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Director, CPET
Endowed Chair, Morse Professor of Teacher Education
Chair of the Arts and Humanities Department, Teachers College
Dr. Ruth Vinz taught middle and high school students for twenty-three years before coming to Teachers College. She is a Professor in the English Education Program and the Enid and Lester Morse Endowed Chair in Teacher Education. She directs the Center for the Professional Education of Teachers. Ruth is the co-author of several books, Inside Out, Recasting the Text, Learning the Landscapes and Writing Qualitative Research. Her book, Composing A Teaching Life, received the Richard Meade award for outstanding research published in English education in 1997. She is co-author of the Houghton Mifflin Daybooks, a new 6-12 grade series of reading and writing literature books used in thousands of secondary classrooms, both nationally and internationally. In the most recent book, Becoming (Other)Wise, Dr. Vinz collaborated with other Program faculty in an examination of multicultural literature education and cultural criticism as literacy events. Her research interests include cultural literacies, particularly focused on adolescent readers' practices, constructed and constructing identities of teachers, and traditions and representations of research-in-practice. At CPET, Dr. Vinz serves as Director and Senior Advisor to all initiatives.
Lead Professional Development Advisor
Uzma Akhand Hossain received her Ed.D. from the English Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has taught 7th grade Humanities, 9-12th grade English and 12th grade AP English in public and private schools. Uzma was also an adjunct instructor in the English Education department for several years. She has been working as an educational consultant for the past nine years, with all subject areas, to support schools with literacy, school leadership, professional development, and curriculum planning for students' overall academic achievement. Her areas of expertise include Understanding by Design, Common Core standards, literacy and differentiation. Uzma has worked with teachers and administrators from elementary, middle and high schools around the U.S., partnering with various organizations such as Institute for Student Achievement, Student Press Initiative, and The Schillinger Group. She is passionate about educational improvement and support for teachers, administrators, and students.
Lead Professional Development Coach
Adele Bruni Ashley is a full-time instructor in the English Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University where she is also a current PhD candidate. She taught 8th through 12th grade English at the New York City Lab School, founding the Lab Theatre Company (LTC) in 2007. Prior to public school teaching, she received her M.F.A. in acting from the University of Washington Professional Actor Training Program (PATP) where she taught undergraduate theatre. As an educator, she is interested in structuring classroom spaces as laboratories for imaginative exploration and creation.
Special Contributor
Former Associate Director to CPET and Senior Project Manager of the Reading & Writing Project, Hilary currently works as a Professional Development Advisor. She is a PhD candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University with a research focus in educational neuroscience. Additionally, Hilary has worked with both university faculty and K-12 teachers across the city to align curricula and instruction to the Common Core as well as increase data-driven instruction and college readiness.
Senior Professional Development Coach
Dorothy Barnhouse is a Brooklyn-based writer, reader and literacy consultant, specializing in reading instruction. She is the author of Readers Front and Center (Stenhouse, 2014) and co-author of What Readers Really Do (Heinemann, 2012). Dorothy started teaching as a writer-in-the-schools at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project while getting her MFA from Columbia University. She has taught graduate and undergraduate writing workshops and has received several grants and fellowships for her writing.
Professional Development Coach
Jorge Beltran is currently pursuing his Ed.M. in Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University, after completing his M.A. in that same program. Born and raised in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts in English Language Teaching, he has experience working in EFL and ESL settings, from elementary school students to the college level. Regarding his work with CPET, Jorge had collaborated in three projects for SPI until this past spring. He worked with immigrant students at different sites in the Bronx, and for the writing section of a summer camp for young women along with other SPI educators. Jorge is joining CPET this year as a Zankel Fellow, and looks forward to starting his visits to public schools in the city. His interests include teaching, second language acquisition, communicative approaches to language teaching, language assessment, process writing, and voicing in personal narratives.
Lead Professional Development Coach
Gregory is currently a Professor at Guttmann College and is in his first year of his PhD at Teachers College at Columbia University in their Math Education program. He plans to utilize his experiences as a Boston Public School graduate and as a Boston Public School teacher as an anchor in his future research in educating urban students. He believes witnessing multiple perspectives have helped him greatly understand the importance of equity and inquiry and is pleased to bring those perspectives to CPET as well as Columbia. He hopes to create and examine a cohesive blend of theory and practice, while evolving his pedagogy further.
Special Contributor
Sheridan Blau, Ph.D., is the Distinguished Senior Lecturer in English Education and Coordinator of the TC Program in the Teaching of English. Before coming to Teachers College in 2008, he was Professor of English and Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where for over three decades he served as Director of the South Coast Writing Project and the Literature Institute for Teachers. He also served for many years as the director of the UCSB Composition Program and program head of the teacher-education program in English. He has been honored with awards by his university and by national professional associations for his teaching, for his research, and for his contributions to the profession of English. He has also served as a member of the Assessment Development Panel for National Certification in English for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, as a Senior Advisor to the California Test Development Committee for statewide assessments in reading and writing, and as a member of the English Academic Advisory Committee to the College Board. He also directs the National Literature Project Network and served for twenty years as a member of the National Writing Project Advisory Board and Task Force. He is a former President of the National Council of Teachers of English, serving as a member of the presidential team from 1995-2000. Dr. Blau has published widely in the areas of seventeenth century literature, composition theory, professional development for teachers, and the teaching of composition and literature. He has also written and edited textbooks in composition and literature for students in middle school, high school, and college classrooms. His most recent book for teachers and scholars, The Literature Workshop: Teaching Texts and Their Readers (Heinemann, 2003), was named by the Conference on English Education as the winner of the 2004 Richard Meade Award for outstanding research in English education.
