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What I have always found intriguing about Doc's thinking and his many books is that they are so utterly commonsensical that their importance is almost too easily lost on us. He kept his wants, his principles, and his thinking simple. And yet, like all great ideas, although they are presented in simple and straightforward language, they hold up against increased scrutiny and probing, revealing more rather than less. In the case of this, his final aphorism, Doc might as well have quoted from the S … [Read more...]
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Drugs in Development
The first step in drug development is actually the most important—picking the right target. "Plaques being deposited, synaptic function being disrupted, mitochondria being damaged, and transport mechanisms changing. It is a challenge to pick the right target," Dr. Aisen explained.
Much drug research is focused on beta-amyloid. Drugs are being developed to prevent its buildup into plaques through slowing or stopping beta-amyloid production, enhancing its removal, inhibiting the clumping of beta-amyloid into oligomers and plaques, and dissolving existing plaques altogether. A number of other ongoing clinical trials are testing specific agents that target the two enzymes that cleave the amyloid precursor protein (APP) into shorter fragments, one of which is beta-amyloid. The amyloid cascade hypothesis suggests that those enzymes, when they cut APP to form beta-amyloid, execute the inciting event in a chain that may ultimately lead to AD.
Two of those enzymes, beta-secretase and gamma-secretase, are believed to work together to create the beta-amyloid peptides that form plaques in the brain, and are two of the points of intervention targeted by current drug development efforts. Until recently, beta-secretase had been difficult to work with because its shape does not lend itself easily to drug development. Finally, in early 2008, the results of the initial human testing of a drug candidate showed that the treatment was safe and well tolerated by healthy volunteers and led to a reduction in beta-amyloid levels in the plasma. Unlike beta-secretase, gamma-secretase is not a single molecule, but a complex of molecules. Because of this, it may be easier to interfere with its function since its complexity provides many potential targets. But gamma-secretase is essential to many other biological processes in the body, and any potential drug targeting its role in beta-amyloid production would have to work in a way that allows the enzyme to continue to perform its other normal functions.
Additional drug development efforts focus on the beta-amyloid peptide itself. One of the beta-amyloid-busting therapies farthest along in the drug development process is a vaccine currently being tested by Elan Pharmaceuticals, an innovative approach that we'll describe in depth later in the chapter.
Other broad strategies researchers are pursuing include attempts to prevent brain cell dysfunction and death by slowing oxidative stress, averting inflammation, or maintaining blood flow; increasing levels of neuroprotective molecules in the brain; or preserving the intricate network of connections among neurons. Dr. Lennart Mucke, a scientist recognized in the field for approaching Alzheimer's disease from as many angles as possible, thinks that, "in the future we will treat it like we treat other multi-factorial diseases. We will treat it like we treat hypertension, where, as a physician, you try to get away with giving the patient one drug that they can tolerate. Often you can't control the hypertension with one drug, because you get side effects, so you add another drug that has a mechanistically different route of attack. I believe that in the end, since Alzheimer's disease is so multifactorial, we will probably treat it with combinations of drugs. And I wouldn't be surprised if different patients required different combinations."
This suggests that the right path for Alzheimer's disease drug development is to follow every possible avenue and not just the ones that seem most likely to work. As Dr. Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad, the director of the Division of Neuroscience at National Institute on Aging, made clear, "Even if the amyloid hypothesis is correct, it doesn't mean that beta-amyloid is going to be the best or the only point of intervention for drug development. It could be tau, or a number of other therapeutic targets. The results of early-stage clinical trials targeting tau look promising and will be further tested in larger clinical trials."
As the largest funder of research into AD, the National Institute on Aging takes this multifactorial view of the disease very seriously. Dr. Morrison-Bogorad added, "Each piece of the puzzle is a possible intervention target. So our policy at the NIA is to cast a broad net and fund many promising avenues of research apart from beta-amyloid aimed at uncovering processes that contribute to the transition between normal aging and pathological changes resulting in Alzheimer's dementia."
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Excerpted from THE ALZHEIMER'S PROJECT: MOMENTUM IN SCIENCE, published by Public Affairs, www.publicaffairsbooks.com.
In This Section
- Introduction
- Building Cognitive Reserve
- Brain Efficiency
- The Role of Education
- Brain Building
- Personality Factors and Social Networks
- Assessing the Potential Benefits of Exercise and Diet
- Exercise and the Brain
- Diet and the Brain
- Developing New Drug Treatments
- Drugs in Development
- Practical Challenges
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Momentum in Science: The Supplementary Series
- Understanding and Attacking Alzheimer's 12 min
- How Far We Have Come in Alzheimer's Research 15 min
- Identifying Mild Cognitive Impairment 20 min
- The Role of Genetics in Alzheimer's 12 min
- Advances in Brain Imaging 11 min
- Looking Into the Future of Alzheimer's 6 min
- The Connection Between Insulin and Alzheimer's 21 min
- Inflammation, the Immune System, and Alzheimer's 29 min
- The Benefit of Diet and Exercise in Alzheimer's 16 min
- Cognitive Reserve: What the Religious Orders Study is Revealing about Alzheimer's 20 min
- Searching for an Alzheimer's Cure: The Story of Flurizan 30 min
- The Pulse of Drug Development 15 min
- The DeMoe Family: Early-Onset Alzheimer's Genetics 25 min
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Video: Inside the Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of Alzheimer's Disease
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Inside the Brain: An Interactive Tour
The Brain Tour explains how the brain works and how Alzheimer's affects it.
Alzheimer's Disease: Unraveling the Mystery
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- Rapid advances in our knowledge about AD have led to the development of promising new drugs and treatment strategies. However, before these new strategies can be used in clinical practice, they must be shown to work in people. Advances in prevention and treatment are only possible thanks to volunteers who participate in clinical trials.
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- Among those touched by Alzheimer's (excluding self), nearly one-third provide support as a friend or relative, another 3% provide support as a healthcare professional, and the remaining two-thirds provide no support to the person suffering from Alzheimer's. When support is provided, it most often entails emotional support, followed by care-giving support. While small in comparison, more than one person in ten is providing financial support. Read more.


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Denton, Lancashire Genealogy
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DENTON, a chapelry, in the parish of Manchester, union of Ashton-under-Lyne, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 3¾ miles (N. E. by N.) from Stockport; containing 3440 inhabitants. It lies west of the river Tame, on the road from Stockport to Ashton-under-Lyne, and contains 1630 acres of land. The village, which is five miles distant from Manchester, probably derived its name from Dane-town, an etymology countenanced by the appellations of Danehead-bank and Daneditch-bourne, places in the neighbourhood. The manufacture of hats, both for the home trade and exportation, is carried on upon a large scale; and coal is obtained at several places within the chapelry. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Grosvenor family; net income, £135; impropriators, the Dean and Canons of Manchester. The chapel, dedicated to St. James, was erected about 1530, and has portions in the early and decorated English styles, with some fragments of stained glass in the windows. A church district, comprising part of the township of Denton, and part of that of Haughton, and called Christ-Church, was formed in April, 1846, under the act 6 and 7 Victoria, cap. 37; the population of the district is about 4000, and the living is in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Chester, alternately. The Wesleyans and others have places of worship.
From: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 28-32. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50917 Date accessed: 29 June 2010.
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The phone systems Hunt Valley businesses use serve as important business tools. In addition to voice-enabled phone systems, Hunt Valley businesses use their phone systems for voicemail integration and auto attendant features. Automated dialing phone systems Hunt Valley businesses often use can reach a wider audience. With VoIP phone systems, Hunt Valley businesses communicate over an internet connection. The type of phone systems Hunt Valley businesses choose depends on their particular needs. By using a modern phone system, Hunt Valley businesses can grow their potential customer base.
