regime that killed millions of his ethnic kindred -- has now discovered that Iraqi Arabs are hopeless, worthless barbarians, broken by "1,000 years of Arab-Muslim authoritarianism" and can only be held together by an "iron fist." (He got all this from reading a new book, apparently. Well, a little literacy, like a little learning, is a dangerous thing, I reckon -- and as anyone who has ever exposed themselves to the dull, flat buzz of Friedman's prose can attest, his literacy is little indeed.)
In fact, the only thing America did wrong in its "effort to bring progressive politics or democracy to this region" was not coming down hard enough on this darky riff-raff: "Had we properly occupied the country, and begun political therapy, it is possible an American iron fist could have held Iraq together long enough to put it on a new course. But instead we created a vacuum by not deploying enough troops." Instead, we took it easy on them -- I mean, Jesus H. Jiminy Cricket Walker Christ, we only killed 600,000 of them; what kind of pussyfooting around is that? -- and look what happened. A Sunni insurgency sprang up, whose only goal -- whose ONLY goal, mind you -- was to make America look bad: "America must fail in its effort to bring progressive, etc., etc. America must fail – no matter how many Iraqis have to be killed, America must fail." What was their "only one goal" again, Tom? Oh yeah: America must fail. Not a single ding-dang one of them ornery critters ever had any other motive whatsoever to take up arms against an army of foreigners who had invaded and occupied their country.
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Actually, I think there was at least one other
goal of the insurgency, and it hangs over Friedman's piece like a bad
smell he is loath to acknowledge in polite company: they wanted Thomas Friedman to
fail. Here we come to the corroded heart of the matter. Friedman, like
all the pro-war "liberal hawks" who see aggressive war as the very best
method of implanting "progressive politics or democracy" in benighted
lands, is personally affronted by the Iraqis' ingratitude. They will
not and cannot accept even the slightest implication that there was
ever any flaw in their philosophy of benign bloodlust. (Bloodlust by
proxy, of course, always by proxy! Goodness gracious granny me, you'd
never see one of these paladins so much as muss their cuticles in the
service of their noble ideals. That's what God made Mexicans and
Salvadorans and white trash crackers for.)
In his column, Friedman makes much of his pre-war enthusiasm, and proudly claims that he was the first to come up with the "Pottery Barn rule" of international diplomacy -- "You break it, you own it" -- which he further claims Colin Powell copped from him. Perhaps he's right; certainly, it's hard to believe that two separate lifelong chewers of conventional wisdom cud could have come up with such a banal and suburban-brained observation independently! But the fact that Tom Friedman's war has failed -- that these dastardly, dumb-ass Arabs (and Tom, swoopstake, includes the entire "Sunni Muslim world" in his condemnation for "tolerating and tacitly support[ing]" the insurgency; he has obviously gone and polled every single Sunni Muslim on earth to procure this knowledge) -- is the unspoken leitmotiv of the entire piece. This was my war -- and the Arabs ruined it! They didn't want the "progressive politics or democracy" that I wanted to give them at gunpoint -- or with an "iron fist" -- and now the whole thing's just a hopeless mess. Hell, the Arabs are so goddamned stupid, says Tom, that they "can't even have a proper civil war. There are so many people killing so many other people for so many different reasons — religion, crime, politics — that all the proposals for how to settle this problem seem laughable."
Ah, but wise old Tom has a proposal to settle this problem -- a most condign punishment for the Arab trash who have so bitterly disappointed him. Friedman proposes -- seriously, one assumes, for surely nothing is more serious than Tom Friedman in full cry -- that we "re-invade" Iraq with 150,000 more troops...and this time really do a number on those recalcitrant tribes, do whatever "is necessary to crush the dark forces in Iraq" and pound some sense into them, or at least some obedience, with our big "iron fist." (This is, after all, the only thing that Arabs understand, right? No doubt Tom has read "The Arab Mind," Raphael Pataki's reduction of fellow human beings to abstract ciphers bound up in a hive mentality -- an outdated, outmoded, outlandish spasm of hidebound "Orientalism" that has long been required reading not only for war-of-choicemongers like Friedman but also for Pentagon brass and officers in the field.)
