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Nestled amidst the hills and surrounded by spectacular vistas of Montecatini Terme, the Hotel Torretta offers tranquil and pleasant stay not far from the city's renowned spa facilities, shops, restaurants and cafes .
Completely renovated in 2009, this four-star family-owned property features free Wi-Fi and complimentary parking facilities.
The hotel offers a choice of 63 air-conditioned rooms, which are fitted with satellite TV, free Wi-Fi and en-suite bathrooms with hair dryer.
In the in-house restaurant, guests can delight delicious Tuscan specialties, cooked from the freshest local produce.
The hotel boasts an outdoor pool with different depth levels and a hydro-massage swimming pool with salt water.
Year renovated 2008. Number of rooms 63.
The hotel is 10-minute walking distance to the heart of Montecatini Terme, Piazza del Popolo and Terme di Montecatini Spa. Pistoia Zoo is within 10 minutes' drive away.
Distance to:
- City Center - 800 m
- Airport: Lucca - 17.7km, Peretola - 35.3km
- Bus stop - 200 m
The hotel provides smoke free accommodations.
Children under two years old can stay for free when using existing beds.
Children under two years are charged EUR 10 per night when using cots.
Older children and adults are charged EUR 50 per night when using extra beds.
Maximum number of extra beds/babycots in a room is one.
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Complimentary breakfast is served in the restaurant every day.
The restaurant serves authentic Tuscan menu and also provides dietary and vegetarian dishes. During the summer months, guests can enjoy their meals at the terrace by the pool.
In-room dining service is available upon request.
At the hotel Torretta guests are invited to a buffet breakfast served for free.
Hotel high-speed internet access is available in public areas and the rate is EUR 2 per 30 minutes
Wireless internet is available in public areas and is free of charge
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The hotel provides smoke free accommodations.
Children under two years old can stay for free when using existing beds.
Children under two years are charged EUR 10 per night when using cots.
Older children and adults are charged EUR 50 per night when using extra beds.
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San Domenico7.7kmPiazza San Domenico, Pistoia
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Giardino Zoologico di Pistoia9.0kmVia Pieve a Celle 160/a, Pistoia
Hidron Pistoia9.4kmVia Lucchese, Pistoia
Fortezza di Montecarlo10.0kmVia Fortezza, 4, Montecarlo
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Peretola Airport
- By car: Head southeast on Via del Termine. Turn right to stay on Via del Termine. Take the 1st left to stay on Via del Termine. Turn right onto Viale Giovanni Luder. Continue onto A11. Take exit Montecatini Terme. Then, keep right at the fork. Keep left at the fork, follow signs for Montecatini T.. Continue straight. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Piazzale Italia/SS435. Continue to follow SS435. Turn right onto Viale Alessandro Bicchierai. Continue onto Viale Armando Diaz. Then, continue onto Viale Mario Bustichini. The hotel will be on the right.
- Airport transfer is possible upon request.
Why book with us?
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Hotel Awards 2014ItalianHOTEL AWARDSRecommendedMontecatini Terme
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Neonates are tested for hearing deficiencies. A printed record is made of changes in heart beat rate in response to various sound stimuli. Relevant information such as heart beat rate, frequency of the stimulating sound, intensity of the stimulating sound, and related clock information is printed out in digital form. In a modification, changes in time between heart beats are extrapolated so that, in effect, changes in heart beat rate may be quickly determined on a go-no-go basis. These tests are particularly useful on infants under the age of eight months so that corrective measures may be taken prior to expiration of a critical period of development in the infant's life.
1. In a system for determining hearing capability, means producing a sound stimulus for a subject whose hearing capability is being established; said means being located in sound range of said subject with such sound stimulus being applied to said subject having the capability of producing changes in activity of the heart of said subject; means attached to said subject when said sound stimulus is being so applied to said subject and producing a first signal representative of the heart beat rate of said subject; means producing a second signal representative of the heart beat of said subject; clock means developing a third signal representative of elapsed time; recording means; means applying said first signal, and said third signal to said recording means for producing a recording representative of said heart beat rate and elapsed time and means applying said second signal to said clock means to initiate said third signal.
