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ATLANTA - No one in Georgia political circles can recall a situation quite like this.
Brian Sloan announced Monday his bid for re-election to the Hall County Board of Education Post 2.
Kimbo Senter has announced his candidacy for the District 1 seat on the Hall County Board of Commissioners.
ATHENS - As he and four other Democratic candidates in the race for Georgia's governor squared off Tuesday in their first televised debate, David Poythress made at least one promise none of the other candidates in his party made.
There is another Republican in the running for Georgia's 9th District seat in Congress.
U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal is scheduled to appear on "Your World with Neil Cavuto" today on the Fox News Channel.
Brian Tam isn't going anywhere.
Citing financial concerns, Mike Evans of Forsyth County announced Wednesday that he is dropping out of the race for the 9th District seat in the U.S. House.
In 2009, Hall County proved to be one of the state's greatest campaign contributors.
Every new job has an adjustment period.
ATLANTA - Friday was a dollar deadline in the race for Georgia governor as the crowded field of candidates faced a key hurdle: demonstrating they can raise enough cash to go the distance.
Hall County Commissioner Steve Gailey has announced he will not seek re-election this year.
Gillsville City Hall will soon be open for those eyeing a seat on City Council.
With midnight the deadline for donations before the beginning of the election year, candidates for all of Georgia's offices have been beating the bushes, and their supporters' e-mail inboxes, for last-minute contributions that will make their campaigns at least look successful.
A Democrat has jumped into the candidate pool full of Republicans vying for Georgia's 9th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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"Between the Covers" is the theme for the 2012 Adult Summer Reading Program at the James Kennedy Public Library in Dyersville. The program runs from June 1 to August 31 with registration beginning on Friday, June 1. Join us for programs, displays, and activities. Everyone 18 and older is encouraged to participate in this fun summer reading program. Participants pick an 'alias' and write a brief review for each book that they read or listen to during the summer. Participants will receive a "goodie bag" with incentives forms and information when they sign up. Earn prizes and help other readers find their next great read! Theme related programs or movies will be held on the the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Mondays at 7:00 pm. Additional special programs, author visits, and displays will be held during these three months. Everyone who submits at least one review will be eligible to attend a special party scheduled for Sunday, September 23. Stop in, call, or email the library to learn more details or to sign up!


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo volleyball team dropped their first Sunshine State Conference match of the season on Friday evening as they fell to the Barry Buccaneers 3-1 (19-25, 25-22, 25-20, 25-23) at the Marion Bowman Activities Center. With the setback the Lions fall to 6-3 overall and are now 0-1 in SSC play.
After a back-and-forth second set, the Buccaneers (6-3, 1-0 SSC) stole the momentum and came out on top with 15 kills and a .228 hitting percentage.
The third set was quite a battle. Despite overcoming a 7-2 deficit, and notching more kills than their opponents, the Lions fell short as the Buccaneers held on to the five-point victory.
The fourth set mimicked the third, with the Lions in a 7-3 hole, but they quickly battled back within two. Rallying back to tie the set at 18, the Buccaneers did not take their foot off the pedal with key kills late in the match to pull out the win.
In a heartbreaking loss for the Lions, Jaclyn Mailoto amassed 46 assists along with 11 digs. Other standout Lions included Sami Vierk who totaled 17 kills and Meghan Donovan who knocked down 12 attacks on just two errors.
Tania Torres and Ashley Carrero combined 27 kills for the Buccaneers. Torres finished with 15 and Carrero posted 12 leading the team to a .303 hitting percentage.
Despite the loss, the Lions will have less than 24 hours before hosting another SSC contest, this time with Lynn University on Saturday. The match is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. in the Marion Bowman Activities Center.
For more on the women's volleyball program, visit SaintLeoLions.com. Also, be sure to 'Like' the Lions on Facebook at facebook.com/saintleolions, and 'Follow' the Lions on Twitter at Twitter.com/saintleolions.
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COMMUNITY projects can bid for a share of a cash pot.
Malvern Hills District Council has launched the improved two-part ward budget scheme for the next year to enable councillors to better support local good causes by giving every councillor up to £500 to support of community projects of their choice in their ward.
Cllr David Hughes, leader of the council, said: "It's great to see cross party support for this initiative and I look forward to seeing what fantastic community causes councillors find to spend this money on throughout the district."
A new fund of £20,000 will enable councillors to bid for up to £5,000 for a capital ward project.
Submissions to the fund will be reviewed annually with decisions on the projects made by a panel made up of the leader of the council, the council's head of resources and a nominated member from each of the three political groups.
Anyone interested in putting forward an idea for a community project should get in touch with their local ward member.
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The New York Mets -announced that they recalled right-handed pitcher Jenrry Mejia from Buffalo (AAA) of the International League. In addition, the team also selected the contract of outfielder Lucas Duda from Buffalo. Mejia will wear uniform #32 and Duda will wear uniform #21. Both players will be available for Wednesday's game in Atlanta.
Mejia, 20, made 30 relief appearances with the Mets earlier this season, going 0-2 with a 3.25 ERA (10 earned runs/27.2 innings). He allowed 29 hits, 15 walks and struck out 17 before being optioned to Binghamton (AA) of the Eastern League on June 20. The 6-0, 162-pound righthander made six starts with Binghamton, going 2-0 with a 1.32 ERA (four earned runs/27.1 innings) allowing 19 hits with 14 walks and 26 strikeouts before being promoted to Buffalo on Saturday, Aug. 28. In a no-decision on Monday, Aug. 30, he made his lone appearance with the Bisons, tossing 8.0 innings, allowing one run on five hits while walking one and striking out nine against the Syracuse Sky Chiefs.
Duda, the Mets seventh round selection in the 2007 draft, split time during the 2010 campaign between Binghamton and Buffalo. In 114 games between the two stops, he hit .304 (129-424) with 74 runs scored, 40 doubles, 23 home runs and 87 RBI. Since his promotion to Buffalo in mid-June he hit .314 (83-264) with 44 runs scored, 23 doubles, two triples, 17 home runs and 53 RBI in 70 games. The left-handed-hitting Duda tied a Buffalo franchise record with a home run in five consecutive games from June 28 to July 2.


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To several generations of geeks, it's called a Kobayashi Maru scenario -- a no-win situation in which every decision results in some sort of unfavourable outcome.
In 2009's Star Trek reboot and the 1982 classic The Wrath of Khan, young military candidates are presented with a rescue simulation that results in their destruction no matter what course they choose.
Winnipeg's Mayor Sam Katz faces a similarly unwinnable test with the 2013 operating budget, which includes a plan to spend $722,000 to reverse a five-year-old decision to get rid of City of Winnipeg policy advisers.
Back in 2008, former chief administrative officer Glen Laubenstein engineered a public-service reorganization that saw the city dissolve two small but important departments. One was the CAO secretariat, which was a group of policy analysts and other apolitical support staff who worked directly for the city's top civil servant.
The other was EPC secretariat, which also contained policy advisers but functioned in a more political role. EPC secretariat's small staff co-ordinated the agenda-setting efforts of city council -- primarily the mayor and executive policy committee -- with the work conducted by city administrators.
The point of Laubenstein's reorganization was to eliminate redundancy and maybe save some money. Most, but not all, of the advisers from the two dissolved departments soon left the city.
Their absence was noticed quickly as 2009 turned out to be a gong show. A new garbage-collection plan was unveiled only a week before a council vote. A complex proposal to replace the water and waste department with a new utility was botched during the rollout phase, amended on the fly by council and eventually tossed aside. Property officials tried to slide the controversial Parker land swap by council days before a summer recess.
Initially, the mayor resisted the idea he needed to re-hire policy advisers. But as the dearth of oversight began to extract a greater public-relations toll, Katz added experienced advisers such as current chief of staff Bonnie Staples-Lyon to his office. Phil Sheegl, Laubenstein's successor as CAO, followed suit by adding former NDP cabinet adviser Etoile Stewart to his own staff.
Now, in the aftermath of a disastrous 2012 that included both the water-park debacle and the fire-paramedic station construction scandal, Katz agrees it was a bad idea to get rid of all the big brains.
"There's no doubt in my mind it was a mistake," the mayor told reporters after the budget was tabled. "And now we're bringing something back that's different, that will deal with more issues for less than half the money."
