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CALCUTTA - The Beavers escaped with a win against the Tigers.
The Beaver Local boys' basketball team improved to 3-0 on the season when Wellsville's Camden Douglas' desperation shot bounced off the front of the rim resulting in a 74-72 victory for the Beavers in overtime against the Tigers Tuesday night at the Beaver Dome.
Asked what he was thinking when the shot left Douglas' hand, Beaver Local head coach Jake Walgate replied, "Please don't go in.
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Beaver Local's Matt Chamberlain puts a shot up over Wellsville's Antonio Fultz on Tuesday. (Photo by Aaron Petchal)
"You can't run at a kid shooting a three-quarter shot. I'm sure those are shots that (Nate) Scott, (Jordan) Sloan and Douglas shoot every day at practice. They are all great shooters."
The victory was set up by some last-second heroics by Beaver Local senior Troy Hudson. Hudson went coast to coast for the game-tying lineup with 1.2 seconds to go in regulation.
The Tigers had a chance to win the game, but a long-range 3-pointer by Douglas bounced off the back to send the game into overtime knotted up at 60.
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Beaver Local 74, Wellsville 72
WE (72): Camden Douglas 4 3-4 14, Tyshaun Franklin 0 0-0 0, Nate Scott 5 7-11 19, Antonio Fultz 4 0-2 8, Brendon Carr 5 1-2 11, Jansen Stoakes 0 0-0 0, Jordan Sloan 7 0-0 18, Sam McIntosh 0 2-4 2, Nigel Span 0 0-0 0. Totals: 25 13-20 72.
BL (74): Chase Hilliard 5 2-2 13, Jared Lyder 4 13-15 21, Brandon Fetty 0 1-4 1, Ethan Campbell 0 0-0 0, Troy Hudson 6 7-10 20, Zack Mick 4 1-2 10, Josh Underwood 0 3-4 3, Matt Chamberlain 1 4-6 6. Totals: 20 31-43 74.
3-Pointers: Wellsville: 9 (Sloan 4, Douglas 3, Scott 2); Beaver Local: 3 (Hilliard, Hudson, Mick)
"Yes, it was a great game," Wellsville (1-2) head coach Bug Thompson said. "We let it get away at the end. We had a chance to win it.
"The free-throw line cost us again. We missed too many foul shots."
The Tigers converted 13 of 20 shots from the charity stripe, while the Beavers made 31 of their 43 foul shots.
In overtime a basket by Hudson put the Beavers up 65-63. That is when the game slowed down. The next eight points of the game came at the foul shot with both teams trading foul shots. Neither team was able to convert both of the shots on their multiple trips to the line.
A foul shot by Brendon Carr pulled the Tigers to within 65-64 with 1:43 showing on the clock, and after the scoring run from the foul line, the Beavers led 69-67 with 30.2 seconds left to play.
A three-point play by Jared Lyder put the Beavers up 72-67 with 22 seconds left in the game, but the Tigers answered with a basket by Douglas to make the score 72-69 with 14.8 seconds showing on the clock. Then, Hudson converted of 1 of 2 from the line to make the score 73-69 with 13.8 seconds to play before Douglas drained a 3-pointer making the score 73-72 with 6 seconds left in the game.
Hudson was fouled again, and he made 1 of 2 shots again with 4.7 seconds left setting up Douglas' final shot.
"This is what high school basketball is all about," Walgate said. "These are local kids. Everyone knows each other. They were all out there having fun."
Lyder recorded a game-high 21 points to lead the way for the Beavers. Also scoring in double digits for Beaver Local were Hudson with 20, Chase Hilliard with 13 and Zack Mick with 10.
Finally for the victors, Matt Chamberlain netted six points, Josh Underwood delivered three points and Brandon Fetty finished with one.
Scott tallied a team-high 19 points to lead the way for the Tigers. Sloan, Douglas and Carr all also scored in double figures. Sloan ended up with 18, Douglas delivered 14 and Carr recorded 11.
Finally for the visitors, Antonio Fultz scored eight, and Sam McInotsh tallied two points.
Wellsville not only struggled to convert from the foul line, but the Tigers compounded the problem by committing numerous fouls through the game. In the end, four Wellsville players fouled out, and the Tigers were forced to play the final 4.7 seconds with just four players.
Wellsville was in foul trouble from the very beginning of the game as Douglas was called for three fouls in the first quarter. He picked up his third with 2:39 left to play in the quarter with the Beavers up 16-9.
"They were three dumb fouls," Thompson said, "We talked about not fouling early in the game. In the first quarter, we had two players with two fouls and one with three.
"All of the fouls put us in a bind. We didn't have (Seth) Bradford, and our bench isn't as deep as we thought it was going to be."
A basket by Chamberlain put the Beavers up 16-6. Keyed by a 3-pointer by Sloan the Tigers scored the next seven points to pull within 16-13. Beaver Local led 18-13 after the first quarter.
"They started in man instead of their 1-2-2 zone," Walgate said about the Tigers. "They are great at it."
In the second stanza, the Tigers ripped off an 8-0 run to take a 23-19 lead. The Beavers countered with an 8-0 run of their own to take a 27-23 lead. Beaver Local led 31-27 at halftime.
