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Heparin Versus Bivalirudin in Acute Myocardial Infarction: Unfractionated Heparin Monotherapy Elevated to Primary Treatment in Contemporary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Osmar Antonio Centurión*
Department of Cardiology, Clínic Hospital, Asunción National University, Cardiovascular Institute, Sanatorio Migone-Battilana, Asunción, Paraguay
Received Date: 22/2/2015
Revision Received Date: 20/3/2015
Acceptance Date: 22/4/2015
© Osmar Antonio Centurión; Licensee Bentham Open.
open-access license: This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode), which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
Correspondence: Address correspondence to this author at the Conacyt Investigator Level II, Department of Cardiology, Asunción National University, Trejo y Sanabria 1657, Sajonia, Asunción, Paraguay; Tel: 595-21-421423; Fax: 595-21-421423; E-mail: osmarcenturion@hotmail.com
Bivalirudin, a direct thrombin inhibitor, was developed as an antithrombin agent for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) with the hypothesis that it would reduce bleeding complications without compromising the rate of ischemic events compared to heparin plus GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors. Although the cumulative evidence makes a strong argument for the use of bivalirudin rather than heparin plus systematic GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors for the great majority of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) undergoing PCI, the benefit observed with bivalirudin was achieved because of the major bleeding complications with the use of heparin plus GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors. When bivalirudin was compared with unfractionated heparin alone there was no benefit in ischemic complications with a decrease in major bleeding. However, in a recent large randomized controlled trial comparing bivalirudin with unfractionated heparin alone in AMI patients undergoing primary PCI, bivalirudin did not reduce bleeding complications and was associated with higher rates of stent thrombosis, myocardial reinfarction, and repeat revascularization compared with heparin. Moreover, a very recent meta-analysis shed more insights on the utilization of bivalirudin versus heparin regimens during PCI. Findings from this meta-analysis suggest that routine use of bivalirudin offers little advantage over heparin among PCI patients. In a detailed analysis of some randomized trials and observational studies with bivalirudin in AMI patients done by myself and published almost five years ago in this journal, I rendered some reflections on the future widespread use of bivalirudin. "In the setting of PCI in AMI patients, and in the absence of GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors, bivalirudin did not offer any beneficial effect in the incidence of the composite end points when compared with heparin alone. For now, in real world practice, one would probably choose a well known cheaper drug that has already passed the test of time, heparin. There may be reinforcement in the sole utilization of heparin confining GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors and other intravenous antithrombotics to bailout therapy for periprocedural PCI complications in AMI patients". Therefore, instead of being the beginning of a new era with bivalirudin, it sure is a welcome back to an old friend, heparin. Indeed, after more than two decades, it is always good to welcome back an old friend, unfractionated heparin, as monotherapy and preferred anticoagulant regimen for contemporary PCI in AMI patients.
Keywords: Acute myocardial infarction, Bivalirudin, Percutaneous coronary intervention, Unfractionated heparin.


Giving children and grandchildren the best start in life through private schooling and university education is expensive – but can be achieved with effective tax-efficient Trust planning.
A grandparent (settlor) can set up a trust for their grandchildren. They can put up to £325,000 into this trust; this amount is equal to their unused inheritance tax (IHT) threshold which currently stands at £325,000. By doing this an individual reduces their own estate by £325,000 thereby potentially saving 40% tax on this amount (£130,000).
Provided the settlor survives seven years their IHT threshold in reinstated and therefore able to settle a further £325,000 upon trust after that seven year period.
By creating a trust for grandchildren a grandparent is able to provide an income and/or capital that can supplement the grandchildren's needs during their minority and adulthood also.
An added benefit of this type of trust is income tax savings. The trust can be used to make income distributions for the benefit and education of grandchildren. Income payments from the trust are paid net of income tax to grandchildren. The grandchild can thereafter reclaim part of all of the tax paid by the trustees via their own personal allowances. Where a trust has not been set up and assets remain within the settlor's estate, the settlor may currently be paying school fees net of income tax, which is not recoverable. Therefore by placing the income producing assets into trust they are able to make the provision of school fees more tax efficient.
In addition to the above both grandparents may combine the amount they put in and therefore put up to £650,000 into trust. This can further reduce a family's IHT liability and this can be done every seven years.
The settlor may also be trustee and control how funds are managed. The funds are generally placed with a qualified investment manager to provide sufficient income and capital growth for the beneficiaries.
The trust is extremely flexible and the type of trust wholly depends on what the client wishes to achieve.
Effective tax planning and the use of a trust allow parents to provide for children's university fees, which is an ever growing concern for parents.
A settlor who sets up a lifetime trust for his unmarried minor child (beneficiary) with the aim of applying the income during their minority will be taxed as if it is income of the settlor's. However, a settlor is able to create a trust and accumulate the income until his children become 18. Once a beneficiary attains adulthood the income applied to them becomes taxable on them individually and ceases to be taxed on the settlor.
A settlor can put up to £325,000 into this trust or an amount equal to their unused inheritance tax (IHT) threshold. By doing this an individual reduces their own estate by £325,000 thereby potentially saving 40% tax on this amount (£130,000). Provided the settlor survives seven years their IHT threshold is reinstated and therefore they will be able to settle a further £325,000 upon trust after that seven year period should they wish to.
The provision of university fees is extremely topical with increase in fees to over £9,000 a year. The trust income can be accumulated to plan for children attending university.
When a beneficiary attains the age of 18, the income can be paid to them and this can be applied for payment towards the university costs.
Income payments from the trust are paid net of income tax to the child. The child can thereafter reclaim part or all of the tax paid by the trustees via their own personal allowances. Where a trust has not been set up, the assets remain within the settlor's estate and it is probable that the settlor may currently be paying university fees net of income tax (potentially up to 45%, which is not recoverable). Therefore by placing the income producing assets into trust they are able to make the provision for university fees more tax efficient.
In addition to the above both parents may combine the amounts they put in to trust up to £650,000. This can be done every seven years.
This further increases the total IHT and income tax savings as well as the income available to meet the ever increasing costs of university.


