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I am just getting into it and I found I played best when just using my pro starfire. I'm hearing its better to know your discs than throw a bunch that all do different things. Here is what I am thinking:
Pretty beefy wraith- headwind use, hook shots, overstable driver
Stable 175g valk- go to guy. Slow and can make him to anything
175g Pro katana- downwind driver, hyzerflipper, big bomber
177+ z Buzz- go to mid
First run skeeter- long putter and finesse approaches
Flx Drone- hooking mid. Forehand approaches
Dx Rhyno- Turbo putts, forehand putts, headwind putts
Jk pro aviar- all putting
All I would need is a the drone and wraith. I have the rest. Just wondering if this would suffice for tournaments as my first tournament this year I had a bunch of discs and didn't quite know them all and ended up using my groove that I hardly ever used. I don't want that "Oh shit" feeling that I had when going into that tournament. Only thing I could see being a problem is if I lost one, but still I should have enough to cover the rest of the day.


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Piped Binding
Piped Binding
Piped binding can be the perfect finishing touch for your quilt. We love the method and the tool created by Susan K. Cleveland. Her Groovin' Piping Trimming Tool is indispensable for this task. Visit piecesbewithyou.com for ordering information.
1.Preparing the Strips and Cording For the piping, cut enough 11/4"-wide bias strips to equal the quilt's perimeter plus 10". For the binding, cut 21/2"-wide strips (straight or bias) to equal this same length. Join each set of strips with diagonal seams. Press the seams open and trim seam allowances to 1/4". With wrong sides together, press both piping and binding strips in half lengthwise. For best results, use 1/16" drapery cording. It is very important to preshrink the cording by steaming it thoroughly with an iron.
2.Making Perfect Piping Match the thread color to the piping fabric. Put a zipper foot onto the sewing machine. (Other specialty foot options are covered in Susan's instructions.) Tie a knot in the end of the cording and tuck the cording tightly into the first few inches of the fold. Lower the foot next to the cording and adjust the needle position so it will pierce the fabric close to the cording but will not catch the cording. Place a stack of about 10 sticky notes beside the fold, just in front of the feed dogs, to help the piping feed in smoothly. Sew next to the cording (photo 1).
Use the Groovin' Piping Trimming Tool to trim the seam allowance of the piping to 1/4" according to the instructions (photo 2).
3.Attaching the Piping Layer and baste together the backing, batting and quilt top. Sew through all the layers less than 1/4" from the quilt top's edges. Quilt the quilt. Do not trim the excess backing and batting yet. Load the bobbin with thread to contrast with the quilt backing. Aligning raw edges and leaving a 1" tail at each end, attach the piping to one side of the quilt front by sewing directly over the previous line of stitching (photo 3).
Repeat for the other sides of the quilt. Trim the extra backing and batting even with the cut edges of the piping. (Susan's tool works well for this task, too.) Trim the piping tails even with the quilt edges. 4.Attaching the Binding and Finishing Aligning the raw edges, lay the binding over the piping (photo 4).
The end of the binding should be about 10" from the corner of the quilt as shown. Pin the binding in place. Turn the quilt over so the binding is on the bottom. Sew one thread to the left of the stitching which attached the piping to the quilt (photo 5).
Stop at the intersection of the piping stitching lines and backstitch. Turn the quilt over and miter the corner as described in "Basic Lessons." Turn the quilt back and sew the next side in the same way. Repeat for all the sides. Join the ends of the binding with a diagonal seam and finish sewing the binding to the quilt. Wrap the binding to the back of the quilt and blind stitch in place by hand. You've just given your quilt the crowning glory it deserves!
Many more helpful tips and tricks are covered in Susan's instructions, included with the Groovin' Piping Trimming Tool. Find ordering details in Quiltmaker May/June '08 (No. 121) on page 16, or visit Susan's website at piecesbewithyou.com.
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>Suggestions and Feature Requests>Pace chart scale and zoom
Hi Eric
Is there any plan to improve the scale of the pace chart? Currently, the scale is not at a detailed enough level to read. For example the y axis will often show markers for 0:00, 5:00, 10:00 pace etc. but for me all the interesting stuff is usually between 4:00 and 5:00 (besides occasions where I might have stopped, causing a big spike in pace to 10:00+). I wish I could zoom on this area and show more detailed increments on the axis.
It would be good to allow the user to select what scale they want, a bit like with an Excel chart. I.e. what is the min / max value of the axis (e.g. I may want it to start at 3:00) and what is the unit of the scale (which may be 1:00, 0:30, 0:10 etc.).
The same is true with heart rate, it shows from zero but the interesting data is at 120+
I guess the more advanced option would be to hover over any point on the chart and see the stats from that point, a bit like on Garmin Connect. But this would only be a nice to have and I understand the development would be a lot more complex.
What's great now is is the ability to show a smoothed average for pace. The other thing I really like is that you can recalculate splits from the garmin data - I frequently use that to plot my data: e.g. set to 0.5km intervals then export into Excel to show as a graph. But that's just me being an analysis geek!
I recall seeing a post a while back you said you might overhaul the chart functionality at some point, so just wondering if that's on the horizon.
Thanks a lot, love the site!
I'm planning to redo the graphs as part of the revamp. I would like to have more interactive charts. We'll see.
Looking forward to that!
Me too.
rebuilding r2th v2.0
I was planning to start a thread with similar request - the best would be the possibility to change the range of the x and y scales. Looking forward to seeing the changes that you are planning to implement. Thanks for all the work!
It would seem to me that the easiest default scale for the y-axis is just the max y value minus the min y value with perhaps the upper and lower bounds being rounded to the next higher and lower minute boundaries respectively.
Not trying to hijack this thread (I think this qualifies as still on topic). I have two feature requests for the graph.
1. Allow a third graph on the canvas. I would love to see hr, speed, and elevation in one viewing.
2. I would love to be able to do a linear regression on a graph. For example, I know my hr rose during long run, but I would love to be able to quantify how quickly it rose between two points.
Thanks for everything, Eric.


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When my mom was very, very sick from surgeries and chemo, my Aunt Johanna would make her this tummy-warming, cure-all soup. Most days it was the only thing my mom wanted, and the only thing she could keep down. Now that she is a stage 4 cancer survivor (!!!), we still make this soup when anyone is ailing. A cold, the flu, even the slightest sniffle is enough excuse for me to whip up a huge batch of this comforting soup.
In part, that's where my belief in food as comfort came from (no, I'm not talking about emotional eating…though I have been known to make these cookies at the end of a bad day!) Watching my mom perk up when she ate something she liked (and at that point, eating anything at all) was a beautiful moment to witness. Food was just as healing as medicine. And nowadays, if someone is sick, or has had a new baby, or has suffered a loss, I firmly believe that bringing them a hot meal can make all the difference. If not the food itself, it's the thought. A Pyrex full of warm soup says I'm thinking about you more than a card or a gift ever could.
When my little girls have stuffy noses and don't have much appetite, they'll still inhale steaming bowls of this soup. But best of all, it takes very little time to make. When you're caring for someone else, you don't have time to make everything (or anything!) from scratch. But this soup begins with a store-bought mix, a pre-cooked rotisserie chicken, and fresh veggies. All you need to do is throw everything in the pot and let it simmer. It's not some secret brilliant recipe. But the results taste like it.