The Tigers were able to get back in the game by amping up the pressure and picking up the pace, however, that was not always the case.
"We ran at times, and then we walked the ball up the court," Thompson said. "They sat back in that zone, and we didn't attack. we passed the ball around the perimeter. Five or six times in a row we came down and shots 3s. Instead of attacking the zone, we settled for jump shots."
Neither team was able to build much of an advantage in the third quarter. Wellsville outscored Beaver Local, 18-14, in the frame to send the game into the fourth quarter tied at 45.
"Coach Thompson does a great job," Walgate said. "He wouldn't have the number of wins he has if he wasn't a good coach. It was a hard-fought game."
In the fourth quarter, Beaver Local led 56-50 with 3:51 left to play in the game before Wellsville fought its way back into the game.
Scott was fouled on a 3-pointer, and the junior sank all three free throws to tie the score at 58 with 1:25 left to play in regulation. Then, Fultz scored on a layup underneath the basket to put the Tigers up 60-58 with 5.5 seconds showing on the clock.
"I want to thank the students," Walgate said. "They were all painted up. They were having fun. The kids were having fun. It was great to see. It was also nice to see different people in the community come out and enjoy a basketball game."
Beaver Local is 3-0 for the first time since the 2003-04 season. The Beavers finished that season 17-5.
"It is a great feeling," Walgate said. "It really feels good. The kids in the locker room are really working hard. The coaches feel great, and the kids feel great."
Wellsville won the JV game, 57-54. Stoakes scored 19 points to lead the way for the Tigers.
Beaver Local plays Friday night at home against Lakeview, while Wellsville plays Friday at Sebring.


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South Carolina lawmakers and the state Department of Education are furiously working to develop a new set of standards that adhere to the federal guidelines but not through using the national standard called Common Core.
Berkeley County School District, like many districts around the state, has spent the last few years developing a curriculum to work within Common Core. The new standard will be implemented by the 2015-2016 school year but not finalized until January 2015.
During the July 8 school board workshop looking at the school year ahead, Superintendent Rodney Thompson told board members that, so far, the district has invested millions of dollars into a curriculum adhering to Common Core.
He later released this statement to the Independent:
The district went through a two-year process of training teachers and writing curriculum to align to the Common Core State Standards that were adopted by South Carolina in 2010. Now, there are new standards being written that will be released in January of 2015 and we will have to go through the process of rewriting curriculum and providing professional development to teachers.
For the sake of our students, we need stability in terms of the standards that are being taught in our classrooms across the state.
Federal guidelines mandate students graduating from high school to be career and college ready. Common Core is one of the standards available to states to achieve that goal. In 2010, the state Board of Education agreed to move forward with that standard.
But a national and statewide mistrust of Common Core has fueled backlash from parents and constituents. Politicians rallied to change the state standards. One of the 2014 Republican Superintendent of Education candidates even made Stop Common Core a campaign slogan.
Incumbent Superintendent of Education Mick Zais, who did not seek reelection this year, is working with Berkeley County Sen. Larry Grooms to develop the new standards. Educators and interested parties are being encouraged to apply for a spot on evaluation and development teams before July 18. Applications can be submitted at ed.sc.gov.
Grooms released this statement on his Facebook page July 8:
In order to have new standards implemented by August 2015, there can be no time wasted in their development. Development teams are scheduled to produce a draft of the new standards before the end of October. Evaluation teams will then spend the next several months making comments and recommendations regarding the new standards.
Grooms said that the standards will adhere to the federal mandate.
Our new standards, by South Carolina law, must be college- and career-ready so were not jeopardizing any federal funds that are flowing to South Carolina, Grooms said.
He called Common Core flawed methodology.
The new standards that will be developed will go back to a liberal arts type of education for English, language arts. And also, in mathematics, we will go to a type of math standard that does teach children how to have higher order thinking that is not the goal of Common Core, Grooms said. The new standards will not be Common Core but they will meet the definition I hope to be able to right the ship with standards written in South Carolina by educators in South Carolina and evaluated by South Carolina educators, parents, and business leaders.
Grooms shot back at the districts claim to have spent millions adhering to Common Core.
I would hope that Berkeley County and other superintendents would have been following legislation moving us out of Common Core before they spent dollars on Common Core-compliance, Grooms said.
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The tickets arrived the other day, so I guess we're committed.
My daughter, Mackenzie, and I will be going to our third Major League Baseball game together this spring when we travel with co-worker Jim Martin and his daughter to see the Pittsburgh Pirates.
I love baseball. My first professional game was when my dad took me to see the Jamestown Expos play in the New York-Penn League almost 40 years ago. I spent part of the game wondering how the Jamestown players were able to steal their uniforms from the Montreal Expos.
Later that year, my dad took me to Three Rivers Stadium to see the Pirates play my beloved New York Mets.
I was bummed at first because my favorite player, Tom Seaver, wasn't pitching that night. But I did get to see fellow lefty Jon Matlack blank the Bucs, 6-0.
After the game, I sang Matlack's praises quite loudly as we walked down a seemingly never-ending ramp to get out of the stadium. I didn't notice the glares dozens of steelworkers gave me and my dad as we exited.
It was my first, and best, memory of about 20 trips to Three Rivers Stadium before it was torn down in 2000.
