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Examining Indianapolis Colts' Offseason and Key Preseason Positional BattlesJuly 1, 2013
Examining Indianapolis Colts' Offseason and Key Preseason Positional Battles
The idea that the NFL revolves around elite quarterback play may be overused and worn out, but nothing is more accurate. Just ask the Indianapolis Colts.
In a matter of one draft, Indianapolis began its rise to NFL superpower status in the Peyton Manning era, effectively reviving a franchise that spent more than a decade dominating in the AFC. With Manning's neck injury and subsequent departure, however, uncertainty ensued.
Indianapolis made a bold decision to cut ties with Manning in favor of drafting Andrew Luck with the No. 1 pick in 2012. What would follow was a testament to both Luck's immense skill and the mettle of Colts brass in making a difficult decision that has proven to be a tremendous choice thus far.
Luck led the Colts to an 11-5 record and a playoff berth last season, just a year removed from a 2-14 campaign in 2012 that led them to draft the former Stanford superstar with the first pick. Letting Manning go after more than a decade of dominance wasn't a popular decision, but it was the right choice. The future of the franchise looks brighter than ever.
With their franchise signal-caller in place, the Colts had only to focus on building around him this offseason. They found the biggest piece of the puzzle last offseason, and general manager Ryan Grigson was left to fill other holes without needing to worry about who will be under center going forward.
Grigson brought in some offensive help this offseason in the form of former Detroit Lions offensive lineman Gosder Cherilus, former Oakland Raiders wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, running back Ahmad Bradshaw and veteran signal-caller Matt Hasselbeck, but considering the pieces he already had in place, the young GM wasn't forced to make a major splash on the free-agent market to shore up the offense.
Grigson also signed safety LaRon Landry to a four-year contract to strengthen the team's secondary, but the high-profile signings ended there. As has often been the case for the Colts, the organization filled a couple positional needs in free agency with the intent of continuing to build through the draft.
Indianapolis did well to employ that strategy this offseason, taking advantage of value throughout the selection process in adding some quality talent on both sides of the ball. We'll take a closer look at the Colts' draft class in the following slideshow.
For as well as Indianapolis turned things around last season, Colts fans have even more reason to be excited about the 2013 season and the future of the franchise. The transitional period between quarterbacks is often tumultuous, but Luck proved he is ready to lead Indianapolis back to elite status in the AFC. The future is extremely bright.
Let's take a closer look at Indianapolis' offseason, including the NFL draft, free agency and positions to watch as the 2013 season draws near. We'll also offer some predictions for this campaign and highlight the biggest games on the team's 2013 slate. Read on.
2013 NFL Draft
Round 1 (Pick 24): DE Bjoern Werner, Florida State
Round 3 (Pick 86): OG Hugh Thornton, Illinois
Round 4 (Pick 121): C Khaled Holmes, USC
Round 5 (Pick 139): DT Montori Hughes, Tennessee-Martin
Round 6 (Pick 192): S John Boyett, Oregon
Round 7 (Pick 230): RB Kerwynn Williams, Utah State
Round 7 (Pick 254): TE Justice Cunningham, South Carolina
Grade: B
Ryan Grigson prefers a best-player-available approach to drafting, and while he didn't have to worry much about what he did at the top of last year's draft, the 2013 selection process wasn't as cut-and-dry.
In the first round, the 41-year-old GM stuck to his strategy and selected Florida State defensive end Bjoern Werner—a player many considered one of the best pure pass-rushers in the draft class. Werner raised some questions about his positional versatility with some poor predraft workouts, but there's no denying his pass-rushing abilities.
With the Colts employing a two-gap 3-4 base defense, it remains to be seen where Werner will ultimately end up. Provided he shows enough athleticism for the stand-up linebacker role, he should have no problem making an impact on the Colts defense, especially as an edge-rushing option.
Grigson then turned his efforts toward solidifying Indianapolis' pass-protection unit—another obvious choice given the value of his franchise quarterback. Hugh Thornton and Khaled Holmes were both solid picks for Grigson, who found good value in a couple players who can have an impact on the offense in their formative years.
