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This week, MLB.com, Keith Law and Baseball Prospectus came out with their top prospects lists. Like most baseball fans, I'm obsessed with prospect lists in a way that is entirely irrational. I couldn't name you the 20th man on most major league rosters -- if you pressed me at this exact second, I'd be unable to tell you who the Twins' starting second baseman is -- but I'll pore through prospect rankings like they're the Dead Sea Scrolls.
This is because prospects are perfect. Prospects never grow old, never disappoint us, never are sullied with the oppressive and banal expectations of real life. That only happens to them when they become actual Major League Baseball players. Prospects, they're always the same age. I can look at Miguel Sano or Oscar Taveras and imagine them for what I imagine them to be, rather than what they are, or will actually be. It's only later, when the average fan has seen all these players on the field, that prospect rankings are sullied by the drudgery of reality. Now, they're all going to be Mike Trout and Clayton Kershaw, and they're all going to change everything.
To remind myself that prospect lists are simply lists of (potential) future major leaguers rather than angels sent from above to be platonically ideal baseball humans, I decided to go back through 16 years of Baseball America prospect rankings. Sixteen years is a solid sample size: Those are full careers spanning those rankings. At one point, those were perfect prospects with their whole lives in front of them. Now, most of them are just people who have ruined your fantasy team. Here's a look, from 1994 through 2009.
- Cliff Floyd
- Chipper Jones
- Jeffrey Hammonds
- Alex Gonzalez
- Carlos Delgado
- Alex Rodriguez
- Manny Ramirez
- James Baldwin
- Rondell White
- Jose Silva
Other notables: 14. Chan Ho Park; 16. Derek Jeter; 17, Javy Lopez; 28. Shawn Green; 31. Johnny Damon; 51. Raul Mondesi; 63. Derek Lowe; 71. Armando Benitez; 78. Billy Wagner; 92. LaTroy Hawkins.
Hall of Famers (or potential Hall of Famers): 2. That's Jeter and Chipper. A-Rod and Manny have the numbers to be in, and you can make an argument, maybe, for Delgado.
Top 10 Busts: They all made the majors and most had halfway decent careers. Jose Silva had the worst, with a career ERA of 5.41.
Class Ranking (out of 10): 9. Take away PEDs, and you've got four solid Hall of Famers in the top 10. Tough to beat that.
- Alex Rodriguez
- Ruben Rivera
- Chipper Jones
- Derek Jeter
- Brian Hunter
- Shawn Green
- Charles Johnson
- Alex Gonzalez
- Johnny Damon
- Ben Grieve
Other notables: 11. Armando Benitez; 17. Billy Wagner; 21. Andruw Jones; 22. Nomar Garciaparra; 37. Jason Isringhausen; 41. Chan Ho Park; 42. Jason Schmidt; 49. Andy Pettitte; 50. Jeff Suppan; 52. Bobby Abreu; 81. Derrek Lee; 85. Vladimir Guerrero; 91. Scott Rolen; 95. Carl Everett; 100. Chris Carpenter.
Hall of Famers (or potential Hall of Famers): 2. Same as the year before, though you can also make cases for Pettitte, Guerrero and Rolen.
Top 10 Busts: Ruben Rivera probably had the worst career, but I remember once thinking Ben Grieve was what we now know Mike Trout to be.
Class Ranking (out of 10): 8. Manny dropping out drops the number down a spot. Sneaky deep class though.
- Andruw Jones
- Paul Wilson
- Ruben Rivera
- Darin Erstad
- Alan Benes
- Derek Jeter
- Karim Garcia
- Livan Hernandez
- Vladimir Guerrero
- Ben Davis
Other notables: 14. Billy Wagner; 15. Bartolo Colon; 16. Kerry Wood; 18. Chan Ho Park; 27. Scott Rolen; 29. Bobby Abreu; 30. Jermaine Dye; 32. Todd Helton; 33. Edgar Renteria; 36. Nomar Garciaparra; 41. Derrek Lee; 42. Paul Konerko; 44. Todd Hollandsworth; 48. Ugueth Urbina; 50. Richie Sexson; 51. Jason Varitek; 56. Matt Morris; 82. Chris Carpenter; 88. Miguel Tejada.
Hall of Famers (and potential Hall of Famers): 1. It's sort of unbelievable that Jeter spent three years in the top 10 of prospect rankings without the Yankees ever trading him.
Top 10 Busts: Paul Wilson was another failed Mets prospect, and Ben Davis was a career backup.
Class Ranking: 6. That top 10 is rough, all told. Lots of failed hopes in that top 10.
- Andruw Jones
- Vladimir Guerrero
- Kerry Wood
- Matt White
- Travis Lee
- Miguel Tejada
- Todd Walker
- Kris Benson
- Ruben Rivera
- Nomar Garciaparra
Other notables: 11. Paul Konerko; 13. Scott Rolen; 14. Bartolo Colon; 15. Derrek Lee; 16. Todd Helton; 17. Carl Pavano; 23. Roy Halladay; 25. Matt Morris; 26. Aramis Ramirez; 28. Chris Carpenter; 30. Adrian Beltre; 33. Neifi Perez; 38. Bobby Abreu; 53. Eric Chavez; 75. Jake Westbrook; 77. Mark Kotsay; 79. Torii Hunter; 81. Aaron Boone; 83. Bruce Chen; 84. Brett Tomko; 93. Carlos Beltran; 98. Sidney Ponson
Hall of Famers (and potential Hall of Famers): Maybe 1? Carlos Beltran deserves to be there, but we'll see, and Roy Halladay probably does to. Adrian Beltre may have the best case of all of them by the time he's done.
Top 10 Busts: Matt White never made the majors: Scott Boras got him a $10.2 million signing bonus from the Rays (!!!), but he only pitched a total of 122 minor league games.
Class ranking: 5. We should probably talk about Andruw Jones. It's so strange to see him as the elderly, portly feller still roaming around: At one point, it felt like he was going to dominate baseball for three decades.
- Ben Grieve
- Paul Konerko
- Adrian Beltre
- Kerry Wood
- Aramis Ramirez
- Matt White
- Kris Benson
- Travis Lee
- Carl Pavano
- Miguel Tejada
Other notables: 11. Todd Helton; 15. Juan Encarnacion; 18. Rick Ankiel; 20. Sean Casey; 30. Eric Chavez; 35. Ryan Minor; 36. Troy Glaus; 38, Roy Halladay; 43. Carlos Lee; 47. Derrek Lee; 52. Vernon Wells; 56. Magglio Ordonez; 64. Lance Berkman; 71. Mike Lowell; 75. Ramon Ortiz; 83 Javier Vazquez; 91. Dennys Reyes.
Hall of Famers (and potential Hall of Famers): Again, maybe 1: Beltre and Halladay are the only hopes here.
Top 10 Busts: Still Matt White.
Class Ranking: 4. Ben Grieve, man.
- J.D. Drew
- Rick Ankiel
- Eric Chavez
- Bruce Chen
- Brad Penny
- Michael Barrett
- Ryan Anderson
- Pablo Ozuna
- Ruben Mateo
- Matt Clement
Other notables: 12. Roy Halladay; 13. Lance Berkman; 14. Carlos Beltran; 16. Corey Patterson; 19. Pat Burrell; 21. A.J. Burnett; 27. Mark Mulder; 28. Carlos Lee; 34. Gabe Kapler; 39. Alfonso Soriano; 44. Jason Grilli; 45. Octavio Dotel; 49. Ronnie Belliard; 51. Jeff Weaver; 52. Jayson Werth; 58. Mike Lowell; 60. Rafael Furcal; 64. Jeremy Giambi; 69. Vernon Wells; 86. Milton Bradley; 89. Jason Marquis; 93. Carlos Pena.
Hall of Famers (and potential Hall of Famers): Just Halladay and Beltran as possibilities.
Top 10 Busts: The top two prospects were Cardinals, but neither quite worked out the way Cardinals fans thought they would. This top 10 is brutal, with Ozuna and Mateo as total flops, but only Seattle left-hander Ryan Anderson never made the bigs.
Class Ranking: 2. This top 10 is legitimately painful to look at.
- Rick Ankiel
- Pat Burrell
- Corey Patterson
- Vernon Wells
- Nick Johnson
- Ruben Mateo
- Sean Burroughs
- Rafael Furcal
- Ryan Anderson
- John Patterson
Other notables: 12. Mark Mulder; 13. Josh Hamilton; 16. Alfonso Soriano; 19. Josh Beckett; 20. A.J. Burnett; 31. Jack Cust; 32. Jon Garland; 37. Lance Berkman; 41. Barry Zito; 48. Jayson Werth; 49. Eric Gagne; 56. Adam Dunn; 57. CC Sabathia; 65. Ben Sheets; 77. Hee Seop Choi; 81. Byung-Hyun Kim; 88. Wily Mo Pena; 95. Jimmy Rollins.
Hall of Famers (and potential Hall of Famers): I don't see a single one. Do you? Maybe Sabathia?
Top 10 Busts: Some of the same issues with 1999 here, but seeing Ankiel atop this lists makes one want to cry.
Class Ranking: 2. If you want to know how much scouting has changed, look at Corey Patterson, thrice top-10 prospect.
- Josh Hamilton
- Corey Patterson
- Josh Beckett
- Jon Rauch
- Ben Sheets
- Sean Burroughs
- CC Sabathia
- Ryan Anderson
- Ichiro Suzuki
- Nick Johnson