The 2013 operating budget calls for the city to rehire four advisers to staff a new "policy development and communications office" that will resume the unloved but essential task of killing bad ideas before they are made public and otherwise managing the direction of city hall.
The $722,000 tab will be offset by a $125,000 transfer from Sheegl's office budget. Overall, the spending is a drop in the bucket in a $921.6-million operating budget.
But that's still tough to explain to homeowners facing a 3.87 per cent property-tax hike. The idea Winnipeggers need to spend money to help city hall prevent itself from making dumb decisions likely won't go over well.
Hence the no-win situation facing the mayor. But it gets better, as the budget also includes $600,000 in additional spending on office budgets for councillors. The 2013 budget calls for every councillor to be able to spend $114,000 this year on assistants, advertising and other office expenses, compared with $74,000 in 2012. Again, councillors say they need this cash to better respond to residents.
That may be entirely legitimate, but good luck explaining that to homeowners facing their second property-tax hike in a row -- or the third, if you count 2011's frontage-levy hike.
Katz is correct when he says Winnipeg has low municipal property taxes compared with other cities. As well, he also made amends for the 2011 frontage-levy shell game, when he tried to claim $14 million in new frontage revenues would be devoted to fixing streets. That cash only replaced money removed from the roads budget.
This year, a one per cent property-tax hike really will be dedicated to road renewal. The budget documents prepared by city finance officials are even more transparent than usual.
But the public may not be in any mood to accept the idea of higher taxes or new spending on council budgets or hiring a quartet of policy advisers. From a public-relations standpoint, Katz really cannot win.


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HUNDREDS of people filled Worcester Cathedral to pay their respects to Denise Inge, the wife of the Bishop of Worcester, who lost her battle against cancer.
Bishop John was joined by his eldest daughter Eleanor, 15, as well as the the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu and almost 1,000 mourners this afternoon.
The moving and often uplifting service gave thanks for the 51-year-old's life and people were reminded throughout of her words shortly after she was diagnosed with an inoperable sarcoma in her abdomen. - "Whatever happens, Alleluia is our song."
Dr Inge, who is also mother to Olivia, nine, lost her fight to cancer on Easter Sunday (April 20) surrounded by her loved ones.
Stirring songs performed by members of All Saints Church, where Dr Inge was a member, filled the air as people began to take their seats with the sound of the magnificent Cathedral bells sounding out during lulls in the music.
Dr Helen Farish read an extract from Dr Inge's forthcoming book A Tour of Bones, to be published on November 6, for which she toured charnel houses in Europe after becoming troubled living above a charnel house in Worcester.
The extract ended with the line: "What I have been surprised to discover, as these questions chase and wash over me, is that preparing to live and preparing to die are in the end the same thing."
Dean of Worcester, the Very Reverend Peter Atkinson gave a touching sermon entitled Alleluia Is Our Song which included a reading from Luke 24.13-35 and referred to Denise as an "Easter Christian".
In an extremely poignant moment, he told those gathered: "If all of us have shared part of that road with Denise, none of us have done so more closely, more lovingly, or more intensely than her husband and her daughters.
"If Denise longed to live, it was to be wife to John and mother to Eleanor and Olivia.
" And during these recent months the rest of us have shared their hopes and fears; and now we offer them – we offer you, John, Eleanor, Olivia – our helpless but still deeply-felt love."
He spoke of the strength of her belief, the "enormous web of praying" that followed Dr Inge's diagnosis and her love of Thomas Traherne who she became a respected authority on.
A smattering of laughter broke out as the dean told those gathered: "Three months ago, during that gracious respite of her disease, John and Denise with many others from this diocese made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
"You have all seen the picture of Denise and John standing, hand in hand, trousers rolled up, shin-deep in the River Jordan, looking for all the world like a pair of children on holiday – which they were."
Dr Sentamu spoke warmly of Dr Inge and called her a "real woman of encouragement" who was full of faith.
Music played a big part in the service with the Cathedral choir performing and hymns including Lift High the Cross, God is our Strength and Refuge and Thine be the Glory as well as modern pieces.
As the coffin left the cathedral through the west door carried by Denise's three brothers and brother-in-law and followed by Bishop John and his daughter, the choir sang the Nunc Dimittis to a setting by Geoffrey Burgon.
Berega Hospital in Morogoro, Tanzania, run by Anglican Diocese of Morogoro which is linked with the Diocese of Worcester, will benefit from the retiring collection.
A private burial service in Bredwardine, Herefordshire will take place tomorrow (Wednesday).


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Get Your Go-To People in Place
Years pass, social circles change and close friends fade away. Maybe it's time to assess your friendships and reinforce your support system.
-Art Markman, Ph.D., YouBeauty.com
When you are in high school and college, your social circle is set. You have people you see in class, friends to eat lunch with, people to hang out with on a Saturday night. If something goes wrong, there is a whole list of people you can call to talk about it.
After graduation, though, it seems like your social circle starts to compress. The modern workplace is often more work than social time. That means that you may spend over a third of your day with people that you don't really know that well. When you get into a serious relationship, your social circle can get even tighter. You end up spending so much time with your partner that you don't have much time to keep up friendships.
These days, many people trade quality friendships for Facebook friends. You may have 1,000 connections in a social network program, but that does not mean that you have many deep connections.
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That is too bad. It is also a potential problem.
Ask yourself, if you had to share a great success at work, who would you call first? If you had a serious problem that you needed to work through, who would you contact? If you had a couple of extra hours on a weekend, who would you call to hang out?
If the answer to those questions is the same person in each case, then you need to think about finding a broader set of connections.
It is healthy to have a few close friends. It is great to be able to get a second opinion when you are struggling with a decision and to be able to share your good news with a few people who will really care about it. It is also great to have people that you know can rely on you when they need something.
If you are like many people, though, and you find that your social world has gotten too small, get back on the road to making some good friends. Here are a few suggestions.
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If you haven't been by the Oakland Zoo's bear exhibit recently you really need to come see the furnishings. Thanks to Natural Balance Pet Food and PETCO we were able to bring in large logs, by crane, and rebuild the structures.
Many thanks to the Redwood Crane Company and ZooKeeper Jeff Kinzley for all of their hard work and to Colleen Kinzley for having the vision and seeing it through. The sun bears are thoroughly enjoying their new digs.
Ting Ting is a little less enthusiastic than the little girls but she is making herself at home on the many level telephone pole structure. You will also see her walking the giant log across the pool in these pictures.
We have always had the most spacious exhibit for sun bears and the most natural substrate but we were lacking complexity for these curious, busy bears. What a great step forward this is.


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Q. What is the proper way to capitalize (or not capitalize) "generation X"? Merriam-Webster lists "baby boom" and "baby boomer," which I would normally take as a precedent, but it seems that "generation" should be capitalized because it precedes a single letter. Has this been decided?
Q. Besides italicization, does "ceteris paribus" require an initial C? In an article of mine, I wrote: "With this notation, the ceteris paribus cost relevant to the source . . ." The copyeditor capitalized "ceteris" but not "paribus." Why would that be?
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Q. I would like additional clarification regarding a recent Q&A. You stated that a word that is part of a proper name should not be capitalized if such word is being used as an article in the sentence. The example given was "We evaluated the University of Texas's enrollment data." You stated that this was correct even if the proper name of this school is "The University of Texas." I thought that the goal of good editing was to produce clear, accurate, and comprehensible text. If "The" as part of a proper name is not capitalized, the reader will be led to believe that it is not part of the name. Why create confusion, to say nothing of the insult that may be given in certain cultures and communities where a name may have great significance?
Q. Throughout a book I am editing, there are numerous references to rules and laws that the author defines, for example, the Law of Cause and Effect, the Rules of the Game. She also capitalizes other words that are normally lowercased: Light (as in "toward the Light") and Habit (when referring to a behavior that keeps us from following the rules of the game). I realize that she is capitalizing to place an emphasis on these words and make them stand out, but I am not entirely comfortable with this. Do you have any suggestions?
Q. My grammar books say to cap the first word of what comes after a colon if what comes after the colon is a complete sentence. I noticed you didn't do that. ("Check it out in printed books and magazines and newspapers: you probably won't find any double periods after abbreviations.")
Q. When should the word "century" be capitalized? I know it would not be capitalized in this case: "It's not happened in this century." But what about this: "Were many people rich in the eighteenth century?" or "What did people wear in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania?"