Another thing: it isn't a brothy soup like something from a can. It's thick and rich, chock-full of egg noodles, chunks of chicken, carrots and celery. If your patient needs nourishment, it's all inside the bowl. You can tweak it as you like, adding different vegetables, more or less noodles, a bit of extra chicken stock. Make it the way your family likes it. And then sit back, turn on a movie, and settle in with your sick little patients and a warm bowl of homemade chicken soup.
Chicken Soup (a.k.a. flu season soup) Printable Chicken Soup
This soup is a creation of my Aunt Johanna. She's a wonderful cook, and is quick to whip up a batch whenever someone is sick. To double the batch, use 2 packages of soup mix and more stock as needed. Freezes beautifully in Ziploc bags!
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- 1 package Mrs. Grass Homestyle Chicken Noodle Soup mix (available at Kroger stores or online at Amazon)
- 4 cups chicken stock
- 1/2 package (6 oz.) egg noodles (add the full package if you like thicker soup with lots of noodles…I do!)
- 1 pre-cooked rotisserie chicken, skin discarded, shredded or chopped
- 1 package baby carrots
- 6 stalks celery, rinsed and chopped
- 1/2 tsp garlic salt
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- fresh ground pepper to taste
1. Bring soup mix, water (Mrs. Grass mix calls for 8 cups), and chicken broth to a boil in a large pot. Add noodles and simmer, covered, stirring occasionally, until noodles are cooked, 10-12 minutes or according to the time instructed on your package of noodles.
2. Add chicken, celery, carrots, salts and pepper. Stir and let simmer (covered) an additional 20 minutes. Taste for seasoning and adjust as needed. Serve with a hunk of crusty bread for dipping.


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Excellent Fourth Quarter for Banks
The banks completed their fourth-quarter call reports to regulators this week and they are much better than I was anticipating. I will be writing about various aspects of them over the next few weeks, but the first data series that needs to be discussed is the non-performing mortgages (NPL).
I've written several columns on this subject over the past few years as the data has been mixed to negative. This is the first report since the 2008 financial crisis where all four of the dominant money centers, JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Citi (C), and Wells Fargo (WFC) reported strong and impressive performance in the area of their non-performing loans. ...312 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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Memphis Advantage Pellet Smoker
Memphis Advantage Pellet Smoker
The Memphis Advantage is their mid-range product and it shares the same sturdy double wall cooking chamber, the same digital controller with meat probe, and the same heavy duty 0.312 diameter stainless rod cooking grates as the larger Pro and Elite models, but is only offered in 430 grade stainless. Pro and Elite may be purchased in top grade 304 stainless. There is 427" main cooking surface and you can insert optional upper level warming grates that doubles the grate surfaces. It has a 12 pound pellet hopper, casters, and may be ordered with or without a cabinet enclosure. Our posted price is without enclosure.
Memphis Pellet Smokers are extremely well built and designed. We tested the Memphis Pro and Meathead himself proclaimed it, "one of the best cookers I've ever had the pleasure to use".
The cooking chamber has two layers of metal with an air gap between and an oven gasket on the lid to provide better heat retention. Just like your indoor oven. It is designed and built like a high end indoor appliance. This allows it to cook hotter and retain more heat and maintain steady lower temperatures.
The stainless is thick and extraordinarily well machined. The fit and finish are impeccable. The grates are some of the heaviest stainless rods we've ever seen. There is room for upper grates that allow you to almost double the capacity. The fire pot is in the center below a large stainless "flavor bar" bent in the center to allow grease runoff. There is a gap between the flavor bar and the interior walls to allow hot air to circulate. If you place food up to the edges of the grate, the ends that are over the gaps can overcook or burn, effectively reducing the cooking area.
The "Intelligent Temperature Control" digital control panel is a sophisticated, touchpad PID controller. Simple to operate, much easier than the MAK, it has a meat probe and a few programming options. For example you can set it to cook your brisket up to 190°F and then drop back to a lower temp.
The cooking temp range is said to be 200°F to 600°F. Once it reached set temp on our Memphis Pro test model, temperature fluctuation was within 5°F, tighter than most indoor ovens (check yours, it can fluctuate 25°F or more). The controller handled the frigid Chicago winter without a hiccup. This baby is truly set-and-forget ease. Newer models have a panel on the plate that separates the fire pot from the cooking chamber. Remove the plate and insert a perforated plate called the "Direct Flame Insert" and it exposes the food to the flame. When turned on high it can produce a respectable if not perfect sear on steaks and burgers.
There is a grease and ash tray below the cooking chamber that can hold disposable aluminum pans. They can get hot so you must remember to wear gloves when handling them and don't forget to empty them or you run a risk of a grease fire. In 2012 they added some prongs behind the Intelligent Temperature Control to wrap the power cord up and out of the way when not in use. Previously it just laid on the ground.
In addition to The AmazingRibs.com Best Value Gold Medal, Memphis also won the 2010 VESTA Award for Charcoal, Wood Barbecues and Smokers, the 2010 VESTA Award for Best in Show Outdoor Room Products and First Place in the 2011 International Barbecue Awards.
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Since it was founded in 2010, social media management platform Sprout Social has grown and matured quickly. It saw very early success but unless it invested in scalable infrastructure, that success threatened to become a hindrance. Sprout turned to the Rackspace Hybrid Cloud and currently leverages Rackspace Dedicated Services, Public Cloud, Block Storage and Cloud Files.
We caught up with Aaron Rankin, CTO and Co-Founder of Sprout Social (below), to talk about its business, infrastructure and how it overcame the challenges of rapid growth.
Talk about Sprout Social and its business.
We were founded in 2010 and are based in Chicago's vibrant West Loop neighborhood. Sprout is a social media management and engagement platform that makes it scalable for businesses to discover, respond to and interact with their customers on multiple social networks. With a team of more than 85 engineers, marketers, designers, product specialists and customer service professionals, we've quickly grown to serve more than 10,000 customers – some of them household names, like McDonald's, Nokia and Pepsi. Those customers tap us to boost the efficiency of their social media presence and manage their conversations across Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and more. We now manage more than six million social interactions each day.
What brought you to Rackspace?
Four years ago, Rackspace was a great fit for an early startup like Sprout. As a business, we needed to focus on product and not on servers. The Cloud Sites platform was the easiest and most cost-effective solution to get us going and powered us for our entire first year.
What brought you to the hybrid cloud?
Early on, our growth outpaced our ability to scale. Moving our primary databases onto large dedicated systems was the quickest fix at the time and enabled us to focus on the business instead of infrastructure.
We still host our high-throughput MySQL instances on dedicated hardware and will until we can refactor and isolate parts onto cloud instances with SSD-backed Cloud Block Storage. Having the flexibility that hybrid infrastructure offers — specifically the low latency between the cloud and physical network segments — is something that only Rackspace offers and was crucial to our growth.
You have a highly distributed system. How has a hybrid cloud helped with that from a performance and cost perspective?
Well, we started as a monolithic LAMP app. The primary goals for rearchitecting were development efficiency and isolation. We needed to enable our dev team to easily and cost-effectively build new services and functionality without getting in each other's way. Likewise, by isolating functionality into discreet areas of our platform, and dedicated infrastructure, we minimize the risk of one feature killing another when things go wrong. The hybrid cloud lets us easily profile and choose the right infrastructure for the job, be it physical or cloud. We have access to the best of both worlds.
