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Insights into the .NET Architecture
A Conversation with Eric Gunnerson
by Bill Venners with Bruce Eckel
Eric Gunnerson, the C# Compiler Program Manager at Microsoft, talks with Bruce Eckel and Bill Venners about several architectural design decisions in .NET, including multiple inheritance of interface, the emphasis on messaging over mobile code, internal access in assemblies, and the side-by-side execution answer to DLL Hell.
Eric Gunnerson, after having previously worked at a large Seattle aerospace company, a medium-sized PC database company, and a small VMS utility software company, joined Microsoft in the fall of 1994. After several years working on Microsoft's C++ compiler quality assurance team, including three years as the test lead on the Visual C++ compiler, Gunnerson took on a new assignment: testing the compiler of Microsoft's new language, C#. To more effectively perform his quality assurance role, Gunnerson joined the C# design team, where he spent several years working with Anders Hejslberg, Peter Golde, Scott Wiltamuth, Peter Solich, and Todd Proebsting on the design of C#. In 2002, after the initial release of Visual Studio.NET, Gunnerson switched from quality assurance to program management. He is currently the C# Compiler Program Manager. He is author of A Programmer's Introduction to C# (APress, 2001), and writes a column for MSDN, Working with C#.
On July 30, 2003, Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in C++ and Thinking in Java, and Bill Venners, editor-in-chief of Artima.com, met with Eric Gunnerson at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. In this interview, Gunnerson discusses several architectural design decisions in .NET, including multiple inheritance of interface, the emphasis on messaging over mobile code, internal access in assemblies, and the side-by-side execution answer to DLL Hell. Comments are also contributed by Dan Fernandez, Microsoft's Product Manager for C#.
Multiple Inheritance of Interface Only
Bill Venners: The CLS, the Common Language Specification, has single inheritance of implementation, multiple inheritance of interface. Could you explain what the CLS is, and how the inheritance model was was decided upon?
Eric Gunnerson: The CLS describes how languages should behave so they can play nicely together. For example, C# has unsigned types, but unsigned types are not in the CLS because languages like VB [Visual Basic] can't handle them. I think of the CLS as an interoperability spec. If you adhere to the CLS, then you can interoperate with the other languages.
Multiple inheritance has two or three big issues. First, trying to get people to agree what multiple inheritance actually means is difficult. If we try to do multiple inheritance in the CLS, we would probably choose something along the lines of multiple inheritance in C++, and that would put languages that have other kinds of multiple inheritance in an ugly state. People would say, "Microsoft supports multiple inheritance, but they support it wrong. I can't make my language work using what they have." People would make that argument.
A second issue for me is just the cognitive complexity involved—what it takes to understand what is really going on in your code when you start using multiple inheritance. I think multiple inheritance is kind of like the advanced operator overloading in that respect. To really understand what's going on you have to think deeply. It may not hit you in a lot of cases, but there may be cases where something works strangely and you have to dig deeply to understand it. You should tend away from that kind of complexity when you are doing object design.
Now obviously one other question is, given that we're multi-language, what would you do with languages that don't support multiple inheritance? I don't see how we could ever put multiple inheritance in the CLS.
Bruce Eckel: What do you do with managed C++? Does it have multiple inheritance?
Eric Gunnerson: They don't allow multiple inheritance in managed C++ classes.
Bruce Eckel: I see, if I want a VB program to use this C++ class, I don't use multiple inheritance.
Eric Gunnerson: Another problem with supporting multiple inheritance is that if you were designing with multiple inheritance, you would do class libraries differently than you would with our current system. But then you can't do that, because some languages don't support multiple inheritance. So you might bifurcate the libraries—have one way for the multiple inheritance languages and one way for the other languages. But that would make the libraries very hard to understand.
Don't Burn Your Base Class
Bruce Eckel: Does the CLS allow multiple interface inheritance?
Eric Gunnerson: Yes.
Bruce Eckel: But that's a reasonable constraint.
Eric Gunnerson: It's a reasonable constraint if nobody causes you to do anything that makes you burn your base class.
Bill Venners: Burn my base class?
Eric Gunnerson: I'll give you the canonical example. When you want to make a component a remote object, you must derive its class from a base class called MarshalByRef. When MarshalByRef subclasses get marshaled, they get marshaled by reference. You get an object over here and a proxy over there, and the runtime handles all the mechanics. That works great, unless you actually want to use inheritance in your design. Because the designers of remoting decided to do this with the base class, they took the option of using inheritance in any other way away from you. They burned the base class.
Bill Venners: They burned the base class because if I want to remote something, I have to extend their class, not some other class I may want to extend.
Eric Gunnerson: Maybe you can get away with extending a class of yours that extends their class.
Bill Venners: But if it doesn't already extend their class and I can't change it, then I'm out of luck.
Eric Gunnerson: Yes, exactly. The constraint in supporting single inheritance of implementation, multiple inheritance of interface is that you have to pay a lot of attention about what you do. In fact if you go talk to customers that use remoting they say that exact same thing, why are you burning a base class here? You don't need to. You could use attributes or some other mechanism.
Bill Venners: So in design you should be careful not to burn your base class.
Eric Gunnerson: Yes. In design you have to be very careful.
Now, just because the CLS only directly supports multiple inheritance of interface doesn't mean that individual languages can't support more. Eiffel on .NET has multiple inheritance, for example. When compiled, it uses multiple interface inheritance and creates classes under the covers as necessary. So they do support full multiple inheritance, because Eiffel without multiple inheritance is way worse than C++ without multiple inheritance. A lot of common Eiffel idioms require multiple inheritance. It's just the way you write Eiffel code.
Mobile Data and Mobile Code
Bill Venners: A year ago, Microsoft invited me to a .NET seminar for Java authors, and I was shown something called Windows Forms. For me, Windows Forms were somewhat reminiscent of Java applets in that they were user interface components you could download across the network and run in Internet Explorer. When Java first appeared, it generated excitement because of what applets represented: untrusted code flying across the network and running in a sandbox on the client. One of my goals in attending the .NET seminar was to try and ascertain whether the CLR could support that mobile-code model. And my conclusion was that it could, but nevertheless, all the buzz I hear about building distributed systems with .NET is centered on SOAP and the exchange of XML. In other words, all the talk is about mobile data, not mobile code. What is the place of mobile code in the CLR vision? Why does the CLR support mobile code if what you're planning to send across the network most of the time is XML?
Eric Gunnerson: I'll give you my opinion, which may not be the opinion of the CLR guys. First of all, the idea of exchanging code across the network scares the hell out of me from a security standpoint. One of our big focuses is trying to allow people to write stuff that is more secure than what they're writing now. But I guess my big question is, what is the architectural advantage of using mobile code? Maybe I haven't played around with it enough, but I just don't see a lot of need for doing that on the fly. If I want to do that in .NET I can. I can go across the network and fetch some code. I can load the code out of memory, I don't have to write it out to disk first. In other words, the package of a component is an assembly. I could read a byte stream and from that create and load an assembly. So I can do that sort of thing, but why would I want to architecturally?