Q. Can you revisit the issue of capitalization of "city of" and "state of" when used to identify an employer? Under 7.40 in the 14th edition, words such as "city" and "state" "are capitalized when they are used as an accepted part of the proper name." Presumably you mean accepted by the powers of CMOS. In my example, Jan Johnson works for the (c)ity of Johnsonville, and I would like to offer her recognition in a conference brochure along with Rick Ricker of the state department of transportation. Suffice to say that heated debate is generated when one questions the way things always have been done.


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MANSON -- Jake Sanheim never gave any thought his mixed grain and cattle farm had oil under it.
That was for landholders to the south around Virden and in Manitoba's southwest corner.
Then, three years, ago a company called Fort Calgary Resources Ltd. came calling. He gave it permission to drill a vertical test hole on his property and up came a gusher: 250 barrels of oil a day.
To put that into context, a very good oil well produces 100 barrels a day; even a brand-new hole drilled farther north is producing just 20 barrels a day.
Manitoba had a hot new oil play.
That kind of event has been heard before in western Manitoba but not where it's happening now, north of the Trans-Canada Highway, stretching almost all the way to Russell.
The new oilfield that started on Sanheim's farm, northwest of Virden off Highway 41, had never seen oil exploration before. It's called the Manson Field, named after the humblest, tiniest of hamlets nearby, comprising half a dozen houses, a community hall and two plaques: one where the former school used to be, and one where the former United church used to be.
The Manson Field discovery came just over a year after the development of another oilfield 30 kilometres north, the Birdtail Field, situated between St. Lazare and Birtle.
It's not like oilfields come along every day. Birdtail and Manson are just the fifth and sixth oilfields discovered in Manitoba. The last oilfield discovery was the Sinclair Field in 2004, and that was the first new one in a quarter-century. The Sinclair Field in southwestern Manitoba has turned into the largest oil development in Manitoba, exceeding even the Virden Field, where Manitoba's oil production started in 1951.
"We're not really sure where the boundaries of producible oil are anymore," conceded Keith Lowdon, Manitoba Petroleum Branch director.
Much of the new oil development is technology-driven. Some of that is fracking -- hydraulic fracturing of rock to allow oil to seep out -- but the Manson and Birdtail oilfields are mostly on more permeable rock that doesn't require fracking. Horizontal drilling -- where a vertical hole is drilled until it strikes oil, then bends in a horizontal direction for up to 1.6 kilometres along the oil deposit -- is the main reason. "That's been huge," said Lowdon. The price of oil has also been a catalyst to explore for new oil sources.
The newest oilfields aren't large producers yet. The Manson has 103 wells, the Birdtail nearly 80. The Sinclair Field has 2,100. "I don't think there will ever be another Sinclair in Manitoba," said Lowdon.
But much more activity is coming north of the Trans-Canada if oil prices stay high. One of three companies in the field has told employees it's drilling 30 holes this year. "That's going to be an area of interest just for the fact there are a lot of areas that haven't been drilled before, so there's exploration to be done," said Lowdon.
Of Manson's 103 wells, 17 of them are on Sanheim's property.
Sanheim doesn't own the mineral rights -- the province does -- so he hasn't become rich. At the standard 18 per cent royalty on oil, the province is making $5 million per year from royalties on his land alone, he said.
But Sanheim, 81, does receive surface-rights payments. He received a one-time payment of around $8,000 per drilled hole -- around $135,000 total -- then another $3,500 per year on most of his active wells -- about $55,000 per year. He also has a battery on his property -- a gathering place for oil to be piped from surrounding wells and where water is separated from the oil. A price for that is being negotiated.
"I'm by no means a millionaire," he said, but the unexpected income is nice.
Others are waiting for the oil industry to knock on their doors. Sanheim's nephew, Ron Sanheim, shares mineral rights on a quarter-section of land down the road with his mother and brother.
"It's all good to get the oil. It's like honey," said Ron. "It looks like 10w30 coming out of the hole. And there's no smell to it. It's not the black, heavy oil." Light crude fetches a higher price than the black stuff for the oil companies.
Some people prefer not to talk about it. One man in the Birdtail Field, who local people say makes up to $45,000 per month from his mineral rights on land pumping oil, declined comment.
For the Manson area, the oil exploration has directly created six new jobs, including three well checkers, well-paying positions where the individuals drive around each day just to make sure the wells are operating properly.
The biggest holdup to the Manson Field is the oil can't be transported away fast enough. There is a bottleneck at the Enbridge pumping station in Cromer. A hoped-for solution is a pipeline in the works from Cromer to a former gas pipeline near McAuley that will be used to cart oil to Eastern Canada.


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The main limitation patients with orthostatic intolerance (OI, or postural tachycardia syndrome, POTS) have to exercise is related to their increase in heart rate when standing. Main pharmacological treatment today is aimed at reducing heart rate with the use of betablockers (propanolol), this theoretically could also improve their exercise capacity; if their heart rate do not increase as much with the medication, they could exercise more. In addition, it has been suggested that in healthy volunteers subjected to head down tilt for 2 weeks (situation that produces a "simulated" transient POTS-like state) a single bout of intense exercise can improve orthostatic tolerance the day after exercising. The mechanisms involved in such response are not that clear but could be an increase in plasma volume already diminished in POTS patients. It seems likely that the same could be true for POTS patients.
The purpose of the present study are to pharmacologically improve the amount of exercise POTS patients can perform by reducing their baseline heart rate (specific aim 1) and to evaluate next day heart responses to an acute bout of intense exercise.
Therefore, the specific aims of this study are:
- To test the hypothesis that lowering heart rate response with propanolol will result in an increase in exercise capacity.
- To test the hypothesis that a single bout of exercise will result in an improvement in orthostatic tolerance the day after exercising.
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
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|Effects of Exercise in Orthostatic Intolerance
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Experimental: Propranolol then placebo
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Drug: Propranolol then Placebo
Propanolol 20 mg, given orally within 1 hour prior to exercising
Other Name: Active
Placebo Comparator: Placebo then propranolol
Placebo Treatment
Drug: Placebo then Propranolol
Placebo, matching pill given orally within 1 hour prior to exercising
Other Name: Inactive
Detailed Description:
- Subjects will be studied twice, once after receiving placebo and in a second occasion after receiving propanolol.
- An exercise capacity test with estimation of maximal oxygen consumption (VO2 max) will be done within 1 hour of receiving a pill containing placebo and that will be in appearance identical to the one for propanolol. This test will be conducted on a stationary bicycle and the effort will be gradually increased while expired air is measured during exhaustive physical work. The test will last approximately 30 minutes and be conducted in Vanderbilt's Clinical Trial Center.
- The day before and the day after the exercise test subjects will be asked to collect urine for 12 hours each time and to keep a record of how much liquid they ingest.
- Posture study tests (measurements of heart rate and blood pressure taken while lying down and at intervals for up to 30 minutes while standing) will be done the day before and the day after the exercise test.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Meet diagnostic criteria of POTS (Raj, et al., 2005)
- Age between 18-65 years
- Male and female are eligible (although the majority of patients POTS are female).
- Able and willing to provide informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Presence of medical conditions that can explain postural tachycardia (e.g., dehydration, medications)
- Pregnancy
- Other factors which in the investigator's opinion would prevent the subject from completing the protocol.
- Patients who are bedridden or chair-ridden.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00770484
|United States, Tennessee
|Vanderbilt University Medical Center
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232
|Principal Investigator:
|Italo Biaggioni, MD
|Vanderbilt University
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Italo Biaggioni, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00770484 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|October 9, 2008
|Results First Received:
|May 29, 2015
|Last Updated:
|July 6, 2016
Keywords provided by Italo Biaggioni, Vanderbilt University:
Beta blockers
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
Orthostatic Intolerance
Arrhythmias, Cardiac
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Pathologic Processes
Primary Dysautonomias
Autonomic Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neurologic Manifestations
Signs and Symptoms
Adrenergic beta-Antagonists
Adrenergic Antagonists
Adrenergic Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
Antihypertensive Agents
Vasodilator Agents
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Rangers to miss Wilson
SEATTLE -- The Rangers aren't expected to face Angels pitcher and former teammate C.J.Wilson during a three-game series that starts Friday in Anaheim. Wilson is scheduled to pitch Wednesday against the Indians.