2. A system as set forth in claim 1 including means applying signals from said sound producing means to said recording means to effect a recording of the intensity of said sound and also the frequency of said sound.
3. A system as set forth in claim 1 including means for applying said second signal to said recording means to effect the operation of the same.
4. A system as set forth in claim 1 in which said recording means is a line printer and the signals applied thereto for recording are in digital form.
5. A system as set forth in claim 1 including timing means for gating said sound producing means on and off repetitiously, and means applying a signal from said timing means to said recording means to effect a recording representative of the initiation of operation of said sound producing means.
6. In a method for determining hearing capability of a subject, the steps comprising, subjecting said subject to a source of sound; repetitiously turning said sound on and off to produce a train of sound waves for hearing by said subject; and producing a recording of the change in heart beat rate of the subject in response to said train of sound waves.
7. In a method set forth in claim 6, including the step of simultaneously recording the intensity and frequency of said sound waves.
8. In a method as set forth in claim 6, including the steps of simultaneously recording elapsed time between heart beats, and also recording conditions of the sound waves.
The present invention relates to improved means and techniques for determining hearing deficiencies and is particularly useful in testing the hearing of infant's under the age of 8 months.
A specific object of the present invention is to provide a hearing determining system in which changes in heart beat rate in response to sound stimuli may be readily and accurately established and recorded.
Another specific object of the present invention is to provide a system having the features set forth in the preceeding paragraph in which the pertinent data is developed and compared in digital form.
The present invention is based on studies and observations of the hearing ability of children through their infant stage. These studies reveal a critical age of hearing in that should an infant have hearing deficiencies, steps should be taken to intervene and correct such deficiencies before the age of eight months otherwise it may be too late, and the child thereafter, for good hearing, may be required to wear hearing aids.
The present invention has for one of its purposes, the provision of means and techniques whereby such hearing deficiencies may be ascertained in infants under the age of eight months.
The features of the present invention which are believed to be novel are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. This invention itself, both to its organization and manner of operation, together with further objects and advantages thereof, may be best understood by reference to the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 illustrates a system embodying features of the present invention.
FIG. 2 illustrates a more sophisticated system which includes a computor also embodying features of the present invention.
In FIG. 1, the audiometer 10 is a source of sound tones which may, for example, have a frequency of 250, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000, and 6000 hertz. The audiometer 10 is also capable of producing a warble tone for a variance of signals which is in the nature of a frequency modulation with the modulation being plus or minus 10 percent. The audiometer 10 is a conventional sound source and may include a calibrated output attenuator which adjusts the output level of the audiometer so that after amplification in the amplifier 12, the sound output from the transducer which may comprise one or more of the three speakers 13, 14 and 15 is equal to the intensity set in on the attenuator and may, for example, be 30 decibel. Indeed, the attenuator levels may be set from 30 to 110 decibel steps. It is noted that one or more of these speakers 13, 14 and 15 designated respectively as the left, center and right speaker, may be connected to the output of the amplifier 12 through corresponding single poledouble throw switches 17, 18 and 19. Alternately, when the switches 17 and 19 are each in their other position, the sound may be heard in headset 20. The sound so produced by either one of the speakers 13, 14 and 15 is gated on and off by a timer 22. Once the timer 22 is manually started, the timer 22 is effective to cause repetitious bursts of sound with each burst being, for example, of four seconds duration. This on-off condition is recorded on the line printer 23 which receives an output from the timer 22 via lead 24 for that purpose.
The line printer 23 also records or prints characteristics of the sound being produced in the speakers 13, 14 and 15 or headset 20 such as the frequency of the sound as well as the intensity of the sound. For these latter purposes, information as to the frequency and intensity of the sound is supplied to the line printer 23 from the audiometer via corresponding leads 25 and 26.
As designated, the speakers 13, 14 and 15 may be spaced or positioned to the left, center or right of the neonate. The left speaker 13 may be located in the infant bassinette area on the side corresponding to the infant's left ear; the speaker 14 may be located in the bottom beneath the infant's head and is particularly useful when the infant's head is lying to one side; the other speaker 15 may be at the infant's right ear in the bassinette. The headset 20 in the nature of an accessory, may be utilized for infants and children larger than those that can be placed in the bassinette.
