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In 2010, dairy farmers received some much-needed relief from the devastating milk prices of 2009. At its low in 2009, the U.S. all milk price hit $11.30 per hundredweight and averaged $12.83 for the year. For 2010, the U.S. all milk price averaged $16.30, a $3.47 improvement over the previous year. The Wisconsin all milk price averaged $16.18, up $3.10 from 2009. The Wisconsin price saw a smaller gain because the Class IV milk price was higher than class III during most of 2010. This provided a relative price premium to regions with high Class IV and fluid milk utilization—most of Wisconsin's milk is used for class III (cheese) products.
Milk Supply
Dairy producers responded to the extraordinary high milk prices of 2007-08 by adding cows. The resulting increased milk production was a logical market response to those high prices, but unfortunately, the added milk hit the market just as the world slid into economic recession. The milk price collapse in 2009 was the result of high domestic milk production coupled with a decline in domestic and export demand for dairy products. It was the first year since 1991 that we have seen a decline in commercial disappearance of dairy products.
The milk price was so low during 2009 that for many producers, the variable costs of production were higher than the milk price. In fact, many producers who buy all of their feed found that in several months, their milk price did not cover their feed costs. If a dairy farm were a factory, under these circumstances the only rational response to such market signals would be to shut down until prices recover. With milk cows, it's not so easy.
Some producers did go out of business. But many more producers took a hard look at each cow in their herds to see if she was covering her individual costs. As a result, a large number of cows were culled, most of them from herds in western states, where purchased feeds comprise a much higher share of variable costs. Moderating milk prices in 2010 stopped this downsizing and actually caused cow numbers to increase somewhat. The average annual dairy cow herd in 2010 is estimated at 9.1 million head, 1 percent smaller than in 2009. The other factor determining the volume of milk produced is production per cow, which is heavily influenced by feed costs. Feed prices began to increase in 2007, following a rise in corn prices tied to expanded demand from ethanol plants. Feed prices hit a peak in 2008 and, although they moderated, they seemed to find a new, higher plateau. Milk per cow showed only modest gains from 2007 through 2009. However, genetic gains continued to accrue over that period, and when milk prices increased in 2010, and returns over feed costs improved, so did milk per cow. U.S average milk per cow will average near 21,150 pounds, up 2.8 percent from the 20,576 pounds in 2009.
Higher cow numbers coupled with increased milk per cow has reversed the loss in milk production that occurred in 2009, when production fell to 189.32 billion pounds, 0.3 percent below 2008 levels. Production for 2010 is estimated at 192.7 billion pounds, an increase of 1.8 percent. Western states led the increase in cow numbers, milk per cow and total milk production in 2010 as their producers saw improved returns over feed costs. States like Arizona, California, Idaho and Washington had fewer cows, less milk per cow and less milk production in 2009. This all reversed in 2010, as cow numbers stabilized in California and increased in Arizona, Idaho and Washington. Higher milk yields further pushed up milk production. For example, November 2010 production was up over November 2009 by 8.7 percent for Arizona, 4.5 percent for California, 7.2 percent for Idaho and 6 percent for Washington.
While November production for Wisconsin was up just 0.5 percent, production for the year will show a stronger increase. For 2010, Wisconsin average dairy cow numbers averaged about 1.262 million head (up 0.4 percent) average milk per cow was about 20,630 pounds (up 2.7 percent) and total milk production was more than 26 billion pounds (up 3.2 percent). This continues a mid-decade turnaround inproduction and cow numbers. The downward trend in Wisconsin's milk production starting in 1989 reversed in 2005 and the decline in cow numbers reversed in 2006. Since 2004 production has increased almost 4 billion pounds, or 18 percent. Cow numbers have increased 26,000 head, or 2 percent, since 2005.
Dairy Product Demand
The great recession, which began in the United States in December 2007, was global in nature and had a major impact on the U.S. dairy industry. As U.S. unemployment rose, the number of meals eaten away from home diminished significantly, and as a result, sales of manufactured dairy products used heavily in restaurants fell off. There were a few bright spots. Fluid milk consumption increased in 2009, which analysts attribute to families rediscovering their dining room table—they were eating at home more, so they stuck an extra gallon of milk in their shopping carts. But low fluid milk prices also helped. In 2010, higher prices seem to have reduced fluid consumption back to pre-2009 levels. Total fluid milk sales from January through September were down 1.5 percent.
The restaurant Performance index (RPI) tells us something about dairy product consumption and may also be a leading indicator of the health of the general economy. The RPI is based on reports from several thousand restaurants ranging from fine dining to fast food. An index value above 100 indicates expansion of the restaurant industry, while a number less than 100 suggests contraction. the RPI began to slide in 2007, long before the general population was aware of a looming recession. People were eating out less as incomes were becoming stretched. Currently, the RPI has been increasing and has had a few months above the 100 level, indicating some expansion. This is good news for cheese and butter sales, as the restaurant trade is a major outlet for these products. Butter sales were up more than 5 percent in 2010. While American cheese sales were up less than 1 percent other cheeses, mainly Italian varieties were up 4.6 percent. USDA estimates that 2010 domestic sales of milk and dairy products to be up just 0.6 percent on a fat equivalent basis and 0.9 percent lower on a skim-solids equivalent basis.
While domestic markets account for about 90 percent of dairy product sales, the industry is looking more to exports as a source of revenue. The potential for domestic sales growth is likely limited by modest increases in per capita consumption and slow population growth. Consequently, exports are a portal for more significant growth in sales. For many years, export sales accounted for 3-4 percent of our total milk supply—and less in value than our imports of dairy products. In 2007 and 2008, for several reasons, our exports surged to more than 10 percent of our milk production and the value of U.S. dairy exports was substantially greater than imports.
Exports collapsed in 2009. The soft economies in other countries would not allow them the luxury of importing as much dairy product and tight credit made banks hesitant to issue letters of credit to importers. But, exports remained high by historical standards at nearly 9 percent of milk production. The economies of many of our foreign customers have rebounded more rapidly than our own, and in 2010, exports were comparable to the high levels of 2008. Compared to a year earlier, 2010 January–October exports were up 67 percent for nonfat dry milk/skim milk powder, 26 percent for whey proteins, 63 percent for cheese, 27 percent for lactose and 112 percent for butterfat. For the year, USDA estimates dairy exports will be up 82 percent on a fat equivalent basis and up 40 percent on a skim-solids equivalent basis.
Dairy Stocks
Commercial stocks of butter in 2010 dipped to some of the lowest levels since 2001, while natural cheese stocks were among the highest levels since the mid-1980s. October 31 butter stocks were down 43 percent from 2009 levels, while American cheese stocks were up 10 percent and total cheese stocks were up 7 percent. Several factors account for this big difference in inventory changes for butter and cheese.
Butterfat production was depressed in this country and across the globe. Feed quality was probably a factor, but so were unusually high global temperatures. January through September, 2010 was tied with the same period in 1988 as the warmest on record. September also marked the first time in modern history that the Northwest Passage and the Northern Sea route were ice free. In the United States, several summer months that were the hottest on record for states east of the Continental Divide. Excessive heat in Eastern Europe and Russia caused widespread drought and crop failure, and milk production in those regions suffered as well. Russia imported a significant amount of butter—much of it from the United States—to make up for a shortfall in their production. The combination of less butterfat being produced and greater export demand increased the price of butter dramatically. As for cheese, heading into 2010, milk production levels were strong but domestic and export demand was down from previous years. Much of the extra milk production found its way into cheese vats, causing the largest expansion in cheese production since 2006. as the year progressed, a significant amount of cheese was exported, but not enough to keep stocks at a comfortable level. But in spite of record stocks, cheese prices remained strong for much of 2010. They peaked early in October but fell off sharply in November with further declines through the end of the year.
Source: University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension


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I believe that it's very important do exercise, because you body need it. If you do exercise, you'll look very good
Depends of the type of exercise that you like: outside or inside.
Also, you have to eat health food, it isn't necessary do a diet.
The basic health program is to do exercise four days by week, and I think it isn't hard. When you have a stressful day and you don't do exercise, you'll feel very tired and maybe annoyed because you didn't take out your body tension.
But, if you've been gone to the gym, or to run outside, etc. you feel very good, and happy too.
The most important thing is that you find a solution more easily when you have a problem.
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Get an overview of this hotelArt Deco retreat in downtown Charleston
Popular property highlights
Near Marion Square
The Francis Marion Hotel sits across from Marion Square in Charleston's historic downtown. Guests are just a block away from the King Street shopping district with its boutiques, antiques stores, and restaurants, and can reach Charleston Harbor on foot in 15 minutes.
