CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Robin Freedman’s ThermoSuit Featured by NBC News

    A few years ago, Alexandria doctor (and a neighbor of mine), Dr. Robin Freedman, came up with a simple and brilliant idea. While thinking about the ability of people to survive extreme hypothermia for prolonged periods of time without sustaining any brain damage, Dr. Freedman, a cardiologist, wondered whether or not inducing hypothermia could increase survival rates for people suffering a heart attack. He developed and created the ThermoSuit, a full-body cocoon that rapidly cools the body temperature of people undergoing cardiac arrest. Today, the ThemoSuit is being piloted at a number of hospitals, including Oshners in New Orleans, and…

  • Liveblogging the Election Results on DailyKingfish

    For up to the minute results, analysis, and total speculation, visit The Daily Kingfish.

  • The Wisdom of the New Library

    With all due respect to the men and women who decided to invest our taxpayer dollars in order to construct a $1.5 million library in an upper-class subdivision with a population of less than 800 people (with the excuse of replacing a centrally-located library that served many subdivisions), WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? Photo: The Town Talk Let’s all get this straight: They are going to close and abandon the current (and unfortunately named) Fuhrer branch, which is located on Parliament Drive in between multiple neighborhoods and which serves more than 10,000 residents, in favor of a constructing, from the ground-up,…