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Texas (American Indians Ready Reference)
The term "Texas" was originally used to designate the Hasinai tribes of East Texas. It was extended from the Indians to the adjacent country and finally to the territory which became the state of Texas. The word (pronounced "techas") meant "friends" or, more technically, "allies." The name was used generically to identify the Hasinai ("our own people"), Caddo, and others who were enemies of the Apache.
The Hasinai did not use the term for themselves; it was used as a greeting. The term was apparently first written in a 1683 Spanish report which talks of the "Gran Reyno de los Texas," first identified by West Texas Indians. The Spanish misunderstood the everyday use of the term and applied it to the Hasinai, who were the largest politically organized allies that they encountered and the people identified in the early report. In the 1690's Father Francisco de Jesus María, who had lived among the Hasinai, said that the correct name of the Indians living in the upper Neches and Angelina valleys, "which in New Spain they called Texias," is "Aseney" or "Asenay." There is ample evidence from other Spanish and French sources to this effect as well, but the error persisted.
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With a name like Texas, one would most likely expect to hear the straightforward country and blues-rock tunes or the rolling folk songs often associated with the southwestern state. Despite the images the name implies, Texas, whose members hail from Glasgow, Scotland, also grasp the moody textures of British 1980s pop and American radio rock. Named after the 1985 Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas for which Ry Cooder, a folk musician admired by the members of the band, composed the soundtrack, the group took inspiration from blues and folk music and added an overall modern rock feel. "The name Texas causes so many problems," front woman Sharleen Spiteri told Neil McCormick in the Daily Telegraph. "Sometimes I wonder what possessed us, I really do. But it was pouring with rain in Glasgow, we were sitting there playing a Southern blues twang thing, wishing we really were in Texas... What can I say? It seemed like a great idea at the time." Texas achieved pop-star status in Great Britain with their debut album in 1989, Southside, but reached only a limited following of fans in the United States. Throughout the 1990s, the Scottish quintet amassed an even broader audience, selling over ten million records worldwide, although a substantial American fan base continued to elude them. However, critics predicted that with their 1999 release, The Hush, Texas would earn greater recognition outside of the United Kingdom and Europe.
Texas formed in 1986 in Glasgow, Scotland, when Spiteri, praised for her deep, soulful voice, met Johnny McElhone, a veteran of the British rock circuit and a member of two former groups, Hipsway and Altered Images. While Hipsway remained a relatively unknown band, Altered Images had considerable chart success in both Britain and the United States during the mid-1980s. McElhone, who played bass guitar for Texas, and Spiteri, who served as the group's lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and occasional pianist, penned a number of songs before recruiting guitarist Ally McErlaine and drummer Stuart Kerr to join the band. Although Spiteri began playing guitar at the age of ten, she claimed she never held aspirations to form or play with a pop/rock ensemble. In fact, until the creation of Texas, Spiteri worked as a hairdresser in Glasgow.
Spiteri remained the dominating force behind Texas's success from the beginning. Labeled by the British press as "the U.K.'s sexiest female," Spiteri displayed a sensual style with her dark hair, pale skin, and slender frame, without appearing as a stereotypical beauty. While many pop groups tend to experience conflicts when one band member receives most of the attention, Texas placed Spiteri in the spotlight on purpose. As the lead singer told McCormick, "We made that decision as a band. I am the most confident about having photographs taken. They've no desire to do it, no desire to be in the videos." In March of 1988, with Spiteri fronting the band, Texas performed live for the firsttime as a group at a local college in Glasgow. They continued to tour around the United Kingdom extensively before signing with the British record label Phonogram (known as Mercury in the United States). In 1989, after recruiting keyboard player Eddie Campbell, Texas released their debut album entitled Southside. The strength of the song "I Don't Want a Lover," which became a top ten British hit single, helped make Southside an instant success and launch it to number three on the British charts. Eventually, the album went platinum, selling 1.6 million copies worldwide, even though many critics described the remainder of the record's songs as derivative and bland. In the United States, the album's engaging yet low-key blending of blues, R&B, soul, country-folk, and modern rock only received air play on college radio stations.
