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Atherosclerotic Coronary Vulnerable Plaque: Correlation With Coronary Artery Calcium
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01830062
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : April 12, 2013
Last Update Posted : June 11, 2018
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|Condition or disease
|Coronary Artery Disease
|Other: NIRS Other: CACS
|Not Applicable
A total of 60 patients, from a single center, who meet all of the study inclusion criteria and none of the study exclusion criteria will be prospectively enrolled in this study. Qualifying patients will be referred to the study site for clinically indicated, non-emergent cardiac catheterization with NIRS evaluation, either proceeded or followed by coronary artery calcium score (CACS) evaluation.
Qualifying patients that are referred directly to cardiac catheterization with NIRS assessment secondary to symptoms or abnormal functional test will be sent for cardiac CACS assessment following the catheterization before discharge from the hospital. In this group, patients who require ad hoc PCI upon initial angiography will be excluded to avoid artifacts on CACS. In patients who are referred for a clinically indicated cardiac catheterization with IVUS evaluation within 3 months after MDCT with CACS, NIRS of at least two (2) major epicardial vessels will be completed prior to any (if necessary) coronary revascularization.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|60 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Atherosclerotic Coronary Vulnerable Plaque: Correlation With Coronary Artery Calcium
|Study Start Date :
|November 2013
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|January 2019
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|May 2019
Experimental: CACS and NIRS
All patients will undergo NIRS to at least 2 major epicardial vessels as a research related intervention. Patients will be considered to be enrolled in the trial upon completion NIRS evaluation. Patients who had a clinically indicated CT with CACS evaluation within 3 months prior to the cardiac catheterization with NIRS evaluation will not have any other research related interventions. Patients who have not had a clinically indicated CT with CACS within 3 months prior to the cardiac catheterization with NIRS evaluation will have the CACS after NIRS imaging prior to discharge from the hospital.
Other: NIRS
Near infrared spectroscopy of at least 2 major epicardial vessels
Other Name: LipiScan Coronary Imaging System, InfraReDx, Inc.
Other: CACS
Coronary artery calcium score assessed by multi-slice computed tomography
- Correlation between CACS and LCBI [ Time Frame: maximum duration of 3 months between CACS and NIRS ]The primary endpoint for this study is individual patient level correlation between the total CACS of the entire coronary tree with the max LCBI4mm within the vessels imaged.
- Vessel level correlation of CACS and LCBI [ Time Frame: maximum of 3 months between CACS and NIRS ]Vessel level and individual coronary artery level (LM, LAD, LCx, RCA) analysis of CACS with max LCBI4mm and total LCBI for the vessel imaged
- Vessel level comparison of angiographic and IVUS parameters [ Time Frame: maximum of 3 months between CACS and NIRS ]Vessel level comparison of angiographic and IVUS parameters with yellow plaque defined by LCBI (both max LCBI4mm and total vessel LCBI)
- Segment level analysis of CACS, IVUS and lipid core plaque in patients with abnormal CT [ Time Frame: maximum of 3 months between CACS and NIRS ]In subset of patient where coronary angiography and NIRS is driven by patient with abnormal CT coronary angiogram, the CT angiographic parameters are utilized for Segment level analysis between the CACS, IVUS and lipid core plaque
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, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient is ≥18 years of age
- Patient is clinically indicated due to angina, abnormal functional test or other ischemic symptoms to undergo non-emergent cardiac catheterization with IVUS evaluation i.If the patient has not had a cardiac MDCT with CACS meeting the protocol requirements within 3 months prior to the cardiac catheterization, the patient is able to undergo CACS following LipiScan IVUS and NIRS evaluation, prior to any coronary revascularization ii. If the patient has had a cardiac MDCT evaluation with CACS meeting the protocol requirements within 3 months prior to the cardiac catheterization, LipiScan IVUS and NIRS imaging will be completed in at least two (2) major epicardial vessels prior to any coronary revascularization
At least two (2) major epicardial native vessels are suitable for interrogation by LipiScan IVUS imaging and NIRS evaluation, defined as:
i.At least 30 mm of vessel that is > 2.0mm in diameter ii.No other contraindications to imaging
- No contraindications for LipiScan IVUS and NIRS evaluation
- No contraindications for CACS evaluation by MDCT
- Subject must be able to provide informed consent form and comply with the protocol requirements
Exclusion Criteria:
- Evidence of clinical hemodynamic instability in the 6 hours before either procedure
- Prior history of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with stent placement
- Prior history of bypass grafts
- Female subject that is pregnant or lactating
- Any other factor that the investigator feels would put the patient at increased risk or otherwise make the patient unsuitable for participation in the protocol
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01830062
|United States, District of Columbia
|MedStar Washington Hospital Center
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20010
|Principal Investigator:
|Ron Waksman, MD
|Medstar Washington Hospital Center
|Responsible Party:
|Medstar Health Research Institute
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01830062 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|April 12, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|June 11, 2018
|Last Verified:
|June 2018
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Coronary Artery Disease
Myocardial Ischemia
Coronary Disease
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Arterial Occlusive Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Calcium, Dietary
Bone Density Conservation Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs

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MINNEAPOLIS, March 5, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SPS Commerce (Nasdaq:SPSC), a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions, today announced that management will present at the Barrington Research Technology Conference in Chicago, IL on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 12:40 p.m. CT.
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SPS Commerce is a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions and the Retail Universe community, providing integration, collaboration, connectivity, visibility and data analytics to thousands of customers worldwide. We deliver our solutions over the Internet using a Software-as-a-Service model to improve the way the retail supply chain community of suppliers, retailers, distributors and other customers build their trading partner relationships and manage and fulfill orders. Our Retail Universe hosts profiles of thousands of retail supply chain members, and enables retailers, suppliers and 3PLs to find, connect and form new business partnerships based on product or integration requirements. Our platform features pre-built integrations used by current and new customers alike, spanning 3,000 order management models across more than 1,500 retailers, grocers and distributors, as well as integrations to over 100 accounting, warehouse management, enterprise resource planning, and packing and shipping applications. More than 50,000 customers across more than 40 countries have used our platform, making it one of the largest trading partner integration centers. SPS Commerce has achieved 48 consecutive quarters of increased revenues and is headquartered in Minneapolis. For additional information, please contact SPS Commerce at 866-245-8100 or visit www.spscommerce.com or www.retailuniverse.com.
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The red-light cameras that have been in operation at three intersections in Poway since 2005 will soon be ripped from the ground.
The Poway City Council Tuesday night unanimously voted to end its contract with Redflex Traffic Systems immediately. Its representative said the cameras will be removed within 30 days after the company is notified in writing of the decision.
Six months ago the council ordered the cameras turned off and shrouded with a plastic covering as a test. The results were surprising. Accidents decreased at the intersections compared to the six month before they were turned off.
The biggest criticism of the lights were $412 tickets given to people making right turns at red lights without coming to a complete stop. Councilman Dave Grosch said he got one and so did his daughter, and he felt it was unfair that such an infraction should be treated the same way as someone who blows through a red light at high speed.
Robert Warner, an account manager for Redflex, urged the council to study the issue longer. He said six months is not long enough to judge accident trends and said there were some indications that many more people have been running the lights recently.