Other notables: 11. Carlos Pena; 12. Vernon Wells; 13. Roy Oswalt; 22. Hee Seop Choi; 27. Alfonso Soriano; 31. Jimmy Rollins; 33. Adam Dunn; 39. Bud Smith; 40. Jake Peavy; 42. Albert Pujols; 47. Brett Myers; 55. Michael Cuddyer; 68. Carlos Zambrano; 72. Carl Crawford; 80. Joel Pineiro; 81, Ryan Ludwick; 89. Adrian Gonzalez; 91. Miguel Cabrera; 97. Adam Wainwright.
Hall of Famers (and potential Hall of Famers): 3, at least. This was Albert Pujols' only appearance on a prospect list: He would win the Rookie of the Year by grabbing a job from Bobby Bonilla in spring training. Ichiro is in too, as is Cabrera, and Sabathia, Rollins, Crawford and Gonzalez may have something to say when their careers are over.
Top 10 Busts: Poor doomed Ryan Anderson. Also, this incarnation of Josh Hamilton, before he turned his life around after crapping out, might be the biggest bust of all time.
Class Ranking: 9. Tough to beat Pujols and Ichiro and Cabrera in the same class.
- Josh Beckett
- Mark Prior
- Hank Blalock
- Sean Burroughs
- Carlos Pena
- Juan Cruz
- Joe Mauer
- Wilson Betemit
- Drew Henson
- Mark Teixeira
Other notables: 18. Josh Hamilton; 20. Brandon Phillips; 21. Justin Morneau; 26. Marlon Byrd; 27. Michael Cuddyer; 28. Jake Peavy; 30. Rafael Soriano; 31. Adrian Gonzalez; 33. Brett Myers; 34. Jose Reyes; 38. Miguel Cabrera; 42. Adam Wainwright; 59. Carl Crawford; 70. Jayson Werth; 74. Bobby Jenks; 78. Aaron Heilman; 80. Carlos Zambrano; 81. Orlando Hudson; 82. Colby Lewis; 90. Erik Bedard; 97. Victor Martinez
Hall of Famers (and potential Hall of Famers): 1. (Cabrera). Mauer still has a chance.
Top 10 Busts: Drew Henson. Strangely, he's now a Yankees minor league hitting instructor.
Class Ranking: 3. Boy, people were totally high on Sean Burroughs, weren't they?
- Mark Teixeira
- Rocco Baldelli
- Jose Reyes
- Joe Mauer
- Jesse Foppert
- Jose Contreras
- Brandon Phillips
- Hideki Matsui
- Gavin Floyd
- Francisco Rodriguez
Other notables: 11. Scott Kazmir; 12. Miguel Cabrera; 14. Justin Morneau; 16. Victor Martinez; 17. Michael Cuddyer; 18. Adam Wainwright; 19. Hanley Ramirez; 21. B.J. Upton; 29. Rich Harden; 30. Cliff Lee; 31. Adrian Gonzalez; 33. Josh Hamilton; 34. James Loney; 43. Dontrelle Willis; 46. Travis Hafner; 51. Johan Santana; 54. Zach Greinke; 61. Shin-Soo Choo; 63. Marlon Byrd; 75. David Wright; 78. Prince Fielder; 81. Chase Utley; 83. Francisco Liriano; 91. Corey Hart; 94. Jayson Werth; 95. Jeff Francoeur; 99. Edwin Jackson.
Hall of Famers (and potential Hall of Famers): 3, maybe more. Cabrera, along with real candidates Utley, Wright, Fielder, Lee and Hanley. This is a crazy deep class.
Top 10 Busts: Rocco Baldelli just could never stay healthy, but Jesse Foppert only pitched in 27 games his whole career.
Class ranking: 7. The next wave is coming here.
- Joe Mauer
- B.J. Upton
- Delmon Young
- Edwin Jackson
- Rickie Weeks
- Alex Rios
- Kaz Matsui
- Greg Miller
- Grady Sizemore
- Prince Fielder
Other notables: 12. Scott Kazmir; 14. Zack Greinke; 16. Justin Morneau; 17. Cole Hamels; 19. J.J. Hardy; 21. David Wright; 27. Jeff Francoeur; 29. Ervin Santana; 30. Felix Hernandez; 39. Hanley Ramirez; 43. Joe Blanton; 49. Adam Wainwright; 52. Adrian Gonzalez; 54. John Maine; 74. Jason Bay; 86. Lastings Milledge; 91. Matt Cain; 93. Jeff Francis.
Hall of Famers (and potential Hall of Famers): Mauer, Fielder, Wright, Hanley, Felix.
Top 10 Flops: Some solid ones up there in the top 10 -- Delmon Young is actually one of the lighter ones, so to speak -- but the Dodgers' Greg Miller is the only one who never reached the bigs.
Class Ranking: 4.
- Joe Mauer
- Felix Hernandez
- Delmon Young
- Ian Stewart
- Joel Guzman
- Casey Kotchman
- Scott Kazmir
- Rickie Weeks
- Andy Marte
- Hanley Ramirez
Other notables: 11. Lastings Milledge; 13. Matt Cain; 14. Jeff Francoeur; 15. Prince Fielder; 22. Carlos Quentin; 24. Nick Swisher; 27. Ryan Howard; 44. Brian McCann; 47. Anthony Reyes; 48. Homer Bailey; 49. Brandon McCarthy; 51. Shin-Soo Choo; 56. Edwin Encarnacion; 57. Curtis Granderson; 65. Nick Markakis; 71. Cole Hamels; 76. Kendrys Moralez; 81. Neil Walker; 89. Russell Martin; 91. Jonathan Papelbon; 97. Huston Street.
Hall of Famers (and potential Hall of Famers): Fielder, Mauer, Felix, maybe.
Top 10 Busts: Delmon Young is perpetually funny, but Joel Guzman was a Dodger shortstop who only played 24 games in the majors.
Class Ranking: 4.
- Delmon Young
- Justin Upton
- Brandon Wood
- Jeremy Hermida
- Stephen Drew
- Francisco Liriano
- Chad Billingsley
- Justin Verlander
- Lastings MIlledge
- Matt Cain
Other notables: 11. Prince Fielder; 12. Howie Kendrick; 15. Ryan Zimmerman; 18. Jarrod Saltalamacchia; 21. Nick Markakis; 22. Jon Lester; 25. Troy Tulowitzki; 30. Hanley Ramirez; 31. Cameron Maybin; 32. Carlos Gonzalez; 35. Joel Zumaya; 36. Mike Pelfrey; 37. Jonathan Papelbon; 49. Ryan Braun; 56. Edinson Volquez; 57. Jared Weaver; 58. Jason Kubel; 61. Elvis Andrus; 68. Cole Hamels; 73. Gio Gonzalez; 76. Jay Bruce; 77. Dustin Pedroia; 80. Josh Johnson; 89. Andre Ethier; 94. Ronny Cedeno; 96. Matt Kemp.
Hall of Famers (and potential Hall of Famers): Fielder, Tulo, Hanley, Verlander, Braun (PEDs aside of course), maybe Pedroia?
Top 10 Busts; Ha, look, Delmon Young No. 1! Finally! Also, ask a Mets fan about Lastings Milledge sometime.
Class Ranking: 5. It's too early to write some of these guys off.
- Daisuke Matsuzaka
- Alex Gordon
- Delmon Young
- Phil Hughes
- Homer Bailey
- Cameron Maybin
- Evan Longoria
- Brandon Wood
- Justin Upton
- Andrew Miller
Other notables: 11. Tim Lincecum; 14. Jay Bruce; 15. Troy Tulowitzki; 16. Yovani Gallardo; 18. Carlos Gonzalez; 21. Matt Garza; 24. Clayton Kershaw; 25. Billy Butler; 26. Ryan Braun; 27. Jose Tabata; 28. Adam Jones; 29. Colby Rasmus; 33. Jacoby Ellsbury; 38. Hunter Pence; 43. Joey Votto; 51. Clay Buchholz; 63. Miguel Montero; 65. Elvis Andrus; 70. Jamie Garcia; 75. Joba Chamberlain; 79. Elijah Dukes; 84. Ubaldo Jimenez.
Hall of Famers (and potential Hall of Famers): Votto, Kershaw, Tulo, Longoria?
Top 10 Busts: I'm pretty sure Delmon Young will show up on prospect lists until the end of time. Andrew Miller's the pick here though.
Class Ranking: 4.
- Jay Bruce
- Evan Longoria
- Joba Chamberlain
- Clay Buchholz
- Colby Rasmus
- Cameron Maybin
- Clayton Kershaw
- Franklin Morales
- Homer Bailey
- David Price
Other notables: 12. Matt Wieters; 13. Jacoby Ellsbury; 14. Andrew McCutchen; 17. Wade Davis; 18. Mike Moustakas; 19. Elvis Andrus; 21. Rick Porello; 22. Carlos Gonzalez; 24. Nick Adenhart; 28. Jason Heyward; 30. Kosuke Fukudome; 32. Chase Headley; 34. Johnny Cueto; 36. Brett Anderson; 44. Joey Votto; 49. Jair Jurrjens; 65. Chris Davis; 66. Max Scherzer; 74. Dexter Fowler; 93. Neftali Feliz; 97. Chris Perez; 100. Drew Stubbs.
Hall of Famers (and potential Hall of Famers): Votto, Kershaw, Longoria, McCutchen?
Top 10 Busts: Did the Yankees break Joba Chamberlain, or was he always going to break?
Class Ranking: 5.
- Matt Wieters
- David Price
- Colby Rasmus
- Tommy Hanson
- Jason Heyward
- Travis Snider
- Brett Anderson
- Cameron Maybin
- Madison Bumgarner
- Neftali Feliz
Other notables: 12. Pedro Alvarez; 14. Buster Posey; 16. Giancarlo Stanton; 18. Logan Morrison; 26. Carlos Santana; 33. Andrew McCutchen; 36. Austin Jackson; 37. Elvis Andrus; 38. Jesus Montero; 41. Jordan Zimmermann; 48. Domonic Brown; 77. Jon Niese; 79. Jeff Smardzija; 81. Brett Lawrie; 87. Freddie Freeman; 98. Daniel Bard.
Hall of Famers (and potential Hall of Famers): Posey, Stanton, McCutchen.
Top 10 Busts: Brett Anderson isn't a bust, exactly; it's tough to scout injuries. These top 10s are getting a lot better, by the way.
Class Ranking: 7.
Everything else is probably too soon to tell. (Some of the players on the 2010 list are still trying to work their way to the majors.) The point is: Prospects look a lot more ordinary in retrospect than they do in the moment. You'll never love your prospects more than right now.
Email me at email@example.com follow me @williamfleitch or just shout out your window real loud, I'll hear you. Point is, let's talk.