In the final three rounds, Grigson continue filling in some holes on both sides of the ball, though late-round draft picks certainly aren't guaranteed to make a sizable impact at the NFL level. Players like Montori Hughes and John Boyett will have to prove they belong, but Grigson again found good value in selecting them in the fifth and six rounds, respectively.
In all, it was a workmanlike draft for Grgison. While no selection particularly stood out, he did his job adding the best talent available at positions of need. There's not much to dislike about the Colts' 2013 draft class.
Stitching Up the Secondary
While the Colts enjoyed plenty of success on the offensive side of the ball last season, the same can't be said for their defense.
Indianapolis finished 26th in the league in total defense last season, including the league's No. 21 passing defense. While it certainly could have been worse, Indianapolis needed to focus on shoring up its secondary this offseason.
Struggling against the run was to be expected after making the switch to a 3-4 last season. The Colts simply didn't have the right pieces in place to field a top-tier front seven, and both defensive units suffered as a result.
With another offseason nearly in the books, there's reason to be hopeful for marked improvement this season—starting with some additions to the secondary.
LaRon Landry was arguably the Colts' biggest offseason signing, and he'll go a long way toward shoring up a secondary that was too often exploited by the big play last season. Paired with veteran free safety Antoine Bethea, the back end of Indianapolis' secondary shouldn't have the same issues in 2013.
Injuries and youthful inconsistency slowed Indianapolis' cornerbacks in 2012, but with the addition of former Arizona Cardinals cornerback Greg Toler should go a long way toward patching up those issues.
Toler wasn't a big-name signing, but he was a major contributor in the Cardinals' secondary. Paired with Vontae Davis, the Colts enter the 2013 season with added depth and a little extra talent at the position.
Toler will compete for the starting role opposite Davis, and there's a good chance he earns the spot. While Darius Butler had a solid season in 2012, he may be of better use as the team's nickel corner going forward, as long as the starting duo doesn't struggle with inconsistency or injuries.
Cassius Vaughn and Josh Gordy also remained with the team this offseason, both in line for sub-package roles in 2013. Neither player should be considered a contender for the starting role, but Indianapolis returns plenty of depth at the position this season.
With Landry and Toler in the fold, it's hard to believe the team's secondary won't show at least a little improvement in 2013. As long as the Colts can facilitate some continuity in the starting roles, it wouldn't be a surprise for Indianapolis to field a top-15 passing defense this season, especially with a friendly schedule on the horizon.
Projected Secondary Depth Chart
|Vontae Davis
|Greg Toler
|LaRon Landry
|Antoine Bethea
|Darius Butler
|Cassius Vaughn
A Trio of Talented Targets
With a franchise quarterback in tow, the Colts need to continue adding weapons to their receiving corps. Reggie Wayne still has a little gas left in the tank, but he won't be the team's No. 1 option forever.
Still, Wayne was extremely productive in 2012 after a slow 2011 campaign marred with poor quarterback play. Last season, the 34-year-old hauled in 106 passes for 1,355 yards and five touchdowns—not too shabby for a player many thought would be on the downside of his career.
Wayne returns this year as Luck's No. 1 target, but he won't be the only player carrying the team's receiving corps. Darrius Heyward-Bey and T.Y. Hilton will also have a hand in that.
Heyward-Bey failed to live up to expectations in Oakland after being drafted No. 7 overall in 2009, and while he hasn't exactly shown the elite talent the Raiders hoped for, he's still an intriguing option for the Colts going forward.
At 6'2" and 220 pounds with terrific straight-line speed, the Maryland product gives Luck another big target he can exploit down the field. Provided Heyward-Bey can stay healthy, it wouldn't be a stretch to believe Luck can still make him a quality receiving threat in 2013.
Hilton, on the other hand, exceeded all expectations last season after being drafted by the Colts in the third round last year. Hilton isn't a big target (5'9" and 178 pounds), but he has tremendous speed and showed above-average ball skills and body control last season in catching 50 passes for 861 yards and seven touchdowns.
Hilton averaged 17.2 yards per catch in 2012, and with Heyward-Bey in the fold, the Colts are now looking at a trio of players who can stretch the field vertically for the big-armed Luck. Now it's just a matter of figuring out how they fit together.