Senior Professional Development Coach
Janice has been involved in urban school reform in New York City for the past twenty years as a teacher, staff developer, researcher and professor of educational studies. After starting her career as a teacher in New York City public high schools, she earned a doctorate in Urban Education from the CUNY Graduate Center. She was an assistant professor at Eugene Lang College/The New School and has been a teacher-mentor and school design coach with organizations such as New Visions for Public Schools and the Institute for Student Achievement (ISA), where she helps to design classrooms and schools, and nurture educators, for inquiry-based teaching and learning. She is currently one of the co-directors of College Access: Research & Action (CARA), which is based at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Senior Professional Development Coach
Stephen has experienced the field of education from three distinct perspectives: as a teacher in the New York City Public School system, as an instructor designing curriculum and professional development programs at the American Museum of Natural History and as a science education consultant in Standards-based curriculum and STEM Education reform with schools throughout the United States, Peru, France and Southeast Asia. His interests include bringing scientists and teachers together in professional development settings to see the effects on pedagogy. Stephen is the Founding Director of the Cool Earth Teacher Fellowship, a program that supports the personal and professional development of secondary school teachers by providing expeditionary learning experiences in the Amazon Rainforest with scientists from the United States and Peru. Stephen is preparing to use this program as the basis for a future doctoral research.
Senior Professional Development Advisor
Courtney Brown is an educational coach and consultant whose work is informed by her range of experiences as a high school and middle school teacher of English and the humanities. Grounded in the philosophies of project based learning and literacy across the disciplines, Courtney seeks to support schools and teachers to develop authentic curriculum and practices in order to enable them and their students to thrive. Currently, her work focuses on empowering networks, schools and teachers to leverage mandates through the development and exploration of meaningful curriculum, assessments, instructional practices, and use of data. Courtney has presented workshops for City-wide networks, Student Press Initiative and at the National Council of Teachers of English Convention. She feels privileged to work with educators in NYC and collaborate with her colleagues at CPET.
Lead Professional Development Coach
Crystal Chen is an Ed.D. student and instructor in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University. Crystal joins the CPET team this year as a Zankel Fellow and is excited to be working with and learning from teachers, students, and coaches who are passionate about the transformative power of education. Her research examines the intersections among critical literacy, African immigrant girls, and community-based organizations in New York City public schools. Prior to doctoral studies, Crystal was a high school English teacher in New Jersey. She received her B.A. in English and her M.Ed. in English Education from Rutgers University. Crystal is a passionate advocate for social justice education. Currently, her work also extends to research on teaching residents' beliefs and practices on social justice education, and she has taught content area literacies at Teachers College and Montclair State University to preservice teachers.
Lead Professional Development Advisor
Dr. Cristina Romeo came to Teachers College to pursue a doctorate in the Teaching of English, after teaching third grade in a Title 1 school for six years and completing a Masters in Childhood Education. She has worked for CPET for the last four years, supporting teachers in grades K-12, in areas such as curriculum design and unit planning, aligning instruction to the Danielson framework and the Common Core State Standards, as well as developing literacy strategies that bolster student learning and achievement. She has also worked closely with teachers and students to develop literacy projects that culminate in print-based publications. As a former New York City public school teacher, Cristina is able to bring a valuable perspective to her coaching work and her experiences inspire her commitment to empowering teachers.
Lead Professional Development Advisor
Denise Mensah Daniels started her journey as an educator as a storyteller/artist-in-residence through an Annenberg grant in 2001. Since then, Denise has held many positions from teacher to Literacy Coach, Testing Coordinator, Data Specialist and Professional Developer. No matter the context, she strongly believes in creating spaces for reflection on the "process" as teaching and learning happens. She has taught both middle and high school in the New York City area. She has been coaching and professionally developing teachers since 2004. Denise joined CPET in the Spring of 2010 as Lead Facilitator & Staff Developer with a D79/GED-PLUS Speaking Worlds publishing project with Student Press Initiative (SPI). She is currently a Professional Development Advisor & Instructional Coach with the Secondary Literacy Initiative (SLI). Denise's areas of expertise include strength based coaching for improvement and maximizing the productivity of teacher teams.
Special Contributor
Randi Dickson taught English and reading for 20 years in public middle and high schools before earning her doctorate in English Education from Teachers College/Columbia in 1999. In addition to being a faculty member at Queens College/CUNY for 12 years, she has worked as a curriculum consultant and professional developer for the Ross School in East Hampton, NY, and for Think Global School. In summer 2012, she helped create and teach a two week workshop for teachers in Bhutan on curriculum development and has worked in Ecuador and Argentina with teachers and students as part of TGS. She is currently a Visiting Associate Professor at Teachers College.
Senior Professional Development Coach
Danielle Filipiak is an advanced doctoral fellow in the English Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Prior to this, she taught middle and high school English for nearly a decade in Detroit, MI, where she also served as an education advocate, consultant, school board member, Wayne State Writing Project fellow, co-founder of the Detroit Progressive Educator Coalition, and original member of the Detroit Future Schools program, an initiative to design and implement digital media arts-integrated curriculum. Danielle has also tinkered as a curator for the National Writing Project's Digital Is website, and received both her undergraduate and MA degrees from Michigan State University. Her most recent curiosities center on the intersections between critical pedagogy, youth digital production, and civic engagement in urban classroom settings.
Senior Research Fellow for Educational Innovation
Founding Director, SPI
Erick Gordon founded SPI at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2004. He has worked on student press literacy projects for over fifteen years, and has helped support thousands of young authors into print. Erick's unique vision grew out of his background in both small press publication and classroom teaching, first in Northern California and then New York City. Dr. Erick Gordon is the first Innovation Education Fellow at the Center for the Professional Education of Teachers at Teachers College (CPET), Columbia University. He is a former classroom teacher, and the former director of the New York City Writing Project.
In his work at CPET, Erick builds and researches pedagogies of invention through projects that position students and teachers as explorers, collaborators, and risk-takers. He believes in purposeful play across real world and virtual environments where learners are encouraged to experiment, fail, discover and evolve. Besides his adventures at SPI, which have been widely covered by the press, his passion for reading the world as "text" was turned into a radio documentary on WNYC's Radiolab.