The Rangers may or may not face Jered Weaver, depending if manager Mike Scioscia wants to use an off-day on Thursday to skip struggling fifth starter Hector Santiago. He is 0-4 with a 4.44 ERA.
If the Angels skip Santiago, their rotation lines up for Garrett Richards, Tyler Skaggs and Weaver to pitch in the three-game series. If the Angels stay in rotation, Weaver would get pushed back to Monday against the Yankees. Weaver is 13-8 with a 3.66 ERA in 32 career starts against the Rangers.
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com Read his blog, Postcards from Elysian Fields and follow him on Twitter @Sullivan_Ranger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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He has been involved since 1950 in the work of the Walsby Association on systematic ideology. He lived and worked with Harold Walsby in 1950, and in 1951 and joined the Socialist Party of Great Britain in order to learn the rudiments of Marxism. He became the editor of the SPGB's internal journal, Forum but left the Party during the Turner Controversy.
He is a qualified individual and group psychotherapist (UKAHPP and UKCP), a Chartered counseling psychologist (BPS) and an accredited counselor (BACP). He works in private practice in London.
He has a Ph. D from Middlesex University, is an Honorary Fellow of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and a past member of the Governing Board of the UK Council for Psychotherapy, representing the Humanistic and Integrative Section.
He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (member of the Psychotherapy Section and the Counseling Psychology Division, the Counseling Psychology Division, the Transpersonal Section and the Consciousness and Experience Section).
He is also a Fellow of the British Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy.
His most popular publication is Ordinary Ecstasy which was originally published in 1976 and is a summary and guide to all the branches of Humanistic psychology.
He is the author of a number of books, including the following.
- A Guide To Humanistic Psychology 3rd Edition (AHPP 2005)
- Subpersonalities – The people Inside Us (Routledge 1990)
- Discover your subpersonalities - Our Inner World and the People In It (Routledge 1993)
- Healing the Male Psyche - Therapy as Initiation (Routledge 1997)
- The Reality Game - A Guide to Humanistic Counseling and Psychotherapy 2nd edition (Routledge 1998)
- Ordinary Ecstasy - The Dialectics of Humanistic Psychology 3rd edition (Routledge 2001)
- The Future of Training in Psychotherapy and Counseling (Routledge 2005)
- The Horned God (RKP 1987)
- The Transpersonal: Spirituality in Psychotherapy and Counselling 2nd edition (Routledge 2005)
- The Therapist's Use of Self with Michael Jacobs (Open University Press 2002)
He is on the Editorial Board of the following periodicals.
- Self & Society
- The Transpersonal Psychology Review
- Counseling Psychology Review
- Journal of Humanistic Psychology
He also helped to produce the radical men's magazine Achilles Heel. He has had five books of poetry published. He and his wife live in North Chingford, London: he has four children and four grandchildren from a previous marriage.
- Most of the information for this article was provided by his web site - www.johnrowan.org.uk and verified through email communications.
- The George Walford International Essay Prize website has a brief biography.
- DAP (June 2004). Getting Splinters. Socialist Standard 100 (1198): 38–41. ISSN 0037-8259.
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>Health and Nutrition>Pre marathon grub
Running my first marathon in 3 weeks. This might sound naive but, what, how much and when should one eat the day before and the morning of the marathon. Cheers
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Abs of Flabs
To add to what Scout7 have mentioned, you can determine your needs during training. What do you typically eat before your long runs? Did that work for you? If it did, then you should stick to it.


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Fiscal cliff apparently doesn't scare U.S. consumers
Scott Suttell
U.S. consumers "are stepping in where companies fear to tread," according to
this story
from Bloomberg, which includes comments from
Eaton Corp.
CEO Sandy Cutler.
The story notes that Americans "are more upbeat while business sentiment stagnates, a sign their spending will provide a bridge for the economic expansion until the so-called fiscal cliff is resolved and entices companies to resume investment."
Household optimism is the highest in more than four years, reports from the Conference Board and Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan show, while a Bloomberg gauge of confidence in the economy is the strongest since early 2008.
Businesses, meanwhile, remain nervous about the — sorry for using this term, but it's the one everyone uses — "fiscal cliff," which amounts to $607 billion in federal tax increases and spending cuts slated for next year unless Congress and the president can work out a deal.
Count Mr. Cutler among those rooting for a compromise.
Bloomberg reports that Eaton, which makes industrial equipment and vehicle powertrain systems, "is counting on a rebound in demand when a more conducive political environment allows businesses to resume the investment they've postponed."
Mr. Cutler said in an Oct. 31 earnings call, "We've seen people speak explicitly about not placing orders until they see how things come out here at year-end."
A bipartisan agreement on the fiscal cliff means "business confidence will improve fairly rapidly," he said. "It is not necessary that all of the cuts be affected in one year or that all of the revenue rates be affected. But there has to be a plan that's credible."
Can that happen? Hard to say. Analysts at Barclays, for instance,
aren't optimistic
We felt that the worst outcome for the fiscal cliff negotiations was a status quo election, because each party could see the results as a mandate for their policies; this is what transpired (Tuesday) night.
Election detritus
Marcy Kaptur
, a long-serving Democrat who on Tuesday won a race to represent the new 9th Congressonal District stretching from Cleveland's West Side to Toledo, is in line to become an
important figure
in the House of Representatives.
Bloomberg notes the next Congress will have at least 57 female Democrats in the House — about 30% of their caucus — and at least 20 female Republicans — less than 10% of their House majority.
Rep. Kaptur, elected to Congress 30 years ago and now the longest-serving female in the House, is next in line for the top Democratic position on the Appropriations Committee. That would be a first for a woman, Bloomberg says.
She recalls to Bloomberg that no matter how comfortable former Speaker Tip O'Neill, a Massachusetts Democrat, tried to make her feel, she didn't think she could pull up a chair when he and her other male colleagues were hanging out in the Cloakroom watching baseball on television.
"If you didn't know what happened in the major and minor leagues for the last 50 years and quote every major player, you wondered if you could enter into the conversation," Rep. Kaptur says. "I just remember how that felt. It's changed a lot now."
I don't think you have to be particularly partisan to see
as a potentially positive, long-term development for American politics.
Reuters notes that
American Crossroads
, a Super PAC formed by Karl Rove, spent at least $1 million in 10 different Senate races.
It turns out the big money was not well spent.
"At the top of that group, Crossroads spent $11.2 million opposing Senate candidate Tim Kaine in Virginia, $7 million opposing Representative Shelley Berkley in Nevada, and $6 million in both Ohio and Wisconsin, opposing Sen.
Sherrod Brown
and Tammy Baldwin, a member of the House of Representatives who was elected to the U.S. Senate," Reuters reports.
In the 10 races, only Rep. Berkley lost on Tuesday, proving there are some limits to the ability of outside groups to buy elections.
But don't get me wrong — money remains enormously important in politics.
Case in point
: the successful measures to legalize marijuana for recreation use in Colorado and Washington.
Bloomberg reports that backers of those measures raised a combined $7.7 million — nearly twice as much as was raised for a 2010 measure in California that was defeated.
The top donor for the Colorado and Washington efforts?
Progressive Corp.
chairman Peter B. Lewis, who gave $2 million.
Unlike Karl Rove's PAC donors, Mr. Lewis got his money's worth.
Need to know why no one's trusting pundits anymore? (If they ever did.)
On Tuesday, Steve Forbes wrote
this very definitive analysis
on Forbes.com:
Mitt Romney will win big tonight. His popular vote margin will be between 3%–5%. He will win the Electoral College I believe by a vote of 321 to 217, and with luck, even more. He will win all of the states McCain carried in 2008 which will give him 180 electoral votes. He will also carry the three states that normally go Republican that in 2008 went for Obama — Indiana, North Carolina and Virginia. … He will also take Florida, which will bring him to 248 votes. Although the Obama campaign will deny it, it effectively wrote off Virginia and Florida several days ago.
Undeterred by being spectacularly wrong about, well, everything, Mr. Forbes today
treats his readers
to a long ramble of post-election observations that attribute the results to the craven nature of the winner:
The White House soaked the illegal immigration issue for all it was worth, portraying Republicans as taking a racially tinged approach to the issue. …
The President took his grossly politicized actions on the auto industry and portrayed himself as the savior of the industry. General Motors and Chrysler would have emerged as stronger companies long-term through normal bankruptcy proceedings. Astonishingly Republicans never effectively hit the fact that Obama pushed General Motors and Chrysler into bankruptcy and did so in a way that is costing taxpayers – unnecessarily – tens of billions of dollars.