As basic features of their phone systems, Hunt Valley businesses can use features such as remote locations, call forwarding, as well as paging systems and access control. Also useful to many Hunt Valley businesses is the addition of call-forwarding, call-waiting and call-screening features. Phone systems Hunt Valley businesses often find useful include voicemail, internet voicemail, message-alert and on-hold music features. Email integration with name, fax detection, find me follow me, distribution lists and line queuing capabilities may also prove important features of an effective Hunt Valley business phone system. Phone systems Hunt Valley businesses are most likely to find attractive merge VoIP and virtual PBX technologies to connect multiple office locations with mobile employees, using an auto-receptionist feature with multiple virtual extensions. With fax, call-forwarding, call-waiting, call-screening, voicemail and message-alert features available on their local, mobile and toll-free numbers—and with office locations connected to mobile employees by an auto-receptionist--Hunt Valley businesses have a battery of phone system features from which they can pick and choose.
By including fixed line local access numbers on their phone systems, Hunt Valley businesses can ensure their listing in local directories, such as the white and yellow pages, attracting a larger base of potential customers on a local level. Hunt Valley businesses can also improve their workflow and ability to communicate with current and potential customers by using call-forwarding, call-waiting and call screening features. Using voicemail features on their phone systems Hunt Valley businesses can improve workflow by avoiding missed voicemail messages when away from their fixed line answering machine or mobile phone device. Using voice prompt messages may also improve workflow, not only by avoiding delays caused by routing calls to the proper employees, but also by allowing your workface to concentrate on working versus tracking people down. Phone systems Hunt Valley businesses use can improve workflow by increasing communication between business personnel, as well as communication between business personnel and clients. By taking advantage of these call-handling, voicemail, message-alert and electronic fax features, and by using an auto-receptionist, Hunt Valley businesses can greatly increase their workflow.
Considering the benefits of including local, mobile and toll-free numbers is essential in deciding the phone systems Hunt Valley businesses should use. Call-forwarding, call-waiting and call-screening functions are also useful features to consider in selecting a Hunt Valley business phone system for a busy enterprise. Voicemail, internet voicemail, message-alert and on-hold music functions are features of phone systems Hunt Valley businesses should consider in order to avoid missing calls and messages. Today's businesses may also be impressed with the sleek design, illuminated phones and ease of use, this is an ideal way to improve moral and allow employees to use all the important features of a Hunt Valley business's phone system. Phone systems Hunt Valley businesses are likely to consider most functional merge VoIP and virtual PBX technologies to connect multiple office locations with mobile employees, using an auto-receptionist. Evaluating how adding each of these call-handling, voicemail, message-alert and auto-receptionist features can improve Hunt Valley businesses' connectivity is important when deciding how to best expand their phone systems.
• Auto Attendant usually takes the place of a receptionist by presenting callers with a list of options to route their call, such as "Dial 2" to speak with someone in Service or "Dial 4" to speak with someone in Sales. Most Hunt Valley companies use this feature also when it's after normal business hours.
• Conferencing Features allow two or more extensions to connect together to share in a conversation. Usually, the default is two. If you require more than two, ask what the maximum number of callers can be used on your business phone system. Some phone systems only allow internal extensions to be conferenced and others allow external conference calls through Hunt Valley and other states.
• Employee Directory allows callers to look up an employee's extension within the Hunt Valley company by entering the first few letters of their name, this is a great feature for customers who want to reach inside contactsin a hurry.
• Call Hold gives users the ability to put a call on hold while the user attends to other matters. Standard feature will all business phone systems.
• Call Forwarding gives the user the ability to forward all calls to another extension, to voice mail or off-site location.
• Speed Dial is a system feature on all business phone systems that allows fast acccess to frequently called numbers.
• Redial allows the last number called to be redialed with the touch of a button.
• Paging allows a user to speak over a paging system with external speakers, over just the phones or can even be predefined paging zones for departments within the company..
• Music on Hold gives your callers something to listen to while they are on hold. It can be music or prerecorded messages sometimes referred to as advertising on hold.
• Help Key On some of our systems, there is a Verbal User's Guide built right into the phone system. Just press the HELP key, and the system literally talks users through any feature with which they may need assistance.
• Live Call Recording Recording of any conversation or personal "voice memo"; allows moving and copying recordings to others' mailboxes (auto-recordings available with optional VIP family of applications)
• Account Codesfor greater access control for outgoing calls
*Above is only a partial list of features. Please confirm specific requested features with your representative as some systems vary.
• Multiple Tenants This allows for multiple companies to run from the same business phone system with seperate automated attendents.
• Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) Routes calls within designated departments based on agent availability
• Call Reporting for greater tracking of employees and call logs
• Cellular Managmenet lets you use a business phone to manage calls to and from a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone
• Security Access Integration uses key fobs for building or office access control, employee tracking and helps reduce payroll errors through reporting
• Video Monitoring allows for standard captured video feeds to be recordeda dn viewed at later times.
• Presence Management the phone system allows you to help manage employee comings and goings into your facility and maintain security
*Above is only a partial list of features. Please confirm specific requested features with your Hunt Valley representative as some systems vary.
• Voice Mail Ports/Channels determines the amount of callers that can be leaving a message inside the company's phone system voice mail at any given time.
Storage Capacity (2,4,6,8, etc)
• Easy Colored Key to access voice mail.
• Off Premise Delivery gives the callers the ability to locate a cell phone or page off-site for emergency contacts
• Multiple Mailbox Types including group, broadcast, informational, cascade notification, guest, and Q & A mailboxes
• Group Mailboxes for one-step moving of a voice message to other users mailboxes
• Virtual Mailbox Key for monitoring of additional mailboxes
• AutoPage for alerting users over ESI desktop phone speakers (or, if connected, overhead paging system)
*Above is only a partial list of voice mail features. Please confirm specific requested features with your Hunt Valley representative as some systems vary.
• Phone and Data Jacks are there voice and data jacks located in the office where a user will be seated?
• Fax Lines can be ran to ensure faxes have a dedicated line.
• Network Printers allow for company employees to have a central location for printing all materials.
• Home Runs is a term used to explain voice and data wiring. Do all your employee location's cables run to a phone closet or server room?
• Network Hubs are used to provide a data gateway to your internet carrier
• Structured Cabling Patch Panels allows for termination from your employees locations inside the company office space.
• Fiber Optics can be used for minimal data loss, high bandwidth properties of fiber cable can be used over greater distances than copper cables, in data networks this can be as much as 2km without the use of repeaters.
*Above is a suggested list of considerations for your new office or company relocation to Hunt Valley MD.
• Back Up Power will provide your business phone system with an alternate source of electricity for 10 to 60 minutes in case of a power outage. Does your Hunt Valley
location experience power outages?
• Gas Tube Protection helps protect and lower the chances of your business phone system taking a direct lighting hit during a thunder storm.
• Expandability does it make sense to purchase a slightly larger business phone system for a growing business?
• Polycom Conference Phone gives your company a professional full-duplex conference phone for large meetings.
• Headsets Optional: Corded or Wireless and easy to use. Most phones come with a headset jack. Great for a receptionsist or sales teams.
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Target: Nike C.E.O, Mark Parker
Goal: Boycott Nike for using kangaroo skin in their sneakers until the company promises to use only animal friendly products.