Initiative Director
As a classroom teacher, Roberta supported her colleagues as a New Teacher Mentor, a college writing coach, and Literacy Lab Site Leader. She wrote several district wide curricula for Denver Public Schools and the NYC Department of Education before transitioning from classroom teacher to professional coach. As a Professional Development Advisor with the Secondary Literacy Initiative in the Center for the Professional Education of Teachers, Roberta has supported schools across New York City. Roberta has presented workshops for the Institute for Student Achievement, Student Press Initiative, and at the National Council of Teachers of English Convention. Roberta completed her doctorate in English Education (with a focus on assessment) at Columbia's University, Teachers College, and partners with schools around the city in critical areas such as developing academic rigor, refining literacy in high school, creating meaningful instruction for high stakes assessments, and leveraging city and state mandates for authentic school change.
Program Manager
G. Faith Little's Program Manager role has been shaped by her wide range of experiences with students, their families, and the community of educators who invest in them. Because Faith sees each as a valuable stakeholder in the education process, her work is focused on identifying barriers and building bridges; supporting individual and team growth with creative, compassionate leadership. Through team building, conflict resolution, and process improvement, Faith strives to provide space and opportunity for each person to find and use their voice. After over ten years of experience in youth development, she taught in Denver Public Schools and worked in Colorado State government. After relocating to New York City, Faith transitioned into project management at the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching, coming alongside academic coaches in support of their principals, teachers, and students. She is thrilled to be a part of the CPET team!
KERRY McKIBBIN
Special Contributor
Kerry McKibbin has been involved with CPET since 2006, first as Director of Programs for the Student Press Initiative (SPI) and most recently as a coach with the Secondary Literacy Institute (SLI). She is also a full-time instructor in the Teaching of English MA program at Teachers College, where she is pursuing her doctorate in English Education. Kerry's research focuses on how oral practices shape students' writing processes and how recorded narrative affects identity construction. As a classroom teacher and curriculum consultant, she has used oral history to explore literature in a middle school English classroom, as a yearlong intergenerational project in a small high school in the Bronx section of New York City, and with student-inmates on Rikers Island. Kerry is the author of Project Notes: Conducting Oral History in the Secondary Classroom.
Lead Professional Development Advisor
Marcelle Mentor is a South African native and an Ed.D. candidate in Teachers College's English Education doctoral program. She is a former high school English Teacher in her native South Africa. Her academic interest focuses on race, class and culturally relevant pedagogy in the high school classroom. She is entering her fourth year working with CPET at Teachers College as a Curriculum Coach, where she guides teachers in their classroom practice and plans and lead Professional Developments workshops. Her long term plan is to teach at the college level, preparing teachers for high school teaching and providing professional development and support to them. On a personal level- she is a believer of truth – and that it will set you free; an avid fighter for right and she hopes to always inspire people into telling the truths of their lives, not just to others, but to their very selves.
Executive Program Administrator
Kaydie is a graduate of Teachers College, with an M.A. in Psychological Counseling, as well as an Ed.M. in School Counseling. Prior to joining the CPET team she worked as a Counselor and Advocate at Crisis Services, an outreach program based out of Buffalo, NY. She has also worked with students of all ages, providing academic and personal counseling at Professional Performing Arts School, and working with the Rita Gold Early Childhood Center at Teachers College. At CPET, Kaydie helps to bridge the gap between the needs of schools, staff, and Teachers College while overseeing the administrative and financial aspects of the Center.
Senior Professional Development Coach
Marian spent many years as a teacher and administrator in middle and high schools. Prior to retiring from the New York City Public School System she worked in both traditional and alternative schools. She was an English teacher for 18 years, and started a mini-school on the junior high school level. She taught Humanities when she became involved with new alternative small high schools, for 16 years. In addition to enjoying the classroom and interactions with students, she worked to begin three new high schools, Central Park East Secondary School, East Side Community High School and Vanguard High School, where she was also Co-Director. She worked with the National Coalition of Essential Schools, the New York Performance Standards Consortium and the Institute for Student Achievement for many years. She helped develop Performance Based Instruction, an Inquiry approach to teaching, learning and Assessment educational methods and strategies. She has guided teachers in their work on their own Teacher Portfolios. She has been a school coach/consultant in schools since retiring. She works with advisory programs, guidance and support personnel to strengthen the social and emotional areas in schools' cultures. She feels these experiences helped deepen the quality of instruction, engage the students to participate in and take ownership of their education, and therefore their future. She has enjoyed working with staff development projects and programs supporting teaching staff. She feels it has been exciting, exhausting and most rewarding to work with young people and the adults who create possibilities.
Senior Professional Development Coach
Sarah Montgomery-Glinski is a former New York City public high school teacher. After teaching briefly on the elementary and middle school levels, she focused on secondary special education, working in particular on developing secondary literacy through English and History courses. In addition, teacher and student inquiry, project-based learning, incorporating critical, culturally relevant pedagogy are key aspects of her work. Currently, Sarah is doctoral candidate in anthropology and education program and instructor at Kingsborough Community College.
Lead Professional Development Advisor
Laura Rigolosi brings fifteen years of teaching and staff development experience to CPET. She works closely with middle and high school teachers in all disciplines on teaching reading, curriculum planning and creating meaningful Common-Core aligned assessments. Laura is a doctoral candidate and instructor in English Education at Teachers College, where she also earned her M.A. and Ed.M..
Senior Professional Development Coach
Jay is currently a doctoral candidate in the Program in Social Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. Since 2008, Jay has taught at Columbia's Teachers College and the Center for the Core Curriculum. Jay taught United States and world history at Winters High School in California for nine years.
Program Coordinator
Taeko Suga received M.A. in Politics & Education and is now an Ed.M. student in the Education Policy and Social Analysis program at Teachers College. She is especially interested in charter schools, educational equity, and mayoral control in NYC. Prior to coming to TC, she earned a B.A. in Urban Studies/Policies at CUNY Hunter College, and a M.Sc. in Social Psychology from London School of Economics and Political Science. She has been a Japanese Language Associate at the Department of East Asian Language and Culture at Columbia University and an office assistant at NCREST. She is excited about being a part of the CPET team.
