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Brandon Webster Lighting Designer/Stage Manager
Starting in 1999 Brandon Webster began providing Lighting designs and stage managment services to the touring and theatrical industry. After being approached by Len Paul (Soma San Diego) in late 2002 regarding a collaberation of efforts to produce a full scale concert venue catering to the youth market in San Diego his career path changed dramaticly. Public acclaim was first realized with the production of "Switchfoot Live in San Diego" by Encintias California crossover rock bands first full length video perfomance was released under his lighting direction. In the years following he found himself giving lighting direction to such notable acts as: The Used Yellowcard Social Distortion Static-X (lighting designerr/stage manager "wikipedia-Cannibal") Ill Nino 10 Years Affliction Banned 2008 Gigantour Megadeth

Irma Elsa Gonzalez
Judge Gonzalez is a longtime judge in the U. S. District Court, Southern District of California. She was the first Mexican-American female federal judge. She was nominated by George H.W. Bush on April 9, 1992, to a seat vacated by J. Lawrence Irving. The U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination on August 11, 1992. She has served as the chief judge of the Southern District of California from 2005 until the present. Prior to her service as a District Court Judge, Chief Judge Gonzalez served as a United States Magistrate Judge from 1984 until 1991.

Education: Stanford University, B.A., 1970.

University of Arizona College of Law, J.D., 1973 http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj

Professional Career: Law clerk, Hon. William C. Frey, U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 1973-1975 Assistant U.S. attorney, Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney's Office, Arizona, 1975-1979 Trial attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Los Angeles, California, 1979 Assistant U.S. attorney, Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California, 1979-1981 Private practice, San Diego, California, 1981-1984 Judge, California Superior Court, San Diego County, 1991-1992 http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj

Rot Fai park + Rotfai park + Wachirabenchatat park + State Railway public park

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M. James Lorenz
Born 1935 in Pasadena, CA

The Honorable M. James Lorenz is a United States District Judge in the Southern District of California. President William J. Clinton nominated Judge Lorenz to his post on March 8, 1999. Judge Lorenz filled a seat vacated by Judge Rudi M. Brewster. The United States Senate confirmed Judge Lorenz's appointment on October 1, 1999.

Education: University of California at Berkeley, B.A., 1957. Judge Lorenz was the quarterback for the Cal football team in 1956.

California Western School of Law, J.D., 1965.

Professional Career: Deputy district attorney, San Diego County District Attorney's Office, CA, 1966-1978. Judge Lorenz worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of California, from 1978 to 1981. After his governmental service, Judge Lorenz worked as an attorney in private practice from 1982 until 1999.

Moe Carlson
Moe Carlson has been the drummer/percussionist for the popular Canadian metalcore band Protest the Hero since their formation in 1999.

Lauren Hashian
Lauren Hashian is the daughter of Sib Hashian, a drummer who was a member of the rock band Boston during their classic lineup. Hashian graduated from Lynnfield High School in Lynnfield, Massachusetts.

Hashian was a finalist on R U The Girl.

Hashian has been reported to be dating Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

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North-South Freeway

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Brown Freeway

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Throat Lumps
The problem of discoloured lumps towards the rear of ones throat is commonly known as Throat Lumps, or the medical term "swollen asophy"

The most common symptons of the disease are a small black lump inside the mouth towards the throat, with others involving sore muscles, losing the ability to swallow without experencing pain and in severe cases moodswings and abnormal behaviour. The latter symptons are encountered towards the eye (most extreme) stage of the illness, due to the swelling impacting upon a vital nerve that connects directly to the temporal lobe of the left side of the brain.

Once the disease has reached this stage it is impossible to tell it apart from a simple viral infection, the biological blood markers are identical to the common cold, as well as most other minor viral illnesses. From this stage the disease gets progessively worse as it begins to eat away at the bodys respitory system causing coughing and flem build up.

