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Angioplasty and stent placement - heart
PCI; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Balloon angioplasty; Coronary angioplasty; Coronary artery angioplasty; Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty; Heart artery dilatation; Angina - stent placement; Acute coronary syndrome - stent placement; Coronary artery disease - stent placement; CAD - stent placement; Coronary heart disease - stent placement; ACS - stent placement; Heart attack - stent placement; Myocardial infarction - stent placement; MI - stent placement; Coronary revascularization - stent placement
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After the Procedure
The average hospital stay is 2 days or less. Some people may not even have to stay overnight in the hospital.
In general, people who have angioplasty are able to walk around within a few hours after the procedure depending on how the procedure went and where the catheter was placed. Complete recovery takes a week or less. You will be given information how to care for yourself after angioplasty.
Before the Procedure
Angioplasty is often performed when you go to the hospital or emergency room for chest pain, or after a heart attack. If you are admitted to the hospital for angioplasty:
- Tell your health care provider what drugs you are taking, even drugs or herbs you bought without a prescription.
- You will most often be asked not to drink or eat anything for 6 to 8 hours before the test.
- Take the drugs your provider told you to take with a small sip of water.
- Tell your provider if you are allergic to seafood, you have had a bad reaction to contrast material or iodine in the past, you are taking Viagra, or you are or might be pregnant.
Angioplasty is a procedure to open narrowed or blocked blood vessels that supply blood to the heart. These blood vessels are called the coronary arteries.
A coronary artery stent is a small, metal mesh tube that expands inside a coronary artery. A stent is often placed during or immediately after angioplasty. It helps prevent the artery from closing up again. A drug-eluting stent has medicine embedded in it that helps prevent the artery from closing in the long term.
Before the angioplasty procedure begins, you will receive some pain medicine. You may also be given medicine that relaxes you, and blood-thinning medicines to prevent a blood clot from forming.
You will lie on a padded table. Your doctor will insert a flexible tube (catheter) through a surgical cut into an artery. Sometimes the catheter will be placed in your arm or wrist, or in your upper leg (groin) area. You will be awake during the procedure.
The doctor will use live x-ray pictures to carefully guide the catheter up into your heart and arteries. Dye will be injected into your body to highlight blood flow through the arteries. This helps the doctor see any blockages in the blood vessels that lead to your heart.
A guide wire is moved into and across the blockage. A balloon catheter is pushed over the guide wire and into the blockage. The balloon on the end is blown up (inflated). This opens the blocked vessel and restores proper blood flow to the heart.
A wire mesh tube (stent) may then be placed in this blocked area. The stent is inserted along with the balloon catheter. It expands when the balloon is inflated. The stent is left there to help keep the artery open.
The stent may be coated with a drug (called a drug-eluting stent). This type of stent may lower the chance of the artery closing back up in the future. Currently, drug-eluting stents are used only for certain people.
Outlook (Prognosis)
For most people, angioplasty greatly improves blood flow through the coronary artery and the heart. It may help you avoid the need for coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG).
Angioplasty does not cure the cause of the blockage in your arteries. Your arteries may become narrow again.
Follow your heart-healthy diet, exercise, stop smoking (if you smoke), and reduce stress to lower your chances of having another blocked artery. Your provider may prescribe medicine to help lower your cholesterol.
Angioplasty is generally safe, but ask your doctor about the possible complications. Risks of angioplasty and stent placement are:
- Allergic reaction to the drug used in a drug-eluting stent, the stent material, or the x-ray dye
- Bleeding or clotting in the area where the catheter was inserted
- Blood clot
- Clogging of the inside of the stent (in-stent restenosis)
- Damage to a heart valve or blood vessel
- Heart attack
- Kidney failure (higher risk in people who already have kidney problems)
- Irregular heartbeat (arrhythmias)
- Stroke (this is rare)
Why the Procedure Is Performed
Arteries can become narrowed or blocked by deposits called plaque. Plaque is made up of fat and cholesterol that builds up on the inside of artery walls. This condition is called hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis).
Angioplasty may be used to treat:
- Blockage in a coronary artery during or after a heart attack
- Blockage or narrowing of one or more coronary arteries that may lead to poor heart function (heart failure)
- Narrowings that reduce blood flow and cause persistent chest pain (angina) that medicines do not control
Not every blockage can be treated with angioplasty. Some people who have several blockages or blockages in certain locations may need coronary bypass surgery.
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Fihn SD, Gardin JM, Abrams J, et al. 2012 ACCF/AHA/ACP/AATS/PCNA/SCAI/STS guideline for the diagnosis and management of patients with stable ischemic heart disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines, and the American College of Physicians, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Circulation. 2012;126(25):e354-e471. PMID: 23166211
Mauri L, Bhatt DL. Percutaneous coronary intervention. In: Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, Bonow RO, Braunwald E, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 10th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2015:chap 55.
Morrow DA, Boden WE. Stable ischemic heart disease. In: Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, Bonow RO, Braunwald E, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 10th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2015:chap 54.
O'Gara PT, Kushner FG, Ascheim DD, et al. 2013 ACCF/AHA guideline for the management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Circulation. 2013;127(4):529-555. PMID: 23247303
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DINO DORAN MELTDOWNKuddos to Broken Nails on this one.
TO: Kelly Doran Campaign Supporters and DFL Friends
FR: Tonya Tennessen, Communications Director, Kelly Doran for Governor
RE: Attack letter mailed to DFLers from a Mr. Larry Wright
DT: November 28, 2005
A letter was sent out to some DFLers, including members of the DFL State Central Committee, designed to attack Kelly Doran and accuse him of not being a Democrat. The author sites contributions Kelly Doran has made to Republican and Independence Party candidates as the reason not to trust him.
This isn't new information.
Kelly Doran has been on the record saying he has given money to candidates not in the Democratic Party. The Republicans first launched this supposed "attack" on
their blog "MinnesotaDemocratsExposed," hoping DFLers would take the bait.
Republicans are very afraid of a match-up of Tim Pawlenty and Kelly Doran, and
they have been actively pushing this point. Kelly Doran is not a partisan extremist – instead he offers new ideas and a fresh approach.
As a Democrat, Kelly Doran can work with people of all parties and will put principle ahead of politics to move our state forward. It's up to the people to decide if they
want to elect another partisan extremist, or if they're tired of gridlock
politics. Kelly Doran has a proven track record for getting things done.