Historic hotel with spa
Built in 1924 and meticulously restored, The Francis Marion Hotel features 1920's styled décor and comforting amenities. Diners can dig into a plate of shrimp, grits, and other Southern delights at The Swamp Fox Restaurant & Bar. Guests can work out at the fitness center, and drop by Spa Adagio for a massage, facial, mud wrap, and one of the other therapeutic treatments on offer.
Free WiFi, flat-screen TV
Guestrooms are beautifully restored, elegantly designed, and feature comfortable pillowtop mattresses, marble bathrooms, premium bedding with triple sheeting, dedicated work area with desk, a vanity, and HD cable with premium channels. All rooms have free WiFi so guests can jump online at their leisure, and flat-screen TVs for a spot of downtime.
Guest Highlights
- High-quality beds
- Good location
- Proximity to shopping
- Onsite bar
- Helpful staff
- Bathrooms could've been nicer
The Francis Marion Hotel
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to a day spa, The Francis Marion Hotel features a fitness center. Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed WiFi Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of a business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 19000 square feet (1765 square meters) include a conference center and conference space. This business-friendly hotel also offers spa services, tour/ticket assistance, and gift shops/newsstands. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
The Francis Marion Hotel is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Concierge services
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Fitness facilities
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- Full-service spa
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Computer station
- Free WiFi
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Shopping on site
- Meeting rooms 10
- Number of floors - 12
- Total number of rooms - 235
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Year Built 1924
- Conference space size (feet) - 19000
- Conference space size (meters) - 1765
- Number of meeting rooms - 11
- Conference center
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Spa services on site
- Wedding services
- Spa treatment room(s)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Free bottled water
- Private bathroom
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free toiletries
- Desk
- Hair dryer
- Daily housekeeping
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Premium bedding
- Premium TV channels
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Shower/tub combination
- Room service (limited hours)
- Pillowtop mattress
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (free)
- In-room climate control (heating)
Where to Eat
The Swamp Fox Restaurant and Bar, named for Revolutionary War hero, General Francis Marion, features classic Southern cuisine for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Executive Chef Simon Andrews and Restaurant Chef Phil Gaulin create regional specialties that emphasize farm to table practices using locally grown fruits and vegetables with respect to the traditional beloved flavors and techniques of the Old South.
The Swamp Fox Restaurant - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
Spa Services
SPA ADAGIO is a full-service day spa located at the property. Services include massage therapy, facials, body treatments, and hair removal.
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Number of treatment rooms 2
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Massages
- Facial treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at 4 AM
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Free rollaway/extra beds!
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 7 and USD 20 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: USD 17 per day (in/out privileges)
- Valet parking fee: USD 22 per day (in/out privileges)
- Refrigerator fee: USD 10 per night
Hotel Name
- Marion Francis Hotel
- Francis Marion Charleston
- Francis Marion Hotel
- Francis Marion Hotel Charleston
- Hotel Francis Marion
We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Awards & Affiliations
- The property is a member of Historic Hotels of America.


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The game is direct-broadcast stud. The potential stakes? The US television market. And the man with two aces showing is EchoStar CEO Charlie Ergen. Or that's the way the game looks after Ergen cut a November deal with Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and MCI/WorldCom to buy the final orbital slot for high-powered satellitecasts to North America. If the Feds approve, the $1.25 billion purchase will give EchoStar two of the three slots (the third belongs to DirecTV) and the ability to bathe American viewers in 500 channels of broadcasting.
There's an ironic edge to the upstart's apparent triumph: EchoStar once teamed up with Murdoch in ASkyB, a satellite venture that News Corp. hoped would extend its broadcast empire to the US. When the relationship soured, Ergen filed a $5 billion lawsuit that stopped ASkyB in its tracks.
With the November deal, which gives News Corp. a minority stake in EchoStar, the underdog and the mogul have traded places: Ergen, not Murdoch, is now at the forefront of what's been sold as the world's first ultrasatellite service.
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Available Amazon EC2 High-CPU Instance Types
Amazon EC2 now provides High-CPU instance types. High-CPU instance types have a proportionately higher ratio of CPU to memory and are well suited for compute-intensive applications.
There are two new High-CPU instance types: c1.medium and c1.xlarge.
High-CPU Medium Instance
1.7 GB memory
5 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual core with 2.5 EC2 Compute Unit each)
350 GB instance storage (340 GB plus 10 GB root partition)
32-bit platform
I/O Performance: Moderate
Instance Type name: c1.medium (used in EC2 APIs)
Price: $0.20 per instance hour
High-CPU Extra Large Instance
7 GB memory
20 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each)
1,690 GB instance storage (4 x 420 GB plus 10 GB root partition)
64-bit platform
I/O Performance: High
Instance Type name: c1.xlarge (used in EC2 APIs)
Price: $0.80 per instance hour
For more information about Amazon EC2 instance types, how we measure compute resources, and
how we measure I/O performance, go to http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=370375011
Before you begin, make sure you are using the right versions of our WSDL, API Tools, and API:
- WSDL and API version: 2008-02-01 or later
- API Tools: 1.3-19403 or later
Note: You can check version information using the ec2ver command.
Finding the Amazon Public 64-bit AMI
The large and extra large instances are 64-bit which require 64-bit AMIs. We provide a public 64-bit AMI that you can find by searching for public AMIs owned by Amazon with "x86_64" in the manifest path.
This example shows how to use the ec2dim command and grep to locate the 64-bit public AMI:
ec2dim -o amazon | grep x86_64 IMAGE <ami-id> ec2-public-images/fedora-core6-base-x86_64.manifest.xml amazon available public
The original instance type (now called the small instance or m1.small), no change is required. It is a 32-bit instance; you can launch your previous 32-bit AMIs without changes.
Launching New Instance Types
We strongly recommend using the 2.6.18 Xen stock kernel with the c1.medium and c1.xlarge instances. Although the default Amazon EC2 kernels will work, the new kernels provide greater stability and performance for these instance types. For more information about kernels, refer to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Developer Guide.
This example finds 2.6.18 Xen stock kernels:
ec2dim -o amazon | grep 2.6.18 IMAGE aki-9b00e5f2 ec2-public-images/vmlinuz-2.6.18-xenU-ec2-v1.0.i386.aki.manifest.xml amazon available public i386 kernel IMAGE aki-9800e5f1 ec2-public-images/vmlinuz-2.6.18-xenU-ec2-v1.0.x86_64.aki.manifest.xml amazon available public x86_64 kernel
This example starts a High-CPU extra large instance, using the 32-bit aki-9800e5f1 kernel:
ec2run <ami-id> --instance-type c1.xlarge -k <keypair> --kernel aki-9800e5f1
This example starts a High-CPU medium instance, using the 32-bit aki-9b00e5f2 kernel:
ec2run <ami-id> --instance-type c1.medium -k <keypair> --kernel aki-9b00e5f2
Describing Instances
The following is an example of output from the DescribeInstances response, which displays the type of instance that is running.
$ ec2din RESERVATION r-5824c031 416161254515 default INSTANCE i-edb05684 ami-b98d68d0 ec2-72-44-47-95.z-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com domU-12-31-35-00-3C-81.z-2.compute-1.internal running 0 c1.xlarge 2007-07-13T15:13:36+0000 RESERVATION r-46de3a2f 416161254515 default INSTANCE i-85af49ec ami-2bb65342 ec2-72-44-56-99.z-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com domU-12-31-36-00-34-C3.z-1.compute-1.internal running 0 m1.small 2007-08-10T16:00:09+0000
Instance Storage
Instance storage on the new instance types is exposed as follows:
- /dev/sda (formatted and mounted as root (/) on all instance types)
- /dev/sdb (/mnt on High-CPU extra large instance types)
- /dev/sdc (on High-CPU extra large instance types, not mounted)
- /dev/sdd (on High-CPU extra large instance types, not mounted)
- /dev/sde (on High-CPU extra large instance types, not mounted)
Instance storage is subject to the same constraints as the ephemeral store of the original instance. The disk contents will survive a reboot of the instance (or the host machine), but will be lost when the instance is terminated.
For more information, see the "Disk Performance Optimization" section of the Amazon EC2 Developer Guide.
Obtaining the Instance Type via Instance Meta-Data
The instance type is exposed as part of the instance meta-data. It can be queried from within an instance as follows:
GET http://169.254.169.254/2007-08-29/meta-data/instance-type c1.xlarge
Bundling Instances
To bundle instances, please use our new AMI Tools. These tools can bundle any of the available instance types.