What other benefits does a hybrid cloud deliver?
The flexibility of a hybrid offering with rich cloud services lets us bring our product to market faster and innovate more quickly.


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Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich characterized Servo as "an attempt to rebuild the Web browser from the ground up on modern hardware, rethinking old assumptions along the way."
One of those assumptions is the inevitability of insecurity. Servo is written in a language called Rust that has been designed to eliminate common memory errors that cause crashes and can be exploited. Rust is intended as a language to create large Web applications that take advantage of multicore processing and are also secure and maintainable. It's a systems language similar to Google's Go programming language.
[ But can Rust tell you where you are? Read Indoor Location Tracking Has Lost Common Sense. ]
Mozilla and Samsung are bringing Servo and Rust to ARM processors and to Android. Servo exists independently from Gecko, Mozilla's rendering engine in Firefox. While Servo has been described as the future of Firefox, no plan to replace Gecko with Servo has been announced.
To some observers, the Mozilla-Samsung partnership is a slap at Google, but it's not quite that simple. Certainly both Mozilla and Samsung seek to avoid dependence on Google as a source of funding and technology. Both companies have already made investments in projects like Firefox OS, Bada and Tizen that don't involve Google.
But Mozilla has a problem: JavaScript, particularly in the context of large commercial applications and performance-dependent 3-D games. Many developers doubt it's up to the task of continuing as the Web's lingua franca, partly due to its sprawling number of libraries. That's certainly not a universal view and the language still has many defenders, its inventor Brendan Eich among them. Yet there's enough discontent that Google and Microsoft each have released languages (Dart and TypeScript) to address some of the perceived problems.
As an example of these issues, Thomas Schrantz, co-founder and CEO of Blossom.io, announced in a blog post Tuesday that his company had switched from JavaScript to Dart. "At Blossom we are huge fans of JavaScript and in many ways it is a wonderful language if you know how to avoid its dark corners," he wrote. "That said, I feel the JavaScript ecosystem is severely lacking in many areas. Especially when it comes to core plumbing."
Perhaps more significantly, dissatisfaction with Web apps at companies like Facebook and the gripes of large game developers about the need for performance have continued. Some of these issues could be resolved if technologies like Google's Native Client framework (NaCL and PNaCL) were adopted by every browser vendor. But Google's competitors haven't shown much interest in the technology, particularly Microsoft.
ASM.js code can be generated from C/C++ code processed by Mozilla's Emscripten compiler. As such, it's an appealing target for high-end game developers, who have long relied on C/C++ code to maximize performance.
To reinforce its belief that the Web can be a suitable platform for graphically demanding games (and hence any less computationally demanding application), Mozilla recently teamed up with Epic Games to bring Epic's Unreal Engine 3 to the Web.
Whether Apple, Microsoft or Opera will also do so remains to be seen, but ASM.js matters to Mozilla because it connects the present to the company's future, when Servo and Rust come into play.
Mozilla is filling out its vendor-independent technology stack. ASM.js will keep Web apps competitive with native apps and will eventually be enhanced by Servo rendering, with Rust driving back-end applications.


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Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly hotel with 4 restaurants and free breakfast
Popular property highlights
This family-friendly Bogota hotel is located in the business district, within 1 mi (2 km) of World Trade Center, Iserra 100 Shopping Mall, and Virrey Park. El Retiro Shopping Centre and Andino Commercial Center are also within 2 mi (3 km).
Hotel Features
4 restaurants, an indoor pool, and a health club are available at this hotel. Free buffet breakfast and free WiFi in public areas are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a coffee shop/café, and a sauna are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 199 rooms offer free WiFi and free wired Internet, LCD TVs with cable channels, and comforts like pillowtop beds and premium bedding. Other amenities available to guests include 24-hour room service, rainfall showerheads, and down comforters.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Breakfast
- Pool
- Overall value of stay
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
- Beds could've been more comfortable
Cosmos 100 Hotel & Centro de Convenciones
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to an indoor pool, Cosmos 100 Hotel & Centro de Convenciones provides a health club and a sauna. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 4 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. A computer station is located on site and wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 4-star property offers access to a business center and meeting rooms. 18 meeting rooms are available. This family-friendly hotel also offers spa services, a children's club, and tour/ticket assistance. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) is offered to guests. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge. A total renovation of this property was completed in 2012.
Cosmos 100 Hotel & Centro de Convenciones has designated areas for smoking.
- Sauna
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Conference space
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 199
- Number of floors - 11
- ATM/banking
- Elevator/lift
- Bar/lounge
- Business center
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Concierge services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Designated smoking areas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Computer station
- Children's club
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Meeting rooms 18
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Luggage storage
- Number of meeting rooms - 18
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Year Built 1982
- Number of restaurants - 4
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Spa services on site
- Television in common areas
- Wedding services
- Health club
- Steam room
- Indoor pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Premium bedding
- Room service (24 hours)
- Free newspaper
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- Slippers
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Dial-up Internet access (surcharge)
- Rainfall showerhead
- Pillowtop mattress
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Down comforter
Where to Eat
Guests are offered a complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast each morning.
Restaurante Primavera - This brasserie serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner.
Restaurante Meikei - This restaurant specializes in sushi and serves lunch and dinner. Reservations are required. Open select days.
Bar Gaviero - This restaurant serves lunch and dinner.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool, a health club, and a sauna.
Spa Services
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
- Number of treatment rooms 2
- Body wraps
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! One child 12 years old or younger stays free when using existing bedding. Children may not be eligible for complimentary breakfast.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for COP 30000.0 per day.
- No pets or service animals allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- The national sales tax (19%) is charged upon check-out to citizens of Colombia regardless of length of stay and to foreigners staying 60 consecutive days or more. Foreigners on a tourist visa are exempt from this tax. Furthermore, the tax may apply per room when the room is shared by a taxable and a nontaxable guest.
- Resort fee: COP 8700.00 per person, per night
Optional extras
- Airport shuttle fee: COP 50000 per vehicle (one way)
- Self parking fee: COP 14000 per night
- Early check-in fee: COP 175000
- Late check-out fee: COP 175000
- Rollaway bed fee: COP 30000.0 per day
Hotel Name
- Centro Cosmos
- Cosmos 100
- Cosmos 100 Centro Convenciones
- Cosmos 100 Convenciones
- Cosmos 100 Hotel
- Cosmos 100 Hotel & Centro Convenciones
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Image: Shortfin Mako scales
Scanning electron microscope image of the scales of a juvenile Shortfin Mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, from the Australian Museum fish collection (AMS I.41215-001). The 69 cm long fish was caught off Botany Bay, New South Wales in October 2000.
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The local movement is staying for the long haul in the Carolinas.
"Local is No. 1 and organic is No. 2, in terms of marketing," Kevin Hardison, marketing specialist with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, said. "A lot of growers are looking to expand that effort and a lot of consumers are seeking it."
He says the trend has even encouraged more consumers to try their hand at growing their own produce.
"We encourage people to purchase locally and help foster them to grow their own with our domestic gardener program," Hardison said.
"We're definitely trying to market locally, and there are plenty of good resources to help with that from the government associations," Steven Ceccarelli, owner of Farm Fresh Produce, Faison, N.C., said.
"Everyone wants to support their community and buy from local growers, and it works well on the retail side," Ceccarelli said.
