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Seattle Seahawks quarterback and former minor league second baseman Russell Wilson expressed his desire to appear at spring training with the Texas Rangers almost immediately following his team's Super Bowl victory. That appearance is now official and is scheduled to take place on Monday, March 3, when the Rangers prepare to take on the Cleveland Indians in Surprise, Ariz.
Wilson is expected to join the Rangers for their morning workout, which in and of itself is pretty cool. But according to Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News, he's not stopping there. Wilson is now expected to hang around and even suit up for the afternoon game so he can sit in the dugout with his baseball teammates.
It's still highly unlikely that Wilson would play, because let's face it, the Seahawks would not sign off on that and Wilson doesn't want to take any unnecessary risks against live pitching. However, Rangers manager Ron Washington says Wilson is free to participate in any drills he wants to during the workout, so expect him to be very active on Monday morning.
Wilson has baseball in his blood, after all. Sure, he made the best choice for his career and pursued football, but his passion for baseball won't disappear that easily. He was good enough to be drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the fourth round of the 2010 draft, and even spent two years in their minor league system. Despite hitting just .229/.354/.356 with five home runs in 93 Single-A games, if Wilson committed his full energy to baseball, he had a chance to break through, but football was always there calling his name, and his incredible athleticism lent itself to that sport perfectly.
Wilson is on the path to becoming one of the NFL's biggest stars, but it's still cool to see his passion for baseball on display. It's also cool to see the Rangers — who selected Wilson during the Rule 5 draft back in December — give him the opportunity to show up and participate. Honestly, had he remained with the Rockies, this opportunity may not have presented itself this spring. Remember, it was the Denver Broncos who were steamrolled by Wilson and Seattle's Legion of Boom defense at Met Life Stadium. That's going to be fresh in Denver sports fans' minds for a long time, so the reception probably wouldn't be as welcoming as what he'll receive with Texas.
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Coronary arteries supply blood to the heart muscle. Like all other tissues in the body, the heart muscle needs oxygen-rich blood to function, and oxygen-depleted blood must be carried away. The coronary arteries consist of two main arteries: the right and left coronary arteries. The left coronary artery system branches into the circumflex artery and the left anterior descending artery.
The two main coronary arteries are the left main and right coronary arteries. The left main coronary artery (LMCA), which divides into the left anterior descending artery and the circumflex branch, supplies blood to the left ventricle and left atrium. The right coronary artery (RCA), which divides into the right posterior descending and acute marginal arteries, supplies blood to the right ventricle, right atrium, sinoatrial node (cluster of cells in the right atrial wall that regulates the heart's rhythmic rate), and atrioventricular node.
Additional arteries branch off the left main coronary artery to supply left side of the heart muscle with blood. These include the following:
Smaller branches of the coronary arteries include: acute marginal (AM), posterior descending (PDA), obtuse marginal (OM), septal perforator (SP), and diagonals.
Since coronary arteries deliver blood to the heart muscle, any coronary artery disorder or disease can have serious implications by reducing the flow of oxygen and nutrients to the heart, which may lead to a heart attack and possibly death. Atherosclerosis (a build-up of plaque in the inner lining of an artery causing it to narrow or become blocked) is the most common cause of heart disease.
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The OC community mourns the loss of Bob Rowland, who served the university from 1971 to 1990.
Rowland was president of OC's American Citizenship Center, then served as executive director of Enterprise Square USA.
"I was conducting Freedom Forums and seminars in a five-state area, and I would reach maybe 5,000 students and teachers a year," Rowland once said. "I thought, 'What if you built yourself a museum of some kind, an educational attraction that would attract that many or more each month, year round?'"
The vision became reality in 1982, when Enterprise Square opened, offering economic education and history in a unique venue located on campus.
Although he retired in 1990, Rowland would look back at the impact of Enterprise Square on economic education with a special pride. When educators brought classes to the center, students often were tested before and after their visit.
"We would see those scores jump from a 25 to 30 percentile average to a 65 to 70 percentile, doubling their scores nearly every time," he said. "That was a great source of satisfaction."
In 2008, the Rowland Endowed Scholarship Fund was established at Oklahoma Christian to assist students from the northwest pursuing a Christian education.
Prior to coming to OC, Rowland served as president of Columbia Christian College in Portland, Oregon, from 1959 to 1968. He also served as Columbia's dean from 1957 to 1959.
Rowland was born in Oklahoma and grew up in California. In addition to his work with Columbia and Oklahoma Christian, he served the Lord in mission work in Alaska, helping to establish congregations in Juneau and Sitka. He also served as an elder at Quail Springs Church of Christ in Oklahoma City.
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The heart consists of four chambers -- two atria (upper chambers) and two ventricles (lower chambers). There is a valve through which blood passes before leaving each chamber of the heart. The valves prevent the backward flow of blood. They act as one-way inlets of blood on one side of a ventricle and one-way outlets of blood on the other side of a ventricle. The four heart valves include the following:
As the heart muscle contracts and relaxes, the valves open and close, letting blood flow into the ventricles and out to the body at alternate times. The following is a step-by-step illustration of how the valves function normally in the left ventricle:
Heart valve disorders can arise from two main types of malfunctions:
Heart valves can develop both malfunctions at the same time (regurgitation and stenosis). Also, more than one heart valve can be affected at the same time. When heart valves fail to open and close properly, the implications for the heart can be serious, possibly hampering the heart's ability to pump blood adequately through the body. Heart valve problems are one cause of heart failure.
Mild heart valve disease may not cause any symptoms. The following are the most common symptoms of heart valve disease. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may vary depending on the type of heart valve disease present and may include:
Symptoms of heart valve disease may resemble other medical conditions and problems. Always consult your physician for a diagnosis.
The causes of heart valve damage vary depending on the type of disease present, and may include the following:
The mitral and aortic valves are most often affected by heart valve disease. Some of the more common heart valve diseases include:
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Bicuspid aortic valve
|This congenital birth defect is characterized by an aortic valve that has only two flaps (a normal aortic valve has three flaps). If the valve becomes narrowed, it is more difficult for the blood to flow through, and often the blood leaks backward. Symptoms usually do not develop during childhood, but are often detected during the adult years.
Mitral valve prolapse (also known as click-murmur syndrome, Barlow's syndrome, balloon mitral valve, or floppy valve syndrome)
|This disease is characterized by the bulging of one or both of the mitral valve flaps during the contraction of the heart. One or both of the flaps may not close properly, allowing the blood to leak backward. This may result in a mitral regurgitation murmur.
Mitral valve stenosis
|Often caused by a past history of rheumatic fever, this condition is characterized by a narrowing of the mitral valve opening, increasing resistance to blood flow from the left atrium to the left ventricle.
Aortic valve stenosis
|This type of valve disease occurs primarily in the elderly and is characterized by a narrowing of the aortic valve opening, increasing resistance to blood flow from the left ventricle to the aorta.
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|This condition is characterized by a pulmonary valve that does not open sufficiently, causing the right ventricle to pump harder and enlarge.
