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Guide To Attending a Homeschool Expo
Have you stayed away from the Homeschool Expo just because of the magnitude of it all? Looking at the listing of workshops or a peak into the exhibit hall can give you a deer in the headlights look! Where do you start?
- Plan ahead by reading about the available workshops and making a note of when it will be held. If there are two you want to attend at the same time, consider which would be best to attend and get the other on CD. If you go with a friend or a spouse, you can each attend one and share notes afterwards.
- Have a list of curriculum you want to look over. Plan on taking the time you need and ask the exhibitors your questions.
- Know your prices. If you buy at the conference it will save on shipping, but you will want to have some kind of luggage or cart on wheels to save your strength.
- Do you have a budget? If you do, don't spend it all at once! The school year is long and you will probably need something else before the year is out.
Attending the Homeschool Expo is educational and exciting. The workshops and exhibitors are there for you. You might also want to consider Homeschooling for Excellence, a one day conference for beginning homeschoolers.
Are You Training Your Child To Complain?
Do you find yourself second guessing the amount of work you assigned your child based on their moaning and groaning? You know your child's capabilities and have given out the assignments. As time passes your student is taking a long time and starts appeals of, "It's too much writing and my hand hurts! All my assignments are long today, can you shorten some? I'll never get this done in time."
There are times to reevaluate, but do not let your child regularly manipulate you into changing your mind about the day's lesson plan. If it works once, they'll try again and a bad habit of complaining has started.
Be encouraged, if this has already started as a pattern in your homeschool you have the power to turn it around. Stand firm for a few days and your children will come to know that you have a NO WHINING HOMESCHOOL ZONE!
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Lifesaver helicopter company, owned by the Denver-based Air Methods Corporation, will continue its emergency flight services in the county, even after the company closed a base in Birmingham last week, a spokeswoman said. The closure is part of a larger plan to strategically keep bases near rural areas — places where the need for emergency care and quick response is greatest due to the distances from trauma centers and the shrinking medical services there, some rural health experts say.
Tracey Budz, director of corporate communications for Air Methods, said the company does not expect any of its Alabama operations to be affected by the Sept. 3 closure of the Birmingham base.
"Lifesaver 2 is based in Rainbow City and part of its coverage is Calhoun County and the Anniston-Oxford metro area, so we don't anticipate the Birmingham closure will have an effect on that county," Budz said.
Budz said the Birmingham base was closed due to its lack of use. Budz said most potential patients for that base live in urban areas and can use ground transport to relatively close medical facilities. She said it makes more sense for Lifesaver to locate bases outside of Birmingham in more rural areas, which are farther from hospitals.
"One of the reasons air medical (services) has proven to improve patient outcomes is because it decreases the time it takes to get a person who has had a trauma, such as a car or farming accident, to a trauma center," Budz said. "When transports originate from communities outside of Birmingham, it makes sense to locate the aircraft closer to those patients and the referring facility rather than the receiving facility."
In keeping with that position, Lifesaver will open a base in Tuscaloosa this fall to better serve more rural patients on that side of the state, Budz said. Budz noted that Lifesaver once had a base atop Regional Medical Center in Anniston, but moved it to Rainbow City in 2008 to better serve rural areas.
Dale Quinney, executive director of the Alabama Rural Health Association, said rural areas of the state are in great need of emergency flight services.
"It's harder to get notification out and then get people to the scene of an accident," Quinney said of rural areas.
Data on vehicle crash fatalities, which are the types of incidents that mainly require helicopter assistance, indicate rural areas of the state need such services more so that urban areas.
According to Rural Health Association statistics based on death certificate records from the Alabama Department of Public Health, of the state's 55 rural counties, 35 have more than double the national rate of vehicle fatalities on average. Another 12 counties have more than three times the national rate. The national rate is 11.5 vehicle deaths per 100,000 people. Calhoun County's vehicle death rate is 15.8 deaths per 100,000 people.
"It seems that the more rural the county, the higher the death rate," Quinney said.
Quinney said that rural residents in the state have seen their choices decrease in recent years.
Hospitals in Alabama rural areas have been cutting services or outright closing in recent years due to declining revenue and a lack of primary care physicians willing to move there. Nearby Randolph Medical Center closed in April 2011. Regional Medical Center in Anniston has attempted to address the lack of medical services in surrounding rural areas by opening health clinics in Roanoke and Piedmont and buying Jacksonville Medical Center in December.
Phillip Winkles, chief of Piedmont Emergency Medical Services, said helicopter emergency services from Lifesaver are extremely important for the Piedmont area.
"Based on our geography and our relative distance from a trauma center, they're imperative," Winkles said.
Johnny Warren, owner of Anniston Emergency Medical Services, said that hypothetically, it would be a significant issue if the area lost emergency helicopter services. Still, Warren thought other emergency services in the area could pick up the slack.
"If we didn't have access to one, we'll use ground ambulance," Warren said.
Winkles said patients with traumatic injuries are typically flown to UAB in Birmingham and not RMC or Stringfellow Medical Center in Anniston because UAB is capable of providing just about any kind of treatment.
"I'm not knocking any of the hospitals around here ... but for instance the only burn center in the state is at UAB," Winkles said.
Winkles said it's better to send a trauma patient to the place that can best help first, helping them avoid two ambulance bills and delayed care.
Winkles said he did not expect the Livesaver Birmingham closing to affect the county, especially because another helicopter company, Air Evac Lifeteam, also covers part of the area. Air Evac, based in O'Fallon, Mo., has a base in Carrollton, Ga.
Julie Heavrin, public relations manager for Air Evac, said covering rural areas is her company's mission.
"There's a need because a lot of smaller rural hospitals are closing or not offering specialized services that they offered in the past," Heavrin said. "So there is a greater need to get those rural areas the specialty care they need."
Staff writer Patrick McCreless: 256-235-3561. On Twitter @PMcCreless_Star.