This is the kind of destructive politics that distracts us from our shared
DFL goal of defeating Tim Pawlenty.
Other campaign contribution information excluded from the letter include:
Kelly and Maria Doran have given $10,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee after getting out of the U.S. Senate race.
Kelly and Maria Doran have given $5,000 to the DFL Senate Caucus
Kelly and Maria Doran have given $2,000 to John Kerry's campaign for President
Kelly and Maria Doran have given $2,000 to the Democratic National
Kelly and Maria Doran have given thousands of additional dollars
to federal, state and local DFL candidates.
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A Celebration of Life: Remembering Chris IijimaUniversity of Hawaiʻi
William S. Richardson School of Law
Chris Iijima, beloved law professor, lawyer, teacher, musician, community organizer, and scholar, died peacefully in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi on December 31, 2005, surrounded by his family. Chris battled amyloidosis, a rare blood disease, for several years with courage and humor. He reached the age of 57 the week before he died.
Raised in New York City by activist parents—his father, Takeru, served in the famous 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team and his mother, Kazu, was in an internment camp during World War II -- Chris graduated from Columbia University in 1969, and participated as a "pamphleteer, organizer, speaker, and visionary" for the antiwar movement as well as for the "East Coast stirrings of the nascent Asian American movement," as Phil Tajitsu Nash recently stated. Chris first became widely known for expressing his commitment to social justice through his songwriting and singing. In the early 1970s, "Yellow Pearl" —a trio consisting of Chris, Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto, and "Charlie" Chin-- toured the country singing about Asian American identity while encompassing the struggles of minorities everywhere.
The trio recorded "A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America" as well as other albums. Chris and his friends performed on numerous college campuses and appeared on the Mike Douglas Show with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1972. The Smithsonian Institute commemorated their role as pioneers with a reunion concert and a reissue of "A Grain of Sand" on CD.
After working as a teacher at the innovative Manhattan Country School and as a bartender to support himself while in law school, Chris graduated at the top of his class at New York Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He clerked from 1988-1990 for Federal District Judge Charles Stewart, Jr. in the Southern District of New York and worked as a litigator in the New York law firm of Friedman & Kaplan. He returned to his love of teaching and social justice work as a faculty member at New York University in the Lawyering Program, and then at Western New England Law School. Chris was invited to join the faculty of the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai'i-Mānoa in 1998 and he became a tenured associate professor in 2001.
Chris was particularly loved and admired for his work as director of the Law School's unique Preadmission Program. The Preadmission Program, established in 1975, admits and supports students from historically underserved communities with great promise as lawyers and community leaders. Chris was an inspiring, challenging, and greatly loved teacher in his role as the director of the
Preadmission Program, as well as in the other legal subjects he taught. Chris embraced people, and people embraced Chris. The Law School students and faculty voted him the Outstanding Professor of the Year in 2000 and he was a 2001 recipient of the Board of Regents' Excellence in Teaching Award.
Chris wrote much-cited law review articles addressing the issues he sang and wrote about years earlier. With clarity, nuance, and the support of powerful and careful scholarship, Chris described vital issues such as "Race as Resistance;" "Separating Support from Betrayal: Examining the Intersections of Racialized Legal pedagogy, Academic Support, and Subordination;" "Swimming from the Island of the Colorblind: Deserting an Ill-Conceived Constitutional Metaphor;" and "Shooting Justice Jackson's ʻLoaded Weapon' at Ysar Hamdi: Judicial Abdication at the Convergence of Korematsu and McCarthy."
As Georgetown Law Center Professor Mari Matsuda stated in her tribute to Chris in October, 2005 when he was awarded the Keeper of the Flame tribute by the Na Loio Immigrant Rights and Public Interest Legal Center, Chris's teaching, writing, and extraordinary example "produced an army of students who are re-making the profession, with Chris's voice in their heads as they go." Chris was unwavering in his conviction that "competence without compassion will negatively affect critical lawyering decisions…and compassion without competence will negatively affect how an attorney serves the interest of his or her client."
Dean Avi Soifer of the William S. Richardson School of Law described Chris as "a forceful but sweet and very funny challenger of settled expectations. Chris truly was incomparable as he pushed, prodded, and genuinely inspired everyone to struggle toward both clearer understanding and a better world."
In addition to his teaching, mentoring, and scholarly activities, Chris served on the board of directors of Na Loio and of the Society of American Law Teachers, and on the Commission on Equal Access to Justice, appointed by the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court, and the Special Advisory Committee on Diversity of the Hawaiʻi Civil Rights Commission.
Chris is survived by his wife Jane Dickson and sons Alan and Christopher and by his parents, Kazu and Takeru, and his sister Lynne. A Celebration of the Life of Chris Iijima will take place on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 5:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. (For more information, please visit: A Celebration Of Life: Chris Iijima at www.hawaii.edu/law)


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Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a noninvasive technique to measure metabolism in the brain or in other parts of the body including the liver, heart, prostate or breast. It is used for clinical diagnostics, monitoring therapeutic treatments and to understand the pathogenesis of diseases.
At the Martinos Center, one of the major goals of our research with MRS is to advance understandings of the neuropathogenesis of AIDS using an accelerated simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-macaque model of neuroAIDS. Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) has reduced AIDS-related mortality, HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND) continues to be a major problem in patients with HIV as up to 30% of HIV-infected patients develop neurological symptoms. MRS spectroscopy is a powerful tool for studying biological systems and is one of the most informative methods employed in neuroAIDS research. We are also actively engaged in research projects related to ischemic stroke and other neurodegenerative diseases - including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) and autism - as well as several clinical trials on recurrent glioblastoma.
At the same time, we are generally working to improve existing MRS sequences, protocols and metabolite quantification.


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April 17, 2013
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (seminoles.com) – After falling behind early, the 23rd-ranked Florida State softball team could not mount any sort of comeback against No. 4 Florida as it fell 8-0 in five innings in front of a record crowd of 1,199 on Wednesday evening at JoAnne Graf Field.
The loss for the Seminoles (34-15) marked their first mercy-rule defeat of the season, and also was their largest margin of loss in 2013. The Gators (42-5) improved to 18-13 all-time against the Noles and recorded multiple runs in the second, third and fourth innings to propel themselves to victory.