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Holy smokes, these Evil Dead 2 costumes are off the chainsaw. On the left, we've got Kiersten Essenpreis wearing her DIY hat featuring a detailed replica of the forsaken cabin from the film. On the right, her friend Marc is dressed up as the haunted Necronomicon that causes the film's characters so much trouble. And in the middle, Essenpreis' husband is all bloodied up like the hero, Ash. This is how you do Halloween, people.
The costumes are incredibly impressive. The cover of the book opens up to reveal a terrifying skull, and the house has a light that flicks on inside (or flickers on and off, for maximum scary). If you're interested in making your own costume based on the B-horror classic, Essenpreis posted a mini how-to on her site. You might have to wait until next year, though, because it'll be tough to get this radness done at the last second. [YouFail.com via Geekologie]

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>>Meet more ASBMB Hill Day Attendees
This past September, members of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's policy staff and Public Affairs Advisory Committee descended upon Capitol Hill for one of their regular appearances to advocate for steady and increased funding for biomedical research. This time, though, they added a new twist and brought individuals from the front lines of the research-funding debate: graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
It's often said that the best way to get your point across is to put a human face on it, and ASBMB took that message to heart, inviting young scientists-in-training from across the U.S. to help convey the society's message. The students and postdocs were selected, with the help of ASBMB members at local universities, from districts represented by members of the House and Senate appropriations subcommittees that oversee Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health funding. In the end, nine talented trainees, representing eight districts stretching from California to Connecticut, arrived for ASBMB's first Graduate Student/Postdoc Hill Day since 2004.
The students and postdocs spent their first evening in Washington relaxing and getting to know one another at a dinner reception, where they also received a crash course in how to communicate with Congress. The next day, they descended upon the Hill as concerned constituents and, more importantly, as "ambassadors of science."
Splitting up into small groups, the young scientists and their guides traversed the various House and Senate office buildings to reach their district representatives and senators.
The students and postdocs met with congressional staff, although, in a few cases, the senator or representative did make an appearance as well, and presented their message. That message was two-fold: that they supported the House proposal in the 2010 budget that provides a 3.1 percent increase in NIH funding, and that the NIH needs a commitment to long-term sustainable increases in funding. The fundamental nature of research cannot thrive with a roller coaster ride of booms and busts in funding.
And although they presented some general talking points about the medical and economic value of investing federal money into basic research to bolster the message, the young scientists made sure to emphasize the "personal." Often with the poise and passion of skilled orators, they discussed specifically how NIH funding and/or stimulus money was helping them complete their research projects and advance their careers, or, on the flip side, how funding problems forced them to abandon potentially valuable projects or change labs. They also talked about how their projects would benefit society and combat diseases like Alzheimer's disease or diabetes. And, finally, they stressed that today's students become tomorrow's teachers, who will train and educate the next generation of scientists.
The responses provided by the congressional offices understandably were subdued; while many on the appropriations committees have long been supporters of biomedical research, a general theme amongst the House and Senate staff was noting that health care reform was taking most of the congressional resources, and, combined with the traditional delays in budgeting that occur in the first year of a new administration, a quick resolution may not be at hand. However, many also noted President Obama is a strong supporter of research and said they were hopeful that NIH would receive adequate funding.
Despite uncertainty concerning the budget, the mood after the event remained bright for the participants, who praised their unique experience. ASBMB and the PAAC hope to make Hill visits by young investigators a recurring event and also to have students and postdocs visit local congressional offices and have policymakers take tours of university labs in their districts.
We asked our nine American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Hill Day attendees to answer some questions so we could learn a little more about them as well as their motivations to go to Capitol Hill. >>Meet the ASBMB Hill Day Attendees.
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MADRID (Reuters) - After a year of radical reforms that made Spain more competitive but also exacerbated a deep recession, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has largely lost his appetite for aggressive and unpopular cuts to pensions or state bureaucracy.
His plunging approval rating at home is holding him back as unemployment soars to 27 percent. Sources within the government say he has also reached the view that deeper reforms at home will win him few points in negotiations with European partners.
Rajoy, of the center-right People's Party, is under less pressure than last year after Brussels gave him more time to plug a budget gap. Borrowing costs have dropped to 2-1/2-year lows thanks to a European Central Bank pledge to backstop struggling euro zone countries and to cash from investors flush after an increase in global money supply.
He defended his policies before Parliament on Wednesday, saying he had chased off the specter of an international rescue for Spain and that he would continue making tough reforms to modernize the economy.
But he did not discuss details. Critics say the new reform package his cabinet agreed on two weeks ago puts off tough decisions on pensions and the cutting of public administration.
"No one made a greater effort than Spaniards in 2012," Rajoy told lawmakers, hinting that other countries in Europe need to match his effort on cutting costs.
Through tax hikes and spending cuts last year Rajoy cut more than 20 billion euros from the public deficit. An overhaul of Spain's labor market rules reduced the power of labor unions and cut the cost of hiring and firing.
Spain also cleaned up its wobbly financial system with 42 billion euros in aid money from Europe, although the cost of that rescue may still rise.
But this year his reforms are mostly a rehash of ideas that he had already put forward last year and which economists say they will do little to revitalize economic growth.
One urgent reform is to the pension system. Only 16 million Spaniards currently contribute to the pension fund, which supports 9 million people. And, as in many developed countries, Spain's population is aging.
Rajoy is negotiating a new formula for calculating pension payoffs, which he can sell at home as a gradual tweaking of the system and in Brussels as something that will be more impactful in the long-run.
Analysts say he is wary of going further for fear of sparking more intense street protests. Demonstrations against cost cuts have been frequent in Spain over the past two years, although they have mostly been peaceful.
The latest opinion polls show the PP has lost 10 percentage points of support since Rajoy's election in November 2011. Support for the main opposition group, the Socialists remains unchanged, while backing has been growing for smaller, more radical, parties.
More than 68 percent of Spaniards say the government is doing a bad or very bad job, while the latest official forecast shows that a quarter of the workforce will still be out of work three years from now.
While his focus on new domestic reforms flags, Rajoy has turned towards Brussels to demand more action from the EU. He has repeatedly pressed Brussels and its paymasters in Berlin to move more quickly on Europe-wide reforms, saying that austerity in individual countries will be worthless without wider efforts.
He wants speedier implementation of a single euro zone banking supervisor and deposit guarantee fund, which would help Spain by spreading financial system risk across the bloc.
Rajoy has also called on the European Central Bank and the European Investment Bank to take action to help small businesses obtain funding: smaller Spanish companies must pay much higher interest rates on loans than, for example, German counterparts.
But slowing down reforms at home could cost him the leverage that he needs to make his case for stronger action in Europe.
Jose M. Areilza, a law professor at Spain's ESADE business school, said Rajoy has a limited window of opportunity to make changes at home and to push for change in Europe ahead of European parliamentary elections next year.
"Spain needs to push for things now. After the European parliamentary elections the mandate will not be for more Europe, it will be the other way around. There will be less European solidarity," Areilza said.
The PP has an absolute majority in Congress and some party members - most prominently outspoken free-market advocate Esperanza Aguirre, ex-president of the Madrid region - are pushing for Rajoy to move faster to cut public institutions.
While cutting flab out of the bureaucracy could be a popular measure - as opposed to fresh cuts to education and health spending - the potential rise in unemployment would not be.
In Parliament on Wednesday Rajoy said he has eliminated 370,000 public jobs. Spain's spending on public administration is already lower than the European Union average.
However, those seeking more cuts argue that there is still room to scale back. Many of Spain's autonomous regions have offices that duplicate efforts by the central government. For example there are multiple anti-monopoly watchdogs.
Within his cabinet, Rajoy's economic advisers are divided on the issue, and the notoriously cautious prime minister says he is waiting for the results of a study, due in June.
"On the one side you have people saying we should take advantage of the crisis to reform, no matter what the political cost. But the more political members of the government say it doesn't make sense to carry out unpopular reforms if you aren't going to be in power," said Jose Ignacio Torreblanca, head of the Madrid office of the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank.
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Storm G Bird has hip surgery
Seattle, WA – Seattle Storm point guard Sue Bird underwent successful surgery Friday to repair the labrum in her left hip.
The procedure was performed by Dr. Marc J. Philippon at the Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colo., where Bird remains resting comfortably, the team said.
After a weekend stay at the clinic, Bird -- the Storm's leading scorer and playmaker this year with 12.2 points and 5.3 assists per game -- will immediately begin rehabilitation and will be out of action between 8-12 weeks.
"We're excited as an organization that Sue came through her surgery successfully," said Storm head coach and general manager Brian Agler. "Dr. Philippon said she must have been very courageous to have played through the injury. He is very optimistic the surgery went well. We look forward to seeing Sue at full health next season."
In September 2011, Bird, a 10-year pro out of Connecticut, had the same surgery performed on her right hip and made a full recovery. She was ready in time to play in Russia for UMMC Ekaterinburg in January.
The Storm were eliminated during the Western Conference Semifinals on Tuesday, falling 73-72 in Game 3 to the Minnesota Lynx. For the series, Bird averaged 16.3 points and 7.0 assists per game.


