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April 26, 2005
WALLA WALLA, Wash. - Arizona State moved into the lead at the Pacific-10 Conference Men's Golf Championships, Tuesday, after the third round of play at the par 71, 6,606-yard Walla Walla Country Club.
Arizona State jumped past second round leader UCLA after posting the lowest single-round team score of the tournament, a 6-under 349. The Sun Devils are ahead of UCLA by three strokes with a team score of 1,058 (-7).
The Sun Devils are led by senior Pat Moore, who is currently in first place individually, leading by four strokes with a score of 203 (-10). Moore, who won last week at the U.S. Intercollegiate, has held the lead at the Pac-10 Championships since holing a wedge during the second round from 65 yards on the par-4, 14th hole. The eagle propelled Moore into the lead and he has yet to relinquish it since.
"I finally broke through and won last week," said Moore. "I'm just really relaxed now and I've finally proved to myself I can win. I've played pretty solid this week, so hopefully I can do it again tomorrow."
The Sun Devils are looking to win their first Pac-10 team championship since 2000, when they won their record sixth consecutive team title.
"I would like to start another streak, and you can't start another streak without winning one," said Arizona State Head Coach Randy Lein. "That's what we're after."
The Bruins are the only other team under par, posting a three-round team score of 1,061 (-4). UCLA, the two-time defending NCAA West Regional Champions, are led by the play of freshman Kevin Chappell. Chappell is currently tied for fourth with a three-round total of 208 (-5).
The Bruins, who have four players in the top 25, head into Wednesday's final round looking to pass Arizona State and capture their second Pac-10 Championship in three years.
Freshman Rob Grube has catapulted the Stanford Cardinal from a tie for sixth to their current third place standing. Grube's third-round 5-under 66 is the lowest round of the tournament thus far, and has lifted him into a tie for second place.
"I hit the ball really well today," Grube said. "I hit almost every green and I hit it really close a lot. It was a pretty easy 66, I didn't have to make a lot of putts or anything."
University of Washington sophomore Erik Olson has also lifted himself into a tie for second place, shooting 68 (-3) Tuesday, and keeping the Huskies within two strokes of Stanford.
"Our team chances are good tomorrow," Olson said. "We're playing really well and everyone on our team is hitting it good."
Defending Pac-10 team champion Arizona also made a move up the leader board Tuesday, jumping from a tie for sixth place into fourth place. Defending Pac-10 individual champion Henry Liaw fired a 4-under 67, while senior Nathan Lashley fired a 3-under 68. Lashley is currently tied for fourth place with a 5-under 208, while Liaw, a sophomore, is tied for 28th with a 217 (+4).
"We need some help from the other teams," Liaw said. "I know it sounds bad, but we need some other teams to post some high numbers so we can get back in it and maybe make a run tomorrow like we did last year."
Four schools currently in sixth through ninth place are separated by only four strokes. Oregon is in sixth place with a three-round total of 1,081 (+16), California and Southern California are tied for seventh place with team scores of 1,082 (+17) and Washington State is in ninth with 1,083 (+18). Oregon State is in 10th with a score of 1,091 (+26) to round out the scoring at the tournament.
Pacific-10 Conference Championships
April 25-27, 2005
Walla Walla Country Club; Walla Walla, Wash.
Par 71, 6,606 yards
Results After Rounds 3 of 4
Team Results: 1. Arizona State (351-358-349--1058, -7), 2. UCLA (352-355-354--1061, -4), 3. Stanford (363-359-351--1073, +8), 4. Arizona (356-366-352--1074, +9), 5. Washington (371-353-351--1075, +10), 6. Oregon (369-357-355--1081, +16), T7. California (353-361-368--1082, +17), T7. Southern California (362-352-368--1082, +17), 9. Washington State (359-358-366--1083, +18), 10. Oregon State (363-366-362--1091, +26).
Top 10 Individuals: 1. Pat Moore, Arizona State (67-67-69--203, -10), T2. Rob Grube, Stanford (69-72-66--207, -6), T2. Erik Olson, Washington (70-69-68--207, -6), T4. Kevin Chappell, UCLA (67-70-71--208, -5), T4. Michael Jensen, California (69-68-71--208, -5), T4. Nathan Lashley, Arizona (68-72-68--208, -5), 7. Brandon Beck, California (69-69-72--210, -3), T8. Alejandro Canizares, Arizona State (71-69-71--211, -2), T8. Justin St. Clair, Oregon (70-72-69--211, -2), 10. John Poucher, UCLA (72-70-70--212, -1). WSU Notes:
Washington State freshman Jordan Mason and sophomore Kevin Chen are in the top 25 at the Pacific-10 Conference Men's Golf Championships, Tuesday, after three rounds at the par 71, 6,606-yard Walla Walla Country Club.
Mason is tied for 18th with a score of 215 (+2), while Chen is tied for 23rd with a 216 (+3).
The Cougars are in ninth place as a team, with a three-round total of 1,083 (+18). The Cougars are only 10 strokes back of third place Stanford.
Junior Ryan Witz and sophomore Chris Collins are not far back of the top 25. Witz is one stroke back with a 217 (+4), and Collins is two strokes back with a 218 (+5).
Redshirt junior David Fern is currently at 221 (+8) and redshirt sophomore Jordan Madison is at 222 (+9) to round out the scoring for the Cougars.


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(I also, by the way, learned the word for contact lens: It's lentille de contact, or verre.) I returned home with a certificate, suitable for framing, attesting to my perfect attendance at the Institut Linguistique Adenet; a temporarily improved French accent; my dense grammar book; and a souvenir wineglass. Those mementos are nice, but they're also, I think, beside the point. I went to France to learn more French, but what I really learned was more about who I am in my own skin. For two weeks I was just another student under the Montpellier sun. I struggled with the learning process—but I flourished in the realization that working to make myself understood and trying to understand others with improved clarity requires lifelong study, not just a couple of weeks or even a couple of years. I plan to continue my studies here at home, both in French and in life. And if one day I'm able to speak French as fluently as Jodie Foster does, well, that would take the gâteau, don't you think? ❦
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for Entertainment Weekly.
Montpellier how-tos
At the Institut Linguistique Adenet (ila-france.com), the standard course costs about $300 (∈225) a week. An "aparthotel" is ∈260 a week per person. Other comparable language schools include Institut Européen de Français (institut-europeen.com), LSF Montpellier (lsf.fr) and Accent Français (accentfrancais.com).
Air France has one-hour, 20-minute flights from Paris to Montpellier. There are also superfast TGV trains (raileurope.com). TaM operates two tram lines covering the historic city center. For a small-carbon-footprint experience, use the Hérault Transport bus system to visit the fishing villages and historic towns such as Gignac, with its vibrant Saturday market. And there is a bike-sharing system called Vélomagg. For information, visit the excellent Montpellier Tourism Office at ot-montpellier.fr.
Here are some of my favorite things: the Musée Fabre art collection; the Musée Languedocien, with its casually enchanting array of decorative arts; world-class chamber music at the Opéra Berlioz; a night of Gypsy-influenced accordion at a hole-in-the-wall on the edge of the funky, rough, ethnically mashed-up Figuerolles district. At the Jardin des Plantes, founded in 1593, I listened to breezes rattle a grove of bamboo trees. And at the Estivales de Montpellier, the Friday-night summertime block parties, I tasted the work of local vintners, sampled tapas and bobbed to the genial clash of competing pop bands.
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Sonic Trace's portable recording booth, La Burbuja (The Bubble) is built and ready to record your story at Guelaguetza Restaurant in L.A.'s Koreatown.
Come to 3014 West Olympic Boulevard Mondays-Thursdays, 12-6 p.m. thru December 6th to tell us your story inside La Burbuja.
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Dec. 31, 2011
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Alabama moved its final practice of the 2011 calendar year outside, the first outdoor practice since bowl preparations began on Dec. 19, to the Thomas-Drew Practice Facility and worked for two hours in shells.