"Florida's pitcher threw a good game in the circle, and we didn't make adjustments as hitters," head coach Lonni Alameda said. "We didn't have the best day out there but the thing right now for us is to re-group and get back out there this weekend. UF is a dead-red hitting team and you have to mix speeds with them and not get behind in the count."
Four UF players recorded multiple-hit games, as Florida State starter Monica Perry (16-8) took the loss after allowing seven runs on nine hits in four innings pitched with six strikeouts. Florida starter Alyssa Bache (8-0) maintained an undefeated record by tossing five innings and allowing just two hits.
Florida State senior Morgan Bullock recorded a single in the first inning and junior Celeste Gomez hit a pinch-hit double to right center in the fifth to account for the Seminoles' two base hits. The Noles now have an 11-game losing streak to the Gators that dates back to 2007. Florida State last defeated Florida in both games of a doubleheader in Tallahassee in 2006.
Wednesday's meeting was the fifth time since 2006 that both teams met as Top 25 squads. While nine of Florida State's losses this season have come by two runs or less, Wednesday's margin of defeat eclipsed the previous high of six runs in a 6-0 loss to No. 1 Oklahoma on Feb. 23.
Florida's Taylor Schwarz launched a two-run home run to left center in the second inning to put the Gators ahead early 2-0. Perry got ahead of Schwarz in the count before she evened it up and turned on a pitch that plated Stephanie Tofft, who recorded a single up the middle with one out.
Schwarz's two-run single up the middle in the top of the third inning helped break open the game. Kirsti Merritt started the inning and recorded a triple to centerfield before scoring on Kelsey Horton's single down the left field line with one out. Florida recorded four hits in the inning to contribute to its 5-0 lead.
A hard-driven two-run single down the left field line by Horton in the fourth added to the Gator lead, scoring Merritt and Stewart to make it 7-0 Florida. The Gators tacked on another run in the fifth to put the mercy rule into effect.
The nationally-ranked Noles finish their conference schedule over the next two weeks with two daunting road series. Florida State heads to Virginia Tech this weekend and faces the Hokies in a doubleheader on Saturday, April 20 at noon and 2 p.m. The noon contest will air live on ESPNU. Florida State finishes the series on Sunday at 1 p.m.
Following the Seminoles' trip to Blacksburg, Va., they finish the regular season at Georgia Tech on April 27-28. All three games will be shown on ESPN3.


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Shannen Doherty and her new husband hope audiences will be saying "9021-0h!" as they watch their bumpy road to the altar.
WE TV's latest reality series, "Shannen Says," follows the actress in her latest starring role as herself. Doherty spent her early career appearing in the now-iconic TV soap "Beverly Hills 90210," the subsequent "Charmed" (both with controversial behind-the-scenes premature exits) and made many a tabloid headline off-camera during her hard-partying teen years. Doherty's recent resurgence as a celebrity contestant on "Dancing With the Stars" and reviving the role of Brenda Walsh on the rebooted "90210" revealed a sweeter, mellower version of the former wild child, an image rehab she hopes will carry over to the new series.
The unscripted show follows Doherty though her high-stress seven-week rocket-ride to her wedding to famed photographer Kurt Iswarienko, revealing a new, more vulnerable side of the actress. The couple sat down with PopcornBiz to talk about the impact of fame, fans and omnipresent cameras on an already nerve-wracking experience.
I'm curious how much of an adjustment was it to have cameras be as much in your life as they were during this, because it can't always be easy?
Doherty: He's always behind the camera, and I've always played somebody else and been somebody else, so I think it was quite an adjustment. But what's interesting is that we're the executive producers and my company produced it, so we handpicked our crew and our fellow producers, so after awhile you're comfortable with the people that you've picked to begin with. So it's interesting, because you think that you're going to stay awkward and uncomfortable and eventually it just melts away.
How about the footage? As executive producers I'm sure you had some say in what made it to the final show, so when did you have to make tough decisions? Is there anything that stands out where you were like, 'I don't know if I want to put that out there'?
Doherty: No, nothing. There were definitely moments where I cringed and went, 'Oh God, that's so raw and vulnerable and honest.' But there wasn't one moment where I said, 'I don't want that out there.' Because our pact going in was that we didn't want a reality show where people roll their eyes and go, 'Okay, that was set up. Oh, that was fake.' We wanted it to be very, very, very honest and raw and authentic, and that's what you get. So even being in the edit bay you go in with that in your head. And that sort of becomes a mantra. And all of a sudden you're not saying, 'God, I don't want that.' You're like, 'Okay. Great. That moment happened and it should be in the show.'
Kurt, did you feel the same way the whole time?
Iswarienko: Yeah. I haven't had the same involvement in the editing, but what I've seen I've been pleasantly drawn into. I've actually laughed out loud a lot of the time when she's shown me cuts. And it kind of takes you back to when it was all happening. And you see how the story comes out of all this effort.
Did you get a little bit of a better understanding of some of the things that Shannen's had to deal with, with cameras following her around through a good portion of her life?
Iswarienko: Yeah, for sure, because I've never had them pointed at me. I'm always doing the pointing with the camera, so it definitely made me much more sensitive to what she's got to go through and what everybody else in the public arena has to go through. I would say it definitely helped me in my work because there's a mental understanding I didn't have before that I have now. It's intrusive. And a little bit offensive depending on the day. So, for sure, I'm much more in tune with what she's dealing with.
Did the wedding aspect help you? I mean, obviously you came in with some built-in situations for you to shoot. But did it add to the stress of already dealing with this kind of project? Or did this make the stress of the wedding bigger?
Doherty: The thing about the show, part of it, we always knew that there was a wedding and that we should film everything that sort of happens up to that wedding because so many of our friends had gotten married recently and some had actually called off their weddings because the planning process killed their relationship. And I thought, well, this I interesting. And everybody thinks that it's only happening to them and that they're the only ones that the wedding affected poorly, or that their relationship really got tested. So we were like, 'Okay, well, let's document this process and see what happens.' And there were times that it affected our relationship, for sure. Moments when last minute he gets a job in Madrid and then another one in Prague and I'm freaking out because it's not only three weeks before our wedding but normally I would be on a plane with him. And I'm not used to him going away to a foreign country without me. So all of a sudden it's like, 'Okay, not only are you leaving three weeks before our wedding, but I'm stuck in my own hell here planning this wedding. I don't even get to go with you.' And it triggers insecurity. It triggers jealously that he got to go to great places and I was planning a wedding. It was all sorts of things. So I think it just added to it in a way that the audience can now relate to and see and go, 'Okay, everyday life. It sometimes can be hard for them as well.'
