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Severe orthostatic hypotension in otherwise uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax infection
Malaria Journal volume 20, Article number: 28 (2021)
Impaired autonomic control of postural homeostasis resulting in orthostatic hypotension has been described in falciparum malaria. However, severe orthostatic intolerance in Plasmodium vivax has been rarely reported. A case of non-immune previously healthy Thai woman presenting with P. vivax infection with well-documented orthostatic hypotension is described. In addition to oral chloroquine and intravenous artesunate, the patient was treated with fluid resuscitation and norepinephrine. During hospitalization, her haemodynamic profile revealed orthostatic hypotension persisting for another three days after microscopic and polymerase chain reaction confirmed parasite clearance. Potential causes are discussed.
Impaired autonomic control of postural homeostasis resulting in orthostatic hypotension has been described in falciparum malaria, but severe orthostatic intolerance in Plasmodium vivax has been rarely reported [1,2,3]. Orthostatic hypotension is defined as a decrease in systolic blood pressure of 20 mmHg or a decrease in diastolic blood pressure of 10 mmHg within 3 min after a change from a reclining to upright posture, together with associated symptoms . It can be a debilitating symptom in conditions characterized by autonomous nervous system dysfunction . Symptoms are caused by decreased cerebral perfusion, including blurred vision, fatigue, dizziness, and, in the most extreme cases, syncope . On standing, the gravitational volume shift causes a redistribution of circulating blood, with pooling in the capacitance vessels below the diaphragm . A normal compensatory haemodynamic response to changes in posture requires normal function of the cardiovascular, endocrine, and autonomic nervous systems . Preservation of an adequate blood pressure is ensured by a prompt rise in cardiac output, mainly through an increase in heart rate, and an increase in vascular resistance favoring the cerebral blood circulation . In dysautonomic states, this response to circulatory redistribution is impaired, which may lead to a compromised cerebral blood flow. Orthostatic hypotension in acute Plasmodium falciparum infection has been well described and is related to a combination of persisting relative bradycardia and insufficient peripheral vasoconstriction . A case of severe orthostatic hypotension in a patient with a P. vivax infection, mimicking severe malaria is described. Haemodynamic profiles and possible pathophysiological features are discussed.
Patient is a 32-year old previously healthy Thai female without a history of malaria and not taking any medication before the disease episode. Two weeks prior to admission she had travelled to a malaria endemic forested area in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand for camping and hiking with friends and her 6-year-old son. Eight days prior to admission she developed a high-grade fever with headache and chills without localizing symptoms. She had a history of poor appetite, nausea and reduced oral intake without vomiting or diarrhoea. On admission, she had a fever of 39.8 °C, a pulse rate of 78 beats per minute and a blood pressure of 90/60 mmHg. Her weight was 49 kg which were 1 kg lower from her base line of 50 kg. Her consciousness was normal, conjunctivae were not pale and sclerae were not icteric. She had no cold or clammy skin and her capillary refill time was less than 2 s. The liver span was 10 cm in the mid-clavicular line and the spleen was normal in size on palpitation.
Initial complete blood count revealed anaemia with 31% haematocrit, as well as thrombocytopenia of 74,000/µL. Liver function tests revealed mild elevated aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase of 60 U/L and 86 U/L, respectively. Blood sugar, creatinine, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) enzyme activity and urinary analysis were normal. Microscopic examination of a peripheral blood film showed an asexual stage P. vivax parasitaemia of 69,800 parasites/µL and the diagnosis was confirmed by a positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for P. vivax. In patients breathing spontaneously, inferior vena cava (IVC) collapsibility index measured by transthoracic echocardiogram is a predictor of fluid responsiveness when the value was more than 42% . In this patient, IVC collapsibility index was 46%, which is predictive of a positive fluid responsiveness. She was admitted to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases and given 600 mg chloroquine orally and started on 5% dextrose in 0.9% Sodium Chloride infusion at a rate of 80 mL/h. After 10 h and infusion of 800 mL fluids, the patient complained of postural faintness while getting out of bed. At that moment, she had an upright blood pressure of 77/46 mmHg and a pulse rate of 103 beats/min which increased to 90/50 mmHg in the supine position. Her urine output was 0.5 to 1 mL/kg per an hour. After lying down, she had good consciousness, warm extremities and capillary refill less than 2 s. Her IVC collapsibility index was 31%. Twelve-lead electrocardiogram showed sinus tachycardia with a normal QTc interval.
