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Teens and Asthma
Obesity isn't the only children's health problem that's on the rise: Asthma is now the most common chronic condition facing tweens and teens. Below, simple strategies that'll help your kid breathe easier.
The statistics are startling: One in 10 school-age American children now suffer from asthma, a number that has doubled since the 1980s. It is also the third-leading cause of hospitalization for children under age 15, and results in 13 million missed school days per year. How come? Experts believe a variety of factors are to blame. "We're using more cleaning products and hand sanitizer than ever before, so one theory is that kids aren't encountering as many allergens at a young age, making them more sensitive to immune system-related conditions as they grow up," explains Adriana Matiz, M.D., a pediatrician and medical director of the WIN for Asthma Program at New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in New York City. "Meanwhile, kids are surrounded by greater levels of air pollutants and other triggers. If they're genetically susceptible, this degree of exposure makes it more likely they'll have problems."
And helping a tween or teen deal with asthma brings on a whole new set of challenges. "We often feel overprotective of kids with health problems like asthma," says Noreen Clark, Ph.D., director of the Center for Managing Chronic Disease at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who has studied more than 1,200 kids ages 10 to 13 with asthma. "But this is a group that wants and needs to build their independence. It's also the most important time for them to learn to manage their condition." Whether your kid is packing up for his first sleepover at a friend's house or just landed a spot on the varsity cross-country team, make sure he fully understands what specific factors may aggravate his asthma and the best ways to handle an attack.
Here are ways that asthma could be affecting your tween's or teen's health—and what you can do to help.
Challenge #1: She's sitting on the sidelines.
As many as 90% of asthmatic kids will experience exercise-induced asthma as they get older, says Frank Virant, M.D., chief of the allergy division at Seattle Children's Hospital. "We often see exercise being a trigger by age 10. As kids get bigger and can do more physically, flare-ups tend to increase." This might mean your child struggles to get field time at soccer practice because she's easily winded. "Coaches may mistakenly think a kid with asthma can't do certain activities at a high level," says Dr. Virant. "Plus, some kids are hesitant to complain about symptoms because they don't want to seem 'wimpy.'"
Explain to your tween or teen that wheezing and coughing aren't signs of weakness or being out of shape—they're signals that her immune system is overreacting and needs to be calmed down. Have your doctor write a note to your child's gym teachers and coaches letting them know she can participate in sports and has medicine on hand.
Be proactive and ask gym teachers to plan activities indoors on very cold or very hot and humid days, which can also minimize problems. And say this: "My child is on an effective medical regimen and can participate in sports. But if you notice symptoms, please let me know. Her doctor can adjust her meds."
Challenge #2: He's waking up at night.
"Kids spend a third to half of their time in their bedrooms, which only increases as they get older," says Dr. Virant. "So it's the most important room in the house to asthma-proof." Soft furnishings are dust mite magnets, so trade out drapes and carpets for blinds and wood floors. Minimize piles of stuffed animals and pillows—and kill the dust mites that thrive on them by washing them in hot water or putting them in the freezer for a few hours each week. Bedding should be laundered in hot water weekly, and use pillow protectors and mattress covers to reduce dust mite exposure.
If your kid is also allergic to animal dander, make sure her room is a pet-free zone. Whenever her symptoms are severe, confine your pet to the kitchen, basement, and other easy-to-clean areas, so dander doesn't accumulate.
Challenge #3: She can't use the same beauty products as her friends.
Do your teen's asthma symptoms step up after a trip to Sephora or her morning hairspray routine? If so, she may suffer from fragrance sensitivity—the airborne particles released by chemicals in a wide variety of personal care products and cleaning supplies can cause muscles in the airways to tighten, making breathing difficult, says Dr. Matiz. This sensitivity is less well known than other causes, so it may catch teens and parents off guard—especially in girls who never suffered from asthma until puberty. "There's a relationship between asthma and estrogen levels, and in many girls asthma symptoms sometimes appear when they get their first period," says Clark. "There's also speculation that increased use of heavily fragranced beauty products may be another reason we see more new cases of asthma in teen girls than boys."
If scents trigger symptoms, help your daughter choose hypoallergenic products and avoid anything with "fragrance" or "parfum" listed as ingredients. And be sympathetic. The girls in Clark's study were more likely than boys to feel embarrassed by asthma.
The key is talking to your child so she's empowered to manage her asthma when you're not around. "Encourage her to identify exactly what causes problems," says Clark. Asthma may be something she has to deal with for the rest of her life, so now's the time to teach her that she's in control.