Over the last 200 years there have been hundreds of cases of "swollen asophy" reported with only 15% of cases proving fatal. Treatment includes large amounts of penicillin and supplemented with an anti-oxidant like green tea you would be well on your way to recovery.

The condition is caused by excessive amounts of oral sex and foreign chemicals in the body (i.e drugs, alcohol, semen).

Anybody who contracts this disease should consult a doctor immediately.

Dave Newton
David Newton, assistant manager of Truro City FC, rejoined the club at the end of the 2007/08 season following the resignation of Dave Leonard. Dave has played for many clubs during his career, including Sheffield Wednesday. He is currently coaching the first team with former Welsh striker Sean McCarthy as manager.

Ahli United Bank (AUB)
Ahli United Bank BSC (AUB) is a full fledged commercial and investment banking group providing wealth management, retail, corporate, treasury, offshore and private banking services. The Group's businesses consist of the operations in Bahrain, a wholly owned subsidiary in the UK and associates in Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Egypt and Iraq. In Kuwait, AUB has an effective holding of 75% in the Bank of Kuwait and The Middle East while in Qatar, AUB has a 40% stake in Ahli Bank QSC. In Oman, AUB has a 35% stake in Ahli Bank SAOG while in Iraq AUB has a 49% stake in the Commercial Bank of Iraq. In Egypt, AUB, its associate banks and other Gulf financial institutions together hold an 89.3% stake in Ahli United Bank SAE. Apart from these banks, AUB has a nominal stake of 75% in KMEFIC, a brokerage, asset management and corporate finance company based in Kuwait with operations around the Arabian Gulf. Overall, the AUB Group, through its subsidiaries and associates, operates through a network of 93 branch offices and employs over 3,000 people.

AUB’s stated mission is to create an unrivalled ability to meet customer needs, provide fulfillment and development for staff and to deliver outstanding shareholder value. AUB’s strategy is to expand through both organic growth and acquisition in order to act as a ‘multifaceted financial bridge’ between the international financial markets and its Gulf clients. It has sought to establish an operating presence in each of the Pan-GCC countries with a targeted 10% - 20% market share. To this end, AUB continues to develop and invest to increase its ability to acquire new businesses and rapidly integrate them with the bank’s systems. This development has helped accelerate progress in the delivery of financial services and penetration into targeted geographical markets.

The business area strategies are geared to achieve stable and sustainable income growth, operational competitiveness, a higher quality of service, maximum cost efficiencies and greater risk assessment capabilities.

Clearly the bank’s strategic direction has yielded excellent results. AUB has continued, over the past four years, to show a solid increase in revenues and assets together with a substantial reduction in its cost-income ratio over the past four years. Some of the highlights of the bank’s performance have been:

In 2007, AUB registered strong financial progress with net profit growing by 42.8% and total assets growing by 10.6% year on year. This growth was underpinned with very solid capital adequacy and liquidity ratios. Despite the cost inflationary pressures prevailing in the region, the Bank was able to improve the cost to income ratio down to 35.8% (2006: 39.8%) using judicious cost management approach and continuing streamlining in the processes. Solid performance across all the bank’s activities have contributed to this result and reflect the progress made in developing business lines despite the competitive market environment.

2007, was also marked by an increasing external recognition of AUB’s financial performance and risk profile. AUB received a long-term investment grade rating of A - (stable) from Standard & Poor and Fitch and an A (Stable) rating from Capital Intelligence. AUB was selected Best Bank 2007 – Middle East by Global Finance. The Bank was also awarded Best Bank 2007 – Middle East by Global Finance and Euromoney. In 2006, AUB was awarded Best Bank in the Middle East & Africa by Global Finance and Bank of the Year 2006 – Middle East by The Banker. It is also interesting to note that AUB’s shares are currently the most actively traded stock on the Bahrain Stock Exchange and one of the largest in terms of market capitalisation.

Going forward, AUB will continue to pursue new growth opportunities while remaining focused on strict cost and risk management, thereby maximising shareholder value.