Data Specialist
Nick Tanchuk is a PhD student in the Philosophy and Education program at Teachers College, where his research focuses on what counts as social justice and how we measure it in education. Prior to coming to TC, Nick earned an MA in Philosophy at the University of Manitoba and has taught a variety of subjects in public schools in Winnipeg, Canada. Nick is the co-founder of a Summer Indigenous Math Leadership program at the University of Winnipeg and has over a decade of experience working on grassroots social justice projects in a variety of roles. He is excited to connect his research interests with the practice of schools through his role as data specialist at CPET.
Senior Professional Development Coach
Alex is a doctoral student in the Curriculum and Teaching department. Before coming to Teachers College, she taught 10th Grade Global Studies in Harlem as well as science in Brooklyn schools at the secondary level. Alex's research interests lie within multimodalities, specifically the use of digital media in and out of the classroom. She is interested in the ways students use technology and digital media formally and informally to communicate their ideas and negotiate their identities. At CPET, Alex collaborates with NYC DOE schools and supports teachers through on-site consultation.
Senior Professional Development Coach
Brian Veprek is a PhD student in the Philosophy and Education program at Teachers College and has focused his research on an attempt to make teacher education more humanistic. Prior to coming to TC, Brian earned an EdM in Learning and Teaching from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and taught Theatre Arts, English, and Latin in public and independent schools in the United States and overseas. He is thrilled to join CPET and contribute to its essential work of supporting teachers as they face the myriad challenges of their demanding and fulfilling profession.


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Need help with calculating the accumulated total
Hey everyone! Newbie here! :D
I've been stuck at a particular programming problem. I have to create an application for selling T-shirts. I have to display the items purchased and calculate the total. Supposed to be easy, right? Arghh!
So far I've got:
A ComboBox - this lists the shirts sizes (xsmall. small, medium, large, xlarge, xxlarge). (name: comboShirt)
Quantity Textbox - This is beside the ComboBox. This is where i enter the quantity of the shirts. (name: txtQuant)
OK Button - When the user clicks this button, the shirt item and quantity will appear in the listbox. The total amount will appear in the textbox below. (name: btnOK)
A ListBox - This is where the items selected by the user will appear. (name: lstOrder)
Amount TextBox - this is where the total amount will appear. (name: txtPay)
The prices of the shirt are: small, medium, large, xlarge = $16.00 each
and xsmall, xxlarge = $20.00 each
Here's a link to the screenshot: tinypic.com/r/w17dw4/7
Seems pretty basic. But I just cant come up with a code to calculate the total! Can anyone give me any idea as to how to go about that? Do i do a loop? Do an If else statement?
Also, does the total show up when i click the OK button? Or should i make another button, which the user will click after ordering to calculate the total? I'm totally lost.
This is the best idea i could come up with. But it doesn't really work. I'm not even sure how to add the $20 prices in this:
private void btnOK_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
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Hundreds Of Cases Possibly Tainted In Braintree Police Evidence ScandalHundreds of drug and weapons cases in Braintree could be compromised as a result of mishandled evidence.
Man Charged In Suspected Braintree Road Rage StabbingA man wanted after a violent case of suspected road rage in Braintree has been arrested.
Braintree Officer's Pregnant Wife Battles Breast CancerThe Braintree police department is appealing to the public for help supporting an officer and his expectant wife facing a tough battle.
Braintree Father Arrested In NYC After Allegedly Fleeing With SonA Braintree father accused of taking his three-year-old son has been arrested in New York City.
Braintree Man Wanted For Fleeing State With 3-Year-Old SonBraintree police are searching for a man who allegedly assaulted a person and then fled the state with his three-year-old son.
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Braintree Police Investigate Possible Attempted Abduction Of 13-Year-OldPolice in Braintree are stepping up patrols and looking for a man who may have tried to abduct a 13-year-old boy.
Braintree Police Shuts Down K-9 Unit After AttacksThe Braintree Police Department just disbanded its patrol dog unit entirely after three incidents in recent weeks.
Heavy Traffic Expected Monday On Rte. 37 In BraintreeDue to a funeral procession Monday morning, heavy traffic is expected on Route 37 in Braintree.


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A savvy, rangy defenseman is getting closer on the Detroit Red Wings' horizon, which will afford an opportunity to change the landscape.
Danny DeKeyser is starting a comeback from a separated shoulder suffered Nov. 21, taking to the ice daily and increasing what he does. Realistically, he's still about two weeks away, but when he is ready, he'll need to be removed from long-term injured reserve. Right now, that can't be done without something else happening.
Here's what that something should be: trading defenseman Kyle Quincey.
Quincey has been mediocre since arriving via trade in February 2012. He's minus 9, worst on the team, and has three points, all assists, after 29 games. That's not much of a return for a guy with a $3.775 million salary cap hit. If he could be flipped for a cheaper veteran defenseman or even a draft pick, the Red Wings would greatly improve their salary cap situation.
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There are other ways to make room for DeKeyser. Henrik Zetterberg could be put on long-term injured reserve because of a small herniated disc. He'll likely have missed six games before he even begins practicing; LTIR requires a minimum of 10 games and 24 days. So that's one scenario.
Waiving someone such as Mikael Samuelsson would be of no relief: He's over 35 and on a two-year contract, so the entirely of his $3 million salary still counts against the salary cap.
The better scenario would be to unload Quincey. The Red Wings' defense improved significantly last April, when DeKeyser signed on straight out of Western Michigan. DeKeyser, 23, showed such growth during Jonathan Ericsson's absence that coach Mike Babcock has referred to DeKeyser numerous times as an "elite, elite guy," and as the team's No. 3 defenseman.
