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The new Defense Health Agency's ability to merge several different technology platforms is as much an anthropological effort as it is a technology puzzle. DHA's IT staff eventually will be more than 8,000 strong and will rely heavily on shared services to meet its mission.
Dave Bowen, the director of health care IT and chief information officer for DHA, said his job, in part, is to bring the three-month-old organization together.
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Bowen said DHA focused on five shared services initially for the October launch: medical logistics, facilities capabilities, health plan operations, IT and pharmacy."We basically were asked to develop a business case around how we would consolidate the military healthcare resources within IT and the other services within a shared services model as well, and provide that on a services basis back to the services," Bowen said. "What we are doing is consolidating like operations. Certainly, these five I mentioned have big dollars flowing through them. They are very important. Some of the efforts in terms of benefits of putting them together in some areas certainly are longer term than in other areas. Certainly with facilities, we eventually will be looking at standardizing what our facilities look like, how they are designed, constructed, things like that. That's a longer term issue. But certainly in other areas like pharmacy and IT, we have the ability to recognize some pretty short-term savings and some significant savings as we move forward further down the road."
In 2011, an internal task force analyzed the structure of and possible options to improve the of the Defense Department's military health system. In March 2013, then-Defense Deputy Secretary Ash Carter signed off on the memo establishing the DHA's structure. DHA incorporated the TRICARE Management Activity and the Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical, and eventually will provide a host of back-office services for most of the services medical needs.
FOC by 2015
Bowen is in charge of the IT portion of those shared services. He said on Oct. 1 about 750 government and military employees and 1,000 contractors moved into DHA's IT shop. He expects the DHA IT shop to reach full operating capability in October 2015 when all the facility and regional IT employees will join the organization on a full-time basis. DHA's IT budget is about $2 billion to cover about 56 hospitals, about 350 clinics and 9.6 million members in the military's health plan.
"The DHA basically was stood up to be an operating arm of the assistant secretary of Health Affairs, which will basically remain in place as more of a policy organization. We are very much an operating entity," he said. "We have a number of divisions in the HIT organization. We have an innovations group, a governance and customer relations group; we have an infrastructure and operations group, solutions delivery, security and privacy. We also have two organizations that are relatively new adds that support our existing applications, one on the business side and one on the clinical side."
Bowen said he has three major priorities for DHA.
The first is completing the initial operating capability of the agency around IT.
Bowen said the second priority is to meet those savings objectives by making the right investments.
"We designed the organization and the business case around standing it up, we did run numbers around savings and efficiencies we thought we could gain from the consolidation," he said. "Obviously, we have a good deal of duplication in terms of hardware, software, infrastructure and things like that. We did a lot of work around what we could save from consolidating that. Over the next five years, we have savings initiatives in three years. One is the consolidation of management and that includes some of contracting activities and bringing all the contracts together. The second area is around consolidation of our infrastructure. The third area is the consolidation of our applications, what we call portfolio rationalization."
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For example, DHA is reviewing its e-learning systems and found about 22 different applications that could be consolidated down to a few. Another ripe area is around data centers, help desks and networks.
Bowen said one of their early goals is to transition multiple email systems to the enterprise email system run by the Defense Information Systems Agency in the cloud.
"As we looked at some of our contracts, we found some of our contracts were half used so we have some contract savings there," he added.
The third priority is ensuring the continuity of operations during the transition. He said the military service's surgeon generals were concerned about the impact of healthcare services during the transition.
DHA also will be a key part of the DoD's effort to build a new electronic health record and ensure interoperability with the Veterans Affairs Department.
Bowen said a number of initiatives will be coming online soon to automate records that were sent to VA in a paper form previously.
"One of the efforts includes an effort around standardizing our clinical terminology so that we basically translate certain clinical terms from the terms we use to the terms VA uses and vice versa," he said. "We are looking at seven areas initially where we have certain standards and we can take the VA terms and turn them into a standard term and turn that standard term back into a DoD term for our folks to look at and vice versa for the VA folks to look at."
Bowen said these seven areas are just the start and the effort to standardize data will continue over the next few years.
RFP for EHR coming
This standard setting initiative is part of the broader effort DHA also is a part of with the DoD-VA Interagency Program Office.
Bowen said the IPO also will focus on data sharing and interoperability and the newest area, the Defense Health Management System Modernization, which is the acquisition strategy to acquire a new electronic health records system.
DoD released a request for information in September and is planning a final solicitation in the coming weeks.
Bowen said DHA will become more involved after DoD awards the contract for a new health records system.
"We will work with them to begin configuring the newly acquired system. It will take some time to do that," he said. "We will develop an organization that will basically take over and sort of deploy that throughout out system and move into a sustainment mode for the years to come."
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BATON ROUGE, La. - On 62 acres of rural farmland on the outskirts of Baton Rouge, 436 white travel trailers sit in neat rows on gray gravel behind a chain-link fence near the town's mid-size airport. FEMA calls the trailer park "Renaissance Village," and the agency began moving displaced families in shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck last year.
Many of the families in Renaissance Village come from some of the hardest-hit areas of New Orleans, including the Ninth Ward, Lower Ninth Ward, and St. Bernard Parish. More than a year after Katrina drove the families from their homes, their neighborhoods lie in ruins, and a renaissance seems far away.
Wilbert Ross was one of the first evacuees to settle in the park after fleeing his flooded Ninth Ward home. Today Ross lives in a tiny trailer with a 20-year-old son, a 16-year-old daughter, her 19-month-old baby, and an 18-year-old daughter who's expecting a baby this month.
The trailer is crowded, but Ross doesn't spend much time inside. As president of an advisory council for residents, Ross spends his days walking the hot, shadeless expanse of the village, finding out what residents need and telling them what help is available.
For those who want help there's plenty of it: Catholic Charities has a full-time mobile unit in the park, providing social services, clothing, school supplies, counseling, and "just about anything you might need," Ross told WORLD. Doctors volunteer on a mobile medical unit that provides free health care.
The Louisiana Department of Labor operates a satellite office in the park five days a week, offering job-placement services. A local YWCA offers free child care for working families. FEMA funds job-training courses for residents who need help developing skills, and the agency underwrites public transportation costs.