Heyward-Bey isn't a prototypical slot receiver, and he lacks the sure hands to spend too much time running routes in the middle of the field. But Wayne has plenty of experience in the slot and Hilton is among the quickest wideouts in the league. Ideally, one of the two will line up primary in the slot this season—Wayne being the most likely given the straight-line speed bot Heyward-Bey and Hilton possess.
Second-year wideouts LaVon Brazill and Nathan Palmer in the mix, Indianapolis has some solid depth to work with, especially with young pass-catching tight ends Coby Fleener and Dwayne Allen likely to play a larger role in the passing offense this season.
Projected Depth Chart
|Reggie Wayne
|Darrius Heyward-bey
|T.Y. Hilton
|LaVon Brazill
|Coby Fleener
|Dwayne Allen
Pass-Rushing Prowess
The transition from a 4-3 to a 3-4 base (and vice versa) is often a dreaded switch given the time it takes to find the right pieces to make it work. Typically, such a transition takes two to three years to complete.
The Colts have two offseasons of roster moves under their belt. Given the draft-day additions of Bjoern Werner and Montori Hughes and a bevy of additional roster changes, in the last year, Indianapolis should field a much more stable front seven this season.
In a two-gap 3-4 front, the main focus is creating traffic at the line of scrimmage and getting pressure on opposing passers with linebackers—one of the reasons Robert Mathis was able to transition to outside linebacker in the new front.
While Mathis spent most of his career as a one-gap defensive end, his responsibilities aren't all that different. At its core, Mathis' job is to rush the passer from the edge, just as he did as a defensive end.
Mathis will slide over to the spot vacated by Dwight Freeney's departure, leaving the strongside outside linebacker position unfilled. The Colts signed former Green Bay Packers linebacker Erik Walden to assume that role, though, and the 6'2", 250-pound Middle Tennessee State product shouldn't have a hard time finding his rhythm.
Ryan Grigson seems especially pleased with the acquisition, as quoted by Kevin Bowen of Colts.com:
In a 3-4 that's what your outside linebackers have to do and this guy (Walden) does it in the textbook way. He jolts people's heads back on contact and he's violent with his hands and he definitely knows how to set the edge. His motor never stops. So really excited about him.
With the inclusion of Walden, Indianapolis' pass rush won't skip a beat this season, especially with Werner also in the mix.
Good coaches know how to make use of their best players. In this situation, Werner is likely to see plenty of playing time on passing downs as an extra rusher, potentially lining up at the end of the line in nickel packages given his background as a 4-3 defensive end at Florida State.
Werner didn't perform particularly well at the combine, but he's not the type of player whose physical attributes stand out. What Werner brings to the table is a high motor and innate ability to get after opposing passers. Head coach Chuck Pagano and defensive coordinator Greg Manusky won't have a hard time finding a fit for him in Indianapolis' pass rush.
After notching just 32 sacks last season (tied for 23rd in the league) and with Freeney out of the picture, the Colts need Walden and Werner to step up in 2013. Both players have a lot to prove, but they also have a lot of talent. Provided Mathis doesn't take a step back in 2013, Indianapolis' pass rush should be fine.
2013 Schedule
|2013 Indianapolis Colts Schedule
|Time (ET)
|Sept. 8
|vs. Oakland Raiders
|1 p.m.
|Sept. 15
|vs. Miami Dolphins
|1 p.m.
|Sept. 22
|at San Francisco 49ers
|4:25 p.m.
|Sept. 29
|at Jacksonville Jaguars
|1 p.m.
|Oct. 6
|vs. Seattle Seahawks
|1 p.m.
|Oct. 14
|at San Diego Chargers
|8:40 p.m.
|Oct. 20
|vs. Denver Broncos
|8:30 p.m.
|Oct. 27
|Nov. 3
|at Houston Texans
|8:30 p.m.
|Nov. 10
|vs. St. Louis Rams
|1 p.m.
|Nov. 14
|at Tennessee Titans
|8:25 p.m.
|NFL Network
|Nov. 24
|at Arizona Cardinals
|4:05 p.m.
|Dec. 1
|vs. Tennessee Titans
|1 p.m.
|Dec. 8
|at Cincinnati Bengals
|1 p.m.
|Dec. 15
|vs. Houston Texans
|1 p.m.
|Dec. 22
|at Kansas City Chiefs
|1 p.m.
|Dec. 29
|vs. Jacksonville Jaguars
|1 p.m.
