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Jeronimo wrote:Because Lat 64 doesn't own the board.
that was my first thought...
it really doesn't make sense...
cue the conspiracy theories.
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Jeronimo wrote:Because Lat 64 doesn't own the board.
chunk wrote:i heard from a very reliable source this past weekend (innova pro) that there isn't much of a back story on dave's resignation from the PDGA. dave leaving innova is quite a different story.
chunk wrote:i heard from a very reliable source this past weekend (innova pro) that there isn't much of a back story on dave's resignation from the PDGA.
JHern wrote:I noticed this posted at PDGA.com...Board Member Resignation
The Professional Disc Golf Association announces that David Feldberg has resigned from the PDGA Board of Directors for personal reasons. We ask all members to join with us in thanking David for his years of service to the association.
David writes, "After much deliberation and consideration I've decided to step back from my role of the Board of Directors of the Professional Disc Golf Association. After 16 years on and off the course I have seen so much growth, change and development in our sport and I'm proud to have been a part of shaping both for today and the future. I'm focusing my efforts with a new sponsor, Latitude 64, in doing so I cannot continue to carry on the work that I've been doing for the last several years with the Professional Disc Golf Association. I enjoyed serving the organization that serves the sport that I love and look forward to being part disc golf's future in other ways."
Not sure this statement makes sense, why does working with Lat 64 preclude him from working on the board?
Jeronimo wrote:Aight, he's cool again.
keltik wrote:He actually answered that questions specifically in a video. Short answer he has two black soft Judges.
Varsi wrote:In this one
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HEATH SPRINGS – Andrew Jackson third-year wrestling coach Rob Tomalis is optimistic about the Volunteers' wrestling squad for 2014-15.
AJ has eight wrestlers who have varsity experience and Tomalis said he hopes to build on his veterans this winter.
GREAT FALLS – Great Falls had a devil of a time with visiting Buford High School on Friday, Dec. 5.
The Jackets, on a trip to the Red Devils' gym, took two from Great Falls for a hardwood sweep of the Chester County Class A school.
A hoops split proved to be a delight for host Lancaster and Andrew Jackson on Friday, Dec. 5 in the LHS gym.
Each team, in the first of two hardwood battles among the county rivals this season, took a win in the Bruins' Den.
Indian Land split in its varsity opener Tuesday, Dec. 3 when the Warriors battled Culbertson at ILHS.
The CHS girls, led by former Buford coach Joel Allen, took a 50-27 win, and the IL boys rebounded for the 78-71 victory.
The Buford boys opened their regular-season hoops slate at home with the Lewisville Lions, hoping to make coach Garrett Hammond's varsity hardwood debut a bright one, but the Lions had other plans.
The Buford girls stayed unbeaten as the Lady Jackets prevailed in the opener.
KERSHAW – Andrew Jackson opened its 2014-15 hoops season with a split with Class AA foe Lee Central in the AJ gym on Tuesday, Dec. 2.
The game was not a surprise that it was a tough battle from the beginning for both Volunteers' teams.
The Buford High School wrestling team returns its share of veterans to give the Jackets solid hope for the 2014-15 mat campaign.
The Jackets, under the leadership of 17-year veteran coach John Mahaffey, return four veterans and two grapplers who wrestled two seasons ago.
The Buford High School varsity boys opened the preseason, traveling to West Florence High School over the holiday week, Nov. 22-26.
The Jackets opened tournament play against eventual tournament champion Gray Collegiate out of West Columbia.
Buford High School is coming off of a disappointing basketball season which produced a 9-12 overall record, 3-7 Region IV-AA, but a new coach is shooting to reverse those hardwood fortunes.
The Buford High School Lady Jackets are looking to break through this season.
The Lady Jackets were 7-14 last year, but with many close losses.
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This radioactive metal is three to four times more common than uranium, and, unlike uranium, it doesn't generate weapons-grade nuclear material after it's burned in a reactor. (The United States experimented with thorium reactors as early as the 1950s, before the element lost out to uranium.) Virginia-based Lightbridge aims to capitalize on thorium's potential by marketing a thorium nuclear-fuel assembly that could be used in today's light water fission reactors. Further down the road, thorium could also be dissolved in a mixture of liquid salts and used to power so-called molten salt fission reactors. These reactors aren't yet ready for widespread rollout, but their creators say they will be able to reburn radioactive waste products generated from thorium, yielding cheaper power as well as smaller waste piles.
Enriched uranium—a compound high in the radioactive uranium-235 isotope—has long been the fuel of choice for civilian nuclear reactors. But traveling wave reactors (TWR) currently being designed could convert less rarified radioactive materials into fuel. "The traveling wave reactor stands apart because it will use waste uranium as its basic fuel, amplifying the basic fuel supply by 10," says John Gilleland, the CEO of Bellevue, Wash.–based TerraPower, which is perfecting a TWR prototype. The completed reactors should also be able to extract large amounts of power from other "nonoptimal" fuels, including unrefined natural uranium and thorium. Bill Gates, Vinod Khosla and other investor heavyweights love the concept; a VC funding round last year netted TerraPower $35 million.
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Cosplayer TotallyToastyAri > Costume of Rikku (Final Fantasy X-2)
- Most Recent Photo
- 06-28-2013
- Series
- Final Fantasy X-2
- Character
- Rikku
- Special Variation:
- Thief
- Year Completed:
- 2012
- Construction Difficulty:
- Normal
- Costume worn at:
- Youmacon 2012
About this Costume
- Construction Details:
Bikini was constructed using foam push-up cups covered in yellow fabric that featured the same weave as seen in the CG renders of Rikku. I used orange roll elastic to trim the bikini and spandex as the back strap. The neck strap is black elastic...so the whole bikini top is pretty comfy! Sadly...I apparently can't fit bra cups right so I have to double-stick tape them to my body XP.
The skirt is made of 2 way stretch fabric that features a similar fabric weave to Rikku's CG renders. It was quite easy to sew and even easier to put on and wear!! It also features her two little seams that were hand sewn in.
The sleeves are BY FAR my favorite part of this costume!! The fabric I found was just PERFECT. I lined the sleeves so they would be more opaque than the bows (and they're super comfy!). The bows were fray-checked then attached to the sleeves. I'm sooo happy they have a similar transparent quality to hers!
The scarf is my old scarf from 2004/05. I'll probably be unbraiding the tassels and making them look more accurate.
More to come!
- Personal Thoughts:
- My FINAL version of this costume!! The first version I made back in 2004/05. I felt it was about time I made the costume like I've always wanted to, especially since Rikku is my ultimate favorite character and what got me into cosplay! ^^
Wig Details
- Wig Brand
- laurawu
- Wig Name
- 38" Straight Ex-Long Bang
- Original Color:
- Golden Blonde
- Styling Time
- 20-25 hours
- Styling Notes
- Made from one wig and clip on extension ponytail. Detachable ponytail (made from clip on w/removed clip and reattached with my own method). Base wig was stubbed and the extra hair was turned into wefts. Beads are wooden and painted with acrylic and gloss paint and the holes were hand widened to fit in the braids. Wig was hand razored. This thing eats bottles of Motion Oils Sheen spray like noooo other.
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Over the next 24 hours, those in the high-calcium/vitamin D group consumed 320 fewer calories than the low calcium/vitamin D group. In addition, those in the high-calcium/vitamin D group had a higher metabolic rate, burned more calories and utilized fat better than the low-calcium/vitamin D group.


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Recording a Forgotten Baroque Master
Many have seen Daniel Abraham, director of choral activities in AU's Department of Performing Arts, conducting the various vocal ensembles at American University. But what some may not realize is that he is also a specialist in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music. This passion also fuels him as conductor and artistic director of the Bach Sinfonia, the Maryland-based ensemble dedicated to period instrument performances of Baroque and classical music.
Recently, Abraham and the Bach Sinfonia released a new CD, entitled Zelenka: The Capriccios.
The CD, Abraham's fifth commercial release with the ensemble, is a recording of five orchestral works by the Czech Baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka, who was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, and George Frideric Handel. According to Abraham, Zelenka's music represents a pinnacle of late Baroque music, despite his anonymity.
"He is virtually unknown in the wider listening circles," Abraham says, "and less known to scholars and performers because most of his music is not readily available in publications. There has only been a real resurgence in research interest over the last 20 to 30 years. Very little is known about his biography because very little documentation has survived, but his music has survived. We are just now beginning to assess him as a composer directly through his music."
Asked why he chose this project, Abraham explains that Zelenka already has a steady following in Europe, and that the awareness of Zelenka in America is starting to spread. A number of performances of his larger choral works have been conducted in places like Boston, Toronto, and San Francisco. "Even though this is a long-dead composer, his music is actually now receiving more recognition than it ever did in his lifetime and after," says Abraham, noting that his contemporaries considered him an exceptional composer.
Another reason Abraham chose Zelenka for this recording project is the composer's unique "individual" music. "It's quirky and odd at times," he explains. "It is harmonically very inventive, and melodically challenging. It can be viewed as tongue-in-cheek humorous, and at other times very serious and elaborate. It is really interesting stuff to approach and determine how to interpret. I think we have a great time not only performing concerts of this great music, but also going in and recording it for a week in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia."