Previous versions of the tool chose a fixed fstab file. The new tools pick the appropriate fstab file for the instance type or allow you to override the file. The new tools can bundle 64-bit or 32-bit AMIs.
Please review the Technical FAQs section of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Developer Guide, especially the FAQs in the "Instance Types" section.


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There is very little to say about Monday's stock-market action, except that the indices did what they should have done -- which is to back off -- and as soon as the S&P 500 was down 9 points, the put-call ratio zoomed up above 100%. By day's end, the market had rallied, and the put-call was at a much more neutral reading in the 80% area.
With that out of the way, have you noticed the lack of love for commodities after a poor 2012? Of course, at midyear the major concern had been corn trading above $8 during the height of the drought. You might recall that, right as the grains were topping out in early August, the folks at CNBC finally got around to doing a special report on the drought.
No one seems to recall that now. But, then again, perhaps none of these folks actually go to the grocery store and buy food. We are seeing those high grain prices begin to filter in at the retail level. At least I am.
I thought of this as I considered that corn is due for an oversold rally. It is far too soon for anyone to get hysterical about possible drought conditions for next spring -- but I can tell you that, here in the Midwest, we have had very little snow this winter. If that doesn't change, it will be another difficult summer for the grains. In the meantime, doesn't corn look like a bounce candidate?
Now let's check in on gold. The price dropped to $1,626 per ounce Friday, missing my target of $1,625 by a buck. I am still not bullish on the metal, but I do think it can and should rally back to that $1,675-ish area.
As far as silver is concerned, on a short-term basis last week's plunge and recovery interests me enough to make me surmise that it wants to rally a bit. Last week's action looks like a shake-out. I don't think silver can rally all the way back to the underside of the broken uptrend line, but I'd say an attempt at $31.50 to $32 per ounce -- around the downtrend line, which is currently at $32 -- would be doable. If silver takes a week or two to attempt a rally, the descending downtrend line ought to coincide with that little spike higher around $31.50, which was put in last week before the Federal Reserve minutes changed everyone's views.
Heck, maybe we should just look at the chart of PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund (DBC). The fund is trying to bottom, and you know where you would be wrong: under that uptrend line.
I would prefer if the hate for commodities was just a little bit louder, but at least very few favor them at the moment.


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BARBURY king Andrew Nicholson reckons his long-term companion Avebury deserves to lap up the praise after the pair mercilessly marched to a third straight trials title last weekend.
Nicholson had won the top CIC three-star prize with his trusty grey gelding two years in a row and last weekend, the New Zealand ace sealed a stunning hat-trick of titles as he finished top of the pile, cushioned by a dominant lead of 8.6 penalties.
A sublime dressage score of 34.8 – Clark Montgomery was the only other rider to go below 40 – and a clear showjumping round meant that the 52-year-old carried a lead of 7.8 into Sunday's cross country phase, with Nicholson able to comfortably concede 4.8 time faults as he cruised to victory.
But the Marlborough-based star was keen to focus on the achievements of Avebury, who will have the opportunity to pull off another set of three consecutive wins at September's Burghley Horse Trials.
"It was very good. Winning three times in a row is great but there wasn't a lot of time to celebrate because we've been straight back to work," Nicholson told the Gazette & Herald.
"Avebury did really well. He did a good dressage and showjumped very well, and then it was just a case of getting through the cross country.
"You still have to make sure that you complete the phases properly but the fact that we won very easily is really pleasing. It's nice to do it at a local event on a horse called Avebury, with Avebury itself not too far away.
"He's like an athlete and to consistently perform at top international level is a big achievement. Burghley is the next big one for him and it would be amazing to make it three-in-a-row with him there.
"Next week, I'll be off to Aachen with Nereo – my other top horse."
Francis Whittington on another grey, Easy Target, was 8.6 penalties behind in second spot, rising from eighth place after showjumping with one of the fastest rounds of the afternoon (1.6).
"I had an amazing ride," said Whittington.
"The ground was good and the course was fun to ride. I now know I made the right decision at Badminton (to pull up) because he feels so well and happy."
Nicholson's Badgerstown-based countryman Sir Mark Todd, promoted to second place after the withdrawal of American combination Clark Montgomery and Loughan Glen, went steadily on his New Zealand team horse Leonidas II to take ninth.
Highworth-based Aus-tralian rider Paul Tapner was one of only two riders to achieve the optimum cross-country time of six minutes 44 seconds – the other being Dauntsey rider Beanie Sturgis on Lebowski (17th) – and finished third on Yogi Bear Vlll.
"You have to go out of the start box meaning business here," said Tapner.
"Yogi is exceptionally brave and quick and is something of a CIC specialist."
Pippa Funnell, the 2011 winner, was fourth on Second Supreme ahead of her British teammate Kristina Gifford, fifth with a confidence-boosting round on her World Equestrian Games horse De Novo News.
Louise Harwood was sixth on Whitson, ahead of 18-year-old Emily King, who has only upgraded to three-star level this season.
King rode beautifully to finish seventh on Brookleigh and won the Horse Trials Support Group prize of £500 as the best British U25 rider.
The last 26 riders went cross country in reverse order, Dani Evans, lying 10th on Smart Time, Lucy Wiegersma (Mr Chunky, seventh) and Chris King (Billy Bounce, sixth) all having run-outs.
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Ryan Switzer had a good freshman football season at North Carolina. Wait, make that a great one.
Switzer, the former George Washington flash, led the country in punt return yards last year (502) and tied an NCAA record with five returns for touchdowns. He was rewarded with first-team All-America honors by three organizations (Football Writers Association of America, ESPN.com, Athlon).
All done as a true freshman, one year removed from high school. All done with that trademark Switzer sizzle — a stop, a start and a sprint to score.
Hard to argue there's a player his size (5-foot-10, 180 pounds) who made a bigger impact as a mere teenager in Division I football.
But there's impact and then there's impractical. Switzer recently told UNC-area reporters that he thinks he can win a Heisman Trophy.
"Anytime you can get in the end zone as many times as I did and anytime you can perform like I did, your confidence is going to skyrocket,'' Switzer told Greg Barnes of Inside Carolina and Scout.com.
"I set some big goals for my freshman year and I've set even bigger goals coming into my sophomore and junior seasons. I feel like if I can continue to do what I've been doing, I can possibly win a Heisman.''
Whoa there, pardner. Don't let the cart get ahead of that horse.
Switzer has displayed uber confidence much of his football career, but this is a bit premature.
Yes, he was selected as an All-American, but that was for his punt-return skills. His five TD returns last season (all bunched into his final five games) tied an NCAA mark and left him three shy of the career record, which he should overtake.
A kick-return specialist isn't typically Heisman fodder. Yes, Switzer played receiver, too, but his contributions there were more modest (32 catches, 341 yards, three TDs), including one huge game against overmatched Old Dominion (five catches, 118 yards, two TDs in an 80-20 rout).
Bovada has already released 2014 Heisman odds for 29 players and Switzer's not on the list (though Marshall's Rakeem Cato is 75-1).
Heisman contenders get their hands on the ball more than 67 times in a season, as Switzer did (32 catches, 24 punt returns, 10 carries, one pass attempt). That averages to a bit more than five touches per game.
Sure, Switzer will likely become a more vital part of the passing game in future seasons with the Tar Heels. He hadn't played the majority of his snaps as a receiver since his sophomore season at GW — 29 catches, 602 yards, six TDs. (There was that little stint of two years at running back with the Patriots when all he did was win two Kennedy Awards as the state's top high school player).
In addition, now that he's earned a reputation as a game-breaking punt returner, you'd think opponents would wise up and kick away from him or kick it out of bounds. Remember, he had no TD returns through his first eight games, so word didn't get the chance to spread.
People have doubted Switzer much of his career because of his smallish stature. Personally, I always thought someone in his Class AAA days would land a big lick on him and knock him out of a game, but they could never catch him. The only game he missed at GW was due to a concussion from falling onto a rock-hard sideline at Oakes Field.
Am I saying it's impossible for Switzer to one day earn a trip to the Downtown Athletic Club as a Heisman finalist? No.
Am I saying let's see a little more production first before making that claim? Yes.
It's like saying Packers running back Eddie Lacy had a strong rookie season (1,178 yards, 11 TDs), so let's nominate him for the Hall of Fame. Maybe one day, perhaps, but we need a broader sample.