Martin Eubanks, assistant commissioner, agricultural services for the South Carolina Department of Agriculture, said more than 500 retail stores in South Carolina participate in a merchandising campaign for the Certified South Carolina Grown program.
The department also has a program in local schools, with 52 schools that feature a South Carolina product on the menus each month.
"It could be peaches, leafy greens, or strawberries, but this program helps teach students about healthy eating," Eubanks said.
The South Carolina State Farmers Market is another resource to promote local product.
George Lee, the developer, said the project is doing well and will likely keep expanding.
"We have separate sections, one dedicated to only South Carolina produce that is owned and managed by the Department of Agriculture under Commissioner Hugh Weathers, and another private one for all other products," Lee said.
Lee says most customers are very interested in purchasing the local produce.
"Most people do ask for South Carolina-grown products, but of course, there are some things just not grown here," Lee said.
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Matt Solana, vice president of operations and supply chain for Jackson Farming Co., Autryville, N.C., appreciates locally grown efforts, but says the process has challenges.
"The big question is what counts as local?" Solana said.
"For the consumer, it's driving by a field of watermelons and then going to the grocery store and expecting to see that name on shelves, but that's not really how it works," Solana said.
Still, Solana says grocery stores are attempting to sustain that sort of locally grown offering for consumers.
"It's very much a big topic of conversation with the chain stores. They're trying to work toward direct store delivery to facilitate locally grown produce within North Carolina, or any state."
To deal with transportation challenges, Eubanks says local food hubs are a good solution.
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PATTON VILLAGE, Texas - The Paton Village city council was supposed to meet Monday night to decide if the mayor should get a pay cut. However, only three of the four council members were in attendance. Four are needed for the meeting. Council members said they will meet again later this week.
Mayor Pamela Munoz is currently facing trial on corruption charges and allegations she didn't disclose a previous felony conviction when she ran for mayor.
Munoz is currently Montgomery County's highest paid mayor with a salary of about $70,000.
New members of city council had called the meeting to vote on a drastic pay cut for Munoz. They want to cut her salary to minimum wage.
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This question was sparked by a story I read in the news today. A young man killed three people in a drunk driving accident last week. The father of the drunk driver said that his son was a good person and didn't mean to hurt anyone.
And I'm sure that's true. He didn't mean to kill anyone, but because he made an irresponsible decision three people died. Is he accruing negative kamma for this, even though he didn't "intentionally" kill those people?
As another example, I think we'll all agree that if I'm driving mindfully and a squirrel darts out leaving me no chance to hit the brakes, and I run over him, there's no kamma there. What if we change that slightly, and I'm talking on my cell phone and admiring a jogger instead of watching the road, and I hit a squirrel that I could have avoided had I been driving more mindfully? I still didn't "intentionally" kill the squirrel -- so is there unwholesome kamma being generated by this action?
My gut instinct is to say, "yes, there is" to both examples. I don't see how those examples could be considered the the same as a complete accident in terms of kamma. But given that neither example was an "intentional action", I don't know if that is correct? Perhaps since they intentionally acted in an irresponsible way their kamma is bound with whatever results from their irresponsibility?
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I am fond of saying, "It's rarely just one thing, but, whatever it is, it's never just the news." And that was the case Wednesday when the market shot up, seemingly out of nowhere, on talk of a deal in the works on the dreaded fiscal cliff. At least that was the perception -- that there was some major progress on the fiscal cliff issues -- which, on Wednesday, turned the market back up from better than a 100-point deficit in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the first hour of trading. At the close, the Dow was higher by more than 100 and the intraday move was 220. But in case you think that it was just about the news (which it never is), let's take a closer look.
In the abbreviated Friday session after Thanksgiving, the market exploded higher and left a bunch of unfilled gaps. Those gaps were downside targets for a pullback. Though I was remiss in not citing those gaps in Tuesday's column, I did show the gaps in my charts and said that I was looking for further weakness over the near term that I would use to add to my positions. The idea, as usual, is that downside gaps represent unfinished business for the market, and once the gaps are filled, it generally makes sense to buy for the next bounce.
So, most notably, there was a gap in the Russell 2000 from last Friday. That gap was 798.38-800.93. Wednesday's low, not coincidentally was just 0.13 above the bottom of that gap. The Russell 2000 bottomed at 798.51, just a sliver from filling that gap in its entirety, and that was that. Now, the Russell 2000 is working on another gap. That's the one from Nov. 7, the day after the election. That gap was originally 825.64 – 818.91. Now that the Russell 2000 has popped to 823.27, that gap has almost been filled. Once it's filled in its entirety, that might just be it for the near term. Note that today, the Russell 2000 has left another gap from Wednesday's close at 813.50. And while the Dow and S&P 500 have filled this morning's gaps, the Russell 2000 hasn't done so yet. That's a downside target for another pullback.
So there's that. In the S&P 500, there was no gap to be filled from last Friday, but there were some very visible gaps in the futures, specifically, the E-mini. Last Friday's gap was 5.5 points wide from 1388.25-1393.75. Wednesday's shakeout went well beyond that gap to the 1383.00 level of the futures. From there it was back up. Back up to where? Already back inside of the massive post-election-day gap from 1410.75 to 1425.25. More on that in a moment.
In the short-term futures chart, you can see the role that these gaps play on a very short-term basis. This morning's gap up opening was 1407.00-1413.00 then narrowed to 1407.00 – 1410.50. The futures were trading at the 1415.00 level when, at 11:39 a.m. EST, Speaker John Boehner suggested that all was not well with the anticipated compromise on Capitol Hill. In a matter of about four minutes, the futures collapsed to the low for the session, at exactly 1407.00, where buyers were waiting in the wings to scoop up contracts. Why? Because that's where the morning gap was. If the gap had been at 1402.00, that's where the selling would have ended. From there, it's been back up to 1417.25, a little over a point shy of the morning highs.
Bigger picture, the E-mini is also telling us something about where this move is likely headed. As suggested in Tuesday's column, the obvious target for this move (now that the 50% retracement level has been exceeded) is the gap from Nov. 7. In the futures, that means 1425.25. So far, the futures have come within 7 points.
The chart of the cash tells a similar story. But it doesn't show us all of the gaps. For example, there was no gap from last Friday. Though on the upside there is still that gap from Nov. 7 at 1428.39, which I continue to keep on my radar. Also noteworthy is that this morning there was a gap in the cash at 1409.93. That gap also was filled during that quick shakeout this morning. The low was 1409.04. What's interesting about that is that it's close to the 50% retracement level of the decline from the September peak to the recent fiscal-cliff, hand-wringing lows. That level, you'll recall, is 1408.93. It was resistance. Now it's support.
I used the pop this morning to cut back in some of my NDX positions at Rydex, selling them at the morning pricing of 2682. It's noteworthy that the Nasdaq-100, like Apple (AAPL), has now completely retraced its losses since the election. In this case, I am happy to grab some profits, figuring I may get another crack to buy this sector at lower levels in the days ahead.
The VIX hasn't collapsed below 15 yet, and at least that is a minor plus. However, the fact that it's hovering just above 15 doesn't thrill me.
Even less encouraging is that the McClellan Oscillator is already mildly overbought at the +122 level at Wednesday's close. A strong close today could put it back near +170 and that would be another warning sign.