The park's residents live in the FEMA trailers free of charge for at least 18 months, paying only for propane. FEMA picks up the tab for utilities and operates free laundromats throughout the park. Residents may also collect any additional government benefits for which they're eligible, including food stamps, disability, and unemployment.
But despite the glut of federal and private help, Ross insists the government owes residents more. On a sweltering afternoon under a party tent that serves as the only central meeting place in the park, Ross talks about efforts to demand more cash for displaced residents and to sue government agencies. "The government should give us what by right we deserve," says Ross. "So far they ain't nowhere near it."
Congress recently approved a grant program to give homeowners up to $150,000 to rebuild their homes in the Gulf Coast area. FEMA has doled out more than $4.2 billion in housing assistance that includes rebuilding homes and replacing items lost in the storm. The agency has spent another $1.9 billion to meet other needs of Gulf Coast residents, including medical and transportation expenses.
Ross wants to see the federal government give an additional $40,000 to renters who lost household items in the hardest-hit areas. He points out that victims of 9/11 and other disasters have received large sums of federal aid: "We want to know why we haven't gotten anything."
While schoolchildren file off buses at the park's gate wearing neat uniforms and toting backpacks provided by a local nonprofit group, Ross leans into car windows, telling residents to come to a community meeting that night in the tent. "We're going to talk about the lawsuit," he says.
A few hours later as the sun goes down, about 50 residents crowd into the tent, sitting on folding chairs and wobbly benches while loud floor fans swirl hot, sticky air. Residents slowly fan themselves and fight oppressive mosquitoes while Ross hands out agendas and introduces the first guest.
Margo Fleet is a Louisiana attorney managing a class-action lawsuit against the levee boards and the Army Corps of Engineers on behalf of residents of heavily flooded areas. "I'm here to make sure you know your rights," she tells the small crowd over a garbled PA system.
Fleet sums up the lawsuit and emphasizes there are no guarantees. But she encourages residents to fill out the forms she's brought. When she comes to the form's section on personal injury, Fleet explains this includes any mental anguish caused by the flooding. "I'm not going to tell you how much to put down in this category," she says, "but I will say this: Don't underestimate."
When Fleet has finished speaking, a dozen residents swarm a folding table in the far corner, gathering the legal forms and shuffling out of the tent.
Meanwhile, another member of the advisory council addresses laundromat abuse in the park. Most of the washing machines are broken most of the time, he says, and trouble-making teenagers are to blame. "FEMA's going to get tired of coming out to fix these things," he tells the group. "You've got to control your kids."
In the second row, a 52-year-old man from the Ninth Ward stands to plead with residents to mind their teenagers. He says he's tired of theft and violence in the park, but his angst grows broader: "I'm tired of being broke and I'm tired of nobody caring," he shouts. "When did anybody ever give us anything?"
For the next hour, a train of locals seemed to answer that question: A representative from the Louisiana Department of Labor told job-seekers to gather at the tent on Tuesday for a job fair. An administrator from the East Baton Rouge School District offered school supplies and help with getting truant kids enrolled in school.
An attorney from the Louisiana Bar Foundation offered to match residents with law students who would help them navigate legal issues for free. A representative from a medical supply company offered to bring in wheelchairs, hearing aids, and other needed equipment. A local doctor announced she would arrange a pediatric mobile clinic to visit the park once a week.
At the meeting's end Ross encouraged the group to use these services, but said they can get more from the government: "Our goal is to be a part of every class-action lawsuit that involves Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. . . . Everything they took from us we can get back."
Displaced residents of public housing in New Orleans are signing onto a recently filed lawsuit that aims to extract damages from federal and local housing authorities, and to stop plans to revamp the faltering public housing system.
Before Katrina, some 5,100 households lived in public housing in New Orleans, and another 9,000 families used Section 8 housing vouchers to live in reduced-rent units in other parts of town. The storm destroyed or severely damaged large swaths of public housing, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced plans to demolish 5,000 uninhabitable units in four housing projects.
New Orleans public housing was already beleaguered before Katrina struck. Crime, drugs, gangs, and generational poverty plagued residents living in hundreds of dilapidated units. The situation had grown so dire HUD seized day-to-day management of public housing from the local Housing Authority of New Orleans in 2002. That's a step the federal agency rarely takes, according to HUD spokeswoman Donna White: HUD directly manages only eight housing authorities out of some 3,400 nationwide.
When Katrina wiped out thousands of public housing units, HUD was determined not simply to rebuild the same problems. Instead, the agency has announced plans to redevelop public housing using a mixed-income model that will "break up concentrations of poverty" and stop "simply warehousing people," White told WORLD. Though public housing will be different, "anyone who was displaced from Katrina will have an opportunity to return," she says.
Pamela Mahogany doesn't like that plan. Mahogany lived in the sprawling St. Bernard public housing complex in the Seventh Ward before Katrina severely damaged nearly every unit. HUD says it will raze the St. Bernard complex. The agency has given Mahogany a federal housing voucher that pays for another rental unit she found in New Orleans, but Mahogany demands her old neighborhood back: "We have a right to live in public housing."
Endesha Juakali, a local public housing activist who grew up in the St. Bernard complex, pledged to make life miserable in New Orleans until the residents' demands are met. "If we're unhappy, we're going to make the whole city unhappy," Juakali said at a press conference announcing a class-action lawsuit. "We're going to run the tourists away."
The Washington, D.C.-based Advancement Project filed a civil-rights lawsuit on behalf of the residents, accusing HUD and Secretary Alphonso Jackson of "willful, callous, wanton, and reckless disregard" for public housing residents. The suit alleges that HUD's delay in restoring public housing units is based on "a racial animus and clear intention to prohibit the return of many low-income African-American families."
White says that the secretary, who is black, is "offended" by allegations of racism. She added that Katrina's unprecedented destruction made delays inevitable: The storm forced the local HUD staff to abandon its New Orleans office and set up a satellite office in Houston. Some staff members scattered to different cities, and the office operated with less than half of its normal staff for six months.
The diminished staff was responsible for inspecting every public housing unit in New Orleans before residents could return. That meant thousands of inspections. "It just takes time," said White.
In the meantime, HUD offered disaster-housing vouchers to all public housing residents in areas affected by Hurricanes Katrina or Rita. Some 28,000 families from across the Gulf Coast and Texas have used the vouchers to rent units from housing authorities in cities across the United States.