Do you get something meaningful from fans who approach you and want to tell you how much of a part of experience you being on their favorite show has been?
Doherty: God, right, you know? My opinion, it's so funny because whenever somebody sort of new in my life goes out in public with me they're always like, 'How do you handle it?' And it's like those people pay my rent. Those people are the reason why I have a house. They're the reason why I have a home. And they are loyal, amazing, intelligent fans. And they've been with me since the beginning. And they're the reason why I get to go do what I love and what I'm passionate about doing, which is acting. Without those fans I wouldn't be able to do it. So I love spending time with my fans and hearing what it is that resonates with them in my work. And hearing their stories of what's the first program they watched that I was in. or their favorite episode of a show that I did or what it meant to them. Of course I love hearing stuff like that. I mean I think an actor thrives on it, hopefully.
And then Kurt, how easily did you set aside any preconceived notions you might have had about Shannen when you first met her because of her fame? And then how did you welcome in the fans, the people who are going come up in the restaurant and ask for an autograph, however politely?
Iswarienko: Well, I didn't have too much of a preconception. To be totally blunt, I thought she was really hot. That's the extent of what I knew about her. I grew up, like everyone else my age, aware of her from 'Our House' on up the line. So what really impressed me was actually before I met her, when she called me personally the day before the shoot, before I'd ever met her, to discuss what we were going to do. And I've shot a lot of really famous people and at that point she was the only person who'd ever done that. And it was really impressive because it showed that she cared about what we were going to do and that she respected the choice she had made to have me take her photograph as opposed to every other guy that would have been falling over themselves to do it. So I was just impressed with the intelligence and the character that that showed. And then taking it to the fan side, she has the most respectful, warmest kind of fans. Especially it seems like the further you go out the more intense the fan base gets. They all seem to have like this very personal warm connection to her even if they've never met her before. There's this, you'll see the same pattern, they'll put their arm around her like they know her. And it's very respectful. It's not intrusive and you get the sense that she's in their lives. They've grown up with her and they've gone through marriages ...
Doherty: Ups and downs.
Iswarienko: And all sorts of stuff. And it really comes across as authentic and it's always nice to see. It's never really jarring. And there's never been anybody that comes up and says something nasty or mean. It's always very warm and very cool to see. I don't think it's the same for everybody that's in the public limelight like that.
What's the most important thing you discovered about each other during the process of this show?
Doherty: It's funny, we were just talking about that. I don't think we discovered anything. I just think that things that we already knew and loved about one another got reinforced. I know that I'm with somebody that I can literally spend every single second with and never tire of it. And that I married somebody who I had the utmost respect for, who creatively is unbelievable, very passionate about what he does, passionate about his vision, challenges me, is creative, intelligent. And that working with him, I love working with him. So not only do I love living with him and being married to him but in a business level he has my full respect.
Iswarienko: Everything that's been an attractive force between us was just reaffirmed. There were hard times. There were times when it wasn't so easy to get up and do the whole song and dance but the process of working with her is very rewarding. Very creatively, there's a lot of fuel between the two of us that it's very cool. Very unique.
Do you think your fans will feel the same way that they will just sort of have a reaffirmation of what they think about you? Or will they discover something about you that they never expected?
Doherty: I certainly hope that they discover something new. I honestly don't think people know me. So, you know, you can't judge somebody or know someone based on stuff you read about them when they were 19 years old. You just can 't. None of us are the same person when we were 19. And if you are then, geez, sorry. So I think they'll actually know me for once. And I'm not putting on somebody else's skin and playing a character. I'm myself. And it's the first time anybody's going to get to see that.
Kurt, are you prepared to have your own fans that want to get your autograph?
Iswarienko: Absolutely not.
Doherty: It's going to be so cool. I'm going to love it. The first time that somebody comes up and goes, 'Kurt, can I have your autograph?' while I'm standing with him, I'm going to love that moment.
Iswarienko: There are other moments that I want to see happen. Not necessarily that.
Shannen Doherty Hopes Fans Fall For New Role: Real-Life Bride-To-Be
Shannen Doherty and her new husband hope audiences will be saying "9021-0h!" as they watch their bumpy road to the altar.


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In the vast uncharted wilderness of Austria lives an automotive Dr. Moreau, a mad genius who splices cars together to create breathtaking beasts like this unholy union of a '73 VW Bug and 2000 Porsche Boxster S: The Bugster.
The man behind this beauty is Siegfried Rudolf. His shop, CarMaxx, specializes in tuning and restoring VWs and Porsches. Apparently he got the idea for the Bugster after he parked his tuned '73 Bug next to his wife's Boxster and noticed the two cars shared a remarkably similar wheelbase. Mastered by CarMaxx, it is also possible to fit the 996 and even GT3 powerplants! Just imagine the look on a 911 driver's face…
Rudolf grabbed a Sawzall (or its European counterpart) and went to work. The top half of the Boxster came off.
The floorpan of the bug came out. Surprisingly, the bug shell dropped right onto the Boxster floorpan.
Rudolf crafted custom fenders to house 18-inch wheels and bolted in adjustable suspension. The Boxster gave up its dash and other interior bits for the build. The Bug held onto its door panels, crank windows, and glass.
The result is a '73 bug with 270 horsepower and impeccable street manners.
No snap oversteer here.
From a distance you'd be hard pressed to identify this Bug's Porsche underpinnings. Up close, however, the conspicuously wide fenders and side-mounted air intakes are a dead giveaway.
It's a fantastic build.
We salute you, Mr. Rudolf. Keep doing The Lord's work.
