Defibrillators

“I could see myself doing that in a small town.”Prior to moving to Jacksonville, Sorensen spent two seasons with the St.

Louis Rams.

His former teammates in St.

Louis would get together once a week and play basketball against local high schools to help raise money.

He is doing the same with the Jaguars.

“I just want to promote community involvement wherever you are,” Sorensen said.

“I want people to realize that wherever I am is where I want to help people out.

If everyone involves themselves in other people’s lives, we don’t need the government’s help.

We are more efficient and we care more.

Those are just my beliefs.”Helping a valuable cause is the goal of the game, not to make anyone look bad on the basketball court.“It’s not about the score,” Sorensen said.

“It’s more Harlem Globetrotters than it is competition.

We don’t want anyone getting hurt.Sorensen was also shocked to learn of the tragedy at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.

on Monday.

He was a four-year letterman on the Hokies football team from 1997-2000 and graduated with a degree in marketing.“It really wasn’t about where it was,” Sorensen said.

“People...

Paul, Minnesota-based company also raised its forecast for the second quarter and full year, calling for earnings per share between 42 cents and 44 cents, and $1.72 to $1.77, respectively.

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Jude, whose shares advanced 5 percent to a two-month high in morning trade, said first-quarter profit rose to $145.7 million, or 41 cents per share, from $137.1 million, or 36 cents per share, a year earlier.

The analysts' average earnings forecast was 40 cents per share, according to Reuters Estimates.

The medical device maker, the second-largest manufacturer of ICDs after Medtronic Inc.

(MDT.N: Quote, Profile , Research), said net sales rose 13 percent to $887 million in the quarter from $784 million a year ago, helped by foreign currency translations.

Sales of ICDs, implantable devices that monitor and correct dangerously rapid heartbeats, rose 15 percent to $302 million.

Sales of the devices have slowed industrywide in recent quarters following high-profile product recalls and deaths linked to them.

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