Nicole Gelanus, an urban affairs expert and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, says overhauling public housing in New Orleans is the right thing to do: "No respectable government entity would put people back into that same situation."
Gelanus thinks the mixed-income model is a step in the right direction but says HUD should go farther in its reform. Unlike welfare recipients, public housing residents face no time limits for living in subsidized units. That means some families live in the projects for decades. "That was never the point of public housing," says Gelanus.
Public housing was originally designed to give struggling families a safe, affordable place to live until they could get back on their feet. But decades later, open-ended public housing has "entrenched an underclass population that is dependent on the government for housing permanently," she says. "It's really the last permanent benefit."
HUD hasn't mentioned any plans to reform eligibility requirements, but White did dispel a rumor that families living in public housing in New Orleans would be required to work. Not true, she says: "We want to give everyone a chance to return."
Back in Renaissance Village, some residents are determined to work their way out of their troubles. Tyrone Blanks, who owns a home in the hard-hit New Orleans East, says he makes weekly trips to repair his house. He's back at work and doubts he'll sign up for any lawsuits. "The more adversity I meet, the more it makes me want to work harder and do better," says Blanks. "But I guess I'm old school."


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CALGARY February 29, 2012 – Air Canada announced today that its Calgary to Tokyo Narita non-stop flights will operate year-round beginning this winter.
"Following our announcement last fall that we were increasing our summer flights to five times weekly, we are pleased to extend our non-stop flights featuring Air Canada's Executive First service with lie-flat suites from Calgary to Tokyo Narita year-round, reflecting solid demand to and from Canada's energy centre," said Ben Smith, Executive Vice-President and Chief Commercial Officer at Air Canada. "Since we launched this route in March 2010, demand has been strong from business and leisure travelers as well as freight forwarders. This is a great example of how the Calgary business community, the Calgary Airport Authority, Travel Alberta and our travel partners understand that our industry is a significant catalyst for economic growth and have all come together to enable sustainable, year-round, direct links to Asia via Tokyo Narita's international gateway which offers a multitude of convenient flight options to Japan, China, Korea and beyond."
Beginning April 27, 2012, Air Canada will increase its Calgary-Tokyo non-stop summer service to five weekly flights, and flights will continue this winter, beginning October 27, 2012 as follows:
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Well, the world didn't come to an end last week, but for some, this may seem almost as apocalyptic. Today is the end of Your Friday Bruce Fix, and no, I'm not pulling your leg, like this April Fool's joke from 2011.
After five years, more than 260 Friday Bruce Fixes and more than 600 videos, I just feel like I'm done. It has been a lot of fun and I hope you've enjoyed it, too. I suppose I could go on forever given the extraordinary depth and breadth of Bruce Springsteen's catalogue. He has produced a body of work that is pretty much unmatched, beginning with his 1966 recording of 'That's What You Get' and 'Baby I', and continuing on to this day.
Although Bruce makes it easy to find great material to post, after all this time, I've run out of enthusiasm for the time commitment required to post every Friday (I think I missed only one, while on vacation) to the point where I just don't want to do this anymore. I hope you'll understand and I hope you'll find a way to get your Bruce Fix when you need it.
Thanks to the many Bruce enthusiasts for their time commitment to post all those videos on YouTube and a very big thanks to the people behind SpringsteenLyrics and Brucebase and of course the man himself. This blog would have been impossible without you.
Before I go, I thought I'd leave you with a Top 10 list. I don't mean this to be THE definitive, all-time list of the 10 best Bruce Springsteen songs. I guess it's the 10 performances and/or 10 songs that I just couldn't live without, and the songs I turn to most often when I need my fix.
I should also say that making a list like this is almost impossible. A list of 25 would seem to be easier. There are certain songs and performances that I can hardly believe I've left off this top 10 list. Of course, if I drew the line at 25, I'd still hate some of the cuts I would have made. On second thought, maybe a top 5 would have been easier, as I would have had fewer painful cuts to make.
I sort of cheated last week by sneaking Kitty's Back into my Bruce Springsteen Christmas roundup. I've probably played that one clip more times than any other, it was the first video played on the first Friday Bruce Fix that I sent to four friends by email five years ago and it's a great place to go to get my fix. It really does belong in the top 10. Let's call it the top 11!
One observation I'd like to make in looking at my list is that I've gravitated towards songs that mostly highlight Bruce's brilliance as a song writer and as a solo performer. As much as I love the E Street Band, those fist pumping anthems, the all night parties that are Springsteen concerts, and Bruce's total command of the stage and the building as the best band leader in the history of rock and roll, it's when you strip all of that away down to just the song and the performer, that the genius of Bruce Springsteen's artistry shines brightest.
In case you're wondering, some of the songs about which I'm most annoyed by their absence from this list are, in no particular order: Badlands, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Because the Night, My City of Ruins, Blood Brothers, Independence Day, Rosalita, Atlantic City, Lost in the Flood, Loose Ends, Restless Nights, No Surrender, Bobby Jean, Tougher Than the Rest, Two Faces, The Rising, The Fever, The Promise and The Promised Land. I would have no quarrel with any top whatever list that included any of those songs. At that, I'm sure I've overlooked a few, perhaps a few dozen! Please post a comment to let me know which songs you would have listed on your Top 10!
I can't leave without a nod to the Big Man, Clarence Clemons. After he died, I posted a couple of tributes here and here. There will always be a hole on the stage to Bruce's right and in our hearts.
OK, so here we go, in reverse or countdown order. Of course, feel free to play them in whatever order you want. While this may be my top 10 Bruce Fixes, it's still Your Friday Bruce Fix!
As always, if you're getting your fix while at the office, don't take any calls, cancel your meetings, close your office (or cubicle) door, watch these fixes on full screen and turn up the volume. Sometimes, you just need your fix. With any luck, it won't get you fired.
#10 Brilliant Disguise
#8 The River
#7 You're Missing
Since the video version of the live performance on SNL that I love so much has gone missing, here's a clip from the rehearsal of that performance:
This is the audio from the live broadcast, by which time Bruce had smoothed out the few little bumps that turned up in the rehearsal.
#6 Backstreets
#5 Jungleland
#4 Land of Hope and Dreams
#3 Incident on 57th Street
Because it was so hard to choose, first up, a piano & violin only version from early 1975, followed by a full band version from 1978.