As indicated previously, the neonates reaction or lack of reaction to such periodic bursts of sound is also recorded on the line printer 23. For this latter purpose, there is a recording or printing made of the neonate's heart beat rate. The heart beat rate is derived from electrodes 30 which are on the neonate 32 and which are connected to an electrocardiometer 33. This electrocardiometer 33 develops an analog voltage which corresponds to the heart beat rate and such voltage is applied to the analog to digital converter 34 whose output is applied via lead 35 to the line printer 23. The electrocardiometer 33 is the source of printer trigger pulses which appear each time the heart beats and which are applied to the printer 23 via line or lead 36. Also printed on printer 23 is the corresponding time derived from clock 38 which provides a binary coded time output including tenths of seconds, seconds, minutes, and hours whereby information is recorded or printed for time comparison purposes.
Pulses are also supplied from the electrocardiometer 33 via lead 40 for purposes of achieving a reference time, i.e., for initiating the clock time information on lead 41.
The arrangement shown in FIG. 2 involves a minicomputor which is particularly useful in deriving information which may be recorded on a go-no-go basis. Corresponding elements in FIG. 1 and 2 have the same reference numerals.
It will be seen in FIG. 2 that the converter 34 and audiometer 10 as well as the rate sampler 50 may be controlled in accordance with information supplied from the mini-computor 51 via the interface unit 53 and corresponding leads 54, 55 and 56.
In FIG. 2 the converter 34 accepts the heart beat rate from cardiometer 33 and converts it to binary digital code which is applied to interface unit 53. The input to converter 34 may be an analog voltage which corresponds directly to the infant's heart beat rate, integrated over a period of time. A second output from the cardiometer 33 is a pulse which appears each time the infant's heart beats and such pulse is amplied to rate sampler 50.
The rate sampler 50, instead of a converter such as converter 34, may be used for these purposes. The rate sampler 50 converts the time period between heart beats into a binary coded heart rate output which is applied to interface unit 53. Because the rate sampler 50 extrapolates the heart rate each time the heart beats, data concerning the heart beat rate is available for instantaneous evaluation without delay.
The interface unit 53 handles communication between the various devices and the computor. It handles both digital data and control signals.
The mini-computor 51 controls and interprets the outputs of the various devices and directs the interface unit 53 to provide a print out interpretation of the tests on output printer 23. The computor 51 includes a central process unit (CPU) which is a binary part of the computor and is used for binary processing of information; also included are random access memories (RAM) used to store data from the tests as the tests progress as well as any intermediate binary outputs of the CPU during interpreting processing; also included are read out memories (Program ROMS) which are programmed and supply the program for the audiometer operation on the computor in regards to test routine and interpretation programs and also to provide special hearing curves for the audiometer 10.
The input keyboard 60 is used to input data and input commands regarding tests to be performed and also the format in which the output should be presented to the output printer.
The output printer 23 in FIG. 2 prints out the data for permanent record of the subject and to communicate to the operator the computor's functions. The output printer 23 is commanded to print by the computer 51 at times when the tests are not being actively conducted, with the problem of noise generated by the printer interfering with the tests being performed being eliminated. The computer 51 may be located remotely from the rest of the equipment and phone communication may be employed using a phone line.
While the particular embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that changes and modifications may be made without departing from the invention in its broader aspects and therefore, the aim in the appended claims is to cover all changes and modifications as fall within the true spirit and scope of this invention.
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My friend has another Phone, and he has the Flat UI for the app.
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Here's the problem. We need to remove duplicate lines from unsorted text from within the shell. This normally would be the job of sort -u or sort | uniq, except that in either case, we lose the input order. For example, if this is the input file:
$ cat >/tmp/numbers <<EOF one two three one three four EOF
Running it through sort -u would get this:
$ sort -u /tmp/numbers four one three two
The solution:
$ nl /tmp/numbers | sort -k2 -u | sort -n | cut -f2- one two three four
For platforms where the nl command is not available, awk could be used to simulate this behavior:
$ awk -v 'OFS=\t' '{print NR, $0}' /tmp/numbers | sort -k2 -u ↪| sort -n | cut -f2- one two three four
What it does is pretty simple—it adds a record number field, sorts the input ignoring that field, restores the original order using the record numbers and then strips that field out.