The focus of the Crimson Tide's practice was special teams, which figures to play a key role in the Allstate BCS National Championship Game on Jan. 9 in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
"We went outside today in shells," Alabama head coach Nick Saban said. "This is about the nicest day we have had all year. One thing we really can't do well indoors is practicing the kicking game. The timing of catching punts relative to the punt return or kickoffs relative to the kick return or the coverage team trying to position themselves based on the punt is not possible to do indoors.
"We have been looking for a day to go out to work on that and today was the perfect day to do that. We were able to work on all aspects of the kicking game and spend about twice as much time on all phases of the kicking game, so it worked out very well that we could go outside and try to get some of that done."
Alabama will take New Year's Day off and then return to Tuscaloosa on Monday, Jan. 2, to meet and workout with practice resuming on Tuesday, Jan. 3. The Tide will then practice the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 4, before departing for New Orleans that afternoon.
"We have basically had a good couple weeks of work," Saban said. "We have gone through two cycles of practicing then giving the players a few days off, then going through four days of practice this week. The players will get tomorrow off then come back Monday and do a little stretch and stride meeting then go back to practice Tuesday and Wednesday morning before we travel down there. We need to continue to work and improve not only fundamentally but on how we are going to execute."
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Sept. 14, 2012
COLORADO SPRINGS -- Junior Marcelina Glab tallied career-highs of 13 kills and 12 blocks to lead the Washington State volleyball team (9-2) to a 25-14, 25-27, 25-23, 25-18 win over CSU Bakersfield (2-6) Friday night at the Air Force Academy Invitational tournament in Colorado Springs. This was the eighth consecutive win for the Cougars.
"After the first set I was saying, `welcome Marcelina Glab,'" Cougar Head Coach Jen Greeny said. "She was hitting over .800 (.857) but that is what we absolutely need and we've been waiting for Marce to play at this level. She hopefully took that as a challenge and came out and did a fantastic job tonight."
Glab, a 6-2 middle hitter from Watertown, South Dakota, hit an outstanding .524 to go with her career-high kills and blocks. Jaicee Harris also had 13 kills while Camryn Irwin put up 38 assists and tied her career-high of seven blocks. Rachel Todorovich added 11 kills and four blocks and Ver'Leea Hardaway chipped in five kills and six blocks. Kate Sommer led the team with 10 digs.
The CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners were led by Debora Araujo's 17 kills and 12 digs. Shayna Guitare added 12 kills and Kelsee Sawyer 10 kills. Julie Bowen led her team with five blocks while Sawyer and Molly O'Hagan each tallied four blocks. Lisa Bartsch led the match with three aces.
WSU out-blocked CSUB 18 to 9 and the Cougars, Pac-12 leaders in opponent hitting percentage, held the Roadrunners to a .058 hitting percentage.
"They (CSUB) are the epitome of a scrappy team and just when you think that ball is down its not and it's coming back over," Greeny said. "They have some feisty players and a feisty coaching staff as well. They are a never say die kind of team. For us to even hit .219 as a team, I'll definitely take that."
WSU won the first set easily in a score of 25-14 behind Glab's six kills and holding the Roadrunners to a -.032 team hitting percentage. CSU Bakersfield came back strong in the second set and took a 20-14 lead. The Cougars battled back to tie the set at 21 forcing CSUB to take a timeout. Bakersfield scored two quick points but WSU came back to knot the set at 23 and went to set point on a kill by Hardaway. A pair of kills by Sawyer put CSUB serving for set, 25-24 when Greeny took a timeout. Glab's kill tied the set up again at 25 but Sawyer landed an attack in the back row and then served an ace to give Bakersfield the 27-25 set win.
The Cougars took an early but slim lead in the third set and CSUB came back to tie the set at 15 and then go ahead on back-to-back aces by Bartsch. There were seven more ties in this set until a kill from Harris placed Sommer at the line serving for set. A block by Chelsey Bettinson and Glab gave WSU the 25-23 win.
WSU used a four-point run to take a 13-9 lead in the fourth set and never looked back as the Cougars grabbed the 25-18 win.
Saturday at 6 p.m. Washington State meets host team Air Force Academy (4-7 pending late Friday match vs. Norfolk State) to wrap up the non-conference part of the 2012 season.


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I would like first to thank the Royal Institute of International Affairs for giving me this unique opportunity to speak before your distinguished gathering about Saudi Arabia's Energy Industry.
In earlier days, in particular prior to the 1970s our energy industry was comprised of a single energy source, Oil. Although gas associated with crude oil was abundant, it was mostly disposed of by flaring as a useless and indeed worthless by-product of oil production. With the change of circumstances that pervaded the world energy industry in mid 1970s and the subsequent rise in energy prices, the Saudi Government implemented a super project for gathering, treating, and fractionating the gas associated with crude oil production.
This super project, dubbed the "Master Gas System," cost 13 billion dollars, and conferred great economic value on our gas as fuel and petrochemical feedstock, enabling it to join oil as the second most important source of primary energy in Saudi Arabia.
As supplies of oil and gas became more accessible for local use as a result of rising crude production in the late 1970s, our young power industry was developing at an impressive rate, thanks to the input feeds of crude oil, derivatives and gas, and in time emerged as a major secondary energy source.
Our oil industry is one of the biggest in the world. It is primarily based upon the existence in Saudi Arabia of the largest single-owned crude oil reserve in the world. Officially this reserve stands today conservatively at 263 billion barrels, or about 26 percent of total world reserves.
Over the past few years we have discovered new reserves in volumes that compensated for the oil we have produced, with the end result that we have maintained our total reserves intact. Additionally all indication suggest Saudi Arabia has significant quantities of the world oil to be discovered.
Our recent exploration activities and updated geological studies corroborate that prediction.
Saudi Arabia's current oil production level of about 8.2 million barrels per day is the highest in the world. It reached even higher levels during the 1979-81 period, after which it declined to very low levels particularly during the 1984-87 period, as a result of a sharp decline in world demand. Production began climbing steadily thereafter in tandem with rising world demand until it reached the current levels.
Over the last 25 years we have maintained an excess production capacity ranging between 2 to 4 million barrels per day as a contingency measure that may be activated if necessary during periods of world supply shortfall.
In periods of low demand, excess production capacity is mothballed but is always capable of being reactivated when the need arises. Over the last 22 years this arrangement has twice proven its effectiveness to the world. The first occasion took place in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution of 1978; the second in 1991 in the wake of Iraqi and Kuwaiti supply interruptions that resulted from Iraq's occupation of Kuwait.
In the process of determining our production and capacity levels, five factors are instrumental. They are:
1 - World oil demand
2 - The size of our oil reserves
3 - The Government's policy of ensuring continuity and smooth flow of world supply to consumers
4 - The Government's objective of stabilizing world oil prices to eliminate harmful and unnecessary fluctuations in those prices.
5 - Our production quota under the OPEC production scheme.
As it applies these factors in its deliberations, Saudi Arabia is guided by three objectives: The first is realization of the highest revenue from oil over the long run. The second is maintenance of oil's share in world energy consumption. The third is the evolution of a robust integrated and highly efficient petroleum industry capable of making significant contributions to a growing Saudi economy, and laying the foundation for diversified sources of income for the country.
In terms of efficiency, Saudi Arabia's oil industry is endowed with a distinct comparative advantage. For example, the cost of adding new reserves in the country is about 10 cents per barrel, compared to 4 dollars per barrel in some other areas. Our cost of production is currently less than 1 dollar and 50 cents per barrel compared to a global average of about 5 dollars per barrel. Our National Oil Company, Saudi Aramco, has achieved major strides towards full integration. In the refining sector, Saudi Aramco owns or operates a capacity of 2.2 million barrels per day or about 25 percent of its crude oil production.
Saudi Arabia has an area of two million 220 thousand square kilometers, 90 percent of which is desert. The Saudi Government is keen to overcome this drawback by utilizing its hydrocarbon wealth in a manner that will help create other sources of income and change the quality of life by improving the standard of living of its citizens and creating more jobs for them.