Only Councilman Jim Cunningham sounded as if he wanted to keep the cameras for public safety reasons. The others were ready to get rid of them.
Councilman Steve Vaus said since the cameras were turned off not one person had asked him to turn them back on. "People find them to be intrusive, some find them to be ugly, and I think some would say they are ineffective," he said.
Deputy Mayor John Mullin said if statistics showed a need he would vote to keep them. But they don't, he said. "I believe these things are invasive and I categorically don't like them," he said.
Just minutes after the decision Redflex emailed the following statement:
"Redflex Traffic Systems is disappointed in the decision made tonight by the Poway City Council to discontinue their photo enforcement program. The California Highway Patrol data for these monitored intersections shows a positive impact on Poway, with a 90% decrease in collisions since the cameras were implemented. Additionally, in the last six months there has been a 115% increase in red light running detections at these same intersections. This significant increase in detections supports what we see in other communities. Once cameras go dark, drivers revert back to their reckless and dangerous habits."
The Poway cameras are located at the intersections of Pomerado Road and Ted Williams Parkway, Pomerado Road and Poway Road, and Scripps Poway Parkway and Community Road.


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As the Dodgers sprint toward the postseason, their president still can't forget the guy who stopped running.
It was the eighth inning of Game 7 of the 1991 World Series. Stan Kasten's Atlanta Braves were locked in a scoreless tie with the host Minnesota Twins when Lonnie Smith raced from first base on a deep line drive by Terry Pendleton.
The ball bounced off the left-center field wall and should have scored Smith. But as he rounded second base, he inexplicably stopped.
Smith said he lost the ball in the white of the Metrodome ceiling. Replays show he was fooled by Twins second baseman Chuck Knoblauch, who was pretending to catch a throw from the outfield.
Whatever happened, by the time Smith realized his mistake, he was able to make it only to third base, from which he was unable to score in a game — and series — that was eventually won by the Twins, 1-0, in the 10th inning.
It was the first bit of October heartbreak for a Braves team that finished the season with baseball's best regular-season record five times, yet won just one championship.
It is also one of the nightmares that drives Kasten as he has overseen the building of a Dodgers team whose current run of greatness, he knows, is but one October twitch from ending.
"To get to the seventh game of the World Series and lose it on a baserunning mistake … I thought about that play every day until we finally won a championship," said Kasten, whose Braves finally finished the job in 1995. "Once you get to the postseason, it's a crucible where any mistake, any accident, can finish you."
Into this crucible the Dodgers will soon plunge, and everyone is wondering, are they built for it? Are the Dodgers peaking too early, or will this incredible regular-season run — since June 21, they are 39 games over .500 — translate to the postseason?
The statistics are about as pretty as Lonnie Smith rounding second. Since the beginning of the wild-card era in 1995, the team with the best regular-season record has won the World Series just three of 18 times. During this period, of the 18 teams that have won at least 100 regular-season games, only two have won championships.
"When you get to the postseason, it's not like one hot part of your team can carry you," said Kasten. "It's not just one Super Bowl, it's an entire month that can be decided by one fluke."
Kasten isn't the only one who understands this. Ned Colletti, Dodgers general manager, was a key front-office member of the 2000 San Francisco Giants team that finished with baseball's most wins and was out of the playoffs in a week.
Together, they have built a Dodgers team that, at first glance, appears deep and experienced enough to overcome the flukes. With Kasten's unlimited budget and Colletti's unlimited reach, they have seemingly built a regular-season monster that is playoff-proof.
"Once you get to postseason, nothing goes true to form," said Colletti. "We have tried to add guys that give us a safety net."
It starts with starting pitching. The Dodgers have what appears to be a perfect postseason rotation, but look closer. Clayton Kershaw has a 5.87 earned-run average in five postseason games. Zack Greinke has a 6.48 ERA in three postseason games. Hyun-Jin Ryu is in uncharted waters in his first major league season.
To hedge his bets here, Colletti acquired calm veteran Ricky Nolasco, who has the powerful safety-net number of a 2.27 ERA in 11 Dodgers starts.
"The postseason is truly a crapshoot, you have to be as prepared as possible because you just don't know, and building the starting pitching to be as good as you can is one way of doing that," said Colletti.
In the bullpen, Kenley Jansen and Paco Rodriguez are youngsters who have never appeared in a postseason game while Ronald Belisario has a 7.71 ERA in six postseason games. Colletti added J.P. Howell, who has a 3.00 ERA in 13 postseason games, and Brian Wilson, who did not allow an earned run in 10 appearances for the Giants in the 2010 postseason.
"I want guys like Brian because they've played this time of year, they've played into October with success," said Colletti. "They understand the dynamic, they understand what the day feels like."
While the Dodgers' everyday lineup has only two guys with World Series experience — Carl Crawford and Juan Uribe — the bench is filled with October bling. Skip Schumaker has two World Series rings, Nick Punto and Jerry Hairston Jr. have one each, and newly acquired Michael Young has played in two of the last three World Series.
"The experience is a benefit, because when you get to the postseason, everything is turned up," said Colletti. "Everything is dissected deeper and deeper, and you have to look for a competitive advantage pitch by pitch."
It appears the Dodgers have that advantage, but Colletti knows you can never know. In 2000, the league-best Giants lost in four games to the New York Mets in a series that turned on a Mets walk-off hit in Game 3.
Now and forever, one of Colletti's most unforgettable home runs as a Giants executive didn't come from a guy named Barry Bonds, but a guy named Benny Agbayani.
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Explosion rocks Central Texas town
West mayor: 'We need your prayers' after over 100 injured in plant explosion
WACO - A massive explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco killed an unknown number of people Wednesday night, injured more than 100 others and sent flames shooting into the night sky, leaving the factory a smoldering ruin.
D.L. Wilson, a spokesman with the Texas Department of Public Safety, said "a number" of people were killed in the explosion at West Fertilizer plant in West, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported on its website.
Dr. George Smith, the town's emergency management director, told CNN that at least two EMS personnel were killed and three firefighters might have died.
Wilson, who called the explosion "an unbelievable tragedy," said it will be some time before authorities know the full extent of the loss of life and damage.
The explosion happened before 8 p.m. and could be heard as far away as Waxahachie, 45 miles to the north.
Tommy Muska, West's mayor, said at a news conference three hours after the explosion that the fire was under control but he didn't yet know how many people had been injured or killed. "We need your prayers," he said. "There's a lot of people that, I'm sure, are not going to be here tomorrow."
Muska said rescue personnel were going door to door searching for survivors and the dead, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported on its website.
People in a five-block area north of the plant were being evacuated, Muska said, adding that buildings there were severely damaged by the explosion.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said state officials were waiting for details about the extent of the damage.
Aerial footage showed fires still smoldering in the ruins of the plant and in several surrounding buildings and people being treated for injuries on the flood-lit local football field, which had been turned into a staging area for emergency responders. Ambulances and several dozen injured people could be seen being taken away or seated in wheelchairs as they were treated and awaited transport.
Earlier fire
A fire had broken out earlier at the fertilizer plant, and the explosion occurred while firefighters were trying to put it out, the Dallas Morning News reported on its website.
