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Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark, but he and his voyage are not forgotten: they are revisited in on other centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mourning her father, by an American astronaut on an obsessive personal mission.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Morning Dump
A healthy Carder gives Frogs' defense a boost Star-Telegram
Charmed? TCU's BCS hopes take a hit ESPN
Oh Bubba no; Frogs hoops team ugly in loss against Norfolk State Star-Telegram
TCU wraps up Paradise Jam vs Ole Miss GoFrogs.com
Balanced attack sends NC State WBB to win over TCU WCTI.com
Cross Country:
Kemboi set for 2011 NCAA Cross Country Championships GoFrogs.com
8 comments:
- Slay Purple said...
ETA on when those morning dump shirts are going out?
- November 21, 2011 at 8:27 AM
- NurseFrog31 said...
^What he said. I'm dying to wear mine.
- November 21, 2011 at 8:29 AM
- THEFINCH said...
I'll be placing an order this week, sorry for the delay
- November 21, 2011 at 9:49 AM
- VikingFrog said...
Why am I confused?
These articles keep stating that TCU has won at least a share of the MWC Championship?
Didn't we clinch on Saturday. Even if we lost to UNLV (knock on wood) wouldn't we only have one conference loss, but hold head to head wins over everyone else.
I'm either stupid or confused or a little bit of both.
Anyone care to explain?
- November 21, 2011 at 10:37 AM
- Sir Wesley Willis said...
It's a good question, viking. I guess what they mean to say is that TCU can clinch it outright next weekend.
- November 21, 2011 at 11:22 AM
- VikingFrog said...
But that's my point. Haven't we already clinched it with a win on Saturday?
I assume the tiebreaker would be head to head and we've beating everyone that may have one conference loss.
- November 21, 2011 at 11:26 AM
- Rotten Arsenal said...
If the Frogs somehow managed to lose their last game and Boise wins out, the two teams would have the same overall conference record. In the strictest sense, they are co-champions because in conference title speak, all that matters is the best overall record.
The need for a definitive champion only comes into play when post season stuff comes into play, in which case, TCU takes the lead co-champ status due to head to head. Think back to 2 of the last 3 years of the Big12 South, or the 1994 SWC.
At any rate, TCU is the defacto MWC champ in all things important, but it would nice to end our last year in this dumbass conference with an third straight clean sweep.
- November 21, 2011 at 2:32 PM
- VikingFrog said...
Makes sense, thanks for the info.
- November 21, 2011 at 2:34 PM


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Duff wants to get physical to stop Fitzgerald
Joe Hettler | Friday, October 10, 2003
Vontez Duff knows about Pittsburgh wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald. He knows the challenge Fitzgerald presents to the Irish secondary Saturday. He knows that Fitzgerald is one of the top offensive players in the nation.
But Duff also says he knows something else – how to contain him.
"I think most people try to get in great position to play him," Duff said. "But I don't know if anybody has gotten up in his face and been real physical with him. They just let him run down the field and run all over the place. I'm going to be a little more physical with him; that's the type of person I am. We're going to try to disrupt his timing a little bit."
Notre Dame's defense will need to hinder Fitzgerald's performance if the Irish have a chance of upsetting No. 15 Pittsburgh on the road. The Panthers offense is one of the best in the nation, and Fitzgerald is a major contributory to that success.
The Irish have been able to contain other teams' passing attacks, ranking 34th in the nation against the pass and allowing 192 yards per game.
But Fitzgerald brings something to this game that the Irish have not seen yet this season. The 6-foot-3, 225-pound sophomore has averaged 145 yards and eight catches in Pittsburgh's first four games. He also has nine touchdowns and 583 receiving yards this season. He grabbed three touchdowns for the Panthers win over Kent State, took in 201 yards in a loss to Toledo and had three more touchdowns against Texas A&M two weeks ago.
"He is very consistent and spectacular," Irish coach Tyrone Willingham said. "That is a very difficult combination for us to defense or even attempt to defense. As of right now, no one has really done a good job of doing that."
Fitzgerald uses his size, quickness and speed to dominate games. During his freshman season, Fitzgerald caught 69 passes for 1005 yards, which broke Pittsburgh's previous freshman records by Antonio Bryant. He was a first-team all-Big East selection and named the conference's Rookie of the Year.
To stop such a force, Duff knows he must be physical and pressure him from the line of scrimmage.
"He's a good receiver. He goes up and gets the ball. He's the type of guy that always catches it away from his body," Duff said. "That's why I feel like you've got to get in his face, disrupt that and get him out of his game."
The Irish did a decent job against Fitzgerald last season, holding him to only seven catches for 83 yards and zero touchdowns.
One of Fitzgerald's best attributes is his ability to go up and get the ball in midair. He uses his jumping ability and good hands to take passes away from defenders.
Duff said stopping this aspect of Fitzgerald's game may be the most important task the Irish defense must accomplish.
"He's real good at catching the ball in traffic," Duff said. "He's real good at using his body, too. He's always using his body to out-jump you or get in position to make the catch and be sure he's the only one that can make the play.
"You've got to play him and the ball and the quarterback, as well. There's times when you know the ball is coming, and you can see it, and you have to go up and be just as physical as him."


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This is a situation that has so much caused sleepless nights for me and I am throwing this open to learn from you all, which way to go?
Coming out of the Secretariat where I was discuss the issue of prevalence of child sexual abuse in, I saw some people gathered, watching, others placed their two arms on their head to signify saddening mood and some were screaming passers by were perplexed, some women including myself too really suprised, it is Lagos Life in Nigeria, they are known as Lagos lookers, I moved on to join them. Moving closer to them, I discovered it was a newspaper headline, a girl of 16 coming out to reveal; My Dad is the father of my son. The father is a 70 year old man, definitely, age does not come with wisdom!
The headline was the title of a poem I wrote on Dec 20, 2008. I quickly purchased it, according to her the affair started when she was 12 years old and she thought it was normal for a daughter to indulge in such act with the father. I bought the paper because of the title not because the news is strange to me. Now I waited to watch peoples reactions, some were shouting, the man must be castrated, jailed but in a twinkle of an eye, they are back in their stall, it is now history, it concerns nobody but what I was actually bewildered about is that, why is it that things like this provokes noise for few seconds and it becomes normalised again without any solution or lesson learnt?.
That it is a patriachal society gives no man authority to continually rape the daughter, coupled with the fact that every child is at risk. The mighty mansion, tall gates and barbed wire has not really protected these children from being sexually molested by the so called close relations. But is it that the society wants to normalise these acts that makes everyone stop talking about it.
Our women are the ones that are really not bothered about the consequences of rape or incest on their children, they prefer to protect their men, blaming the children, an instance is that of a woman who approached me after a talk in a church, she said that her daughter was raped by someone she would not want to disclose but she knew the man will never do taht again, it was the devil and the girl's fault, she will prefer if I talk with her daughter only on phone so that I will not know or recognise her daughter . She quickly added, I am only trying to protect her, I smiled, and said o.k but you did not protect her from the abuser who had severally molested her under your roof, she smiled, it is only God that can protect children was her reply, her daughter is 11 years old.
My people, how can we sustain the public interest in the issue of sexual molestation of children of 4,5,6,7,8,9-18years, in no time, we may all believe that it is normal to rape children, or what has a 4 year old girl flaunt to attract a 45 years old man?


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Boulder County authorities are investigating the death of a man whose body was found Friday night in a small pond on private property.
County sheriff's deputies were called to the 2200 block of County Road 103, a wooded area, about 8:20 p.m. after a resident made the discovery. The body was partially submerged, deputies said, though it was unclear how long it had been in the pond.
The coroner's office was working to confirm the man's identity Saturday. The circumstances of his death also remain under investigation.