Obesity and Asthma
New research shows a direct link between childhood asthma and obesity: "Overweight or obese kids are more likely to experience asthma symptoms and end up in the ER," says Clark. But experts can't say yet whether asthma makes a kid more susceptible to obesity or if weighing more increases the likelihood of breathing troubles. Either way, parents need to know that it's vital to keep asthmatic tweens and teens exercising and eating nutritiously, says Dr. Matiz.
Treat It and Beat It
While kids are diagnosed with asthma at every age, the condition is most likely to develop in boys before they hit age 11, and in girls around puberty. Warning signs to look out for include complaints about chest tightness and a nighttime cough that lasts longer than 10 to 14 days. Ask your child's doctor if the following tips might help ease symptoms.
Have Inhalers on Hand Daily use of an inhaled corticosteroid like Advair or Flovent can prevent symptoms, and albuterol can be used as a rescue medication.
Get Further Testing Treat the underlying cause of asthma in addition to controlling symptoms, says Dr. Virant. "This means pinpointing whether your child also has allergic rhinitis, chronic sinusitis or another respiratory condition that causes asthma attacks, and finding a treatment that addresses that problem."
Consider Allergy Shots Allergy shots may help kids with allergic rhinitis-induced asthma. One study of kids ages 6 to 17 found that those who received allergy shots were able to reduce their dependence on inhaled corticosteroids by 50%.
Originally published in the November 1, 2010, issue of Family Circle magazine.
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I have an ASP.NET C# application that needs to go off and iterate through a directory of .xml files and do some processing on the data inside them. This is easy enough, but i need to display the result after each .xml is processed, how can this be done?
What im really asking here is how do you process a lot of data in a loop that needs to be displayed back to the client even though the server processing has not fully completed. Is this even possible?
I could start the big process in a seperate thread and start a js timeout to postback and essentially poll the process but this doesn't sound great and would probably require using static variables to maintain state.
Would it be correct to use SessionState / ViewState / QueryString to persist the status of which file ive processed and do away with the loop altogether? Therefore seperate the large job into seperate requests?

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In my previous blog posting, http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/ambler?entry=strategies_for_distributed_agile_teams , I overviewed several strategies for improving your effectiveness at geographically distributed development (GDD). Those strategies were fairly generic and directly applicable to both traditional and agile development teams. In this posting I focus on strategies which are more agile in nature, although they could also be applied to more traditional approaches as well. These strategies are:
1. Get the whole team together at the beginning of the project. Your goals are to build rapport amongst the team, to get to know the people that you're working with to facilitate communication later on, and to better understand the situation on the ground. The implication is that you will need to fly some people around, increasing your initial expenses, an investment that many organizations balk at. The reality is that you will eventually end up paying for travel anyway, either because you actually flew people around or because your communication costs are higher throughout the project. In short, don't be penny wise and pound foolish.
2. Organize your team around the system architecture. The most effective way to organize a distributed team is around the architecture of the system that you are building, not around the job functions of the people involved. In other words, if your team is in Toronto, Rome, and Bangalore then each subteam should be responsible for one or more subsystems. It would be a mistake to organize the teams around job function, for example to have the architects and analysts in Toronto, the developers in Rome, and the testers in Bangalore because this structure would require significantly more documentation and other forms of communication to coordinate the teams, increasing both cost and risk. As I mentioned in my previous blog posting you will need to invest in some initial architecture envisioning at the beginning of a project to identify the subsystems and their public interfaces, and that to do that you'll also need to do some initial requirements envisioning to drive this architecture effort. I suggest that you take an Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD) approach to this to enable you to gain the value from modeling without the costs and risks associated with up-front comprehensive modeling and documentation that get many traditional project teams in trouble.
3. Have "daily stand-up meetings". A common practice on co-located agile teams is to have daily stand-up meetings where people share the status of what they did yesterday, what they intend to do today, and whether they're running into any problems. These short meetings enable team coordination. Distributed teams can do this as well, the people in a given geographical location can hold local stand-up meetings and then representatives from each location can hold a shared meeting to coordinate the subteams. Whereas local stand-up meetings are held first thing in the morning, distributed daily stand-up meetings may need to be held at unusual times so as to include people at distant locations.