"It was a small fire and then water got sprayed on the ammonia nitrate, and it exploded just like the Oklahoma City bomb," Jason Shelton, a clerk at the Czech Best Western Hotel in West, told the Morning News. "I live about a thousand feet from it, and it blew my screen door off and my back windows. There's houses leveled that were right next to it. We've got people injured and possibly dead."
Debby Marak told The Associated Press that when she finished teaching her religion class Wednesday night, she noticed smoke coming from the area across town near the plant, which is near a nursing home. She said she drove over to see what was happening, and that when she got out of her car two boys ran toward her screaming that the authorities told them to leave because the plant was going to explode. She said she drove about a block before the blast happened.
"It was like being in a tornado," the 58-year-old said by phone. "Stuff was flying everywhere. It blew out my windshield.
"It was like the whole earth shook."
She drove 10 blocks, called her husband and asked him to come get her. When they got to their home about 2 miles south of town, her husband told her what he'd seen: a huge fireball that rose like "a mushroom cloud."
More than two hours after the blast, there were still fires smoldering in what was left of the plant and others burning in nearby buildings. In aerial footage from Dallas' NBC affiliate, WDFW, dozens of emergency vehicles could be seen amassed at the scene. Entry into West was slow-going, as the roads were jammed with emergency vehicles rushing in to help out.
Department of Public Safety troopers were using their squad cars to transport those injured by the blast and fire at the plant in West, Gayle Scarbrough, a spokeswoman for the department's Waco office, told television station KWTX. She said six helicopters were also en route to help out.
Types of injuries
Glenn A. Robinson, the chief executive of Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco, told CNN that his hospital had received more than 40 people for treatment, both by ambulance and private vehicle.
He said the injuries included blast injuries, orthopedic injuries, large wounds and a lot of lacerations and cuts. The hospital has set up a hotline for families of the victims to get information, he said.
Crews sent to help
American Red Cross crews from across Texas were being sent to the site, the organization said.
Red Cross spokeswoman Anita Foster said the group was working with emergency management officials in West to find a safe shelter for residents displaced from their homes. She said teams from Austin to Dallas and elsewhere are being sent to the community north of Waco.
A West Fire Department dispatcher said any casualties would be transported to hospitals in Waco, which is about 90 miles north of Austin.
The explosion knocked out power to many area customers and could be heard and felt for miles around.
Brad Smith, who lives 45 miles north of West in Waxahachie, told the station that he and his wife heard what sounded like a thunderclap.
Lydia Zimmerman, told KWTX that she, her husband and daughter were in their garden in Bynum, 13 miles from West, when they heard multiple blasts.
"It sounded like three bombs going off very close to us," she said.
West, with a population of 2,600, is widely known for its annual Westfest, which celebrates the city's Czech heritage. It's the home of several well-known bakeries, including the Czech Stop and Little Czech Bakery, that serve kolaches and other pastries.
More Information
• Blast felt as far away as Katy
• Similar to 1947 tragedy in Texas City
• Houston relief groups standing by to help
• Gov. Rick Perry declares McLennan County a disaster area
• Houston Fire Department's Texas Task Force 1 deployed to West
• Scary YouTube video catches the blast
• SciGuy Eric Berger explains why ammonium nitrate explodes
• Pope Francis tweets prayers for Texas explosion victims
• Social media responds to the West tragedy
• Fertilizer plant had been cited in 2006
• TCEQ staff monitoring environment at blast site
• Gov. Rick Perry mobilizes state resources


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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (Sept. 13, 2009) - In a tournament that includes an 18-team field comprised exclusively of conference championship teams from the 2008 season, the ETSU women's golf team held its own, finishing sixth during first round play in the Golfweek Conference Challenge Sunday at the Primm Valley Resort's Desert Course.
The Buccaneers posted a team score of 14-over-par 302 to end the day two strokes back of fifth place California and seven strokes back of first place Oklahoma State.
ETSU was powered by strong play from sophomore Nina Muehl (Vienna, Austria) and senior Laura Jansone (Jurmala, Latvia). Muehl finished in fourth place after posting an even par 72, while Jansone fired a 2-over 74 to end the day tied for 11th. Oklahoma State's Caroline Hedwall leads individually after carding a 4-under-par 68.
Other Buccaneers results included a tie for 34th by senior Sinead O'Sullivan (Galway, Ireland) and a tie for 48th by senior Kennie Leigh Eisenhower (Newport).
Play in the Golfweek Conference Challenge will continue with second round action on Monday, followed by third and final round play on Tuesday. Live scoring is available at Golfstat.com, while ETSUBucs.com will provide a complete wrap up following each day's action.


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Approximately 40 percent of the mottled duck's diet consists of animal matter such as insects, snails, mollusks, crayfish and small fish. The remainder of its diet is composed of grass seeds, stems, and roots; seeds of other marsh plants; and bayberries.
Florida mottled ducks have an intrinsic, aesthetic value and are highly prized as a game bird. Also they are a defining member of the unique suite of species characteristic of the prairie ecosystem of south Florida.
It will take an effort by not only the FWC, but all Floridians, to ensure the continued existence of the Florida mottled duck.
Florida mottled ducks nest from February through July. The females tend to locate their nests in dense vegetation (tall grasses, rushes or palmetto thickets) on the ground near water. The nest is built of vegetation and is lined with down. Only 1 brood each year is raised and females typically lay 8-10 eggs called a clutch. The eggs are creamy-white to greenish-white and are incubated within 25 to 27 days.
Unlike such birds as the mockingbird or blue jay, which raise their young in the nest for weeks, mottled duck females will move their ducklings to water within 24 to 48 hours of hatching. Young mottled ducks are capable of flight at 60 to 70 days of age.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) biologists have conducted an aerial survey of Florida's mottled ducks every March since 1985, to provide an estimate of the density of birds within a central area of their range. The FWC uses this density estimate to monitor the status of the mottled duck population. In 2003, the FWC began to redesign the survey to improve its efficiency and provide a more reliable density estimate, one that is representative of the entire mottled duck population.
Feral mallards are mating with mottled ducks, producing a hybrid offspring. State biologists are observing more and more mixed flocks and mixed pairs in the wild and these. These hybrid offspring are fertile, which further compounds the problem. Every mallard released in Florida can potentially contribute to the hybridization problem and the result is that fewer and fewer pure-bred Florida mottled ducks are left each year. The complete hybridization could result in the extinction of the Florida mottled duck.
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Spain Asks Latin American Nations for Help Amid Financial Woes
CADIZ, Spain – Once the rulers of much of what was called the New World, Spain is now asking its former colonies for help to overcome a deep financial crisis by channeling investments its way.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Spain had invested heavily in Latin America when it suffered a crisis 10 years ago, and now that the roles were reversed, he called upon those nations to increase their participation in his country's economy.
"Spain receives Latin American investment with open arms," he said.
Rajoy was speaking at the Iberoamerican summit being held in Spain's southwestern port of Cadiz, once the country's gateway for importing Aztec and Inca treasure.
King Juan Carlos made the same plea Friday, saying "our eyes turn to you, we need more Latin America."
He added that Spain had "seen difficult situations emerge caused by the financial and economic crisis."