Dan Fernandez: You see a lot more people wanting to exchange information, rather than code, across the network. And because of firewalls, you often in practice just can't exchange code. We had a heck of a time with DCOM because of firewall requirements, and these were internal firewalls within an organization. It's very difficult to challenge the firewall policies. Security experts will open only port 80, and on port 80 they will allow only HTTP requests through. They won't allow any other protocol through.
Because SOAP uses the HTTP protocol, you can exchange and act on messages. I can call a web service from anywhere and get the message across, whether it is within an organization or across organizations. That's the grand vision. We have this great thing called the internet. Everybody's using it. It's very popular. We want to leverage that capability, that network, but that means we have to play with certain constraints. We have to use HTTP as the messaging protocol, over port 80. Basically, we must define a programming model within these confines.
Bruce Eckel: The way I see web services, it's almost like you're saying the machine is the object. I can call methods on the machine, which can be anything. And the machine can be implemented in anything.
Eric Gunnerson: Yeah, exactly. That's really the web services model.
And I think there's one other issue. It's going to sound strange when I say this, but I think we actually care more about not constraining whom you are talking to than Java does. When you send mobile code in Java, you're assuming the other side has a JVM that supports what you want to do. That brings up the same sort of issues you had with DCOM and CORBA. Anytime you're doing something that presumes what's on the other end...
Dan Fernandez: It is more tightly coupled.
Bruce Eckel: It's over-constrained.
Eric Gunnerson: It may be over-constrained. I think it really depends on the scenarios you are looking at. If you know what's on the other end, in Java you might pass classes across, in .NET you might use .NET remoting. You might pass assemblies across. I just think in a lot of cases you don't want to make that decision, because of the constraint it will put on you later.
Assemblies and Internal Access
Bill Venners: Could give a bit of an overview of how assemblies work, in particular with respect to the internal access level? The first release of Java included several com.sun packages that you weren't supposed to use directly. Sun didn't promise that in future releases of Java, the com.sun packages would be backwards compatible, but you could use them at your own risk if you just called into them. Java has several access levels, but there's no notion of a package that's private, accessible only inside its own JAR file. Anybody can see any package. I believe a .NET assembly kind of corresponds to a Java JAR file, and a .NET namespace corresponds to a Java package. Does the internal scope mean only accessible inside the assembly? Can an internal access level be applied to an entire namespace?
Eric Gunnerson: Well, namespaces don't control availability. I would explain it this way: a namespace is a convenient way of giving a class a long name. So if I have a namespace Utility and I have in it my class Multiplier, it really means that the class is named, Utility.Multiplier at the runtime level. So namespaces really aren't their own separate abstraction. Namespaces are ways of organizing the classes in a way that makes sense to programmers. Assemblies are related, but they're about organizing classes in a way that makes sense for deployment purposes. The organization you do for deployment is often analogous to what you do on the programming side, but often somewhat different.
I'll give you an example. We have a namespace System.Text for classes that do text handling. Because the functionality in there is used all the time System.Text lives in our main system assembly. But there's also System.Text.RegularExpressions, which has the regex engine. That lives in its own assembly. You don't want to require everyone to load the regex engine in all the time, because a lot of programs don't use it. So that's the kind of organizational decision that you might make differently while programming versus at deployment time.
As far as accessibility goes, we have public, private, and protected, which do what you expect, and we have internal. From the C# compiler perspective, internal really means scoped to everything that compiles together. Everything that compiles together really means everything that's in an assembly, because you take a bunch of files and compile them to produce an assembly. With internal scope, I can have classes within the assembly that kind of cooperate with each other, but people from the outside can't get access at that level. We don't have friends the way C++ has friends, and there are actually times when having friends would be very nice.
Side-By-Side Execution
Bill Venners: .NET Framework supports side-by-side execution, in which multiple versions of the .NET runtime can be used by different applications running at the same time. Isn't there a trade-off in side-by-side execution? What if I have twenty applications running, all using a different version of the same conceptual DLL, and maybe half of them would work with the most recent version. I guess memory is cheap these days, but...
Eric Gunnerson: It's a tradeoff between robustness and disk and memory use. What side-by-side execution says is that it's more important they get the version that the developer knew about and tested against than trying to save memory space and disk space.
Bruce Eckel: Is there also a way to migrate upwards? Say I'm writing for version 1.0 of the .NET Framework. Is there a way for me to say I expect my app will also work with version 2.0 of the Framework?
Eric Gunnerson: What we expect people to do is this: Say I write something and release it on version 1.0 of the Framework. Later, the version 2.0 of the Framework comes along. I can take my application and test it against version 2.0. If it works fine, I can change the configuration information that goes out with my application. I don't have to change the executable.
Dan Fernandez: Conversely, if your application is written to a particular version, you can say that particular version is required. In a config file, you can say, "This app can't work with anything less than 1.1."
Bill Venners: In theory, I like the idea of contracts. If new versions of a DLL adhere to the contract of the old version, my application should in theory still work with the new version. In practice, however, if I'm writing and delivering an application, I expect I'm just going to allow versions I've tested against. Why bother taking the risk that my application will break with new versions of the DLL?
Eric Gunnerson: The whole point here is to get away from having DLL Hell. DLL Hell was exactly that case where things worked a lot of times, but when they didn't work, you were just screwed. You just could not get out of it.
Bill Venners: So is this DLL Bliss now? What would you call it? DLL Heaven?
Eric Gunnerson: No, I wouldn't say it even comes close to that. One of the problems you have now is exactly what Bruce alluded to, how do you give people reasonable migration paths, so they can actually get new functionality without having to go back and recompile everything and change their config files? We have had a lot of discussions about that.
Bill Venners: Let's say I'm using your DLL. You come out with version 2.0. It has twice as much functionality. I wouldn't be calling that new functionality anyway, because it didn't exist when I wrote my application. So I have to write version 2.0 of my application, at which point I could compile and deploy against your 2.0 DLL. Why would I want to migrate my 1.0 application to your 2.0 DLL?
Eric Gunnerson: If you've written to DLL version 1.0, and in DLL version 2.0, the component you're using DLL was actually no different except for bug fixes, wouldn't you like to have those?
Bruce Eckel: Yes I would, unless I had adapted my code to the buggy previous version.
Come back Monday, February 16 for part III of a conversation with C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup. If you'd like to receive a brief weekly email announcing new articles at Artima.com, please subscribe to the Artima Newsletter.