He goes on, and on, as if there's no consequence for his pre-election nonsense.
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Winnicut River Dam Project Culminates in an Event and the Launch of a New Restoration Partnership
Greenland, NH – Today state and federal agencies and nonprofit conservation groups announced the near-completion of the Winnicut River restoration project and also launched the Partnership to Restore New Hampshire's Estuaries, all on the site of the demolished Winnicut River Dam. Project partners and congressional representatives celebrated the final phase of seven years of work – the removal of the Winnicut River Dam and installation a new fish ladder – and ushered in a new age of collaboration with the Partnership.
The Partnership's goal is to increase the pace and scale of activities that enhance salt marshes, eelgrass meadows, fish spawning grounds, shellfish beds, and other important estuarine systems. Estuaries are critical habitats where fresh and salt water mix.
"With the signing of the official agreement, a strong alliance has been formed. It is fitting to have the signing on the site of the Winnicut River Restoration project, where the work of so many partners has come to fruition," said NHDES Commissioner Tom Burack.
"The Winnicut River watershed is a vital part of the Great Bay Estuary. Dam removal projects will only improve river system functions for fish and wildlife that rely on good water quality, and critical habitat for survival, especially unique habitats such as head-of-tide areas. Through collaborative efforts, such as the Winnicut River dam removal project, partnerships are forged between federal and state agencies, municipalities, and NGOs in reaching common goals," said Glenn Normandeau, Director of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.
"New Hampshire's estuaries are exceptional, providing our region with food, jobs, history, recreational opportunities and precious natural resources," said Dr. Raymond Konisky, Director of Marine Science and Conservation for The Nature Conservancy. "The Partnership agreement is a huge step forward for estuary restoration in New Hampshire; it is exactly the kind of partnership we need to meet the challenges facing our state's coastal resources. The Partnership to Restore New Hampshire's Estuaries is a commitment to action, which will provide the technical leadership and expertise in ecosystem-based management for our marine environment," said Dr. Konisky.
The Winnicut River restoration project aims to restore migratory and resident fish movement on the main stem of the Winnicut River through the removal of the dam and installation of a new fish pass structure. The dam was demolished in late September. All work on the project is slated to be completed by late fall.
"The Winnicut Dam Removal is not only working to restore the Winnicut River, but supporting local jobs too," said Pat Montanio, Habitat Program Director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service. "Opening this river will help improve water quality, provide habitat for a diverse array of fish species and support new recreational opportunities for area citizens."
The NH Coastal Program at the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services received $500,000 in stimulus funding for the Winnicut River restoration project from NOAA. This project was one of 50 proposals selected out of a national pool of 814 proposals to receive American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for marine and coastal habitat restoration. The total cost of the project is $1,094,075. Additional funding entities for this project include: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Services, NH Fish and Game Department, NH Charitable Foundation, NH Moose Plate Grant Program, and the Coastal Conservation Association. The "stimulus" funding will support the creation of 21 jobs over the project duration.
For more information, visit the Winnicut Dam removal website at www.des.nh.gov and type "Winnicut" in the search box located in the upper right hand corner. For images of the Winnicut Dam removal construction site, visit www.earthcam.com/winnicut or www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration/projects_programs/crp/winnicutdamcam.html.
For more information on the Partnership to Restore New Hampshire's Estuaries, visit http://www.nhep.unh.edu/programs/restore.htm.
Partnership to Restore New Hampshire's Estuaries:
- Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
- National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
- New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
- NHDES Coastal Program
- New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
- Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership
- The Nature Conservancy
- United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service
- United States Fish and Wildlife Service
- University of New Hampshire Marine
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I'm flirting with the idea of learning Japanese (in fact, I have a dictionary beside me right now) and I can think of a few. Japanese has 130 million speakers, making it the 9th most spoken language in the world. As well, Japan is a prosperous, developed nation, a liberal democracy with the second-largest economy in the world and high rankings on political, economic and press freedoms. Finally there's the diffusion of Japanese media and the significant overseas communities.Neqitan wrote:I'm sorry about that. I wanted to hear you guys countering back with reasons to learn Japanese, that's all.
Having said that, more or less the same arguments apply to why you should learn German, which is in the same language family as English and uses the same writing system, so it's up to you if you want to try your hand at a harder language.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A single mother and her six children are living in a brand new, fully furnished home thanks to a couple of charities.
It was a huge surprise for Ebony Fleming and her children that was planned by what's being called Homes for the Holidays. This home is in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
"Thank God for this," said Fleming, a first-time homeowner. "It's been a long way coming. It's been a long way, and I really appreciate it. It was like a stepping stone for other things to happen in my life. Now my kids see me being a homeowner."
Although Fleming had been working with HabiJax to get a house, she never dreamed it would come furnished.
Former NFL running back Warrick Dunn and Aaron's Furniture came together to make it happen. The house is fully stocked with linens, furnishings, food and everything needed to create a home atmosphere.
Not only did the family receive a home filled full of furniture, but they also were giving their everyday needs, such as toiletries.
Dunn, also a star at Florida State University, started his charity to help single mothers become homeowners in honor of his mother.
"Trying to provide, making only $36,000, raising six kids, you're not really going to be able to do a lot," Dunn said.
The goal is to set the family up for long-term stability and equip them with everything they need so the children can thrive.
"It gives people the opportunity who perhaps with the traditional way would not be able to afford a home," said Mary Kay O'Rourke, of Habitat for Humanity of Jacksonville.
On behalf of the family, Warrick Dunn Charities also gave a $5,000 down payment for the new home.
"We're here to help push you down the road," Dunn told Fleming. "You have to continue doing the work. You have to. I can't do it all."
Now that she's a homeowner, Fleming plans to go back to school and become a registered nurse.
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Brisbane's CBD resembled a ghost town Saturday as city dwellers and visitors alike searched out air-conditioning and bodies of water.
Brisbane reached 35.4 degrees, more than six above average, while Ipswich sweltered under 40.2 degree heat.
The Gold and Sunshine coasts, buffeted by a cooling sea breeze, just topped 32 degrees.
However, in terms of stifling hot weather that might be it for a while, Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Matthew Bass said.
"Around the Christmas period was when it did rain the most last, and we have had this big dome of hot dry air over the interior which has been affecting us as well," Mr Bass said, explaining from where the hot weather had sprung.
"But over the last couple of days we have started to see a monsoon develop up north so generally when that happens we see a lot more activity across Queensland, particularly in the north.
"On Friday and Saturday we might start seeing some showers. There still isn't going to be heaps in it but that is the first chance we are getting a bit more of activity, weather wise."
Which means cooler temperatures.
"We are moving into slightly cooler conditions over the coming days," he said.
"Brisbane is looking at 32 and that will drop even further on Monday and Tuesday back down to 30 and from Thursday onwards we are looking at temps even down to 29 degrees."
With the monsoons in the interior comes humidity, so while the air temperature may appear lower on the mercury, Queensland can expect to feel sticky for a few more weeks.


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In a few hours, fans at PAX Prime will finally be able to play Skyrim for the first time. Until then, we wanted to share the latest Skyrim news from around the web.
Earlier this morning, Microsoft announced that the first two pieces of game add-on content for Skyrim will be releasing exclusively on Xbox 360 — 30 days before they're available anywhere else. When we have more details on the content, we'll let everyone know.
Elsewhere, don't miss Dave Oshry's Skyrim preview posted yesterday at RipTen. The preview is significant, as he's the first person we know that encountered vampires in his playthrough. Read the four-page preview here.
Fun fact: Pete Hines is actually dragonborn. At least that's my explanation for how he survived all the interviews he did at Gamescom.With more than 275,000 attendees in Cologne last week, Pete used the power of the voice to conduct countless interviews with sites like Gamespot, Computec, Destructoid, and FBC.
For more previews and interviews, be sure to head to these sites:
- G4TV (watch above)
- Gamespot
- GameSpy
- Ausgamers (interview with Todd Howard)
- Delta Gamer
- Just Push Start
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California: Where You Need A Lobbyist To Build A House | Via Meadia
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This is a repost from Vis Meadia.
Over at Matt Yglesias' new blog Moneybox, Via Meadia's research team came across a smart post from earlier in the week that cuts through the complaining and over-analyzing�of the story about Mitt Romney's upgraded beach house, and gets at a real problem most people have missed: to put on an addition at your house, you shouldn't need a lobbyist.