Partially offsetting that increasingly overbought condition, however, is that seasonal patterns turn positive, beginning tomorrow and going into next week. I did some buying of the Dow on Wednesday when it was below 12,900. I have been taking profits in the Russell 2000 and Nasdaq-100 positions since then. Once again, I am invested up to a maximum of 50% levels and, right now, that suits me just fine.


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This week, 'Here and Now' becomes even more 'here,' for a longer 'now'
Here's a fact that many NewsWorks readers know, but some do not:
NewsWorks.org is part of WHYY, the Philadelphia region's public radio and television service for news coverage. And WHYY-FM has some significant and, we think, pretty promising changes coming to its daily program lineup. They should make midday on our air a newsier, more vibrant place.
And the news team that brings you NewsWorks and NewsWorks Tonight is going to play a big role in improving that midday programming.
Beginning today, July 1, the program Here and Now, out of WBUR in Boston, will expand from one hour to two - and start being an NPR co-production fueled by a national network of public radio reporters, including ours here at WHYY.
The program will air from 1 to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday on WHYY; we'll take only an hour of Here and Now on Friday, so that we can continue to bring you Science Friday at 2 p.m.
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Long-time Here and Now host Robin Young will be joined Monday by a new co-host, Jeremy Hobson, formerly of Marketplace Morning Report. (And, yes, since you asked, Robin does sometimes sound eerily like Terry Gross on the air.)
The catalyst for this revamped, expanded show was NPR's decision to cancel Talk of the Nation, which aired for the last time on Friday.
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'McKee also will head for free agency after turning down a multi-year offer from the Buffalo Sabres believed to be worth just slightly more than $2 million per season. "I'm very disappointed with Buffalo," McKee, 28, said in a phone interview. "I understand they might want to stay within a budget, but you also want to feel appreciated for all the years of service you put in there."'
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Ross solid but posts high pitch count vs. Cubs
LAS VEGAS -- Rangers starter Robbie Ross did not allow a run in his outing against the Cubs on Sunday. The problem was he only lasted three innings and 79 pitches, which earned him a jab from special pitching instructor Greg Maddux.
"Greg said I was going to throw a shutout with 260 pitches," Ross said.
The strange outing did nothing to clear up the mystery of the fifth-starter spot. Ross remains a candidate, and the three scoreless outings lowered his ERA to 3.07. But he still allowed four hits and three walks while striking out four and did not get through five innings. That was his target for the game.
"I'm happy I didn't give up any runs…but I didn't throw as many strikes as I wanted," Ross said. "I fell behind batters but at the same time I got ahead of hitters and started nit-picking. It was one of those days where I threw a lot of pitches."
The competition for the fifth-starter spot continues.
"He could have been a little more convenient with his pitches," manager Ron Washington said. "The first two innings he was, then he started to get the ball up. That's what caused his issues in the third inning. He got his pitch count up. He'll learn to be more efficient. I thought he had good live stuff. He just started elevating the ball."
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Postcards from Elysian Fields, and follow him on Twitter @Sullivan_Ranger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The 2013 American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) Annual Conference September 19-21 in Milwaukee, Wis., will offer beef and dairy veterinarians the latest tools and information to move their businesses forward while serving the livestock industry.
The theme, "Embracing Challenges – Creating Opportunities" will come to life with 22.5 hours of continuing education available for cow-calf, feedlot, stocker and dairy veterinarians. "Our idea is that we should not shudder at the idea of change and the challenges change brings, but instead look at the opportunities that change brings," says AABP President-Elect Dan Grooms, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVM. "This year's program is built around the theme of identifying new and exciting opportunities against a backdrop of industry changes and challenges."
The CE includes pre-conference seminars (some hands-on), lectures, small-group clinical and practice forums, practice tips and poster sessions by leading industry experts including researchers and fellow practitioners. Special sessions and activities for veterinary technicians and students will also be featured. The American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners will hold its annual conference in conjunction with the AABP conference.
AABP Vice President John Davidson, DVM, Dipl. ABVP, says demand for the 21 pre-conference seminars is the strongest in years. "The seminar line-up truly offers something for every practitioner and new seminar topics were added to help practitioners dealing with modern business challenges," Davidson says.
Some of those challenges include finding different practice models to keep practices thriving. "The veterinary profession serving this industry needs to remain diverse and versatile, and develop different ways to serve and receive payment for our work," adds AABP President Nigel Cook, MRCVS. "That discussion will be taken up at our annual meeting. We're excited to be meeting in Milwaukee in the heart of America's Dairyland to deliver the best CE for cattle veterinarians in North America."
One of the largest in years, the exhibit hall featuring 113 exhibitors and 159 booths will showcase the latest in equipment, animal health products and services for bovine practitioners. Entertainment will include nightly social events and the first 5K Stampede run along Lake Michigan. Popular events include the live and silent auctions benefitting the Amstutz Scholarship Fund named for the late Harold Amstutz, DVM, and the annual business lunch where prestigious awards are given to AABP members.
Pre-registration for the AABP Annual Conference Sept. 19-21 ends Aug. 19 – pre-conference seminars are filling up fast. Find out more about the 2013 AABP Annual Conference at AABP.org.


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NICK Morris is hoping a move down the Swindon Robins pecking order will give him a vital confidence boost going into the business end of the season.
The 20-year-old has spent the entirety of the 2014 season at heat leader which, under the new rules, involves a tougher schedule than in previous years and means he races against vastly more experienced riders in each of his four programmed heats.
However, a tough run of form and improvement from Simon Gustafsson has seen the Swede jump ahead of Morris in the averages, meaning the Aussie will now race against fast track reserves in two of his four outings.
While Morris is focused on a return to the top three as soon as possible, he's keen to make the most of what is hopefully a temporary switch.
"I think it will be good for my confidence because I've not been going too good lately, but I've made a few changes and I'm feeling better about things now," he said.
"It will be good to have things a bit easier, although it's not what I wanted, but for now it can help me get my confidence back and hopefully I will be a heat leader again soon.
"It will be alright if I can score some big points this month and then see where I am next month.
"I want to be beating the heat leaders but I can't be being beaten by the fast track riders."
Morris's first meeting in his new role comes against Poole this evening, with the Australian expecting a tough night at Wimborne Road.
"It's been a while since we raced for Swindon but it's good to be back and hopefully the weather's as good as it has been while we've not been racing," he said.
"Poole always have a strong team so it's going to be tough, but hopefully we can do our best and see what we can come back with."


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Cotton Jones might be anchored to the Eastern Seaboard, but the music the band makes takes the best things from the musical American past (hymn-like harmonies and an organ, '60s-era tambourines) and plants them in the now. Hints of urban electronic sneak into the soundscape of the seven-piece group from Cumberland, Md.
The band's 2011 EP, Sit Beside Your Vegetables, is an experiment in retro stylings — but the ching-a-ling tambourine and the wobbly organ strains on "Down Beside 'Em" are a reference. The project is fronted by Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw, with Nau's slack-mouthed lyrics mixing with McGraw's soft, girlish vocals. There's a pulse of something in the present in each of the tracks.
Cotton Jones was cut out for the indie folk genre, to be sure. But the folklore-ish lyrics keep the music from being a rehash of the I-want-to-teach-the-world-to-sing naivete that surfaced from the heftier stuff in the late 1960s. Cotton Jones is on about something. To give its music a bit more weight, there's a trace of soulful doo-wop and even a throwback to Led Zeppelin's "D'yer Mak'er" in Cotton Jones' "Egg on a Sea."