When DeKeyser is back, the Wings could field pairings of Ericsson and Niklas Kronwall, DeKeyser and Brendan Smith, and Jakub Kindl and Brian Lashoff. Smith has shown significant improvement since returning three weeks ago from a bruised shoulder. He makes smarter plays. He looks like a 24-year-old defenseman who has an upside that's worth waiting for, that's worth sitting through occasional growing pains.
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If the Red Wings need help, they have three choices in the minors: Xavier Ouellet, Ryan Sproul and Adam Almquist. None should be reserve players in Detroit, however — they either need to play or stay in the minors — which is why it would be worth seeing whether Quincey can be flipped for a cheaper veteran.
Quincey, 28, is headed toward unrestricted free agency. It's hard to see how he fits into the Red Wings' future. Kronwall and Ericsson are under contract at least through 2018-19, at a combined cap hit of $9 million. DeKeyser will be re-signed before the season ends, but right now, it's tricky establishing his value because he has played only 33 games. Smith is signed through next season. Kindl is on board through 2016-17, and Lashoff through 2015-16. Ouellet, Sproul and Almquist are close to being NHL-ready.
Quincey cost the Wings a first-round pick in the trade, but they were desperate at the time, with half the team injured. He can still bring something in return. Quincey is just entering what's considered an NHL defenseman's prime years, and he showed offensive upside while with the Colorado Avalanche.
Other teams might well see him fitting in better in a different system, and the Red Wings would benefit from a cleaner landscape.
Helene St. James writes for the Detroit Free Press


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The world is watching you
Every day the choices you make
Say what you are and who
Your heart beats for
It's an open door
It's your life
~Francesca Battistelli
Yep, that's right. I mean, technically I did something Tuesday and Wednesday. On Tuesday I had my poli sci final and Wednesday I had to drop off my final paper for interpersonal communications (AKA InterComm). However, aside from those two things I've got Tuesday, Wednesday, today and tomorrow totally free.
Am I horribly bored? Actually, not really. It's a nice change from running all over the place like a mad woman.
AND Monte got his first bath (well, my first time giving him a bath, anyway) on Tuesday. This is a picture of him right in the middle of it. It actually didn't go badly like I thought it might. He wasn't exactly happy to be getting a bath but he didn't whine or anything either. Afterwards I toweled him off and he ran all over the apartment a bunch of times like an absolute maniac and then ended up here in the computer room with me rubbing himself all over the couch. Obviously he wasn't a fan of the new dog smell, lol.
Speaking on Monte, he's totally awesome and I'm so happy we have him. He's totally nuts and sometimes doesn't do what he's supposed to but he's such a sweetheart and so freaking cute! We love him (we being Dustin and me; Molly merely tolerates him and Metro is still very angry). Ah well.
In other HUGE NEWS my folks figured out where we're going on spring break in March 2010. And the winner is? PLAYA DEL CARMEN! Um, HECK YES! Frankly ANYWHERE would have been great. Not the problem is waiting until then! It'll be my parents, Dustin and me and Ryan and his girlfriend Sara. It's going to be ridiculously fun!
And more news, the September '08 Midwest nesties (yeah, say that 3 times fast) are planning a get together (AKA GTG in nestie language). Um, I can't even begin to express how excited I am for this! I've been on the 9/08 message board since September 2007 and I feel like I know those girls despite the fact that we've never met. So, in either August or October (we're still narrowing down the date) we'll be meeting up in Chicago. SO EXCITED!
Anyway, that's about it for now. I'll leave you with more Francesca Battistelli lyrics and the gorgeous tree outside my bedroom window. More soon!


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The UN report on the 2014 Gaza conflict rejects Israeli government and military officials' view of what is permissible in combat in densely populated areas. The UN commission's premise differs from that of these officials, seeing Gaza as the home of over 1.5 million civilians where combat took place, not as a battlefield on which civilians live. The report states that the immense harm to civilians during the fighting cannot be justified nor can IHL be interpreted so as to legalize it, even considering the modus operandi of Hamas and other armed groups. The commission also found that the responsibility for violating IHL rests with the senior political and military officials who drew up the policy and did not change it even when its lethal consequences became clear.
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Skip to comments.Cardinal Law Not Exactly Homeless
Posted on 06/02/2004 4:24:38 PM PDT by Arguss
May 28, 2004 Cardinal Law Given Post at Vatican By AL BAKER
ROME, May 27 - Cardinal Bernard F. Law, who was forced to resign as leader of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston after a long and painful sexual abuse scandal involving clergy members, was chosen by Pope John Paul II on Thursday to head a basilica in Rome.
A statement released in the Vatican's daily bulletin announced that Cardinal Law, who resigned in 2002, would become the archpriest of St. Mary Major Basilica, a church in a downtown neighborhood of Rome that is under direct Vatican jurisdiction.
The statement said that Cardinal Law, 72, would succeed the 82-year-old Italian Cardinal Carlo Furno, but it did not say when. It made no mention of Cardinal Law's new responsibilities, but a Vatican official said that "now he will be responsible for one of the four most important basilicas" in Rome. "He will be in charge of the administration of the priests and anything related to the basilica," the official said of Cardinal Law. He added that the post "is not a position of power."
The appointment angered the cardinal's critics and others who see it as a reward.
David G. Clohessy, the national director of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, a nonprofit support group based in Chicago, chided church leaders in Rome for what he called insensitivity to abuse victims.
"Why can't the Vatican officials see that any position of honor afforded to Law will inevitably and needlessly cause more pain to hundreds who have been abused and have already suffered enough?" Mr. Clohessy said. He added, "It just rubs salt into already deep wounds for parishioners, victims and their families."
Cardinal Law, who has been serving as chaplain at the Sisters of Mercy of Alma convent in Clinton, Md., could not be reached for comment.
