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Gallbladder cancer is most often discovered incidentally, through surgical removal of the gallbladder to treat gallstones or other conditions. Because bile duct cancer does not cause any symptoms initially, it is usually not diagnosed until a patient becomes jaundiced, but may be found if abnormal liver function tests are discovered. Occasionally bile duct cancer will be identified incidentally on a CT scan performed for another reason.
Blood tests, diagnostic imaging, biopsy, or a combination of these methods may be used to make an accurate diagnosis and stage gallbladder and bile duct cancer.
Blood Tests
Diagnosing gallbladder and bile duct cancer may begin with a test to measure the amount of bilirubin, a chemical that gives bile its yellow color, in the blood. An elevated bilirubin level, which leads to jaundice, may indicate problems with the gallbladder or liver. Another blood test measures levels of an enzyme called alkaline phosphatase, which increases when even a small portion of the bile ducts are blocked. Additional blood tests can identify abnormal amounts of other substances, including the tumor markers (proteins found in the blood when certain cancers are present) CEA and CA 19-9.
Our doctors use the latest imaging techniques to pinpoint the exact size and location of newly diagnosed gallbladder and bile duct tumors. These details help doctors determine whether a tumor can be surgically removed and predict its response to treatment. Imaging also helps guide surgeons and interventional radiologists during a variety of therapeutic procedures.
Here are some of the imaging techniques commonly used in gallbladder and bile duct cancer:
- Triphasic CT
Doctors first determine the extent of the disease with triphasic CT scanning, a method of diagnosing and staging gallbladder and bile duct cancer. Triphasic CT provides images of the liver, bile ducts, and nearby lymph nodes during three different phases of blood flow through the liver.
- Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography (MRCP)
This technique, which reveals the extent of tumor growth within the gallbladder or bile ducts, helps doctors determine if a tumor can be surgically removed. More detailed MRI may be needed to see if the tumor has spread to the liver or other organs.
- Ultrasound
This is useful for detecting the location and number of tumors, and whether the tumor involves the main blood vessels. (Tumors located near blood vessels may be more difficult to remove). Ultrasound also can be used to distinguish a cancerous mass from benign (noncancerous) gallstone disease. Unlike CT and MRI, ultrasound does not use radiation.
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
PET scans are especially useful in identifying metastases (tumors that have spread from the gallbladder or bile ducts to other tissues or organs). PET and CT scans can be used in combination to pinpoint the exact location of tumors.
Other Diagnostic Techniques
Additional diagnostic procedures, usually performed in an outpatient setting, may be required to gain more information about the extent of the tumor and the types of cells involved:
- Biopsy
A small tissue sample may be obtained for microscopic examination through a technique called fine-needle aspiration (the removal of tissue or fluid for examination under a microscope). This image-guided procedure is usually performed by an interventional radiologist.
- Endoscopy
This technique, performed by a gastroenterologist, involves inserting an endoscope — a long, narrow tube attached to a camera and light — through the mouth and into the stomach to examine the interior lining of a body cavity, such as the esophagus, stomach, or colon. Endoscopy also allows doctors to examine the bile ducts, to determine if the tumor began there and to obtain a biopsy.
- Laparoscopy
A surgeon passes a laparoscope — a thin, lighted tube with a camera on its tip — through the abdominal wall through a small incision to view the liver and surrounding organs, and remove tissue samples for biopsy. Laparoscopy can be used to avoid the need for exploratory surgery in some patients.
- Surgery
Sometimes a gallbladder or bile duct tumor is too small for a biopsy to be obtained, although other diagnostic evidence suggests the tumor may be cancerous. In these situations, the tumor may be surgically removed to confirm the diagnosis and offer a potential cure without a preoperative tissue diagnosis of cancer. For more information about surgery, visit the Treatment section.


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From the Beacon: Smithsonian's roots-music exhibit headed to library
What do Mahalia Jackson, Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie, Patsy Cline, B.B. King and the Carter family have in common? Their music is featured in the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibition, "New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music," that's making a stop at the Beaufort library this December. Get ready for a genuine toe-tapping good time!
That's right, you can experience all the sights and sounds of a Smithsonian museum exhibit without leaving your hometown. "New Harmonies" will be on view at the Beaufort library beginning Dec. 17 continuing through Feb. 4. As an added bonus, the Beaufort library also will offer a variety of free public programs and local exhibits designed to complement the roots-music theme, including live music performances, lectures and workshops.
With its variety of sounds and styles and its century-old traditions, American roots music acts as our nation's soundtrack. Rising out of America's story, roots music reflects essential American values such as freedom, democracy and diversity. Whether you're listening to the blues, country western, folk or gospel, American roots music reveals the story of America -- people reshaping themselves in a new and changing world.
"New Harmonies" masterfully tells America's musical story through photographs, instruments, lyrics and artist profiles with 800 square feet of interactive kiosks devoted to jazz, the blues, R&B, bluegrass, country western, zydeco, Cajun, Tejano, klezmer, folk and gospel. It also describes the African influences and the traditions of early European immigrants in North America. "New Harmonies" is a one-stop shop in exploring how America became the birthplace of such great music and gives visitors a chance to reflect on their own musical heritage and the traditions that inspire it.
As we celebrate America's musical heritage, we also need our local community to help us showcase Beaufort's musical heritage. We need to discover our town's music history: the music that was born here, what musicians live or have lived here, and in what ways music has influenced our local culture and community.
The library is seeking local musicians that we can showcase in our live musical performances as well as knowledgeable experts for our lecture series. In addition, we need music-related artifacts, such as sheet music, photographs and instruments, to display. Finally, we also need volunteer docents and event staff to help with the "New Harmonies" exhibit and public programs. If you have any information or items to contribute or you wish to volunteer with the exhibit, call 843-255-6439 or email email@example.com.


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GIMME SHELTER- Retro green: Making a '70s gem energy savvy
Q: I'm thinking of buying one of those simple, "modern," open-floor-plan houses built in the early 1970s. Unfortunately, it was built when gas was 50¢/gallon, and it's about as energy efficient as a chicken coop– big single-pane windows, high ceilings with no attic space, thin layers of old fiberglass insulation. Is there a way I can upgrade the house to make it more energy efficient without completely breaking the bank?
A: Installing new weather stripping on your windows and doors is an inexpensive first step, but if you really want to make the house more energy efficient, you'll have to accept some financial sacrifice. There are a lot of variables to work with, so it's important first to know how much you have to spend. To reduce costs, it's best to avoid any extensive renovations.
Where you can get to your existing insulation– crawl spaces, attics, etc.– you'll want to replace the fiberglass insulation with some kind of spray foam insulation. Back in the '70s, people with little or no training usually installed the fiberglass insulation, and given that builders and home buyers weren't as concerned with energy efficiency back then, there wasn't the same attention to detail. Unfortunately, if you have fiberglass insulation in your walls, you're going to be stuck with that unless you opt to tear them out. Recently we put spray foam insulation in the attic and crawl spaces of an older house, and it made a dramatic difference in terms of energy efficiency.
Windows are a huge point of heat and cooling loss, so investing in storm windows is a good idea. You'll also want to replace those big single-pane windows with double-insulated glass. This can be expensive, but you get what you pay for, as the energy loss from single-pane windows is also huge.
If you don't have an attic, you might want to think about stripping the roof, putting down foam board, and then re-roofing. That's not cheap either, and design-wise it can be difficult not to make your house look like it's wearing a bad sombrero, as it raises the roof about three inches. But there's a lot of energy lost through a poorly insulated roof.
If you haven't blown your budget, you may also want to look at the mechanical systems. Is your duct work properly insulated? Are the connections tight? A poorly designed duct system can waste a lot of energy.