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The story unfolds in the libertine atmosphere of the 1970s San Francisco, but the significance of Minnie's effort to understand herself and her world is universal. In this unusual novel, artist and writer Gloeckner presents a pivotal year in a girl's life, recounted in diary pages and illustrations, with full narrative sequences in comics form.
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Part of National Museums Liverpool
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The Museum of Liverpool team worked with a group of Bootle residents together with the Brunswick Youth Club and Safe Productions to produce this display about Bootle during the Second World War.
A group of residents visited the museum's collections store to choose objects for this display that reminded them of their experiences of Bootle during the war. Their memories are used as object labels to tell visitors about the reality of wartime life.
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NSA Spying on Journalists: We Need a New Church Committee
Last week Keith Olbermann conducted a pair of interviews that gives a troubling look at the NSA's domestic wiretapping operations. First, Olbermann talked with Russell Tice, a former NSA analyst who tells Olbermann that the NSA had access to all of the American's peoples' electronic communications, including those of journalists. Second, Olbermann talked to a New York Times reporter who is currently being pressured by federal prosecutors to divulge his sources for his 2006 book State of War, which focused on the CIA's recent intelligence-gathering activities. The federal government hauled various former government officials before a grand jury and confronted them with phone records showing conversations between the government officials and Risen. Olbermann suggests that Risen's phone records might have been obtained by the NSA using the dragnet surveillance program Tice has described.
It's important to acknowledge that we don't know if Risen was a target of the NSA program. Federal prosecutors do have legal powers to obtain the phone records of suspects without the knowledge of those suspects. It's quite possible that the feds got Risen's records using a valid subpoena under judicial supervision. However, the fact that we don't know the full story is itself a serious problem. If Tice has described the program accurately and Risen's phone records were obtained as part of such a surveillance program, that would be a pretty major scandal. Remember that even last year's extremely permissive FISA Amendments Act didn't legalize warrantless eavesdropping on purely domestic communications.
The problem is that we don't know. And unfortunately, this is an area where our system of checks and balances have broken down. Congress has shown little appetite for performing one of its most important functions: investigating the activities of the executive branch to verify that the law is being followed.
Congress wasn't always so timid. Thirty-five years ago, after another lawless president left office, we had not just one but three investigations of the prior administration: one in the House, one in the Senate, and one in the executive branch. The most successful of the three was the Senate committee that came to be known as the Church Committee. It produced a massive report documenting a ton of illegal activities by the executive branch over the preceding half-century. Gene Healy and I discussed a few of their findings here, and Julian Sanchez has a more thorough summary of the findings here.
In the forthcoming edition of the Cato Handbook on Policy, I argue that Congress should launch a broad investigation of executive branch surveillance abuses modeled on the Church Committee. Only by uncovering the full extent of domestic surveillance activities in the past can we craft sensible safeguards to make sure that abuses cannot happen again. I think there are three crucial factors in making a new Church Committee a success. First, it needs to be bipartisan. That is, it can't focus merely on the misdeeds of the Bush administration. I recommend starting where the Church Committee left off and including the activities of the NSA, CIA, and FBI under presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43. If done right, this would be more than a fig leaf. Bill Clinton was hardly a doctrinaire civil libertarian, and so investigation might uncover real abuses that occurred under Clinton's watch.
Second, it's important that as much of the results as possible be made public. The lasting impact of the Church Committee was largely due to the sheer quantity of illegal activities it uncovered. If the Church Committee had only released information about the most egregious violations of the law, advocates of executive power might have been able to spin them as the work of a few bad apples. But because the Church Committee documented a pattern of law breaking involving dozens of people over the course of decades, under Democratic and Republican presidents alike, it became clear that there were systematic problems requiring systematic reforms. The passage of the original FISA Act was one of the most important results of the Church Committee report.
Of course, partisans for the recently-departed Bush administration will paint any effort by Congress to expose these secret programs as a partisan witchhunt that will aid the enemy. And obviously, Congress should be careful not to reveal details that could derail ongoing terrorist investigations or put undercover agents at risk, and the like. But there's plenty of work Congress could do that is plainly neither a partisan witchhunt nor a danger to national security. The information the Electronic Frontier Foundation has uncovered regarding cooperation between telecom companies and the government would be a good place to start. Maybe Congress will find nothing improper happened there, but it's important for the public to know what did happen so we can decide for ourselves.