The music itself is not the only unique feature about this recording. Abraham and the Bach Sinfonia took a page from the past and played the music on period instruments and in period style. They are among the first ensembles to record these pieces in this way.
One specific innovation of this particular recording is the use of horn soloists who use "bell up" horns. By the mid-eighteenth century, horns were played with the right hand inside the horn's bell. The hand made pitch adjustments and closed off some notes, allowing all sorts of possibilities in terms of adjusting intonation and scale. But unlike the "hand" horns, these instruments were played either with the bell off to the side or facing up, and the hand doesn't come into play. Abraham adds, "It's the first recording to use bell up horns rather than hand horns, which really didn't come into their own until the mid-1730s and 1740s. These works date from the 1710s through the 1720s, with most of them being written in 1717 and 1718."
The five Zelenka pieces in the recording are all lively pieces the composer wrote for banquets and parties. Even though Zelenka was based in Dresden for most of his life, these works were more for summer affairs in Vienna, where there was a long tradition of horn performance. "They were composed for the great hunting feasts that the Hapsburg monarchy liked to have in Vienna," says Abraham. "Zelenka worked the obvious ideas of the hunt into these pieces as part of the celebratory post-hunt banquets at which they would have been heard."
Abraham explains that while the music was meant for fun, it was extremely difficult to play. He says, "There were some incredible players at the time. So he wrote incredibly virtuosic suites. They usually start with a big overture and have dances that follow. In terms of the horn playing, there is really nothing else like it in all of the Baroque literature and beyond. The horn players have to play tremendously high and flying virtuosic parts. Frankly, the two horn players we had were the best in North America, and the principal horn was probably the only person in this hemisphere who could manage the part, let alone attempt to record it."
The CD is already receiving recognition. Its official release date was November 13, but iTunes had it up a week early on its "New and Noteworthy Classical" page. It is being carried worldwide through Naxos, and is on the Sono Luminus label, the well-known North American label for early music and folk performance that just received eight Grammy nominations for its work last year, including one for the Zelenka recording's producer Dan Merceriuo as Classical Producer of the Year.
The recording is available on iTunes, but the physical CD comes with a second CD with Blu-ray surround sound recorded in both 5.1 and 7.1 surround, as well as extensive notes and pictures of the ensemble recording in the studio.
More information is available at Bach Sinfonia. That site also has information about the CD.


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Top of Morning Masters,
You know what do...Post'em!
Top of Morning Masters,
You know what do...Post'em!
Hello Masters,
The Tuesday workday is almost over so getting things started here before heading home for the evening. DD was up early this morning as she came into her Mommy and Daddy's room at 5:30AM (who needs an alarm clock, eh?!) She is on summer vacation now and getting up so early. When there is school, it probably goes without saying that we have more than our hands full getting her up in time - Go figure!
So I got out the door and just a tad past 6AM and stuck to the 1.9 km look around my own apartment and district office block for which we live. 4 loops and 2 loops of the small park next to our apartment complex brought my distance to 5.16 miles (8.3 km) in 45:38 (8:51/mile) - sweating profusely and a loud echo of cicadas all around but a good run nonetheless.
a few shoutouts...
elizabethnyc => Thank you and looks like we got about the same 6 weeks of heat and humidity to get through. Misery loves company I guess.
Liney => I want 50s at night in July (send some over here) - sounds like the camping and kayaking went well. I bet it would be interesting to hear the stories your DD2 will have from Ghana. Our agency might take part in a project in Ghana before the end of this year...we shall see. As for me feeling back to norm - not yet but slowly coming along. Still got a bunch of weight to lose but I do admit, the legs and breathing are coming around a bit which is nice to see (and feel).
BOSNPM => Seems like a quite a bit of painting you got going on. Nice 4 miles with your DW yesterday morning. I saw my wife outside about to head down in the subway near the end of my run - gave her a little shout and got a smile which always makes my day.
marco59 => Months of snow and ice? Where are you based now? I'm originally from Canada so believe me I've suffered through my fair share of months of snow and ice - that gets old as well. Nice 10.36 miles there for you.
EIB0879 => Yikes on the pulled muscle in the back just from sitting down wrong. Hope it feels better soon and also hope you are able to make it up on your LR next Sunday.
MothAudio => I won't hit even 90 miles for the month so great going on the 90 miles per week back-to-back. I admit, I've been perusing the Garmin thread (yes, the official 610 thread as well) as my Garmin 410 with the hated bezal has died...also reading up on the Suunto Ambit2 (S) - the problem is buying the watch here in Korea is not so easy as you can get either of them online with the price marked up double. I bought the 410 back in 2009 when I was in Washington DC on business.
Tim, Ohio => Congratulations on your debut at the 26.2 distance - Well done!
Opus77 => Hearing MLB trade rumors about Bundy. Would be interesting but the big unknown is how he'll be after the Tommy John surgery and rehabilitation. Some whispers that Baltimore is interested in Bud Norris from the Stros. Stros just traded their closer - Veras to Detroit for a prospect and ever-present PTBNL. ^^ Also interesting is the Orioles and Stros play a 3 game starting today (Tuesday). Go Astros!
illinidave => Yep, you know the drill in Asia, the local drinks can be quite potent. I think that chemical alcohol coming out of China is the drink that we really have to watch out for.
George21 => Great going on the 2 minute + improvement on your 8.2 mile course...Very nice. The mileage is slowly increasing as I'm just been keeping it in the 15-20 mpw range over the last month (about 19 mpw the last 2 weeks) and I'm fine with that and will keep it around in this range for the test of the summer plus of course the weight workouts thrown in there for added measure. Thanks for the encouragement.
OK, off to home...Have a terrific Tuesday Masters.
Morning all!
Gorgeous day here at the moment, heading to high 70s, which is lovely. :-)
I slept through bootcamp again. It's like someone turned up the bed magnet strength. I don't even remember hitting the snooze button.
Anyways, I have 5 miles on the schedule for after work. Looking forward to it!
Pudov, I have the Garmin 405 with the PITA bezel. Maybe I just need to use it more to actually master it. :-) Nice job on your 5+ this morning.
Hi to all to follow,
Good morning Masters! Monday: 5 miles 49:35 - 9:55 avg. pace - recovery [aka stupid easy]. That makes 4 weeks in a row I've run on my SRD, which means I may be close to my all-time consecutive running day streak. Not even sure what it is but I know it's less than a month. Not that either are noteworthy but I've never felt this strong when I've veered away from my usual 6 day run schedule. I'm also doing some doubles - ran 11 times last week. Felt almost like running again last night [seemed like everyone else was]. Switching things up this week with ladder workout and I need to get in a tempo run for sure. We'll see what I get done today. Slept in late. Have a great day!
Good morning,
Off from work but will spend hours today in the kitchen as we are remodeling a bit. 12.71 done earlier at an 8:35 pace.
Pudov--I am in Calais, Maine. Almost everyday I run in two countries and two time zones.
Tim--Congratulations on your first. I am sure there will be many more.
Moth--way to pile on the miles
elizabeth--enjoy the five later
Good morning Masters! I am still in recovery mode from Saturday and have not started back running yet.
Gregory: Nice morning run!
Elizabeth: Have a great five after work! It sounds like you needed the extra sleep.
Moth: Keep up the great work!
Marco: Nice 12.71! Don't work too hard today!
Have a great day Masters!
From Sunday:
Tim: Congratulations sir! You are now a Marathoner!
jb: Yes it was very frustrating!
Gregory: Thank you sir!
George: No I am not ready to run with the kids. I also didn't want to set my alarm clock. I spent most of yesterday sleeping.
Nice easy workout last night, which included a parking ticket at the end! We ran downtown our area for hills, 7 miles @ AC pace then 8 X 200 a 5-6 % grade hill at the end, we walk back for our recovery. 30 mins of plyometrics and core at the end.
Nice easy 8 on trails this morning.
Marco: Nice 10 and 12.71, quite during evening shift.
EIB: Hope your back is better
Moth A: 90's two week in a row! Great job, hope the body is holding up to the high miles.
Tim: Great job on your marathon! There will be days that you don't know if you can run a marathon...but there will be a life time of knowing that you have. " Marathons are all different, but each time you cross that finish line, you hinger for the next one...it's a great feeling of accomplishment!
Illinidave: Great job on a LR 17.2, sounds like some prefect weather.
Opus: Nice 6, when are you coming down to the beach?
George: Nice 8.2
Rocket: I agree with George, another run will do the job! Hope you stay around for a while!
FF: Busy, great work
Gregory: Thanks for getting us moving this morning! Nice 5+
E: Have a good run.
Thank you everyone for the congrats on my first marathon. I'm still in a lot of pain climbing or descending stairs or attempting any movement utilizing my quads.
Here is a link to a blog where some of the first pics were posted. I remember the guy in the
pink tutu passing me. He had a British accent and was about as jolly as good be.
Good job to all of you on your runs. I wish I were able to get back to it.
Good morning Masters!