Eric Gunnerson is the author of A Programmer's Introduction to C# (Second Edition), which is available on Amazon.com at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1893115623/
Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium Weblog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ericgu
Dan Fernandez's Weblog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/
You can find Eric Gunnerson's MSDN column, Working with C#, on this page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/columns/
Versioning, Compatibility, and Side-by-Side Execution in the .NET Framework:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/technologyinfo/versioncomparison/default.aspx
Using the Microsoft .NET Framework to Create Windows-based Applications:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/using/Building/windows/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/netwinforms.asp
Private Communication Between Components in Assemblies:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbconprivatecommunicationbetweencomponentsinassemblies.asp
What is a Microsoft Program Manager?:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105395/stories/2002/03/27/whatIsAMicrosoftProgramManager.html
ActiveWin.com's Interview with Eric Gunnerson:
http://www.activewin.com/interviews/microsoft/28.shtml
.NET Books' Interview with Eric Gunnerson, Part I:
http://www.dotnetbooks.com/interviews/int001_ericg1.asp
.NET Books' Interview with Eric Gunnerson, Part II:
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Bruce Eckel (www.BruceEckel.com) provides development assistance in Python with user interfaces in Flex. He is the author of Thinking in Java (Prentice-Hall, 1998, 2nd Edition, 2000, 3rd Edition, 2003, 4th Edition, 2005), the Hands-On Java Seminar CD ROM (available on the Web site), Thinking in C++ (PH 1995; 2nd edition 2000, Volume 2 with Chuck Allison, 2003), C++ Inside & Out (Osborne/McGraw-Hill 1993), among others. He's given hundreds of presentations throughout the world, published over 150 articles in numerous magazines, was a founding member of the ANSI/ISO C++ committee and speaks regularly at conferences.
Bill Venners is president of Artima Software, Inc. and editor-in-chief of Artima.com. He is author of the book, Inside the Java Virtual Machine, a programmer-oriented survey of the Java platform's architecture and internals. His popular columns in JavaWorld magazine covered Java internals, object-oriented design, and Jini. Bill has been active in the Jini Community since its inception. He led the Jini Community's ServiceUI project that produced the ServiceUI API. The ServiceUI became the de facto standard way to associate user interfaces to Jini services, and was the first Jini community standard approved via the Jini Decision Process. Bill also serves as an elected member of the Jini Community's initial Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), and in this role helped to define the governance process for the community. He currently devotes most of his energy to building Artima.com into an ever more useful resource for developers.
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See video by United Community Housing Coalition that explains clearly what to do to avoid tax foreclosure.
Layoffs, medical emergencies and other hardships have forced thousands of Detroit families into default on their taxes, their mortgages, or both, setting off a downward spiral of foreclosure and eviction that feeds on itself. As empty houses are vandalized, property values in the poorest neighborhoods fall to less than one-tenth of their inflated tax assessment.
Banks have accelerated this downward spiral by refusing to modify mortgages and foreclosing on struggling families, blighting Detroit with an estimated 45,000 empty homes. Speculators and property managers can buy these homes on the cheap, selling some to absentee landlords as rental properties and abandoning the rest to tax foreclosure.
Adding insult to injury, homeowners heading towards foreclosure in 2015 for taxes owed from 2012 can be charged interest on the unpaid balance at a punishing rate of 18% a year.
Individual families can take the steps outlined below to defend the home they live in, but we'll need to act together to replace an unjust tax system with one that serves working people.
Pay back taxes ONLY to Wayne County. DO NOT pay them to the city, which will only credit your payment to current taxes. The county treasurer has sole responsibility for collecting back taxes and will not retrieve money mistakenly paid to the city. People have lost their homes because the city refuses to transfer the homeowner's payment to the county. We need to pressure the city to stop this bureaucratic stonewalling.
Step Forward Michigan. This state program is supposed to loan money to distressed homeowners to cover back taxes or delinquent mortgages, with the loans forgiven over five years if the borrower stays in the house. It's worth applying online at stepforwardmichigan.org, but be aware that the program suffers from bureaucratic delay, a narrow criteria for eligibility, and diversion of funds to pay for demolition. In the last four years, the program has assisted only 6,700 families in all of Wayne County.
We need to push for more funding and expanded eligibility to keep people in their homes. Banks and other financial institutions that trashed the housing market with their fraudulent foreclosure practices should pay for blight removal, not Step Forward.
Taxpayer Assistance from the County. The several programs that homeowners can access on line at waynecounty.com/treasurer/761.htm offer limited relief. The most favorable among them is the Distressed Owner/Occupant Extension: homeowners in financial hardship can get a one-year extension on paying back taxes if the unpaid taxes go back no further than 2012. Upwards of 27,000 households that will otherwise go to foreclosure may qualify for the "DOOE" program.
The Michigan legislature has just amended state law to give county treasurers the option to lower annual interest on unpaid taxes from 18% to 6%, and to cut accumulated back taxes on owner-occupied homes to no more than one-quarter of the home's market value. These reductions only apply, however, if the home has a "primary residence exemption" and the homeowner enters a strict payment plan that many struggling families can't afford. Interest charges and penalties need to be waived for homeowners in hardship, and payment plans made affordable.
United Community Housing Coalition. UCHC is a non-profit organization that advocates for homeowners fighting foreclosure. Its dedicated and over-worked staff will help people negotiate payment-plans with the county and apply for state emergency relief and poverty exemptions. Intake for homeowners seeking assistance is every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9 am to noon, on the 9th floor of 220 Bagley in downtown Detroit, corner of Grand River. Their phone is usually busy, so go in person.
Show Cause Hearing. The Wayne County Treasurer's office has notified homeowners facing tax foreclosure of the Show Cause hearing at Cobo Hall in late January and early February where they can pay back taxes or commit to a payment plan. Staff from the United Community Housing Coalition will be on hand to advocate for homeowners.
Tax Assessments. Bureaucratic inertia and state law have driven thousands of Detroiters to foreclosure on the basis of wildly inflated tax assessments. To keep people in their homes, we need a city-wide roll back of assessments to reflect the depressed market values of 2012— with a corresponding cut in excess back taxes. The time for appealing individual assessments should also be extended well beyond the first two weeks of February, when the assessor's office normally considers appeals. Homeowners can access a six-page manual for individual appeals on the web site of the Historic Boston-Edison Association (written in 2009, it's still a useful guide). Go to: historicbostonedison.org/appeal.shtml.
In the past, the city has rejected many of these appeals because the assessor uses a small sample of comparative prices that excludes distressed sales of foreclosed properties. Mayor Duggan's initial proposal for reassessing home values is too limited and slow (3-5 years) to stem the immediate crisis.
Stop Blight Before it Happens!
To save our neighborhoods, we need to keep people in their homes and stop the cycle of foreclosure and eviction that causes blight. Demolishing empty homes only addresses the symptoms, not the cause.
We need to call a halt on foreclosures of occupied homes until a city-wide reassessment sets taxable values at realistic levels and cancels back taxes based on inflated assessments and penalties.
To make that happen, we need to support families struggling to save their home, talk to neighbors in need, and build a city-wide coalition with neighborhood associations, block clubs, and other allies committed to actions and solutions that keep people in their homes.
How to see if your neighborhood is endangered by looming tax foreclosures.
