| Ennis loves home cookin'
The Medicine Hat Tigers forward grew up in Edmonton and tonight will play in one of the biggest hockey games of his junior career in front of his family and friends when he steps out on the ice for the top prospects game. "It's really exciting; this game is an opportunity for me to be able to showcase what I can do and to do it here at home is going to be special," said Ennis yesterday at the Top Prospects luncheon where he was mobbed by fans wanting his autograph. Ennis is used to the pressure of a big game. In his two previous seasons with the Tigers he played in 29 playoff games and a Memorial Cup last year - so this is nothing new for the former K of C Pat who went undrafted in his final year of bantam triple-A. "This is more of a showcase and I obviously want to do well and have a strong game, but playing in big playoff games and Memorial Cup games, that is a different kind of pressure," explained Ennis, who will have close to 50 family and friends in attendance.
TIKI REACHES OUT TO CONGRATULATE EX-'MATE STRAHAN
Monday, they will fly to Phoenix for Super Bowl XLII. Strahan and Barber were teammates for Barber's entire 10-year career, making this trip a bit different. Barber has said numerous times he has no regrets about leaving when he did. "I respect the fact Tiki decided he was done, he didn't want to play any more," Strahan said. "You don't know how many times I said if I quit and we went to the Super Bowl and won, I'm coming back here and hold somebody hostage until I get a ring. I understand Tiki made his decision and I know he has no regrets. . . . If he says it doesn't bother him I'll take his word for it that it doesn't. But if I were at home it would bother the heck out of me. I'm telling you." * There's more than pride at stake in the Super Bowl. The winner's share is $78,000, the loser's share is $40,000.
OAXACA A YEAR LATER: Life returning to normal, but tensions linger
The dining room to the right of the courtyard is as empty as the one to the left. I have returned to Oaxaca on assignment: To find out if, one year after deadly riots crippled the city, it is again an attractive destination for visitors seeking language schools, colonial history, craft markets and art galleries. I'm eager - and a bit apprehensive - to check in on friends I'd made here and find out whether Oaxaca still belongs on Mexico's A-list. It didn't take long to realize that the answer is more complicated than I'd thought. Oaxaca is no longer the filthy, smoldering wreck of 2006. Nor, however, is it the bustling cultural center of years past. It appears safe and clean. But unresolved political tensions have prompted the U.S. State Department to keep it on a watch list.
Coverage & Access | Former Patients of Charity Hospital in New Orleans ...
A group of former patients at Charity Hospital in New Orleans on Thursday filed a lawsuit in a Louisiana state court that seeks to require the hospital to return to the level of health care services provided before Hurricane Katrina, the New York Times reports.
Before the hurricane, Charity Hospital provided almost all basic, specialty, emergency and mental health care services to lower-income New Orleans residents. However, after the hurricane flooded the basement of Charity Hospital, Louisiana State University, which operates the hospital, decided not to reopen the facility (Eaton, New York Times, 1/18).
The lawsuit argues that Louisiana law required LSU to obtain approval from the state Legislature to close Charity Hospital two months after the hurricane. According to the lawsuit, LSU also refused a request by state lawmakers to have independent inspectors determine whether Charity Hospital could reopen after the hurricane.
Open Thread
Peggy Noonan has written about something that a number of us have been saying for awhile. Actually, it was Rove who sundered the party, with his "get Bush elected, re-elected, and damn the cost to the Party." Thinking back on it, Bush was just as much poll-driven (except for the war, where he was overly stubborn, and the tax cuts) as Clinton. Thus, we had out of control spending and a veto pen that remained virgin until last year. Of course, both Clintons have followed the same ego-centric finger in the wind, damn-the-Party philosophy along with "triangulation", which has brought about the fracturing of the Democrat constituency. .
Reshaped Braves aim toward spring training
With that swing, you want the kid to just lash line drives all over the place, like he did last year. As one or our astute regulars, Mr. Baseball, points out in a comment Monday night (after this original post), batting Kotsay second would invite teams to bring in lefty relievers to face Kotsay and the switch-hitters behind him. I can see where Cox might view it similarly, so here's my other option: Escobar, 2. Johnson 3. Chipper, 4. Teixeira, 5. Francoeur/McCann, 6. Francoeur/McCann, 7. Kotsay, 8. Diaz/B. Jones. Yes, my OTHER lineup also has a lefty batting second. Just the way I see it, one of these lineups seems right to me, at least the top four in one of these (bottom half, order can be tweaked a bit here or there). Because despite the lefty thing, it's worth noting that Kotsay's career average/OBP/slugging are almost identical vs.
Postoperative Pain is an Under Appreciated, Under Treated Problem in ...
CHERRY HILL, N.J., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- At a time when both inadequate and overly aggressive pain management after surgery are commonplace in the United States, the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN) has issued a 10-step action plan to address the factors that may lead to inappropriate medication use and potential adverse events for patients. ASPAN is the professional organization representing more than 55,000 nurses practicing in all phases of preanesthesia and postanesthesia. The report -- The State of Postoperative Pain Management: A Need For Improvement -- states that only by elevating postoperative pain management as a priority concern among health care institutions, providers and policymakers, will the significant costs of inadequate care be reduced in the United States.
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