#2 Born to Run
#1 Thunder Road
Thanks and here's wishing you an amazing 2013, and an endless series of Happy Fridays!


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Yes, that's a technical term: Via's new Mobile ITX motherboard just presented at Computex is absolutely tiny wee, as you can see here compared to a RAZR. But don't think it's underpowered, because this 3 x 1.8 inches PC comes loaded and ready to power all kinds of x86-compatible smartphones.
It has a 1GHz C7-S CPU with a reduced CX700 north and south-bridge chipset. It will come with 256MB or 512MB of soldered RAM, but the most important impressive thing is that Via has managed to shoehorn a CDMA processor in the package along with an on-board DC-DC converter. The Mobile ITX motherboard powers the Nanobook, which you can see in the gallery and our previous coverage.
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1/2 Package Shredded Dough ~225 gr (1 package = 454 gr)
1 stick unsalted butter (125 gr = 8 tbsp = 1/2 cup), melted
2 tbsp milk
200 gr Feta cheese, unsalted - Soak in water and drain 3-4 times within 24 hours, then puree with the blender or press with a fork. You may also use unsalted Mozzarella cheese instead of Feta cheese.
1 1/2 cups water
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp Grape Molasses + 2 tbsp butter, room temperature
23 cm (9 inch) pie plate (if you like thinner Kunefe, you may use a larger dish)
To prepare the syrup; place the water and sugar in a medium sized pot. Bring to a boil and continue boiling for 5 minutes. Then simmer for about 15 minutes and turn the heat off. Add lemon juice and put aside.
Put half the package of Shredded Dough in the food processor and pulse a few times. Brush the inside of the Pyrex dish with the butter and Grape Molasses mixture. Place half of the shredded dough evenly and press on them with your palm (picture). Drizzle half of the butter&milk mixture with the brush. Spread the cheese on top evenly (picture). Then spread the second half of the shredded dough. Drizzle the rest of the butter all over the top with the brush.
Preheat the oven to 375 F (190 C)*. Place the dish on the middle rack. When the top takes a light golden colour take it out of the oven. Then slide it on a plate. Brush the dish again with butter and Grape Molasses. Turn it upside down and bake the other side until it's light golden brown. Immediately pour the lukewarm syrup all over evenly.
Serve this traditional Turkish Kunefe dessert while still hot with a dollop of Turkish Kaymak** and sprinkle ground pistachios all over the top.
* If you like you can cook Kunefe over the stove over medium heat in a large pan.
** President Choice (Loblaws in Toronto) brand name has double cream (40%) in a small plastic container. It is not Turkish Kaymak but it is delicious:)
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- Spinach Soup with Cream, Elbasan Kebab, Pilaf with Sweet Peas, Shepherd's Salad and Swiss Chard Log Borek.
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If you are considering an intimate holiday for two, or even a dinner party of six, and in a quandary about the practicality of a full on turkey versus stuffed chicken to stand-in for a celebrity bird, there is no need to fret any further, because we have the perfect solution. Forget about those two this holiday, and do something truly special and better scaled to your needs, by oven roasting a capon.
The Holiday Capon (Part 1)
Smaller than a Turkey – Bigger than a Basic Chicken
If you are not familiar with this hefty bird, do not think for a minute that a capon is a compromise you have to make because you are not feeding a small army. Quite the contrary, these extraordinary birds are raised exclusively to be a culinary treat of the highest order. Plump breasted with prized, white flesh wonderfully marbled with fat; capons are destined for greatness and can easily carry any holiday feast. It can be especially gratifying for the cook, as this is not a bird upstaged by any dressing or side dish. When you are lucky enough to have the pleasure of eating an oven-roasted capon, you will find the meat distinctively flavorful, lusciously rich and moist, and tender beyond belief. So much so, that this could be the start of a new tradition. At the very least, you will not want to wait another whole year before enjoying one again.
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Another beauty is that there is no elaborate recipe, complex technique, or special handling required. Fill this bird with your favorite dressing, or season the cavity with a good sea salt and freshly ground pepper, and truss it. After, you just rub it with softened, rendered duck fat, salt and pepper the skin and oven roast, similarly to roasting a large chicken. You might even want to try on some new cooking methods to go with your new bird. In the Gascon countryside, capons are the traditional Sunday Chicken cooked as Poule au pot – slowly poached in a pot of vegetables and rich stock, and stuffed with a delicious soft dressing. Here are links to two of our favorite capon recipes.
Capon Poule au Pot with Foie Gras Stuffing
Truffled Capon with Wild Mushrooms
The Well Trussed Capon
When roasting a capon for your holiday meal, truss it much the same as you would a turkey or a chicken. Remove the wishbone, and bind the bird so that its drumsticks rest nicely in place against the tip of the breastbone, with the wing tips folded back neatly beneath the shoulders. It will make for a beautiful shape, cook more evenly and be easier to carve. This is especially brilliant because capons are the perfect bird to carve at the table. Large enough to be grand, they make for an impressive entrance, yet they are small enough to manage easily. Use the links below to learn how to quick roast the perfect capon, and remove the wishbone before trussing.


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The Central Connecticut baseball team fell to the University of Connecticut on Wednesday afternoon in Winter Haven, Florida. A 1-1 tie forced the Blue Devils (2-4) and Huskies (10-8) to extra innings, but UConn plated five runs in the top of the 10th to take the game 6-1.
After junior Jesse Frawley retired the Huskies in order in the top of the first, CCSU plated the game's first run in the bottom of the frame. Sophomore Jeff Osak doubled down the left field line to start the inning and eventually scored on a sacrifice fly by senior Dominic Severino.
UConn quickly tied the score on a sacrifice fly by Ryan Sullivan in the top of the second.
Frawley limited the Huskies to one run in the top of the second despite allowing three straight singles to load the bases with no one out. Frawley induced an infield pop-up and two fly outs to work his way out of the jam with just one UConn base runner crossing the plate.
After the second inning Frawley settled in and limited the Huskies to a pair of hits and two walks over the next five innings.
Frawley was lifted for a relief pitcher after tossing seven innings and limiting UConn to just one run on five hits. He struck out two and walked two.
Severino tossed a scoreless eighth and ninth in relief of Frawley, but surrendered five runs in the top of the 10th inning to suffer the loss. His record falls to 0-2 on the season.