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Alteration of Myocardial Deformations in Diabetes: Relationship to Micro-angiopathy (ECHO-DIAB)
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|Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
|Device: Echocardiographic 2D strain analysis
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
|Official Title:
|Early Detection of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy by Analysis of Myocardial Deformations by Two-dimensional Speckle Tracking Strain Echocardiography and Relationship to Micro-angiopathy
- Measurement of the alteration of left ventricular myocardial strain (≤ 18% in absolute value) by echocardiography and the relationship to micro-angiopathy. [ Time Frame: Inclusion : Day 1 ]
- Analyses of this association (alteration of myocardial strain and micro-angiopathy) in relation with the duration of diabetes, and other co-factors such as dyslipidemia, unstable diabetes, and coexisting macro-angiopathy. [ Time Frame: Inclusion : Day 1 ]
|Study Start Date:
|January 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Experimental: Echocardiographic 2D strain analysis
Device: Echocardiographic 2D strain analysis
Conventional transthoracic echocardiography with acquisitions for strain analysis by speckle tracking (2D strain)
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This is a single center case-control study based on routine care, designed to recruit patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus free from any other myocardiopathy. The inclusion will take place over a period of 24 months. No monitoring of patients (no follow-up) is provided under this protocol. The analysis will focus on the combination of the left ventricle myocardial deformations alteration revealed by the echocardiographic 2D strain analysis (< 18% in absolute value), with the existence of micro-angiopathy in type 1 diabetes mellitus patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction ( ≥ 60%).
Two hundred subjects with type 1 diabetes mellitus will be recruited: 100 subjects with impaired left ventricular myocardial deformation by 2D strain analysis (< 18% in absolute value), constituting the 'cases' group and 100 subjects without alteration in myocardial deformation (global strain ≥ 18%).
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 45 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- aged between 18 and 45 years
- with diagnosed Type 1 diabetes mellitus (with or without complications or peripheric vascular micro-angiopathy)
- having a negative myocardial ischemic test (exercise echocardiography) in the previous month inclusion
Exclusion Criteria:
- Known or suspected coronary artery disease
- atrial fibrillation
- hypertension
- moderate to severe valvular disease
- sequelae of myocardial infarction
- secondary or primary cardiomyopathy
- myocardial conduction abnormalities
- pregnancy or breastfeeding.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01220349
|Hôpital Cardiologique du Haut-Lévêque, Service de Cardiologie et Maladies Vasculaires
|Pessac, France, 33604
|Principal Investigator:
|Patricia REANT, MD-PhD
|University Hospital Bordeaux, France
|Responsible Party:
|University Hospital, Bordeaux
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01220349 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|October 7, 2010
|Last Updated:
|April 18, 2013
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
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Photo Coverage Exclusive: Original NEWSIES Star Bill Pullman Visits Nederlander Theatre!
Just last night, star of the original movie version of Newsies, Bill Pullman, attended a performance of the Tony Award winning new American musical, and visited with the cast backstage afterwards. Additionally, 'Dance Moms' Abby Lee Miller stopped by for a quick photo with the cast. BroadwayWorld was there to capture the festivities backstage and you can check out exclusive photo coverage below!
Newsies features a Tony Award-winning score with music by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman, with a book by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein. Produced by Disney Theatrical Productions, Newsies is directed by Tony nominee Jeff Calhoun and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, who won a 2012 Tony Award for his work.
Set in New York City at the turn of the century, Newsies is the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a ragged band of teenaged 'newsies,' who dreams only of a better life far from the hardship of the streets. But when publishing titans Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise distribution prices at the newsboys' expense, Jack finds a cause to fight for and rallies Newsies from across the city to strike for what's right.
Newsies is inspired by the real-life 'Newsboy Strike of 1899,' when newsboy Kid Blink led a band of orphan and runaway Newsies on a two-week-long action against Pulitzer, Hearst and other powerful newspaper publishers.
The Nederlander Theatre box office hours are Monday through Saturday 10am - 8pm and Sunday 11:30am - 6pm. Newsies is performed on the following schedule: Monday - Wednesday at 7:30pm; Friday - Saturday at 8pm; Wednesday & Saturday at 2pm; and Sunday at 3pm. Visit NewsiesTheMusical.com for details.
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Former Rockie Burks giving input to '14 club
CINCINNATI -- Onetime Rockies star outfielder Ellis Burks, a special guest instructor during Spring Training, has joined the team at Great American Ball Park to observe the club and help with fundamentals.
Burks, a player for parts of five seasons in Colorado, spent several seasons as a special front-office assistant with the Indians, and he is doing similar work on a part-time basis with the Rockies. He will join the club when it travels to Cleveland next month, spend time in Denver and also lend a hand to the Minor League system. It is similar to the work manager Walt Weiss did a few years back and that Vinny Castilla is doing on a full-time basis.
Burks is around this weekend in case hitting coach Blake Doyle or first-base coach Eric Young need an extra set of eyes and ears. He is also available to critique players.
Burks said he respected administration and statistical analysis as being essential to an organization but that those were outside his skill set. However, he can provide a voice when it comes to talent and coachability.
"If you're a pretty good player and you've been around the game a number of years, you sort of know what to expect out of certain players and what to expect each and every day what an organization would like to see out of certain guys," Burks said. "That's what I do, so that ownership and management know exactly what I feel about a particular guy.
"If you don't have the talent to play the game, you're not going to play the game. Guys like me can go out and say, 'This is a player and he can help the organization.'"
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Playing Hardball
Jerry Reinsdorf got Michael Jordan back playing basketball, but the federal courts stymied his assault on baseball's economics.
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"Cigars are symbolic of celebration, and since Michael was new to smoking, I had to offer him the best," recalls Reinsdorf, 59, lighting a Partagas and sitting in a Palm Beach, Florida, hotel, his feet propped on a satin lobby chair. "He never became much of a smoker, but that was a joyous night, and cigars are symbolic of male bonding. They're freedom, a way of saying [screw you] to the world."
In many ways, that championship night in 1991 was a turning point for Reinsdorf, who, as owner of both the Chicago Bulls and baseball's Chicago White Sox, was and may still be the most powerful man in professional sports. At the very least, the Bulls' victory affirmed that he was on the right track. Yes, he already had built the Balcor Co. real-estate group into a $6.5 billion concern. And, yes, the White Sox were already in a new Comiskey Park, built with taxpayers' money under a plan the Illinois State Legislature agreed to. And, yes, he would be building a new stadium for the Bulls with financing largely supplied by foreign banks. But despite a decade of ownership of the Chicago White Sox and seven years at the helm of the Chicago Bulls, a championship had eluded him.
So that championship night belonged to Reinsdorf. Jordan lit up at his urging, but after a quick hug of the Larry O'Brien championship trophy, the court superstar disappeared into the night. Reinsdorf remained, strutting around the locker room, hugging his players. The son of a Jewish sewing machine peddler, he savored the long journey from his childhood haunts in Brooklyn. Calling his mother and hearing praise showered on his Bulls, he had finally stepped into the winner's circle. The future seemed bright.
"It was my first championship, so of course it was memorable," says Reinsdorf, quickly adding a woe-is-me, Woody Allen-style touch between puffs on his Partagas. "Yet it wasn't baseball. If I'm driven at all, challenged, it's to win a World Series. That's the dream."
That dream was harshly interrupted, and maybe permanently sullied, by the nine-month long baseball strike, a player-owner confrontation (largely spearheaded by Reinsdorf himself) that lasted from August 11, 1994, to April 2, 1995. Crowned by the media as the strike's backroom Machiavelli, the genial yet ever-combative Reinsdorf was only doing what he does habitually--taking on the world, and usually winning. Reinsdorf's reasoning was simple: Baseball desperately needed some economic sanity if the owners were to continue making the big money. He badgered the owners into a unified block by championing a team salary cap and a revenue-sharing system whereby the rich, large-market clubs would help subsidize poorer teams--so "the alligator [players' union] doesn't swallow us."
His adamant stance never wavered. Even when President Clinton last winter demanded an end to the national pastime's labor war, Reinsdorf wasn't cowed. He remained defiant, hawkishly urging fellow owners to stay united in their attempt to restructure baseball's economics and to keep fighting the players' union, a group he derides as "humorless ideologues, driven by a psychopathic hatred" of ownership. Even after the March 31 federal court ruling that undermined the owners' position, Reinsdorf expressed disappointment, not relief, to what he termed a "pause" in the strike.
