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Thrill the crowd with the Spalding® Extreme Green Outdoor Volleyball. Perfect for outdoor recreational play, the Extreme Green is machine-stitched to stay in the game just as long as you do. The soft touch feel and cushioned composite cover give you increased comfort while making the big digs to help your team win the game.
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This form is very similar in appearance and habitat preference to the western H. concolor and to the Central African H. kivuensis. Its range overlaps both, however, without signs of hybridisation. H. balfouri differs from H. concolor in the colour of the females (uniform green in H. concolor) and by the conspicuous middorsal stripe in areas where the two overlap. For differences between H. balfouri and H. kivuensis, see the latter.
The western populations from Cameroun often have a conspicuous dark middorsal stripe, a feature only seen on a few of the eastern specimens. The Cameronese form is normally termed H. b. viridistriatus Monard 1951 while the eastern form from eastern R. D. Congo, south-western Ethiopia and Uganda, is termed H. b. balfouri. If there is a gradual transition between them in the unexplored areas in between, there is hardly any reason to maintain the subspecies.
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Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda
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I'm starting to pack my hospital bag today so I don't have to later! If you want to steal my list have at it! If you want to suggest something name it! I'm a breastfeeding mom in cold winter weather just an fyi
NOTE: A few weeks before the big day: Get your bed, car etc 'water break ready' put a thick towel or piddle pad (kind of what they use at hospitals) underneath your sheets where you lay, on your seat in car etc. You just never know and amniotic fluid can hurt your mattress if it's enough!
For Baby:
Newborn & 0-3 outfit (you never know what they will fit in to)
Pair of newborn socks with optional slippers
Receiving blanket
Pram (thin snowsuit)
Blanket (to wrap around them if you don't want to use a Pram)
Warm hat
Hand covers (or use socks~ so they don't scratch themselves!!)
Car Essentials:
Carseat cover
Seat protector optional (to help protect your vehicle seats)
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PERSONAL~ Nursing Cover / Nursing bra optional / Lanolin nipple cream / Nursing Pads / Boppy Pillow / Prenatal Vitamins / Flip Flops for shower
HAIR ~ Brush / Spray / Hairdryer / Ponytail holder / Shampoo, Conditioner ETC
BEAUTY ~ Make-up optional / Facewash / Chapstick / Toothbrush / Deodorant / Glasses and contact items if applicable
CLOTHES ~ Socks / Slippers / Robe / PJ's / Going Home Clothes (think comfy hoodie and sweatpants!) Underwear (although you may love their hospital desposable undies!!)
Labor Aides (all optional):
Biofreeze / Heating Pad / Lotions / Essential Oils / Music / Tennis balls / Pilates ball (but hospital usually has these) / Mints (help with nausea) Two piece Swimwear or something similar (so if you want to relax in a warm bath at the hospital during labor you will feel more comfortable if you have support people around you who you don't want to see you completely naked and sopping wet)
Phone / Phone Charger
Camera / Camera Charger / Memory Card
Optional: Kindle, Laptop, Ipad etc
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Pajamas / Comfy Clothes / Pillow
Phone / Phone Charger / Camera
Snacks / Money for vending machines
List of phone numbers or emails of people you need to contact in case your cell has no reception/don't have one/ etc reason
Copies of your Birth Plan if you need to give extras to an hospital staff unaware of your wishes
Folder to keep all of the infant papers they give you, from essential care guides to the footprints etc of your LO
Notepad for taking down infant info! (don't bring your babybook, you might screw up, better to just transfer info when you get home)
Garbage Bag to bring home any gifts you get from visitors and hospital
Pack something for your child if you already have one to occupy them if they come for a visit etc!
Note: Small Misc things like pacifiers, diapers, creams, pads are usually supplied!! If you want to make sure since every hospital is different ask during your tour or call them ahead of time.
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Theory of Random and Block Copolymers
My interest in copolymers is related to an important technological issue of how to strengthen the interaction of molecules across an interface between two immiscible liquids. For example, a mixture of water and oil would generally be found in a phase separated state, with the two phases being almost pure water and oil. Traditionally nonionic surfactants which consist of a hydrophobic (oil soluble) tail and a hydrophilic (water soluble) head are used to stabilize water/oil mixtures. Molecules of such surfactants tend to localize at a water/oil interface and reduce its interfacial tension. In some cases the interfacial tension, defined as the free energy associated with the interface, can become negative, leading to the formation of water/oil microemulsions. In addition to nonionic surfactants, long copolymer chains that consist of both hydrophobic and hydrophilic monomers may be included in the mixture to facilitate mixing. Large molecular weight of polymer surfactants leads to a large energy gain vs. corresponding entropy loss when the surfactant molecules localize at an interface between two liquids. In particular, very long copolymer chains that on average show no preference for either water or oil will remain adsorbed at a water/oil interface over a broad range of temperatures. Diblock copolymers, which are generally used for compatibilizing purposes, can be quite laborious to synthesize. In my work (N. A. Denesyuk, 2001) I have used statistical physics methods to compare adsorption characteristics of diblock copolymers and of various random copolymers (which would be fairly easy to synthesize). I have shown that random copolymers can be effective compatibilizers, although their tendency to adsorb at interfaces is weaker than that of diblock copolymers. Another interesting result is that copolymers with randomly alternating sequences of hydrophobic and hydrophilic monomers adsorb at water/oil interfaces more easily than copolymers with regularly periodic sequences. This result is of entropic origin and is due to the fact that random copolymers, when localized at an interface, can adopt a greater number of low energy configurations than regular polyblock chains.