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Manufacturer: CARMAXX Classics
Body: VW Beetle 1303 S
Year 1973 as a self – supporting body welded
Frame: Porsche Boxster S
Year: 2000
Engine: 6 cylinder Boxstermotor (built as a mid-engine)
Capacity: 3179cm ³
Power: 270 hp at 6,250 rpm – Tuning using intake manifold, exhaust and ECU tuning)
Transmission: 6 speed gearbox original Porsche
Brakes: ABS with original Porsche
Suspension: Adjustable sports suspension
Tires / wheels: 225/40 | HA 9×18 ET50
205 / 40 | FA 8,5 x18 ET56
Colour: Grigio Telesto Metallic (Lamborghini color)
Curb weight: 1098 kg
Length: 4110 mm
Width: 1800 mm
Height: 1440 mm
Trace dimensions: vo 1455 mm | 1508 mm hi
Maximum speed: approx 230 km / h
Acceleration: 0-100km / h in about 5 seconds.
Fuel consumption: 100 km approx 9l Super
Admission: Officially approved as a Porsche Boxster S with a modified structure
Other: fenders, running boards and rear bumper are hand-made special parts in their original appearance
CarMaxX Automobile
St. Veiter Strasse 5
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North American Robotics Companies Post Best Year Since 2007
Robotic Industries Association Posted 02/07/2011Ann Arbor, MI – North American based robotics companies reported strong growth in 2010, posting the best year since 2007, according to new statistics released by Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry's trade group.
North American robot suppliers reported orders of 13,174 robots valued at $845.6 million from North American based companies, increases of 39% in units and 49% in dollars. When orders from customers outside North America are included, the totals are 15,860 robots valued at $993.2 million, gains of 52% in units and 58% in dollars.
"It was a great year for the robotics industry, not just in North America, but worldwide," said Jeff Burnstein, President of RIA. "The demand for robotics took off once the 'Great Recession' ended, as companies resumed investments in technology that improves productivity, quality, flexibility and time to market, key benefits of robotics."
The automotive industry, including OEMs and their suppliers, accounted for 51% of the North American orders in 2010. Orders to this sector, the largest user in North America, were up 34% in units.
Non-automotive orders jumped 46%, fueled by large gains in orders from metalworking (+90%), semiconductor/electronics/photonics (+66%), plastics & rubber (+57%), food & consumer goods (+47%), and life sciences/pharmaceuticals/biomedical/medical devices (+26%).
"The acceleration of orders to customers in all sectors, particularly non-automotive industries, is great news for the robotics industry," said John Dulchinos, Chair of RIA's Statistics Committee and President & CEO at Adept Technology. "For robotics to achieve its full potential it must make further headway into nearly every industry, manufacturing and non-manufacturing alike," Dulchinos observed.
One of the industries offering very strong potential for robotics is warehousing, Dulchinos noted. "Large distribution centers have a wide variety of tasks that could be automated, but aren't yet," said Dulchinos. The largest show for warehousing is ProMat, which is collocated with the Automate Show (www.automate2011.com) sponsored by RIA at McCormick Center in Chicago, March 21-24, 2011.
"The collocation offers ProMat participants a great chance to learn about robotic solutions and Automate participants a glimpse of the vast potential opportunities that exist for robotics in warehousing," Burnstein observed. "I'm hopeful Automate will provide a strong boost to the robotics industry to build upon its 2010 gains."
RIA estimates that some 200,000 industrial robots are now used in the United States, placing the United States second only to Japan in overall robot use. More than one million industrial robots are used worldwide.
Founded in 1974, RIA represents more than 250 companies, including leading robot manufacturers, component suppliers, system integrators, end users, research groups, and consulting firms. RIA's quarterly statistics report is based on data supplied by member companies representing an estimated 90% of the North American market.
For more information on RIA and the robotics industry, visit www.robotics.org or call RIA Headquarters at 734/994-6088.
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A Historical Remembrance of George Steinbrenner
The King is dead. Long live the King.
In Tampa, Fl. this morning, a legendary sports figure passed away. George M. Steinbrenner III, the principal owner of the New York Yankees since 1973, died at St. Joseph's Hospital. He was 80 years old.
Steinbrenner suffered a heart attack earlier today and had been in declining health for a number of years. His two sons, Hank and Hal, have been running the Yankee organization since late 2007 while Steinbrenner oversaw all of the decisions made within the team.
When he took the reigns as Yankee owner from CBS, he brought the struggling Yankees back from mediocrity. Four years after he took over the organization, the Yankees won their first World Title in 15 years. Under Steinbrenner, the Yankees captured 16 Division Titles, 11 American League Pennants, and seven World Series Championships.
A strong body of successful work brought on by a strong man.
In 1952, Steinbrenner received his Bachelor's Degree from Williams College in Massachusetts. While he attended Williams, he was involved with several extracurricular activities, including the track team and the football team.
One of his activities in college that struck me was his position as sports editor of the college newspaper. As a recent college graduate, the sports editor of my school's newspaper was a position I held. It's nice to know Steinbrenner and I had something in common.
After he graduated college, Steinbrenner went on to serve in United States Air Force, where he became a second lieutenant. He was honorably discharged in 1954 and went on to attend The Ohio State University where he got his Master's in Physical Education.
Talk about a hard-working individual.
At OSU, he helped Buckeyes' head coach Woody Hayes, serving as his assistant for a season. The Buckeyes were undefeated that year and went on to win the Rose Bowl. He also helped coach at Northwestern University and Purdue University, as he was always an avid sports fan.
As owner of the Yankees, Steinbrenner was known as a hard man. He maintained strict policies, such as the famous "no facial hair, no long hair" rule. He felt that the Yankees needed to look as professional as they possibly could, and ordered that all of his players be clean shaven with their hair cut short.
This edict was put to the test when Lou Piniella, a player and one of the 22 Yankee managers that served under Steinbrenner, once called him on it in Spring Training.
"Jesus Christ had long hair and a beard," Piniella told Steinbrenner. "Why can't we have beards and long hair?"
The Yankee owner showed him a small pond beyond the outfield fence.
"You see that pond?" Steinbrenner asked. "Walk across that pond and you can have a beard and long hair."
He was able to show up his players with his wit and intelligence.
Along with being able to hold power, Steinbrenner was often at the center of controversy and attention. When free agency first became available in Major League Baseball, he signed huge free agents such as Reggie Jackson and Dave Winfield. Many fans of other teams criticized Steinbrenner for "buying championships and big name players."
Not only that, but Steinbrenner was known for making questionable remarks about his players and even acting on those feelings. Winfield was an example of that. In 1980, he called out Winfield claiming that he wasn't producing. He was removed by Fay Vincent, the commissioner of baseball at the time, for paying a gambler to "dig up dirt" on Winfield.