Did what essentially was a backwards double - ran 6 last night around 6 PM and then 7 this AM at 6 AM. The 7.0 was in 57:14 (8:11) with 5 at/near goal MP (7:55): 9:18, 8:31, 8:05, 7:54, 7:48, 7:49, 7:47. Last 3 were all within 1.5 seconds of each other, so I liked that. Forgot to mention that during my 13 miler on Sunday mile 5 and 6 were both (according to Garmin) exactly 8:41.41. I have had that happen once before in the 6 years I've had a GPS watch, but it is pretty rare.
In no particular order:
Rocket - great to see you back. I hope all is well and that you can become a regular again - or at lest as often as you are able. Were you injured?
George - Well done on the 8.2 improvement! You look like you are getting into a good zone. Nice!
Falcon - great 10 at 8 pace! You sound busy. Words on the billet?
Tim - congrats! A 4:15 on that kind of course is more than respectable! Well done!
EIB - ouch about the back. Hope it is better. Great outlook about the weekly mileage. As you said, there is always next week.
Pudov - fantastic effort going below 9 on your 5 miler! I have enjoyed watching your comeback (once again). As I just finished my second return from major injury, I know the struggle you are dealing with - and you are winning! Yes, O's have been shopping but supposedly the wallet is rather empty. Everyone wants one of the very talented young arms we have in our system. We could use a closer for sure. Johnson has 35 saves but his ERA is sky high and he has blown 5 or 6 saves already. The big guns have fallen silent lately too. Need Chris Davis to start crushing the ball again.
Elizabeth - win some, lose some...and then you lose some you didn't even know you were fighting apparently. Too funny. Enjoy your run.
Moth - enjoy the ladder.
Marco - great pace on the 12+. I have been to the old Loring AFB once before. Are you anywhere near there?
Tony - enjoy the rest. I'd be recovering a long time after 35 miles on trails. Have a great day.
Shout outs to jbyram, mysol, Liney, TWW, DAW, Jeepster, Chief, TC, and the rest of the gang.
BOSN - you slipped in there. What is AC? Nice 8 today. Was your ticket on base? I just got a speeding ticket in the mail from Avis. Apparently on my last trip to Belgium the dreaded cameras got me doing 135 kph in a 120 zone. Those things are sneaky. First ticket since 1984!
Tim - walk backwards down the stairs (carefully!). It feels much better that way.
Howdy Masters!
I will be heading out for 3 miles or so after work this afternoon. I will check back in after I get it done.
Bosnpm: The run this afternoon should shake things out nicely!
Opus: No injuries, just took a break. Typically I stop running during baseball season, so this has been an expected but a little bit extended break.
Have a great day All Masters!
Good morning Masters! Monday: 5 miles 49:35 - 9:55 avg. pace - recovery [aka stupid easy]. That makes 4 weeks in a row I've run on my SRD, which means I may be close to my all-time consecutive running day streak. Not even sure what it is but I know it's less than a month. Not that either are noteworthy but I've never felt this strong when I've veered away from my usual 6 day run schedule. I'm also doing some doubles - ran 11 times last week. Felt almost like running again last night [seemed like everyone else was]. Switching things up this week with ladder workout and I need to get in a tempo run for sure. We'll see what I get done today. Slept in late. Have a great day!
8 miles 1:15:53 - 9:29 avg. pace - easy A.M. /
Bed magnet caught me napping and I got out later than I wanted. Legs felt sore and tired (maybe due to yesterday's faster than usual pace) so I stopped with Weston; 2.3 miles for both of us. What the heck, I'm tapering now. I'll try for eight tomorrow instead.
Back to work...
Another day made for running; a little bit of October in July without the leaf thing going on. 12.0 on the trails with 8 at MP even though I don't have one officially targeted. Afterwards I stopped by the school and helped the coach hand out uniforms for the team photo on Thursday. XC officially starts on 1August and the photo is always the first thing.
Marathoner Tim, belated congratulations on your first. The photos look like fun. I might have to put this on the list for the future. It looks to be close to me, scenic, and small. Three good reasons for me to pick a race. Keep me in mind if you decide to do it again next year.
George, I'm impressed with the way you have been ramping up your fastness. Nice work over the past few weeks.
Bosnpm, if you run to your workouts you avoid one problem and build a better base, all at the same time. BTW, what is AC?
marco, do you ever have any trouble crossing the border? Nice 12+ this morning.
Opus, ecin sdrawkcab elbuod.
EIB, hope the back is better.
Good runs to all today.
Opus: Nice 7, quick! It's back to 100% humidity here hope you had some relief! AC pace is aerobic Conditioning 70-85% of MHR. A tad faster than LR pace! My ticket was downtown Wimington! Rocket: Have a good three Moth A: Nice 8, we were about the same pace this morning. RAM: Nice 2.3 illinidave: Enjoy that weather nice 12, see my post to Opus on AC pace. You are right live and learn, that would be a 15 mile warm up!
Opus--I am about three hours south of Loring AFB
4 today in a cool 65 degree morning. I had done 4 yesterday in the hottest part of the afternoon, so it felt nice.
Which raises a question on acclimation. Perhaps a new thread would be best...
Hey, masters.
I think I'm ready to bump weekly miles back into the 40's after five straight weeks at 30 - 34 miles on four or five runs per week. A sixth weekly run plus a bit longer on Saturdays should get me over 40. I'm pretty well burpeed out. I did 100 after yesterday's run, but had no motivation after today's run. Only one more day in our July burpee challenge, anyway. I have accumulated a total of 1520 so far for the month, with 20 days on and 10 days off.
Ten miles on Saturday at 7:43 avg. Five progressive (6:53.....6:15) miles on the tm yesterday at 6:33 avg. Eight moderately progressive (7:30.....6:40) miles on the road during lunch today at 7:04 average. Great conditions for today's run.
Pudov - good to see your continued improvement
eliz - nice weather many of us are having.
moth - monster mileage accumulation for you. It should pay off with some decent race paces.
marco - nice 12.7.
tony - sounds like quite the (mis)adventure you had.
tim - congratulations on completing your first marathon in adverse conditions.
bosn - eight seems to be a common distance today.
opus - nice strong pacing at the end of your run today.
rocket - good to see you back.
jbyram - probably good for you to cut the run short today. Just enough to get the blood flowing and aid recovery.
dave - nice two day total for you, but that seems to be a common occurence.
wolfgate - good to see you back posting on a regular basis. Nice to see Audrey's continued improvement.
george - nice pace on the 8.2 last night.
Good afternoon! 8 miles EZ at 9:03 pace, feeling super-duper!
Have a great night!
Good Evening Masters,
5.1 miles this evening in 42:56 @ 8:26 pace.
BOSNPM - my apologies, missed replying to you yesterday. Glad to hear that the painting is complete. Sounds like a nice run with DW in the morning. See you put in a good hill workout yesterday evening and eight on the trail this morning.
Opus - nice couple runs in a twelve our window. Good work on the five at MP.
Pudov - I see we had similar runs today - mine with a little less sweat.
DAW - glad to see you on board. Glad the running is there for you and the miles working up. We have been lucky recently with better running weather.
Rocket - hope the run went well today. Sounds like a nice plan to get back at the half marathon and hopefully another FE with tww and Charlie.
Tim - belated congratulations on your first marathon.
Tony - good work on staying with the recovery mode.
illinidave - nice run and pace today in great running weather. Last time the weather was this nice in July it was 90 in October.
wolfgate - nice work on the back to back 4.
Be Well.....
tomorrow is going to be busy with another trip to Bangor. Needed 6.61 to reach my monthly goal and did 6.62 this afternoon for my first double in a long time


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County Receives Award for Incident Management Software
Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director of Public Affairs
703-324-3187, TTY 711, Fax 703-324-2010
Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
June 27, 2007
Fairfax County Receives Award for Incident Management Software Users Group
The Fairfax County Office of Emergency Management's Northern Virginia (NOVA) WebEOC users group was the inaugural recipient of the Catalyst Award from Emergency Services Integrators (ESI), Inc.'s WebEOC User Advisory Board. WebEOC is a Web-based incident management software system used by emergency managers and other county agencies to better manage significant events.
In late 2005, Fairfax County took the lead in the Northern Virginia region by becoming the recipient of more than $1.2 million in federal grant funds to create a Northern Virginia WebEOC program.
The award, which is given for outstanding regional WebEOC integration, sharing of data and user group formation, was presented last month at the 2007 User Conference in San Antonio, Texas.
The NOVA WebEOC Users Group, consisting of 10 Northern Virginia jurisdictions of which Fairfax County is the nexus, was judged to meet the high standards of the award by having a grouping of three or more WebEOCs share data using dual commit/remote board functionality and an active user group.
For more information, contact the Office of Emergency Management at 703-324-2362, TTY 711.
Accepting the award are, left, Bruce Whitney of McDonald Bradley, and Roy Shrout, acting director, Fairfax County Office of Emergency Management.
For more news and information, visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news.


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Shockwave Lithotripsy (SWL) Under Selective, General Anesthesia.
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified March 2009 by Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center.
