Medicine.tamhsc.edu Review:
TAMHSC College of Medicine - The mission of the College of Medicine is to improve the health and well-being of the people of Texas through excellence in education, research and health care delivery.
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- Alja Isakovic - An excellent overview of contextual technologyThe book guides your through different areas of life where contextual technologies will change the way we live and work with a lot of practical examples. Even as somebody who follows the tech closely, I found several exciting new technologies and companies I wasn't yet aware of. I also appreciated the behind the scenes info from various companies in the field. A must read if you want to get a feeling of what's in store for us in the next 5 years or so.
- Richie Partington "Richie's Picks" - Richie's Picks: Counting by 7sMeet twelve year-old black, bespectacled, self-aware genius and gardener Willow Chase, who is obsessed with the number 7; obsessed with studying and observing medical conditions, and obsessed with plants. Not long into the story, Willow is suddenly thrown out of the Garden when her white adoptive parents die in a horrific car accident.
Leading up to the accident, Willow has, herself, been following a collision course that begins with being referred by her school principal to a counselor named Dell Duke, this being the result of the principal's determination that Willow has cheated on a State standardized test. (She completed the test in 17 minutes and was the only student in the State to answer every question correctly, which might provide a clue as to why she hasn't been at all engaged with middle school, other than as a silent observer of bizarre behaviors.)
Counselor Dell Duke (who categorizes the students he works with as THE STRANGE, MISFITS, ODDBALLS, and LONE WOLVES), quickly learns that he needs a whole new category for this young woman. And in the wake of Willow's second loss of parents in her short life (having already been adopted the first time), it will be counselor Dell Duke; plus one of the other students he works with named Nguyen Quang-ha; plus Quang-ha's sister Nguyen Thi Mai; plus Quang-ha and Mai's mother Pattie; plus a taxi driver named Jairo Hernandez; who will affect and be affected by this amazing girl.
COUNTING BY 7s reminds me of BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE because of the way that Willow is saved from going to the pound (being thrown into The System) by unlikely heroine Pattie Nguyen (Quang-ha and Mai's mother), the Vietnamese immigrant proprietress of a nail salon. Like India Opal Buloni's decision in the moment to lie about the stray dog and claim ownership, Pattie lies about her relationship to Willow, who she's just met, and this sets the stage for a profound and moving story in which a whole group of idiosyncratic characters are brought together, find family and community, and have their lives enriched and changed forever by this amazing genius of a girl.
"I pulled my wheeled luggage to the cab door and leaned in through the open window as I said: 'I would like the number of your taxi license and to see proof of your compliance with brake and headlight adjustment requirements.'
"The driver's name was Jairo Hernandez, and he had been driving for Mexicano Taxi for seven years."
I particularly love how taxi driver Jairo Hernandez virtually hits the lottery again and again for having randomly and so fortunately encountered Willow on that first taxi ride.
(And I love how what comes around goes around.)
COUNTING BY 7s also makes me think of Natalie Merchant singing of people struggling and fighting for the simple pleasures in their lives. This is a tale of at-risk kids and at-risk adults, and it makes it that much sweeter to see what comes to them all because of Willow Chase.
One final note: The cover of COUNTING BY 7s, in which a bright red fish is seen swimming again a large school of nondescript fish, is notable, engaging, and perfect for what is contained in these 384 pages that had me swimming right along with Willow from beginning to end.
A big-time middle school read. - P. Flindt - Works fineBeen using Quicken since the early 90s for tracking accounts, investments and overall financial planning. An OS upgrade forced me to sunset my older version of Quicken and replace with the latest version. I was reluctant to upgrade based upon all the negative comments here but upgrade went well; after two months of use I see none of the problems mentioned here.