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Robert Thomas, President and Chief Executive Officer
Leveraging more than 30 years of technical, sales, marketing, and management experience in the technology industry, Robert is responsible for building Infoblox into a highly profitable and valued business. Previously, he held positions at NetScreen Technologies (acquired by Juniper Networks), Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu, and ICL.
Stuart Bailey, Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Stuart defines the Company's technological vision. Before founding Infoblox in 1999, Stuart held a five-year stint as technical lead for the Laboratory for Advanced Computing/National Center for Data Mining at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he led teams in developing advanced distributed data architectures.
Remo Canessa, Chief Financial Officer
Remo is responsible for managing the finance and IT functions at Infoblox. Remo, who was most recently the CFO at NetScreen Technologies Inc., brings more than 25 years of experience in finance and administration to the company. Remo held related positions at Bell Microproducts, Inc., InfoSeek Corp. and Raster Graphics Inc.
Thorsten Freitag, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations
Thorsten is responsible for managing all strategic aspects of worldwide field operations at Infoblox, including sales, support, and training. An experienced global sales leader, Thorsten came to Infoblox from F5 Networks, where he was senior vice president for EMEA, based in Germany. Prior to F5 Networks, he held senior sales management positions at Cisco Systems, Siemens Enterprise Communications, and other technology companies in Germany, South Korea, and South Africa.
Scott Fulton, Executive Vice President, Products
Scott leads strategy, product management, business development and technical marketing for Infoblox. He brings more than 20 years of related experience innovating market-making infrastructure software. Previously, he held general management positions at BMC Software; and product management, engineering and marketing leadership roles at HP's Software business.
David Gee, Executive Vice President, Marketing
David brings to Infoblox over 20 years of experience marketing innovative enterprise and mobile computing products and solutions. At Infoblox, David is responsible for managing Corporate and Product Marketing functions, including marcom, branding, demand generation and press relations. Previously, he held senior marketing positions at HP, Yahoo!, Sun and IBM.
Rebecca Guerra, Executive Vice President, People and Places
Rebecca Guerra maintains responsibility for enhancing Infoblox's recruitment, compensation, professional development, benefits, community relations programs and facilities. Rebecca brings more than 30 years of related experience to her role. She has held senior leadership positions in human resources with growth-oriented public and private companies, such as Adobe Systems, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, Extreme Networks and Riverstone Networks.
Sohail Parekh, Executive Vice President, Engineering
Sohail is responsible for driving the engineering of Infoblox's industry-leading automated network control platforms. Sohail has more than 20 years experience in similar roles. Most recently, he led development efforts at Vernier Networks. Prior positions were held at Syndeo Corporation, Junction Inc., Precision Systems, and Grumman Data Systems.
Stephen Yu, Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Steve is responsible for legal affairs at Infoblox, as well as the company's intellectual property portfolio, government affairs, public policy and corporate citizenship. He brings more than 20 years of experience leading legal teams and advising on corporate, commercial, intellectual property and litigation matters around the world. Most recently, Steve was executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Rovi. Previously, Steve was general counsel at Aspect Communications, Riverstone Networks and Palm.
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From the Gastroenterology Division, Hospital Durand, Buenos Aires, Argentina (CB); the Psychology Service, Hospital Durand, Buenos Aires, Argentina (EK, AP, E Sánchez, E Segal, AC); the Dept. of Pathophysiology, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina (MF, MT, AL); the Dept. of Analytical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina (VT); and the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina (VT).
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The aim of the present study was to characterize the neurophysiological profile of cognitive impairment associated with patients with chronic alcoholic and nonalcoholic liver disease. The authors evaluated 43 patients with cirrhotic liver disease: 19 patients with chronic alcohol ingestion and 24 nonalcoholic patients who had been infected with hepatitis B or C virus. Eleven healthy subjects were included as control subjects. A battery of 12 psychological tests was used to investigate cognitive deficits in the patients with chronic liver disease. It was observed that alcoholic patients with chronic liver disease showed a more important cognitive deterioration than those affected by hepatitis B or C virus.
The CNS is usually involved during the development of chronic liver disease. Depending on its degree of severity, this involvement can cause limited mental capacity, changes in psychomotility, and/or hepatic coma associated with irreversible brain damage.1
The initial signs are reversible mental and neurological disturbances that are not initially clinically clearly manifested and can be detected only by psychometric tests. This condition is called minimal or subclinical hepatic encephalopathy. Neuropsychological studies in cirrhotic patients with minimal hepatic encephalopathy have exposed a characteristic pattern of cognitive dysfunction.2–8
Prolonged ingestion of alcoholic beverages is known to cause damage in several tissues, altering their morphology and function. The liver, where alcohol metabolism takes place, is the principal target of alcohol toxicity, and the CNS is also implicated in alcohol damage.9,10
Acetaldehyde, the main metabolite of ethanol, has been shown to be able to bind covalently to liver proteins and may be responsible for the diverse toxic effects of ethanol. Acetaldehyde reacts with proteins via the ε-amino group of a lysine residue to yield hybrid malondialdehyde−acetaldehyde−protein malondialdehyde and 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal alcohol metabolites. These substances induce severe metabolic alterations and cause oxidative damage, including mitochondrial DNA damage, through the production of reactive oxygen species, in almost all mammalian tissue.
The presence of chronic viral toxins such as those of hepatitis B and C virus may also affect several extrahepatic tissues, including the CNS.11
In their evolution, both etiologies (i.e., the alcoholic one and the viral one) often cause severe complications, such as the development of portal vein hypertension in the splanchnic area, and consequently, the presence of a hyperdynamic systemic circulation, as well as neuropsychiatric dysfunction.
Tarter et al.12 considered that hepatic encephalopathy is a neuropsychiatric illness coexisting with morphological alterations and metabolic dysfunction that does not present full recovery after liver transplantation.
Pantiga et al.13 studied cognitive deficits associated with hepatic cirrhosis by applying neuropsychological tests to assess mental deficits in patients with different stages of hepatic cirrhosis and in liver transplant recipients. These authors showed that the severity of the cognitive impairment is linked to the amount of hepatic dysfunction. Liver transplant recipients showed only some degree of cerebral dysfunction in comparison to the control group.