And that wasn't the first time King George was involved with controversy.
Prior to the Winfield situation, Steinbrenner was suspended by Bowie Kuhn in 1974 for pleading guilty to making illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's re-election campaign. But in lieu of all the controversy, Steinbrenner always made his way back to baseball and the Yanks.
Forgive and forget.
Although he was sometimes a difficult person, his sense of humor was apparent in his personality. He was featured on the television show Seinfeld, portrayed as a funny, eccentric man and the boss of George Costanza on the show. In reality, Steinbrenner loved it. He once said about the character, "You have to laugh at yourself, sometimes."
His eccentric nature was evidenced during the 2000 World Series. A water pipe had burst in the visitors' clubhouse at Shea Stadium, and Steinbrenner bent over the help clean up the mess. He said the Mets were probably responsible.
Along with that, he thought the Mets were spying on the Yankees with monitors, trying to figure out their game plan in order to win the title. David Cone played into the Boss's speculation when he noticed a microphone under one of the tables in the clubhouse.
"Boss, there's the microphone!" Cone joked.
Steinbrenner screamed to have the mic removed and the wire cut.
Buster Olney, former Yankee beat writer and author of "The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty" described Steinbrenner as an owner who "Would never entrust his team to God. It would mean giving up too much control."
According to Olney, Steinbrenner could be both gracious and ruthless; both happy and scared. One executive (whom Olney did not name in his book) said, "He would pull over on the side of the road and give money to someone, then hours later he would cut the benefits of his employees. It made no sense."
When the Yanks played in the World Series all the years Steinbrenner was owner, he was always convinced disaster was looming. The times the Yanks did win it all, his euphoria would never last. The day after the team won, he would be on the phones and in meetings, trying to figure out how to win the next year.
Winning was Steinbrenner's number one priority. He was even quoted as saying, "Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, and then winning."
In a 2002 interview, Steinbrenner said he wanted this inscribed on his tombstone:
"He never stopped trying."
And looking at his accolades and his body of work, Steinbrenner never did stop trying; he put forth his best effort in everything he did and usually triumphed in the end. The Boss put the Yankees back on the map and at the front of the marquee. He may have been loved by few and hated by many, but the bottom line is, he was respected by all.


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Volunteering for Comic-Con International is not only fun, but also a great way to give back to the pop culture community! As a nonprofit educational organization, Comic-Con has a very important mission: to spread the awareness of, and appreciation for comics and related popular art forms, primarily through the presentation of conventions and events. Without our amazing and dedicated group of volunteers, we simply couldn't make Comic-Con happen! So for that, we send you our sincerest gratitude.
For those who completed at least one volunteer assignment in 2013, you will have the first chance to register as a volunteer tomorrow, February 4, 2014. An email from Comic-Con International with instructions on how to register online through your Member ID account was sent to you last week. We are very excited to see many returning faces for 2014, so please be sure to follow the instructions in your email for registration tomorrow.
Our volunteer program is so popular that the Volunteer Interest List for Comic-Con 2014 reached capacity . Over 11,000 of you have expressed an interest to volunteer this year and we wish we could take every single one of you! For those of you who are already on the Interest List, please keep in mind that space is extremely limited and not all of you will be accepted. Once returning volunteer registration has closed, check your email frequently for the announcement Interest List registration. We anticipate that volunteer registration for those on the Interest List will reach capacity the same day that it
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After Kanye West's entire tour was put on hold due to some essential props getting destroyed in an accident, the rapper's camp announced today that West will resume his tour on Nov. 16 in Philadelphia.
Yeezy postponed his Nov. 1 concert in Anaheim to December 13 because of "production logistics," however Kanye was forced to push the entire tour back after their truck carrying the set's custom-made equipment was in an accident on the way to Vancouver, Canada.
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To continue the good news--MTV decided to get a jumpstart on #FlashbackFriday by posting a raw cut, unreleased 2002 interview with West from "You Heard It First"! And it's absolutely amazing.
The up-and-coming artist (at the time), dressed in a red zip-up hoodie and baseball cap, showed off so much humility and excitement to finally get in the game. During his sit-down, Kanye would openly restate some things to give good quotes, get distracted by what was going on in the studio and even said he wanted some Boston Market!
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The first songs that came to mind when listening to Tu Bole Main Boloon were Cool Yule by Louis Armstrong and Moonlight Kiss by Bap Kennedy -- think of Tu Bole... as being at the intersection of these two. These songs are my favorites from the soundtrack to Serendipity (2001), a favorite Hollywood flick purely for the dialog and its delivery. Moonlight Kiss is also my Hollywood champion of songs starring the moon! While Tu Bole... is not as romantic -- it is more about appreciating different points of view, even when it comes to relationships -- the music has a similar feel. Serendipity is a film I would like to see Bollywood remake, glove-lady and all!


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Curationis vol.31 n.3 Pretoria 2008
Factors influencing nurses' job satisfaction in selected private hospitals in England
RP LephalalaI; VJ EhlersII; MJ OosthuizenIII
IMA Cur student; Department of Health Studies, University of South Africa
IID Litt et Phil, Professor; Department of Health Studies, University of South Africa
IIID Litt et Phil, Senior lecturer; Department of Health Studies, University of South Africa
The quantitative descriptive survey used self-completion questionnaires to study factors influencing nurses' job satisfaction in selected private hospitals in England. Herzberg's Theory of Motivation was used to contextualise the results obtained from 85 completed questionnaires.
In terms of Herzberg's Theory of Motivation, the most important extrinsic (hygiene) factor was no satisfaction with their salaries compared to nurses' salaries in other private hospitals in England, in the NHS and even at their own hospitals. However, most nurses were satisfied with the other extrinsic factors (organisation and administration policies, supervision and interpersonal relations). The most important intrinsic factors (motivators), influencing nurses' job satisfaction was their lack of satisfaction with promotions (including the fact that their qualifications were reportedly not considered for promotions), lack of advancement opportunities and being in deadend jobs, and lack of involvement in decision- and policy-making activities.
