The Washington Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
With the Washington Nationals in the middle of another losing stretch, manager Manny Acta called his players together for a meeting Friday afternoon designed to coax the team out of the funk. The meeting lasted five minutes. No players or coaches spoke, Acta said, and the message was the one Acta usually employs in team meetings: reminding players they're better than what they've...
MLB (Free subscription) | yesterday
Acta said the candidates are between shortstop Cristian Guzman and third baseman Ryan Zimmerman. Entering Saturday's action, Guzman was hitting .321 with three home runs and 21 RBIs, while Zimmerman had a .295 batting average with 13 home runs and 44 RBIs.
MLB (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
The Nationals had a team meeting before Friday's game against the Braves. Manager Manny Acta told his players that they have made progress, but they could have done more to win games on their recent road trip. Washington went a combined 1-5 against Orioles and Marlins. The main problem during the trip was that the Nationals couldn't advance runners in scoring position. In fact, entering Friday's...
Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
The Canadian government held an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement consultation meeting today focused on pharmaceutical and access to medicines issues. The meeting was smaller than the earlier consultation in April, but featured some important new information about the ACTA process including a fuller description of planned negotiating meetings, details on the upcoming Morocco meeting, and confirmation...
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- The Canadian government held an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement consultation meeting focused on pharmaceutical and access to medicines issues. The meeting was smaller than the earlier consultation in April, but featured some important new information about the ACTA process including a fuller description of planned negotiating meetings, details on [...]...
Techdirt (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
We've discussed in great detail how the current ACTA treaty has been mostly driven by corporate interests as a way to sneak in more draconian copyright laws through international treaty, rather than through legislative means. When consumer groups have requested a seat at the table, they've been rejected , even as industry lobbyists have had no problem being active participants in the process....
Click World News (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
We've discussed in great detail how the current ACTA treaty has been mostly driven by corporate interests as a way to sneak in more draconian copyright laws through international treaty, rather than through legislative means. When consumer groups have requested a seat at the table, they've been rejected , even as industry lobbyists have had no problem being active participants in the process....
Web News Site (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
We've discussed in great detail how the current ACTA treaty has been mostly driven by corporate interests as a way to sneak in more draconian copyright laws through international treaty, rather than through legislative means. When consumer groups have requested a seat at the table, they've been rejected , even as industry lobbyists have had no problem being active participants in the process....
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
How many times, in the wake of another nip-and-tuck loss, has Manny Acta lamented the poor situational hitting that proved the difference in a ballgame? How many times in the last three months have the Washington Nationals squandered scoring opportunities by popping up on the first pitch or grounding into a double play when a lazy fly ball would have made all the difference? Had the Nationals...
Mets Fever (Free subscription) | yesterday
Many feel that Tony Bernazard ran Willie Randolph out of town and some feel that if the Mets continue on their current course Bernazard will be the GM with Manny Acta as the manager. According to Bill Madden of the Daily News, Bernazard is up to his old tricks, which many believe resulted in Randolph's firing. If Madden is right watch out Omar and Jerry. As I've said before it's obvious to me,...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Stockholm - Swedish researchers have detected a possible link between babies born by planned Caesarean section and the increased risk of developing diseases like diabetes, cancer and asthma in later life, according to a study published in the July edition of Acta Paediatrica. Babies delivered with planned Caesarean section had changes to the DNA pool in their white blood cells, possibly connected...
Space Ref (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... 2009 Jun;131(6):064503.(PI: R.K. Banerjee)Individual stability of orthostatic tolerance response.Acta Physiol Hung. 2009 Jun;96(2):157-66.Slow head-up tilt causes lower activation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity: Loading speed-dependence of orthostatic sympathetic activation in humans.Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2009 May 15. [Epub ahead of print]Regional specificity of adaptation...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Manny Acta spoke earlier this season about "changing the culture" around the Washington Nationals' clubhouse, a veiled reference to what he believed was an aspect of the organization's rebuilding effort just as important as drafting top prospects and making smart trades. The Nationals' clubhouse the last two seasons boasted too many players who, while possessing talent, didn't stack...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... new strain,” warned the study, published in international journals (Folio Microbiol, 1994, and Acta Microbiologica Polonica, Vol. 45, 1996) but ignored by both the central and state governments.Medical researcher Shyamalendu Chatterjee and his team at the city unit of the Indian Council of Medical Research had conducted sample surveys over 12 years, from 1981 to 1993. Over 3,500 people with...
Renewable Energy Stocks (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
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