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An Hour is Not an Hour
Current Measurement Creates Bias Against Homebuilts - The FAA's newly issued Advisory Circular 90-109, Airmen Transition to Experimental or Unfamiliar Airplanes, states that in 2009, accident data indicated that while experimental airplanes are involved in approximately 27 percent of fatal accidents in the United States, they fly only 3.4 percent of the total GA fleet hours. FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt also cited this statistic during a GA Safety Media Roundtable in March.
Theres danger in using numbers without context, making an unwarranted target out of amateur-built aircraft. The numbers, standing alone, may be accurate based on GA survey data. However, measuring accidents-per-hour-flown is fundamentally flawed when comparing types of flying. Thats where the context is important.
An hour in a large GA airplane, used primarily for cross-country flight, is not directly comparable to an hour in an experimental amateur-built aircraft used for recreational flying. It would be akin to comparing an hour driving a motorcycle on a racetrack to an hour in a semi-truck on an interstate highway in the Great Plains. The two situations simply are not directly comparable, and the FAA must acknowledge that fact.
A typical hour of a GA corporate or business flight more than likely would be at a certain flight level, flying direct with the autopilot engaged. Alternatively, within that same hour, a recreational aircraft could have been to several airports, made numerous touch-and-goes, while maneuvering the entire time. The operations are, in no way, comparable. Yet this is exactly how the FAA is measuring safety.
In 2010, 941 amateur-built airworthiness certificates were issued. If all of those aircraft completed the 40-hour Phase 1 test-flight period, they would account for more than 37,000 hours! Yet these hours are compared to corporate or business flying, even though the test flights contain higher risk and required tasks and are conducted in remote locations to protect persons and property on the ground.
It would make considerably more sense to base GA safety metrics on a per-flight basis. EAA acknowledges, however, that such data is currently difficult-to-impossible to attain. The current hour-to-hour comparison is biased by systematic differences in typical flight durations and activities associated with subcategories of GA. EAA, along with the General Aviation Joint Steering Committees Safety Analysis Teamof which EAA is a memberhas identified the need for improved GA safety metrics and is working toward that goal.
Until that work is complete and a more accurate GA safety metric can be obtained, comparisons must be properly framed and acknowledge the shortcomings of using a per-flight-hour metric based on GA survey data.
Local Decisions Still Better for Through-the-Fence
Revised FAA Policy permits the continuation of existing residential through-the-fence (TTF) agreements through 2014 when the policy will be reviewed again, subject to certain standards. Prior FAA policy discouraged TTF access to federally obligated airports from off-airport residences. The interim policy seeks to strike a balance by accommodating residential TTF access where it already exists, but not allowing new agreements.
EAAs long-standing position, however, is that local airports should be able to make the decision regarding residential TTF access agreements based on local conditions, the community, and projected funding received from homeowners. With FAA policy prohibiting new residential TTF arrangements, it creates another barrier to growing aviation. EAA has worked to include language in the House FAA reauthorization bill that would permit local airport sponsors to determine the appropriateness of TTF access at their own facility.
No Labels No Auto Fuel
For the 60,000 pilots holding an auto fuel supplemental type certificate for their airplanes, ethanol and flying do not mix. Obtaining auto fuel without ethanol is absolutely essential for safe flight. EAA members go to several gas stations to find premium auto fuel that does not contain ethanol.
Thats why a bill in the Nebraska state legislature that would eliminate labeling requirements for ethanol-blended fuel at local gas stations is a bad idea. The bills sponsor contends that ethanol is only one of nearly 300 chemicals that compose gasoline. EAA counters that ethanol is the only one of those 300 that could cause an aircrafts engine to fail during flight. EAA members in Nebraska have been busy contacting their local representatives, asking that at least one grade of fuel remain ethanol-free and is clearly labeled as such.
FAA Announces Moratorium on New Living History Operating Exemptions
The FAA recently announced a moratorium on issuing any new living history flight operating exemptions. The purpose of the moratorium is to allow the FAA to update its policy, governing the types of aircraft allowed to operate under these special exemptions carrying passengers for hire. EAAs B-17 currently operates under such an exemption and will not be affected by the moratorium on new issuances. EAA is urging the FAA to work collaboratively with owners of historic aircraft in developing this new policy.
GA Caucus Back Over 100 Members
With each new Congress following an election, House caucuses must be re-established and representatives solicited for membership and participation; in other words they start from scratch. Previously the House General Aviation Caucus was one of the largest, with 135 members. Although there is a new Congress, there is good news already. Because of the efforts by EAA and other aviation organizations, as well as lawmakers such as Rep. Sam Graves (R-Missouri) and Rep. John Barrow (D-Georgia) and their staffs, the House GA Caucus now numbers more than 100 members once again. This is essential to all of us, as it means that nearly one-quarter of all members are part of a House group that specifically discusses GA issues.
Transition Training is Key in Moving the Safety Needles
EAA is interested better understanding the key factors leading to amateur-built aircraft accidents as part of our commitment to continually enhancing safety within that community. As you have read on the previous page, EAA is concerned with the current FAA safety metrics and is actively engaged with a new Safety Analysis Team. This team is a working body under the GA Joint Steering Committee (GA-JSC), with a goal of clarifying what the accident data is truly telling us.
But that is not all. During the past year, EAA has co-chaired an FAA Flight Standardization Board that examined amateur-built safety and developed a targeted strategy for improving our record. This FAA/industry group developed the content of a new FAA advisory circular aimed at providing transition training guidance to new builders and second owners.
Transition training is a critical part of being a safe pilot. It does not matter what level of experience a pilot has. Transition training is a must for every pilot moving to a new airplane. At the core of a good transition training plan is a quality flight instructor and the use of a well-thought-out curriculum.
