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Pitchers dominate Braves' prospect rankings
With 2013 Draftees signed and entered into their respective clubs' pipelines, MLB.com has re-ranked its Top 100 Prospects and each club's Top 20 Prospects.
With 2013 Draftees signed and entered into their respective clubs' pipelines, MLB.com has re-ranked its Top 100 Prospects and each club's Top 20 Prospects.
When Alex Wood returned to the Major League level on Thursday, he became the third homegrown member of Atlanta's starting rotation that is 25 or younger. Earlier this season, the talented left-hander was part of a Braves bullpen, whose top two relievers -- Craig Kimbrel and Luis Avilan -- still have not celebrated their 26th birthdays.
While some organizations might evaluate their future by primarily focusing on the Minor League level, much of the optimism surrounding the Braves' future is currently being displayed on a daily basis at the Major League level. Four key pieces of Atlanta's everyday lineup -- Justin Upton, Jason Heyward, Freddie Freeman and Andrelton Simmons -- are 25 years old or younger, and Upton is the only member of this group that was not homegrown.
Still, even with this abundance of young talent already at the big league level, the Braves are excited about the plethora of pitching talent in their Minor League system. Eight of the club's top-10 prospects in MLB.com's updated rankings are pitchers.
With Julio Teheran having graduated from prospect status, J.R. Graham now owns the distinction of being Atlanta's top prospect. The 22-year-old right-handed pitcher, who possesses an electric fastball and a high-energy personality, has gained this honor despite being sidelined since the middle of May with a strained right shoulder. It is still unclear when he might be cleared to begin pitching again.
Right-hander Lucas Sims occupies the next spot on the Braves' list of top prospects. The Braves have not been disappointed by selecting Sims and Wood with their first two selections in the 2012 First-Year Player Draft.
A couple of recent first-round selections -- Sean Gilmartin and Jason Hursh -- rank fourth and fifth, respectively, among the club's top prospects. Gilmartin was acquired with the 27th overall selection in 2011 and Hursh has made a solid impression since the Braves took him with the 31st overall pick in this year's Draft.
Christian Bethancourt, who will be a candidate to serve as Atlanta's starting catcher next year, ranks third on this updated list. The only other position players ranked among the club's top 10 prospects are outfielders Todd Cunningham and Matt Lipka.
Teheran began this season ranked as the game's 31st-best overall prospect, and if he extends the success he has produced over the past few months, the 22-year-old hurler will end the season as a top National League Rookie of the Year candidate. He has found much greater consistency with his slider this year and lived up to the expectations produced two years ago when he ranked as the game's fourth-best overall prospect.
When Evan Gattis entered this season ranked as the club's 19th-best prospect, there were questions about where he could play in the field. Along with showing his incredible raw power and ability to deliver in key situations, he has also erased some doubts about his ability to handle catching.
Wood just surpassed the rookie eligibility limit with his recent callup, graduating from the list just prior to it being re-ranked.
Dropped off
Much of the optimism surrounding Carlos Franco entering this season has evaporated as he has struggled offensively for Class A Rome. The 21-year-old third baseman showed some promise when he produced a .408 on-base percentage for Rookie Level Danville.
After posting a 1.93 ERA in 20 appearances for Rome last year, David Peterson entered this season with the hope that he could continue this success in his second professional season. But injuries have limited 23-year-old right-hander to five appearances with Class A Advanced Lynchburg.
New faces
Hursh has impressed, while not allowing a run in the 9 2/3 innings he has completed through his first four professional appearances with Rome. The hard-throwing right-hander out of Oklahoma State has simply gotten stronger since undergoing Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery two years ago.
Victor Caratini, the club's second selection in this year's Draft, has hit .314 with a .890 OPS in his first 29 games with Rome. While he was drafted as a catcher, he has not spent any time behind the plate. He's primarily played third base.
Other newcomers to the club's top 20 prospects list are third baseman Kyle Kubitza, who has shown some promise at the plate for Lynchburg, and right-handed reliever Mark Lamm, who has struggled since recently being promoted to Triple-A Gwinnett.
Rising/falling stock
Cody Martin began this season ranked as the club's 18th-best prospect and now ranks seventh. While he is not blessed with incredible stuff or a power arm, he has done nothing but impress while posting a 2.86 ERA in 22 appearances (16 starts) with Double-A Mississippi and Gwinnett.
Juan Jaime's inability to stay healthy has led him to drop from 10th to 17th on the club's prospect list. The hard-throwing right-hander's fastball has topped out at 102 mph. But he has posted a 4.00 ERA while making just 19 appearances so far for Mississippi.
Top 100 representation
The Braves had five players -- Teheran, Bethancourt, Simmons, Randall Delgado and Arodys Vizcaino and ranked among the game's top 100 prospects before the start of the 2012 season. But they now stand as the only Major League club that does not have a player on this list.
While Teheran and Simmons have since graduated from prospect status, Delgado was part of the package used to acquire Justin Upton from Arizona. Vizcaino was sent to the Cubs before last year's Trade Deadline in exchange for Paul Maholm and Reed Johnson.
If Graham had stayed healthy this year, he certainly might have gained a spot on this list. Bethancourt remains one of the game's top defensive catching prospects. But his lack of plate discipline has created some doubts about his ability to hit at the big league level.
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com.


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I just flew in from the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival in Harlingen, TX and boy, are my arms tired. Actually, every bit of me is bone weary but it was worth it. The birding at this festival was epic, which is a term I don't use lightly. This was due in no small part to the awesome array of avifauna in El Valle, as this floodplain is affectionately called. I'll explain more about that, along with the remarkable places I visited and people I spent the week with, in time. To start, it might be best to offer some insight into what makes the Rio Grande Valley so unique among American ecosystems. You see, most feeders in the United States play host to dainty little chickadees, titmice, and finches. In RGV, on the other hand, that hooting and chattering in the backyard may very well be… CHACHALACAS!
The Plain Chachalaca is a mighty member of the family Cracidae, the only one in fact that frequents the U.S. Like most of its chachalaca, guan, and curassow kin, Ortalis vetula is large and somewhat gallinaceous. While that bulky body, small head, and long tail tipped with white may call to mind turkeys, this avian has obvious arboreal tendencies, though it will come down for free food.
Plain Chachalacas range throughout the southernmost reaches of Texas down through eastern Mexico and Central America all the way to Costa Rica. These omnivores favor riparian woodlands, thickets, and scrub. While they turn up in semi-arid areas, they do prefer habitat close to water.
The name "chachalaca" is derived from the bird's raucous call. Come dawn, dusk, or any other time the mood strikes them, troops of chachalacas might raise a cacophony reminiscent of barking dogs or chattering monkeys. These vocalizations, evocative of tropical jungles, are rarely described as melodious, or even pleasant!
This particular species of chachalaca is, well, rather plain. Gray on the head blends to an olive back and buff belly, with an overall sienna wash. Apart from the ivory tail tip, this species' most flashy feature, not always evident, is the crimson color of its bare throat. Well, that and the fact that it's a giant grunting turkey-like bird determined to raid your backyard bird feeders. And you thought squirrels were bad!
This post has been sbmitted to Bird Photography Weekly #12. Go check it out!
Ah, so that's what a chachalacas looks like.
I've been waiting for some reports from you from the RGV. You gotta love Chachalacas!
Nice post on a bird synonomous with the Valley. It was great birding with you and meeting you!
Hey, nice post, Mike! It was great hanging out with you in the Land of the Chachalaca.
I've been meaning to ask you: Why do you use that photo of Rick Astley for your profile shot?
I could just up and eat these little chachas, they are so tender and cute. Thanks fer pluggin' Bill and his bitter half. (cuz I missed all the phun in Tejas). Hope to run into you sooner than later. Welcome home!