David Mahoney earned the victory for the Huskies with one inning of scoreless relief.
Osak was on base four times in the game. He was the only CCSU player to record two hits and he also walked a pair of times.
The Blue Devils will travel to Daytona Beach for a three game series with Bethune-Cookman this weekend.


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Isaiah Says
1. Isaiah says,
Jehovah has borne our griefs and sorrows.
He will raise me,
He will save me thru His love.
2. Isaiah says,
Jehovah was wounded for all our sins.
He will heal me,
He will seal me thru His love.
3. Isaiah says,
Jehovah can wash red sins to whiteness.
He will cleanse me,
He will claim me thru His love.
He will claim me thru His love.
Text: Penelope Allen
Music: Kenneth Jones
Artist: Allen/Jones
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: Friend
Composition Date: 1998-03-01
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"Ashes" exhibited in 1997 in the Coastal Arts League Museum at Gallery 92 West in Half Moon Bay, California.
This page includes a small sampling of pieces from the show.
(Click on the images for larger versions)
I find myself continually exploring questions of the embodiment of
consciousness. I work in a figurative idiom for the richness of
association that the figure evokes because of the closeness of our own
bodies -- and the distance of others. Using a technique of aleatory
figuration, I move paint around with paper towels, fingers, palette
knives, and calligraphic brushstrokes until figures begin to
appear. More paint moves and the figures coalesce or dissolve,
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text: Members of Congress Line up to Sponsor House Versions of "Sensible School Meals Act" 2013-03-20March 20, 2013 - Support for the Sensible School Meals Act continues to grow as additional Members of Congress announce support for House versions of S. 427. On Tuesday, March 19, Congressmen Rick Crawford (AR-1), Tim Griffin (AR-2), Steve Womack (AR-3) and Tom Cotton (AR-4) of the Arkansas House Delegation introduced one version of the Senate bill, which is also co-cosponsored by Senator Pryor of Arkansas. Their version focuses on making permanent the grain and protein flexibility. In addition, SNA has been working with Congressman Steve Stivers (R-OH) and Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-OH) in introducing a modified version of S. 427 on Thursday, March 21. Their version will also include language addressing Section 205 of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act by allowing local school food authorities and local school boards to set the price of a "paid" meal where the program is being well managed. Representatives Stivers and Fudge are circulating the attached "Dear Colleague" letter to garner further bi-partisan support.


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slamists on Thursday rushed to approve a draft constitution for Egypt without the participation of liberal and Christian members, aiming to pre-empt a court ruling that could dissolve their panel and further inflaming the clash between the opposition and President Mohammed Morsi.
The move advances a charter with an Islamist bent that rights experts say could give Muslim clerics oversight over legislation and bring restrictions on freedom of speech, women's rights and other liberties.
The assembly that has been working on the constitution for months raced to pass it in a single marathon session that continued past midnight, with members voting article-by-article on the more than 230-article draft. The lack of inclusion was on display in the nationally televised gathering — of the 85 members in attendance, there was not a single Christian and only four women, all Islamists. Many of the men wore beards, the hallmark of Muslim conservatives.
For weeks, liberal, secular and Christian members, already a minority on the 100-member panel, have been withdrawing to protest what they call the Islamists' hijacking of the process.
The sudden rush to finish came as the latest twist in a week-long crisis pitting Morsi and his Islamist supporters against a mostly secular and liberal opposition and the powerful judiciary. Voting had not been expected for another two months. But the assembly abruptly moved it up in order to pass the draft before Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court rules on Sunday on whether to dissolve the panel.
To come into effect, the draft must be passed in a nationwide referendum, which Morsi said Thursday will be held "very soon."
"I am saddened to see this come out while Egypt is so divided," Egypt's top reform leader, Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei said, speaking on private Al-Nahar TV. But he predicted the document would not last long. "It will be part of political folklore and will go to the garbage bin of history."
A new opposition bloc led by ElBaradei and other liberals said the assembly had lost its legitimacy.
"It is trying to impose a constitution monopolized by one trend and is the furthest from national consensus, produced in a farcical way," the National Salvation Front said in a statement, read by Waheed Abdel-Meguid, one of the assembly members who withdrew.
Thursday's vote escalates the already bruising confrontation sparked last week when Morsi gave himself near absolute powers by neutralizing the judiciary, the last branch of the state not in his hands. Morsi banned the courts from dissolving the constitutional assembly or the upper house of parliament and from reviewing his own decisions.
Speaking in an interview on state TV aired late Thursday, Morsi defended his edicts, saying they were a necessary "delicate surgery" needed to get Egypt through a transitional period and end instability he blamed on the lack of a constitution.
"The most important thing of this period is that we finish the constitution, so that we have a parliament under the constitution, elected properly, an independent judiciary, and a president who executes the law," Morsi said.
In a sign of the divisions, protesters camped out in Cairo's Tahrir Square who were watching the interview chanted against Morsi and raised their shoes in the air in contempt.
The president's edict sparked a powerful backlash in one of the worst bouts of turmoil since last year's ouster of autocrat Hosni Mubarak. At least 200,000 people protested in Cairo's Tahrir square earlier this week demanding he rescind the edicts.
Street clashes have already erupted between the two camps the past week, leaving at least two people dead and hundreds wounded. And more violence is possible.
The opposition plans another large protest for Friday, and the Brotherhood has called a similar massive rally for the following day, though they decided to move it from Tahrir to avoid frictions. Bands of youths have been daily battling police on a road leading off the square and close to the U.S. Embassy.
At least three independent daily newspapers are threatening not to issue editions on Tuesday in protest against Morsi's edicts and the rushed constitutional vote, according to the National Committee for the Defense of Freedom of Express, which called for the move.
The Constitutional Court's announcement that it would rule on the legitimacy of the assembly was a direct defiance of Morsi's edicts. It will also rule Sunday on whether to dissolve the upper house of parliament, which is overwhelmingly held by Islamists. Most of the nation's judges are on indefinite strike to protest the edicts.
It is not clear what would happen to the approved draft if the court dissolves the assembly. The crisis could move out of the realm of legal questions and even more into the more volatile street, to be decided by which side can bring the most support.
