| Obama Wins South Carolina Open Thread
Exit polls are saying that Barack Obama won big today in South Carolina, taking more than 80 percent of the black vote. Maybe more important, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards are battling for second place. How might this change the nomination picture, and what does this say about the race card the Clintons have injected into the campaign? .
Protecting the core of life
For starters, Mater Dei is a hospital thats designed to accommodate all the specialities that modern medicine requires.
St Lukes was built in the early 1940s and only catered for general medicine and surgeries. Now we have so many sub-specialities that require their own niche in a hospital.
Cardiology did not start as a department until 1995 and all the cardiac bits were placed in different parts over the hospital. We were shoe-horned into a place that wasnt designed for us.
With regard to Mater Dei, we were consulted from day one as how we wanted our department laid out so we are very proud of it as we had an input in its design.
Its one of the nicest hospitals Ive ever worked in.
Thats as far as the hospital is concerned.
4 Charged in String of Bank Robberies
McPherson Church Road was robbed at about 1 p.m. Wednesday, and the RBC Centura branch at 2897 Village Drive was held up about 90 minutes later, police said. The McPherson Church Road branch also was robbed on Dec. 18, and a First Citizens Bank branch at 3604 Ramsey St. was robbed on Dec. 27, police said. McFayden and Deregt were charged in all four robberies, while Figueredo was charged in the First Citizens robbery and the two Wednesday hold-ups and Seidel was charged in the two Wednesday robberies, police said. No one was injured in any of the robberies. Police didn't indicate whether a weapon was used in any of the incidents. An officer spotted a vehicle matching the description of one seen leaving the second robbery Wednesday and arrested all four men during a traffic stop on Blount Street near Robeson Street, police said.
Stop Chasing High-Tech Cheaters
Opening up The New York Times last week, I stumbled across an article that outraged me. "Colleges Chase as Cheats Shift to Higher Tech" detailed the struggle of some academics against new, high-tech forms of "cheating" that are based in Internet use, iPods, cellphones, and PocketPCs. The tone of the article was one of dismay at the collapse of morality in education. As I watched the article climb the "most e-mailed list" on the Times Web site through the day, my outrage increased. .
High schools expand concussion playbook
It was early in the third quarter when two defenders converged on the Cherry Hill High School West football player, sending him flat onto his back. The junior fullback quickly bounced up and handed the ball to the referee. "Right after the play, my head hurt," Banecker said. "I walked to the sidelines, and my head felt fine again, so I kept playing." His mother, Loretta, cringed in the stands at Winslow Township High School and told her husband, Frank Sr., that she thought their son was hurt. Her husband shrugged it off, and their son finished the game. It wasn't until that night, when he pushed aside his favorite pasta dish and went to bed at 9:30 p.m., that his father agreed that something was wrong. Banecker had suffered a mild concussion with delayed symptoms.
Top Sports Scientists To Speak At WINTEC
Dr. Kevin Tipton, senior lecturer in Exercise Metabolism in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at The University of Birmingham is to speak at Wintec's School of Sport & Exercise Science at the Avalon Drive Campus in Hamilton on Monday 12, November 2007 12:00 - 2:00pm. The presentation is free to those in the industry and to the public. Formerly Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, his research focuses on exercise, nutrition and muscle metabolism in humans with emphasis on protein nutrition and metabolism. .
Weight-loss operation can send diabetics into remission
Having tried most methods (including low carb) to deal with weight loss, I found the surgery was more effective. Shortly after the surgery my health improved and I had significantly fewer visits to my doctor. Sadly it was only temporary fix with VBG. I may be dealing with a different set of issues now but I know that bariatric surgery is effective in treating the disease and other symptoms of obesity. Posted 24/01/08 at 8:39 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
The Ron Paul "Surge"
Paul says "Both Jefferson and Washington warned us about entangling ourselves in the affairs of other nations. Today, we have troops in 130 countries. We are spread so thin that we have too few troops defending America. And now, there are new calls for a draft of our young men and women...We can continue to fund and fight no-win police actions around the globe, or we can refocus on securing America and bring the troops home. No war should ever be fought without a declaration of war voted upon by the Congress, as required by the Constitution (OK, so far, so good. I can agree with just about all of that). The last sentence, however, puzzles me because Congress DID vote to authorize the War in Iraq. The real issue was the lying President who sold Congress on a phony idea (WMD's in the hands of Saddam).
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