*For a complete look at Indianapolis' 2013 schedule, check out NFL.com.
Season Outlook
There's little to not like about what Ryan Grigson did this offseason.
In adding Darrius Heyward-Bey and Ahmad Bradshaw, the GM infused some additional talent to an already impressive core of excellent skill position players in Reggie Wayne, T.Y. Hilton, Coby Fleener, Vick Ballard and Donald Brown. Along with Andrew Luck, the Colts won't have any problems scoring points this season.
Defense is the biggest question mark facing the Colts this season, but they did well to bring in complementary pieces to facilitate a growth period in 2013. It's hard to predict how the defense will fare this far from Week 1, but all signs point to an improved unit that will make some big strides in 2013.
And with a fairly easy schedule, Indianapolis is in line to make even bigger strides as a team.
Granted, the Colts will play the San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, Denver Broncos and Cincinnati Bengals—along with the division rival Houston Texans—but the rest of the slate is riddled with questionable squads.
Outside an AFC South schedule that features the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans, the Colts will also take on the Oakland Raiders, San Diego Charges, Arizona Cardinals and Kansas City Chiefs—four non-divisional foes against which Indianapolis should be favored.
Nothing is guaranteed, but Indianapolis certainly has an opportunity to make a big splash in the AFC South this season.
Prediction: 12-4, First in AFC South
I also expect the Houston Texans to piece together a campaign similar to their 2012 season, and realistically, only the Texans and Colts should be fighting for the division title when all is said and done.
At this point in the year, it's entirely too early to make accurate full-season predictions, but there's enough to go on to expect the Colts to experience a lot of success in 2013.
If all goes right, Indianapolis should be looking at 10-plus wins facing an easy regular-season schedule. Twelve wins may be the limit given the handful of elite opponents on the slate, but the Colts could certainly reach that mark.


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text: Your Brain on IceTALAN, JAMIENeurology Now: March-April 2009 - Volume 5 - Issue 2 - p 26–29 doi: 10.1097/01.NNN.0000351336.42144.da Feature: Brain Cooling Abstract In Brief Article Outline Cooling the body after stroke or cardiac arrest can save precious brain function. Cooling the body after cardiac arrest or stroke can save precious brain function. In Europe, cooling has become the standard of care for cardiac arrest. In the U.S., "It's a complete hit or miss," says Stephan Mayer, M.D., who runs a cooling unit, "depending on where you live and where the ambulance takes you." Here's what you should know about cooling's risks and benefits. Abstract PREVENTING BRAIN DAMAGE A GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN A NEW ERA IN RESUSCITATION? Figure Stephen Michalski, M.D., was a general surgeon in private practice in New York City when he awoke one morning in 2007 with chest pain. He drove to Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he often performed surgery. Moments after he gave his vital statistics to the emergency room staff, Dr. Michalski went into cardiac arrest. It took 25 minutes to restart his heart. They rushed him into surgery and placed a stent in one of his arteries to encourage blood flow. Dr. Michalski was unconscious for 25 minutes without a beating heart, a length of time that often results in irreparable brain damage. Following the cardiac stenting procedure, he was transferred to the intensive care unit. Things looked bleak. A neurologist called to his bedside noted Dr. Michalski's posture: His toes were solid like rock and pointing up—not a good sign. Then Brigitte Bendixen, M.D., remembered that a few miles south at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, a doctor named Stephan Mayer, M.D., had established a protocol for cooling the body to protect brain function in cases of sudden cardiac arrest. Dr. Bendixen called Columbia Presbyterian and requested a transfer. It took eight more critical hours before Dr. Michalski arrived in the Neurointensive Care Unit. Dr. Mayer had already prepared his cooling unit for the surgeon, who was in grave condition when they placed his comatose body into a hypothermia system. The protocol called for 24 hours of cooling and another two days of warming his body back to normal. Throughout the whole process, Dr. Michalski breathed on life support and was kept in a drug-induced coma. He didn't wake up for a week. Back to Top | Article Outline PREVENTING BRAIN DAMAGE Dr. Mayer had already witnessed the benefits of cooling. Since 2004, when he opened a hypothermia unit for such cases, he had seen dozens of people in the throes of sudden cardiac arrest escape brain damage and walk out of the intensive care unit and back into their worlds. Strong evidence now exists that cooling the brain after sudden cardiac arrest or stroke minimizes brain damage by protecting brain cells from injury and