Whatever is necessary. Whatever it takes. This is, I believe, what is technically known as the "Close Your Hearts to Pity" strategy, in honor of that great war-of-choicer who thus exhorted his officers as they stood poised on the Polish frontier back in the glorious days when men were men and an iron fist was an iron fist.
of course, we hollow men, headpieces filled with straw, obviously lack
the will to power. And so even while Tom adjures his great hero, the Commander-in-Chief,
to unleash the re-invasion force (where Tom proposes to get 150,000
more fighting troops from remains a mystery; maybe China will loan us
some), thereby "crushing the Sunni and Shiite militias, controlling
borders, and building Iraq's institutions and political culture from
scratch," it's clear that he believes that the sissy-mary American
public lacks the proper martial spirit to carry through the necessary
10 years of fisting that the Iraqis so clearly deserve. And so, more in
anger than in sorrow, he proposes the only other possible alternative
to a brand-new blitzkrieg: bugging out in 10 months time and forgetting
the whole shebang ever happened. Otherwise, "it will only mean throwing
more good lives after good lives into a deeper and deeper hole filled
with more and more broken pieces."
Yes, yes, the "Pottery Barn Rule" says that if we are responsible for those broken pieces, then we own them. But never let it be said that Friedman lacks the moral courage and mental elasticity to admit that he is wrong. Not about his advocacy of the war, of course. Nor about the idea that murdering 600,000 civilians (and counting) is a jim-dandy way to advance "progressive politics or democracy." Heavens to Betsy my word, no. All of that still goes, and we can only hope to see this course followed again elsewhere, and soon -- and done right this time. No, what Tom manfully admits is wrong is his "Pottery Barn Rule" itself. It turns out that "Iraq was already pretty broken before we got there." So none of what has happened is our fault. The blame lies with those "1,000 years of Arab-Muslim authoritarianism." (So much more corrosive than the European authoritarianism that overlaid the White-Folk homeland for, oh, say 3,000 years or so.) The blame lies with "three brutal decades of Sunni Baathist rule" -- that would be the Sunni Baathist rule that was put in place by means of not one but two CIA-assisted coups, and maintained with lavish help from Ronald Reagan and George Humpty Dumpty Bush. The blame also lies, it seems, with a "crippling decade of UN sanctions," screwed on ever tighter by those champions of humanitarian intervention, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.
In fact, who can forget Tom's giddy cheerleading for the Clinton-Blair air war against the civilian population of Serbia? Who can forget his bone-chilling warning to the unruly Slavs in his classic 1999 column, "Give War a Chance," when he wrote: "Let's at least have a real war. It should be lights out in Belgrade: every power grid, water pipe, bridge, road and war-related factory has to be targeted...Every week you ravage Kosovo is another decade we will set your country back by pulverizing you. You want 1950? We can do 1950. You want 1389? We can do 1389 too." In a column the year before, as Norman Solomon notes, Friedman called for "bombing Iraq, over and over and over again."
So there you go. Iraq was already ruined before we got there. We didn't have a blessed thing to do with it. Certainly, the "war of choice" launched by the knowing lies of Bush and Blair ("the intelligence is being fixed around the policy") has no connection whatsoever to the deep hole filled with broken pieces that is Iraq today. And if it turns out that we really are too wimpy to close our hearts to pity and put these ragheads in their place once and for all, we can still leave behind the hellhole -- and those 600,000 dead -- with a clear conscience. For we have not failed. (Thomas Friedman has not failed.) We were not wrong. (Thomas Friedman was not wrong.) It was all the fault of those "progress-resistant," broken-down, hive-minded, barbaric Arabs. We can either slaughter them by the millions, or flush them down the toilet. There is no other way.
This, ladies and gentleman, is what passes for Establishment thought on the most respected newspaper in the land. This complete and utter moral perversion -- like unto an act of sexual congress with the beasts of the field -- is now the conventional wisdom of the chattering classes, the "public intellectuals," and the powerful elites whom they so cravenly serve. This blood-flecked drivel -- a precise echo of the genocidal fury being voiced on what once was once considered the lunatic fringes of the far right -- is now at the heart of American political life.