Recruitment status was: Not yet recruiting
Recruitment status was: Not yet recruiting
Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center
Information provided by:
Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: November 4, 2009
Last updated: NA
Last verified: March 2009
History: No changes posted
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SWL is widely used in the treatment of patients with renal and ureteral calculi. Several factors determine the success of extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) for kidney stones: stone size, stone location within the collecting system, stone type, and the SWL machine used. Moreover, in some cases it is very difficult to focus on the stone because of its movement as a results of breathing. In order to prevent stone movement we want to use a bronchial blocker, processing a selective ventilation of the opposite side of stone location.
|Renal Calculi Ureteral Calculi
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Shockwave Lithotripsy (SWL) Under Regular General Anesthesia and Under General Anesthesia Using Bronchial Blocker.
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: AnesthesiaU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center:
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|November 2009
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|October 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
SWL under general anesthesia
Patients who failed in SWL under sedation(a standard protocol), will undergo a second SWL process under general anesthesia.
SWL under general selective anesthesia
Patients who failed in SWL under sedation(a standard protocol), will undergo a second SWL process under general selective anesthesia, using a bronchial blocker.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Patients who failed in SWL process taken under sedation (standard protocol)
Inclusion Criteria:
- Older than 18 years old
- Not pregnant
- All patients who failed in SWL process, taken under sedation (standard protocol)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age < 18
- Pregnancy
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01008267
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01008267
|Anesthesiology department, Assaf-Harofeh MC
|Not yet recruiting
|Beer-Yaakov, Zrifin, Israel, 70300
|Contact: Zoya Haitov, MD 089778080 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Zoya Haitov, MD
Sponsors and Collaborators
Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center
More Information
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Zoya Haitov MD, Anesthesiology department, Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01008267 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|November 4, 2009
|Last Updated:
|November 4, 2009
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Kidney Calculi
Ureteral Calculi
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
Kidney Diseases
Urologic Diseases
Urinary Calculi
Ureteral Diseases
Central Nervous System Depressants
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Use AOTA's Occupational Profile template to improve your documentation.
Learn how to use the new OT CPT® Evaluation codes correctly.
Occupational therapy consistently ranks high as one of the top jobs.
Read recent news articles about occupational therapy.
Find out how occupational therapy helps people with polytraumatic injuries.
By Dan Brown
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010. AOTA was very active in the legislative process leading up to the passage and signing of the ACA, working to achieve victories such as inclusion of rehabilitation and habilitation in the essential benefits package.
But our work didn't end when the ACA was signed into law. Implementation will continue through 2016 and beyond, and AOTA is closely following state and federal regulatory and other processes, providing comments and ensuring that the interests of the occupational therapy profession and your clients are advanced and protected.
The following FAQs are designed to let members know about some of the work we've been doing. Much more information is available on our Web site under Advocacy/Health Care Reform.
Q: What is AOTA doing to be sure occupational therapy services are covered by the ACA?
There are two large populations of people who will gain access to health insurance under the ACA. They include those newly eligible for Medicaid, and others who will receive tax credits to reduce the cost of private insurance purchased from online marketplaces, called health insurance exchanges. In both cases, certain benefits must be covered for these groups. They are called "essential health benefits" or EHBs. One category of the EHBs is "rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices." That is where occupational therapy services are typically included. However, because in the past habilitative services were often excluded from health insurance coverage, there is a unique opportunity to influence how they will be defined for these new groups in the future. AOTA has been working to influence state and federal decision makers on this issue, and to make sure that coverage for occupational therapy services is included in the habilitation benefit. Our activities have included partnering with state OT associations, as well as other health care provider and disability advocacy organizations, to monitor activities throughout the country and be at the table when these important decisions are made. We have developed advocacy resources for our partners, including customized comment letters. We have also held conference calls to educate and strategize with state OT leaders, including some that were recorded as podcasts and are available for AOTA members to listen to. We also submit our own comment letters on proposed federal regulations, such as this one.
Q: Under the ACA, there will be some variations in the law by state. How is AOTA tracking and sharing that information?
The approach the federal government took to implement many portions of the ACA does allow for substantial state flexibility. That creates opportunities for localized advocacy, but it is challenging to monitor, as there are many more entities making important decisions. AOTA has contracted with Stateside Associates, a consulting firm, to assist us in monitoring important activities, such as key public meetings. We share the information we receive from Stateside with state OT associations in weekly reports. Stateside also provides us with periodic reports summarizing the status of certain issues across the country. In addition, AOTA has contracted with State Net, a database service, to track legislation and regulatory activities. We also share weekly reports with our state partners based on that information. There are a variety of other ways we maintain awareness of what is going on throughout the country, but one of the keys to doing so is maintaining open lines of communication with our partners. Through our relationships with state occupational therapy associations and other organizations, we can leverage resources that go beyond those we have internally.
Q: What long- and short-term issues is AOTA focusing on?
In the short term, AOTA is concentrating on ensuring that the definition of the habilitation benefit for the newly insured population includes coverage of occupational therapy services. In addition, we are advocating for the expansion of Medicaid eligibility, which is an option for states, to maximize the number of people who will gain access to occupational therapy and other services, including rehabilitative and mental/behavioral health services. In the long term, we are working on projects to identify opportunities for occupational therapy professionals as the health care delivery system evolves. The ACA, and other health care reform efforts, are attempting to change the structure of our health care system in ways that go beyond providing more people with health insurance. AOTA is working to ensure that the benefits of occupational therapy are acknowledged as those changes take place, and that occupational therapy is an integral part of the integrated and interdisciplinary care delivery models of the future.
Q: How can I keep up with new developments as the ACA is implemented?
Members can keep apprised of some of the most important ACA-related developments for the profession by monitoring the Advocacy Highlights section of AOTA's Web site. AOTA maintains additional information on the Health Care Reform Implementation section of our Web site. We also encourage members to get involved in the advocacy opportunities that exist at the state level by contacting their state OT associations. For those interested in general developments related to ACA implementation, the Kaiser Family Foundation is a highly credible resource.
Dan Brown is AOTA's senior state policy analyst.


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Long Island City-based Antidote Chocolate makes ten different chocolate bars, each one combining two key flavors and named after a Greek goddess. My two current favorites are Hybris, an 84% dark bar in which the underbelly is flecked with dried mango and juniper berries. It's a touch smoky, with a faint, fruity lift; I like break it into tiny pieces and mix it into vanilla ice cream. Kakia is a sweeter 77% bar infused with cardamom and crushed coffee beans. The flavors come through heady, bold with coffee on the initial bite, and cardamom on the finish. Certainly not for a dark chocolate purist, but oh so good for an afternoon pick-me-up.
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char@gottagogottathrow wrote:Thanks to all who came out to play (and those who brought us lunch - that was out of the park appreciated!)
The event was a whole lot of fun and virtually hitch free - dramas noted above would be the exceptions - but then again, it was cheap entertainment
Char....you crack me up.
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Shields, big inning by bats lead Royals past A's
Righty perfect into sixth; KC takes series win over MLB's top team
OAKLAND -- As they picked at their postgame meals in the visitor's clubhouse, Royals outfielders Alex Gordon and Jarrod Dyson lamented the lack of baseballs hit their way on Sunday afternoon.
They can blame James Shields for that.
The Kansas City right-hander mastered the A's for eight innings in a 4-2 victory, helping the Royals send Oakland to its first home series loss in nearly three months. Despite facing the best team in baseball with a trio of starting pitchers sporting sub 2.70-ERAs, the Royals were able to take two out of three in a tough road environment.
"As far as I'm concerned, we can match up with anyone, any team, any starting rotation," Shields said. "I don't care who it is. I believe in our guys. We have some good young talent in our starting rotation, as well as some veterans. We're going to compete with anybody. As long as we go toe to toe with those guys, we're going to be in every game."
Since Shields didn't let many balls leave in the infield all afternoon, you can see why his outfielders might have felt a bit bored playing behind him on Sunday.
It was something of a one-upper act from Shields. Friday night, righty Jeremy Guthrie started his outing with three perfect frames for the Royals. On Saturday, southpaw Jason Vargas tossed four spotless innings to begin his start before finding trouble in the fifth.
On Sunday, Shields (10-6, 3.43 ERA) tossed five perfect frames to start the contest before Josh Reddick led off the sixth with a solo shot. So when Shields and the Royals took the field in the sixth inning, were his teammates pondering a perfecto?
"You're thinking it, but you definitely don't want to say it," first baseman Billy Butler said with a smile.
Reddick would go on to hit another solo blast in the eighth, but Shields was able to get out of the inning before his afternoon was over. He allowed two earned runs on four hits and no walks while striking out two in his eight innings of work.
Over his past six starts, Shields is now 2-2 with a 1.99 ERA and 35 strikeouts in 40 2/3 innings pitched. He also became a 10-game winner for the eighth straight year, joining six other active pitchers that have accomplished the feat.
"Just tried to stay consistent throughout my career," Shields said. "Having another double-digit [wins] season is nice. Hopefully these next nine games or so I can get a [few] more."
Shields said he noticed early on that the A's -- renowned for their patience at the plate -- were being aggressive with their approach, so he tried to use that to his advantage. It resulted in a low pitch count, and he was able to finish eight innings for the second time this year.