Nurses' levels of job satisfaction might be enhanced if promotion policies could be consistent, advancement opportunities implemented, qualifications considered for promotions, salary issues clarified, and if nurses could be involved in decision- and policy-making. Enhanced levels of job satisfaction could help to reduce turnover rates among registered nurses at the private hospitals in England that participated in this study.
Keywords: Herzberg's Theory of Motivation, nurses' job satisfaction, retention of nurses
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Jewish World Review Feb. 27, 2011/ 23 Adar I, 5771
Teach for America: Letting the cream rise
By George Will
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | For Princetonians, the senior thesis is a high hurdle before graduation. For Wendy Kopp, class of 1989, it became a career devoted to transforming primary and secondary education. What began as an idea for a teacher corps for hard-to-staff schools, urban and rural, became Teach for America (TFA). At first it was merely a leavening ingredient in education; it has become a template for transformation.
Back then, Kopp's generation was stigmatized by journalistic sociology as "the 'me' generation" composed of materialists eager to be recruited into careers of quick self-enrichment. She thought the problem was not her peers but the recruiters. So she became one.
This academic year, 16 percent of Princeton's seniors and 18 percent of Harvard's applied to join Teach for America, of which Kopp is CEO. TFA is the largest employer of recent graduates from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Eight percent of seniors at the University of Michigan (undergraduate enrollment: 26,830) applied last year for TFA's two-year commitments. More than 5 percent of graduating seniors at 130 colleges are applicants.
Kopp began by "meeting anyone who would meet with me," soliciting corporate executives for seed money. She believed something that bemused skeptics - that students from elite schools would volunteer to have their first experience out of college teaching in difficult-to-staff schools in areas of urban and rural poverty.
"I knew college students would do it - I had just been a college student." What was needed, she thought, was a high-status service organization with an aura of selectivity.
This school year, there are 8,000 TFA teachers. Of the 20,000 TFA alumni, two-thirds are still working full time in education. Of those, only one in six says that even without TFA he or she might have gone into K-12 teaching.
TFA has become a flourishing reproach to departments and schools of education. It pours talent into the educational system - 80 percent of its teachers are in traditional public schools - talent that flows around the barriers of the credentialing process. Hence TFA works against the homogenization that discourages innovation and prevents the cream from rising.
Kopp, whose new book ("A Chance to Make History") recounts her post-Princeton education, has learned, among much else, this: Of the 15 million children growing up in poverty, 50 percent will not graduate from high school, and the half that do will have eighth-grade skill levels compared to those from higher-income families and neighborhoods.
Until recently - until, among other things, TFA - it seemed that we simply did not know how to teach children handicapped by poverty and its accompaniments - family disintegration and destructive community cultures. Now we know exactly what to do.
In government, the axiom is: Personnel is policy. In education, Kopp believes, "people are everything" - good ones are (in military parlance) "force multipliers." Creating "islands of excellence" depends entirely on finding "transformational leaders deeply committed to changing the trajectories" of children's lives.
We do not, she insists, have to fix society or even families in order to fix education. It works the other way around. The movie "Waiting for Superman" dramatizes what TFA has demonstrated - that low-income parents leap at educational opportunities that can break the cycle of poverty. Teaching successfully in challenging schools is, Kopp says, "totally an act of leadership" by people passionately invested in the project.
Speaking of leadership, someone in Congress should invest some on TFA's behalf. Government funding - federal, state, local - is just 30 percent of TFA's budget. Last year's federal allocation, $21 million, would be a rounding error in the General Motors bailout. And Kopp says that every federal dollar leverages six non-federal dollars. All that money might, however, be lost because even when Washington does something right, it does it wrong.
It has obtusely defined "earmark" to include "any named program," so TFA has been declared an earmark and sentenced to death. If Congress cannot understand how nonsensical this is, it should be sent back to school for remedial instruction from some of TFA's exemplary young people.
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The Lady Flames celebrate their fifth Big South women's cross country title in the last seven seasons.
Liberty earned a considerable amount of hardware at Saturday morning's Big South Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships, contested at the Winthrop Coliseum and Farm in Rock Hill, S.C. The Flames and Lady Flames swept the Big South team titles, while redshirt senior Jennifer Klugh won her third consecutive Big South women's individual crown. Klugh, whose come-from-behind victory in the women's 5K produced a school-record time of 17:18.72, was one of four Lady Flames to finish in the top nine. As a result, Liberty claimed its fifth Big South women's team championship in the last seven years with a score of 40 points. Coastal Carolina edged High Point for second place, 72-73. On the men's side, David Ricksecker's runner-up finish paced seven Flames among the top 14 finishers. Liberty's unprecedented eighth consecutive Big South men's cross country team crown was won with 28 points. High Point finished second for the sixth year in a row, totaling 49 points. It was the Flames' largest margin of victory since 2008. Individually, Klugh was named Big South Women's Runner of the Year for the third straight season and represented the Lady Flames on the Big South All-Academic Team. Ngetich Kipchirchir finished fourth in the men's race to become Liberty's first Big South Men's Freshman of the Year since Josh McDougal in 2004. Caleb Edmonds, who finished one place in front of Kipchirchir, made the men's Big South All-Academic Team. Brant Tolsma swept the Big South Men's and Women's Coach of the Year honors, giving him 52 such awards for his career, including cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field. It was Tolsma's eighth Big South Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year nod in a row.
Women's 5K Championship Recap Winthrop junior Jeanne Stroud made Klugh work for her individual championship, clocking 5:25 for the opening mile and building a lead of almost 20 seconds on Klugh during the early stages. However, Klugh methodically reeled in the hometown favorite during the race's final mile and ended up winning by more than five seconds. Klugh's winning time of 17:18.72 cut nearly 10 full seconds off of her own school record of 17:28.3 from the 2011 Charlotte Invitational. It was also the fastest women's winning time at this meet since 2007. Klugh is the first Lady Flame ever to win three straight Big South women's cross country individual titles. No Big South runner had accomplished the feat since Coastal Carolina's Jolene Williams in 1997, 1998 and 1999. Additionally, the Buckeye State native is the first Liberty women's runner to make the All-Big South cross country team four times. Three of Klugh's teammates joined her on the all-conference team, as Khristina Kanagy placed seventh in 18:09.23, Jacy Christiansen was eighth in a personal-best 18:10.39 and Betel Yosef was ninth in a personal-best 18:11.90. Kanagy made her second consecutive All-Big South team with an inspiring performance. It was the senior's first race since the tragic death of her father, Jim Kanagy, two and a half weeks ago. Meredith Mistretta continued her breakthrough sophomore season, placing 15th in a time of 18:37.44. It was a marked improvement from Mistretta's 36th-place effort as a freshman. Courtney Russo was the second-fastest women's freshman on the day, crossing the line 18th in 18:45.39. Junior Jessica Gass made a successful Big South Cross Country Championship debut. She was Liberty's No. 7 finisher and No. 23 overall, with an 18:52.60 effort.