After touring across Europe, Richard Hynd replaced Kerr on drums, and Texas released their second effort, 1991's Mothers Heaven, an overall improvement on the band's debut release. Maintaining their prior blues undertones brought to the surface by slide-guitar and Spiteri's handsome vocals, the band also introduced more rock and roll influences with their sophomore release. Critics marveled at Spiteri's singing, often comparing her vocal skills to those of Motown legend Diana Ross, country singer Linda Ronstadt, and singer/songwriter Maria McKee, former vocalist for the country-rock group Lone Justice. McKee sang back-up vocals on two songs for Mothers Heaven, including the album's title track. "What makes Texas truly special is the singing of Sharleen Spiteri," concluded People magazine. "On a song like the gospelized 'Alone with You,' Spiteri moves easily from a prairie-dust roughness to a slippery sexiness." But despite the record's artistic merits, Texas unfortunately fell victim to bad timing with the release of Mothers Heaven, and found themselves displaced by the growing popularity of British dance-pop bands. Thus sales for the album, under one million mostly in continental Europe, proved disappointing in comparison to Texas's debut.
However, the group's disappointment was short-lived as they were reinvigorated by the success of their 1992 British Top 20 hit single "Tired Of Being Alone," a cover of an Al Green song. That year, Texas also traveled to the United States for the first time and enjoyed a popular American tour, performing before mainly alternative music audiences. In 1993, Texas released a third album containing 12 songs, the back-to-basics and unpretentious Ricks Road, for which the band again won favorable reviews. For this release produced by Paul Fox, Texas settled into a rich groove, featuring songs accented with but not dominated by country, blues, gospel, and rock undertones. The focus of Ricks Road, as with the band's first two releases, centered on Spiteri, who gave full voice to such memorable, straightforward songs as "You Owe It All to Me," "You've Got to Live a Little," "Listen To Me," the country twang "So Called Friend," and the rock-inspired "Fade Away." Throughout the album, Texas's influences came to the surface, most notably Spiteri's gritty rock and smooth country-styled vocals, as well as McErlaine's blues-based guitar playing.
For the next few years, Texas took a break from recording but returned in 1997 with White on Blonde, the group's second number one album in the United Kingdom. Not since the release of Southside had the band witnessed such popular success. For most of the record's songs, Texas chose to drop their American rock and roll sound for a combination of pop-rock, hip-hop, and soul. Spiteri described White on Blonde as a "modern soul record," as quoted by Andy Gill in Independent. Nevertheless, the same Texas sound came through under the alterations, and the band drew on a variety of styles without letting go of their adult-pop composure. "Hints of ambient electronics, gritty rock and R&B grooves ripple through the lush layers of sound," stated Los Angeles Times writer Sandy Masuo, printed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Masuo further added, "Spiteri shifts effortlessly from bluesy crooning to a forthright folkiness without ever losing her poise." Also taking more chances with White on Blonde, Texas produced more ambitious songs such as the dark, moody "Insane" and "Put Your Arms Around Me," both setto stringed instrumentais and a slowed-down beat.
Texas released The Hush in the spring of 1999 on Universal Records, and the album soon became considered the group's best collection of songs. The more finely produced effort recorded in a studio in Spiteri's house offered more depth and made Texas seem more like a sophisticated modern soul act. The subtle opening track "In Our Lifetime," for example, gradually develops without sounding predictable, and the album progresses with references to Texas's influences, from R&B singer Marvin Gaye to the classic rock band Fleetwood Mac. In the past, some of Texas's songs had come off as clumsy and underwritten when paired with the grandeur of Spiteri's voice. But with The Hush, propelled by drummer Hynd and the soulful rock guitar of McElhone (who also shared production duties), Spiteri shined similar to a member of Motown's the Supremes for "When We Are Together" and delivered the sultry "Tell Me the Answer," a track resembling a lustful Prince tune, with a soft, sexy style. Other noteworthy tracks included the dreamy "Sunday Afternoon," and the pop song "Summer Son," reminiscent of the 1970s group Abba. With plans to return to the United States to promote their latest release, Texas, now based in London, England, seemed certain to attract a more mainstream American audience and surpass the sales of their previous albums.