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How to eat right. How to work out more efficiently. How to manage money better. How to deal with the media in the modern age. In short, how to be a better pro.
Those are most of the lessons being administered by Avalanche staff this week at the team's development camp to many recent draft choices. Conner Bleackley, the Avs' first-round draft pick of a couple weeks ago, was one of more than two dozen players getting to know one another in a process that stresses the off-ice aspects of pro life.
"It's a little bit different," Bleackley said. "They keep the schedule kind of secret, but they've got a lot of fun activities planned, it looks like, so it's exciting."
There are no on-ice activities at the camp, which runs through Friday. The Avs, like many NHL teams, feel it's important for new prospects to get a taste of what to expect if they are to successfully navigate their way to being regular NHL players. It's not all just classroom lectures, though; in the past, activities such as an outing at a bowling alley have been scheduled. Some teams give cooking classes to players so they can learn to eat better on their own rather than making trips to McDonald's every day.
For some, it is their first trips to Denver and some have rarely been to the United States. In that sense, the Avs want to give such prospects a better look at the culture of life here.
"Hopefully, we can all be teammates one day. We know not all of us are going to play for the Avs, but it's good," Bleackley said.
The Avs will hold a rookie training camp starting Sept. 8, and most of the prospects on hand this week will take part, at that time on skates. Regular training camp will start not long after that, though a date hasn't been announced.
Bleackley, a native of High River, Alberta, a suburb of Calgary, will be geeked to skate with new Avs free-agent acquisition Jarome Iginla.
"Growing up, he was a hero of mine," Bleackley said. "It will be surreal."
Iginla was in Denver on Monday with his family, looking at houses.
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The Lane Evening Adult Program (LEAP) admits prospective non-traditional adult students. The evening classes program accepts students who are typically working adults interested in completing their college degree or attending college for the first time. LEAP is ideal for individuals who cannot afford to leave their job, but have a desire to obtain a Bachelor degree in the evenings. Individuals admitted into LEAP can select from one of the following majors: Business, Criminal Justice, Interdisciplinary Studies, or Sociology.To be considered for admission into LEAP, an applicant must be a graduate of an accredited or approved high school. Additionally, a candidate for admission must have taken the ACT or SAT and submitted scores to the Admissions Office. Students transferring from regionally accredited institutions of higher learning will be admitted as regular students. Students who transfer with an Associate degree from an accredited community or junior college will be awarded credit for all courses which parallel the Lane College curriculum, and for which a grade of "C" or higher was earned. A maximum of 68 semester hours (102 quarter hours) will be accepted as transfer credit for students who have an Associate degree. Upon receipt of the completed application forms, the Admissions and Recruitment committee will evaluate and make decisions concerning acceptance. Applicants will be advised of the decision in writing. Students seeking to be admitted into Lane Evening Classes Program must submit the following:


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New, updated version of wow-heroes can be found at http://www.wow-heroes.com/beta . If it works out ok, we'll have it moved to the main page in a few days. New features:
- Live guild list, just type your guild name and let wow-heroes grab fresh data from armory for all your guild members. However, recently cached members will not be updated from armory again, since there is no need.
- Guild list now has max 300 (!) characters, instead of 35.
- click on any character in guild list to view its profile on Character page
- Guild list is now sortable. You can also hold Shift and click on second column to sort by it too.
- click on any character in guild list to view its profile on wow-heroes
- all special character problems should be gone (like áäčďéěëíňóöřšťúůüýž...)
- I've added Russian realms, welcome guys
Please note that, since beta database is empty now, you might have to wait for results at start. Lots of people will start guild queues and it all needs to be taken from armory. Thanks for patience


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I wrote in my new Examiner post yesterday about Think Thin & Think Fruit Bars. They are on sale at Kroger this week for $1/each! That is 50% off!! I stocked up, as I know the Think Thin Bars are great to have on hand in a situation where there is no safe food available for Jon. They don't replace a meal for him, he is a growing boy, but they do hold him over with the 20g of protein they have per bar.
I bought some Think Fruit Bars for myself and gave the Cashew Acai Protect bar a try today. I was very impressed! These taste very similar, if not the same, as Lara Bars! The bar had a great flavor & texture. It was full of nuts and has 160 mg of Omega 3s per serving! They are dairy & gluten-free. This bar has only 8g of fat, as compared with Lara Bars, which have 10+ grams of fat. The fat is coming from nuts, so not a bad thing. The bar has 190 calories, 6 grams of fiber and 3g of protein. The regular price on these bars at Kroger is $2/each, which is a little steep, in my opinion. I don't mind paying between $1 – $1.50 for bars like this. I would recommend this bar. 🙂 Another great go-to product for those on a gluten-free diet.
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The Reason by William Sirls
Kit Livingstone stumbled upon a powerful ley line inside the Bone House that transported him to an almost magical place: the Well of Souls. While there, he witnessed Arthur Flinders-Petrie, the Man Who Is Map, carry his dead wife into a pool of light and emerge with her alive again. Could the location of this place be the secret so jealously guarded by the Skin Map?
Archaeologist Cassandra Clarke is suddenly transported from a deserted canyon in Arizona to a busy street in Damacus, circa 1950. Through circumstances too precise to be coincidental she arrives at the door of the Zetetic Society—the Seekers—and is asked to join their quest to track down Cosimo Livingstone and his grandson Kit. But joining their cause is the last thing Cass plans to do.
Meanwhile, Douglas Flinders-Petrie—great-grandson of Arthur—ruthlessly pursues the map. Livid that his father withheld it from him, he is determined to find and keep whatever treasure the map holds for himself.
From the Stone Age to the Well of Souls, from medieval Oxford to modern-day Spain, from the pyramids of Egypt to an ancient shrine in China, the race continues for a prize beyond all imagining.
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In Spring 2013 (Junior): Griffin sat out the spring season as a redshirt due to injury.
In Fall 2012 (Junior): Griffin sat out the fall season as a redshirt due to injury.
In Spring 2012 (Sophomore): Griffin played in six tournaments while accumulating 18 rounds of play… nabbed a top 15 finish at the TSU Big Blue Intercollegiate (Apr. 16-17) after shooting 72+70+74=216 to finish even and tied for 14th… averaged 75.8 per round on the year.
In Fall 2011 (Sophomore): Griffin competed in all five tournaments during the fall season, totaling 14 rounds of golf… finished tied for 10th out of 92 golfers with a 68+72+72=212 at the F&M Bank APSU Intercollegiate (Oct. 17-18), finishing -4 for the weekend… shot a career-low round of 68 in the first round at the F&M Bank APSU Intercollegiate… wrapped up the fall season with an average of 74.1.
In Spring 2011 (Freshman): Griffin participated in five tournaments, racking up 12 rounds of action… tied for fourth place at the Big Blue Classic (Apr. 3-5), where he shot a 73+74=147… also finished in the top 15 of the Grover Page Classic (Mar. 14-15) after shooting a 74+75+72=221… averaged a score of 74.7 per round for his debut year.
In Fall 2010 (Freshman): Griffin played in four tournaments, posting a fall average of 75.0 in 12 rounds of play… scored his low round of 70 in the first round of the APSU F&M Bank Intercollegiate (Oct. 18-19)… finished two-under par at the event, recording a 70+73+71=214.
High School: Griffin came to Tech from Oak Ridge High School after playing for four seasons for coach Jody Wadell… as a junior, finished second in the district and region tournaments… went on to capture second place in the TSSAA State Tournament… named the 2009 Player of the Year… was selected to play in the Wiley Cup as a junior and senior for the Roane/Anderson County team in competition against Knox County.
Personal: Son of Chris and Suzanne Griffin… born May 20, 1992… full name is Mason Maxwell Griffin… majoring in engineering.