In pursuing the objective of diversifying sources of income, the Saudi Government has been remarkably successful. By implementing a programme of massive investment in infrastructure and utilities throughout the Kingdom including creation of two major industrial cities in Jubail and Yanbu, coupled with discreet fiscal and monetary policies.
As a result a sizeable private sector has emerged. The contribution of this sector to our GDP increased from 13 percent in 1974 to 38 percent in 1999, whereas the contribution of the oil sector declined from about 80 percent to 34 percent in the same period.
While oil revenue was used by the Government to help finance the process of diversification in the Saudi economy, natural gas in addition to oil products, has provided the raw material base for this transformation. Gas is our twin source of primary energy. As I mentioned earlier, gas was mostly flared or re-injected in oil fields for pressure maintenance prior to 1975. Following the rise in world oil prices, the economics of utilizing our gas became clearly favourable.
Consequently the government instructed Aramco to implement the Master Gas System, which was designed to extract Methane and Ethane from raw gas for domestic use, and natural gas liquids for export. That system began functioning in 1981 with production of about 1 billion standard cubic feet per day of associated gas. With the discovery of new non-associated gas reserves, production of non-associated gas started to flow in adequate volumes in 1984 to supplement the gas requirements of water desalination and power utilities as well as our new petrochemical industry. As a result of enhanced supply availability and competitive prices, demand for gas was stimulated in all its uses and grew at a brisk rate of 11 percent annually for the period 1984-2000. In 2000, sales gas production reached a level of more than 3 billion cubic feet per day. In addition, ethane production reached 400 Million cubic feet per day.
As demand is expected to continue growing at high rates in the medium to long term, reaching almost 7 billion cubic feet per day in 2005 and 8 billion cubic feet per day in 2012, a supply strategy was laid down by the Government to cope with those increases. Since gas supplies associated with oil production have peaked, we recognize that supply increments will have to be met from non-associated gas fields.
Consequently a long-term strategy was laid down by the Government for identifying the ultimate economically recoverable gas reserves of Saudi Arabia, including a detailed plan for meeting domestic demand for gas and optimizing ethane and NGL utilization. The plan provides for comprehensive exploration and development activities to assure sufficient gas supply to meet demand to the year 2025 and beyond.
The ultimate objective of the strategy is developing a self-sufficient fully integrated gas industry capable of providing gas to the Saudi economy at competitive prices that will help support a thriving industry enabling it to generate value added and provide adequate supplies of water and electricity to Saudi society.
An example of the Kingdom's impressive achievements in exploiting its hydrocarbon resources for attaining value added and improving the quality of life is the staggering growth of our power industry. Domestic sales of power increased from 4 million gigawatt/hours in 1974 to 97 million gig watt/hours in 1999, an expansion of 2,300 percent. This growth was facilitated by the availability of domestic hydrocarbon supplies at competitive prices. In 1999, our power industry consumed an average of 903 million cubic feet per day of sales gas, constituting about 32 percent of total gas sales. Power plants also consumed other petroleum liquids to supplement rising requirements for electricity generation.
The water desalination industry provided various cities in Saudi Arabia with 775 million cubic meters of fresh water from 27 desalination plants located on the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea in 1999. These plants consumed an average of 646 million cubic feet per day of sales gas and additional amounts of petroleum liquids in the process of producing that volume of water in 1999.
The petrochemical industry in 1999 used an average of 877 million cubic feet per day of sales gas, 398 million cubic feet per day of ethane, and supplemental amounts of NGL's as feedstock to produce about 18 million metric tons of petrochemical materials and polymers and 4 million tons of fertilizers. These are only examples of the current and projected levels of demand for gas in various sectors of the Saudi economy. Total gas demand for all these sectors, together with demand from the oil industry and other industries, is expected to grow more than four-fold in the coming 25 years, from 3 billion cubic feet per day in 1999 to more than 12 billion cubic feet per day in 2025.
To cope with these increases in future gas demand, the Government has laid down a strategy for a robust gas exploration and development programme that provides sufficient gas supply to meet demand to the year 2025, and which optimizes ethane and NGL utilization. This programme takes into account the currently known gas reserves of about 219 trillion cubic feet and the Kingdom's undiscovered gas potential of sizeable amounts. The plan will use an integrated approach to assess the Kingdom's gas potential and optimize gas supply development and required capital expenditures. We have determined that the benefits to be derived from using our gas for domestic purposes far outweigh the benefits of exporting it in the form of liquefied natural gas or LNG. Consequently the LNG export option has been ruled out for the time being. This decision does not apply, of course, to the export of NGL's.
In line with the Government's objective, and as a result of the invitation extended to multinational oil companies to submit investment ideas of mutual benefit in the gas value chain, the oil companies submitted proposals for exploration and development of gas resources across the Kingdom, including relevant mid- and downstream investments.
The Kingdom has converted these preliminary proposals into identifiable investment opportunities for companies to pursue and bid upon.
These opportunities encompass the full gas value chain from upstream non-associated gas exploration and development, to gas processing and transportation, to ethane and NGL extraction and fractionation facilities, to downstream petrochemical, power and water desalination projects.
The Kingdom has identified and is offering mega projects. The exploration acreage offered within these projects covers vast areas of the Kingdom from the Red Sea in the west to the Rub' al-Khali in the southeast of the Kingdom. The offered acreage is very promising. These vast prospective areas will be made available for outside investors to conduct exploration and development activities. In addition, some undeveloped fields are also being offered for development.
The Kingdom is currently working diligently in establishing favorable environment to attract these investments to provide a win-win situation to both the investors and the Kingdom.
In the process of implementing its oil and gas policies, Saudi Arabia responds positively to market indicators. Of prime importance for the Kingdom is the level of oil demand and the factors that influence its movements. Bearing in mind its supply and price policy, which aims at satisfying its need for revenue and development, Saudi Arabia has a commitment to ensure supply availability and continuity for world consumers. As reserves are abundant, Saudi Arabia's levels of production capacity and actual production are guided by its perception of the levels of current and future world demand. Transparency of demand is therefore very important for policy implementation.
One area of demand ambiguity stems from the world power industry. A quarter of a century ago, the international power industry largely depended on oil as an energy input for electricity generation. This dependence started to decline in the early 1980's as a result of a decision taken in 1979 by the member countries of the International Energy Agency to freeze the use of oil in new power generation plants and to reduce oil utilization rates in existing ones.
Those countries have withheld authorization of new oil-fired power plants from that year to the present as a matter of government policy. That decision resulted in the decline of oil use in power generation in those countries by about 110 million tons of oil equivalent in the period 1973-98, or about 43 percent over the last 25 years.
Furthermore, opportunities for increased oil use in power generation were also denied in favour of coal, gas and nuclear power, despite the fact that oil is competitive with some of these sources for new generation plants at prices prevailing since 1986.
The use of coal in power generation in IEA countries increased by 404 million tons of oil equivalent or 90 percent over the same period despite the fact that coal emits 20 percent more CO2 into the atmosphere than oil per unit burned. Other major consuming countries in the developing world have also been influenced by IEA policies in this regard and switched their power generators away from oil, towards coal, and nuclear power.
These trends have unjustifiably created a bias against oil for use in a major component of growing world energy demand. The dismissal of oil as an effective and major input in power generation has reduced competition by restricting the number of viable energy sources suitable for the purpose. It has further deprived consumers of the advantages of an input feed whose supplies are readily available in times of power shortages anywhere in the world, with the ultimate effect of raising the costs of power generation to consumers.
The question now arises as to whether the ban on oil use in power generation will be removed in favour of allowing free market forces to determine demand for oil use in that important sector over the next few years in light of world globalization.
Another factor that helped to distort perceptions of demand movements for oil is the staggering rise in excise taxes imposed on oil consumption in consuming countries. The conventional wisdom has it, particularly in major industrialized countries, that crude oil prices of about 25 dollars per barrel are high.