death. Each year approximately 250,000 people in the U.S. die of sudden cardiac arrest, in which the heart loses its rhythm, stops pumping blood, and enters into pulseless electrical activity, called ventricular fibrillation. Most of these people die on the spot. Even if emergency medical services arrives quickly and successfully resuscitates the patient—which happens as little as 20 percent of the time—there remains an 80 to 90 percent chance of severe, irreversible brain damage. In a study published in 2004 in the New England Journal of Medicine, only five percent of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients were successfully resuscitated and survived to hospital discharge. The numbers are getting better, but the outlook for these patients has historically been viewed as grim, Dr. Mayer notes. He shares these sobering statistics with the families of the patients who undergo cooling. What he says outside of the earshot of the family is another story. "What if I told you that there is a treatment that can make the chances of a good recovery from ventricular fibrillation as high as 40 percent?" Dr. Mayer asks. "Of course you'd want it. Yet we currently have this disconnect where most people who suffer the unimaginable—and then are fortunate enough to be successfully resuscitated—do not get this treatment." Dr. Mayer first heard about cooling for sudden cardiac arrest from two studies published in 2002 in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the larger trial, conducted in Europe, 75 of 136 patients (55 percent) resuscitated from cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation had a favorable neurological outcome with the cooling treatment. In comparison, 55 of 137 patients (39 percent) had a favorable outcome with standard supportive care alone. Standard care includes reviving the patient and keeping his or her blood pressure and heart rhythm in a normal range. A smaller single-center study from Australia showed similar results. On the heels of the paper, the American Heart Association and the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation agreed that medical teams ought to be cooling the body following sudden cardiac arrest. Still, brain cooling after trauma remains controversial. While there may be potential benefits to hypothermia, says Eugene Fu, M.D., associate professor of clinical anesthesiology at the University of Miami, the risk for unwanted effects does exist. Hypothermia can expose people to infections and bleeding; and for those with heart disease, it can worsen myocardial ischemia, Dr. Fu observes. Furthermore, although hypothermia has been studied for decades, no large, multi-center studies have established standard treatment guidelines. Of the studies that have been done, there has been little consistency on when patients were cooled, how much they were cooled, or whether they were given adjunct therapies, says Naomi Kleitman, Ph.D., a program director at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. "You can draw the conclusion from the literature that hypothermia has real potential, but it's still unproven," Dr. Kleitman says. "That potential will depend on demonstrating how the techniques should best be administered so that you can consistently expect to have a benefit." She says studies should define criteria for timing of hypothermia, duration, extent of cooling, speed of cooling, and procedure for re-warming. Dr. Mayer, who runs the neurological intensive care unit at Columbia, began selling the story to his own hospital. At first, he says, "It was like pulling teeth to get the emergency room doctors and neurologists to do this. All I said was: Call me." In 2006, he says, they had changed enough minds that his unit went from cooling a handful of patients a year to almost 20 patients in 2008. Back to Top | Article Outline A GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN Knowledge of the procedure has spread by word of mouth. A young doctor in San Francisco who was familiar with the cooling treatment had an uncle, a professor at Columbia, who collapsed during exercise. He was brought to a hospital 30 blocks away but spent 20 minutes without a pulse. Normally the brain deprived of oxygen for that length of time suffers a severe assault. She called Dr. Mayer and asked for her uncle to be transferred. A week later, the 58-year-old professor was talking. When Dr. Mayer tells this story, he also recalls the deep sadness that filled a room five doors down from this patient. A 34-year-old father of two small children had an asthma attack that led to respiratory and then cardiac arrest. He ended up brain dead. "I don't know whether cooling would have saved him," Dr. Mayer says, "but he never had the chance to find out." Stephen Michalski's arrival at the cooling unit was also a matter of luck. Five days later, he was responding to his wife's voice. At first, Dr. Michalski didn't remember who he was or what his relationships were to the people around him. But his wife Diane remembers the day that she asked, "Who am I to you?" And he answered, "Burden." "I knew his sense of humor was