On the "Why Don't We Own This?" web site, you can see maps of homes facing tax foreclosure in each neighborhood - This is Detroit's Kettering neighborhood.
You can zoom in to particular streets & see endangered homes.
To see how the foreclosure crisis threatens your neighborhood, visit "Why Don't We Own This?" web site that maps every property in Wayne County. That's how they came up with the estimate that 37,000 of the properties facing tax foreclosure may have folks living in them.
List of foreclosures in your neighborhood.
We urge you to use these maps to reach out to your neighbors and offer support & the information available on these pages. If you'd like an Eviction Defense activist to talk with your neighborhood, contact us at detroitevictiondefense@gmail.com.
We need to organize for basic change!


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Auburn: Thanks to Elliot, Washburn field getting an upgrade
By Bonnie Washuk, Staff Writer
Elliot Dowd, 12, who just completed the sixth grade at Washburn Elementary School in Auburn, stands on a rough field of the school's playground. In May, Elliot wrote to NET Sports Group of Saco asking for help. The company responded pledging to donate $100,000 worth of artificial turf, planned to be installed before school starts.
AUBURN — Elliot Dowd, 12, stood Monday on a large, dusty field, where he and other Washburn Elementary School students played during recess and gym.
It's rough, full of weeds, rocks and hard, dried dirt. When playing tag football or whiffle ball, Elliot said kids often fall and get hurt.
Thanks to Elliot, that's about to change.
Between now and when school starts, NET Sports Group of Saco will install a new, 176- by 170-foot artificial turf field, complete with striped track lanes "and a few other surprises," NET owner Harlan Michaud said.
"We're going to make it really nice," he said.
NET is donating $100,000 toward the $189,000 project after getting a letter in May from Elliot, then a sixth-grader. The School Department will pick up the rest of the costs, Business Manager Jude Cyr said.
During an interview on Monday, Elliot explained how it happened.
His teacher, Michelle Gagne, encouraged Elliot to leave "a legacy" to his school. They talked about how kids get hurt on the dirt field, how it needed an artificial turf surface.
"She said, 'We don't have enough money in the budget,'" Elliot said. She suggested he write to NET.
Before Elliot sent his letter, he and the school custodian took measurements and photos.
Michaud, who grew up with Gagne in Winslow, said he was touched by the boy's letter, which started with, "Have you heard of Washburn School? If you had, you would know that we have 275 kids in our school and all of those kids like to play outside and have fun!"
But for years, students have gotten injured playing on the rocky, dirt field, Elliot wrote, adding that the school is "in dire need to have a safer place to exercise and play."
Michaud said the student's research and request "was a very unselfish act from a good kid."
Elliot is not even going to Washburn this fall, since he will be a seventh-grader attending Auburn Middle School, Michaud said.
After receiving the letter and photos, Michaud visited Washburn to meet with Elliot "and see what we're dealing with."
Michaud agreed the playing field is rough, and said his company would help.
"I can't give enough credit to Elliot," Michaud said. "If he was of age, I'd hire him."
Elliot and his mother said the idea to leave a legacy was to turn around a couple of rough years at Washburn. Sometimes Elliot clashed with other students and teachers.
"I'm really excited I'm able to leave something behind for my school instead of having memories of me causing trouble," he said. "It's going to leave a good legacy. Kids can play games and have a better gym class than running around on a dirt field."
His mother, Tina Dowd, is thrilled.
"I'm proud he can use his powers for good," she said.
School Department Business Manager Judy Cyr is also thrilled.
There's been a drainage problem on the Washburn field for years, Cyr said. The water, plus constant use, made it tough to grow grass, he said. There was some money in the budget for the Washburn play yard, but not enough.
"This is tremendous," Cyr said, adding he gives kudos to Elliot.
The improvements will not only benefit Washburn students but the neighborhood families who use the play area on nights and weekends, Cyr said.
As Elliot enters middle school, he said he's thinking about someday being an engineer, or maybe a veterinarian.
"I like animals," he said. "We have a cat named Wolf."
AUBURN — NET Sports Group, which has agreed to donate $100,000 worth of work to Washburn Elementary School, is the same company working with Lewiston school officials building three athletic fields as part of the new elementary school project, owner Harlan Michaud said.
"A lot of good things are happening in Lewiston," he said.
The company occasionally helps out good causes, Michaud said.
"As an organization, we've been very fortunate," he said. "When you can give back to the community, it all works out."
A number of the NET crew live in the Lewiston area, Michaud said.
"That makes this more special," he said.
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Well, it's almost time for a new school year to begin so I thought I would take a moment to recap our summer here in the Kelly Lab - it was a big one. The summer started with the massive demolition of our science building, Mateer Hall.
The view from Pine Street looking North. This would be room 201 in the middle of the image and on the top right corner, our old lab!
It only took a week - but this was all that remained.
I don't have any new pictures, but there is now a giant hole in the ground where Mateer once stood and the construction crews are getting ready to pour the foundation (or at least part of it). It's been a pretty amazing experience to watch our building be demolished and to think about the great science that will be produced in the new space.
We also had three students in the lab this summer that did some great science (and were indispensable for moving our lab into the new temporary space in Scovel Hall). Two of the students in the lab over the summer took part in a summer NSF funded REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program this summer along with 3 other nearby Ohio schools (OWU, Earlham, and Kenyon). As a cohort, the 8-10 faculty and ~20-25 students met every other week at one of the schools to discuss their research progress, various lab techniques, and career options. Each student had multiple chances to present their research throughout the summer and to learn about the exciting projects going on at nearby institutions. The summer ended with a final research presentation by each of our students.
Noah giving one of the last talks of the day on his project about Drosophila sleep.
That's it for now - more to come soon as we get into the fall semester.
Here's one more image of all the students that participated in the summer NSF funded REU program here at Wooster (along with me and Dr. Grit Herzmann, a faculty member in psychology and the neuroscience program here at CoW).


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Lyle Kossis: Why Dan Bylsma Would be the Perfect Coach for the Panthers
June 13, 2014 by Paige Lewis Leave a Comment
Editor's Note: Lyle Kossis of Pensburgh took the time to write why he believes Dan Bylsma, former head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins, would be an ideal fit for the Florida Panthers vacant coaching position. Be sure to follow Lyle on twitter: @LyleKossis
News broke this week that Dan Bylsma interviewed for the head coaching job with the Florida Panthers. Dale Tallon was quoted as saying that Bylsma "interviewed strong," and that he was being seriously considered for the job. With Bylsma so close to the head coaching job in Florida, I'd like to take a look at why he makes sense for the Panthers.
When Bylsma took over the Penguins in 2009, they had just come off a Stanley Cup Final appearance and had expectations to win the Cup that year. The problem was that Michel Therrien—seemingly against all odds—had coached a team led by Crosby and Malkin to 10th place in the Eastern Conference. That put them outside the playoff picture and in a position that was unacceptable to management. So they took extreme action and fired Therrien (a coach they just signed to a three-year deal) and replaced him with Bylsma.