Another related problem is that of stabilizing homopolymer blends. In contrast to mixtures of low molecular weight liquids, a binary blend of homopolymers A and B will tend to segregate even at high temperatures. Such phase behavior is due to a large molecular weight of polymers: even if on the monomer level the incompatibility between chemical species A and B is fairly weak, it may add up to a very strong repulsion between complete polymer molecules. However many technological applications require mixing of immiscible homopolymers, which can be achieved by adding a "surfactant". Generally AB diblock copolymers are used as surfactants since their blocks A and B show affinity respectively for the A and B components of the homopolymer mixture. In particular, polymeric microemulsions akin to water/oil microemulsions have been successfully stabilized by a relatively low copolymer content in mixtures of weakly incompatible homopolymers.
|Figure 1 A generic compositional phase diagram for a ternary blend of weakly incompatible homopolymers A and B and symmetric diblock copolymers AB. At high copolymer content, an A/B/AB polymer blend generally self-esembles into lamellar, hexagonal or BCC periodic structures. In addition, a small region of stability of the gyroid structures is found between the lamellar and hexagonal regions. The symmetry of an ordered structure depends on the relative amounts of homopolymers A and B. At low copolymer content, an A/B/AB polymer blend separates into A-rich and B-rich homogeneous phases. At intermediate (10-20%) copolymer content, polymeric microemulsions are formed, that represent macroscopically homogeneous phases with a spatially even distribution of homopolymers A and B.
|Figure 2 This picture shows an interface between A-rich and B-rich microphase regions in a gyroid structure. Gyroid is a bicontinuous phase and, in this respect, it is somewhat similar to microemulsions. In contrast to microemulsions, however, gyroid is a spatially periodic structure belonging to the Ia3d space group.
Until very recently polymeric microemulsions could not be observed in mixtures of strongly incompatible homopolymers because the corresponding diblock copolymers AB tend to segregate in a separate phase from which homopolymers are excluded, rather than at the A/B interface. There has been some experimental evidence (J. Lee et al., 2003) that strongly immiscible homopolymers A and B can still be blended if the AB copolymer is substituted with its AC analogue, where the chemical interactions of the C-block with the A and B monomers is adjusted so as to provide a better compatibilizer. I have developed a numerical code which employs self-consistent field theory to study A/B/AB and A/B/AC polymeric alloys (N. A. Denesyuk and G. Gompper, 2006). I have shown that by appropriately adjusting the C block of the AC diblock copolymer, the concentration of surfactant required to stabilize an A/B polymer blend can be reduced by about 10%. In addition, I have shown that AB diblock copolymers may turn out to be much more efficient compatibilizers if their constituent blocks are larger than the homopolymers that need to be blended. In other words, the compatibilizing efficiency of diblock copolymers depends not only on their chemical nature but also on their degree of polymerization (which is not always recognized in experimental studies). These theoretical studies should facilitate the design of more effective polymer surfactants.
If a small amount of liquid is placed on a solid (or liquid) substrate, in many cases it will adopt the shape of a droplet due to the liquid's surface tension. This situation, known as partial wetting, is described by a finite value of the contact angle between the liquid and the substrate surfaces. In the case of partial wetting, the substrate around the liquid droplet will be covered with a microscopically (a few angstroms) thin wetting film. However, if the liquid molecules show affinity for the underlying substrate, the liquid droplet may spread over the substrate despite its surface tension - the so-called complete wetting. Complete wetting can also be observed in the absence of a liquid droplet, for instance, when a substrate is placed in contact with a saturated vapor. In the case of strong attractive interactions between the vapor molecules and the substrate, a macroscopically thick film of dense liquid may condense onto the substrate surface. It is also possible for a liquid film to condense from an undersaturated vapor, even though liquid is not an equilibrium phase in the bulk. In the latter case, known as prewetting, the liquid film will adopt some mesoscopic thickness since the formation of a macroscopic non-equilibrium liquid phase is thermodynamically unfavorable. Apart from liquids on solid substrates, wetting is commonly studied in binary mixtures of liquids A and B which can have two, A-rich and B-rich, equilibrium phases. In such systems, a film of the B-rich phase may precipitate on the surface of the A-rich phase, even if B represents the heavier component.
Wetting transitions are the transitions that occur between the situations of partial and complete wetting (or prewetting). Wetting transitions are defined by a vanishing value of the contact angle or by a thin-to-thick transition in the thickness of the wetting film. Most experimentally observed wetting transitions are first order in which case, at some wetting temperature Tw, a microscopically thin wetting film changes discontinuously into a mesoscopic film (prewetting) or a macroscopic film (complete wetting). The complete wetting transitions can also be second order, i.e. continuous, resulting in a continuous divergence of the thickness of the wetting film as T®Tw (see review by D. Bonn and D. Ross, 2001). A wetting temperature Tw is generally found in the vicinity of the critical temperature Tc of the wetting liquid, where the liquid's surface tension is relatively small.