It was at a meeting in the Vatican on Dec. 13, 2002, that Pope John Paul II accepted the resignation of Cardinal Law, then the senior American prelate in the Roman Catholic Church. The resignation came after nearly a year of revelations that the cardinal and archdiocesan officials that he supervised had repeatedly allowed priests accused of sexual abuse to remain in the ministry. The news of Cardinal Law's new position seemed to tear at emotional scars from those events.
"It's pretty offensive for most Catholics, and the timing couldn't be worse," said David Gibson, author of "The Coming Catholic Church" (Harper San Francisco, 2003). "They're just cleaning up the mess in Boston and closing parishes, and he's getting the ultimate golden parachute. He's getting a beautiful apartment in Rome in one of the four major basilicas in Christendom."
Despite his resignation in Boston, Cardinal Law has remained a powerful American figure in the Vatican. He has posts in as many as nine Vatican congregations, or departments, including the one that determines church leadership worldwide by nominating candidates for bishop. He is a member of the Congregation for Clergy, which has a role in handling sexual abuse cases that are sent to Rome. Now that Cardinal Law is an archpriest in Rome, it will clear the way for his successor in Boston, Archbishop Sean O'Malley, to be made a cardinal, Mr. Gibson said. Cardinals can vote in the conclave to choose the next pope.
The appointment could be financially lucrative for Cardinal Law. His predecessor in the job, Cardinal Furno, received a 10,000 euro monthly stipend, or about $12,000, said a former Vatican official who is a friendly acquaintance of Cardinal Furno. Cardinal Furno lived in a palatial apartment alongside the right flank of the basilica that is reserved for the archpriest, said the former official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"It's the classical Roman apartment with frescoes on the wall," the former official said. Cardinal Furno paid for costly renovations, he said, adding, "It's endless."
The appointment is also likely to make Cardinal Law one of the most influential Americans in the Vatican. And the job will give him considerable autonomy. While at the Maryland convent, he was technically under the authority of the local bishop. Now, "he answers to no one but the pope," the former Vatican official said.
Laurie Goodstein and Daniel J. Wakin contributed reporting from New York.
By Tom Fox, NCR publisher
The U.S laity comprises 99.99 percent of the U.S. church, but has less influence than an old holy card in a Baltimore Catechism.
That was the seemingly intended message in Pope John Paul's appointment May 27 of Cardinal Bernard Law as archpriest of St. Mary Major basilica in Rome.
Law was the only prelate driven from his diocese by the collective outrage of its people in the wake of the clergy sexual abuse scandals. Law came to signify a clerical indifference to victims sufferings. Finally, civil authorities forced him to reveal archdiocesan documents, and the documents showed patterns of facilitation of abuse that made it untenable for Law to stay.
Law's departure was a measurable sign to the laity that at least one bishop was forced -- however reluctantly -- to take responsibility for the scandals.
One prelate was to be held accountable ... but not fully.
While Law left Boston in disgrace after the pope reluctantly accepted his resignation in December 2002, Law kept his powerful positions inside the Vatican. He was never asked to cede power or prestige. He has held nine Vatican offices including, incredibly, one that helps pick bishops and another that guides the handling of clergy abuse case.
Now the former Boston prelate has received a new honor. The New York Times reports that with the appointment comes a $12,000 monthly stipend and a palatial apartment next to the basilica. (NCRs Rome Bureau Chief, John Allen, reports that the Mary Major stipend might be might lower, perhaps less than half that amount. This story is still developing.)
More salt in lay wounds.
Was this Pope John Pauls personal decision? It is difficult to believe it could happen without his awareness.
If it was his decision, then one is reluctantly led to think that the pope still does not get it, that somehow he still does not share the enormous pain of victims and their families and he still does not understand the outrage and hurt of the wider communities of U.S. Catholics.
Or possibly worse he gets it and dismisses it in order to make a larger point. Is the intended message here that he, alone, runs the church?
It was not supposed to be this way.
Four decades ago, the worlds bishops gathered in Rome for the Second Vatican Council. Responding to galloping advances in the education of the laity and acknowledging the rising call worldwide for participatory government, the bishops at the council began edging Catholicism ever so gently away from monarchal authoritarianism, an antiquated church governance model.
The council fathers meanwhile introduced two ideas that also had roots in early church history: collegiality and subsidiarity. The former meant bishops would share decisions; the latter that those decisions would be made as locally as possible.
The bishops called for the opening of the The Age of the Laity.
Those advances never really happened. While the councils progressive voices had carried the day advocating the advances during three years of council deliberations, conservatives reasserted control in the years that followed. Soon more traditional notions of governance took hold once more. Central to these was the clear distinction between clergy and laity.
Was it simply the fear of some bishops of losing perks and power?
From the lay point of view -- those who make up 99.99 percent of the church -- the reasons mattered less than the results of the decisions upon their lives. Laity was to be marginalized once again.
From a womens perspective, the lay marginalization was a double-edged sword. The new reassertion of clerical control involved theology that relegated women permanently to second class, or more properly third class, citizenship. Women were to be marginalized by classification and gender.
In dioceses where clergy and lay collaboration had been encouraged, bishops were replaced with hard liners. Where parish councils had become collaborative governing instruments, priests were forced to change procedures. Where women religious had come to work in harmony with clergy, the teams were forced to shut down. Where lay men and women had come to share the Word and life experiences in reflections during Mass, the practices were stopped. Where seminaries had welcomed lay women and men as teachers and counselors, they were told to leave.
The distinction between clergy and lay person, between decision-maker and decision-receiver has become the crown once again in a dysfunctional church governance ideology that has nothing to do with the basics of Catholic dogma. It is an ideology that is being enforced at all costs -- even at the price of healthy Christian community.
The Law appointment to the Mary Major basilica is the latest assertion of this unhealthy fixation. It calls for all to forget lay wishes, feelings, beliefs, and hurts. It grows out of an apparent need by the pope to make a point: It is he, not the laity, who has the final say.
Pope John Pauls statement, however, comes with a large price tag. It reveals a sad disconnection between the pope and U.S. Catholics. Despite a quarter century of shared faith life, it casts the pope an impenetrable figure.