The popular athletic apparel company Nike is currently under fire after the revelation that the company uses kangaroo skin to make many of their sneakers. The use of animal skin is cruel to the animals, but also cruel to the unknowing consumers who are providing money to this harmful industry. Nike should be boycotted by animal supporters until the company agrees to use only animal friendly products.
Several of Nike's popular sneakers, including their Premier Men's Soccer Cleat, are made using kangaroo andor goat skin. The brand claims that the leather gives the shoes high traction, which allows athletes to accelerate quickly and make quick cuts. Kangaroo leather is in high demand with about $33 million worth exported from Australia each year. The methods in which this skin is obtained however are extremely cruel and involve killing both pregnant mothers and babies in disturbing manners.
Whether or not the leather provides traction benefits, companies including Nike should be seeking other materials that are less cruelly obtained yet have the same traction effects. Kangaroos are beautiful and innocent creatures and should not be slaughtered for the use of human clothing.
Please sign the petition below to boycott Nike until they agree to use only animal-friendly materials.
Dear Mark Parker,
The recent revelation that your company uses kangaroo and other animal skins in your sneakers has upset many animal activists and we are writing to suggest that you reform your sneaker production procedures before your company is permanently boycotted by many.
The leather used may provide traction that is beneficial to athletes; however, there are a plethora of available materials that are animal friendly and provide these same benefits. The importance of this issue lies in the cruel way in which kangaroo skin is obtained. Kangaroos are slaughtered by very disturbing methods and pregnant females and babies are not excluded in this slaughter. It is cruel and unjust that any species should have to undergo this sort of slaughter, especially for something as unimportant as human athletic clothing.
We ask that you stand with us on this issue and cease your use of kangaroo skin for the sake of the beautiful and innocent wild creatures.
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Dr. Carol Cotton leads the Traffic Safety Research and Evaluation Group (TSREG) which consists of a working group of scholars and practitioners dedicated to reducing the morbidity and mortality caused by highway traffic crashes. This is completed through interdisciplinary research identifying effective program strategies and best practices for highway safety planning.
TSREG collaborates with federal, state, and local stakeholders with interests in traffic safety, including the the Georgia Governor's Office of Highway Safety (GOHS), to conduct research on effective health promotion interventions and to assess and document program outcomes.
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To anyone living with a spouse suffering from delusional jealousy:
As is clear from this forum, delusional disorder takes many forms, all devastating for the sufferer and the ones who love them. Among them is delusional disorder jealousy sub-type, or DDJ for short, where the sufferer becomes convinced that their spouse or significant other is cheating on them.
For many of us who have lived with a DDJ sufferer, the realization that they might be suffering from a mental illness is paralyzing - you feel that your first duty is to help them realize their delusion and seek treatment. At times, this sense of duty takes precedence over your own welfare and that of your children. You suffer the insults and mental violence in silence, because you know that the DDJ is not well and you feel obligated to hang in there to "help".
I would like to propose an alternative view - in some cases of DDJ (and I emphasize SOME, I realize that this may not apply to all), the "delusion" is really a projection of the DDJ's own desires for affairs outside of the marriage. Case in point: after accusing me of the worse lying and cheating, my husband is now having affairs with three different (unsuspecting) women at the same time.
From day one, my therapist suggested this as a possibility. At the time, I refused to believe that my wonderful husband would do such things. I just thought he was having some kind of mental breakdown, and that I just had to grin and bear it, and avoid any behavior that would cause him distress. In retrospect, I wished I had not been so naive, I would have avoided my kids and myself a lot of hardship.
A simple word of advice to all DDJ spouses out there: no-one has a right to disrespect you, whether or not they suffer from a mental illness. Do not tolerate the name calling, yelling and insults just because you suspect DDJ - there may be a lot more going on than you think.


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Among my interests are doing comedy, genealogy, shopping, karaoke, writing, playing with my nieces and nephews, hanging out at cafes.
I am unpredictable, entertaining, and dynamic
When I'm not performing I have a stable job teaching English at an adult high school.
I have a great long term memory but I might forget something you told me ten seconds ago.
I can sing "Bohemian Rhapsody" a capella in its entirety.
As an English teacher I can correct other people's grammar but I often miss my own mistakes.
Movies-I love the classics from the forties. I also like independent movies and comedies.
TV-Orange is the New Black is my absolute favourite right now. Most HBO and Showtime shows like the early seasons of True Blood, Dexter
You like the unconventional but also have stability in your life.
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Rite Flight: A Classroom Comprehension Program is a curriculum written by the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. Rite Flight: Comprehension equips teachers and reading specialists to more effectively teach reading comprehension.
The 2000 National Reading Panel report*, "Teaching Children to Read," refers to comprehension as the essence of reading. Most educators agree that understanding text is the primary goal of reading. Achieving that goal requires instruction that includes direct teaching of comprehension strategies, modeling of strategy use, specific feedback and ample opportunity for practice.**
Rite Flight: Comprehension may be integrated into a core reading program as a supplement to more completely address reading comprehension. It is designed to be a Tier II intervention for use by classroom teachers, reading specialists or special education teachers with first through eighth grade students as a tool for intensified comprehension intervention for struggling readers. Rite Flight: Comprehension may be used with individual students, small groups or the whole classroom.
The instructional strategies of Rite Flight: Comprehension may serve as a component of intensified reading instruction within the framework of a Response-to-Intervention (RTI) model. The decision to use the curriculum as an intervention for struggling readers should be guided by an evaluation of possible causes of reading comprehension problems, which could include:
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Rite Flight: Comprehension is not intended to be used in place of a comprehensive intervention for students identified with dyslexia, as it addresses only one component of reading.
The Rite Flight Rate Program, Rite Flight Comprehension and Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia are curriculums written by the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. These programs are available for purchase. Please note: Only highly trained specialists (2-year Dyslexia Therapist) can purchase the Take Flight materials and will be required to provide the name of their Training Center and Course Director.
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**Pressley, M. (2000). "What should comprehension instruction be the instruction of?" In Kamil, M. L., Mosenthal, P.B. Pearson, P.D. & Barr, R. (eds.) Handbook of Reading Research, (Vol. III, pp. 545-561). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
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Dr. Nate Carman To Lead Teague ISD
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Dr. Nate Carman assumed the role of Superintendent for the Teague Independent School District on May 20, 2013 following the retirement of Ned Burns who had served the TISD for 11 years.
?I was looking for a superintendent position and of the interviews I had taken, I felt Teague was the most positive,? said Mr. Carman. ?I realized that the seven people on the Teague School Board had no personal agendas and want what is best for the students.?
Carman previously served as Assistant Superintendent in Pine Tree ISD, Longview, Texas, where he oversaw the curriculum, instruction, and assessment department of the approximately 4,700 student district for the past four years. Dr. Carman said, ?My goal is to focus student achievement. TISD should be at or above the state average for student achievement.?
Dr. Carman grew up in Akron, Colorado and obtained his bachelor?s degree in Mathematics from Ft. Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. To obtain his Master?s degree, Dr. Carman ventured to Texas Women?s University in Denton, Texas. His doctorate in Educational Administration is from the University of North Texas in Denton.
After teaching and coaching for several years, Dr. Carman became the assistant Principal of McKamy Middle School for Lewisville ISD. He then moved on to become the Assistant Principal of South Grand Prairie High School. He has served as Principal for Wilmer Hutchins High School and K-12 Director of Mathematics for Grand Prairie ISD.