(Second-best memory: the Monsters of Rock concert in June 1988 with Van "Hagar" Halen, the Scorpions and some new band named Metallica. You might have heard of them.)
Mackenzie, who is almost 7, doesn't have the same memories from her trips to PNC Park. I asked her the other day what she remembers from our visit to Pittsburgh last summer with Jim and his daughter.
"It was sunny. Hot," Mackenzie said.
Accurate enough. The game-time temperature was 90 degrees, and the sun shined directly on our beet-red faces for the first several innings.
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What do you remember about the game?
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Four games in one week took a heavy toll on the Ignacio High School girls basketball team.
The Bobcats, topped 17-7 in the decisive second quarter, lost 53-39 to Thoreau, N.M., on Saturday afternoon in the Kirtland Central Tournament.
�We just couldn�t recover from that second quarter,� Ignacio head coach Justa Whitt said.
�Again, turnovers hurt us. Our passing needs a lot of work.�
She said Thoreau ran an effective offense.
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Mariah Vigil led Ignacio with 10 points and eight reboudns.
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The measure introduced by Anderson GOP Sen. Kevin Bryant calls for the establishment of a Division of Information Security that would be dedicated to the protection of the state's information and cybersecurity infrastructure.
The legislation, which also would provide a decade of state-paid credit monitoring to taxpayers, additionally would create two new boards to create a statewide technology plan and suggest changes as technology changes.
Bryant is the chairman of a panel investigating the massive breach discovered in October at the S.C. Department of Revenue. The breach compromised sensitive information for millions of consumers and businesses.
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The total amount of capital in an economy is very important in determining total output.
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Alexander Skarsgard obviously needed a little quiet time to read (Jack London, perhaps?) and enjoy his morning rituals after his recent arrival at the South Pole.
On the same trek that brought Prince Harry to Antarctica, the True Blood star, 39, led a team of wounded ex-servicemen and women on a four-week, 200-mile trek to the earth's southern extremity to raise awareness for the prince's "Walking with the Wounded" Challenge.
"#southpole -30C What are you reading Alex? The script for season 7 of #truebloodHBO? :) #alexanderskarsgard," wrote Inge Solheim, Skarsgard's team guide on the Challenge, in a message that appeared alongside the Instagram photo he snapped of the actor.
The tall HBO hunk is certainly no stranger to appearing without a stitch, although this may be the first – and last – time he sheds his protective layers in sub-zero temps.
For those who might have possibly forgotten, last August the Swedish star exposed it all on the season six finale of True Blood.
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Mikulski, O'Malley Announce Updated Federal Prevailing Wages for Highway Construction Workers in Maryland
Prevailing wage raise is good for Marylands economy, good for Marylands families
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) and Maryland Governor Martin OMalley today announced a significant victory for fair pay and fair wages for highway construction workers in Maryland.
The U. S. Department of Labor (DoL) has agreed to use the findings of a survey commissioned by Marylands Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation (DLLR) to update the federal prevailing wages for highway construction workers in Maryland. The wages hadnt been updated in more than 10 years.
Like all great accomplishments, this is the result of a true team effort. I applaud the Department of Labor and Marylands DLLR for working together to take this much needed first step for Maryland workers, Senator Mikulski said. I have made updating prevailing wages throughout Maryland a top priority because it means good jobs at good wages. Pay for construction and highway work on federal contracts has been too low for too long. I will continue to fight for workers in my state until all federal contracts have competitive and fair pay.
I want to applaud our Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation and thank Senator Barbara Mikulski for her advocacy on the federal level for this important step in ensuring fair treatment and compensation of Maryland workers rebuilding our infrastructure, Governor OMalley said. Were proud to be the first state in the nation to have passed a statewide living wage statute, requiring contractors that do businesses with the state to pay a decent, livable wage. Todays announcement takes these efforts a step further, and were proud that our partners on the federal level continue to stand with Marylands middle class, fighting for good jobs at good wages.
Federal government contracts are required to pay whats called a prevailing wage to workers on those contracts. This is to ensure that workers can earn a fair wage on government projects and that the government is a positive force in local labor markets.
Wage determinations for federal construction and highway projects, often referred to as Davis-Bacon Prevailing Wages, are supposed to be updated at least once every several years. Yet throughout Maryland, prevailing wages for many jobs havent been updated in more than a decade.
For example, prevailing wages for cement masons and carpenters on federal highway projects have been frozen since 2000 in Howard County and since 2002 in Baltimore. The result of these out of date wages is that many skilled workers are priced out of competing for government contracts.
In response to the problem, DLLR recently updated all of the prevailing wages that are used for state contracts. Senator Mikulski urged Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to use these findings to update the federal wages for all contracts in Maryland.
For more information, go to Senator Mikulski's website (PDF document, download Adobe Acrobat for free).


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A suspicious package that turned out to be trash caused a scare at a Topeka parade.
WIBW reported that the Kansas Shrine Bowl Parade was rerouted Saturday morning after a paper bag was discovered inside a bin containing rental property ads.
Police Sgt. Byron Endsley said the person who found the neatly folded brown bag flagged down an officer. Authorities shut down a one-block area around the box while a bomb robot retrieved the package. Authorities suspect someone threw the trash in the rental property bin by mistake.