Clerical sexual abuse has already become a dark shadow on Pope John Pauls legacy. The shadow has grown longer.
Apparently the Pope feels that no dereliction of duty should go unrewarded.
The apppointment is a disgrace. Unfortunately this particular article revolves around a totally bogus understanding of the teacing of Vat II and the Church.
Is this really a good post for Law, or is it to keep him out of the way in a place where he can do no harm and the Vatican can keep an eye on him? How much responsibility does he actually have? I don't know much about St. Mary Major Basilica, as I am a new RC.
The appointment of the Criminal "card" Law leaves no doubt of the Complicity of the present Pope JPII in the holocaust of the Catholic Children by the homosexual priests.
Law should have been out in a more sequestered environment and less obvious which would be worthy of his work in the Church. That place is an American Prison.
This might be the final blow to the Catholic Church administered by the pope himself, Disgusting and Disgraceful.
The title of archpriest of Roman basilicas is usually assigned to retired cardinals, entails administrative functions in a basilica and the presidency in liturgical celebrations.
Usually it's just 'busy work' but according to the NYT it sounds like a cushy job, and he appears to have a certain amount of added responsibility.
The Gay/Pedophile mob within the church have a strangle hold on the church here in the USA and overseas too.
Pope John Paul II and the rest of the enabler sinners can and will rot in Hell in their next lives.
The Catholic Church just doesn't have any credibility left in it's rusty bowels now.
I agree with the Pope that Cardinal Law should not be homeless, especially at his age. But did he not take a vow of poverty that seems to prohibit him from living in a palatial apartment? And we should not forget that Cardinal Law administered and presided over a sodomizing rape ring under the guise of a legitimate religious institution. May I recommend a home for him at a maximum security prison in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts?
He wouldn't be homeless-he'd be well fed-he would have medical attention. Sounds like the perfect and proper solution.
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Skip to comments.The Red Zone (Dowd alert)
Posted on 11/03/2004 7:17:17 PM PST by Pokey78
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LOL! You're gonna make Maureen so jealous!
I'll be more blunt. HEY BROAD, WE WON A NATIONWIDE VICTORY AND YOUR COLUMN BITES.
Thank you, I feel better now.
HEY! How'd you get a picture of ME! heh heh
Behold the face of the democrat party and the reason they continue to lose. Keep it up Mo, you're the best thing that has ever happened to us.
fear(proper fear of terrorism),
intolerance,(of Americans being slaughtered by terrorists)
ignorance (of European elitist's sensitivity to terrorist needs)
and religious rule. (better than Muslim rule.)
Dowd: Oh, Mark did you hear the one about...
Oh, and where's the CZJ pictures?
Oh good: lamentations from one of their women.
Yeah. It was Bush that polarized the country by second-guessing all those critical landmark decisions John Kerry made. It was Bush who impugned Kerry's military service, starting by questioning the cushy berth he occupied and whether he had filled his whole tour of duty. It was Bush who jabbered endlessly about how much better he could have done on 9/11, even though it took him hours to even fathom the extent of the outrage.
Yeah, that wacky George Bush. He's not nearly the unifying element John Kerry or Hillary Clinton is.
I stopped when she started getting into the Tom Joad/Elmer Gantry parts of the Bush coalition. Deep down in their hearts, libs believe that every new Republican Administration will lead to Khristian Koncentrazionslager where all the liberals, Jews, gays, Buddhists, etc. will be forced to recite "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" from memory.
The clueless lush can't believe that they've been bested by the Dumb Guy from Texas.
Of course, what Maureen really wants is someone like Dubya to take her away.
Be Seeing You,
America is more united now than ever before.
American is a huge united mass of RED Counties.
The Liberal Reservations could be contained in 4 Counties.
Now go back to sleep Democraps until the next election.
Does the NYT ever report any real news? Scary, but I am totally serious in asking this question.
OK, reading THIS was the best moment of the last 48 hours! I'll sleep like a baby tonight thinking of poor, bitter Maureen.
A young Helen Thomas, she is.
Don't you think "ignorant" belongs on that list, somewhere?
Pure, predictable venomous Dowd ... time for a date, Mo.
Well, they ARE harboring a terrorist.
W. ran a jihad in America so he can fight one in Iraq - drawing a devoted flock of evangelicals, or "values voters," as they call themselves, to the polls by opposing abortion, suffocating stem cell research and supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage."Jihad in America?"
We will hear much, much too much, from the Left about religion and the religious. Jihad? That belongs to you, Mo, you ignorant slut.
I love it.
"Just as Zell Miller was so over the top at the G.O.P. convention that he made Mr. Cheney seem reasonable, so several new members of Congress will make W. seem moderate."
And *this* is supposed to upset & anger us? Accusing us of being conservatives......bwaaahh....I'm crushed.
Mo thinks that just because libs are ashamed to stand up and proudly admit to being libs, we conservatives should somehow have the same shame of our beliefs. Sorry baby, not a chance. We're proud of ours, we don't have to hide them.
Go hit a couple of dives, drink some cheap booze with that other harpy Hillary. Maybe you can find some nice liberal guys, minus cajones, that you can emasculate.
That's how you can always tell what they are up to.
They telegraph their moves.
And .. her article pretty much explains why ..!!
Wow, that little bitch is a mean drunk!
She was to paint-ball his ass the bright orange that would make him the king of all his Swift Boat followers ... or should it be the "bad'est red-ass" of them all ??
She could not tell, from his flip-flops, the difference from his face and his ... democrapic donky!
What an ass !
Lousy piece of writing.
I like her wooden stake idea though.
On second though, maybe just a lot of garlic.
Nice work Mo. Way to appeal to the masses.
I see Maureen's already well into her first six-pack of breakfast, this morning. :)
This hateful screed is rampant among leftists and leaves me to believe that they will take nothing away from the election and correct it.
Last I checked it was majority rule.