One of the best things Bylsma did is that he made wholesale changes to the system and got the players to buy in almost overnight. One of the ways we can tell this is by looking at the team's possession totals. In 2007-2008 under Therrien, the Penguins were one of the worst possession teams in the league, sporting a 46.51% FF in score-close situations, which bested only three other teams. The Penguins went on their playoff run thanks to hot goaltending and high shooting percentages, but the problem persisted the following year. The Penguins were again an awful possession team under Michel Therrien in 2009, and they were drowning because the percentages didn't break in their favor.
Bylsma's changes were extreme—as were the results. As Nick Emptage has noted, in "terms of increasing puck possession, the best coaching changes since 2007 would be Michel Therrien to Dan Bylsma in Pittsburgh (46.3% Fenwick Close to 52.6%)." To put those numbers in different terms, a 46.3% Fenwick Close would place the Penguins among the five worst teams in the league that year; their jump under Bylsma to nearly 53% would place them comfortably in the top six.
Aside from getting his message through quickly and winning the Stanley Cup (no big deal), Bylsma instituted a system that saw the Penguins routinely finish among the elite teams in terms of puck possession. They maintained this superiority through 2011-2012, coming back down to Earth in the lockout-shortened season when the team had to adjust to life without Jordan Staal. But this year they were back on the right track in terms of puck possession until the team went on a historic run of injuries.
Some Panthers fans could worry that Bylsma only looked like a good coach because he got to coach elite talent. But in 2010-2011, the Penguins lost Crosby and Malkin for the second half of the regular season and had neither of them in the playoffs. Yet the Penguins still finished the year as a really good possession team, and finished 4th in the conference in terms of playoff seeding. The Penguins were also victimized by injuries in 2012 and 2014, but that never stopped Bylsma's team from qualifying for the playoffs. Apart from Crosby and Malkin, Bylsma knew what he was doing.
The Panthers have elite talent of their own, of course. With Aleksander Barkov, Nick Bjugstad, and Jonathan Huberdeau, Bylsma will have plenty of players to shape as time goes on. The mandate will no doubt be to turn this team (and those players) into possession monsters who can start reliably out-scoring and out-possessing the opposition. Fortunately, Bylsma seems to get through to the young guys. Early on his tenure with the Penguins, Bylsma was known as a high-energy guy, a persona which meshes well with young talent. That article quoted Jordan Staal as saying that "[e]very morning it seems like [Bylsma's] got about 10 cups of coffee in him. He's an exciting guy to meet in the morning." Staal had more to say:
"I'm usually not a morning guy, but with him, every day seems like a new day and there's something new to learn. He takes ownership to do that and get everyone else on the same page and be excited about learning and getting better. It's exciting to drive to the rink and know that's what you're coming to."
The ideal scenario for the Panthers is that this level of enthusiasm carries over and begins to permeate a team that has not found themselves in playoff contention as often as they would have liked. With young players on their roster—a la Jordan Staal in 2010—the potential is there for Bylsma's message to get through.
Some folks might still be apprehensive because Bylsma was fired, and the lingering question would be: why hire a coach who just failed? I don't think that that should be a concern. Bylsma is not a toxic former coach like John Tortorella, who seems to destroy the offensive potential of his teams and bring the Rangers (and now the Canucks) clearly out of contender status. I think that Bylsma was largely a victim of a less than ideal roster and practically unattainable expectations in Pittsburgh.
Those issues are less of a concern in Florida, though, which means the scene is set for the Panthers to become a force in the Eastern Conference. If they select Bylsma as their next head coach, they'll be well on their way.
Filed Under: Panthers, Uncategorized Tagged With: Aleksander Barkov, Dan Bylsma, florida panthers, Jonathan Huberdeay, Jordan Staal, nhl, Nick Bjugstad, Penguins, Pittsburgh Penguins
Dan Bylsma Watch: Panthers Interview Former Penguins Head Coach
As soon as the Pittsburgh Penguins announced the hiring of new General Manager Jim Rutherford, all eyes and ears of Panthers faithful were waiting for the inevitable news that Dan Bylsma has been relieved of his coaching duties.
For days, it has been rumored that the Florida Panthers may have interest in the Stanley Cup winning coach and the winningest coach in Penguins history. Since day 3 of his firing, Harvey Fialkov of the Sun-Sentinel reported that Tallon reached out to Bylsma.
Here we are on day 6, and Darren Dreger finally confirmed what most of you had hoped for.
Tallon confirms Bylsma, Ron Wilson, Gallant, Crawford and Peters in final 5 for coaching vacancy. Says Bylsma interviewed strong on Tues.—
Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) June 11, 2014
Whether it's Bylsma, Marc Crawford, Gerard Gallant or Ron Wilson, if all goes well, look for the Panthers to announce their new head coach sooner rather than later.
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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Dan Bylsma, florida panthers, Gerard Gallant, Marc Crawford, nhl, Pittsburgh Penguins, Ron Wilson
2014 Draft Profile: Aaron Ekblad
June 2, 2014 by Mike Lewis Leave a Comment
If there is one player in this draft that has had a lot of buzz around his name since the start of his junior career it's Barrie Colts defenseman, Aaron Ekblad. Only the second player in OHL history to earn exceptional player status (the first being New York Islanders Captain John Tavares) and the first defenseman to earn the honors, Ekblad was able to enter the OHL as a 15-year old. Ekblad was selected first overall in the OHL draft by Barrie and went on to win the Emms Family Award as the Ontario league's rookie of the year. Ekblad's point production rose steadily each year and was a key component to Barrie's playoff run in 2012-13 where he compiled 17 points (7-10-17) in 22 postseason contests, finishing with a plus-11 rating. 2013-14 has been Ekblad's personal best where he reached 53 points (23-30-53) in 58 games, was named captain of both the Colts and Team Canada's U-18 team, and was one of two 2014 draft eligible players (the other being forward Sam Reinhart of the Kootenay Ice) selected to play on the Canadian World Junior team.
As the old adage goes, "you can't teach size" and boy does Ekblad have plenty of it, at 6'4, 215 lbs, he's an imposing young man. When watching his game it's hard to believe with his size and strength that he's 18 years old, a trait that Jeff Marek alluded to when asked about Ekblad on Panther Parkway Radio:
"You look at him and he looks like he's 25″, said Marek. "There's still a lot of room for Ekblad to grow and that's the scariest thing." Ekblad's offensive game has developed quite nicely this season as he has begun to round out his game a bit more than in the past when he played more of a stay at home game. "There's a new skill set that's emerging now with Aaron Ekblad, in that he's become more of an offensive threat. He's always had a bomb from the point on the power play, but now he's on the rush and that's scary."