The opposition is considering whether to call for a boycott of any referendum on the constitution or to try to rally a "no" vote, said Hamdeen Sabahi, a National Salvation Front leader who ran in this year's presidential race and came in a surprisingly strong third.
"The people should not be made to choose between a dictatorial declaration or a constitution that doesn't represent all the people," he told independent ONTV, referring to Morsi's decrees. "He is pushing Egypt to more division and confronation."
During Thursday's session, assembly head Hossam al-Ghiryani doggedly pushed the members to finish. When one article received 16 objections, he pointed out that would require postponing the vote 48 hours under the body's rules. "Now I'm taking the vote again," he said, and all but four members dropped their objections.
"We will teach this constitution to our sons," al-Ghiryani told the gathering.
Islamist members of the panel defended the fast tracking. Hussein Ibrahim of the Brotherhood said the draft reflected thousands of hours of debate over the past six months, including input from liberals before they withdrew.
"People want the constitution because they want stability. Go to villages, to poorer areas, people want stability," he said.
Over the past week, about 30 members have pulled out of the assembly. As Thursday's session began, the assembly held a vote to formally remove 11 of those who withdrew and replace them with reserve members — who largely belong to the Islamist camp.
As a result, every article passed overwhelmingly. The draft largely reflects the conservative vision of the Islamists, with articles that rights activists, liberals and others fear will lead to restrictions on the rights of women and minorities and on civil liberties in general.
One article that passed underlined that the state will protect "the true nature of the Egyptian family ... and promote its morals and values," phrasing that suggests the state could prevent anything deemed to undermine the family.
The draft says citizens are equal under the law but an article specifically establishing women's equality was dropped because of disputes over the phrasing.
As in past constitutions, the new draft says that the "principles of Islamic law" will be the basis of law.
But a new article states that Egypt's most respected Islamic institution, Al-Azhar, must be consulted on any matters related to Shariah, a measure critics fear will lead to oversight of legislation by clerics.
Another one seeks to define "principles" of Islamic law by pointing to particular theological doctrines. The term "principles" had long been intentionally vague, allowing wide leeway, and specifying its bases could give Islamists leverage to implement and expand the reach of Shariah.
The draft also includes bans on "insulting or defaming all prophets and messengers" or even "insulting humans" — broad language that analysts warned could be used to crack down on many forms of speech.
The committee has been plagued by controversy from the start. It was created by the first parliament elected after Mubarak's ouster. But a first permutation of the assembly, also Islamist-dominated, was disbanded by the courts. A new one was created just before the lower house of parliament, also Brotherhood-led, was dissolved by the judiciary in June.


text: Here is the kernel I'm working on, report issues as they arise please. http://bit.ly/deprimed_test If you have an issue with deprimed try my primed kernel, please try deprimed first as it's compatible with more Droid devices. {These kernels are completely different, so much so I cannot list the changes.} http://bit.ly/primed_test (current primed kernel reports #14) Please copy any existing /etc/init.d/20overclock you may have customized, my kernels will erase it for safety upon installation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you bootloop after using the primed command or after editing the 20overclock file please flash the following zip. {The zip will remove any overclock file that may be loading upon boot}. Remove any overclock with: declock.zip -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post your thoughts and experiences, will be adding features/fixes as time progresses. The kernel is 250mhz - 900mhz Standard Voltage (with ULV | LV | SV | IV | coming by way of overclock) (More on this later). I have worked extremely hard on this and hope to have the testing phase complete soon as there are more exciting developments to come. *addition information* I started by pulling the cm-stk git currently maintained by cvpcs (stock cyanogen mod) and removed unnecessary features, added various bits of code from newer kernels, added missing droid specific omap features, integrated the overclock module, changed timings relating to scheduling, added two new schedulers, added various network related features (will talk more on all this later). The kernel is meant to be lean but feature rich at the same time, I try to note changes (especially in code) but I have changed so much its hard to keep track of everything. I am not randomly changing or adding things like most do, I am working with 10+ years of linux kernel knowledge and everything I add/removed/change is specific to needs I and others may have. Deprimed test #2 up, url will remain the same. Major things worth mentioning are. Reverted scheduler to deadline, changed bottom slot to 250 for time being, disabled mailbox support on dsp bridge, changed to slub allocator, enabled TI wlan enhanced SDIO contoller support, changed system timer type to MPU, disabled debugging in various places for speed....many other changes. fixed compcache Deprimed test #3 up - same URL fixed wifi, changed to SLOB allocator, changed timer speed, disabled TI WLAN Enhanced SDIO controller, more DSP Bridge changes...etc..etc. Deprimed test #4 up - temporary kernel with zram instead of ramzswap Deprimed test #5 up Finally got wifi working to my satisfaction (removed debugging altogether for a lean/faster driver), this will be the base kernel unless someone has issues. Milestone Overclock for deprimed kernel: http://bit.ly/dpoverclock Deprimed test #6 (Kernel reports #2) - same URL Changed default scheduler to CFQ (deadline is still available), enabled several debugging options for better statistics in powertop, changed default top slot to 900mhz, re-enabled TI WLAN Enhanced SDIO controller, changed to SLOB allocater, enabled Dnotify, various other changes. Deprimed test #7 (Kernel reports #1) - same URL Switched to LV 125 - 900mhz by default, added ext3 driver (inside kernel), added ext4 driver (loadable module), added the option restart to compcache (compcache restart), enabled Dnotify again (it was disabled due to a former kernel option), added additional USB networking features (for USB tethering on gingerbread), switched to android gadget stack (was using USB OTG), removed debugging from WIFI module once again, various ipv4 additions for compatibility and advanced networking. Added updated_deprimed command only for Clockwork Recovery users...explanation in the Additional Scripts post below. Deprimed test #8 (Kernel reports #3) - same URL Fixed lag, fixed wifi, disabled TI SDIO and hopefully fixed 3G issues. Deprimed test #9 (Kernel reports #4) - same URL Switched kernel back to SV (Standard Voltage as some could not boot kernel) - Use modified deprimed Milestone Overclock application and the deprimed kernel command (overclock) to go LV (Low Voltage). Deprimed test #10 (Kernel reports #5) - same URL