I have been interested in the influence of long-range Coulomb forces on the nature of wetting transitions. In particular, I have looked at the wetting transitions of ionic solutions near charged solid substrates, combining the classical Cahn-Landau theory for the solvent film with the nonliner Poisson-Boltzmann treatment of the salt solute (N. A. Denesyuk and J. P. Hansen, 2004). The result of this study has been the discovery of a large variety of wetting scenarios in salt solutions.
In very dilute salt solutions Coulomb interactions are mostly unscreened which leads to a discontinuous wetting transition, independently of the nature of the transition in the pure solvent. Electrostatic forces generally favor the formation of a macroscopically thick wetting film so that the wetting transition occurs further from the critical point than in the pure solvent. In concentrated ionic solutions electrostatic forces are largely screened and the wetting behavior is essentially the same as in the pure solvent. However, moderately concentrated ionic solutions show a very rich wetting behavior which includes i) a continuous or critical wetting transition, even if the transition for the pure solvent is first order, and ii) a sequence of two wetting transitions. In the latter case a discontinuous jump between two finite film thicknesses occurs first and is followed, upon further approach to the critical point, by a continuous divergence of the film thickness. This sequence of two wetting transitions is somewhat analogous to the prewetting transition from an undersaturated vapor followed by complete wetting on the liquid-vapor coexistence line (although in the present case both liquid and vapor are the equilibrium phases).
A similar sequence of wetting transitions has also been observed in systems dominated by long-range van der Waals forces. In these systems a negative sign of the Hamaker constant, describing the effective interaction between the two surfaces of the wetting film, corresponds to the net attraction between these surfaces and therefore disfavors complete wetting. When such a system is brought sufficiently close to its critical point it will undergo a discontinuous wetting transition into another partially wet state, characterized by a larger thickness of the wetting film. There are systems in which, upon further approach to the critical point, the Hamaker constant will in fact change sign from negative to positive, thus favoring complete wetting. In such systems the initial first-order transition will be followed by a continuous divergence of the film thickness at the point when the Hamaker constant changes its sign. Although apparently similar, the underlying physics of wetting by ionic solutions is quite different. In contrast with the van der Waals forces, the Coulomb forces always favor complete wetting so that a wetting transition will occur further away from the critical point. However, at those temperatures (or mixture compositions) complete wetting may still be prohibited by a large free energy cost associated with the liquid-vapor interface, so that instead of complete wetting the system will undergo a first-order transition to another partially wet state. Thus, if in the case of van der Waals interactions it is the short-range forces that favor complete wetting whereas the long-range forces disfavor it, in salt solutions the short-range and long-range forces switch these roles.
This part of my research is concerned with the development and testing of a new method for the simulation of inhomogeneous molecular systems with long-range electrostatic interactions. With regard to soft matter and biological systems in particular, two methods have been commonly employed to account for electrostatic effects. The Debye theory of screening is usually invoked in analytical calculations, whose advantages are its simple mathematical form and clear physical meaning. However, Debye theory is a mean-field theory and, therefore, not suitable for the description of important correlations that may arise between charged objects at short distances. In addition, Debye theory is quantitatively accurate only in the case of extremely dilute ionic solutions with concentrations below typical physiological concentrations of 0.15M. In computer simulations, the Ewald image method is considered to be the most universal numerical method for treating electrostatic interactions. The disadvantage of the Ewald image method is that it approximates a large system with periodic images of a fundamental simulation box, and hence every inhomogeneity arising in the system is multiplied infinite number of times. This has in some cases produced artifacts in computer simulations of biological systems, such as false stabilization of more compact folded states of a protein.
I propose an alternative method to treat electrostatic interactions in simulation studies - generalized Debye theory of screening - which is based on Local Molecular Field theory and combines direct simulations of interactions between charges at short distances and the Debye theory of screening at large distances. The method contains an adjustable length parameter that is related to the minimal separation between charges beyond which the Debye approximation is expected to be quantitatively accurate; this length parameter can be optimized for the specific system under study. This new method has many advantages. First of all, the required computational time increases linearly with the system's size, which is particularly important for biological simulations in which typical system sizes are of order of 10000 - 100000 particles. Secondly, the proposed method does not rely on multiple periodic images of the simulation box and hence is free of any artifacts related to such periodicity. Thirdly, and probably most importantly, it departs from existing methods in that it can be applied to simulation boxes that are not strictly neutral but whose charge can fluctuate. This makes it particularly suited for studies of biological macromolecules with substantial net charge, such as DNA, that can strongly perturb the distribution of ions in the surrounding solution. In contrast, any method based on the infinite number of periodic images of the simulation box must impose the condition that the box is strictly neutral in order to ensure that the net charge density of the system of all box images is vanishing. In addition, generalized Debye theory of screening significantly broadens the class of inhomogeneous systems which are accessible to simulations. For instance, it is easily implemented for confined systems, for which the Ewald method is very involved and computationally demanding.