With the Florida Panthers owning the first overall selection in the 2014 draft there is a lot of talk of the Panthers trading down. A lot of the reasons for teams looking to swap places with the Panthers could very well be to select Ekblad. After Ekblad there is a huge dropoff in defensemen. In an extremely offense-heavy draft, Ekblad shines brightly as the premiere blueliner and could command a nice return for the Panthers in exchange for the pick. But whether the Panthers or any other team select Ekblad first overall, prepare yourselves for the "defenseman who are chosen first overall never live up to expectations" debate.
NHL Central Scouting has listed Ekblad as the number two ranked North American skater in their final rankings, behind only forward Sam Bennett of the Kingston Frontenacs. While this may be the NHL's scouting list, many other scouts have Ekblad as their number one and he could easily find himself selected with the first pick. When asked about what Ekblad could bring to his future team, Ian Altenbaugh of Hockeysfuture.com had this to say about Ekblad:
" Aaron Ekblad is physically ready to play in the NHL right away. He's 6'4, 215 pounds, and is a very smooth, strong skater. He is one of the most polished 18-year-old defensemen to come around in a long time. He has a disruptive stick, good anticipation, and a generally good hockey IQ. He is steady in the neutral zone and excellent at transitioning the puck from defense to offense. He also plays with a mean streak and has the size to back it up. He kills penalties, quarterbacks the powerplay, and is considered a great leader on and off the ice. He's a high-achieving academic student as well."
Ekblad may come with some hype but, not quite as much as last year's top defensive prospect, Seth Jones. Jones was almost unanimously the number one on every scouts list. Jones was looked at as a "slam dunk" prospect (and not just because his father played in the NBA), yet Ekblad has not been met with that kind of reception, which could help or hurt his case. While it all can be seen as speculation right now and many factors go into a player reaching full potential, Altenbaugh feels that the ceiling for Ekblad could be a "top-pairing defenseman in the mold of Victor Hedman, Alex Pietrangelo or Shea Weber." When asked about how some scouts have seen Ekblad as a possible top-four defenseman instead of a top-two, Altenbaugh replied:
"When it comes to players who have played in juniors since they were 14-15, there tends to be a lot of tape on them. Scouts have seen him enough where his game has been thoroughly dissected, to the point where the flaws might appear more severe than they really are. Ekblad is about as complete a defenseman as an 18-year old can be."
When it comes to the Panthers pipeline on defense, names like Alex Petrovic, Jonathan Racine, Michael Matheson, Ian McCoshen, Josh Brown and newly signed d-man, Mackenzie Weegar come to mind as potential members of the Florida blueline in the future. But while Erik Gudbranson, Dmitry Kulikov and Dylan Olsen are counted on in the present, the team lacks a defenseman in the system that can do it all and excel in any situation.
"The Panthers have some talented forwards in their pool and NHL lineup, and while they have a few high quality defensive prospects on their way in Matheson and McCoshen, none are at the caliber of Ekblad." said Altenbaugh.
In the 2014 Coaches Poll, Ekblad won the hardest shot, best shot, best offensive defenseman, best defensive defenseman and went on to win the Max Kaminksy Award as the OHL's top defenseman.
A man's frame, a laser from the point, the ability to move the puck and keep it out of his own end, Ekblad could be a very solid choice for Florida if they decide to draft him. Ekblad possesses many qualities that could help Florida, but then again he possesses qualities that could help any team. The Edmonton Oilers have been in the rumor mill for a possible trade partner for Florida, as they severely lack defense and look to add a potential star blueliner like Ekblad to their team. Dale Tallon has leverage and will likely take advantage of it. If Tallon is unable to find a suitable trade partner or doesn't get face value for the pick, Tallon has a chance to take not only the best blueliner in his class but one of the better defensive prospects in the last few years.
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2012-13 Barrie Colts OHL 54 7 27 34 64 29 22 7 10 17 28
2013-14 Barrie Colts OHL 58 23 30 53 91 7 9 2 4 6 14
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Cincinnati Cyclones Headed To Kelly Cup Finals
May 28, 2014 by Mike Lewis Leave a Comment
Last night, the Florida Panthers/Nashville Predators ECHL affiliate, Cincinnati Cyclones were crowned the Eastern Conference Champions and are bound for the Kelly Cup Finals. In a thrilling overtime finish, which included the series clinching goal scored by Panthers prospect, Jonathan Hazen, the Cyclones were able to wrap the series up against the Greenville Road Warriors (New York Rangers affiliate) in six games. Hazen's game winner was his sixth of the postseason and his second of the contest, earning him first star honors. Hazen has 14 points (6-8-14) in 18 games.
Panther prospect, Josh McFadden finished with 6 shots on goal and an assist on Hazen's first goal of the night. Cyclones goaltender, Rob Madore, a darling of the 2013-14 Panthers Training Camp starred for Cincinnati stopping 28 of 30 shots on the night and finishing as the game's second star.
Aside from the Panthers prospects in this game, there was a little more South Florida flavor involved with Rangers prospect and Coral Springs, FL native Andrew Yogan playing as the opposition. Yogan was the game's third star and recorded a goal and an assist and finished the postseason leading his team in points with 18 points (7-11-18) in 17 games.
The Cyclones will face the Alaska Aces (Calgary Flames) for the Kelly Cup.
Filed Under: Panthers, The Rampage Report, Uncategorized Tagged With: AHL, Cincinnati Cyclones, ECHL, florida panthers, Jonathan Hazen, Josh McFadden, nhl, San Antonio Rampage
Drew Shore Dazzles Hockey World in Belarus
May 20, 2014 by Mike Obrand Leave a Comment
Drew Shore thought it was a bit odd when he received the above fortune cookie at Belarus' lone Chinese dining establishment last night, but that didn't stop him from fulfilling said prophecy.
Warning: The goal you are about to watch may cause heavy breathing, loss of consciousness and in the case of German defender Constnatin Braun: death.
Need a minute? Need to sit down? Need to reflect upon your existence? Go ahead, I have time.
Drew Shore ladies and gentlemen.
Despite a thrilling Stanley Cup Playoffs and obtaining the first overall pick in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft it's been a long off-season for Panthers fans so let's talk about this goal in frame by frame detail.
Shore bears down on Braun from the leftwing looking to the right side with his stick elongated in an attempt to lure the defender to play the pass.
Braun bites as he has no chance as Shore dips his shoulder and brings the puck between his legs, past a helpless Braun, to his backhand. (note how Braun doesn't even have time to get his stick in position. He tries to interrupt Shore's deke with an outstretched knee)
Shore then drives the net as German goalie Danny aus den Birken prepares for a poke check.
Shore reads it all the way by switching to his forehand, evading the pokecheck, and sliding the puck 5 hole.
Shore scores a really, really, really nice goal.
I don't think I'm alone in saying that I look forward to Shore performing feats like that in Sunrise.
Credit to @myregularface for the GIF
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Drew Shore, florida panthers, IIHF Worlds, nhl
Mike Matheson Will Return to Boston College Next Season
April 29, 2014 by Paige Lewis 1 Comment
On Tuesday afternoon, Boston College's official website reported that defenseman Mike Matheson will return to the BC Eagles for the 2014-2015 NCAA season.