In fact, deciding whether 25 dollars is high or low is a relative matter and should be judged in terms of other costs. For example, over the period 1980-2000, excise taxes on oil products in the European Union increased from 21 dollars per composite barrel to 60 dollars per barrel, an increase of 186 percent.
In OECD countries they increased from 11 dollars per composite barrel in 1980 to almost 35 dollars, a rise of 218 percent. Meanwhile the crude oil price, to take Brent as an example, fell from 36 dollars per barrel in 1980 to less than 29 dollars in 2000, a decline of 24 percent. In fact the oil price over the period 1986-2000 averaged less than 19 dollars per barrel, whereas the excise taxes imposed in the European Union averaged almost 54 dollars per barrel, and those in the OECD averaged almost 30 dollars per barrel, during the same period. When these taxes were added to the CIF price of imported crude oil and to the refining and distribution costs, they resulted in very high levels indeed, which reached almost 104 dollars per barrel in the EU and more than 82 dollars in the OECD in 2000.
OPEC has abandoned the price-fixing policies implemented prior to 1986, considering them to be counterproductive measures that constrain free market forces, and it now lets prices seek their own levels as determined by the forces of supply and demand.
Paradoxically the tax fixing measures adopted by industrialized countries may be likened to a coordinated effort at price fixing, which will negatively impact demand levels and frustrate market signals. Rather than blame OPEC for oil price increases, one can objectively note that higher prices, as we have indicated, are in fact more attributable to the taxing policies of industrialized countries than to the production policies of OPEC countries.
The drivers' crises that erupted last fall in certain industrialized countries, including those endowed with high oil production, cleared OPEC of the monopolistic charges usually directed against it. It is widely known that the effect of the crude oil price on GDP performance and other macro-economic indicators is now minimized due to the drastic fall in GDP/energy elasticities in world economies over the last 20 years.
Between 1979 and 1999, the energy elasticity of GDP in industrialized countries declined by 29 percent and in developing countries by 35 percent. A closer look at the performance of industrialized countries' economies, as well as those of non-OPEC developing countries, over the period 1979-1999, reveals that the GDP grew remarkably well and at a greater pace than that of OPEC countries, including Saudi Arabia, despite the oil price fluctuations in the world oil market during that period.
Saudi Arabian oil policies are well known to consuming countries. We are firm believers in the importance of a continued dialogue between oil producers and oil consumers as a means of providing acceptable solutions to market problems.
High on our agenda for dialogue are the subjects of market stability, security and transparency of supply and demand for oil, the relationship between energy and sustainable development, and environment concerns. We were active in initiating the first North/South dialogue held in Paris in 1975-1977. We also attended the seven other energy forums directed at such a dialogue, held between 1991 and 2000 with high-powered delegations.
During the most recent Forum, held in Riyadh in November last year, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz proposed institutionalizing this energy dialogue by establishing a permanent Secretariat to be headquartered in Riyadh. We hope that this initiative will further facilitate the ongoing dialogue between producers and consumers aimed at reaching more effective solutions to market volatility and imperfections.
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According to the New York Post on Jan. 19, a video has been released by two Muslim fanatics warning of more deadly attacks during the Sochi Winter Olympics. The duo have claimed responsibility for the Volgograd bombing in December that killed 34 people.
"That which we do, that which we have done, is only a little example, a little step,'' one of them says, apparently referring the Volgograd bombings in the city's train station and on a bus.
Reportedly, the video claims that tourists at the Olympics will be targeted. Russian president Vladimir Putin has stated that massive security measures will be in place at the games.
Just a few days ago, the U.S. State Department issued a travel warning urging vigilance for all Americans attending the Sochi winter games.
Large-scale public events such as the Olympics present an attractive target for terrorists," the State Department wrote in the travel warning, saying that Russian authorities have said they are taking appropriate security measures.
"There is no indication of a specific threat to U.S. institutions or citizens, but U.S. citizens should be aware of their personal surroundings and follow good security practices," it said.
The Winter Olympics are set to take place in Sochi, Russia from Feb. 7 to March 14. For a detailed analysis of the security surrounding the Sochi games, please click on the video at the top of this article.
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Scores gathered Wednesday night to watch the annual lighting ceremony for the 80-year-old spruce at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. The 45,000 lights on the 80-foot-high Norwegian spruce were lit during a celebration televised on NBC and hosted by Al Roker and Savannah Guthrie. The tree will remain lit every evening until Jan. 7. (Nov. 28, 2012)
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Torres says sales have cost club
Liverpool striker, Fernando Torres, has said that the club are paying the price for not replacing some of the best players the club have had.
Liverpool sold a couple of key players to Real Madrid last summer and Torres says the reason the side is struggling is because they have not been adequately replaced with consistent and quality players.
Torres is the biggest asset still at the club and there are rumours circulating daily that he could be tempted to move away from Liverpool this summer if the club don't get back into the Champions League.
The Spaniard said: "There have been various important factors, like being so far behind the top teams so quickly. That killed us psychologically. After that, injuries hit us hard and we have suffered a lot because of them."
"But after a good season last year, we needed certain reinforcements and we needed to keep the squad we had together. But circumstances dictated that we had to sell players and so everything got messed up. The sales of (Alvaro) Arbeloa, (Sami) Hyypia and (Xabi) Alonso were important losses."
"Alvaro always did a vital job for us, always played to a high level, and his flexibility was a huge bonus. Sami did not play every week but he was a 10 out of 10 on and off the pitch. And Xabi? Players like him are very rare. He was the team's engine, and you know that when you change an engine, it takes time to work again."
"The biggest clubs in Europe always go through difficult spells where there appears to be no light at the end of the tunnel. But because they are big clubs, they always come back and they do so with a vengeance. It is just a matter of time. Rafa signed a five-year contract last summer. He did that because he wants to help the club grow. Rafa's new era is just starting."
Liverpool will have to play consistently well for the rest if the season if they want any hope of being able to attract the best players to the club. This is something they have not done all season and there are no signs that this will change soon.
The side need to have faith in the manager and hope that he knows what he's doing. The club are short in one or two areas of the team and this will have to be sorted out in the very near future.
If Torres goes or if Liverpool lose one more influential player then the club will quickly run into difficulties. They cannot afford this if they want to get back to the high Level they have just been at.
If the club was pitted against a Barcelona at the moment then they would get ripped apart and it is this gulf in quality that Rafa Benitez has got to get rid of as quickly as he can.


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NEWARK, N.J. -- There wasn't quite the flurry of trades Sunday involving big-league players at the 2013 NHL Draft like some pundits might have been predicting, but there was a surprising twist at the top of the draft and, for the second straight year, there was a bold move by the hosts.
The top four players selected were the four every draft expert projected, but very much in an unexpected order. Nathan MacKinnon became the seventh consecutive No. 1 pick to be a forward, and he will join the last top choice that wasn't a forward, defenseman Erik Johnson, with the Colorado Avalanche.
With 211 selections made in one afternoon and evening at Prudential Center, who were the most intriguing teams on draft day? Here's seven clubs that, either through picks, trades or contract extensions, delivered the intrigue on a busy day in Newark.


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Notwithstanding a bitter opposition campaign accusing him of unfairly using Venezuela's oil wealth and his near total control of state institutions to his advantage, President Hugo Chavez, as expected, has won a new popular endorsement of his socialist project as well as a third consecutive term for another 6 years.
Chavez received more than 54 percent of the vote to 45 percent for challenger Henrique Capriles, an athletic 40-year-old former state governor who unified and energized the opposition while barnstorming across the oil-exporting nation. Capriles also narrowed Chavez's margin of victory to his smallest yet in a presidential contest. Voter turnout was an impressive 81 percent, compared to 75 percent in 2006..
President Raul Castro of Cuba, which could have been badly hurt by a Chavez loss, was among Latin American leaders sending warm congratulations to the former paratrooper on his victory after nearly 14 years in office. "I can't describe the relief and happiness I feel right now."