Excellent and super informative website. Your passion for birds is awesome.
It does look like our brush turkey except much less colourful. Great post and interesting description.
Nice pictures! I miss those birds already! My wife and I were in Brownsville early this year and we got a ton of lifers!
Chachalacas are so much more than meets the eye. The take very good care of their young and when they have plenty of food and can have a third clutch the parents leave the teenagers to babysit the tiny ones. That is asight to see. I was lucky enough one year to see 10 babies from one pair. The parents paraded them for me one morning, while I was having my coffee on the deck, looking extremely puffed up and proud.
The ones in my yard were so tame they would let me come outside and sunbathe with them. It is pretty funny to see them almost topple trying to get the most sun under their lifted wing.
Special birds they are.
I have a pair of the really cool birds and now I know what they are. But does anyone know how to care for a baby Chachalaca? I found it on the ground this morning with ants all over it. I didn't want it to be eaten alive so I got it in a towel inside a box. I have rehabbed Doves and several other birds and critters and would like to try to save this little one as well. Please help if you can. Thanks Juliana My email is email@example.com
i have just hatched two babies from an abandoned nest..does anyone have a clue what to feed them besides chick starter..
does anyone know where I can obtain chachalaca eggs and if so do I need a state permit to raise these birds for release into the wild?
I have raised a ton of pheasants and quail to release to the wild. Does anyone know where I can aquire chachalacas for breeding or eggs ?
I just saw my first Chachalaca while birding down in Puerto Morelos, Mexico, on Christmas Eve day, 2010. very cool!
Thanks for pic and info. I moved from San Antonio to San Benito, Tx about 4 yrs ago. So many birds to enjoy watching and trying to ID in backyard
I'm sorry for not posting for a long time. Those are good pictures!
I like your article because you present the beautiful bird images. I also like the plain chachalaca birds photos.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Tech football team (1-0) boards a charter flight Friday morning to head to Madison, Wis., where the Golden Eagles will face the No. 21 Wisconsin Badgers (1-0), the defending Big Ten champions.
Saturday's 11 a.m. contest in venerable Camp Randall Stadium will mark the 17th consecutive year that the Golden Eagles, a member of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), will step up a classification to challenge a team from the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
That 17-year streak began in 1997, when Tech took a bus ride to Birmingham, Ala., to face UAB, coached by...current Golden Eagle coach Watson Brown.
In his seventh year as Tech head coach, Brown has faced his share of Goliaths from the FBS. After starting with Auburn in 2007, and facing Louisville and Western Michigan in 2008, the Golden Eagles have faced several Top 25 opponents. In 2009, they visited Kansas State and Georgia. In 2010, it was No. 4 TCU and No. 8 Arkansas. The 2011 foe was Iowa, the team's first venture into Big Ten territory.
Last year, it was No. 4 Oregon.
"The players love these games," Brown said. "I hate them. It doesn't do much for your won-loss records. At the same time, it's memories of a lifetime for these guys. They're important games -- the different look Tech has in this progam now, all the things (Director of Athletics) Mark Wilson and I have tried to do have come off these games. You don't generate dollars to do what we've done in any other way. So, they've been very important to us. The kids get great memories -- win, lose or draw."
With an expected sellout of nearly 80,000, the game will rank as one of the largest in attendance in OVC history. But, according to Brown, there shouldn't be that much of an "awe" factor.
"We've done a lot of these games," he said. "It's not like we don't know what we're walking into. Our kids won't be shocked by what we see and who they play against. They have done this before."
The Golden Eagles head into the game with a 1-0 mark after posting a lopsided, 63-7 victory over Cumberland University last Thursday. In that game, Tech rolled up 505 yards of total offense including 323 on the ground, the third-highest rushing game in Brown's six-plus seasons in Cookeville.
Tech was solid in all three phases of the game, with the defense limiting Cumberland to 179 yards of total offense and special teams featuring a 93-yard punt return for touchdown by sophomore Ladarius Vanlier. The Nashville Maplewood High School product also broke off a 52-yard touchdown run, and posted 188 all-purpose yards on only four touches, an average of 47 yards per play.
His quickness has certainly captured the attention of Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen and his staff, who compared Vanlier to Wisconsin speedster Kenzel Doe.
"He does remind me of Kenzel, and he is lightning fast," Anderson said at his weekly press conference. "That was an impressive play I saw, and there was another one where he hit it up the sidelines on kind of what we call a Zorro play in the game, and he outran everybody kind of like they were standing still
"We know he's going to be there, and he's a talented young man. He has very good speed," Andersen added. "There's a couple of other kids out there that play real well. These guys are a threat when they get the ball in their hands. You'd better be closing in on space pretty fast."
Golden Eagle quarterback Darian Stone accounted for four touchdowns against Cumberland, throwing for two and running for two more. Asked if facing Stone might help prepare Wisconsin for facing Ohio State's Braxton Miller, Andersen replied in the affirmative.
"Well, to play spread teams is good," Andersen said. "It's good for -- potentially, I guess, for Ohio State, Arizona State. We're going to get some of that from Northwestern. You're going to get a taste of it. They're all different. Indiana, whatever it is, as you go through the schedule.
"It is good to be able to play those teams. He is a dual threat quarterback. He runs the ball. They run the ball with the option threat. They run the ball with the true quarterback run game, whether it's the power or the rat play or the o-zone, whatever you want to call it, it's a called quarterback run.
"It will be good preparation for us," he added. "I'm not really worried about the future. I'm worried about defending it against these guys. They had some big plays in this last game with some kids that can really run."
Fans who don't make the journey to the Badger State can listen to all the action on the Golden Eagle Sports Network, with Roger Ealey, Buddy Pearson and Dylan Vazzano. The game will also be televised by The Big Ten Network.
In addition, TTUsports.com will post live blog-style updates throughout the game and have complete coverage following the contest.


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Talk:Laser Cutter/Full Spectrum Laser 40W
I picked up some Masonite for use in the laser cutter. It works well for raster engraving, but it's too dense for vector; multiple passes didn't come close to cutting through the material.
I wasn't sure where to put this on the main page, since it looks like Masonite is totally suitable for raster and totally unsuitable for vector.
Glenn from Dallas Makerspace again.
For a fire extinguisher we use a 9 oz paintball CO2 tank with one of these nozzles from Ebay works great and its cheap to fill at any sporting goods store that sells paintball stuff. The tank costs about $12, the nozzle about $14 and to fill is $3.
FYI from Dallas Makerspace 2/25/11
We have had one of these lasers since 08/2010 and we love it. I have put together a training presentation on how to use this laser. See http://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Laser for details, Glenn Pipe
Update 5/17/2010 Coreyfro
Hi Corey,
I received your information from Amy @ the Epilog factory in Golden. I would like to talk to you regarding your interest in the laser system and to discuss more about the ideal laser for the environment in which you are looking to place the laser. If you could please provide me your contact #, I would be happy to call you, or if you prefer, you can contact me at any of the #'s listed below.
Thank you again for your interest in the Epilog laser system!
Craig Abramson Advanced Cutting & Engraving Systems, LLC firstname.lastname@example.com www.aceslasers.com
direct - 510.338.4143 toll free - 1.888.425.6584 cell - 510.909.8001
Update 5/14/2010 Coreyfro
I agree leasing may be the best option because there is a degree of service that is required that may be best left to the vendor. It also means we can experiment with off brand systems without much buyer's remorse.
I have experience with a shared laser engraver at Techshop and can bring some logistical lessons learned from that experience (once I resuscitate those brain cells.) We can see if Epilog is interested in giving us the same deal that Techshop got since NB and Techshop at least have the "den of future customers" aspect in common.