"We don't have a settlement or an agreement," he said a few days after the ruling by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Sonya Sotomayor. "We're just in a pause, a pause, a lull. We still don't have a deal. We still have to negotiate a deal...a contract. The strike has ended, but the parties still have to get together at the bargaining table. I just hope the union will finally negotiate in good faith. Nothing has changed....I still feel there has to be a significant restructuring of baseball's economics.
"I don't know if I am frustrated by the court's getting involved--but yes, I am disappointed. It just wasn't a constructive action on the part of the court, on the judge's getting involved. [The courts] normally stay out of most labor disputes. They should let the parties settle differences by themselves.
"We were very close to the players realizing they were being misled by their union," claims Reinsdorf. As a result, he believes the players would have eventually taken matters into their own hands.
The owners, Reinsdorf insists, also emerged from the long fight as unified as they have ever been, and are perhaps closer than ever as a group to the position espoused by Reinsdorf and other hardline owners. "I don't see any anger rising in the wake of the judge's decision," says Reinsdorf. "The owners are terribly united. The moderates have moved into the camp of those who want substantial change. There will be no shift in our leadership. I don't see an internal battle." He still predicts that revenue sharing will become a reality.
At this point, Reinsdorf isn't ready to back down or seriously compromise with the players either. "The philosophical and financial differences that divided us are still on the table. But patience, patience. Changes still have to be made, and we're just in a pause. A temporary pause.
"I'll fight for what I believe in. I'll always fight for what I believe. I hope we get an agreement, but the owners have the resolve to do whatever is necessary to achieve a just result--that's a restructuring of baseball's economics."
There's no hint of any contrition or regret over what's come down already, and his strident comments even inadvertently lend credence to the media's elevation of Reinsdorf into the role of puppeteer, engineering every move and countermove made by the owners and interim commissioner Bud Selig. The gritty, anything-but-charismatic Reinsdorf likes to downplay his clout, chuckling "I'm not driven or powerful. I'm happiest at home with my cigars and poodles" (Pandora, Diva, and Little Guy). But even the owners' decision not to lock out the players, the only viable option left to them after Sotomayor's ruling, was apparently made based on a Reinsdorf analysis. "There was a significant risk of damages. We felt the risk was too great," says Reinsdorf, brushing aside a suggestion that such a move would have created a public relations nightmare. "Let's leave it at that. There were just too many risks that weren't worth taking." But he remains convinced that a solution acceptable to the owners will be reached. "We'll get there. The battle still goes on. We're not licking our wounds. We're just sorting things out. We might just come up with a new strategy. If we just stay the course, have patience, we will correct the economics. We'll eventually even have revenue sharing."
But a new, reflective Reinsdorf, still tinged with his standard don't-abandon-the-barricades mentality, only surfaced in the wake of the legal setback. Throughout the fall and winter, he was still driven by the dream: to create a World Series winner in a business climate that made sense to him. Throughout those long months, there were other components of the Reinsdorf empire to tend--like the sudden and unexpected return of Michael Jordan to the Bulls. But for Reinsdorf, they appeared to be distractions from the task at hand. In the midst of a mid-March owners' strategy meeting at the usually sedate Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, rumors of Jordan's return to the NBA shifted attention away from baseball. Michael had been seen at a Bulls' practice, and once Reinsdorf appeared before reporters, the feeding frenzy began.
"Jerry, have you heard that Michael was at the Bulls' practice today?"
"I haven't talked with anybody about it," shoots back Reinsdorf.
"Would you like him back?"
"I just want for Michael what Michael wants."
"Do you have any indication of his future plans?"
"None at all."
In the glare of those TV lights, Reinsdorf looked weary, embattled--eons removed from his celebratory antics during the Bulls' 1991 championship. Already having lost over $10 million due to the strike, and spending 80 percent of his time on baseball labor issues, he seemed barely interested in Jordan's return.
He took the opportunity not to reflect on Jordan, but to go on the offensive. After attacking the baseball players' union chief Don Fehr for "preventing a settlement by not addressing the problems of the industry," he turned warm and fuzzy, praising acting commissioner Selig (nicknamed Bud Light) as "our wonderful, devoted leader."
That's the media's cue. They've heard it before, and as a group, they seem to prefer the picture they've painted of Reinsdorf as the villain, a "cancer" in baseball motivated only by self-interest (according to one players' association official). Reinsdorf admits that he's not comfortable with the press, and is prone to such broadsides as calling The New York Times a "house organ" of the baseball players' union. And, he's candid enough to concede, "I've made mistakes with the press." (Most notably, airing his hard-line demands for a new Comiskey Park.) "I have a lot to learn about PR."
But those lessons, much like his threatening to lose weight and play golf, will come later. Much later. After the impromptu, Jordan-inspired press conference, Reinsdorf was asked by real-estate partner Bob Judelson to "chew out" one of their business associates. Reinsdorf retreated to his hotel room, steeled again to play the heavy.
Countless phone calls later, Reinsdorf reappeared, carrying a mobile phone and an unlit Cuban cigar, and looking refreshed. A Chicago writer intercepted him to ask if he'd spoken to Jordan's agent, David Falk, but Reinsdorf ignored the question and moved through the Venetian-style lobby.
Finally settling into a seat near a dining room, he muttered, "Jordan, Jordan, Jordan," then added, "It was quite a meeting today, everyone rallying around Selig. There was a lot of laughing. I couldn't exist in anything where there isn't a lot of screwing around."
A playground for hard-driving businessmen whose egos have led them into sports and its macho camaraderie, these meetings are also Reinsdorf's secret pipeline straight to Havana.
"I usually sit next to my partner in crime, Toronto Blue Jays' president Paul Beeston, who brings me Cubans," said Reinsdorf with a grin. "They're very enjoyable, and while they can also be very inconsistent, I feel it's my patriotic duty to smoke lots of Cubans. They're contraband, so as a good American I have to light, smoke and destroy them."
Not everyone is amused with Reinsdorf's smoking seven cigars a day. Certainly not his wife, Martyl (married for 38 years with four grown children), who bans him from smoking inside their Phoenix manse. "She tolerates my smoking inside the house if she's in a really good mood, and that happens every decade."
The welcome isn't much better among baseball owners. Baseball is a fractured political landscape that is also a battle for turf, a struggle between diverse personalities with colliding interests. There are shrewd businessmen such as the Marlins' Wayne Huizenga of Blockbuster Video fame and Little Caesars Pizza founder Mike Ilitch, owner of the Detroit Tigers. Freewheeling spenders like Yankee boss George Steinbrenner contrasted sharply to the Angels' tightfisted Jackie Autry.
Except for the bruised feelings of owners left out of the Bud 'n' Jerry power loop, Reinsdorf is generally respected, if not liked, by baseball's lords. (After suing NBA commissioner David Stern over Chicago superstation WGN's rights to televise Bulls games, he admittedly has few friends in basketball.) But he won over most of the baseball owners long before the strike issue surfaced when he led a concerted assault on baseball commissioner Fay Vincent. Praising his grasp of labor issues and his "working tirelessly" throughout the baseball strike, baseball owners indulge Reinsdorf at meetings. No one complains about his smoking. Not to his face.
"Jerry's the one guy I'd have in the trenches with me," exulted Steinbrenner. "He's principled, a man of his word, a quick-minded negotiator. But those stinking cigars. The smoke always burns and waters my eyes."
Bursting into laughter when told of these remarks, Reinsdorf countered, "The owners are a fun bunch. Here we are, months into a strike that's costing us tens of millions of dollars, and yet we're wisecracking all the time at meetings."
Reinsdorf can't say the same for the union. "I don't think the other guys ever laugh. They're ideologues on a mission with a pathological hatred for us. The union doesn't like me because they can't run over me. They have always run over baseball owners."
Dismissing the popular conception that he was out to "bust" the union, Reinsdorf said a players' association is necessary to represent people who had been "treated like slaves." But, unlike old-line owners who were long terrified of strikes and quickly caved in to player demands for salary arbitration and free agency, Reinsdorf welcomes the challenge of squeezing rollbacks from the union.
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Police are hunting a daring bicycle-riding thief who snatched a handbag from a stationary car in Corsham last week.
A man riding a silver bike made off with the pink handbag in broad daylight at around 5.15pm on Park Lane last Tuesday.
He pulled up from the Rudloe direction alongside a local 25-year-old woman in a Citroen Picasso, who was waiting at the roundabout.
He then opening the car door and snatched her bag, which contained a Samsung Galaxy S3 mobile phone, before cycling off towards Box.