Details: The band stops in Denton on Saturday, sharing the bill with Treelines at Dan's Silverleaf, 103 Industrial St. The show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $7 in advance, $10 at the door.
Sounds like: the lost, slow-dance prom songs of the Everly Brothers. Or Bosque Brown's doe-eyed little sister.
For headier fare, get ready for Hailey's Club on Friday, when Psychedelephant plays.
The Fort Worth band crafts a nifty brew of jazzy, electronic music. Sometimes, the band lets the instruments say it all, which means a super-cool bass line grooves around a nice snare rhythm. Then, as on punny-named tracks like "Giraffter," a twangy guitar saunters in with just the coy, bluesy attitude it needs to get that mysterious stranger to dance.
Psychedelephant is too interesting to be ambient music, and a touch too mathematic to be pop. It's the kind of music to loosen up to — prepping the bar for that house party, or on the way to the club. Dub-ish rhythm doesn't detract from the syncopated guitar riffs, and that little kick of R&B doesn't make the whole affair self-indulgent. This outfit has a little something for the boyfriend who loves jazz — and his girlfriend who hates it.
Details: Psychedelephant shares Friday's bill with Eden's Moon and Cerebral Chauffeurs. Doors open at 9 p.m. Cover is $5 for ages 21 and older, $7 for those younger than 21. Hailey's is located at 122 W. Mulberry St.
Good for: nights when you're just cruising around, looking for a little trouble. Or as a soundtrack to dress by. Can't you just see yourself tucking that pocket square into your best jacket while "Rhinostril" is thumping away?
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Edmonds: "I've been expecting it." He was leaning toward retirement after this year. So the homer could have been it. #reds
If that is it, what a way to go out. Your last appearance ever and you hit a HR. I hope it's not as serious as he thinks and he can play again this season, but if this is it I hope he sticks around for the last couple weeks and the strech run. He didn't do much on the field in his time here, but it seems like some of the young guys on the team really gravitate towards him.


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How's this for a summary – a season-high 21 points on 8-for-12 shooting. Seven rebounds, a career-high six steals, three blocks and enough emotional energy to power a city. He was, in every way, the biggest catalyst in Sunday's nationally televised 75-70 victory over Michigan State that pushed Indiana into a Big Ten first-place tie with Michigan.
"He plays so hard," Spartans coach Tom Izzo said. "He's the Ray Lewis of college basketball."
Case in point – in the game's opening seconds, Oladipo stripped Branden Dawson of the ball and drove for a dunk against a team that had roared to the Big Ten forefront in part because it didn't turn the ball over. That set a tone that never wavered against Michigan State surges.
"My freshman year I wanted to, but I wasn't capable," Oladipo said of his do-everything prowess. "My sophomore year I started to. Now I've got to bring it every night, on both ends of the floor, so my team can win.
"I've got to do it every night."
In so many ways, Oladipo does. He's scored in double figures in 17 of his last 18 games, and the one game he didn't, at Northwestern, he totaled a game-high five assists against one turnover. He averages 13.9 points and 5.9 rebounds. He leads the Big Ten in shooting (66.0 percent) and would lead in three-point shooting (55.2 percent), but he hasn't shot enough to qualify.
Oladipo does this while guarding the conference's most formidable scorers. His 49 steals are nine more than anyone else in the Big Ten has, but Indiana coach Tom Crean goes beyond that to measure defensive activity.
"Victor did something in the first half I've never been a part of in coaching – he had 15 deflections in the first half," Crean said.
Oladipo finished with 22 deflections and enough harassment to make anyone dread facing him.
"He's a great example of why we always watch a lot of film, and he watches that much more," Crean said. "He's getting a knowledge base to go with his instinct, talent and athleticism. The more he does that, the better he's going to be.
"Guys like that learn your instincts can't get better without that knowledge. That's part of taking the next step."
Sunday's next step included disrupting Michigan State's offense enough to produce the fast-break opportunities IU seeks. It had 14 fast-break points, a big reason why it shot 60.7 percent from the field in the first half, 50.9 percent for the game. It forced 19 turnovers, nine more than the Spartans had averaged during their six-game winning streak.
"That was just being aggressive on defense," Oladipo said." Nobody has really pressured them on defense all year long. We did a good job of that."
Oladipo directed praise to freshman guard Yogi Ferrell, who shut down Michigan State point guard Keith Appling. The junior had three points, no assists and four turnovers before fouling out.
"Yogi set the tone on Appling," Oladipo said. "He kind of got him frustrated a little bit. We did a great job of that, especially at the end of games. We have to keep doing that."
Michigan State stayed in the game because of its surprising three-point shooting. It had a season-high 11 three-pointers – five by freshman Gary Harris – while going 11-for-23.
The biggest Spartan surprise was 6-10 center Adreian Payne. He went 3-for-4 from beyond the arc to equal the number of three-point baskets he'd made all season. He finished with 18 points and nine rebounds.
Harris, last year's Indiana Mr. Basketball, totaled 21 points.
IU won despite a second straight poor offensive showing by Zeller. The Hoosiers' leading scorer had nine points (seven below his average) on 2-for-7 shooting. In his last two games, he's totaled 11 points on 2-for-11 shooting. He did grab a combined 14 rebounds in those two games.
Still, he had a huge drive for a layup late in Sunday's game, then followed by drawing a charging foul on Payne to help IU hold on.
As a result, Indiana tied Michigan for the Big Ten lead with 6-1 records. The Hoosiers are 18-2 overall. Michigan State is 6-2 and 17-4.
"We need to get tougher mentally," Izzo said. "Down the stretch we were sucking air, and that caused us not to jam or step up or switch.
"Indiana's a good team. I still think, top to bottom, they're the best team because of depth."
The Hoosiers attacked from the opening tip to build leads as large as nine before Michigan State rallied. Payne's reverse dunk forged a 38-38 tie before Ferrell and Will Sheehey hit three-pointers to give IU a 44-38 halftime lead.
Harris hit a pair of early three-pointers to keep Michigan State within range early in the second half.
That's where it stayed. Oladipo and Harris traded big baskets and big plays. IU had the lead, but not control, even after Appling fouled out.
With less than 90 seconds remaining, Zeller got the ball outside and drove for a layup to put IU ahead 74-70. With 14.3 seconds left, Payne drove for a layup, but Zeller stepped in to take the charge, and wipe out the basket.
The Hoosiers would hold on, and no one doubted who got the bulk of the credit.
"Victor made a tremendous difference from the start of the game," Crean said.
"We ask him to do a lot and guard a lot of different people. If you're not smart, cerebral, athletic and quick with the hands, it won't matter. He's been very good. Friday was maybe as good a practice as he's had here, and he hasn't had many bad ones."