People celebrated Chavez's victory. Fireworks exploded over downtown Caracas amid a cacophony of horn-honking by elated Chavez supporters waving flags and jumping for joy outside the presidential palace. "The revolution has triumphed!" Chavez told the crowd, saying his supporters "voted for socialism". "The revolution will continue, thanks to God and the people of this great country," said Gonzalez.
It was Chavez's third re-election in nearly 14 years in office. Chavez pledged before the vote to make a stronger push for socialism in the next term. He's also likely to further limit dissent and deepen friendships with U.S. rivals. He will now have a freer Capriles has accepted defeat and congratulated his rival shortly after the electoral council's announcement.
Apparently, Capriles' promises to seriously address violent crime that has spun out of control; streamline a patronage-bloated bureaucracy and end rampant corruption proved inadequate against Chavez's charisma, well-oiled political machine and a legacy of putting Venezuela's poor first with generous social welfare programs. Chavez spent heavily in the months before the vote, building public housing and bankrolling expanded social programs.
None can deny the affinity and gratefulness Venezuela's poor feel for Chavez. Chavez spoke little during the campaign about his fight with cancer, which since June 2011 has included surgery to remove tumors from his pelvic region as well as chemotherapy and radiation treatment."Despite his illness, he retains a large emotional connection with a lot of Venezuelans that were not prepared to vote against him.
Despite winning a February primary that unified the opposition, Capriles proved no match for Chavez's electoral prowess. A Capriles victory would have brought a radical foreign policy shift including a halt to preferential oil deals with allies such as Cuba, along with a loosening of state economic controls and an increase in private investment
The victory means that Chavez will be in office until February 2019, making him the hemisphere's longest-serving leader
The country has the world's largest proven oil reserves. Chavez deserved to win for spreading the nation's oil wealth to the poor with free medical care, public housing and other government programs.
Chavez maybe power-hungry what really matters is he is out of touch with problems such as a stunted economy, rising crime and the increasing polarization of society.
In office since February 1999, Chavez has in many ways transformed Venezuelan society, channelling the nation's torrent of oil dollars into social welfare projects called Missions that deliver free medical care, housing, education and cut-rate groceries to the nation's poor. But he also has dramatically polarized Venezuelan society with government takeovers of ranches, farms and businesses, and by characterizing political opponents in insulting terms. Chavez was briefly toppled by a coup d'état in 2002 for which he blames the "squalid ones," meaning the rich and middle class.
A Chavez defeat would have reverberated far beyond Venezuela's borders. Many aspects of Chavez's socialism, as well as his populist and autocratic political style, have been emulated in other Latin American countries, including Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina and Nicaragua. His disappearance from the political scene could have had the effect of emboldening opposition in those countries. If not now, political change could come in just a little while investors might consider buying beaten-down Venezuelan bonds.
Even with his re-election, some observers think Chavez's socialist regime is running on borrowed time, that his cancer will probably kill him or force him to resign in the next couple of years. If that happens in the first four years of a six-year term, his opponents feel, another presidential election must be held, according to the Venezuelan Constitution, a race Capriles or another opposition opponent could win without Chavez around to galvanize his support base of mainly poor and working-class voters. However, Chavez has put to rest such speculations.
President Hugo Chavez put to rest any doubts about his masterful political touch in winning the fiercest battle in his political career.
Chavez victory would strengthen socialist forces in the world and he could be the centor of anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist forces globally effectively opposing dictatorial American/NATO terror moves. Venezuela could emerge as the focal point for all truly democratic forces and ideas.
Now the world would look forward to witnessing his socialist reforms to further the cause of the poor and common masses.


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Brunner, D O; Paška, J; Froehlich, J; Pruessmann, K P (2011). Traveling-wave RF shimming and parallel MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 66(1):290-300.
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At sufficiently high Larmor frequencies, traveling electromagnetic waves along a magnet bore can be used for remote magnetic resonance excitation and detection, effectively using the bore as a waveguide. So far, this approach has relied only on the lowest waveguide modes and thus has not supported multiple-channel operation for radiofrequency shimming and parallel imaging. In this work, this limitation is addressed by establishing a larger number of propagating modes and tapping their spatial field diversity with multiple waveguide ports. The number of available modes is increased by loading with dielectric inserts; the ports are implemented by stub and loop couplers at the end of a waveguide extension. The resulting traveling-wave array, operated at 298 MHz in a 7T whole-body magnet, is shown to enable radiofrequency shimming as well as parallel imaging with commonly used acceleration factors. The last part of the study concerns the amount of dielectric loading that is required. For the given Larmor frequency and bore dimensions, it is found that rather few water-filled inserts, occupying ∼5% of the bore cross-section, are sufficient for effective parallel imaging.
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Clarksburg is in the process of replacing portions of sidewalks in a few different areas around the city.
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On July 8, Walt Disney World Resort released its musical line-up of acts that will participate in the 2014 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. Twenty-two bands will be part of this year's Eat to the Beat! concert series, five of them new to the annual foodie festival.
Eat to the Beat! concerts showcase performances by well-known bands and represent a number of musical styles, with an emphasis on pop and rock. The five new acts to join the Eat to the Beat! schedule are Jo Dee Messina, Fuel, Jim Brickman, Los Lonely Boys and David Cook. These additions join 17 returning acts, such as Air Supply, The Pointer Sisters, Boyz II Men, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and STARSHIP starring Mickey Thomas.
The Epcot International Food & Wine Festival runs Sept. 19-Nov. 10 at Walt Disney World Resort, adding an extra week at the beginning of the seasonal event for a total of 53 days.
The Eat to the Beat! concerts take place at the America Gardens Theatre, at the American Adventure pavilion in Epcot's World Showcase. These performances take place each night, at 5:30 p.m, 6:45 p.m and 8 p.m. daily.
- Sept. 19-21: New! Jo Dee Messina ("Lesson in Leavin'")
- Sept. 22-23: The Pointer Sisters ("I'm So Excited")
- Sept. 24-25: Rick Springfield ("Jessie's Girl")
- Sept. 26-27: Christopher Cross ("Sailing)
- Sept. 28-29: Hanson ("I Will Come to You")
- Sept. 30-Oct. 2: Air Supply ("All Out of Love")
- Oct. 3-5: STARSHIP starring Mickey Thomas ("We Built This City")
- Oct. 6-8: Sugar Ray ("Fly")
- Oct. 9-10: New! Fuel! ("Shimmer")
- Oct. 11-12: Sister Hazel ("All For You")
- Oct. 13-14: Richard Marx ("Hold On to the Night")
- Oct. 15-16: Billy Ocean ("Caribbean Queen")
- Oct. 17-19: Night Ranger ("Sister Christian")
- Oct. 20-22: Smash Mouth ("Walkin' On the Sun")
- Oct. 23-24: New! Jim Brickman! ("Valentine")
- Oct. 25-26: New! Los Lonely Boys! ("Heaven")
- Oct. 27-28: Wilson Phillips ("Hold On")
- Oct. 29-31: Dennis DeYoung, original member of the group STYX ("Come Sail Away")
- Nov. 1-2: 38 Special ("Caught Up in You")
- Nov. 3-5: Boyz II Men ("End of the Road")
- Nov. 6-7: New! David Cook ("The Time of My Life")
- Nov. 8-10: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy ("Go Daddy-O")
(Schedule and lineup subject to change; songs listed above are for recognition purposes and may not be performed during the concerts.)
Guests who plan on attending an Eat to the Beat! concert as part of the Epcot Food & Wine Festival visit should be aware that some performances are quite popular. Because many acts return to the festival year after year, they can and do build up a following of locals and tourist who visit the fall foodie event each years. Some Eat to the Beat! shows, especially on weekend nights, can be crowded. Be prepared to arrive at the America Gardens Theatre early if a particular act is a priority.