Rubin's expertise in various large-scale engineering projects ensures successful implementation of virtually any project notwithstanding of hardships and risks inherent in innovative undertakings.
Our high research and engineering influence enables us to involve leading Russian and international research and industrial companies from various fields into solving complicated technical problems and coordinate their activities. For many years we have been successfully cooperating with the leading companies in shipbuilding, power, transport and instrument engineering, and other fields.
delivery lists for components, equipment, spare parts and accessories.
Rubin offers on-site supervision, technical and process solutions for construction yards, their subcontractors and clients during construction and trials; design documentation can be updated on demand. Rubin specialists also provide technical supervision and deadline control. After the construction is completed, we support the object commissioning for operation.
Complex engineering objects are designed for decades of operation with the same performance to be retained throughout their life. Rubin provides follow-on supervision for everything constructed to our designs, which ensures the desired level of performance throughout the operation. New projects are based on the experience gained from these activities.
In modern engineering products, a large number of components in systems and equipment become obsolete earlier than their life time expires. Keeping an object functional throughout the whole period of its service requires modernization which allows keeping its performance up to the up-to-date technical level.
Rubin offers the surveys and other works to provide service for the developed equipment and ensures training for the client's personnel to do the works. The company produces documents for repairs and modification of the designed objects and provides technical support. In our activities we consider specific conditions of the object operation, available maintenance infrastructure and personnel qualifications.


Tonalin, often called Tonalin CLA, is a brand of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA).
CLA is a fatty (omega 6) acid that is naturally occurring in many foods including red meat and dairy products, but the most efficient Tonalin supplements use CLA that has been extracted from safflower oil. Any other form of Tonalin is best avoided.
There has been a great deal of research conducted on the medicinal benefits of the compound and the results of a study carried out in 1979 suggested it may possess the potential to inhibit the growth of cancer cells. More recently though, Tonalin has acquired a reputation as an effective aid to weight loss.
How Does Tonalin Assist Weight Loss?
In many ways Tonalin is somewhat of a dietary enigma because it is the fat that helps to oust other fats from the body.
Unfortunately these three fats can be very beneficial to the health and the only way they can be introduced to the body is via the mouth.
This is why Tonalin supplementation can be such a powerful aid to weight loss. A good Tonalin supplement can provide the first good fat (Linoleic acid) and the body can then use it to create the other two fats.
Once the these fats are available to the body their combined power can inhibit the growth of fresh fat cells, speed up the metabolism, and help the body purge itself of existing fat cells. Tonalin supplementation can also improve muscle mass and this may offer additional benefits because muscle tissue is known to burn calories more efficiently than fatty tissue.
In 2000 The Journal of Nutrition published the results of a study that showed a daily dose of 3.4g of CLA may reduce the amount of fat stored in the human body. At the end of the twelve week test period the researchers also noted higher doses of CLA did not improve on results.
A similar study conducted 12 years later and published in Nutrition also showed promising results. Chinese volunteers, who were all classed as grade 1 obese, were given daily doses of CLA. By the end of the three month test period the volunteers had attained a noticeable loss in weight. None of the test subjects reported any side effects or other issues related to their supplementation.
Numerous other test have reaped equally positive results, but dieters who are considering using Tonalin supplements as part of their weight management regimen should be aware that all the result indicate weight losses, though consistent, are usually quite modest.
The present data available does not suggest that Tonalin supplementation is unlikely to cause side effects, but pregnant and nursing mothers should always consult a doctor before commencing any form of supplementation weight loss regiment. The same recommendation is offered to anyone who has known health issues or is taking any form of medication.
Science would appear to have proven that Tonalin is an effective weight loss aid that is unlikely to cause side effects or other issues. With so many stimulant-rich weight loss supplements on the market, and supplements that contain questionable—and even dangerous ingredients—safe and effective weight loss options are something of a rarity. It is, however, a supplement that requires the user to be willing to adopt a slow and steady approach to winning their race against obesity.
Some dieters may find it hard to accept such slow results and discount Tonalin in favor of supplements that promise faster results. But quickly shed pound have a habit of returning just as fast and crash dieting methods are known to be hard on the body. For long term weight loss Tonalin may prove to be a much better option and faster results may be possible if Tonalin supplementation is combined with a healthy diet and regular exercise.
Tonalin weight loss supplements are available to buy from several different suppliers, but the name on the label is not the only difference between one bottle and the next. Product strength can vary considerably from brand to brand, so consumers should take careful note of the relevant details for each product before choosing a Tonalin supplement to assist their weight loss needs.
In the majority of tests the daily dose used was 3.2g to 3.4g. Lower doses are not proven to offer any benefits at all and at least one test showed higher does to be pointless.
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Bjørnsundet is a strait between Spitsbergen and Wilhelm Island in Hinlopen Strait, Svalbard. The strait has depths , and can be sailed by vessels.

The strait was discovered and first named Bismark Strasse by August Petermann during the First German North Polar Expedition in 1868.

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Az 1964. évi téli olimpiai játékokon a gyorskorcsolya női 1000 méteres versenyszámát február 1-én rendezték az Olimpiai Jégcsarnokban. Az aranyérmet a szovjet Ligyija Szkoblikova nyerte meg. Magyar versenyző nem vett részt a versenyen.

Rekordok
A versenyt megelőzően a következő rekordok voltak érvényben:

A versenyen új olimpiai rekord született:

Végeredmény
Mindegyik versenyző egy futamot teljesített, az időeredmények határozták meg a végső sorrendet. Az időeredmények másodpercben értendők. A rövidítések jelentése a következő:

 OR: olimpiai rekord

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Cleary, these sisters picked the right business with Miron Crosby, the bespoke boot brand they launched in 2017. "To us, Miron Crosby embodies the 'American dream,' not only through the way we hand-craft every single one of our products, but also because our brand is such a family-oriented business," say the duo, who trace the origins of their boot company to their frustration at "the lack of elevated options that were authentic, but not too masculine, or alternatively, not too kitschy." Where, they wondered, were the "cool cowboy boots" like those they had designed throughout their lives?
While basically every major designer from Chanel to Ralph Lauren have "dipped their toe in the 'western waters,'" say the Means, its best to see Miron Crosby as more of a serious and committed dive. The sisters have been wearing cowboy boots all their lives, but they also represent the modern-western generation, and see their challenge as getting others to see " 'western' in a different, more fashion-forward context that can be styled for everyday use" without forsaking its traditions. "The world loves the romance of the American West just as much as we do, and our goal is to create a line that is approachable for the average person who isn't from the stereotypical west, going to a ranch or the rodeo, by taking an authentic product and elevating the details and design so that it is wearable everywhere with everything." Someone, say, a little like John Wayne, who set the bar for what the quintessential American cowboy looked like but grew up in Southern California.