One such difficulty could be seen almost simultaneously on the streets of Madrid, where more than 5,000 police officers rallied to protest government austerity measures, including frozen pensions and the elimination of their Christmas bonus.
José Maria Benito, a spokesman for Spain's Unified Police Union, said police were worried that budget cuts meant that working conditions were more precarious, that law enforcement equipment was not adequate and that the 15,000 officers who had left the force were not being replaced.
Meanwhile, some 3,500 police guarded the leaders gathered in the former imperial port of Cadiz at the annual summit, which brings together Latin America leaders with the heads of former colonial powers Spain and Portugal to discuss political issues and arrange business deals.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa criticized the austerity measures implemented by the European Union, saying they were repeating mistakes Latin America made a decade ago.
Bolivia also took on Chile at the gathering, demanding that it restore the landlocked nation's access to the Pacific Ocean, which it lost following a 1879-1883 war between Bolivia, Chile and Peru.
Bolivian President Evo Morales called for his Chilean counterpart, Sebastián Piñera, to abandon "conservative positions" and agree to negotiate.
"Chilean diplomacy closes ranks when it comes to addressing Bolivia's claim," he said.
Piñera responded that a treaty was signed when Bolivia lost the war.
"Chile has met, meets and will continue to meet what is set out in that treaty," Piñera said, adding that Bolivia had free access to Chile's ports.
Morales also asked for support for his country's proposals to end a U.N. treaty banning the chewing of coca leaves, a custom practiced by the indigenous peoples of the Andes since before Columbus' arrival.
A mild stimulant, the leaves have deep cultural and religious value in the region. Chewed or consumed as tea, coca counters altitude sickness, aids digestion and suppresses hunger and fatigue.
The leaves have however been stigmatized as the raw material of cocaine, and the United States opposes ending the ban.
On a related topic, Mexican President Felipe Calderón was critical of votes in the U.S. states of Washington and Colorado to legalize marijuana for recreational use, saying that his country could not afford to take even "one step back" from fighting drug trafficking.
"We are particularly concerned about the violence associated with these drugs," said Calderón, who made combating drugs one of the cornerstones of his mandate.
King Juan Carlos of Spain declared the summit closed following its afternoon session.
Based on reporting by the Associated Press.
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Ohio High School Athletic Association commissioner Dan Ross sighed when asked what might ensue if a statewide referendum seeking separate postseason tournaments for public and non-public schools passes in May.
Ohio High School Athletic Association commissioner Dan Ross sighed when asked what might ensue if a statewide referendum seeking separate postseason tournaments for public and non-public schools passes in May.
"If this issue does pass, and I think it will be close, we have no clue whatsoever how things would actually shake out," said Ross, addressing a media panel from around the state yesterday. "We would have to reassess the way we do business in every sport. We would be faced with major logistical issues."
A group of administrators in northeast Ohio initiated a petition that received enough signatures for it to be placed on the annual referendum. Principals from the state's 820-member high schools will be eligible to vote during the first two weeks of May. The OHSAA will announce the results on May 15.
If passed, the new format would be implemented during the 2015-16 school year. If defeated, the issue would be shelved until at least 2016. A similar proposal has been voted down three times previously, but the margin has narrowed significantly each time.
Ross vowed to remain objective when he barnstorms Ohio in April to educate administrators about the referendum, but his stance is obvious.
"I will try my best to state the positives and negatives and present all the issues that people might not be aware of," he said. "As I've stated all along, I believe the current system needs to be tweaked, but I'm not one who believes that separation is the answer. That's why I came up with the competitive-balance proposal, to try to find some middle ground to work from. If the issue is voted down, maybe we'll revisit it in some form."
The logistical issues of separate tournaments are numerous, Ross said. For example, how many divisions would a non-public football tournament with 72 schools require?
"What would people think about Norwalk St. Paul vs. Cincinnati St. Xavier in a first-round game, or if there's a big-school and a small-school division, you still might get Ironton St. Joseph against Youngstown Mooney," Ross said. "How do you make it work?"
He said that the idea of sponsoring twice as many tournaments might hasten the OHSAA to take a hard look at whether it would be financially viable to continue sponsoring state championships in smaller, nonrevenue sports such as field hockey, gymnastics and ice hockey.
The possibility exists that all or some of the non-public schools, which comprise 17 percent of the membership, might opt to secede from the OHSAA and form an independent governing body.
In other news:
• In the next few months, the OHSAA Board of Directors will examine modifying its penalty for athletes transferring from one school to another. Athletes not qualifying under specific exemptions are forced to sit out one calendar year before becoming eligible.
"This discussion is being driven by a large volume of court cases in which local judges are honoring temporary restraining orders on the grounds that the penalty is too harsh," Ross said. "We may see a sizable shift from where we've been on this stance, perhaps to a penalty of up to 50 percent of that season."
• The Board of Directors approved a recommendation from the OHSAA to change the divisional tournament assignment process for cross country in order to ensure that a school's boys and girls teams will compete in the same division. Beginning next fall, enrollment numbers will be added together and divided in half to determine a school's division.
Roughly 50 schools had teams in different divisions. More than 80 percent of all teams share a common boys and girls coach, creating competitive and travel issues in the tournament. The Ohio Track and Cross Country Coaches Association previously voted down the plan.
"I understand that some coaches are upset, but it was one of those things that we decided was for the good of the sport as a whole," OHSAA spokesman Tim Stried said.


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If you don't get beads at Mardi Gras, see Bill Ouellette.
"Everybody gets some beads and every year is more family-friendly," said Ouellette, president of Lake Wales Mardi Gras.
He suspects the 2013 event may draw even more than last year's estimated crowd of 30,000, as long as the weather cooperates.
Saturday's 29th annual Mardi Gras parade will be led by Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd — the 2013 grand marshal — who may be riding in one of the Sheriff's Office "toys," Ouellette said, although he doesn't know which one.
The parade is just part of the fun in and around the Marketplace plaza and Market Street in downtown Lake Wales, with music, food, craft vendors and kids' activities, said Katie Kinloch, treasurer of the Mardi Gras Committee.
Plus, the Police Officers Association will have a fundraising carnival today through Sunday at Tillman Avenue and First Street. Proceeds will go to "Shop With A Cop" and other benevolent programs.
Mardi Gras T-shirts will be on sale throughout Mardi Gras, said Lori Cunningham, at Applied Images. Short-sleeved shirts are $15, and long-sleeved shirts are $20. She said $2 from each shirt is donated back to Lake Wales Mardi Gras committee.
Shirts are already available at Al's Place, Arcade Coffee and Sandwich Shop, Beans-N-Brushes, The Gallery and Frame Shop, Lori Draper's Furniture and Applied Images at 1156 N. Scenic Highway and 863-676-9800, she said.
The 2012 festival gave back more than $3,000 to the community through Our Children's Academy, Lake Wales Charter Schools, Webber International University, Lake Wales Family YMCA, Blake Appleton and other local causes.
"When we have a little extra, we try to spread it around," Ouellette said.
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It doesn't take a CSI to follow this pattern. UW-Whitewater's defense intercepted five Wesley College passes, cashing those in for two third quarter touchdowns, in a 27-7 win in a NCAA Division III semifinal game in Dover, Delaware Saturday. The win puts the Warhawks, 14-0, in the NCAA Division III championship game, the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, Saturday, December 13 at 2:30 (Central) against the University of Mount Union --- for the sixth consecutive year.