Dr. Carman and his wife Danica have raised two children. Their son Brian will begin his second year of law school at Texas Wesleyan University this Fall and their daughter, Alex is a sophomore at SMU. Dr. and Mrs. Carman live in Teague and he is a member of the Teague Rotary Club and one of 23 charter members of the new Teague Lions Club.
?In a larger district such as Pine Tree, administration has to cover multiple areas and wear different hats. Being a part of one of three schools, the Pirates, Lobos, or Panthers it?s nice to just be ALL LION!? said Carman.
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For his tryout, he performed a bit about the three types of people you always see on Law and Order.
But please be advised by me and let me give you the tryout first when I am sure you are ready for it.
If he was to be poisoned, it likely would be done shortly before the tryout.
Thus he grudgingly gave us a chance for a tryout; and he was surprised indeed.
Janet chuckled over the lines she was to read in the tryout.
The morning passed in a whirl of routine classes, but Janet found time to study her tryout sheets for several minutes.
So there you are, my son—within ten days of the tryout and nobody on hand to play dear old grandfather for you!
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Questions linger over shooter in cop's death
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Family members of slain Police Corporal Seburn Elias, who was fatally shot while trying to recapture an escaped prisoner, are questioning the circumstances under which he died and say they have very little confidence about getting answers to the lingering questions.
A post-mortem examination conducted yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Mortuary by government pathologist Nehaul Singh confirmed that Elias was shot twice–once in the chest just below the left breast and in the left side of his abdomen.
Police, in a press release, said that the cause of death was given as "haemorrhage and shock due to gunshot injuries," although the death certificate given to his family states that the rank died as a result of gunshot injuries to the abdomen.
The release added that a warhead was removed from the body by Singh and subsequent tests done by the Police Ballistics Section have confirmed that it was a .38 round. At the time that the escaped prisoner Delon Abrams was cornered, he was armed with a .38 revolver which he had earlier snatched from a police rank who was guarding him at the Georgetown Hospital.
Crime Chief Seelall Persaud had previously explained that the ranks were pursuing two lines of inquiry—that Elias was shot by "friendly fire," meaning rounds discharged by a policeman; or by two rounds which were discharged from the weapon that was stolen by Abrams.
It was expected that ballistic testing on the bullet/s recovered from body would have been able to provide clarity on who was responsible for the shooting.
In its release yesterday, the police force did not say anything more about the warhead other than to confirm that it was a .38 round. It is unclear whether checks are being conducted to ascertain whether any of the ranks who were around Elias at the time he was shot were armed with a .38-calibre weapon or if additional ballistics testing will be done to determine whether the recovered warhead came from the gun that the prisoner had snatched.
This newspaper spoke to Crime Chief Persaud prior to the release of yesterday's police press statement. While stating that a warhead had been recovered from the body, he was unable to say if the rank from whom the gun was stolen had been placed under close arrest. He said that he knew that the sergeant who released the weapon to him had been placed under close arrest.
It was Persaud who first mentioned that Elias may have been shot during "friendly fire". He had spoken to this newspaper moments after the shooting occurred. However police in their press release later that night gave a different version.
Meanwhile, sources close to Elias' family told Stabroek News yesterday that there seem to be more questions than answers about the shooting, which are fuelling suspicion.
Stabroek News was reliably informed that the bullet to the chest smashed Elias's heart before exiting his upper back. The second bullet was found lodged in Elias lower back, close to his spine. It had entered through the left side of the abdomen.
One source questioned why Elias, who had 25 years of experience under his belt, would try to tackle an armed man when he had no weapon of his own. "That just ain't meh no sense to me. All of this thing strange, strange," said the source, who suggested that the shooter had to have known about weapons.
The source said that based on where Elias was hit, it appears as through the shooter knew what he was doing. "I don't believe that is that man (the prisoner) who shoot Seburn," the source said, before adding that while persons close to Elias have many questions they know that many of them would remain unanswered.
The source said that the injuries that Elias sustained told a different story than him being involved in a scuffle with the prisoner. The source, while calling on the police to investigate the matter thoroughly, questioned whether the police had checked for gunpowder residue on the hands of all the ranks that were there. The source also questioned why more than two spent shells were not recovered if residents heard as many as six gunshots. The source said that knowing the type of person that Elias was, he would have exercised a lot of caution given the fact that the area where the man was hiding was dark. Residents said that the man was cornered in the yard where an uninhabited house is located. He had jumped the back fence via Third Street to gain entry while ranks used the Fourth Street entrance.
This newspaper has also been informed that in the days before he was killed, Elias had been transferred from the Brickdam Police Station to the Alberttown Police Station reportedly because he had refused to take part in an operation at the Georgetown Prisons.
According to the police, Abrams, 23, of South Ruimveldt, Georgetown, had been arrested by public-spirited persons and handed over to the police following an alleged break and enter and larceny committed on a home at Turkeyen. He had suffered injuries prior to being handed over to the police and was being escorted to the Georgetown Hospital by a constable, who was armed with his .38-calibre service revolver. It was in the hospital compound that Abrams managed to overpower the policeman and take away his firearm before escaping, the police said.
Abrams was pursued by police ranks, who caught up with him in a yard at Fourth Street, Alberttown, around 7pm.
Stabroek News had been reliably informed that Abrams got his chance to escape by pretending that he wanted to use the washroom in the waiting area of the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Unit. It was when his handcuffs were removed that he scuffled with the rank guarding him. He then snatched the rank's service revolver and made a dash for the door with the gun in hand and the police rank hot in pursuit.
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Thank you every one, especially Vikram. I can see it clearly now!
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Hey guys,
I recently completed my second PSD template and it was hard rejected (which I respect). The reviewer said that this might get accepted in the "Site Templates" category but the PSD Templates category requires higher quality in terms of aesthetics. Thanks for giving me some hope, dear reviewer .
It's my own creation and I tried to give my best so I can't quite put my finger on what went wrong. It would be super awesome if some of you TF gurus can criticize it. Be brutal please!It has 22 pages but I won't bore you with all of them:-
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Now you also con't scroll in the old previewer when it does work.. lmao
Thanks @VikramVerma, you're right.
Hi guys,
So I have been working only my second PSD template since my first one was rejected. I usually have hundreds of tabs open for inspiration including screenshot previews of existing PSD templates on ThemeForest – mostly just to get ideas on what content each page should consist of, I am not copying anyone.. but I digress.
The new screenshots previewer doesn't work well for this use-case because:-
1. No thumbnails – sifting through dozens of pages to find the right one isn't exactly fun.
2. Doesn't support deep linking – good bye to whichever page you had opened when doing a browser restart, back to 1.
So I have been using the old screenshot previewer by right-clicking on the screenshots button and selecting Open in New Tab. The problem is it is 404'ing for most of the PSD templates ever since the new previewer was implemented. I realize my use-case is not exactly common but the old previewer is also used on mobile (try re-sizing your window to a small size and click Screenshots) so I think this should be fixed!
Baby & Kids Store eCommerce PSD Template – Works!
Mango – Responsive eCommerce PSD Template – Page Not Found
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Definitely green – checked using a CRT too
It might sound bad but AFAIK it's your own server so you're free to use copyrighted images at your own risk. I've also seen some authors here do that.
You can give a better experience to your customers by using properly licensed ones and including them with the theme though. PhotoDune is pretty cheap and there are also sites like Upstart.com.
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Actually we don't have one.
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One cannot debate the importance of games in one's life. Games, whether indoor or outdoor, come as a welcome means as they develop a lot many aspects in one's personality. Like any other games there is an importance of one minute indoor games too. Not because they are short and sweet but because of the excitement that is attached with them. So lets go through the list and see what suits your taste.
