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Make your own stamp
Making your own unique stamps is fun and inexpensive. It's a great way for kids to 'put a stamp' on cards, wrapping paper and artwork. Ask them to create a stamp, but make sure you do the carving!
Number of players:
What you need:
- Ezy Carve Printing Block (available at art stores) or a rubber
- lino carving tools; you need a V shape and a U shape
- craft blade or scalpel
- protective cutting mat or thick piece of cardboard to protect your table
- pen or pencil
- stamp pad in any colour
Step 1. Gather all you need to make your personalised stamp.
Step 2. Ask your child what they want on their stamp. Draw your design directly onto the block or rubber. Remember it will print as a mirror image!
Step 3. Using a craft blade, cut out the section that will become your stamp, leaving about 5mm around the design. Make sure any 'helpers' keep well away from this step.
Step 4. Now you're ready to do some carving, so make sure you have your cutting mat or thick cardboard underneath.
Step 5. With the V-shaped tool, carefully start carving away the part of the block you don't want to print. Always point the tool away from your hands.
Step 6. Your personalised stamp should now be the raised bit.
Step 7. Since we are making a mushroom stamp with a bit of detail, we're now going to use the U-shaped tool to outline the circular shape.
Step 8. Now use the blade to carefully carve out the circles. Voila! Get stamping.
NOTE: Start off with an easy design, like our mushroom, to build up your skills and confidence.
This craft was created by Cintia, who blogs at my poppet.
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The Alumni Leaders' Symposium is an opportunity to learn from UB alumni who have achieved professional success in areas of individual, team, and community leadership. These leaders will share their best practices, and help students expand their professional network. This event is free of charge and lunch will be served.
This year's symposium is titled, "Leading with Courage in a Changing World."
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Home Telemonitoring for Patients With Lung Cancer (HTPLC)
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified August 2012 by Georgia L. Narsavage, PhD, RN, West Virginia University.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
West Virginia University
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Georgia L. Narsavage, PhD, RN, West Virginia University
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: August 9, 2012
Last updated: August 21, 2012
Last verified: August 2012
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Detailed Description:
The purpose of this study is to learn more about using a home machine "Telemonitor" to find problems people with lung cancer may have after being discharged from the hospital and help them manage problems by contacting their healthcare provider.The study hypothesis is that patients with lung CA using short-term (14 days)home telemonitors, educated/coached by nurses on telemonitor data risks/implications for the first two weeks after hospital discharge, will be able to self-report their signs/ symptoms to the clinician resulting in decreased use of costly health care resources over 60 days.
|Lung Cancer
|Device: HomMed Telemonitor
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
|Official Title:
|PILOT: Home Telemonitoring for Self-Management Education of Patients With Lung Ca
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: lung cancer
MedlinePlus related topics: Lung CancerU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Georgia L. Narsavage, PhD, RN, West Virginia University:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Changes in telemonitor data from baseline to Time 3 [ Time Frame: 14 days ]Changes in temperature, pulse rate, blood pressure, SpO2 and weight are measured by telemonitor daily over 14 days after hospital discharge
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Changes in telemonitor symptoms recorded from baseline to Time 3: dyspnea [ Time Frame: 14 days ]Symptom data requiring yes-no answers to whether the symptom is worse today than yesterday : dyspnea are collected daily via telemonitor for 14 days.
- Changes in telemonitor symptoms recorded from baseline to Time 3:functioning [ Time Frame: 14 days ]Symptom data requiring yes-no answers to whether the symptom is worse today than yesterday : general functioning activities, are collected daily via telemonitor for 14 days.
- Changes in telemonitor symptoms recorded from baseline to Time 3: pain [ Time Frame: 14 days ]Symptom data requiring yes-no answers to whether the symptom is worse today than yesterday : pain are collected daily via telemonitor for 14 days.
Other Outcome Measures:
- Changes in function and satisfaction from baseline to Time 5 [ Time Frame: 2 weeks, 1 month, 2 months ]Measures of functional status (PFSS-11), Quality of Life (QOL-5), and patient/family satisfaction (In-study form) are measured at baseline on hospital discharge, at 14 days, at one month and at two months.
- Changes in nurse/physician contact, treatment changes, healthcare resource use [ Time Frame: 2 months ]Numbers of nurse/physician contact, treatment changes, and non-scheduled healthcare visits from study entry to 2 month end-point are described
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|June 2010
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|May 2013
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Telemonitor
In addition to routine care, the "HomMed Telemonitor" wireless telemonitoring system (intervention)will be used in the patient's home for 14 days to alert the clinical research nurse to changes in patients conditions in order to contact them to teach self-management. The Honeywell HomMed Genesis™ DM Remote Patient Care Monitor will be used to measure temperature, pulse, oxygen level,weight and blood pressure. The telemonitor will also ask for a YES or NO response to questions on symptoms such as difficulty breathing. Research nurses review the data daily and call the participant for 2 weeks, and continue to monitor outcomes for 2 months.
Device: HomMed Telemonitor
A "HomMed Telemonitor" wireless telemonitoring system collects data on a daily basis, including heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen level, body temperature, weight, responses to 9 pre-programmed questions (including difficulty breathing, fatigue, limited activities, difficulty taking meds, pain). Telemonitored results are transmitted to the research office for analysis and contact to patient by clinical research nurses.
Other Names:
No Intervention: Routine care for patients with lungCa
Traditional physician ordered post-hospital care for patients with lung CA in rural WV requires patients to make an outpatient office/ clinic visit two to three weeks after discharge;a few patients receive homecare service referrals. No attempt to change care - just monitor what is used and collect study data at Discharge, 2 weeks, one month and two months.
Detailed Description:
All patients in the study will receive usual care after hospital discharge. This study also involves an interview and review of your medical records, and uses the "telemonitor" machine to measure your temperature, pulse, oxygen level,weight and blood pressure. The telemonitor will also ask you to press YES or NO buttons in response to questions on your symptoms such as difficulty breathing. Research nurses will come to your home 3 times and it will take about 30 minutes for each visit for the nurse to record the information using the telemonitor. You will also be asked to fill out a survey about your ability to do activities and your health status. This will take approximately another 30 minutes. You may or may not receive the small telemonitor (about as big as a large book) for 14 days after discharge to provide additional information to the researchers. If you receive the monitor for the full 14 days, you or someone you ask us to train will be taught to use the monitor every morning to collect information on how you will "talk" to you to tell you to put a blood pressure cuff on your arm and an oxygen measurer on your finger. You will step on a scale to take your weight and you will use a forehead sensor to take your temperature. The blood pressure, weight, temperature, your pulse, and your oxygen level will be recorded by the monitor. It will then ask you at least 10 questions and you will push a yes or no button indicating how much difficulty you are having with your daily activities and shortness of breath. The monitor will then connect to your telephone line using a no-charge "800" number and transmit the information to the researchers. If you do not have a phone, a special antenna will be connected to the monitor to transmit the information wirelessly. The nurse will call you every day for the 14 days when you have the monitor. If you do not receive the monitor for the full 14 days, you will still have the monitor used by the nurse when you are visited at least 3 times at home to gather information on how you are doing after hospital discharge. These home monitor visits will be within 2 days after discharge, 2 weeks after discharge, and 2 months after discharge. The main difference is that the monitor will not be left in your home but will be brought by the nurse on each visit. You will also receive a phone call to ask you questions about the study at 1 month after discharge. If you do not have a phone, you will receive another home visit. Whether or not you get the monitor for the full 14 days will be determined randomly by computer before the nurse visits you at home the first time. are doing. The monitor will turn on each day at the same time; the monitor
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|45 Years to 90 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
(1) patients admitted to the hospital for lung CA as a primary or secondary diagnosis; (2) at least 45 years of age and up to 90 years old; (3) stable mental status and ability to speak (but not necessarily read) the primary language of the region (English).
Exclusion Criteria:
- are not discharged to home settings
- are discharged to hospice
- display a verbalized inability to understand or answer the questionnaires, (4) are disqualified at the discretion of the treating physician, and/or (4) live beyond a 75 mile radius of the hospital.