Finally, with high ceilings, you need to be able to mange air flow in the house, either by installing fans or calling in a pro to analyze how air flows. Air flow is important when it comes to using energy efficiently.


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Posts tagged Touchstone Pictures
Hey, remember the Black Hole and Tron?!2
For those that may not know, I was born and bred as part of the Disney Collective. From 1972 till 2001, I ate, drank, walked, smoked, and thought Disney. They paid my salary, the paid my parents' salaries, everything I had in my life was because of the Disney success story. Many of you that are reading this may not have been born when things at Disney were not so 'secure'. If you have spare time between Final Fantasy XIII, Red Dead Redemption or the Twilight "Saga", you may want to find a copy of Storming the Magic Kingdom in your local used bookstore, or Amazon.
In February of 1984, I was lucky enough to sit in the Ballroom of the Americas at Walt Disney World's Contemporary Resort for the Annual Walt Disney Productions (what the Walt Disney Company was called back then) stock holder's meeting. There, Ron Miller, son-in-law of company founder Walt Disney, was premiering a film, Splash, for the stock holders. Why was the then CEO (Ron Miller would not see the end of '84 as the company's CEO) so worried about stockholder opinion regarding their new movie? Well, after the Black Hole and Tron, two 'adult' oriented Disney films, completely BOMBED, the decision was made to create Touchstone Pictures. This decision would be Ron's greatest legacy with the now Walt Disney Company (WDC). Back in the 80′s and 90′s, WDC was really worried about it's 'image'. With Touchstone Pictures, then later the Hollywood Pictures and the aquisition of Miramax, WDC was able to create a layer of protection between itself and its 'edgier' productions.
So there are 2 set-up paragraphs for what, Mr. Snackpants? Well, last night, Katie McAwesome and I sat through Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (don't get me started on the fact that a movie based on a video game, needs a seperate video game tie-in). While seated in the theater, it finally hit me that the huge Disney castle logo was emblazened on the front of a PG-13 film. This was not the first time… all three of the previous Pirates films were PG-13, but it would have been much, much harder to mask such a well-known Disney property ("Pirates of the Caribean" was the last attraction Walt had direct control over). Prince of Persia was an Electronic Arts property, no previous Disney tie-in at all, but now the company has come full circle. When PG films were unsuccessful for the company, they needed a veil of protection to keep shareholders happy and stock prices up. Now that they have successful PG films, the Disney castle logo is emblazened at the front of the film… to keep shareholders happy and stock prices up. The question I have now… when will we have the first R rated film with the Disney logo attached to it… and will anyone really notice?


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Commentary: The ugly truth about school vouchers
A commitment to strong public schools is not only a moral, but also an economic cornerstone of our state. Our state constitution guarantees every child the opportunity to "receive a sound basic education," and further ensures that public funds for education are to be "used exclusively for establishing and maintaining a uniform system of free public schools."
Despite that clear mandate, the legislature passed a budget last session that moves more than $10 million in taxpayer money from our public schools to private schools in the name of "opportunity" for low-income and minority elementary and secondary school students. On Feb. 1, the State Education Assistance Authority began accepting applications for the vouchers; it will begin awarding them on March 1.
Because the voucher program was included in the budget, it was hidden from the public scrutiny it would have received had it been a stand-alone bill. Its proponents were never forced to explain the fact that, in states with similar programs, student achievement at the private schools is no better, and often worse, than in the public schools. In fact, in Milwaukee and Cleveland, whose voucher programs are the country's longest running, traditional public school students outperform voucher students on available proficiency measures. Under N.C.'s voucher law, such analysis may not even be possible, because many participating private schools will not have to provide information to the state about student achievement.
What we do know is that private schools that participate in the program do not require students to take state proficiency exams, teachers to be licensed, or schools to issue report cards. We know that the private schools that will receive our tax dollars, unlike our public schools, are permitted to discriminate against students on the basis of race, gender, family income or wealth, disability, and religion.
We also know the historical links between racism and private schools. In 1964, 83 private schools enrolled approximately 9,500 students in N.C. But from 1968 to 1972 – when advocates and the federal government began to enforce meaningful school desegregation – the state jumped from 174 private schools and 18,000 students, to 263 schools and over 50,000 students. Surging enrollment in non-public schools was often concentrated in areas with high concentrations of African-American students , and the segregative legacy of these private schools and academies continues to this day:
Bertie County is 62 percent African American. Lawrence Academy was founded in Bertie County in 1968. Its student body is 98 percent white.
Halifax County is 53 percent African-American. Halifax Academy and Hobgood Academy were both founded in 1969. Halifax Academy is 98 percent white; Hobgood Academy is 95 percent white.
Hertford County is over 60 percent African-American. Ridgecroft School, founded in 1968, is 97 percent white.
Northampton County is 58 percent African-American, but Northeast Academy, established in 1966, is 99 percent white.
It is a twisted irony that the leaders of the voucher movement claim a racial justice rationale for their scheme. Their manipulative yet strategic decision to use African Americans to advocate for vouchers began in 2000. Leading voucher advocates John Coons and Stephen Sugarman declared that school-choice coalitions "must include and feature actors who are identified publically with groups that advertise their concern for the disadvantaged. The leadership must visibly include racial minorities of both sexes and prominent Democrats…. The conservative commitment to the project is necessary but should remain mute until the coalition has secured leadership whose party affiliation, social class or race – preferably all three – displays what the media will interpret as concern for the disadvantaged."
And so it went in N.C. The private entities who profit from privatizing our tax dollars have not been made to answer for the racist history of their legislation, nor have they addressed the voucher program's total lack of accountability standards and protections against discrimination and prejudice that we as a people have determined must apply to our educational institutions. Thankfully, a growing number of school boards – 69 and counting – parents, teachers and civil rights organizations have asked our judiciary to hold the state accountable for abdicating the cornerstone that our constitution explicitly protects. On February 17, 2014, the North Carolina Superior Court denied the State's motion to dismiss those two lawsuits. On February 21, the court will hear the plaintiffs' motion to stop implementation of the voucher program.
If our constitution means anything to us, we have a responsibility to defend every student's right to a sound public education. At this moment, that responsibility includes rejecting efforts to privatize education in North Carolina.
Elizabeth Haddix and Mark Dorosin are staff attorney and managing attorney, respectively, at the UNC Center for Civil Rights.


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Where Magic Lives… in Us
by Amy Warren Stoll, ALL EARS® Guest Columnist
Feature Article
This article appeared in the December 30, 2008 Issue #484 of ALL EARS® (ISSN: 1533-0753)
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This article originally appeared in the December 27, 2005, Issue #327 of ALL EARS®, but we felt it was timeless and deserved to be read again!)
I'm sure this won't come as a big shock to anyone that many of us go to Walt Disney World in search of a little magic. After all, don't we use our Magic Your Way ticket, to enter the Magic Kingdom, to watch the SpectroMagic parade, enjoy Mickey's PhilharMagic, and take advantage of the Extra Magic Hours? Aren't we even magically transported from the airport to our resort by Disney's Magical Express? Okay, so maybe that last bit of "magic" is still up for debate … is the subject for another article altogether … and won't be touched by yours truly until my asbestos suit is back from the cleaners.