Heart valve disease may be suspected if the heart sounds heard through a stethoscope are abnormal. This is usually the first step in diagnosing a heart valve disease. A characteristic heart murmur (abnormal sounds in the heart due to turbulent blood flow across the valve) can often indicate valve regurgitation or stenosis. To further define the type of valve disease and extent of the valve damage, physicians may use any of the following diagnostic procedures:
A person with heart valve disease will often need to take antibiotics before undergoing dental or other surgical procedures that cause bleeding. Antibiotics are also recommended by physicians and dentists before routine professional teeth cleaning and other procedures involving the gums or soft tissues of the mouth. Bacteria released during these and other procedures may enter the bloodstream and lodge in the heart on the vulnerable, diseased heart valve. The antibiotics help prevent against a potentially fatal infection called endocarditis, an infection of the heart's lining.
In addition, inform your dentist and other physicians if you are taking any anticoagulant medication (to prevent blood clots), because this medication can cause excessive bleeding during surgery.
Always inform your dentist and other physician(s) if you have heart valve disease.
In some cases, the only treatment for heart valve disease may be careful medical supervision. However, other treatment options may include medication, surgery to repair the valve, or surgery to replace the valve. Specific treatment will be determined by your physician based on:
Treatment varies, depending on the type of heart valve disease, and may include one, or a combination of, the following:
Medications are not a cure for heart valve disease but in many cases are successful in the treatment of symptoms caused by heart valve disease. These medications may include:
Surgery may be necessary to repair or replace the malfunctioning valve(s). Surgery may include:
Another treatment option that is less invasive than valve repair/replacement surgery is balloon valvuloplasty, a non-surgical procedure in which a special catheter (hollow tube) is threaded into a blood vessel in the groin and guided into the heart. The catheter, which contains a deflated balloon, is inserted into the narrowed heart valve. Once in place, the balloon is inflated to stretch the valve open. The balloon is then removed. This procedure is often used to treat pulmonary stenosis and, in some cases, aortic stenosis.
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On April 25, 2014, a notice of the transfer or assignment of a claim against the debtor was filed in the bankruptcy case of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and its affiliates.
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Transfer Agreement FRBP. Transfer of Claim Transfer Agreement 3001 (e) 2 Transferors: Credito Privato Commerciale SA (Claim No. 44207, Amount \$707,530.40) To Raymond James & Associates, Inc. filed by Raymond James & Associates, Inc..(Iacino, Rita)
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection, or had an involuntary bankruptcy petition filed against it, on September 15, 2008. The bankruptcy case is pending before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York . The case number for the lead bankruptcy case is 08-13555. The bankruptcy case is currently assigned to United States Bankruptcy Judge James Peck. The law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is acting as lead bankruptcy counsel to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in the bankruptcy case.


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One of the most asked-about Biafra-related projects finally sees the light of day! Never available for sale and rarely shown outside of Canada, this surreal black romantic comedy
features Jello Biafra, Joey "Shithead" Keithley, Ani Kyd, and Nardwuar The Human Serviette. The DVD comes with the star-studded, never released soundtrack featuring DOA, Neko Case And Her Boyfriends, The Evaporators, Coal, The Loudmouths, Huevos Rancheros, Thee Goblins, and more!
Director Marcus Rogers has created an instant cult classic. Inspired by the sinister visions of David Lynch, and the colorful comic book camp of John Waters, "The Widower" is a cartoonish world of decay in a timeless, nameless city, where the very fringes of reality are starting to unravel. This is especially true for Milton, the nebbish romantic widower who is unable to face the reality of his wife's demise... But why should he? She still talks to him.
"The Widower" is a creepy, kitschy comedy about love and death, blood, cops, and donuts, that has some surprisingly sweet touches amongst the corpses, punk rock, and out-sized characters!
"The Widower" is being released in conjunction with the Terminal City Ricochet DVD + Soundtrack CD!
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79 minutes, color, stereo, full screen, 1999, Not Rated, NTSC Region 0Directed by Marcus Rogers (For Those Aboot To Rock & many DOA videos).
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Track 7 / 100%; Elvis Love Child
Track 8 / 2x4; Thee Goblins
Track 9 / Sidecar; The Mach III's
Track 10 / Four Arabs in a Red Fury; Sarcastic Mannequins
Track 11 / Champagne X; The Problematics
Track 12 / Bad Seed; Bughouse 5
Track 13 / Jettison; Neko Case and Her Boyfriends
Track 14 / The Sacrifice; Coal
Track 15 / By Your Side; The Colorifics
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"A fast-paced, funny, dark, surreal comedy that works."- Cultcuts
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"Very funny... manages to breath the same air as cult luminaries as John Waters, David Lynch, and John Pozer."- Discorder
"This is a pretty Z-movie to watch, especially considering... the cameos by Jello Biafra, Joey Shithead, and Nardwuar. You will not laugh or cry or become The Widower, but you'll never be as judgemental about necrophilia again!Bonus features include a CD of the soundtrack (with some great tracks by Nardwuar's Goblins band, Smugglers, D.O.A., and Coal)"- Rocktober
"You can pretty much run down the cult film checklist with this one. Rarely, though is there a film you could describe as suitable for the whole family and an erotic celebration of blood and deviance. The Widower, from director Marcus Rogers, is simultaneously wholesome and comically grotesque. It's a heart-warming love story of a pedophiliac and his dead bride, fighting, against all odds the criticism and intolerance of society.
Every character is a caricature: from the obsessive and snooping neighbor, to the fierce and controlling sister-in-law; from the helpless and fumbling widower unable to live alone, to the lazy and incompetent cops (one seemingly the bald, idiot dead ringer for Michael Chiklis) who are themselves wrapped up in their own homosexual reverie. The characters are lifeless stereotypes, more dead than the corpses that slowly added up throughout the movie.
The soundtrack shifts from horror movie drone to slow 50s love songs to punk rock as it guides us through the film. Throughout, the music seems to force the desired emotional responses out of the audience, heavy-handed, but intentionally so. This is also reflected in the canned memory montages. Every aspect of the film seems to be driving at exciting all of the trite emotions one might expect. It reaches a point where the viewer feels nothing but the absurdity of the moment.The Widower carries no pretensions. Its nice to see that it's not even above cracking a few sexually explicit jokes now and again, although at times it seems to fill in for a lack of worthwhile dialog. The movie is clearly aware of itself as a satire. It seems to take on so many objects of ridicule that you have a hard time keeping track. Even in the details it mocks itself and the broader cultural norms—a gaudy apartment, crawling with flies, adorned with the reprints of the most cliché paragons of classic art.
Watching this film one feels much like the bystanders in it. What exactly are we supposed to do with this man dragging his dead wife around town for donuts, a night out, a 'stroll' on the beach? The point is, it doesn't really matter. Everyone is indifferent, everything happens without rhyme or reason, so let's just "'wipe the earth clean,'" as the kitsch Dracula character demands, and start over from scratch."- Pendu


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Eating in China: Chinese cuisine has a long history, and is one of the Chinese cultural treasures. It is famous all over the world. Chinese cookery has developed and matured over the centuries, forming a rich cultural content It is characterized by fine selection of ingredients, precise processing, particular care to the amount of fire, and substantial nourishment. Local flavors and snacks, and special dishes have formed according to regions, local products, climate, historical factors, and eating habits.