Glucose is fundamental to develop a normal function of the brain. Basically, glucose comes in adequate amounts from liver glycogen hydrolysis. The cirrhotic liver is characterized by the destruction of an important quantity of hepatocytes, where glycogen is synthesized and stored, causing a deficient nutritional condition. It is probable that, in this deficient nutritional condition, other sources of glucose (e.g., muscles) are not satisfactory enough to cover glucose needs.
Conversely, the presence of cirrhotic livers in both etiologies suggests that it is probable that glycogenolysis is diminished due to parenchymal destruction. Then, the fundamental presence and use of glucose is decreased in neurons and astrocytes. Cyclic GMP and cAMP are substances that participate in glycogenolysis and maintain blood and most tissue glucose levels. In liver cirrhosis, the glutamine-glutamate cycle is also altered, and cyclic GMP and cAMP cannot produce their hyperglycemic activity.14 Presumably, these alterations in the normal metabolism of glucose could also generate cognitive disorders.
Numerous authors have searched for an efficient battery of psychological tests to distinguish mild cognitive impairment. A desired battery of psychological tests should combine convenience, practicability, sensitivity, specificity, low cost, and a high probability of standardization.
In this study, the neuropsychological profile of cognitive impairment associated with chronic liver disease was characterized by applying suitable psychological tests with the purpose to evaluate the intellectual function in this type of patients.
The aim of this experiment was to recognize cognitive dysfunction present in chronic liver disease, produced by prolonged alcohol ingestion or by hepatitis B and C virus infections, from the results obtained in the tests applied to patients with either etiology.
Forty-three patients, with clinical and biochemical assessment of compensated cirrhosis (no bleeding, no ascites, and no other serious complications) were included in this study. Forty patients had histological evidence, whereas in three patients, the coagulation parameters could not be confirmed anatomically by liver biopsy. In 19 of these 43 patients, the disease was the consequence of chronic alcohol ingestion (more than 12 years of alcohol dependence), whereas in 24 patients, it was the consequence of chronic evolution of hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus (from 6 months to 1 year for the appearance of clinical symptoms). To participate in this experiment, the patients were personally informed about the study and signed their consent before being included in this study. This project was submitted to the Committee of Ethics and Investigation of the hospital and accepted.
Patients and controls were submitted to usual laboratory tests, X-ray, ultrasonography, and other noninvasive examinations to confirm the patient's chronic disease. Immunochemical tests for viral infection or immune disease were used to verify the disease etiology. None of the patients or control subjects received parenteral nutrition or neuro-active medication in the 30 days before the study.
All the patients were submitted to a battery of 12 psychometric and verbal tests, and their performance was compared with that of 11 control subjects with no liver disease or mental pathology.
Our patients with chronic liver disease presented different and important degrees of liver cirrhosis. All of them had portal hypertension, and some of them had bleeding esophageal varices during evolution. Chronic alcoholic or viral-infected patients belonged to the CHILD A (15 patients) and CHILD B (6 patients) classifications. CHILD classification is used to assess the prognosis of chronic liver disease using biochemical and clinical parameters such as total bilirubin, albumin, prothrombine time, ascites, and hepatic encephalopathy. Although it was originally used to predict mortality during surgery, it is now used to determine the prognosis, as well as the required strength of treatment and the necessity of liver transplantation. Chronic liver disease is classified into CHILD classes A–C (better to worse prognosis) using scores that have been previously defined.15
All the patients were selected from the out-patients of the Durand Hospital of Buenos Aires City (Argentina) and were divided into three groups: group A, 19 patients (37.5%) with chronic alcoholic ingestion and liver disease (the patients were still consuming alcohol at the moment of their inclusion in our study); group B, 24 patients (42.9%) with chronic liver disease after hepatitis B and C virus infection; group C, 11 controls with no liver disease or mental pathology and mild general complaints (this group had no pathological alcohol consumption).
Twenty-nine (53.7%) of the subjects studied were women, whereas 25 (46.3%) were men. Female age averaged 33.7 years (SD=12.1), whereas male age averaged 55.7 years (SD=11.5).
The patients included in this study had similar nutritional status, education, and socioeconomic situation.
We designed a battery of neuropsychological tests that included memory tests (long-time memory test) and the following widely used measures: autoanalysis of episodes obtained from the patient's life, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE),16 The Reitan's Number Connection Test,17,18 the Boston Naming Test,19 the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), including subtypes (number repetition, vocabulary, conceptual ability in similarities, and constructional capacity), the WAIS-Perceptual speed subtest of conceptual similarity ability, the Wechler Memory Scale, figural visual scanning, the Buschke selective task, learning capacity (consistent long-term retrieval test), evocation (long-term retrieval test), and word fluency (FAS test). All patients were investigated by the same experienced neuropsychologist (blind experiment) in a quiet room under adequate light and comfortable conditions. Each patient and control subject were interviewed three times.
This test is a brief 30-point questionnaire used to screen for cognitive impairment and dementia or estimate the severity of cognitive impairment at a given point in time and to follow the course of cognitive changes in an individual over time. The MMSE test includes simple questions and problems in a number of areas: the time and place of the test, repeating lists of words, arithmetic such as the serial sevens, language use and comprehension, and basic motor skills.
This test derives from the trail making test18 and measures cognitive motor abilities. In the number connection test, subjects have to connect numbers printed on paper consecutively from 1 to 25, as quickly as possible. Errors are not enumerated, but patients are instructed to return to the preceding correct number and then carry on. The test score is the time the patient needs to perform the test, including the time needed to correct the errors. A low score indicates a good performance.
This is the most widely used test of visual confrontation naming. The standard 60-item version has been used to assess language performance in participants with aphasia or dementia. Deficits in naming performance frequently appear in the first stages of Alzheimer's disease and increase with time. For this reason, the Boston Naming Test is one of the tests most frequently used to detect the disease and follow its evolution.
Data were inserted in an Excel-type database and analyzed by a microprocessor Pentium III. Student's t test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and Scheffe test were applied; p<0.05 was considered significant.
Groups A and B presented a low cognitive score compared with controls (p<0.05) (Figure 1).
The main intellectual defects were recorded when the tests were related to praxis and velocity of mental processes (p<0.05) (Figures 2–4).