She was initially diagnosed with severe Plasmodium vivax and given intravenous artesunate 2.4 mg/kg promptly followed by intravenous artesunate in the same dose after 12 h, which was repeated every 24 h for 5 days. Intravenous ceftriaxone was also started to cover potential concomitant bacterial septic shock awaiting blood culture results. Blood cultures obtained before start of antibiotics, however, remained without growth after which antibiotic therapy was discontinued on the 3rd day of admission. After transferring the patient to the intensive care unit, 400 mL normal saline was given over 1 h. After the fluid bolus, her blood pressure was 88/56 mmHg and her pulse rate was 74 beats/min in the supine position with falling to 77/50 mmHg and 72 beats/min while standing, and IVC collapsibility index of 16%, compatible with non-responsiveness to fluid resuscitation. Table 1 details her haemodynamic profiles during hospital admission. This prompted the start of intravenous norepinephrine at a dose of 0.13 µg/kg/min to maintain a blood pressure of 90/50 mmHg in an upright position. Her plasma lactate assessed at that moment was 1.8 mmol/L (normal value: < 2 mmol/L). Her morning serum cortisol on the next day was 32 µg/dL (normal level: > 6 µg/dL) making a diagnosis of primary or secondary adrenal insufficiency unlikely, and corticosteroids were not started. Haemodynamic monitoring by an ultrasound cardiac output monitor (USCOM) in the supine and upright position before receiving norepinephrine showed a marked drop in cardiac index from 3 L/min/m2 in the supine position to 1.9 L/min/m2 after standing for 3 min, despite adequate hydration. The upright positional drop in cardiac output in the upright position was explained by an absence of an increase in stroke volume, and an insufficient increase in heart rate (Table 1). This orthostatic hypotension persisted until 3 days after microscopically confirmed parasite clearance, necessitating continued vasopressor support with norepinephrine (Table 1) (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6). Orthostatic intolerance only resolved completely at the 12th day of follow up. After recovery, the patient received radical treatment with a 14-day course of (0.25 mg/kg daily) primaquine.
Hypotension meeting World Health Organization criteria for severe malaria has been reported in several case series of adult vivax malaria [11,12,13,14]. However, orthostatic hypotension which has been previously well documented during an acute P. falciparum infection  has been rarely described in P. vivax [1,2,3]. This case report describes a 5-day episode of orthostatic hypotension in a non-immune Thai woman with vivax malaria after start of treatment with chloroquine and after adequate fluid resuscitation. Her orthostatic intolerance was unlikely to be caused by an underlying disease or medication. Blood cultures have a low sensitivity for detecting bacteraemia, which might not exclude concurrent bacterial sepsis. Gram negative/Salmonella coinfection has been previously reported in vivax malaria . However, the observed hypotension was not considered as a feature of septic shock from bacterial infection or severe malaria, since there were no signs of tissue hypoperfusion, with a normal plasma lactate concentration and normal capillary refill time, and no other indications of organ failure. She did receive low-dose vasopressor therapy, mainly to maintain an adequate blood pressure in an upright position. In falciparum malaria three potential mechanisms of orthostatic intolerance have been proposed. The first mechanism is autonomic dysfunction causing relative bradycardia and impaired capacity to increase vascular resistance in the upright position, which will cause a drop in mainly the diastolic blood pressure in the upright position, as also observed in the presented case.
In healthy young adults, the immediate response to a change in position from supine to upright is characterized by a prompt rise in heart rate of about 15 to 30%, and in total vascular resistance of 30 to 40% . The main sensory receptors involved in the orthostatic neural reflex adjustment are the arterial mechanoreceptors (baroreceptors) located in the aortic arch and carotid sinuses and mechanoreceptors located in the heart and lungs (cardiopulmonary receptors). The cardiopulmonary receptors act in concert with the arterial baroreceptors to affect the necessary adjustment in sympathetic nerve action . In patients with falciparum malaria, autonomic dysfunction causing an impaired neural reflex with insufficient compensatory tachycardia and arteriolar vasoconstriction is thought to be the primary cause of orthostatic hypotension in these patients , and the subsequent increased subdiaphragmatic pooling of venous blood will subsequently cause a reduction in venous return resulting in a further reduction in stroke volume and thus cardiac output, exaggerating the orthostatic fall in blood pressure.