Recently I have been looking at the effects of electrostatics on the collapse of charged heterogeneous polymers. To this end I have developed a model of a heterogeneous polyelectrolyte, which may also be viewed as a very simple model of a protein. Although the folding of a protein molecule is known to be governed by the specific primary structure, there are still some advantages to considering simplified models. Such models generally keep simulation times short, thereby enabling the simulation of an ensemble of heterogeneous polyelectrolytes with different sequences (as opposed to the simulation of a single polyelectrolyte with a specific sequence). This in turn allows the study of electrostatic or other effects that are generic, rather than specific to one molecule.
I simulate polyelectrolyte chains which consist of hydrophobic and hydrophilic monomers, modeled as spherical beads. The hydrophobic species, which do not carry any electrostatic charge, interact via the attractive 12-6 Lennard-Jones potential to ensure the formation of a hydrophobic core at lower temperatures. The hydrophilic species are modeled by the purely repulsive 12-6 Lennard-Jones potential and they carry point-like charges near their surfaces. All polymer chains contain the same numbers of hydrophobic and hydrophilic beads, however these beads are distributed randomly to form a chain's sequence. The number of hydrophilic beads in a sequence is calculated based on the requirement that when a polymer chain is fully collapsed it should form a compact core comprised of all the hydrophobic beads, whereas all the hydrophilic ones should cover the polymer surface. This criterion yields 44 hydrophilic monomers for a chain whose total length is 100 monomers, which are the numbers that I use in my simulations. It is worth noting that the average content of hydrophilic aminoacids in globular proteins is 43.6%. I perform averages over an ensemble of sequences in order to identify those general properties that are sequence independent.
I would like to emphasize that my model is free, to a large extent, from a very common error arising in the simulations of polyelectrolytes. A well known effect of the counterion condensation takes place when the Coulomb interactions are strong and the counterions form ion pairs with the polymer charges. In this case, the polyelectrolyte chains collapse essentially as if they were neutral since there is no chain stretching due to electrostatic repulsions. However, when a polyelectrolyte chain is fully collapsed, the dielectric constant inside its core is approximately 2, as opposed to the dielectric constant of 80 for the water solvent. This fact is often neglected in simulations, where the electrostatic charges end up being buried inside the polymer interior, whereas their Coulomb interactions are assumed to be of the same magnitude as in the solvent. Since also, in most simulations, the buried counterions are of the same size as the polymer beads themselves, their excluded volume may strongly perturb the equilibrium polymer conformations. At least this part of the problem is circumvented in my model since, as a result of my sequence design, all the charged hydrophilic segments will tend to stay on the polymer surface. Of course some numerical errors remain since, when considering the Coulomb interactions of ions, I still neglect the presence of an interface between the regions of high and low dielectric constants. However I do not expect these numerical errors to be large because the surface of a polymer is not as dense as its core and this allows the solvent to envelop the hydrophilic beads as if they were almost entirely immersed in it.
|Animation 1: In this animation a model protein consisting of 56 neutral hydrophobic monomers (gray spheres) and 44 charged hydrophilic monomers (green spheres) is simulated. As a first approximation, all 44 polymer charges (shown as red spheres) are assumed to have the same (nominal) negative sign and same magnitude. Positive and negative ions in solution are represented by blue and pink spheres. The density of ions is sustained by a grand canonical Monte Carlo, which causes ions to be added or removed from the simulation box based on the chemical potential. During the initial part of the animation only enough ions to neutralize the polymer are present and their number is kept fixed. In the second half of the animation the grand canonical routine is turned on and the density of ions equilibrates to a predetermined value. (Click image to view 14 Mb animated gif file)
|Animation 2: This animation is similar to the one above, except that the density of ions is controlled by a grand canonical Monte Carlo during the entire animation. Halfway through the chemical potential is reduced by a factor of e2, causing the ions to re-equilibriate at a approximately half of the initial density. (Click image to view 9 Mb animated gif file)
To study the effects of electrostatics I place each polymer chain in a simulation box filled with a symmetric, low molecular weight, ionic solution. The diameter of the ions in this solution is taken to be significantly smaller than that of a polymer bead. Although both the polymer and low molecular weight ions (salt) are simulated by solving the Langevin dynamics equations of motion, it is not known a priori how much salt a simulation box of a given size may contain, given its inhomogeneous distribution around the polymer. I therefore control the salt concentration via the grand canonical MC insertions and deletions of ions (see animations above). I find that for typical physiological concentrations of ions (cM= 0.1-0.15M) the electrostatic forces are not efficiently screened and need to be taken into account to correctly predict the polymer's structure. In addition, truncation of these forces results in an incomplete screening of the polymer charge by the salt ions. In my simulations I treat electrostatics within the generalized Debye theory of screening which goes beyond the simple truncation of Coulomb interactions but, at the same time, is free from any artifacts which may result from taking into account multiple periodic images of charges (as in the Ewald sum method).