The 2014 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival marks the event's 19th year at Walt Disney World Resort. In addition to the complimentary Eat to the Beat! concerts, the seasonal event features opportunities to eat and drink "around the World" with its International Marketplace Kiosks, to participate in inexpensive demonstrations and seminars, and the opportunity to attend premium and special food-and-beverage events. These elements of the festival do cost extra, although admission to Epcot International Food & Wine Festival is included with theme-park admission. Some aspects – like the Eat to the Beat! concert series – are free.
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Feb. 10, 2005
Washington State women's swimming team member, Jane Copland will be traveling to Long Island, N.Y., to compete in the Federation Internationale de Natation World Cup Meet at the Nassau Aquatic Center. Copland will be swimming for her father's club team hailing from the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Copland is currently ranked 30th nationally for her time of 2:16.68 in the 200 breaststroke. She needs to drop her time in order to stay among the top 30 competitors in this event to guarantee herself a spot at the NCAA Championships. The FINA meet will be held in a short-course meters pool similar to one where Copland trained growing up. WSU's Gibb Pool, a 25-yard pool.


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The New England Patriots season came to an end Sunday with a 26-16 loss to the Denver Broncos. The final score is misleading as the game was never even that close. In my eyes, the game was over early. It came down to back-to-back drives at the end of the first quarter and the beginning of the second quarter. One drive for each team set the tone for the rest of the game. It may be an oversimplification, but the game was over with 7:50 to go in the second quarter. Here is what I saw:
Patriots drive starts with 3:43 left in the first quarter, trailing 3-0
The Patriots had already had two drives prior to this series. Both resulted in three and outs. Not good. The previous drive ended when Brady lobbed a deep pass down the right sideline on 3rd-and-2 to ... Matthew Slater. The same Matthew Slater who has one career reception in six years with the Patriots. Maybe that should have been a warning sign about the struggles that were to come for this offense.
After a touchback, Brady hit Shane Vereen for a 24-yard catch-and-run. First first down for the Patriots. We could ignore the fact that the pass was almost picked off for a touchdown by Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie.
Then came one of the two plays of the game for me. Brady ran a well-executed play-action fake and missed a wide open Julian Edelman for what may well have been a touchdown. Edelman had his defender beat by a good five yards. The Patriots should have taken the lead, 7-3. Should have.
Who knows how the game would have been different. Maybe Peyton Manning would have tightened up under the pressure of having to play from behind-- the burden of playing for his legacy weighing him down. Maybe the Patriots establish their running game, giving LeGarrette Blount and Stevan Ridley more than five carries each. Maybe the crowd is silenced.
To the Patriots credit, they continued to drive following the missed pass. Brady would hit Edelman for a gain of 18 to get the ball to the Denver 33. After the Patriots failed to gain any yardage on the next two plays, Brady hit Austin Collie for an eight-yard gain to the Denver 25. It wouldn't have given the Patriots a first down, but the Patriots would have been positioned for a 43-yard field goal-- a chip shot in the high altitude of Denver. Tie game, 3-3. Perhaps, even, the Patriots would go for it on 4th-and-short and continue to drive for a touchdown. But, hold on, flag on the play. Tight end Michael Hoomanawanui was flagged for a highly questionable offensive pass interference. Compared to how physical the game had been to this point and to the play that was about to come, the infraction was, as TV analyst Phil Simms put it, a mere "pillow fight."
The Patriots were pushed back. Brady hit Edelman for a short gain to the Denver 39. Instead of giving Gostkowski a shot at a 56-yard field goal, Bill Belichick chose to punt. This is the same stadium where Denver kicker Matt Prater kicked a NFL record 64-yarder earlier in the season. Sebastian Janikowski and Matt Elam shared the previous record (along with Tom Dempsey and David Akers) with kicks of 63 yards. Both kicks also occurred ... in Denver. Weather conditions were ideal. Gostkowski has every bit as strong a leg as Prater. Why not give him a chance?
Denver takes over at their own 7 yard line with 14:51 left in the 2nd quarter
Belichick's decision to punt resulted in Ryan Allen pooch punting and pinning Denver deep in their own territory. OK, maybe not the worst result in the world. If the Patriots could force a quick three and out, they'd have great field position again. Knowshon Moreno took care of that on the first play with an 11-yard gain off left tackle.
Two plays later came the other play of the game. Star receiver Demaryius Thomas, who had only one reception up to this point, dropped a short pass over the middle. The play looked innocent enough until you noticed that Aqib Talib was sprawled out on the ground a short distance behind Thomas. What Brady is to the offense is what Talib is to the Patriots defense. Heck, I could even make an argument that Talib is even more important to the entire team than Brady.
A closer look at the play showed that old friend, now turned enemy, Wes Welker launched himself at an unsuspecting Talib as Talib was chasing Thomas across the middle of the field. Belichick, the next day, would call it "one of the worst plays I've seen." Belichick also called it a "deliberate play by the receiver to take out Talib."
Overdramatic? Sour grapes? Yes. Should it have been a penalty? Yes. Does Welker know the importance of Talib to the Patriots? Yes. Does Welker know Talib has a bad hip? Yes. Did Welker intentionally try to take out Talib? Possibly.
The fact of the matter is, without Talib, the Patriots had zero chance of stopping Manning. Just a season ago, Talib also got hurt in the AFC Championship Game. The Baltimore Ravens exploited his absence as the Patriots had no answer for Baltimore's Anquan Boldin. Boldin would have two touchdown receptions in the fourth quarter of that game, clinching a 28-13 victory. The Ravens would go on to win the Super Bowl.
Without Talib, the Patriots secondary had no one who could stop Demaryius Thomas. Thomas would go on to catch seven passes for 134 yards and one touchdown.
But there was more frustration to come on this drive. After Talib's injury, the Broncos were faced with a 3rd-and-9. The Patriots could still have gotten decent field position if they could have come up with a stop. Manning would float a lob pass to the left sideline which was begging for a defender to pick it off. Somehow the pass fell between Kyle Arrington and Logan Ryan... into the waiting arms of Wes Welker. First down.
Denver would face another 3rd down at their own 42. On the previous play, little used tight end Virgil Green (9 receptions in 2013) was positioned at running back and was almost tackled in the backfield when he was handed the ball on a running play. Instead, Green would rumble for a six-yard gain. It was the equivalent of the Patriots handing the ball off to Michael Hoomanawanui. It was almost as if the Broncos were mocking the Patriots.
Manning would overthrow Eric Decker on 3rd-and-1 on a quick-hitter. However, yet another phantom defensive holding penalty call-- this one on Logan Ryan. Ryan was actually picked on the play. The flag should have been the second offensive pass interference call of the drive. Instead, the Broncos were given a first down.
With the Broncos on the outskirts of Elam's field goal range, Denver had a 3rd-and-10 at the Patriots 39. Lined up in the shotgun, Manning noticed the Patriots had no linebackers positioned in the middle of the field. He audibled to a running play, handed off to Moreno who burst through for a 28-yard gain. Great audible by Manning. Horrible alignment by the Patriots.
Denver would face a fourth and final third down at the Patriots 2-yard line. Needing only inches for a first down, Andre Carter submarined through the line of scrimmage and had a chance at running back Montee Ball in the backfield. Ball high-stepped out of Carter's grasp and managed to get a favorable spot to give Denver a first down.
After that, it was all academic. It was inevitable the Broncos would score a touchdown. Manning made it look easy, rolling to the right and hitting a wide open Jason Tamme in the endzone.
Four third down conversions. Seven minutes elapsed off the clock. Talib hurt. Manning confident and in a rhythm. The Patriots left with no one who could cover Demaryius Thomas. Denver with a 10-0 lead at home on a picturesque day. Game over. I opened a book I had left half-finished back before the NFL season began in September and started reading again.


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A cystocele occurs when the wall between the bladder and the vagina is ripped or torn during childbirth. The result is the herniation of the bladder into the vagina. This usually causes pain, discomfort and trouble during urination. While the elastic tissues of the vagina will maintain the hernia for some time, over time, the elasticity will wear thin resulting in the need for surgery. To learn more about cystocele and the treatment for this condition, take a look below at the questions that have been answered by the Experts.