Whitewater took its first possession at its 30 yard line. Eight plays later the Warhawks had a second and goal on the Wesley one. A false start penalty pushed it back to the six, a rush and an incomplete pass brought on Eric Kindler, who connected on a 19 yard field goal, which got tipped at the line but still had enough to make it through the uprights, to put UW-W on the board with 8:01 left in the first.
Taking advantage of field position, Wesley began a drive later in the quarter on their own 45. On the third play of the mini-drive, Wesley quarterback Justin Sottilare found Matt Barile with a 38 yard scoring toss. Barile's first touchdown of the season, and his fifth catch of the season, put Wesley in front 7-3 with 1:08 on the clock.
UW-W answered on the next drive, traveling 72 yards on six plays, with Lee Brekke connecting with Adam Brandes for a 35 yard score, making it 10-7 Whitewater with 13:24 left in the half.
The Warhawk defense forced a three and out, and the offense began marching again. Wesley ended the drive with a Jeff Morgan interception at the Wesley 22. The UW-W defense responded in kind, with defensive back Jared Kiesow picking off a Wesley pass at the 16, and he returned it to the Whitewater 34. UW-W moved the ball 24 yards on three plays, but Morgan picked off his second Warhawk pass of the day at Wesley's 32.
The teams went in to the locker room with a halftime score of 10-7 Whitewater.
Wesley's first possession of the second half was interrupted by an interception, this time by defensive back Steve McCollom at the Whitewater 36, where he returned the ball to the Wesley 44.
More of the same for Wesley on its second drive of the second half, as DB Matt McCulloch picked off Wesley's Sottilare for the third time in the game, giving Whitewater the ball deep in Wesley territory, at the 24.
UW-W turned to its offensive line and the Coppage offense, much like the second half in the win over North Central last week, handing the ball off to the junior running back eight consecutive plays, ending with a one yard touchdown run to put the Warhawks in front 17-7 with 3:25 left in the third.
Deja vu for Wesley, because Sottilare was picked off on its first play after the kickoff, this time by linebacker Greg Arnold who made it from the Whitewater 36 to the one yard line. Sottilare had thrown four passes in this span, with three of them picked off by the Warhawks. Coppage walked in on the next play to make it 24-7 with 3:01 left in the third, giving UW-W 14 points in 24 seconds.
The next time they had the ball the Wolverines drove to the Whitewater 26, but lost yardage to the 33 and failed on a fourth and nine attempt.
Whitewater's final score ended a seven play, 56 yard drive, highlighted by a 32 yard run by Coppage. Kindler booted his second field goal of the day, this time from 28 yards with 10:01 left in the game and UW-W leading 27-7.
Wesley continued to come back, advancing to the Whitewater 8, but a Wesley Hicks sack pushed the Wolverines back to the 19, where Sottilare threw his fifth interception of the day with Kiesow picking off his second in the end zone.
The five interceptions are the most by UW-W since the Warhawks picked off eight UW-Superior passes in 1982.
The Warhawk defense limited Wesley to minus seven yards rushing, the fourth time this season that UW-W has held an opponent to negative yards rushing. Whitewater, behind 146 yards by Coppage, rushed for 172 yards. Wesley made up some of the difference passing, throwing the ball 44 times for 256 yards.
Brekke went 13-19 for 144 yards, one TD and two interceptions. Senior wide receiver Aaron Rusch led both teams with six catches for 64 yards. Sottilare was 24-43 for 256 yards, one TD and the five picks. Sophomore tailback Brandon Wright was on the receiving end of five of those passes for 62 yards.
Linebacker Lane Olson topped the Warhawks with four solo tackles, five assists and one tackle for a loss. Wolverine senior safety Aaron Benson had a game ten tackles, eight of them solo.
Warhawks Punch Ticket to Salem with Win over Wesley
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Photo Coverage: John Lloyd Young Brings MY TURN to Cafe Carlyle
The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel welcomes Tony Award-Winner John Lloyd Young for his Café Carlyle debut where he will perform his program "My Turn." Mr. Young opens at the Café Carlyle through February 23rd where he will be joined by GLEE music producer Tommy Faragher as his music director with a seven piece band including Mr. Faragher on piano/keyboards, John Putnam on guitar, Paul Socolow on bass, Eric Kalb on drums, Goke Erem on violin, Eddy Malave on viola, and Leigh Stuart on Cello.
BroadwayWorld was there for his opening night performance and you can check out photo coverage below!
Mr. Young's program "My Turn" will include songs from his debut album of the same name and will feature hits from the Four Seasons' era that brought Mr. Young to Jersey Boys fame, as well as other classics from the 60s era including favorites such as "Hurt So Bad," "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," "Unchained Melody," and "You Belong To Me."
Café Carlyle is located in The Carlyle Hotel (35 East 76th Street @ Madison Avenue). John Lloyd Young will play Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8:45PM. There is a $65 music charge ($45 bar seating) Tuesday through Thursday and a $75 music charge ($45 bar seating) for shows on Friday and Saturday. Every Monday night at 8:45PM (until June 17th), Woody Allen appears with thE Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band. There is a $145 music charge ($100 bar seating). For additional information, visit www.thecarlyle.com.Photo Credit: Walter McBride
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Tyler Stevenson
Mar 25, 2010
Experience is a great teacher, but sometimes it's not the best way to learn, especially when it comes to your medical needs. Smart people learn from their mistakes, but wise people learn from other people's mistakes. In my ten years with diabetes, I have found that to eliminate problems, you need to anticipate your needs. A few moments of preparation can ensure a great afternoon of fun with your friends, a better grade on a test, or participation in a sporting competition without any complications.
As people with diabetes, we don't have the option of forgetting about our disease if we want to maintain a healthy lifestyle. So here are ten things that I've learned we should all do to protect ourselves from complications as we go through our daily routine.
1. Have glucose tablets on you at all times.
2. Always check your blood glucose before any type of physical activity.
3. Have some type of sugary drink with you during any type of exercise or sport. Orange juice is the best by far.
4. Have a small bag to contain all of your supplies.
5. Check your blood sugar, and, if needed, try to have a snack 15 minutes prior to a test.
6. When playing school sports, check your blood glucose and adjust during halftime.
7. Take a Kwick pen with you whenever you are playing sports, in case you need a fast adjustment.
8. Always listen to your body. If you are thirsty all the time and have to urinate frequently, you definitely need to check your blood glucose.
9. Never be afraid to tell a coach or a teacher that your blood sugar is low because the problem will not go away.
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Organic vs. Conventional Foods: The Stanford Study (Part 1)
By G. Douglas Andersen, DC, DACBSP, CCN
Sales of organic foods increased from $1 billion in 1990 to $26.7 billion in 2010 in the U.S. alone, with most of the increase seen in the past few years. Since 2002, annual sales have increased by $18 billion.Recently, a team of researchers from Stanford University performed a review comparing organic and commercial foods.1 The review was prompted by a doctor whose patients kept asking her how much healthier organic foods were.