Another topic I am interested in is the formation of liquid crystalline phases of helical biopolymers. Virtually all biopolymers have helical structure: DNA, a-helices of globular proteins, tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), fd-viruses, actin, etc. In dense suspensions they form a variety of complex structures, the most well known among which are the nematic (achiral) and cholesteric (chiral) liquid crystalline phases. In addition, a liquid crystalline phase with a novel chiral symmetry, conical phase, has very recently been discovered in concentrated suspensions of helical flagella (E. Barry et al., 2006). However, very few theoretical tools are available to rationalize experimental data. In particular, the quantitative connection between microscopic chirality of individual molecules and macroscopic chirality of macromolecular aggregates is not yet understood. Another open question is why some helical biomolecules (TMV) form nematic phases, whereas others (fd-virus, DNA) form cholesteric ones.
The main problem that any theory would face here is the complexity of the helical structure. Mean-field theories, such as the self-consistent field theory of polymer melts commonly used to describe copolymer mesophases, neglect intermolecular correlations, which are crucial for the formation of chiral liquid crystalline phases. A chiral molecule that can rotate independently of other molecules will on average appear achiral, preventing formation of a chiral phase. Another common approximation that many theories rely on is the assumption of pairwise additive interactions between molecules. This assumption allows a system of many molecules to be described in terms of effective interactions between a pair of molecules, and thus reduces the task to the calculation of an effective interaction between two helices. Although justified in some cases, this is generally not true in charged systems where the long-range electrostatic forces lead to multimolecular correlations. The unfortunate circumstance is that liquid crystalline phases of biological helices are virtually always charged.
|Animation 3: When an ensemble of 2000 attractive helices are simulated they soon begin to form a web of condensed quasi-crystalline formations. In their final configuration the helices are expected to organize into a liquid crystalline phase of defined spatial symmetry. However, observing the formation of such phases in simulations would require very long simulation times. The animation shows the view as the virtual camera moves through the simulation system in its intermediate, web-like configuration. (Click image to view 130 Mb animated gif file)
|Animation 4: Animation of two helices which are subject to thermal fluctuations and a Lennard-Jones attraction. Dynamics of helices include important phenomena not captured when modeled as cylinders. These include the tendency of helices to approach each other at a non-zero twist angle, as well as rigid coupling of rotational and translational motion. (Click image to view 10 Mb animated gif file)
I am currently studying liquid crystalline phases of helical macromolecules in computer simulations. In contrast with analytical theory, computer simulations make it possible to treat the complex correlations between helical macromolecules. Furthermore, with currently available computational resources, it is possible to consider large ensembles of helices. Animation 3 shows an animated snapshot of a Langevin dynamics simulation of a system of 2000 model helical molecules. Each molecule is represented by a set of rigidly connected spherical beads whose centers of mass follow a helical path. The diameter and pitch of these helices have been chosen to correspond to those of the a-helices of globular proteins, and the bead-bead interactions have been modeled by the attractive Lennard-Jones potential. A close-up view of a pair of such helices in animation 4 indicates that they prefer to approach each other at some twist angle f not equal to 0. This non-vanishing value of the preferential twist angle is directly connected to the formation of macroscopically twisted (chiral) structures. The helix parameters in simulations can easily be adjusted to correspond to different biological systems. For instance, in contrast with the a-helices of proteins, the pitch of helical flagella is approximately an order of magnitude larger than their diameter. Consequently two helical flagella can lower their excluded volume by placing their helices in phase, which leads to the formation of a recently discovered conical phase (E. Barry et al., 2006). Apart from excluded volume and dispersion forces modeled by the Lennard-Jones potential, I also plan to include in my simulations electrostatic forces and explicit solvent (water) molecules.


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Dr. Carnell Cooper had lost count of how many times he or a colleague had patched up a gunshot victim in the trauma unit of the University of Maryland Medical Center, only to have him come back on a stretcher months later. One night, in 1994, as he worked feverishly to restart the heart of a young man cut down on Baltimore's meanest streets, "I recognized him," Cooper recalls. About six months earlier the Yale-trained surgeon had repaired his wounded abdomen. This time it was too late. "I was at his bedside, asking myself what could I have done to keep this guy from being killed?" says Cooper, 51. "A nurse said, 'There's nothing you can do. This is just the way they are.' I'm like, No. These aren't Jeffrey Dahmers. They're not beyond help."
Today Cooper has proof. In 1999 he and a colleague launched the Violence Intervention Program (VIP), the nation's most comprehensive hospital-based effort to get troubled patients off the streets, ending a cycle that sends so many of them to operating rooms—and morgues. So far, more than 325 people have volunteered for the grant-funded program, involving social workers, case managers, substance abuse counselors, parole and probation officers. It will take years to gauge long-term success. But a study published last year in a medical journal showed VIP's first 56 participants were significantly less likely than other patients with similar backgrounds to return to the hospital with a violent injury. By catching people just after they've been gravely wounded, "you get them when they're most vulnerable, the first time they may be rethinking what they do," Cooper says.