A second mechanism is blood flow redistribution due to venous vasodilation caused by fever and other factors , with larger proportions of blood going to skin and muscle and decreased proportions to liver and kidney . Combined with autonomic failure, this can further reduce venous return and thus cardiac output. Intravascular hypovolaemia can also contribute. Dehydration is common in patients with (falciparum) malaria, as illustrated by the frequently observed increase in the urea/creatinine ratio, increased plasma osmolarity and decreased fractional excretion of sodium, in the presence of an adequate antidiuretic hormone response . Dehydration in patients with malaria is usually caused by transpiration, vomiting or diarrhea, and inadequate fluid intake because of the acute illness. In our case, however, the patient had been adequately rehydrated, as illustrated by the normal IVC collapsibility index after fluid administration.
Chloroquine has also been described to cause hypotension [21, 22] and negative chronotropic effect . Chloroquine decreases vascular resistance  through veno-vasodilation via the release of endothelial nitric oxide in the venous circulation . Through vasodilatation, chloroquine may thus reduce both cardiac preload and afterload causing hypotension. Chloroquine also impairs adaptation of the heart rate via reduction in the firing of the spontaneous action potential of the so-called ‘funny current, causing bradycardia . The oral administration of chloroquine could also have triggered an initial vasovagal reaction, but this would not explain the persisting orthostatic symptoms in this patient. Since her orthostatic symptoms persisted after parasite clearance, it is likely that chloroquine therapy contributed to the orthostatic hypotension in our patient, since chloroquine has a long plasma half-life, with an initial t1/2 between 150 and 290 h . In the acute phase of her illness, the described factors which have been identified contributing to orthostatic hypotension in falciparum malaria could have played a role, but this is difficult to substantiate.
In conclusion, this case report shows that orthostatic hypotension may occur in patients with uncomplicated P. vivax infection. This could result from chloroquine therapy, whereas P. vivax induced autonomic dysfunction may also contribute.
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The authors would like to express gratitude to the patient and the staff of Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand and Miss Chatnapa Duangdee for diagnostic laboratory for malaria.
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Oldest Fund Improper Trading. Massachusetts Financial Services, manager of the oldest U.S. mutual fund, may pay as much as $200 million and cut fees to settle charges of improper trading in its funds, people familiar with the matter said.
The penalties would be the second largest extracted by state and federal regulators in the trading probe of more than 20 companies in the $7.2 trillion industry.
Terms of the settlement are under discussion and an agreement with MFS may be announced as soon as next week, said the people. MFS spokesman John Reilly declined to comment.
MFS said the SEC has been investigating allegations the company’s fund prospectuses contained false and misleading information about its policies on short-term trading. Regulators have accused more than 10 companies including Alliance Capital Management and Putnam Investments of improper trading.
“It’s so sad to see some of the industry’s most venerable organizations, like MFS, to have seemingly lost their way,” said Geoff Bobroff, an industry consultant who formerly worked as a lawyer at the SEC.
State attorney general Eliot Spitzer and regulators in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, as well as the SEC, are focusing on frequent trading, known as market timing, by investors in MFS funds, which total some $140 billion in investments. Regulators say the trading dilutes returns for long-term shareholders.
Market timers seek to profit from the fact that mutual funds are valued once a day at 4 p.m. New York time while the securities they own trade more frequently around the world. Market timing involves buying a fund’s shares and then quickly selling them.
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In the biggest settlement so far in the industrywide probe, Alliance Capital agreed on Dec. 18 to cut its fees by about $350 million over five years, plus pay a $250 million penalty. A portion of the Alliance settlement has been earmarked to be returned to shareholders.
New Hampshire regulators, who approached Massachusetts officials to assist in their probe of Boston-based money managers including MFS, are in talks with MFS and a settlement may be reached next week, said Scott Kirby, a spokesman for the New Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulation.
“It’s fair to say the ball is in their court.” said Juanita Scarlett, a spokeswoman for Spitzer. SEC spokesman John Nester declined to comment.