intact," Diane says. He now reads the paper, goes to the gym, and even drives. He has not, however, returned to work as a surgeon. Dr. Michalski still suffers from significant impairment and has large gaps in his memory. But, Diane says, "This procedure saved his life and saved him." Throughout Europe, cooling has become the standard of care for people in cardiac arrest. In the U.S., it has been slow to catch on. "It's new and different, and it is taking a grassroots movement to spread the word," says Dr. Mayer. "It's a complete hit or miss, depending on where you live and where the ambulance takes you." Back to Top | Article Outline A NEW ERA IN RESUSCITATION? Hypothermia treatment was tried in the 1940s and '50s but was abandoned because it proved too dangerous to cool the body eight degrees below normal. In this physiological state, blood pressure drops, the heart becomes stressed, and the immune system is suppressed. But advances in critical care medicine have made it possible to cool the body more safely. Hypothermia has also been used as an experimental therapy for spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, excision of tumors, and even to save premature babies from brain complications. According to W. Dalton Dietrich, Ph.D., scientific director of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, when done soon after the injury, cooling is thought to inhibit many of the inflammatory cascades that lead to cell death and neurological dysfunction. "It's a powerful way to decrease those injury cascades and improve outcome," Dr. Dietrich says. "By reducing temperatures, many of these cell injury mechanisms are inhibited." "The clinical evidence is overwhelming," says Zeynep Sumer, a project manager in quality and patient safety at the Greater New York Hospital Association. In December 2007 the agency held a day-long program for advancing cerebral hypothermic resuscitation. Sumer invited Dr. Mayer to help organize the meeting, which included chief medical officer David Prezant, M.D., of the Fire Department of the City of New York. A year later, after witnessing the benefits of cooling on out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, Dr. Prezant and his colleagues announced that ambulances will take these patients directly to a hospital that provides whole-body cooling, even if that means bypassing the nearest emergency room. The technology can cost upwards of $30,000 per cooling machine and $1,000 for the disposable cooling blankets. (Less expensive cooling solutions do exist, including cold saline solutions or plastic bags filled with ice.) Local New York hospitals are now scrambling to build cooling units in the emergency room. The program went into effect on January 1, 2009. But the technique requires expertise and collaboration with emergency, cardiac, and neurology teams, says Dr. Mayer, who has helped develop the next generation of cooling equipment for a company called Medivance. He holds stock options in the company. Dr. Mayer says that he became passionate about cooling when he saw patients on the verge of death "walk out of the hospital with near-full recovery." Cooling is catching on in other cities as well, including Seattle and Dallas. "This is tremendously important," Dr. Mayer says. "What will change everything is when people facing this life-threatening emergency situation are aware of the cooling treatment, can ask for it, and can get it." Doctors may have to rethink what they have been taught about the oxygen-starved brain. "We were taught that brain cells die within five minutes of oxygen deprivation," Dr. Mayer explains. "But we now suspect that there is a larger window, and that if patients are resuscitated quickly and the brain and body are cooled, it may minimize a cascade of secondary injury that plays out over many hours following the initial assault." Figure For now, many patients are thankful for the treatment. In October 2008, neurologist Syed Hasan Naqvi, M.D., had just finished exercising on his treadmill when he collapsed at his home on Long Island, NY. Luckily, his daughter heard the thump of his body. The ambulance arrived within minutes and he had to be shocked three times over 24 minutes before they got a pulse going. He was comatose by the time he arrived at Nassau Community Medical Center. His wife remembered that a relative of theirs had done a residency at Columbia, where Dr. Mayer had recently given a talk on brain cooling. The relative called Dr. Mayer and they arranged for the transport, during which cooling packs were used. Five hours elapsed before an ambulance brought the neurologist to Dr. Mayer's unit at Columbia. Not only was Dr. Naqvi in a coma, but he was rated a four on the Glasgow Coma Scale. The scale runs from three to 15, with three indicating a state of total unresponsiveness. "I got there in the eleventh hour," Dr. Naqvi says. Four days following the cooling, he emerged from his coma cognitively intact. "It is amazing," he says. Six weeks after his brush with death, the movement disorders specialist was back at work part-time. "I was very lucky."Copyright © 2009, AAN Enterprises, Inc.