That's just how it happened with Eric Ferguson. In April 1999 rival drug dealers stabbed him 17 times with an ice pick, shot him twice, beat him with a baseball bat and left him for dead in the street. Rushed to Cooper's trauma center—his third appearance—"I flatlined twice," Ferguson, 40, recalls. A cocaine and heroin addict, he was facing 60 years in prison on drug charges and had served three years for attempted murder. "I had no conscience," he admits. But when VIP administrator Dawn Eslinger came to Ferguson's bedside, he decided he'd had it with gangster life. After he completed rehab, Ferguson met with Cooper weekly for five months and, helped by the surgeon's letters to judges asking for leniency, wound up with probation—and one last chance.
"I had Dr. Cooper's personal number, pager and cell number," Ferguson recalls. "Once, I wanted to give up and go back to selling drugs. I'd got into a depression. But Dr. Cooper kept saying, 'You can do it.'" Drug free for seven years, Ferguson is working as house manager of a drug rehab facility, "happily married and in the process of purchasing our first home. I did a 180."
Turnarounds like that take time—and Cooper puts in a lot. On top of his 60-hour work weeks, he personally mentors two program clients, shows up at court hearings and visits people in jail. His secret: "I function very well on five hours sleep." And sometimes less, now that he and wife Danielle, 33, are busy raising twins Elise and Elena, born in February, along with their 19-month-old daughter Ella. "I always joke that I'm a single married mom," Danielle says of Cooper's 24-7 commitment. "But it's important for him to make it home to give Ella her bath and read to her." But not spoil her. "He doesn't believe in buying lots of things. When I was getting Ella shoes, he noted when he was a kid they cut holes in the toes when they grew out of them."
Indeed, Cooper not only grew up poor, he easily could have wound up someone else's trauma case. He was born to unwed teens in a Dillon, S.C., neighborhood where violent crime was commonplace. "A lot of guys my age are dead or in jail," he says. "One relative did 10 years for manslaughter; another got killed in a bar." What saved him were a strict grandmother and great-grandparents. They raised a straight-A student who spent summers picking cotton and tobacco to help pay the bills. The turning point in Cooper's life came thanks to a program that places gifted minorities in the nation's top high schools. Cooper enrolled at Andover High in Massachusetts, and it opened a new world. "I swore I'd never work in a tobacco field again," he says, "and I never have."
Instead, he went on to Yale and trauma surgery, fueled by the rush of pulling lives back from the edge of oblivion. "It's wonderful to walk out to a family and say, 'We got him through,'" Cooper says. Through—and beyond, to a life with a real future. Quinn Burks knows about that. He joined Cooper's program a couple of years ago; at 22, he was turning his life around after being shot in the back while on probation for drug possession. With Cooper's help, Burks transferred from community college to the University of Maryland, conquered fears about organic chemistry and is aiming for medical school. "He's a constant motivator," Burks says. "He wants you to dream big—and follow through."
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An early-morning earthquake shook residents near the town of Tishomingo about 4:25 a.m. Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.
The 3.5-magnitude earthquake's epicenter was four miles south-southeast of Tishomingo, 21 miles northwest of Durant, 27 miles east of Ardmore and 101 miles south-southeast of Oklahoma City.
There are no reports of injuries or damage.
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Pacific Palm Gallery, located at 771 Wainee St. in Lahaina, is the newest Maui hot spot for art.
"We specialize in showcasing beautiful paintings and photography by local artists," says owner Susan Figg.
"Our featured artists include award winning photographer, Scott Mead, and celebrated painter extraordinaire, Michael Stark. We offer hard-to-find photographic Hawaiian maps, and remastered historical maps of the world. Pacific Palm Gallery is a gem filled with aloha. Please come by to visit Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. for da-kine local art."
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This photograph of a Buddha in Lahaina by Susan Figg is titled "Serenity"
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Ocean enthusiasts and photography hobbyists are invited to capture the beauty of Hawaii's marine life in Maui Ocean Center's third annual "I Love Marine Life" photo contest for the chance to win a year membership to the center and a photo eco tour with Photo Safari Hawaii. This photo contest is open to everyone. The last day to submit an entry is by 5 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15. Winners will be announced the week of Aug. 19 and be displayed at the center's aquarium until Labor Day. For further details, visit www.mauioceancenter.com.
In conjunction with Lahaina's Second Friday Town party, local artist Joelle C. will do a painting demonstration at the Joelle C. Gallery from 6 to 10 p.m. on Friday.
Widely collected, her art is unique and it encompasses various media. She will also be displaying her two most recent pieces, using her technique of painting on hand-carved wood panels. The gallery is located next to Pacific'o restaurant at 505 Front St. For more details, call the gallery at 662-0799.
Maui Hands Gallery at Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa in Kaanapali will present a live oil-painting demonstration by artist Cecilia Bahena from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on three Mondays, starting next week on July 15 and continuing on July 22 and 29.
Bahena attended the Foss school of Fine Art in Honolulu, mastering color, figure drawing and painting. She also studied portrait painting with acclaimed portrait artist Daniel Green. In 1989, she moved permanently to Maui and began to study renaissance painting with Yoshiko Fujita. She also became a plein-air painter and has gathered with Maui's best landscape artists. Call 667-7997.