Update 5/12/2010
Check this out, campers:
That's just suspiciously cheap. But hey, we know from gcode, right? (We use gcode to drive the MaxNCMill and have several tool paths up).
And it's big enough to make a Makerbot.
It seems to have (some) spare parts available: http://www.lightobject.com/CNC-CO2-Laser-C11.aspx
And a bigger brother (still cheap): http://www.lightobject.com/Professional-40W-CO2-Laser-EngravingCutter-with-DSP-Controller-CorelDraw-AutoCad-lover-P299.aspx
BUT: After several bad experiences, I (Jtfoote 05:23, 13 May 2010 (UTC)) am considerably less gung-ho about shared equipment at Noisebridge. I find myself unwilling to lead an acquisition, and I have substantially reduced my pledge. It would still be a great thing to have, but I am unwilling to commit much energy to this.
Update 12/15/2009
The laser cutter issue has been revived. We may be able to lease one for around $150/mo. Make a pledge below to help make it happen!
Update 11/14/2009
September 09 thread on laser cutter petered out, but the NYCR post seemed very informative.
There had been talk in October of laser cutter access outside NB but since then it's been all quiet on the laser front.
Any news? --Hurtstotouchfire 13:59, 14 November 2009 (PST)
Just in: I asked Bre Pettis of NYCResistor (who makes a living on his) for advice. Here's his response:
> Minimum: 35 Watt Epilog Mini. 12x24 Machine + Filter + Tax = 20K
> Very Desirable: 60 Watt Epilog. 24x36 Machine + Filter + Tax = more than 20k.
> We wish we had gotten a more powerful machine, but because we didn't know better and it's a lot of money, we went with the mini.
> Don't get a chinese off brand machine. They are cheap and well, cheap.
Jtfoote 15:42, 27 September 2009 (PDT)
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From grey,
Prices are coming down; and some decent units are out there.
A used Epilog I've been told can be had for around $5000.
However some of these random no name Chinese brands are undercutting that -new-. Matt Westervelt in Seattle recently got a 50W unit from Redsail for about $3000. In a similar price range, Jeri Ellsworth in PDX ordered a JCUT 3040 with a 60W laser bulb after some haggling. Ebay has some very small engraver units for $1000 (dubious quality) and Jake said he saw some units for as low as about $250 in Shenzhen (presumably similar to that low end engraver, questionable quality).
If we can collect information here about some different viable models, how much space they take, how powerful they are, what their surface area is, software compatibility, etc. And can determine what looks good - let's see what we can do.
I've got a close friend in HK who has dual Chinese & HK license plates and if we have a specific model he may be able to hunt it down and slow boat it to us for some costs savings. Maybe not, but it's worth looking into. -grey
Lenses: http://cgi.ebay.com/18mm-ZnSe-Focus-Lens-for-CO2-Laser-Engraving-Cutter_W0QQitemZ400056068169QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5d25332849&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A13
There are rumors of Epilog having a rent-to-own program for what sounds like very reasonable monthly rates. Does anyone want to follow up on this?
History of pleadges[edit]
The below list is out of date; as of 2011-01 User:Turkshead is organizing a new pledge drive via a Google Spreadsheet. Edit there to pledge.
Sign up to pledge below:
buy or to lease. Buying could be anywhere from $3k-20k. Leasing may be as low as $150/mo.
This pledge is non-binding, but try to be realistic.
jtfoote $250 or ___/mo to lease (See Discussion Jtfoote 05:24, 13 May 2010 (UTC))
Mprados $50 or ___/mo to lease
Coreyfro $250 or ___/mo to lease (Teach and Service)
davidfine $250 or $15/mo to lease
DYao $200 or $15/mo to lease (2011 01 11)
thatha $200
Leif $200 or $25/mo to lease
VonGuard "maybe $100"
Mitch $250
Jake $250 or $20/mo to lease
Sargun $750 or $50/mo to lease
Total so far: $2650
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Technical Development of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00064896
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : July 15, 2003
Last Update Posted : October 30, 2017
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|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|July 14, 2003
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|July 15, 2003
|Last Update Posted Date
|October 30, 2017
|Study Start Date ICMJE
|July 14, 2003
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|October 26, 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|To develop, test, and provide adjunctive information to the operator derived from MRI during the management of patients being considered for, or undergoing, invasive procedures.
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|This protocol aims to develop and test novel MRI techniques in patients being treated for cardiovascular disease.
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|Brief Title ICMJE
|Technical Development of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
|Official Title ICMJE
|Technical Development of Interventional Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
|Brief Summary
The goal of this study is to develop advances in cardiovascular diagnostic and treatment methods using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a test that uses a strong magnetic field and radio waves to show anatomic detail. For the scan, the patient lies on a table in a cylinder containing a magnetic field. He or she can communicate with a staff member at all times during the procedure.
Patients 18 years of age or older who require 1) catheterization of the leg arteries for diagnosis or treatment of blocked arteries, or 2) heart catheterization for diagnosis or treatment of coronary artery disease or other heart problems may be eligible for this study. Participants will undergo one of the following procedures:
Blood Flow Measurement Using Standard Techniques and MRI
For patients with blockage in a leg artery, blood flow will be measured before and after successful catheter-based treatment (angioplasty or stenting) using standard venous occlusion plethysmography and a newer MRI technique. (Patients whose treatment is not successful will not undergo follow-up blood flow measurements in this study.) For venous occlusion plethysmography, a large pressure cuff is placed around the upper or lower legs. Thin elastic bands called a strain gauge are placed around the calves to measure blood blow to the legs. The pressure cuffs are inflated for 5 minutes, preventing blood from flowing to the legs, and are then deflated, allowing the blood to rush to the legs. A smaller cuff is inflated to a low pressure, and the strain gauge measures this maximum blood flow to the legs for 1 or 2 more minutes. For the new MRI technique, blood flow is measured while the patient is in the MRI scanner. Flow is first measured with the patient at rest. Then, the large pressure cuff is inflated for 5 minutes. The cuff is deflated and additional images are taken. Before the cuff is deflated, a dye called gadolinium contrast is injected into an arm vein to brighten the images. Patients may undergo six to eight cuff inflations on four to six different days.
Fusion of X-Ray and MRI Images of Peripheral Arteries
For patients with blockage in a leg artery Participants will undergo catheterization and MRI of the legs. Special plastic beads are taped to the leg(s) to help compare the MRI and x-ray pictures. For the catheterization procedure, x-rays of the blood vessels are taken to guide placement of the catheters. Contrast dye is injected to brighten the images of the blood vessels. These injections work well in normal and partly blocked arteries, but not in arteries that are completely blocked. For this study, patients first have an MRI scan of their legs. During the scan, gadolinium contrast dye is injected into an arm vein. Then, during the catheterization procedure, a computer aligns the MRI pictures with the x-ray pictures to see if the combined images allow the doctor to better see where to place the catheters.
Fusion of X-ray and MRI Images of the Heart
For patients undergoing heart catheterization will undergo MRI and heart catheterization. Special plastic beads are taped to the chest to help compare the MRI and x-ray pictures. Patients first have an MRI scan of their heart. During the scan, gadolinium contrast dye is injected into an arm vein. Then, during the catheterization procedure, a computer aligns the MRI pictures with the x-ray pictures to see if the combined images allow the doctor to learn more about the pattern of heart disease.
Heart rhythm, blood pressure, heart function, and breathing will be monitored during all the MRIs.
|Detailed Description
Cardiovascular interventional procedures are minimally-invasive, catheter-based treatments such as coronary artery angioplasty and stenting. These procedures generally can be conducted on awake patients with few complications, and were developed as alternatives to conventional open surgery. Conventional cardiovascular interventional procedures are conducted by physicians manipulating medical devices inside patients under the guidance of fluoroscopic x-ray.