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The long political battle over the Keystone XL pipeline could reach a pivotal moment this week if enough Democratic senators join Republicans to support a bill that would approve the project, all but guaranteeing a veto showdown with the White House.
And that is an outcome Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would like to avoid.
That's why many were surprised last week when the Nevada Democrat promised to hold a vote on the issue, defying President Obama's intent to delay a decision on the controversial pipeline that Republicans in Congress almost universally support.
Bypassing the White House would open a new rift among Democrats and be a major step in the complicated political history of the nearly 1,200-mile pipeline, which could one day carry crude oil from the tar sands of Canada to a town in Nebraska en route to the Gulf Coast.
So why is Reid holding a vote on a bill he really doesn't want to pass?
Voting to approve the pipeline would be politically helpful for several conservative-state Democratic senators who are up for re-election this fall, as they try to show voters their independence from the party on the issue.
Eleven Democratic senators, including Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska, have signed onto the bill. With a guaranteed 45 Republican votes, the Democratic supporters means the measure is awfully close to the 60 votes required to overcome a filibuster threat.
Passage in the Senate would be a milestone, probably prompting swift approval by Republicans in the House. Several years of what have been bitter partisan fights over the mainstays of energy policy -- fossil fuels versus renewable sources, climate change and its deniers -- would come to a momentary bipartisan truce.
But 60 votes is not the same as almost 60, and that may be what Reid is counting on.
A vote of 59 or 58 this week would be a win-win for Democrats. It would allow pro-pipeline senators to show their constituents they tried, while keeping the peace with anti-pipeline senators and environmentalists.
And it would avoid a showdown with the White House that would force Obama to become the vetoer-in-chief.
Sensing the potential outcome, Senate Republicans may not be willing to play the Democrats' game. They have so far panned Democrats' latest offer for a vote on Keystone, as they press other issues as part of a separate energy efficiency bill making its way through the floor proceedings.
A win on Keystone would be a game-changer for the pipeline. A near-win would be business as usual in the Senate.


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New Breed of Sofa Replacing the Home Office
A new breed of work-at-home furniture is emerging to accommodate Americans' changing needs in the age of constant connectivity. Dale Hrabi reports. Photo: Coalesse.
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JOB TITLE: Senior Director Geisinger Health Foundation Planned Giving
LOCATION: Justin Drive II
DEPARTMENT: Institutional Advancement
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WORK TYPE: Full Time (1.0 FTE)
Serves as the Senior Director Planned Giving for Geisinger Health Foundation. Oversees the planning and implementation of the Planned Giving Program for the benefit of the Geisinger Health System and its affiliates.Works with the CPO and System leaders to advance the philanthropic commitment by patients, physicians, employees, community members and others in accordance with applicable laws, regulations and donors' wishes. Performs duties to support the goals and objectives of the health system in its efforts to provide quality patient care and patient satisfaction. Is directly involved in the identification, cultivation, stewardship and solicitation of major and leadership gift donors.Works in close collaboration with the Vice President of Philanthropy as well as the offices of Sponsored Programs, Industry Relations, and others to assure the optimal integration of all efforts to secure planned gifts.
Demonstrated leadership, management, facilitation and networking skills. Ability to make prompt and effective decisions. Ability to think strategically.Demonstrated project management skills. Manages priorities and utilizes time effectively.Demonstrated competence in written, oral and electronic communication skills. Communicates clearly to express thoughts and ideas.Demonstrated ability to work in a large matrixed organization.Demonstrated flexibility and independence.Demonstrates working knowledge of Planned Giving and Campaign Management.
Requires a Bachelor's degree and at least five years of proven experience in a position of similar responsibility, including previous management / supervisory experience.Master's degree preferred in business administration or related field.Experience in Planned Giving, and Research preferred.Demonstrated working knowledge of an integrated health care system is preferred.
Work is typically performed in an office environment.
OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER: (GMC), located Danville, Pa., the largest tertiary/quaternary care teaching hospital in the region, is licensed for 475 beds, including 89 pediatric beds in the Janet Weis Children's Hospital. GMC, a Magnet Hospital, maintains the region's only Level 1 Regional Resource Trauma Center with additional qualifications in pediatrics. GMC offers an array of highly specialized medical and surgical services, including neurosciences, cardiovascular services, transplantation, women's health (in the Women's Pavilion), oncology and orthopaedics. The Hospital for Advanced Medicine serves as an integrated center for the most critical patients. Outpatient services are available on and off campus.
We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners.* Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. For more information, visit www.geisinger.org, or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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The drug's previous prescribing information noted the risk, but the warning was not highlighted by a black box.
Without giving any details, the company said the label was changed due to "surveillance of adverse events."
According to Bristol's earning's report, sales of Coumadin in 2005 were $212 million.
The new black box says that the drug can cause "major" or "fatal bleeding" and is more likely to occur during the starting period or with a higher dose. Risk factors are listed as: high intensity of anticoagulation, age 65 or over, highly variable International Normalized Ratio (INR), history of gastrointestinal bleeding, hypertension, cerebrovascular disease, serious heart disease, anemia, malignancy, trauma, renal insufficiency, concomitant drugs, and long duration of warfarin therapy.
The black box also recommends that regular monitoring of INR should be performed on all patients; those at high risk of bleeding may benefit from more frequent INR monitoring, careful dose adjustment to desired INR, and a shorter duration of therapy; and patients should be instructed about prevention measures to minimize risk of bleeding and to report immediately to physicians signs and symptoms of bleeding.
Warfarin will also come with a new medication guide. Under FDA regulations, medication guides are to be provided with each prescription for drugs that the FDA determines carry a serious and significant public health concern. The FDA has posted the new label and medication guide on its web site.
Coumadin is used to reduce the risk of blood clots, but too much Coumadin in the blood can cause patients to bleed heavily from external or internal injuries. Blood thinners are commonly prescribed for patients who have had knee or hip replacement surgery, have a history of stroke, have mechanical heart valves, or have a heart condition called atrial fibrillation, according to the Blood Thinners.org web site.
Atrial fibrillation occurs when the upper chambers of the heart, the atria, do not beat uniformly. This can cause blood to pool and form a clot and the clot can then break off and travel to the brain and clog an artery and cause a stroke.
The SOS Rx coalition (Senior Outpatient Medication Safety), an organization that includes the National Consumers League, and more than 80 other public and private sector groups, has launched My Blood Thinners (www.mybloodthinner.org) as part of a public education campaign to help "the 4 million Americans taking blood thinners."
The downside to blood thinners, the organization says, is that they are difficult to manage and have a narrow margin for safe use. Taking too much can cause heavy bleeding, but not taking enough may allow blood clots to form.
The drugs work by blocking the effects of Vitamin K-dependent clotting factors in the blood. A patient's dose is regulated based on blood test results, which are reported as an INR and should fall in the range between 2 and 3; "anything under 2 can mean that the blood is "too thick" and clots could form, whereas anything over 3 can mean that the blood is "too thin," which could cause serious bleeding," according My Blood web site.
"Blood thinners are second only to chemotherapy drugs in having the highest risk of serious treatment-related complications," the site states. "Some common potential side effects are nosebleeds, bleeding in the gums, unusual bleeding while shaving, and easy bruising."
Warfarin is one of the drugs with the most reported adverse events. The FDA cites research showing warfarin alone accounts for 15% of severe drug side effects and that for every 100 patients on the drug, there are between one and seven major bleeding events.
Many other serious health problems are associated with Coumadin. According to a January 24, 2006 study at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, elderly patients taking warfarin, are at an increased risk for osteoporosis-linked bone fractures.
Vitamin K interacts with osteocalcina protein, which is vital for bone formation, and the study found that warfarin's interference with Vitamin K can affect bone strength and bones can become so weakened that even minor trauma can cause breakage.
The study reviewed Medicare records for about 15,000 patients with an average age of 80, to identify fractures related to osteoporosis and found that patients who used Coumadin for a year or more had a 25% increase in fractures compared to patients not using the drug. The study included an almost equal number of men and women and the results showed that men had a 63% higher incidence of fracture.
More than half of the patients suffered hip fractures, and the other fractures involved the wrist and spine. Fractures can cause a loss of mobility and death and close to 40% of patients in the study who suffered hip fractures died with 30 days of the event.
Another serious side effect listed by Bristol-Meyer in the Coumadin package insert is death of skin tissue that can cause clots to form and block blood flow to other areas of the body. The company says medical care should be sought immediately for this condition to prevent death or amputation of the affected body part.
According to Drugs.com, warfarin can cause birth defects and an effective form of birth control should be used to avoid pregnancy during treatment with the drug
If a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) or any type of surgery is necessary, the Drugs site advises that patients may need to temporarily stop using warfarin and patients should make sure that the surgeon knows the patient is taking the drug far enough ahead of time.
The web site also recommends carrying an ID card or wearing a medical alert bracelet to notify medical professionals about their use of warfarin in case of emergency.
Warfarin also interacts with many other drugs and these interactions can be fatal. Drug.com instructs patients to tell their doctors about all prescription and over-the-counter products used, including vitamins, minerals, herbal products, and drugs prescribed by other doctors.
A recent survey conducted by the National Consumers League reveals that doctors and other health care providers need to do a better job at making sure that patients understand the rules that apply to patients taking blood thinning drugs.
According to the NCL survey, 21% of the patients on blood thinners said doctors failed to instruct them about special dietary considerations; 19% said their doctor did not explain possible interactions with other drugs and dietary supplements; 17% of the patients said they were not told about possible side effects; and 15% of the patients were not told what symptoms to watch for and when to seek further medical care.
In addition, although 93% of the patients reported experiencing some kind of adverse reaction such as bruising, bleeding, and dizziness, the survey found that 51% of patients said they had done nothing to alter their behavior and more than a third of the patients, or 37%, did not even inform their doctor.
The FDA says less than half of warfarin users maintain the correct level of blood thinners most of the time. Yet the NCL survey found that less than a third of patients got reminders from their doctors to have their medication level regularly tested, or knew whether the tests conducted indicated that the dose needed adjusting.
"The results are disturbing," said Linda Golodner, NCL President. "Consumers who take blood thinners without direct involvement from health care providers are walking a thin line between positive benefits and life-threatening health risks."
"This new research should serve as a clarion call for patients to make sure they get the care and answers they need from their health care providers," she notes. "This includes doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and all other people who care for and treat patients on blood thinners."
Patients are beginning to hold doctors accountable for their lack of attention to the serious risks involved in providing medical care to patients on Coumadin. On July 26, 2006, an Oregon lawsuit was settled that involved claims that included a medication error and malpractice. The plaintiff was placed on Coumadin due to a rare clotting factor in her blood and the lawsuit alleged that the defendant-doctor erred by taking her off the drug which led to a permanently disabling stroke on April 29, 2005.
The amount is confidential but the settlement agreement provides for a combination of cash and lifetime monthly payments. The women survived the stroke, but she cannot talk, walk, feed herself or even swallow. She is bedridden and requires 24 hour care.
In November 2006, researchers funded by the FDA will begin enrolling 800 patients for a study to see if gene testing can help establish the right dosage for warfarin in the first month of therapy to lessen the number of side effects.
However, according to the Associated Press, the dangers are not eliminated by establishing the correct initial dose because, "simple lifestyle changes - stress, travel, or use of a host of other medicines, vitamins, herbs or foods - can affect how the body processes warfarin, causing blood to suddenly become either too thin or not thin enough."
In May 2006, recruitment began for volunteers to test what is hoped be a safe alternative to Coumadin for people with atrial fibrillation. The St Louis University is taking part in the study which looks to enroll 15,000 patients at 400 medical centers worldwide.