According to Figure 3 and applying the Reitan's test, a slower speed was seen in the response of patients with chronic hepatitis.
Our patients did not exhibit a significant failure in memory when their memory was tested for short and long periods of time or their visual memory was tested.
Cognitive dysfunction was documented when the techniques used involved spatial relationship with constructional ability, copy capacity, and velocity of mental processes. Our patients with chronic liver disease also showed an important disturbance in the visual motor area (coordination between visual, motor, and spatial behaviors).
Both groups with a chronic liver pathology showed clear impairment in the comprehensive capacity and the associative capacity in verbal concepts, indicating the presence of a deficit in conceptual judgment.
During the study of language (vocabulary) evaluation, we found a significant difference between patients and control subjects when submitted to the same test. As previously noted, all groups, including control subjects, had comparable sociocultural levels.
When the Boston Naming Test was applied to patients with chronic liver disease, we found that they required a longer time for evaluation, indicating the existence of a slowness of thoughts: the patients needed the presence of the object to recall the name of it (paraphasis). These patients seem to have impairment for the capacity to search information.
The application of these tests allowed us to find that patients with chronic liver disease present marked difficulties in attention and concentration.
The clinical presentation of hepatic encephalopathy in patients with chronic liver disease, especially in decompensated cirrhosis, includes alteration of consciousness, accompanied with loss of facial expression and speech disturbances together with a compromised motor system, represented by asterixis, tremor, increased tendon reflexes, increased muscle tone, and ataxic gait. In contrast, patients with minimal hepatic encephalopathy appear to have a normal mental state but subclinical cognitive alterations that could complicate their normal day-to-day tasks such as driving, operating equipment, and work-related activities.
Cognitive dysfunction is considered the failure of certain mechanisms such as understanding, coordination, spatial perception and reality, and problem solving. These limitations occur in the patient's personal, social, and work life to a greater or lesser degree. In turn, it is possible that the progression of cognitive impairment in life has emotional consequences for the patient, who, because of his/her limitations, may develop depressive symptoms, inhibitions, and/or impaired volition. All nerve cells are targets of alcohol and its metabolite agents and viral toxins, producing functional alterations. However, patients with a history of prolonged alcoholic intake showed more severe intellectual derangements than patients with chronic viral liver disease, except for the Reitan's test. It can be considered that brain function impairment is caused by prolonged alcohol ingestion or long-term viral damage, derived into cirrhosis and portal hypertension.20 These agents induce alterations in several brain structures and cellular pathways, causing mild or important cognitive defects.
The detailed psychometric or neuropsychological examination carried out in this study revealed important cognitive impairment in most of the 43 patients with liver disease.
The most outstanding findings were failures related to the constructional ability and copy capacity (recognition as identical or nonidentical designs). We found an important number of mistakes in recognition in the cube and scanning tests.
The use of this group of tests allowed documenting the existence of very poor performance in the visual motor area, corresponding to coordinated functions between visual motor and spatial areas. These findings are related to a serious deterioration in the velocity (speed) of mental processes during perception and discrimination of objects.
An alteration in the conjugated ocular movements during the act to follow an object can be suggested to have a diagnostic value during the presence of a subclinical hepatic encephalopathy.
The alteration in the similarity test indicates the presence of a marked defect to conform categories, suggesting an altered capacity of comprehension and a defect in the associative capacity in verbal concept that implies a deficiency in conceptual judgment.
Chronic alcohol ingestion acts on numerous pathways that affect the function of the liver and other organs, including the brain.10 The main metabolite of alcohol, acetaldehyde, and several adducts, malonaldehyde and 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal, damage cell structure and organelles in the liver and brain, affecting microtubular proteins and inhibiting microtubule polymerization. It has been suggested that during this damage, excessive generation of reactive oxygen species overpasses the antioxidant system, forming the so-called oxidative stress. Reactive oxygen species alter membrane structure, lipid molecules, and DNA, producing membrane lipo-oxidation and affecting lipid metabolism.
Taken together, these findings suggest that alcohol intake induces oxidative stress and constitutes a pivotal factor in the development of liver and brain injury.
Viral damage, like hepatitis B and C viruses, probably uses a similar mechanism to produce intellectual deficits through its own toxins. The presence of hepatitis B or C virus in the patient may act on brain tissue by either the action of viral toxic substances or the presence of cytokines or chemokines released by macrophages or other cells, which are mainly the liver Kupffer cells. These two factors may act on brain nuclei, causing functional impairment.21 This speculation is based on the fact that infection induces neuroinflammation and brain dysfunction. Fatigue, mood disturbances, and cognitive dysfunction are frequent in patients infected with hepatitis C virus who have mild liver disease. The pathological mechanism is still unclear. Viral sequences and proteins have been previously found in brain macrophage/microglia cells. Bokemeyer et al.21 found glial activation and macrophage infiltration in chronic inflammation and virus infections of the brain, endorsing the hypothesis that hepatitis C virus infection may induce neuroinflammation. Wilkinson et al.22 also found evidence for activation of brain macrophages/microglia cells in autopsy brain tissue from hepatitis C virus-positive patients.
Some of these mechanisms can be studied using animal models. However, the extrapolation of the findings, from animals to humans, remains a difficult task, because reactive oxygen species production and antioxidant status in humans is affected by severe nutritional environmental defects and drug influences, which are difficult to reproduce in animals.
Nevertheless, several investigations have found that the administration of antioxidant agents that reduce the levels of free iron or of agents that replenish glutathione levels can prevent or ameliorate the toxic effect of alcohol. The most convincing data, which indicate that oxidative stress contributes to alcohol liver disease, have come from studies using the intragastric alcohol infusion model. In these studies, alcohol liver disease was associated with enhanced lipid peroxidation, protein modification, formation of the 1-hydroxy-ethyl radical and lipid radicals, and a decrease in the hepatic antioxidant defense, particularly glutathione levels.23–25 Moreover, changes in the animal diet promote or reduce oxidative stress, leading to the corresponding changes in the extent of liver injury, as occurs when polyunsaturated fats, which are required for lipid peroxidation production, are replaced with saturated fatty acids26 and perhaps on brain damage also.