Matheson, 20, was selected 23rd overall by the Florida Panthers in the 2012 NHL Entry draft in Pittsburgh. The rugged blue-liner just completed his sophomore season with the Eagles, where he compiled 21 points (3G-18A-21P) and a +18 rating through 38 games. Over the past 2 seasons with Boston College, Matheson has led all defenseman in scoring, while manning their top power play and penalty kill units.
Adding onto his accomplishments, this season, Matheson was voted to Hockey East's First All-Star team, and was named ACHA's Second Team All-American.
From Boston College's Official Site:
"We are very excited Michael Matheson has decided to return to Boston College for his junior season", head coach Jerry York said. "Michael's talents and leadership will play a significant role in developing the strong core Boston College hockey has in place for the future".
While many had hoped to see Matheson don the silver and black next season for the San Antonio Rampage of the AHL, fans can take solace in knowing that Matheson will gain yet another year of experience, and further continue his development into an NHL ready defenseman.
Filed Under: Panthers, The Rampage Report, Uncategorized Tagged With: BC Eagles, Boston College, florida panthers, Mike Matheson, nhl
Panthers Kickoff 2014 Offseason With Draft Lottery Tuesday
April 14, 2014 by Jameson Cooper Leave a Comment
Just days after the final game of the 2013-14 regular season, the Florida Panthers are set to begin their first offseason under new ownership headed by Vincent Viola. Though the team hopes to solve most of their roster problems in free agency, the first important event of the 2014 offseason kicks off tomorrow night with the annual NHL Draft Lottery.
Set to begin at 8 p.m., ET, the Panthers will have an 18.8% chance at winning this year's top pick after finishing 29th in the NHL with a final record of 29-45-8.
Given that no team can slide more than one spot back of their finishing position, the Panthers are guaranteed at least a top-three pick in this year's draft regardless of what luck they may or may not have tomorrow night.
The chance to win this year's first-overall selection for every lottery team is as follows:
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The Future of the Florida Panthers Blue Line is Bright
April 12, 2014 by Paige Lewis Leave a Comment
With one game remaining in the 2013-2014 regular season, the Florida Panthers find themselves in all too familiar territory. Last season, the Panthers finished dead last in both Goals Against per Game (GA/G) and the Penalty Kill (PK%), and this year has been no different. Currently ranked 27th in GA/G, allowing 3.20 goals per game, and 30th in PK%, Dale Tallon and the Hockey Operations staff may have their work cut out for them this summer, whether it be via Free Agency or trades.
Fast-forward to the very near future, and the Panthers may have something they've longed for since Tallon was hired as the General Manager of the Panthers; flexibility to spend and depth on defense.
Though the Panthers have struggled offensively in recent years, drafting centers Aleksander Barkov and Nick Bjugstad will finally give the Cats the stability up the middle for the first time since the Jokinen era. While drafting these mammoth centermen was the correct choice for any GM in Tallon's position to make, the current blue line still leaves something to be desired.
Luckily for Panthers' fans, Tallon has done a superb job of drafting Grade A defensemen during his tenure as the Panthers General Manager. While Dmitry Kulikov, Erik Gudbranson and Dylan Olsen remain the face of the Panthers young defensive core, there are a handful of reliable defensemen in the Cats prospect pool just waiting for their chance at the big show.
Filed Under: Panthers, The Rampage Report, Uncategorized Tagged With: Aleksander Barkov, BC Eagles, Boston College, dale tallon, florida panthers, halifax mooseheads, Ian McCoshen, Joshua Brown, Mackenzie Weegar, Mike Matheson, Nick Bjugstad, Oshawa Generals, San Antonio Rampage
Florida Panthers and the Role of Leadership in the NHL
April 9, 2014 by Mike Obrand Leave a Comment
The leadership debate has been kicked into high gear recently in the hockey world and everyone who's everyone is throwing in their two cents (5 cents if you're from Canada). Leadership is a tricky notion in any realm to define and quantify, but in the sports world leadership is more like an omnipotent force than quantifiable trait. The inspiration for this piece comes from Steve (Dangle) Glynn, who debates the quantities/qualities of leadership in this video: http://theleafsnation.com/2014/4/7/leadership-in-hockey-what-s-that
Steve questions whether or not leadership is even real, if it's tangible based on goals, hits, motivational speeches etc. It's a great video; I'd check it out if I were you.
So what is it? What is leadership?
To re-hash and expand on what Steve said: Is leadership defined by production? Fighting? The notion of clutch-ness? (That's a whole other can of worms)
Is it defined by being vocal in the locker room? On the bench? On the ice?
Is it by example? Putting your body on the line to help your team win? Attending charity events? Being available to the media no matter the situation?
Is it how you interact with your teammates? Patting them on the back when they do something right? Teaching them when they did something wrong? Calming them down when they're making mistakes?
Is it just being old? How many cups you've won? How many years you've been in the league?
To me, leadership is a mixed bag. It's a combination/selection of everything I listed above and more.
You can sense leadership in sport (and life, really) at any level, from the professional grade to the beer league. There are people who others gravitate to for inspiration, support, guidance or security. There are people who possess those unquantifiable quantifiable qualities that make people gravitate to them.
The term "Leadership" is used so often these days so it's not insane to see why it's been watered down and questioned as much as it is being. When a team wins or loses, part of that result was due to what we call leadership. Players cite their captains, alternates, goal scorers, grinders, goalies, coaches etc. as people who were impactful on the game's outcome. Leaders come in all shapes and sizes and are defined by the many variations of leadership. There's not just one answer, there's not just one quality, leadership is an orchestra.
When it comes to a team's captaincy group, I have no doubt that whoever makes the decision takes all of these qualities into account. Technically a team only has captains and alternates so that there is a designated group of people to talk to officials. Obviously that has evolved into what we have today. Being a captain or an alternate is seen as a prestigious honor.
We rank the best captains; we debate if a player should be captain, we even put more weight on a goal when it was scored by a captain or when captains fight! Obviously leadership matters in the NHL and whatever you quantify leadership as it has an impact on how you watch the game and how the game is played.
Filed Under: Panthers, Uncategorized Tagged With: Aleksander Barkov, Brian Campbell, Chicago Blackhawks, dale tallon, Ed Jovanovski, erik gudbranson, florida panthers, Jonathan Huberdeau, Nick Bjugstad, Scottie Upshall, Vincent Trocheck
Dancing To Support The Children's Miracle Network
April 3, 2014 by Frank Rekas 3 Comments
I normally don't like to use this website as a platform to ask for donations, yet when something this important comes along, it's difficult to resist. My daughter, who some of you know as Alexandrea, Alex or @LilMissRatTrick is in her second year at the University of Florida. She's doing exceptionally well in her studies, enjoying life away from home, and I couldn't be more proud of her.