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Hi there. I would make a great flatmate as I have an excellent rental history. I always pay my rent and bills on time and I am neat and tidy. I am easy going and like to have a social drink on the weekends. I am usually pretty quiet during the week, but a chat and a wine after work is always nice. I currently live on the Sunny Coast, but I am moving to Brisbane as I have just accepted a new full time job. I am a professional working in the finance industry. Ideally I would very much prefer my own bathroom. I am an animal lover and OK to live with pets. My budget (to hopefully include bills) is $200 per week, but I can stretch this a bit if needed. At this stage, my proposed move date to Brisbane is the week beginning the 13th of February. Thanks for reading :)
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Hi! I have lived in my fair share of share houses so I am respectful and tidy :) I am friendly but also pretty quiet, non-smoker, and quite busy so I'm not home too often.
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Get in QUICK! Not only will you be sharing with a funky bunch (Ava & I) but you will be sitting on the decks overlooking the city, swimming in the gorgeous pool, sleeping in the master bedroom upstairs, being serenaded by the music that Troy and friends play reguarly, enjoying interesting and challenging conversations, dining on whole foods, sipping kombucha and wine (not in the same glass!) and lving in one of the most beautiful residences in Paddington! OK... the pesky details. Kate (artist) is breaking the lease :( For no other reason than she has bought a home in NNSW (onya Kate). There is 6 mths left. I am hoping that we can extend it... We weclome single parents as there is a bedroom next door to yours! However, single, professionals or semi-professionals or non-professionals (HA!) are welcome. We don't discriminate. I work partly at home and partly away from home (daily) and partly in my mind... I have a little musical outfit and we get together in the home office a few times a week for communion (ah... musical only!). I have my daughter every other week. We have unlimted cable and Fetch TV (optus). All other bills are shared as well. We like to eat at home and, apart from the occassional treat, eat wholesomely. I am out the door about 3 -4 times per week at 4:00 AM to go rowing so the house works if you are a reasonably early-riser (not at 4 mind you!). There are creaky, but beautiful floorboards. And you. Who are you? Well, you have a quirky and inquisitive mind. You love an interesting conversation over a glass or bottle of wine. You have an interesting circle of friends and enjoy the freedom that renting a large house in beautiful Paddington... The rest, as they say, is up to you!
I am currently renting in Newmarket. I'm in the downstairs of a large Queenslander that was set up as a b&b and the other flatmate is an elderly man who is working and very easy to get along with. However, I would love to get into accommodation with younger and more vibrant people. I gym regularly, I have been in marketing and now moving into finance management at Natureworks - the No Poo Zoo out in Highvale in the jungle!! I use to spend every weekend working on my acreage in Samford. Now that I'm in the city I'm looking for people to hang out with on weekends and do anything social. NOT BINGO :) I have my own rockclimbing shoes; harness, I road cycle with the City Lifecycle, my boyfriend takes me jet skiing occasionally, however would be great to have people around me who are energetic, enthusiastic and adventurous to add to my life. Doing things that don't necessarily take a lot of $$ is great. I want to buy a house in inner city, but that's proving a challenge in this current market. I have 3 daughters all finished uni and living in city - doing their own thing. I do love to have the occasional dinner party with them. They are all bright, friendly and balanced. 2 with steady boyfriends, one on the prowl again :) I have Hungarian blood in me - so in the past I have loved to party but I am mellowing a little there and looking after my health more. I have a cousin from Hungary and his son coming to visit me for 3 weeks in February which I am excited about. I am very health conscious and would rather cook than buy takeaway. I'm very clean and neat and always happy to help if someone's doing it tough. I love to travel, however have to save for the next trip after 3 holidays last year - skiing, Barossa and a cruise. I do have my own friends who I see socially occasionally however they are all busy with their own families and usually not available to hang out with on weekends etc. I love celebrating family, Christmas, birthdays and just loving life.
A complete feen for binge watching back to back episodes of whatever is the flavour of the month, fooling myself into thinking i can work out regularly, making the perfect strawberry daiquiris and mostly zoning out with a book & solid Spotify playlist. Oh and I do have a full time job as well.