According to previous experiments from our laboratory, brain regions, specifically the hippocampus and prefrontal region, are involved in metabolic, functional, and morphological derangements in a portal hypertensive rat model, which reproduces this major cirrhotic complication using a simple stricture of the portal vein.27
The hippocampal region is a brain median temporal lobe formation that takes part in the processing of memory, behavior, and learning. It is also related to other parts of the brain, such as the brain cortex and amygdala. Thus, this brain region is probably involved in brain damage by different toxins and possibly participates in intellectual derangements.
Rusakov et al.28 studied the correlation of spatial learning in the rat hippocampus with synaptic ultrastructural appearance and suggested that it is possible to recognize brain areas and even cell populations in particular learning paradigms.
Stubley-Weatherly et al.29 examined the effects of hippocampal lesions using water maze performance in rats and found that both the dorsal CA1 and ventral CA3 subregions play important roles in learning.
Rats maintained in a spatially enriched environment show improved performance in a water maze task, which is associated with an increased density of dendritic spines in CA1 pyramidal cells, indicating an increased number of newly formed synapses associated with spatial learning. These results provide evidence that memory formation, at least in rats, may involve morphological and topographic changes in some neural circuits.
Unexpectedly, the memory function, analyzed for a short time or long time, shows minor alterations when comparing cirrhotic patients with control subjects, but visual memory was affected.4,5,30 Perhaps the lack of a significant failure in memory can be due to lesser damage to the hippocampus region. It would be interesting to study hippocampus behavior and its basic influence on memory in alcoholic and nonalcoholic chronic liver disease.
When we used the Boston Naming Test with our patients, we observed that it took a significantly long period of time for the patients to complete the answer, indicating the presence of a slower mechanism of thinking (patients must observe the object to remember its name). This kind of behavior is called paraphrasis and demonstrates the capacity of the patient to scan the information. Retrograde semantic memory is involved in this procedure. During depression, this test can show a normal result, but in dementia, scarce verbal fluency can be present.
The analysis of our results, after the application of this battery of tests, demonstrated that patients with chronic liver disease, from either alcoholic intake or viral damage, had an important impairment in their attention and mental concentration. Interestingly, mental alterations were documented when tests were applied to involve the praxis aspects (motor activity) and those that evaluate the velocity of the mental processes.
The psychoneurological symptoms that appear during chronic liver disease may correspond to the presence of several and complex mechanisms. Peterson et al.14 and Lozeva et al.31,32 reported that neurotransmitter systems, particularly alterations in the glutaminergic and monoaminergic receptors, are implicated, as shown in brains of cirrhotic patients and experimental models.33
The role of these pathways is to mediate important brain functions, such as the regulation of the sleep-wake cycle and the act of learning and memory.
Weissenborn et al.4 showed that, as the degree of cognitive impairment in cirrhotic patients without clinical signs of hepatic encephalopathy increases, the glucose use of the frontal and parieto-occipital cortex decreases. Because the brain metabolism of glucose is closely related to liver glycogen, the results of Weissenborn et al. are very interesting.
Cirrhotic liver and its scar and nodular formation decrease the number of normal hepatocytes and their function, independently of the etiology: alcohol or toxins from virus. On one hand, less glycogen is stored, with the possibility of sending less glucose to the brain; on the other hand, as occurs in long-term alcoholic consumption, there is a decrease in glutathione levels in the mitochondria.
The neuropsychological tests that are used in this research confirmed the presence of cognitive impairment in patients with liver cirrhosis due to alcoholic prolonged intake or hepatitis B or C virus damage. The presence of oxidative stress must be assumed in these patients as part of the mechanism of cognitive alterations. According to the literature, 51%−70% of cirrhotic patients present cognitive alterations. Animal models exposed to ammonium acetate show an important decrease in the activity of glutathione peroxidase in the liver and brain, which is the same as liver peroxidation. Ammonia is toxic to brain function and is the result of urea metabolism in the damaged liver that is caused by cirrhosis.
Corbalán et al.34 found that the nitric oxide-guanylate cyclase signal transduction pathway is altered in brains of patients with chronic liver damage and that these alterations are different depending on the brain area involved.
An increase in Ca2+ intracellular concentration, which stimulates glutamate receptors (N-methyl-d-aspartate), can also modify the signal transduction pathway in the brain. The entry of Ca2+ into CNS cells triggers the production of nitric oxide by neuronal nitric oxide synthase activation. This molecular alteration can produce different levels of intellectual changes, with coma being the most serious event in cirrhotic patients.
Injection of cyclic GMP, a hyperglycemic agent, causes an increase in brain glucose, ameliorating brain function.
According to the results by Erceg et al.,35 the intracerebral injection of cyclic GMP to chronic hyperammonemic rats restores the ability to learn and memorize, using a Y-maze conditional discrimination task. The administration of an anti-inflammatory drug, such as ibuprofen, also contributes to the amelioration of learning, using the same Y-maze.36 We then suggest that both cyclic GMP and ibuprofen act on the impairment of the glutamate-nitric oxide-cyclic GMP pathway in the brain and, by different mechanisms, restore learning capacity.
A subtle decline in cognitive function may be an important cause of decreased psychological and working ability in cirrhotic patients. The alterations in cognitive function, as those found in our patients, can be subtle and not readily recognized but may initiate a subclinical encephalopathy.
We suggest that the cognitive function alterations found in our cirrhotic patients with either chronic alcohol intake or viral damage are associated with two different mechanisms: one related to alcohol or viral etiology and the other, and most important, to the cirrhotic liver, with alterations in fundamental pathways (glucose metabolism) that involve brain function.
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Paul R. Potter, 49, of Kirksville, is also accused of setting fires to conceal the crime. He was charged Monday in Adair County with second-degree murder, arson and tampering with a motor vehicle and is being held on $1 million bond. Kevin Locke, the public defender assigned to represent Potter, did not return a phone call seeking comment.
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Though the increase in prices has been shopped around the block since October, it's likely that damage from Sandy was the nail in the train coffin (the hike is expected to rake in 450 million big ones for the cash-strapped MTA). What's the takeaway, you ask? Simply put, gettin' around is gettin' expensive. As for us, we're putting on our boots and getting ready to walk more this spring. Tell us, what do you think of the MTA upping the cost to travel? Sound off below! (NYTimes)
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This location is in Wellesley. Nearby parks include Walnut St Property, Town Forest and Newton Lower Falls Historic District.