"A lot of teams have been super patient against me, and this team was a free-hacking team today, which is not really their game," Shields said. "They have a bunch of hitters over there that were being aggressive, and I was able to execute my pitches early in the count."
Aside from Reddick, Shields didn't have many problems at all. His location was on-point, his changeup was deceiving, and his skipper knew it from the get-go.
"I thought he threw the ball great," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "We start that game and you watch the way that he's pitching, it's like, 'OK boys, let's just give him a couple runs and he'll take it from there.' And when that fifth inning came about, we put together a nice inning."
As Yost mentioned, Kansas City put together a big rally in the fifth to take control of the game against A's lefty Scott Kazmir (12-4, 2.53 ERA).
Rookie Christian Colon, making his first start since being promoted from Triple-A Omaha earlier this week, started off the big rally by belting a double to right field. Nori Aoki drove Colon home with an RBI single before Omar Infante roped a double down the left-field line to bring home Aoki and Alcides Escobar. Salvador Perez made it 4-0 in favor of Kansas City when he plated Infante with another base knock to left.
"We just didn't miss pitches out over the plate," Butler said after going 3-for-4. "Sometimes you foul them off, but today we were getting it done out over the plate and capitalizing on his mistakes. He didn't make a ton of them, but we just capitalized on them."
With the way that Shields was dealing on Sunday, the big rally was all the Royals needed at the plate. Following Shields' gem, closer Greg Holland shut down the A's in the ninth to convert his American League-leading 31st save.
Alex Espinoza is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Chabot offers enrichment programs and activities for middle and high school teens that build confidence, leadership and career development.
Techbridge offers a multi-faceted approach that introduces hands-on activities while also emphasizing career exploration to inspire girls to discover a passion for technology, science and engineering, empowering our future innovators and leaders.
Galaxy Explorers
The Galaxy Explorers provide interactive hands-on science demonstrations on Saturdays to the visitors of Chabot year-round. Interwoven throughout the experience are opportunities to glean meaningful job and life skills.
Champions of Science
Champions of Science develops students' knowledge and excitement about science, and give participants exposure to various careers in science and technology. Champions learn how to think critically and use the scientific method.


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Scientific name: Colias croceus
Greenish yellow with two silver-white spots. Always rests with wings closed. Upperwings are deep orange-yellow with broad dark wing margins.
The Clouded Yellow is one of the truly migratory European butterflies and a regular visitor to Britain and Ireland. Although some of these golden-yellow butterflies are seen every year, the species is famous for occasional mass immigrations and subsequent breeding, which are fondly and long remembered as ''Clouded Yellow Years''. A small proportion of females are pale yellow (form helice), which can be confused with the rarer Pale and Berger's Clouded Yellows.
Size and Family
- Family: Whites and yellows
- Size: Large
- Wing Span Range (male to female): 57-62mm
Caterpillar Foodplants
A range of leguminous plants is used, including wild and cultivated clovers (Trifolium spp.), Lucerne (Medicago sativa), and less frequently, Common Bird's-foot-trefoil (Lotus corniculatus).
Clouded Yellows may be seen in any habitat, but congregate in flowery places where the larval foodplants grow. As clovers are still commonly cultivated, the Clouded Yellow is one of the few butterfly species that has no difficulty locating breeding habitat in the modern farmed countryside. In southern England there is a preference for unimproved chalk downland.
- Countries: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
- Anywhere, but most commonly close to the coast in southern England.
- Distribution Trend Since 1970's = +144%.


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All City Garage Sale – Saturday, May 11, 2013
Additional Information
The Kimball All City Garage Sale is happening on May 11th! This garage sale will be throughout the entire city of Kimball and maps will be available at businesses the day of the sale. The sale will begin at 8:00 am.


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Do you interact with students who want to go abroad in some capacity? Are you getting more questions from students on how to do so? A cross-campus committee, called the International Career Advisory Team (ICAT), was created for just this reason! Our purpose is to share knowledge and resources on international volunteer, internship and job opportunities, both within the U.S. and abroad. ICAT also collaborates to create a series of events related to international careers. To read more about ICAT and check out the fall events, go to the ICAT website at Career Services.
Please promote these events to your students! If you would like to join our committee (meets twice a semester) or share relevant resources, please email email@example.com.


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"2. Indiana
Status: $20.9 million under the cap ($28.5 million if the Pacers amnesty James Posey)
Current 2-guards: Brandon Rush, Jimmy Chitwood
Notes: Since it doesn't look like they're getting Nene, Gasol or Chandler, why wouldn't they upgrade their 2-spot with Afflalo when he's the perfect fit for that team? Think about what we watched from Indiana last season: smart, efficient, overachieving, always played hard, very good defensively, and most important, flexible. Wouldn't Afflalo fit in spectacularly with Danny Granger, Darren Collison, Paul George, Roy Hibbert, George Hill, Tyler Hansbrough and Rush? What if the Pacers shelled out $50 million for Afflalo, then brought back Josh McRoberts or spent a little more for a center (DeAndre Jordan, Greg Oden, Sam Dalembert, etc)? That's a real basketball team! Especially for a kooky regular season like this one 66 games in 120 days when teams with depth and young legs might have a genuine advantage."
Thoughts? I didn't realize Afflalo was that good....


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Evaluation of Ranibizumab in Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy (PDR) Requiring Vitrectomy
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified August 2007 by Retina Associates, Kansas City.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
Retina Associates, Kansas City
Genentech, Inc.
Information provided by:
Retina Associates, Kansas City
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: August 14, 2007
Last updated: NA
Last verified: August 2007
History: No changes posted
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Detailed Description:
Evaluation of ranibizumab on the ease and procedure and complication in proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) requiring vitrectomy.
|Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy
|Drug: Lucentis (ranibizumab)
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Single (Participant)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Evaluation of Ranibizumab on the Ease of Procedure and Complication Rate in Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy (PDR) Requiring Vitrectomy
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Diabetic Eye Problems Retinal Disorders
Drug Information available for: RanibizumabU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Retina Associates, Kansas City:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- To evaluate the effect of ranibizumab on vitrectomy complications such as recurrent vitreous hemorrhage, postoperative retinal detachment rates, and development of intraoperative retinal breaks. [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|August 2007
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|August 2008
This is an open-label, Phase I/II study of multiple doses of intravitreally administered ranibizumab in patients with severe NPDR and PDR prior to, during, and after vitrectomy therapy.
40 subjects will be enrolled and randomized 3:1 to ranibizumab or vitrectomy alone. 30 consented, enrolled subjects will receive 3 intravitreal injections of 0.5 mg ranibizumab administered 1-3 weeks pre-procedure, intraoperatively, and 1 month post-vitrectomy.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|21 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Ability to provide written informed consent and comply with study assessments for the full duration of the study
- Age > 20 years
- Best corrected visual acuity of 20/40 to 20/800 in the study eye
- Very servere nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (ETDRS level 53E) OR moderate proliferative diabetic retinopathy (ETDRS level 65)
- Visual reduction attributable to diabetic vitreous hemorrhage or diabetic macular edema
- Candidate for vitrectomy procedure
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnancy (positive Pregnancy test) or lactation
- Premenopausal women not using adequate contraception. The following are considered effective means of contraception: surgical sterilization or use of oral contraceptives, barrier contraception with either a condom or diaphragm in conjunction with spermicidal gel, an IUD, or contraceptive hormone implant or patch.
- Any other condition that the investigator believes would pose a significant hazard to the subject if the investigational therapy were initiated.
- Participation in another simultaneous medical investigation or trial.
- Visual impairment attributable to causes other than diabetic macular edema or diabetic vitreous hemorrhage.
- Use of intraocular or periocular corticosteroids within 6 months.
- History of panretinal photocoagulation
- History of macular laser photocoagulation
- History of pars plana vitrectomy
- Prior or concomitant treatment with ranibizumab, bevacizumab, or pegaptanib sodium, either as part of an investigational study or as an off-label medication.
- Current treatment of a systemic infection
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00516464
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00516464
|United States, Kansas
|Retina Associates, PA
|Shawnee Mission, Kansas, United States, 66204
|Contact: Lexie Manning 913-831-7400 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Gregory M Fox, MD
Sponsors and Collaborators
Retina Associates, Kansas City
Genentech, Inc.
|Principal Investigator:
|Gregory M Fox, MD
|Retina Associates, PA
More Information
Keywords provided by Retina Associates, Kansas City:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00516464 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|August 14, 2007
|Last Updated:
|August 14, 2007
Keywords provided by Retina Associates, Kansas City:
Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Retinal Diseases
Diabetic Retinopathy
Eye Diseases
Diabetic Angiopathies
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Diabetes Complications
Diabetes Mellitus
Endocrine System Diseases
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Growth Substances
Growth Inhibitors
Antineoplastic Agents
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The last few weeks have been particularly brutal for Apple's (AAPL) stock price, which has been fluctuating wildly.
Besides the fiscal cliff concerns and people wanting to lock in some of their capital gains from 2012 before a potential rise in the rates, a lot of Apple bears have been talking about margin pressure as a big reason why investors should be worried about Apple.
To that point, I received an interesting email over the weekend from one anonymous reader (who is long Apple) about Apple's prospects in China, specifically with regards to the iPad Mini.