List Of One Minute Indoor Games – The Significance Of It:
Indoor games play a very special role, as not always it is possible to adhere to an outdoor sport or activity and at such times indoor games give you the benefits in the vicinity of your familiar surroundings. Usually, apart from amusing oneself indoor games generally help in building concentration, focus and attentiveness. Though there is no dearth of indoor games options when planning to go through one, but the ones those are short and quick are more attractive and interesting to play. If the time span is limited to one minute it makes it all the more exciting and fascinating. The fun increases more as we try to develop a list of one minute indoor games -it gives our imagination quite a joy ride. Below is a list of one minute indoor games which are fun, interesting and skill building too.
Let us browse over the list of one minute indoor games which would help in your growth by building up your absorption power, patience and team-work spirit and also act as a splendid way to relax.
1. Shooting or ringing-in the objects:
What can increase the concentration and focus more than the games like shooting or ringing the objects, when considering the list of one minute indoor games? The objects to shoot can be balloons or eyes and the objects to ring-in can be small toys or empty boxes of soaps or any small plastic objects or small containers lying around the house. The beauty of this fabulous game is that it can be played indoors and also restricted to the one minute span. This game can be played amongst two partners also but more the partners, more the fun as it increases the competition and the fun.
2. Picking up Sticks:
This is a entertaining game, in the list of one minute indoor games, which can be played with chopsticks or by thin sticks of equal length; say around 8-10 inches. The sticks can be coloured in different colours each colour denoting different points. Now the timer could be set to a minute. The game begins by one member holding all the sticks in a fist and releasing the sticks on a table top from around a distance of a foot. The sticks would get scattered on the table top. The game is to pick up the maximum number of sticks without moving the other sticks. Each member would have to do so within a minute. After the timer's up, the one that has the maximum sticks can be considered as the winner. This is a fun game which leads to rolls of laughter and excitement and becomes quite addictive.
3. Picturing a favourite actor or a much-loved personality:
When thinking about the list of one minute indoor games, this one game can be very engaging and interesting. It can be a great game to increase your memory and focus. The game begins by deciding on one or more personalities. Within a minute you are required to pen down or utter the maximum details about the personality in question. Variations can be applied to this one minute indoor game by putting on focus the personal issues or the professional achievements of a celebrity. It can also be varied to cover up some important piece of news or happening and thus help in knowledge enhancement.
4. How well you know your partner?
This game forms a very exciting one and ranks ahead in the list of one minute indoor games. The reason what makes it so appealing and interesting is that it can be played on all fronts; i.e., it can act as a fun game for couples, romantic partners, office mates, friends or even foes. The game would be that within a minute you are required to detail the points about your partner. The motive behind this will be to know how well you know partner or your partner's preferences or attitude on a particular incident or topic. The game can be played over and over amongst the same partners by changing the question areas.
5. Altering a movie or a book:
This too makes an extraordinary game which can increase your imaginations, when you are trying to go through a list of one minute indoor games. The game is well suited for all age groups. The amount of fun and the scope where you can spread your imaginations undoubtedly depends on the age and versatility of members of the game. Before starting the game decide on a book or a movie, and brief it out to the audience as it is originally. Now once the game begins you are required to alter some important scenes or the plot or the climax according to your imagination. The more vivid your imaginations the more interesting the game can be.
Figuring out more games to add to the list of one minute indoor games can also be a splendid way to relax. So try to delve into the ones stated above and devise more to add to the list of one minute indoor games according to your likes and preferences.


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The Midnight Court is a very amusing and entertaining poem. This translation is brilliant and I think everyone would appreciate Merriman's wit. The subject matter is still relevant today despite the fact the original poem was written in the 18th Century. I would even recommend this text to people who do not like poetry, as it has a strong story and is very accessible.
I did not enjoy the other poems. It felt like something was lost in translation, which was a shame.
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Instead Hardesty gained 45 yards in nine carries (5 yards per carry) and Creer cruised past the century mark with 109 yards in seven carries for an eye-opening 15.4 yards per carry. Combined they finished with 154 yards in 16 carries compared to Coker's 169 yards in 45 carries (3.8 yards per carry) this season.
It also meant power back Arian Foster got 20 carries for 100 yards. A large payload is significant to a back like Foster who seems to get stronger throughout the course of a game. Moreover his style helps to break a defense down and soften it up for the speed backs.
Certainly Coker fit that category as he proved with several big plays in his freshman season at UT. However he didn't run with the authority or fluidity he did in 2006. It's tough in the normal flow of a game to get three backs quality playing time, and it's impossible to rotate four backs effectively.
It's easy to be deceived by a one-sided game of this nature, but a rotation that features Foster, Hardesty and Creer could be very productive down the stretch. Most of the time the Vols are going to stick with the hot hand and each of these backs possess distinct styles that pose different problems for opponents. That gives the offense some flexibility and allows it to exploit a variety of defensive weaknesses. Developing a trio that can compete for playing time will also help the Vols get a leg up on next season.
Here's the top to bottom offensive ratings for the Tennessee-Louisiana-Lafayette game. Grades of 90-100 are regarded as championship quality. Grades of 80-89 equate to top 25 worthy, grades of 70-79 are winning marks. Grades of 60-69 are passing but problematical and won't be good enough to defeat a quality opponent. Any grade below 60 is considered failing. Each score will be followed by a brief comment. Further analysis to follow.
RUNNING BACKS (94) The Ragin' Cajun defense won't be mistaken for Alabama's 1992 stop troops, and there was a lot of room to run, but the backs still impressed. It's the same as watching a standout pitcher face a weak line-up and still discerning his talent. Just because the competition wasn't good doesn't mean the pitcher isn't. These are good backs, probably better than other higher rated RB stables at Tennessee in recent years. They averaged 7.0 yards per carry — counting Gerald Jones 20 yards in a short stint at QB —didn't fumble the ball and scored four of the the Vols six touchdowns. OFFENSIVE LINE (89) The bottom-line on the O-line: 29 first downs, 45 points, 466 yards, 7.1 yards per play, no sacks and no fumbles. The offensive line made short work of an inferior opponent, allowing the regulars to get some much needed rest and the reserves to get some much needed reps. That's all the coaching staff could ask for. The only factor that knocks down this score is the quality of competition.
QUARTERBACKS (85) It wasn't a big passing day for the Vols simply because they didn't need one. Erik Ainge connected on 68 percent of his passes for 125 yards and a TD, while Jonathan Crompton hit 75 percent of his passes for 68 yards and a 49-yard TD. With the clock rapidly running down on Ainge's college career, the development of Crompton becomes more critical to the Vols football future. Since Phillip Fulmer has expressed total confidence in Crompton it seems this would have been a good game to have given him significant playing time. However he didn't enter the game until the fourth quarter with the Vols up 45-7. Gerald Jones played the last offensive series and contributed a 12-yard TD run.
RECEIVERS (80) Kenny O'Neal caught his first touchdown on a 49-yard play-action pass from Crompton in what was UT's longest gain of the day. You never know how quickly a junior college player will catch on and the Vols have to hope O'Neal can step up his game next season to give the Vols a deep threat. Tennessee missed out on JC wideout Demetrius Byrd who is playing lights out for LSU. It just goes to show you never know. Quintin Hancock caught a touchdown and Denarius Moore had 36 yards on four catches. Lucas Taylor had five catches for 51 yards in another solid effort.
OVERALL (87) A good performance against a bad opponent that padded the stats and cleared the bench. The Vols were 5 of 5 in the red zone, had no turnovers and put together some nice scoring drives.