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: NCT01670539
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01670539
|Contact: Chuck Coole, BA
|Contact: Trisha Petitte, MSN
|United States, West Virginia
|WVU Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center and Ruby Hospital
|Morgantown, West Virginia, United States, 26506
|Contact: Georgia L Narsavage, PhD, RN 304-293-6521 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Georgia L Narsavage, PhD, RN
|Principal Investigator: Yea-Jyh (Kathy) Chen, PhD, RN
Sponsors and Collaborators
West Virginia University
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|Principal Investigator:
|Georgia L Narsavage, PhD, MSN
|West Virginia University
More Information
Keywords provided by Georgia L. Narsavage, PhD, RN, West Virginia University:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Chen YJ, Narsavage GL, Culp SL, Weaver TE. The development and psychometric analysis of the short-form Pulmonary Functional Status Scale (PFSS-11). Res Nurs Health. 2010 Dec;33(6):477-85. doi: 10.1002/nur.20403. Epub 2010 Oct 18.
Narsavage G, Romeo E. Education and support needs of younger and older cancer survivors. Appl Nurs Res. 2003 May;16(2):103-9.
|Responsible Party:
|Georgia L. Narsavage, PhD, RN, Professor, West Virginia University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01670539 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
1R15CA150999 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|August 9, 2012
|Last Updated:
|August 21, 2012
Keywords provided by Georgia L. Narsavage, PhD, RN, West Virginia University:
Lung Cancer
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lung Neoplasms
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms
Thoracic Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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There are a few ways to very easily get sidechaining going in Ableton Live. Sidechaining triggers a compressor on the master bus or channel using a kick from a different channel. This causes a pumping effect ala Daft Punk. Used subtlety it can make sure the sharp transients of you kick always sit above the mix by itself. Live's built in Compressor has sidechaining and you can also simulate the effect using Autopan. The Point Blank Music School has a nice free Max For Live drag and drop device available to download: click here. If you have Max For Live why not grab it? Take a look at the video above for the demo.
"Point Blank instructor and course developer Daniel Herbert has created this Max For Live custom auto sidechain plugin for use in Ableton Live. Watch the video to see how it works, what makes it unique and and how to set it up." – pointblankonline
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A. It is an honor to be asked to be in someone's wedding, and there are responsibilities that each member plays in all of the festivities. Here are some hints that define the role of the wedding party participants and help the wedding ceremony itself go smoothly.
Be sure each member of the wedding party has an agenda of events that will take place during the wedding weekend.
For instance:
•Time and place of the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner.
•The time they are expected to arrive at the church or wedding location.
•When and where photos will be taken.
•Who is expected to be in photos.
•Where the receiving line will take place — after the wedding or at the reception.
•Mode of transportation to the reception.
•Know where and when all will be dressing. The bride and her attendants often dress at the wedding venue.
•The groom, groomsmen and ushers usually arrive at the church dressed in wedding attire.
•Be sure all wedding participants have tried on their wedding attire well in advance of the wedding. This ensures that everything has been included with the tuxedos and that the clothing fits.
•Having an emergency kit ready that can take care of any unexpected problems is helpful (suggested contents below).
•Be sure to eat a little something before the ceremony to avoid fainting at the altar.
Ushers' duties:
•Should be at the church an hour before the ceremony or earlier if photos will be taken before the ceremony.
•Escort female guests to their seats and oversee the seating of all guests.
•Should know where special members of the families will be seated.
Best man and maid of honor duties:
•The best man and maid of honor should attend to the needs of the bride and groom on the day of the wedding and the days leading up to it.
•They are the official witnesses and sign the marriage certificate.
•They are expected to offer a toast (one that is appropriate for everyone to hear) at the wedding.
•Transport the couple to the place they will be staying the night of the wedding.
•Help with details the day after the wedding.
Protocol for seating:
•The usher greets the guest, asks the name of the guest, if there is special seating, and checks a list to see whether the guest is being seated in a special place.
•Offer your inside arm to the woman. Bend your arm at the elbow so she can slip her arm through yours just above the elbow. Be sure your arm does not feel limp. The man and children arriving with a woman follow behind.
•If several women arrive at once, offer your arm to the senior guest. The other women can wait for ushers to come back and seat them, or they can walk down themselves.
•Know how many front pews are to be reserved for family. Traditionally, the bride's family sits on the left and the groom's family on the right.
•After the family pews, the seating is on a first-come basis.
•Ask whether the guest is a friend of the bride or the groom and seat accordingly. If the guests are weighted more to one side than the other, try to balance out each side.
Seating the mothers:
•The mother of the groom is seated first, about five minutes before the ceremony, in the front right pew. Her family follows behind. (It is not uncommon these days for the groom to seat his mother.)
•The mother of the bride is escorted to her seat in the front pew on the left.
•Grandparents are seated in the same order, just before the mothers.
•The clergy, the groom and the best man come from the side of church. They move toward the altar and face the back of church. The groomsmen usually come down the aisle first and join the groom.
•Bridesmaids come down the aisle next, and then the maid of honor followed by the flower girl, ring bearer and junior bridesmaids, etc., if any — just before the bride.
Other hints:
•Be sure to smile.
•Walk slowly and naturally down the aisle with about four paces between each attendant.
•Don't do the hesitation step; it is outdated.
•Avoid chewing gum — it is undignified.
Emergency kit contents:
•Needle and thread, buttons.
•Deodorant, basic cosmetics, hair spray.
•Analgesics, spirits of ammonia.
•Mints, snacks, water.
•Sandpaper to rough up the bottom of new shoes. Masking tape can work too.
•Hem tape.
I have listed the more traditional protocol. However, this protocol may vary depending on the church and personal preferences.
It is helpful to have someone remind all guests to silence their cellphones during the ceremony.
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It seems fitting that to debut the new FamilyStyle Food, I offer you one of our favorite family recipes.
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'On defenseman Jordan Leopold's broken left thumb, Ruff claimed he didn't know whether Leopold could play against Philadelphia. Leopold has missed eight games. Defenseman Andrej Sekera didn't practice Monday because of an upper-body injury, but he worked out on his own and might be able to skate Tuesday. Ruff said forward Jochen Hecht was "not close" to returning to the ice because of an upper-body injury that kept him out of the final six games and 15 of his past 19. Hecht is holding out hope he can return before the end of the series. Ruff noted forward Mike Grier should be OK for the start of the series, but Grier has missed the past seven games with a lower-body injury.'
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SoundCloud has finally upgraded it's platform to include Advanced Search. This was a desperately needed feature and is the cherry on top of the current best place to share music for musicians. In the past I had issues even finding my own uploaded tracks. You can now also get detailed genre, tag, label and track type searches. I can finally troll through "synthpunk" or "EBM" tagged tracks. There were Groups before but honestly people put their music in every group so it's played more. I know they can do the same with Tags but it's less an issue for some reason.
The Berlin company also have upped their integration with Creative Commons. They have added a special start page if your searching for CC licensed material: soundcloud.com/creativecommons and the SoundCloud Player now shows a CC symbol if the material is licensed. So now I can search my own username and find everything I released under a CC License: http://bit.ly/b3wE7i
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The Basyes were originally French Huguenots, as the Protestants were known in France during the Reformation, and in the religious struggles in France in the 16th and 17th centuries. Many of these Protestants were executed or banished after having their property confiscated by fanatical Catholics. Many fled to Germany, Holland, Switzerland, England, and America between 1538 and 1789.
Walter Noah Basye was born around the year 1615, somewhere in England. Sometime around the year 1644, he married Susannah McFarland who was born around 1625, also in England. Together, they had a son named Edmond Basye in the year 1645. Edmond moved from England to Virginia, where he made out his will October 2, 1714, added a codicil on January 28, 1724, and it was probated on March 19, 1724.
Edmond Basye is first evident in documentation in Virginia on November 20, 1669 when he signed a deed as a witness. Edmond was an attorney by profession, and owned a considerable amount of land in Northumberland County, Virginia, numbering in the thousands of acres. It is probable that his wife, Eliza Taylor, died prior to 1714, as she is not named in his will. They had nine children, and were wealthy plantation-owners, raising tobacco and other crops common to the area. Edmond was a sailor in his youth, practiced hunting and fishing, and was a well-educated "country gentleman" of the day, as is surmised by the list of items named in his will. It would appear that Edmond also had a sister Adrienne Basye, who settled in Hartford, Connecticut and later was wed to John, Lord of Hartford.