Staying alive in year 5
Staying alive in year five is a children's chapter book written by John Marsden It is about this new teacher that comes to an year 5 class, everyone thinks thats he is just plain and boring like all other teachers, but the students soon find out that he is not the normal teacher and the class is then taken into an adventure.

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[Courtesy blank 3] was born in Finland. She auditioned and got accepted into a specialized class in her elementary school dedicated to musically talented children. At school she studied musical theater starting from the age of 9. Outside the school she was competing in Rhytmics Gymnastics in a team with 7 other girls of her age. They competed and performed in several national and international events and competitions. She loved theater but Gymnastivs Rhytmics was her passion. While she spent years of training and competing in Gymnastics, she also completed a teacher's certificate to start teaching Gymnastics Rhytmics for children under the age of 7 and started working with them for couple of years. At the age of 16, she auditioned and got accepted into a professional dance group in Finland called the Step Up Dancers which led her into modeling. Her first professional pictures were taken at that time. After spending time in Paris and Milan she finally moved to New York to study acting at the William Esper Studio and started concentrating on her acting career. Today she has appeared in numerous TV commercials, including a billboard in Time Square for Emerson Electronics, as well as in several independent films and TV parts. While modeling and living in Europe she got her masters degree in business

socket file
A socket file is a special computer file on a UNIX system that is used for network communication. Its size is zero.

Some network related software uses sockets. One example is mysql, as can be seen with ls: [root@LAMP /var/lib/mysql]# ls -l *.sock srwxrwxrwx 1 mysql mysql 0 aug 5 14:31 mysqlmanager.sock srwxrwxrwx 1 mysql mysql 0 aug 5 14:31 mysql.sock

Animal Dog
An Animal Dog is a type of dog that is pure animal. Usually wild and ferocious, animal dog's love to use their feet to dig. Since there legs are stronger than there arms these beast are considered very intellingent.

Beagle Board
The Beagle Board is a Single-board computer product produced by Texas Instruments in association with Digi-Key designed with open source developement in mind, and to demonstrate Texas Instrument's OMAP3530 chipset.

The low power and small size make it suitable for some embedded applications, whilst the chipset has sufficient power to run a full windowed operating system supporting web-browsing etc.

The board was developed by a small team of TI engineers.

Features
The Beagle Board measures approximately 3" by 3" and has all the functionality of a basic computer. The CPU is a ARM8 Cortex derived chipset with additional DSP functionality added, and is capable of 2D and 3D acceleration via OpenGL 2.0. Video ouput is S-Video or DVI-D, analogue audio ouput and input is via stereo 3.5mm jacks. Addtional connectivity supported include SD/MMC cards, USB 2.0 (either as host or slave), RS-232, and J-TAG connections.

The board uses up to 2W power and can be run from an USB connection, or a separate power supply, because of the low power consumption the board is fanless and heatsink-less.

On board memory is 128MB RAM and 256MB flash storage.

Specifications

 * Package on Package POP CPU/Memory chip.
 * Processor TI OMAP3530 Processor - 600MHz ARM A8 Cortex core
 * 'HD capable' TMS320C64x+ core (75MHz upto 720p @30fps)
 * PowerVR based Imagination SGX 2D/3D graphics processor supporting dual independent displays
 * 128MB LPDDR RAM memory
 * 256MB NAND Flash memory
 * Peripheral connections
 * DVI-D, S-Video, USB2.0 OTG (mini A), SD/MMC card slot
 * Stereo in and out jack plug sockets
 * RS232 port
 * JTAG connections
 * Power socket (5V barrel connector type)


 * Developement
 * Boot code store in ROM
 * Boots from NAND memory, SD/MMC, USB, or Serial
 * Alternative Boot source button.
 * Has been demonstrated using Angstrom Linux, as well as Ubuntu and Maemo distributions

Similar products

 * Nvidia Tegra Sytem on a chip shows similar functionality to the Beagle Board including ARM processor, GPU/DSP(Video), and USB built in
 * Pandora (console) uses the same Texas Instruments OMAP 3530 chipset