We are developing minimally-invasive cardiovascular interventional procedures using real-time magnetic resonance imaging, also known as MR Fluoroscopy. These procedures have the advantage of excellent imaging without surgery and without radiation exposure or toxic contrast agents (dyes). Moreover, because MR Fluoroscopy can produce excellent images of soft tissue, blood, and of three-dimensional structures, it may be possible to guide minimally-invasive procedures not possible even with invasive surgery.
The goal of this protocol is to develop and test incremental technical advances in patients.
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|Study Phase ICMJE
|Phase 1
|Study Design ICMJE
|Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Condition ICMJE
|Peripheral Artery Disease
|Intervention ICMJE
|Procedure: MRI
|Study Arms ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Publications *
|Murphy KP, Szopinski KT, Cohan RH, Mermillod B, Ellis JH. Occurrence of adverse reactions to gadolinium-based contrast material and management of patients at increased risk: a survey of the American Society of Neuroradiology Fellowship Directors. Acad Radiol. 1999 Nov;6(11):656-64.
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
|Recruitment Information
|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Actual Enrollment ICMJE
|Original Enrollment ICMJE
|Actual Study Completion Date ICMJE
|October 26, 2017
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|October 26, 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Subjects with known or suspected cardiovascular disease will be eligible for participation in this protocol. The subject is eligible under the following conditions:
Subject's age is greater than 18 years of age.
Expected to undergo, or having undergone, a clinically-indicated diagnostic or therapeutic catheterization procedure or MRI angiogram procedure.
Additional Inclusion Criteria for Section #4: Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Peripheral Arterial Atherosclerosis
-Known or suspected peripheral artery occlusion.
Subjects with absolute contraindications to MRI scanning will be excluded. These contraindications include subjects with the following devices:
When subjects can provide evidence that their implanted device is labeled compatible with MRI, exceptions to the above exclusions can be made and recorded in the note. Furthermore, the FOLLOWING SUBJECT GROUPS WILL BE EXCLUDED because of the administration of MRI CONTRAST AGENTS:
Glomerular filtration rate will be estimated using the MDRD 2005 revised study formula:
eGFR (mL/min/1.73m (2)) equal 175 x (standardized Scr) (-1.154) x (age) (-0.203) x 0.742 (if the subject is female) or x 1.212 (if the subject is black)
However, if the eGFR less than 30 mL/min/1.73m(2) and gadolinium contrast exposure is thought likely to reduce the overall risk of the medically necessary interventional procedure in Specific Aim number 2, then with informed consent and the concurrence of the attending physician, the patient may be enrolled in the study. This would be documented in the medical record, and the IRB would be notified.
Additional Exclusion Criteria for Section #2: Lower Extremity Perfusion Measures
A patent autologous or prosthetic bypass graft that would require compression during arterial occlusion to induce reactive hyperemia. This exclusion is intended to avoid graft injury and possible thrombosis. If an old graft is known to be non-functional, from radiocontrast or MRI angiography, then this exclusion does not apply.
A patent intravascular stent in a territory that would be compressed during arterial occlusion to induce reactive hyperemia. This exclusion is intended to avoid theoretical stent crush or fracture. If the stented vessel is known to be completely occluded, from radiocontrast or MRI angiography, then this exclusion does not apply. However, occlusive cuffs may be placed above or below stent devices to avoid this theoretical complication.
Active deep vein thrombosis of the lower extremity based on clinical findings.
|Sex/Gender ICMJE
|Ages ICMJE
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers ICMJE
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|United States
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
|NCT Number ICMJE
|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|Not Provided
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
|Not Provided
|IPD Sharing Statement ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Responsible Party
|Not Provided
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
|Collaborators ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Investigators ICMJE
|PRS Account
|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
|Verification Date
|October 26, 2017
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No. 1 seed Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) Takes Home Eighth National Championship Title; Defeats The Master's (Calif.) 1-0
Dec. 5, 2009
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FRESNO, Calif. – (Final Bracket) No. 1 seed Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) improves to 8-0 all-time in the Championship final and secured its eighth total hardware after defeating No. 15 seed The Master's (Calif.), 1-0 in the 2009 NAIA Men's Soccer National Championship final. The event was hosted by Fresno Pacific (Calif.) University and the Fresno Sports Council from Ramirez Field.
The Blue Raiders repeat as champions for the first time since 2005 and the eight total trophies is second most all-time behind Quincy's (Ill.) 11. Now with a 40-9-4 playoff record, Lindsey wrapped up its 17th overall Championship appearance, including 16th straight. Lindsey Wilson ends its season on a 12-match winning streak and a 20-2-1 overall record.
"A great tournament and Fresno Pacific did a fantastic job hosting, we appreciate it," said Lindsey Wilson head coach Ray Wells. "This game against The Master's was not what I expected. I thought that it would be a game that would have been a little more possession-oriented for us. The Master's came out and was awesome and we were lucky to get that early goal and hold on to it."
Wells was asked about his dominant defense that held The Master's scoreless and its 16th overall opponent without a goal in 23 matches.
"We have good balance and we can defend with numbers and our possession of the ball helps us," said Wells. "Our defenders are organized, work hard and are good players. – that is a big part of our team and of our success. Our future looks bright for Lindsey Wilson."
In a game played before a crowd of 385 filled mostly with The Master's fans, Lindsey Wilson was the one that struck quickly and silenced the crowd. In the 11th minute, Luis Campo tallied his 14th goal of the year sending a low shot in the left corner. Campo's marker was assisted by Chris Ochieng, his team-leading 10th helper of the year.
Both teams struggled to get into their offensive zone, long enough to fire off shots on goal. Lindsey Wilson had six overall shots, four on goal, while The Master's compiled five overall and just one on mark. In the win, Callum Christie posted one save in 90 minutes of action.
Defensive Player of the Tournament, Kevin Lawson, finished with three saves for the Mustangs.
The Master's ends its season with a 19-3-3 record, one win shy of tying a school record.
** Lindsey Wilson now has eight Championship titles (1995-96, 1998-2001, 2005, 2009) – the second most all-time of any program. Quincy, a school no longer in the membership, has 11 to its credit.
** The 40 all-time Championship wins for Lindsey Wilson is tied for second-most ever with Simon Fraser (B.C.). The total is one shy of the all-time record of 41 victories, set by Quincy.
** The Blue Raiders out-scored their opponents 49-2 during the 12-match winning streak, which included 10 shutouts.
** The Master's had its 10-match unbeaten snapped.
** Lindsey Wilson's Chris Ochieng tallied four assists in Championship play (in five matches) – that total was a Tournament high.
** Lindsey Wilson became just the second No. 1 seed since 2002 to win the title – No. 1 seed Azusa Pacific (Calif.) won the hardware in 2007 in Olathe, Kan. During the 2005 Championship run, Lindsey Wilson held the No. 2 seed.
** In their fourth postseason appearance, The Master's never advanced to the Semifinal round before this year.
** The Blue Raiders have scored 78 goals (3.5 pg) while the defense held opponents to 11 goals (0.5 pg) all season.
** Since pool play was eliminated prior to 1999, Lindsey Wilson becomes the fourth No. 1 seed to play in the Championship final (Azusa Pacific in 2007, Lindsey Wilson in 2001 and Mobile (Ala.) in 1999).
** In its eight Championship final games, Lindsey Wilson has out-scored the opponent 22-5 including three shutouts.
** The Master's, who played in its first Championship title game ever, drops to 7-2-2 record in Championship play.
2009 NAIA Men's Soccer All-Tournament Team:
Kevin Lawson, The Master's (Calif.), Sr.