Selected discography
Southside, Mercury, 1989.
Mothers Heaven, Mercury, 1991.
Ricks Road, Mercury, 1993.
Live From Ricks Road, Mercury, 1994.
White on Blonde, Mercury, 1997.
The Hush, Universal, 1999.
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Robbins, Ira A., ed., Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock, Fireside/Simon and Schuster, 1997.
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Dallas Morning News, May 23, 1999, p. 10C.
Entertainment Weekly, May 21, 1999, p. 78.
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Independent on Sunday, March 23, 1997, p. 15; July 27, 1997, p. 24.
Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 9, 1997, p. 02F.
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It's that time of year when we often find ourselves opening our homes to friends and family. Whether you have one guest or many, it's always nice to offer a space that's just as interesting as it is relaxing. There is just something to be said about staying in a room (or home) that is thoughtfully designed and well curated.
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Helping people work with technology. Terri Griffith is a Professor in Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business. Located in the heart of the Silicon Valley, she studies how we mix together the technology of work (everything from telepresence to the size and type of tools a crew would use to build a fence), the way we organize to do this work (virtual teams, collaborative leadership, innovation strategies), and the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the people we work with. Her book, The Plugged-In Manager, released in October 2011. She is one of Silicon Valley's 100 Women of Influence for 2012. For updates, follow her blog, Technology and Organizations, which has been named to a variety of "Top" lists, or her contributions to the Harvard Business Review blog. Terri has also written for the Wall Street Journal and GigaOM's WebWorkerDaily.
Before coming to Santa Clara University, Professor Griffith was on the faculties of Washington University, St. Louis and the University of Arizona (CV). She has also held visiting positions at UC Berkeley; Purdue University; Northwestern University; the Melbourne School of Business; and the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration in Bangkok, Thailand. Other international experience includes a United States Information Agency funded "train the trainer" program in Bulgaria where she and other faculty presented U.S. business education topics and techniques.
She is a member of the Academy of Management, an editorial board member of the Journal of Managerial Issues, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, past senior editor for Organization Science, as well as a past associate editor for MIS Quarterly and past editorial board member for the Journal of Technology and Engineering Management. For several years she was the Convenor of the Organization Science Winter Conference, an annual "think tank" event which draws academics as well as senior executives from firms such as PARC, Citigroup, and GE.
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Clinician Summary – Nov. 18, 2009
Treating Cholesterol With Combination Therapy
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This guide summarizes clinical evidence on using combinations of lipid-lowering medications for the treatment of high cholesterol. Most of the available evidence compares combination therapy with using a statin medication alone. This guide covers the major classes of lipid-lowering medications. It does not cover dietary and lifestyle changes.
Clinical Issue
High cholesterol is one of the most commonly treated medical conditions. There is general consensus that aggressive treatment is indicated for high-risk individuals. LDL levels are the primary target of treatment. Lowering LDL cholesterol reduces the risk of coronary heart disease and ischemic stroke.
After diet and exercise, a statin medication is the first line of treatment. Several other types of medications are available for lowering cholesterol. For people who do not achieve the desired treatment goal on statin monotherapy, combination therapy may permit using a lower dose of a statin and decrease the risk of side effects.
Much of the available evidence compares combination therapy to statin monotherapy using less than maximal statin dosages. For people who have not reached their cholesterol goal on lower doses of statins, the clinical options are either to raise the statin dose or to add a second lipid-lowering medication.
The systematic review on which this guide is based compared the following medication combinations with statin monotherapy:
- Statin plus a bile acid sequestrant
- Statin plus ezetimibe
- Statin plus a fibrate
- Statin plus niacin
- Statin plus Omega-3 fatty acids
Clinical Bottom Line
The evidence is insufficient to conclude that combination therapy leads to lower rates of clinical events and death (all cause mortality and vascular death) than statin monotherapy. In these studies, clinical events included myocardial infarctions, strokes, and the need for invasive vascular procedures.