Endsley said it's better to be safe than sorry.
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New job, new dog?
Freshly minted The X Factor judge Britney Spears is showing off an adorable addition to her fan base: introducing ... Hannah!
"I want you all to meet my new little baby girl @hannahspears," Spears, 30, Tweeted Monday, alongside a sweet snapshot of the duo. "How cute is she?!?!"
And, yes, Britney's b––h already has a budding fan following of her own. The pint-sized pooch is taking to Twitter – perhaps with the help of mom – with some doggone pressing thoughts.
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HOLLIDAYSBURG - An audit of Blair County's 2012 fiscal year showed the county used reserve funds to cover a $1.1 million deficit when expenditures exceeded revenue.
If the county continues that trend, it could deplete its reserve in a few years, auditor David Scott of Young, Oakes, Brown & Co. of Altoona told county commissioners Tuesday.
"I would have preferred that it had been a little less," Commissioner Terry Tomassetti said of the $1.1 million deficit reported in the audit. "When we budgeted, we expected a half-million deficit."
Scott identified less revenue from property taxes, due to a declining tax base, and higher operating expenses as factors contributing to the $1.1 million deficit.
While commissioners, in December, increased property taxes for 2013 by 3.5 mills and sold Valley View Home as of June 1 for $16.5 million, those factors aren't reflected in the 2012 audit.
Scott declined Tuesday to address how the sale of the home will affect the county's financial picture, but it will be covered next year in the 2013 audit.
Tomassetti said Scott's warning about the continued use of the fund balance is valid, especially as the county gets closer to the maximum 30-mill levy to support the general fund. This year's increase took the county's property tax rate to 27.495 mills.
"I think we're OK for a while, but a while cannot be quantified in a specific number of years," Tomassetti said.
While the 2012 audit showed the county with $6.9 million in reserve funds, Scott cautioned that $3.8 million of the $6.9 million is due from Valley View's operations.
Because the home has been sold, the county's only way of satisfying that obligation is to cover the $3.8 million with proceeds from the sale. While the $16.5 million deal was completed as of June 1, commissioners have not yet decided how to allocate the sale proceeds.
The audit also identified the county's shortfall toward its annual pension fund obligation of about $5 million. Years ago, the county met its annual recommended contribution, Scott said. But after several years of no contributions, commissioners started a few years ago to allocate $200,000 annually toward an obligation that's grown to about $5 million.
Tomassetti, who said after Tuesday's meeting that some of the Valley View proceeds will likely be put toward that unfunded pension obligation, referred to the current $200,000 contributions as "a finger in the dike."
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Spectrum Pharmaceuticals is taking over the effort to develop and commercialize Ligand Pharmaceuticals' Captisol®-enabled, propylene glycol-free (PG-free) melphalan as part of a potentially $53 million-plus global licensing deal disclosed to regulators today.
Under the deal, Ligand and its CyDex Pharmaceuticals subsidiary granted to Spectrum an exclusive, nontransferable worldwide license to develop Captisol-enabled melphalan, a new intravenous formulation of the chemotherapy drug being investigated for multiple myeloma transplant patients. In return, Ligand will receive from Spectrum a nonrefundable $3 million license fee, and could rack up more than $50 million in payments tied to undisclosed milestones.
Ligand would also be eligible for "significant double-digit" royalties on future worldwide net sales of among "any products that are successfully commercialized," the company stated today in an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Spectrum said it will immediately begin overseeing a pivotal Phase III trial of Ligand's intravenous formulation of melphalan being investigated for use as a conditioning treatment prior to autologous stem cell transplant for patients with multiple myeloma.
The multi-center trial, launched in December 2012, will evaluate safety and efficacy in 60 patients. The trial is also intended to confirm results from an earlier Phase II study demonstrating that the Captisol-enabled melphalan formulation was safe and well-tolerated, and met the requirements for establishment of bioequivalence to the current commercial intravenous formulation of melphalan, sold by GlaxoSmithKline as Alkeran® for Injection.
"Spectrum has an established oncology and hematology business, and this melphalan product is an ideal complement to their two commercial hematology products, Zevalin and Folotyn, including an expected high degree of commercial call overlap," John Higgins, Ligand's president and CEO, said in a statement.
Publicly-traded Spectrum, headquartered in Henderson, NV, markets three cancer drugs: the folate analog Fusilev® (levoleucovorin) for injection, the CD20-directed radiotherapeutic antibody Zevalin® (ibritumomab tiuxetan) Injection, and the folate analog metabolic inhibitor Folotyn® (pralatrexate injection), for relapsed or refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma.
Ligand says the Captisol technology should allow the chemo drug to be administered for longer durations at slower infusion rates, potentially enabling clinicians to safely achieve a higher dose intensity of pretransplant chemotherapy. By avoiding PG, a co-solvent in Alkeran, Ligand reasons it can avoid renal and cardiac side-effects that limit the ability to deliver higher quantities of melphalan.
According to Ligand, the current intravenous melphalan market is approximately $130 million annually, with predominant use in stem cell transplants. For the drug's target population of patients with multiple myeloma, the rate of autologous stem cell transplants is growing by approximately 3.3% annually—about twice the 1.7% rate of incidence of new multiple myeloma cases nationwide.