Farhad Abdulgani, Simon Fraser (B.C.), Fr.
Carnell Learmond, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.), Jr.
Ryan Maloney, Embry-Riddle (Fla.), Jr.
Marcelo Silva, The Master's (Calif.), Fr.
Mat Luak, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.), Fr.
Lebogang Moloto, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.), Fr.
Colin Streckmann, Simon Fraser (B.C.), Sr.
Joel Thiessen, Rio Grande (Ohio), So.
Fabrice Gautrat, The Master's (Calif.), So.
Andy Hegg, The Master's (Calif.), Jr.
Phil Stansfield, Rio Grande (Ohio), Jr.
Chris Williams, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.), So.
Marc Young, Rio Grande (Ohio), Sr.
Most Valuable Player of the Tournament:
Chris Williams, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.), So.
Offensive Player of the Tournament:
Lebogang Moloto, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.), Fr.
Defensive Player of the Tournament:
Kevin Lawson, The Master's (Calif.), Sr.
Champions of Character Brine-NAIA Scholarship Recipient:
Cody Jenison, The Master's (Calif.), Sr.
Nels Dahlquist Memorial Team Sportsmanship Award:
The Master's (Calif.)


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CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan – It's like a scene out of "Mad Max" – 2-by-4s and pipes nailed together fill a tent as dirt-covered Marines lug around steel plates and cables. A dip bar, bench press and other gym pieces are the handiwork of Marine Corps Cpl. Frank McDermott, embark chief, Regimental Combat Team 6.
"Growing up, I didn't really have a lot of toys," he said. "So I'd always be with my dad when he would build stuff. My grandfather built his first two houses, and my dad built his house."
McDermott said he built the gym equipment behind his office because although Camp Leatherneck has several gyms with well-kept commercial equipment, he wanted to avoid the long wait times experienced during peak hours.
"I was going to the gym here, … and someone is always asking you how many sets you have left and trying to rush you off," he said. "I spend a lot of time out here [at work], so I might as well have something out back."
McDermott, from Delran, N.J., said he got the idea to build the gym during some down time, but the first challenge was finding material.
"When I first started building it, I didn't know what I was going to use. I didn't have a bar or the plate weights," he said. "I thought I was going to have to make weights out of concrete and coffee cans." McDermott eventually found a unit on base that had extra weights to donate.
His first project was a bench press built with power tools he brought and scrap wood around the base.
"Then I had an idea for a pull-up bar, [and] then I put in a spot for doing squats, curls and shrugs," he said. "Then I found a winch cable and some snatch blocks from the motor pool. I put that all together for a pull-down bar."
McDermott said he's always liked working out, even before joining the Marine Corps three years ago. He joked that being from the rural southern part of New Jersey, he's strong from all the corn he ate growing up.
Marines who see the gym usually are fascinated, McDermott said. "Most people walk back here and just say, 'Holy smokes!'" he added.
McDermott said about 15 Marines work out at his gym daily. "Everybody really enjoys it," he said. "I'm just happy people use it."


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So with the second test done, let's turn our attention to the third...
So with the second test done, let's turn our attention to the third...
Parmi | #1 draft pick | Jake King is **** | Big Bash League tipping champion of the universeCome and Paint Turtle
I tell you what...
I'm a massive Clarke fanboy as everyone knows, but if he doesn't score second dig his place will seriously come into question - although we have to drop North first
citoyens, vouliez-vous une révolution sans révolution?
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RIP Craigos. A true CW legend. You will be missed.
It seems like for this test we finally have gotten our act together. After Pontings 2nd innings 365 and Harris' 8/15, Australia can really feel like they're on top of England after such a resounding win again in Adelaide.
Katich is injured, get Hughes in.
Hughes > Kaitch in:
- Test Average
- Test SR
- Age
- Better Test 50/100 conversion rate
- Test High score
- Better runner between the wickets
- Smiles hard all day
- Lots of heart
- Has just 2 less sixes whilst playing 48 less matches
Hughes > Everyone in:
- Youngest player to make 2 centuries in 1 Test
- Shield Record = greatest two-innings contribution to a team's game total
- And he can play this shot
How bout this line-up for the WACA:
North (spinner)
Johnson (in for Siddle because of his extra pace)
You're not seriously suggesting playing North as a specialist spinner are you? Geez, I at least was just having a bit of a laugh, but...
North is a much better spinner than Doherty.
Don't go chasing waterfalls
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We need a 5"width X 7"height image that will serve as the cover for an Aspen-style mailer we are sending out.
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The objective of the cover is to SELL this product off of our online 'shelves'.
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Budget Proposal Includes 3 Percent Pay Raise, Quality-of-Life Enhancements
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 2007 - President Bush's defense budget request for fiscal 2008 includes a 3 percent military pay raise as well as increases for housing, health care and other quality-of-life benefits and programs.
Bush's proposed budget, submitted to Congress this morning, includes $137 billion in pay, benefits and health care for 2.1 million active- and reserve-component troops and their families.
That includes $2.1 billion more than this year for military pay, continuing a trend that has boosted military pay an average of 32 percent since 2001. If Congress approves the request, the typical E-6 sergeant or petty officer would see a $1,099 pay increase, and the average O-3 captain or Navy lieutenant, a $1,657 hike in fiscal 2008.
The request also includes $15 billion for the basic allowance for housing, up 4.2 percent over the fiscal 2007 figure, with a continued goal of ensuring no out-of-pocket housing costs for servicemembers.
An additional $4.3 billion is earmarked for basic allowance for subsistence.
Also included in the budget request is $2.4 billion for recruiting bonuses and retention, which officials say is critical to sustaining the all-volunteer force.
The proposed budget provides $38.7 billion for health care for 9.2 million military members and their families. Officials said this funding level is important to sustain one of the world's best health-care programs and to ensure that Tricare remains fiscally sound.
Family housing will receive $2.9 billion under the proposed budget to support an ongoing privatization trend. This will pay to privatize 2,870 additional family housing units, bringing the total to 194,000 by the end of fiscal 2008, officials said.
The budget request also includes $10 billion to maintain training centers and base infrastructure, an increase of $1.9 billion over this year's budget, and $8.2 billion to implement Base Realignment and Closure plans. These plans, recommended by the 2005 BRAC Commission and approved by Congress, include 25 base closures and 24 major realignments.
Officials said the proposed budget will ensure the finest training, equipment and force protection for those who serve in harm's way while continuing the department's commitment to provide a high quality of life for servicemembers and their families.
The proposed budget, officials said, reaffirms the nation's top military priorities: to prevail in the global war on terror; increase combat capability; improve force readiness; development future combat capabilities and improve quality of life for military members and their families.
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A defense contractor whose subsidiary was accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to torture detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has paid US$5.28 million to 71 former inmates held there and at other US-run detention sites between 2003 and 2007.
The settlement in the case involving Engility Holdings Inc of Chantilly, Virginia, marks the first successful effort by lawyers for former prisoners at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers to collect money from a US defense contractor in lawsuits alleging torture. Another contractor, CACI, is expected to go to trial over similar allegations this summer.
The payments were disclosed in a document that Engility filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission two months ago, but which has gone essentially unnoticed.
The defendant in the lawsuit, L-3 Services Inc, now an Engility subsidiary, provided translators to the US military in Iraq.
On Tuesday, a lawyer for the ex-detainees, Baher Azmy, said that each of the 71 Iraqis received a portion of the settlement. Azmy declined to say how the money was distributed among them.
The ex-detainees filed the lawsuit in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland, in 2008.
L-3 Services "permitted scores of its employees to participate in torturing and abusing prisoners over an extended period of time throughout Iraq," the lawsuit said.