Enabled somewhat hidden kernel feature that should allow device to enter deeper sleep, scripts notify you of what there doing, removed debugging from more places, included overclock module, changed overclock script to use /system/lib/modules overclock module...remember if your a CWR user you can update using the 'update_deprimed' script in a su terminal. You do not need the modified deprimed MSOC with this build (or any future build) to use overclock. Deprimed test #11 (Kernel reports #3) - same URL Changed to deadline scheduler (permanently), changed to SLOB allocator (permanently), changed bottom slot to 250mhz (permanently), updated overclock script to reflect changed addresses, various TCP ipv4/6 changes to latency, etc...etc. Deprimed test #12 (Kernel reports #7) - same URL Changed kernel vermagic to 126.96.36.199-deprimed, integrated overclock into kernel source, added one more overclock variable to overclock script, removed mailbox support on DSP, more defined set of networking options, removed more debugging from PowerVR graphic driver, enabled low-level LCD backlight control, etc..etc. I hate doing changelogs =3 Deprimed Milestone Overclock updated - http://bit.ly/dpoverclock Please uninstall the previous version of Milestone Overclock before installing the update. Deprimed test #13 (Kernel reports #17 ) - ( 3/17/2011 ) Enabled DNOTIFY for CIFS networking module, added NFS client networking support (by request), enabled advanced partition selection, disabled stack unwinding in kernel debugging (smaller kernel), disabled detection of soft and hard lockups (no functionality is gained from these), enabled kernel mem{cpy,set}() for {copy_to,clear}_user() (Experimental), updated scripts for better function (no new functionality), enabled CPU idle PM support (should lower CPU sleep usage), enabled PM (Power Management) core, enabled an additional USB networking feature in the battle to resolve the USB Tethering issue on gingerbread. If your already using deprimed remember the 'update_deprimed' script. Deprimed test #15 {#14 changelist combined} (Kernel reports #27 ) - ( 4/3/2011 ) Changed to SLOB allocator (trying it again), reverted back to Deadline IO scheduler (CFQ still available as module), enabled Block layer SG support, enabled experimental mem cpy functionality, enabled Run-time PM (Power Management) core functionality, enabled Wireless extensions on sysfs, enabled cfg80211 - wireless configuration API (as module), enabled MTD using block device (as module for future testing), added a new CPU governor I call bumblebee (a smartass modification), fixed the long standing timing issues for the ondemand CPU governor, other miscellaneous changes not listed because memory fails me bumblebee CPU governor: a modified version of the smartass CPU governor by Erasmux, I changed the latency/timing code to suit the OMAP 3430 (Droid) CPU and will be expanding the code to further performance and expose the control aspects (screenon/off minimum speeds, up/down ramp timing, etc..etc) through an android application. The bumblebee CPU governor currently sets the screenoff maximum to 400/450mhz depending on if your running stock deprimed slots or 'primed', the screenon minimum is set to 250mhz. Deprimed test #16 (Kernel reports #33 ) - ( 4/4/2011 ) Tweaked bumblebee latency timer, fixed camera, made toast, ate it...j/k. Deprimed test #17 (Kernel reports #6 ) - ( 4/20/2011 ) Cloned cvpcs git, pushed deprimed code, reconfigured kernel to be faster, leaner and more feature rich. All future tracking will done through github and my twitter feed. When I push any changes to deprimed they will be seen on twitter and of course github. I will still be updating the thread to post kernel version and support. Deprimed test #18 (Kernel reports #8 ) - ( 4/21/2011 ) Changed the bumblebee default ramp up/down timing (should be faster), rebuilt wifi module using proper kernel source tree (was still using old deprimed source). Deprimed test #19 (Kernel reports #9 ) - ( 4/23/2011 ) Added (bluetooth) BNEP multicasting to fix bluetooth issue connecting to vehicle audio system, removed extraneous networking features, added TCP CUBIC congestion algorithm (enabled by default), miscellaneous other networking changes. Deprimed test #20 (Kernel reports #1) - (4/29/2011) Added the Brain **** Scheduler aka BFS (follow the wikipedia link for more information). Integrated to further increase battery life without decreasing performance. (no interaction required as BFS is enabled by default). Pulled from the git of gfunkmonk. Full BFS Information (from the author Con Kolivas): http://bit.ly/mOG0DQ Regards, prime My github account: https://github.com/f1vefour ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I dedicate this work to my cousin Crystal "dink" (1976 - 2011), she was a true friend and I will miss her greatly.


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Rossendale Harriers are hosting the final FRA Champs races on the 10th of June.
( Under 21s Champs included )
You can now enter ONLINE via the link below to the Si entries system.
We are asking that you take this entry option to save us work on the day which will help the speedy production of results. A Parental Consent form for Under 18s can be completed on the day.
The Inter Counties Championships for Under 17s and Under 19s are incorporated into these races.
We are asking County Selectors/Managers to Register the names of the runners in their County teams with us beforehand.
Email. [email protected].
Enter Online https://www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?event_id=3518
There is also some preliminary information on the Juniors page on our club website.


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Flames turn tables on Phoenix, rise from ashes to win SELC
April 12, 2013 | Lynchburg, Va.
Last year, Liberty University's men's lacrosse team's season ended at the hands of Elon, which beat the Flames in the Southeast Lacrosse Conference tournament by one goal, just as it had in the regular season.
Friday night at the Liberty Lacrosse Complex, it was payback time as Liberty (13-1, 4-0 SELC, ranked No. 5 in the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association Division II poll) rallied from an early three-goal deficit to win by one goal, 11-10, in the regular-season and home finale, ending a four-game losing skid against the Phoenix (9-2, 3-1, ranked No. 8).
"It's always a big rivalry," freshman midfielder Bryce Mrakovich said. ""It just went back and forth the whole game and it was awesome. I loved it. They definitely brought their A game. We just had to deal with adversity and our team did really well to pull it out. We're probably going to see them in the playoffs, we're hoping in the championship game, because that would be the best we could hope for."
The Flames clinched the No. 1 seed for the SELC playoffs, which start in two weeks in Atlanta.
Freshman attack Ryan Miller scored four goals to ignite the attack, which was held to two goals in the first quarter and one in the third, and Mrakovich added three goals and picked up seven ground balls to make an impact on both sides of the field.
"How big have they stepped up for us this season?" Liberty head coach Kyle McQuillan asked rhetorically. "Both of them just had phenomenal games tonight. The fact that they are so young and they play so big in these games is just huge. I just get excited thinking about how great a career that both of them are going to have as they grow together in this program."