Having a WordPress website with all the essential functionalities is great! But if you are into business and really want to make it big with your customers, all you need are WordPress forms.
Be it a list builder form, a contact form or a survey form..they are an integral part of any website design.
Having a professional looking form makes it easier for your website visitors to reach out to you.
It is an effective channel of communication that can bring you business opportunities, leads, blog subscribers, potential customers, etc. The possibilities are endless.
Upload button – Allow users upload a document, image, etc.
Limited fields -Keep only necessary input fields. Having irrelevant fields and questions on a form can frustrate your prospective clients.
Primary Purpose – Resolve customer queries or concerns.
The contact form is one of the most common types of web forms. Almost all the sites on the internet have a contact form for their visitors and they should.
Most contact forms have three input fields: Name, Email and Message. Some sites may have additional input fields based on the requirements and type of website. Some may even show an acknowledgment message to confirm that the message is sent.
The contact form is also a safe way to receive emails. The messages are directed to your inbox, but you do not need to publicly display your email to the visitors. Thus, this helps in fighting spam as your email address is hidden.
Another advantage of a contact form -The user can quickly fill the form fields and press send. It avoids all hassles of copying the email id from the website, and then composing a new email using an email client like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.
Primary Purpose – Gather feedback and data about your potential customers.
For market research or to validate a product idea.
By bloggers and marketers to gather feedback about their content and website design.
As a pop-up or a dedicated web page.
Primary Purpose – Capture the email leads and convert a casual visitor into a lead for your business.
Almost all the modern blogs have an opt-in form that collects leads.
Social media updates might get missed or ignored, but an email will definitely land in front of your potential client. This is why all the business gurus suggest converting your social media fans into email subscribers.
By entering an email in the lead generation form, the website visitor grants you the permission to send him email updates regularly.
Lead generation forms are also used on landing pages where lead magnets are used to get the emails of the potential clients. Tutorials, freebies, offers, etc. are attractive baits to encourage users sign-up.
Primary Purpose – Sell services or products.
If you run an e-commerce website or a SaaS (Software as a Service) business, an order form will help your users place their orders and proceed to checkout. The order forms can also have an integrated payment option such as PayPal, debit cards, credit cards, etc.
An order form may have elements such as credit card details, coupon code, 'Buy Now' button, etc.
If you are organising an event, a conference or a meeting, you can avoid the hassles of maintaining a physical log book by placing an event registration form on your website.
The form will automatically maintain records of attendees and collect payments.
Some of your email subscribers might want to opt-out from receiving any future emails. Or if you are a service-based business which regularly sends emails to their leads, you might want to create an unsubscribe page on your website.
The unsubscribe forms will let the disinterested users or subscribers to opt-out from future email updates, promotions, or announcements.
Although no one want to place an unsubscribe form, you can't force visitors to be your subscribers forever.
How to Create WordPress Forms – Coding or Plugins?
I guess, you are now clear on which type of form to use in a particular case. Now let's look at form creation.
But hiring a professional web developer might cost you money.
So why invest in hiring a developer or code forms yourself when you can use WordPress plugins to build professional looking web forms in minutes without tweaking a single line of code?
Plenty of WordPress form builders and plugins are available. All of them have the same elements like text input, buttons, drop-down menus, etc. Only difference is the customisation options.
Plugins can help you build forms without the help of a programmer. You can change or modify the style of a form anytime. Thus, it is economical.
The plugins allow you to design the forms that match the theme of your website. You can customize the colors, shapes, etc.
The plugins provide a user-friendly interface to customize a form. So, no coding hassles!
The WordPress forms created using plugins are easy to customize so they can be used for various purposes like contact forms, subscriptions forms, newsletter forms, email forms, signup forms, etc.
There are a variety of WordPress form plugins available in the WordPress marketplace. Here we picked one of the best ones available on WordPress repository. Some have advanced features too.
Contact Form 7 is the most popular WordPress form creation plugin. After activation, a ready-made contact form is automatically added to your website and can be inserted into whichever page you'd like it.
Ninja Forms is also a free WordPress form creation plugin with some pro features. It provides a drag and drop interface for beginners and customizable options for developers.
Installation on multiple sites is possible.
Easy for beginners since it offers drag and drop functionality.
The extensions available for the plugin must be purchased separately.
Does not support A/B testing.
Editing form HTML is not possible.
Rainmaker is the easiest WordPress form and list building plugin. Icegram Rainmaker plugin offers ready-made high converting opt-in forms that can be displayed anywhere on your website using the shortcode.
No CAPTCHA option, but it can be resolved using EBcaptcha.
Formidable Forms is a WordPress form plugin that creates stylish WordPress forms. It allows creating posts, tables, and graphs using collected data.
Pirate Forms also joins the list of WordPress plugins having an easy user interface and creating simple forms.
No advanced functionality such as subscription forms, payment integrations, and others.
Ask for relevant information and make it quick. Complicated forms might discourage visitors from filling it. The form should have clear labels and description.
Your CTA should inspire your website visitors to take action. Simple form design coupled with a click-worthy CTA is a recipe for lead generation success.
Use power words like free, instant, discount, massive, best-selling, etc.
You can employ the psychological persuasion tactic called scarcity to move your visitors to action. We are more likely to value opportunities that appear scarce and limited.
Consider the example above; the count-down timer pushes the visitors to enter their name and email.
The button on the forms must stand out. There is no best color as such.
But prefer selecting solid bold colours rather than gradient shades.
Hover animations may also contribute to increased clicks.
Placement of forms will affect your conversion rates. For example, subscription forms that are displayed above the page fold might capture more leads than those displayed at the end of a blog post.
You must test and find optimal place to embed and display the forms preferably above the page fold area of your website.
Nothing converts better than having an authoritative figure or celebrity image on the forms as shown in the example above of an opt-in form from Robin Sharma's official website.
This is another psychological tactic which you can use to increase your conversion rates. We tend to associate popular and known figures with trust, credibility and success.
It is proven that pop ups forms are best for conversion. Visual Website Optimizer increased their sign ups by 50% using popup forms.
Why do popup forms work?
When a popup is displayed only the form is highlighted and the background is blurred or darkened.
Minimum required fields = increased form completion rates.
Also today, Yes-No CTA popups are the hot talk of the town.
Read more about why Yes-No popups convert so well.
How to create ceautiful high-converting popups within minutes?
Icegram is one of the most powerful WordPress plugin to grow subscribers and increase conversions. Icegram offers beautiful, attention grabbing, and well timed popups that can skyrocket your conversion rates.
Using Icegram plugin, you can easily create customized popups with text, images and background colors of your choice. The option for customization allows you to create popups that match your website theme.
Okay, you have made the best form ever and collected leads. What to do next?
You must nurture the subscribers and leads that you collect through your lead forms.
Email marketing tools such as Email Subscribers is compatible with list building/form building plugins like Rainmaker that will make your email marketing efforts a breeze.
Also, people that subscribe to this Rainmaker form will be saved in database. You can then send automatic blog post notifications to subscribers.
Not just that, you can also send promotions offers, updates, etc. using Email Subscribers.
Rainmaker also integrates with MailChimp, Aweber and other top email marketing services.
Target visitors based on time, location or behavior.
You may show forms or popup forms depending upon the time spent by the visitor on your website. Another way of targeting is showing forms on specific pages of your site.
You can also set re-target rules for visitors who aren't convinced in the first visit.
A plugin like Icegram does the all the heavy-lighting for you once you have defined the targeting and re-targeting rules.
All these efforts helps you increase your relationship with customers and get you more and more loyal customers.
Bonus: How About Readymade Forms?
Icegram Rainmaker WordPress plugin is compatible with all the WordPress themes and plugins. It has beautiful readymade forms with easy customization options.
It gives you the freedom to place forms anywhere on your website.
You can integrate Rainmaker with MailChimp email marketing service. The data collected through Rainmaker can also be submitted to your own CRM.
Rainmaker can be coupled with Icegram that offers high converting popups, action bars, overlay and calls to actions.
Whether you're a blogger, marketer or an e-store owner, Rainmaker can help you collect leads without any coding hassles. It saves tremendous time and effort in form creation. Within 5 minutes you can setup this conversion-boosting beast.
The form is a communication medium that encourages visitors to take action initiating a communication loop.
Using WordPress forms on your website is effortless using WordPress plugins providing high benefits and will remarkably improve your conversions and provide better user experience.
We hope this guide helped you discover the potential of WordPress forms and the opportunities that it brings to you!
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Q: How to insert FOR AUTO XML result into table? I have retrieved the values from a table using
select *  from tableABC
for xml auto, elements