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My car stalls sporadically. When I rev the engine black smoke comes from the exhaust. I can also smell the exhaust in my car. I have had the whole exhaust system replaced including the muffler. Occasionally it will lose compression and will not accellerate, causing me to pull over to the side of the road and wait. I can usually turn it off and wait 5 minutes or so and it will then accelerate and I can drive away. What do you think the problem can be?
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- n. A Christian doctrine, one of the five points of Calvinism, stating that the salvific benefit Jesus Christ's substitutionary atonement on the cross is extended to those predestined unto salvation, without any possibility of Satan or sin to successfully defeat God's election.
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Patients with rheumatological disorders can present with a variety of syndromes that can result from Small Fiber Neuropathy (SFN). These include musculoskeletal pain (Gemignani, 2014), muscle cramps (Lopate, Streif, Harms, Weihl, & Pestronk, 2013), fasciculations (Tzatha & Chin, 2014), widespread unexplained pain (Oaklander & Klein, 2013), reflex sympathetic dystrophy/complex regional pain syndrome (Oaklander & Fields, 2009), burning paresthesias, and autonomic instability including orthostatic hypotension, postural tachycardia, or gastrointestinal dysmotility (Gibbons, 2014; Haensch, Tosch, Katona, Weis, & Isenmann, 2014).
Several recent studies found that approximately 50% of fibromyalgia patients had reduced Epidermal Nerve Fiber Density (ENFD), consistent with SFN (Caro & Winter, 2014; Gemignani, 2014; Giannoccaro, Donadio, Incensi, Avoni, & Liguori, 2014; Kosmidis et al., 2014; Oaklander, Herzog, Downs, & Klein, 2013; Üçeyler et al., 2013). In the study by Kosmidis et al. (2014), SFN was also found in patients with fibromyalgia and other concomitant rheumatologic disorders.
In Sjögren's syndrome, Fauchais et al. (2011) reported that approximately 40% of patients experienced neuropathic pain with normal electrodiagnostic studies, due to SFN. Chai et al. (Chai, Herrmann, Stanton, Barbano, & Logigian, 2005) reported that 80% of patients with Sjögren's syndrome and neuropathy presented with burning feet, and 60% had symptoms in a multifocal or non-length dependent pattern. Sene et al. (2013) reported that patients with Sjögren's syndrome associated neuropathy are characterized by older age at diagnosis and lower frequency of serum B-cell activation markers.
In systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Oomatia et al. (Oomatia, Fang, Petri, & Birnbaum, 2014) found that the prevalence of peripheral neuropathy in patients with SLE was 5.9%, with 17% exhibiting a painful SFN in a pattern consistent with dorsal root ganglionopathy and distal axonopathy. Birnbaum et al. (Birnbaum & Bingham, 2014) also reported that SFN can occur in patients with rheumatoid arthritis as a complication of TNF-inhibitor therapy.
SFN can also be associated with sarcoidosis (Bakkers et al., 2010; Hoitsma et al., 2002), and has been implicated in the Gulf War veteran syndrome (Li et al., 2014). Patients with Ehlers-Danlos hypermobility syndrome also have been reported to exhibit symptoms of neuropathic pain (Camerota, Celletti, Castori, Grammatico, & Padua, 2011; Voermans, Knoop, & van Engelen, 2011) or autonomic instability (De Wandele et al., 2014).
Making a diagnosis of SFN is important, as it enables the physician to explain the symptoms to their patients, direct testing for possible contributory causes, and decide on appropriate treatment. Bakkers et al. (Bakkers, Faber, Hoeijmakers, Lauria, & Merkies, 2014) evaluated a total of 265 patients diagnosed with SFN, and found that it was associated with a severe impairment in quality of life. Schaefer et al. (2014), in a study of 100 patients, reported that SFN negatively impacts health status, function, and productivity and leads to substantial direct and indirect costs. Boruchow et al. (Boruchow & Gibbons, 2013) examined the role of skin biopsy in the evaluation and management of patients with suspected SFN. A change in management or diagnosis occurred in 14 of 25 patients with definite SFN, 6 of 9 patients with borderline SFN, and 16 of 35 biopsy negative patients. They concluded that skin biopsy played a valuable role in the workup of these patients.
SFN is diagnosed by punch skin biopsy with enumeration of the density of the small sensory nerve fibers in the epidermis and of the small autonomic fibers in the sweat glands. The standard test is the Epidermal Nerve Fiber Density (ENFD), but in those with normal ENFD, determination of the Sweat Gland Nerve Fiber Density increases the diagnostic yield by 18% to 29% (Hays, Hays, Whitehouse, & Harrington, 2011; Weaver, Kim, Carey, Langsdorf, & Chin, 2013).