Umm, I think the way it works in the real world is: the more terrorists American troops kill, the more are dead.
Shouldn't that have been Funeral Hall?
Well, here is a news flash for Dowd and people like her. President Bush tried this when he first took office. He invited the Dem leadership - Daschle, et al - to prayer breakfasts and meetings. What was the first thing they did? They ran out to the press and bad-mouthed him, told lies, and basically spilled every security information he told them to the press. Well, that ended that. He invites Teddy the K to watch movies, lets him rewrite the No Child Left Behind Act, names the Justice Department building after his philandering and corrupt brother and what does he get for his trouble. Called a liar!
The left and their supporters have called him a idiot, stupid, a dummy, Hilter, a cheap thug, a gang leader, a liar and yet now they want him to reach across? I heard Mark Levine on Sean Hannity yesterday and I agree with him that the Republicans need to reach across the aisle and SMACK a couple of the Dems right across the head!
On the way home yesterday, I wondered why I have never heard a news person or pundit ask any of the liberals "Has it ever occurred to you, considering the way the election went, that you are wrong about certain parts of your beliefs if not your whole beliefs?"
Dowd makes fun and mocks our religious beliefs. Yet, lets look at the past two weeks. Castro stumbles, causing severe injuries to himself if not almost killing himself. Arafat is severely strickened, flown to France, and the news is now he may not make it. The guy in Afghanistan is confirmed as the President from results derived from free elections in a nation recently freed by the United States of America. And George Bush wins re-election against all odds in what I consider the greatest political victory in the history of our nation. NEARLY EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE WAS AGAINST HIM! If this does not show that there is a God and he will not be mocked, then nothing will. And yet, they continue to mock God and us! Reach across the aisle? NO!
Be afraid, Maureen. Be very afraid.
Snide insults, and her usual bitchy, foot stomping verbal temper tantrum when wannabee sex kitten Maureen doesn't get her way.
Don't you just love it?
So we win the election and we have to reach out? We did that before and got bit...
No. Not this time, please! The Democrats must lay down, show us your bellies, and endure our foot upon their necks.
NO "reaching out." Its time for the stick, not the carrot.
Bigger missions like North Korea...
MoDud= Ann Coulter without talent
Morford weighed in yesterday.
But what can be done??? Booze? Her BAL is already way over the limit! A new boyfriend??? Kerry might be available soon...........! No, nothing will bring her back from the edge of despair until she can somehow get Catherine out of the way and climb back into Mike's flaccid arms!! Oh the humanity!!!!
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Jeanne Moreau — a favorite actress of Louis Malle ("The Lovers"), Francois Truffaut ("Jules and Jim") and Luis Bunuel ("Diary of a Chambermaid") and still delivering great performances as in Francois Ozon's 2005 "Time to Leave" — will receive a tribute celebrating her 60 years of filmmaking.
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Survivors include: his father, Kenneth Bruce Johnston, Sr. of North Platte; his mother, Lori Ann Edwards of Lexington; a brother, Kenneth Bruce Johnston, Jr. of Gothenburg; sister, Amber Rose Johnston (Jason Block) of Gothenburg; his girlfriend, Heidi Renee' Schultz and their expected child-to-be of Gothenburg; nephew, James Elliott Swanson of Gothenburg; grandmother, Dorothy Johnston of North Platte; grandfather, Glenn (Berta) Nelson, Sr. of Gering; uncles—Glenn (Loretta) Nelson, Jr. of Wakefield, KS, Mark Nelson of Lincoln, and Brad Nelson of Sutherland; aunts—Lisa Nelson of Wakefield, KS, Ronda (Tom) Rosenthan of Hastings, and Debora Johnston of North Platte; cousins—Chad, Christopher and Corey Nelson, all of Wakefield, KS, Dawn and Christopher Horn, Dominique and Shakira and Christopher, Jr., all of Hastings, Kent and Gina Lindenmuth of Deshler, and Cynthia Johnston of North Platte.
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Ah too much of a good thing...that's catnip. I have found over the years too much produces diarrhea. Twice a week seems to be the best: i give Nylablue hers Thursday & Sumday. B4 she had her dental surgery she was getting it every other day to cope with her pain & discomfort. Funny thing, she had no diarrhea. My Vet said he'd never seen catnip used as an Analgesic, lol!! I have never thought of putting it in the cat carrier; that is a brilliant idea as my girl is not wild about going in the carrier. We always seem to go to the Vet's!! Another great idea.
Julie Richmond, VA
Response to catnip is genetic. Some cats respond to catnip, others do not. Mine love it! I even keep their toys (new and old one that are out of rotation)in a container filled with catnip until they get them.
Aimee West Simsbury, CT
I agree too much Catnip is not good
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"FEEL the THUNDER"
April 22 - 24, 2016
Gates will open for Early Entry April 17, 2016
October 7 - 9, 2016
Gates will open for Early Entry October 2, 2016
Gate fee - is $30.00 for Saturday add $10.00 per day that you come in early.
Golf Cart fee $20.00
"Policy's for 2016"
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Milledgeville Thunder Rally dates for 2016
April 22 - 24, 2016
Gates will open for Early Entry April 17, 2016
October 7 - 9, 2016
Gates will open for Early Entry October 2, 2016
All events are rain or shine!!!
"Live Music"
The Village Idiots
Scott Little
Clay Page
Chris Taylor
Trophy Awarded to the Best Looking Campsite
Live Bands, Vendors, Poker Run, Bike Show, Bike Games, Puddin' Rasslin', Contests and MUCH more!!!
Aerial View of Rally Grounds
The number of beautiful people that have joined us for the web experience to date!!!
Special Thanks
We would like to thank the many Volunteers, Friends and Family that have helped us in the Past, We are looking forward to the time we will share working together in the future.
David and Cathy
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Christian Motorcyclists Association
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Thank You!!!!!!!
With your help we have donated over $61,145.00 to various Rides, Charities and Causes