The company "willfully failed to report L-3 employees' repeated assaults and other criminal conduct by its employees to the United States or Iraq authorities."
One inmate alleged he was subjected to mock executions, while another inmate said he was slammed into a wall until he became unconscious. A third was allegedly stripped naked and threatened with rape while his hands and legs were chained and a hood placed on his head. Another said he was forced to consume so much water that he began to vomit blood. Several of the inmates said they were raped, and many of the inmates said they were beaten and kept naked for extended periods of time.
In its defense four years ago against the lawsuit, L-3 Services said lawyers for the Iraqis alleged no facts to support the conspiracy accusation. Sixty-eight of the Iraqis "do not even attempt to allege the identity of their alleged abuser" and two others provide only "vague assertions," the company said at the time.
A military investigation in 2004 identified 44 alleged incidents of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib. No employee from L-3 Services was charged with a crime in investigations by the US Department of Justice, nor did the US military stop the company from working for the government.
Fifty-two of the 71 Iraqis alleged that they were imprisoned at Abu Ghraib and at other detention facilities. The other 19 Iraqis allege they were detained at detention facilities other than Abu Ghraib.
The Abu Ghraib prison scandal erupted during former US president George W. Bush's re-election campaign in 2004 when graphic photographs taken by soldiers at the scene were leaked to the news media. They showed naked inmates piled on top of each other in a prison cell block, handcuffed to cell bars, and hooded and wired for electric shock, among other scenes.
In the ensuing international uproar, 11 US soldiers were convicted of crimes including aggravated assault and taking pictures of naked Iraqi prisoners being humiliated.


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What's New
Pendulum Font by Canada Type
Pendulum is the much-anticipated digitization and swashy expansion of Americana, an amazing yet long overlooked treasure from the Nebiolo foundry, circa 1945.
To complement the beauty of the original letters, Pendulum comes with two additional sets of swashed ending lowercase we call Swings. These Swings help Pendulum become a fantastic calligraphic plate making tool, as well as a great personalizing headline font. Plenty of alternates and extra custom endings are included for extra choice and variety.
Pendulum can take your design anywhere your imagination goes. Its use can efficiently vary from simple slogans to richer layouts such as music sleeves or movie posters, and everything in between. Never did a font have this much charm and complexity all at once!
Tags: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Art Deco, Casual Script, Font, Formal Script, Handwritten, Retro


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The traditional small-block Chevy is more competitive than ever, thanks to Dart's new 427ci SHP short-block.
If you read most enthusiast magazines, and especially the Chevy-only ones, you'd think that there isn't a single person building a pre-'97 small-block Chevy anymore. With the advent of the LS series of engines, you might believe the hype that everyone has abandoned their old-style engine in favor of retrofitting the newer generation of powerplants. Camshaft makers have chucked those cores on the back lot along with flathead Ford and Buick nailhead components. Block makers have smashed those casts and Gen I small-block heads are little more than bulky doorstops.
We're here to say that the demise of the original small-block Chevy engine is greatly exaggerated. In fact, COMP Cams sells more Gen I camshafts than LS by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. Go ahead and pop the hood on your favorite hot rod. Odds are, there's a traditional small-block staring you in the face. If that's the case, even if you need to replace the engine, you'll be money ahead to put another Gen I in your car because of the cost of new headers, accessory drive, adapter bellhousing, and other miscellaneous stuff you'd need to pull off an LS engine swap. Those parts can easily set you back several thousands of dollars which you could be investing in power-making parts for your Gen I. Don't get us wrong; we've done our share of LS engine buildups, and we're not refuting the power potential of this design, the driveability, or any of the other positive characteristics. We're just saying that there are a whole lot of people who aren't ready to make all of the changes necessary to swap an LS engine in place of their old, trusty Gen I motor.
We've also more than once pondered the question of just how much streetable power you can squeeze from an early design small-block with all that we've learned in the past 20 years about cylinder head engineering, cam timing, and combustion chamber design. Could we find an LS competitor that looked like an anemic mid-'80s 305? And which LS would we set our sights on as a target? The carbureted GM Performance Parts LS3 makes 515 hp for about $7,500, but to build it beyond that you're replacing the pistons and doing other work to beef up the bottom end. Before you know it, you've got an easy $10,000 in the engine. For that much money, you can buy a GMPP crate LS7, but then you have another host of engine swap challenges, and you're still making "only" 505 hp.
We decided that a 600hp Gen I motor would probably scare the crank right out of most LS engines. So when the engine in our Laguna gave up the ghost, it gave us the perfect opportunity to put our theories to the test.
The first step was to find the biggest small-block we could build without getting into exotic racing parts. It didn't take long for us to identify the Dart Special High Performance (SHP) block as a worthy candidate. It can be built in displacements from 372 up to 427, and accepts all of the original small-block paraphernalia; it even has the '55 Chevy front lower motor mount bosses. The ability to match the LS7 in displacement with a Gen I is very desirable, and helps even out the power playing field.
A little more research unearthed that Dart offers an SHP short-block with righteous parts that produces 550 hp and 545 lb-ft of torque on pump gas. Now we were definitely interested. Strength and durability issues are shelved with a 4340 forged steel crank, aftermarket steel rods, forged pistons, and splayed main block caps. Plus, Dart builds the blocks and heads that pro racers use to make 2,500 hp or more. Their SHP line is targeted at putting that same quality and performance expertise into the hands of street guys like us who also like to pound on our equipment at the racetrack.
We drummed up a conversation with Jack McInnis and Tony McAfee at Dart to see what it would take to shift that 550hp number north of 600 while still having an engine that would run on pump gas and be durable on the street. Those of you who follow our Laguna project know that we enjoy tossing the two-ton Betty into the corners on autocross and road race courses, but it spends more than its fair share of time in Los Angeles traffic. McInnis and McAfee thought that a bit more compression and camshaft will be sufficient to push the 427 SHP over the 600 mark without creating a hand grenade with the pin pulled.
There are definitely some things you should realize about an engine like this. That kind of horsepower and torque will plaster a smile on your face that will make your girlfriend jealous. But it's not a docile, smooth idling, 25-mpg mill. It's going to have a lumpy idle, low vacuum for accessories, and scare small children. We'll have no problems tolerating it in bumper-to-bumper traffic in SoCal, but not everyone would. With that reality check out of the way, we stopped by Dart in Troy, Michigan, to photograph the drool-worthy parts that would make up the short-block of this potent anti LS engine.
|Where the Money Went
|Dart 427 SHP short-block (assembled)
|COMP Cams solid-roller camshaft custom grind
|COMP Cams billet double-roller timing set


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OCTS is an optical radiometer devoted to the frequent global measurement of ocean color and sea surface temperature. OCTS will show the amount of chlorophyll and dissolved substances in the water, and temperature distribution. OCTS data will be used for determination of ocean primary production and carbon cycle, and be used for getting the information of ocean conditions for fishery and environment monitoring etc. OCTS is a successor to CZCS (Coastal Zone Color Scanner), the U.S. projects, which was the first real optical sensor for ocean observation onboard NIMBUS-7 launched in 1978.
OCTS has 8 bands in visible and near-infrared region and 4 bands in thermal region, and achieves highly sensitive spectral measurement with these bands. The observation bands are determined on the characteristics of spectral reflectance of the object substances, atmospheric windows and atmospheric correction. The spatial resolution is about 700m. This is applicable to the observation of coastal zone and land, the feature of these area barriers quickly compared to the open ocean. As the swath width is about 1400km on the ground, OCTS can observe the same area every 3 days and can monitor rapidly changing phenomena. OCTS has optical calibration function using solar light and halogen lamp as the calibration source. OCTS has two data transmission modes. All raw pixel data are transmitted through X band with fine data transmission mode. One pixel data is sampled from every 6x6km area as typical data of the area and is transmitted at UHF band in coarse data transmission mode.