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Dr. James Andrews is worried. You can't see it because his face is placid, and you can't hear it because his voice, with a sweet Louisiana drawl, is always low and even. But he awoke in the middle of the night, fretting, which isn't unusual before his operating days on Tuesdays and Thursdays—what he calls his "Super Bowls." He knows he has some "real hard cases," as he puts it, "not snap cases," and he kept running them through his mind again and again, thinking about what he would do. He worries because he knows how much is at stake in each of them: quite possibly an athletic career, since all Andrews's patients are serious athletes, about one third of them high schoolers (most of them Division I prospects), one third collegians and one third professionals.
Earlier that Monday morning, as he does every Monday and Wednesday on his clinic days, Andrews had flitted from one exam room to another, meeting a dozen or so patients and sizing them up for possible surgery the next day. (He doesn't wait.) There was Kody Winner, a 14-year-old Little League pitcher from Warner Robins, Georgia. After winning a regional championship game against Alabama, Winner began to feel pain in his elbow "like somebody stabbed you in the arm" and thought he might need Tommy John surgery, named after the former major league pitcher whose ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in his elbow was replaced after snapping. (Andrews determined Winner didn't need the surgery; he just needed to stop pitching until the growth plates in his arm closed.) There were a Detroit Lions rookie and a young running back from the University of Georgia, both of whom had torn the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in their knees; a major league pitcher who had already undergone a Tommy John and was having problems with the ulnar nerve that ran over the elbow; and a former major league flamethrower who was trying to work his way back after three surgeries.
And then there were the hard cases that would keep Andrews up that night: Brian Henninger, who had come out of nowhere to finish 10th in the 1995 Masters golf tournament and who, at the age of 51, was playing on the Senior PGA circuit when the radial collateral ligament in his elbow gruesomely tore; a 19-year-old minor league pitching star who had one Tommy John surgery and then ruptured the new ligament, pulling his muscle clear off the bone during warm-ups; and Curtis Beach, a recent Duke grad and Olympic decathlete hopeful who had torn his UCL and whose surgery was complicated by the fact that he had chipped his elbow back in sixth grade and that broken spot of bone is where Andrews would normally have attached the graft. All of them had come to the Andrews Institute in Gulf Breeze, Florida for the same reason. As one of them put it, "I feel if there is one person in the whole world who could fix me, this is the guy."
Andrews would never say that of himself. He says he's "just an ordinary orthopedic surgeon," and when it comes to routine surgeries like an ACL or UCL repair, he often tells agents their athletes can get treatment just as good somewhere else. Moreover, he says that "if you operate on the right athlete, a high athlete, they'll make you look pretty good as a physician." And as a pioneer promoter of rigorous, doctor-supervised rehabilitation for athletes, he is quick to credit physical therapists for successful outcomes.
But you have only to look at the hallway walls in his new clinic to see he isn't your ordinary orthopedic surgeon. Those walls are covered with signed jerseys and autographed photos of a veritable hall of fame of athletes who have been Andrews's patients: Peyton and Eli Manning, Roger Clemens, Bobby Orr, Charles Barkley, Drew Brees, Brett Favre, Bo Jackson, Jack Nicklaus, Emmitt Smith, Bruce Smith, Scottie Pippen, Albert Pujols, Robert Griffin III, even Michael Jordan, to name just a few of the thousands of professional athletes he has treated. If there is a center of the sports-medicine universe, Andrews is it.
Sitting just beyond Pensacola Bay, the Andrews Institute is 127,000 square feet with a salmon-colored brick facade in a modern Floridian style. It has 26 physicians on staff, but there is no doubt that Andrews is the draw. Ninety percent of his patients come from beyond a 200-mile radius, some from overseas; a Japanese baseball player would be arriving in a few days. Player agents call him ("I know most of their voices"), team trainers call him, parents call him, players call him. Doctors call him for advice. He is a medical rock star. Jay Vines, the administrator of the institute, has known Andrews for more than 25 years. He says that when the two of them entered the packed floor at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the other doctors recognized Andrews, "it was like the parting of the Red Sea."
But here's the thing about Andrews: If you didn't know he was the most famous sports surgeon in the world, you would never guess it by meeting him. You might have assumed that at 73 he would be formal, even stilted. You might look at the long silver hair swept back on his head or the neatly pressed beige glen-plaid jacket color-coordinated with a yellow tie and brown trousers or note the courtly bearing and think he was a remote eminence.
You would be wrong. Andrews is folksy. He has that Southern accent of light molasses, and he ends sentences with "man," as in "We're going to do this, man," or "Mama," as in "Here's the problem, Mama," when talking to a patient's mother. He winks and pokes and joshes. "Yankees are sort of like hemorrhoids," he tells a Northern visitor. "If they go back up, they're okay. But if they go down and stay, they're a pain in the ass." He eats a plate of KFC during his lunch break. He pulls a battered black leather suitcase on wheels behind him, bulging with his files. He teases a Tennessee associate who tells him his university signed a quarterback also sought by Alabama by needling, "Who told you that Alabama wanted him? His mama?" He seems relaxed and affable. He makes you feel as if you have known him your entire life.
But you wonder: How did someone from the Louisiana backwoods—someone who began his practice as a physician in the flyspeck of Columbus, Georgia—become arguably the most important man in sports, the man expected to save careers and even entire franchises? Then again, once you know his story, you wonder if he would have become that important if he hadn't grown up in the small-town South.
The first thing you ought to know about James Andrews the practitioner is that athletes don't beat a path to Pensacola just because he's an excellent surgeon. Yes, Andrews's surgical skill is legendary. Doctors come from all over the world to see him operate. But there are plenty of good surgeons, even famous ones. Andrews's gift is his bedside manner. He acts like a country doctor. He has a lot of patients, but he doesn't rush anyone. He spends 45 minutes to an hour in the examination room. And Andrews not only spends time, he explains. He holds up the X-rays and talks through the problem and every possible option. As Kody Winner's father says, "He spoke in human language versus doctor language."
Perhaps even more important, Andrews not only talks, he listens. He emphasizes the importance of "reading" his patients. "Different athletes have different personalities," he says. "You have to think the way they think." He takes this idea so seriously that back in the 1980s, when he was in Columbus and heard the Columbus Astros were going to relocate their local Double-A farm team, for which he was team physician, he went down to the bank, secured a $40,000 loan and bought the team himself. He wound up painting the locker rooms, and some nights he and his wife even ran the concessions. But the reason he bought the team was because being around the players was the best way to learn what they were thinking, which he thought made him a better surgeon.
Learning about the players is also the reason he's the team physician for the Washington Redskins, on whose sideline you can find him every week during the NFL season. (He takes no salary because he says it would be a conflict of interest to be paid by the team while serving the players.) "If you're not there on the sidelines with a pro football game," he says, "you don't understand the lingo, you don't understand the psychology, you don't understand the pressures or anything."
But the understanding goes beyond knowing how an athlete thinks or feels. Athlete after athlete on whom he has worked will tell you that what really makes Andrews so special is how invested he is in them emotionally, to the point that every time he watches Adrian Peterson get tackled after his ACL recovery, Andrews silently begs him to get up. He cares enough that he will drop everything if an athlete needs him, cares enough that he has always treated local high school athletes for free if they don't have insurance, even though an Andrews surgery costs in the vicinity of $40,000.
And here is the second thing you ought to know about Andrews's doctoring: The phone is as important an instrument to him as the scalpel. Everybody seems to have Andrews's cell phone number. He gets a hundred calls a day—not just from those agents and players and trainers and fellow physicians but from former patients, such as a talented high school gymnast on whom he'd operated 20 years earlier who had written him a letter saying her elbow was bothering her again. And Andrews, clearly pained that the letter had been forwarded to him after several months and worried she might think he was ignoring her, called her persistently.
So that Monday morning, Andrews talked with decathlete Curtis Beach and told him he could have the surgery to his elbow and hope it would work out, or he could give up the decathlon and just concentrate on his best event, the 800 meters, or he could retire entirely and move on. He suggested that Beach and his mama go have a cup of coffee and think it over. He was honest. He said the surgery was no guarantee Beach would be able to throw the javelin again. The procedure was difficult, a challenge. He would usually harvest a tendon from the forearm for the repair, but because of the arm damage, he would have to harvest one from the leg instead, and that could have an effect on Beach's sprinting. But then he added that he liked challenges, welcomed them, and told Beach what he tells nearly all his patients: He doesn't want him to give up his dreams. Not just yet.
James Andrews knows a thing or two about broken dreams. He was born in New Orleans, where his father was stationed in the early days of World War II. When his father shipped out to Europe, his mother moved baby James and his sister to his maternal grandparents' cotton and vegetable farm in Claiborne Parish in northern Louisiana. Andrews says from that point on he was destined to be a sports doctor. His granddaddy Nolen had wanted to be a doctor himself but had only a first-grade education, so he satisfied his ambitions by administering salves and lotions and potions and various concoctions to his farmhands and neighbors—sort of a local medicine man. Granddaddy Nolen would rock Andrews on the front porch and talk about the boy's future. That was the medicine part.
The sports part came when Andrews's father returned from the service and set up a dry-cleaning business in nearby Homer. There were only a few thousand inhabitants in Homer, but they all shared one obsession: sports. The social life of the town revolved around its high school teams, basically, as Andrews puts it, because people didn't have much else to do. The Homer football team had only 18 players during Andrews's high school years, so they couldn't even scrimmage, and the school was so small that the players had to march in the band during halftime to fill it out. But they fought their way to the state championship game and lost to a much larger school.
Andrews's dad was in the thick of it. He'd been playing football at Northwestern State University of Louisiana when he was drafted, ending his athletic dreams. In Homer, he channeled those dreams into coaching and rooting. Young James was a superb athlete. He played football, baseball and basketball, but he was small, 150 pounds, and (thanks to his father's prodding) gravitated to pole-vaulting, for which he won the Louisiana state high school championship. That earned him a scholarship to Louisiana State University, where he won the SEC indoor and outdoor pole-vaulting championships and began dreaming of the Olympics.
But at the end of Andrews's sophomore year, his father suffered a heart attack. He was convalescing when doctors discovered lung cancer that had metastasized. He died quickly. Although Andrews still had two years of college remaining, he applied to the LSU medical school, already determined to become a sports doctor. He was admitted, he says, because the school gave special dispensations to athletes and even paid for their medical education. "I was damn lucky, man," he says. He hated giving up sports, and he brought his poles to medical school, hoping he might still compete. He never did.
That dream was gone, just as his father's had been, and the loss still hurts. So Andrews appreciates firsthand that his practice isn't about ligaments or muscles or bone. He knows it's all about those dreams. Or as one of his protégés, Dr. Jeffrey Dugas, says of the job, "We manage hope."
When Andrews, wearing blue scrubs with the pants bottoms tucked into white rubber rain boots, enters one of his four operating rooms—arrayed two to a side behind large plate-glass windows and divided by a wide viewing area—there is absolutely no question who is in command. He studies the X-ray, sits down on a stool next to the operating table and gets to work. He moves quickly, as if he has done this thousands of times before, which he has—about 45,000 times. The first operation is a routine Tommy John. He uses an arthroscope, which is a fiber-optic probe he can insert through a small incision into the elbow so he doesn't have to open up the entire joint. He can see the inside of the elbow on a large screen above the table, which means he isn't looking directly at where he is operating. Surgeons call it triangulation, and it is a skill, one orthopedic surgeon tells me, that you really can't learn. You either have it or you don't. Andrews is one of the best—a triangulation maestro. "He always said he could probably eat lunch and be talking and looking up there but never looking at the patient, and he could be doing the case perfectly," says a surgeon who trained under Andrews.
Andrews finishes the Tommy John in under half an hour, threading the graft through a small drill hole in the bone like a deft tailor. Then the window fogs over mechanically so observers don't see the closing. He emerges into the viewing area, takes a brief respite by collapsing on a couch and sipping a coffee, then gathers himself, gets up and heads into the next operating room for an ACL. There will be another couple of Tommy Johns and another ACL among the nine surgeries he will perform that day, and after each, he plops on the couch for 10 minutes or so, sips that coffee, then gets up for the next operation. But these are the easy ones—the prelunch ones—the ones he can practically do in his sleep. These aren't the ones that keep him up. The hard ones are yet to come.
Back in the 1960s, when Andrews attended medical school, sports medicine wasn't yet a specialty. All you could do was train as an orthopedist, which is what Andrews did, and hope to work on sports injuries. But during his second year of residency at Tulane, he was watching a slide show about acute knee injuries and saw a photo of Dr. Jack Hughston of Columbus, Georgia, standing in front of the Auburn University sign at the campus entrance. Hughston was Auburn's team physician, and in that eureka moment Andrews said to himself, Man, there's my guy. So Andrews phoned Hughston cold and asked if he could shadow him on the weekends when Hughston covered Friday-night high school games, often operating on injured players Saturday mornings, and then covered Saturday-afternoon Auburn games. By the end of the year, Andrews had convinced both Hughston and his residency chief to let him spend his third year of residency in Columbus, studying under Hughston. "It was the greatest year of my life, as far as what I learned," Andrews says.
But Andrews didn't want to be just a sports surgeon. He made no bones about wanting to be the very best sports surgeon. When he finished his residency, he essentially went into training, just like a promising athlete. Dragging his wife and young children behind him, he took a fellowship with Dr. Frank McCue III, who was the team doctor for the University of Virginia and who specialized in hands and upper extremities. After that, Andrews immediately took another fellowship, this time in France under Dr. Albert Trillat, who had operated on Olympic skier Jean-Claude Killy and on many of Europe's top soccer players.
When he returned from France, Andrews went back to Columbus to practice with Hughston. They were a great team, but they weren't exactly peas in a pod. Hughston was a fastidious man, formal to Andrews's informality, and was brusque and unappreciative to his staff. Andrews says he learned from that too, developing his own easy manner and his graciousness to colleagues as a reaction.
Still, in his day Hughston was the closest thing there was to the James Andrews of today. Just about his entire practice was sports, especially football players. And Andrews found himself right in the middle of it—tending to those high school players on Friday nights and Saturday mornings, then flying his Cessna 182 to three or four college football games at what he calls "pissant schools" in Georgia or Alabama that nobody else cared about, schools like Troy State and Livingston and North Alabama, where he would serve as the team physician and where injured players would pile into a van and be driven three or four hours to Columbus so Andrews could operate on them, then let them convalesce in his home with his wife cooking them meals, before driving them back to school. He followed that routine for 13 years—years during which he became like a son to Hughston.
In that time his reputation began to rise. But there was a problem. Andrews came to realize that the old man saw his protégé as a threat. He decided he had to leave the practice. Hospitals all across the South had been courting him. One of them, a hospital in Birmingham, flew him and his wife into town on a private jet and offered to build him a facility of his own. Andrews was flattered but wary about competing with a friend of his who practiced in Birmingham, sports surgeon Larry Lemak. Instead, the two agreed to team up, and Lemak's own hospital agreed to build them a new clinic, complete with a biomechanics lab and a building for a sports-research foundation Andrews wanted.
Andrews left Columbus. And Jack Hughston, who was "madder than hell" about Andrews leaving, never forgave him for it.
Now comes the hard part. Andrews sits on a stool and hunches over the table, focusing intently through his wire-rim glasses. No more arthroscope or screen. These are "open" surgeries, which require that he open up the arm to do the work—surgeries in which there is more drilling, more threading, more moving of muscle, more attachments, more everything. These are the surgeries that require Andrews to rely on his experience and intuition, because he is in uncharted territory. There is Brian Henninger's ruptured ligament, the one pulled clean off the bone, for which Andrews has to harvest a graft and then attach it. This one takes awhile because the damage is so severe, though Andrews works quickly, his hands fairly flying. ("He has the best hands in the business," says one of his former fellows.) And when he is done, he does what he always does after each successful surgery: He turns to the window and signals "thumbs-up" to the observers. Then the window fogs again, Andrews emerges again, collapses onto the couch again, rises again and heads into the next operating room again.
Lying there on the table is the young minor league pitcher whose ligament was torn a second time after a Tommy John and whose muscle was ripped away. Andrews isn't sure he can save this one. It's another long surgery—one that, with the drilling and screws, looks more like carpentry than a medical procedure. Andrews never looks up. He concentrates fully. The pitcher's physical therapist is watching through the window, and it is tense—another dream on the line. And then, after close to an hour—an hour in which Andrews doesn't seem to make a single wasted motion—he finally turns his head to the window and flashes the sign: thumbs-up.
One would like to say everything was thumbs-up for Andrews himself when in 1986, at the age of 44—not exactly a kid anymore—he left Columbus for Birmingham. But there was a hiccup. It turned out there wasn't enough money to build the new hospital Andrews had been promised, which antagonized an ambitious health entrepreneur named Richard Scrushy, who had agreed to provide Andrews with physical therapists. Scrushy got so frustrated with the hospital's foot-dragging that he finally decided to have his company, HealthSouth, buy the hospital and build Andrews his $50 million addition. The wing went up in less than a year. Andrews designed the whole thing.
And that is when the practice really started to take off. Andrews says modestly that he was "in the right place at the right time"—but it wasn't all luck. It was that Southern charm of his and his emotional connection to the athletes. Former patients remembered Andrews fondly. A number of the baseball players Andrews had treated in the minor leagues were now major leaguers, and they not only came to Andrews, they recommended him to friends and teammates. A number of those college football players, including a few from the "pissant" schools, were now in the NFL, and they made recommendations too.
But what turned Birmingham into the Lourdes for injured athletes was what Andrews calls "signature patients"—big names who brought Andrews big recognition in the sports world and in the media. One of the first was golfer Jerry Pate, who hailed from Alabama and on whom Andrews would operate six or seven times to repair a recurrent shoulder problem. Pate spread the word. Another was Jack Nicklaus, on whose knee Andrews operated. Nicklaus sent everyone he knew with orthopedic issues to Andrews, and the two remain good friends.
The biggest, however, was a strapping young Boston pitcher who had suddenly and inexplicably lost velocity. The Red Sox team physician couldn't figure out why. It was the pitcher's agent, Randy Hendricks, who heard about Andrews and directed his client to Columbus, when Andrews was still working with Hughston, to have the doctor take a look. Andrews quickly determined that the pitcher had a torn labrum in his shoulder. He scoped him. Eight months later, Roger Clemens was striking out 20 batters in a game, and Andrews had decamped to Birmingham. As Andrews puts it, "Roger is the kind of guy who tells all of his buddies where to go, what to do." Andrews says it changed his life.
After Clemens, the floodgates opened. Andrews was seeing up to 60 patients on his clinic days and performing more than 40 operations a week. He became known as a miracle worker. When Bo Jackson, the two-sport pro athlete, wrecked his hip during a Raiders game and needed a hip replacement, Andrews, who knew him from Auburn, helped fix it. (Jackson's contract stipulated that he could circumvent the team physician and go directly to Andrews.) When young Clippers point guard Shaun Livingston suffered a multiple-ligament injury to his knee—"More like a football injury," Andrews says—and Livingston's career seemed over, Andrews fixed him. Perhaps the biggest testament to Andrews is that he became the team physician simultaneously for Auburn and its chief rival, Alabama, roles that to this day necessitate that he fly to Auburn games every Saturday and then, after the final gun, fly to Alabama games. He wears a diamond-studded Auburn 2013 SEC championship ring on his right ring finger.
Those were the good times, and they lasted nearly 20 years. He had a sterling reputation, a wife he loved and six children—all of whose names begin with A, for the alliteration. And to top it off, Scrushy had decided to move him to a brand-new $300 million state-of-the-art, all-digital facility. But the ride wasn't quite over. It turned out there were still a few more speed bumps ahead.
It is Thursday and Andrews is off to San Antonio for a graduation ceremony, but he always seems to be flying off somewhere in his Citation III, be it to a game or a conference. One season he toted up all the football games he and his wife had attended; it came to 55. He works every week of the year except Christmas, and he spends much of that week watching football games on TV and wincing when a player goes down, knowing he might be called to action.
Andrews isn't working tirelessly because he needs the money. His wealth has been estimated at $14 million. He can't rest, because when you dig far enough, you find that folksy demeanor hides a deep competitive streak. Andrews once raced yachts with great success, and he even headed an America's Cup syndicate. Medicine, though, is where he has really channeled the competitiveness that he sacrificed when he gave up pole-vaulting—not competition against other doctors but competition against those dream-threatening injuries. He won't say it, of course, but a man who has been around athletes all his life is on a mission. He is out to be the Michael Jordan or the Peyton Manning or the Jack Nicklaus of sports medicine. He isn't content to do surgeries. He wants to change the entire face of sports medicine so that no one ever has to surrender his or her dreams again.
Part of that effort is the research Andrews has done and part is a fellows program he initiated with Hughston that now has 350 alumni, many of them team physicians. But the part that seems nearest to his heart is the effort to prevent youth injuries, which he says have increased tenfold since 2000. He calls this his passion. Andrews is adamant that the reason there are so many Tommy John surgeries today—more than 40 in the major and minor leagues this year—is that kids like Kody Winner begin throwing too many pitches generally and too many breaking pitches specifically at too young an age, and it catches up with them. So he conducts research that focuses on children and provides guidelines on limits that he thinks should be placed on children's sports, and he has written a book about how to prevent youth sports injuries. He calls this his legacy. In effect, he would like to put himself out of business.
But when it comes to legacies right now, Andrews's most visible one is the imposing institute that bears his name. It is not something he sought. It just happened. He was waiting for his new hospital to be finished when Scrushy suddenly came under federal investigation in 2003 for inflating his company's profits. HealthSouth was over. Eventually another hospital moved into the breach, but everything was scaled back, and Scrushy's $300 million facility sat unfinished—an empty shell. For Andrews, it was crushing.
And then in January 2006, after flying home from treating an injured Redskins player after a playoff game, treatment that didn't end until the wee hours of the morning, Andrews was taking a shower when he began gasping for breath. He was rushed to the hospital with a massive heart attack—an attack that almost surely would have been fatal had there not been, by sheer coincidence, a cardiac surgical team at the hospital that had just finished working on another patient.
The attack should have been a sign that Andrews may not be as easygoing as he appears, and it should have been a warning for him to slow down. He didn't, but the heart attack did get him to think about succession, which prompted him to tap two of his favorite fellows to be his heirs. "Better than I was," he says. And that put him at loggerheads with his partner, Larry Lemak, who had intended to turn the practice over to his son. The divide was unbridgeable. So in 2006 Andrews reluctantly underwent his second medical divorce.
By that time a physical therapist named Chad Gilliland, who had worked with Andrews in Birmingham, had resettled in Pensacola and was advising a hospital group named Baptist Health Care, which wanted to expand its orthopedic services. Baptist Health Care asked Gilliland to invite Andrews to Florida to recommend doctors it might hire. Gilliland and Andrews were in the physicians' lounge, talking about candidates when Andrews blurted, "What about me?"
And so began Andrews's newest phase. He sat down with a yellow pad and wrote a wish list of all the things he desired in a hospital: not only the operating rooms and clinic, but also a biomechanics lab, a rehab center and a separate performance-enhancement wing where athletes could go simply to improve themselves. Baptist Health Care committed $50 million to build the new facility. It opened in January 2007.
Andrews said he intended to stay in Birmingham and visit Pensacola only once a week, but the one-day-a-week arrangement lasted just a few years. He now spends four days a week in Pensacola and one in Birmingham: Friday. By his own admission, he hasn't lost any enthusiasm or willingness to learn. He says the next big advance in orthopedics will be biologics—stem cells, tissue engineering, DNA therapies—and there are another 3.5 acres on the Andrews Institute campus, on which he hopes to build a new lab. "Somebody asked me if I feel old," he says. "I said, 'No, the only time I feel old is when I look in the mirror. So I stopped looking in the damn mirror.' "
Andrews has been operating since seven in the morning, and now he comes to Curtis Beach, the decathlete with the cracked elbow and torn ligament. It's another open surgery and another grueling one. If the minor league pitcher's surgery was like carpentry, this one is more like sculpting. Andrews chisels away at the elbow until a chunk of bone the size of a half-dollar falls off. He grabs it with a forceps and plunks it into a silver tray, then forages back into the elbow, pulling aside the ulnar nerve that runs like a thin rubber tube all the way down the arm. Now he has to find a place to attach the graft. He finds it, drills the hole and carefully threads the ligament. The room is absolutely silent. He lays the ulnar nerve over the muscle and begins to stitch up, lightning fast, almost quicker than the eye can follow.
Then he turns to the observation window, gives his signal, and the glass fogs over.