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There is nothing worse than when you boot up your Linux machine to show Windows users a neat feature, such as your slick 3-D Compiz desktop, and while booting, you get the message that one of your partitions needs to be force-checked because it hasn't been checked in 23 boots. So while e2fsck trudges through that giant partition scanning for errors, the people you were attempting to convert are rolling their eyes and trying to contain their laughter about your so-called superior OS.
You can tweak the conditions under which the filesystem check will run at boot time using the command tune2fs. Using a -c option allows you to tweak the number of boots that will trigger a forced check, and using -i allows you to change the time interval between checks in the format: [days|weeks|months].
If you want to initiate disk checks manually only (a risky idea if you forget—proceed at your own risk!), use this variant of the command:
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Do you need to give passwordless SSH access to users but also need to restrict what can be run? Here I give interactive and non-interactive examples.
First, you need to generate authentication keys (no passphrase) using ssh-keygen. In this tip, I generated rsa keys. The keys, by default, are saved as ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
You need to append the public key as follows:
suman@shri:~/.ssh$ cat id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys
Prepend the command (that you want to be executed automatically) to the signature. For example, if uptime is the command to be executed automatically whenever an SSH request comes from the user for which you generated the key, the key entry in authorized_keys file should look like this:
command="/usr/bin/uptime" ssh-rsa <LONG ENCRYPTED STRING>
Now, you can use the private key to execute the uptime command automatically. The private key in this example, by default, was saved as ~/.ssh/id_rsa. I copied it to the remote host and saved it as uptime.key. Make sure this file has 600 permissions. Then, you can do the following (from the remote machine):
suman@strangeloop:~ % ssh -T -i uptime.key suman@shri 15:11:46 up 4 days, 3 min, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
This technique also can be used for interactive programs. Below is a simple interactive shell script:
#!/bin/sh echo -n "Hi! Enter your fav distro: " read DISTRO echo "Your fav distro is $DISTRO"
Here I have created another set of keys as I did above. I saved the private key as distro.key. Prepend command="<full_path_to_script>" to the public key in the authorized_keys file, and you will be able to do:
suman@strangeloop:~ % ssh -T -i distro.key suman@shri Hi! Enter your fav distro: Debian Your fav distro is Debian
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Need help selecting a mower
I purchased 1.5 acres in the country. It is not flat and does have several trees on it. In the middle is a valley area. I was told I needed to stay away from stamped decks and box store riders. However, I want to stay at $2,000.00 or less. I was also told that I shouldn't use a rider for snow plowing, but, I kinda want to go that route just due to economics. I don't want to buy another machine just to plow snow. I was told to stay away from John Deer. I was also told that all box store riders are made in the same MTD plant. I am trying to cut through the bull and just get the right mower without paying too much or gettin too much mower. I also want to stay under a 60" deck.
Any thoughts?
What reasons were given for staying away from a John Deere?
I have had my JD LT 155, hydro, 15hp 38" deck for about 10 years. It has regularly been serviced, and has required minimal maintenance. I use a JD service kit for the yearly maintenance, and the dealer for the big stuff. The cost of the JD service Kit is cheaper than buying the same parts from the discount big box store. If you need parts they are easily obtained even for my 10 year old tractor.
I am currently using the JD on my 3/4 acre. It is not flat, raising about 60 feet from front yard at the road to the back. The JD has no problems in mowing the slopes in the road grade. I also use the tractor to pull a small trailer for moving plants, dirt, and other things around the yard, and from the garage to the back yard.
For a tractor that meets your needs and budget, I would seriously consider an old larger JD. Talk to your local JD dealer not the guy in the big box store.
With your budget you're looking at a used machine. If you want to plow snow, you're looking at a GT with chains and weights, plus the cost of the plow. How long is the driveway and is it gravel, paved, ? With a used machine, are you "handy" is a critical question.
You might consider a LT for mowing and consider a snow blower for the driveway. You didn't mention where you are and how much snow you have to deal with.