In a few days she'll be participating in an annual event simply called Dance Marathon at the University of Florida, which raises money for the The Children's Miracle Network. The link explaining what it's all about can be found by clicking here.
She has also set up a personal page where you can make donations towards her goal, which can be found by clicking this link here.
This is her description of the event:
This year I will be participating in an event that has grown into another one of our great Gator traditions – Dance Marathon at the University of Florida. Dance Marathon is a yearlong commitment in which thousands of students come together to raise funds and awareness for Children's Miracle Network. Each April, more than 800 of these students stay awake and on their feet in the Stephen O'Connell Center for 26.2 hours to show their support for the patients at Shands Children's Hospital at UF, right here in Gainesville.
This cause is very important to me personally. Each year my sorority raises money for our national philanthropy, Children's Miracle Network. As a volunteer at Shands Hospital in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Emergency Department, I know exactly what this organization is fighting for. One hundred percent of the net proceeds from Dance Marathon go toward purchasing state-of-the-art medical equipment, finding research grants and educational programs, and supplying toys and other items for children to help make their stay at the hospital more enjoyable. In addition, donations fund the search for cures for some of the most common yet incurable diseases such as diabetes, cystic fibrosis and cancer. It's For the Kids!!
I know that times can be difficult for some, but if there's any way that you can make a donation, no matter how small, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. Alexandrea and I both thank you in advance for any donation that you can make.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Children's Miracle Network, Dance Marathon At The University of Florida, Shands Hospital
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Neuronal damage by secretory phospholipase A2: modulation by cytosolic phospholipase A2, platelet-activating factor, and cyclooxygenase-2 in neuronal cells in culture
Neuronal damage by secretory phospholipase A2 : modulation by cytosolic phospholipase A2, platelet-activating factor, and cyclooxygenase-2 in neuronal cells in culture. / Kolko, Miriam; Rodriguez de Turco, Elena B; Diemer, Nils H; Bazan, Nicolas G; Kolko, Miriam.
In: Neuroscience Letters, Vol. 338, No. 2, 27.02.2003, p. 164-8.
Kolko, M, Rodriguez de Turco, EB, Diemer, NH, Bazan, NG & Kolko, M 2003, 'Neuronal damage by secretory phospholipase A2: modulation by cytosolic phospholipase A2, platelet-activating factor, and cyclooxygenase-2 in neuronal cells in culture', Neuroscience Letters, vol. 338, no. 2, pp. 164-8.
Kolko, M., Rodriguez de Turco, E. B., Diemer, N. H., Bazan, N. G., & Kolko, M. (2003). Neuronal damage by secretory phospholipase A2: modulation by cytosolic phospholipase A2, platelet-activating factor, and cyclooxygenase-2 in neuronal cells in culture. Neuroscience Letters, 338(2), 164-8.
Kolko M, Rodriguez de Turco EB, Diemer NH, Bazan NG, Kolko M. Neuronal damage by secretory phospholipase A2: modulation by cytosolic phospholipase A2, platelet-activating factor, and cyclooxygenase-2 in neuronal cells in culture. Neuroscience Letters. 2003 Feb 27;338(2):164-8.
Kolko, Miriam ; Rodriguez de Turco, Elena B ; Diemer, Nils H ; Bazan, Nicolas G ; Kolko, Miriam. / Neuronal damage by secretory phospholipase A2 : modulation by cytosolic phospholipase A2, platelet-activating factor, and cyclooxygenase-2 in neuronal cells in culture. In: Neuroscience Letters. 2003 ; Vol. 338, No. 2. pp. 164-8.
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Faces and color dominate both Laura Lloyd's oil paintings and clay sculptures. In oils, she wields a palette of vivid colors to embody the spirit of the person and reveal her (or his) frame of mind in that exact moment. Her work in clay, though still involving the human form, is darkly whimsical like sweet and sour candy.


Surrey-White Rock BC Conservative constituency association president Allison Patton is among the internal critics of party leader John Cummins.
A showdown Wednesday failed to close the fracture in the BC Conservative party between leader John Cummins and a sizable faction of internal critics publicly calling on him to quit.
Cummins said Wednesday he has no plans to resign and said just 14 party members quit before his deadline of noon that day for detractors to leave or unite behind him.
Dissidents meanwhile set their own deadline of Friday for Cummins to step down, saying he has to go if the party is to recover from its recent slide and pose a viable alternative to the BC Liberals and NDP in next May's provincial election.
Anti-Cummins Conservatives who held a news conference Wednesday afternoon to press the leader to quit claimed support of at least 20 constituency association presidents.
Among them was Allison Patton, president of the Surrey-White Rock BC Conservative constituency association, who co-authored a letter leaked earlier in the week that demanded Cummins resign, citing an ongoing effort by his aides to drum critics out of the party.
Patton told Black Press one option under consideration is for constituency executives around the province to resign one at a time to put increasing public pressure on Cummins to change his leadership style or leave.
Also there was Rick Peterson, a former Conservative candidate, who said the party has been spinning its wheels since the Sept. 22 AGM where Cummins got only 70 per cent support to avoid a leadership review.
He credited Cummins for helping rebuild the party, but said it's now stalled and new leadership is needed.
He and others are also angry about what they consider the shabby treatment of MLA John van Dongen at the AGM, who promptly quit the party.
Cummins likened his internal critics to a pebble in a can that does little but make a lot of noise.
He said more than 380 new members have signed up to the Conservatives since Sept. 3.
The dispute took a new twist Thursday morning when Patton and Burnaby North constituency president Ariane Eckardt claimed Cummins reneged on a tentative deal that was to have seen him resign.
They said the arrangement brokered by Vancouver-Quilchena constituency president David Wilder was to have seen Peterson take over as interim leader and for Cummins to be paid $4,000 per month for six months.
The Patton-Eckardt news release said they believed Cummins was going to resign Wednesday afternoon, particularly after he twice delayed making a statement.
"According to further reports from Mr. Wilder, we discovered Mr. Cummins did not want Mr. Peterson to assume the position but that he wanted one of the women as Deputy Leader until he resigned by Friday," the news release said.
Cummins called the Patton-Eckardt statement an "absolute fabrication" that has also incensed Wilder and said his possible resignation was "absolutely not" discussed at the Wednesday meeting.
He said his continued leadership of the party was a precondition for the meeting.
"The only reason we met was that they agreed that I would be leading the party into the next provincial election," he told Black Press.
Cummins said dissidents opposing him had about a week earlier, through an intermediary, raised the idea of Peterson replacing him, but added he never gave any signal he might step aside for anyone.
The BC Conservative party board meets tonight where it's expected to consider how to respond to the challenge to Cummins' leadership.
Cummins wouldn't say what he is recommending or how he sees the leadership question being resolved.
"I don't know what other fabrications, what other accusations these folks are going to want to make," Cummins said.
"As far as I'm concerned we're working to try to build a party, to prepare for the next election and get our message out to British Columbians.