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Brad Pitt is one of those actors who's so famous his name is pretty much a synonym for "handsome" or "famous." As in, "Sure, he was good for a first date, but he's no Brad Pitt." Or, "There were so many camera flashes going off I felt like Brad Pitt." Pitt is among the rare elite of actors whose name on a movie poster actually means something-- the only proof of that you need is the current poster for Moneyball, which boasts the movie's title, Pitt's name and face looking thoughtful, and pretty much nothing else.
But the gulf between "handsome and famous" and "well-respected as an actor" can be immense-- just ask Taylor Lautner, Channing Tatum, etc.-- and Pitt has always seemed to be somewhat trapped there, always considered the pretty blond guy no matter how many daring, skillful roles he took on. With Moneyball coming to theaters this weekend Pitt's being forced to prove himself again, a marquee star in a movie that's getting great buzz but who still seems like a long shot for a Best Actor Oscar.
And with Pitt on the brain, we're setting out to change that perception of him as a handsome guy who can't act his way out of a paper bag. As it turns out, he's got an entire career's worth of excellent performances to prove his talent, starting even in his earliest days as more of a pin-up boy than the Hollywood powerhouse he is today. Here are five examples of Pitt performances that don't just prove he's got talent, but bring out a specific skill that proves he's one of the most versatile and appealing actors working today-- the enormous talent who's been right in front of you this whole time.


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Date: Tuesday 10 August
Time: 5.15 tea / coffee 5.45 Lecture
Place: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne
Cost: members free; non-members $5.50
Michele Summerton will discuss the The RHSV's Photography Collection in her lecture, Victoria in Focus. Michele will explore the many themes in Victoria's history represented throughout the collection and will overview the many photographic processes used to capture the images. The talk will provide a taste of this valuable collection and also an insight into the role of photography in history.


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Justus von Liebig (1803-73)
Until the 1800s, universities were teaching institutions, not places for scientific research. Laboratories were set up by private individuals or by scientific societies and academies. The German chemist Justus von Liebig founded the first university-based research laboratory at the University of Giessen in central Germany. This laboratory was highly successful, and became the model for similar laboratories in universities around the world.
Liebig's own research investigated the chemical aspects of nutrition, and the application of chemistry to medical disciplines such as physiology and pathology. In the course of his work on nutrition, Liebig also developed a highly popular extract of meat as a food supplement for the sick and the malnourished poor. It went into mass production when the Liebig Extract of Meat Company Ltd (LEMCO) was founded in 1865. One of its most enduringly successful products, the Oxo cube, is still on sale to this day.
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W H Brock, Justus von Liebig: The Chemical Gatekeeper (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
J Büttner, 'Justus von Liebig and his influence on clinical chemistry', Ambix, 47/2 (2000), pp 96-117
M R Finlay, '"Quackery and cookery": Justus von Liebig's extract of meat and the theory of nutrition in the Victorian age', The Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 66 (1992), pp 404-418
F L Holmes, 'The complementarity of teaching and research in Liebig's laboratory' Osiris 5 (1989), pp 121-164
J Liebig, 'Die Thier-Chemie, oder die organische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Physiologie und Pathologie', Animal Chemistry, or Organic Chemistry in its Applications to Physiology and Pathology, edited from the author's manuscript by W Gregory (London: Taylor and Walton, 1842)
The science of the functioning of living organisms and their component parts.
The branch of medicine concerned with disease, especially its structure and effects on the body.