The new FAA advisory circular, AC 90-109, is a first step toward developing that transition training plan. It provides detailed guidelines for those seeking to transition to a new type of aircraft. It separates the possible aircraft types into buckets arranged by similar flight characteristics. Based on these buckets the AC gives the basis of a training plan and the beginnings of a quality transition program. Armed with this information, one has to only seek out a qualified CFI to put that plan into practice. Add a few hours of training time and, voilà, you have a successfully transitioned pilot ready to safely act as pilot in command.
If we as a community embrace the importance of seeking a well-thought-out transition training plan, we will see an improvement in safety, and that is what I call a needle-mover!
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A quick association exercise. What comes up when you hear the following words:
Competitiveness. Aggressiveness. Violence.
If you think of the word "male", you're most likely not alone. The above features are frequently attributed to maleness and masculinity. On closer inspection it also becomes clear that male competitiveness, aggression and violence are often directed primarily at other males: on the battlefield, on the playing field, in the office, at the bar, or on the street. Charles Darwin long ago noticed the existence of intra-sexual competition between males; he also understood that the basic aim of all this male mayhem was to gain the attention and reproductive favor of females.
According to evolutionary theory, intra-sexual competition will concern mainly those traits that are attractive to the opposite sex. The American evolutionary psychologist David Buss found in the eighties that intra-sexual competition takes two primary forms: self-promotion and competitor derogation. Men demonstrate and promote their physical abilities and social status (masculine traits favored by women). Women tend to promote their youth and physical attractiveness (feminine traits favored by men). Men try to derogate their rivals by disparaging their economic and physical strength, while women criticize the age, appearance and character of their opponents.
Building on David Buss's pioneering work, the Canadian researchers Maryanne Fisher and Anthony Cox discovered a few years ago two additional tactics commonly used in intra-sexual competition: mate manipulation and competitor manipulation.
Mate manipulation involves trying to end the race early when we are still in the lead, before our competition catches up. An example: If your boyfriend visits you at the office often, and then a very attractive and available coworker joins the office in a cubicle next to yours, you may be motivated to ask your guy to stop visiting you at work.
Competitor manipulation is analogous to arguing that a movie is not worth the price of admission. This can be achieved by bad mouthing the movie (for example if you tell someone bad things about the guy you're interested in) or raising the price of the ticket (as when you spend lavishly on your date to discourage competitors who can't afford to match your largesse).
Second, high status and very attractive women need less help and protection from other women and are less motivated to invest in other women (who represent potential competition). Thus, a woman who tries to distinguish or promote herself threatens other women and will encounter hostility. According to Benenson, a common way women deal with the threat represented by a remarkably powerful or beautiful woman is by insisting on standards of equality, uniformity, and sharing for all the women in the group and making these attributes the normative requirements of proper femininity.
Third, in extreme cases women may guard against potential competitors by means of social exclusion. If a new attractive woman shows up in the neighborhood (or school, or club), all the women in attendance may turn their backs on her, compelling her to withdraw from the scene, thus increasing their own chances with the surrounding males.
A central arena for competition between females is sexual behavior itself. Studies show that women tend to criticize and reject other women who are viewed by them as sexually promiscuous. The researcher Zhana Vrangalova and her colleagues at Cornell University recently surveyed 750 college students about their sexual behaviors and attitudes. Then, participants read a short description of a hypothetical person (of their own sex) who had either two (nonpermissive) or twenty (permissive) past sexual partners. Participants then rated this potential friend on several friendship-relevant outcomes. Results revealed that female participants, regardless of their own level of permissiveness, overwhelmingly preferred the nonpermissive potential friend. According to the researchers, this is because women want to guard their partners and because they fear socal stigma: if you go around with someone who's known to be promiscuous (a "slut"), there is danger that the label will latch on to you, too.
This study and others align with the observation that women are often the chief enforcers of strict and sometimes cruel norms of female appearance and sexual behavior. For example, the ritual of female genital mutilation, still practiced in some Muslim countries in Africa, is primarily designed to make the girl into good 'bride material' for men. To that end, clitoridectomy reduces her ability to enjoy sex and therefore decreases the likelihood she'll be tempted to cheat on her husband. Sewing the vaginal opening shut, which is often performed after the genital cutting, reduces the possibility that the girl will have sex before marriage, again benefitting the interests of the future husband. Still, this ceremony is managed, performed and enforced by women (mostly mothers and grandmothers).
The evolutionary explanation for these phenomena relies on the assumption that sex with a woman (and thus access to her uterus) is a biologically desirable and scarce resource for men. Among women of childbearing age, reducing the sexual 'supply' increases female bargaining power in the relationship economy. Thus, it pays for women to enforce sexual conservatism even at the cost of ostracizing and manipulating other women identified as permissive. Mothers and grandmothers, by the same logic, have a strong incentive to ensure that their daughters (who carry their genes) will become highly attractive to men, even at the price of causing them early suffering and mutilation.
Feminist psychology, however, argues that competition among females is driven primarily not by biological imperatives but rather by social mechanisms. According to this argument, cutthroat female competition is due mainly to the fact that women, born and raised in male-dominated society, internalize the male perspective (the "male gaze") and adopt it as their own. The male view of women as primarily sexual objects becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. As women come to consider being prized by men their ultimate source of strength, worth, achievement and identity, they are compelled to battle other women for the prize.
Either way, female competition has a price, and not only on the political level. This competition produces much of the stress that interferes with the happiness of many women, especially young ones. Studies show that compared to men, women tend to be more sensitive to emotional information and are better at decoding subtly encoded social and interpersonal messages. In addition, women's sense of self-worth is based more on their friends' opinions of them. This combination of acute awareness of--and sensitivity to--subtle social cues renders women more vulnerable to indirect interpersonal aggression.
For example, the researcher Christopher Ferguson of Stetson University in Florida and his colleagues asked participants to watch two television programs (with a svelte and chubby female star) and interact with a woman (in attractive or casual attire). They found that participants' mood and self-image were not affected by the TV shows but significantly affected by the live encounters. Interacting with an attractive woman dressed in flattering clothing led the participants to feel distressed and negative about their bodies, especially if the encounters were held in the presence of an attractive man.