Relaxed friendly clean. Like art, sports, music, gardening and pets. I'm pretty easy going but not an early bird. Like to cook maybe share a few dinners and glass of wine. Work part time as a visual merchandiser, like to paint, garden and swim in my spare time. I'm originally from Melbourne and moved to Brisbane a yr ago. I have a 16 yr ok daughter u who would visit a few times a yr. I love all sports especially AFL abducted enjoy going to see live music. I also have a beautiful 9yr old dog , golden retriever / samoyed who I hope to bring up from Melbourne. She is quite friendly well trained and generally just loves company and to just hang out and watch the goings on of the house. Would love a chilled vibe with no dramas.
I make breakfasts that Ron Swanson would be proud of and always do dishes. Studying film at Griffith, delivering pizza, looking to live with a bunch of people who like to make cool stuff n talk about feminism n watch Broad City.
Hi future housemate, We have a lovely small house in a prime location in Paddington, we live just off Caxton st, perfect for anyone working in the city or students at either UQ or QUT. You can walk to the barracks (top of Caxton st) in 8 min, or queens street in 15 min, and a 25min walk along the river to Southbank. There is direct running/bike paths to UQ st Lucia (8km) and QUT (4km) from Suncorp stadium, or public transport options to practically anywhere. The house is fully furnished with internet, TV and Aircon. The room is on the small side and there is only one bathroom between three We are looking for someone to come take the room for a flexible amount of time. Preferably a student or young professional to keep match the lively nature of the house.
I work as a management consultant in the Brisbane CBD and am an easy going, clean and considerate housemate. I enjoy hanging out with friends, relaxing in my room, watching AFL, and exploring Brisbane and the coast on weekends. I'm looking to room with clean and considerate housemates of similar interests. I am travelling to Japan in early February for a short holiday and will be back mid Feb. I will be looking for new accommodation shortly after I return. If you are interested in rooming I'd be happy to meet you for a beer or coffee, please feel free to message me to organise a time to meet.


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A number of flight delays are expected at the Los Angeles International Airport in the US, as it is about to embark on a $250m construction project.
The construction project aims to expand runway buffer zones in the event of a plane overshooting a landing or takeoff, and would involve closure of one of the four runways on a rotating basis over the next four years.
Each runway at the airport is two miles long and between 200ft and 250ft wide and all planes have to land and take off in the same direction, toward the ocean.
The airport will soon begin work on the first runway, 25L on the south side of the airfield which will help increase the size of the safety areas at both ends of the runway.
Once the work on the runway is complete, airport crew would move on to the next runway, reported Long Beach Press-Telegram.
The airport will also make use of the shutdowns to carry on repairs and maintenance simultaneously on the concrete landing strips.
Larger capacity planes that require more space for taking off can expect to face some weight restrictions as some runways will have to be shortened temporarily during the construction project.
Airport officials also informed that bad weather could also contribute to further delay in flight departures and landings. However, they added that they would have a better idea of how operations would be affected by the phased closings once they go into effect.
Image: An aerial view of Los Angeles International Airport. Photo: courtesy of Los Angeles World Airports.


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"I consider myself one of those guys who were definitely a little bit careless back in the days when I was buying supplements -- legal supplements -- over the counter," Ortiz said at a Yankee Stadium press conference. "But I never bought steroids or used steroids. I never thought buying supplements was going to hurt somebody's feelings. If that happened, I'm sorry about it.
"This last week has been a major distraction. I want to apologize to my fans, my teammates, my manager, the owners, everybody for that situation."
In addition, Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association each released statements on Saturday, warning that any conclusions reached about the 104 names on a list of players who allegedly tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003 may be subject to conjecture.
The warnings came hours before Ortiz met with the media to address the issue prior to Saturday's game between the Red Sox and the Yankees.
"The number of players on the so-called 'government list' meaningfully exceeds the number of players agreed by the bargaining parties to have tested positive in 2003," said Michael Weiner, the incoming executive director of the union, who was present with Ortiz at the news conference. "Accordingly, the presence of a player's name on any such list does not necessarily mean that the player used a prohibited substance or that the player tested positive under our collectively bargained program."
MLB reiterated that position, as follows:
"It should be pointed out that the names on the list, which was prepared by the federal government and not by anyone associated with our Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program, are subject to uncertainties with regard to the test results. There are more names on the government list (104) than the maximum number of positives that were recorded under the 2003 program (96). And, as the Mitchell Report made clear, some of the 96 positives were contested by the union.