The staple food in China is usually rice and wheat. The local flavors and superb cooking form the present famous Chinese Eight Cuisines from the eight provinces of Shandong, Sichuan, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan and Anhui, each of which has its own characteristics. Including the typical Beijing Cuisine and Shanghai Cuisine, which are also popular in China.You can enjoy the delicious Chinese food not only in superior restaurants with many facilities and quality service, but also in ordinary eateries that are much cheaper but still serve delicious food. Prices vary, based on the different conditions and the environment. Anyway, wherever you go for a meal, health, sanitation and safety are necessities that you should pay much attention to.
Food in remote areas or cities, like Lhasa, is not as fine as that in large cities. Besides, there are not so many choices and you may not be used to the local taste, especially in the regions of many minority features and special eating habits. Western-style food can also be found easily in China's big cities. In addition, some fast-food outlets, like McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut, are also popular in China.
China's Regional Cuisines: China can be divided into many geographical areas, and each area has a distinct style of cooking. The ingredients used in the food are based on the natural agricultural products of the region. In Northern China, for example, wheat is eaten more than rice as a staple food. Food using wheat as its main ingredient, such as noodles and dumplings is prevalent there. China's Southern cuisine uses far more rice, with such staples as rice noodles and zongzi - sticky rice wrapped in leaves. Southern food, is typically more spicy, and many minorities eat chilies every day. We have selected China's Top Food Cities to cover a range of China's foods and destinations that are most popular with foreign travelers.
- Location: Southeast China
Hong Kong, being a wealthy international city, has restaurants selling high-quality food from many countries of the world, most notably Japanese, Korean, and British food.
2. Beijing
Mongolian hotpot is another classic that should be eaten in Beijing, which is surprisingly only about 250 kilometers (160 miles) from Inner Mongolia, or 500 kilometers (300 miles) from Hohhot.
3. Chengdu
- Location: Central China, Sichuan Province
4. Turpan
- Location: Northwest China, Xinjiang Autonomous Region
- Location: Southeast China, Fujian Province
6. Guangzhou
- Location: Southeast China, Guangdong Province
7. Macau
8. Xi'an
- Location: Central China, Shaanxi Province
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Around eight years ago, I decided to try my hand at cooking by preparing a dafina (Moroccan cholent) for my congregation.
I surfed the net, found a recipe and followed it carefully. To my surprise, the dafina was delicious. My wife asked who made the dafina, and when she found out it was me, she told me I was hired! It was the beginning of a new hobby.
For me, cooking is a time of meditation, especially when I'm alone and it's quiet. It's a time of introspection where I realize the abundance that HaShem provides us with every moment. How do we thank God for this abundance?
There are many ways to express our appreciation for His bounty, and reciting brachot is certainly one of them.
A brachah is a formula specified by Jewish law by which we thank God. It can be long or short, but it invariably contains the name of God and a phrase beginning with the words "Baruch Atah" ("Blessed are You").
Many biblical commentators question this terminology, for how is it possible, they ask, for a person to bless God, who lacks nothing? What do we mean when we declare that God is "baruch"?
The Chizkuni (13th-century France), says in Bereshit (24:27) that the word "baruch," when used in relation to God, is an expression of greeting or praise.
The Rashba (1235–1310, Spain) posits in a responsa that a brachah is the acknowledgement that He is Ruler over all, and everything comes from Him. As the Talmud states, "A person must bless [God] for the bad just as he must bless Him for the good (Brachot 60b)." The Rashba continues by explaining that the word "brachah" comes from the word "breichah," meaning reservoir of water (i.e., the source of everything).
Rabbi Chaim Volozhin (1749-1821, Lithuania), says in Nefesh HaChaim, that the expression "baruch" means multiplicity and abundance.
Rambam (1135-1204, Spain) explains in a wonderfully clear manner in Yad Hachazakah, when treating the subject of brachot, that the wording of the brachah was instituted by Ezra and his court (circa 350 BCE) and that anyone who deviates from the wording of a brachah is mistaken. The exception to the aforementioned blessings' origin are the biblically commanded Birkat Hamazon and Birkat HaTorah.
The Rambam teaches that the purpose of brachot is to acknowledge the awesome reality that God is the Creator of everything. Human nature causes us to believe, mistakenly, that the beautiful lunch we enjoyed today, the great car we saved for years to buy or the library we've built over the years all belong to us.
But the fact of the matter is that all of these things really belong to God and are on loan to us. Reciting a brachah acknowledges this truth.
We are so fortunate. Let us seize the many opportunities we have each day to thank God for what we have.


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Duo set for Saints medicals
Toby Alderweireld and Sadio Mane are undergoing medicals at Southampton, Press Association Sport understands.
Southampton boss Ronald Koeman looks to have won the race for the in-demand duo, thwarting Newcastle and Sunderland for Belgium defender Alderweireld and Tottenham for Senegal striker Mane.
Atletico Madrid centre-back Alderweireld and Red Bull Salzburg forward Mane could both command sizeable fees as the south coast club continue reshaping their squad after the summer exodus.
Former Ajax defender Alderweireld is seen as a direct replacement for Dejan Lovren, who joined Liverpool this summer.
Versatile Salzburg forward Mane has scored 45 goals since his 2012 transfer from Metz, and would add to Koeman's attacking options, able to operate across midfield as well as up front.
Saints' move for Mane came after the club baulked at the chance to pursue Tottenham winger Andros Townsend.
The England international had been strongly-linked with a move to St Mary's, with reports he could have formed part of a deal which would see Jay Rodriguez go the other way.
Saints were only keen to allow fringe players to leave St Mary's ahead of Monday's transfer deadline, with the club reaffirming their commitment to retaining talents like Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin.
Southampton confirmed on Monday afternoon they had agreed to terminate midfielder Saphir Taider's loan spell from Inter Milan - less than a month after joining the club.
The 22-year-old Algeria international moved to St Mary's on a season-long loan on August 6, with a view to signing permanently from Inter. The deal also saw club-record signing Dani Osvaldo go the other way.
However, a club statement on Monday read: "The midfielder joined Saints for the 2014-15 campaign but, having failed to live up to the high levels of commitment expected of Southampton players, that arrangement has been cut short by the club.
"Taider, whose only first-team appearance came in the friendly against Bayer Leverkusen earlier this month, now returns to parent club Inter Milan. Dani Osvaldo's loan arrangement with the Italian side is unaffected."
Saints academy graduate Jake Sinclair joined Scottish Championship club Hibernian on a season-long loan deal on Monday.
The development squad youngsters has risen through Southampton's ranks since joining the club aged eight, and signed a one-year deal in July.
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We welcome the talented, perceptive and fashionable contributor Yvonne Puig aboard as our contributing editor. Yvonne will be writing largely about scarves…when she's not touching you deeply.
Are You My Granddaughter?
by Yvonne Georgina Puig
Right now I feel like am sitting in my grandmother's living room, looking at the world through her lace curtains. From time to time, a gentle wind blows the curtains and changes the patterns through which I see the world. There are large knots in the curtains, and I cannot see through them.