At the end of the day, the tendency to engage in intra-sex competition appears to be a part of our genetic hardware and a feature in the heritage of human culture. Our genes and social habits are not easy to change, certainly not overnight. But the first step toward changing a habit is becoming aware of it. To that end, men may want to ask whether 'getting the girl' is worth the spilled blood and broken bones, while women may do well to reflect on whether the goal of getting a man (and his sperm and support) justifies the competitive tactics of manipulating, shaming or ostracizing other women and the pain it causes them.


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In this warm comedy by Mary Hanes, youll meet seven lonely, wise cracking inmates of The Alamo, a woebegone motel that is directly across the street from a federal penitentiary in Texas. This is where a group of strangers meet and interact in the most entertaining of ways as they do time between visits with loved ones in prison.
The fun all takes place on a sizzling hot Fourth of July weekend and between heated arguments over cards, ordering out for Chinese food, planning a wedding and dreaming of love, these wonderful souls come together and help each other take a stand against loneliness.
Directed by Bruce Jacklin, the cast includes highly talented local actors Andrew Duffy (as Glen), Jackie Hatch-Miller (as Judith), Megan Evans (as Janet), Matt Starr (as Joe), Jacqueline Allen (as Elizabeth), Kelly Lauth (as Luanne) and Ruth Frady (as Mrs. W.). The production crew includes Scott Swingle and Ian Ernsberger (Lights/Sound), Steve Herbst (Set Construction), Chris Aust (Costumes), Carrie Crouch (Posters and Programs) and Kate Redfield (Stage Manager).
Tickets are on sale now for a dinner followed by this humorous play that will be showing weekend evenings at The Alcove Restaurant, 116 S. Main St., Mount Vernon, Feb. 1 through March 2.
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5:00pm Friday 27th December 2013 in News By Andy Carswell
A FAMILY effort has helped produce a new book offering fun and friendly advice on how to look after horses.
'Sue's Helpful Horse Hints' is the second book by equine physiotherapist and animal behaviourist Sue Palmer and encourages the reader to look at problems from the horse's point of view.
Each hint is accompanied by a picture hand drawn by Sue's mum Sarah Brown, who produced them all at her home in Bourne End.
And with Sue's husband Simon producing and publishing the book, Sarah is right to say: "It was very much a family affair."
Horsey hints have been appearing on Sue's website for three years but it was only after receiving the encouragement of her regular clients that the 38-year-old, who now lives in Staffordshire after growing up in Cadmore End, took the plunge into publishing.
Mum Sarah, 63, said: "She's been doing them for three years and puts them on her website and Facebook. Her clients kept telling her she ought to put them in a book. She said OK, but instead of putting words in a book as it wouldn't make much of an impression, she said she's do some pictures."
Sue said: "I'm very excited that this book has reached publication, it's been a real family effort. When I approached my mum, who has always loved drawing and painting, with the suggestion that she come up with cartoons to go with the hints and we put them together in a book, she was as excited as I was. And with my husband Simon publishing the finished article, I'm exceptionally pleased with the end result."
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"They are selling well - they are good Christmas stocking presents."
A love of horses has been lifelong for both mother and daughter - Sarah said: "I grew up with horses. I've always ridden them and bred them and that's why Sue got into horses. We lived in Cadmore End then and had a few fields."
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None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And, since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. ... Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.


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What a difference a year makes. By far the biggest story of the Internet in the last twelve months is the stunning reversal of Google (ticker: GOOG), which has gone from dog to darling.
A year ago at this time the shares were down 2% for the year, in no small part because investors were fixated on the prospect that the soon-to-be-public Facebook (FB) would steal Google's lunch, becoming the gateway to everything on the Internet. Then came Facebook's disastrous IPO in May, and people remembered that the wildest aspirations of any company, Internet or otherwise, are always something of a fantasy.
As the market warmed to the fact that Google's search business was not going away, and as analysts and traders began to believe in revenue prospects for its YouTube business, including paid ads in videos, they gradually forgot about Facebook's threat, and the change of mood was borne out: Google is up 10.7% so far this year, and 24% in the trailing 12 months, following a slew of brokerage upgrades. Facebook, meanwhile, which is down 28% from its IPO price of $38, cannot seem to do anything right.
OVERALL, THOUGH, THE GENERAL picture of the Internet one quarter into the year is of rising optimism, as the big online players offer, once again, better growth prospects than can be found in the overall tech landscape.
The stocks are up about 26% so far this year, on average, based on a basket of twelve of the larger names that I use, which, though incomplete and unscientific, nevertheless is a decent proxy for the group, I think.