With the game knotted at 7-7 with 10 and a half minutes left in the fourth quarter, Miller regained control of the ball after starting a run on goal and spotted Mrakovich down in the left crease for a go-ahead finish.
Kurt Tobias (three goals, four ground balls) added a quick goal off a feed from Joe Gargiulo to make it 9-7 just 34 seconds later before Elon rallied to tie it at 10 with 4:49 left in regulation on a wide-open shot in front of the cage.
Two minutes later, Mrakovich netted the game-winner on a running shot from the left side.
"I just gave it everything I had and hoped that it went in," he said. "It was a great way to go out, especially for our seniors. We wanted to give them everything we had and that's what we did."
The Flames utilized their four-corner offense and showcased their speed to run out the final 53.8 seconds after Tobias picked off a pass near midfield.
"That's a situation we haven't been in ever this season, having a lead and it being very close and having to protect that and we were able to do that so it was a good learning opportunity," McQuillan said.
Liberty sophomore goalkeeper Ethan Kamholtz made 14 saves, including two from point-blank range in the first quarter with the Flames trailing 3-1. Midway through the third period, Kamholtz put a pancake check on Elon senior attack Dan Johnson in front of the goal. He also sparked the transition game a few times by coming out of the cage after making a save.
"Ethan really took ownership of that net and he changed things and he was really a big part of turning the game around in the second half," McQuillan said. "He hangs on the ball a little bit too much for my comfort, but again, he's very elusive with that ball and he was able to possess it and just give Elon something else to have to deal with, someone else to have to cover. You don't usually see a goalie take that much leeway with the ball, but he's got the ability to do that. He always is kind of a spark plug to that fast break transition offense."
The victory wasn't as authoritative as McQuillan and the Flames were looking for, but they celebrated their long-awaited regular-season championship in style, rushing onto the field and greeting the home crowd.
"We were hoping for a little bit more of a decisive win, but at the end of the day, you've got to be happy," he said. "A win is a win. It's the eighth-ranked team in the country and any time you have two top-10 teams playing one another, you've got to expect it to be a pretty good battle and that's what we had tonight."
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"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" is a brilliant thriller, a seething exploration of male insecurity disguised as an art-house genre film, with director Tomas Alfredson masterfully conducting a world-class cast of actors.
"Tinker, Tailor," based on John Le Carre's opus, is your classic Cold War thriller, about a career spy put out to pasture, only to be brought back in when it's learned that a Russian mole has infiltrated the very top of British intelligence, aka The Circus. Working off scraps of intel assembled by his now-deceased boss, George Smiley (Gary Oldman) must determine which of his former colleagues –Tinker, Tailor, Soldier or Spy (nicknames derived from an old children's rhyme) is the man feeding England's secrets to the Reds.
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Alfredson proved himself a master minimalist with his 2008 vampire film, "Let the Right One In," and here manages to do even more with less. From a tiny trailer parked in the English countryside to open-floor office spaces, Alfredson brilliantly uses the architecture of most every scene to convey the characters' interiors.
What's truly amazing is that Alfredson, and screenwriters Peter Straughn and Bridget O'Connor, manage to tell the same story the BBC did in its 1979 mini-series (starring Alec Guinness), but in one-third the time with a very sparse script, without really sacrificing any key elements. There are a lot of moving parts in "Tinker, Tailor," and the story moves back-and-forth across time and countries, but Alfredson weaves it all together into a gripping portrait of cat-and-mouse played by petty men who've somehow been entrusted to vie for global domination.
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Thousands of educators and students left in limbo for next school year
WASHINGTON - October 21, 2011 -
The U.S. Senate for a second time in less than two weeks failed to pass a bill to put educators back in classrooms instead of on the unemployment lines. The investments in education included in the Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act would help jump start the economy, keep educators working, and most importantly, help keep students learning the skills they need to succeed.
"The Senate's failure to pass the education jobs bill is ill-timed and short-sighted," said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. "By not passing the legislation, the Senate is sending our children a message that they do not matter and that their education is not a priority for our nation."
Teachers, education support professionals, parents and others in local communities are rallying behind President Barack Obama's bold proposal to get the economy moving in the right direction. The proposal would put approximately 400,000 educators back to work and help keep class sizes more manageable.
The Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act, if passed, would have put people like Cherine Akbari back in the classroom. Akbari, a laid-off history teacher from Northeast High School in Oakland Park, Florida, was fired the last day of Teacher Appreciation Week and five days after she moved into her new house. There are hundreds of thousands of unemployed educators like Cherine who are willing and eager to get back into schools and classrooms—with help from Congress.
"This legislation is about securing the future for our students and our nation," continued Van Roekel. "Classes started this fall already bursting at the seams, and children have access to significantly fewer counselors, nurses, reading specialists and other essential education professionals. Bus routes have been cut and classes in art, business education and physical education, among others, have disappeared. When educators lose their jobs, students lose too."
"We are grateful for the leadership of Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.) and his relentless effort to bring this bill to the floor of the Senate. We urge Sen. Reid and President Obama not to take no for an answer when it comes to keeping educators working and students learning," concluded Van Roekel.
To view a video of Cherine urging the Senate to pass the bill, click here: http://tinyurl.com/6ftrg5d
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25-year-old Elvis Thacker, a suspect in the 2010 murder of Briana Ault, will be in the LeFlore County Courthouse Wednesday.
According to court documents, it will be the third full day of preliminary hearings. The court is trying to decide if there is enough evidence to go to trial.
Thacker and his brother Jonathen Thacker are accused of killing Briana Ault in 2010.
The judge presiding over the case said this stage is taking longer than expected because both sides are calling and cross-examining several witnesses.
For Briana's mother, Bethany Ault-Pyle, the lengthy process is delaying the family's time for closure.
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In 1861, when Jefferson Davis took the oath of office as President of the provisional government of the Confederate States of America, he also used the State Bible. Inside the front cover is a notation by Judge John Phelan who served as Clerk of the Alabama Supreme Court from 1856 to 1864, attesting to the fact that this was the Bible used by Davis. An affidavit was added to the flyleaf in 1884 by Judge Phelan's son, Ellis, who served as Secretary of State. This affidavit states that the handwriting on the note is that of Judge Phelan, who did in fact witness the inauguration of Davis.
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