Nearby schools include Schofield Elementary School, Saint Johns School and St John the Evangelist School.
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Posted: 03/08/2008 - Games at the boys and girls 11th Region basketball tournament have been rescheduled.
Posted: 03/08/2008 - Games at the boys and girls 11th Region basketball tournament have been rescheduled.
Updated: 03/08/2008 - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Last year, Georgia crushed Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference tournament. This year, the Wildcats wanted to catch the Lady Bulldogs by surprise. It worked.
Posted: 03/07/2008 - Games at the girls' 12th Region basketball tournament will tip as planned. In the first game at Lincoln Co., Casey Co. faces the home team at 6:00 p.m., followed by Mercer Co. and Rockcastle Co., which is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m.
Posted: 03/07/2008 - LEXINGTON, Ky. -- After assessing the threat of inclement weather forecast in the Lexington area for the weekend, the No. 9 Kentucky baseball team has postponed its Saturday contest with Purdue, UK head coach John Cohen announced. A determination will be made on Saturday morning in regards to game times for the four-game series.
Posted: 03/07/2008 - Officials at EKU and the girls 11th region basketball tournament will meet at 2 p.m. on Friday, to make a decision on Friday's scheduled games.
Posted: 03/07/2008 - LEXINGTON, Ky. – Due to the threat of inclement weather the University of Kentucky softball tournament, the Frostbite Classic, has been cancelled for this weekend.
Posted: 03/07/2008 - BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – Junior men's basketball player Mike Rose earned first team All-OVC accolades as announced by the league this evening. Voting was done by the conference's head coaches and sports information directors.
Posted: 03/06/2008 - LEXINGTON, Ky. -- With the threat of inclement weather over the weekend, the No. 9 Kentucky baseball team has postponed its Friday contest with Purdue, UK head coach John Cohen announced.
Updated: 03/05/2008 - COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Joe Crawford had a career-high 35 points as Kentucky continued its late charge to the NCAA tournament with a 71-63 victory over South Carolina on Wednesday night.
Posted: 03/05/2008 - LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Sawyer Carroll was one of four players to chart multi-hit games, as the No. 9 Kentucky baseball team rode 11 runs in the first two innings to a dominating 15-1 win over the visiting Evansville Purple Aces, improving to 10-0 on the campaign, on Wednesday evening at Cliff Hagan Stadium.
Posted: 03/05/2008 - LOUISVILLE, Ky. (March 5, 2008) – Former University of Kentucky basketball coach Tubby Smith and player Jamal Mashburn are among the athletes, coaches and sports journalists included in the 2008 induction class of the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame.
Posted: 03/05/2008 - HOUSTON -- Senior Greg Dombrowski and junior Scott Green have been named to the watch list for the fifth annual Roger Clemens National Pitcher of the Year Award, it was announced.
Posted: 03/05/2008 - The University of Kentucky football program hosted its annual Pro Day on Wednesday and representatives from 25 NFL teams were on hand to see Wildcat underclassmen and outgoing seniors work out at UK's Nutter Fieldhouse.
Posted: 03/05/2008 - MOREHEAD, Ky. - The Morehead State men's basketball team posted a late run but fell short to Tennessee State 68-61 in the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament Tuesday at Johnson Arena. Senior Jamyron Steward led the Eagles with 18 points, and fellow senior Nikola Stojakovic totaled 11 assists in their final appearances as Eagle athletes. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – Five Austin Peay players finished in double figures as the Governors defeated the Eastern Kentucky University men's basketball team Tuesday night in the 2008 OVC tournament quarterfinals, 76-51. Austin Peay (22-10), the OVC regular season champion, advances to the tournament semifinals for the 11th time in the last 14 years.
Posted: 03/04/2008 - When will Billy Gillispie quit starting Mark Coury? Should Kentucky accept an NIT bid if the Cats don't make the NCAA? Those are just a couple of questions Henry Thomas and Drew Deener discuss on Wildcat Nation, our online radio
Posted: 03/04/2008 - When will Billy Gillispie quit starting Mark Coury? Should Kentucky accept an NIT bid if the Cats don't make the NCAA? Those are just a couple of questions Henry Thomas and Drew Deener discuss on Wildcat Nation, our online radio.
Posted: 03/04/2008 - DALLAS -- Senior right-fielder Sawyer Carroll has been named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association National Player of the Week, the organization announced on Tuesday.
Updated: 03/04/2008 - LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - After one of the most celebrated losses in recent Kentucky basketball history, coach Billy Gillispie is well aware that nothing less than a victory will suffice as an encore.
Posted: 03/04/2008 - LEXINGTON, Ky. – A school-record five Kentucky women's basketball players were named to the All-Southeastern Conference team for the 2007-08 season, the league office in Birmingham, Ala., announced Tuesday. Two were named to the second team, two were selected to the All-SEC freshman team and one was honored as the Scholar Athlete of the Year.
Posted: 03/04/2008 - GREENWOOD, IN –Defiance College's Anthony Pettaway (Toledo, Ohio/Bowsher) has been named the 2007- 2008 Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Most Valuable Player and headlines the 12-member all-HCAC team. Transy's Tim Tierney and Joey Verax were named to the first-team.
Posted: 03/04/2008 - Lexington, KY (March 3, 2008) – Risen Star Stakes (G3) winner Pyro and Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) winner Cool Coal Man headline a talented roster of 167 three-year-olds nominated to Keeneland's $750,000 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G1), to be held Saturday, April 12.
Posted: 03/03/2008 - Lexington, KY (March 3, 2008) – Champion juvenile filly Indian Blessing is among 120 three-year-old fillies nominated to Keeneland's $500,000 Ashland Stakes (G1), to be run Saturday, April 5.
Posted: 03/03/2008 - LEXINGTON, Ky. – Chris Thurmond, a coaching veteran with experience in the Southeastern Conference and Big XII Conference, is the new defensive backs coach at the University of Kentucky, Coach Rich Brooks has announced.