Apart from Google and Facebook, they are Amazon.com amzn +0.38% Amazon.com Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $324.91 +1.23 +0.38% April 17, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4.25M AFTER HOURS $324.31 -0.60 -0.18% April 17, 2014 7:50 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 47,101 P/E Ratio 550.69 Market Cap $149.51 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $634,714 04/21/14 Taiwan Export Orders Grow in M... 04/20/14 Apple, Google Vie for Exclusiv... 04/18/14 How to Spot a Market Bubble More quote details and news » (AMZN), eBay ebay +0.51% eBay Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $54.97 +0.28 +0.51% April 17, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6.87M AFTER HOURS $54.97 0.00 0.00% April 17, 2014 6:20 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 643,853 P/E Ratio 24.99 Market Cap $69.65 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $479,134 04/21/14 Mobile-Payments Startup Square... 04/16/14 Yahoo CEO Aims to Bring Back C... 04/16/14 Google Glass, Not Yet on Shelv... More quote details and news » (EBAY), Yahoo! yhoo +0.08% Yahoo! Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $36.38 +0.03 +0.08% April 17, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 28.76M AFTER HOURS $36.45 +0.07 +0.19% April 17, 2014 7:55 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 176,937 P/E Ratio 30.05 Market Cap $36.72 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $383,012 04/18/14 What's Ahead for AT&T's Stock ... 04/18/14 This Week 04/17/14 The Morning Download: SAP's Cl... More quote details and news » (YHOO), LinkedIn lnkd +2.10% LinkedIn Corp. Cl A U.S.: NYSE $175.42 +3.60 +2.10% April 17, 2014 4:02 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3.17M AFTER HOURS $175.36 -0.06 -0.03% April 17, 2014 7:29 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 6,242 P/E Ratio 730.92 Market Cap $21.14 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $302,982 04/18/14 LinkedIn Reaches 300 Million M... 04/15/14 Twitter Notches Biggest Rally ... 04/10/14 LinkedIn Wants to Help You Sta... More quote details and news » (LNKD), Groupon grpn +4.37% Groupon Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $7.41 +0.31 +4.37% April 17, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 16.72M AFTER HOURS $7.41 0.00 0.00% April 17, 2014 6:20 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 88,403 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $5.06 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $765,513 04/15/14 Twitter Notches Biggest Rally ... 04/04/14 GrubHub Shares Surge in Debut 04/01/14 Revisiting the Myths of the Do... More quote details and news » (GRPN), AOL aol -0.45% AOL Inc. U.S.: NYSE $44.16 -0.20 -0.45% April 17, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.41M AFTER HOURS $44.16 0.00 0.00% April 17, 2014 4:29 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 430 P/E Ratio 36.80 Market Cap $3.53 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $454,882 04/08/14 AOL CEO Armstrong's Pay Cut Ne... 04/07/14 AOL Names New Technology Chief 04/04/14 Former AOL Exec Named Technolo... More quote details and news » (AOL), Zynga znga +4.36% Zynga Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq $4.29 +0.18 +4.36% April 17, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 39.02M AFTER HOURS $4.31 +0.02 +0.49% April 17, 2014 7:54 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 159,420 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $3.80 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $429,334 04/10/14 Zynga Names David Lee as Finan... 04/10/14 Twitter Proxy Reveals CFO Wind... 04/06/14 Square Secures Line of Credit More quote details and news » (ZNGA), ValueClick (VCLK), Yelp yelp -1.41% Yelp Inc. U.S.: NYSE $64.87 -0.93 -1.41% April 17, 2014 4:03 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4.19M AFTER HOURS $64.90 +0.03 +0.05% April 17, 2014 7:48 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 5,819 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $4.74 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $117,433 04/09/14 Yelp Deal With Yahoo Has Small... 04/07/14 Oppenheimer: Despite Selloff, ... 04/04/14 GrubHub Shares Surge in Debut More quote details and news » (YELP), and OpenTable open -0.26% OpenTable Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $72.68 -0.19 -0.26% April 17, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 441,133 AFTER HOURS $72.68 0.00 0.00% April 17, 2014 4:29 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 6,634 P/E Ratio 50.47 Market Cap $1.70 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $304,080 04/04/14 GrubHub Shares Surge in Debut 04/03/14 GrubHub Delivering Another Int... More quote details and news » (OPEN).
That's a motley assortment, to be sure: LinkedIn is a mish-mash of social networking and corporate software, very different from a publisher such as AOL. But it gives an idea of growth, with an average projected rise in revenue this year of 19%.
Yahoo's rise of 17% is in part a consequence of optimism about its new chief executive, Marissa Mayer, who has restored hope the moribund search portal can revive itself. Search-related revenue, which rose 14% in the December quarter, showed the Street that even a seeming has-been can see some decent growth given the increasing shift of advertisers to online as a medium.
The Internet stocks' return beats the 6% return of the Nasdaq this year, and certainly tops every sector of the Standard & Poor's 500 index, including the health-care names, which are up almost 16%, on average.
I'm leaving aside for the moment some of the smaller outfits—such as ReachLocal (RLOC), a proprietor of local online listings for services such as plumbers and caterers, with a $417 million market cap—to focus for the moment on the majors.
AS YOU'D EXPECT FROM PAST encounters with Internet names, they have preposterous valuations, on average. There's Amazon.com's 180 multiple of this year's expected earnings per share on a GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) basis; or LinkedIn's price/earnings ratio of 127 times.
The behind-the-scenes story to all of these outfits is that they struggle to "monetize," in Internet jargon, what traffic they bring in the door.
Because the actual payoff is always highly speculative, Wall Street spends a lot of time pondering strange bragging rights that may or may not yield profits. Facebook, for example, has the lion's share of total minutes spent on the Internet, at 15% in February, strictly among U.S.-based users, according to data provided by research firm comScore SCOR -0.17% comScore Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $29.42 -0.05 -0.17% April 17, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 107,565 AFTER HOURS $29.42 0.00 0.00% April 17, 2014 4:29 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 1,023 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $1.02 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $243,102 04/04/14 Apple, Android Continue to Lea... 02/12/14 Nielsen Feels Digital Heat Fro... 02/11/14 Stocks To Watch: ConAgra, CVS,... More quote details and news » (SCOR) and data collected by JPMorgan's Doug Anmuth.
Facebook's 114 billion minutes of use, what Anmuth terms "engagement," dwarf its next-closest rival, Instagram, which, you'll recall, Facebook bought for $1 billion last year. Far, far behind is Twitter, which had 5.3 billion minutes last month.
The point of Anmuth's excercise was to quell concerns that people are moving away from Facebook.
Investment banker and former Rolling Stone magazine publisher Porter Bibb was on CNBC last week promoting that very idea. Said Bibb, who tends to sound like a futurist more than a banker, kids in England aren't using Facebook. They're all on a chat program you've never heard of, called Kik, which has roughly 40 million users.
Kik, along with Twitter and social-networking programs such as WhatsApp and Snapchat, may be occupying some young people's time. But Anmuth's point is that Facebook is still the 800-pound-gorilla of wasting time online. None of which is to say that it's worth a forward P/E of 48.