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N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos will stand trial accused of setting up a drug deal the day after her 26th birthday.
Tulisa cut a solemn figure as she appeared at London's Southwark Crown Court this morning.
Dressed in a tight black jacket and knee length skirt the former X Factor judge spoke only to confirm her name during the brief ten minute hearing.
She appeared alongside rapper Mike GLC, also known as Michael Coombs, 35, and was told that her trial is expected to take place on July 14.
The N-Dubz star is charged with helping an undercover reporter obtain 13.9g (0.5oz) of the Class A drug for £860.
The pair spoke only to confirm their names and say that they understood the current timetable.
Tulisa left court in a black Chrysler Grand Voyager.
She made no comment but her lawyer said she is not guilty and "looking forward to giving her account to a jury".
Coombs, who denies a charge of supplying the drug on May 23, also made no comment as he walked out of court with a stunning brunette who sat in the public gallery during the brief hearing.
Since being charged Tulisa's career has lain in tatters.
The singer had built an impressive showbiz career with her image as a council estate girl who rose to stardom.
She took her first steps to fame in 2000 when she formed N-Dubz with cousin Dino "Dappy" Contostavlos and friend Richard "Fazer" Rawson.
They had eight top 40 hits before splitting up to pursue solo projects in 2011.
She became a household name that year when Simon Cowell gave her a role on the X Factor judging panel.
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Is there seasonality to geocaching?


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If the world comes to an end, model Naomi Campbell and her nearest and dearest will have no trouble surviving in this 25 roomed eco-home. Designed by and a birthday gift from one of our favorite new architects Luis de Garrido, the glass domed house is completely energy and water self-sufficient and features an amazing indoor landscaped terrace. Everything about this house is a dream: its comfortable microclimate, its constant flow of air, light and heat when necessary, its superior landscaping, and of course the fact that it was built on the Isla Playa de Cleopatra in Turkey (notice the Egyptian theme.)
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Forums → Art, Music, and Writing → Alexis' Assorted Artwork
Hi! This is Alexis again. As many of you AGers know, I have a writing thread called Alexis' Assorted Writings.
Well, now I have one for my doodles/ paintings/ anything else I somehow make that somehow qualifies as being art!
Here's my first one:
Hopefully it will work. Its well known that I suck at posting images.
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I guess I keep doing something wrong?
DOGGY! It is adorable. So cute.
The skull creeps me out. Thanks a lot Alexis. Now I will have nightmares.
The bird is really good too.
My most recent pastel drawing, unfinished but getting there.
Alexis, I kinda sorta want the skull as the basis for a tattoo. It just looks epic and would go well with my other one.
The coloring on the angel is beautiful. What pencils do you use?
I love you Voidy. And I think so too, you should get it and email me a picture! And I used chalk pastels, not pencils. They blend nicely and with a coat of sprayable fixative you can layer it and create a lot of depth, which is why I love them so much. Realism, yayyy
I'm totally gonna snag that picture, save it to a folder, slap it on a thumb drive and take it to an artist around here and tell them "Put that on my body. Now."
It's nice seeing more of your art. I always have been a huge fan of the stuff you make! Besides, it lets me know that you are still alive.
Hope to see lots more of your work (and by association, lots more of you).
I love you Voidy.
And you don't love me. I see how it is Alexis.
It's nice seeing more of your art. I always have been a huge fan of the stuff you make! Besides, it lets me know that you are still alive.
What he said. It is infinitely better then the crap I put in my thread, which I keep actually forgetting to put more stuff in it.