Other Basyes settled early in the colonies, but their possible relationship to our family cannot be established. One John Basye settled in Hartford, Connecticut, prior to 1640. He was a weaver, and his house was located on the south side of the road from the mill to the south meadow, which is now Elm Street. He held a number of local public offices (Surveyor of Highways, 1652; Constable, 1656; and Townsman, 1669). He came from Wethersfield Parish, Essex, England. Other Basyes of the same period settled in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Edmond and his two brothers, John and Elizamond, came to Maryland in 1670. In 1673, he married Elizabeth "Eliza" Taylor. She was the daughter of John Taylor and Alice Gascoigne. Alice Gascoigne's lineage traces back to King Henry I of England, William the Conqueror, King of Normandy, Charlemagne and numerous other members of royal families from England, France, and Scandinavia (Skjald, King of the Danes).
Edmond and John were attorneys and overseers of roads in two Virginia counties. Elizamond, the third brother, returned to England and joined the crew of a pirate named "Dampier". They traveled to the present-day Philippine Islands, where he was abandoned by Dampier, along with the rest of the crew. He ran away with the daughter of a Malayan prince to the island of Samar, and settled there at the southern tip of the island. Today, there is a town at that location named Basey.
Edmond was a captain of soldiers who fought Indians prior to the American Revolution.
Much of this information taken from "The Basye Family in the United States", compiled and written by Otto Basye.
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BOZEMAN--Brent Peyton has been named the new director of Montana State University's Thermal Biology Institute. Peyton was TBI's associate director for the past five years.
Peyton is a professor in MSU's Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Center for Biofilm Engineering. He conducts fundamental and applied research in the areas of biofuels, extremophiles and in situ biocatalyzed heavy metal transformations.
As TBI director, Peyton will oversee one of the university's premiere interdisciplinary research groups. Since 1999, TBI scientists and students have conducted research, education and outreach centered on the thermal features of Yellowstone National Park and have developed an international reputation for moving new science from discovery to application in the areas of bioremediation, alternative energy and medicine, among other industries. One of the institute's recent accomplishments was the hosting of the international Thermophiles Conference, which was held in Big Sky in September 2011.
Peyton said that he has benefited greatly from his affiliation with TBI and is excited to give back to the university community.
"My new role will allow me to accelerate the TBI momentum into new projects in research, education and outreach," Peyton said. "My goals include leveraging MSU's talent and state-of-the-art research facilities to put TBI researchers at the forefront of thermal biology and to help expand national and international collaborations in the area of thermal biology."
Peyton said he also plans to build and strengthen collaborative relationships within and beyond MSU, and to continue building the culture of outreach and education that has defined TBI's long-term success.
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WILTSHIRE Police are appealing for witnesses following an alleged vehicle break in and assault.
The incident took place on Gooch Street, Swindon, at approximately 8.30pm on December 27.
It is alleged that a male was seen breaking into a Lexus vehicle parked on Gooch Street. This male is described as white, of a stocky build, wearing grey tracksuit bottoms and matching top with a black puffa style jacket over the top.
This male was then chased down the road towards the junction with County Road and Station Road close to the Swindon Car and Van Centre. It is alleged the male was then assaulted by another man.
Wiltshire Police are appealing to anyone who was in this area of Swindon at this time and may have witnessed the incident. In particular, officers would like to speak to a woman in a grey taxi which pulled up during the alleged assault.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Wiltshire Police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 where information can be left anonymously.


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Republic of Ireland striker Simon Cox has warned Germany not to expect a repeat of their World Cup thrashing when the sides meet again next year.
Joachim Low's men left Giovanni Trapattoni clinging desperately to his post last month when they flew out of Dublin having trounced Ireland 6-1 to spark a national debate.
But four days later and hours after Ireland had bounced back with a 4-1 victory over the Faroe Islands, the Germans surrendered a 4-0 lead over Sweden to draw 4-4 in Berlin to throw the race for World Cup qualification wide open once again.
Trapattoni and his players will travel to Germany in October 2013 for what will be their penultimate Group C fixture, but they will do so with the Nottingham Forest striker insisting they can match Sweden's achievement.
Speaking ahead of tonight's friendly against Greece, Cox said: "Listen, if they (Sweden) can go there and score four, I don't see why we can't.
"We are a very good team away from home as well, so if we took that approach into that game, then...
"You never know, you might get picked off and get another defeat, but at the end of the day, if you go and have a go, you never know what can happen, do you?"
"No-one really gave us the big plaudits that we deserved for the Faroes result" - Simon Cox
That horrific evening at the Aviva Stadium will live long in the memory for those who witnessed it, and certainly those fans who turn up for tonight's friendly at Greece, the first home game since the debacle.
However, while Cox admits it was a black night, he believes the response in Torshavn started the recovery process, but went unnoticed to a certain extent.
He said: "The Germany defeat was highlighted because of the result, but no-one really gave us the big plaudits that we deserved for the Faroes result.
"We played pretty well in that game and scored four good goals, and everyone was still talking about the Germany result.
"Obviously, the Faroes is one that we probably expected to win, but I thought we played really well in that game."
The Football Association of Ireland opted to back Trapattoni in the wake of the most eventful 10 days or so of his four and a half-year reign to date amid frenzied speculation over his future, and his players have since been at pains to throw their weight behind him despite ongoing misgivings in some quarters.
Cox, one of the beneficiaries of the 73-year-old Italian's trawl for new blood, said: "Listen, the players are fully behind him because he is our manager. He's not the type of person to walk away from a job.
"If he is going to get the sack, it's going to be by doing things his way, and fair play to him because he has kept his job.
"He is staying and he is going to do the things he knows how to do and he is going to get the players to play the way he feels is the right way to play and do the things he feels are right for the country."


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Pulmonary Emboli and Myasthenia Gravis
Can myasthenia gravis or immunosuppressants (like cellcept) used in treating MG cause pulmonary emboli?
While inflammation can somewhat increase the risk for venous thromboembolic events, it is unclear if chemotherapy-like medications (outside the context of a diagnosis of cancer) increase the risk for thromboembolic events.
Spero R Cataland, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine
College of Medicine
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DETROIT -- Ryan Vogelsong had another chance to break, and Miguel Cabrera had another chance to beat a Giants pitcher.
But Vogelsong did not get beaten, because Giants pitchers do not break in the playoffs.
What Giants pitchers do is get outs, stare down hitters, dominate games and make World Series history.
They fight and they win.
"It's my first World Series, I've been waiting for this since I was 5 years old, and I wasn't going to go down without a fight, that's for sure," Vogelsong said after the Giants' 2-0 victory over Detroit on Saturday at Comerica Park.
As the games grow larger, so do the Giants pitchers, every single time. Dating to 2010, they never miss. Never.
And, after the Game 3 victory, this franchise is on the brink of its second World Series title -- and second dominant pitching postseason -- in three years.
The Giants are up 3-0 in the series and have registered the first back-to-back World Series shutouts since Baltimore put together three consecutive shutouts in 1966.
Can you believe this is happening?
"Of course I believe it -- we've done it before with basically the same guys (in 2010)," general manager Brian Sabean said.
"If you've done it once before, it's in your tank. And Vogey's got a lot to be proud of -- he's done it, too, now."
But amazingly, this 2012 pitching performance is even better than the 2010 multiple masterpieces.
The Giants have won six consecutive playoff games, starting with Game 5 of the NLCS, and have an 0.67 ERA over that unbelievable span.
They've outscored St. Louis and now Detroit by a combined 32-4 over those six games.
How are they doing it? By attacking the best offensive players with better pitching and by holding onto any lead their offense gives them.
In the fifth inning of Game 3, Vogelsong faced Cabrera, the A.L. Triple Crown winner, with the bases loaded, protecting a 2-0 lead, and hanging on.
The game was in the balance -- and Vogelsong, the 35-year-old reclamation project, was entirely up to it.
He threw a high fastball on the inner part of the plate, Cabrera tried to crush it, and instead the ball ended up as a pop fly to shortstop.
"Right now, he's the best hitter in the game," Vogelsong said. "I just tried to make pitches there ...
"And the way we were playing defense, really just trying to get him to put the ball in play somewhere, because I had a good feeling we were going to catch it if he did."
End of inning. Essentially, the end of the game. And really, the end of Detroit's hopes in this series.
The Giants pitchers are in control. This is over.
"Obviously I thought we had Ryan on the ropes a couple times tonight," Detroit manager Jim Leyland said. "We couldn't get the killer hit or the killer blow."
No team has come back from a 3-0 deficit to win the World Series, and 20 of the 23 teams that have gotten behind 3-0 have lost Game 4.