In the last few weeks, Rich Greenfield of the boutique research house BTIG has released a scathing set of anecdotes about ads that he noticed in his personal "newsfeed," the part of Facebook where you see all the stuff your so-called friends chat about.
Greenfield's point is that most of this is spam, or worse, harassment, as come-ons for things from out of left field interrupt you while you're trying to waste time.
AFTER A SCANT 2.9% RISE this year, Facebook probably has room to reverse some of the favor it has yielded to Google, and the stock can make gains the rest of this year, even at that high P/E.
Mobile will continue to be the question that dogs all these companies as the smartphone becomes more and more our "command center," as Jim Cramer recently put it.
Raymond James's Internet analyst Aaron Kessler wrote in a note last Friday that mobile advertising is now 30% of the total ad-buying by one large, presumably representative, agency that buys on Facebook, up from 20% a quarter earlier.
The same outfit told Kessler it expects mobile advertising to become half of all the buying it does. And prices for mobile ads appear to be improving.
As smartphones gain the ability to act as your swipe card, the pressure will be on these Internet outfits to invade your consciousness at ever point of sale, in order to insinuate themselves into the dollar value of that transaction. That may not bode well for your peace of mind, or for that matter your cherished sense of privacy. But I think it will prove positive for investor interest in Internet stocks for the rest of this year.
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If a year ago someone were to tell me that Square Enix was making a new IP, amidst their constant milking of Final Fantasy 7, I would ask the person to share whatever they were on. Yet here we are now with The World Ends With You, the first fresh and original title the company has put out in a long while. It is fun, imaginative, carries a good story, and makes excellent use of the DS mechanics. Use of the dual screen is crucial in a game's success; and The World Ends With You is able to hook the user with a fun and engaging battle system, and general gameplay that quite simply, works. Considering that this is co-developed by Jupiter who's recent efforts included the Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories spin-off which to put quite bluntly wasn't very good, this game could have been a disaster, but I am more than happy to report that The World Ends With You is one of the best new and original titles Square Enix has produced since their merger years ago. I haven't been this compelled to play one of their products over and over again since Chrono Trigger.
The World Ends With You stars (fresh from Tetsuya Nomura's closet of blue and zippers) Neku, a dislikable ass who wants nothing to do with the people of the world. One day he awakens in the middle of the crowded streets of Shibuya to find that he has no memory, and is now caught up in a game of life and death, populated by "Reapers," where the fear of "erasure" is always just around the corner. What this means is that Neku has to complete a new task every day for the next seven days if he wants to survive. And what fun would it be if the tasks were simple? You'll constantly be kept on your toes by "Noise," the thoughts and conflicts of people wandering around Shibuya. Alone, the Noise cannot be defeated, so Neku must team up with another player of the Reaper's Game, a young girl named Shiki who constantly clashes with Neku's desires to go it alone. Neku will also run in to other player's of the game, each with their own personal demons to contend with.
There is a little bit of voice acting here and there, but mostly used to convey emotion, there aren't really any spoken lines of dialogue, just a whole lot of dialogue boxes and emotive art. The music is one of the major high points of the title, featuring a number of tracks from Japanese pop label Avex Trax, and there is a great deal of it, so while battle themes may repeat, they are constantly cycled to prevent them from getting too repetitive.
The World Ends With You is a great looking title for the Nintendo DS. Easily rivaling some of the Castlevania titles in terms of aesthetics, The World Ends With You has smooth animations, vibrant characters, and quite a bit of style to it. The amount and variety of art that is used for all of the various articles of clothing and pins is quite astonishing. For a Testsuya Nomura designed group of characters, he sure did dial back the dark colors and zippers that were bountiful in Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy.
An RPG needs to have an engaging and fun battle system if it wants to succeed and The World Ends With You pulls it off quite well. You attack by equipping pins to Neku, and by performing various stylus motions from tapping the screen rapidly to blowing in to the microphone Neku will perform a variety of attacks from shooting fireballs from his hands to hurling lighting and pinking up and tossing objects. It takes a little getting used to as every pin's effect is different. There is a very steep learning curve to combat as you are required to play for Neku and his partner at the same time. To make things tougher, the HP is shared between the two characters. The bosses function the same way, but expect to suffer a few early deaths trying to get the hang of the battles. The upside to this is that you can change the difficulty of the battles to suit your play style, and if playing two characters is too much to take on you can have the computer control your partner. As you progress you can unlock higher difficulties that will yield better drops from the enemies, or you can simply lower your HP on purpose to increase a drop rate.
Enemies drop pins that can lead to new skills or can be traded in for cash, or when you head to shops you can trade pins in for quest items. Shopkeepers aren't too keen on Neku at first, since they only like patrons who are willing to spend a ton of dough in their stores. As you make friends with the store owners you can gain special abilities from the clothes you wear. In a slight twist you don't use typical armor; instead you pay attention to the fashions that are popular in Shibuya. Equipping the right pins in the right areas will reward you by dealing extra damage, or if your brand of pins is unpopular you're going to be much weaker. You can augment the popularity of a certain brand by equipping a specific brand and rolling in to battle. But before you do make sure you eat some food so you can gain stat boosts. After a certain number of battles, food is digested and the stat boost is permanently applied to your character. However you are limited to the amount of food you can eat per day, as in twenty four hours.
In a bizarre twist The World Ends With You actually encourages you to take breaks from the game, and rewards you with experience for your pins. Pins level up from four different sources. There is combat experience, which you get from regular battles, shutdown experience which comes from leaving the DS off, which lasts up to a full seven days. You've got mingle experience which comes from meeting other DS gamers who are using a wi-fi signal, or if you don't have that kind of exposure you have a random chance of running in to an "alien" which is worth a significant amount of mingling experience. The final way to level up your pins is by playing a fun and optional mini-game called Tin Pin Slammer which plays like a crazy modified game of marbles.