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By LORRI HELFAND
Published April 14, 2007
Saying "there's a time for healing," fired Largo City Manager Steve Stanton took the national stage Friday on Larry King Live and announced he would not sue the city over his dismissal.
"Suing the city would have been like suing my own mom," Stanton told King. "Largo's been good to me."
Instead, Stanton, 48, said he plans to try to teach others about transgender people.
"Litigation in this situation is not nearly as important as education," he said. And now, he said, he plans to take advantage of having a national stage from which to help teach others.
Stanton also said he plans to begin appearing as Susan Stanton in the next 30 to 60 days and expects to separate from his wife, Donna, in June. He also hopes one day to work as a city manager again.
The announcement of Stanton's plans not to challenge his dismissal in court came as a surprise to city officials, who had braced for a lawsuit.
"Would he have had a good case?" King asked Stanton's attorney, Karen Doering, senior counsel for the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
"Absolutely," she said.
"It's very clear that what the city of Largo did was illegal," she said. "You cannot fire someone just because they announced that they were going to transition from man to woman."
Earlier in the day, Largo City Attorney Alan Zimmet had said that he thought the city would ultimately be successful in any legal challenge.
With news of Don Imus' firing dominating CNN's programming, Stanton's appearance was taped Thursday in Los Angeles for broadcast Friday.
That allowed Stanton to fly home and watch his interview surrounded by friends and former colleagues at a party in downtown Safety Harbor.
Stanton's friends, led by former City Commissioner Pat Burke, threw him a "farewell and good luck party" in honor of his 17-year career with the city.
The party drew about 40 people, including Largo City Commissioner Rodney Woods, City Clerk Diane Bruner and Acting City Manager Norton "Mac" Craig.
But Largo Mayor Pat Gerard, who stood by Stanton and voted against his firing, was not there.
"I'm the mayor. I have to defend the city," Gerard said earlier in the day. "I won't be going to the party."
At the 801 Main banquet hall, guests nibbled on sliced beef tenderloin, Cajun shrimp, baked brie, hot crab dip, chocolate-dipped strawberries and miniature cream puffs.
Faces in the crowd included Pinellas County Administrator Steve Spratt, with whom Stanton had feuded over city-vs.-county issues, as well as Clearwater City Manager Bill Horne, Belleair Town Commissioner Tom Shelly and Belleair Town Manager Micah Maxwell.
The St. Petersburg Times reported on Feb. 21 that Stanton was undergoing hormone therapy treatment in preparation for surgery to become a woman.
Less than a week later, at a meeting that attracted nearly 500 people, many critical of Stanton, commissioners voted 5-2 to begin the process to fire him from his $140,234-per-year job.
On March 23, they made his termination official.
Most said they did so not because he's transgendered, but because he betrayed their trust, bullied employees and manipulated workers he confided in.
But both Stanton, who received nearly a 9 percent raise in September, and his attorney have said he was fired because he is transgendered.
Although Stanton doesn't plan to sue the city, he has already gone to court in connection with his transition. Earlier this week, Stanton filed a petition in Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court to change his name from Steven Bruce Stanton to Susan Ashley Stanton.
Coincidentally, one of Stanton's bigger critics, former Largo Mayor Bob Jackson, also was honored Friday night for his community contributions.
And next week, both men are scheduled to appear on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Stanton hasn't made his transition yet, but for the show Jackson agreed to explore his feminine side by trying to walk in a pair of 4-inch black pumps.
"I watch these shows and say 'Who would put themselves in that position? They know they would be ridiculed," said Jackson, who turns 74 Tuesday." And I did it."
Lorri Helfand can be reached at 445-4155 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Can My Brain Heal after Marijuana Use?
Marijuana's immediate, temporary effects on the brain are what draw people to use the drug again and again. After quitting marijuana, users may begin to wonder about the long-term effects the drug has had on their brains. What damage has been done? What can heal, and what cannot?
Adolescents Are More Vulnerable
During the teenage years, the brain is developing and making connections within itself. Marijuana use appears to interfere with this process. Once this adolescent time period ends, the phase of development that was slowed or altered by marijuana use cannot be returned to.
A study authored by Madeline H. Meier and others, which appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012, looked at IQ scores of adults who had used marijuana in their teen years. After correcting for other environmental factors, the study found that subjects who used marijuana scored eight points lower. In other words, an adult who would have scored an average intelligence would instead settle into the lower third of IQ scores because of marijuana use.
The study suggests that even after years of living without marijuana, the brain may not be able to catch up after the important teenage brain development opportunity has been diminished by marijuana.
Receptors Rebuild
A 2011 study from the National Institute of Mental Health indicates that adult brains are able to reverse at least some of the effects of habitual marijuana use after the use is stopped. For instance, the cells in the brain that react to the chemicals in marijuana actually decrease in number over time. They do appear, however, to eventually return to normal levels several weeks after marijuana use has stopped.
Persistence of Memory Loss
The chemicals in marijuana interfere with neurons in a part of the brain that affects memory. The effects can be seen in images made from scanning the brain of a person under the influence of marijuana.
The damage to memory can also be observed by testing the memories of individuals under the influence of marijuana. Participants in a 2003 study led by Dr. Harrison G. Pope showed a lowered ability to perform memory tasks, such as recalling words a short time after they are given, even days after the last time they smoked marijuana. Normal levels of short-term memory performance began to return after abstaining from marijuana for several weeks.
However, there is also evidence that marijuana use over many years may speed up the normal degradation of memory function associated with aging.
Can Brain Health Be Regained?
In short, the chemicals in marijuana clearly affect the brain and interfere with its functioning. For teenagers, some of the effects on brain functioning appear to be long-term. It is not clear how much ability adults have to recover complete, normal brain functioning after marijuana use ends.
However, scientists studying the brain continue to discover more about how it works and how it can change, adapt, compensate and develop over a lifetime. These discoveries often reveal more surprising aspects of the brain's ability to recover from marijuana use.
Stop the Damage
Stopping marijuana use will stop further damage to your brain and give it a chance to heal. Call our toll-free helpline now to receive more information about marijuana use, recovery and treatment options. Our counselors are available 24 hours a day to answer your questions and offer support.


