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(NEWSER) – Don't expect an independent probe into the death of a woman on Six Flags' Texas Giant roller coaster: The amusement park is conducting its own investigation, the Dallas Morning News reports. Since the death is seen as accidental, police and fire authorities aren't likely to dig deep on the issue. But Six Flags says it's "committed to determining the cause of this tragic accident and will utilize every resource throughout this process." The park, its insurance company, and an inspector hired by one of those firms will seek answers, the Morning News notes.


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Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe taking 'good long' break
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Lamb of God's Randy Blythe is ready for some much-needed time off.
The band has finally wrapped the touring cycle behind their 2012 album Resolution, which was interrupted by Blythe's arrest, imprisonment, and trial for manslaughter after the death of a fan at a concert in the Czech Republic. He was found not guilty last March, and the band returned to focusing solely on music.
But now, Blythe says via Instagram that he will not be thinking about Lamb of God, touring, playing heavy metal, writing new material, or anything similar for "a good long while." He says he hopes to let his brain "regroup" a bit so he can become a "somewhat normal human being."
Blythe didn't say how long his time off will last, but it might not take up all of 2014. Lamb of God bassist John Campbell said this past summer that the group wanted to start work on the follow-up to Resolution sometime this year.

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WATCH: Alt-J Releases New Video For 'Hunger Of The Pine'
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British indie rockers Alt-J have unveiled a video to go along with their new song "Hunger of the Pine."
The clip features a man sprinting through a forest as arrows fly past him. But they don't all miss the mark, and he ends up with arrows through his chest, legs, stomach, and throat! The video closes with the hunted man dousing himself in gasoline, and cuts to black just as a slew of flaming arrows come flying in from the mysterious hunters.
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LISTEN: Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike ready 'Ocarina' (vocal remix)
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What started out as an instrumental co-production between Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and Wolfpack, then used as the very first TomorrowWorld anthem this past year, and dominated the Beatport chart, "Ocarina" is even better now.
The guys have given their chart-topping hit a vocal from UK star Katy B, and the track - now titled "Find Tomorrow (Ocarina)" - is ready to smash the house ... again.
This new vocal version will be released December 2nd in Belgium and then to the rest of the world sometime in January 2014.
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'The 36-year-old Sitler has become one of the few people to benefit from the 135-day NHL lockout, which has created hardships for some business owners, laid-off team employees and game-night workers. Sitler, a local marketing professional and a Sabres fan, misses his NHL hockey.'
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. is exiting the student loan business, saying it doesn't see meaningful growth in the private market for education loans.
Spokeswoman Trish Wexler says that the New York lender will stop accepting student loan applications after Oct. 12.
The move is the latest step by the bank to scale back its role in student lending.
In the spring of 2012, the bank stopped making student loans to borrowers who weren't already Chase customers.
Chase made $200 million in student loans last year, down from $6.9 billion in 2008.
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As the 2012 election approached, conservative enthusiasm grew. Mitt Romney was drawing huge crowds while Barack Obama spoke in half-filled stadiums. All the passion lay on the right, while the left was discouraged with a promised messiah who proved merely a politician. And the prediction was that, in contrast to 2008, Republican turnout would dwarf the tuned-out and carry the day. Hence the shock November 6 eve. How could Romney lose, especially by such a wide electoral margin?
Maybe he didn't
At least not legitimately.
When I predicted Obama's re-election, I stated that, despite our country's inexorable leftist slide, Romney would still win on Election Day were it not for vote fraud. I explained that the Democrats could steal more than enough votes in crucial swing states to turn the election. And I still believe what I did then: electoral criminality put Obama over the top.
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We have been hearing more and more about LID (low-impact development) rules here in the state of Maryland. Can you help us understand these new regulations, and explain how they're different from the storm-water plan we already have to fulfill?
Ted Cushman responds: Low-impact development (LID), also called "environmental site design," is a new take on the old problem of storm-water runoff that is catching on throughout the nation. LID measures would be incorporated into your SWPPP (storm-water pollution prevention plan) in place of the traditional "best management practices," or BMPs. All of these measures are designed to control runoff from your site in order to protect streams, wetlands, and the ocean from flood scouring, silt buildup, and harmful pollutants (like motor oil, pesticides, fertilizers, and even raw sewage that overflows treatment plants during heavy rainstorms). Any construction project that disturbs even a half-acre of land surface falls under the requirements of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), which requires you to file a federal or state permit application and implement an approved SWPPP.
The Problem
Traditional BMPs used in most SWPPPs depend on what's called the "end of pipe" approach. Because hardscapes like roofs, driveways, and roads prevent rainwater from percolating into the earth, the standard approach is to collect all that water with storm drains, and then send it through pipes to big detention basins.
That method costs a lot but isn't always effective. The drains and basins don't catch all the rain, even from light or moderate storms. And by diverting water directly into the watershed, end-of-pipe engineering prevents the natural recharge of groundwater that normally feeds streams in nature. So extensive development causes creeks and rivers to flood every time it rains, then dry up between storms — both of which stress the watershed's natural ecosystems. And although conventional BMPs may slow storm water down, they don't filter it — so a lot of pollution still ends up in the rivers and bays.
Vegetated swales, such as this one built for the redevelopment of the High Point neighborhood as part of the City of Seattle Natural Drainage System project, are used to collect and filter road runoff.
The New Solution
LID takes a different tack: catch the rain right where it falls and let it soak into the ground — if possible, just the way it did before the site was developed. To achieve that, LID uses "integrated management practices" (IMPs): working small-scale, decentralized elements such as vegetated swales and "rain gardens" (or as the engineers refer to them, "biodetention basins") into the landscaping, and using permeable paving materials for parking areas, driveways, sidewalks, and roads.
LID is garnering a lot of attention in a number of East Coast states, including New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Florida, but Maryland has a jump on most of them. Prince George's County, Md., pioneered the practice starting in the late 1980s and wrote a manual on the method for the U.S. EPA in 1999 (you can download it at www.epa.gov/owow/nps/lid). Last summer, Maryland passed a law requiring LID as the first-choice storm-water management method for all new development, wherever feasible. But even though the concept is simple, the details are not — so creating regulations to implement the new law has bogged the state down for months, with no end in sight. For now, the most up-to-date reference for developers and builders is probably the 2007 Environmental Site Design Manual from Queen Anne's County, Md., which is posted online at www.qac.org/depts/dpw/dwphome.htm.