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Kidney Diseases
Large Stone Fragments Left After ESWL
I recently had laser litho for a stone lodged in the ureter. That proc. was successful. The Dr. thought it was also time to remove one very large stone in the rt kidney (19 mm) and 2 smaller but still large ones in the left kidney which had been tucked away in the calyxes for some time. He believed they may have been sporadically dislodged and been occasionally blocking urine output from time to time and now needed to come out. A week after the 1st procedure he did ESWL on the 3 large stones. I passed large and small fragments for days afterward(about 70 fragments - ca oxalate - mono). I felt relieved that the stones were all gone and we were going to do a new metabolic work-up (old work-up done 7 yrs ago) to see if we could get to the bottom of this 10 yr problem w/stone formation. Went back last wk for one month follow-up, and he did ultra-sound and to my amazement and tremendous frustration, there was still a 12 mm fragment in the right kidney and a 6 mm and 5 mm fragment in the left kidney. I`m told to get the metabolic work-up and we`ll see what the results are and since the fragments are in the lower pole and more apt to stay stable there -- to come back in a year unless a problem pops up. My question: is there some reason that ESWL procedure wasn`t continued/extended on the broken-up large fragments at the time of the ESWL procedure for these large stones so they could be broken up further in order to pass them (i.e., why were they left in when ESWL was at the doc`s disposal to break them up further so they would indeed pass). Thanks a ton for your insights and possibly some questions I should ask next visit. --- signed "Totally Frustrated" ---
The issue regarding choice of therapy for kidney stones and the indications for intervention vs surveillance are complicated. I am biased with regard to treatment of large stones in the kidneys (but not biased by financial considerations that may impact judgement when the physician is an owner of the ESWL machine). That being said, I will discuss your case specifically:
Large stones in the kidney are most likely cleared completely (85%) in one treatment when percutaneous nephrostolithotomy (PCNL) is performed. This is an invasive procedure putting scope directly into the kidney. ESWL success rate decreases with increasing stone volume and with lower pole stones. The number of shocks delivered is ESWL machine dependent but, on average 2500-3000 shocks are the limit per treatment. Repeat ESWL can be done, but with lower pole stones the clearance rate is 50%. Ureteroscopy can be done for kidney stones but the success rate again is 50% for lower pole stones. Ureteroscopy is best for ureteral stones.
In your current situation, as you point out, the remaining stones may never become symptomatic and surveillance may be a reasonable choice. Movement of stones from the lower pole on plain abdominal film could be used as a guide to proceed with treatment.
Ultrasound is not specific in my experience- can detect stones but could not be relied upon to measure number or volume- either CT scan or abdominal film would be better (KUB film = kidney/ureter/bladder). Hope this is helpful.
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LOS ANGELES — The NBA canceled a hearing to oust Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Donald Sterling, instead moving forward to vote on a record-breaking deal negotiated by his wife to sell the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion.
The league announced the move Friday, the same day Sterling's attorneys filed suit in a Los Angeles federal court against the NBA and Commissioner Adam Silver asking for damages in excess of $1 billion.
Sterling opposes the sale, but Shelly Sterling was able to negotiate with Ballmer because her estranged husband was stripped of his ability to act as a co-trustee of the family's assets after two neurologists determined he was suffering from dementia, according to a person close to the Sterling family.
The individual, who is familiar with the trust and the medical evaluations but wasn't authorized to speak publicly, said Sterling was deemed "mentally incapacitated" according to the trust's conditions because he showed "an inability to conduct business affairs in a reasonable and normal manner."
But the lawsuit identifies Donald Sterling as a co-trustee, and one of his lawyers, Bobby Samini, said "the assertion that Donald Sterling lacks mental capacity is absurd."
The suit alleges that the NBA violated Sterling's constitutional rights by relying on information from an "illegal" recording that publicized racist remarks he made to a girlfriend. It also says the league committed a breach of contract by fining Sterling $2.5 million and that it violated antitrust laws by forcing a sale.
Shelly Sterling said that she had agreed to sell the team to Ballmer "under her authority as the sole trustee of The Sterling Family Trust, which owns the Clippers."
Sterling can try to reinstate his trusteeship by appealing to the California Probate Court.
The NBA said Friday that the league, Shelly Sterling and The Sterling Family Trust had "resolved their dispute over the ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers."
"Under the agreement, the Clippers will be sold to Steve Ballmer, pending approval by the NBA Board of Governors, and the NBA will withdraw its pending charge to terminate the Sterlings' ownership of the team," it said.
The league said that Shelly Sterling and The Sterling Family Trust also "agreed not to sue the NBA and to indemnify the NBA against lawsuits from others, including Donald Sterling."
That means whatever monetary damages Donald Sterling may receive under the suit — filed by his attorney Maxwell Blecher on behalf of Sterling and The Sterling Family Trust — might go out one pocket and back in the other unless he is reinstated as a trustee and can nullify the agreement.
The medical evaluation was made earlier this month when Donald Sterling made voluntary visits to two neurologists who conducted tests, including brain scans, the individual said. Though Donald Sterling is no longer a co-trustee of The Sterling Family Trust, he still retains his 50 percent ownership and still receives proceeds from the sale, the individual said.
Despite a deal that would make him even more wealthy, Sterling — who paid just $12 million for the Clippers in 1981 — is still fighting. His lawsuit seeks the elimination of his lifetime ban from the NBA and the reinstatement of former Clippers CEO Andy Roeser.
"Mr. Sterling's lawsuit is predictable but entirely baseless," NBA general counsel Rick Buchanan said.
The ownership hearing had been scheduled for next Tuesday after the NBA charged Sterling with damaging the league with his racist comments. A three-quarters vote of owners to support the charge would have terminated the Sterlings' ownership, and the league would have sold the team.
Ballmer said in a statement that he is honored to have his name submitted to the NBA for approval. The price has blown past previous offers for an NBA team.
Ballmer promised Friday he would keep the Clippers in L.A., gushed about the city where he said he will now spend considerable time and suggested he would pay what it takes to land top free agents. He said he is confident he can make money, despite paying more than experts said the franchise was worth.
He defended the $2 billion price tag, which was nearly four times more than the previous record sale of an NBA club. He said that he paid for what the team can become in the future.
"I've got big dreams for the team. I'd love to win a championship. I'd love the Clippers to be the most dynamic, vibrant team and name in professional sports. But I got a lot to learn," he said.
The Associated Press' Brian Mahoney and Tim Reynolds and the Los Angeles Times contributed to this report.
Suing NBA, Adam Silver for more than $1 billion.
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Anthony Sullivan said his mother likes to joke about how he'll give you the shirt off his back -- because he actually did that once. Sullivan and a co-worker were in Vallejo on Wednesday, giving away clothes and other items to the needy.
"Once, when I was a kid, we were in the car, and I saw this scraggly guy on the street, with all kinds of wild hair, and no shirt, and I jumped out of the car, with my Mom yelling at me, and gave him my shirt," said Sullivan, 20, a St. Helena resident. "My mother cried."
For several weeks, he and Mayra Santoyo, 17, who works with Sullivan at St. Helena's Sunshine Foods, and several other volunteers, have been collecting items to give away, Sullivan said. The group he formed, Positive Dominos, held one prior giveaway, in Napa. They hope to make it a regular thing, and to eventually get to nearly every Bay Area city. Sullivan said he's applied for nonprofit status, but it hasn't come through yet.
"We're trying to create a domino effect throughout the Bay Area," the father of a 2-year-old son said. "Our mission is to create a nonprofit to offer comfort and support to those in need and to inspire others to stand up and make a difference in their own communities; to bring a new, positive vibe to the world."
It's something, he said, he has always wanted to do.
"There are so many homeless people in the streets, so much darkness in the world," he said. "If I can give people a little light in their day, that's awesome."
At least one "customer" seemed to pick up a ray or two Wednesday along with a couple of shirts.