I have been thinking a lot lately about Apple's long-term prospects in some key markets like China and all the chatter about the iPhone losing share to lower end smartphones and how they need to have a cheaper iPhone in emerging markets.
I think Apple will concede the loss of iPhone market share for the time being, working with carriers who want to subsidize the iPhone, and maintain the premium brand status in smartphones. However, I think the iPad is a different story and the market is missing this bigger story:
- Consider that the company has 71% of the tablet market in China today.
- Consider that the up and coming China smartphone makers are selling their SMARTPHONES at roughly the same ballpark price as the iPad Mini:
- Meizu MX2: RMB 2,499 ($400).
- Xiaomi Phone 1S RMB 1,299 ($210) or RMB 1,499 ($240)
- Xiaomi Phone 2 RMB 1,999 ($320)
- Consider that these companies have the same business model as Apple (i.e., they need to sell units to make a profit) and can't rely on content sales to make their money (unlike Google (GOOG) and Amazon (AMZN)). If we assume that Google and Amazon (huge companies with huge purchasing power) are basically pricing their tablets at break-even, then these Chinese companies will have to sell their tablets between $200-$300 to make any kind of profit.
My conclusion is that the iPad Mini is priced extremely competitively to take on any tablet maker in China and they will probably keep 60-70% market share in China for a few more years to come. If Meizu and Xiaomi (who are considered the disruptive smartphone entrants in the Chinese market) are selling their smartphones at these prices, how will they get the price of a tablet low enough to create enough of a value difference vs. the iPad Mini that starts at $329?
With the iPhone, the value proposition was/is easy for consumers to buy Meizu or Xiaomi smartphones: they are more than 50% cheaper than the iPhone 5. But if their tablets only come in 10%-30% cheaper than the iPad Mini, is that going to be enough of a price difference for Chinese consumers to choose these products vs. the iPad Mini? I think China consumers recognize "value-add" (build quality, app ecosystem, etc.) as much as any other international consumer.
In retrospect, I think Apple set their price of the iPad Mini to compete and gain market share in the China market. That is where the real war for growth and platform is and will be fought.
The disappointment in the market of Apple not coming closer in price with Google and Amazon tablet offerings means that the market could be missing the bigger picture: the competitiveness of the iPad Mini in China and the potential dominance the iPad Mini could have in China.
The iPad Mini will create that halo effect in China for Apple, the same way the iPod and iPhone created that halo effect for Apple in Western markets.
I agree that most Apple investors seem to be forgetting about the whole China opportunity for Apple these days, especially with respect to the iPad Mini. One thing that's clear to me from my travels to China is that the Chinese prefer bigger screens on their phones. They like more text on the pages they view and a larger screen is also easier to write Chinese characters on.
The Samsung Galaxy Note has been a hit in China so far. There have been no issues of holding a big tablet-like sized screen to your ear to make a phone call over there. I think Apple has realized this. However, rather than creating two kinds of iPhones with a large and small screen, the company has chosen to make the Mini its competitive offering against the Note. I think it's going to be a hit in China -- especially considering that there is a lack of cheaper knock-offs.


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Miami's War of Words
From Bo Derek, Jul/Aug 00
For members of Miami's Cuban-American community, the war with Castro rages on
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This is all by way of a warm-up for today's guest interview with a female journalist who offers a psychological profile of Castro, purporting to explain his appalling insistence that little Elián González be returned to his father in Cuba. Fidel is suffering from "geriatric hyperactivity...a regression towards his traumatic childhood," asserts the journalist-turned-shrink. "He has always been insane--he's just crazier now than before." And then comes the piercing Freudian insight: When Castro was six (yes, Elián's age!), his father forced him to live with his godparents and attend a Catholic school, which he despised. The aging dictator, says the journalist, sees in Elián a painful childhood memory he wants to exorcise.
The program concludes with call-ins. The spokesman for an exile group asks people to demonstrate in front of the Hyatt Hotel against Cuban scholars attending a Latin American academic conference in Miami. "Protest against the injecting of Castro's venom into our midst!" yells the caller.
The Cuban exile community lives every day torn between Miami's two essential realities: the bile of anti-Castroism and the lure of a vibrant, sophisticated metropolis. No other immigrant group in American history has achieved economic success and political clout as quickly as the Cuban exiles, who number roughly 800,000 out of Miami-Dade County's 2.1 million inhabitants. They began arriving in what was an aging, decaying tourist trap 40 years ago, and have revitalized the city into a business and cultural mecca for Latin America.
Miami's port dominates shipping between the two New World hemispheres. So many Latin American Web companies have set up headquarters here that Net investors hype the city as "Silicon Beach." Miami is the vortex of Spanish-language television broadcasting and music recording. South Beach, with its mix of Latino and European sensibilities, seems to be in the midst of a perpetual fashion shoot--its wannabe models parading along Ocean Drive with perfectly sculpted bodies and a tan look of sexy, ruthless chic. Everywhere in the city, inventive restaurants offer the delectable new Latin fusion cuisine that has spread north to New York, Boston, even Montreal. And Miami's nightclubs--sensual palaces of son, samba and salsa--are unrivaled. Cubans don't necessarily approve of all that glitters in the new Miami. Yet this much is certain: Miami as capital of Latin America and bridge between northern and southern hemispheres would never have been possible without the culture, money, language and energy of the Cuban exiles.
What is also certain is that neither prosperity nor longtime residence in Florida has sapped the anti-Castro passions of the exile community. Support for the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba, including even humanitarian food and medicine shipments, remains unyielding. A dialogue with Havana is out of the question, even though most exiles believe planning is necessary now to ensure a peaceful transition to democracy and capitalism on the island after Fidel goes. If anything, the Elián case has stiffened the community's resolve to maintain its paramount influence over U.S. policy on Cuba and has strengthened the hard-liners. And in its politics, this is still a one-issue town: the corruption and incompetence of public officials are acceptable as long as their intolerance of anything that smacks of concessions to Havana remains unbending. Having lived and worked in Latin America off and on for 40 years, I have traveled to Miami often, either on assignment or by choice. But during a dozen days here on my most recent visit, I deliberately seek out exile leaders I haven't met before. In most cases, they are figures who have risen to prominence in politics, culture and business since I was last here in 1995.
Although I have planned my trip long before Elián's arrival, the emotional convulsion he has unleashed is a constant reference point during my sojourn--and a reminder of how little attitudes have changed. Rafael Sánchez-Aballí is a 35-year-old lawyer who worked with his partner, Nick Gutiérrez, and others to craft the Helms-Burton law that imposes sanctions on companies that invest in Cuba. But I have been told that within the political spectrum of the exile community, Sánchez-Aballí is considered a moderate. I meet with him at his office high above the row of corporate headquarters that line downtown's Brickell Avenue. It's a Saturday morning, and he's working overtime, wearing sneakers, blue jeans and a baby-faced grin that make him look like a recent grad. He turns on his tape recorder--to guard against being misquoted, he explains--and, speaking into the mike, asks permission to tape our conversation as required by law. I give my assent and ask for his as I activate my own machine.
Sánchez-Aballí then launches into an impassioned defense of exile community political views: the unfair perceptions of Miami Cubans as radical right-wingers ("What's so extremist about wanting democracy and freedom for Cuba?"); the criticism of the Cuban lobby ("What's wrong with trying to influence political elites to favor our political issues?"); charges that the economic embargo against Cuba is misguided and ineffective ("We don't need to be trading with our enemies"). For 30 minutes or so, Sánchez-Aballí is an articulate spokesman for predictably hard-line anti-Castro views.
But then, quite suddenly, his rap turns more darkly conspiratorial. The dangers of Castro, he says, cannot be underestimated. Castro's agents, he asserts, may be eavesdropping on this interview and have probably bugged his house and infiltrated his network of friends and acquaintances. He insists Castro has amassed a stockpile of biological weapons. "All he has to do is get a little Cessna with some of those weapons, make it crash in the Everglades, and south Florida is going to have a tremendous problem," says Sánchez-Aballí. He believes he knows just what could motivate Castro to launch such a suicidal attack: "Castro wants to be an American citizen, wants to play for the New York Yankees, and wants to become president of the United States. If he can't have that, he wants to die from the bullet of a Marine, so that he can be immortalized."
Moving on to another scenario, I ask Sánchez-Aballí how he envisions Cuba after Fidel. "No hay regreso--there is no return," he says. The phrase, heard often among Miami exiles, at first sounds like a mature acknowledgement that their present and future lie in the United States. Sánchez-Aballí is under no illusion that the mass of exiles will ever return to Cuba. He was only a baby when he came to Miami and is unsure himself whether he would move to Havana. But in fact, "no hay regreso" is a slogan of tenacious sullenness for having been forced to abandon a way of life that can never be resurrected.
Sánchez-Aballí uses another phrase popularized by exiles--"amnesia y amnistía" ("forget and forgive")--as a guide for political action in a post-Castro Cuba. It sounds like the pragmatic course followed by the post-Communist regimes of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, where the consensus was that totalitarian rule had lasted so long and implicated so many people that it was impossible for new, democratic governments to prosecute human rights offenders. But like "no hay regreso," the slogan "amnesia y amnistía" cannot be taken at face value.