Permeable pavements, such as interlocking "open" pavers (top) or a porous concrete driveway (above), are designed to allow rainwater to soak through and leach into groundwater, rather than creating large-flow storm water. Care must be taken to not overcompact the subsoil and impede drainage. The trick is a deep, well-sorted gravel base.
What does all this mean for the builder? Well, if you're also the developer, you'll need qualified engineers from the get-go — people with the skills to analyze natural drainage patterns and measure existing soil permeability. (That's not unique to LID, by the way — if your job triggers the EPA's NPDES requirements, you're probably going to need engineers no matter what.) With site characteristics well understood, you can then design measures to fit the case. Here's a quick look at the menu you'll probably be choosing from:
Bioretention ("Rain gardens"). A rain garden is just a low area where runoff from as much as an acre or two of land is allowed to collect and filter into the subsoil. To make one, you excavate some of the existing soil out and replace it with a special planting mix (sand, peat moss, and compost are typical ingredients). Then you put in a mix of plants that don't mind getting their feet wet but which can also do without watering in a pinch. Usually, though not always, there's an ordinary drain provided to deal with excess water in heavy storms. Rain gardens are designed to puddle for 12 to as long as 48 hours, but in most rainstorms, puddling will be shallow and brief. Rain gardens are great at filtering and purifying water as well as holding it temporarily to prevent flash flooding. Well-designed rain gardens fit into the landscape as an attractive amenity.
Vegetated swales ("bio swales"). You might call this a ditch with plants in it, and you wouldn't be far off. Swales stop sheet flow over grassy areas, or catch road runoff, and hold it briefly while allowing it to percolate into the ground.
Permeable pavements. New types of concrete and asphalt, which use small, single-sized gravel and no sand, can have up to 40% porous drainage space. Then there are interlocking pavers set into a gravel base, with drain space between the paving blocks. Or you can get really simple and just use gravel. These materials are not a no-brainer, however — you have to avoid compacting the subsoil during installation, and if the soil is slow-draining, you need to create a reservoir of crushed rock under the paving to hold water temporarily until it can trickle into the earth.
Those are the top three tools in the bag, and the most common site modifications. House by house, you can also apply techniques such as rain barrels and cisterns, or green roofs. Each method has its own tips and tricks — there's a lot to learn when you start down the LID path. However, some developers and builders who've tried it say the benefits are well worth the learning curve, and not just because you're protecting the planet. If you choose your low-impact methods wisely, after you back out the cost of conventional drains, sewer pipes, and detention ponds — and after you recover the land area that those engineering-intensive methods eat up — low-impact development is likely to end up as a plus on your bottom line.
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By Lesli Nolen
Published June 2013
You know how when you really don't want to do something but you know you have to do it and then once you've done it, it wasn't that bad after all? Well that was my husband a couple of weeks ago.
He didn't mind taking a day trip to Fredericksburg with the family, but he wasn't looking forward to the event of strawberry picking. We drove up on Saturday morning and met my family at a local restaurant for lunch.
Then we did the tourist thing; we walked up and down the streets of downtown Fredericksburg, browsing the different stores. After some candy and coffee we decided to hit the road to Marburger Orchid. My daughter Skylar and I were excited about picking strawberries. How cool is that? It's definitely something you don't get to do every day and it sure beats buying them in the store.
When we arrived a gentleman gave us the spiel on how to remove the strawberry from the vine and which ones were the right ones to pick. We were handed a box and directed to the field. There were rows and rows of strawberries. It was beautiful. We started our picking and before too long we were half way down the row and our box glowed with red, ripe strawberries. The process didn't take very long. Looking at both sides of the strawberry was a must before picking. One side of the strawberry might look great but the other side not—it could be blemished or unripe on that side. In our learning course we were told to look at both sides of the strawberry for the best results, which proved to be useful.
After walking and picking from both sides of the row, our box was about full. So I stopped picking and started walking. Not my husband though! The guy who thought this was going to be boring was having a blast. He kept picking and picking. We were all at the end of our row ready to head back up to pay and depart and he's still stopping and picking!
"There's one!" "Oh that's a good one." "Look I got another one!" He kept on and on. Finally after some persistent yelling on my part, he joined us up top. We paid, washed a few strawberries and ate! They were divine; sweet and better than any strawberry I've ever eaten! Definitely worth it!!
Back in the car we headed to our next destination. I looked over at my husband and he was still gleaming red! The part of day he was dreading the most turned out to be the most fun. He even talked about coming back when the peaches and blackberries are ready to be picked.
Our next stop was Wildseed Farms. It is 200 acres of flowers, a store and entertainment! It is the largest working wildflower farm in the country. It's host to an estimated 100,000 visitors between March and May each year. We walked around admiring all the wonderful colors in bloom. We took many pictures, had many "wow" moments and did lots of just soaking in the beauty.
Again, after we left Wildseed Farms my husband said that wasn't so bad. He also said we needed to come back again—for a whole weekend!
Fredericksburg is rich in the culture of German pioneers who settled there well over 150 years ago. It's known for its German heritage with Texas hospitality. Seated in the hill country Fredericksburg is authentic in its own right. There is shopping, dining, wineries, antiques, parks and museums; it has a little of everything. It was founded in 1846 and named after Prince Frederick of Prussia. Old-time German residents often referred to the town as Fritztown, a nickname that is still used in some businesses today. The town is also home of Texas German, a dialect spoken by the first generations of German settlers who initially refused to learn English.
Since our trip we have eaten strawberries 'til we can't eat anymore. We have made angel food cake topped with strawberries, strawberry shortcake, strawberries with whipping cream and just plain strawberries.
With our recent rains (Praise God) the flowers that I bought at Wildseed Farms are absolutely beautiful! I can't wait to go back and neither can my husband. It just goes to show you—don't knock a new experience until you try it!
If you would like more information on strawberry picking at Marburger Orchard or their other produce or Wildseed Farms, their websites are, www.marburgerorchard.com and www.wildseedfarms.com.