Ligand said the licensing deal would raise its 2013 revenue guidance to investors to the range of $43 million to $46 million, versus previous guidance of $41 million to $44 million. The company also raised its guidance on earnings per share, to the range of 47 cents to 51 cents, versus previous guidance of 35 cents to 39 cents.
Headquartered in La Jolla, CA, publicly traded Ligand was founded in 1987 and markets treatments addressing the unmet medical needs of patients for a range of diseases including idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), multiple myeloma, diabetes, hepatitis, muscle wasting, dyslipidemia, anemia, and osteoporosis.
For multiple myeloma, Ligand markets Kyprolis® (carfilzomib) for Injection to patients with multiple myeloma who have received at least two prior therapies—including bortezomib and an immunomodulatory agent—and have demonstrated disease progression on or within 60 days of completion of the last therapy.
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Cataract surgery, usually an outpatient procedure, takes an hour or less to perform.
First, your doctor will place eyedrops in your eye to dilate your pupil. You'll receive local anesthetics to numb the area, and you may be given a sedative to help you relax. If you're given a sedative, you may remain awake, but groggy, during surgery.
During cataract surgery, the clouded lens is removed, and a clear artificial lens is usually implanted. In some cases, however, a cataract may be removed without implanting an artificial lens.
Surgical methods used to remove cataracts include:
Using an ultrasound probe to break up the lens for removal. During a procedure called phacoemulsification (fak-o-e-mul-sih-fih-KAY-shun), your surgeon makes a tiny incision in the front of your eye (cornea) and inserts a needle-thin probe into the lens substance where the cataract has formed.
Your surgeon then uses the probe, which transmits ultrasound waves, to break up (emulsify) the cataract and suction out the fragments.
The very back of your lens (the lens capsule) is left intact to serve as a place for the artificial lens to rest.
Stitches may or may not be used to close the tiny incision in your cornea at the completion of the procedure.
Making an incision in the eye and removing the lens. A less frequently used procedure called extracapsular cataract extraction requires a larger incision than that used for phacoemulsification.
Through this larger incision your surgeon uses surgical tools to remove the front capsule of the lens and the cloudy portion of your lens comprising the cataract.
The very back capsule of your lens is left in place to serve as a place for the artificial lens to rest.
This procedure may be performed if you have certain eye complications. With its larger incision, stitches are required to close the incision.
Once the cataract has been removed by either phacoemulsification or extracapsular extraction, a clear artificial lens is implanted into the empty lens capsule.
This implant, known as an intraocular lens (IOL), is made of plastic, acrylic or silicone. You won't be able to see or feel the lens. It requires no care and becomes a permanent part of your eye.
A variety of IOLs with different features are available. Some IOLs are rigid plastic and implanted through an incision that requires several stitches (sutures) to close.
However, many IOLs are flexible, allowing a smaller incision that requires few or no stitches. The surgeon folds this type of lens and inserts it into the empty capsule where the natural lens used to be. Once inside the eye, the folded IOL unfolds, filling the empty capsule.
Some types of IOLs block ultraviolet light. Some types of IOLs work like bifocals to provide both near and distant vision. Others provide only distant or near vision. For some people, a lens can be chosen to provide distant vision for one eye and near vision for the other eye.
Discuss the benefits and risks of the different types of IOLs with your eye surgeon to determine what's best for you.
After cataract surgery, expect your vision to begin improving within a few days. Your vision may be blurry at first as your eye heals and adjusts.
You'll usually see your eye doctor a day or two after your surgery, the following week, and then again after about a month to monitor healing.
It's normal to feel itching and mild discomfort for a couple of days after surgery. Avoid rubbing or pushing on your eye. Your doctor may ask you to wear an eye patch or protective shield the day of surgery. Your doctor may also recommend wearing the eye patch for a few days after your surgery and the protective shield when you sleep during the recovery period.
Your doctor may prescribe eyedrops or other medication to prevent infection, reduce inflammation and control eye pressure. After a couple of days, most of the discomfort should disappear. Often, complete healing occurs within eight weeks.
Contact your doctor immediately if you experience any of the following:
Most people need glasses, at least some of the time, after cataract surgery. Your doctor will let you know when your eyes have healed enough for you to get a final prescription for eyeglasses.
If you have cataracts in both eyes, your doctor usually schedules a second surgery a month or two later to remove the cataract in your other eye. This allows time for the first eye to heal before the second eye surgery takes place.
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David Glass expects the Kansas City Royals to be competitive this season and is hopeful the team can have its first winning season since 2003.
The Royals owner, who attended a stop Monday on the club's caravan near his home in northwest Arkansas, praised general manager Dayton Moore and said the offseason trades that secured pitchers James Shields and Ervin Santana were part of Kansas City's "overall plan."
Glass hopes the revamped pitching staff can improve on last season, when the Royals starters compiled a 5.01 ERA - fifth-worst in the big leagues.
Moore traded top prospect Wil Myers among others to Tampa Bay in order to acquire Shields and Wade Davis, a move that followed the acquisition of Santana from the Los Angeles Angels.