That's Sunday, with the Giants' ace, Matt Cain, lined up and ready to follow Vogelsong, who followed Madison Bumgarner, who followed Barry Zito, who followed ...
Vogelsong ended up pitching 52/3 innings -- getting 21/3 innings of dynamic relief from Tim Lincecum -- and admitted that he didn't have nearly the same quality of stuff he had in his previous two lockdown outings. But he still fought and he kept the Tigers off the board. And with Lincecum almost always ready to go out of the 'pen, the Giants are almost unbeatable now.
This is Vogelsong's third consecutive victory in the playoffs, and his 1.09 playoff ERA is the lowest by a starter in a single postseason (with at least 24 innings) since Orel Hershiser's 1.05 ERA in 1988.
And Vogelsong joins Christy Mathewson as the only pitchers to start their postseason careers with four consecutive starts of five or more innings giving up one run or less.
In 1966, Baltimore swept the Dodgers -- giving up two runs in Game 1 and then getting shutouts by Jim Palmer, Wally Bunker and Dave McNally to close the series.
The Giants haven't quite pulled that off, but this is a different era, with supposedly a much higher level of offense.
But this World Series is all but history because the Giants pitching staff is making it. They don't break -- they break bats.
"It's pretty incredible," outfielder Hunter Pence said of the Giants pitching.
"It definitely helps the confidence a ton when your starting pitchers, your bullpen and everyone just seems to get the job done."
Just in this series, Giants pitchers have held the Tigers' dynamic duo of Cabrera and Prince Fielder without an extra-base hit in the three games, and shut each down at huge moments throughout.
In addition to the Cabrera pop-out, Vogelsong got Fielder to ground into an inning-ending double play in the first.
That's the series right there. That's the Giants' postseason, right there.
The bigger the moment, the better the pitch, and the moments keep getting bigger.
Vogelsong, Lincecum, Sergio Romo and the rest are towering over baseball right now, and dwarfing the Detroit Tigers.
They are unbreakable, unbeatable, and they are assuredly historic.
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Affeldt finds success at hitter-friendly Coors Field
DENVER -- Jeremy Affeldt has written a book, "To Stir a Movement," which not only provides autobiographical details but also explains his altruistic beliefs.
Maybe his next book ought to be a how-to compendium on pitching at Coors Field.
Among pitchers who have thrown at least 70 career innings at hitter-friendly Coors -- Affeldt has worked 70 1/3 -- he owns the lowest ERA, a 3.07 figure. He also ranks second in opponents' batting average at .228, less than .0005 behind Huston Street. Incidentally, Giants right-hander Matt Cain is third at .232.
Affeldt, who contributed two scoreless innings to the Giants' 8-6 victory Thursday, said that it's all about adjusting to the mile-high altitude, which tends to straighten pitches.
"You have to finish your pitches here," Affeldt said, citing the importance of releasing the ball with the end of the fingertips. "If you throw a sinker in most ballparks, it's still going to sink, even if it's not your best one. Here, if you don't finish it well, sometimes it almost cuts [across home plate] due to the air. You'll throw a good pitch and it comes right back to the middle. Now that outer half of home plate becomes the middle, and the outer third of home plate becomes the outer half. That's good hitting area."
Mistakes, Affeldt said, become magnified.
"It's more highlighted that you didn't throw a pitch right," he said.
Inducing ground balls becomes a paramount concern, he added. "If it gets hit in the air here, it really doesn't want to come down," Affeldt said. He observed that when he pitched home games during his 2006-07 Rockies tenure, "I thought 'down.' That's all I thought about."
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Tropical Storm Lee is drenching New Orleans as the southern city, inundated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, faced a test of its flood defences from the slow-moving system.
Rainfall topped 30cm in parts of the New Orleans metropolitan area. The storm was inching toward the marshy Louisiana coast and was forecast to dump up to 51cm of rain to southeast Louisiana over the next few days.
The storm centre was about 137km west-southwest of Morgan City, with maximum winds of 80km/h. Winds were expected to stay below the 119km/h threshold of hurricane strength as the storm crawls ashore.
In New Orleans the storm evoked memories of Hurricane Katrina, which flooded 80% of the city, left 1,500 people dead and caused more than $80bn in damage.
Half the city, a major US tourist destination, lies below sea level and is protected by a system of levees and flood gates.
The levees had pumped away about 20cm of rain so far, with isolated reports of flooding in roads and homes. The system can process about 2.5cm of rainfall per hour, but the storm's slow-moving nature remained a worry, officials said.
"Don't go to sleep on this storm," Mayor Mitch Landrieu told residents, warning stormy conditions could continue for the next 36 hours.
New Orleans is under a flash flood watch through Monday night due to heavy rain potential, the National Weather Service said.
Potential damage from wind gusts up to 80km/h will also be a concern for New Orleans today as Lee's centre moves inland, it said.
No injuries or deaths were reported in Louisiana, but rough waters off Galveston Island in Texas led to the drowning death of a 34-year-old man, an island official said.
Lee's tidal surge could spur coastal flooding in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama before drenching a large swath of the southeast and Appalachian regions next week.
Hurricane Katia upgraded to category 2 storm
Separately, Hurricane Katia strengthened rapidly over the open Atlantic today, bulking up to a category 2 storm, the US National Hurricane Center said.
Katia had top sustained winds of 160km/h, the Miami-based hurricane centre said.
It said it was still too soon to gauge the potential threat to land or the US east coast from the storm, which could become a "major" hurricane with maximum sustained winds of at least 178km/h tomorrow.


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Tuesday, June 19th
Chris Johnson – Dayton
Jarrod Jones – Ball State
Fab Melo – Syracuse
Kyle O'Quinn – Norfolk State
Miles Plumlee – Duke
Jonathon Simmons – Houston
On the Pacers website they have a section called Draft Central:
It shows all the guys scheduled for workouts and all the interviews from guys they have already had in for workouts.
Let's see. Milsap is an expiring and will likely want more money. I don't know how that would be worth it to the Hornets for the 10th pick.
I don't see Turner getting traded. However, I'd definitely do DC to the Hornets, Turner to the Pacers and the 10th pick to the Sixers...of course other pieces would be needed, but if Lillard isn't there at 10, I'd love to get Turner!
Bledsoe for the 10th? I don't see how he's anywhere close to that. While I am not sure DC is worth the 10th pick, he's certainly worth more than Bledsoe.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
Is anyone surprised Fab dominated??? That is the perfect setting for a person with his physical ablitys to shine(especially if he is actually in shape).
Fab all along was gonna be a workout warrior reminds me a lot of Ryan Hollins or even our own David Harrison except has a better jumper.
Anyone see the Pic on twitter of Fab dunking?? Lance and a few others were scrimmaging with the group. Wish PG would of stayed around for a few weeks before going to Vegas for usa bball
If we get #10 from the Hornets, than that Troy Murphy trade is even more lopsided than we thought originally.
I know folks are thinking the trade up would he for Rivers, but my bet would be Zeller or Henson. I think the Pacers try to get bigger. Hibbert, West and Hansbrough are the main bigs, with Lou a free agent, as well as Fez I believe.
Bird wants the best bench in the league, but i think the bench let us down a bit in the Miami series, so that's where I'll expect us to upgrade.
Syracuse center Fab Melo went through a workout for the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday and one person who was inside the gym tells The Indianapolis Star, "He was off the charts."
The Pacers need to add depth at the center position with the retirement of backup Jeff Foster and Melo is a possible pick, if he's still available when the No. 26 selection comes up.
Melo averaged 7.8 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.9 blocks at Syracuse this past season.
ESPN.com's Chad Ford released his 8.0 mock draft on Tuesday and he has Minnesota taking Melo at No. 18 and the Pacers selecting Kentucky point guard Marquis Teague at No. 26.
-- Nick Borges
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On Big Joe and Grady, I think it was Brunner and Wells that were on and they were all talking about how they wish the FO would make PG stick around. Not that he isn't working or playing, but they felt this was the point in his career where he needed to be under the thumb doing the right workouts, drills, and scrimmages all the time.
They also felt he should play in Summer League so he was forced to be "the man" and improve his confidence to take over.
Grady asked Brunner in all his years if he had every seen a player become a killer, in reference to Paul George. Brunner said he could see a Joe Johnson situation. First years Johnson floated around, scoring easy, but never showed that takeover mentality. The Celtics even traded him, proving to be a mistake.