Rafael Torres, 45, said he's been homeless in Vallejo for about two months, and that he's been living for about a month at the Christian Help Center.
"I got divorced and got sad, and started doing drugs and lost everything," Torres said.
The former Marin County resident who is "restarting" his life, said he's impressed with Sullivan's efforts.
"I admire this guy; he's a real role model for the community," Torres said. "You don't see that many people his age doing stuff like this."
Sullivan said he'll pick up donations. Anyone interested in donating clothes, toiletries or canned food to Positive Dominos, can find them on Facebook or call 666-1998.
Along similar lines, a group of five women called From the Heart, founded by Dee Dee Dunson, plans to give away clothes in children's to adult sizes, along with coats, shoes and purses, at the Vallejo waterfront at 1 p.m. Saturday. To donate to that organization, call 552-7599.
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HCRN Core Data Project: Characterizing Patient Populations in the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network (HCRN)
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified November 2016 by richard holubkov, University of Utah
University of Utah
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
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First received: April 30, 2008
Last updated: November 18, 2016
Last verified: November 2016
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The Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network (HCRN) has been established by philanthropic funding to conduct multi-institutional research (clinical trials and observational studies) on pediatric hydrocephalus. In addition to philanthropic funding, the HCRN has also received an NIH NINDS Challenge Grant to support the network infrastructure which allows for the conduct of this and other network studies. The HCRN consists of multiple Clinical Centers and the Data Coordinating Center (DCC). The HCRN Core Data Project will obtain data about all neurosurgical hydrocephalus events from the network Clinical Centers, and create a database to be used by HCRN investigators. The ongoing maintenance of the Core Data Project serves two main purposes: 1) it will help investigators understand the variability, progression, and current treatment practices for hydrocephalus in children, with an ultimate goal of better guiding and assessing therapeutic intervention and providing recommendations on patient care and, 2) it will provide pilot and descriptive data necessary for hypothesis generation and study design (i.e. preliminary power analyses, recruitment projections) for studies under development by the HCRN. This multi-institutional database will be maintained throughout the lifetime of the HCRN, and may be useful for tracking trends in pediatric hydrocephalus over time. The Core Data Project will be an invaluable resource to the HCRN and will help stimulate new research protocols, identify potential need for future expansion of the network to incorporate additional patient populations, and provide a descriptive understanding of children with hydrocephalus cared for within the network.
|Pediatric Hydrocephalus
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|HCRN Core Data Project: Characterizing Patient Populations in the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network (HCRN)
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MedlinePlus related topics: HydrocephalusU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by richard holubkov, University of Utah:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- To describe the number and characteristics of neurosurgical hydrocephalus patient events to HCRN Clinical Centers such as patient demographics, etiology of hydrocephalus, diagnostic information, as well as surgical and medical management decisions. [ Time Frame: 5+ years ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- To provide this data to HCRN investigators to support hypothesis generation and study design development for clinical trials and observational studies to be carried out by the HCRN. [ Time Frame: 5+ years ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|April 2008
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2020
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2020 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 18 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Pediatric Hydrocephalus patients.
Inclusion Criteria:
Information for all neurosurgical hydrocephalus patient events will be obtained from each HCRN Clinical Center and will be placed continuously into the Core Data Project. The first calendar year will be 2008, and data collection will continue for the duration of the existence of the HCRN. Neurosurgical hydrocephalus patient events include any operation for the treatment of documented hydrocephalus including the following:
- Ventriculoperitoneal shunt
- Ventriculoatrial shunt
- Ventriculopleural shunt
- Arachnoid cyst shunts
- Subdural shunts
- Lumboperitoneal shunts
- Shunts replaced after treatment of infection
- Shunts exposed during an operations but not revised
- Endoscopic third ventriculostomies
- Ommaya reservoir(s)
- Ventricular access devices/reservoirs
- Subgaleal shunts.
Exclusion Criteria:
The following temporary CSF diversion procedures will not be included in the Core Date Project:
• External ventricular drain(s)
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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: NCT00670735
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00670735
|Contact: Marcie Langley
|United States, Alabama
|Children's Hospital of Alabama, University of Alabama
|Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35233
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|Principal Investigator: Curtis J Rozzelle, MD
|United States, California
|Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90027
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|Principal Investigator: Mark Krieger, MD
|United States, Colorado
|Children's Hospital Colorado
|Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045
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|Principal Investigator: Todd Hankinson, MD
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|Johns Hopkins Children's Center
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|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287
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|Principal Investigator: Edward Ahn, MD
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|St. Louis Children's Hospital
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|Nationwide Children's Hospital
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|Principal Investigator: Jonathan Pindrik, MD
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15224
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|Principal Investigator: Mandeep S Tamber, MD, PhD
|United States, Tennessee
|Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232
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|Texas Children's Hospital
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|Principal Investigator: William Whitehead, MD
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|Primary Children's Hospital
|Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84118
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|Principal Investigator: John Kestle, MD
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|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98105
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|Principal Investigator: Samuel R Browd, MD, PhD
|Principal Investigator: Tamara D Simon, MD, MSPH
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|Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T3B 6A8
|Contact: Salim Ahmed, MSc 403-955-5738 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Jay Riva-Cambrin, MD
|Canada, British Columbia
|British Columbia Children's Hospital
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Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Utah
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
|Study Chair:
|Jay Riva-Cambrin, MD
|Alberta Children's Hospital
|Principal Investigator:
|Abhaya Kulkarni, MD, PhD
|Sick Children's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario
|Principal Investigator:
|Tamara D Simon, MD, MSPH
|University of Washington / Seattle Children's Hospital
|Principal Investigator:
|Richard Holubkov, Ph.D.
|University of Utah
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Additional Information:
Keywords provided by richard holubkov, University of Utah:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|richard holubkov, Ph.D., University of Utah
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00670735 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
HCRN 001 ( Other Identifier: HCRN Protocol Number )
1RC1NS068943-01 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|April 30, 2008
|Last Updated:
|November 18, 2016
Keywords provided by richard holubkov, University of Utah:
Pediatric Hydrocephalus
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
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Fairmont Dallas is ideally located in the heart of the downtown Dallas Arts District, surrounded by a wide array of fine dining restaurants, shopping, arts and entertainment. Combining hospitality and elegance with that special Texas flair, the newly-renovated luxury hotel is located a few blocks from the Central Business District and the Financial District, less than one mile from Victory Park (home of the American Airlines Center) and the West End Historic District, known for its shopping and lively restaurants, including Dallas steakhouses.Fairmont Dallas is located near Uptown and West Village, offering trendy upscale boutiques, art galleries, inviting eateries, truly exciting nightlife and other Dallas evening activities.
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We can accommodate your lodging needs for business or leisure, grand events, weddings, conferences, or intimate meetings.Treat yourself to four-star fresh market fine dining at the sleek, contemporary Pyramid Restaurant & Bar or enjoy a delicious beverage and pastry at our conveniently located lobby-level Starbucks. Experience distinguished service and 545 newly redesigned guest room accommodations, which include iHome iPod docking stations in deluxe rooms and suites.Immerse yourself in Fairmont Gold, an exclusive lifestyle hotel experience including private check-in, Bose music systems in the guestrooms and all the comforts of home and more.Nothing compares to Fairmont Dallas. After all, we've been Turning Moments into Memories for our Guests since 1969.