A 45-year Medline search yielded 240 papers that met the review authors' inclusion criteria. Seventeen of the studies compared populations consuming organic or conventional or non-organic foods; the other 223 studies compared the levels and/or amounts of a variety of factors (nutrients-bacteria-fungus-pesticides) from numerous food types and/or classifications: fruits, vegetables, dairy (milk & eggs), grains, and meats (beef, chicken, pork), produced organically or normally. The duration of the studies involving human subjects ranged from two days to two years.
According to the authors of the review study, "The published literature lacks strong evidence that organic foods are significantly more nutritious than conventional foods."1
This is an emotional topic and the release of this paper stimulated an emotional reaction. Please note that the authors did not say organic wasn't more nutritious; only that it wasn't significantly more nutritious. Of course, since many organic foods cost significantly more money, this becomes a big issue.
Part 2 of this article will focus on the main criticisms of the study and take a look at the synthetic chemical residues (acaricides, bacteriacides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, plant activators, soil fumigants) found on various foods to determine which ones are worth the higher cost of buying organic.
Click here for more information about G. Douglas Andersen, DC, DACBSP, CCN.


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|OUMNH Number:
|Name and quarry location:
|Granito della Sedia di San Pietro, from Wadi Umm Wikala, near Wadi Semna, Eastern Desert. Egypt
|Geological description:
|Gabbro or metagabbro (weakly metamorphosed) with some alteration of the green augite to brown?
|Nos. 821 and 822 are samples of granito della Sedia di San Pietro, the stone that was used for the inlays in the plinth of the bronze stature of a seated St Peter in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. It has also been called ofite because it was thought to come from Mons Ophyates (Wadi Semna). Others have suggested the name comes from 'ophytes' meaning snake, because it was used in Hellenistic times for amulets to ward of the effects of snake bites, a superstition that persisted in Roman times. Granito della Sedia di San Pietro is actually from Precambrian basement rocks at Wadi Umm Wikala.
|Borghini (1997) 234-235; Corsi (1845) 210-211, 217-218; Harrell (2010a); Lazzarini (2002c) 237-238; Mielsch (1985) 69, taf.24; Price (2007) 231
|Further information:
|Corsi's classification:
|Class 16. Granites; i. Antique granite
|Corsi's text:
|204.9 Granito antico. Marmor Syenite. Marmo Sienite... [trovata] presso la città di Siene sul confine fra Egitto, e l'Etiopia... Pyrrhopoecilon... Psaronion...Aethiopicum perchè... era Siene sul confine dell' Etiopia. Granito della Sedia.


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You are ready to climb the last trail to join the "select few" who have reached the top of Scouting's advancement ladder. This Honor requires demonstrating leadership and service.
To achieve this high honor, you are expected to plan, develop and give leadership to others, in carrying out a service project which is helpful to one of the following:
Please Note: Your project cannot be of direct benefit to any Boy Scout organization, cannot be performed for a commercial business or an individual, and cannot be a fund-raiser. Funds raised can only be used for materials and supplies needed to carry out the project.
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January 19, 2006 - Worm Evolution
by Jeff Moss
Worms are moving to the next generation, as evidence by new research from Dave Aitel and Billy Hoffman.
Dave Aitel is the first researcher to go above ground with a modern framework for automating the core functionality for writing a worm. Essentially, he has created a worm programming language called Nematode Intermediate Language. Writing a good worm is tougher than people think. At Black Hat Federal, Aitel will discuss many of the technical challenges involved in worm development, what he has done with the Nematodes framework to solve the issues, and legal issues associated with such work.
This year we will see more advanced web-application based worms. Larger web applications are using more dynamic technologies like AJAX everyday. Apparently, worms also like this technology. Billy Hoffman has been researching how worms propagate through web apps, which is decidedly different from past worms. Unlike more traditional worms that just compromised systems to spread, web-app worms are often in a unique position to do something with real consequence to the users compromised. Browsing the web is definitely getting more dangerous, and Billy's presentation will do a great job of demonstrating why.
Researching Worms
by David Aitel posted January 19, 2006
Jose Nazario, editor of wormblog.com, has this to say about my Nematode research: "What is interesting out of Dave's talk is the nematode generation tools he wrote. They work well, and they get around the problem of a lot of boilerplate code that has to be written for any worm. This is potentially a scary development, as more sophisticated attackers will begin improving their worms with these kinds of tools and dropping in exploits in a matter of minutes."
The truth is, very few people really know anything about worms, because very few people are writing them. It's hard to write them it takes longer than most academics feel like putting into the problem. But this just means there's room for an automated solution that takes the grunt work out of it, which is what you need to do before you can start researching them in a serious way. Most of what happens with worms that's interesting is not obvious, and it's chaotic enough that doing things in a mathematical model doesn't produce interesting results. So come to my talk. When you leave my talk, you should be able to write your own Nematode language in less than 15 minutes.
Dangerous Payloads
by Billy Hoffman posted January 19, 2006
A few weeks after my Toorcon presentation about using XSS+AJAX to develop dangerous payloads, the MySpace.com virus hit! After dismissing some co-workers asking me "Did you do it?" I started analyzing the code. It was so cool to see something you had just predicted actually happen. It was proof that AJAX, while DOM restricted, was very dangerous indeed. After looking the whole thing through I began to think: How could the payload be even worse... what if it this happened to a bank, or a stock website...Hmmm...What if I could make stock trades for you?
Research on web application worms exists, but is almost all theoretical or laughably silly in scope or proofs of concept. I grabbed the source to all the examples I could and started digging.
Invisible Incidents, Invisible Risk
In this issue of the Black Page we will look at incident response. Kevin Mandia, a world recognized leader of incident response research, points out that a responder must have skills at least that of the attacker. One of the challenges to IR is discovering there is an incident to begin with. If we only look for known attacks, we will only find the moderately skilled attackers—leaving us exposed to the truly skilled adversaries... read more
Implications of the Lynn Cisco Research, and Moving Forward
Did you notice that the original issue of the Black Page is missing? I removed it at the request of Mike Lynn and ISS when they were sorting out what Mike's presentation was going to include. It was getting close to the show, and I was getting conflicting signals from ISS. A common theme we will see in this saga... read more
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Who's No. 1? Handicapping the Draft field
When the 2014 Draft season started, it appeared that the answer to "Who will be the No. 1 pick in the Draft?" was a no-brainer, slam dunk.
North Carolina State left-hander Carlos Rodon was all but given an Astros jersey. But as they say, that's why they play the games. A bit of a slow start, coupled with perhaps unfair expectations, has moved Rodon back to the pack, while others have stepped forward into the competition to be the top selection.
When the 2014 Draft season started, it appeared that the answer to "Who will be the No. 1 pick in the Draft?" was a no-brainer, slam dunk.
North Carolina State left-hander Carlos Rodon was all but given an Astros jersey. But as they say, that's why they play the games. A bit of a slow start, coupled with perhaps unfair expectations, has moved Rodon back to the pack, while others have stepped forward into the competition to be the top selection.
The First-Year Player Draft will take place this week, beginning with the Draft preview show on MLB.com and MLB Network on Thursday at 6 p.m. ET. Live Draft coverage from MLB Network's Studio 42 begins at 7 p.m., with the top 74 picks being streamed on MLB.com and broadcast on MLB Network. MLB.com's exclusive coverage of the second and third days will begin with a live Draft show at 12:30 p.m. ET on Friday.