"Given the uncertainties inherent in the list, we urge the press and the public to use caution in reaching conclusions based on leaks of names, particularly from sources whose identities are not revealed."
After the news conference, the Red Sox responded with their own statement, saying in part:
"David vigorously denied ever buying or using steroids. As important, Major League Baseball has informed us that David has been tested every year since the implementation of the MLB/MLBPA program in 2004 and, under the program, he has been tested 15 or more different times. We have been informed that, during this entire six-year period [2004-2009], David has never tested positive for a steroid.
"Also during this period, David voluntarily submitted himself to the Olympic standard of drug tests administered in connection with the World Baseball Classics in 2006 and in 2009. We are informed he did not test positive for steroids under those tests either, and he participated actively in both international tournaments."
The list of 104 is sealed by a court order and prevents the union from confirming any names reported to be on the list. It also prevents the union from giving specifics to any player about the type of drug for which he might have tested positive.
"The result is that any union member alleged to have tested positive in 2003 because his name supposedly appears on some list -- most recently David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez -- finds himself in an extremely unfair position; his reputation has been threatened by a violation of the court's orders, but respect for those orders now leaves him without access to the information that might permit him to restore his good name," Weiner said.
Weiner said during the news conference that players had been notified in 2004 that the government had seized the list but were told that "it was impossible to know whether you tested positively or negatively because it was impossible that everyone on that list" did so. Ortiz agreed, saying he'd had a perfunctory five-minute meeting with the union in 2004 and was not told he had tested positive.
Ortiz didn't learn of the test results until July 30, when he contacted the union, which decided to divulge the information, Weiner said, because Ortiz went public.
Weiner added that 83 tests had come back positive in 2003, crossing the threshold that led to punitive testing.
"I want to emphasize that 83 is the number of test results, not the number of players," Weiner said. "In 2003, some players were tested more than once, so it is entirely possible that the number of players testing positive was far lower than 83."
The number 96, used by MLB in its release, was the outer limits of the test results that could have come back positive, Weiner said.
In 2003, 5-7 percent of the players tested positive for using performance-enhancing drugs, reaching a threshold that led to the establishment of MLB's current drug policy, which includes random testing and was renegotiated three times. In '03, there were no punitive measures and because of privacy stipulations in the policy, the names were not supposed to be disclosed. Suspensions and/or fines began in '04.
Regarding the '03 results, the Players Association did not destroy the test results, and officers of the federal government, investigating the case against the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, seized them under a warrant. They are still in government possession, and the union continues to contest the seizure, with the case still at the federal appellate court level.
"Substantial scientific questions exist as to the interpretation of some of the 2003 test results," Weiner said. "The more definitive methods that are utilized by the lab that administers the current Drug Agreement were not utilized by the lab responsible for the anonymous testing program in 2003. The collective bargaining parties did not pursue definitive answers regarding these inconclusive results, since those answers were unnecessary to the administration of the 2003 program.
"In 2003, legally available nutritional supplements could trigger an initial 'positive' test under our program. To account for this, each 'test' conducted in 2003 actually consisted of a pair of collections -- the first was unannounced and random, the second was approximately seven days later, with the player advised to cease taking supplements during the interim. Under the 2003 program, a test could be initially reported as 'positive,' but not treated as such by the bargaining parties on account of the second test."
Previously, the names of Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Jason Grimsley, Sammy Sosa and David Segui were reported as having been on the list of 104 players. Bonds' name was released by the federal government as part of the evidence it intended to use against him in a perjury trial involving his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs, which has yet to begin. The federal judge presiding over the case threw out much of the government's evidence, and that element is on appeal.
Ortiz and Ramirez, now with the Dodgers, were teammates on the Red Sox in 2004 and helped the club end an 86-year streak in which it hadn't won a World Series. They won the World Series again in '07.
The Red Sox vigorously defended Ortiz's honor.
"Last week, David said he would keep people informed after he personally looked into reports of his inclusion on the 2003 survey test. He has done so," the club said. "David Ortiz is a team leader, and his contributions on the field and in the community have earned him respect and a special place in the hearts of Red Sox Nation.
"The Players Association made clear in its public statement today that there are substantial uncertainties and ambiguity surrounding the list of 104 names from the 2003 survey test. Indeed, there is even uncertainty about the number of players on this 2003 government list, whether it is 104, 96, 83, or less. Many of those uncertainties apparently relate to the use of then-legal nutritional supplements that were not banned by baseball."