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Students, teachers, no longer dependent on collected rainwater
Buboy Nilo, a Grade Four student, limps while he walks as he tries to carry a heavy bucket full of rainwater to a place near the school canteen. He and his fellow students will use this pail of rainwater to wash their hands in time for their lunch break.
It is a fact that most public schools in the Philippines especially in some provinces do not have the best facilities. Classrooms are not enough, chairs and desks are not in the best conditions, books are sparse and even the school buildings themselves are old and rundown.
For some schools, water supply is also a problem. In Malicboy East Elementary School located in Pagbilao, Quezon, students and teachers, for the longest time, depended on collected rainwater as their main water source which is unsanitary and dangerous to the health of those who use it.
TeaM Energy Corporation, as part of its Significant Social Contribution program, implemented the Safe Water for Schools Project where it granted a complete safe water system to the Malicboy East Elementary School. The water system includes a mechanical motor pump and a stainless steel water tank.
Another school in Pagbilao, Quezon, Malicboy West Elementary School also received a complete safe water system from TeaM Energy. This includes a mechanical motor pump with safe house, a stainless steel water tank, pipelines for the school bathrooms, canteen, and faculty room plus a hand washing area for the students.
Meawhile, in Sual, Pangasinan, TeaM Energy also donated a complete safe water system to Baquioen Elementary School. This complete safe water system benefitted almost 400 students in the said school.
Through TeaM Energy's Safe Water for Schools project, these public schools no longer have to depend on collected rainwater. Rather, they have immediate access to safe and clean water in their schools all the time.
The Safe Water for Schools project is just one component of TeaM Energy's contribution to the Department of Education's Adopt-a-School program. Other programs in line with TeaM Energy's participation to DepEd's Adopt-a-School include the Lakbay Aral project which involves the conduct of lectures and plant tours among high school students in Quezon and Pangasinan; the Ecological Solid Waste Management (ESWM) which involves trainings and workshops on school-based ESWM and the provision of necessary garbage receptacles; and the annual gift giving to select public elementary schools in Sual and Pagbilao.
The Adopt-A-School program was established by DepEd in order to encourage private companies to assist in the delivery of quality education to public schools in the country.
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Nestlé Adopts New Animal Welfare Standards
World Animal Protection has a vision. They want to see a world where animal welfare matters and animal cruelty has ended. Earlier this year, they partnered with Nestlé, one of the world's leading food brands. It didn't take long for Nestle to commit to making one of the biggest improvements to the lives of farm animals, according to the New York Times. Their newly adopted animal welfare standards will affect 7,300 Nestlé suppliers around the world. Hopefully, their competitors will follow suit, along with other companies that share the same suppliers.
Kevin Petrie, chief procurement officer for Nestlé in North America said,
"The new policy is another step in Nestlé's efforts to address risks in its supply chains like child labor and palm oil, the production of which is damaging to forests. Consumers today know far more about how components in their food are made — and they are far more willing to share that knowledge to stir up a fuss on social media, he said."
According to the Times, "Nestlé will no longer buy products derived from pigs raised in gestation stalls, chickens in barren battery cages, cattle that have been dehorned or had their tails docked without anesthesia and animals whose health has been damaged by drugs that promote growth."
I want to join the World Animal Protection in saying #ThankYouNestlé. And thank you to everyone who has advocated for animal rights by speaking up and signing petitions.
What do you think about their commitment to improving the lives of animals through humane farming? Thanks for sharing your thoughts in a comment below.
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Trish Westphal's Story
It was Spring of 2007. I went in for my normal annual check-up and mammogram. As it turned out, it was anything but normal ...
It was Spring of 2007. I went in for my normal annual check-up and mammogram. As it turned out, it was anything but normal. I remember the day like it was yesterday. When I heard the words no one ever wants to hear... "you have cancer". The first words out of my mouth, My Grandkids, they are too little to go through this. From that point I knew the fight was on. What a fight it was going to be and I was going to win. From my first visit to my oncologist, I noticed a sign on Making Strides. I made it my goal to walk in this event. Little did I know at that time, that I was going to have 18 surgeries and months of chemo.
Each treatment I could feel I was slipping and the chemo was taking its toll. Losing all my hair, losing my toe nails, neuoropathy in my feet, and breathing was difficult. At last, the final treatment came and I was done. It just happened to be two weeks before the walk. Everyone told me that I should maybe wait until next year. My first thought was that they were right but the more I thought about it I knew I had to walk or cancer will have won this battle.
Family and friends backed my decision and said they were walking too. They took the long route, I took the short. They were all waiting at the finish line when I finally took that last step. I did it and haven't missed a year since.
My team now, "Garage's Army of Angels", has grown quite large. We raised over $17,000 last year and hope to do the same this year.
Women, I can't say it enough times, get your mammograms yearly. I had no history of cancer in my family. Early detection saves lives. I am so grateful for my doctors, my family, my friends and my ACS friends. They were my life line.
I wish you courage and good health. God Bless.