4. Have Ambassadors. Ambassadors are people who travel between sites, often technically senior people or senior business experts, to share information between the subteams. Getting the team together at the beginning of the project sets the foundation for communication, but without continual investment in maintaining effective collaboration between teams you run the risk of your subteams deviating from the overall strategy. These are typically short engagements, a week or two in length, because of the pressures it puts on the people doing the actual traveling. The implication is that you'll have several people flying between sites at any given time on a reasonable rotation schedule. Because you'll have some people flying around, your local team rooms should accommodate visitors by having one or more desks available for them to use when they're visiting.
5. Have Boundary Spanners. A boundary spanner is someone who is located on site who focuses on enabling communication between subteams as well as within their subteam. On large distributed teams you'll find that you have three flavors of boundary spanners – team leaders who take on project management responsibilities on the subteam, product owners who are responsible for representing the business within the subteam, and architecture owners responsible for technical direction on the team. These boundary spanners will work closely with their peers, having regular coordination meetings across all subteams as well as impromptu one-on-one meetings to deal with specific issues between individual subteams.
6. Ensure that the global team gets the credit it deserves. In both offshoring and nearshoring environments it's common to see small teams in North America or Europe driving the efforts of significantly larger teams in another country. Yet, at the end of the project it always seems as if the smaller team, often because they work for the direct customer, gets the lion's share of the credit – unless of course the project failed, then the subcontracting team often seems to get virtually all of the "credit". This clearly isn't fair, and it clearly doesn't promote effective teamwork between the subteams in the future.
7. Take a lean approach to development governance. As I've written in the past, effective governance is based on enablement and collaboration instead of the traditional approaches of management and control. Good governance measures progress through regular delivery of working software, not through status reports or delivery of detailed specifications. Good governance is based on the idea of having a living process which changes to reflect lessons learned as your project progresses. In a previous blog posting at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/ambler?entry=lean_development_governance I've discussed lean development governance in greater detail.
The strategies that I've described are clearly nothing more than common sense, something that can be said of all agile strategies. Sadly, as Mark Twain lamented, common sense isn't very common in practice.[Read More]
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Scaling Test Driven Development (TDD)
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Test-driven development (TDD) is a common agile programming technique which has both specification and validation aspects. With TDD, you specify your software in detail on a just-in-time (JIT) basis via executable tests that are run in a regression manner to confirm that the system works to your current understanding of what your stakeholders require.
TDD is the combination of test-first development (TFD) and refactoring. With TFD, you write a single test (at either the requirements level with customer/acceptance tests or the design level with developer tests) and then you write just enough software to fulfill that test. Refactoring is a technique where you make a small change to your existing code to improve its design without changing its semantics.
TDD offers several benefits:1. It enables you to take small, safe steps during development, increasing programmer productivity.2. It increases quality. Agile developers are doing more testing, and doing it more often, than ever before. We're also fixing the problems that we find right on the spot.3. It helps to push validation activities early in the lifecycle, decreasing the average cost to fix defects (which rises exponentially the longer it takes you to detect them).4. Through single sourcing information, by treating tests as both specifications and as tests, we reduce the work required, increasing productivity.5. We leave behind valuable, up-to-date, detailed specifications for the people who come after us. Have you ever met a maintenance programmer who wouldn't want a full regression test suite for the code that they're working with?
But TDD isn't perfect. Although TDD is great at specifying code at a fine-grain level, tests simply don't scale to address higher level business process and architectural issues. Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD) enables you to scale TDD through initial envisioning of the requirements and architecture as well as just-in-time (JIT) modeling at the beginning and during construction iterations. To scale requirements-level TDD, you must recognize that customer tests are very good at specifying the details, but not so good at providing overall context. High-level business process models, conceptual domain models, and use cases are good at doing so, and these work products are often created as part of your initial requirements envisioning and iteration modeling activities. Similarly, to scale design-level TDD you must recognize that developer tests are very finely grained but once again do not provide overall context. High-level architecture sketches created during envisioning activities help set your initial technical direction. During each construction iteration, you'll do more detailed design modeling to think through critical issues before you implement them via TDD.
You also need to scale the validation aspects of TDD. TDD is in effect an approach to confirmatory testing where you validate the system to the level of your understanding of the requirements. The fundamental challenge with confirmatory testing, and hence TDD, is that it assumes that stakeholders actually know and can describe their requirements. Therefore you need to add investigative testing practices which explore issues that your stakeholders may not have thought of, such as usability issues, system integration issues, production performance issues, security issues, and a multitude of others.