Now,  there is this exact table tableABC on another server into which  I need to insert these retrieved values  .
How to achieve that?

A: Test table and data
create table tableABC(A int, B bit, C varchar(10))
insert into tableABC values(1, 1, 'Row 1')
insert into tableABC values(2, 0, 'Row 1')

Get the xml
declare @xml xml
set @xml = (select *
            from tableABC
            for xml auto, elements)

XML data
<tableABC>
  1
  1
  <C>Row 1</C>
</tableABC>
<tableABC>
  2
  0
  <C>Row 1</C>
</tableABC>

Insert into another tableABC
insert into tableABC(A, B, C)
select
  r.value('A[1]', 'int'),
  r.value('B[1]', 'bit'),
  r.value('C[1]', 'varchar(10)')
from @xml.nodes('tableABC') t(r)

Edit Copy this entire statement to test if it works
use tempdb
go

create table tableABC(A int, B bit, C varchar(10))

go
insert into tableABC values(1, 1, 'Row 1')
insert into tableABC values(2, 0, 'Row 1')

declare @xml xml
set @xml = (select *
            from tableABC
            for xml auto, elements)

insert into tableABC(A, B, C)
select
  r.value('A[1]', 'int'),
  r.value('B[1]', 'bit'),
  r.value('C[1]', 'varchar(10)')
from @xml.nodes('tableABC') t(r)

select *
from tableABC

go

drop table tableABC

Result is duplicated rows in tableABC
A           B     C
----------- ----- ----------
1           1     Row 1
2           0     Row 1
1           1     Row 1
2           0     Row 1

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The Stock Exchange of Brussels, which opened in 1873, centralized old premises previously scattered across the city.
The building was part of a large-scale project for the redevelopment of the city center which was accompanied by an adjustment of the surrounding streets and the construction of the central boulevards with the Stock Exchange as one of its key points. The choice of location was not accidental. Mayor Anspach, the driving force behind the project, opted for a location in the middle of the business area at that time, not far from the port and the docks. The works started in 1868 under the leadership of architect Léon Suys. He designed a building with basilical ground plan in Neo-Renaissance style which clearly shows the influence of Palladio: the dome with transversal arches, the pediment and the arcade façade. The dome with square ground plan rests on four monumental pillars with paired Corinthian columns in front of them and is crowned with a circular lantern with top ornament. The interior distinguishes itself by a remarkable stucco decoration, as far as the dome as well as the transversal arches, the spandrel arches and the barrel vaults are concerned, all elaborately decorated with garlands of flowers, leaf elements and stylized motifs.