How many more people will have to die to keep the warmongers from colliding with the enormity of their crimes? What child will be ripped to shreds tonight -- and tomorrow night -- and every night afterward, for "ten months or ten years," to keep Thomas Friedman snug and cozy in the gilded palace of his endless self-regard?
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Easy, Chris!
Don't get your knickers in a wad. Newt Gingrich is going to revisit the First Amendment. Nifty Newt thinks we should censor people and Web sites who advocate and advance the cause of terror. So Newt will probably go to New York one of these days and tell Friedman to shut up or go to jail. If Friedman had principles he'd choose to go to jail like a good American, but, being he is what he is, he'll choose to shut up and that will be the last we hear from him. Good thing we got Newt on the job, eh? He knows how to put them chickenhawks down and keep 'em there. I sleep better at night knowing he looks out for us.
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Bestiality as conventional wisdom of the chattering classes
If Friedman and/or Colin Powell wish to foment war or formulate foreign policy by analogy to the Pottery Barn Rule, at least they should get their aphorism straight.
Here in the Midwest, the saying I've heard since childhood - and which some retail shops actually post discretely near their display cases - is "If you break it, you buy it." Behaving like a clumsy oaf, in other words, does not create a moral entitlement to take over day-to-day operations of the whole store.
Ten months? Ten years? Why must the false choices always be so superficial?
What's wrong with ten weeks to withdraw all the US troops, spies, contractors, con men, collaborators, pimps, and other hangers on? Let's test Tom's racist stereotype. The cradle of civilization may just prove itself quite capable of conducting a very proper civil war (or perhaps avoiding further descent into the one we've set in motion) once the American military occupation ends.
Follow this up with ten hours of competently conducted Congressional committee investigation focused upon the massive financial fraud and theft of public funds funneled into the occupation, the Downing Street lies, and the torture/rendition/domestic wiretapping scandals. A democratic republic worthy of the name should be able to clean up its house domestically in about ten minutes, and then address the issue of fair reparations due the people of Iraq.
But, as you so flamboyantly and succinctly put it, we are treated instead to "the loud brays for war, the convoluted excuses for presidential tyranny, the steady murmur of chin stroking bullshit..." while the dream of empire unravels, "this blood flecked drivel.....now at the heart of the American political life."
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Not sure if this is Stephens problem, but, I filled out the Beta Calendar and none of the events show up on the public site calendar.
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The orange plaster mask she created, adorned with a peacock feather popping out of multicolored yarn hair, represents a "very colorful, beautiful young artist who loves to draw creative, wonderful designs," she wrote on the description of her work. "Her paintings are inspired by her features in her hair, her jewelry and her colorful highlights."
Her mask is one of 60 pieces hanging on walls of the County Commons as part of the latest public art installation. The show features artwork from kindergarteners to fifth graders from Frisco, Silverthorne and Dillon Valley elementary schools. The County Common's glass case displays also highlight three-dimensional pieces from students, such as Frisco fifth-grader Carson Michalowski's masquerade masks, which she makes from plaster cloth.
Dillon Valley art teacher Lynn Krystopa helps kindergarten through fifth-graders develop fine motor skills, while instructing them in art history and the elements of art. As she works with them throughout the years, she points out the strengths in their pieces and tries to build on them, she said.
The show exemplifies how much diversity thrives within creative minds. Teachers gave students the same assignments, such as making an Aboriginal dot painting, a monochromatic shoe painting, a Henri Matisse fishbowl or a patterned shirt design. Yet each piece bursts with different tones, patterns and "flavors."
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DETROIT -- The voice inside Matt Cain's head tries to tell him that Game 4 of the World Series is no big deal.
The rest of him isn't buying it.
"It's like your mind and your body, they know what's going on,'' Cain said Saturday on the eve of his second career World Series start. "They know it's going to be a big game."
Cain takes the mound against the Detroit Tigers for the first time since snuffing out the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 7 of the NLCS. Cain also finished off the Reds in the decisive Game 5 of the NLDS.
For anyone who argues that there is no such thing as a clutch player, Giants manager Bruce Bochy points to those two Cain outings and begs to differ.
"Your great players, for the most part, are the players who seem to play better when their club needs them,'' Bochy said a few hours before Game 3. "The higher the stakes, the more they elevate their game. I certainly would put Matt Cain in that class."