Men's 8K Championship Recap Liberty's streak of eight consecutive Big South men's cross country individual championships came to an end on Saturday, as High Point senior Jacob Smith won with an 8K time of 24:35.79. However, three Flames followed within the next nine seconds, putting Liberty well on its way to another team championship. Ricksecker's runner-up finish, in a time of 24:39.62, made the redshirt senior a three-time All-Big South honoree. He is the 12th men's runner in program history to earn a trio of All-Big South awards in cross country. Ricksecker joins older sister Rebekah Ricksecker as a three-time All-Big South performer in cross country. Edmonds' second straight All-Big South effort came as a result of his third-place finish. The junior's official time was 24:40.29. Kipchirchir closed out the run of three consecutive Flames, placing fourth in 24:44.64. Kipchirchir started another Liberty race trend, as the Flames' next three finishers were also freshmen. In total, the top four freshmen in the men's race were wearing Liberty singlets. Rookie Will Templeton came in seventh overall in 25:10.14. Classmate Jeremie Bourget ran 25:34.23 for 12th place, while Sam Hibbs' 25:37.73 clocking netted 13th place. Zach Barker closed out Liberty's top seven, as the junior was another of the Flames' runners who made a major improvement from the 2011 Big South meet. He was 14th with a time of 25:38.83, one year after placing 29th. Liberty's overall team depth was on full display on Saturday, as the Flames had seven men's runners finish before any other team had four runners in. Additionally, Liberty's No. 8 runner, Nate Jones, finished an impressive 21st in 26:05.04.
The Flames and Lady Flames will now prepare for the NCAA Division I Southeast Regional Cross Country Championships, slated for Nov. 9 at McAlpine Creek Park in Charlotte, N.C. The meet, which will determine the qualifiers for the 2012 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships, will begin with the women's 6K race at noon. The men's 10K will follow at 1:15 p.m.
Final Women's Team Scores 1) Liberty – 40 2) Coastal Carolina – 72 3) High Point – 73 4) Winthrop – 136 5) UNC Asheville – 140 6) VMI – 142 7) Campbell – 148 8T) Charleston Southern – 239 8T) Radford – 239 10) Gardner-Webb – 264 11) Longwood – 300 12) Presbyterian College – 389
Final Men's Team Scores 1) Liberty – 28 2) High Point – 49 3) Campbell – 92 4) VMI – 100 5) UNC Asheville – 158 6) Coastal Carolina – 178 7) Winthrop – 185 8) Radford – 192 9) Longwood – 214 10) Gardner-Webb – 320 11) Charleston Southern – 347 12) Presbyterian College – 365
Women's Runner of the Year Jennifer Klugh, Liberty
Men's Runner of the Year Jacob Smith, High Point
Women's Freshman of the Year Letitia Saayman, Coastal Carolina
Men's Freshman of the Year Ngetich Kipchirchir, Liberty
Women's Coach of the Year Brant Tolsma, Liberty
Men's Coach of the Year Brant Tolsma, Liberty
Women's Scholar-Athlete of the Year Jeanne Stroud, Winthrop
Men's Scholar-Athlete of the Year Cabell Willis, VMI
Women's All-Academic Team Jeanne Stroud, Winthrop Jenna Moye, VMI Emma Bussard, UNC Ashevillle Emily Marchini, Coastal Carolina Kelsey Paine, High Point Jennifer Klugh, Liberty Heidi Dean, Charleston Southern Hannah Scheren, Radford Rebecca Denny, Longwood Elisabeth Sawyer, Garder-Webb Jennifer Lockman, Presbyterian College Ashley Matthews, Campbell
Men's All-Academic Team Cabell Willis, VMI Caleb Edmonds, Liberty Kyle Kling, Coastal Carolina John Yankello, High Point Mike McClay, Gardner-Webb Elliot Pahel-Short, UNC Asheville Brian Trail, Presbyterian College Gabe Holguin, Winthrop Russell Reed, Longwood Evan Darm, Campbell Chris Weeks, Radford


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Mindy Roberts is a marketing professional and blogger, who authors a popular blog called The Mommy Blog. She also recently founded PearSoup.com, an online collection of things our children say. She lives in San Jose, California with her three kids, who are 9, 6.5 and 5 years old. In her interview, she talks about how she got into blogging, what she likes most about it, and what she would do if she could afford to stay at home.
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I'm looking for my next great gig!
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For 12 years I was in grants management – I worked for the Packard family (of Hewlett Packard) and handled the financial management of grants. After 12 years it was time to go – the work environment was changing and I needed a change as well. I went to work at a software company, but after nine months, they lost their main client, so the company folded. My next job was as a community manager at Trusted Opinion. Over time, writing and blogging has become something that can go on my resume and can actually helped me get work.
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My kids are in after school care and then I usually pick them up – I miss them, I can't stand it.
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My boyfriend teaches computer science in middle school. He was a chef originally; I've put on like 20 pounds since I met him.
My ex-husband and I share taking care of our children 50/50; he lives 1 mile away. So I do get some free time, but I miss my kids when they are not here. My ex-husband and I like each other better now and we are friends. This is really great for our kids because they feel like we are both involved.
You've been a blogger for a long time. Can you talk about how you got into it and why you do it?
It was sort of accidental, I didn't' set out to do it.
When Dylan, my middle son was born, he had some serious health problems, and was in the ICU for a month. So I started to keep notes, but could not keep track of everything. In 2002 I started writing in a really primitive blog, then switched to Typepad, and then people started finding me. So that's how The Mommy Blog was born.
After the company where I worked downsized I went through a lot of life changes and issues and it became like a soap opera on the blog. I think people were coming to see if I was still alive. Now that things in my life are a bit smoother, visitor numbers to my blog are down; I think readers like drama in my life.