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Twenty-three years ago tomorrow we were shaking in the long night, wishing it would end.
The trembling walls, the loud knocks against the roof, the sound of crashing and smashing and breaking.
The radio dial offered a thin glow in an otherwise darkened room, the electricity gone for hours as the wind arrived in shrieking fits, and the rain became a white sheet flapping in the gale.
The birds we had seen across the green sky, spiraling higher and higher toward the angry clouds racing overhead – they were not birds at all but shingles ripped from roofs, and bits of metal siding, and shreds of other things. People’s worldly possessions, modest as they were, being hurled into the who-knows-where.
And what we could not see but would discover later – the muddy brown waves of the Gulf of Mexico surging across Okaloosa Island, taking Highway 98 with them, beachside townhouses and condos falling into the furious waters, walls piling up sand deep as North Dakota snowdrifts until the walls fell down.
Power lines flailing in the wind. Fences tumbling from yard to yard. Yachts floating in the street. Signs down. Trees down. Roads gone. Lights out. Our carefully laid out lives a shamble of tumbling, floating, ruined debris.
We knew real dark, then, which none of us had seen in years, the kind of inky dark that existed centuries before streetlights and neon signs and searchlights. A brief flicker of a flashlight from a window. A ghostly candle moving one room to the next.
And in the days that came afterward, we would learn so much:
The heat of Florida, and how lucky we are to have air conditioning. We slept with the windows open because we had to, and there was an odd comfort in that, as if we had moved closer to nature, and God.
The miracle of a hot meal and a cold drink. A can of Spam became a banquet after a week without meat, thanks to a spin in a microwave oven.
Neighbors meeting neighbors. People helping people. Pulling together in the teeth of the calamity. Reminding us that we are not just Democrats or Republicans, liberals or conservatives. We are Americans.
On Oct. 4, 1995, Hurricane Opal had us shaking in the long night, wishing it would end.
It did, and those of us who remember will never forget.
Online Editor Del Stone Jr. can be reached at (850) 315-4433, or email@example.com

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Experience Digital Madness Spring Break Las Vegas, at Henderson Pavilion. Event by Sickk Entertainment. Event Featuring: DJ Saint Grim, DJ Lola, FMK, DJ Ajav, DJ Pablo, DJ Nine, DJ This Is Massive, Dub Church All Stars, DJ Yacek, DJ Tonic, DJ BL3ND.
An 18 and up event at the beautiful Henderson Pavilion on April 4th, 2012. Put together by Sickk Entertainment, this event went from 2pm to 10pm and featured awesome selectors and gogos, lighting and sound.
Nexus and KDREW
Credits: Camera Op and Editing – Dan Plum, Victor Savelle, Animation – Victor Savelle, Aaron Bataluer, Featuring – Digital Madness, Sickk Entertainment.

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Ted Poe: Texas GOP Featured Voice
by TexasGOPVote on July 17, 2009 at 3:19 PM
Ted Poe represents the Texas' second Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Poe is recognized nationally for his efforts to secure our borders and establish a plan for energy independence. He has also taken a leadership role in Washington, DC as a crime victims and child safety advocate , establishing the bipartisan Congressional Victim’s Rights Caucus.
As a leading voice in Washington, DC on border security, Congressman Poe travels regularly to the southern border to meet directly with local law enforcement and residents. Congressman Poe has also sponsored and co-sponsored numerous pieces of legislation that will allow us to expand domestic drilling, expand refining capacity and invest in legitimate alternative energy sources.
Before serving the 2nd Congressional District, Congressman Poe was a prosecutor and judge for 30 years in Houston, Texas. Judge Poe was known for his creative sentencing of criminals and hard-nosed approach to enforcing the law.
Judge Poe garnered national media attention for his “Poetic Justice” punishments – he ordered thieves to carry signs in front of stores from which they stole; commanded sex offenders to place warning signs on their home after serving jail time; and directed murderers to securely place a photo of their victims on the wall of their prison cells reminding them of their crime.
Ted Poe is a true native of Texas, born in Temple, receiving his B.A. from Abilene Christian University, and receiving his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center.
Congressman Poe currently lives in Kingwood, Texas with his wife.

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