OCTS consists of scanning radiometer unit, which contains optical system and detector module, and-electrical unit. OCTS adopts catoptric optical system and mechanical rotating scanning method using mirror. this is because OCTS covers wide range of wavelength and wide scanning angles. OCTS can tilt its line of sight along the track to prevent the sunglitter at the sea surface from interrupting the observation. For high sensitivity, each band has 10pixels aligned to the track. The infrared detectors are cooled at 100k by a large radiant cooler facing the deep space.
Instantaneous Field Of View
0.85mrad(Ground Surface - 700m)
Scanning Range
- +-40deg.(ground level distance 1400km)
Polarization sensitivity
Band 1 : 5% or less
Band 2-8 : 2% or less
Tilt Angle
-20deg. ,0deg., +20deg
: Solar,Internal Light Source
: Deep Space, Black Body
Course Data Transmission(DTL)


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How would you get a live baseball score in the time before smartphones? Before the internet, or widespread cable access, or cellphones at all? It was a bitch, until in the summer of 1990, Beckett Monthly deputized readers to collect the numbers for payphones at every MLB stadium. The thinking being that you'd call the number, some random fan would pick up, and you could ask him the score. [Baseball Prospectus]
Useful Things: A 1990 List Of Payphone Numbers In MLB Ballparks


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Friday 16th November 2012
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New Zealand exports are more likely to grow if governments target a population of 15 million by 2060 than by creating arbitrary targets for export growth, says the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research in a paper for the export arm of Business New Zealand.
The report also recommends considering tax incentives or grants to encourage large, successful New Zealand companies to remain based here, instead of targeting all assistance to companies just starting out as exporters.
That recommendation, which carries no detail, was "very much their own," said Catherine Beard, executive director of Export NZ, which commissioned the report from the independent economic consultancy. "That was probably one of the more controversial recommendations. It's not generally the sort of thing we recommend."
But there were valid questions about how to maintain the economic impact of New Zealand companies that are bought by foreign investors or moved closer to foreign markets to continue their global growth.
Titled "Scale Up or Die", the NZIER report argues other successful exporting nations are not only closer to their markets, but also have larger home markets in which to create the scale needed for export success.
"If New Zealand's biggest impediment to better economic performance is an absence of scale, there is only one way to overcome this over the long term and that is to grow the population through more migrants," say the report's authors, economists John Stephenson and John Ballingal.
"You cannot fake scale. You have to build it."
NZIER has previously advocated a population target of 15 million in the next 50 years, the report notes.
Its authors also accuse kiwis of "egregious double standards" for opposing foreign corporate ownership when their home mortgages are largely funded by foreign capital, and say the Resource Management Act is more of a barrier than a help to sustainable economic development.
The New Zealand dollar remains high and a barrier to exports because government spending is too high, they say, with public servants costing more to hire on average than in the private sector and schemes such as Working for Families and interest-free student loans acting as "a tax on exports."
"Ongoing concern about monetary policy and its effects on the exchange rate is missing the fact that fiscal policy - tax and spending - is a bigger part of the reason for the higher exchange rates and flat output in the export sector."
The report also questions whether the array of government programmes to assist exporters represents repeated attempts to reinvent the wheel, accompanied by a lack of evaluation and impatience for results.
The authors say both that there is "precious little evidence on the effectiveness of existing initiatives which try to help firms to grow their capabilities and to internationalise" while also urging policymakers to "give these initiatives time to work."
"While waiting around for something to happen, more information should be gathered on the effectiveness or otherwise of existing initiatives."
It suggests government funding to build businesses' capability may be justified, but questions whether the government is best placed to provide export promotion services.
The NZIER report also suggests mineral resource extraction could be an important source of growth, but only if governments have a plan for investing the proceeds wisely.
"With mineral wealth comes to opportunity to invest and build domestic capabilities and increase outward direct investment. This has worked exceedingly well for the Norwegians," say Stephenson and Ballingal. "
The report also identifies iwi-owned and Maori businesses as a source of potential scale because of their greater long term commitment to being based in New Zealand.
"Business success borne by Maori is more likely to be success and capability which remains in New Zealand and on which scale can be built."
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Pedalling through the barriers to cycling
Pedalling through the barriers to cycling
Being somewhat of a scaredy cat, and living on a rather off-putting 'Big Hill', I admit to being a lapsed cyclist. Living only a short walk (downhill!) to my local town, not possessing a cycle carrier for our car, and residing around 25 miles (along a very busy 'A' road) from my place of work, are just some of the excuses I've trotted out to preserve the status quo.
That was until one of my colleagues, the irrepressible Sarah Walker, announced CTC were working with Hampshire County Council and MyJourney Hampshire to give two hours cycle training to Hampshire residents for the princely sum of £5.
Crash! Down fell the final barrier to cycling.
Feeling inspired, I signed up for training that afternoon. And a week or so later, it was all booked and confirmed. No more excuses.
The day of the training arrived - I must confess to being a little nervous. Despite passing my Cycle Proficiency (it is one of my proudest moments!), I have always been very nervous cycling on roads (I used to think the double yellow lines were there to ride between!). The thought of all the local children laughing at me, wobbling along on my trusty (and rusty) old bike, or losing control on the 'Big Hill' was playing on my mind. I asked for a few tips from my colleagues: 'Don't worry about it, and enjoy it' they said, 'It's just like riding a bike'.
And it was. When my instructor, Rolfe, arrived he immediately put me at my ease. I had explained my situation (nervous, lapsed cyclist), and my goal: to feel safe and confident to cycle around my local area so I can go exploring. 'No problem – we can do that' was the response. I thought that was a little optimistic!
We started by going through the 'M' checks on my bike, making sure everything was in working order, and then progressed to the 'ABC' checks; (air, brakes, chain). After my bike was given a clean bill of health, we moved on to a demonstration of 'secondary position', along with a quick discussion about cycling and road safety. A quick 'pep' talk was dispensed by the ever-patient Rolfe, and then it was time. We were off. Up the 'Big Hill'.
And within 10 yards, I felt like I was 11-years-old again. The feelings of freedom and sheer joy came flooding back. Admittedly, I was a lot slower than I was aged 11, and had to stop MUCH more frequently. Rolfe spared my blushes (and legs and lungs) by stopping to discuss pertinent points about road positioning, signalling and general road safety at regular intervals.
Despite the pedalling being a little more tiring than I remember, the time flew by. I had a wonderful time and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Sadly, the light, my lungs and legs combined to bring an end to the session after an hour. I am, however, counting down to session number two next week, which will take in a more adventurous pedal round town. I cannot wait.
Since then, I have indulged the patience of my various colleagues, especially the guru that is Chris Juden, to ask for their advice about such things as cycle carriers for cars (so I can practise in my local forest) and even new bikes.
My advice: Go for it, and book some cycle training now. And if you don't live in Hampshire, take a look at CTC's cycle training page to find an instructor in your area!


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They say the best way to survive a bear attack is to stare the beast down as it charges you. Maybe that's what Matt Barnes was thinking about last night when Zach Randolph came charging toward him after a hard foul.
Barnes's strategy worked, though. His lack of fear earned Z-Bo's respect, and the two shared a nice hug. Others haven't been so lucky.