Anyway, I'm confident that long before the Disney advertising juggernaut spewed forth the notion that WDW is "Where Magic Lives," a great number of us already believed it. How else do we explain how Tinker Bell flies in the Magic Kingdom, how an entire audience can be shrunk in Epcot, or how we can enter our very own Twilight Zone at The Studios? What? You have an answer for that besides magic? Really. Well. Uh… hmm… er. La la la… la la la… I'm not listening. You go to the other room and wait until I'm finished. We'll have no practical, technical, or analytical explanations while I'm talking about magic. Be gone with you. Now, where was I? Magic, yes magic. Certainly we've all found our little bit of magic in every trip we've taken. Perhaps it was in the goose bumps we got as the drums sounded the beginning of IllumiNations, or in that "little something" in our eye as the music swelled and fireworks lit up Cinderella Castle, or maybe it was just in a simple hug from our favorite character.
In my years of lurking on Disney discussion boards, in talking with fellow Disneyphiles, and in reading the ALL EARS® newsletter each week it's become clear that countless numbers of us believe that there is magic to be found at WDW, and that when we find it, we want to tell others about it. How often do we arrive home from our trips to The World anxious to tell anyone willing to listen (and a few who are just in the wrong place at the wrong time) about our Magical Moments? We want to tell them about how our little girl was enchanted by a conversation with the real Cinderella, how we had the chance to sit quietly holding hooves with Eeyore, or how our grandfather got choked up (although he'll never admit it) when his whole family gathered for his birthday during his first-ever trip to Walt Disney World.
You should note that we don't call them "special" or "incredible" or even "really cool" moments. No, we call them magical, and we wouldn't have it any other way. But what makes a magical moment? Is it a special event that's been meticulously planned and engineered, perhaps with the help of a cast member? Sure it is. Is it a trip that's been anticipated for months or even years before finally setting foot in the middle of the magic? Of course it is. Could it be a forgettable day made unforgettable by someone seizing the moment and spontaneously making some magic? You bet it is. Or maybe it's a moment when everything stands still, when you see nothing but your friends or family and the expressions on their faces, and in that instant you know that there is nowhere else you'd rather be. Oh yeah, that's one of the most magical moments of them all.
We all know that the cast members at WDW go the extra mile in making our visits as special as possible. We all know that it's often that extra mile that keeps us coming back again and again. And, of course, we all know that without the cast members there could be no Disney magic. Looking back through the ALL EARS® archives of readers' Magical Moments, I read again and again of the memorable things that cast members have done for guests. Sometimes the cast member had clearly gone out of their way to create some magic, even commemorating it with a "Magical Moments" certificate. Sometimes they were going above and beyond trying to remedy a trip gone awry, and sometimes there seemed to be a little luck, or coincidence, or (dare I say it) a little magic that brought everything together in just the right way to touch the guest and spark what would be an indelible and unforgettable moment. But I also noticed something else. While most of the writers told us of magic that had been fashioned at the hands of a cast member, there were other types of magic that piqued my interest… and got me thinking.
I read several stories of guests actually creating magic for other guests. A few mentioned the simple act of fellow guests giving away their FastPasses, another spoke of a family sacrificing some of their park time to "stay-put" and guard the belongings of strangers when they realized the poor souls had walked away without their bags. And one related the incredibly sweet story of a husband buying an entire bouquet of balloons for his new wife just so she could give them away to the children around her! Goodness, tissue please.
As I read, I thought back to when I had been the "victim" of a random act of magic in April 2004. I was treating myself to a birthday lunch with the huggable characters at the Crystal Palace. This was one of my "me, me, all for me" solo trips, so during my meal I was enjoying my favorite solo-trip activity: starting conversations with perfect strangers. Throughout my meal I had the pleasure of chatting with the couple seated next to me — they were celebrating their recent wedding. Nearing the end of the meal, my server surprised me with a birthday cupcake, lit the candle and reminded me to make a wish. The couple and I talked a little longer then they wished me a happy birthday again, I congratulated them again, and off they went. I was still reveling in what I thought had to be a perfect meal when my server brought me another surprise. Another cupcake? No, even better. Better than cake? Hard to believe. My surprise was my check. It was paid in full! The couple had secretly bought my lunch. A birthday present from a perfect stranger! Well, I was dumbstruck by their kindness and actually started to cry. I had to reassure every server (and even a few characters) that there was nothing to worry about… that they were "happy tears" and that this birthday was everything I could have wished for.
So why would this couple have done something so kind for a stranger? Was it because they were filthy rich and did this sort of thing everywhere they went? Not likely. Was it because I was just so delightful that I needed to be rewarded for my wonderfully entertaining and riveting conversation? Even less likely. Was it because after a week of spending all their waking hours with talking mice and dancing donkeys they had gone a little loco? Possible, but let's save that discussion for another time. No, after hearing so many other examples of guests taking magic-making into their own hands, I'd like to think that spending a few days immersed in the magic of Disney makes us happier, freer, and gives us the idea to do those nice things that may not come to mind during the hustle and bustle of our everyday lives. Or maybe we just know that any kind or thoughtful act in that environment is a potential magical moment, and fuels the secret desire that some of have to be a cast members making Disney magic.
Another type of Magical Moment that intrigued me was the magic that we make for ourselves. I was delighted by the stories of parents surprising their children with a so-called "last-minute" trip that had actually been secretly planned for months and months, and of a family spending their entire day at the Magic Kingdom "chasing" Tinker Bell around every corner and going to great lengths (a.k.a. golden cake glitter) to convince the youngest in their party that Tink was just mere steps away. I was heartened by the story of the large family who took the time to let their "number one planner" know how special he was for making their family gathering at WDW possible, and was struck by the countless stories of those whose magical moments were simply the emotion they felt when they were finally in the middle of the magic, surrounded by those they hold dear, and seeing the experience through their loved ones' eyes. Hmm. I didn't throw away that tissue, did I?
I'm not sure if I know why the images of magic that people found in themselves touched me so deeply. Perhaps they reassure me that we carry imagination, wonder, and magic with us everywhere we go, that we're not dependent on others to create it for us, and that we have within us the ability to make special memories for ourselves and others. Of course, it's certainly easier to lend ourselves to magic-making when we're surrounded by others doing the same. So for that, we have to thank the hard-working cast members who put all the pieces together. They give us a place to gather, they welcome us with a smile, they entertain us with thrills and whimsy, then they wow us with spectacles of music, light, and fire. In all of this, I think they give us permission to suspend reality and forget many of the cares we have at home, to see the magic in the moment, and to delight in those people who are most important in our world. Then I guess it's up to us to recognize those moments, then remember them, relive them and share them when we return home.
So the next time we experience a magical moment, perhaps we should thank Walt for creating a place where magic indeed lives… in the stories, in the characters, and in the people. But the next time we create a little magic of our own, maybe we need to be grateful that Walt's dream is a place that inspires us to believe, feel, and know that magic also lives in us.
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HOSCHTON - Joseph Walton Hagan, 72, formerly of Statesboro, passed away Saturday, February 8, 2014.
Joseph was a United States Air Force Veteran. He was an engineer with General Motors for 33 years, where he received various awards. His years at General Motors included work at the Lakewood Manufacturing Plant, General Motors Plant in Doraville, and later transferring to the Saturn Plant in Springhill, Tenn. From there he worked at various General Motor Plants in Detroit, Mich. and then retired from the General Motors Corvette Plant in Bowling Green, Ky.
Survivors include his wife, Connie Armes Hagan, Hoschton; son, Michael Allen Hagan and wife Jan, Dacula; daughter, Karen Lyn Hagan and husband Joe Dale, Macon; stepsons, William Russell Stewart and wife Kelley, N.C., Charles Robert Stewart and wife Amy, North Carolina; sister, Nell Batchelor and husband Robert of Eatonton; and grandchildren, Olivia, Ashton, Russell, Rylie and Skyler.