Certainly, the 10 million Cubans who stayed behind, says Sánchez-Aballí, will decide the fate of a post-Castro Cuba. It will be necessary to negotiate a democratic transition with post-Castro Communists, but only with those "who do not have blood on their hands," says the lawyer.
"It's going to be difficult to determine who does and who does not....I may not be the person to do it because I'm very angry." Not much room for amnistía, forgiveness, there. And, insists Sánchez-Aballí, the victims of Communism must be honored throughout the island. "We have to build monuments commemorating all those people who were killed or had to get on a boat or suffered human rights violations." Apparently, there won't be much amnesia either.
The Cuban-American National Foundation is generally thought to be the exile group most likely to exert influence in Cuba after Castro's demise. Local businessman Jorge Mas Canosa created the CANF in 1981 and built it into the country's most powerful and effective Cuba lobby organization, running it until his death from lung cancer in 1997.
But lately, under the leadership of his 37-year-old son, Jorge Mas Santos, the CANF sometimes seems adrift. In 1998, in response to Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba and his call for new humanitarian initiatives, the CANF suggested that surplus U.S. food be distributed to hungry Cubans, perhaps under the aegis of the Roman Catholic Church. With considerable embarrassment, the CANF backed off from the plan when its own supporters bellowed that it was a betrayal of the economic embargo.
More recently, the CANF stubbed its toe over the Elián affair. Mas Santos tried to broker an accord with Washington that would have allowed the boy to rejoin his father peacefully, but then beat a hasty retreat when the crowd in Little Havana expressed outrage over such a deal. When federal agents finally raided the home of Elián's Miami relatives and returned him to his father, the CANF's views on the incident weren't even solicited by the national press.
I ask Mas Santos what has gone wrong at the CANF since his father died. "Obviously, my father's death was a blow to the foundation," says the son, who tries to walk a fine line between praising the older Mas as irreplaceable and insisting that the CANF has survived his death better than critics suggest. He claims that CANF membership has actually increased by 20 percent, to 60,000, since Mas Canosa's death. He also points out that his father was fortunate to have a loyal son managing Mastec, the family's telecommunications business.
"I ran this company on a day-to-day basis since 1991 so my father could spend time on his passion, which was Cuba and the foundation," says Mas Santos, at the sprawling glass-and-concrete headquarters near Miami's airport where he directs Mastec's 10,000 employees. To give Mas Santos credit, he nearly doubled Mastec's market capitalization to $2 billion in the past three years. "I just haven't had enough time to devote myself to the foundation," he says. But he promises that will soon change because he has appointed a hands-on manager for Mastec and assumed the less demanding post of chairman.
The embargo against Cuba has been the CANF's primary issue, and Mas Santos bridles at assertions that it's a failed policy.
"Yes, if you look at the big picture, Fidel Castro is still in power," he concedes. But he goes on to offer a dubious defense of the embargo, one that I had not heard before. Thanks to the embargo, insists Mas Santos, the Cuban regime has lost so many potential trade revenues that it has been forced to cut back spending on its repressive apparatus. "That's why you see people in Cuba expressing their opinions a bit more and criticizing the regime," he says.
Ideally, Mas Santos would like to see the CANF maintain its focus on Washington and speak out on continued human rights violations in Cuba. "Our battle isn't in Little Havana," he says, with the Elián affair clearly in mind. "But we're at the center of every crisis with Cuba by choice or not, because people look to us for the mainstream view in the community."
In recent years, though, a number of smaller, more nimble, and demonstrably passionate exile groups, with far lesser budgets and Washington clout than the CANF, have received a great deal of media exposure in Miami. Their impact has been enormous throughout the Elián affair. They participated in the vigils outside the Little Havana home of Elián's great-uncle. While the CANF sought a political solution to the affair, these groups found religious reasons to keep the boy in Miami: he was a modern-day infant Moses rescued from the waters.
Sylvia Iriondo heads one of these groups, called Mothers and Women Against Repression in Cuba. An attractive, elegantly dressed, gray-haired grandmother, she organizes anti-Castro demonstrations and prepares political broadsides for distribution or broadcast in Cuba. She founded the Mothers in 1994 after she was sickened by an incident in which a Miami woman, Magda Montiel Davis, on a visit to Havana praised and kissed Castro during a public ceremony (she was part of an entourage of liberal-minded Cuban exiles). "To this day, I can't bear to repeat that woman's name," says Iriondo, with a shudder. In a protest near Montiel Davis's home, Iriondo led a group of women wearing black to express their grief. Black dress has become her group's usual attire in demonstrations since then.
But it was a much more tragic incident that gained Iriondo her political renown. On weekends, she occasionally flies in small planes belonging to Brothers to the Rescue, an exile group that reconnoiters the Florida Straits for boat people escaping Cuba. "If you see a speck down below, you drop them fresh water and food, and alert the Coast Guard," explains Iriondo. While she was on just such a mission in February 1996, Cuban MiG fighters shot down two small Cessna planes piloted by the Brothers in international air space. A third Cessna carrying Iriondo miraculously escaped back to Florida. "They attacked without warning," says Iriondo, who has been back in the air on other rescue missions, undeterred by that bloody episode. Besides her political activities, Iriondo runs a Key Biscayne real estate brokerage, which is booming because of demand from wealthy residents of other countries fleeing economic disarray in Ecuador, narco-terrorism in Colombia, and general uncertainties in Venezuela under the presidency of the populist-minded Hugo Chávez. Lately, says Iriondo, some of her best clients have been wealthy Venezuelans, who have decided to trade up from their Miami vacation houses to more permanent, lavish residences. She knows their pain. Forced to leave behind a life of affluence in Havana, she was barely a teenager when she arrived in Miami in 1960.
"We are struggling for the same things we were fighting for 40 years ago," says Iriondo. "Many people have said that the Cuban exile community has lost its clout. I think it's totally the opposite." She cites as a recent example of the community's effectiveness its successful opposition to initiatives to lift the food embargo to Cuba, "in spite of the very powerful agricultural lobby" in Washington. Like other political figures here, she is distrustful of the national media and insists on her own tape-recording of our interview. "If you read some of the stories in the press, Cuban-Americans are paranoid," she says. "But there are many strange circumstances and things that happen in the exile community that have their roots in massive infiltration and disinformation." Yet when I press her for details, she declines to give any.
Inevitably, the conversation drifts to Elián, whose case, Iriondo says, has unified the exile community more than any other issue in years. "Coverage in the press, especially the national media, is totally one-sided," she complains. Our interview takes place as a federal judge is about to rule on a petition by Elián's Miami relatives that the boy be granted an asylum hearing. I ask her what she plans to do if the judge's decision is unfavorable. "Our organization will abide by the ruling of the courts," she promises.
The judge ends up rejecting the petition, but Elián's relatives still refuse to comply with Attorney General Janet Reno's order that the boy be turned over to his father. When I turn on my television set, I catch sight of Iriondo in her black protest garb. Despite her earlier promise, she is in the front row of a mass of demonstrators in front of the relatives' home in Little Havana, intent on preventing federal agents from taking custody of Elián.
Alfredo Duran is one of the few Cuban exile politicians who has believed all along that his community has let itself get carried away by its emotions over Elián--and arguably the only one to say so aloud. "Every time I think it's over, it just gets worse," says Duran. The 63-year-old lawyer has been a longtime political maverick. He is a board member and founding member of the Cuban Committee for Democracy, a group that advocates the lifting of the trade embargo and favors negotiations with Havana to prepare for the island's post-Castro future.
Despite the emotions unleashed by the Elián case, Duran insists that the exile community has become more politically tolerant. "People who think like me don't feel we're going to get beaten up or killed or bombed," he says. "Those things might have happened some years ago, but not today."
Duran allows that his background makes him a special case. His family strongly supported Fulgencio Batista, the dictator whose excesses made Castro's revolution possible. Duran's stepfather was president of Cuba's senate under Batista, and led his family into exile as soon as Castro marched into Havana.
Duran took part in the Bay of Pigs in 1961, when exiles clandestinely supported by the U.S. government launched an ill-fated invasion of Cuba. He was captured and served two years in prison there before being released. "As a youth, I was an extremist who believed the only solution was blood and guts," he says. "I've evolved to the point where I'm advocating that we start a dialogue with Havana to be able to visit our families in Cuba and push for a society there in which civil rights are observed. And because of my background, nobody can accuse me of being a Communist or a Castro sympathizer."
Invariably, when I ask more politically conservative exiles--such as Mas Santos, Iriondo and Sánchez-Aballí--about Duran, they make clear that while they consider his views anathema they respect him personally. I suspect that besides his pedigree, he impresses them as a man of great loyalty to his community. "This is a very close-knit society," says Duran. "My doctor and dentist are Cuban. Most of my clients are Cuban. My banker is Cuban. There are plenty of people who are millionaires today because they got their first loan on a handshake. And no matter what you hear, there is a surprisingly low rate of intermarriage."