Good luck,
Thanks. As for the JD, The people I mentioned to talked about the maintenance cost being high. I have heard from a lot of JD loyal people after my post that they do not have this problem. As for how much snow I get, We haven't had to shovel any thing year. The most we usually get is up to 4 times a year. My driveway is anticipated to be about 100 feet long plus a circle drive.
If your driveway is paved, get a Toro 621 single-stage machine - it will handle up to ten inches of snow pretty easily, clean to the pavement, and won't take up too much storage space. If it is a gravel driveway, then you will need a two-stage machine or a plow. The tractor-mounted two-stage machines work, but will take up quite a big of storage space when attached to the tractor.
As mentioned earlier, look for a good used garden tractor (not lawn tractor). IMHO, a ten-year-old GT that was $4-5k new and will cost you $2k now will be a better deal than a brand new $2k LT.
I have some MTD equipment. It can be a good deal if you are handy and don't mind doing repairs yourself. But I certainly wouldn't consider it quality or long-term equipment. You can find other makes in the big box stores that are better (Husqvarna, AYP (Briggs & Stratton), JD), but if you want quality, you need to think commercial equipment or garden tractor. You will find that stuff at stand-alone dealers or possibly farm supply stores.
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quote: "I have some MTD equipment. It can be a good deal if you are handy and don't mind doing repairs yourself. But I certainly wouldn't consider it quality or long-term equipment. You can find other makes in the big box stores that are better (Husqvarna, AYP (Briggs & Stratton), JD)" unquote:
Statement of fact or personal opinion?
I agree with what has been said regarding suggested tractors and/or alternative of a mower and snowblower as a viable option. Plowing snow takes a rather robust tractor unless you are willing and able to plan for small, time-consuming swaths (or unless you can plow every 2-3" of snowfall). As you only get 4 or so snows a year, the snowblower sounds like a good choice and a single stage can be bought for about 2x what a cheap plow will cost.
I don't understand why "stamped" decks have such a bad reputation. First, just about anything under $5000. is going to have one. Secondly, if maintained, they last. I've found that they give as good a cut as any other deck and usually do a better job of mulching. Look for a heavy gauge stamped deck (13 gauge or better--the lwer gauge, the better).
rcbe -
Some of it is based on personal experience owning/operating the various types/brands of equipment, and friends/neighbors with various equipment. Some of it is based on gleaning information from various outdoor power equipment forums over the last eight years or so.
So, I would say it is mostly the opinion of a large number of folks, probably a majority of which is the folks who post on the internet. Whether or not it is fact may be a matter of opinion. :�


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Uh Oh! My Garden's Gonna Be A Lake
All summer long I hoped, wished, begged, pleaded and prayed for rain. Well, here it comes!
I'm linking the HPC's 5-day rainfall forecast below. Click on the link to see it.
I am in the area predicted to get 3.9" of rain. Now, that doesn't mean we'll get that much, but I have noticed this summer that the QPF has been fairly accurate the last month or 6 weeks or so, so I think my garden may be about to get too wet. While too much rain at one time isn't really good for the garden, it is better than no rain at all, so I am not going to complain.
Now, I'm headed out to the garden to harvest everything that is ready so I won't have tomatoes splitting from too much moisture, etc. Then, I 'll weed the beds that have fall stuff in them and then I will rototill the area where I'm getting ready to plant winter greens. If I don't get it rototilled before the rain falls, I likely won't get it rototilled at all.
I'm excited about the rain and cooler temperatures and hope everyone gets at least as much rain as the HPC predicts they will.
Here is a link that might be useful:
I am so excited for the rain and cooler temperatures too, Dawn! We are supposed to get around 2.5" here. Now we will see how much of our compost pile washes away to the creek behind our house. I had better remember to bring the rosemary inside too. I don't think it would like that much water too much!
Dawn, you are pretty close to the center of that predicted heavy rain area, so I think it is safe to say you should get some good rain even if the prediction is off a bit.
We were on the edge of the last prediction, but now are up another inch on the prediction. A little bit of movement and it could change a lot. Time to spread the clover and ryegrass seed. Summer is over.
The radar this morning looked like Dawn was a shoe-in for a good rain. Then it all died out. Did you get anything other than wind, Dawn?