The evidence is insufficient to assess whether any combination regimen provides greater reduction in LDL cholesterol than statin monotherapy. Evidence is also insufficient for other intermediate outcomes, including total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and coronary artery and carotid intima thickening.
The evidence is insufficient to draw conclusions about the rates of adverse events of combination therapy compared with statin monotherapy. The adverse events assessed in these studies included elevation of liver enzymes, myalgia, rhabdomyolysis, and cancer
The Studies
While over 100 research studies were included in the systematic review, several characteristics of these studies made it difficult to draw firm conclusions.
- Small sample size – The trials generally were unable to detect endpoints that occurred infrequently.
- Short duration – On average, the trials were about 30 weeks long; some lasted as little as 4–6 weeks.
- Inconsistent results – When a trial showed superiority of a drug combination, other trials did not confirm this result.
- Lack of ethnic diversity – Most study participants were white males.
- Different definitions of treatment success – Trials used many different thresholds to classify participants as having improved cholesterol levels.
- Little analysis of non-LDL outcomes – The studies provided little data on other treatment effects, such as HDL and triglyceride levels.
Only 15 of the 102 studies compared combination therapy with higher dose statin therapy. Most used the same dose statin in both the monotherapy and combination therapy study arms. It is not possible to derive recommended doses from these studies.
Lipid-Lowering Medications
Drug Name1 | Brand Name | Available as Generic? |
Statins | ||
Atorvastatin | Lipitor® | No |
Fluvastatin | Lescol®, Lescol® XL2 | No |
Lovastatin | Mevacor®, Altoprev®2 | Yes |
Pravastatin | Pravachol® | Yes |
Rosuvastatin | Crestor® | No |
Simvastatin | Zocor® | Yes |
Bile acid sequestrants | ||
Cholestyramine | Questran® | Yes |
Colesevelam | Welchol® | No |
Colestipol | Colestid® | Yes |
Cholesterol absorption inhibitors | ||
Ezetimibe | Zetia® | No |
Fibrates | ||
Gemfibrozil | Lopid® | Yes |
Fenofibrate | Lofibra®, TriCor® | Yes |
Vitamins and supplements | ||
Niacin | Niacor®, Niaspan®2 | Yes |
Omega-3 fatty acids | Lovaza® | Yes |
Combinations | ||
Ezetimibe/simvastatin | Vytorin® | No |
Niacin ER/lovastatin | Advicor® | No |
Niacin ER/simvastatin | Simcor® | No |
1 These drugs were evaluated in the systematic review.
2 Extended release. Not available as generic.
XL/ER = extended release.
Resources for Patients
Treating High Cholesterol: A Guide for Adults is a companion to this Clinician's Guide. It can help people talk with their health care professional about high cholesterol and the different types of lipid-lowering medications.
For More Information
For electronic copies of the consumer's guide, this clinician's guide, and the full systematic review, visit this Web site: www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov
For free print copies call:
AHRQ Publications Clearinghouse, 800-358-9295
Consumer Guide, AHRQ Pub. No. 09(10)-EHC024-A
Clinician Guide, AHRQ Pub. No. 09(10)-EHC024-3
AHRQ created the John M. Eisenberg Center at Oregon Health & Science University to make research useful for decisionmakers. This guide was prepared by Bruin Rugge, M.D., Martha Schechtel, R.N., Rachelle Nicolai, B.A.,
Susan Severance, M.P.H., and David Hickam, M.D., of the Eisenberg Center.
The source material for this guide is a systematic review of 102 research studies. The review, Comparative Effectiveness of Lipid Modifying Agents (2009), was prepared by the University of Ottawa Evidence-based Practice Center. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded the systematic review and this guide. The guide was developed using feedback from clinicians who reviewed preliminary drafts. The full systematic review is available at www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov.