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a little about me: i'm alaskan grown, but am currently living with my husband in central illinois. we were looking for an opportunity to spread our wings when we landed ourselves in this unknown territory. everyday i am learning new ways to love life, trying to make the most of each moment. i miss the mountains, but i find the new-to-me landscape of cornfields beautiful in it's own way.
i love to blog! i post a few times each week about my favorite things in life, which include our two furry pups, playing outside, date nights, eating good food, and finding adventure in every day. i love bike riding, photo taking, picnicing, traveling, home decorating, and baking. just your average girl i suppose :)
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RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- It was all smiles on the Rancho Cucamonga High School football stadium on Thursday as hundreds of special education students from throughout the Chaffey Joint Union High School District took part in the 7th annual Cougar Relays on Thursday.
About 200 special-needs students from six high schools in the district took part in a series of games and activities that included hula hoops, ball games, a long jump, tug of war, and races.
Students from Rancho Cucamonga High School's National Honor Society and Best of Buddies Club provided volunteers to help administer the event.
Christopher Cole, a Rancho Cucamonga High School senior in the National Honor Society, helped
"Everybody in general education and special education, we get to have fun, and it's really nice to see the smiles on their faces," Cole said. "It's a really great community service opportunity for the general education people because we kind of get to see everybody to have fun. We get to have fun with them and it's nice to see the smiles on their faces and know that we're doing something that makes a group happier."
Participating schools include Etiwanda, Rancho Cucamonga, Los Osos, Alta Loma, Colony and Chaffey high schools.
The event, which is modeled after the special Olympics, culminates with a run involving all the participants around the field's track, just before lunch.
Karen Hull, teacher for severely handicapped students at Rancho Cucamonga High School, said the purposes of the event is to create "friendship, cameraderie, and fun."
"They get to be with their friends, and their peers," said Hull, who helps coordinate the event. "They get a day of fun, and a day of friendship, a day to be athletic, and to be winners. Everyone gets to win today."
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Then I saw him again coming down one of the chestnut alleys of the Cours la Reine.
Even the way he sets up that chestnut, he makes the joke a part of his own history.
chestnut was last, carried on a yellow chariot through a sea of adoring fans.
She recently opened her latest venture, the homey chestnut Hill eatery Red Clay.
chestnut downed 62 to prove he was hungrier for the win than the rest of the pack on July 4th.
So that if a chestnut was a fiver, and it beat a tenner, it became at one leap a fifteener.
The oak is capable of grafting, about as easily as the chestnut.
She shook the crumbs from her skirt, and caught the chestnut's bridle.
Now let me turn for a moment to two other types of chestnut.
The graining of chestnut presents no difficulty either to one who has a good knowledge of the handling of graining tools.
1560s, from chesten nut (1510s), with superfluous nut (n.) + Middle English chasteine, from Old French chastain (12c., Modern French châtaigne), from Latin castanea "chestnut, chestnut tree," from Greek kastaneia, which the Greeks thought meant either "nut from Castanea" in Pontus, or "nut from Castana" in Thessaly, but probably both places are named for the trees, not the other way around, and the word is borrowed from a language of Asia Minor (cf. Armenian kask "chestnut," kaskeni "chestnut tree"). In reference to the dark reddish-brown color, 1650s. Applied to the horse-chestnut by 1832.
Slang sense of "venerable joke or story" is from 1885, explained 1888 by Joseph Jefferson (see "Lippincott's Monthly Magazine," January 1888) as probably abstracted from the 1816 melodrama "The Broken Sword" by William Dimond where an oft-repeated story involving a chestnut tree figures in an exchange between the characters "Captain Zavior" and "Pablo":
Zav. Let me see--ay! it is exactly six years since that peace being restored to Spain, and my ship paid off, my kind brother offered me a snug hammock in the dwelling of my forefathers. I mounted a mule at Barcelona and trotted away for my native mountains. At the dawn of the fourth day's journey, I entered the wood of Collares, when, suddenly, from the thick boughs of a cork-tree--Jefferson traced the connection through William Warren, "the veteran comedian of Boston" who often played Pablo in the melodrama.
Pab. [Jumping up.] A chesnut, Captain, a chesnut!
Zav. Bah, you booby! I say, a cork!
Pab. And I swear, a chesnut. Captain, this is the twenty-seventh time 1 have heard you relate this story, and you invariably said, a chesnut, till now.
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Evacuation Slide Deploys Mid-Flight, Inside Plane
(NEWSER) – An evacuation slide inflated inside a United Airlines plane as it flew from Chicago to California, filling part of the cabin and forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in Kansas, the airline and passengers said. Mike Schroeder said he was flying to Orange County, Calif., last night when he heard a hiss and pop. Schroeder said he turned around and saw the plane's evacuation slide—which would normally go outside the plane during an emergency—inflating inside the cabin. Passengers remained calm, and predictably took pictures of the inflated slide with their phones, he says.
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Inspired by Johann Uttenthaler's 1969 invention for gliding down the slopes of the Bavarian Alps, this zipfel bob combines the speed of Olympic luge racing with the effortless fun of coal shovel racing. Used in annual World Series competitions in Europe, riders sit with the joystick-like handle between their extended legs. It glides in a straight line on downhills, thanks to two molded rails on the underside of its slightly concave, high-density polyethylene frame that also allow you to make slalom-like turns in either groomed snow or fresh powder simply by leaning. Stopping is as simple as digging your heels in the snow. It only weighs 3 1/2 lbs., so transporting it up hills after each run is easy. Supports up to 250 lbs. Ages 5 and up. Made in the U.S. 20" L x 13" W x 14" H. (3 1/2 lbs.)
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Daughter had a lot of fun with this (despite its very small size), it went fast when other sleds had a hard time sliding. Other people were asking her about it and wanted to try it.
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PERFECT sled for anyone, at any skill level. Even SENIORS!!!!!
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Fun for Mom and Dad, too
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The sled gives you control downhill at high speeds. Easy to transport back up the hill. Very sturdy.
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Bought for my grandchildren but my husband thinks it's great.
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The Rangers have amassed a remarkable amount of talent, particularly pitching talent. Most of this talent is in the low Minors now, but it widely recognized as genuine talent. Baseball America recently ranked the Rangers fourth in organizational talent, which is the kind of thing that leaves 26 other clubs feeling envious.