A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, February 15, at Statesboro Primitive Baptist Church, 4 South Zetterower Ave., Statesboro, GA. Officiating will be Chaplain Jerry Newsome. Burial services will be held at Eastside Cemetery with United States Air Force Honors.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Cornerstone Bible Church, 869 Cole Dr. SW, Lilburn, GA 30047.
Arrangements by Lawson Funeral Home, Hoschton.
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Women currently make up nearly half of all dental students and 25% of practicing dentists. Before the 1970s, fewer than 3.3% of American dentists were women. Independent-minded women struggled to obtain degrees, establish practices, and be respected as professionals.
Featured Profiles
Here are four women who changed the face of the profession. Click on each link to learn more about these impressive dentists.
I thought the best part was the individual displays of the very accomplished women and information about their different areas of expertise.U-M Gradutate Student Visitor, April 2013
Every individual has their own talents and the exhibit does a nice job showing how they created a change for the greater good of the profession and society.U-M Graduate Student Visitor, April 2014
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Why Women Choose Dentistry
Learn more about women who chose this rewarding occupation, including some who followed their family members into a dental career, and see how the demographics of the profession and training programs have changed over time:
Are Women Fit for Dentistry?
Early on, female dentists and their supporters clashed with detractors who believed women were not suited for the profession. Read about some of these pioneering women, their supportive mentors, and the arguments they faced:
Women's Dental Organizations
Even after earning their degrees, women still struggled to be accepted by other dentists and professional organizations. Many women joined together to form their own organizations for professional development and support:
Women Dentists in the Military
During the first half of the 20th Century, the U.S. Armed Forces allowed women to serve as nurses, but did not accept women from other medical professions. Ultimately women were allowed to serve their country as dentists:
Minority Women Dentists
Learn about dedicated women who confronted racist and sexist prejudices in order to completed dental education programs, establish flourishing practices, and serve as inspiration for others who followed in their footsteps:
Choosing a Specialty
As the dental profession evolved and educational programs began offering advanced dentistry degrees, a wide range of specialties emerged. The women in this section helped develop specialized techniques, technologies and areas of study:
Click here to view an interactive timeline about the history of women dentists.
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Virginia voters will see more names on the presidential primary ballots on Tuesday than they've been seeing in the news, in debates or in advertising lately.
Several candidates have suspended or called off their candidacies, but did so too late for the Virginia Elections Department to make changes to Tuesday's ballots.
The lengthier Republican ballot lists 13 candidates — Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, John Kasich, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum and Donald Trump.
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Investors are hotly debating whether this five-year-old bull market can tack on more years of spectacular growth. But a strategist at RBC Capital Markets has a boldly simple prognosis for the years ahead: it would likely take a recession for the market to reverse course.
After 30% gains in 2013, the S&P 500 index is up a mere 0.6% this year. Given the fraught push forward in 2014, investors have approached the bull market with feelings of trepidation.
But Jonathan Golub, chief U.S. market strategist at RBC Capital Markets, wants you to consider this: "rallies do not end when they get tired, they end when recessions ensue." In a Monday note to clients, he writes that seven of the last eight bull markets ended at the onset of a recession:
On to the next question: Are we approaching a recession? Golub says that answer is no, given the sluggish pace of our recovery from the last recession:
"No two recessions are the same, but they tend to follow a similar pattern. Typically, an accelerating economy burns through existing spare capacity. This leads to inflationary pressure, which forces the Fed to act. As markets anticipate rate hikes, the yield curve inverts. Growth slows and, more often than not, the economy rolls over, taking the market with it.
"The current economic rebound is the slowest of the post-war period. Growth is being held back by a modest housing recovery and weak business confidence. As a result, abundant spare capacity exists, which prolongs the length of the cycle."
All in all, the silver lining of our slow economic recovery is that another recession is a fair distance away, says Golub:
Therefore, Golub's bull-market thesis remains intact: Price-to-earnings ratios will continue to expand, leading to double-digit returns over the next few years.
As the bull market turned five years old last month, MarketWatch's Wallace Witkowski quoted Jeff Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial, who similarly noted the connection between the end of bull markets and recessions. But Kleintop and other strategists asserted that for the bull market to continue, one key ingredient is acceleration in growth -- not just a continuation of its sluggish pace.
By one analysis in the story, U.S. economic growth needs to hit 3% by the end of 2014 to keep the bull market alive, no easy task considering a slowdown in growth to start the year.
In the fourth quarter on 2013, GDP hit 2.4%. We'll get one sign of just how fast the economy is humming along when we get a GDP report for the first quarter of the year on Wednesday.
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CHL Game Night: 1/20
I smell the heavy scent of BP Prospect of the Week consideration.
Chris Lawrence had 2 more goals and an assist Saturday night as Mississauga crushed Kevin Beech and Erie 9-3. Lawrence was also plus-2 and was named the game's second star. For all those keeping track, Lawrence has 7 goals and 2 assists this week, with a plus-6 rating. After a rough road trip last week, Mississauga has scored 21 goals in 3 games this week, giving up 6. As for Beech, after two straight solid outings, he was pulled midway through the first period when he gave up 3 goals on 6 shots.
Marek Bartanus and Owen Sound defeated Guelph 2-1 in Owen Sound. Bartanus was even and didn't register a point.
In the WHL, Everett fell 3-2 in a shootout to the Tri-City Americans. Dane Crowley missed the game with the flu.
Prince George shutout Chilliwack for the second consecutive night. Vladimir Mihalik was scoreless and even, but did have a fighting major. Mihalik took on Donnie Glennie, who's listed at 5'10". Mihalik, of course, is 6'8". (I haven't been able to find fight details as of yet.)
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"American democracy has a disease, and it's called secrecy."
So begins a July 2011 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) report on secrecy laws and the security establishment's heavy-handed use of the classified stamp.
Of course, even unclassified documents don't just magically make their way into the public domain.
Much of the shocking (and sometimes, not so shocking) news we read wouldn't have come to light without the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, the open records law passed as an antidote to the secrecy disease in 1966. FOIA was amended for the first time in the wake of the Watergate scandal, and, most recently, by the Open Government Act at the close of George W. Bush's second term.
FOIA was especially important in unearthing the secrets of the Bush presidency, when early rumors of extraordinary rendition, "enhanced interrogation techniques" and "black site" prisons challenged everything Americans thought they knew about their country.
The latest changes to FOIA sought to remedy what basically amounts to bureaucratic bullying – ignored requests, snail-paced responses, and litigious game-playing – by government agencies. But FOIA is still an imperfect cure for the US's secrecy plague.
"We've had to fight over just about every major disclosure we've gotten, particularly with the CIA," said ACLU staff attorney Alex Abdo, who has been on the FOIA team with the organization's National Security Project for about a year.
Abdo and his colleagues found out that the Bush administration's paper trail – when one exists – is more like a paper ocean. Just one of their FOIA requests – for all information related to the treatment, death and rendition of detainees held in US custody abroad – returned about 150,000 pages of documents, but not without a seven-year fight in the courts that continues today.
"It really is troubling that nowadays you almost have to go to court on these issues to get the documents. That's not the way FOIA was intended to work, and it's not the way FOIA should work," said Abdo.
Another problem? "There's little way to hold agencies accountable for delinquency."
Just where is the line between protecting a genuine national security concern, for example, and political playground wars? It turns out that line can be fine indeed. Take, for example, Abdo's team's years-long pursuit of a presidential memorandum or directive thought to be the document authorizing the CIA to establish its black sites abroad. In the case's most recent development, the government's counsel conferred in secret with the court (a privilege granted as fast as you can say "national security matter") and emerged from behind closed doors with an official answer.
Official, or, in Abdo's words, "ludicrous":
Sorry, said the government. The memo's font is classified.