Case details: Grade 1 uterine descent, grade 2 low rectocele.
Many women use Kegel and pelvic floor exercises to help this condition but these have their limitations. Using a pessary ring would be an option to consider as opposed to surgery. There are some pessary rings that cater to cystocele rather than uterine prolapse. However, when deciding to use a pessary ring, it is important to find an OB/GYN who is knowledgeable about the insertion and fitting of the ring.
While there are several benefits to using this, one of the disadvantages of a pessary ring is the maintenance involved. For example, the use of vaginal creams and continuous check-ups are essential for women who use a ring.
For those women who lead a very active lifestyle but choose not to have surgery, they may find that the cystocele will continue to drop over time. Using estrogen as a hormone replacement or a vaginal cream can help restore elasticity and strengthen the pelvic ligaments. However, the choice to have the surgery or not is always up to the patient and if she changes her mind later on, the surgery can still be an option.
Case details: Also had rectocele and removal of cervical stump.
During the healing period after cystocele repair, it is important to ensure that the person's bowel movements remain soft. Hard or firm stools can usually cause bleeding. Sometimes, this can also make a person hold off having a bowel movement. Doing this is not helpful for it will only increase the chance of a firmer/harder stool. One of the best ways to prevent hard stools is by taking colace (stool softener) twice a day. Adding more fiber to the person's diet also helps. At this stage, water intake is very important in helping the person pass softer stools as well.
Typically, the person would also want to avoid any caffeinated drinks because caffeine can cause dehydration if consumed in large amounts. The normal amount of water to be consumed for an adult is at least 64 oz daily. If the person must have caffeinated drinks, a cup of water should be added to each cup of caffeine consumed. In other words, if the person has a cup of coffee, they will need to drink a cup of water as well. If the person is exercising, they should drink at least 20 oz of water for every 30 minutes of exercise. Furthermore, they should try to avoid caffeinated products during exercise.
A cystocele is the loosening of a woman's vagina and bladder and can eventually cause stress incontinence (urine leakage). While pelvic floor exercises and Kegel exercises help to an extent, many people prefer surgery to correct the issue. Also, if a woman has the surgical procedure before menopause, the healing process is generally faster. At his stage, it is better to consult with an OB/GYN and get a few exams done to understand what kind of surgery is needed. In most cases, the procedure will be performed by an urogynecologist or a urologist.
Leakage usually isn't common after a cystocele repair. This may be a sign of an over correction of the dropped bladder. In some cases, the over correction straightens the angle between the bladder and the urethra instead of leaving a more natural tilt. This may cause a leakage. If a woman is experiencing leakage after her cystocele repair, she should consult with her OB/GYN or the surgeon who performed the procedure. Many women develop a cystocele after having a baby and have to deal with the issue of a falling bladder or vaginal wall. While there are a few things that can be done to ease the symptoms of cystocele, very often, a surgical procedure helps the most. If you have questions or concerns about cystocele repair, ask an Expert for medical insights and suggestions on the best method of treatment based on your case history.


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Nov. 27, 2011
Washington State vs. UC Riverside - Nov. 27, 2011 - Anaheim Convention Center (Anaheim, Calif.)
76 Classic
Final Score: UCR 64, WSU 63
Washington State Notes:
- Junior Brock Motum led WSU in scoring for the fourth time this season with 15 points and the fifth time in rebounding with seven boards...he has scored in double-figures in all six games for WSU this season.
- Senior Faisal Aden has scored in double-figures in all six games for the Cougars as well after putting up 14.
- Reggie Moore reached double figures for the second time this season with 10, had 14 at Gonzaga in season opener.
- D.J. Shelton tied his career high with five rebounds...one minute shy of his career high with 23 minutes played.
- The Cougars lost when leading at halftime for the second time this tournament...have led at half three times this season (1-2).
- WSU went winless in an in-season tournament for the first time since the Sun Bowl Classic in El Paso, Texas during the 1998-99 season.


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So here it is, fall has come and the Cure has begun, and it's high time to cull the stack of magazines being "saved" for … for why? Hmm. Not sure any longer. So, before I set the pile of past Art on Paper-s out on the street… I took one last leaf through. Couldn't let this 70 degree day in NYC pass without chiming in with a last blast of exuberant blossoms, from Polly Apfelbaum. Enjoy.
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New Fiscal Compact, Or More Of The Same For Europe?
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pot meet kettle
Japan, USA, UK are some sort of black cauldrons in the deficit/GDP metrics, I believe.
Before Japan got obliterated with 2 nukes and forced to swallow the banker's debt pill, they were a proud nation...
Now they're a miserable perverted bunch with 200% debt/GDP and drowning their pains in Sake by the gallons.
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
Which coincidentally, might've been coined by a Japanese Navy Commander in WWII.
So what? The sentiment of that phrase has been used for EONS.
Ask the Brits when they were officially done paying their WW2 war loans back to the bankers.
The sovereigns are all under the death grip of the bankers. Just how and where did these bankers amass such wealth to be in that position?
Surely it was farming, right?
Sometimes I'm really confused, US has about 14T GDP that means it's vibrant and producing nation. When I go to US the only American product I can buy is turkey kolbasa or some other shit like that. All stores are stuffed with Chinese or Indian, or Thai, or Taiwanese, or whoever products. I know US is good at manufacturing armaments for it's own use and some side sales to all those little tyrants all over the world. Even if you look at Apple, it's products are coming from Asia. So my question is what that GDP number means? You're charging so much for medicare and Medicaid, have so much markups on outside products just supplying packaging, your financial services are scheming the world to deliver so much or where the fuck this GDP number is coming from? Maybe food stamps are included in it? Or unemployment payments?
Does anybody knows? You guys are driving German, Japanese cars or some times American make which anyway is made in 80% in Asia. Is that Hollywood production so big, or Lady Gaga delivers 1T to GDP. Sorry, I don't understand.
As long as the corporate headquarter is located within the US of A, their revenue is part of GDP.
The "D" as in Domestic is misleading. Multinational corporations are not domestic.
Apple, HP, IBM, Walmart, Coca Cola, Pfizer and so on are American companies with headquarters in the US and taxed on sales in the US. Their production and their customers are all over the planet but that's besides the point.
Not sure what you're really trying to say.. the GDP numbers in this day and age are in my opinion bull shit.
Remember, the numbers benefit governments to exercise more leverage and of course the bankers that are more than willing to give it to them.
What I meant is what you said "Remember, the numbers benefit governments to exercise more leverage and of course the bankers that are more than willing to give it to them" and percentages of debt to GDP is total bullshit! Cannot be measure of ability to borrow and repay loans.
YES, yes, and yes (all government payouts are included in GDP). You have answered your question yourself.
What do you think where most of the profit from every sold Apple gadget is going to?
Prior to each European resort BS Fest, we hear they only have weeks or days.
Then the shells are moved around with a new facility, mechanism, swap or twist, and the dire predictions start over.
All true, but because most of their debt is owned by their own people, I don't think that Japan will suffer a full scale economic collapse before we do.
The US Bureau of Engraving and Printing should print one Elvis dollar... 50 000 000 000 000. That should solve the problem.
More like "pot meet bong." I'm mean by the time Europe "gets around" to...whatever...someone will have already written "the stoners guide to QE."
NEW AND IMPROVED! Mo' better Flexible rules with socialized costs and privatized profits!
Well, it's not like society can function without flexible standards!
Personally, I'm eagerly awaiting when they start easing the ones on measurement of size and mass. I'd say the number of inches in a foot is a good place to start. Why twelve? Myself, I'm partial to eleven, as it's like ten, but less boring, as it's prime!
It also has lots of super-secret powers, according to the numerologist who shaves my cat.
This type of "discipline" never works. You can try to dissuade children from bad actions, but one should never try to protect children from bad results. We are built to learn from our failures.
A good clue how this will turn out...
...as we note today's lost-in-the-storm headlines from Greece that they are dropping their capital gains tax increases
They actually exceeded 3% all the time.