This is the surest route to success for any organization that cannot simply spend its way to success. The Rangers, under a previous baseball administration, tried the spending gambit in the instance of Alex Rodriguez, and did not succeed. The scouting, drafting and development of young talent from within the organization is time-tested, time-honored and basically the most intelligent path to building long-term success.
This could take 1-3 years for a franchise that has had seven losing seasons in the past eight years. What happens between now and then? The Rangers are in a division with one of baseball's elite teams, the Angels, and a team that last season was on the verge of the elite category, the Mariners. A resourceful Oakland club is rebuilding with its own formidable young talent. The competition is difficult. At the big league level, the Rangers do not appear to have the pitching depth of either of their primary competitors.
Can the Rangers stay the course and wait for the young talent to fully develop, regardless of what happens between now and then at the big league level? General manager Jon Daniels, while watching his team take on the Mariners, said on Monday that the Rangers organization was fully and totally committed to this direction. For the long term, that is good news. The Rangers are on the right road. It might be a long road, but it's the right one.
"If you look around the industry at different teams, where they have their competitive advantages, how they go about building, what models do we want to follow, we're not going to be the Yankees, or the Angels or the Red Sox, we're not going to compete regularly in the free-agent market to the same degree that they can," Daniels said. "Our competitive advantage has got to be in developing our own players. There is no other way this organization is going to work.
"It's really a tip of the cap of to our scouts and our development folks and the work that they've put in. Our scouts have really found some quality players and now the challenge for us is to develop them and get them to the Majors as winning players.
"It's been very flattering, some of the recognition we've received from Baseball America, and Baseball Prospectus and some of the other experts in the industry. The most reassuring thing and the thing that confirms our own feeling is that other clubs are asking for our young players, and other scouts are talking to our scouts and opposing managers and coaches are talking to our guys on the field, saying: 'I like this guy, I like that guy.' That's when you know, these guys are real."
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The standard temptation, of course, would be to move at least some of this impressive young talent in return for immediate help. That is a difficult temptation to resist, but for the long-term organizational plan to work, it has to be resisted.
"That's really where you've got to have the commitment of everyone in the organization, from the owner through the front office and out to the field staff, everybody's got to be committed to going in one direction and to stick to it, regardless of the bumps in the road," Daniels said. "You look at what Colorado and some of these other clubs have done, it takes time and it takes a commitment, from all of us."
So the organizational byword is "patience." But at this level that cannot be used as an excuse for not winning now.
"You don't want to use that as a copout, but it's a requirement," Daniels said. "I think complacency and patience are two different things. You've got to guard against one and protect the other."
A microcosm of now-vs.-the-future is occurring with the Rangers' fifth starting spot. With Brandon McCarthy temporarily shelved with a right-elbow injury, an opening has occurred in the rotation. The candidates are a veteran, Sidney Ponson, 31, and two talented young pitchers, Luis Mendoza, 24, and Eric Hurley, 22. Rangers staff members had meetings much of Monday morning discussing their pitching plans. This one decision won't dictate the organization's total direction, but it might provide a clue.
"At some point, you've got to commit to people you believe in," Daniels said. "The only way young players are going to develop is if you give them a chance to learn and sometimes they learn through failure, a little bit."
For the immediate future, the 2008 season, when Daniels was asked where he projected his team, he smiled and responded: "Under the radar."
The popular AL West pick, Daniels said, would be the incumbent division champion, the Angels, with the Mariners picking up some support. The Rangers, Daniels suggested, would be better this April than they were last April, and better in June than they will be in April.
"We're going to try to stay focused on our little niche here in Texas and try to keep plugging in as many of our quality young players, once they show they're ready," the general manager said.
That is the Rangers' plan. It may require time and patience, but it is a plan with history and good sense on its side.
Mike Bauman is a national columnist for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I'm a coffee drinker. Is it safe to have at least my morning cup of coffee during pregnancy? I'm worried that it might give a bad effects to my baby.
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Great question lizzry100612,
In general a pregnant mum should generally be cautious with caffeine intake. However their is no census on how much caffeine is safe during pregnancy.
To be safe the March of Dimes advises women to limit their caffeine intake to less than 200 milligrams per day, which is about one 12-ounce cup of coffee.
However you'll feel better if you don't consume a lot of caffeine. It's a stimulant, so it will raise your heart rate. Plus, it can make you feel jittery and cause insomnia. Caffeine can also contribute to heartburn by stimulating the secretion of stomach acid. Heartburn is already heightened during pregnancy so the less amount of caffeine the better you will feel.
Ultimately the decision is up to you and how comfortable you feel.
Best wishes on your pregnancy.
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Dear lizzry100612,
Congratulations on your pregnancy. I see you have had some helpful advice from sunnymumof5 above.
You may also find this previous thread where I discussed drinking coffee in pregnancy helpful. Please be aware that some single drinks of coffee sold in coffee shops have been found to contain more caffeine than the recommended daily amount in pregnancy. Caffeine has been found to be linked to an increased chance of miscarriage and a higher chance of having a baby with a low birth weight.
Many women swap to decaffeinated coffee in pregnancy, or choose other drinks (smoothies are a great alternative as they boost your nutrient levels at the same time). If you are going to swap to decaffeinated coffee it is recommended to drink coffee decaffeinated by the Swiss water filter process when you are pregnant. Chemically decaffeinated coffees have been shown to cause as much risk in pregnancy as caffeinated coffees.
Warm wishes,
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thanks i did some research regarding it as well.
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thanks for that info.
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Thanks for your comments.
Smoking is quite different as this is unequivocally harmful in pregnancy unlike drinking coffee. It is important to be aware of the recommended caffeine limits in pregnancy and to understand that this caffeine could not only come from coffee but also chocolate and drinks such as cola. Cold coffee often has the same amount of caffeine as hot coffee - it depends on how it has been made.


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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue to Lenora Farwell Fritzler, of Billings, Montana, a patent in fee to the following-described lands on the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana: The northwest quarter, the east half of the southwest quarter, and the west half of the west half of the southeast quarter in section 35; the west half, and the north half of the northeast quarter of section 26; the north half of the northwest quarter of section 25; the south half of the south half of section 23; and the south half of the southwest quarter of section 24, township 5 south, range 37 east, Montana principal meridian, containing one thousand acres: Provided, That when the land herein described is offered for sale, the Crow Tribe, or any Indian who is a member of said tribe, shall have ninety days in which to execute preferential rights to purchase said tract at a price offered to the seller by a prospective buyer willing and able to purchase.