For further reading, I suggest:1. My article "Introduction to TFD/TDD" at http://www.agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html which overviews TDD.2. My February 2008 column in Dr. Dobb's Journal entitled "Scaling TDD" at http://www.ddj.com/architect/205207998 which explores this issue in detail. 3. Andrew Glover's article "In pursuit of code quality: Adventures in behavior-driven development" at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-cq09187/ which describes a new-and-improved take on TDD called BDD.[Read More]
Agile Stakeholders at Scale
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The popular Agile literature can often seam naive when it comes to how Agilists work with project stakeholders:- Extreme Programming (XP) has a practice called On-Site Customer where one or more people work closely with your team to provide information and to make decisions in a timely manner.- Scrum has the role of Product Owner who is the one single person that the development team goes to for decisions about requirements. - Agile Modeling (AM) has the practice of Active Stakeholder Participation which extends On-Site Customer to get the stakeholder(s) actively involved with the modeling effort through the use of inclusive tools and techniques.
These are great strategies for small, co-located teams doing straightforward development, but they quickly fall apart at scale. This occurs for several reasons:1. Stakeholders are a diverse group. Your stakeholders include end users, business management, project funders, enterprise architects, operations staff, support staff, other system development teams, and many others. Different people have different, and often contradictory, requirements and they certainly have different priorities. It's questionable whether a single person, or a handful of persons, can adequately represent this diverse group.2. One person becomes a bottleneck. Even with a small co-located team this is a problem, let alone one that is geographically distributed or one that is very large. There's no way that a single person can be available 24/7 in a responsive manner to support distributed teams.3. It's a difficult role. The Product Owner/Customer (POC) is responsible for representing the business to the development team. They're making important decisions on a regular basis, decisions which they'll be held accountable for.4. One person becomes a serious project risk. Not only is it questionable whether a single person can fairly represent all stakeholders, even if they could what happens if you lose that person? They effectively become a single point of failure for your team.
To scale this role, consider the following strategies:1. Recognize the true scope of the POC role. Not only are they stakeholder proxies they also are a development team representative to the stakeholder community as a whole. As stakeholder proxies they'll make decisions and prioritize the work, they'll run requirements elicitation sessions, they'll negotiate priorities, and they'll put the development team in contact with stakeholders who have expertise in specific aspects of the domain. As team representatives they'll often demo the current version of the system to other stakeholders, communicate the status of the project to people, and respond to various requests for information from the stakeholders.2. Have multiple people in it. A single POC works well for small, co-located teams developing simple software. At scale you'll soon discover that you need multiple people in this role so that they don't become a bottleneck. For distributed teams it's common to see each subteam have one or more POCs who are managed by a primary/chief POC. The primary POC typically works on the coordinating team with the chief architect (I'll talk about this role in a future blog posting) and the program manager (also a topic for a future blog posting).3. Train them in business analysis skills. The person(s) in the POC role need good business analysis skills. If fact, it's common for people who were formerly BAs for traditional teams to step into the POC role, particularly with BAs who originally come from the business side of your organization. This strategy has its advantages and disadvantages. As a BA they've likely got solid business knowledge but their instincts may motivate them to take a documentation-driven approach to providing information to the development team instead of a collaboration-based approach. Be careful.4. Consider the full system development lifecycle. There's far more to the POC role than supporting the development team during Construction iterations. During "Iteration 0", the Inception phase for an Agile RUP project or the warm-up phase for an Eclipse Way project, the POC(s) will often lead the initial requirements envisioning efforts. The product backlog, or better yet your work item list, needs to come from somewhere after all. During the release iteration(s), the Transition phase for RUP or the End-Game phase for Eclipse Way, the POC(s) will focus on communicating the upcoming release to the stakeholder community, will be actively involved with any final user acceptance testing (UAT), and may even be involved with training end users.
In my January 2008 column in Dr Dobb's Journal, posted at http://www.ddj.com/architect/204801134 , I provide detailed advice about how to scale the way that you work with stakeholders on Agile projects by applying the practices of Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD). There's no magic solution, you just need to choose to organize yourself effectively. The good news is that you can easily work with stakeholders at scale.[Read More]


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This year's FOSE conference and expo showcases some of the most innovative technologies and services aimed at, and designed for, government. Nowhere will that be more prevalent than on the convention show floor, where over 200 companies have signed up to show off their best and brightest ideas and products.
Find out about the keynotes, programs, sessions and exhibits featured at this year's FOSE conference and expo. Read more.
Comcast Business will be exhibiting at FOSE for the first time this year. At the booth company officials will be defining how their high-performance networks can power the move to modern government, with data center integration as a major component.