Posted: 03/02/2008 - LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky women's basketball team could not overcome a poor shooting afternoon as South Carolina defeated the Wildcats 65-57 in Rupp Arena on Senior Day. Led by senior Samantha Mahoney's (Detroit) 12 points and a season-high 11 points from junior Carly Ormerod (Louisville, Ky.), UK shot a dismal 13.6 percent (3-of-22) in the first half and just 27.6 percent (16-of-58) for the game.
Updated: 03/02/2008 - A week that began with a No. 1 ranking was far from smooth for Tennessee. Chris Lofton scored 14 points, including a jump shot with 1:15 left, and the Vols beat Kentucky 63-60 on Sunday to stay atop the Southeastern Conference.


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In the newest season of American Horror Story, we're going to delve into the realm of witchcraft in New Orleans, 300 years after the Salem Witch Trials. This season, there are two characters whose backstory is based in history. Today, we'll take a look at some of the history behind American Horror Story: Coven.
The first character we are going to discuss is Delphine LaLaurie, who is being portrayed in Coven by Academy Awards winner Kathy Bates.
Madame Marie Delphine LaLaurie (née Macarty) was born around 1775, and was one of five children born to Marie Jeanne Lovable and Barthelmy Louis Macarty. Madame LaLaurie even had family ties to the government in New Orleans. Her cousin Augustin de Macarty was the mayor of New Orleans from 1815-1820.
Madame LaLaurie was married three times during the course of her life. Her first husband was Don Ramon de Lopez y Angullo, a high ranking Spanish officer. In 1804, Madame LaLaurie and her husband left New Orleans and travelled to Spain; however, before their voyage could be completed, Don Ramon died of unknown causes in Havana en route to Madrid.
Madame LaLaurie bore on child as a result of her marriage to Don Ramon; a daughter named Marie Borgia Delphine Lopez y Angulla de la Candelaria, who she nicknamed "Borquita."
In June of 1808, LaLaurie remarried; this time to Jean Blanque, a prominent banker, merchant, lawyer, and legislator. LaLaurie would have four children with Blanque; Marie Louise Pauline, Louise Marie Laure, Marie Louise Jeanne, and Jeanne Pierre Paulin Blanque.
Jean Blanque would pass away in 1816, opening the door for her third marriage.
In 1825 Madame LaLaurie married her third husband, Leonard Louis Nicholas LaLaurie. LaLaurie was a physician, and many years her junior.
In 1831, she purchased the property at 1140 Royal Street, and in 1832 had a three-story mansion built on the property.
This would be the location that would go down in infamy due to Madame LaLaurie's violent vices.
Madame LaLaurie managed to hide her violent tendencies below the guise of her involvement in the many social circles of the time.
Due to her social status, little attention was paid to the evil that lay underneath the façade she created.
There are many reports that her slaves looked extremely distressed. Harriet Martineau wrote in 1838 recounting the stories that were told to her by residents of New Orleans during her visit in 1836. They claimed that Madame LaLaurie's slaves were observed to be "singularly haggard and wretched."
At one point, the rumors reached such a boiling point that a local lawyer was dispatched to her home to remind her of the laws relevant to the upkeep of slaves. During their visit, they found no evidence of wrongdoing on Madame LaLaurie's part.
According to one of Martineau's reports, a neighbor of LaLaurie's witnessed a horrific tragedy unfold right before her eyes. Apparently, one of LaLaurie's slaves, a young girl named Lia had been brushing Madame LaLaurie's hair when she caught a snag. In response, LaLaurie grabbed a whip and began to chase her throughout the house. The neighbor claimed to have watched as she chased the slave from floor to floor before both of them emerged on the roof. According to the neighbor, the young child leapt to her death from the roof in order to avoid the beating at the hands of Madame LaLaurie.
It was said that the body of the young girl was buried on the property by torchlight in the middle of the night.
This incident sparked an investigation of the LaLaurie's. After being found guilty of illegal cruelty, as punishment, they were forced to relinquish ownership of nine slaves.
Unfortunately, those slaves did not escape the clutches of Madame LaLaurie for very long. Those same slaves were acquired by a relative of the LaLauries, and subsequently returned to their original place at 1140 Royal Street.
On April 10th, 1834, Madame LaLaurie's mistreatment of her slaves reached a boiling point. A fire broke out in her residence on Royal Street. Once the fire marshals arrived, they found a seventy-year-old woman who was the cook in the home, chained by her ankle to the blazing stove. After being questioned, she confessed that she had started the fire as a suicide attempt to avoid her punishment from Madame LaLaurie.
There are reports that state that after the fire had begun to gain strength, bystanders attempted to enter the slave quarters to prevent them from being engulfed by the fire. When they were denied entry by the LaLauries, the bystanders reportedly broke down the door and found something more horrible than they could have possibly imagined. It is reported that they were met with the vision of seven slaves that had been more or less horribly mutated. In the story that was recounted by Martineau in 1836, the slaves were all emaciated , showed signs of being flayed with a whip, bound in restrictive postures, and wore spiked iron collars that held their heads in static positions.
There is not much information available regarding Madame LaLaurie's life after the fire that brought all of her indiscretions to light. According to a report by Harriet Martineau in 1838, when the mob violence began to ravage through New Orleans, violence that also left her home at 1140 Royal Street stripped of its former glory and nearly destroyed, she fled New Orleans for Mobile, Alabama and later to Paris.
While the true circumstances behind Madame LaLaurie's death are widely unclear, there was a copper plate found in Alley 4 of the St. Louis Cemetery #1. The inscription on the plate reads ""Madame LaLaurie, née Marie Delphine Maccarthy, décédée à Paris, le 7 Décembre, 1842, à l'âge de 6–."
Madame Delphine LaLaurie is still spoken about in Louisiana folklore to this day. People recount the stories of the horrific things that she did to her slaves They recount the discovery of everything from having their eyes gouged out, to great holes in their flesh, to having their fingernails torn out by the roots and their lips sewn together. The evil in the heart of Madame LaLaurie truly knew no bounds.
It will be interesting to see how this sadistic woman will be incorporated to the storyline of American Horror Story: Coven. If I had to venture a guess, I would say that at some point during the season, we are sure to see some sort of a confrontation between Madame LaLaurie and Fiona, the Supreme of the Coven who will be portrayed by series staple Jessica Lange.