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We think that law enforcement alone is not sufficient to change the "so what" attitude of many Malaysians because there are still many ways to avoid from being caught not complying to the the waste separation law. The classic example is to pack all the non-separated waste and throw it far away from home such as a public rubbish bin or even the neighbor's in order to avoid the compound. We believe creating public self-awareness is the most effective strategy, and yet the most challenging one.
This irresponsible act can only be corrected if we solve the problem from its root- EDUCATION. It is hard to change the stubborn adults but we are trying our best to influence our kids, and hopefully the stubborn relatives or neighbors will change one day. But what if the bad guys don't even bother to change? Hmmm, they can't live forever right? :) If education is being done correctly, we will eventually achieve our goal of a CLEAN NATION. It is just the matter of time.
Although we have been selling waste separation bins to many families across Malaysia in the belief of creating convenience for the people to perform waste separation, we still believe we can do better on education part. We want to make this boring subject more fun and engaging for the kids thus we decided to give away our artwork design of the hot-selling RB02 by leaving it blank.
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We strongly believe this engaging process will help the kids to establish the habit of separating waste and keep it with them for a long time, so do the dads and mums. Let's do this together and be proud of our nation's success in waste separation soon.
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Aww, how cute ;D Short and sweet but oh so good! It was nicely written also. Though to be honest, the beginning was lacking in the romance bit, but those last two sentences seriously made up for that, I felt like so much emotion was packed into them. Great job!