Here's Yglesias:
Romney's house sounds tacky and extravagant, but it's not some kind of public safety hazard in urgent need of regulation. You shouldn't need dedicated lobbyists to get permission to build buildings on property you legitimately own. At the end of the day, Romney is going to be able to hire the lobbyist and get his mansion built. But these same hurdles afflict people who might be interested in affordable housing for low-income people or simply regular old market rate structures for the middle class.
Exactly right. The country's most populous state is strangling itself in red tape. And if you need to hire a lobbyist to negotiate the permit process for building a home, ask yourself what starting a business or building a factory will involve.
Here at the other end of the country we have the same kind of trouble; people have to hire "facilitators" to push all the paperwork through all the bureaucracies needed to get simple and very ordinary jobs done. Every year, there are new requirements, new fees, new mandates as New York City works systematically to destroy its economic base and drive the middle class into the burbs.
The biggest victims: the middle class and the poor.� It's hard to quantify the jobs lost, the revenue foregone, the opportunities killed by the bureaucratic monstrosity the Golden State has spawned, but in California as elsewhere, the blue social model is killing hope.
via California: Where You Need A Lobbyist To Build A House | Via Meadia.


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Topic: Clean Scan (officially)
Hello all,
I just got back from the Oncologist's office and he said that my scan was CLEAN! He was very happy and said that my chance of recurrence is significantly reduced every minute of every day (ok, he may not have said those words, but that's what I heard). I am 2 years and 2 months out from surgery and it will be 2 years since my last chemo treatment in July!
Thanx for all the support over the past years from the CC.org community of wonderful supportive people. I hope that my results give hope to others!
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Four-run first sinks Phillies in opener vs. Bucs
Hernandez recovers to last 5 2/3, but offense quiet in Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH -- For the Phillies, Friday might have been the most beautiful evening for baseball this season, considering the setting and the circumstances.
The Phillies opened a three-game series against the Pirates in front of sellout crowd at PNC Park, which is a top-five ballpark for almost anybody who has seen their share of ballparks across the country. It has a spectacular view of the city's skyline, the Allegheny River and the Roberto Clemente Bridge. And the evening included perfect summer weather on the Fourth of July.
But the picture-postcard holiday weather was the highlight for the Phillies in a painful 8-2 loss, their 11th in 14 games to fall to 37-49. The Phillies managed just two hits following a grueling 45-pitch first inning from Roberto Hernandez, which cast a pall over the evening.
"Yeah, it's definitely tough," Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard said. "Obviously you don't want to be down after the first inning. That's the game of baseball. It's going to happen, but … the way things have gone this year, yeah, it's even tougher. It's even tougher. There's no dancing around it or anything like that. It's a tough situation to be in when you're scratching and clawing and trying to find ways to win games, but like I said, it's the game of baseball, and they jumped out early."
Hernandez's 45-pitch first inning handed the Pirates a 4-0 lead. He allowed five hits, four runs, two walks and three stolen bases, with every run coming after Jimmy Rollins made a fantastic throw to the plate to get Starling Marte for the second out.
"It sets a poor tone for the first inning," Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said. "You have the defense on their heels and the guys who are swinging the bats the rest of the game out there on defense. It sets a tough tone for the rest of the game."
It has been that kind of season for the Phillies, who seem to be waiting for the inevitable moves to come before the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline. The struggles were on display again in the second inning. It did not lead to a run, but center fielder Ben Revere and left fielder Tony Gwynn Jr. collided in left-center field as they pursued a fly ball hit by Andrew McCutchen.
Revere got his glove on the ball but could not make the catch as he hit Gwynn. The official scorer ruled it a triple.
"It was one of those deals where the ball is falling in between two fast outfielders," Revere said, adding that the two players heard each other only just before colliding. "There's nothing you can do. It happens a lot in the game of baseball."
It has been that kind of season for the Phillies. Pirates right-hander Gerrit Cole dominated the Phillies through five scoreless innings, allowing one hit with a walk and a hit batter while striking out five. He left the game, however, with soreness in his right lat.
The Phillies scored a couple of runs in the sixth inning to make it 5-2 with major help from Pirates right-hander Stolmy Pimentel, who walked three and allowed a hit to the only four batters he faced. Right-hander Jared Hughes replaced Pimentel with the bases loaded, no outs and a run already in. But he got Marlon Byrd to hit into a double play, and he struck out Cody Asche looking on a pitch that was outside the strike zone but that home-plate umpire CB Bucknor nevertheless deemed a strike.
It has been that kind of season for the Phillies.
"I guess at times, when it rains it pours," Howard said. "Chase was able to get a hit. Ben was able to get a hit. I had a couple balls that would have been hits. Guys made plays. It's been tough. It's been tough. We're missing pitches or just missing pitches that normally we wouldn't miss. I don't know. It's tough. It's tough to explain."
Hernandez threw 117 pitches as he pitched into the sixth inning, trying to save the bullpen as much as he could after the rough start. He has pitched more than six innings just three times in 16 starts this season.
"The first inning there wasn't any pitch working," Hernandez said.
Not much has been working for the Phillies for some time. At least they had the weather.
Todd Zolecki is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Located north of Tuscon, Ariz., sitting at the base of the Santa Catalina Mountains, Biosphere 2 is a center of research, outreach, teaching and learning all about the Earth. But during your visit, you'll also have the opportunity to become a member. By doing so, you'll be able to get involved in the community and help out with various outreach programs, gaining hands-on experience that's out of this world.
Biosphere 2 also offers tours, which include an introductory film, a historical overview, and a discussion of past and present research. Online, you'll also find an interactive tour allowing you to explore the Biosphere 2 from an aerial view at your computer.
Always keeping its goal in mind, Biosphere 2 also offers an outreach and education program that provides community events and research experience for University of Arizona (UA) undergraduates. Community events include Science Saturday, Science Cafes and Citizen Science. Included with the cost of tour admission, Science Saturday events are designed to provide hands-on experience with science. Science Café, on the other hand, is a free event that allows UA scientists and the community to interact with one another at various venues in the area, such as Crushing Street, Saddlebrooke, Oro Valley, Green Valley, Sun City Vistoso, Gallagher Theater and Tumamoc Hill. And, lastly, Citizen Science is an opportunity to participate and help with science research and outreach efforts.
Whether you're a lover of science, the Earth or interested in space, get involved at Biosphere 2. Plus, its surrounded by a natural desert preserve, and it was recently named one of the 50 must see "Wonders of the World" — so why wouldn't you want to check it out?
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The first day a Food Network Star contestant enters the Star Kitchen, they're introduced to the other finalists, see the set they'll be cooking on and are also handed journals. Throughout the season, they write everything from recipe ideas to notes of encouragement to themselves, and even create some pretty impressive drawings inside. Now Star Talk wants to give Star fans a chance to win one. Whether you use it for recipes or as an everyday journal, it's a chance to enjoy a behind-the-scenes element from one of your favorite shows.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Saint Leo Cross Country Coach Melissa Miller-Mangen, has announced the additions of Tereza Novotna and Kali Carney to the Saint Leo Women's Cross Country Team. The duo joins Amanda Leon and Holly Blackburn as the final two pieces to the 2011-12 class, and a team which features 12 runners.
"Both women have demonstrated elite level performances on the cross country course. I am very excited to have them on our team," said Coach Miller-Mangen.
Tereza Novotna
Novotna joins the Lions as one of top cross country runners in the Czech Republic. Owning many notable championships, the incoming freshman earned the Czech Republic National Cross Country Championship. She continued her success with an individual championship in the 3000m, finishing with a time of 9:54.41. In addition, the Hradec Kralove, Opocno native participated in the World Mountain Running Championships and the World Orienteering Championships earning three silver medals and a bronze medal.
Kali Carney
Carney had a stellar four year career at South Lake High School in Clermont, Fla., being named team MVP during three-of-four seasons. Prior to being voted 'Most Athletic' her senior year, the Clermont, Fla. native set the all-time record in the mile and the 800m. In addition, she was voted Orlando Sentinel Cross Country Runner of the Year as well as First Team All-County, and Second Team All-Central Florida Track & Field. Carney was also highlighted in ESPN Rise and South Lake Magazines. She set a personal-best in the 5000m (19:20), while also setting team-bests in the 1600m (5:27.65), 2000m Steeplechase (8:27.67), 3000m (11:26.45), 3200m (12:03.97), 5000m (19:20.00), and the 800m (2:20.00).