In all, Cain is 4-2 with a 1.83 ERA in seven career postseason starts, including 2010. He is the second pitcher in baseball history to win two winner-take-all games in a single postseason, joining the Cardinals' Chris Carpenter, who did it last season.
Oddly enough, the pitcher said he owes his playoff success to the days when the Giants weren't playing well. Cain was the victim of poor run support so often in his early days that he became a verb: Getting "Cain-ed" meant losing, say, 1-0 or 2-1.
In retrospect, all those games with no margin for error helped prepare him for this stage.
"Yeah, it definitely did,'' Cain said Saturday. "It definitely taught me how to pitch in close situations and close games, to find ways to dig yourself out of stick innings or things like that."
This will be Cain's first career start against Detroit and he has faced only four of its hitters. Prince Fielder and Omar Infante are each 5 for 18 against him (.278) while Miguel Cabrera is 1 for 6 with a home run and Jhonny Peralta is 1 for 3 with two RBI.
Cain said his plan for attacking the Tigers lineup is to focus on the top of the lineup so that Fielder and Cabrera have no runners to drive home. "It just makes it a little bit easier, stress-wise,'' he said.
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Scherzer, unlike Cain, wasn't going to bother trying to tell his mind or body that Game 4 was no big deal.
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not_blonde_really not_blonde_really Feb 3, 2013 14:34 Flag
Formation without Defoe?
Bum bum bum bum bum. Hopefully Defoe's injury won't give him a long layoff, but what formation do we go for without him? In particular for the next few games while we wait for Ade to return.
I'd be inclined to push Dempsey forward but with Holtby or perhaps even Bale close behind (with the other one on the wing) for Newcastle, and for Lyon I reckon I'd give Obika a run.
Please don't turn this into another "I know better than Levy & AVB, if they'd got a striker like I told them to we'd be ok" thread, we all know our squad weaknesses and it's typical this happens in the first game after the window closes, but sulking about it isn't going to help.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
I've been happier when Ade's been on a losing team (when he played for the Goons heh heh heh) ;-)
Didn't Kane come back from loan as well?
It's an odd season - Bale as current top scorer, and with hardly any assists, Daffy now second with more assists... a bit topsy turvy. Maybe it's just a logical follow on from the past couple of seasons where Bale seemed to like to play more in the scoring role rather than provider - well, at least he has a fair few shots (136 last season and 85 so far this).
Having said that, There seem to be a number of balls that go into the box from wide and that no one gets on the end of. So maybe Bale's assist record (or lack of?) is just a product of his own speed (or poor delivery?)?
Personally, I think I'd have Dempsey up front (as he doesn't appear to like playing wide), Holtby behind and Bale/Lennon still playing wide.
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kane or obika nowhere near good enough im afraid.
bit of a disaster with defoe being out but at least ade is back.
I like the team with holtby behind ade. I really like the look of holtby. he looks like a right bargin. seems like a good personaility too.
ekotto seems to have improved attacking game over the last year or so. but his defensive laziness still lets him down.
he was awful against Norwich the other day.
nearly every decent Norwich attack came down his side.
he just wasn't bothered about trying to stop crosses to holt for some reason.
he would be such a good LB if he actually cared & made more of an effort. shame.
still better than most LBs in the prem.
benidorm spur benidorm spur Feb 3, 2013 23:02 Flag
now ade is on his way back when we have him he takes dempseys role and that means bale/holtby left and centre with no changes to the rest of the team till sandro and kabs are fit.
walker daws verts bae
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Kentish Maid Kentish Maid Feb 3, 2013 22:43 Flag
Don't get to that many away games - but do get to every PL home game though :-)
This season I've only been to Manchester City and West Brom (my daughter is at uni in Birmingham so I stay with her). Went to Villa last season but as the game was on Boxing Day this season we decided to give it a miss. Will try to get to a couple more away games this season if I can as a number of my friends travel to every away game too - I met up with a few of them this afternoon.
not_blonde_really not_blonde_really Feb 3, 2013 15:01 Flag
Meant to add, Defoe's not scored in the last 8 games, most of our goals in that time have come from Bale and Dempsey, so personnel isn't necessarily the issue, it's how we maximise the players we can use.