Even when documents are returned, they're often heavily redacted. Such was the case with several hundred pages the ACLU obtained on warrantless wiretapping. It turns out transparency is a lot like democracy itself – easy to destroy, hard to bring back. What disappears with the wave of a black pen can take years of legal action to recover – if it's recovered at all.
"You don't know what's there, so you don't know what arguments to make. You're really fighting in the dark with both hands tied behind your back," said Abdo. (What they did find amid the sea of black was a pattern of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) "compliance incidents" that persisted at multiple intelligence agencies even after inspectors general identified the problems.)
FOIA requests can cast wide investigative nets – over sprawling secret government spying and torture programs, for example – or they can zero in on something much more specific: you.
"We're getting to the point where the government can very easily, with the click of a few buttons, compile very detailed dossiers about each of us," said Kade Crockford, privacy rights coordinator for the ACLU of Massachusetts.
Under the Privacy Act and FOIA, individuals have the right to know what information the government has collected about them. That's not to say private citizens won't face roadblocks similar to those confronting the ACLU. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning a massive new database that would be exempt from the Privacy Act; the FBI has been criticized for sheltering its data from FOIA requesters and others; and last year, the Associated Press reported that "political advisers" were vetting FOIA requests at DHS, delaying those judged to be politically sensitive and requiring DHS employees to list, for example, the party affiliation of Congressional requesters.
"We don't know for sure what goes on behind closed doors in these government FOIA offices," said Crockford. But there are plenty of ways to maximize your chances for success – check out the "Top Five Ways to Win at FOIA."*
And your right-wing brother-in-law can play, too. "We are thrilled to see that people from all over the political spectrum are interested in the FOIA process," said Crockford, "because everyone needs to put pressure on government." She was talking about Wikicountability, which Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS launched in March as "a repository for Freedom of Information Act requests and other legally obtained official documents" strategically sourced to put the heat on Obama.
That's right: open government is for everyone.
Top Five Ways to Win at FOIA
Alissa Bohling, Truthout, and Kade Crockford, ACLU Massachusetts
- Do your research first. You don't want to waste time on information that's already in the public record.
- Craft your questions carefully. Knowing what you want to know sounds like a no-brainer, but vague or overbroad questions can result in a denial – or a mountain of useless documents. If you must, start with a broad request and narrow your focus in subsequent requests based on the rest of your new information. "It's almost like sanding a piece of wood from a tree trunk down to a toothpick," says Kade Crockford, privacy rights coordinator for ACLU Massachusetts.
- Be as specific as possible, and stick to written information. For example, you can ask for calendars of cabinet members and other officials, standard operating procedures, internal audit reports, memorandums of understanding among agencies, and internal emails. Also learn to think in terms of timelines. Requesting information between two dates ups your chances of an approval and cuts down on time spent combing through documents when they're returned.
- Be patient. Depending on the size and sensitivity of requests, some can take years to see through to completion.
- Be prepared to spend some money. Fee waivers are only granted in certain circumstances.
Other FOIA resources for individuals
- The Office of Government Information Services is the new FOIA ombudsman created under the Open Government Act of 2007
- University of Minnesota library FOIA help index
- Public Records Tracker (a private company)


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Kershaw or Lincecum?
Talk about a no-hit jjinx…I had literally typed these words when Casey just got a hit:
"Sitting here watching Roy Oswalt throw five-plus no-hit innings while Clayton Kershaw has 11 strikeouts through six innings and"
That's as far as I got. So, I'll go back to my original thought. With Tim Lincecum's Giants coming to town this weekend (he won't be pitching), I thought back to the 2006 draft when we took Kershaw a couple picks ahead of Lincecum.
Of course, the right-hander has gone on to win a couple Cy Youngs so clearly he's an incredibly talented pitcher but here's my question to all of you: As you sit here on Sept. 1, 2010, with Kershaw leading the NL in strikeouts and just 22 years old, would you rather have him or Lincecum under your team's control over the next three years.
Obviously Lincecum has had a down year by his standards, though still not bad (11-9, 3.80, 179 K, 1.35 WHIP) while Kershaw is 11-8 (possibly 11-9), with a 3.01 after today's outing.
Given what you know about both, if you could only have one on your team next year, who would it be and why? And of course, pretend you're not a Dodger fan and try to be objective.
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having Lincecum in our 08 and 09 play-offs with these phils may of been the stepping stone the dodgers needed to reach the World Series. This then begs another question would lincecum and kershaw of developed under the instruction provided by honeycutt and righetti if they were picked in opposite order. And now I am finding out we did have a chance to get lincecum?
I'd take Kershaw. Lincecum is a sickly little pot-head and will go down hill. He is having his troubles already this year and will be useless to the Giants.
Right now, I'm fishing disappointed in the way our team has played….looks like they all need some 5-Hour Energy.
It's very hard to choose between them. I think it all depends on which one gets the better run support.
And of course if they are lucky enough not to be up against
other aces, that also helps them.
With this year's debacle, its not all that hard to pretend not being a Dodgers fan.
Honestly putting being a Dodgers fan aside, I would still rather have Clayton Kershaw on my team over Tim Lincecum. My two favorite pitchers are Roy Halladay and Clayton Kershaw. Halladay for his dedication and Kershaw because I feel that he has so much talent that he will be able to go the distance into a long career. Clayton is only 22 years old and I think that calling him an "Ace" is very fitting. He can pitch long into a game with 110+ pitches, strikeout an amazing amount of batters, pickoff base runners well, and just allow very few runs. However, while Lincecum can strikeout many batters as well, I don't believe that his ability to do so is any better than Kershaw's. In Lincecum's last 5 starts he is 0-5 with a 7.82 ERA, and clearly way more overrated than Kershaw. Clayton gets very little credit for how good of a pitcher he is so many people would choose Tim, but Clay will prove that his is the better pitcher in the end.
I've been trying to hide being a Dodger fan for 50 years.
How do you do it? LOL
I see that the Yankees put in a waiver claim on Lilly, but Ned pulled him back. Shrewd move Ned, especially after his last outing which was more indicative of his true pitching prowess than the first 5 games were. Oh, but Ned still feels we're in it at 6 1/2 games out. What a fishing moron. Then he says they want to sign him long term. Ah yes, another 34 year old vet who can go nothing but downhill over the life of his contract if they even had the money to sign him, which they don't.
Shrewd indeed Ned. Shrewd indeed.
LOL Brooklyn – tremendous self-control I guess?
Oh, and never have an opinion on the team!! LMAO!!
Kershaw. He's left-handed.
Wonder what Kerh's record would be if he played for a real team and not a bunch of castoffs, wannabes and neverweres?
Ah what difference does it make, when you have a BP like ours, whose sole mission now is to implode, and lose more games, so the net worth of the team is low, Yea you get the point Im coming to. Sell the team Frank
I don't have to pretend to be a Dodger fan. It is too late for anything else! Anyway, I also would take Kershaw over Lincecum because, as johncox already said, Clayton is a lefty but also because I still believe he will get much better. As good as Lincecum is, will he get any better? He also has some mileage on him, that crazy delivery, long hair and a fondness for pot. Is that being objective?
I'd have to go with Kershaw. Lincecum's delivery is suspect (just look at his record now as he scrambles to find another comfortable motion). Lincecum might've been successful in the short term, but Kershaw has more long-term potential.
Good question Josh!! Even back then, I would have picked Kershaw because he is left-handed, just like others have mentioned. Having a son who is a lefty pitcher, they are the hot commodity still. Jump ahead to now, and I am glad we have Kershaw because Linsecum's work ethic has become suspect in this last season. They are saying his before game routines have changed, not doing his long toss like he used to and spending more time in the dugout instead of on the field before s game. So, in retrospect, I am so glad we have Kershaw. Let's just hope he stays ours for a while.