MLB.com's coverage includes Draft Central, the Top 200 Draft Prospects list and Draft Tracker, a live interactive application that includes a searchable database of Draft-eligible players. Every selection will be tweeted live from @MLBDraftTracker, and you can also keep up to date by following @MLBDraft. And get into the Draft conversation by tagging your tweets with #mlbdraft.
As has been the case each the past two years, the Astros, who will pick first on Thursday, have been kicking the tires on a number of candidates. Some seem to be more serious possibilities than others. Some might be a Plan B type or a dark horse. That doesn't mean that candidate won't be the selection. Who saw Carlos Correa coming in 2012? He was listed as a "dark horse" in this story two years ago.
The Astros have said they have narrowed the field to six. So here they are, from the front-runners to candidates to dark horses.
Brady Aiken, LHP, Cathedral Catholic HS (Calif.)
Rank in Top 200: 1
Aiken has performed his way to this spot by being more consistent than anyone, drawing comparisons to Clayton Kershaw along the way.
Why he should go No. 1: Three above-average to plus pitches, all with outstanding command, coming from an ideal pitcher's body and a smooth delivery. He's consistently performed even as the attention and pressure grew.
Why he shouldn't go No. 1: The Astros could decide they need someone who will get to the Major Leagues faster than a high school pitcher. The history of prep southpaws going No. 1 overall -- David Clyde and Brien Taylor -- isn't great.
Carlos Rodon, LHP, North Carolina State:
Rank in Top 200: 2
Rodon didn't run away and hide as the presumptive No. 1 pick. He's still pretty good, possessing perhaps the nastiest slider in the class.
Why he should go No. 1: Even with the slow start, he put up some serious numbers in a strong college conference. He has a long track record of success in college and for USA Baseball against tough competition.
Why he shouldn't go No. 1: His command has eluded him at times. His slow start, with stuff that seemed to regress for a time, might concern the Astros.
Alex Jackson, C/OF, Rancho Bernardo HS (Calif.)
Rank in Top 200: 4
Considered by most to be the best hitter in the Draft, with the ability to hit for average and a ton of power. The only question is if a team wants to slow down the bat to let him develop as a catcher.
Why he should go No. 1: See above about being the best hitter in the class. The power and hit tools are legitimate. He has an outstanding arm and could develop into a tremendous offensive-minded catcher, while having the bat to profile as a corner outfielder as well.
Why he shouldn't go No. 1: Can he catch? If he can, is a team willing to wait for that part of his game to develop? If he can't, is his bat special enough to be No. 1 as an outfielder, a la Bryce Harper?
Tyler Kolek, RHP, Shepherd HS (Texas)
Rank in Top 200: 3
Kolek is a beast of a young man, one who consistently hits 100 mph. While he might not be as polished as Aiken, he has more of a feel for pitching, complete with outstanding breaking stuff, than one might think for a power-armed guy his size.
Why he should go No. 1: He might have the most upside of anyone on this list of candidates. His size, arm strength and pure stuff all point to being a top-of-the-rotation type starter when all is said and done.
Why he shouldn't go No. 1: His command needs to be refined, though that's not uncommon for a high school power pitcher. No one has seen a high school pitcher throw this hard so consistently, and it's difficult to know what to make of that. A high school right-hander has never been taken with the No. 1 overall pick.
Nick Gordon, SS, Olympia HS (Fla.)
Rank in Top 200: 5
Son of Flash and brother of Dee, Gordon is a rarity on the amateur scene in that he will absolutely be able to stay a shortstop. Adding strength this spring ended concerns about his ability to do so and helped his offensive profile.
Why he should go No. 1: Guys who won't just stick but excel at a premium position such as shortstop are always valued highly and Gordon has the chance to be a very good all-around player up the middle, the kind around which winning teams are built.
Why he shouldn't go No. 1: While he is a tremendous prospect, he isn't the best player available. This would be a deal to save money and spend more aggressively later on, like the Astros did in 2012 with Correa -- though Gordon doesn't have Correa's offensive profile.
Aaron Nola, RHP, LSU
Rank in Top 200: 6
A finalist for the Golden Spikes Award, Nola has dominated in the tough Southeastern Conference with a combination of good stuff and a tremendous feel for pitching.
Why he should go No. 1: He might have the highest floor of anyone in the class. He also might be the quickest to get to the big leagues, with the chance of being a very successful starting pitcher for a very long time.
Why he shouldn't go No. 1: With that high floor comes a limited ceiling. Nola might be low-risk, but do you want to take a potential No. 3 starter with the top pick, which is typically reserved for elite-level, impact talent?
Jonathan Mayo is a reporter for MLBPipeline.com and writes a blog, B3. Follow @JonathanMayoB3 on Twitter.


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CINCINNATI (AP) - Adam Wainwright pitched seven innings for his ninth win, and every Cardinals starter had a hit in a 9-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Friday night that gave St. Louis a four-game lead in the NL Central, its biggest of the season.
Wainwright (9-3) gave up two runs and seven hits as the Cardinals improved the major leagues' best record to 40-21.
Slumping Pete Kozma drove in three runs, David Freese and Jon Jay knocked in two apiece, and four Cardinals extended long hitting streaks against a pitching staff in a downturn. Mike Leake (5-3) lasted only five innings for the Reds, who have given up 26 runs while losing their last three games.
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A production company seeks simple layout for their organization. The company's goal is to develop television shows for cable TV in addition to promoting various boxing related events.
Resnick Productions
Resnick Productions is owned by Ron Resnick. Ron is a former boxer and has managed and promoted various boxing events in the Rochester NY area. In addition to promoting boxing related events Ron wishes to begin developing TV shows that he can market and sell to cable television networks. Ron is looking for a website layout that will accommodate BOTH of these objectives.
There are not too many things the website must have other than a nice look. The colors used for the site should be black and gray, maybe a nice gradient effect or something like that. The navigation must have the following:
home | about us | tv-media production | fight promotions | fighter matchmaking
Ron has some knowledge of Photoshop and put together a few screen shots of what he is after. You will see how basic he wants the site. I am the web developer who will program this site for him. I have uploaded a zip file with some screen shots and his logo, a boxing glove with the words Resnick Productions on it. -
If you can incorporate subtle references to boxing in the layout that would be great - but not to the exent that someone would think they've landed on a site ALL about boxing.
When you look at the file tv-media-pagge.jpg you will see a logo for another site he is going to need created. This will be a site for a tv show called "Dispute TV". I imagine that who ever wins this contest can do the layout for that website as well.
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On June 10, 2006 Koua Fong Lee was returning from church with his family when his Toyota Camry hit an Oldsmobile at a St. Paul, Minnesota intersection, killing the driver and a passenger in the Oldsmobile. Lee is now serving an eight-year-sentence for vehicular homicide, but he has always maintained that his brakes didn't work. (ABC News) (VIDEO)
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Teaching in Higher Education - Special Issue Call for PapersFriday 17th Nov 17
Experts, knowledge and criticality in the age of 'alternative facts': re-examining the contribution of higher education
In their seminal works of the early 1990s, both Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens predicted that one manifestation of late modernity would be a popular suspicion of experts and expertise. Since then, the rise of the individual's ability to have their voice heard through mass social media has eroded traditional patterns of authority – including in academia. On the one hand, this democratisation of knowledge is to be welcomed, as it has enabled new critical voices to emerge and new discourses to develop, especially among groups that have historically been voiceless.