He was dressed in black, with a hat and scarf covering most of his face.
PC Melonie Neal, from Chippenham Police Station, said: "The victim was understandably shocked and upset.
"This incident happened in the daylight when traffic was heavy and we are sure that there are witnesses who have not yet come forward.
"We know that there was a group of children playing on the green at the time and I am appealing for anyone who was in the area or who has any information to contact me".
Anyone with information is asked to contact PC Neal at Chippenham Police Station on 101.
Alternatively contact Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 where details may be left anonymously if preferred.


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Okay. Now where in this is "the quality within one that isn't subject to arising or passing away"?kirk5a wrote:Those words are describing stream entry, I think they are in complete agreement with how stream entry is described in the Visuddhimagga and elsewhere, and I accept those as true and accurate accounts.the Visuddhimagga wrote:4. As soon as conformity knowledge has arisen in him in this way, and the
thick murk that hides the truths has been dispelled by the respective force peculiar
to each of the three kinds of conformity (see XXI.129f.), then his consciousness
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water does from a lotus leaf, and every sign as object, every occurrence as object,
appears as an impediment.
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Sveum plans to alter lineup against White Sox lefties
CINCINNATI -- Cubs outfielder David DeJesus is expected to get a rare start Wednesday against White Sox lefty John Danks. Manager Dale Sveum has stuck to a platoon against southpaw pitchers, although it hasn't been as successful as he'd like. Chicago is 4-10 against left-handed starters.
"I'll keep the same approach," said DeJesus, a career .254 hitter vs. left-handed pitchers compared to .293 vs. right-handers.
DeJesus is one of the few batters in the Cubs' lineup who is patient at the plate and works the count. That's a topic that was discussed at a recent team meeting.
"The team came together, and we had a little meeting about our approaches at the plate," DeJesus said. "We just have to stay with [the approach] and trust it. If one at-bat goes bad, don't just throw it away -- just keep going. It's going to work in your favor. Just keep trusting it."
The season hasn't gone the way the Cubs expected, and the players talked about that, too.
"We're saying, 'It's a long year, we have plenty of games left, but we have to keep battling and can't give up just because we have a couple bad outcomes,'" DeJesus said. "We can't throw away what we've worked on since Spring Training.
"You have to go up there and have the same approach every at-bat," he said. "You can't just go up there swinging. We have to keep working and keep understanding."
Danks is one of three left-handers the Cubs will face in the four-game Interleague series against the White Sox, in which the teams will play Monday and Tuesday at U.S. Cellular Field and Wednesday and Thursday at Wrigley. Scott Hairston will be the designated hitter Monday and Dioner Navarro on Tuesday for the Cubs.
"They have three completely different type left-handers pitching against us," Sveum said of Jose Quintana, Chris Sale and John Danks.
The Cubs vs. White Sox series has been a six-game, home-and-road series in the past, and can become a bit of a circus-like atmosphere. Sveum doesn't like the new format.
"I've always liked circuses," he said. "It's such a strange circumstance to play four games, in obviously the same city but in two different parks. There's no other way to do it now, and there's nothing you can do about it, but it's kind of funny how it comes that way with the crosstown rivals."
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A court trial for a Vacaville man convicted in October of a brutal assault and rape on a Bay Area woman last year has been set for next week in Solano County Superior Court.
Set for Dec. 13, the court trial for Howard K. Forbes, 39, follows a jury's finding that he was guilty of kidnapping, rape, assault and other forcible sex crimes related to a Sept. 25, 2011, incident inside his Vacaville home. The second phase of the trial is set to determine whether Forbes has suffered a prior conviction for a lewd act and does not require a jury.
If the prior conviction is found true, it will act as a sentencing enhancement.
Forbes already faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole for his convictions of kidnapping to commit rape, rape of an intoxicated person, three counts of forcible rape, two counts of forcible oral copulation, one count of forcible sodomy and one count of assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury. Each of the forcible sex charges carried an enhancement for inflicting great bodily injury, which the jury found to be true on each count.
Judge E. Bradley Nelson ordered Forbes back at 9 a.m. on Dec. 13 to rule on the alleged prior conviction.


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Color Doppler Imaging of Orbital Venous Flow in Grave's Orbitopathy
This study has been completed.
University of Sao Paulo
Information provided by:
University of Sao Paulo
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: June 11, 2008
Last updated: December 18, 2013
Last verified: June 2008
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Detailed Description:
Orbital Venous flow study in patients with Grave's Orbitopathy in different manifestation forms and stages, made with Color Doppler Imaging
|Graves' Disease Graves' Ophthalmopathy
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Color Doppler Imaging of Orbital Venous Flow in Grave's Orbitopathy
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: Graves disease
MedlinePlus related topics: Diagnostic ImagingU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by University of Sao Paulo:
|Study Start Date:
|January 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Group control with healthy subjects
Healthy subjects without thyroid disease, ocular disease and previous surgery in the orbit or eye used in the study.
Graves' Ophthalmopathy - fibrotic phase
Patients that are clinically inactive (CAS equal or lower than 2). This group will be subdivided in the miogenic and lipogenic groups.
Graves' Ophthalmopathy - active phase
Patients that are clinically active, presenting a CAS of 4 or more points, with or without disthyroid optic neuropathy.
Detailed Description:
Prospective study with Grave's patients in active and fibrotic disease, myogenic and lipogenic forms, with muscle restriction and without muscle restriction and with or without optic compressive neuropathy. Blood flow was studied with Color Doppler Imaging (CDI) in the following orbital vessels:
- Superior Ophthalmic Vein (main target of the study protocol)
- Retinal Central Vein
- Retinal Central Artery
- Ophthalmic Artery
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Patients with Grave's disease within the orbital service of HCFMUSP at the Ophthalmology Department
Inclusion Criteria:
- Clinical diagnosis of Grave's Orbitopathy with well defined disease.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Uncertain cases, with an undefined status of Grave's Ophthalmopathy.
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: NCT00697528
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00697528
|Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade São Paulo
|São Paulo, Brazil, 05403-000
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Sao Paulo
|Study Director:
|Mário LR Monteiro, Professor
|Instituto do Coracao
|Study Chair:
|Joseph E Benabou
|Instituto do Coracao
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|Hélio Angotti Neto, HCFMUSP - University of São Paulo
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|NCT00697528 History of Changes
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|June 11, 2008
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|December 18, 2013
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Color Doppler Imaging
Graves' Ophthalmopathy
Orbital Venous Flow
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Graves Disease
Eye Diseases
Graves Ophthalmopathy
Orbital Diseases
Thyroid Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Eye Diseases, Hereditary
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The whistle blows; eight swimmers take their marks, bent at the waist coiled around their starting blocks -- purple and orange lane lines bobbing in the water -- set for the crack of the starting gun, to spring up and out, into the pool, hoping to win their heat at the 57th?annual Ukiah Dolphins Soroptimist Swim Meet.
Kelli Harris Wong, a former Dolphin, is sitting in the shade with her son Connor, 11, a Santa Rosa Neptune, who is playing cards with his teammates. "I have always loved being in the water;" she says, "when you're swimming it's quiet; you can let your imagination go. You participate individually and also as part of a team. I especially enjoy the camaraderie at the meets, as does my son. ?
"I love seeing the determination on his face when he swims and how he tries to push himself."
Grandma Jerilyn Harris, a former competitive swimmer herself, swam in the San Fernando Valley when there were no girls' teams in the schools. Of swimming she says, "It pleases me that it has become a family sport, one that can stay with them for a lifetime."??????
Miriah Rifkin Kellison started with the Dolphins and continued through her high school years and into college. She now swims with the Santa Rosa Masters.? "I remember at ten still not being able to swim and my mom took me to a Dolphin swim practice; initially swimming with 6-year-olds quickly inspired me to move up to my peer level.
"There's something about swimming and how great you feel when you get out of the water. When my son Jeremiah gets out of the pool after practice, he has this happy bubble around him. That's the best way I can describe it."
Jeremiah just finished competing in his first race of the day, the 50 yard free. How does it feel? "Great!"
Kellison continues, "It's fabulous being back here at the Soroptimist Meet, in familiar territory. It's full of great memories for me -- being part of a team, being with old friends, seeing that Lee (Pantaja) is still coaching."
Her daughter, Makayle, age 10, just finished a beautiful 50-yard breaststroke and when asked how it felt, she responded with a big smile and two thumbs up.
"I couldn't be happier that both my children made the choice to swim on the Neptune team."