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Author Affiliations: School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, and the WAIMR Centre for Food and Genomic Medicine, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (Drs Hodgson, Puddey, and Croft and Ms Scott); Discipline of General Practice, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (Dr Woodman); and Unilever Research and Development, Vlaardingen, the Netherlands (Drs Mulder and Fuchs).
High blood pressure (BP) is a leading risk factor contributing to the global burden of disease. Small changes in BP due to dietary modification may have a significant impact on the prevalence of hypertension and risk of cardiovascular disease.1
Tea is a popular beverage worldwide and is usually the major source of population flavonoid intake, often providing more than half of total intake.2 There is mounting evidence that tea and its flavonoids can make an important contribution to vascular health.3 However, the effects of regular consumption of black tea on BP remain unclear.
Our objective was to assess the effects of regular black tea consumption (3 cups/d) for 6 months on 24-hour ambulatory BP. We found that black tea consumption resulted in significantly lower systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP).
A randomized placebo-controlled double-blind 6-month parallel designed trial was performed. Men and women aged 35 to 75 years, who were regular tea drinkers, with a body mass index of 19 to 35 (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) and a daytime ambulatory SBP between 115 and 150 mm Hg at screening were recruited from the general population.
Following randomization, participants followed a low-flavonoid diet during a 4-week run-in period and throughout the 6-month intervention. During run-in, participants consumed 3 cups/d of regular leaf tea. During the 6-month intervention, participants consumed 3 cups/d of either 1493-mg powdered black tea solids containing 429 mg of polyphenols and 96 mg of caffeine (tea), or a placebo matched in flavor and caffeine content, containing no tea solids. Intake of regular leaf tea ceased during this time. The primary outcome of 24-hour ambulatory BP,4 biochemical measurements, and dietary assessments were performed at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months.
Intent-to-treat analysis was performed by a biostatistician blinded to treatment allocation. A prespecified statistical analysis plan, which was finalized prior to breaking the randomization code, was followed. The effect of black tea on baseline-adjusted BP at 3 and 6 months was assessed using linear mixed models in STATA 11 (StataCorp) using "xtmixed" and "margins" commands. The trial was approved by the University of Western Australia Ethics Committee and registered at the Australian New Zealand Clinical trials Registry (see eAppendix [eMethods] for additional detail of study design and statistical analysis.
The trial profile is provided in the eFigure. The intent-to-treat population included 95 participants randomized to the trial who completed baseline. There were no significant differences at baseline between the placebo and tea groups, respectively, in numbers of men and women (18 men/31 women; 15 men/31 women, respectively), mean (SD) age (56.3 [10.6] years; 56.9 [10.7] years, respectively), body mass index (25.2 [3.3]; 25.0 [3.7], respectively), and 24-hour SBP/DBP (121.4 [9.7]/72.9 [6.6] mm Hg; 121.2 [9.0]/71.5 [7.2] mm Hg, respectively). Energy and nutrient intakes, urinary sodium and potassium excretion, and body weight were not different between groups at baseline and were not significantly altered during the 6-month intervention.
The unadjusted mean hourly 24-hour ambulatory BP data are summarized in the Figure. Compared with placebo, regular ingestion of black tea over 6 months resulted in lower 24-hour SBP and DBP. Net effects (mean difference [95% CI]) for 24-hour SBP were −2.7 (−4.7 to −0.8) mm Hg (P = .006) at 3 months and −2.0 (−4.0 to −0.0) mm Hg (P = .05) at 6 months. Net effects for 24-hour DBP were −2.3 (−3.6 to −0.9) mm Hg (P < .001) at 3 months and −2.1 (−3.5 to −0.7) mm Hg (P = .003) at 6 months. Significant differences in BP were also observed for daytime and nighttime BPs separately, but effects on the overall 24-hour BP were mainly driven by daytime BP (Figure and eTable).
Figure. Effects of black tea on 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure (intent-to-treat population, n = 95). Data are the unadjusted mean ambulatory systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) for each hour over 24 hours according to beverage (placebo or tea) at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months.
Regular consumption of 3 cups/d of black tea over 6 months, supplying approximately 429 mg/d of polyphenols, resulted in lower SBP and DBP of between 2 and 3 mm Hg. A large proportion of the general population have BP within the range included in this trial, making results of the trial applicable to individuals at increased risk of hypertension. Most previous short-term randomized controlled trials of regular black tea consumption have not shown significant effects on BP.3 The main limitation of these trials is that they were generally underpowered to detect small but clinically important effects on BP.3,5 It is also possible that longer-term regular consumption of black tea is needed for significant falls in BP to become apparent.
There are a number of potential mechanisms for BP lowering by black tea. Hypertension and endothelial dysfunction are integrally related, and endothelial dysfunction may be an early marker for BP changes. A recent meta-analysis found that tea consumption can improve endothelial function,6 and we have previously shown that tea flavonoids can augment nitric oxide status and reduce plasma concentrations of endothelin-1.7 This could contribute to reduced vascular tone and lower BP. Another possible mechanism involves effects of tea flavonoids to alter body weight and/or visceral fatness. A recent meta-analysis suggests that green tea and its flavonoids—many of which are structurally similar to black tea flavonoids—together with caffeine can reduce body weight and abdominal fatness.8 Although in the present study we found no significant effect on body weight, effects on abdominal fatness remain a possible explanation for the observed effects on BP.