Coach Miller-Mangen's Perspective: "Kali has a phenomenal range of middle distance to distance events. She also brings national level experience. Kali's resume extends from the AAU Cross Country National Championships to the USATF Junior Olympics."
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Ambassador Berger on DPKOs Ten year impact study on the implementation of SC RES 1325
· A very warm welcome to all of you to the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany! It is a great pleasure to host this DPKO event and we are especially honoured that
· Under Secretary General Alain Le Roy,
· Ambassador Eugène-Richard Gasana, of Rwanda as well as
· Ms Izumi Nakamitsu the Director of Division for Policy Evaluation and Training and
· Ms. Valnora Edwin, Director of the Campaign for Good Governance, Sierra Leone
are here with us as speakers today.
· DPKOs "Ten year impact study on the implementation of SC Resolution 1325" comes very timely and reminds us all that, despite of progress achieved, much remains to be done.
· During the Security Council's open debate in October last year – on the 10th anniversary of the resolution – many countries, including Germany, agreed that gaps in implementing the provisions of the resolution unfortunately still exist and committed themselves to actively help to better the situation.
· The 26 indicators proposed by the Secretary General and endorsed by the Security Council during the debate constitute a hugh step forward. They will be the framework within which progress of member states and UN organisations will be measured.
· Resolution 1325 clearly stipulates that women must be seen as active players whose contributions in all aspects of peace-building and peace-keeping processes are essential for the reconstruction of societies and in achieving sustainable peace and development. Empowering women is of utmost importance in security sector reform as well as in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration processes.
· The study before us clearly shows where progress has been made and where all member states, national authorities in post conflict countries and local women have to join rank in order to ensure more and lasting results.
· We, as member states, have to lead with good examples not only by implementing the resolution in our own countries, but also by supporting the UN and especially peacekeeping missions to transform resolution 1325 into existing mandates and – even more important - in practical steps on the ground.
· Germany has just presented it's 3rd implementation report on resolution 1325 to Parliament. While striving for the full and timely implementation of the entire resolution, and looking ahead, priority with a view to peacekeeping will be given to:
1) Increased participation of women, particularlyin higher positions
2) Financial and technical support to UN gender awareness-raising campaigns and projects
3) Active participation of women in peace negotiatons and peace agreements
4) The special needs of women combatants in demobilisation and reintegration processes
· Furthermore, we are of the opinion that partnerships amongmember states and between member states and the United Nations are crucial.
· Besides our bilateral programs in conflict stricken countries, Germanyhas always actively supported DPKO and other UN organisations, for example
- by finiancing the DPKO implementation of a gender training strategy as well as a Gender Adviser
- by financing and supporting the development of a DPKO "UN Police Standardized Training Curriculum on Investigating and Preventing Sexual and Gender-based Violence" or
- by supporting the DPKO Darfur Planning Team with Gender Expertise or by training policewomen who are part of the UN-peace mission in Sudanand Darfur.
· As a troop- and police contributing country we see the importance of recruiting more female staff in peacekeeping missions.
In our opinion the "Global Effort", the ambitious project of UN Police to increase the number of female UN Police officers by up to 20 % by 2014, stands for a remarkable step forward.
· We fully agree with the findings of "DPKOs Impact Study" that the collaboration of all relevent partners is necessary in order to maximise results and avoid overlap and fragmentation. All UN organisations should "mainstream" the provisions of resolution 1325 in their daily workandwork together closely in order to guarantee that the available resources are effectively channelled and measured against the indicators proposed in the General Secretary's report.
· We are of the opinion that UN Women, under the strong leadership of Ms Bachelet, should play a leading role in setting up an efficient monitoring and coordinating system that measures progress achieved for women on the ground.
· We also would like to underline the important role the Peacebuilding Commission can play in bringing the International Community`s attention to the crucial role women can - and must - play in post-conflict societies, especially in the countries on the PBC`s agenda.
· I would like to end by thanking again DPKO for its valuable work - here in NY and on the ground - and I look forward to an interesting and lively debate on the findings and recommendations of the Impact Study.


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Did you know?
Soweto's first theatre, the striking Soweto Theatre, showcases new and emerging local talent
There's something for everyone in Johannesburg theatres, everything from Broadway shows to Shakespearean dramas to heartfelt local stories. There are also excellent student productions, award-winning international musicals, dramas, comedies, children's productions, and even experimental fare.
All are staged in Johannesburg's profusion of theatres and if you're a theatre aficionado you'll find a quick fix. Consult the daily newspapers for what's on. Most tickets can be booked at the theatre itself or through national ticket tout, Computicket.
The Market Theatre complex in Newtown Cultural Precinct is a hive of arts and entertainment. It has played host to some of the country's most famous plays, including many from South Africa's most acclaimed playwright, Athol Fugard.
Joburg's leading theatre, the Johannesburg Theatre Complex, which includes the spacious Mandela Theatre, showcases local and overseas productions and is usually booked a year in advance with these productions. For dedicated children's shows and pantomimes which are lively, colourful, interactive and timed for brevity, head over to the National Children's Theatre.
Gold Reef City's Globe Theatre made its reputation with Richard Loring's African Footprint, an exuberant celebration of popular South African music and culture. Similarly, another Johannesburg theatre, the Victory Theatre, made its name when it staged Umoja.
The two theatres at the stylish entertainment complex Montecasino, north of the city − one big, one small − produce intimate shows plus Broadway blockbusters.
For more experimental performance, and great value-for-money shows, be sure to check out the Wits Downstairs Theatre, and the University of Johannesburg Art Centre, where drama students practice their chosen trade with zeal.
Theatres in Johannesburg span the entire metropolis, from north, to south, east to west, township to suburb − you're bound to find something to tempt your theatre tastebuds.
Travel tips & Planning info
How to get here
Johannesburg's theatres are mostly city- or town-based and therefore easily accessible by road.
Best time to visit
Theatre is an entertainment mainstay all year long, but do check the local press for visiting shows or shows with great reviews.
Tours to do
Any reputable tour company will be able to advise on 'must-see' theatre shows in all the country's main cities.
Get around
Most taxi cabs will be able to collect you and drop you at the theatre door. Try Rose's Taxi Cabs, the country's longest standing cab company.
What will it cost
Cost of shows differ from theatre complex to theatre complex, and sometimes are even free! Consult each theatre's website, or check with national ticket agency Computicket.
Length of stay
Bank on an evening, and throw in a dinner and post-show cappucino too.
What to pack
A shawl, or jumper to cover your shoulders during showtime.
What to eat
The established Johannesburg theatres have excellent restaurants on site or within walking distance. At the Barnyard chain, you can even bring your own pre-packed picnic basket.
What's happening
Check the local press for visiting shows, or shows with great reviews.
Best buys
Look out for the student productions at the acclaimed University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, these are often free to the public.


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Silvermont to Sell under Atom, Celeron and Pentium Brands, 2.4GHz Z3770 Leakedby Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/9/2013 7:28 PM EST
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flyingpants1 - Sunday, June 09, 2013 - linkOkay, but that's not actually a good thing. A current laptop Celeron or Pentium is way faster than an Atom. So a Haswell-based Celeron/Pentium would be faster than Silvermont anything. Reply
mikk - Sunday, June 09, 2013 - linkIt depends. Core based Pentium and Celeron have only 2 cores. Silvermont has 4 cores. Multithreading performance should be way better on a Silvermont 4 core. Reply
mavere - Monday, June 10, 2013 - linkSure, but Intel won't compete with itself, so there will never be Haswell-based Celerons/Pentiums
Intel will do the bare minimum required to make desktop Silvermont fast "enough". Combine that with the inherently low power consumption, and you have OEMs all clamoring for the chance to sell slimmer, sleeker machines to boost their slumping sales. At least buyers will now get a good die scratch-made for efficiency rather than a terrible die harvested for yields.