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It should be hitting the coast of Spain (or Portugal) as I write this.
I will send USD $100 to the first North African APRS station (or to the charity of your choice) to successfully IGate #CNSP11 telemetry.
K6RPT-11 still flying over south Spain, igates needed on 144.39 MHz in Spain, south France, Italy, Greece.
Quote from: Soeren on December 13, 2011, 09:58:47 PMIt should be hitting the coast of Spain (or Portugal) as I write this.Only if it takes 1-2 hours to write
Temperatures are like -40C so I'm surprised it's still working for so long.
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Trace Adkins, Vince Gill, and Martina McBride are among the country stars showing their appreciation for Gregg Allman. The country stars were among the participants in "All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs and Voice of Gregg Allman," which took place in Atlanta Friday night.
AccessAtlanta.com says Adkins contributed two songs to the event, including Allman's hit "I'm No Angel." And before he left the stage he told the crowd the show was "the coolest thing" he'd "ever done" in his career.
Martina performed on her own as well as with Train's Pat Monahan, while Gill teamed up with Zac Brown and the night's guest of honor.
Eric Church and Brantley Gilbert also took part in the all-star event, which also featured Jackson Browne, Dr. John, Sam Moore, and others -- including Gregg's own Allman Brothers Band.
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SEATTLE — The Seattle Mariners have signed catcher Ronny Paulino to a minor league contract with an invitation to Major League spring training.
Paulino, 31, split last season between Baltimore and Class AAA Norfolk. In 20 games with the Orioles he batted .254 with three doubles and five RBI. Over parts of eight Major League seasons with the Pirates (2005-2008), Marlins (2009-10), Mets (2011) and Orioles (2012), Paulino has appeared in 573 games with a .272 batting average. Against left-handed pitchers he is a career .325 hitter.
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The year 2014 marks the 125th year of management education at Bucknell University. Our first courses on production, money and banking, distribution and commerce started in 1889. Our first degree programs in commerce and finance emerged in 1924. Since then, management education has played a central role in Bucknell's mission to prepare broadly educated and professionally competent leaders for all sectors of society. In 2008, the Board of Trustees officially created the School of Management at Bucknell University. This measure honored the past and recognized our future potential.
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David Limbaugh continues right-wing smear campaign against "known homosexual activist" Jennings
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David Limbaugh continued the right-wing assault on Department of Education official Kevin Jennings, using anti-gay rhetoric and advancing a number outrageous smears and distortions in order to attack him as a "known homosexual activist" who was appointed to "propagandiz[e] for the normalization of homosexuality." These smears and distortions include the conclusively debunked falsehood that Jennings "failed to report statutory rape," the false suggestion that Jennings praised a gay rights activist because he was a "promoter of pedophilia," and the claim that Jennings - currently a board member of Union Theological Seminary - should be disqualified from public service because he purportedly "harbored a hatred for God" as a teenager.
Limbaugh continues right-wing's anti-gay assault on Jennings
Limbaugh uses anti-gay rhetoric to attack "known homosexual activist" Jennings. In his December 18 Creators Syndicate column targeting "known homosexual activist Kevin Jennings," Limbaugh says Jennings is a "federal bureaucrat in charge of making our local schools indoctrination facilities for homosexuality, er, safe." Limbaugh concluded: "How many of you believe this appointment has to do with promoting safe schools, as opposed to propagandizing for the normalization of homosexuality?"
Right-wing media has unleashed anti-gay rhetoric in attacks on Jennings. In their attacks on Jennings, numerous conservative media figures have resorted to thinly veiled homophobic appeals to paint Jennings, who is gay, as a "radical" "gay activist" with an "agenda" of "promoting homosexuality in schools," and have misrepresented or distorted Jennings' previous comments about religion and tolerance. Moreover, in a blatant appeal to homophobia, the right-wing media have termed a series of allegations "Fistgate," even though several of those allegations have little or nothing to do with the sexual practice of fisting -- or, for that matter, with Jennings himself.
Limbaugh cites Jennings' purported teenage "hatred for God" as reason for Obama not to hire him
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Why would Obama, a self-professed Christian, choose Jennings, who admitted in his 2006 memoirs that he harbored a deep-seated hatred for God and religious believers at the time he embraced a homosexual lifestyle?
Jennings wrote: "Before, I was the one who was failing God; now I decided He was the one who had failed me. ... I decided I had done nothing wrong: He had, by promising to 'set you free' and never delivering on His promise. What had He done for me, other than make me feel shame and guilt? Squat. Screw you, buddy -- I don't need you around anymore, I decided."
Limbaugh subsequently acknowledged that Jennings "may have since modified his beliefs," but offered no explanation for that statement.
Passage Limbaugh cites concerns his mindset as a teenager more than 30 years ago. The passage Limbaugh references from Jennings' 2006 memoir, Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son, describes his feelings as a "seventeen-year-old-boy" in the early 1980s [Page 100].
Jennings also wrote in his memoir that he since found from the Bible "the inspiration I need to continue my work." In Jennings' 2006 memoir, he also wrote:
How ironic that, in my middle age, I have returned to the book that shaped the lives of my father and mother, the book whose misreading almost destroyed me as a child, and have found in it the inspiration I need to continue my work. I guess so doing honors them. "Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land" (Exodus 20:12).
Thanks, Mom, for teaching me the difference between right and wrong. I honor you by passing the lessons you taught me on to the next generation. And I know that those who oppressed and opposed you once and who try to oppress and oppose me still will one day be greatly ashamed. I know this because I'm your boy, and because I'm a preacher's son.
And because the Bible tells me so. [Pages 262-263]
Jennings is reportedly an active member of the board of the Union Theological Seminary. Think Progress wrote in its "fact check" of right-wing smears of Jennings:
Jennings later went on to serve as an active member on the board of the Union Theological Seminary (UTS) in New York, the nation's most prestigious Protestant seminary. ThinkProgress spoke with Rev. Serene Jones, President of UTS, who disputed any claims that Jennings was anti-religion:
In my role as the president [of UTS], and as pastor, I have met few people as deeply Christian and as deeply committed to the work of justice in the world than Kevin Jennings. He's a man of enormous faith, and not just in terms of prayer and church attendance -- both of which he does devoutly -- but in terms of his care for the poor, the suffering, the children, the vulnerable in our society. [...]