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Two former Central girls basketball players will return to Beaumont today when the Wiley women's basketball team faces Lamar University at 7 p.m. at the Montagne Center.
Kyniddia Purdy and Gabrielle Duffy are both true freshman on Wiley's team.
Purdy, a guard, was The Beaumont Enterprise Super Gold MVP last season as a senior at Central. Duffy, a forward, was also on the Super Gold team last year.


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Browsing Dissociation : Volume 10, No. 1 (March 1997) by Author "Maurer, Lara"
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Dissociation : Volume 10, No. 1, p. 038-043 : The overlap between dissociative and obsessive-compulsive disorders: a theoretical link Pica, Michael; Beere, Don; Maurer, Lara (Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Dissociation, 1997-03)The psychological literature reveals a comorbidity between dissociative and obsessive-compulsive disorders. The exact nature of this relationship, however, remains unknown (Steinberg, 1993) . This paper offers one explanation ...


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A grand slam home run has been too much for Australia to overcome at the World Baseball Classic, losing 4-3 to Cuba.
The loss sees Australia knocked out of the World Baseball Classic.
Australian manager Jon Deeble said the Southern Thunder were disappointed by the result.
"We out-hit them, we outplayed them," Deeble said.
"The only place we didn't win was the scoreboard. They [Cuba] have a knack of doing that."
There was plenty of feeling in the match after Cuba knocked Australia out of the Classic in 2009 and beat Australia in the gold medal match of the 2004 Olympics.
Warwick Saupold took to the mound for Australia and pitched four innings for Australia.
While Australia worked off Cuban starting pitcher Lázaro Blanco early, Saupold had plenty of pitches and worked hard to keep the runs and hits down.
Third-baseman Logan Wade scored at the top of the fifth inning to give Australia a lead but it was short-lived.
Blue Sox star Lachlan Wells, 20, relieved Saupold but after two straight strikeouts, was despatched by Alfredo Despaigne.
"I can't wait for [Frederich] Cepeda and Despaigne to retire," Deeble said.
"They have worn me out for 16 years. They have destroyed us. This has gone on and on and on. They're great players, fantastic players."
Although Australia clawed the lead back to 4-3, they couldn't cancel out the score of the four-run homer.
Australia were also left ruing 15 runners being left on base throughout the game.
Despite the loss and being knocked out of round one, an 11-0 win over China has confirmed Australia's place at the 2021 World Baseball Classic.