In conclusion, our study has demonstrated for the first time to our knowledge that long-term regular consumption of black tea can result in significantly lower BPs in individuals with normal to high-normal range BPs. At a population level, the observed differences in BP would be associated with a 10% reduction in the prevalence of hypertension and a 7% to 10% reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease.1 Therefore, given the high prevalence of hypertension worldwide and the importance of hypertension as a risk factor for cardiovascular and total mortality, these findings have important public health implications.
Correspondence: Dr Hodgson, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Royal Perth Hospital Unit, GPO Box X2213, Perth 6847, Australia (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Author Contributions: Dr Hodgson had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. The primary data analysis was performed independent of Unilever Research and Development by Dr Woodman, employed by Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, who followed the prespecified statistical analysis plan. He did not receive compensation of funding to perform the analysis. Study concept and design: Hodgson, Puddey, Mulder, Fuchs, Scott, and Croft. Acquisition of data: Hodgson, Scott, and Croft. Analysis and interpretation of data: Hodgson, Puddey, Woodman, Mulder, Fuchs, and Croft. Drafting of the manuscript: Hodgson and Scott. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Hodgson, Puddey, Woodman, Mulder, Fuchs, Scott, and Croft. Statistical analysis: Hodgson, Woodman, Mulder, and Fuchs. Obtained funding: Hodgson, Puddey, Mulder, Fuchs, and Croft. Administrative, technical, and material support: Hodgson, Puddey, Mulder, Fuchs, Scott, and Croft. Study supervision: Hodgson and Croft.
Financial Disclosure: None reported.
Funding/Support: Funding for the study was provided by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (grant 513744); and Unilever Research and Development, Vlaardingen, the Netherlands.
Trial Registration: anzctr.org.au Identifier: ACTR12607000543482
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quote: I would happily vote libertarian, but who is running? What is their platform? Why were those candidates not included in the presidential debates? The media has done a fantastic job of supporting and maintaining this duo-cracy.
quote: Now I'll probably get down-rated for saying it, but this last part is precisely the reason I don't vote.


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�I believe in human potential, the ability for life to heal, the creativity of the human spirit, the intelligence and sacredness of the interconnected web of life.�
So writes Renee Podunovich in her new chapbook Let the Scaffolding Collapse, a collection of intimate and expansive poetic morsels that explore the peeling away of the facades humans create in exchange for a vulnerable presence in the world.
While there may be no such thing as the average writer, Podunovich is far from being one of the usual subjects. A passionate scribbler and alchemist of feeling into image, Podunovich also studied psychology and sociology and is a Licensed Professional Counselor with her office near Durango.
�I�m interested in the patterns of my inner life, how they are congruent or not to patterns in the world, how they influence my relationships to others, both in positive and negative ways,� Podunovich said. �In counseling, I have the honor of being able to support others as they explore those dynamics for themselves.�
Growing up in a family of writers, including a mother with an master�s degree in journalism and an interest in Jungian psychology, Podunovich started writing when she was 15.
�It was very spontaneous ... Suddenly, I had found a way to make sense of my world: both the inner world and the outer world ... It has been a tremendous gift,� she said. While she dabbles in other forms, including short stories and personal essays, �I always come back to poetry.�
On the page, Podunovich manages to be as raw as she is tender. She tackles with wry humor the paradoxical idea that writers write about themselves even as they depict other people and other landscapes in �This Poem is not about Me�:
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Yeah that phaser video looks like poop!
25 minutes ago, IRB wrote
Yeah that phaser video looks like poop!
Do you mean the video quality? You do realize that in order to see a laser you have to fill the room with smoke/fog, right?
Whut? Girls coding? I hope it is in the kitchen then
I think that "bluray laser" thingy is fake. I don't think it would generate that strong light from the laser since the air normally does not absorb the energy in it that easily, even though there is a lot of smoke in that room I have my doubts but I'm not saying it is fake.
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Do you mean the video quality? You do realize that in order to see a laser you have to fill the room with smoke/fog, right?
I meant fake, I know you need to fog the room up and the beam was way too solid for that amount of smoke unless it was crazy powerful and would be popping more than a ballon.
I'm saying shenanigans on it.
Congratz on your gigs Paul; awesome!
Congratz on shipping SCA Paul; awesome!
SCA sounds similar to Managed Workplace's Service Center ... I was on the original dev team for that product, 8-9 years ago. We too had an agent based architecture, which I worked on in particular, and the event monitoring system, etc....
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Pooh Illustrations to Be Auctioned
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November 10, 2014, Monday
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December 22, 2010, Wednesday
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Jones challenges Lauzon to grappling match
Tonight UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones challenged lightweight fighter Joe Lauzon to a jiu-jitsu match, with his hands tied together:
Hey somebody tell @JoeLauzon i'd beat him in a jujitsu match with my hands taped closed
Lauzon was quick to respond, immediately accepting the challenge:
@JonnyBones this can be arranged!
Lauzon and Jones continued a friendly banter back and forth on Twitter, so I don't think the challenge was meant unkindly. Jones suggested a charity event and then attempted to back down and offer Phil Davis as a replacement. Lauzon then called the champion out on calling out a lightweight then backing out. Which of course made Jones accept.