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NCAA volleyball: Catching Fire
Everyone knows that new "Hunger Games: Catching Fire'' movie is killing it at box offices, but that's not this week's top release or box-office smash for volleyball fans across the country. For them (myself included), it's the NCAA Division I volleyball championships!
The NCAA tournament pairings came out Sunday night. Sixty-four teams out of 332 are selected based on overall season performance and RPI, which stands for "rating percentage index." The top 16 seeds host first- and second-round matches this week. Some are on Friday and Saturday, but we're hosting matches on Thursday and Friday.
The tournament is a single-elimination format and by the end of this weekend, only 16 teams will still be in the hunt for the championship. The following weekend, Dec. 13 and 14, play will continue at four regional sites (Champaign, Ill.; Lexington, Ky.; Lincoln, Neb.; and our very own Galen Center here in Los Angeles). The four regional champions will meet in Seattle to determine the national champion.
In so many ways, the NCAA tournament is like the "Hunger Games." It's a fight to "stay alive" and it's an annual tourney that determines who is the best. Looking for reasons why the NCAA tournament is as good as, or better, than the "Hunger Games"? I've got 'em:
1. The NCAA tournament has 32 times the amount of entertainment! With each match averaging about two hours and 63 total matches, you get 126 hours of gut-wrenching entertainment compared with a mere four-hour sit-down movie.
2. Like the "Hunger Games'' series, this volleyball tournament has action, love, rivalries and just enough of that occasional violence, you know, when someone takes a spike to the face. We call that a six-pack in the volleyball world.
3. The tournament is a lot like the "Catching Fire'' movie because each of the champions of the respective volleyball conferences is represented. Each one is a respected opponent that brings its own unique qualities to the court.
4. We've got teams like District 2, Cato and Clove, which have a strong reputation for winning. Penn State won four titles in a row between 2007 and 2010. That's four of the last six!
5. There are teams like Rue from District 11 that are great and fly under the radar. Last year, Michigan entered the tournament ranked 33rd and ended up in the final four.
6. Can't decide between Team Peeta and Team Gale? Try that times 64.
7. We'll gladly volunteer for tribute. If your team loses, that's basically the end of our volleyball lives this season, as we know it. It's single elimination and for players that are seniors, it's their last chance to play collegiately. Every team wants to be in the tournament because that elusive prize of being the best is worth the fight.
8. The NCAA is better than President Snow and Seneca Crane. First, the NCAA is not evil. It ranks the teams fairly based on RPI and overall performance so it can organize the whole tournament. Plus, it can't control the matches by dropping burning logs and creating crazy force fields to try to kill us!
9. We've got Jennifer Lawrence beat. Sixty-four teams times 15 girls equals 960 top female athletes in spandex. Enough said.
10. You can't read the books to find out what's going to happen!
Good Luck to all the teams participating and "may the odds be ever in your favor."


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Book about nature photography; macro photography (insects and flowers), and animals.
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Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
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As you likely know by now, I am a Canadian wildlife photographer, a film maker and an actor. Wildlife photography is now a way for me to express myself through a different form of art. It is a lot more than just capturing a moment on a memory card, It is trying to create a work of art, with each shutter click. I started out as a landscape photographer, to shift to what I believe is now my two main interests; bird and macro photography. Never before I would have thought, that a flower or a bug could be so amazing to watch. That even the smallest bird that we usually take for granted, could be blessed with such amazing colors. So, two photo books, and many articles in different north American journal and magazines later, my passion for nature photography is still growing and has definitely become a part of me.
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Planning Commission to hear proposal on Daybreak Homes
The Sherwood Planning Commission will review the Daybreak Homes proposal for Area 59 at its next meeting, which starts at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 8 in the Community Room located at the Sherwood Civic Building, 22560 S.W. Pine St., Sherwood.
Primelan Properties, a Tigard based land development company, has proposed building a planned housing development in the city's newly annexed Area 59, near the new elementary and middle schools, which are being built now.
The plan calls for 48 single homes and 29 town homes and incorporates a walking path, green spaces and larger-than-average lot sizes. The concept behind Daybreak Homes, according to Primelan's director of sales and marketing, Eric Rasmussen - who is also a Sherwood native - is to 'return to tradition.'
'We're trying to make these homes stand out,' Rasmussen says. 'The design is unique … we wanted to have more of an old town style and we were inspired by some of the architectural elements found in traditional New England homes.'
For more information about the Daybreak development, visit www.primelan.com.
Urban Renewal Agency completes purchase of old Cannery property
The Sherwood Urban Renewal Agency Board of Directors have completed the purchase of the old Cannery property from the city for $3,065,000.
Tom Nelson, the city's economic development manager, says the sale will allow the city to better develop the property.
'The statutes allow the Urban Renewal Board to do negotiations to develop property that are more specific than what a city can do,' Nelson said.
The sale of the property to the Urban Renewal District also allows the city to pay off the bond it took out to get the property ready for development.
The city is still in negotiations with Capstone Partners to create a mixed-use development with retail shops, a public plaza, offices and housing on the old Cannery site, which is the largest piece of undeveloped property in Old Town Sherwood.
In other urban renewal business, the Urban Renewal Board voted March 18 to authorized staff to look into purchasing a piece of property adjacent to the old Cannery site, which currently houses a machine shop. The city has contracted with Creekside Environmental to do a two-phase environmental analysis of the property, Nelson said, and should have the results of that analysis by the urban renewal board's next meeting on April 15.
Sherwood Planning Commission has vacancy
Applications for City boards and commissions can be obtained on the city's Web site at www.ci.sherwood.or.us/application.pdf or by calling the city recorder's office at 503-625-4246.


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From on-the-set video of N.E.R.D shooting 'Sooner or Later' music video, it is shown that Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Shay Haley will be playing janitors in a stock market building.
A video footage providing a look into the set of N.E.R.D's music video for their new song "Sooner or Later" has arrived. From the footage, it is revealed that the music video is directed by The Malloys, the same man who helped Foo Fighters making "Breakout" music video. It is also unveiled that professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek will be making a cameo appearance on the video.
Starting with a capture of the band's member Chad Hugo talking to the camera, the behind-the-scenes video continues to roll on with scenes showing Chad, Pharrell Williams and Shay Haley playing janitors in a stock market. Shay will be seen cleaning windows while Pharrell will be dealing with dirty floors.
Commenting on the concept behind the video itself, one of The Malloys, Emmett Malloy, explained that he comes up with such an idea after watching the news in the media reporting the stock market crash. "...It's really about the market kinda going down and it ends in a pretty hopeful way ...," he stated.
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Now THIS is how you drive an M6
Josh S. and the expert drivers from the BMW Performance Center took a couple 2013 M6 out on the Performance Center private track for a game of cat and mouse. With 560 horsepower, 500 ft-lbs of torque and a trick electronically managed limited slip differential the 2013 F13 M6 Coupe has no problem bringing the rear end around for some well laid out drifts. It isn't the fastest way around the track but it does make for some great video footage.
If you are thinking about ordering a new BMW make sure you ask your dealer about Performance Center Delivery! Find out more at BMW's site and the Bimmerfest Performance Center Delivery forum.
this is impressive. do you have any more?
How the hell did they get those shots? What was the chase and follow car?
Also was it done in 2 takes b/c I don't see the chase or follow car in either view... yet they seem to sync up really well.
Same question as Fried Chicken. I don't see any cars with cameras in front of or behind this M6.