Please judge, make them sell the team!!!! I hope Judge Gordon is a Dodger fan!!!!
Seriously, can this judge make anyone sell the team? As far as I know this trial is to determine ownership of the Dodgers and nothing else. The fact that this mess got to trial means more money down the drain for attorney's fees. How can these people afford this? No matter who wins, everyone looses.
Exactly lbirken!!! Nobody is winning anythng in this process.
Gosh damn it Padres and now the Giants won again. I guess it time to derail them on Friday.
Uh, oh……Padres lost again. Damn, I will really be POd if they blow the division!
I saw bits and pieces of that article just a little while ago. What a fishing aspirin!!!!! So, it's pretty much inevitable that our current young core will not be here in two years, if that long, if FranknJamie own this team. The MLB has managed to bring in a Bostonian, a ex-Giant, and a Yankee and has let them single-handedly destroy this franchise from the farm system on up. If the McCourts aren't forced to sell this team, we are in for a very long state of depression (financially speaking) for our beloved Dodgers. What a mess they have created. Meanwhile, MLB just sits there and watches it fall apart. Like many have said, Selig allowed franknjamie to purchase the team, and right now, what does he care. It's a west coast team, and I am guessing Selig is thinking "Big Fishing Deal!!" It's just a west coast team.
Well, it looks like I am ready BPB1's mind again.
This guy really is scum isn't he:
Wow Gregerson suck now lol (L, 3-7; BS, 5) 0.0 2 4 3 1 0 1 0.80 2.97 http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/8563
He gave up a grand slam HR's to a September callup and another no decision to Latos.
You won't be the only one trublu.
BPB1 ~ A real Scum-Lord.
enchanted, scum is a pretty decent analogy. But I've been thinking. This owner–and the product he's plotting to foist on Los Angeles–has gone far beyond paper bags. Those funny little masks are usually reserved for embarrassed fans of hapless franchises. This Dodger situation borders on criminal and there is nothing hapless going on here. If I wasn't grounded in the name kahliforni, I might call myself instantkarma'sgonnagetyouFrankyoulousystinkinglyingSOB.
That this guy is STUPID enough to go to trial and parade his festering lies in public speaks volumes of the cowboy at the wheel.
LMAO!!!! I absolutely love the name Kahli!!!!!
Just as well Kahli – probably too many letters!! LMAO!!
Changing the name of Dodger Stadium? Unfishingbelieveable!!!!! Dodger fans have put up with quite a bit these last few years, but this, changing the name of Dodger Stadium idea, just might be enough to tip quite few over into the deep end for a very long time.
"Founded in 1984, Propark America is one of the nation's leading parking companies, providing parking management and parking real estate services across the country."
It's a natural for Frank: Propark America Park
………..or PAP for short – LMAO!!!!!
Before the trial is over I wouldn't be surprised to see the villagers coming to the stadium with torches and pitchforks looking for Frank.
Frank won't be in the stadium. And he sure as hell won't be in Jamie.
I like "PAP," nelly. Still on the fence whether I want to attend Saturday's love fest. Supposed to be 100 degrees, same as Jamie's forehead when they inevitably award the team to Nero.
We will be down in So-Cal, but not for the tour. I was sitting on the fence as it was, thanks to Frank, but my mind was made up for me when the date was set. Even though I will be with my family this weekend, I really don't think I can sit with my son and hubby at Dodger Stadium while playing the gnats this time around. I am having a hard time as it is now at home. Let's face it, the gnats are playing better than the Dodgers right now, and if we win, fantastic!! I want nothing better. However, if we lose and help put the gnats to the top of this division or the wildcard, I will never hear the end of it at least until somebody knocks them back down.
Let me rephrase that. My mind wasn't necessarily made up when the date was set, but over the last few weeks, it has been just based on how the two teams have been playing. I am not a fair weather fan, (I am in total support of the players, regardless of how they are playing right now), but I do have my limits on how much harrassment I can take from gnat fans, and I am surrounded by them in my family and at work. I actually enjoy my class this year, and so I have been trying to avoid being pisssed off before I even walk through my classroom door by gnat talk.
Scum was much too kind. Here's another terrific article about our ownership that makes you want to puke:
Seriously, if you or I ran our lives this way we'd either be in jail or out on the street with a tin cup.
If you read the article, notice too that whenever an influx of cash is needed his answer is always to seek more leveraged loans. Not once do you ever see him/them think of selling one of their multi-million dollar mansions or any of their personal assets. This guy makes Leona Helmsley look like Mother Teresa.
"A man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun" -Don Henley
I just read the same article, e. I was about to post the site when I saw you beat me to it.
I cannot believe that Selig allows this leech to continue to own the Dodgers. On the other hand, Selig allowed him in here in the first place, hat in hand. So removing him would be admitting his error, and he's not about to do that. Also, I noticed that mccourt was present when Selig got a statue of himself erected in Milwaukee last month. Two huge egos, huh?
I've abandoned any hope of mccourt losing the team due to any court decision. As we've all read recently, he does two things well: borrow money and sue. So, even if the biotch wins half the team, he'll tie the whole thing up in appeals long enough to launch the cable network and get himself more spending money.
I think we're in the uncomfortable position of depending on the government. We need the (gulp) IRS to be our champion and toss the jackasss in the clink with all the other criminals.
BPTM ~ if it happpened to Al Capone, maybe, the IRS, will make it happen to mccrook.
Dylan Hernandez reports……………….
Bank of America, the Dodgers' lead lender, last year restricted the team to $66 million in deferred player compensation at any one time.
Gotta be great for all the players too knowing that you're employed by a complete scumbag.
What fool would want to stay on this team, or join it in the first place?
Here?s the straw that broke the camel?s back for me. Unfortunately, I am about seven weeks late in realizing the truth.
Frank?s business plan for the Dodgers included reducing money spent on the farm system and scouting. ?While the McCourts were living large, the Dodgers, in 2008 and 2009, spent less than any other MLB team on the draft and international-player signings, an area the team once dominated.?
Given that, I can no longer root for the Dodgers, and this will be my last post until we get new ownership.
In the meantime, my rooting interests will be as follows:
?If Jamie McCourt wins the trial and the team is ruled community property, one of the McCourts could buy out the other by joining forces with deep-pocketed investors, or the McCourts could sell. In either case, a new ownership group could be in place.?
I?m looking for new ownership that has zero McCourts. When that happens, I?ll be back.
Comments from the courtroom…………..
Morning break. Boies rested ten minutes ago, Susman now re-directing Frank and scoring some key points.
Two main points: #1 Frank wasn't told of the MPA switch until July 23rd of this year. He testified he did not fraudulently mislead Jamie.
Did anyone catch Neddy on the tube yesterday, talking about the roster expanding? He said that he wasn't going to call up anyone, "….just to call him up. They have to earn it." har har har
Then the idiot Lyons said that they'll probably call up Ellis and maybe some BP help and – get this – Juan Castro. Oh, I guess he's earned the call up. HAR HAR HAR
Then there's this:
Gotta love the last line: "The team isn't expected to call up any top prospects."
Why not?
Crash, don't do it. Don't leave. You can remain a Dodger fan while despising mccourt. Face it, you despise mccourt BECAUSE you're a Dodger fan.
Stay here and help us rail against him. We might be fighting the windmills, but at least we're fighting.
Fox? Shoot, I think I'd accept Bin Laden as a new owner over mccourt. Lord knows he has more money.