Links

 * Beagleboard.org
 * OMAP35x Applications Processors
 * Texas Instruments OMAP Developer Network
 * Google Code hosted Beagle Board code site
 * Link to set of Beagle Board introductory videos (You tube)

The 1866 DuPont U.S. Silver Dollar
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The 1866 DuPont Silver Dollar is so named because one of the two known to exist is owned by the duPont family. One was stolen from the private collection of the Willis duPont family estate in Coconut Grove, Florida. Willis is the youngest heir of the Lammot duPont fortune. The DuPont Dollar was stolen from their home in 1967 and recovered 37 years later in 2004. These two silver dollar coins and three other lower denomination coins are notable because they were secretly minted especially for Robert Coulton Davis, a wealthy Philadelphia druggist and coin collector. There are rumors of why Davis had the coins minted this way and how he could have had them secretly made for him by the U.S. Mint. Apparently Davis supplied the U.S. Mint workers with Opium to mint 5 coins, all with the coins' famous motto "In God We Trust" removed from the face. The possibilities of why he wanted "In God We Trust" removed from the coins, range from his wanting to use his influence to create unique collectors rarities to his involvement in Satanism. The DuPont Silver Dollar has consistently been named as one of the top 10 rarest U.S. coins. The DuPont Silver Dollar has been estimated to be valued at over $3 million U.S. dollars.

Michael Uhl
Vietnam Veteran Antiwar Activist/Writer

Michael Uhl, Vietnam veteran antiwar activist, critic and independent scholar, born April 14, 1944, grew up in Babylon, Long Island, New York. He graduated with a BS in Theoretical Linguists from the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown University. He spent his undergraduate junior year at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in American Studies and Writing (Creative Non-fiction) from the Union Institute and University.

In the Army, Uhl received training at the Infantry Officers School, Ft. Benning, GA and the elite Counter Intelligence School, Ft. Holabird, MD. He served in Vietnam during 1968-69 as a first lieutenant, where he led a combat intelligence team with the 11th Infantry Bde. After Vietnam, Uhl entered a doctoral program in linguistics at New York University, and became immediately involved in the antiwar movement, joining the New York City based Citizens Commission of Inquiry on U.S. War Crimes in Vietnam (CCI) as a full time organizer. He helped organize the National Veteran Inquiry and the Winter Soldier Investigation. In 1970, Uhl testified at the International Enquiry on US War Crimes in Stockholm, Sweden, and in 1971, he was called to testify before a US Congressional subcommittee investigating the CIA’s Phoenix assassination program in Vietnam. Also in 1971 he toured Australia and New Zealand as a representative of the US anti-Vietnam War movement. That same year he co-founded The Safe Return Amnesty Committee advocating for a universal amnesty on behalf of Vietnam era military deserters. Safe Return was a predecessor of Citizen Soldier, which he also co-founded, and, until 1981, served as co-director, working on a wide range of campaigns advocating for GI and veteran rights. He co-authored the first book length treatment on the health effects of chemical herbicides (Agent Orange) on U.S. veterans of the Vietnam War.

He is a Charter Member of [Veterans For Peace http://vfpmaine.org/] founded in Maine, where he moved with his family in the mid-1980s. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors of [Veterans For Peace http://veteransforpeace.org/], and is editor of the organization’s national newsletter. Uhl has worked primarily as a writer, and has taught often in universities and colleges in New York City and throughout Maine as Adjunct Professor of Writing.