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Drivers on Tisbury's Main Street need to be on the lookout and prepared to stop at the intersection of Woodlawn Avenue. Last week, the new stop signs caught many motorists, several of whom drove right past, by surprise.
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Tisbury selectmen approved the signs following a public hearing on October 2, held in response to requests from several residents and Vineyard Haven Public Library trustees. Stop sign proponents expressed concerns about speeding traffic through the intersection and the safety of pedestrians, including children from Grace Church Preschool and seniors who live in Havenside Apartments, as they walk to the library.
"Once cars head up Main Street from town and make that slight turn at Woodlawn Avenue, many seem to view the straightaway that looms in front of them as a chance to try out for the Indy 500," library trustee Pamela Street, who lives near the intersection, wrote in an email urging community members to attend the stop sign hearing.
"I often tend to landscaping needs in the front of our house and am amazed at the speed of passing vehicles, be they of the 2- or 4-wheel variety. As I watch the numerous patrons of our library exit and enter its front door, I fear for their safety, especially the younger ones who are apt to be more carefree about crossing the street on foot or via a skateboard."
The selectmen also approved the addition of crosswalks at the intersections of Pine and Lake Streets, and Midland Avenue and Summer Street.
The Mass DOT's "Manuel of Uniform Traffic Control devices and the standard municipal traffic code," section 10A-4, states, "The purpose of the Stop Sign is to designate right-of-way to vehicles making conflicting movements. It is not intended, nor shall it be used for the control of speed, traffic calming or to forestall pedestrian, rear-end or turning movement accidents."
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This rhythmic figure pervades Fülle der Liebe in an almost uncomfortable way, as if to denote obsession and fanaticism, and the same may be said for Du liebst mich nicht. In the accompaniment, the motif of dotted crotchet and three quavers (or a close variant, where the dotted crotchet becomes quaver and accented crotchet) dominates 45 out of 56 bars. This is one of the ways that Schubert hammers home the idea of an unbending fixation, and it is this that makes the song unique. Instead of the sad, resigned acceptance familiar to the Schubertian the trace of a tear hidden in a smile, or a smile through tears we find out-and-out panic and an hysteria suggestive of suppressed rage. The form of the poem is a ghasel (like Sei mir gegrüsst!) and this means that we hear the words Du liebst mich nicht no fewer than ten times during the song, allowing that the composer adds his own repetitions to Platens. As in Fülle der Liebe, the sameness of the rhythm is tempered by constant changes of harmony which border on the deranged. Here the composer indulges every tendency to shift and modulation at his disposal in a dizzy and gut-wrenching display of harmonic legerdemain. But this is no mere opportunity for the composer to show his skill at weaving in and out of the home key, normally a pleasurable and leisurely pastime for Schubert. Here the effect of all this shifting is that of a desperate man searching for an escape, a way out of the maze. Nevertheless he is trapped each pathway leads to the same conclusion: From every viewpoint, and from whichever way I look at it, you do not love me. Ich liebe dich nicht rings in his ears and haunts him in much the same way as Lebewohl continues to resound in the mind of the poet in Wolfs Mörike song of the same name.
At the beginning the song seems to be a soliloquy, bitterly addressed to a memory of the person who has abandoned him, but in the passage beginning So soll ich die Sterne, so soll ich den Mond there is a modulation where we move into a more intimate confrontation; the singer seems to look his lover in the face as he tearfully enumerates the full extent of his loss and predicament. Here the words Sterne and Mond are set to mournfully-drooping minor thirds. At the repeat of this line we have the same words set to rising major thirds, as expressive a use of the pathetic major as anywhere in the Schubert songs, and strangely more tearful than the minor-key inflections.
There is a violence and desperation about this song which is scarcely familiar Schubertian territory, and it is no surprise that at first he reserved a key for it, G sharp minor, which is not found elsewhere in his songs. The orthography of all those harmonic changes in this tonality is as tortured as the poem itself, bristling with accidentals, the complicated expression of a complicated passion. When the work came to be published in 1826, the composer revised and simplified it, perhaps under pressure from the publisher Leidesdorf. The postlude is shortened and the key is changed to a more pianistically accessible A minor; this brings the song closer to Mayrhofers Abendstern, mentioned above, which has the same tonality and rhythmic impulse, as well as a related masochism albeit more quietly expressed.