He's an active member of the board at Union Theological Seminary and Kevin Jennings tithes, not only in terms of his use of money, but his use of his time and his values and I just wonder how many of the people who are attacking him have taken their own faith serious enough to make the kind of financial, moral, vocational commitment that Kevin Jennings has made with his life.
Limbaugh repeats tired attacks on Jennings
Limbaugh falsely claims Jennings failed to report "statutory rape" of student. Limbaugh claimed that Jennings "failed to report the homosexual statutory rape of a high-school sophomore to the administration or the police." In fact, a 2004 letter from Jennings' attorney, as well as a statement from the former student and his Massachusetts driver's license, definitively show that he was at least 16 -- the legal age of consent in Massachusetts -- when he approached Jennings.
Limbaugh attempts to link Jennings to promotion of pedophilia. In his column, Limbaugh wrote that "Jennings is also the man who admits to being inspired by Harry Hay, a homosexual activist and promoter of pedophilia." In fact, in a 1997 speech, Jennings praised Hay. But like many obituaries written about Hay upon his death in 2002, Jennings was touting Hay as a gay civil rights pioneer for his role in helping start "the first ongoing gay rights groups in America" in 1948, and Jennings' comments had nothing to do with pedophilia. Right-wing media sources including The Washington Examiner, The Fox Nation, The Washington Times, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Karl Rove have similarly used his praise of Hay to attempt to link Jennings to pedophilia.
Limbaugh falsely claims that "GLSEN presenters taught kids how to perform 'fisting.' " Limbaugh wrote that at a workshop during a 2000 conference for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, which was founded and directed at the time by Jennings, "GLSEN presenters taught kids how to perform 'fisting' -- a vile, despicable, obscene act involving the fist and other body parts." In fact, the workshop in question was conducted by three state Department of Education employees or contractors; Jennings reportedly criticized some of the workshop's content when the recordings of that workshop were first released by the anti-gay group now known as MassResistance in 2000.
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Even Without Dwight Howard, Brooklyn Nets Plan Party With Partners, Players, Jay-Z
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July 12, 2012: No Dwight Howard? No problem.
The on-again, off-again, on-again ad infinitum negotiations between the Brooklyn Nets and Orlando Magic for the services of all-star center Dwight Howard are off again. But that hasn't stopped the team that recently moved across the Hudson River from New Jersey to party in their new digs with their revitalized squad.
And going against all odds, the Nets have chosen Friday the 13th to do it.
The Nets and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will host a public celebration on Borough Hall Plaza (near Court Street and Remsen Street) to welcome "Brooklyn's Backcourt" — guards Deron Williams and the recently acquired Joe Johnson — on Friday, July 13 (beginning 1 PM ET).
The festivities are scheduled to include Williams, Johnson, Nets GM Billy King, Nets head coach Avery Johnson, Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark, the Brooklynettes dance team and Markowitz.
In addition, the celebration will feature The Experience, the Brooklyn Nets' interactive mobile unit.
"I'm thrilled with the way our team has come together. My congratulations and appreciation go out to general manager Billy King, assistant general manager Bobby Marks and head coach Avery Johnson for their tenacity, nerve and heart throughout this process," Nets principal owner Mikhail Prokhorov said in a statement regarding the frustrating negotiations centered around Howard. "With the re-signing of Deron Williams and the trade for Joe Johnson, we go into our new home led by an all-star backcourt and with every hope of a great season for the Brooklyn Nets. I can't wait until opening night."
The Nets have also unveiled a technology and sponsorship alliance with Sony Electronics, under which Sony Electronics said it would provide "professional HD production technology as the centerpiece of an HD broadcast control room" at Barclays Center, which opens on Sept. 28 with a Jay-Z concert.
The alliance includes what was called "an extensive collaborative marketing effort" among Sony, Barclays Center and the Brooklyn Nets. It will include Sony branding throughout the venue and other media, as well as on-site consumer product demonstrations. In addition, 600 Sony professional and consumer full HD 1080p displays throughout the arena will offer people "a great view of the action from every angle."
The arena's HD control room will feature Sony HDC-1400R studio cameras, with PMW-320 XDCAM camcorders used as mobile units to capture live and pre-recorded video elements. The control room will also use Sony's MVS-7000x switcher.
Sony said its equipment would "capture and produce video for playback during events on Barclays Center's LED screens and HD displays throughout the facility's luxury suites, concourses and concession areas." The Sony displays can show game and event content or advertising elements, and are networked for digital signage and other content delivery applications.
"We go into our new home led by an all-star backcourt and with every hope of a great season for the Brooklyn Nets. I can't wait until opening night."
"Barclays Center and the Brooklyn Nets are delighted to work with Sony, the leading brand in consumer and professional electronics," Brett Yormark said in a statement. "Our high quality programming will be processed and displayed on the best equipment in the industry, offering a superior customer experience. Barclays Center will have the most state-of-the-art technology of any sports and entertainment venue in the world."
Jay-Z, a native of Brooklyn and a minority owner in the Nets, will be playing eight nights at Barclays Center to open the venue.
There are seven founding partners of the Barclays Center: Calvin Klein, Cushman & Wakefield, EmblemHealth, Foxwoods Resort Casino, MetroPCS, Stolichnaya and Ticketmaster. Other major partners include naming rights holder Barclays, adidas (which will also operate the Nets Shop), Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Haier America, HighPoint Solutions, LIU Brooklyn, New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, Tyco and Willis.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A man convicted of killing a Cleveland produce vendor three decades ago should be spared the death penalty and should be made eligible for parole immediately, the Ohio Parole Board ruled Tuesday in a decision that honors the requests of the prisoner's lawyers and prosecutors, who all pushed for clemency.
The board cited several statements by the co-defendant of death row inmate Arthur Tyler taking responsibility for the 1983 shooting, as well as the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's position that the killing would not be prosecuted as a death penalty case today.
The board rejected the prosecutor's request to change the sentence to life without parole. A minority of the board said his sentence should be commuted to 33 years, making him eligible for parole in two years.