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Folk Music of England
This album contains a fair representation of the most popular folk music of England. Songs and music passed down the generations by our forefathers and cherised by them. They were a very important part of life and when people emigrated they took their melodies with them, adapting the lyrics and dances to suit their new homeland. The songs deal with the essentials of life; they are hatched, matched and dispatched element of music, so many of them are just relevant today as they were 200 years ago. Man's hopes, desires and aspirations develop slowly and mature like a good song.
Morris Dancing was always performed in the spring to encourage the crops to grow and the flocks to multiply. Each village tradition had it's own slightly different steps, movements and tunes and on the 1st of May you can still see some of these dances in their home villages at Bampton in the Bush, and Headington in Oxfordshire. The tunes have a tremendous earthiness and should be played with a good amount of lift to help the dancers in their leaping and of course, it wasn't only the stock that had to multiply and the day of dance would give the young bucks of the village plenty of opportunity to show off their talents.
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Dialog ups revenue guidance
Dialog Semiconductor increases its underlying revenue outlook for Q4 2013.
On 29 October 2013 Dialog Semiconductor outlined its outlook for underlying revenue in Q4 2013 in a range of USD 270 - 295 million. Due to stronger than anticipated demand in its Mobile Systems segment, Dialog Semiconductor now expects to report underlying revenue in Q4 2013 of at least USD 310 million. This will result in full year underlying revenue of at least USD 866 million.
Intel nabs former GlobalFoundries, IBM executive Intel Corp has hired former IBM chip exec and GlobalFoundries CTO Gary Patton to its team.
Yokogawa UK partners with power supply manufacturer TDK-Lambda Yokogawa UK has signed a distribution deal with TDK-Lambda. Through Yokogawa's distribution channels, customers across the UK will now have access to TDK-Lambda's range of laboratory power supplies.
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Murata to cease production at several subsidiaries Saitama Murata Manufacturing – previously Toko, Inc. – a wholly-owned subsidiary of Murata Manufacturing is ceasing production at its production subsidiaries Shantou S.E.Z. Huajian Electronics and Hua Jiuh Technology by the end of 2019.
KORE Wireless picks up Integron KORE Wireless Group announced the acquisition of Integron, an IoT solutions and managed services provider specializing in the connected health market.
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Will Hearst tapped as chairman of media company
Staff report
William R. Hearst III, grandson of William Randolph Hearst, has been elected chairman of Hearst Corp., in addition to his roles as trustee of the Hearst Family Trust and director of the corporation.
The appointment, announced Tuesday, places William Hearst in the role previously held by his cousin, the late George R. Hearst, Jr. As director of the corporation for more than 30 years, William Hearst has been heavily involved with the programs of the Hearst Foundation. He is also currently a partner emeritus at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm.
"Will has been involved in the activities of Hearst Corporation for decades," Frank A. Bennack, Jr., executive vice chairman and CEO of Hearst, said in a statement. "He is a respected media leader, having honed his skills as a newspaper publisher, magazine editor and cable executive. His support and vision as chairman will be invaluable to Hearst moving forward."
The company is the publisher of this newspaper.
Several other Hearst executives were named to the board of directors, including Mark Aldam, president of the newspaper division; Eve Burton, senior vice president and general counsel of Hearst Corp.; Mitchell I. Scherzer, senior vice president and chief financial officer; Samia B. Staehle, an attorney and great-granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst; and Christian A. Tarafa, former executive at Hearst Magazines UK and great-grandson of William Randolph Hearst.
"Hearst Corporation has been steered to consistent success by a capable management team, led by our CEO Frank Bennack," William Hearst, 63, said in a statement. "We have also benefited from many gifted editors, writers, photographers and producers around the world. My grandfather believed recruiting and retaining great talent was the major determinant of competitive advantage. An important goal will be to continue that tradition."
Hearst began his journalistic career with the San Francisco Examiner, then a Hearst publication, in 1972 as a reporter and assistant city editor. He also worked at Outside magazine, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and served as vice president of Hearst Cable Communications. Returning to the Examiner, he held the positions of editor and publisher for a decade before joining KPCB in 1995.
After joining Hearst in 2006, as publisher of the Albany Times Union, Aldam held the positions of executive vice president and deputy group head of Hearst Newspapers. He was named president of Hearst Newspapers in March 2011. Prior to his tenure at Hearst, Aldam was senior vice president and chief operating officer of the Hartford Courant, first joining the Tribune paper in 1994.


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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) Estan Tyler scored 19 points, leading four UMKC players in double figures, and the Kangaroos defeated IPFW 63-59 Saturday night.
Thomas Staton scored 14 points, and Trinity Hall and Kirk Korver scored 11 apiece for UMKC (6-14, 3-5 Summit). Fred Chatmon had 10 rebounds as the Kangaroos outrebounded IPFW 30-21.
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That post just made me laugh. I love all of you for being like me. We are all just sensibly hoarding....just in case all perfumes end up being banned altogether..... forbid that thought!
Thread: Are You a Hoarder?
I've given away some perfumes I never wore - unwanted gifts - and likewise got rid of some samples I knew I'd never like. I'd been keeping them out of concern I might want to sniff the scent when reading about it, but then I thought, hey, if it's a scrubber for me now, why on earth would I want to read about it???
But some of my favourites scents are in danger, either being discontinued right now or "probably" being discontinued in the near future. Caron's Rose and their Or et Noir; Creed's Fleurs de The Rose Bulgaire; and others I see from The Perfumed Court site are getting very hard to find.
So I've now ended up with two or three back-up bottles of every fragrance I love - which means about 60 FB's in the back of my clothes wardrobe! So my collection is taking up more space than ever before!
I don't really think I'm an addict, but would I know if I were?
To me, this is just being sensible, like my grandmother and my mother did with stocking up on food during World Wars I and II. There is a sort of "world war" going on in the perfume industry right now, with little houses being bought up by huge conglomerates and rare ingredients becoming even harder to find, not to mention the dreadful IFRA regs.
As long as I can still afford my grocery bill, I'll carry on stocking up on favourites.
That post just made me laugh. I love all of you for being like me. We are all just sensibly hoarding....just in case all perfumes end up being banned altogether..... forbid that thought!
Yes - maybe I can mortgage the garden shed!
At least my hoard smells nicer than my Mum's. I can remember her pantry having four tins of Spam, 10 of baked beans, and about a dozen tinned peas! Just In Case!
Oh my god, I so need to re-read this thread right now.
"Embrace those things which give you pleasure, after all, there is so much mediocrity to endure elsewhere." -- Inselaffe
I don't feel I hoard yet because I don't buy multiple bottles of the same fragrance. Also, I don't have to have various formulations of the same fragrance to be happy. Also, I'm extremely picky about what I like.
I used to buy fragrances and beauty products more often than I do now. And I am busy decluttering my home. Sometimes I used to buy 2 bottles of the same fragrance but I stopped doing that. I am trying to use up all those bottles of scent which have still like a 1/2 inch to 1 inch fragrance left inside. My empties which I used to collect are in boxes stored in the garage somewhere.
I saw somewhere online a series of I think it was 10 pictures depicting stages of hoarding showing a table with stuff on it. Found that quite interesting you can see what stage of hoarding you are at.The internet is full of advice on decluttering I read that to find tips and info for my decluttering of the home.And like someone mentioned in a post get rid of 10 items daily.
I am a hoarder,I constantly buy fragrance and other bath and body products. I used to buy beautiful clothes all the time but I quit smoking gained weight,now hate my image in the mirror. I am trying to weed out the fragrances to those I feel are "timeless" and those that I absolutely love. I am going to take a large box of,fragrance that do not fit that category to the women's shelter here in town.
Any advice on my situation will be appreciated.
I have to sort out my bath and body products also have been postponing this for some time.
My makeup I restarted that few years ago starting from scratch all over, I had stopped using it for many years. So now my make up is few years old got to sort that out also.I seldom buy clothes as I am mostly home.
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I buy fragrances by season now so some spring/summer and some fall/autumn perfumes and ad on with leftovers I have lots of.
I work hard at not being a hoarder. I live in a small house and even a small pile of something can fill way too much cupboard space so if something comes in something else has to go out.
I have some questions that I ask myself when I consider buying anything. Do I actually NEED the item? Where will it live? Does it duplicate anything else that I already have?
My other collection is of minerals and gemstones and I have stopped buying large specimens because I simply have no more space for them. I can buy perfume because the bottles are small
'I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.'
"Embrace those things which give you pleasure, after all, there is so much mediocrity to endure elsewhere." -- Inselaffe


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Pedestrian crossing, check. Deer crossing, check. Frog crossing, what????
Taxpayers in an upstate New York country are jumping mad about new signs warning drivers of locations where frogs like to hop across the road. They say telling drivers to look out for the limber little amphibians is pointless and spending money on the signs is a waste of money.
"During these economic times, this is just absurd," Sodus Town Supervisor Steve LeRoy told WHAM-TV. "New York State is laying people off and we're trying to find money for water, and construction projects. It's ridiculous."
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The signs have recently popped up near Chimney Bluffs State Park, in the Finger Lakes region, after a new state ordinance took effect, according to the Finger Lakes Daily News. State officials could not say if they were there to protect a particular species of frog.
"I just can't imagine anybody stopping their vehicle for a frog," LeRoy said.


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The slides for my presentation at LSM2002 are online in HTML (http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/dtd-cust/presentations/lsm2002/) and MagicPoint (http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/dtd-cust/presentations/lsm2002/) formats.
posted by ydirson, Fri 29 Mar 2002 02:40:35 PM UTC - 0 replies
The DTD customizer project's goal is to produce a tool that will easily allow to customize an SMGL or XML DTD (or shema or whatever), in such a way that it is easy for the author to write and maintain this customisation.
A first early draft for the specifications is available at http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/dtd-cust/doc/, for public comments.
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By far, powering cars from bananas has to be the coolest way to go green. An Australian company, Growcom, is polishing off final plans to build a plant that makes biomethane, a natural gas, out of banana waste. To scatologically oversimplify the process, the plant essentially eats banana waste and poops out biomethane.
The biomethane pooping process starts with an anaerobic digester that eats up all of the banana waste. Ultimately, this process yields enough methane to fulfill vehicle fueling needs. Unfortunately, it also leaves cartoon characters worldwide without their traditional means to cause others to slip. On the plus side, the technology can power cars like this bananatastic Charger R/T. [Ubergizmo]