If Schubert displayed a deep understanding of Platens nature in Die Liebe hat gelogen, he seems to have grasped the significance of Du liebst mich nicht in an even more astonishing way. As in Die Liebe hat gelogen there is a scrupulous avoidance of any pronoun to fix the sex of the object of affection. The diary entries concerning the poets love for his Adrast (which Schubert could not have possibly known) display a similar self-lacerating tone of abandonment, loneliness and inner turmoil. Despite the fact that Capell dismisses this poem as written to a formula, and states that the poet is only interested in metrical virtuosity, this is a love poem unlike others, which the composer turns into music unlike any other. The meaningful and lengthened setting of Narzissen in the poems last line, an unlikely climactic point for an impassioned fortissimo if taken at face value, shows a classicists understanding of the background to the flowers name: A Grecian lad, as I hear tell, One that many loved in vain, Looked into a forest well And never looked away again, as A E Housman put it and as Butterworth and Ireland set it. In the outburst at the floral display, culminating with the narcissus, the poet dismisses these flowers; the man he has loved is irreplaceable, and a new flowery youth will not do. This emphasis on the narcissus, the flower of male beauty, is even more marked in Schuberts musical reaction than in Platens poem. The nearest relation of this song is Abendstern, which may also be interpreted as the isolated plaint of the homosexual from his fellows, particularly when the object of his passion is unavailable to him. In any case, there is in Du liebst mich nicht a tension, a sense of panic, and a hopelessness which speaks of a secret world, and a dangerous one, of fantasy and misplaced hope. Many people knew how Johann Winckelmann had been murdered in 1768 by an Italian pick-up, and Platen wrote an eloquent sonnet in honour of the great art historian. In setting these two poems the composer has somehow entered the poets world with unerring accuracy, leaving us a searing musical portrait of a great German poet.
Karl August Georg Maximillian, Graf Platen von Hallermünde was born in Ansbach to an aristocratic Protestant family which was down on its luck; thus he never had the financial means his birth and status implied. He attended school in Munich, before departing for military service, and further study in Würzburg and Erlangen. Apart from meeting Franz von Bruchmann during this period, he encountered such luminaries as Jean Paul, J Grimm and Friedrich Rückert. Platen published his Ghaselen in 1821 (Bruchmann was given an inscribed copy) as well as Lyrische Blätter in the same year. Vermischte Schriften appeared in 1822 and Neue Ghaselen in 1823. His attempts to write plays met with no success, and he left Germany in 1826 disenchanted with his home country; in Italy he believed he would find a more tolerant ambience in which to live. Platen died in Syracuse in December 1835.
Schubert only set two of his poems, although it seems that he had intended to set two further lyrics, interestingly enough, on the theme of winter. (The Platen songs could be seen as forerunners of Winterreise.) The other major composer to interest himself in Platens poetry was Johannes Brahms in the songs of Opus 32.
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Circa 1930
A black painted brass lantern in the form of a pierced cylinder split and the halves joined on the apexes.
Current height: 30"
Minimum height: 14"
Overall: 7-1/2" diameter
Can be UL listed for use in dry environments
2 Candelabra sockets, maximum 60 watts per socket
1 fixture total available.
On display at our 28th Street showroom.


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Rogers earns Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
Jeremy Rogers, D.O., graduated from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) with a degree of Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine on May 28, 2011.
While at WVSOM, Dr. Rogers was a member of Psi Sigma Alpha, a national osteopathic honor society. He was also the recipient of the Statewide Campus Eastern Region Award during the annual senior awards banquet.
Rogers earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Millsaps College in Jackson in 2000. He is a 1996 graduate of Yazoo City High School.
Rogers is the son of Malinda Rogers of Yazoo City. He is married to Teresa Camp-Rogers.
He plans to enter the emergency medicine program at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va.