I love you too Daleks! I didn't mean to leave you out xD Can you post a link to your thread on my profile? I'm learning how to oil paint as my senior project, so chances are that you will see much more art, soon.
Voidy, I am serious. You better send me a picture if you actually get it. But I suggest a gradient background, otherwise it will look like a coverup :b
Voidy, I am serious. You better send me a picture if you actually get it. But I suggest a gradient background, otherwise it will look like a coverup :b
Ha, I know. already planned on that. You recall how mine looks, where it looks like tendons/muscles stretching out from the outline then shaded with blacks, greys and browns? I was thinking the same sorta idea, with the new one connecting onto the bottom of the other. Stick with the same sort of idea.
Sounds cool I'm going to make a Black Winged Angel series, so here's the next piece:
Can you post a link to your thread on my profile?
Sure thing. And snap I need to update that thread.
Dayng these are good. You should enter something for the armatar contest so more people can appreciate your work.
Awesome drawing there. I think what is really exceptional is the soft shading on the face. The eyes are great, like most of the eyes you draw. I really like where the skin is peeling up, nicely done.
I'm not sure if the head is centered on the neck, it looks like maybe the skull's jaw sticks out a bit off the neck. The skull is smoothly shaded, but I think it would have been neat to try and capture the texture of an actual skull. The hair loses it a little for me. I think if you blended out the ends of the hair, that would help. But I do think the hair on the left side and where it connects into the head looks good.
I hope my critique helps, but awesome job either way.
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6 p.m., April 3, 2013--Several members of the University of Delaware Department of Music will participate in a conference for music educators to share research, host workshops and perform.
UD will be well represented at the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) Eastern Division conference, to be held April 4-7 in Hartford, Conn. Four faculty members, two graduate students, two undergraduate researchers and a UD choral ensemble will all be a part of the national conference.
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The conference provides a forum for music students, educators, researchers and practitioners to share ideas about the advancement of music education.
Suzanne Burton, associate professor of music education, and undergraduate researchers Jenna Knaster and Maria Knieste will present a poster detailing research on policy awareness among pre-service music teachers.
Burton noted that the variety of participants from the music department actively participating in the conference reflects highly on the UD program.
"In terms of research and scholarly output, it puts us at the forefront as a department that's at the cutting edge of music education research," she said.
Graduate students Hannah Fraser and Christine Hadfield will each present their research at the NAfME Eastern Division conference.
"I've always gone to these conferences as a student and now it's nice to come full circle to be presenting," said Fraser, a second year graduate student in the music program.
Fraser will share a paper and poster examining the motivations and instructional preferences of high school guitar students.
"Specifically, I looked at why students take guitar class, how they want to be taught in guitar class and if how they are taught inside a classroom affects how they make music outside of the classroom," said Fraser.
The NAfME conference provides students with an opportunity to showcase their work in expert company.
"Our students are presenting alongside seasoned professionals," said Burton.
In addition to presenting research, Burton and two other UD faculty members, Alden Snell and Chad Nicholson, will teach practitioner clinics at the conference.
Snell, assistant professor of music education, worked with several experts from the Society for Music Teacher Education to create a Professional Development eKit.
The eKit is a collection of documents containing effective professional development tips for public school music teachers.
"The Professional Development eKit took nearly a year and a half to pull together," said Snell. ""We're doing everything we can to publicize it and present our research at various conferences."
In addition to presenting research and conducting clinics, Blue Hens will also be singing at the NAfME Eastern Division conference. The University Singers will perform a 25-minute set during the weekend.
The University Singers is an all-female select choral ensemble conducted by Duane Cottrell, assistant professor of choral music education.
"Preparing for a conference like this means we have to delve a little bit deeper and work a little harder on the music," said Cottrell. "This is like going to a tournament for a basketball team. This is a big deal for us."
Cottrell believes that UD's diverse representation at the conference will be beneficial.
"The big thing about this is exposure at a highly recognizable conference," he said. "There will be music educators from around the East Coast and it will reflect highly on the University and the music department."
Snell agrees with his colleague.
"Conference attendees will notice UD throughout the conference," he said. "Anybody who glances through the conference brochure will see the University of Delaware multiple times."
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