– Richard Taylor, Alzheimer's From The Inside Out
Right now I am sitting in my grandmother's living room. Her curtains are mossy green; her picture window looks out onto an afternoon lush with Houston spring. She watches Cardinals and Blue Jays peck at seed in the grass. My grandmother, Gerda, is lovely. Her skin, olive, still smooth, belies her age. Her hands are strong, her eyes clear, her laugh charming and high, and we are losing her.
My grandmother, Oma as we call her, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease last year. It would, however, be difficult to know this, sitting beside her in her living room, watching her admire the birds. The disease grips her in subtle ways today, in perhaps less subtle ways tomorrow.
She still knows who I am, of course. She knows the family, the basic facts. Details come and go. What she cannot retain are the immediacies, and what she asks me each time I arrive at her door is, why are you here? Where is Mommy?
"California," I say. "I'm in town to spend time with you this week."
She grips her forehead, asks me when my mom is coming back.
"Tuesday," I say, again. "She'll be back Tuesday morning."
I cannot know how deep this disease will pull her, and how fast. For now I am grateful for having only to remind her of the little things, and we flip through photo albums, side by side on the couch, her fat, white cat named Tootie asleep in the space between us. Doctors say old photographs are good for the Alzheimer's mind.
Her childhood remains vivid: holidays atop jungle mountains, resorts shrouded in clouds, trans-Atlantic ocean liners, flowing gowns the colors of which I must imagine through black and white. Oma was raised between Holland and the island of Java, in Indonesia, then the Dutch East Indies. For the Dutch, it was a prosperous time. Hers was a childhood spent in rooms without walls, with lounging cats and idle breezes.
Here now in Houston, her accent still pronounced after five decades in Texas, Oma recalls the names of cute boys in old-fashioned bathing suits, the details of her favorite outfits ("Oh, this one was brown," she says, smiling. "So cute!" we squeal in unison), and the opening moments of her dance revues. Oma loved to dance. "I would dance by myself in an empty house," she says, and closes her eyes. "I see myself dance."
"Audrey's Dance" – Angelo Badalamenti (mp3)
"No. 3 in E Major" – Chopin (mp3)
"Drivin' on 9″ – The Breeders (mp3)
Oma's childhood room
I get up to show her my rudimentary and ineptly-executed ballet moves. Tendu, piqué, grand plié.
"No elbows!" she exclaims, positioning her arms, patiently, as if strumming a harp. I try again. She watches, clasps her hands beneath her chin. "Ah," she sighs, delighted. "Very nice!"
Oma and I have always been close. Her house is two miles from my parents' house, and my sister and I grew up seeing her every day, pulling up the driveway in her Ford Fairmont, the Omamobile, delivering us strange and delicious Indonesian dishes for dinner.
Of the nine members of my immediate family, I have always felt most like Oma: daydreaming, skeptical, in love with the arts, hostile toward math, quick to judge and then laugh about it, Oma and I are cut from the same passionate and somewhat astringent cloth. We are the only two women in the family who covet jewelry. When something is absurd, we think it's absurd. I love Oma's beauty, her wit, her perfection of manners. I see in Oma, unfailingly, the woman like whom I hope to age. But now I think of her mind, and I'm frightened of what her genes imply.
"Arabian Dance" – Tchaikovsky (mp3)
The house on Java
I remind her to take her afternoon pills, to eat. Alzheimer's makes its sufferers obstinate and irritable. That she resists food is troubling. One must eat everything on one's plate, she's always told us. One must try all foods in order to be worldly, refined, poised.
"Don't boss me," she replies. "I'm not 100." Then she asks me if I'm alone at my parents' house. She remembered they were traveling. When I say yes, she shakes her head in disapproval.
"If you're not 100," I say, "then I'm not ten."
We laugh and decide to play Scrabble. The highlight is my construction of the word "vagina," followed by Oma's addition of an "s," making this bit of plural anatomy the vertical center point and constant amusement of our game.
Today, Oma plays Scrabble with relative ease, but it makes me sad. Tomorrow her memory of this game will have vanished. It will, in fact, never have become a memory. It is my challenge, not hers, to linger in the moment. To enjoy this, and later, to etch it onto my heart. Memories held here seem to cling more firmly to the mind.
I coax her into eating a McDonald's Asian Chicken Salad, and she settles in with her slokje. Two parts vodka to one part dry vermouth, and ice. In a tall glass. A long drink, she says. Wheel of Fortune flickers on the television, the volume low, the arrows thrumming quietly against the pegs of the wheel. We both used to be so good at this show; it's our tradition to watch it. But tonight we are terrible, and I have no excuse.
The room is cozy when I switch on a few lamps. Oma, from her spot on the couch, sits across from an antique wooden cabinet boasting twenty-two photographs of cats — my cats, my mom's cats, my sister's cats, my cousin's cats, anonymous greeting card cats. "I looove my toeteladis," she says. I wonder how I might memorize the sound of her elongated O's, the beguiling and particular sing-song of her accent when she's feeling good.
I finish off a McFlurry with M&Ms, and pour a glass of Chardonnay. We marvel at the globularity of Pat Sajak's head, and move on to discuss the merits of the early-evening cocktail. "My father was suspicious of a man who wouldn't have a drink," Oma says. "We should be having this with a little hapje, a little cheese and bread."
"And salami," I add, and we both take a sip. The chardonnay is extra-sweet paired with the aftertaste of soft-serve.
"When I was young it seems like we were always drinking and eating," she says. "Before your evening drink you had tea, with cake, and before that lunch. And you had your wine with dinner."
"The meals must have been so long," I say.
Oma scratches the top of Tootie's head. "Oh yes," she says, nodding, "and then you had your coffee afterwards of course, and always your dessert."
We are quiet for a few moments now, she with her numbered recollections, me gathering them up into my own reveries, of fine, languid dinners in the Far East. Alzheimer's takes often, and seldom gives. Today was a gift.
Couple on Beach by Alex Colville
Part Two
Hedwig Village, where I grew up in Houston, is not in fact a village.
It is .9 square miles of flat, wooded neighborhood, set among three other similar and indistinguishable "villages." Oma lives in Piney Point Village. I went to elementary school in Bunker Hill Village. My mother used to teach in Hunter's Creek Village. I ride my bike to Oma's house through these "villages" and note, in the eight years I've lived away, how little has changed. The woman two doors over still stands in place on her front lawn, watering the St. Augustine and peddling gossip. Teenagers in jacked-up F-150s still run the stop sign outside our house. The parking lot of St. Cecilia Catholic Church down the block remains dutifully at capacity on Sunday morning.
These villages comprise a community where good ol' boys with questionable Enron ties share property lines with gray-beards in khaki jumpsuits, where quiet modernist gems….
… are leveled in favor of monuments to the marriage of new money and poor taste.