Hair loss is caused by different factors and normally happens among individuals with a poor diet lacking minerals and vitamins needed for a strong hair. Other factors include the use of certain drugs or medication and the burden of genetic predisposition.
These causes are also the same factors to consider on how to prevent hair loss naturally. It is also necessary to mention that the use of helmets and caps may affect the pace of falling hair. Anyway, do not get bogged down by avoiding hair loss, remember that up to a third of the population experience hair loss, with almost 70% men who are affected by hair loss problems.
It is absolutely essential to understand what is hair loss, how hair tends to disappear naturally, what causes hair loss, and other related information before worrying about prevention. Who knows if you are already doing what is needed to successfully avoid hair loss. Read on to learn more.
An adult continuously loses a daily average of between 100 to 200 hairs almost constantly. It is not generally affecting an individual because the hair strands are replaced and the process is repeated over and over again. Each hair has a different rhythm than others so while some are about to fall to make way for new ones, the rest of the hair is healthy and strong. So we seem to be losing hair at times when it is not. Keep this in mind if you think about hair loss, it is quite normal for hair to fall.
But when hair loss is too many than normal, then it is when you are suffering from alopecia or baldness as it is popularly known. Although hair loss can not be completely avoided, you can still slow it down so you do not get caught too young. The reasons behind alopecia related hair loss are quite varied. For example, skin diseases or genetic predisposition factors causing hair loss is much more pronounced in some people than in others like leading a stressful life or poor nutrition. Also, the care they receive influences hair fall and hair products that tend to damage hair may also cause premature hair loss for example.
Maybe you've heard more than once that we must dry hair very gently after showering to avoid hair loss and to not aggravate the situation. Some even advice the use of egg shells to make hair strong. And there are hundreds more of urban legends when it comes to healthy hair. Let's clear up misconceptions about hair loss by discussing about the facts and fallacies.
Washing hair with shampoo way too often worsens baldness. That's not true.
Baldness begins at the level of the hair root so it won't be caused by no matter how much shampoo you use. Washing your hair daily with shampoo has no effect on alopecia for a very simple reason, the shampoo does not act on the hair root so it cannot affect it.
Excess stress is the worst enemy your hair can have. Well, maybe not the worst but it does affect hair loss.
When we live in constant situations with anxiety and stress, our body's general defenses are diminished and it releases hormones into the bloodstream that weaken the hair. You will not lose all the hair for a few days of stress, but when extended in time, it may indeed cause hair loss.
While the whole world is concerned when seeing hair fall on pillows, this is part of the process of natural regeneration so there's nothing to worry about. Losing some hair is normal and should not be alarming unless there is excessive hair fall.
Horse shampoo prevents hair loss. There is no evidence to backup this claim.
It's the same point we mentioned about washing hair with shampoo very often. As we have said, shampoo will only affect the surface and not the roots. You can strengthen existing hair but can never do much to prevent hair loss or stop it from falling in any way. I know it would be nice to know how to prevent hair loss with a simple shampoo, but if there was a solution like it, would it not have solved hair loss long a long time ago?
A balanced diet helps to prevent hair loss. This is true.
A diet rich in vegetables, fruits, meat and fish as well as food rich in vitamins especially the B-complex group, vitamin A, protein and minerals will help hair become stronger and healthier. On the other hand, there is also the current medical opinion that the best diet is one that has a 45-47% of carbohydrates, approximately 35-37% of fats or lipids and the remaining percentage (18% on average) should be protein. This is always in general as it also depends on the current health of each person.
The use of hair gels, hair dyes, and other hair products make hair loss worse. This is not true.
These products can alter the aesthetic appearance of hair and make it more damaged or abused superficially but they don't act on the hair root. Cosmetic products can only cause further damage to already damaged hair.
Abuse of certain foods can end up damaging the hair. Oh, it turns out that this is a YES.
Too much of anything is never a good thing such as sugar for example (well, this causes other health problems anyway such as diabetes). The reason is that too much sugar minimizes vitamins which can in turn lead to vitamin B deficiency. This substantially impairs the elasticity of the hair because it prevents adequate absorption of proteins to reach the hair root. Too much salt or fatty foods such as cheese fries or sausages are also not good. The reason is that they can raise the level of uric acid in the blood and this is not advisable either for our hair or overall health.
There is no effective treatment for alopecia except surgery. This is false.
Depending on the type of baldness you are suffering from (genetic origin, nutrition, disease, etc.), there is a possibility that a specific treatment can be prescribed. For example there is a tonic called Lacovin (more commonly known for its main ingredient minoxidil) which provides positive results for baldness since it helps improve circulation around the hair follicle, strengthening their power and improving the reception of oxygen which slow down hair loss.
Brushing the hair carefully and avoiding certain hairstyles do NOT affect hair loss.
We must take into consideration that the hair root is half centimeter deep under. Plucked hairs easily get replaced and will soon fall naturally anyway. This advice serves to protect and retain the hair we still have but under no circumstances will allow us to prevent baldness even with careful brushing and avoiding certain hair styles.
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Ep 056: A Song of Ice and Claras
In this episode of The Web of Queer, we review the Eleventh Doctor story Cold War, and discuss Clara's character arc.
In our Cold War review, we discuss how this is an underrepresented part of history in Doctor Who. What did we think of the return of Ice Warriors? How did the Professor's relationship with Clara compared to the Doctor? How did other roles we've seen the actors in influence rewatching the story?
Our Clara discussion takes a look at the character from her start as the Impossible Girl all the way to running off with her own Tardis at the end. Did we think that Clara's character stayed consistent throughout her time with the Doctor? Did we like the direction her arc(s) took, and the decision to have her on the Tardis part time, while still trying to maintain her day-to-day life?
Time Stamps:
00:49 Cold War review
34:21 Clara Oswald overview
Direct download: The_Web_Of_Queer_056_-_A_Song_of_Ice_and_Claras.mp3
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Ep 055: Cabbages and Queens
In this episode of The Web of Queer, we review the Sixth Doctor story Terror of the Vervoids, and the Tenth Doctor and Donna Big Finish story, Death and the Queen.
In our Terror of the Vervoids review, we discuss Mel's introduction, and how quickly it seems to dismiss Peri. Do we think this story helps or hurts the Doctor's defence? How well realized is the villain in the story, and how believable are the secondary characters?
In our review of Death and the Queen, we talk about Ten and Donna's return with Big Finish, and how their characters are written after their departure from TV. How much fan service was in this story, and did it serve its purpose? Who moves the story along, and who didn't need to be there at all?
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Yeh Rishta's Naksh, Shivansh Kotia to enter Zee TV's Qubool Hai
Child actor Shivansh Kotia sizzles in every role given to him!! His noteworthy work in shows Mrs. Tendulkar, Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha, Balika Vadhu and Badi Door Se Aaye Hain, and most recently Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hain have entertained audiences to a great extent.
Now the kid is all set to enter Zee TV's popular show, Qubool Hai (4 Lions Films). He will play a fun loving kid who is full of life, who would be living with his father and grand mother. He will long to have his mother by his side, and that will be when he will spot Additi Gupta's character, who will be a look-alike of the kid's mother.
Yes, this will be the next new drama that will keep the audience on the edge of their seats, when the kid Imtiaz will go behind Additi, considering her to be his mother.
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SEP-021: Add-ons
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This proposal introduces add-ons, a unified way to manage Scrapy extensions,
middlewares and pipelines.