I think it is two different runs, one from the front and one from the back. They synced up the footage but if you look the car isn't in the exact same spot.
Looks like the camera car was another M6.
What would be embarrassing is if the camera car were a Nissan gtr else other than a bmw
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Cardiology Presence Expands in Baton Rouge General's Heart and Vascular Tower27-Aug-2013
Baton Rouge, La. – Interventional cardiologist Lance LaMotte, MD, FACC, and invasive cardiologist Nakia Newsome, MD, recently joined Baton Rouge Cardiology Center's physician practice location in Baton Rouge General's Heart and Vascular Tower on the Bluebonnet campus. Joining BRCC physicians Drs. Darrin Breaux, Evens Rodney, Venkat Surakanti and Brian Swirsky at the practice location in the Heart and Vascular Tower, Baton Rouge General welcomes Drs. LaMotte and Newsome to its campus community.
With the recent multi-million dollar expansion of its heart and vascular services and its growing community of heart, vascular and cardiothoracic physician tenants, Baton Rouge General brings together comprehensive heart and vascular services all under one roof. The General's heart and vascular enhancements include an expanded surgical space equipped with an innovative hybrid OR build-out. Compared to traditional surgery space, the General's hybrid room uniquely allows for the simultaneous IT integration of sophisticated diagnostic technologies, precise imaging capabilities and multiple surgical therapies – with the goal of maximizing treatment options for cardiac and vascular procedures. Nationally recognized for excellence in heart and vascular care as Baton Rouge's only Joint Commission "Top-Performer" Hospital for Heart Attack and Heart Failure and the city's only A-rated hospital for patient safety by the Leapfrog Group two years in a row – Baton Rouge General is committed to providing the most comprehensive, high quality heart and vascular care for the community.
Located in Baton Rouge General's Heart and Vascular Tower on its Bluebonnet campus, physician tenants with Baton Rouge Cardiology Center are pictured left to right: Drs. Darrin Breaux, Evens Rodney, Nakia Newsome, Venkat Surakanti, Lance LaMotte and Brian Swirsky.


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Chris begins his 14th season as head soccer coach at Coast Guard.
Parsons has a 13-year record of 118-96-30 and has led the Bears to postseason play in seven of his 13 seasons (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2014), including the program's first NCAA berth in 33 years last season, just the third NCAA appearance all-time for the men's soccer team. Parson also led the Bears to the ECAC Division III New England Championship in 2008 and again in 2012.
Parsons was named the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Coach of the Year last season as the team went 13-3-3 overall and 4-1-2 in conference play.
Prior to 2003, Coast Guard had not played in the postseason since 1998. He was named NEWMAC Coach of the Year in 2007 and again in 2012.
Parsons, who has 158 collegiate wins, was the head coach at Vassar College for five years (1997-2001) where he compiled a 40-37-5 record including back-to-back ECAC Tournament berths in 1997 and 1998 and a berth to the NCAA Tournament in 1999.
Prior to Vassar, Parsons was the head coach at Champlain College, a junior college in Vermont from 1993-1996. His team won the 1996 NJCAA Region III Championship. In 1995, he was named the NJCAA Region III Coach of the Year as his team was the Region III runners-up. He had a four-year record of 44-20-4 at Champlain College.
Chris was an NSCAA first-team All-America at Middlebury College where he earned a degree in Economics. He earned a Master's Degree in Sports Management at UMass in 1990. Parsons holds NSCAA Advanced National, National and Professional Diplomas.


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Chaucer's greatest work, written towards the end of the fourteenth century, paints a brilliant picture of medieval life, society and values. The stories contained within this recording -- including The Clerk's Prologue and Tale, The Nun's Priest Prologue and Tale, The Prioress's Prologue and Tale, The Reeve's Prologue and Tale, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale -- are told with freshness and vigor (in this modern verse translation by Frank Ernest Hill, 1935), that make them a delight to hear.
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One of the great things about NCR is that it is home to many voices. Oftentimes I find myself nodding in agreement with what I read posted by other contributors and other times I find myself shaking my head.
But, it is not often that I find something that makes me feel sick to my stomach. Alas, Renee Schafer Horton's post about Israeli settlements was jaw-dropping.
Especially offensive were these sentences about her trip to Israel and her visit to Yad Vashem: "Going to the Holocaust museum and realizing that what was done to Jews then is similar to what Jews do to Palestinians now. For instance, the Germans made Jews wear yellow stars; in Israel, Palestinians have to have green license plates."
Do tell? In what way precisely is Nablus similar to Auschwitz? Are there crematoria? Does Horton understand that the Jews wearing the stars were the lucky ones, the ones who were not immediately exterminated? For all of my problems with the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, and for all my distaste at the politics of the settlers, is extermination a goal of the Israeli government? If so, they are woefully ineffective.
Horton goes on to wonder why everyone can't just get along, showing a naivete about the politics of the region that rivals the naivete of Donald Rumsfeld.
She then launches into an exercise in moral equivalence that was stupefying. You can mourn the plight of the Palestinian people without engaging in this sort of foolishness.
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Imagine a thought experiment, in which Walmart agreed to pay marginally higher wages across the board.
What's an example of a scene or a moment that triggered that kind of thought experiment?
It is a proposal readers will have trouble taking seriously, even as a thought experiment.
As you can see, in our thought experiment higher interest rates take a big chunk out of housing prices.
Every time I run that thought experiment, it ends up with handcuffs and jail time for the black kids, if not worse.


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Software allows engineers to test algorithms before they become fundamental part of design.
Today, New Safety and Propulsion systems are creating culture clashes within the engineering community.
Functional engineering groups that don't know each other are being forced to work together.
Electronics engineers have to communicate with body and chassis engineers; hybrid-electric-vehicle development means electrical engineers have to collaborate with folks in powertrain engineering.
Communication problems among diverse engineering groups and trouble transferring data from one department to the next are causing engineers to spend as much as 50% more time reviewing design specifications and validating test results instead of doing more productive work, says Jon Friedman, automotive industry marketing manager for The Mathworks Inc., a major vendor of computing software to auto makers and suppliers.
MathWorks says its software can address this issue and dramatically reduce validation activities.
Called Early Verification, the process works with MathWorks' MATLAB and Simulink model-based design systems to ferret out flawed specifications and algorithms before they become embedded too deeply in a new design and before the product becomes a physical prototype.
Currently too many wrong specifications and flawed algorithms (electronic sequences of instructions) are introduced into the design of a new component or system and not discovered until very late in the product-creation process, Friedman says.
Engineers need to start thinking of algorithms being testable before they become a fundamental part of a new design, he says.
Early verification boils down to capturing requirements using executable specifications and taking the computer models created from that information and turning them into system-level test benches for algorithms and components, Friedman says.
"It's about simulating to evaluate the design tradeoffs and component interactions early in the process before the physical system exists. You find errors immediately where you introduce them.
"It's not about being perfect," Friedman says. "You want to help engineers identify and throw out bad designs as fast as possible."
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The staff at Mee Memorial Hospital and it's clinics works hard to provide excellent care and services for the people of South Monterey County. But, there is always room for improvement.
"The best way for us to find out what people think about our hospital and clinical services is to ask," said Suzi Taylor, community awareness director for the hospital. "So, for the month of July we are conducting a very simple survey to see what services are important and what other services could be implemented. There is also a place for comments and we really do want to know what people think. I call it the good, the bad and the ugly."
As an incentive to fill out the online survey, Byron Lynn of Lynn's Too! has donated a $250 Valero gas card which will be awarded at the end of the survey to one of the lucky respondents. Bill Gittler has donated several items that are being given away for a weekly draw.