If you ask my personal opinion, I don't think they could have picked a more perfect person than Kathy Bates to portray Madame LaLaurie. She has certainly played her fair share of villains in her career. If you are ever in doubt, please note her performance in the film Misery.
There is another character in this season of American Horror Story that is based on a real person. Marie Laveau, who will be portrayed in Coven by Angela Bassett, was known as the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.
According to reports, Marie Laveau lived within a very close proximity of Madame LaLaurie. While there is no documented record of any interaction between the two, it would be hard to believe that their destinies never crossed.
It is believed that Marie Laveau was born free in the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1794.She was the daughter of a white planter and a free Creole woman of color.
On August 4, 1819, Marie married Jacques Paris, a free person of color who emigrated from Haiti.
Paris was a part of a much larger immigration to New Orleans in 1809 after the Haitian Revolution of 1804.
Her husband died of unexplained circumstances in 1820.
After his death, Marie became a hairdresser who catered to wealthy white females. She reportedly took a lover named Christophe (Louis Christophe Dumesnil de Glapion). She entered into a plaçage and lived with Christophe until his death in 1835.
Their relationship reportedly bore 15 children; including Marie Laveau II who was born in 1827.
There is not a lot of information about the magical career of Marie Laveau that can be substantiated. It is believed that the occult part of her magic mixed the beliefs of Roman Catholicism, including saints, with African spirits and religious concepts.
Some believe that her feared powers of divination were based on her network of informants that she developed while working in the households of her prominent clients as a hairdresser.
There are conflicting reports as to how the people of New Orleans viewed Marie. While there are people that feared her, there were also those who sought her assistance. There are reports that she was also very skilled in the healing arts, especially in the healing properties of indigenous herbs, and that many prominent people sought her advice.
Between the 1820's and the 1860's, nearly 40 years, she was referred to as the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.
On June 16th, 1881 newspapers in New Orleans reported that she has passed away. This is interesting because many people reported seeing Marie in town after reports of her passing began to circulate. Many people believe that her daughter Marie Laveau II, at some point shortly before or just after her death took over for her mother and assumed the Voodoo Queen identity.
There are many historical accounts of her life that confuse Marie Laveau with her daughter.
Marie Laveau was buried in the St. Louis Cemetery #1, the same as Madame LaLaurie. She was reportedly buried in the Glapion family crypt.
In voodoo it is believed that when a Voodoo Queen dies her spirit re-enters the river of life and moves to the next realm, adjacent to this one.
To this day, people still visit the crypt of the Voodoo Queen; some on a pilgrimage hoping that the spirit of the Voodoo Queen will grant them a wish, and others out of respectful curiosity about a woman so deeply ingrained in New Orleans history.
It will be very interesting to see which side of Marie Laveau that producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk plan to use in Coven. Will they concentrate more on the person who used her spirit and knowledge of indigenous herbs to heal the sick, or will they show the side that many believe dabbled in darkness and fear?
The only thing we can do is tune in and watch for ourselves.
American Horror Story: Coven debuts on Wednesday, October 9th at 10:00 p.m. on FX.
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Cell Number(1)= 0092 300 -633 7467 Cell Number(2)= 0092 345 -727 6443 E mail firstname.lastname@example.com Web site http://hamidsart.redbubble.com Skype name hamid.iqbal.khan1 Regards Life Achievements 1.2nd Award in All Pakistan Calligraphic Competition, Lahore in 1996. 2.Selected for Man of the Year Award – 98 by American Biographical Institute (U.S.A.) 3.Sufi Khurshid Raqm Award.From Lahore Arts council 4.Khawaja Fareed Award From Multan Arts Forum. 5.Work Selected and displayed in American Islamic Community Complex,New Yark,U.S.A. 6.First Award In International Calligraphy Competition from Lok Visa Museum,Lahore. 7.Awarded honorary From Shama Cultural Society Multan. 8.Awarded from All Pakistan Langah society,Karachi. 9.First Award from Traditional society of Arts and Crafts,From Islamabad,Pakistan. 10.Honorary Award From Sibbi Cultural Arts Forum,Sibbi,Baluchistan,Pakistan 11.Best Young Painter Award From (Future Vision Blog) by Multan Arts Council Multan. 12.Merritt Scholarship From Dabistan Faroghe Khattati Multan Pakistan. 13.Chairman Arts And Crafts Society Multan Cantt. 14.Organizer Dabistan Faroghe Khattati Multan Pakistan. 15.Patron All Pakistan Painters Association Quetta Baluchistan. 16.Awarded For the Best Calligraphy Trainer From British International Schools,Multan,Lahore,Karachi ,Islamabad,Peshawar,Rawalpindi,Faisalabad,Bahawalpur,Pakistan 17.Patron The Best Calligraphy and Fine Arts Training Multan Cantt,Pakistan 18.Awarde From Ustad Allah Bax Academy Lahore. 19.Honourary President Idara Kashful Quloob Islamabad 20-Honourary President Bazme Shura Pakistan. 21.Awarded From The Best Writers Guild.Multan 22.Awarded From The Director General Of Combined Military Hospitals,For The Best Interiors In Pakistan. 23. Honorary Editor Monthly Faize Alam ,Bahawalpur,Punjab. 24-As an Intellectual Group insurance Academy of Letters Islamabad.Pakistan TITLES OF HONOR. 1-President Society of Calligraphy Instructors Pakistan. 2-Organizer,Dabistan-e-Faroghe Khattati (Regd.) 3-Chief Organizer ,Art Bank Calligraphy Training Centre Multan Cantt. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION BA,B.Ed. From Bahauddin zakria University Multan 3 Years Diploma in Calligraphy From The School of Calligraphy (Regd.) 2 Years Diploma of Fine Arts From College of Islamic Arts (Regd.) 2 Years Diploma Civil Draughtsman From Pak Arab Engineering College. C.P.E.L.C and IELTS Courses form British Educational Services Multan 2 Years Diploma of Photography From Mughal Photo Training Institute. Computer Qualification Graphic Designing,Coraldraw, Adobe Photoshop,Streamline,Inpage, Calligraphy Art. Spoken Languages English ,Arabic ,Urdu Experience 1- One year as Graphic Designer&Photographer, Bauru Office Monthly Magazine "MANZIL"Sweden. 2- 6YearsCalligraphyArt,LeatherPainting,Ceramic writing & Painting,New Creation in Awards,TrophiesAndGifts.,TitlesDesigning,Land scape (Oil ,Water &Pastel),Mirror&Glass Painting,Etc. Bismillah Musalsal Total number of trained Calligraphic Students in above listed Institutions,From 1996 to Till Now; 4000 Total number of trained Calligraphic Teachers In above listed Institutions.from 1996 To till Now; 800 Total number of trained Professionals &Students in my own Studio "Art Bank" From 2002 To Till Now; 1200 BOOKS ON CALLIGRAPHY: 1.Guide Book for Urdu & Eng. Calligraphy – 1998. 