| Joining An ELITE Team
After the participants graduate from ELITE, they will start interviewing for one of 200 part time jobs available to them. Brent Wheeler says they're not trying to reach students who are already successful, but those who need a little motivation. "They don't show a specific path, people don't know in general with these kids, if they're going backwards or forwards but we know their potential, then it's going to be our job to pull that potential out of them and send them down the right path." Last year- the first year for the program- there were 58 graduates. This year, group leaders are expecting about 200 students to finish the program. .
Coastal Post Online
Olema with its three way blinking stop light serves as an unofficial gateway to West Marin. The warmth of another hearth and food prepared by someone else's loving hands have drawn twenty four grateful working women together for a knitting retreat and Beth Brown-Reinsel has come from Maryland to show us how to knit old style Fair Isle cardigans - with Steeks - an intimidating procedure of actually cutting through knitted stitches before rebinding them.
Fair Isle is one of the Shetland isles which lie north of mainland Scotland. In 700 A.D. the Vikings arrived and for the next six hundred plus years- one way or another - ruled and raided the Islands and mainland Scotland. Those Viking warriors brought their women, sheep, ponies and their knitting. The Island people still have an affinity to their Nordic ancestry, now interwoven with that of Scotland.
State's delegates move to McCain column
The odds are he (McCain) is our presumptive nominee. It is time to coalesce around one person. and McCain is that person." That left some delegates at the state convention disgruntled. Vincent Bruno of Metairie accused some delegates of "putting politics over principle" by abandoning Huckabee in favor of McCain. Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, who preferred actor and former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, said that when Thompson dropped out of the race, he shifted to McCain. "I wish Huckabee was (leading) at this point," said LaBruzzo, who represents a conservative area of East Jefferson. "He is not. My decision is based on beating Obama and Hillary. .¤.¤. It (the GOP nominee) is going to be McCain and we need to get behind him and defeat the greater of two evils, Hillary or Barack Obama." Michelle Gaudin, a New Orleans lawyer and supporter of Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who scored about 5 percent of the vote in last week's primary, tried to challenge the way Saturday's convention was called, saying it was not well publicized to all Republicans in the state who might have wanted to run for one of the 105 delegate slots at the meeting.
Arcapita sells TLC Health Care
American HomePatient to sell Florida business line [Nashville] OptimaCare Home Health sold to Louisiana firm [San Antonio] Jefferson County Patient Care Services sells to Amedisys [St. Louis] Arcapita acquires PODS [Atlanta] Arcapita making biggest U.S. asset-based investment [Atlanta] .
Ascension Orthopedics Closes $21 Million Financing and Recruits an ...
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascension Orthopedics, Inc., an emerging medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets joint replacement, trauma and tissue regeneration surgical implants for use in upper and lower extremities, announced today that it has secured $21 million in a Series D financing. This new round of funding will be used primarily to expand the current product line and enhance the Company's product marketing and distribution network. Leading this Series D financing as the majority investor is Frazier Healthcare Ventures, one of the nation's leading providers of venture and growth equity capital to emerging healthcare companies. Alan Frazier, General Partner and Founder of Frazier Healthcare Ventures will join Trevor Moody, General Partner of Frazier Healthcare, and Steven Tallman, Venture Partner of Frazier Healthcare on Ascension's Board of Directors.
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