Amanda Robinson Holstine swam with the Dolphins from the age of 6 through high school and into college. "The friendship; the camaraderie; the great coaches. It's such a healthy sport, family friendly, inclusive of everyone. Lee was my coach and now he is teaching my children. I couldn't ask for anything better.
"Being back here is somewhat surreal. It brings back so many memories, hanging out with friends, competing. Relaxing, getting ready to swim, game on, then back to playing cards."
Her daughter Beatrix, age 9, has been swimming with the Dolphins for three years. "It's cool that my mom swam and that I learned the same way she did. It makes me want to keep swimming."
Her son Mojo, age 11, swimming for five years likes the water and thinks it's great fun.
Zac Robinson, Amanda's older brother, started with the Dolphins at 10 and continued through high school and into college. "It's the friendships; my best friend to this day is my swim buddy Scott Gawel. We still have Lee, the same devoted coach; there's a wonderful sense of family, continuity, with swimming.
His wife, Krista (Maynard) Robinson, swam with the team in high school and currently swims with the Ukiah Masters. "It teaches my kids about discipline; it's a great way to exercise and they have fun trying to beat their own times."
Their son Luke, 15, likes the social aspect and appreciates "it's a safe sport, no impact."
Their daughter Amelia, 13, most definitely likes seeing her friends swimming. It makes her happy and more confident.
Jason Smits swam for the Willits Otters and although he has fond memories of it, he has stronger memories of playing baseball. His daughter, 10-year-old Emma, however, will be heading off to Far Westerns in San Jose next week. She has a qualifying time in butterfly and today she took first place and personal best in the 200 IM, 50 fly (a junior Olympic time) and 100 back.
She swims three times a week twice a day during the summer and six times a week during the school year. "I love the competition and definitely want to swim in college. I might want to be a swimming coach."
Abby, her sister, age 7, thinks it's fun seeing her friends and just swimming.
Lee Pantaja, swim coach extraordinaire, coach of the Ukiah Dolphins since 1975, wonders how these parents, his former swimmers, could be so foolish as to do this with their own kids after seeing how much work their own parents put into their swimming. "Really," he says with a smile, "it's very heartwarming."
Tyler Nelson started with the Dolphins at age 7 and continued on through high school and into college. "The thing that stuck with me over the years were the friendships. The camaraderie was something special. It really has translated now that I am older; the kids I grew up with are adults now and I still have some of my fondest memories with them. Now I get to see my kids build those same kinds of relationships. Some things have changed like online registration for swim meets, but the sunburns, hometown cooking and racing remains the same."
His wife, Meg (Eriksen) swam for a few years in elementary school and also remembers long-lasting friendships.
It's her children's self-improvement that she appreciates, watching them take time off their own races. "Not everybody can be a superstar but everybody can get better. This is something that can be transferred to real life."
Their daughters Ella, 11, and Maggie, 9, have been swimming for four years. They both like hanging out with their friends, meeting new people and beating their own times.
Casey (Crofoot) Mortier was a Ukiah High School swimmer and both her children, Ruby, 7, and Ava, 10, are Dolphins. Ruby just loves being in the water.
After a successful, long-term struggle with lymphoma, Ava appreciates the freedom that swimming allows here. Because of complications she had been restricted from participating in her favorite sport, gymnastics, and the whole family concurs that swimming has helped her stamina, strengthening her and facilitating her healing.


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The one that got away. How much better off would we be if we still had Brad Miller? Would Indiana have won yet?
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The one that got away. How much better off would we be if we still had Brad Miller? Would Indiana have won yet?
Oh no...
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
......and that was the last anyone ever saw or heard from 31 Forever......
It wasn't about being the team everyone loved, it was about beating the teams everyone else loved.
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Unless Brad had been able to keep 11/19 from happening I don't think we'd be any better off. After all he did break his leg this year so it's not like he'd be helping all that much righ now.
On the other hand there would be at least 2 threads about a) how we should have traded him or b) what we could get for him in the off season.
Brad's a good guy. It's hard to say.
The offense would flow better with a high-post center, as opposed to Jermaine playing low- and high-post in the offensive scheme.
On the other hand, Brad's never going to give you 10 offensive rebounds.
Plus, he'd have gone into the stands.
Plus, he'd be broken down right now even if he hadn't broken his leg.
We did fine. But I'd rather have Brad than Bender, no questions asked.
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No doubt in my mind we'd be a better team right now. He has done better in the West than I thought he would. He averaged 15.6 pts, 9.3 rebs and 3.9 ast this season while shooting 52% and 81% from the line. Pretty darn good numbers.
My only worry was long term, I just didn't see him playing well long term. When his current contract is up he'll be around Dale's age now. I don't see him being anywhere near the physical condition or the player Dale is at that age. I always thought Brad would have 3 or 4 good years and then fade away quickly. If he plays anywhere near his current level through this contract, then we made a big blunder.
Brad's remaining contract.
05-06 $8,750,000
06-07 $9,625,000
07-08 $10,500,000
08-09 $11,375,000
09-10 $12,250,000
"Just look at the flowers ........ BANG"
However I want to just addresst this.
I will admit that Brad seems to always have an injury as the season ends. But in all honesty doesn't Jamaal & Jermaine do the same thing?
I know we are all going to say that Jermaine's is legit & that we all saw the shoulder go pop. But then we don't give Brad the same benfit of the doubt when his leg was broken. It wasn't strained or pulled or sore. It was broken.
Jermaine was injured late this year. Jermaine was injured late last year. Jermaine was injured the year before that as well as the year ended.
I won't even begin to talk about Jamaal because he is always injured.
What am I saying? I don't know. I guess I just always felt it was an unfair statement to make about Brad when both of the above are literally the exact same way.
He'd have given you another offensive option 15 feet away from the basket and would have drawn Ben out (and made him play defense), cutting down on the offensive boards.
Whether that would've been enough to win game 4 or 5 is debatable.
The poster formerly known as Rimfire
Can we not criticise someone without introducing others for comparison. What you said about JO and JT is true but what was said about Brad was true.
Now, what am I saying ? Hell, I don't know either but the constant comparison thing just bothers me.
Rant over and now back to your previously scheduled program.
I would rather be the hammer than the nail
I will always believe that dumping Brad was the biggest mistake the Pacers have made in at least a Decade. It beats dumping A.D. for Bender because it was really A.D. for the 4th pick. Yes Brad broke his leg but he came back for the playoffs and played well.
In retrospect, it'd be nice to have spent money on him rather than Bender. But hindsight is 20-20 and frankly, Miller is a western conference player. He's charmin down low w/ zero post moves. Basically a big jumpshooter. Certainly wouldn't help us block out the Wallaces.
So many falsehoods already in this new thread. For my sanity I'm not going to hash them out right now. Maybe by late June / July
Because certain member of this board have been known to be hypocritical and homerish. If Jeff Foster was traded today their would be a segment who next year would be telling how limited Foster was on offense and that he couldn't guard a motivated Bryant Reeves. Just like when Brad left all of the sudden he was now a horrible defender.Originally Posted by Alabama-Redneck
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Peck, I don't have a problem with Brad breaking his leg. That's just bad luck, there's nothing conditioning can do to help. I think the same thing of Jermaine's injury. I'm saying that historically Brad hasn't worked on conditioning, so he's broken down by this point anyway.
I'm surprised that you guys think Brad would have been more peaceful than the rest of the Pacers. This is a guy that had more flagrants than Ron at several points in his Pacers career, and at the end of that season was #2 in the league behind Ron.
On the other hand, seeing a white guy in the fracas might have diminished public outrage...
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Flagrant fouls are objective though. Like that one against Dale in game 4, what a joke. I normally complain because our fouls aren't hard enough. I hate and 1 opportunities. Foul hard enough so they can't shoot. But now I guess thats a flagrant.
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Ron's flagrants were used in his season suspension, so obviously Stern follows that logic. Wait, now I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.Originally Posted by Diamond Dave
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I wasn't being serious lol......Originally Posted by Diamond Dave
I could see Brad going in though, because I can see most players doing it. Plus he is a good ol boy.
He is definitely a good ol boy. I basically think it would depend on Brad's position on the court. Had he been on the bench he would have probably recieved the one game suspension like Reg for leaving, but thats it. Had he been up by Artest he would have probably pulled a Fred Jones (go it to help), but when he got hit by someone he most likely would have started swinging back unlike Fred.
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If Brad were an Apollo 11 astronaut, would he have been the first man on the moon or orbiting it in the lunar module?