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Sunny, Shallow, and Tight to the Beach
The month of November arrived with a stretch of some of the nicest consecutive days of the year. With a local sportfishing season having one of the worst showings of the usual exotic species normally seen this time of year , the harpoon fleet had some hope left. A few boats, Gold Coast, Leslie Ann, Chula, Patricia J and a handful more put together some good days with a few few fish on the deck. Local restaurants were finally getting their fair share of fresh locally caught harpooned swordfish. Word began to spread amongst any spotter pilot still interested . A couple of days saw the fleet get bunched up off La Jolla Canyon.The Pilikia was surprised to find an early finner just three miles from Pt. Loma, right behind the Chula and in its wake. We later wondered which golf club to choose from, as we began to come into what looked like the Chula's very own "black flagged" private front nine of an ocean golf course. Not far from there a few others completed the rest of the back nine.
Here are few photos to go along with those same days .
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FLINT, MI – Fans in Buc-Town will get a chance to celebrate Beecher's second straight state title with the boys basketball team on Thursday, March 28.
A championship parade will begin at 5:30 p.m. The march will start at the Salvation Army on 1475 W Coldwater Road and will end with a program in the school's gymnasium, 1020 W. Coldwater Road.
Beecher's championship squad will be chauffeured in old-school cars with the trophies on display for everyone to see. The agenda isn't finalized for the program yet but Beecher's athletic director Courtney Hawkins did affirm that the reception will be tight.
Hawkins encourages everyone from the Flint area and all of Genesee County to attend.
"It's not just a Beecher thing," Hawkins said. "It will be a lot of fun. The parade is not even totally all about the boys it's a community celebration more so. The boys will be a big part of it but it isn't 100 percent about him and that's not how it is here."
This year, Beecher boys basketball squad became the school's first team to ever win back-to-back state championships for hoops. The Bucs defeated Laingsburg 40-39 in the Class C championship game on Saturday, March 23, 2013 at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. Beecher ended the season 27-1 overall.


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Circa 1908 Addie Joss Cleveland Indians Game-Used Road Pants
Starting Bid - $1,000, Sold For - $4,994
Exceedingly rare pair of Cleveland Indians uniform pants worn by Hall of Fame pitcher Addie Joss. To the best of our knowledge, these pants represent the only known surviving article of game-used clothing worn by Joss during his career. Any and all game-used baseball garments dating from the turn of the century are quite rare, especially those worn by significant players. For Joss, such items are even rarer due to the tragic circumstances and timing of his death. Joss was just thirty-one years old and at the peak of his career when he was stricken with meningitis, the complications of which resulted in his death on April 14, 1911. The gray flannel pants feature a pinstripe design and have a button fly. The name "Joss" is stitched in black on the interior button-fly panel. A "Spalding" label appears in the waistband. The pants are all original, with no alterations, and display moderate-to-heavy wear throughout, including team repairs, light soiling, and a few minor stains. Despite the fact that Joss' career lasted nine seasons (1902-1909, all spent with Cleveland), these pants can be more narrowly dated to the two-year period 1908-1909 based upon the style. 1908 and 1909 were the only two years of Joss' career in which the Indians wore a pinstriped road uniform. 1908 represented one of Joss' finest overall seasons. The big righthander won 24 games, against just 11 loses, while recording a career low 1.16 ERA. He also further immortalized his name by pitching a perfect game against the White Sox at Cleveland's League Park on October 2nd. For his career, Joss finished with a record of 160-97 and an ERA of 1.89 (second only to Ed Walsh's career mark of 1.82). Because Joss only played nine seasons, one fewer than required for Hall of Fame eligibility, his election to the Hall was delayed until 1978, when the Veteran's Committee finally decided to overlook the rule and let him take his rightful place alongside the game's other immortals. LOA from Troy Kinunen/MEARS. Reserve $1,000. Estimate (open). SOLD FOR $4,994
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on December 9, 2012 - 1:00 AM
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Officer's charity is heart-warming
Thanks for the piece about the New York policeman helping out a down-and-out human being by buying boots and socks for his feet. It proves once again the old saying that a picture is sometimes worth a thousand words. True charity lives! If it can happen on the cold sidewalks of hard-boiled New York City, it can happen anywhere. The officer is a real mensch.