In a way, we're still advancing forward. Intel just decided to do so on another track. :) Reply
Hector2 - Monday, June 10, 2013 - linkMaybe Intel stops that now at Haswell, but up until now at least, they've been using de-featured (knobs turned off) versions of their high performance CPUs for Pentium & Celeron so they don't have to design a different IC for their lower end. This has been true for Sandy Bridge & Ivy Bridge too. Reply
JDG1980 - Sunday, June 09, 2013 - linkI suspect these Silvermont "Pentiums" and "Celerons" will be slower than the Ivy Bridge Pentiums and Celerons on the shelf now. Reply
Spunjji - Monday, June 10, 2013 - linkGiven the terrible performance of some of those parts it's not inconceivable that this ends up being more competitive than you might expect. It's certainly less of a big deal than it would have been a few years ago since Intel crippled the ability to overclock the Pentium series; you're effectively getting something performing optimally for its die size instead of being a crippled variant. Reply
MrSpadge - Monday, June 10, 2013 - linkThe big cores will obviously still be faster per clock, but at 4 cores, turbo up to 2.4 GHz and ~30% IPC improvement over current Atom these CPUs seem like like nice "good enough" candidates. And the big-core Pentiums and Celerons hardly exceed 1 GHz in low power configurations.. Reply
IanCutress - Sunday, June 09, 2013 - linkWibtek were the only motherboard manufacturers I could tell that had a desktop Silvermont SKU up on display. It was by chance as well - did not get much time to 'casually' look around this year, especially at the Chinese-only manufacturers, but this definitely caught my eye. Reply
Wilco1 - Monday, June 10, 2013 - linkA 2W SDP means TDP will be around 5W (or more if the test involves significant idle time), similar to current ARM SoCs. It seems the 22nm process can't defy the laws of physics... Reply
mikk - Monday, June 10, 2013 - linkShould be wrong. Looks like 2W SDP and 3W TDP. Current Y-Ivy Bridge have a 7W SDP and 10W TDP. And also Silvermont should be much much faster than ARM offerings. Reply
Wilco1 - Monday, June 10, 2013 - link3W TDP seems unlikely at 2.4GHz. Anand's measurements on Z2760 show CPU+GPU having ~2W TDP. Now imagine doubling the core count, 33% higher frequency and a faster GPU. The 22nm process helps of course, but the disappointing reduction in active power from SB to Haswell shows it's not magical. So increased performance means increased power.
As for performance, based on the estimates given it looks like Silvermont will have worse IPC than Cortex-A15. Although it may win Sunspider, that's one of the few benchmarks where Atom appears to do well. Reply
MrSpadge - Monday, June 10, 2013 - linkOf course not. The real questions are "what performance can you put into a given TDP" and "how much energy is used to complete a given task". TDP tells nothing about these. Reply
frogger4 - Monday, June 10, 2013 - linkAm I the only one wondering about the Z3770 branding? I suppose the idea is that this the top end Silvermont part, like how the i7-3770 was the highest performing Ivy Bridge part? I am unsure for whom this sort of marketing is for (I'd love to see a numbering system like what GPU manufactures use but from CPU companies). Reply
dealcorn - Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - linkI do not believe that the Z3770 is a Baytrail-T SoC. Baytrail-T lacks SATA and it's specifications lack reasonable functionality (eg a free PCI-e lane) to support the SATA solution shown on several of the motherboard images. More likely, this is a Baytrail-M SoC.
Intel's margins on this product are likely lots better than the feature stripped Core chips Intel traditionally pitched to this segment of the market. Slap this 2W SDP SoC into a tablet with a SSD that supports DEVSLP and this is a potent weapon in the battle for Android device market share. The price is higher than Baytrail-T solution but the SoC is better in ways some folks may be willing to pay for. Reply
dwade123 - Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - linkARM's future is only death. And maybe in cheap Chinese knockoff phones. Reply
MustafaK - Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - linktoday arm is used in multiple times more devices then x86. every single calculator and soooo many more devices have arm chips in them. inside of just about every desktop there is atleast one arm chip. hard drives have arm chips inside of them. so please stop being silly Reply
speculatrix - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkYes, arm is the probably the dominant general purpose cpu in the world now.. provided they continue to innovate and offer a whole range of products covering a wide range of performance, power efficiency, cost and integrated features, then Intel have a near impossible task to break their stranglehold. Reply


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By Catherine Contiguglia
♦ The deal reached between China and the European Union on solar panel dumping may have stopped a potential trade war, but for EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht, it was one more incident where his free trade crusade was dampened by the fragmented bloc he represents.
♦ Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is funnelling billions of dollars into building the backbone of necessary communications networks throughout Africa, but has some worried that its domination of the sector creates the potential for widespread espionage.
♦ Despite multiple innovations in male contraceptives, progress towards their approval for widespread use has stagnated due to difficult barriers, particularly the lack of incentive for pharmaceutical companies to invest in a product with so many cultural and societal implications.
♦ Larry Summers should go ahead and book his summer vacation, John Cassidy writes, arguing that despite White House support, Summers has not made a great enough effort to appease Obama's supporters by distancing himself from financial deregulation.
♦ Bradley Manning has been called many things, but a look at his background shows a conflicted young man struggling with his gender identity and personal values as a soldier in the U.S. Army. Read more
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CONSORT-SPI: A CONSORT Extension for Social and Psychological Interventions
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To create a reporting guideline for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of social and psychological interventions.
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EVERY mid-sized business in the country will be offered tailored trade advice and an intensive programme of support to help them start exporting or break into new markets.
That is the announcement made today by Trade Minister Lord Livingston.
A pilot study will begin in the South East followed by a full national roll out. The region has been chosen as it offers the largest selection of mid-sized businesses outside London.
Lord Livingston will personally write to all the region's mid-sized businesses to ask them if they would like trade support from UK Trade and Investment (UKTI).
Evidence shows that exporters do better with UKTI's help and on average mid-sized businesses can increase their sales by £1.8m.
Mid-sized businesses are vital to the Government's long-term economic plan to reduce the deficit and create more jobs.
The CBI estimates that, if they reach their full potential, it would be worth £20 to £50bn to the UK economy. Currently mid-sized businesses make up just 0.5% of all businesses but contribute around a fifth of employment and turnover in the UK.
However only 17 per cent of UK mid-sized businesses generate revenues outside of the EU compared to 25 per cent in Germany and 30 per cent in Italy.
Lord Livingston said: "Mid-sized businesses have the potential to be economic powerhouses for the UK economy, creating jobs and growth for all regions of the UK.
"Their success is dependent on expanding beyond domestic markets so we will be making personal contact with all mid-sized businesses to find out what we can do to help them go up a gear and compete with the best the rest of the world has to offer.
"Businesses excel with UKTI's support and we want to make sure that they are not just trading abroad, but thriving there."
Lewis Scott, regional director for UKTI South East, said: "The South East is an exporting giant – the biggest regional exporter with exports in 2013 totalling £33.4 billion.
"We hope this push will encourage other businesses to take advantage of what we can offer - we are here to support every mid-sized company that wants to sell its products and services overseas by providing bespoke trade advice."
UKTI market and sector experts are based both in the UK and overseas – across 160 locations in 111 countries.
The Government department is also raising awareness of its services with smaller companies through a new national marketing campaign, Exporting is GREAT, which aims to generate 3,000 appointments for small firms with UKTI advisers by April 2014 and drive £1.2 billion in export revenue from the leads it generates.
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"… The book was a catalogue containing extant life forms and fossils, whose sense escaped me until I realized the title: Atlas of Creation. Throughout its 700 colored pages Harun Yahya revealed in a very certain tone that God has created the world and all living species, and claimed a connection between evolution and terrorism, saying the former was the cause of the latter.
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THE Apple and Parrot in Taunton and Mambo are holding two fundraising events for The Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign over the Bank Holiday weekend.
On Sunday, the Apple and Parrot is running its Parrot Fest with headline act These Reigning Days.
It will involve a festival with 12 hours of live music featuring some of the best bands and musicians around.
Mambo, in North Street, will run The Pink Party with special guest DJ Lauren Pope also seen on ITV2's The Only Way is Essex.
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MAITLAND, Fla. - Almost 5,000 people are without power Saturday night after a round of thunderstorms passed through the Central Florida area.
Duke energy reported scattered outages with the most being in Zellwood and Pine Hills with reports of at least 5,000 without power.
As the storms rolled through, drivers found themselves caught up in the downpours.
A Seminole County deputy was involved in an accident at Eastbrook Boulevard and Howell Branch Road, officials said.
Seminole County Fire Rescue officials said one person was injured in that accident and was taken to Winter Park Memorial Hospital as a result.
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