Originally Posted by Harmonica
Tough decision.
I guess he'd be on it, he has a go gettum attitude.
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Would he fit?Originally Posted by Harmonica


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This gets my vote for worst thread of the year! Congrats.
I Bleed Blue
Well it does serve one purpose. Best thread yet to drive out the old posters (like myself) and bring in some new blood.
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I think that any Dwight Howard thread is worse.
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Either the moderators need to go or Hicks needs to sale this board.
I don't know that Kwame was a big mistake. He came right out of high school and it is hard to evaluate those players so the 50/50 level of drafting success is probably lower for them. But he was a big man with enormous potential and the pick was not considered a disaster when it was made. In fact, it was not a disaster. Kwame has had a long NBA career and he just signed with the sixers for $6 million per year. He is a very good, strong defensive player and rebounder but he is not a scoring center. There are much worse number one picks one could name........
Can you please explain? Is this just a play on the title of the thread or is this a serious statement?
This is clearly a joke people. :-)
i have not read the entire thread yet. but i want to ask a question to anyone with actual understanding. what is the pacers contract status for all players. reason i ask is i get the feeling that this team is waiting a couple seasons when Hibbert and Paul George are closer to the prime of their career and a more known commodity. since this question is regarding the FO it seems relevant in order to get a more accurate image of the FO's plan.
Hill: 5 years 40
Hibbert: 4 years 60
Granger: 2 years remaining at 13
West: 1 season remainging at 10
George: 2seasons
augustin - 1
stephenson- 1?
green - 3
hansbrough - 1
plumlee - 3
mahanmi - 4
oj - 2?
Pacers could easily be gearing up to go out into FA next season or the following. Granger/West are a large portion of the salary payroll, if Granger were to get dealt this season which i dont expect.. but maybe next offsesaon pacers have room to sign a max player. or in 4 years maybe Gordon becomes a target again if he can stay healthy.
point is the pacers are definitely maintaining flexibility.
So am I. I totally disagree with this statement that is the issue with the team. The ownership beefed up the payroll to sell the team and we got a bunch of overrated overpaid guys and that is why we are awful right now. The Cubs needed to rebuild in the worst way im just so happy we finally did.
You need to spend in free agency(when the time comes for us we are likely 3-4 years from doing that because the talent is so bad) but you also need guys under your control to keep payroll manageable. Almost every team that wins has amazing home grown talent and without home grown guys it is really hard ti win IMO.
Nothing like a Jim Henry patch job nothing says contender like overspending on the likes of Milton Bradley and trading away the farm and go balls out to try to win. That thinking set us back 5 years to keep sustained success you cant do that.


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If you're looking for a high performance camera with great image quality, you should get a digital SLR, right?
Canon G12
Tank-like build feels like it can take a pounding. Tons of external controls on the camera body will bring out the pro in you. Locking down the resolution at 10 MP means it's a better performer in low light. Very good 720p HD capture with stereo sound. HDR (High Dynamic Range) processing will even out exposure in your images without having to run them through Photoshop.
Even lower-priced competing models offer higher-resolution 1080p HD video capture. Only digital zooming during video capture degrades quality. Imaging sensor is still tiny, though other advanced compacts have gone big. Antiquated menu system.
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Well yes, DSLRs are top-drawer picture-takers. But they're bulky and they weigh a ton. They also aren't exactly the most discreet cameras out there — put a long zoom lens on a DSLR and try to take it to a pro sporting event or a rock concert and, unless you have a press pass, you'll be sent packing.
A far less conspicuous and more portable option is the Canon PowerShot G12, a compact, consumer-style 10-megapixel camera with the photo skills of a serious pro model.
Small cameras with advanced features are nothing new. In fact, with the advent of Micro Four Thirds models such as the recently released Olympus EPL-2, and the growing popularity of compacts with pro-style attached lenses such as the Panasonic Lumix LX5 — Wired's 2010 camera of the year — these pocket rockets are all the rage right now.
Canon's been making powerful, petite models in its G-series line for over a decade now, with the 3.3-megapixel PowerShot G1 premiering way back in September 2000. With the G12, we only get a handful of technical advances over its predecessor, the (duh) G11, but they're enough to make a good camera even better.
For starters, let's talk about what they didn't change from the previous model and why it's a good thing: the resolution of the imaging sensor. Nowadays, you can now get entry-level digital cameras with 16-MP sensors, but the G12 is stuck at 10 MP. This is progress? Absolutely.
Cramming too many pixels on an imaging chip the size of a fingernail means smaller pixels that absorb less light. The result is crunchy-looking photos full of ugly image "noise" when you shoot in low light without a flash. Most manufacturers think consumers are unaware of the negative effects of the Megapixel War, but Canon is ignoring the marketing grab and striving for quality instead.
Canon hasn't messed much with the design of the G12 and that's also a good thing. The abundance of external controls on the camera mean there's no need to dig through menus to get creative. If you like changing the sensitivity of the imaging chip for low light shooting, a dial on top of the G12 lets you adjust the ISO setting in precise 1/3-step increments. No, you probably don't need to go to ISO 250, but it's cool that it's possible with this camera. I also liked the control dial on front above the hand grip that lets you quickly change shutter speed and aperture with your forefinger.
One area where I was hoping for an upgrade with the G12 is the LCD screen. It's still a flip-out, vari-angle display that helps you compose over-the-head or down-low shots, but it's still only 2.8 inches in size. A bump to 3 inches would have been appreciated. The G12 also keeps its optical viewfinder, but it's as tiny as a peephole.
Other pro-worthy features: an exposure dial on top of the camera; the ability to record your images as JPEGs or RAW, or both at the same time; and a rugged, overall build that feels like it can take a pounding. The G12's 5x (28-140mm equivalent) lens is also excellent. It has built-in optical image stabilization for steadying shaky shots and boasts a maximum aperture of f/2.8, adding to its low-light prowess.
Less-advanced photographers might find all this to be overkill. And while there are some canned, preset scene modes on the G12 for beginners — Kids & Pets, anyone? — they're tough to access with Canon's antiquated menu system. I also found some modes (such as Miniature, which simulates the miniaturization effect of a pricey tilt-shift lens by blurring the top and bottom of your images) produced only so-so results.
The G12, like the previous model, did well in low light when increasing the sensitivity of the chip to ISO 800 to photograph a Revolutionary War–era fort in the late afternoon. Later, while shooting Vermont jazz band Mogani in its dim rehearsal space, increasing the ISO to 1600 yielded fairly decent results, with some pixelization due to image noise. At super-sensitive ISO 3200 though, photos turned borderline fugly.
In good light at moderate ISOs, however, such as with shots captured of fall foliage in Vermont, the G12 performed like a rock star, rendering pitch-perfect color without oversaturation and good edge-to-edge sharpness. Even on dull, overcast days — as during the recent snowstorms here in New York City — the G12's photos had pleasing pop. If you want a little more pop though, try the Super Vivid setting which pumped up the volume in shots of a colorful street mural.
If you're looking for the speed of a DSLR with the G12, you might be disappointed. I experienced a half-second or so of shutter lag for each shot, and even more so when fully zoomed in. It also took almost 2½ seconds shot-to-shot when the camera was set to Large/Fine JPEG capture mode. While this might not sound like much delay, when you're trying to shoot a series of quick candids, it can potentially cause you to miss your shot. The G12 also felt slower than competing models such as the Panasonic LX5 and Sony NEX-5 and was much slower than even entry-level digital SLRs.
The quality of the video footage captured using the G12's HD mode was impressive. (The previous model only offered standard-definition video.) Even in tough lighting conditions while shooting the Mogani band rehearsal, the high-def clips were crisp and rivaled what you can get with a pricey camcorder. The built-in stereo mic also produced surprisingly good sound. On the downside, maximum resolution of those clips is only 720p while some competing models can shoot 1080p. In fact, some of Canon's lower-priced digital cameras can record in 1080p HD.
Also disappointing is that the G12 can't zoom optically while recording video, only digitally, though Canon's less expensive Digital ELPH models are able to.
Here's a clip — keep in mind that the quality suffers a bit, becauseit has been compressed for embedding on this web page, but you get the idea.
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So while the Canon G12 isn't perfect, its combination of superior image quality, advanced external control, very good HD capture with stereo sound, and a rugged build with a helpful flip-out screen make this camera an ideal choice for anyone wanting power and precision in a relatively small package. Canon hasn't changed a heck of a lot in the G12 from the previous model but, as the old saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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