This is not the neighborhood to which Oma and my grandfather, Opa, moved in 1954. This is a place made vulgar by lack of nuance. Oma's modest brick house, once one of many modest brick houses on a shady cul-de-sac, will soon be sandwiched by towering faux-Tuscan boxes. She reconciles this notion of progress by shaking her head rhetorically when she opens the door for me, "What are they doing out there?" she says.
Today she is confused. "What day is it?" she asks. "I'm such a zombie. I'm so mad at myself."
Mornings tend to be this way. She sits on the couch, leans forward, rubs her temples, scolds herself. "I'm so vervalant," she says. Loosely translated as "ornery," vervalant is a word Oma uses often to make light of her situation. Watching her, I see that she understands her mind is losing hold of things that she knows, even at her age, she should remember. Beyond this, I'm not sure what she makes of it. I imagine the Proustian disorientation of waking up in an unfamiliar room, believing it at first to be familiar. The fog of sleeping too late. But for Oma the room rearranges itself only the slightest bit, the fogs lifts but leaves behind a mist. In the mornings, she doesn't want to move, she doesn't want to speak. If I ask how she slept, or what she ate for breakfast, she waves her hand and sighs, "Past history."
We listen to audio her parents sent from Holland to Houston in the fifties, back when long-distance phone calls were glamorous. The tapes were a way for them to hear one another's voices without the expense. My great-grandmother, Over-Oma we call her, sounds far away on the recording, in time and distance. She speaks Dutch, laughs, asks questions of my young mother in English; her voice is kind.
Though she has listened to these tapes before, Oma seems astonished to hear her mother's voice. "My mother!" she says, "So sweet." My great-grandfather, Over-Opa, takes his turn on the tape. I barely understand a word, but his low voice is magic. Oma's brother, Bert, tells a funny story. These are the voices oldest and most familiar to Oma, and we are in the room with them. "It makes me sad," she says. But she doesn't want to turn it off.
Over-Oma begins to play Chopin. The song is muffled and haunting, a waltz. "I still see her playing," Oma says, running her fingers over a ghost piano. Oma is saddened by these memories, but she is also momentarily pulled from the stress of forgetting. Do these years seem closer to her than the present? The saddest and strangest part is that the future, with its necessity for context and pattern, is lost. I move forward, and Oma is thrust back. I close my eyes and see her suspended over a great funnel, growing darker as it narrows. I reach for her hand, and pull her out just in time.
It's early afternoon now. Jeopardy! isn't on for a couple of hours. The Houston Chronicle is dreadful reading. Oma wants to sit. But even in this mood, she'll talk about the war. She will always talk about the war.
February 5, 1941: Oma's first love, Fritz, is shot down at 19 in the Battle of Singapore. His framed photograph hangs in her kitchen. March 9, 1942: the Dutch surrender the islands to the Japanese.
Oma and the family fill a chest with valuables and bury it beneath the garage. Bert goes on a bike ride one afternoon and doesn't return home. Shortly after, Over-Opa is taken away by Japanese soldiers. Both he and Bert are sent to work camps; it will be four years before Oma and her mother see them again. Over-Oma sends secret letters, rolled up inside bars of soap, until the Japanese cut off communication. Japanese officials move into the house, and she and her mother are sent to cordoned-off housing for Dutch women.
Battle of the Java Sea
The stories are not glad until after the war, when she meets Opa, a pilot in the Dutch Air Force. We stare at a picture of the two of them, walking arm-in-arm in Sydney. Oma touches the photo, in love with him. He is striking. "So handsome!" she exclaims. She wishes I could have known him, and I do too. I tell her what scattered memories I do have, of him throwing a beachball to me in the backyard, of him, after he got sick, shuffling across her living room in a plaid robe and a pair of slippers with sailboats on the top.
Oma and Opa
To this day, Oma puts cotton balls in her ears during thunderstorms, dreams of the war. If she loses these memories, I worry that she'll lose herself. When I think of the possibility that she'll lose Opa, I stop short. Tom Cruise is on Oprah now, so the conversation turns to Oma's devoted crush on Paul Newman, our mutual soft-spot for blue eyes, and boys in general. "Don't make them jealous," Oma says, then raises her shoulders. "Well, maybe a little bit." We conclude that Tom Cruise, while cute in Risky Business, is no Robert Redford.
And yes.
Later, as I'm leaving, she lets me ring the big bronze dinner bell by her front door, a treasure unearthed from beneath her childhood garage. On the ride home, I pass beneath old oaks and razed lots where I remember old oaks to have been. The woman two doors down is pulling into her driveway when I get home, and I think of the time she called my mother after a thunderstorm. The power had been out for a few hours. "What is going on here?" she said, angry. "It's like we're living in a third-world country."
chilly scenes of winter
"Real Love" (acoustic) – John Lennon (mp3)
"Honky Tonkin'" – Hank Williams, Sr. (mp3)]
"Pale Blue Eyes" – Lou Reed (mp3)
"Always Returning" – Brian Eno (mp3)
Oma and Opa
She doesn't realize it, but Oma has lost her sense of smell.
It's another cruel twist of this disease, that its sufferers should lose the most eloquent trigger of memory, scent. It is the sense that cannot be conjured and evades description; when it is inaccessible, it is gone. Oma can no longer verify whether the musty aroma lingering in the spines of her old books is her childhood home. Or her first home with Opa. Or something else entirely. I wish I had asked her sooner.
Oma, age 10
There's cinnamon and damp wood and lavender in the spine of "The Soul of the White Ant," by Eugene M. Marais, her mother's favorite book. This was Over-Oma's copy, published June 3, 1937, a study of South African termites. Oma, dressed today in a pretty turquoise house dress, tells me that her mother was fascinated by small insects, particularly ants and termites. I remind her that as I child I wanted to be an entomologist studying weird bugs in the rainforest. We laugh because it's ridiculous, the thought of me as any sort of scientist.
I read aloud to Oma from the first chapter, "The Beginnings of a Termitary":
The functioning of the community or group-psyche of the termitary is just as wonderful and mysterious to a human being, with a very different kind of psyche, as telepathy or other functions of the human mind which border on the supernatural. When one wishes to write of all these wonders, one is bewildered by the embarrass de richesses. It's hard to know where to begin.
Oma smiles; she is listening.
The beginning of a termitary dates from the moment when the termites fly, after rain and usually at dusk, in order to escape their innumerable enemies. Even here we see a remarkable instance of the wonders of instinct. The termites beginning their thrilling flight know nothing about enemies. They have never been outside the nest before. The peril of existence is to them a closed book, and yet nine times out of ten they do not fly until the birds are safely in their nests.
Perhaps Alzheimer's is similar, in reverse. The individual, with time, shedding gradations of self, until what's left must function on feeling and impulse alone. The body becoming a vessel to the inchoate mind.
Oma perks up in the evenings. Where she used to fret, she is almost blithe. Oma, whose dreams were always vivid recollections of the war, of long-ago conversations, of Opa, now has nightmares which wake her shaking; the past wailing at the door, fists beating, locked out. Still, she suspects only that she is getting old. It's an especially insidious disease that devours a mind without revealing itself to the very mind it's devouring. Or an especially merciful one.