I feel it's even more important to be a fan of the players at this point. We are all they have right now because it appears nobody else, (meaning Frank, Ned and Joe) give a soap anymore.
Don't you wonder if the players are having the same discussion we are?
The judge pressed Frank at one point on why so many copies of the MPA were signed, and if he was told by his lawyer: "No sir," McCourt said.
Frank also testified he was present when that lawyer went over the MPA with Jamie, line by line, right before they signed.
He also was lost for words when Boies presented records that showed McCourt had pocketed $2.5 million from the Dodgers transaction.
"Do you know what you did with those proceeds?" Boies asked.
"I do not," McCourt replied.
Toward the end of the day, Boies asked McCourt what sounded to be a simple question.
"Do you know what dodgers.com is?" Boies said of the team's website.
McCourt paused for an inordinate amount of time before trying to spell out what it is.
Since buying the Dodgers for $430 million six years ago, Frank McCourt has so heavily leveraged the team ? $433 million in debt as of last year ? that he has struggled to find additional financing.
The debt load has limited how the Dodgers can pay their players and could affect the team's ability to sign talent.
Hey, anyone hear how/if the people's protest went that they were trying to get together?
From Simmers' column:
Day 3 of the Dodgers trial, and it's just me and Frank standing in the courthouse hallway after he's spent the entire day on the witness stand, and the first words he says to me are, "I just know we lost."
It turns out he's talking about the Dodgers game Wednesday and not the trial, a bummer as you might imagine for fans.
I'm surprised he knows the outcome because when he goes into court at 1:30, his noon lunch break beginning just as the game does, he says in answer to my question he has no idea how the Dodgers are doing.
A court official standing nearby says, "I bet he knows the attendance."
That court official can come on ITD anytime he or she wants!! LOL
YES Frank, Dodgers.com Go there. Read!, what the fans say!!
I must separate the Dodgers organization from the Dodgers Team.
Long ago I use to support both, the team on the field which was amazing, even through rough seasons I supported them and the Dodgers Organization as the best in baseball. Now, the court proceedings have produce some very "disappointing" images of the the Dodgers ownership, that has influenced the organization, that I cannot support. I love the The Dodgers as a Team, although a "disappointing" season.
I remain a fan, praying for new ownership of The Dodgers.
Hello ITD!
Just like koufax1963, I remain a fan praying for better days ahead. there are twelve home games remainding and God willing, I'll attend all of them. No road trip to SD for me as I got Jury Duty in downtown next week.
I did not realized the ITD tour and game is for this Saturday. I will be there. Just that I was going to get a ticket to sit with you all but boy is already this Saturday. I just sent email to Bryan and Brett.
I do have my voucher for two tours that is included in my season tix. Who is coming? where is the group sitting? any plans to do anything afterwards? If not, I'll do something close by myself.
As close as they are to bankruptcy, it won't take much to push them all the way to BK. We just need to hold down their revenue by boycotting everything Dodgers. That includes watching them on TV and listening on the radio. Not so hard when it's Charlie Steiner, but much tougher when it involves Vinny.
So, who is willing to join the boycott?
OK, so I got email that they will not honor the season ticket voucher for the tour. That is OK, I have taken the tour many times and I might still go but who is going from here? also I emailed Bryan and he said as of now he has not gotten an order for the group.
The game, God willing, I will be there. The tour, well, maybe. I could use the time to take care of other things.
bear, I think it was you who earlier posted a link to a divorce story while apologizing for the redunancy factor or something like that. One of the best things (for me, anyway) to do when clicking on those stories is to read the comments that sometimes are available. Reading those comments is very comforting.
A lot of Angelenos DO share your feelings.
I don't live very close to LA, but if any of us ITDers wanted to meet at the courthouse before this trial is over, I'd take a vacation day to join you in protest. Boy, it sure would be fun to voice my "frustration" to mccourt, live and in person.
Can't wait for McCourt to erect (and I use that term loosely) a statue of himself (ala Selig) so that the city's pigeons have a fitting place to relieve themselves.
I am not willing to boycott not listening to Vin Scully. In all this turmoil, Vin soothes me. For that matter so does Jaime and I love Pepe's enthusiasm. I also like Monday's analysis.
Here's the latest as I kind of, sort of, understand it. The massive loan documents list both geeks as co-owners. Those seem really binding, so the judge might throw out those six contested marital documents (three of which say Jamie is co-owner, three of which name Frank only). If that happens, they'll be forced to sell and the Dodgers get a new owner. But the BIG problem will be the expected appeals, which could stall this thing for a couple more years within the legal system…years in which the Dodger franchise spirals into the oncoming black abyss. I would hope that true-blue lifers like Tommy and his cronies will step to the plate and DEMAND the carpetbaggers leave town. But that's a pipe dream.
Dang Paul is out for the season and I was hoping he would've been called up again.
Tar and feathering seems like a just action for what pain they have caused Dodger fans. I say the more torture the better 🙂
At this point, I wouldn't put it past McCourt to use the trial and the dirty diamonds mined throughout to engender disdain for the team amongst all but the truest of the bluest in L.A. … then use the turning tides to move the team elsewhere, selling 300 acres of downtown LA (Heretofore exhibited as Blue Land 1 and Blue Land 2, and adjacent McCourt HoldCo properties) to the highest bidder to pad his pockets on the way outta town.
Could explain why he's been so insistent on lying to everyone's faces as he pulls up the roots of all that is Dodger Tradition and rebrands it in his image (Camelback Ranch, the planned renaming of Dodger Stadium).
Dodgers moved once. Two NFL teams moved in the same year.
HIGHLY IMPROBABLE, but I wouldn't put it past this self-absorbed grinch, knowing what he's capable of.
The sooner he loses control of the Dodgers, the better. Unfortunately, Jamie gets grilled after Frank, so whatever atrocities we have not yet been able to imagine could turn the tides in the favor department towards …. what am I talking about, how could anyone root for any of these self-absorbed nouveau-riche debutantes in the Big League Sandbox?
The only thing that has become evident during this trial is that it has been shown, under oath, that Frank is a two-face who has a now-proven record of flattering one's face with a knife to their back.
The Dodgers will always be bigger and stronger than these two. The Dodgers will survive. That's the important thing to remember. It's just sad that we have to be party to one of the ugliest incidents in the history of the once-Brookyn Baseball Club.
Then again… Walter O'Malley was a pretty shrewd lawyer. Could you imagine if journalistic transparency laws and twitter had been around when him and Branch Rickey were duking it out for control of the franchise?
Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
Good Moring ITDland ~ Just saw, again, on the Homepage, how Andre has struggled since the AS Game……well, the entire fishing team has struggled! Not just Andre!!! If the team had played better, we would have been in first place. I'm tired of all the soap trying to put the blame for our teams' demise on Andre alone.
Anyone that attends anything at the stadium is helping McCourt maintain ownership. The only way we as fans can protest this dismantling of a once proud franchise and what it's become under these 2 low lives is to stay away. Then and only then will he be forced to sell!
Good morning ITD!
Is going to be hot day today here in the Southland but it is a beautiful day!
What about us that are season ticket holders? Winter is much too cold without baseball so I'll savor the last days of Summer at Blue Heaven on Earth. I almost saw a no-hitter by Kuroda. The following day he signed my scorebook. I asked him and he told me in English "after I finish here." Then I saw Kuo warming up throwing to two fans then one fan suggested a little kid that was very good. Unfortunately that was the highlight of the day since the Dodgers lost that day but you never know what will happen at a baseball game.
Tonight I want to see Jon SooHoo throw out the first pitch! I posted three pictures I've taken of him in my latest post.
Congratulations Jon! I am looking forward to taking pictures of you throwing out the first pitch!