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Meyers Leonard would be a better choice than Zeller as a BIG, and is projected at around #12 presently.
Its the first year in a while that I'd be ok picking a big man to develop, assuming Roy is back. I'm usually against these project type bigs that don't work out, more often than not.
The goal, imo, should be to get a true playmaking point guard even if its a back up rookie. If they move up to 10 or 11, Kendall Marshall would be my pick even though you'd be giving up one of the best back ups in the league in DC. The reason is if K Marshall develops you'll have your starting quarterback of the future who makes others around him better. I think DCs ceiling will never be a playmaking top notch starter type. No knock on DC, he's just a scoring type Point.
There's all kinds of road blocks to this pursuit, if you trade DC, what if G Hill gets a stupid offer you can't match. You could have taken 2 steps back as a team with an unproven starting rookie, who may not be what you hope and no descernable back up.
Its a slippery slope.
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I can see your point.
Just wondering what Kyle O'Quinn looked like. He's a 2nd rd pick, but for some reason he has tweaked my interest.
I can't disagree with your thinking, but there are other PG's available that would be available such as Felton, Miller, Dragic, Lowry, and Sessions, so I wouldn't let that be a deal killer.
if we can trade up for the 10th pick for DC and our 26th and somehow Damian Lillard drops to us
Could the Pacers truly be that lucky? We can only wish!!
Anyone else remember Bird saying last year that he would have taken Tyler Zeller at 15 had he come out? I don't think I'm making that up.
Passion. Pride. Patience. Pacers
I haven't seen any1 here talk about Tony Wroten Jr. This kid looks really good IMO. If we stay at 26 I hope we draft him or Marquis Teague
I'd draft Tony Wroten but not Marquis Teague. At least Wroten at almost 6'6 would be an option at either guard spot.
On Zeller, what a nice set up it would be for him to practice against Roy everyday. Tyler has post moves already and is athletic, refinement needed for sure, but he's legit size & athleticism to at the very least project as a back up center in his rookie year. I also think his celing is potentially higher than that in the right offense with the right surrounding players. NC worked through him early and often, last year. He already has the foundation to be player, imo. He's probably not projected to be an allstar, which may explain the lack of buzz for him, right now, but not everyone has to have that type of ceiling.


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The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Westmont Community Center, 1808 W. Ninth St.
A full presentation on the widening proposals will be offered and will be followed by a question and answer session, said Ati Eskandari, Pomona city engineer.
Responses to concerns and questions presented by residents during an open house conducted last month on the widening will be presented, she said.
Three project alternatives will be presented to residents, she said.
The city, Caltrans and the Los Angeles County Transportation Authority are all working together to move up the widening of the 71 from the current four-lane expressway to a full eight-lane freeway by several years.
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Some teams are running six-man rotations and every team seemingly has their rotation in flux, but we'll try to iron out the two-start pitchers for next week as we inch closer and closer to wrapping up yet another 162.
It's a full week for the Tigers, giving two of their best pitchers two opportunities each. Fister was originally slated for two this past week, but that was scrapped; now he has the Monday-Saturday pairing while Scherzer has Tuesday-Sunday. Both are pitching out of their minds right now.
Alex Cobb (vs. BOS; vs. TOR) – Even with an outing that saw him yield eight earned in 2 2/3 innings, Cobb still has a strong 3.31 ERA since August 1 (a span of 49 innings). It helps that four of those eight outings saw him give up one or fewer, including an August 23 shutout against Oakland. The best part of Cobb's surge is the improved peripherals. His season strikeout rate is 6.8 with a 2.8 K/BB, both of which are solid, but during the run he has a 7.5 K/9 with an excellent 4.6 K/BB.
Jeremy Hellickson (vs. BOS; vs. TOR) – Hellickson has maintained a strong ERA all year (never worse than 3.55), but his peripherals weren't too sharp through June with just a 1.7 K/BB in 81 innings. From July 1 on, he has a 2.99 ERA in 75 1/3 innings but with a much more palatable 2.3 K/BB.
A.J. Griffin (@ DET; @ NYY) – The matchups are quite far from great, but Griffin has been masterful in his first 11 starts, so I can't see why anyone would be uncomfortable trusting him at this point. Sure, it's only 65 innings, but it's the sample we have, and I don't think he is getting by on smoke and mirrors. He isn't walking anybody (1.5 BB/9), and he is missing more than enough bats (7.3).
Andy Pettitte (vs. TOR; vs. OAK) – Pettitte was mighty impressive in his return from retirement, but his success was cut short by injury back in late-June. He returns after more than two months, but he can be a huge asset down the stretch if he is still the guy we saw for 58 2/3 innings across nine starts this year. Pettitte is toting a career-high (yes, at age 40) 9.1 K/9 as well as his best walk rate since 2005 (2.3 BB/9), yielding a very surprising 3.9 K/BB. If he weren't coming back from injury, he would have placed ahead of Griffin thanks to his matchup advantage.
Ervin Santana (vs. TEX; vs. CHW) – How does a guy with a 5.08 season ERA make the starts list? When he pitches well enough to chisel nearly a run off of his ERA late in the season. After his July 21 start, Santana's ERA hit 6.00, the highest it had been since April. He had trips to Texas and Chicago on the docket right after that, so obviously that mark was headed upward. Or not. He did give up five runs in 11 innings (4.09 ERA), but from that Texas start to now he has a 3.30 ERA across 57 1/3 innings with a 7.2 K/9 and 3.1 K/BB. The matchups aren't great, but he just makes the cut for "starts."
Felix Doubront (@ TB; vs. BAL) – While a strikeout force all year long, Doubront has been an ERA liability as well, and with him now sitting on the wrong side of 5.00, it is hard to justify his presence on a roster.
Luke Hochevar (vs. CHW; vs. CLE) – Every time it looks like he is putting it together, Hoch has a string a poor starts that essentially hit the reset button.
Aaron Cook (@ TB; vs. BAL) – Remember when he had like -48 strikeouts in his first 36 innings with a 3.50 ERA and some thought he was single-handedly disproving statistical analysis? Yeah, no. Seriously, he had three strikeouts, three walks, and four home runs allowed, and that level of bat-missing (or utter lack thereof) was going to make it tough to sustain such an ERA. You don't have to strike batters out to succeed, but that much contact will come back to bite you as the sample grows. It just will. And it has with Cook ; he has a 6.70 ERA 45 2/3 innings with 15 strikeouts since then.
Ricky Romero (@ NYY; @ TB) – Why are they even starting him anymore? Just let him finish in the bullpen and maybe get some confidence.
Excellent week for Senior Circuit aces. Lee has won three of his last four with a 0.99 ERA and 0.95 WHIP across 27 1/3 innings. The amazing thing is that he needed this run to push his season total up to FIVE wins.
A.J. Burnett (vs. MIL; @ HOU) – Burnett's struggles since the beginning of August (4.62 ERA in 50 2/3) have obviously contributed to Pittsburgh's demise; he was their unquestioned ace. That said, he still has a 9.8 K/9 and 2.9 K/BB during the stretch, so he hasn't completely melted down.
Tim Lincecum (vs. COL; vs. SD) – Perhaps he is the NL's version of Ervin Santana for 2012. I'm not drawing a direct 1:1 comparison between the two by any stretch; rather, I am pointing out how both have been pitching quite well for an extended stretch yet still tote season ERAs over 5.00, which shows just how poorly they pitched through the first half of the season. With a 5.09 ERA, it might be hard for some to believe that Lincecum actually has a 3.33 ERA in 73 innings spanning his 12 starts since the All-Star break. He also has 73 strikeouts and a still-high, but improved, 4.0 BB/9 (it was 4.7 before the break).
Tim Hudson (@ MIA; @ PHI) – Hudson can't seem to find any measure of consistency lately with yo-yoing earned run totals since the start of August: 0, 6, 0, 4, 1, 5, 0, 4. I guess that means you will get at least one good start out of him next week, right? No, it doesn't really work that way; I don't think you can blindly buy into some odd every-other-one pattern. He's been the solid Hudson we've grown accustomed to with a 3.62 ERA overall in that span (3.66 for the season), but the distribution has just been patterned in a noticeable one on, one off fashion.