Scrapy currently supports many hooks and mechanisms for extending its
functionality, but no single entry point for enabling and configuring them.
Instead, the hooks are spread over:

* Spider middlewares (SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES)
* Downloader middlewares (DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES)
* Downloader handlers (DOWNLOADER_HANDLERS)
* Item pipelines (ITEM_PIPELINES)
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* Overrideable components (DUPEFILTER_CLASS, STATS_CLASS, SCHEDULER, SPIDER_MANAGER_CLASS, ITEM_PROCESSOR, etc)
* Generic extensions (EXTENSIONS)
* CLI commands (COMMANDS_MODULE)

One problem of this approach is that enabling an extension often requires
modifying many settings, often in a coordinated way, which is complex and error
prone. Add-ons are meant to fix this by providing a simple mechanism for
enabling extensions.

Design goals and non-goals
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Goals:

* simple to manage: adding or removing extensions should be just a matter of
  adding or removing lines in a ``scrapy.cfg`` file
* backward compatibility with enabling extension the "old way" (i.e. modifying
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Non-goals:

* a way to publish, distribute or discover extensions (use pypi for that)

Managing add-ons
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Add-ons are defined in the ``scrapy.cfg`` file, inside the ``[addons]``
section.

To enable the "httpcache" addon, either shipped with Scrapy or in the Python
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You may also specify the full path to an add-on (which may be either a .py file
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Writing add-ons
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Add-ons are Python modules that implement the following callbacks.

addon_configure
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Receives the Settings object and modifies it to enable the required components.
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Examples::

    def addon_configure(settings):
        settings.overrides['DOWNLADER_MIDDLEWARES'].update({
            'scrapy.contrib.downloadermiddleware.httpcache.HttpCacheMiddleware': 900,
        })

::

    def addon_configure(settings):
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crawler_ready
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``crawler_ready`` receives a Crawler object after it has been initialized and
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extension and its dependencies were configured properly. If it raises an
exception, Scrapy will print and exit.

Examples::

    def crawler_ready(crawler):
        if 'some.other.addon' not in crawler.extensions.enabled:
            raise RuntimeError("Some other addon is required to use this addon")

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Fight Night Champion notably included bare-knuckle fighting during the prison chapters of its narrative mode, but the fighters in the main roster didn't participate in such bouts. Now some will. The game's first DLC extension, due out next Tuesday, adds bare-knuckle "Old School Rules" to online and offline play.
Bare-knuckle boxing will play out like the prison sequences - no timed round, no referee, last man standing. So you can get in all the nutshots and headbutts you like. The DLC arrives March 29 for Xbox 360, March 30 on PS3.
The DLC package will also deliver the five legendary boxers leaked out in a video earlier in the month: Jack Johnson [pictured above], Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano and Floyd Patterson.
Is This Fight Night Champion's First DLC Package?
There are a number of pricing structures here. 800 Microsoft Points or $10 gets you everything. Individual boxers will be 160 Microsoft Points or $2. Want Old School Rules only? That's 340 Microsoft Points or $4.
Also sold separately, for just a buck/80 Microsoft Points, you can get eight licensed fighters in alternate weight classes. They are: Featherweight Manny Pacquiao, Lightweight Manny Pacquiao, Lightweight Oscar De La Hoya, Middleweight Roy Jones Jr, Middleweight Bernard Hopkins, Welterweight Roberto Duran, Middleweight Thomas Hearns and Welterweight Pernell Whitaker.