Publications

Michael Uhl’s essay, “The Chosen: Some Notes on Being a Veteran in American,” appears in Peace Not Terror (Lexington Books, 2008). He is the author of Vietnam Awakening: My Journey from Combat to the Citizens Commission of Inquiry on US War Crimes ([McFarland http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/], 2007), and co-author of G.I. Guinea Pigs: How the Pentagon Exposed Our Troops to Dangers Greater Than War (Playboy, 1980). He is co-editor of The Dellums Committee Hearings on War Crimes in Vietnam (Vintage, 1972). Uhl’s poetry appears in the volumes Winning Hearts and Minds and Demilitarized Zones. As a travel writer he authored Exploring Maine on Country Roads and Byways (Clarkson Potter, 1989) and four Frommer’s Guides, including Frommer’s Brazil and Frommer’s Chicago. He has written scores of articles and book reviews for Geo Magazine, Forbes, House Beautiful, Travel & Leisure, The Progressive, [The Nation http://www.thenation.com/], The Sunday Boston Globe, Radical America, The Old Westbury Review, In These Times, Peacework, Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, Antiwar.com, among others.

Film

With Richard Schmiechen, Uhl wrote and co-produced the short documentary film, Nick Mazucco: Biography of an Atomic Vet, on a grant from the Public Broadcasting Corporation.

Introduction
Martin Lambert is a retired ex-junior international footballer who played at Brighton football club in the years 1983-1985 and had a playing career lasting until 1994 when he retired due to injury.

Birth and Childhood
Martin was born in Southampton, England 24th September 1965, and was raised in the Lords Hill area of the Town. He attended Millbrook School where he was captain of the school's football teams. He also represented Southampton, Hampshire, South of England, and England at schoolboy level.

Professional Career
Martin's professional career included spells at.... Brighton. Torquay. Volendam (NEL). Union (BEL). CS Sedan (FRA) and finally Wycombe Wanderers. During his career he scored over two hundred goals in eleven years.

He played for the England right up to the youth squad earning a grand amount of 25 caps for his country.

TatukGIS
TatukGIS is a GIS software company based in Gdynia, Poland that produces final user applications and software development tools for GIS developers that are used in over 50 countries. These products are the TatukGIS Developer Kernel, GIS Internet Server, GIS Editor, and free GIS Viewer.

The TatukGIS Developer Kernel is a software development toolkit (SDK) which is provided as four, separate product editions: i) a manageable .NET component for use with C# and VB.NET development languages, ii) an ActiveX control for use with VB, VB.NET, C# and other ActiveX compatible development languages, iii) a Delphi/C++Builder VCL use with Delphi or C++Builder languages, and iv) a .NET Compact Framework component for the development of applications for Windows Pocket PC computing devices which use the Windows Mobile or Compact Edition operating system.

The TatukGIS Editor and TatukGIS Viewer are Windows desktop applications. The TatukGIS Viewer is provided as a free product.

The TatukGIS Internet Server is an ASP.NET Windows server for presenting GIS mapping projects interactively via the web.

TatukGIS products directly support most commonly used GIS/CAD and image formats, such as SHP, E00, TAB, MIF, DXF, DGN, GML, KML, TIFF, MrSID, ECW, JPEG2000, etc. and several map data formats which depend on the use of databases, such as OpenGIS SQL layers, Geomedia SQL Server, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, Personal Geodatabase, ArcSDE, and Oracle Spatial/Locator.

Infinite Power Solutions
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Battlefield Parkway

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Coastal Highway (Georgia)

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Pancoran Mas
Pancoran Mas is Indonesia oldest nature reserve. It is a small reserve (6 ha), sometimes like in it is also called nature reserve Depok. Pictures and map of the nature reserve you will find here:  

The condition of the reserve is not good, but still very valuable. A list oft plants (mainly trees), which Cam Webb from the Arnold Arboretum have found is here:

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Rachel Axler
Rachel Axler is an American comedy writer and playwright. Since 2005, she has been a staff writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, for which she received a Primetime Emmy award. After 3 1/2 years, she is leaving The Daily Show to join the writing team of the upcoming Greg Daniels/Mike Schur/Amy Poehler television show on NBC.

As a playwright, she is a 2008 O'Neill Fellow, and author of the play Smudge.