Mike Leake (@ CHC; vs. LAD) – Home runs have always been an issue for Leake (1.3 HR/9 this year and for his career, due in part to his home park). Thankfully, he is facing the 24th (Cubs) and 29th (Dodgers) ranked teams in home runs this week, which should give you the confidence to run him out there.
Jhoulys Chacin (@ SF; vs. ARI) – His return from the disabled list has been solid (2.49 ERA in 25 1/3 innings), but that team-wide pitch limit makes it tough to use precious innings and an active roster spot on him when his chances for a win are so much lower than for another pitcher.
Aaron Harang (@ WAS; @ CIN) – He has a passable 3.86 ERA in his last seven starts. He hasn't given up more than three earned in any of them, but the 27 strikeouts and 22 walks leave me unsettled and make him tough to trust.
Travis Wood (vs. CIN; vs. STL) – I honestly liked Wood initially when I was scanning the list of two-start guys, but then I saw his matchups. He has a pair of top five NL offenses (by OPS), so there could be some trouble ahead.
Justin Germano (vs. PIT; vs. STL) – Germano is a good example of why peripherals alone don't tell the whole story. His 6.2 K/9 and 2.8 K/BB aren't bad at all, but he is a soft-thrower with generally unimpressive secondary stuff who has never been particularly effective. I don't really believe in him as a pitcher, so his 5.60 ERA may not be all bad luck.
Kevin Correia (@ CHC; @ HOU) – I love the matchups, but not so much given the overall talent of the man facing them, at least from a fantasy-standpoint.
Jeff Francis (@ SF; vs. ARI) – No thanks.
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Jose Quintana appears to be scheduled for 2 starts (vs DET; @LAA). A sit or start? I'm inclined towards sitting him.
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Many professional sports club make star signings a badge of honour. It's not quite correct to say that Harlequins take the opposite stance – but it's not far off.
Quins chief executive David Ellis got in early by indicating that there won't be many new faces at the Stoop this summer – although England winger Marland Yarde's arrival from London Irish has already been confirmed.
There was never any chance of the weekend's 25-20 defeat at Gloucester that left a Quins squad, ravaged by injuries for most of the season, three points outside the top four, leading to a knee-jerk reaction this week.
Instead Quins announced new contracts for six players – Ben Botica, Rob Buchanan, Charlie Matthews, Tom Casson, Joe Gray and Dave Ward.
There are similarities with Arsenal's attitude but, as Ellis points out, Quins are in the midst of the most successful period in their history.
More pertinently – while just Jack Wilshere, Wojciech Szczesny and Kieran Gibbs are flying the flag for Arsenal's academy – Quins' record for packing their first team home-grown talent is on another level altogether.
Current England stars Chris Robshaw, Mike Brown and Joe Marler are just the tip of the iceberg with 12 of the players who won the 2012 Aviva Premiership final having been home-grown.
The production line shows no sign of slowing down with Jack Clifford, Harry Sloan, Sam Stuart and Sam Twomey, who have all featured for the first team next season, having signed deals to lift them from Tony Diprose's academy into the first team squad.
It leaves Quins with a squad bulging with players fully versed in the club ethos, who understand what director of rugby Conor O'Shea is talking about when he says: "We just want to play our way and deliver what this club is about.
"You think about Harlequins and you think of entertainment and we want to be true to those traditional values."
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Wal-Mart (WMT) has confirmed my recent concerns about the health of U.S. consumer spending. The retailing behemoth's leaked emails show that it is experiencing its slowest start to a month in seven years. The conference call should be very interesting when it reports earnings Thursday.
A slowdown in consumer spending, which makes up some 70% of the U.S. economy, is one of my biggest worries around the market right now. It is also the main reason I am deeply underweight the consumer discretionary sector and turning a bit more conservative in running my portfolio. New money is being allocated to lower-beta, high-yielding stocks. Let's look at two overseas dividend stocks that look attractive right now. Neither company a growth juggernaut, but both provide robust yields and cheap valuations.
U.K.-based Vodafone Group (VOD) provides mobile telecommunication services to approximately 450 million customers worldwide. Four reasons that VOD is a solid income and value pick up at under $26 a share.
- The company boasts an "A"-rated balance sheet, a low beta (0.74) and yields just under 6% based on 2012's payout.
- Vodafone's 45% interest in Verizon Wireless is under-appreciated by the market.
- Although the company's European operations are negatively affected by continuing challenges on the Continent, the company has a significant stake in emerging markets where revenues are growing in the high single digits. In addition, data services sales grew better than 20% in 2012 and now comprise 15% of overall revenues.
- The stock is selling near the bottom of its five-year valuation range based on price-earnings, price-sales and price-cash-flow ratios.
Total SA (TOT) is a large multinational integrated oil & gas concern based in France. Four reasons TOT is undervalued at $50 a share:
- Total has "AA"-rated balance sheet and yields nearly 6%.
- The company has a 60/40 mix of oil and natural gas production. More importantly, natural gas fetches a much higher price overseas than it does in North America. It is also making progress reopening its large North Sea field (140,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day), which has been shut down for more than a year due to a natural gas leak.
- The stock is cheap at just 7x this year's expected earnings.
- TOT is selling at the bottom of its five-year valuation range based on price-cash-flow, price-book and price-sales ratios.


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Sacrocolpopexy Versus Vaginal Mesh Procedure for Pelvic Prolapse
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Francisco Carmona
American Medical Systems
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Francisco Carmona, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: March 30, 2010
Last updated: August 15, 2017
Last verified: February 2017
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Pelvic prolapse is one of the most frequent pathology in Gynecology. Recurrency of the prolapse after primary surgery is relatively high, 15-30%. Sacrocolpopexy has showed to be effective but it requires a long learning curves and is more aggressive. New meshes techniques seem to be effective, as well, with less learning curve but they are expensive and there are no randomize studies published.
The investigators aim is to compare both techniques in terms of: anatomical and functional efficacy, cost, operating time and complications.
|Vaginal Vault Prolapse Enterocele Uterine Prolapse Cystocele Rectocele
|Device: Elevate mesh Device: Sacrocolpopexy
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Anatomic and Functional Outcomes of Vaginal Mesh ( ELEVATE) Compared With Laparoscopic Sacrocolpopexy for Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Pelvic Support ProblemsU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Francisco Carmona, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Functional and anatomical efficacy [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- operating time, cost and complications of both techniques [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|May 2010
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|May 2020
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Elevate meshes
The use of Elevate (American Systems trade mark) meshes for the treatment of pelvic prolapse.
Device: Elevate mesh
The correction of the prolapse can be made by this new technique.
Other Name: Pelvic meshes
Sacrocolpopexy for the correction of the prolapse
Device: Sacrocolpopexy
Attach a mesh between the vagina and the promontorium.
Other Name: Colpofixation
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|21 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subject has been diagnosed with one or more clinically significant anterior, apical, or posterior genital prolapse disorder(s)(symptomatic POP-Q stage II or higher) requiring surgical repair.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Investigator determines subject is not a candidate for surgical repair of her genital prolapse.
- Subject has had a prior prolapse procedure involving graft placement (synthetic or biologic)
- Subject has active or latent systemic infection or signs of tissue necrosis.
- Subject has restricted leg motion (inability to abduct or adduct leg positioning in the lithotomy position) with or without a hip replacement / prosthesis.
- Subject is currently pregnant or intends to become pregnant during the study period.
- Subject has had radiation therapy to the pelvic area.
- Subject has pelvic cancer, has had pelvic cancer within the past 12 months or has been on cytostatic medication within the past 12 months.
- Subject has uncontrolled diabetes.
- Subject is on any medication with could result in compromised immune response, such as immune modulators.
- Subject has undergone previous pelvic surgery < 6 months prior to enrollment in this study.
- Subject is unwilling or unable to give valid informed consent.
- Subject is unwilling or unable to comply with the requirements of the protocol, complete all quality of Life questionnaires and return for all follow-up visits.
- Subject with contraindications for laparoscopy
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: NCT01097200
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01097200
|Hospital Clinic Barcelona
|Barcelona, Spain, 08036
Sponsors and Collaborators
Francisco Carmona
American Medical Systems
|Principal Investigator:
|Eduardo Bataller, M.D., Ph. D.
|Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.