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benidorm spur benidorm spur Feb 3, 2013 16:22 Flag
it wold be a shame to see ble move out wide as he is blistering in that central role he is taking up.
dempsey has to play upfront hes a recognised striker and scores. ok not a world beater but a striker none the less. for me i would go with dempsey upfront and bale and holtby alternating from wide to central as the game goes on.bale to start out wide left and drift , wouldnt change the rest of the team till sandro and kaboul are fit.


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HOUSTON -- Not long after Rashad Jennings had run through D.J. Swearinger and had set sail toward the goal line, Raiders coach Dennis Allen wasn't sure if his running back would reach his destination.
"I didn't know if he would make it or not, but he had just enough juice in the end,'' Allen said following a 28-23 win over the Houston Texans Sunday at Reliant Stadium.
Jennings, resplendent in a purple velvet suit coat with a light lavender dress shirt and ascot, said there was nothing to worry about.
"I had no doubt,'' Jennings said. "I was just looking back, making sure, seeing who I was going to have to give the stiff-arm to''
With a career-high 150 yards on 22 carries, including the 80-yard touchdown run that stood up as the Raiders' final points, Jennings has 340 yards on 57 carries, averaging 6.0 yards per carry in his last three games. He is second to Terrelle Pryor in rushing with 480 yards.
Running back Darren McFadden, who had a hamstring injury early in the Philadelphia game which made Jennings the lead back, has 352 yards in seven games.
When McFadden does return, it's become clear he'll have to wait his turn.
"(Jennings has) been a guy we've called on to come in and run the ball and he's done a great job at it,'' Allen said. "As he continues to run the ball like he's doing, he's going to continue to get opportunities to run the ball.''
Jennings, signed as an unrestricted free agent after averaging 2.8 yards per carry in Jacksonville last season, has resisted any and all urges to take credit for anything other than doing his job.
"You may get a lot more smiles in the interview (after a win), but there's still a lot to clean up,'' Jennings said. "You can always go to the tape and see where you could have done more.''
Jennings' touchdown run came when he took a direct snap from center play-faked to Jacoby Ford on a fly sweep to the right. Jennings ran slightly to his left just inside a seal block from Marcel Reece and a crushing block from guard Mike Brisiel on Darryl Sharpton and was off to the races.
"That play goes back to Marcel getting body on body and allowing me one-on-one, and as a running back, that's all you can ask for,'' Jennings said.
Center Stefen Wisniewski said the play was executed as it was drawn up.
"I had a double-team on the left so I pulled around, with a big hole on the left side,'' Wisniewski said. "We got both linebackers blocked, and then one-on-one with a running back and a safety _ and that's where running backs make their money.
"He didn't want to make the guy miss, so he ran him over. Most of the time when guys run somebody over, they get caught eventually, right? But he just ran him over and kept rolling all the way.''
The long run plus Jennings' shorter, steady gains are what Allen has wanted to see since training camp.
"That's the way I envision our running game,'' Allen said. "I envision a lot of ones and twos and threes, a few fours and fives mixed in, then all of a sudden, bam. We hit a big one.''
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Earlier this week, PhRMA's Gabriela Lavezzari, Assistant Vice President, Scientific Affairs, participated in an Institute of Medicine (IoM) workshop, titled "Conflict of Interest in Medical Innovation: Assuring Integrity while Facilitating Innovation in Medical Research." Gabriela presented on the impact of conflict of interest (CoI) policies on medical innovation as part of a panel that included government and academic representatives.
Gabriela stressed the importance of increasing confidence in CoI policies by sharing best practices, standardizing policies, promoting beneficial relationships and creating efficiency standards. She cited evidence that the current CoI policies, which are more stringent than ever, have led to a decrease in expert participation in Food & Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committees. This trend poses a threat to medical innovation because our brightest minds have a more limited role in the process.
The Association of American Medical College's (AAMC) Heather Pierce echoed Gabriela's comments when she stated, "We have been clear about the risks of conflict of interest, but we have not been as clear about benefits of collaboration." Pierce also stressed the need to standardize policies and promote beneficial relationships in order to continue driving medical innovation.
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You can view an archived webcast of the discussion on the workshop site.