"Given the doubt that surrounds the evidence, commutation to life without the possibility of parole would not serve the interests of justice in this case," the board said.
A message was left with Gov. John Kasich, who has the final say. Tyler, 54, is scheduled to die May 28 for the killing of Sander Leach during a robbery. Leach's relatives oppose clemency for Tyler.
On Monday, the state announced it would increase the dosage of its two-drug lethal injection combination, while standing by the 26-minute execution of Dennis McGuire on Jan. 16, during which McGuire made repeated snorting-like gasps.
Attorneys for Tyler told the board April 24 that their client is innocent and should be freed. Cleveland prosecutors argued that Tyler's sentence should be changed to life without parole because of questions about the conviction, though they maintain Tyler was the man who fatally shot the produce vendor in 1983.
The case doesn't meet the office's current standards for a capital punishment prosecution, Allan Regas, a Cuyahoga County assistant prosecutor, told the board. He said the office wouldn't seek the death sentence in such a case today based on the evidence, which includes what appears to be a lack of intent to shoot the victim.
Tyler's first death sentence was overturned by a state appeals court in 1984 on the basis of poor legal assistance. He was convicted at a second trial and again sentenced to death.
The co-defendant, Leroy Head, pleaded guilty for his role in the slaying and was sentenced to life in prison with parole after 20 years for aggravated murder and seven to 25 years for aggravated robbery, according to court and parole board records. He was released from prison in 2008.
Head twice made statements to police that the gun went off while he was struggling with Leach and that it was he, not Tyler, who was responsible for the shooting, according to Tyler's clemency request.
Head recanted those statements and testified against Tyler at the first trial, saying Tyler had threatened his family if he explained what happened that day. Head also testified at Tyler's second trial.
In later years, however, Head denied Tyler had ever threatened him and said he testified at the second trial because a prosecutor threatened to negate his plea deal, according to Tyler's parole board filing.
Head also made several statements to defense attorneys, fellow prisoners and others that Tyler was not the shooter, according to the clemency request.
Messages left at a Cleveland phone listing for Head were not returned, nor was one left with his attorney from his original trial.


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First Ebola Patient Coming to USA for Treatment
One of two Americans infected with Ebola in West Africa will enter the U.S. for treatment at Emory University in Atlanta "in the next several days," according to an internal memo sent to physicians on Thursday and seen by The Daily Beast. The memo offers few other details about the patient, with no stated time of arrival or departure city, or indicators as to the exact identity of the patient.
In absence of specifics, the hospital says it's "prepared and ready" for the arrival, with a "highly specialized, isolated unit" that it designed with the help of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, headquartered nearby. CNN reported that a specialized medical plane was already en route to Liberia on Thursday night.
Staff at the hospital have reportedly been "highly trained" as well and are aware of "unique protocols" that will be necessary to treat the patient.
Vince Dollard, associate vice president of communications for Emory, declined to say who the arriving patient is, exactly, but did confirm that it is either Dr. Kent Brantly or Nancy Writebol, two U.S. charity workers infected in Africa. Both remain in serious condition. Writebol received an "experimental serum" Thursday afternoon while Brantly was given a blood transfusion.
This is the first time a patient infected with the Ebola virus, which can kill up to 90 percent of the people it infects in a matter of days, has been brought to the United States or the Western Hemisphere. The disease is spread via bodily fluids, necesitating strict isolation for the patients and thorough decontamination. Health-care workers like Brantly and Writebol place themselves at great risk to treat diseases like ebola.
In a call with reporters Tuesday, Stephan Monroe, deputy director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the CDC, assured listeners that the outbreak posed "little risk" to America, adding that the chances of anyone infected arriving undiagnosed were slim. In another call Thursday afternoon, CDC Director Tom Frieden said plans were in place to stop Ebola-infected people from boarding planes in West Africa.
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Brevard College Cyclist Wins National ChampionshipJuly 20, 2008
Brevard, N.C. - Several members of the Brevard College Cycling Team recently returned from Mount Snow Vermont where the USA Mountain Bike National Championships were being held. The team had a strong contingent at the race, with Tristan Cowie, Matt St. Marie, Matt Wells, Joanne Tuttle and Tim Reinhart making the trip.
In an event that draws the best riders in the country out to contest the national title, Tuttle had the best result of the weekend, winning the super D national championship.
"I started out behind someone on the run, but then pulled away on the first downhill and didn't see anyone else," stated Tuttle. "I was really happy to cross the line first."
In spite of not feeling very good during her one practice run, Tuttle said that something just clicked during the race and she was suddenly riding really well. Her time would have placed her in 11th in the pro women's field, and was the second fastest time among non-pro women.
Tuttle also finished third in the expert dual slalom and fourth in the sport cross country race.
Brevard teammate Matt Wells raced in the expert cross country race and placed an impressive seventh-place on a course that suited his strengths.
Cowie finished 16th in one of the first races of the weekend, the under 23 pro race. Cowie was positive about his result, and was happy to have the experience. Reinhart placed 13th-place in the sport cross country race. St. Marie had a series of mechanicals and had to drop out of both of his events.
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"I liken it to getting on the freeway on-ramp," Seki said. "Our students are learning at a face pace, and English learners have to learn all of the regular content, plus they're working to become proficient. It can be a tremendous struggle."
Of 19,000 students in Long Beach Unified, 22 percent are classified as English learners. Five years ago, the district toughened its criteria for reclassifying English learners after data showed that reclassified students were struggling once they left the program, Seki said.
The district now requires that students who test to be reclassified as fluent score slightly higher than the state minimum on standardized English tests. Long Beach Unified teachers also must give a comprehensive assessment of whether a student is ready to be reclassified.
Depending on the age group, students are analyzed based on benchmark test scores and proficiency in math, English, history and science.
As a result of the higher criteria, the LBUSD has typically lagged behind state and county averages for the percentage of students being reclassified as fluent each year.
Seki, however, said test results show that the district's more rigorous program benefits students in the long run. She said 90 percent of reclassified students scored at the proficient or advanced level on state English tests this year.
The district also has managed to improve its reclassification rate.
For the 2011-2012 school year, 13 percent of English learners were reclassified as fluent, higher than the state average of 11 percent.