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Keywords provided by Francisco Carmona, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Sanses TV, Shahryarinejad A, Molden S, Hoskey KA, Abbasy S, Patterson D, Saks EK, Weber Lebrun EE, Gamble TL, King VG, Nguyen AL, Abed H, Young SB; Fellows' Pelvic Research Network. Anatomic outcomes of vaginal mesh procedure (Prolift) compared with uterosacral ligament suspension and abdominal sacrocolpopexy for pelvic organ prolapse: a Fellows' Pelvic Research Network study. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2009 Nov;201(5):519.e1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2009.07.004. Epub 2009 Aug 28.
Cosson M, Rosenthal C, Clave H, et al. Prospective clinical assessment of the total transvaginal mesh (TVM) technique for treatment of pelvic organ prolapse-6 and 12 month results. Int Urogynecol J 2006; 17: S142.
|Responsible Party:
|Francisco Carmona, Chief of Department of OB GYN, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01097200 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|March 30, 2010
|Last Updated:
|August 15, 2017
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
|Plan to Share IPD:
|Plan Description:
|First article has been submitted to the European Urology on feb 13th 2017
Keywords provided by Francisco Carmona, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona:
sacrospinous ligament
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Uterine Prolapse
Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
Urinary Bladder Diseases
Urologic Diseases
Uterine Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Rectal Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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What really grinds my gears. Episode 5 - Vince McMahon Strikes Back.
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400258_296375897130654_1643555955_n.jpgSo you might be thinking, what the hell? This is episode 5, but it should be episode 3?? What happened to 3 and 4? Well I can tell you sirs(and ladies) that if you ever watched Star Wars, you will know that Episode 4, 5 and 6 came out before Episodes 1, 2 and 3. So why can't I do it too? Are you mad because I didn't do things in the correct manner? That I wasn't predictable? If so, then your naivety shocks me, it's just a blog, calm your little self down and read on....
"You know what really grinds my gears? That Mr Vince McMahon.. Why doesn't he get with the freaking program. It's called wrestling sir, not Sports Entertainment. Whatever happened to the midcard? Why do you constantly bury your younger talent? Why do we have to endure silly segments that are attempts at being funny, but ultimately make everyone over the age of fourteen cringe themselves into oblivion? Why Vince, why?"
"Whatever happened to that feeling that people used to get when the wrestling was on? They would get all excited as they had no idea what was going to happen. You changed that Vince, you made it so predictable didn't you? And why did you do that? Because you can. Who's going to stop you? I know I'm not, I know that no other company has the money you have to compete, I know that wrestlers are afraid to speak up in fear of you. Why don't you just go ahead and die?? Oh wait a minute, CM Punk already said that and you gave him a WWE title for it. Well done sir, you really know whats cool nowadays don't you? No! You don't, you have absolutely no idea, you're 67 years old and you may as well be a dinosaur, oh wait... didn't you know Vince? They ain't been cool for decades either... And that is what really grinds my gears."
Episode 5 - Vince McMahon Strikes Back.
When people think of Vince McMahon, many names spring to mind. Genius... Business man... The Boss... Douche... Big Douche... Total Douche... and so on.
So why is Vince hated so, but yet, is praised so much at the same time? Well it comes down to him going through many controversial moments in his careers, while also helping to shape "Wrestling", or should I say "Sports Entertainment", as it is today.
Let's go through some controversial ones, just because... they are funnier.
Montreal Screwjob - Everyone knows of this, he totally screwed Bret, and he still won't take the blame for it, he will always turn it around and say that Bret screwed Bret, even after everything has sorted itself out, he will never take the blame for anything.
Sterioids scandal - In the early 90's, the WWF was going through a rough patch, the Hulkamania era was declining, and he needed new stars to shine. However the WWF was attacked with a court case which saw Vince put into the spotlight, and almost imprisoned for apparently selling steroids and other enhancement drugs to his talents. Hogan testified and stuck up for him, and he was cleared of charges, however the drugs continued to flow in the WWF for a long time after, and he didn't take any steps to stop this from happening. It was the "normal" thing to do those days.
Wrestlers dieing young/Benoit Tradegy - This ties in with the last one, in that there was no wellness policy. The WWE came under serious pressure after the Benoit murder/suicide, and he took all measures possible to erase Benoit from his company, and to deny any claims that steroids, or other drugs had played a roll in how Benoit acted in his final days. For a more detailed, and factual explanation on the whole ordeal, read my Benoit blog. Lots of other wrestlers who have worked for Vince have also died young, and the majority of them have some link to using prescription medication. (E.G. Eddie Guerrero).
No time off for his wrestlers - Vince doesn't allow this, which is crazy. How is anyone humanly able to carry on traveling, and wrestling throughout all 12 months of the year with barely any holiday time? It's incredibly selfish of him, and it always does more harm them good. The only time wrestlers get time off is when they get injured. They have to be hurting and as soon as they are able to go again, he brings them straight back, usually too soon, and they get injured again. Just about every sport in the world has an off-season, they can spend time with their families, and rest their bodies to come back and do it all over again, but Vince won't allow that for his wrestlers, and then he wonders why many of them get frustrated.
Burying talents with stupid gimmicks/storylines - This is a typical Vince trademark. Instead of just taking someone off TV for a bit, and giving them a stern telling off, he decides to give the wrestler an incredibly stupid gimmick or storyline, which is usually cringing more then entertaining, which doesn't just embarrass the wrestler, it embarrasses the whole product. How many times have you seen some wrestlers who used to have momentum, and then a couple of months later, are turned into complete jokes? I can think of two right now... Santino and Zack Ryder.
Controlling all the trademarks and merchandise - Another Vince trademark. He never wants to use a name of a wrestler in case they leave the company and can still use that name. Not only that, but he wants to take a huge cut of the wrestlers merchandise sales, and even take projects the wrestler has created themselves, and regulate it into his system. Surely you have heard how he took over Ryder's Youtube show and now Ryder barely makes anything off it, and it has to be checked over before they submit it? Ridiculous.
Stop/Start/Stop/Start - Having watched WWE for well over a decade, he does that quite a bit. He starts a new storyline, then he decides to hate it before its even got going, and stops it. Remember the Kane vs Kane thing? Or more recently with AJ Lee being General Manager? He does it with wrestlers pushes as well. He pushes someone to the moon, then that wrestler has one or two bad matches, then he decides ... Nope, this won't do, bury him.
Unappreciative of wrestlers abilities - He never listens to the fans when it comes to this. A wrestler could be majorly over, but he decides... No! You won't like this wrestler! You will like this other guy who I enjoy more... simply because... well.... I said so! Vince never likes it when someone gets over when it wasn't part of the plan, and when that happens, he will try very hard to bury that wrestler, instead of capitalize on it. Why isn't Daniel Bryan Champion? Why is Zack Ryder nowhere? Why is Damien Sandow in a Tag Team? Why is Ziggler still waiting to become a Champion? So many questions...
Rules! Rules! Rules! - Ok so you can't say this, and you can't do this move because of this, and you can't mention this company, and you can't mention this pop reference, and you can't use this weapon, and you can't bleed, and you can't cut a promo like that, and you can't wipe your arse this way, and you can't breath for this amount of time, and you can't be showing any kind of initiative whatsoever, because you are all my robots, and you will all follow my orders, or else you're ALL FIRED!!!!!!!
Championships? - I strongly believe that Vince thinks Championships are just props. They are there for no other reason but to try and get someone over, and it doesn't really matter what championships are defended and how, so long as the WWE title is important. Whatever happened to the IC title? Why did he change the tag titles to those bronze ones? Why does he continue to have two world titles? Why does he even have a Divas division when its obvious that he, and no one else really cares for it. Remember the good old days when the WWF title used to mean so much? Back when it actually felt important. Its hard to take the WWE title seriously when its still a custom made, John Cena Bling Bling "Champ" belt.
Taking over the industry - This is the biggest one for me. He went against his own fathers wishes, and he broke the unwritten rules that you should not market your company in others territories. He branded wrestling as "Sports Entertainment", and started a crusade by spending tons of money to buy out other companies, and their talents. Many companies have fallen to Vince McMahon, and he brags about it. Remember when he purchased WCW and aired his victory speech? He probably had the biggest boner during that promo. Monopolizing a market is bad for any business, business thrives on competition, and brings out the best in all companies... business always thrives when there isn't one single monopoly.
When there is a monopoly, its the customers who suffer. The company can charge whatever, and do whatever, and the customers have to deal with it. They will continue to pay their hard earned money, even if the product is terrible, because they don't know anything else, nothing else is anywhere near the production level of the WWE. TNA is getting there slowly, but the WWE is still this huge monstrosity that will monopolize the business for years to come, at least until people realize there are alternatives.