Oma in her can-can costume
I make Oma a peanut butter and honey sandwich, and suggest that we play hangman, another classic in our repertoire of word games. Oma guesses my word, "California," almost immediately. Then she gives me a phrase, four words, punctuated with a question mark. It takes her some time to count out each letter. Before I know it, my man is hanging hopelessly from the gallows. We're laughing because Oma keeps forgetting letters and I keep getting confused. Finally, I give up and watch as she fills in the blanks, one by one, in her disciplined print:
I don't know what to do, so I say of course I'm your granddaughter! My tone is bright but my heart is breaking. It's difficult to accept that she's asking me this question in earnest. I know she has asked my mother similar questions, but here now, with her, I am not prepared. She recognizes that I am familiar, that my mother is familiar, but the context is clouded. She cannot place our parts in the play. I want to ask her, if she isn't sure I'm her granddaughter, who does she think I might be? I won't ask, though, as it would only confuse her more. She looks at the page with an absent smile, gestures as if to indicate that of course she knows I'm her granddaughter, and we move on, back to the present.
I tell her I'm going to see La Bohème tonight, one of Opa's favorite operas.
"Oh yes," she says. "I've seen it many times."
Opa's favorite was Tosca," I say. She told me this a few years ago.
"Oh he loved it," she says. "Every Saturday morning he played it so loud, all through the house!"
I have a collection of random memories here: Oma picking me up from elementary school, her gold bracelets clinking against the plastic Fairmont steering wheel. The brown vinyl sunglasses case which hung from her keychain, tapping the steering column as she made a turn. The symphony or opera playing low on her radio, and the muffled male voices of NPR. I remember thinking that whatever those men were saying wouldn't pertain to me for a very long time. Oma is wearing the same gold bracelets today.
She asks me if I'm going to the opera alone. I say yes, and she doesn't like this at all. I assure her that I'll be careful in the parking garage, and as I'm leaving, promise to call her at intermission.
"Etude in C Minor Op. 10 #12″ – Chopin (mp3)
"Can't You Hear My Heartbeat" – Herman's Hermits (mp3)
"San Antonio Rose" – Patsy Cline (mp3)
Splendor in the humidity
Of the (limited) pleasures Houston has to offer, including New York-quality ballet and opera companies, The Menil Collection, a house made entirely of beer cans, and ethereal fried chicken, driving from the Westside to downtown along Memorial Drive counts among them.
The route, which cuts through the largest (and what feels like the only) park in the city, is especially pleasing when travelled in my father's 1984 300D Turbo Diesel Mercedes sedan. One would not guess, rounding the bend at Buffalo Bayou and glimpsing the skyline, that Houston is a city without zoning restrictions. If one were to continue past downtown however, this fact would immediately reveal itself. Downtown, as seen from Memorial Drive, is H-Town's most flattering angle.
Oma in the Vega
The opera is beautiful; I imagine Oma listening to the proverbial O soave fanciulla, with her family in Holland, with Opa in this very theater.
Oh lovely girl, oh sweet face bathed in the soft moonlight. I see you in a dream, I'd dream forever!
When I call during intermission she sounds sleepy and content, genuinely excited that I'm at the opera. She asks again that I call her afterward; she wants to know I'm home safely.
It's unsurprising that observing Alzheimer's from the outside augments one's own awareness of memory. Peering into the orchestra pit, I recall Oma taking me to see The Nutcracker. It occurs to me that A Passage to India is her favorite book, and that I haven't read it. Driving home, down a street near her house which a few years ago endured a prolonged overhaul, I think of Oma joking about the big orange sign on the sidewalk: 'Slow Men At Work'. I pour a late-night bowl of cereal, and remember the way Oma, when she was staying with us, would take all the cereal boxes out of the pantry in the morning and place them on the kitchen table. I glance at the mail and think of the letters, into the hundreds, that we exchanged when I was in college. She always told me to throw them out, but I've kept every one.
"I've been meaning to write," she says to me often these days, "but I just keep forgetting."
"It's okay," I say, "I keep forgetting too."
Oma and Yvonne
A part of me is glad she hasn't written. I broke down reading her last letter, about a year ago, right after she was diagnosed. Oma, always the clever poet, wrote in uncharacteristically wavering cursive:
Dearest Yvonne, I am not good at writing notes. (Maybe I wrote you already?) My mind is kaput. I feel I just wrote to you. Help me out! What day is it? March 12? You are taking care of yourself? I read your article! I write so sloppy- old age. Mommy is taking good care of me all the time. Don't worry. Don't work too hard – I know I wrote this already! Tell me if I am losing it? Sweet hugs & thoughts & kisses for all, especially you.
Love, Oma
I cried because I sensed the first tremor of the coming avalanche, and because I understood the best we could do was brace ourselves and hold her close to cushion the fall.
Peripheral reminders are everywhere. A block of Post-it notes invokes memories of marathon scavenger hunts at Oma's house. I see an advertisement for a bridal store on television, and realize I've never asked her about her wedding. These reminders are not piercing because they're nostalgic; they are piercing because they come with the knowledge that for Oma, they are dropping away. There's insufficient time. We remember, and she forgets, we remember, and she forgets; a devastating and infuriating stasis. If only I could scream at this disease and scare it off, I would gather the memories to make her whole again. I cannot conceive of what it's like for my mother, her heroic caretaker.
It's 12:45 A.M, and I'm brushing my teeth when the phone rings. It startles me to see her name on the caller ID this late.
"Yvonne!" she says.
"Are you okay?" I ask. "Why are you awake?"
"You said you would call me," she says. "I've been waiting for you to call."
Hours ago, when I called my mother, she told me she'd just talked to Oma, and that she was settled in for the night.
"I'm so sorry Oma," I say. "I thought you were asleep."
I'd assumed she had forgotten.
"Noooo," she says, her voice clear. "You said you would call when you got home."
In the melody of that wonderful extended O, stern and sweet, I hear her unmistakably. My grandmother. I hold on tight.
Yvonne Puig is the contributing editor to This Recording. She also writes at It Was Evening All Afternoon. She is a writer living in Austin, Texas; her work has appeared in Anthem, The Austin Chronicle, The Austin American-Statesman, GOOD Magazine, Metromix and Variety.
"All Mixed Up" – Red House Painters (mp3)
"The Past and The Pending" – The Shins (mp3)
"Handguns and Firearms" – Japancakes (mp3)
"Stars" – Bobby McFerrin and Yo-Yo Ma (mp3)
"Stand By Me" – Ben E. King (mp3)
"Trike" – U-ziq (mp3)
"Tenderly" – Lester Young, Bill Evans, Art Tatum (mp3)
"Be Mine" – The Concretes (mp3)
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The Oklahoma Community Orchestra celebrates the holidays Dec. 11 at Oklahoma Christian University. OCO's concert will feature two traditional orchestral pieces in the first half, as well as holiday selections in the second half.
This second concert of OCO's 29th season will include Mendelssohn's Scherzo from Midsummer Night's Dream and Symphony #8 (Unfinished) by Schubert.