Seki said the higher reclassification rate is a reflection of an overall improvement for English learners. On the state's 2012 Academic Performance Index, English learners showed a 37-point gain for a score of 709. The state sets an overall goal of 800 for schools and districts. Statewide, English learners showed a 10-point gain for a score of 716.
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Top Braves prospect Julio Teheran allowed just three hits over five shutout innings as he earned his first win of the season. He struck out four and walked two in the 7-1 Gwinnett victory. The 21-year-old right-hander also picked off a pair of baserunners. Jose Constanza led the G-Braves offense by legging out a two-run triple, while Matt Mangini knocked in the only run for Durham with a single in the sixth.
Columbus starter Cory Kluber struck out eight over five innings and Chad Huffman homered as the Clippers trumped the Indians, 5-4. Jordy Mercer provided most of Indianapolis' offense by smacking a three-run homer in the fifth. Big league veteran Chris Ray tossed a perfect ninth en route to his second save of the season.
Yankees prospect Manny Banuelos struggled with his control, walking a career-high six batters as he surrendered two runs in two innings. He did not record a strikeout. Four relievers -- Pat Venditte, Manny Delcarmen, Cody Eppley and Kevin Whelan -- combined to allow just one hit over the final seven frames, however, leading Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to a 7-2 win. Brandon Laird and Raymond Kruml both drove in a pair for the Baby Bombers.
Toledo's Brad Eldred continued his hot hitting, going 2-for-4 with a homer, two RBIs and two runs scored as the Mud Hens defeated the Bats, 8-1. Chris Valaika drove in the lone run for Louisville on a groundout in the third. Starter Brooks Brown lasted just three innings for Toledo, but reliever Ramon Garcia tossed four one-hit frames en route to the win.
Six different players recorded RBIs for Pawtucket, including two for Lars Anderson and one each for Jose Iglesias and Ryan Lavarnway. Veteran Brandon Duckworth allowed just one run on four hits over six innings en route to the win. Meanwhile, a rehabbing Andrew Miller tossed 1 2/3 hitless frames in relief, striking out two and walking two. Rene Rivera provided Rochester's only offense in the 10-1 defeat on a solo homer.
Norfolk squeaked out a 1-0 win over Charlotte thanks to a leadoff triple by Xavier Avery in the first and a groundout by Steve Tolleson that sent him home. Chris Tillman struck out eight over 5 2/3 scoreless innings, improving to 1-1 on the season. The Knights' Dylan Axelrod yielded just four hits over six innings, but suffered the hard-luck loss.
In Pacific Coast League play, top Cubs prospect Anthony Rizzo went 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored and right fielder Dave Sappelt homered and plated three runs to lead Iowa past Albuquerque, 8-2. The offense helped Cubs starter Chris Rusin, who allowed two runs over seven innings, earn his first win of the year. Isotopes left fielder Jerry Sands was 2-for-4 with a double, an RBI and a run scored.
Omaha starter Nathan Adcock scattered a hit and three walks over six scoreless innings and Tony Abreu punctuated a three-run fifth with a two-RBI double as the Storm Chasers held on to edge the Round Rock Express, 5-4. Irving Falu, who delivered the walk-off victory in Wednesday night's contest, plated two runs in the win and second baseman Anthony Seratelli chipped in with an RBI double and a run. Express first baseman Michael Bianucci was 2-for-5 with a pair of RBIs.
Scott Cousins' go-ahead RBI single with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning broke a 2-2 tie and helped New Orleans past Memphis. Zephyrs' left fielder Sergio Pedroza mashed his first homer of the year -- a two-run blast in the fourth -- and starter Wade LeBlanc fanned eight batters over six two-run innings in the win. Redbirds first baseman Matt Adams continued his strong start to the season, going 4-for-5 with a double and an RBI to raise his average to .419.
Oklahoma City got a strong performance from starter Dallas Keuchel, who improved to 2-0 on the young season after limiting Nashville to just four hits over seven shutout innings in the RedHawks' 2-0 triumph. Pinch-hitter Justin Ruggiano provided the only runs of the game with a two-run single to right field with one out in the seventh inning and Mickey Storey and Jose Valdez spun two scoreless innings of relief to seal the victory. Sounds right-hander Josh Butler was on the hook for the loss, surrendering two runs -- one earned -- on four hits over six innings.
Major Leaguer Josh Geer surrendered four hits and a walk over six innings, second baseman Vince Belnome was 2-for-4 with three RBIs and Blake Tekotte slugged his second homer of the season to lead Tucson past visiting, 7-0. Jeff Fiorentino recorded the only multi-hit game for the Oakland A's Triple-A affiliate, collecting a double and a single to raise his average to .385. Former second-rounder Tyson Ross fell to 0-1 after allowing three runs on five hits over five innings in his second start of 2012.
Colorado Springs scored six times on two hits in the top of the ninth inning to snap a 3-3 tie, sending 10 men to the plate against Tacoma. Matt McBride delivered the biggest hit of the frame, legging out a bases-clearing triple off of incoming pitcher Oliver Perez to complete a wild inning that featured three walks, a wild pitch and a bases-loaded hit batsman. Sky Sox outfielder Andrew Brown also finished with three RBIs, while Rainiers prospects Trayvon Robinson and Luis Antonio Jimenez homered in the loss.
San Francisco's No. 2 prospect Francisco Peguero collected two hits, including a three-run homer, and Roger Kieschnick added a two-run blast of his own to power Fresno to an 8-5 win in Las Vegas. On the other side of the ball, Eric Hacker won his second consecutive start, allowing two runs -- one earned -- on five hits and a pair of walks while striking out four batters over six innings. Big leaguer Travis Snider hit his second roundtripper of the season for the 51s, but it was not enough to save starter Bill Murphy, who yielded five runs over four innings.
Major League veteran Jason Lane gave Reno a walk-off victory over Salt Lake with a two-out, bases-loaded infield single in the bottom of the 13th inning. The former outfielder-turned-pitcher tossed two innings of scoreless relief before winning the game with his bat. Cole Gillespie connected on his first homer of the year in the sixth and Evan Frey came through with a clutch two-out RBI single in the ninth that sent the game into extra innings. Bees backstop Hank Conger was 3-for-6 with a double and two runs scored and shortstop Andrew Romine added three singles out of the No. 2 hole.
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