Like the PIIGS.
Tired of the endless Euro-lunacy soap opera? Here is refreshing blast of Fresh Air (Oct 2011).
The ECB's elusive 2 trillion-euro bailout fund - Farage
Keep in mind that most governments use cash-basis budgeting.
On an accrual basis, their deficits are considerably larger.
That's what is meant by the term 'structural deficit.' Hint: Demographics (retirees to workers ratio) are only going to worsen deficits in developed economies.
Financial repression indeed. TPTB have to beat gold down as best they can before the new year. The central bankers do not want charts showing gold up 40% for the year when they aren't giving you dick in terms of %yield on bonds. They'll be screaming one day, though, once their pretty little paper derivatives market gets zeroed and the only thing of any remaining value is the precious.
Derivatives going to zero doesn't destroy the currency. In fact it clears out all of the imaginary money leaving cold hard cash as king. You are seeing the last of the gold and silver glory days.
Could be, and of course if that doesnt work they can just declare its illegal for anyone but world banks to hold PM coins. And really, what would anyone do about it?
huh? I never said the currency would collapse if derivatives bombed. I said the fun and games for the bankers (aka. rape and pillage of the populace) would come to a sudden end. Banks would once again be used as a check clearing houses and speculators would return to blue-collar work sweeping floors as a degree/skill set in financial 'trickery' would find no practical use in the new economy.
I think theyre already there, what are they really doing except dealing themselves hands from a stacked deck in a rigged casino? Theyre raping and pillaging who, a bunch of bankrupt people?
they will squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone which is the middle-class. They won't stop even when 99.999% of the population is totally broke, next they will move to run-up the price everything J6P needs with the little amount of fiat he can muster, then they pass laws ensuring the vacuum of financial rape stays in place and finally put in a Police State to stamp out any resistance should the populace find the nerve to fight back against their masters plight.
Interesting world we live in when the above is exactly what is unfolding present day
Derivatives going to zero doesn't destroy the currency. In fact it clears out all of the imaginary money leaving cold hard cash as king.
No, not cold hard cash as king, more like cold hard reality as king, in the form of bright red balance sheets.
Derivatives are a (fake) way of turning those bright red balance sheets black. Derivatives all unwind, bright red returns.
And yes, a quadrillion of unwinding derivatives might just all net out to zero, having no effect on currency values since it doesn't change the money supply.
But it sure would return the financial world to bright red insolvent bankrupt reality.
You are seeing the last of the gold and silver glory days.
...until the US dollar crashes into worthlessness ...or slowly slips into worthlessness.
Why do you dollar bugs refuse to acknowledge the steadily sinking value of the dollar, which has lost 1/3 of it's value just since '08?
I agree, gold and silver aren't getting more valuable.
The dollar is losing value ...which you and your ilk refuse to acknowledge.
A derivative crash would mean one hell of leverage reduction which contradicts strong PMs imho
Oooooo. Hey! The Baby's back! Tell us you were you were "la femme flagrante" when you took that picture of yourself!
OT: I'm loving watching the SPX cling to the 200DMA. Oil is recovering all of its losses for the day as well. Cannot let anything reach fair value until after the new year.
Also I found the 10Y rate chart rather humorus http://www.multpl.com/interest-rate/
Love the title - this time we're serious. Honest!
even the technocrats can see that 12 outa 17 = supermajority
print 'til she blows, BiCheZ!
Amazing speech of Ryanair chief to european politicians http://dotsub.com/view/aa4dd960-8c1d-40a8-b772-512b4f98b80d
There needs to be a financial Onion. They need only print the facts. ZH does it and reality sets in. But if the Onion explains it in their inimicable way, perhaps all the 18 year olds that don't vote can prevent their only future career choice being the army.
Why reinvent the WSJ?
Surely, I'm not the only one who reads it in a sarcastic voice?
SANCTION the broke countries that cant meet their payments, yes of course. I guess that means cutting off their food and energy supplies, or something.
Anyway, its obvious elite bankers win, peasants suck paddy water. As usual.
Why is the media paying any attention this week to bond auctions and sales? This is the slowest week of the year. Unless the tone changes, I don't see any different headlines for 2012 than we've seen for most of 2011. Debt, debt, debt.. Greece is fading away, Italy is front and center stage and the next candidates are lining up.
Tired of it yet?
The bankers control the media. The bankers are using the media to hold the nations hostage. They get bailed out each and every time. If they don't get bailed out, they finance wars to get their message across.
Isn't it time for REAL CHANGE?
Its like they all actually believe we're out of all this trouble, because its a different date? A different year? 'OH, well see now its 2012, so its all good'...Insanity.
Now you know why the CIA answers only to it's Director. Can I get a "hooray for the CIA!" from anyone here? Anyone? Hellloooo...anyone?
Compared to 11 percent of GDP budget deficit USA Eurozone nations are penny pinching, prudent savers. Plus all future liabilities, mere 500 percent of GDP or about 450 000 dollars per US household.
Europe is like Alcoholics Anonymous trying to cure its members by starting a liquor store. It believes it can ween its members off the booze called debt by using new drinks called LTRO and EFSF. It's all bullshit but it's the best they can do. The level of growth in the Eurozone is so poor that they can barely tread water let alone swim. As a result the sharks called debt default and speculators are circling.
The only way to get out of this before they totally kill the future, is to actually find out who the true owners of the debt are, haircut the debt according to each groups ability to cope with a writedown and hand over state assets to gutted pension funds so as to protect the citizenry in their old age and so as to take the pressure off the national budgets.
If governments do not shrink to make way for private initiative then we will see the continuing devouring of each nation's GDP until we end up in some sort of Soviet command economy. And we all now how well that went.
Where this magical growth is supposedly going to come anyway? Most eurozone nations are at the top-20 countries in terms of GDP, living standards, health care, social services etc. There is simply no more room for growth.
Those "magical" BRIC and other 3rd world nation fabulous growth figures come from the fact, they started from Dilbert's "Elbonia" level mud huts and shanty towns. That kind of fast growth westerners experienced already in the 1950/60's. Their yearly numbers will also go down eventually, just like it did for us gradually, starting from 70's.
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The Camping World Truck Series has a mid-week event this week, as the teams head to "Thunder Valley," also known as Bristol Motor Speedway, for the UNOH 200 on Wednesday, August 20th. Kyle Busch Motorsports owner/driver Kyle Busch is looking to repeat his "trifecta" from August 2010 by sweeping all three weekend events – Trucks, Nationwide and Cup – but he'll have to hold off his teammate Darrell Wallace Jr. on Wednesday night to have a chance.
Busch, driving the No. 51 Dollar General Toyota Tundra, has 16 wins across the top three series at Bristol, including four wins in eight Truck Series races. Busch has also racked up seven Nationwide Series wins in 20 races and five Sprint Cup Series wins in 19 races.
"I love Bristol and getting back there running all three divisions is going to be fun," said Busch on the KBM website. "Being able to get back in the Truck of course and then run the Nationwide car and also run the Cup car. We'd love to be able to repeat 2010 -that would be amazing - and do another trifecta. But, since they've ground that place it's not necessarily been my best track lately. So, I've got some work to do to figure out how to get better there and make it happen."
Wallace Jr., in the No. 54 ToyotaCare Tundra on Wednesday night, has just one start at Bristol, a 28th-place finish last season. He's hoping Wednesday is a good race day for the team – the last time they raced on a Wednesday, he won at Eldora Speedway.
"I'm ready to get to Bristol and redeem ourselves from this race last year," said Wallace Jr. "We had a fast Toyota Tundra last year, but definitely did not get the result we wanted. The team has a quick turnaround from last weekend at Michigan where didn't get the win, but we made sure everyone knew we were there and that has me excited to get to Bristol. We've got two wins already this season and I'm pumped to get the next one this week at Bristol. The last Wednesday night race the Truck Series ran we ended up in Victory Lane at Eldora, so I plan to end this one the same way."
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