However, it has also created an environment of confusion – a crowded forum of competing voices where volume, integrity and quality are often out of balance. This confusion has allowed those with power to obfuscate, especially when the weight of evidence is against them. In recent times, we have seen former UK Education Secretary Michael Gove claim that the public are 'tired of experts', while US President Donald Trump's infamous refrain of 'fake news' is used to sideline inconvenient facts and opinions.
Universities have traditionally been seen as authoritative sites for both the creation and transmission of knowledge. Academics are positioned as experts whose work enriches public life through scientific, social and cultural advances, with expertise that is passed to students through a variety of teaching practices as part of a consensual corpus of knowledge. More recently, universities have increasingly promoted the idea of their graduates as globally-aware and values-led problem-solvers, with the knowledge to tackle 'wicked issues' like climate change, public health crises and economic instability.
This forthcoming special issue of Teaching in Higher Education will focus on how universities can and should respond to the 'post-truth' world where experts and expertise are under attack, but where knowledge and theory-based practice continue to offer the hope of a fairer, safer and more rewarding world. We are interested to receive papers that re-examine what and how universities should teach in responding to the new public scepticism.
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Since Cristiano Ronaldo announced back in September that he was unhappy at Real Madrid, rumours have surfaced that he could be on his way back to Manchester United.
His name is still sang among the Old Trafford faithful week in week out, so there is no question that he would still be adored by the fans, as shown by his warm reception when Real Madrid visited last month. The only question is, do Manchester United have the funds to buy him? To buy Ronaldo would probably cost in the region of £50-60 million pounds and for a player who is 28, I'm not even sure if he is worth it!
Since Ronaldo is such a goal-machine, Sir Alex Ferguson would most likely wish to put Ronaldo as close to goal as possible and seems as Ronaldo likes to play from the left wing this would probably require a change in formation from the traditional 4-4-2 to more of a 4-3-3. With the added factor that Ronaldo doesn't like tracking back, the switch to a 4-3-3 would be paramount to provide cover for his runs forward.
This would therefore mean one of Wayne Rooney or Robin van Persie would get less playing time to accommodate the Portuguese wonder. Neither player would of course be happy with being a substitute given their standing within the game.
Personally I believe that our threadbare midfield and leaky defence are more of a pressing issue and although you could make a case for buying another winger, he is probably a little out of our budget.
As Manchester United already have a wealth of options up front and being the current top goal-scorers in the Premier League, do they really need Ronaldo to help increase their goal tally?
In addition, what would the signing of Ronaldo mean for the likes of Javier Hernandez, Danny Welbeck and Wilfried Zaha? All of these are young and talented players and the arrival of the Portuguese superstar would limit their opportunities to grow and develop. Although it could be said that they could all learn a thing or two from him, they wouldn't be able to get the necessary game time to show it.
All in all, although I wouldn't write it off completely, it doesn't fit in with Ferguson's current recruitment policy of signing young players with potential.
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At the time, it seemed like good idea. But going for the minimum-payment option "just this one time" turned out to be the worst mistake of my life. The day I opened that door and walked through it, I altered the course of my life.
I reasoned that I didn't have enough money to pay the credit card balances in full, so what was I supposed to do (oh, hear me whine)? I'd catch up next month and pay everything down to $0 before my husband found out. All I needed was a little breathing room.
And with that, I made a 180-degree turn and headed down the road to financial devastation.
What was an option the first time I made only the minimum payments soon became my only choice. I deceived myself into believing even though I didn't have enough money to pay for things now, somehow I'd have enough to pay for them later. I reasoned that these banks and department stores wouldn't lend me this much money if they didn't know that I could afford it. And wasn't that a nice surprise.
It took 12 years to ruin my life, putting me in danger of losing my marriage, my family and my home. The only thing that stopped me was that I ran out of credit.
With both of us unemployed and having just received notice that our home was scheduled to go into foreclosure, I arrived at the end of myself.
Owing more than $100,000 on all of my handy credit accounts — and all of them in default — there was no more credit. No more options. I was out of hope, with nowhere to turn. It was in the darkness of fear and despair that I realized what I'd done to myself, my husband and my family. Through my remorse and pain, I turned to God and made this promise: I would pay back all of the debt no matter how long it took or what I had to do, if I could only keep my family and my home.
For the next 10 years, I did exactly that. I never worked so hard in my life. Overnight I turned into a cheapskate — frugal beyond the legal limit, I'm sure. I worked every kind of job I could get my hands on. I developed a payback plan. I became a giver and a saver even while deeply in debt. After 10 years and $88K repaid, I was restless. This was taking too long. So, as just another way to raise funds, I decided to try my hand at writing a subscription newsletter with the goal to help others do what we were doing. That was in 1992. It wasn't an overnight success, but almost.
It took another three years to pay back the entire debt (13 years in all), and in the process I developed a passion to learn all I could about personal money management.
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Stacey Blahnik Lee, a transwoman from Philadelphia was found by her boyfriend on Monday, murdered in her apartment. Feministing reports how bad the news coverage was phrased.
The Stonewall riot some 41 years ago kickstarted the gay-rights movement and one of those worthy of remembering is Raymond Castro, who died from stomach cancer recently. During the Stonewall riots;
Castro pushed against the patrol wagon with both feet and knocked the two officers to the ground. He was detained but later released without charge.
When we are speaking of heroes, read this about a school-kid who got his head smashed against the ground 4 times and who is now picketing outside his school to raise awareness.
And last update on this post, but not least; Dan Savage is angry.
I wish I did not have to write these posts. I really wish I did not have to talk about the hate against people who love each other. Serbian Riot Police clashed on Sunday with far-right homophobes and haters that thought they had any business of rejecting the human rights of LGBTQI-people.
This was not an isolated incident. Not at all. This is not a specific case of severe homophobia that one can only find in Serbia. And it is also not just one of those public manifestations of homophobia, because there can't be any distinction here between what is personal and political. Homophobia will always be political, and it can hit you wherever you are.
But I keep going back to these pictures. Pictures of people participating in a Pride celebration that previous years would have not taken place. These gorgeous queers are out and proud and loud and are fighting, not with the police but for eachother and through activism try to change the world that they live in.
And then there is all of these teenage suicides in the U.S, queers that has been bullied so badly that they have taken their own life. I cry when I think about all of this. And this youtube-clip is one of the strongest I ever seen.
The It Gets Better project is brilliant and beautiful. And I'm sorry, but I really don't know what to say right now. Just take some time to watch some of the videos. And don't forget that you have the right to be angry, you have the right to cry, you have the fucking right to love whom ever you wish to love, and that you are not alone. You are not alone because there is so many people, we are an army of lovers, and an army of lovers cannot loose.
To all LGBTQI sisters, brothers and all of those who wish to be neither- I love you.


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