The World Ends With You is quite the surprise game considering how little I had heard about this. For a new IP I didn't have much to expect and I came away pleasantly surprised. It's got a slightly difficult learning curve, but once you get the hang of the game you'll find it has a fun battle system and a pretty good story. The World Ends With You caught me off guard and I can't recommend it enough, it also has an extensive end-game that will keep you busy long after completion. Don't let The World Ends With You pass you up as it is easily the best DS title released in the last two years.
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The High School Musical star talks about his new Broadway musical role, playing Jesus in Godspell.April 27, 2012
Tony winner John Lloyd Young, who recently returned for a limited run in Jersey Boys, stopped by Show People with Paul Wontorek to chat about honoring Oreo cookies with his art, Kung Fu fighting fans, living "outside the box" and more.July 19, 2012
On this week's Show People with Paul Wontorek, studly stage vet Andy Karl (Legally Blonde, Jersey Boys, Wicked) chats about backstage raps at The Mystery of Edwin Drood, acting with his eyebrows and life with Broadway diva Orfeh.January 11, 2013
Joe Manganiello, who is taking on his next brutish role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire at New Haven's Yale Rep, on his theater past, the time he almost got kicked out of school and building the perfect body.September 12, 2013
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On Dec. 10, Maxton Manufacturing Company of Minden contributed a product display of their hydraulic elevator control valve for the Reno-Tahoe International Airport's exhibit, "Manufactured in Northern Nevada... Who Knew?"
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Matthew Derrick Williams, nicknamed "Matt the Bat" and "The Big Marine", is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and right-handed batter who played for the San Francisco Giants, the Cleveland Indians, and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Williams played in a World Series for each of these teams (1989 with the Giants, 1997 with the Indians, and 2001 with the Diamondbacks). During these years, Williams became the only player to hit at least one World Series home run for three different Major League baseball teams.
During his career, Williams had an overall batting average of .268, with 378 home runs and 1218 runs batted in. He scored 997 Major League runs, and he accumulated 1878 hits, 338 doubles, and 35 triples, while playing in 1866 regular-season games.
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They make repair plates that would cover the larger hole needed to replace the valve with a new one that would be both safer (federal rules require an anti-scald valve in a shower) and more reliable. Most of these are single handle. You can get 2-handle versions, but many of those are thermostatically controlled (my preference). One is the volume control, and the other controls the temperature. Single handle versions usually don't have a volume control...it is either full on or off, and the further you turn it, the hotter it gets.
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Don"t Bother! – I figured since they are Zagut rated that SOMETHING would be decent about this place. We were staying at Sam's Town and wanted something different than Fridays so we tried Willy & Jose's. The place looks like a dark cave, ok romantic, I think. Upon closer inspection you realize its to hide the fact they need to spruce up a bit AND perhaps sweep the floor. Our waiter Fernando was nice enough, but even the best waiter could not make up for the awful food and drinks. They have a huge billboard down the road advertising a"bottomless Margarita". It's not even worth the bother, after your first, the rest are frozen margaritas that tasted like a lime flavored salty and syrupy goop!
The food was OK going down. I wll just say in almost 40 years of eating in different places all around the country this was the worse I have EVER experienced. If you are visiting from out of town, bring the Pepto or Tums I promise you WILL need it!
Very good food and drinks – We have visited this restaurant several times and find it excellent and better yet, consistent in quality. We've eaten items from every section of the menu and have never been disappointed in our selection. The service is good and the bar serves a pretty good and inexpensive Margarita. Since it is in a casino parking is easy. One of the better Mexican restaurants is Las Vegas.
Not too bad – We actually go here quite a bit. It is off the strip, close to home, and casual. The lobster bisque and spinach salad are really top notch and they serve a pretty decent corn bread. Now, I am originally from the midwest and there is NO PLACE in Vegas to get good, real, BBQ. Not Lucilles, not Memphis, not anyplace that comes highly regarded as "the best bbq in Vegas" stands up to what BBQ is supposed to be, period. I wish everyone would just give it up, it ain't happenin'. Billy-Bobs is just a real comfortable and fun place to go. Good service and good food, I definately recommend the BBQ Brisket. Billy -Bobs is just a steak house, not trying to be anything else. But honestly it is pretty decent. We have fun there.
Best service, Awesome steaks, Great atmosephere, – Incredible restaurant, great food, excellent service, great value for the money, I love going here for my birthday and my anniversary and any other time I can get my husband to go, it`s not hard, He loves it as much as I do! We highly recommend it to everyone we know ! The steaks are some of the Best In Vegas ! ! ! ! !
Great Food & Great Service! – I am a local here in Nevada and have had the pleasure of trying all sorts of new restaurants from around the world. It's no wonder why Willy & Jose's is among one of the best in Las Vegas, a Zagat Award winning restaurant too! They have a great staff, chef's, and just all around great atmosphere. The food is awesome and about as authentic as it gets! I have relatives that fly in from Seattle all the time and the first thing they ask me is if I've made reservations for Willy & Jose's yet!
Argyqueen – I have visited the establishment on more than one ocassion. Service, Food and portion have always been the best. I am originally from Chicaog and have dined at some of the best steak houses in the country. FOR THE MONEY, VALUE AND SERVICE THIS PLACE CAN NOT BE BET. The lobster bisque is to die for. This is my second visit this month. I took others with me on my recomdation and they all agreed.
Always the best – Always tops! I have been to Billy Bob's dozens of times and have never been disappointed! The food and atmosphere are excellent and the service is top notch- The most entertaining staff you could find! I never hesitate to recommend Billy Bob's to anyone!
Simply Delicious – I have had the pleasure of eating at Billy Bob's on several occassions. The food is excellent and portion sizes can't be beat. The staff service is outstanding.
