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- Redskins’ Dan Snyder‘disappointed’ over Albert ... - Boston Herald
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| Redskins’ Dan Snyder‘disappointed’ over Albert ... - Boston Herald Posted: 16 May 2010 09:01 AM PDT WASHINGTON — While he's "disappointed" with Albert Haynesworth, all else seems fine with Dan Snyder after a rough year as owner of the Washington Redskins. Snyder acknowledged a different vibe and a cultural change now that he's appointed Bruce Allen as general manager and Mike Shanahan as head coach. "It was necessary," Snyder said Saturday at the dedication of an inner city football field that has been refurbished by the Redskins and the NFL. "We were 4-12 and going in the wrong direction, and all the changes are to get us going in the right direction. Obviously with the pedigree and the success of the people that I've brought in, you can tell we're going in the right direction. I'm real excited about it." In the last five months, Snyder has ousted longtime front office head Vinny Cerrato and fired coach Jim Zorn. The changes came with a price: The owner known for his hands-on approach has given Shanahan the final say over the roster. Snyder downplayed the change in his role. "I think the approach has always been a little more hands-off than probably written about or reported about," he said. Snyder cited the leadership of Donovan McNabb and nodded "We'll be OK" when asked about the status of getting the new quarterback a contract extension. McNabb's current deal expires at the end of the year. Haynesworth is another matter. The Redskins have paid the two-time All Pro $32 million in guaranteed money over the last 15 months, but he skipped two voluntary minicamps this spring and stayed away from all of the team's offseason workouts mainly because he's unhappy with the switch to a 3-4 defense. "Yeah, I'm disappointed he's not here. Absolutely," Snyder said. "We're expecting our players to lead by example, and we're expecting our players to understand that they're Redskins and they need to be there." Haynesworth is expected to attend the mandatory minicamp next month. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Blood sugar test goes bad at New Mexico event - Kennebec Journal Posted: 14 May 2010 12:02 PM PDT Blood sugar test goes bad at New Mexico eventBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN (AP) A group of New Mexico medical school students failed to properly change needles on devices used for blood glucose testing, and now officials say a few dozen people might be at risk for contracting serious diseases. University of New Mexico School of Medicine officials made the announcement Thursday, hoping they can locate those who participated in the free testing April 24 at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. Between 51 and 55 people were tested that day. "Basically you've got the students who were trying to do something good and just didn't go about it the right way," said Sam Giammo, a spokesman for UNM's Health Sciences Center. Students from UNM's physician assistant program conducted the free blood sugar tests during the cultural center's American Indian Week Pueblo Days. The center's visitor list for that Saturday included more than 1,600 people from across the nation and abroad _ including Canada, Italy, Sweden and Germany. Tazbah McCullah, a spokeswoman for the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, pointed to the high rate of diabetes among American Indians, saying the students had in their minds that they were trying to help. McCullah said the center learned about the testing mistakes May 10 and has joined UNM in trying to inform people about the incident. Notices have been sent to tribal officials, the Indian Health Service, tourism organizations and others. "We have visitors locally and from all over the world that come here so that's why we felt it was important to get this out far and wide," she said. Giammo said the devices should not have been used at the public event and not all of the students were properly trained to use them. Because test results were immediate, students didn't keep records on participants. The devices, similar to home glucose testers, contain six lancets _ or needles _ that can be triggered to draw a blood sample. With each use, the device must be advanced manually to load a new lancet. While some volunteers were safely and properly tested, officials said some failed to change the lancets, resulting in potential exposure to other's blood. Dr. Bob Bailey, associate dean for clinical affairs for the UNM School of Medicine, issued an apology on behalf of the school to the cultural center and those who may have been exposed. Medical officials are most concerned about diseases Hepatitis B and C and HIV, he said. "Our best current assessment of the risk of infection is less than a 0.5 percent risk. Even though the risk is small, it is something we are very concerned about and are taking seriously," Bailey said. The university has collected all of the devices used during the testing and the strips used to test the blood sugar levels, and secured them for working with forensic specialists. In all, about 11 cartridges of lancets were used during the event, Giammo said. A special team was named to work with the Indian Health Service, New Mexico Department of Health and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. One of the first tasks is to identify those who underwent testing at the event. The university said those people who may have been exposed will be offered follow-up testing for Hepatitis B, C and HIV. The costs will be covered by UNM. Bailey said something like this has never happened before, and steps have been taken to ensure it doesn't happen again, including the approval of new protocol for volunteer student events that ensures patient safety and quality standards. ___ Public health authorities are requesting that those who participated in the testing event call Toll-Free 1-888-899-6092 or visit the UNM website at http://contact.health.unm.edu for more information and referral for screening. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Bret Michaels makes 'Celebrity Apprentice' finals - Fresno Bee Posted: 16 May 2010 05:43 PM PDT '+'>'); } --> Similar stories:
NEW YORK -- Rock star Bret Michaels will get to play the final round of "The Celebrity Apprentice." The Poison frontman passed muster with host Donald Trump on Sunday's edition and he'll be back for next week's live conclusion. Michaels will square off against actress Holly Robinson Peete to settle who wins the NBC reality competition. Fired Sunday were wrestler-model Maria Kanellis, Australian chef Curtis Stone, and rock-star wife and TV personality Sharon Osbourne. "I came in here as a complete underdog," Michaels crowed after hearing the good news in Trump's boardroom. "You know what everyone's mistake was? They so underestimated me!" Michaels' presence in the series, which through Sunday's episode had been taped months ago, stoked viewer interest after he suffered a brain hemorrhage in April that left him in intensive care. He has since been released from a Phoenix hospital. His doctor has said he is expected to make a full recovery. The current season of "Celebrity Apprentice" began airing in March with 14 contestants, each competing in business-oriented tasks around Manhattan to raise money for (and publicize) their favorite charities. Michaels, who as a child was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, chose the American Diabetes Association. Robinson Peete's charity is her HollyRod Foundation, whose mission is to support families who have a loved one with a serious medical condition. She has a son diagnosed as autistic. Showing: @Nyx.CommentBody@ Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Create a hardcopy of this page - Argus Press Posted: 14 May 2010 12:31 PM PDT When Wendy Chang told her parents she wanted to become a lawyer, they were not enthused. "They wanted me to do the medicine thing," said Chang, who immigrated to America from Taiwan with her parents as a child and is now a partner at a Los Angeles firm. "The sciences were an established way of succeeding. They were less familiar with how a lawyer could succeed." That cultural gap is one reason why there are few Asian-Americans in the legal profession, and why Chang was watching closely as Goodwin Liu cleared a hurdle in his nomination to become only the second Asian judge currently on the nation's federal appeals courts. Liu's parents came to the United States from Taiwan, and he was born in Georgia. Now 39 and associate dean and professor at the University of California at Berkeley law school, he was nominated by President Barack Obama to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-7 along party lines Thursday to recommend Liu be confirmed. Unless Republicans filibuster, the full Senate will vote on Liu next, although it's unclear when that will happen. Asian-Americans are 5 percent of the U.S. population and 15 percent of the doctors, but about 3 percent of the lawyers. When it comes to lawyers becoming federal judges, which requires strong networks and political connections, Asian-American representation is even smaller. Ten of 875 active federal judges, just over 1 percent, are Asian-American, according to the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA). On the appeals court level, which has outsized influence in shaping the nation's laws, only one of 175 judges is Asian: Denny Chin, who was confirmed just last month. If Liu is confirmed, he would join Chin and Harold Koh, former dean of Yale Law School and currently a State Department legal adviser, as potential candidates to be the first Asian judge on the Supreme Court. Chang helped organize a gathering in Los Angeles to watch Liu's confirmation hearings on television, and similar events were organized in Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco and Houston. "He's a big deal simply because we only have one (appeals court) judge out of 175," Chang said. "There is a perception of fairness when the authority figure in a position of power is reflective of the community," Chang said. "It helps people feel that the law and the power and how it is applied in this country is fair." Asians did not come to America in large numbers until a 1965 change in immigration laws, so they have had relatively little time to attain "pipeline" positions that lead to federal judgeships, such as federal prosecutor, partner in a large law firm, dean of a law school or tenured law professor. Credentials are only one part of the equation. When it's time to nominate a judge _ a process usually driven by senators _ a decision can be made before the vacancy is even announced, according to a November 2009 report from NAPAPA, which has been working to identify, connect and support Asian candidates. "In earlier years there were most assuredly racial considerations" that kept Asians out, said Dr. Sheldon Goldman, author of "Picking Federal Judges" and a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "More recently, I would say it's the lack of political networking, that Asian-Americans have more difficulty becoming more politically socialized and mobilized so that they would become a political force," Goldman said. There also are cultural differences. John Tran, born in Vietnam and now a partner at a Virginia firm, said many Asians value patience, quietness, deference, humility and listening _ which are not qualities usually associated with lawyers. Tran also contrasted the Western emphasis on the individual with the high value placed by many Asians on family, ancestral and community relationships. So while an American concept of justice might be to delineate rights beforehand and refer to that agreement in case of conflict, an Eastern perspective might be, "Let's get together and figure out what's best for both of us," Tran said. But he did not see those traits as a barrier for Asians in the law: "To be effective, you have to learn how to take your habits and strengths and apply them differently." Early in Tran's career, he would tell prospective clients to meet him in the Fairfax County courthouse cafeteria. "I'll be the Asian person there," he would say. That doesn't work any more. "There is a growing number of younger Asian lawyers," he said. "If they recall their cultural roots and the strengths they can gain from those roots, I believe the legal profession will become better for it." Asian-Americans constituted 8.1 percent of law school students in the fall of 2009, up from 7 percent in the fall of 2000, according to the Law School Admissions Council. And Obama has accelerated the pace of Asian nominations to the federal bench. George W. Bush placed four Asians on the bench and Bill Clinton five; Obama has nominated eight so far, including Liu. Republicans have strongly opposed Liu's nomination, calling him a liberal activist who would rewrite the Constitution _ possibly from the Supreme Court. The fierce opposition is actually exciting, said Karen Narasaki, president of the Asian American Justice Center. "Wow, people are afraid he might get on the Supreme Court! That's a new problem," she said. "It's a breakthrough, in a way." ___ Jesse Washington covers race and ethnicity for The Associated Press. He is reachable at jwashington(at)ap.org or http://www.twitter.com/jessewashington. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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