There is another facet to Duran that binds him to elements in the exile community who don't share his liberal viewpoints: a penchant for conspiracy theories that pit Washington against the exiles. "A lot of us feel the only reason that Castro is still in power is because of U.S. policy," he says. "I happen to think that Washington is terribly afraid that if Castro goes, Cuba will become a haven for drug trafficking and money laundering, and illegal immigration will be uncontrollable." As a justification for the paralysis of Cuban policy, it sounds no more convincing than Mas Santos's claims that the trade embargo is encouraging dissent in Cuba, or Sánchez-Aballí's assertions that Castro might unleash biological warfare against southern Florida.
The war between Miami and Havana is by no means confined to the political realm. In between traumatic events, such as the Elián case and the shooting down of the Brothers to the Rescue planes, the conflict spills over into the cultural arena. In recent years, Miami has been rocked by protests, occasionally violent ones, because of the public display of works by artists living in Cuba, concerts by Havana musicians, the screening of Cuban films and visits by Cuban scholars.
My initial guide to the front lines of these cultural wars is Ricardo Pau-Llosa, arguably the best poet the Cuban exile community has produced. A gruff, brawny 46-year-old, he often wears a safari jacket and smokes a cigar. Pau-Llosa is that rarest of specimens, a poet of deeply conservative political convictions. "I'm opposing that monster Fidel and I'm called a fascist by people who claim to be liberals," he says. "I feel like I'm Rigoletto and I've wandered onto a performance of Tosca and I'm being ordered off the stage: 'Get off! Get off! You lousy clown, you're spoiling the opera!' Well, I think I should be on stage because without me the opera makes no f---ing sense."
But ideology alone isn't enough to define Pau-Llosa's brand of politics. He nurses an unrelieved anger at a paradise lost--the Cuba he left behind when he was only six years old and which he has reconstructed from memories that are more his parents' than his own. "Cuba was such a unique civilization," he says, with a sense of acute pain. "We lost a tropical Venice, a Caribbean Florence, something worth so much more than those little pieces of lost real estate that so many exiles cry about."
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Every time I go down the snack food aisle at the store, those cute little cream-filled cupcakes just call my name. I know, I know, not very healthy you say!
Well, now and then it's fun to have something moist and chocolaty and creamy to fill my tummy with. Since I can't have the ones in the little plastic wrappers, I came up with my own.
These are so good I packaged them up and gave them to my son to take to college (didn't trust myself not to eat them all!) He came back with an empty container and a request for re-fills!
Guess I'll have to go make some more. Terrible, huh.
Chocolate cream-filled cupcakes
Your children and the children-at-heart in your family will love these.
- Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Chocolate Cake Mix
- Ingredients to make the cupcakes
Cream Filling
- 1 cup shortening (I like Spectrum Naturals)
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1-1/3 cups marshmallow cream (can use Ricemellow Crème brand)
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 Tbsp hot water
- 1-½ tsp gluten free vanilla extract
- 16 oz (1 pound box) powdered sugar
- 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp gluten free vanilla extract
- ½ cup butter flavored shortening (use Spectrum Naturals)
- 1/3 cup boiling water
Make the cupcakes as directed on the Bob's Red Mill package. Let cool.
Make the cream filling by beating the shortening, sugar, and marshmallow cream together. Dissolve the salt in the hot water and then beat into the sugar mixture. Then beat in the vanilla.
Make the chocolate frosting by beating all the ingredients together with a hand mixer and set aside.
Using a round handled spoon, poke a hole into the center of each cupcake until it is about ¼ inch away from the bottom. Do this to each cupcake. Take the filling and place it in a gallon size zip type bag.
Cut a VERY SMALL edge off one corner so you can squeeze the filling out. Place the cut edge into the hole of the cupcake and squeeze out just enough filling until it peeks out of the top. Set the cupcake aside and do the same to the rest.
Take the frosting and frost the tops. You can use a knife to spread it on or dip the top of each cupcake into the frosting and gently pull out. I usually just use a knife, less messy that way.
You're done! You can put the fancy swirl on top if you want to. I tried using the cream filling for the swirl, but it spread out too much and made a mess. So if you just have to have the swirl, make a small amount of your favorite vanilla frosting and use that.
Makes 18
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Today we present a new series of t-shirts from Parisian brand Géométrick. By now we all know that the pocket tee concept is a winner at the moment. Everybody is doing them and they work well for everybody. From Liberty fabrics, to camo and leopard patterns, we have seen a lot in the last months, with some brands even entirely concentrating on the trend.
Nevertheless we want to show you what Géométrick has to offer, because we find it rather unique and interesting. Instead of sourcing interesting pattern fabrics to use as pockets on their t-shirts, they decided to source real vintage Hermès and Chanel (and other French high fashion brands) silk scarves and use those in order to build a chest pocket on their tees. The outcome is a collection of one off tees that will be coming to select retailers in the next weeks.
colette already has some in stock here.


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Caterpillar's earnings might not be good, but the company is making progress.
U.S. stock futures are mixed ahead of a decision on interest rates and fresh economic forecasts from the Fed; tech giants meet with Donald Trump; IBM's Rometty promises jobs.
The Federal Reserve's all-important December meeting wraps up Wednesday, December 14.
The Federal Reserve takes center stage in the coming week with its highly anticipated policy meeting in December set for Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Yanks punctuate Torre's day with third straight win
Prado's two-run double, Beltran's homer back Kuroda's six innings
NEW YORK -- Over the last several days, manager Joe Girardi has insisted that his players' effort has been there and that he still believed the team's lackluster offense will turn around. Even position players initiated a midweek meeting, hoping to ignite their underachieving bats.
Saturday afternoon's 5-3 victory over the White Sox wasn't a giant offensive leap in the right direction, but marked some noticeable progress. The win was the Yankees' third in a row and first time since Aug. 8 that they scored more than four runs in a game.
"I've said all along this offense has the ability to score more runs and they've worked really hard at it," said Girardi. "Today, we put together some good at-bats and some walks in there and took advantage of a miscue on their part and did a nice job."
A large part of the small streak and Saturday's win was credited once again to Martin Prado, who, after singling home Friday's game-winner, ripped three more hits off of starter Scott Carroll, including a fourth-inning two-run double that pushed the Yankees ahead for good on "Joe Torre Day" at the Stadium.
"I've just been doing the same thing I've been doing my whole career," said Prado. "If there's somebody that works hard before the game, that's me. ... It was a team win and it was a team effort. That's all we're looking for every day."
Girardi kept Derek Jeter out of his lineup Saturday afternoon for a typical day off and stacked his order with lefties and switch-hitters to face the struggling Carroll. That included Jacoby Ellsbury and Brett Gardner hitting in the top two spots, respectively. Neither of them reached base, but Prado and Carlos Beltran bailed them out.
Prado, who over the last week is hitting .444 with two home runs and nine RBIs, scored an insurance run in the sixth inning after Beltran -- back in the lineup after missing three days with elbow soreness -- hit a solo homer to right field, both receiving help from replay reviews.
"That ends up being a big run," Girardi said of Beltran, who checked minutes before the game to make sure he was still OK to perform. "Those two tack-on runs when you're ahead end up being big."
The victory kept the Yankees 3 1/2 games back of the second American league Wild Card spot behind the Mariners, though no one needs to remind them how meaningful each win is, especially at home.
"It's been great," said Beltran of the improved offense. "I think the energy's been great, and we've been fighting, trying to win these ballgames. We know how important they are."
It was a sloppy game by both sides, each committing an error as well as other fielding and baserunning gaffes. The Yankees were beneficiaries in the second inning when second baseman Carlos Sanchez booted a double-play ball from Beltran and Prado followed to load the bases by beating an errant throw from first baseman Jose Abreu to Carroll. Chase Headley then grounded into a double play that plated Mark Teixeira to tie the game at 1.
"You take them any way you can get them," said Brian McCann, who reached second base when Alejandro De Aza lost his popup in the sun in the sixth inning. Prado's double scored him two batters later.
"That's what is weird and frustrating about baseball, but that's why we love it, because there are so many things that can happen," said Carroll, who was tagged for four earned runs on seven hits and three walks. "That's what is frustrating is that this line isn't indicative of how well I can throw the ball."
Meanwhile starter Hiroki Kuroda continued to prove that he will be durable in August and as the season winds down. He lasted six innings, only allowing two runs while striking out six over 101 pitches.
"He's a guy that we've tried to make sure he gets the extra days when we can," said Girardi. "We gave him two the last time and one extra one this time and he'll go normal rest, but we need him down the stretch. He's got the most experience out there and he's been pitching well."
Shawn Kelley allowed a run and worked himself into trouble in the seventh, but Dellin Betances preserved the two-run lead by getting Adam Dunn to fly out. Adam Warren pitched a perfect eighth and David Robertson earned his 34th save.
And so, for a week that began with two tough losses against the Astros, a win Sunday would provide some much needed redemption for a teetering homestand, especially as the Yankees try to make a run to finish an uneven August.
"Find a way to win a game tomorrow," said Girardi. "We've won a few in a row here after losing a couple in a row and we have a tough opponent [White Sox ace Chris Sale] tomorrow, we know that. But we've got to find a way to win this game and have a good homestand."
Jake Kring-Schreifels is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.