| Coast native dreams of NHL
Despite growing up in the Deep South, Gulfport native Jody Green, 23, has amassed a great deal of professional hockey experience. The Sea Wolves signed Green last Wednesday to serve as backup goalie, marking his third time with Mississippi. He's previously played with the Louisiana Ice Gators and the Peoria Rivermen of the AHL. Green, who graduated on Dec. 15 from Louisiana-Lafayette with a bachelor of science in athletic training, began his hockey career during the Sea Wolves inaugural season in 1996, helping with equipment in the visiting clubhouse. He began playing goalie competitively both on the ice and in in-line hockey at the Harrison County Skate Park that same year. "I really enjoy being around the game," Green said. "I was able to learn a lot at an early age being around in the early years of the Sea Wolves." After graduating from Gulfport High School in 2002, Green enrolled at Louisiana-Lafayette and began working for the Louisiana Ice Gators during that span.
How to determine the strength of a foodborne illness claim
William Marler is the managing partner of Marler Clark LLP, PS. Since 1993, Mr. Marler has represented thousands of persons who have become ill with E. coli, Salmonella, Hepatitis A, Listeria, Shigella, Campylobacter or Norovirus illnesses in over thirty states. As a trial lawyer, Mr. Marler has been involved in several cases of national importance. He represented a nine-year-old girl in her $15.6 million E. coli settlement with Jack-in-the-Box. This settlement created a Washington State record for an individual personal injury action. Mr. Marler resolved several other Jack-in-the-Box E. coli cases for more than $2.5 million each. In May of 1998, Mr. Marler settled claims on behalf of the families of several children who were severely injured after consuming E. coli O157:H7-contaminated Odwalla apple juice for a reported $12 million.
That looks like fun
Simple things are always better," Knerr told me two years ago, when I interviewed him for an Ideas story about how his toys compared with today's top-selling educational playthings. (Knerr was nearly 80 at the time, but told me, "mentally, I'm still about 15.") But while much has been said about the elegance of Wham-O's iconic product line, Knerr was more modest about his company's other great innovation. Long before the term "viral marketing" came to be, decades before anyone thought of hanging lights on bridges to promote a cartoon to hipsters, Knerr and Melin understood the power of word of mouth. The joys of a Wham-O product, after all, weren't always easy to describe. But kids quickly latched onto a concrete demonstration. When it came to the Superball, "all you had to do was bounce one," Knerr recalled, "and every kid that could see it wanted one." Knerr and Melin worked hard to find that sort of product, and they took ideas from everywhere.
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For instance, a drug such as Depakote, approved originally as an adult anti-seizure medication, is now also used to combat bipolar disorder in children, even though it has not been widely tested as a safe bipolar remedy for youngsters. The drug has been linked to liver failure in children younger than 2 and fetal abnormalities in pregnant women. Large clinical tests of children are uncommon, said Dr. Dianne Murphy, who heads FDA's office of pediatric therapeutics. "The fundamental underpinning of a trial is that the person who is participating does so at their own volition with the full comprehension of what they're doing." This makes ethical clinical testing of children difficult, she said.
Even within Monroe County, opinions vary about which medications can be used.
Fred's Failure
I don't want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas." Has Rove accidentally ripped the mask off the vicious social inegalitarianism of Bush's immigration plan, as Mark Krikorian argues, or does a more benign interpretation of his comments save him? It's not like he hasn't said this sort of thing before, apparently. Indeed, his June, 2006 version makes the probable context of last week's remark quite clear--and Rove's not simply "saying that every parent wants their child to have a high-skilled, high-wage job," as the White House's damage control suggests. Here's the 2006 pitch: "Now frankly," Rove said during a riff on the temporary worker part of President Bush's immigration reform plan, "I don't want my kid digging ditches. I don't want my kid slinging tar.
Big guns eyeing Toffee's Lescott
Lescott has been in fine form for Everton this season and this has not gone unnoticed. The 25-year-old has also broken into the England squad this season and his versatility at the back will certainly increase his potential value and interest. Both Arsene Wenger and Alex Ferguson have both been reported to have scouted the defender in recent weeks and with the transfer window coming to a close this Thursday both could put a firm bid on the table to test the Toffee's resolve. David Moyes has made it clear he would not be looking to sell any of his star players but a bid of significent value could well tempt him and the lure of Champions League football could well prove too much for Lescott to turn down. .
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