Redmire United F.C
The current club of ex-footballer Mark Summerbell

International Legal Networks
International legal networks developed in the early 1980s to provide vetted qualified lawyers in hundreds of locations for companies, governments, trade associations and individuals doing business cross-border. Multinational law firms generally provide legal services only in major economic centers. Today’s most reputable legal networks conduct peer audits of member firms and provide continuing legal education for lawyers in developing markets. Members are indigenous business lawyers who are fluent in the native languages, laws, rules, regulations, and customs of their own jurisdiction, and are broadly educated and experienced in working with domestic and global clients. A requirement of English fluency is normal, as it is the common language of cross-border business transactions.

One of the oldest leading legal network is Interlaw Ltd., founded in London in 1982 as an international association of independent, quality-monitored, full-service commercial law firms in 120 cities worldwide. Member law firms include associates and partners who have earned law degrees in their own country as well as advanced legal degrees (LLM, JSD) from distinguished law schools in North America and/or United Kingdom. Other well-regarded legal networks include Meritas, Lex Mundi, and TerraLex, as well as a number of networks that focus on one practice area of law, such as IP or Tax.

Boat on the River (song)
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"Boat on the River" is a single release from Styx's 1979 triple-platinum album Cornerstone. The track was penned by Tommy Shaw.

Category:1979 songs Category:Styx songs

Charite-Total replacement surgery
Pain is an everyday occurrence to millions of people. They wake up aching and go to sleep feeling discomfort. Luckily, medicine is improving and growing every day. Doctors are discovering new ways to reduce pain and better a person’s body and lifestyle. Surgeries are available to replace joints all over the body. The most common joint replacement surgeries are for the knees and hips. Surgeons can also use fusion to remove the joints and replace them with either metal or plastic joints. This lowers pain levels, but also restricts movement. Back pain is also one of the many discomforts people go through every day. Spinal fusion is the usual treatment for people with lumbar degenerative disc disease, but just like the fusion surgeries used for knees and hips, this surgery restricts the patient’s movements. Charité, an artificial disc developed at the Charité University Hospital in the mid 1980’s, is one of the new surgeries used to ease back and spinal pain. They replace the spinal discs with an exact replica of an actual disc. This new type of surgery is dangerous yet successful, allowing the patient full recovery with better movement and no pain. This type of surgery is ground breaking; it can cure pain, improve movement, and is easier to recover from. Total replacement surgery, Charité, is better than fusion surgeries because it increases movement and lessens pain. The Charité Artificial Disc was created by Professor Karin Buttner-Janz and Professor Kurt Schellnack in Berlin, Germany. The disc was created sometime in the 1980s and was FDA approved in October of 2004. At first this surgery was only available in a limited amount of countries. In March of 2000, the United States did its first implantation of the disc. They performed several studies at the Texas Back Institute and implanted a total of 267 discs before approving the new surgery. Since then few Americans have had the opportunity to experience this surgery due to high expense. One problem with this surgery is few insurance companies are willing to cover the cost. As of October of 2005, only 110 insurance companies covered this surgery. During an interview, Dr. Lee Nelson stated there are ways to get around this obstacle. Your doctor must prove that you have DDD (Degenerative Disc Disease) at a single level between L4 and S1. You also may make appeals and get authorization from your doctor that can help influence your insurance company. There are people who at this time will not qualify for this surgery; people with osteoporosis, osteopenia, bony lumbar stenosis, and pars defect. Almost all insurance companies cover fusion surgeries. Fusion surgery is one of the accepted standards to improve or eliminate joint pain. Patients can get almost any joint fused. The two most popular of these surgeries are for hips and knees. During the surgery for a knee, the surgeon cuts off the ends of both the femur and the tibia and fuses them together creating one long bone. Of course pins, plates, and screws are used to hold the bones in place and together. Knee fusion is only used when total knee replacement fails. This surgery also obviously restricts the knee’s flexibility, but provides the patient with the ability to bear more weight on his or her knees. During a hip fusion, the surgeon fuses both the pelvic bone and the femur together. This eliminates all movement of the hip. A big problem with this surgery is that patients will eventually have to have another surgery to replace the hip. This surgery is more a temporary fix until it is necessary to have a hip replacement. One type of fusion surgery is spinal; it can reduce back pain but limits a patient. This surgery is used to stop pain on degenerative joints. Surgeons take two bones that would normally be separated by a joint and fuse them together, allowing one bone to form, this is called arthrodesis. Spinal fusion has been used for the past forty years and continually advances. During this surgery bone graft is used to join two or more vertebrae together, when the patient has healed they have one solid piece of bone in their back. Bone graft can be taken off of bones in other joints such as the hip, which then may cause future problems. One recent advance in fusion surgery is Healos. This is a bone graft replacement technology that prevents further surgeries. Many bone graft replacements are taken from licensed tissue banks or they used manufactured synthetic material that copies an actual human bone. There are two types of spinal fusion. Posterolateral fusion places bone graft between the transverse processes in the back of the spine. The vertebrae are then fixed in place with screws and wired to a metal rod placed on each side of the spine. Interbody fusion places the bone graft between the vertebrae. During this surgery the disc is removed entirely. This disc is then replaced by a device to maintain spine alignment and height. The intervertebral device is made out of either plastic or titanium and the fusion occurs at the endplates. One other big difference between spinal fusion and Charité is during surgery patients who get spinal fusion lay on their stomachs causing water to rush to their face and causing discomfort after surgery. During artificial disc replacement surgery the patient is lying on their back and the incision is made above their belly button.