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Exalted and childbirth
Isator Levi
Originally posted by Greyman View Post
It claims that a Dragonblooded pregnancy lasts a full 15 month year, does not begin to show until the fifth month, and the mother can remain as active as otherwise for the first 12 months with no danger to herself and child. Implying there needs to be some slow down during the last three months.
That's always been how Exalted pregnancy was portrayed, mind.
Originally posted by Greyman
Additionally there needs to be a five year break between pregnancies or the mother starts to age rapidly.
That was a case of the Second Edition book conflating two things in the First Edition book.
First Edition said that it's healthy for the Exalted to wait about that long between pregnancies, to avoid compounding complications, and also told an anecdote about a Dynast who used sorcery to make herself age more rapidly so that she could safely have children with greater frequency.
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SoulGambit
Stunting your (Stamina + Performance) [Childbirthing] rolls is something to be done with great care, if at all.
TheCountAlucard
Originally posted by Isator Levi View Post
That's always been how Exalted pregnancy was portrayed, mind.
My headcanon has the longer duration be one of the big reasons for the relative lack of complications. Also that the children of Exalts are more likely to be exceptional in some fashion when the mother is the Exalted parent - being steeped in Solar/Lunar/whatever Essence for a year has gotta count for something, right?
One more case, anyway.
kingcrackers
Exalted should never die in childbirth unless their players want them to.
Dynastic breastfeeding could go either way. Either mama puts the babe to her chest and entreats her issue to "DRINK FROM THE TEAT OF A HEROINE BORN," or she pushes the child into the hands of a servant and tells them to just take care of it.
Originally posted by Meianno Yuurei View Post
As wandering states. It isn't exactly hard to make the leap from "heroes shouldn't die to bleeding out or infection, so exalts don't" to "dead in childbirth is the story for the parent of a hero, not the hero themselves, so exalts don't".
Yeah. My experiences of it in fiction is that it's often a cheap death for when they want to clear the stage of unnecessary characters ready for the next generation.
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Please spare a thought for updating the Exalted wiki.
I've always thought that the most common attitude towards early childrearing in the Realm would be pretty stern. Dynasts are supposed to be tough warriors and all, and you don't want to ruin the kid from an early age by coddling it too much with a mother's love and attention. So sure, the baby's got to eat, but you don't want them to get all weak and soft with what we would consider normal maternal bonding. Not to mention, plenty of Exalted mothers are busy attending the Deliberative or inspecting troops or riding around dispensing the Empress's justice. Having a wet-nurse would seem like an obvious practice. Of course, that might also get balanced out by them thinking that an Exalted mother's milk has a better chance of passing along Exaltation. And, of course, just because society discourages it doesn't mean that a mother wouldn't have a desire to keep their child close. Still, I would think that the standard would be for the child to be raised mainly by servants, with parents checking in on them from time to time. Doting too much could be considered eccentric or even mildly scandalous.
wonderandawe
Oh man. I tried to avoid this topic, but what the hell. *stands on soapbox*
I really hate the "Exalted have longer pregnancies" rule. Exalted are still human and thus should have a human length gestation (Creation Calendar weirdness aside). Woman carrying demon/ghost/god-blooded fetuses may give birth prematurely rather than having longer pregnancies. The body's response to strange fetuses is "get it out", not "hmmmm... let's let this baby bake a bit longer and see if that helps."
I'm okay with childbirth being dangerous for mortals living in areas with poor medical resources. Generations of woman died in childbirth which inspired the trope of dead mothers and children being raised by step mothers. We can balance this out by the fact that Exalted woman, due to Exalted Healing, have an easier time in childbirth. I want tales of Dragonblooded generals taking a few hours off to give birth and then going back to generaling to be true in Creation. If my character can shoot an arrow across the world and throw mountains, she can give birth, bundle up the baby, get back on her horse, and continue riding away from the Wyld Hunt.
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Originally posted by wonderandawe View Post
I really hate the "Exalted have longer pregnancies" rule…
I want tales of Dragonblooded generals taking a few hours off to give birth and then going back to generaling to be true in Creation. If my character can shoot an arrow across the world and throw mountains, she can give birth, bundle up the baby, get back on her horse, and continue riding away from the Wyld Hunt.
In what way does a fifteen-month pregnancy that never so much as inconveniences the character enough to inflict a dice penalty interfere with that? Because I don't see how it does.
Kyman201
I admit I kind of snicker at the image of a slightly disheveled-looking DB walking up, and noting to one of the sergeants under her command that yeah, she's good to ride into battle. Hell, she just pushed a screaming child out of her body, facing down a bunch of spears and arrows can't hurt THAT much more.
Then she offhandedly mentions that it's a girl, and the Sergeant gives a small "Oh, congratulations."
Disclaimer: I'll huff, grump, and defend my position, but if you're having fun I'll never say you're doing it wrong.
Originally posted by TheCountAlucard View Post
Because there is more to role playing a pregnant character than a dice penalty.
Bringing life into the world is a character changing experience. Other characters are going to treat a pregnant character different. The character is going to act different, even if she isn't suffering from the negative symptoms of pregnancy. If the character is a Solar there is going to be issues of whether to keep the child or not. Foster it out or raise it yourself. What to do with the child if the Wyld Hunt discovers you.
I see no reason to stretch out the time period that all these things are going on another 6 months.
AnubisXy
I admit, it always seemed a bit odd to me that the writers apparently wanted pregnancy to be less burdensome on Exalted, and then decided that Exalted pregnancy lasts much longer than a mortal's pregnancy - 6 months longer! That seems rather more burdensome to me. You'd think they would have taken the opposite route and said that the nature of the Exalted causes the child to gestate much faster than normal meaning an Exalted preganacy only lasts for 6 months or so, with fewer complications and all that.
I just never really got the reasoning behind why the authors wanted it so that Exalted mom's-to-be take half-again as long to have a child as a normal mortal.
*EDIT* Is there some sort of historical or mythological narrative that was tapped into concerning the 15 month pregnancy? Many famous heroes and myth figures had unique circumstances for their births, but spending much, much longer in the womb isn't one I can link to any major figures off-hand.
Last edited by AnubisXy; 08-12-2016, 03:21 PM.
Originally posted by AnubisXy View Post
Honestly, I just chalk it up as "Stupid shit Exalted the RPG did in the past" along with Lilun, the Scarlet Empress fucking officials in important meetings, and everyone is bisexual.
Irish mythology has some strange childbearing aspects. Children would have multiple fathers and the like. I can't think of any specific example of a long pregnancy.
Erinys
Väinämöinen was in the womb for 700+ years, according to the Kalevala.
I am extremely literal-minded and always write very literally. If I don't say something explicitly, please never assume I implied it. The only exception is if I try to joke.
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You know, that might actually be the reason.
Fictional pregnancies often get dragged out for the sake of drama and you've got way bigger problems if you as a player feels forced to deal with it.
Edit: Incidentally, I really hope Fire Has Wrought gets some kind of extension of the Red Rule for arranged marriage and breeding expectations.
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After a long delay, the Mary Magdeline biopic is set to debut in the United States.
The film stars Rooney Mara as Magdeline and Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus.
Mary Magdeline was delayed in America due to the collapse of the Weinstein Company. It will screen in cinemas in April. The film is a fictionalisation of the Biblical character. Unlike other texts like The Da Vinci Code, it does not represent Magdeline as being in a romantic relationship with Jesus.
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Mary Magdeline debuts in US Cinemas on 12 April. It is currently available on Blu Ray/DVD and digital release in Australia.
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The director speaks about telling the story through the characters' eyes. I thought that's what the gospels did already. This movie bears little relation to the story of Mary Magdalene as we have it in the gospels. So he's told a story as seen through fictional eyes rather then the eyes of Mary, the disciples or Jesus.
As a movie, I found Mary Magdalene to be very dull, at times turgid and in many ways downright annoying. It's slow, very slow. Every scene is slow, the full effect is slow. I longed for it to end well before its conclusion.
Rooney Mara plays her role well, but the director has helped by a simple device. All the women except Mary seem to wear black. She can't but stand out as the star of the film. But that's one of the many aspects of the movie that take it well beyond a re-telling of one woman's story and symbolically elevating her to a unique status not justified by what is historically known of her.
Theologically, I think the film is blatantly wrong. It represents Mary as the real Messiah, the one who stands strong while all the disciples and Jesus fall in an emotional and mental heap, the one who comforts the sobbing Judas whose backstory has been invented out of thin air for this venture, the only one who comes to the foot of the cross, the only one who saw Jesus after his resurrection. (And by the way, at that moment this film portrays Jesus sitting there, as weak as water, chuckling to himself about something, but not risen triumphantly.) There's no rushing to the empty tomb by the disciples, Mary alone is the only one who embraces it in any way.
I believe that the real Mary Magdalene would turn in her grave to think that 'her story' had been turned into one that diminishes Jesus the way this one does! Her ministry was one of support for him financially, not emotionally and spiritually!
Some people have asked me if it's a 'love story' between Mary and Jesus. It isn't. Although Mary does have feelings for Jesus, she doesn't do anything in the film to escalate them sexually or romantically. Not that the Jesus of this movie could have responded – he's portrayed as a feeble mystic barely capable of having a relationship with anyone let alone a man-woman relationship with Mary.
That little piece of information has been neglected completely.
So it's quite deceptive of the film makers to say this finally telling Mary's real story. It does nothing of the sort.
If it were just all the theological and historical nonsenses in this I'd be willing to recommend people see it if it were a good film. In my view it isn't. Instead, just let it fade into the dustbin of cinematic history where it belongs.