Harrassment allegations - Numerous times, Vince has been accused of sexual harassment. Now after seeing the Jimmy Saville ordeal on the news, it makes you wonder if other big names manage to cover up these crimes, because their victims are "too scared to fight the big popular star".
True, guilty until proven innocent, but if you were Vince McMahon, wouldn't you feel a little... Invincible at times?
Blacklisting - He does this to wrestlers he hates or has some kind of history with. The worst of these being Macho Man Randy Savage. People speculate its because of something that happened between Savage and Stephanie McMahon, of a sexual nature, while others think it was down to Savage being super greedy and asking for lots of money. Who really knows? But we all know that Vince blacklists certain former employees, they will never get a mention, and they will never get recognized for any of their work.
Be a Star Bully Campaign - Talk about being hypocritical. He plugs the Bully campaign, then he openly mocks J.R's bells palsy on Live TV. That's not the only time he has bullied people on air and made them look like shit. What about when he made Trish Stratus bark like a dog? What about the "Kiss my ass" club? Just a few examples of his double-standards.
And you know, he likes to test his employess by putting them in awkward situations, if they stand up for themselves, he rewards them.. If they become submissive, he doesn't like that... He will bully them, and if they don't respond how he wants, he will bury them more, then fire them.
Linda McMahon - Oh really, so his wife is going to run for senate, and it just so happens.. that the Attitude era never existed, lets just take all that footage down, lets try not to give her opposition any ammo, lets make the company public and bring in tons of sponsors, so we can do a PG product and make the company look so family friendly. He is advertising "Wrestling" AKA simulated violence, to young children, and he thinks that will get Linda more votes??? She can continue to spend her millions, most people with half a brain cell could see through their B.S.
Seriously, I could bring a lot more to the table. The table is already so stacked, it might even break if I brought anymore to it. I think I have room for one more, let's talk about last nights PPV.
Hell in a Cell 2012 - With Raw going to three hours, PPVs feel less special. With the WWE being PG, Hell in a Cells cannot be overly violent or bloody. With the WWE using Ryback, an upcoming monster with a winning streak, against longtime WWE Champion CM Punk, you would think.. Oh there's no choice... we HAVE to make it a screwjob.
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
It didn't need to end that way, its an easy way out of a situation they put themselves in. They could have had Punk vs Ryback for over 30 minutes, allow a bit of blood (If Brock and Cena can do it, why not?) then have someone like Cena come down, and distract Ryback by accident or something. Even if Ryback did lose, it doesn't matter. If anything.. by having him lose the way he did, people are even more likely to call him a Goldberg wannabe. Seeing Ryback lose in a proper hard fought fight would have got him more over as a Face, and will have sent him in a new direction.
I am sure the fans paid to see a proper main-event, one that was worthy of being for the WWE title in a Hell in a Cell. Instead we got a referee(who strangely looked a bit like a younger Bischoff) get involved.. and low blow Ryback... and somehow this stopped the beast in his tracks? A referee?? The Best in the World... needed a referee... to help him with a low blow?
Was this supposed to make me hate Punk? Was it supposed to make me feel sorry for Ryback? Was it supposed to make me feel like Ryback was super awesome while Punk is still a credible champion?
No... It didn't, if anything it made me cringe at the laziness of it all. They decided not to take a risk, they decided to screw the fans out of a good main event. They decided to make me hate Vince for his "calculated risk" theories even more then I already do.
I don't know about all of you, but I cannot wait for the day that the WWE is finally free to flourish without the dictator running the ship. It might become fresh, or then again, it might plummet into deep hole of misery.
We all know that Vince has done a lot of good too. He isn't completely heartless, and he does do good from time to time.
He brought us such awesome names like... Steve Austin, The Undertaker, The Rock, Shawn Michaels and so on, without his business skills and tenacity, I might not even be sat here today, typing this blog. You people reading this, might not even be here reading this blog, you could have gotten into something completely different and never gave wrestling a second glance.
All we know is, wrestling has not been the same in a long time, and although it was Vince, and all of his wrestlers who helped to bring it into the mainstream, it seems to be mostly Vince who is sabotaging his own product these days, while the wrestlers have to suffer and do as they are told... otherwise... they will feel the wrath of god. Remember... Its all about the MONEY!
And that.. is what really grinds my gears.


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Hi all,
I've been lurking on this forum for quite a while now, but have been hesitant to jump in the conversation. I've learned a ton reading the likes of Blake_T,Timko and Masterbeato just to name a few.
Anyhow, I decided it's been long enough and I'll throw myself in head on. I'm really struggling with getting good snap (as about everyone is I assume), but even more so with major nose-up issues on any flat RHBH drives. My approaches and go-for shots don't have that problem. My drives consistently fly high and right with hard hyzer angles before biting hard left (again, RHBH throw) of my target line.
Here are a few samples:
Downhill shot -- De La Veaga, RHBH, Leopard 155g
My reach back is really messed up, and my arm takes a really funky forward line -- starts high and finishes low.
Downhill shot -- Hellyer Park, RHBH, Avenger SS, 166G
Trying to use closed-shoulder drill to keep my shoulder from flying out. One of my better shots on this day. Disc was flat on release, I think, and I was trying to drop it below some trees in the distance
Flat shot, big nose-up and air bounce
Form starting to get worse....
Flat shot, big nose-up/air bounce/Disc-in-tree
I used to play disc golf quite a bit when I was younger, then got away from the sport for many years. Back then I was primarily a rhfh thrower with zero control. I've been playing consistently (3x week, 2hrs at a time) for a casual amateur for the past couple of months. My hard hyzers on drives are my biggest issue. I've hit a good snap a couple times in the past, and really felt it, and on those couple of throws I maxed my distance out somewhere around 300lb.
Anyway...any help you can provide will be much appreciated. I've read a lot here about exposing the flight plate, and I think that's the big issue in the last two videos. My thumb is positioned right on the rim of the disc on all my drives, right above where my index finger creates the lock. Maybe I'm not pressing evenly or something? Thanks for the help in advance.


text: My name is Margaret Rogers. My husband was diagnosed with om in Jan. '06. He was plaqued in Mar. 06. The plaque surgery ruined his retina and as a result he had his eye enucleated in fall of '06. He was scanned every 6 months with ct of ab. and lungs. Mets showed up in Dec. '10 almost 5 yrs after om. We went to Emory in Atlanta and saw an oncologist and Dr. Kevin Kim, an interventional radiologist. Dr. Kim recommended ablating the largest tumor (1.8 cm.) by the time he ablated it(just a month later) it had grown to over 4 cm. That ablation was successful and Dr. Kim recommended resection. My husband, Butch, had resection in April'11. Scans showed very small tumors by June. We opted for a multisite trial that had a leg in our hometown of Chattanooga, TN. My husband had 4 doses X 10mg. of yervoy and( gm-csf self injected shots) on days 1-14 of each cycle. He was able to have 1 maintanence dose of 10mg of yervoy and gm-csf shots after regular cycle. He had very little side effects--a little fatique on the first couple of days after infusion of yervoy and whelps and an itchy rash after gm-csf. He was scanned again in Dec. '11. This scan showed a few new mets in liver and growth of the largest tumor from 5mm to 11mm in 6 months. Much slower growth than before. We then movedback to Dr. Kim & on to y-90 in Jan.'12 for rt. lobe and mar.'12 for left. We were scanned again April 23 about a month after left lobe. Liver mets were still in turmoil as we had read, heard, and researched. 3 small mets showed up on spine behind liver. We are anxious to know what to do for that. Chattanooga says chemo(which we're opposed to because it's usually so lethal and not very effective), trial, or nothing but wait and see. (really don't want to do any of these.) Put the question to ocumel and responses were zometa?, external beam radiation, cyberknife, or wait and see. Has anyone had cyberknife or zometa? Is there anything more out there to target spine? Have been in contact with Dr. Jeffrey Weber @ Moffitt about pd-1, but not since spine mets appeared. Any ideas about how to treat spine mets? My husband is 66yrs. old and very healthy and active even through all the treatments. He feels great and you wouldn't know he had these issues. Would like to find something to treat spine mets b/4 they get big and do cause pain. Please respond. Will be @ Philly conference in June, God willing and the creek doesn't rise. Thanks for your imput, Margaret Rogers