Rupert J. Ederer


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Atticus, adjective Latin name meaning "classic, elegant". Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words Source: "Oxford Latin Dictionary", 1982
- People
- Atticus, Christian martyr, one of Agapius, Atticus, Carterius, Styriacus, Tobias, Eudoxius, Nictopolion, and Companions (d. 310)
- Atticus (philosopher) (fl. c. 175), Platonist philosopher and author of lost Plato commentary
- Atticus Browne (born 1991), West Indian cricketer
- Atticus Mitchell (born 1993), Canadian actor and musician
- Atticus Ross (born 1968), English musician
- Atticus Shaffer (born 1998), American actor
- Archbishop Atticus of Constantinople (406–425)
- Herodes Atticus (c. 101–177), a Greek rhetorician
- Titus Pomponius Atticus (112/109–35/32 BC), ancient Roman littérateur, philosopher, and correspondent with Cicero
- Fictional people
- Atticus, character in Cicero's De Legibus
- Atticus, character in the The 39 Clues series of young adult novels
- Atticus Aldridge, character in Downton Abbey
- Atticus Fetch, character in Californication (TV series)
- Atticus Finch, central character in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
- Atticus Kodiak, character in novels by Greg Rucka
- Sir Atticus Moon, character in Big Time Movie
- Atticus O'Sullivan, main character of The Iron Druid Chronicles
- Atticus Rhodes, character in the English dub of the Japanese anime Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
- Atticus, character in Internet commercial of Petcube, Inc., played by Oleksandr Svirskyi
- Other
- Atticus (band), an alternative rock band from Knoxville, Tennessee
- Atticus, novel by Ron Hansen
- Atticus the Storyteller's 100 Greek Myths, collection of Greek mythology by Lucy Coats
- Atticus, part of the tympanic cavity of the middle ear
- Atticus Circle, non-profit organization advocating for LGBT issues in Texas
- Atticus Clothing, clothing line developed by musicians
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A Westminster graduate in China
The First Day
A first day for an English teacher in Urumqi, China
By Jodi Bennett Jarvis
My wool hat fit snugly around my ears and I pulled my scarf to my throat as a gust of wind sent the snow flying. I thought of the new gray wool leggings that remained folded in my drawer. Why didn't I wear them? I hurried through the stream of curious onlookers to breakfast and headed up the flight of forty-seven steps to the eating area. There was a deep silence in the room as our cook (we named Louie) laid steaming plates of food on the orange plastic tablecloth. We surveyed the morning meal: sticky rice, spicy spinach with vegetables, steamed buns stuffed with a sweet bean paste, and a hot, runny, tasteless cereal drink. I looked around and wondered if the other teachers felt my anxiety. The reason we came started today.
I thought back to the year before when I encountered the International Language Program (ILP) booth at
The sky was cloudy, and there was a damp chill in the air as I strolled down the cracked concrete walkway. The large three-story building loomed ahead like a giant rectangular peach. I waved hello to a young student and watched in amusement as he nearly dropped his books while racing to class. I glanced up and saw clusters of students watching my arrival through the tall, dusty windows. A rush of adrenaline entered my body and I felt as though an army of ants had invaded my stomach, each marching to its own rhythm. The old, brown door closed with a loud squeak, and I walked down the deserted, cool hallway until I found classroom 104.
The door magically opened as a petite woman with crinkly eyes rushed out and began patting my back. "Please come in, we are waiting for you. My English name is Anne," she said. I walked into the classroom where twenty-eight pairs of attentive, curious, and eager eyes met mine. The room filled with applause. I took off my black down-filled jacket and wrote my name on the blackboard. When the children finally made out the letters, with laughter in their voices they called out "Jodi!" The Chinese teacher held up her hand and silenced them. "This is your foreign teacher. She is from
The hour went by in a blur. Anne explained I was to go over a chapter in their grammar books about past and present verbs, and remained in the classroom sitting with the children. With fifteen minutes left of class, Anne stood and asked if anyone had questions. Slowly their hands went up. A chubby boy with a large head asked if I liked Chinese food, a girl with pink rosy cheeks wanted to know if I missed my family, and a girl with large red glasses asked if I liked Chinese music. I said I did and was surprised when she and her friends broke into a song and dance. The class and I applauded the girls. "Any more questions?" I asked with a grin. A boy asked if I liked to sing. "Yes I do, very much," I said. There was Chinese banter between the boy and his friend, and the rest of the class cheered and agreed with what they were saying. Anne, her eyes crinkling as she smiled, walked over and took my hands in hers. "The class would like you to sing an English song. Please sing for us," she said.
I looked at her, at the class, and back at her. "Sing?" I asked. "You want me to sing?"
"Yes, please," she said. "They would like you to sing the very famous Titanic song." It didn't take long for me to realize that she meant "My Heart Will Go On." The song, very popular at the school, could be heard during afternoon recess, dinner break, and several times on Sundays. I looked at the teacher and the students and knew if I refused to sing, it would bring disappointment to all. "Okay, I will sing a little bit of the song, but only if you will sing with me." The students grinned like The Cheshire Cat, and on the count of three we belted out the chorus of the ballad, Celine Dion style. We finished and cheered at our success.
A short girl, prompted by her teacher, approached with a brightly covered package. "Thank you for coming to our class today," she said. "Please come again soon." I accepted the gift and unwrapped a dark red statue of Buddha. Touched, I thanked the class and promised I would return. The teacher held my hand and said, "Class, it is time for our foreign teacher to go. Please thank her." A chorus of "thank you very much" filled the air as I picked up my jacket and left the classroom. I had a good time. Later I learned the rest of the words to "My Heart Will Go On." I lost count of how many times I had to sing the song. Celine owes me big time.
Jodi Bennett Jarvis is a 2003 Westminster graduate. She has a degree in communication and a minor in theater.


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