Oklahoma Christian music professor John Fletcher will conduct the concert, which will include guest artist Boulevard Brass. The new quintet is based out of Norman, Okla., and has quickly earned a reputation as an exceptional chamber ensemble. Dedicated to advancing the art of brass chamber music, Boulevard Brass hopes to expand quintet repertoire with new arrangements and original pieces by trumpet player and composer, Mervin Tay.
"We really like the energy that Boulevard Brass brings to their performances and thought they would be an excellent addition to our annual Christmas concert," Fletcher said. "Of course, the first half of our program will feature classical orchestral pieces, too, so it will be a great evening of music."
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in Hardeman Auditorium on the Oklahoma Christian campus. Tickets are $8 online at www.okorchestra.org or $10 at the door. For more information call 425-1990.
The OCO consists of musicians in the greater Oklahoma City area that seek to promote the performing arts and provide quality performances of symphonic literature at a nominal charge to the community. Approximately 75 musicians perform in the orchestra and most performances are at Oklahoma Christian. Support for performances have been provided, in part, by the Oklahoma Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information, visit www.okorchestra.org.
The OCO has been the "orchestra-in-residence" at Oklahoma Christian since 1995. Several Oklahoma Christian students, alumni and faculty perform in the orchestra. Oklahoma Christian provides the rehearsal space, concert halls, stage manager services and related concert expenses, and also allows the orchestra use of the school's percussion instruments, chairs, stands, risers and shells without charge.


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|Candace Parker repaid her coaches' faith in her, picking up a 17-point, 16-rebound double-double
Turning Point: CCC Polkowice worked hard to drag themselves back into the contest at 44-38, having been 16 points behind. But, they only managed five points during the next 12 minutes either side of the third and fourth quarter break as UMMC eased to victory.
Game Hero: Candace Parker finished with 17 points on seven-of-ten of floor shooting and also added 13 rebounds in a performance typical of her fine form in the competition this season.
Stats Don't Lie: Valeriya Musina, Belinda Snell and Agnieszka Majewska were an eye-watering four-of-24 combined from the field and that killed CCC Polkowice as they finished shooting below 30% as a team.
Host club UMMC Ekaterinburg extended their unbeaten home record with a 68-45 victory against CCC Polkowice to get off to a winning start at the EuroLeague Women Final Eight.
Even if the favourites did not click into top gear offensively, UMMC head coach Olaf Lange was left delighted with his teams' defensive effort.
He insisted, "I think our defence was exceptional tonight.
"I have tremendous respect for CCC Polkowice as a team and I think to hold them to just 45 points on a night when we turned the ball over, was the foundation for the win."
"I am very happy with the result and especially because we didn't play in the play-offs."
He added, "It took us a little while to get started and we didn't shoot the ball well or have our usual offensive flow, but all things considered, we are happy with this first game which is always difficult."
Candace Parker repaid the faith they placed in her by giving her priority over Sue Bird by producing a game-winning display on opening night.
The forward was flying right from the tip-off, opening up with the first six points of the contest and making six of her first seven attempts to get Ekat rolling.
They led 21-14 after the first period and then put the defensive squeeze on CCC Polkowice who laboured in the second quarter and failed to reach double-digits.
They didn't score during the last couple of minutes leading up to the half-time break and following a three-pointer by Anete Jekabsone, Parker finished the scoring for Ekat to underline their supremacy and her excellent individual work at 35-22.
When they returned to the court, Polkowice looked almost dead and buried at 39-23, but a three-ball by Laia Palau kept their feint hopes alive by sparking a 12-2 renaissance.
But, just when the Polish side looked like they might potentially cause a surprise, UMMC exploded and finished the game with a 20-6 final quarter as Polkowice ran out of gas.
The icing on the cake for Ekat came when Russian legend Maria Stepanova scored in the final moments ahead of Polish center Ewelina Kobryn sinking a basket on the final buzzer.


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text: Track history: Bristol Motor Speedway (BMS) was built after Larry Carrier and Carl Moore saw a race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1960. They wanted to build a smaller version of CMS in Tennessee and decided on a half-mile oval. Work began on a former dairy farm in 1960 and a year later the speedway was born with 22 degree banking in the turns. 18,000 fans attended the first NASCAR race at BMS in 1961. The track was reshaped in 1969 with the turns banked at 36 degrees. After the reshaping it became a 0.533-mile oval.In August of 1992 the track was resurfaced from the original asphalt to become the first speedway to host a NASCAR Cup event on a concrete surface. In March 2007, right after the Food City 500, a multimillion-dollar project of removing and replacing the concrete racing surface, asphalt apron, pit road and all the retaining walls around the track was started. Conditions do not change during a race because concrete isn't as sensitive to weather changes like an asphalt paved track.In 2012, between the March and August races, BMS went through a milling process to remove the progressive banking that was put in place in the 2007 resurfacing. The purpose was to eliminate the third upper groove and bring the field back down to a close racing two-groove track.Since the straightaways are only 650 feet long on the 0.533-mile oval, the drivers are constantly braking, turning and accelerating which makes for a demanding race. The key to passing at Bristol is to be at the bottom in the turns and getting a good run off the corners. That's why race setup is critical at this track.Track Quick Facts (courtesy NASCAR Media):Last five winners: Denny Hamlin 8/25/12, Brad Keselowski 3/18/12, Brad Keselowski 8/27/11, Kyle Busch 3/20/11 and Kyle Busch 8/21/10.First Cup start here (Active drivers): AJ Allmendinger 3/25/07, Regan Smith 3/25/07 and Terry Cook 3/21/10.First Cup pole: Steve Park 3/26/00, Jeff Green 8/25/01 and Joey Logano 3/21/10.First Cup win: Elliott Sadler 3/25/01 and Kurt Busch 3/24/02.July 30, 1961: Fred Lorenzen started the No. 28 Holman-Moody 1961 Ford on the pole for the Volunteer 500, the first Bristol Cup race. He made it through 175 laps of the 500 lap event before losing the rear end and finished 33rd. Jack Smith, who started 12th in his own No. 46 Pontiac, led the most laps (243) and earned $3,025 for the inaugural BMS victory.March 18, 2012: Brad Keselowski won the Food City 500 from a fifth place start. It was the No. 2 Dodge driver's first victory and second top-10 finish in 2012. It was his second consecutive victory and second top-10 finish in five races at Bristol. Drivers leading 10 or more laps: Pole-sitter, No. 16 Greg Biffle 41 laps, finished 13th; No. 17 Matt Kenseth 45 laps, finished second; No. 22 AJ Allmendinger 54 laps, finished 17th; No. 55 Brian Vickers 125 laps, finished fifth and Race-winner Keselowski led the most (232 of 500 laps).August 25, 2012: Denny Hamlin won the IRWIN Tools Night Race, from an eighth place start. It was the No. 11 Toyota driver's third victory and 12th top-10 finish in 2012 and his first victory in 14 races at Bristol. Drivers leading 25 or more laps: No. 17 Matt Kenseth 25 laps, finished 25th; Pole-sitter No. 13 Casey Mears 26 laps, finished 21st; No. 16 Greg Biffle 41 laps, finished 19th; No. 5 Kasey Kahne 42 laps, finished ninth; No. 56 Martin Truex Jr. 44 laps, finished 11th; No. 99 Carl Edwards 45 laps, finished 22nd; No. 48 Jimmie Johnson 52 laps, finished second; Race-winner Hamlin led 70 laps and No. 20 Joey Logano led the most laps (139 of 500) and finished eighth.Fantasy games won't allow you to pick all track favorites so Mid-Pack Attack is here to help. A mid-packer may not win the race but has as good a shot at a top 20 finish as track