It looks like this is just two guys having fun with each other, but it could be interesting. UFC champion versus one of the lightweights most exciting submission fighters in a gi, with the champions hands taped together.


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U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos has changed her mind — sort of .... The East Moline Democrat, who is coming to Rockford on Monday to conduct an economic summit meeting with workers, employers and other "thought leaders," has decided to open up her meeting, which had been billed as a closed event, to "accredited" members of the media.
This revision came soon after I published a blog this morning that blasted the very idea of a former investigative reporter for the Quad City Times trying to bar the public and press from what should be an open meeting between constituents and their member of Congress.
Well, it's still not an open meeting. I don't see any reason why an "accredited" reporter, meaning one from an old school news organization like mine, deserves special treatment. If you're going to allow the local TV stations and newspapers in, throw the doors open to the "new" media bloggers, tweeters and the general public.
Bustos spokesman Colin Milligan explained that because 25 to 35 participants have been invited to the 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. meeting at the Rockford Metropolitan Agency for Planning, 315 N. Main St., and the room is relatively small, "we don't want to risk violating the fire code" by allowing the public to come in.
The public will be invited to provide input at a larger, district-wide summit later this year, Milligan said.


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IN NET - Officially, Holland wants to improve our goalie tandem - specifically, at the backup position (i.e. bye, Joey).
ON D - Holland should not and will not put a cap on Nick's contract. Ryan Suter, Dennis Wideman, Matt Carle - any one of them would be . Smith's a full-time Wing out of training camp.
IN GENERAL Don't expect any trades this summer. Babs basically said as much. And, by now, don't we know as much?
UP FRONT - Top 6 - We need a goal-scorer and a legitimate power-forward. Re: the latter, Franzen is probably that guy, unfortunately. Ryan Smyth kind of interests me, though I don't think he'd want to sign here. Dustin Penner is 6'4 but he doesn't properly utilize his frame, and he's an underachiever - which makes him the prototypical Red Wings power-forward. So I can see him coming here. Then again, the Kings may soon be the Cup champs....
Re: the former (the goal-scorer), we need Zach Parise.
Bottom 6 - We need a couple of big, tough, gritty, hard-working, blue-collar types. Ideally, one of these guys is a center, as we need a solid fourth-line pivot. (Babs wants Helm centering the third line.) I like Brandon Prust and, for the fourth-line center slot, Chris Kelly, Jason Arnott, or Zenon Konopka.
I disagree about trades being out of the question-- it all depends on how Holland does on July 1st. If he strikes out we're almost guaranteed he will look very hard for trade possibilities.
I have zero interest in Penner unless he's cheap. He comes with huge questions about his commitment on and off the ice (especially in terms of whether he is NHL-fit).
Odds are, we don't get either of them, and Franzen keeps his spot in the top 6, and we continue to misguidedly count on him to be That Guy for us - the big raging power-forward that the best shutdown players in the league absolutely hate to play against. Not that I think Smyth or Penner would be significantly better, mind you.
As for the age issue - we're a bit too old, I suppose. But none of our older players are going to be traded, so we're going to have to get younger by way of FAs and prospects. Really, though - age isn't one of our key worries. We need scoring. We need to get bigger, tougher, stronger, meaner, harder to play against. We need our D to not spot the opposition two goals every game in the playoffs....
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Dancing's Cheryl Burke: D.L. Hughley Needs to 'Loosen Up'
My partner D.L. Hughley is still on his comedy tour and performing every weekend. He is still working at his job, as well as doing Dancing with the Stars, so it has been a little bit challenging to get a lot of rehearsal time before Monday's season 16 premiere.
But it's always a struggle in the beginning. D.L. has more room for improvement, but he's learned his routine. We had a big breakthrough when we were actually able to get through the whole routine to music. He just needs to loosen up a little and have a good time. At the end of the day, even if he's not going to be the best technical dancer, at least he has personality and can show people that he's having fun.
D.L. doesn't take himself too seriously – and that's great. But I showed him old footage of a previous partner, Emmitt Smith, who glowed when he was dancing. He had so much charisma. I told D.L. to do what he does when he's doing stand-up comedy.
I'm sure he's nervous. It's something he's never done before. Dancing and flying are the most terrifying things to him. That's why he signed up to do this show – he wanted to do something that was completely out of his comfort zone. Our first dance is the cha cha. He really needs to loosen up his hips. He says his hips are shy. We have to get them moving. At the end of the day, he's physical. He can really hear the music. He dances on time to it.
D.L. is going to be fine. I told him that no matter what, I will see him on the other side, which means we just have to get to our last move. He said some of his friends would say the same thing to each other before a stand-up routine. That's going to be our motto this season.
I always feel sorry in the beginning for everyone who does the show because it's so much to learn when it comes to technique. You want to do everything perfect, but it's not going to happen. Right now, I'm just trying to tell D.L. to have fun with it and forget about the technique. He's learned what he's learned.
I always feel nervous for my partners at the beginning of a season. I'm there to support D.L. This season, since I've never danced with a comedian before, it's different. I know it doesn't come natural. He's admitted he's terrified, so I'll be his cheerleader.
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