Good food, Good Price – Really enjoy Billy Bob's Steak House. Good food, service is up to par. Price is right for a good steak
Simply the best – Billy Bob's offers great food at reasonable prices, has excellent service and is a comfortable, relaxing place to unwind after doing some gaming. I would heartily recommend this place
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Either way, Moms who choose Parker Hospital's BirthPlace can rest assured that they have access to experienced perinatal and neonatal specialists backed by a specially-trained support staff and the latest technology. At Parker Hospital, around-the-clock perinatal and neonatal care is provided by experts from The Children's Hospital and the University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center. The perinatal team is headed by Henry Galan, M.D., chief of maternal and fetal medicine at the university and available on-site at Parker Hospital. The neonatal team is headed by Danielle Smith, MD, a neonatologist and faculty member at The Children's Hospital and also medical director of the Parker Hospital Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
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Healthy cooking class
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A free healthy cooking class begins Thursday at West Virginia Health Right, 1520 Washington St. E. The class, led by Robert Burton of the WVU Extension Service, is 2 to 3:30 p.m. each Thursday for eight weeks. Another eight-week session will start following that.
The class is limited to 10 people, each of whom will have his or her own cooking station for hands-on instruction. Classes are open first to Health Right patients and then the general public.
Call Robert Burton at 304-410-1105.
Nutrition and wellness class
The City of Charleston Parks and Recreation department and the WVU Kanawha County Extension Service are sponsoring a series of free nutrition and wellness classes for adults age 18 and up at the North Charleston Community Center, 2009 Seventh Ave. Classes are on Fridays from 11 a.m. to noon through April 5.
Contact Amanda Thompson at 304-348-6884 or amanda.Thomp...@cityofcharleston.org.
Green Chili Shoot Out
Stop by Capitol Market between noon and 4 p.m. on March 16 for the Green Chili Shoot Out. The cook who simmers the winning chili verde in this International Chili Society-sanctioned event wins a cash prize and qualifies for the international competition.
Find contest details at www.chilicookoff.com.
Entries in the Corporate Challenge Division are not required to follow ICS chili cook off rules. Entry fee is $25. All proceeds benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
Call 304-344-1905 for details.
Kanawha Forum spring session
The Kanawha Forum concert and luncheon series begins April 3. The concerts are free and held between 12:05 to 12:30 p.m. at Kanawha Presbyterian Church, 1009 Virginia St. E.
Luncheons after each concert are available by advance reservations at a cost of $10.
Call 304-342-6558.
April 3: Sarasvati Trio with Margaret Cooper, violin, Susan Bestul, cello, and Christine Kefferstan, piano
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Outdoors For 2/14
I always love for Valentine's Day to arrive. Not just because thoughts of love are in the air. I breathe out a silent sigh of relief knowing that there has never historically been a major fish kill in our coastal bays after Valentine's Day.
Freezes and fish kills are part of the continual cycle of fish populations on our coast. Normally we are on about a 15-20 year schedule for a freeze that results in a major fish kill. Less severe fish-killing freezes occur interspersed among those major freezes. Our last major kill was in 1989. So we are overdue. The question is not if but when.
The 1983 and 1989 killer freezes were devastating to our game fish populations.
I was living in Pensacola during the 1983 freeze.
The same Arctic December front that dropped temperatures from the 80's to the low teens and killed more than 30-million fish in Texas reached Florida the next day. The temperature in Pensacola dropped to six degrees.
We lived on Perdido Bay and the icy wind howled out of the north at 40-miles per hour. Much of the water blew out of the bay and the brackish water froze out to 200 feet from the shore. Our kids used a cardboard box and ice scooted on the shallow frozen water. We lost all power in the house and slept by the fireplace for several days. It was so cold. The toilet bowl in our back bathroom froze.
That 1983 fish kill was so massive due to two factors. The speed in which the temperature dropped. The weather, and bay waters, had been warm. Suddenly, the temperatures were in the low teens. Then the temperatures stayed below freezing for a record 77 hours. Prolonged temperatures below 32 degrees are worst. A snap freeze that's over quickly, with temperatures rapidly climbing doesn't do much damage.
In 1989, we experienced two cold periods (February and December) that resulted in major fish kills.
Brownsville recorded 16 degree temperatures. A total of over 17 million fish died in those two freezes. Recreational fishing, especially for spotted sea trout, was adversely affected for several years. I bought a cabin in Port Aransas in 1990 and fished often. Catching a keeper trout that year took real effort.
The first report of cold-induced fish kills in Texas bays was by Cabeza de Vaca, a Spanish explorer shipwrecked on the lower coast in 1527. He spent eight months with a coastal Indian tribe and noted that they "know and understand the differences of the seasons, when the fruits come to ripen, the fish die."
Most believe this is a reference to the numbing of fish in Texas bays during cold spells.
Jane Long, a wife of a U.S. Army General stationed at Fort Bolivar, tells of the bitterly cold winter of 1820-21. While her husband was posted to Mexico she tells of Galveston Bay (or at least as far as she could see) freezing over. The only way she, her child and her servants survived was by breaking ice and picking up dead fish underneath.
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Currently more than 100,000 students in Indiana participate in the 21st Century Scholars Program. These students graduate high school and attend college at a higher rate than Hoosier students overall. However, just slightly more than 1 in 10 Scholars graduate from college on time and less than a third earn a degree within six years.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- We are very pleased to welcome Clay Johnston, MD, PhD, as the new Dean of the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Johnston is an outstanding leader, clinician and researcher, and his appointment is another critical step toward building one of the preeminent medical schools in the US.
Dr. Johnston's exceptional experience and clear vision will be key to the medical school's future excellence. This is an opportunity to advance the school's clinical, research and educational capabilities in exciting and innovative ways, and offer the highest level of integrated care to patients and families. In addition, Dr. Johnston's ability to cultivate relationships will serve to strengthen essential partnerships across schools on the UT campus and beyond. Leveraging the school's partnerships with Seton Medical Center, Central Health and other University of Texas Medical School campuses, Dr. Johnston will have the unique ability to affect closer care team connections, more efficient research to bedside connections, and stronger care partnerships across inpatient, outpatient, and community settings.
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