"We know that time is valuable and thought this drawing would be a good enticement," added Taylor.
Anyone can log into www.meeaboutyou.com and fill out the simple survey. For people who may not be inclined to use the Internet, paper surveys are available at the Mee Gift Shop and those will be entered in the drawing each week and for the grand prize.
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price 1688″ width="236″ height="300″ />Increase Mather (1639 • 1723) is best known as a clergyman and leading theologian in colonial New England, the father of Cotton Mather. He was also an avid avocational astronomer and promoter of science in the colonies. He was the primary founder of the Philosophical Society and one of the first presidents of Harvard, when that school was still sound and zealous in the Christian faith. He diligently studied comets and wrote a number of monographs on them.
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Provo • Matt Carlino used the word excited, or a form of that word, no fewer than eight times during a three-minute interview on Thursday afternoon.
Somewhere along the way, BYU's transfer from UCLA acknowledged he has a few jitters, a few butterflies in his stomach, as he prepares to make his college basketball debut on Saturday when the Cougars play host to No. 6 Baylor at the Marriott Center (noon, BYUtv).
Carlino, who had to sit out the last year due to NCAA transfer rules, becomes eligible at the end of fall semester, which just happens to coincide with one of the Cougars' biggest nonconference games in years. Coach Dave Rose said the 6-foot-2 point guard won't start against the Bears that will be either Craig Cusick or Anson Winder but will get some playing time.
"Getting comfortable, just going out there, maybe get the jitters out a little bit," Carlino said, when asked what his greatest task will be Saturday. "It is going to be different. I haven't played in a little while, but it is just going to be fun. I am really excited."
Certainly, the Cougars (8-2) have been grooming Carlino since halfway through last season to ease into Jimmer Fredette's old role, but those preparations were amped up the last three weeks, Rose said, as Carlino's practice situation was altered.
"The last two or three weeks, the majority of reps that he has [received] has been with our team, running our stuff," Rose said. "Before that, he was here as a practice player, running everybody else's stuff. We like what he does, we like what he brings, and we will see how he adjusts, how quickly he adjusts."
It would be difficult to find a more ballyhooed in-season debut in BYU basketball history. Because he was once part of UCLA's program a concussion kept him from playing for the Bruins at the start of his career and because BYU beat out the likes of UNLV, Butler and St. Mary's for his services, expectations for Carlino are sky-high.
Will he be as good as advertised?
"Come to the game. Or turn the TV on," Rose replied. "One of the two."
We will take that as a yes.
Said center Brandon Davies: "Matt brings a lot. You know, it is hard to say one specific thing. I think he is going to come in there and give us a big lift. He is comfortable with us. ... It is nice for him to be able to perform on the court, finally."
Carlino is well aware of the buzz his transfer created in Provo, but claims he isn't feeling the weight of all those expectations among a fanbase eager to find and attach itself to the next Jimmer.
"I have just been waiting and waiting and waiting, so no [pressure to live up to expectations]," he said. "It is just on me to get out there and play. I am just excited to play. I am not worried about any of that other stuff."
Rose said he is "really comfortable" with the way Winder and Cusick have handled the point guard duties since the twosome took over for the 6-foot-6 Brock Zylstra after the BYU-Hawaii game. But he's just as interested to see what Carlino can do as anybody else.
"The most important thing is trying to get used to just how [he] plays, how he plays on the floor how the other guys play with him. It is not the most ideal situation, to add a player 10 games in," Rose said. "But we have felt like the opportunity to get Matt, and have him with us for three and a half years was worth this adjustment period that we are going to go through right here."
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College basketball Saturday
No. 6 Baylor at BYU
At the Marriott Center, Provo
Tipoff • noon
TV • BYUtv
Radio • 1160 AM, 102.7 FM
Records • BYU 8-2, Baylor 8-0
Series history • BYU leads, 5-2
Last meeting • BYU 100, Baylor 58 (Dec. 1, 1979)
About the Cougars • Senior Noah Hartsock is their leading scorer, averaging 17.3 points per game. ... Fourth-leading scorer Stephen Rogers (9.9 ppg.) will miss the game with a knee injury. ... Freshman guard Matt Carlino, a transfer from UCLA, will make his BYU debut against Baylor. ... They are playing host to a top-10 team for the fourth-straight season.
About the Bears • Perry Jones III, who missed the first five games due to an NCAA-mandated suspension, is averaging 15.7 points and 5.3 rebounds per game. ... They are No. 6 in the Associated Press Top 25 and No. 7 in the USA/Today ESPN Coaches Poll. ... They are averaging 77 points per game, the same as BYU. ... They are averaging 15.6 turnovers a game.


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Matt Scott's formal introduction to a pro-style offense came a week ago Monday in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The former Arizona Wildcats quarterback was handed a playbook on the first day of practice for the East-West Shrine Game and was expected to know every inch of it in a matter of days, not weeks.
"The offense we ran at Arizona was a lot different," Scott said Monday of the Wildcats' spread-option. "That was one of the hardest things for me - picking up the new offense."
Scott's intense study sessions paid off.
He was given 15 snaps in Saturday's showcase game for college seniors and completed three of four passes for 81 yards, including a 57-yard touchdown pass to Mississippi State's Chad Bumphis.
Scott returned to Tucson on Monday for one day and will head to San Diego today to continue to prepare for April's NFL draft. There, he will work with longtime quarterbacks coach George Whitfield and will be joined by Florida State's E.J. Manuel and Oklahoma's Landry Jones once they finish at this week's Senior Bowl in Alabama.
A Corona Calif., native, Scott will work with Whitfield up until next month's NFL Combine in Indianapolis. Whitfield has trained the last two overall top picks in the NFL draft (Andrew Luck and Cam Newton) as well as several other elite quarterback prospects.
"It's going to be great to work with him and enhance my skills," Scott said. "I need to get better as a passer and more efficient. I also have to work on my footwork and reading defenses."
Scott is projected as a mid-to-late round selection in the draft and still has several months to improve his stock.
Draft analysts who watched last week's Shrine Game practices said Scott improved as the week went on.
ESPN.com's Steve Muench wrote on his blog: "Arizona QB Matt Scott struggled early in the week, but he looked much better on Thursday. Scott's footwork and release were strong, (he) got the ball out quickly, and he made a perfect throw to the corner of the end zone on a fade route."
The Star chatted with Scott on Monday about preparing for April's draft.
On meeting with scouts throughout the week at the Shrine Game
"They just want to get to know you. It's like the first step in the process. They ask you some questions, get to know your background, ask if there are any off-the-field issues, things like that. They don't really give you feedback on what to work on. This is just the first step."
On the game-day experience
"It was a great atmosphere in that stadium (St. Petersburg's Tropicana Field). I would have liked to get more snaps here and there, but overall, it was good."
On only getting 15 snaps
"It was just the way the game worked out. Each quarterback was given 15 plays and then we'd go from there and keep going. It never got back to me. But, I was still pleased with the whole experience. Anytime you can go to one of those games and be around all those athletes, it's a great time."
On his touchdown pass
"It was a fade route. The defender was inside the receiver and I tried to put the ball in a spot where only my guy could get it. The defender tried to jump the route, but the ball went over his head, and it was great concentration by the wide receiver. It was a good play."
On what he wants to work on most in the coming months
"At the NFL level, it's a lot about footwork and technique. You can always get better at that. There are quarterbacks doing some different things now, but those two things are always major."