P.S. For the Ethierholics, there is a new women shirt with a little heart , inside the heart is #16. They also have it for Kemp. Not sure if they had it before but it had been a while since I had gone insde the team store.
No excuses for the young guys because they're all underachieving, but where's our proven veteran leadership? I don't imagine Blake ranks very high in anything except strikeouts. Furcal never gives you a full season. Manny, oh yeah he's gone. Pathednik? Theriot's hits were mostly with the Cubs.
But the media, just like management, wants to shift all of the focus and blame to Kemp, Dre and the rest. Management does it for two reasons I think. (1) to shift blame off of the PVLs THEY signed and traded for, thus taking the implied blame off of management. (2) It'll make it easier for the fans to accept when they either trade the young guys or they go FA.
Hey all, hope you're all doing well. I haven't read a word of the McCourt trial stuff, as the only words I want to read are "McCourt's forced to sell". In the meantime, I am 100% behind my team, and can't wait for the tour tomorrow. See you tomorrow Josh, Emma, and anyone else going!
I saw that article last night tru. They must have taken all their information from Charlie Steiner who apparently doesn't ever have anything good to say about Andre unless he helps the team win a game, and then he's the hero until the next game and then it's back to the slumping. Well, let's look at Andre and see how he is doing compared to his teammates. I am not saying he is having the season he had last year because I expected greater things from him too, but he was on the DL, and it's not like anybody on this team is having the season they had last year either. I put how Andre ranked amongst his teammates and then I put who is ranked 1st on the team.
Let's start with games played since Andre did spend time on the DL.
Games – Andre (6th – 113), Matt (1st – 134) (21 less games played than the leader of the team)
Runs – Andre (4th – 61), Matt (1st – 69)
Hits – Andre (4th – 128), Theriot (1st – 144)
2Bs – Andre (2nd – 31), James (1st – 35)
HR – Andre (2nd – 20), Matt (1st – 22)
RBI – Andre (3rd), James (80)
Total Bases – Andre (2nd – 219), Matt (1st – 225)
BB – Andre (5th – 43), Carroll (1st – 49)
K – Andre (3rd – 85), Kemp (1st – 142)
OBP – Andre (2nd – .356), Carroll (1st – .383)
SLG – Andre (1st – .502)
AVE – Andre (1st – .294)
XBH – Andre (1st – 51)
So yes, granted Andre could be having a better year, but under ALL the circumstances (DL, new baby and all the McCourt issues), he is still holding his own amongst the team pretty well.
Thanks, Nellyjune 🙂
Also see that Kemp is first in three categories. OK, fourth with the K's. I dislike how a certain person of the media picks on him. One person ruins it for the rest of the media as the guys might not want to talk to anyone else.
I am hoping the McCourt name is gone after this season, but I am going to represent this group here, and show love for our boys in blue who don't deserve to have all this drama around in the last month of the season.
I wouldn't be the President of the Ethieraholics if I didn't know this information 🙂 I have tried really hard all season not to place any blame on any players. Right now, I feel they are just the product of a very bad organization (Frank, Ned and Joe)right now that seems to have done everything in their power to undermine any amount of success the could have had.
Amen nelly!
The only time I will be behind Frank is when I am kicking him in his behind on his way out the door!
The more I read, the more my mouth hits the floor that these two wannabe albatrosses could even get within five miles of owning the storied Los Angeles Dodgers. With all the loans and leveraging and smoke and mirrors…hell, ITD could have bought the club and done a better job at running it! I hope Bud Selig and his good ol' boys come down with severe cases of boils and impetigo.
Bud, Frank and Ned all need to go!
My late night idea sounds crazy, but then again, so do the "care"takers of the Dodgers.
I could totally see Frank using any excuse to make bank on the 300 acres of Chavez Ravine. That's likely why he doesn't care about any of the previously owned real estate.
So where does he move them? Back to Brooklyn? Camelback was built in a proverbial day, maybe he could make Keyspan Park MLB-worthy in an offseason.
The Boston Dodgers? I could see it now, the Red Sox moving to a new stadium and bequeathing a crumbling Fenway Park to the Dodgers while Frank waits to earn enough money to buy the Parking Lot back from Fox to build a stadium there. Carpetbag Ranch?
Beijing Dodgers? The only thing stopping that from happening is the travel schedule.
Yeah, sure, Frank's so far in debt, he might never see his way out if forced to sell the team. But post-2013, when the TV rights kick in, all bets are off.
(Of course, Frank would appeal any undesireable trial outcome. With CA Divorce Appeals court having a 36 month waitlist, 3 years is all he needs for the cash to start flowing).
Well, I owe, I owe, so off to work I go.
The team can still salvage the season by keeping the Gnats out of the playoffs this year. I know the game will be on at work, and the place will be dressed in orange in black. Let's see some sad-day faces in NorCal today!
Love the homepage article that the Dodgers need a big bat this offseason:
My favorite line was this one… note how they have to throw in at the end that these weren't all Ned's debacles:
"History shows that the more money Los Angeles spends on players, the greater the failure rate, a trend established long before Ned Colletti became general manager."
No, Ned just accelerated the trend and became the poster child of worthless FA signings:
Ramirez is only the sixth-highest financial commitment the Dodgers have made in recent years — Brown, $105 million; Shawn Green, $85 million; Darren Dreifort, $55 million; J.D. Drew, $55 million (the Dodgers paid $22 million of it); Jason Schmidt, $47 million (NED); Ramirez, $45 million (the Dodgers paid $33 million of it) (NED.) Rounding out the top 10 are Juan Pierre, $44 million (NED); Rafael Furcal, $39 million (NED); Andruw Jones, $36.2 million (NED); and Derek Lowe, $36 million.
Spin Spin Spin. Maybe they should start selling Maytag washers – seems a natural.
Raffy was reinstated from the 15-Day Disabled List. Now what will the magician do?
Ned also stated he wants to re-sign Lilly, Kuroda and Padilla. Atta baby, shoot high!
I'd take Kurod and Lilly as 4 and 5, with Kersh, Billz, and an ace.
Good afternoon ITD boys and girls!
Okay, I understand all of the sentiment against Frank and Jamie. For heaven?s sake, I have the exact same feelings about them. And I?m with all of you for calling out Frank and Jamie and raking them over the coals for what they have done to this franchise, not to mention to Dodger fans. And I said something like this not that long ago, but it doesn?t help matters if a person decides to come onto ITD and (1) not only berate Frank and Jamie (which I wholeheartedly support) but then (2) proceed to belittle every person that ?attends anything at the stadium.? If you don?t want to come to the stadium, that?s your personal choice, just the same as it is our choice to attend events at the stadium. If you don?t want to attend, don?t. But don?t belittle or think anything less of a person that does. You can make your choice and we can make our own choices. Thumbing your nose and talking down to people that you have never met does NO GOOD.
Emma/Mike ? As for the tour, I?ll be there! I plan to have a blast! See ya there!
Deb ? Sorry to hear that you won?t be there. Hope all is going well. Have a safe trip home.
Hi folks
Well the Phillies are doing their job.
Now it's time for the Dodgers to do theirs.
I didn't think it was possible for Phillies to win a game 1-0 in CBP when the other team have Braun, Fielders and Mcgehee.
BARAJAS is helping us forget Manny.
Y'all think its too soon to tell, or might Mr. Billingsley be starting to turn the corner?
Hey enchanted, new thread!!! 🙂
how can you compare kershaw straight up
one more though the dodgers better sign kershaw long term maybe 5 yrs.but with this owner i don't see it got to sell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leave it to a Giants fan to be stuck in last year.
It's all they really have.


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