Comcast says it wants to show that the network is a strategic enabler, not just a cost center. To that end, the company will reveal the results of a survey of IT professionals showing how they connect to their data centers. The firm will then give highlight each method and technology and explain where each one is heading in the government market.
Comcast will also explain why Ethernet is the baseline that government should be building services upon and show how it stacks up in terms of speed and throughput compared to older technologies.
Dell will be showcasing some of its latest IT systems and services for federal government at FOSE this year too. A noteworthy example is the new Dell Cloud for U.S. Government, an approach that works to simplify NIST and FedRAMP cloud environments. As part of its cloud initiative Dell will also demonstrate Cloud Connect, a way to enable BYOD while managing remote, secure cloud access to agency applications and data.
With security being an issue at the forefront of all government concerns, Dell will also be showing its Connected Security and Dell Data Protection and Encryption products. These security solutions are designed to protect critical data and manage security risks across all platforms.
Finally, Dell wants to revolutionize federal data centers with its "Data Center Transformation" service, which is a strategic and comprehensive end-to-end approach to data center transformation that helps agencies combine the right people, processes and technology to drive efficiency, reduce risk and provide faster time-to-value.
Electronic records management is one area many government employees are required to monitor. Those looking for help in that endeavor can visit the Feith Systems and Software, Inc. booth. Feith will be demonstrating its BridgeLogiQ product, which it calls an agile and versatile workflow solution. Feith will exhibit the system's feaures, from its Web form data capture and document management to its time-and-event-driven workflow.
At the AudioEye booth, the question will be asked, "What does the Internet sound like?" That's because the company specializes in making websites accessible to those with special needs. The federal government has always been at the forefront of accessibility issues, so AudioEye's Audio Internet Software as a Service Platform is something that will peak interest as a platform for 508-compliant enterprise websites run by government agencies.
Unlike many accessibility tools and solutions, the AudioEye player is made available to all end users without the burden of software or plugin installations. Further, the player is cross-platform and browser agnostic. As long as the end user has access to the latest version of Firefox, Safari, Chrome, or Internet Explorer, the accessible version of an AudioEye enabled Web destination will provide access regardless of the user's operating system.
Visitors to the AudioEye booth can experience the accessible Internet first hand and gain tips and insight on how to make government websites more user-friendly and comply with accessibility laws.
With the deadline for full FedRAMP compliance ticking down, cloud security is center stage at this year's FOSE. As part of FedRAMP requirements, agencies must hire an approved third-party assessment organization to perform an independent audit of government cloud systems.
Coalfire has consulted on many of these assessments, At Coalfire's booth, they will be sharing best practices they've learned, including tips to help government agencies comply with the new security regulations.
At the Leap Motion booth, visitors won't be touching anything, because the company is coming to FOSE for the first time to demonstrate how its innovative controller allows for hands-free computer operation. Company officials will be demonstrating some of the new features that have already been integrated into Leap Motion, such as Google Earth and Cyber Science. Visitors will be able to experience full gesture control for computers and see how government websites might design modules using gesture compatibility to make their sites more engaging, while also helping to improve Section 508 accessibility.
Altogether the 150 plus companies coming to FOSE are going to create a temporary technology-packed city. If you want to check out the latest tech for government, for three days at least, it will be right up the street.
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Epsilon provides a set of ANT tasks (what is ANT?) to enable developers to assemble complex workflows (build scripts) that involve both MDE (e.g. transformation, validation) and non-MDE (e.g. copying files, invoking compilers) tasks. Epsilon tasks are underpined by a communication mechanism that enables them to interact with each other by sharing models and variables.
Chapter 11 of the Epsilon book provides a detailed description of the ANT tasks and their supported attributes/nested elements.


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|Wall Street up-and-comer Angel (Imperioli) is given some crack by a buddy (Calderon) to celebrate the birth of his child. This starts a downward spiral into addiction and dealing. At first, his wife Monika (Sorvino) goes along, but as Angel deteriorates, she learns not to trust him. Excellent performances by Imperioli and Sorvino avoid over-the-top theatrics. Script provides a realistic look at how addiction affects real people, and steers clear of obvious cliches. Based on diaries found in a Bronx apartment building. Film's producers tracked down the author and paid for his rehab.
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In fact, the Sox resurrected the productive offense that had been missing for most of the past week.
Led by an array of contributors Tuesday night, the Sox amassed season highs in runs and hits in a 16-5 humbling of Pittsburgh.