Matthew Tata
Mattew Tata was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but grew up in northern New York State. He completed a B.Sc. in Environmental Systems Technology at Cornell University. Matt then completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. There Matthew worked with Dr.Debbie Giaschi, and his Ph.D. supervisor, Dr. Lawrence Ward. During his studies at UBC, Matthew focused on auditory and visual perception, as well as the neuroscience of attention. Matt came to the University of Lethbridge as a post-doctoral fellow where he worked with Dr. Robert Sutherland. However, Matt soon became faculty, and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Lethbridge. He is part of the Human EEG Lab at the CCBN, and his research interests include visual and auditory sensory systems, perception, attention and disorders of attention including ADD and fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).

Matt is also classical guitarist, and a member of a bluegrass band. He even attended the Berklee College of Music for a semester after finishing his undergraduate degree at Cornell.

Awards
While at UBC Matthew was award a graduate teaching award for the 2001/2002 school year.

Publications
Tata, M. S., Mason, A.L, & Sutherland R.J. (2007). Attention modulates responses to motion reversals in human visual cortex. Neuroreport, 18(13), 1361-1365.

Tata, M. S. & Ward, L. M. (2005). Early phase of spatial mismatch negativity is localized to a posterior “Where” Auditory Pathway. Experimental Brain Re-search, 167(3), 481 – 486.

Tata, M. S. & Ward, L. M. (2005). Spatial Attention Modulates Activity in a Posterior “Where” Auditory Pathway. Neuropsychologia, 43(4), 509 – 516.

Tata, M. S. & Giaschi, D. E. (2004). Warning: Attending to a mask may be hazardous to your perception. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11(2), 262 – 268.

Prime, D. J., Tata, M. S., & Ward, L. M. (2003) Event-related potential evidence for at-tentional inhibition of return in audition. Neuroreport, 14(3), 393 – 397.

Giaschi, D. E., Jan J. E., Bjornson, B., Young, S. A., Tata, M. S., Lyons, C. J., Good, W. V., Wong, P. K. H. (2003). Conscious visual abilities in a patient with early bilateral oc-cipital damage. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. 45, 772-781.

Tata, M. S. (2002). Attend to it now or lose it forever: Selective attention, metacontrast masking, and object substitution. Perception & Psychophysics, 64(7), 1028-1038.

Tata, M. S., Prime, D. J., McDonald, J. J., & Ward, L. M. (2001). Transient spatial atten-tion modulates distinct components of the auditory ERP. Neuroreport. 12(17), 3679-3682.