2.Qawaid-e-Khattati(vol.1)- 2005 3.The Art of Calligraphy – 2005 4.The techniques of Straight writing- 2009. 5.The techniques of Joining writing- 2009. 6. Qawaid-e-Khattati (vol.2)- 2009. BROADCASTED INTERVIEWS; 1-PTV (Live) Morning Transmission From Islamabad Studio,Dated 16th July ,2002 2-PTV Programme (JHOKE) From Lahore Studio Dated, 7thDec.2003 3-PTV News During My Solo Art Exhibition Held in Multan Arts Council ,Dated 25th Sep.2004. Exhibitions, Calligraphic work exhibitions have been Displayed in all major cities of Pakistan,&Iran,Sweden,Denmark,K.S.A Motto; To promote the Art of Calligraphy to produce the interest of beautiful handwriting in the society. Write ups about my Art work have been Published in below listed News Papers & Magazines. 1 Daily The News Dated,July 9.2000. On Sunday 2 Daily The Nation ,Sunday,October 4,1998. 3 Daily Saboot Karachi,Wednesday, March 15, 2000. 4 Daily Nawa-e -Waqt Multan,June 12, 2001. 5 Monthly Magazine"Manzil" Sweden. August 16, 2004. 6 Monthly Magazine "Kaleem"Multan.December 7,2005. 7 Daily "Nawa-e-Waqt"Multan June 6,2008. (Calligraphy Instructor) Art bank Calligraphy Training Centre Multan . 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cleftRock Retreat Center needs volunteer teams to help with cleaning and maintenance of the facility. This would include cleaning retreat houses, cleaning trails, landscaping, minor carpentry, electrical and plumbing repairs.
cleftRock Retreat Center also hosts short-term mission teams that serve in the surrounding community, providing support to local pastors and missionaries.
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cleftRock Retreat Center, located in Mt. Vernon, KY exists to minister to those who minister to others. Primarily, this is done through offering missionaries, pastors, and their families whith 3 days/2 nights of rest and retreat at cleftRock Retreat Center. cleftRock advocates for those in ministry thro0ugh retreats, encouragement, and education.
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Add RMR with video clips sent to the customer
Video verification is popular topic in the security industry today. We have an interesting confluence of technological advancement, municipal budget constraints and a more technically sophisticated clientele. Most importantly, in my opinion, we have a tremendous opportunity to make people safer and to create new sources of recurring monthly revenue (RMR) for our businesses.
The primary focus of discussions about video verification tends to be the potential impact on our existing account bases. The fear is that video verification will cause the police to stop responding to traditional security systems and our clients to cancel. I believe clients with traditional security systems are safer than they would be without a system. (Statistics overwhelmingly prove this.) I also genuinely believe that if we add video verification to our existing clients they will be even safer. I see video verification as an enhancement for those clients who choose to upgrade. We do not sell one size fits all security systems as an industry and we never have. Adding video verification is an upgrade like interactive services, additional security devices, or maintenance. It is also clearly an opportunity to add RMR to new and existing accounts.
The second focus is on the first responders. Non response is a real issue in many parts of our country and the fear is that police will stop responding. We will have to work with the AHJs to educate them on the strengths and weaknesses of video verification technologies. (With fellow board members of the Nevada Security Association we had a meeting with the Henderson Police Department in December 2012 to discuss video verification.) As municipal budgets shrink, police departments are being forced to cut back and it would be easy for the uneducated to decide not to respond to alarms. As an industry we have focused on false alarm reduction and we have made great improvements. The "verification" in video verification is not just about verifying the presence of a person on the property. It is the ability of the central station to call the police and tell them that they have video of a person at the sight, have called the responsible party list and do not know why someone is on the premises. This is clearly an enhancement to simply reporting zones in alarm and will lead to increased capture and deterrence. We will have to work with our local and national associations, (I am a board member of PPVAR (Partnership for Priority Video Alarm Response) and our industry to ensure a consistent message that security systems keep people and property safe and additionally how video verification can enhance that process.
What is rarely talked about in these discussions are the end users and the opportunity. I believe today's security end users are more technically sophisticated than the solutions our industry offers. Business owners and managers have smartphones and just like us they are increasingly leveraging the power of these devices to run and manage their businesses. They need to know in real time what is happening in their businesses and if there is an alarm, they want to see what caused it. This is an amazing opportunity.
Real world example and opportunity
An example of the opportunity is Jenn Tagle, a small systems sales person from my alarm company, American Video and Security (AVS), in Las Vegas. She sold $701 in RMR and $15,221 in installations for the month of November 2012. Jen joined AVS seven months ago and was trained to sell small commercial systems with video verification. Jenn is a sharp lady and her B2B background (Sears pest control utilizing a planned presentation) certainly helps her in her small systems role. Jenn sold a video verified system on her second sales appointment with AVS. We utilize a tablet and a planned presentation to show the service, how it works and then send an alarm video clip to the potential client's smartphone. The customer instantly gets the value proposition.
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Release Date:
March 14, 2008
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Neil Marshall
Screenwriter: Neil Marshall
Starring: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig, Malcolm McDowell
Genre: Action, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for strong bloody violence, language and some sexual content/nudity)
Official Website: DoomsdayisComing.com
Review: 8/10 rating
DVD Review: 7/10 rating
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Plot Summary: In the action-packed new thriller from writer/director Neil Marshall ("The Descent"), authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades � until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, captained by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
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