favorites Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth and Brad Keselowski. There were 44 cars on the preliminary entry list for this weekend's Cup race. Here are our picks for Sunday's Food City 500 in Bristol, Tennessee.Mid-Pack picksIn the 2012 Food City 500, Brian Vickers made the first of eight starts in his shared ride at Michael Waltrip Racing. He led 125 laps and finished in fifth place. The summer night race at BMS was also on his schedule; he finished fourth. In 16 Sprint Cup starts at Bristol, his average finish of 22.1 is not great but the Nationwide Series full-timer has been very successful driving a part-time Cup schedule. He had five top-10 finishes in his eight 2012 starts. Vickers might have had another; the engine exploded on the first lap of his start at Watkins Glen International. It impressed MWR enough to sign him for nine 2013 races, including all six Bristol, Martinsville and Loudon short track events. Find a spot for the No. 55 Toyota this week.Joey Logano earned his first-career pole at Bristol in 2010 and became the youngest pole winner in Sprint Cup Series history. In eight Cup starts here, his average start is a 9.4 but his average finish is the same as Vickers (22.1). Logano improved that some to a 12.3 for his last three trips to the "World's Fastest Half Mile". As noted above, he led the most laps (139 of 500) and finished eighth in the August 2012 night race. He has also logged one win and six top-10s in eight Nationwide Series races at this track. All of his BMS history came from his former rides at Joe Gibbs Racing but he seems to be adapting well to the Penske Racing No. 22 Ford Fusion. Logano is worth looking at for a top 20 or better on Sunday.Marcos Ambrose has built an impressive short-track record. In eight Cup starts at Bristol, he has a 16.5 average finish. In his first start at the track, the 2009 Food City 500, he qualified 13th, ran as high as second, drove the last 50 laps on seven cylinders and still managed a 10th place finish. His best two finishes were a third in August 2009 and a fifth in August 2012. Ambrose is ranked near the top in NASCAR Statistics loop data "Quality Passes" category. He passed cars 223 times (more than 1/2 of his total green-flag passes for those races) while running in the top-15. He also spent close to 60% of the time running in the top-15. This is a good week to put the aggressive driver on your team.Our deepest pick for a top-20 or better at Bristol is Jeff Burton. He knows where victory lane is at the track. He picked up a Nationwide Series win here in 1997 and a Sprint Cup victory in the 2008 Food City 500. What has he done lately? Prior to the August 2012 night race, Burton's worst finish over the previous seven Cup races at Bristol was a 20th place. In those races, he scored three top-tens including a sixth in the March 2012 Food City 500. Back to August 2012; he qualified sixth and was running around 15th to 17th when he got collected in "someone else's" (Montoya and Newman) wreck. After repairs he brought the No. 31 Chevrolet home in 33rd place. 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The normal skull consists of several plates of bone that are separated by sutures. The sutures (fibrous joints) are found between the bony plates in the head. As the infant grows and develops, the sutures close and the bones fuse together, forming a solid piece of bone, called the skull.
Craniosynostosis is a condition in which the sutures close too early, causing problems with normal brain and skull growth. Premature closure of the sutures may also cause the pressure inside of the head to increase and the skull or facial bones to change from a normal, symmetrical appearance.
Craniosynostosis occurs in one out of 2,000 live births and affects males slightly more often than females.
Craniosynostosis is most often sporadic (occurs by chance). In some families, craniosynostosis is inherited in one of two ways:
Craniosynostosis is a feature of many different genetic syndromes that have a variety of inheritance patterns and chances for future children, depending on the specific syndrome present. It is important for the child as well as family members to be examined carefully for signs of a syndromic cause (inherited genetic disorder) of craniosynostosis such as limb defects, ear abnormalities, or cardiovascular malformations.
There are numerous types of craniosynostosis. Different names are given to the various types, depending on which suture, or sutures, are involved, including the following:
In infants with this condition, changes in the shape of the head and face may be noticeable and are generally the first and only symptom. The appearance of the child's face may not be the same when compared to the other side. Another sign is small or absent fontanelle. Less commonly, synostosis can cause increased pressure within the skull. This is especially true when multiple cranial sutures are fused prematurely. Symptoms of increased pressure in the skull include:
The symptoms of craniosynostosis may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always consult your child's doctor for a diagnosis.
Craniosynostosis may be congenital (present at birth) or may be observed later, during a physical examination. The diagnosis is made after a thorough physical examination and after diagnostic testing. During the examination, your child's doctor will obtain a complete prenatal and birth history of your child. He or she may ask if there is a family history of craniosynostosis or other head or face abnormalities. Your child's doctor may also ask about developmental milestones since craniosynostosis can be associated with other developmental delay. Developmental delays may require further medical follow-up for underlying problems.
During the examination, a measurement of the circumference of your child's head is taken and plotted on a graph to identify normal and abnormal ranges.
Diagnostic tests that may be performed to confirm the diagnosis of craniosynostosis include:
Specific treatment for craniosynostosis will be determined by your child's doctor based on:
Surgery is typically the recommended treatment, unless the cause is deformational/positional. The goal of treatment is to correct the deformities of the face and skull bones. Less commonly, surgery is needed to decrease pressure within the skull.
The optimal time to perform surgery is before the child is 1 year of age since the bones are still very soft, have not fused at other sutures, and are easy to work with. Surgery may be necessary at a much earlier age depending on the severity of the condition. Because blood loss can be an issue in this type of surgery, surgery is often delayed in the very young child to allow some growth and development and a greater blood volume. Most procedures are done between 3 and 8 months of age.
Before surgery, your child's doctor will explain the operation and may review "before and after" photographs of children who may have had a similar type of surgery.
Following the operation, it is common for the child to have a turban-like dressing around his or her head. The face and eyelids may be quite swollen, and even swollen shut, after this type of surgery. The child is typically transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) after the operation for close monitoring.
Problems after surgery may occur suddenly or over a period of time. The child may experience any or all of the following complications:
These complications require prompt evaluation by your child's surgeon. The health care team educates the family after surgery on how to best care for their child at home, and outlines specific problems that require immediate medical attention.
The key to treating craniosynostosis is early detection and treatment. Some forms of craniosynostosis can affect the brain and development of a child. The degree of the problems is dependent on the severity of the craniosynostosis, the number of sutures that are fused, and the presence of brain or other organ system problems that could affect the child.
Genetic counseling may be recommended by the doctor to evaluate the parents of the child for any hereditary disorders that may tend to run in families.
A child with craniosynostosis requires frequent medical evaluations to ensure that the skull, facial bones, and brain are developing normally. The medical team works with the child's family to provide education and guidance to improve the health and well-being of the child.
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