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The Tenerife Wine Route
Barrels in a wine cellar
Landscape on the Tenerife wine route
Terrace over the vineyards
Контактная информация
Asociación Ruta del Vino de Tenerife
Plaza del Cristo, 8. Casa de la Cultura 1ª planta
38350 Tacoronte, Tenerife (Canary Islands)
Тел.:+34 922564066
Visit the largest wine-producing area in the Canary Islands. A land of sun, volcanic earth and sea, where you can sample the wines bearing the Tacoronte–Acentejo and Valle de La Orotava Designation of Origin label. The vineyards are located in Tenerife between 100 and 1000 metres above sea level. On your way along this route you can discover the island's cultural and historic heritage and its natural and scenic diversity, as well as sampling the typical Canarian cuisine.
Винодельни на маршруте
- >Bodega El Lomo
- >Bodega Insercasa (Bronce)
- >Bodega Agryenca
- >Bodega La Palmera
- >Casa del Vino La Baranda
- >Bodega Monje
- >Bodegas Insulares de Tenerife
- >Bodegas y Viñedos 2005
- >Vinoteca Canaria
Какие здесь вина
Produced with natural ingredients in an area of volcanic soil located by the sea in a varied and stable climate. The Tacoronte–Acentejo Designation of Origin comprises mostly red wines. These wines are young and fresh-tasting with new and fruity aromas. On the palate they are fragrant, potent and very resonant. The whites, on the other hand, have an intense, fruity aroma and are harmonious and balanced on the palate. They are made mainly from the Listán Blanco, Malvasía, Gual, Moscatel and Verdello varieties.
Что вас ждет
The region has a wide range of beaches: these include the Prix, the Rincón and the Arena. All these beaches offer the chance to enjoy the sun and to practice water sports. Visit the stately homes and the historic centre of San Cristóbal de la Laguna, which has been declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO. Discover the cultural and historic heritage of Tenerife, with a tour of the various sights in the area: the church of San Pedro Apóstol (El Sauzal), and the Monument to Canarian Wrestling (Tegueste) are just a couple of interesting examples. Go on an excursion to discover the Teide National Park, declared a World Heritage site by the UNESCO. Enjoy a round of golf in the Real Club de Tenerife in Tacoronte, or explore the region by walking its network of footpaths. The numerous local festivities that you can enjoy include the traditional Religious Procession of San Benito Abad. This is a festival of interest to tourists which is held in San Cristóbal de la Laguna every year in July. Savour the typical dishes of traditional Canarian cuisine. More information at any of the tourist offices.
Как доехать
The Tacoronte-Acentejo Wine Route is located in the northern part of Tenerife. You can reach the island by either of its international airports: the Tenerife Norte airport, which is 13 kilometres from the capital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife; or by the Reina Sofía airport, 60 kilometres to the south of the capital. Another option is to arrive via the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, located in the capital itself. Once you are in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, it will take you about 15 minutes to reach Tacoronte on the Autopista del Norte TF-5 motorway in the direction of Santa Cruz-Icod (exit 19). You can use this same motorway to turn off towards all the different places on the route.
Wine towns
Tacoronte, the starting point, Tegueste, El Sauzal, San Cristóbal de la Laguna and La Orotava are some of the towns that you'll find on your route. Along the way you'll have the chance to visit everything from large vineyards to smaller family-run businesses; from those which still use the more traditional wine-making methods to those which are equipped with the latest technology. Enjoy new experiences in ideal surroundings, amid vineyards which will tempt you to discover the delights of combining wine and tourism. Use the map on this page to see all the destinations that form part of the Wine Route.


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One of the world's biggest cities is bursting at the seams with energy, culture, great food and enough surreality to keep it endlessly fascinating
Author Joe Keohane Photography Holly Wilmeth
DAY TWO | Start with breakfast at Las Alcobas, with the fresh fruit plate, a sculptural tower of kiwi, apple, melon and dragon fruit, sprinkled with pomegranate seeds and drizzled with honey. It is, without question, the lightest thing you'll eat all week. To make sure your stomach doesn't get the wrong idea, you chase the fruit with a plate of eggs in rich mole sauce.
Outside, you walk down Calle Oscar Wilde, past a park with a tranquil pool in which older men pilot their remote-controlled boats on the weekends (one man with a submarine is wreaking havoc on a cheerful orange vessel piloted by another in a captain's hat), and head for Bosque de Chapultepec (1), the main park in a city that should be better known for its green spaces. Paseo de la Reforma, D.F.'s ordinarily congested central artery, is closed to cars on Sundays. Savor the peace and quiet while you admire the art exhibits mounted on the fences lining the park, and the sculpture garden running along the median.
The next stop is the Museo Nacional de Antropología (2). Inside, you find an unmatched collection of Mayan and Aztec artifacts, including an otherworldly jade mask discovered in the tomb of seventh-century Mayan ruler Pacal, and an exhibit on pulque. Here you learn that the Aztecs limited consumption of the highly alcoholic drink lest they fall under the spell of Cenzon Totochtin, or "Curse of the 400 Rabbits."
Leaving the museum, you stop at one of the many food carts arrayed outside and order a cup of esquites. It's nothing more than corn, hot peppers, lime, cheese and chili powder, served in corn liquid in a styrofoam cup, but it's a terrifically flavorful meal unto itself (and, more important, a great vanquisher of residual pulque rabbits). You eat it on the way to El Centro, the historic center of Mexico City. When you get there, you navigate through the throngs of people to the Catedral Metropolitana (3), on the edge of the Zocalo, the main plaza in El Centro. When Hernán Cortés vanquished the Aztecs, he ordered their temples leveled, and had a Catholic church built here. The one standing today, consecrated in 1667, replaced that first one. You take a look at the grand altar and the mammoth organ, and note how the chandeliers are hanging at an angle — the result of the sinking ground beneath El Centro.
Next is the Palacio Nacional (4), the government headquarters built by Cortés on the site of Montezuma's palace. You walk into the handsome courtyard and climb the staircase to take in several historical murals by Diego Rivera. Then travel back in time, via the intensely crowded and cacophonous street Moneda, to the Templo Mayor (5), one of the Aztecs' main temples (and the site of some of the most copious sacrificial bloodletting). It was built in the 14th century, and after that, each succeeding ruler built a new layer on top in a representation of Aztec expansion. Lost for centuries, it was accidentally discovered by utility workers in 1978, and is still being excavated. Today, you can see the broken concentric shells and peer into its very core.
You amble west along Madero, taking in a pedestrian mall teeming with performers, riotous drum bands, mariachi musicians walking to work, teenagers and guys in homemade movie costumes posing for photos. (Batman is doing a brisk business; Predator, who is fashioned largely from washers and vacuum cleaner hoses, is less of a draw.) Pass the Palacio de Bellas Artes, and arrive at the Alameda Central (6). The park is packed with vendors and Chilangos hustling and hanging out on a pleasant Sunday. There are bands playing in different corners of the park, each inspiring whirlpools of impromptu salsa dancing.
The sun has gone down, and you're feeling the altitude, so you make your way back to Chapultepec, buy some mango slices and roasted fava beans in chili powder from a vendor (most restaurants are closed on Sunday nights) and return to the hotel. Thus settled in, you order up a glass of wine, climb into the spacious tub by the window overlooking the street and call it a day.
I noticed that the last three "Three Perfect Days" articles are not available in pdf format (the last one was Stockholm). I do have the Hemispheres iPad app, but I don't usually walk around foreign cities with my iPad in my hand. It's nice for reading, but not for sightseeing. Nor do I have international data roaming plans that permit me to pull up the web based versions while traveling overseas.
Could I convince you to continue the practice of posting the pdf versions in addition to tall the other dissemination?
I really love the articles and have followed the recommendations of many of your Three Perfect Days articles — with a printed copy in my hands!
Eric Mazur
Professor of Physics
Harvard University