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by Platinum Member on Mar. 20, 2013 at 6:49 PM
I thought it was horrible and cheesy. Lol
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I don't care what people say, Insidious was fucking creepy mmmk?
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I love the hiding spider video. Haha
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Yes. But if I clicked this shit right before bed it would be no.
All that would really bother me is the spiders...
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Cooler summer hasnt impacted state parks
Published 8:00 pm, Thursday, September 2, 2004
"I'm not saying we've broken any records, either," he said. "This has been a pretty standard year."
Officials at the Department of Natural Resources this week told The Associated Press that while park camping has remained popular, day-use numbers saw a general decrease over the season at the 97 state-run facilities.
"There really isn't anything to worry about," Lauinger said.
But Dennis Fedewa, the DNR's chief deputy, said the state park system could show a budget deficit if the trend continues for the next several years.
He told The Associated Press he expects a park analysis for the state's fiscal 2006 budget to show less money coming in than is being spent. For the first time, the DNR did not receive state general fund money to operate its parks this year. The division is working with a $52.7 million budget.
As for Huron County's parks, it's been business as usual, Lauinger said.
The Sleeper State Park official said his 223-site campground did lose about 10 percent of its capacity due to flooding for a short time between Memorial Day and July 4.
"The weather played a role in that," Lauinger said. "It was too wet."
Sleeper State Park is located along M-25 about 5 miles east of Caseville and takes up about 723 acres of land.
The county's other state park is at Port Crescent, about 5 miles west of Port Austin along M-25.
Port Crescent State Park stretches over nearly 565 acres and hosts 137 camp sites.
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I think that, as a community, we should stop responding to role players and trolls, or if we have to, only have one person reply. Some roleplayers just do that to get attention or to get a reaction and we shouldn't give them one. Also, it really ticks me off to check the "Newest" tag and see a full page of response to roleplayers
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Winning Couple Receives All-Expenses Paid Luxury Wedding at 'Beyond All-inclusive, Beyond All Compare' Grand Velas Riviera Maya
Riviera Maya (September 27, 2011) – "Beyond all-inclusive, beyond all compare,†Velas Resorts is making dreams come true again this year with a contest to win a complete luxury all-inclusive beach wedding for up to 15 guests at AAA Five-Diamond Grand Velas Rivera Maya.
The winning couple will enjoy a unique Mayan ceremony at Xel-Ha, known to be one of the most beautiful natural aquariums in the world, followed by a symbolic or legal ceremony comple
mented with flowers and music at Xcaret eco-archeological park, which showcases Mexico's mystical natural wonders, biodiversity and cultural heritage. The prize package includes four days and three nights in a luxury ocean-front Ambassador Pool Suite, a beach-side cocktail hour, a three-course wedding reception, live music, hair and makeup for the bride, decorations, wedding cake, $250 gift certificate courtesy of Diamonds International, event photography by Humberto Castilla, "Trash the dress†photo session by Dream Art and Ultrafemme gift certificate. The couple and guests will also enjoy a welcome dinner at the resort's exclusive Piaf restaurant, dolphin swim courtesy of Delphinus, special shopping excursions to Luxury Avenue and nature tours courtesy of Rio Secreto.
From October 1st to October 31st, newly-engaged couples from USA, Canada, Mexico and Latin America are welcome to participate by submitting the story of their creative marriage proposal along with an optional photo of their best moment together on the Velas Weddings, Xcaret and Xel-H¡ facebook pages. 10 finalists will be chosen by Velas Resorts in a random drawing on November 1st. On November 2nd the 10 finalists will be notified, and public voting will take place from November 2nd – 19th on the Velas Weddings Facebook Page. The winners will be notified on November 20th, 2011.


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What constitutes a breach in academic integrity?
The following are the most common breaches of academic integrity. When in doubt, ask a professor if you're unsure if you are breaching academic integrity:
- Cheating (of any kind)
- Representing someone else's work as your own
- Not giving appropriate credit (citations) of someone else's work
- Collaborating on work when permission was not granted
- Utilizing library or internet sources without giving credit
- Using a previous assignment or paper from another class or course
- Selling notes, exam answers or papers
- Using some else's papers or assignments as your own
What are the ramifications of a breach in academic integrity?
Students who violate codes of academic integrity can face academic consequences in the course at the faculty level, department level, and at the school's level. The following are some common ramifications:
- "F" grade for the paper/exam/assignment in question
- "F" grade for the course
- Documentation at the Department Level
- Academic File Documentation
- Warning
- Probation
- Dismissal
- Academic Probation for Term(s)
- Academic Dismissal from Columbia University
How can I avoid compromising academic integrity?
Ask for help, permission, and/or clarification any time that you are unsure. Ignorance is not an excuse for inappropriate conduct. Faculty, Graduate Student Services, Graduate School of Arts and Science, and the University Library all have resources available to point you in the right direction. Additionally, being aware of the School's policies as outlined in the bulletin:
What if I suspect someone else compromising academic integrity?
There is always a fine line, and each situation is unique. We encourage students who suspect others of violating an academic policy to seek guidance through the University Ombuds Office. This offices provides a safe place to obtain confidential and neutral advice for your concerns. It is not uncommon for students to seek out a faculty member. We discourage students from sharing facts with other students for confidentiality and to avoid potential altercations between the parties.
What if I have a grievance that I have been wrongly accused of compromising academic integrity?
In most cases, students who alleged to be involved with an academic integrity issue will be called in to a Dean's Discipline Hearing for the School to assess and determine validity of the claim. This is the opportunity for the accused student to present their side of the issue. If the hearing results in a decision the student does not agree with, the student can file an appeal with the School's Dean's Office. For complete description of the process, review the following:
Where can I find these policies or the Code of Academic Integrity?
- http://bulletin.engineering.columbia.edu/policy-conduct-and-discipline
- http://www.columbia.edu/cu/facets/
What steps can faculty take to promote academic integrity in the classroom?


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Only two months to go until the 2010 Tacoma Film Festival, and the winner of the poster contest has just been announced by host venue The Grand Cinema. Jason Larche, 25, a graphic designer and illustrator from Norwalk, Connecticut, has been named the winner for his design which gives a nod to many local iconic images, from the Narrows Bridge to Art Deco design, collegiate colors and font, and a maritime blue.
"The poster is clean, simple and does a good job of mixing film and Tacoma," says Philip Cowan, executive director for the Grand Cinema, who helped choose the winning design from 195 worldwide entries, alongside a panel of judges. "With so many talented entries it was really difficult choosing just one winner."
The Tacoma Film Festival was begun by the Grand in 2006, and is now an eight-day festival over various venues like the Grand, the Tacoma Art Museum, Annie Wright School and the School of the Arts. The focus of the festival, which runs Oct. 7-14, is on art house, foreign language, independent, documentaries and numerous short films, with special emphasis on Northwest filmmakers.
Larche's poster design is not final; he's still working on a few adjustments before the festival will use it for promotion. Says Larche: "My goal with this design was to boldly announce the festival by establishing a reputable and contemporary look. I wanted to convey Tacoma's character in a classical manner through a high-contrast color palette. It was important for me to show my appreciation of traditional film in what has increasingly become a digital art form."
Information: www.TacomaFilmFestival.com


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Track & Field: Hurdler Jade Miller impresses at prelims
May 31, 2013 | 8:42 pm
Great Oak senior Jade Miller showed why she is the favorite to win the 300 hurdles at tomorrow's state finals in Clovis.
She was the top qualifier in 41.60. Long Beach Poly's Kymber Payne (41.96) had the second-fastest time.
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Every comfort has been met at this superb home. Perfect for large family gatherings, small corporate or social functions, you will find plenty of space to relax with two living areas, one including a full size billiard table, and four bedrooms. Privacy is ensured as this home has five bathrooms as well as a separate toilet and powder room for your convenience.
Luxury features include:
Huge upstairs living area with stunning 270 degree water views. Includes large TV, DVD player and quality couches.
Relaxing gas log fire with ocean views.
Large kitchen with two ovens, dishwasher and generously-sized refrigerator.
Two large dining tables catering for 14 people plus.
Large balconies around the property giving stunning water views. Includes gas BBQ and outdoor setting.
Downstairs Billiard Room comprising of a kitchenette with bar fridges, stereo, TV and DVD player.
Commercial size washing machine and dryer.
Ensuite bathrooms in each bedroom.
Electric panel heaters in every room and split system cooling and heating in the upstairs living area.
Garage parking for two cars plus four additional car spaces in driveway. Ideal for motorcycle events!
All rooms have private ensuites, heating and ceiling fans. Bedding configuration (12 Beds, sleeps up to 16 people):
Bedroom 1: 1 x Queen and 1 x trundle
Bedroom 2: 1 x Queen, 1 x bunk, 1 x trundle
Bedroom 3 : 1 x Queen, 1 x bunk and 1 x trundle
Bedroom 4: 1 x Queen and 1 x trundle.
Please provide your own top and bottom sheets, towels, bathmats, pillow cases and tea towels. If you require a linen hire service, please contact Glenda Binch Linen Services 0428 170 117.
It is a requirement of our owners to obtain ages and number of guests staying at this property. Please provide ages upon booking request.
You will be required to sign Terms & Conditions and provide our office with a copy of your drivers license and credit card prior to your arrival.
All bookings are subject to owner confirmation.