The 521st home run of Jim Thome's storied career, which moved him into a tie for 16th place on the all-time list with Willie McCovey and Ted Williams, punctuated the Sox's triumph.
Thome's homer was a three-run shot in the seventh inning and came after his teammates already had applied most of the damage.
"It's very special," Thome said. "You never imagine your name being thrown in with McCovey and Williams. It's pretty neat. It was a nice night. We scored a lot of runs. It made it even more special."
Nick Swisher reached base on all five plate appearances, Jermaine Dye, Joe Crede and Orlando Cabrera each hit home runs, and A.J. Pierzynski set the tone with a first-inning double that extended his hitting streak to 12 games.
The Sox (39-31) constantly applied pressure en route to a 19-hit attack while maintaining their 41/2-game lead in the American League Central.
"Hopefully, this is the week we explode and swing the bat the way we can swing the bat," manager Ozzie Guillen said. "The thing is, don't do it for one day."
Tuesday night's developments provided temporary relief over how the Sox would fare without Konerko while reviving an offense that had scored three runs or fewer in four of the previous five games.
Konerko was placed on the 15-day disabled list for the first time in his professional career because of a Grade 1 left oblique strain and will be out through at least the second Cubs series June 27-29.
Although Konerko is experiencing his worst first half since 2003, when he batted .197, the Sox are looking for his teammates to pick up the production that he has displayed since joining the Sox in 1999.
Dye hit a two-run double in the first and led off the third with his 15th homer. He has six doubles, four home runs and 10 RBIs in his last 19 games.
Cabrera hit a two-run home run during a five-run seventh and hit a single and scored the Sox's final run on Carlos Quentin's sacrifice fly in the eighth.
Swisher, who will take over the first-base duties in Konerko's absence, drew two walks, hit two doubles and a single and is batting .387 in his last 10 games.
"We picked away," Thome said. "We got some guys on. We hit some home runs. All in all, offensively, we did a lot of good things. Early in the game, we drew some walks and Jermaine got a big hit. We did a lot of different things to help win tonight. You hope it's contagious and keeps going on."
DeWayne Wise, who was promoted from Triple-A Charlotte and will share the duties in center field with Brian Anderson, collected two hits.
The outburst was attained without a hit from the slumping Quentin, who drew three walks but went hitless in two at-bats. He fell to 1-for-16.
"I'm the last guy to talk to the players when they're struggling," Guillen said before the game.
"When they struggle, the only thing I can do to show them I have confidence in them is just to keep putting them in the lineup."


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David Price wasted little time in calling out Tyson Fury for an all-British grudge heavyweight match after reaffirming his knockout power with a demolition of Matt Skelton in Liverpool.
Price retained his British and Commonwealth titles with a second-round stoppage of Skelton at Aintree Racecourse on Friday night, taking his unbeaten record to 15 professional fights. Fury and Price have been locked in a war of words for months, and Price has told Fury to "keep talking" to up the stakes ahead of a big-money showdown next year.
"Just keep talking," Price said on BoxNation. "Just keep doing what you're doing because we're having a good laugh at you while you're doing it, so keep doing it. It's going to make for a massive event when we fight.
"I'll just keep doing my talking in the ring. Tyson keeps doing his talking at press conferences or talking into camera phones and putting them on YouTube and things like that.
"As far as I'm concerned, he's getting serious about it and all that, but this is nothing but good fun for me because we're having a good laugh.
"I'm so lucky to have Tyson Fury around at this stage of my career and he's lucky to have me - as long as the fight can happen.
"We all need a nemesis in boxing, we're each other's rivals; we have a massive rivalry. Let's sell a stadium out, let's make the fight happen and let's make some money. The best man will win, which will be me, of course!"


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Editeur : PNUD
Date de parution : 2008
The terms of the equation remain simple : for the next few decades, given the volume of available water, and under the present circumstances, will it be possible to provide enough water to a population forecast to be at least 9 billion by 2050 (according to the medium hypothesis proposed by the United Nations) using a volume which will be roughly the same as it is now ?
In the context of stress and scarcity, the challenge will be to find creative ways to manage water resources without emphasizing already existing disputes and conflicts. This is raising important questions : is it reasonable to envisage more long distance water transfer without threatening water reserves and harming environmental balance ? Which are the countries and regions that will suffer the most due to lack of water ? And in which countries will an important part of the population still have to wait for decades before being supplied with improved water ?
This 2008 update of the 'Vital Water Graphics' is aimed at giving an overview of the state of water resources in the world and providing answers to these important questions.
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