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      'criteria in an account. To add a negative campaign criterion, run ' +
      'AddNegativeCampaignCriterion.js.';
};
goog.inherits(
    google.ads.adwords.examples.v201008.GetAllNegativeCampaignCriteria,
    google.ads.adwords.examples.ExampleBase);

/**
 * Runs the code example.
 *
 * @param {google.ads.adwords.AdWordsUser} user AdWords user running the code
 *     example.
 * @param {function} callback the callback method to be called once this example
 *     is complete.
 */
google.ads.adwords.examples.v201008.GetAllNegativeCampaignCriteria.prototype.
    run = function(user, callback) {
  // Get the CampaignCriterionService.
  var campaignCriterionService = user.getService(
      google.ads.adwords.AdWordsService.v201008.CampaignCriterionService);

  var selector = new google.ads.adwords.v201008.CampaignCriterionSelector();

  try {
    campaignCriterionService.get(selector,
      goog.bind(function(page) {
        if (page && page.entries && page.entries.length > 0) {
          for (var i = 0, len = page.entries.length; i < len; i++) {
            var campaignCriterion = page.entries[i];
            var criterion = campaignCriterion.criterion;
            if (criterion instanceof google.ads.adwords.v201008.Keyword) {
              this.writeOutput('Negative keyword campaign criterion with ' +
                  'campaign ID = "%d", criterion ID = "%d", and text = "%s" ' +
                  'was found.', campaignCriterion.campaignId, criterion.id,
                  criterion.text);
            } else if (criterion instanceof
                google.ads.adwords.v201008.Placement) {
              this.writeOutput('Negative placement campaign criterion with ' +
                  'campaign ID = "%d", criterion ID = "%d" and url = "%s" ' +
                  'was found.', campaignCriterion.campaignId, criterion.id,
                  criterion.url);
            } else {
              this.writeOutput('Negative campaign criterion with campaign ' +
                  'ID = "%d", criterion ID = "%d" and type = "%s" was found.',
                  campaignCriterion.campaignId, criterion.id,
                  criterion.criterionType);
            }
          }
        } else {
          this.writeOutput('No negative campaign criteria were found.');
        }
        callback();
      }, this),
      goog.bind(function(soapException) {
        this.writeOutput('Failed to retrieve all negative campaign criteria. ' +
            'Soap Fault says "%s"',
            soapException.getInnerException().getFaultString());
        callback();
      }, this)
    );
  } catch (ex) {
    this.writeOutput('An exception occurred while running the code example.');
    callback();
  }
};


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TOR 10, BOS 4 Final
Shifting Dustin Pedroia to Shortstop May be Right Move for Red Sox
by evans-clinchy on Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:51PM
Wait a minute — Dustin Pedroia can play shortstop?
He sure can. It's easy to forget here in Boston — where Pedroia has racked up two All-Star selections, a Rookie of the Year and an MVP as the Red Sox' second baseman — but it was at short where Pedroia cut his teeth as a rising star in baseball. How quickly we all allowed that little fact to slip our minds.
At Arizona State, Pedroia was a megastar of a shortstop. He and Ian Kinsler, another future major league All-Star middle infielder, fought for playing time at short. Guess who won.
Pedroia was a sensational shortstop, twice being named as a first-team All-American, and was named the national Defensive Player of the Year in 2003. When the Red Sox drafted him out of ASU in 2004, it was as much for his defense as anything else.
So Pedroia definitely knows what he's doing as a shortstop. Or at least he can, if need be. So why move him now?
The reason is that it just makes good business sense. The Sox are after a middle infielder to complement Pedroia, one way or another, and the market looks better for second basemen. There's a vast selection of free agents available to the Red Sox this winter and any one of them could jell with the shortstop Pedroia for a superb double-play combination.
Here's five names to prove it:
1. Placido Polanco. As far as offensive prowess goes, Polanco is one of the few second basemen out there that can rival Pedroia. He's just two seasons removed from making a serious run at a batting title, finishing with a .341 average in 2007 and scoring 105 runs for an offensive juggernaut Detroit team. Polanco's four-year, $18.4 million contract with the Tigers is up, and at 34, the veteran infielder still has a couple years left in him.
2. Orlando Hudson. Remember this season when everyone was anointing Hudson as the new leader, on and off the field, of a Dodgers team that ran away with the NL West? All that talk wasn't entirely crazy. Hudson arrived on the scene in L.A. and immediately ignited the Dodgers' offense, putting up a .357 on-base percentage and 35 doubles. Before that, he spent three years putting up similar numbers in Arizona. Could he do the same in Boston? There's no reason why not. And given his salary demands (only $3.38 million for this past season), the Red Sox could do a lot worse than giving him a shot.
3. Adam Kennedy. He's flown under the radar for the last few years, but he's definitely still got what it takes. Kennedy put up a .348 OBP for the Oakland A's last season, starting regularly but splitting time between second base and third. He's proven that he can still get it done in the American League — so why not in Fenway? Like Hudson, he'd be a bargain for the production he has to offer — he made $4 million last season, and his paychecks will likely only shrink with age.
4. Felipe Lopez. The 29-year-old second baseman has bounced around like a pinball for the last five years, signing a one-year contract every winter and finding employment in Cincinnati, Washington, St. Louis, Arizona and Milwaukee. His numbers over that five-year span: .280 average, .349 on-base percentage, 12 homers and 30 doubles per season. He's also played a solid defensive second base. And he's never made more than $5 million in a season, raking in $3.5 mil last year. Sounds like a good deal.
5. Ronnie Belliard. Possibly the best of the five second basemen defensively, Belliard is also likely to be the cheapest. He signed a two-year, $3.5 million extension with the Nationals in July 2007 — and that's when he was 32. He's getting on in years now, and the Red Sox could dip into the bargain bin to rent him for a year or two. He's no slouch at the plate, either — he put up a 1.034 OPS after the trade deadline in 2009 when the Nationals shipped him to L.A., and he's still got plenty of power to the gaps.
So why move Pedroia to shortstop? You just read five reasons why. It's not about Pedroia himself — it's about what's best for the Red Sox as a team.