We will end up with about half an inch or a bit less in this storm that is over us now. Nothing at the farm, though.
I don't think Jay got much today, but I wasn't looking for most of the day. I hope I'm wrong.
This is just round one of 4 or 5 rounds in the next few days. Wouldn't three inches be nice by the time this is over!?
I got nothing, zero, zilch, nada. A big fat 0.0". Rain went to our east and west, dodging us every time.
I'm at the point where even an inch of rain sounds good. We have a big VFD fundraiser this weekend, and it would be easier and more pleasant if the parking lot is not a mud pit. Of course, we'll deal with whatever we get.
We do have rain-cooled air, so I was able to work outside in temperatures in the 60s and 70s instead of the 80s. That part of it was nice.
All along our local TV mets kept talking about the NWS rain forecast and saying things like "I'm not feeling it". lol I was hoping they were wrong when they cautioned that they thought most of us would get a lot less than was forecast and the showers would be highly scattered. So far, they're looking like geniuses.
Kfinkle, Are y'all getting anything over there in Durant? I can see some big old clouds far, far east of us and am wondering if they are where you are?
The local weather stations reported .7" this morning, but it is raining now - a steady, slow rain - just like I LOVE it! Don't know that it will raise the total that much, but I appreciate every single drop. I did notice on the 3 day forecast, that the chance of rain percentages were lower than the morning forecast. Hmmmmm. Mother Nature sure is fickle, but I am kind of chuckling at the ONE thing we truly cannot get totally right yet, despite all the knowledge and tech stuff they employ today. HeeHeeHeeHeeHeeHee......Bwah ha ha ha ha ha.
Hey, Larry, what seeds ya plantin?
While weeding, planting and doing other garden chores, I found some fire ants. It was not a fun experience. So, when I watered the young seedlings, I went out of my way to create a gigantic flood in the area where the fire ants were located. If they rebuild that mound tomorrow, I'll sprinkle some organic fire ant killer on the rebuilt mound.
I'm pretty sure we aren't going to get the 3.9" of rain the QPF showed for our area, but I am trying to be patient and see what develops over the next few days. At least it isn't 100 degrees any more. That alone is a huge improvement.
On the CBS Evening News tonight they had a story about the drought and the Arkansas River and showed footage shot from a helicopter in the Tulsa area to show how little water is in the river now. All those sand bars in the river and the astonishing lack of water in it sure did remind me of the good old Red River of the south, and not in a good way.
This week's Oklahoma Drought Monitor looks almost exactly like last week's, so I didn't bother linking it. I don't think I'll link it again until it shows some sort of significant change.
I had to run out and check the rain gauge before it got dark and only .2 inches so far... Hopefully I can get some more over the next couple of days. Boy does it feel good out there though! My DH is 8 months pregnant and has been burning up this summer. She is completely elated about the "cold" wind.
Dawn, I think the Arkansas River looks that way most years at this time of year except during the hours they are releasing water from lake Keystone. One interesting note about this year is that the water level was never at full release from keystone that I am aware of and I drive across it 3 or 4 days per week. Two or three years ago it ran at full capacity from spring all the way until about July 4 or so if memory serves.
It is amazing how few big rain events we have had since July 4, 2010. We built our big pond that fall and we have had only 3 storm systems give us 2+ inches of rain in the 24 months since. We have had no runoff whatsoever except for two times in two years, but fortunately those two were really big storms, giving just over 3 inches and just over 5 inches.
If I am not mistaken the evening news said something about farmers in Kansas were unable to get water from the Arkansas River because about 200 miles of it was dry. I did not catch all the story but it looked like that part of Kansas was almost bone dry.
I don't have a rain gauge set up, nor am I at home to read it. But at Northeastern State University we are getting a thorough soaking this morning! It has to have gone over an inch. I've gotten soaked, just taking care of a couple of things outside, while trying to "dodge the rain."
I am getting a great rain. We got close to a half inch yesterday, then it started again about 4 AM. It is a nice slow rain with an occasional heavier burst. Looks like we will get at least 2 inches for the 24 hour total. I can see a few puddles in the road, but most is soaking in right where it falls, so it will do a lot of good. I am grateful.
We got a little mist yesterday, not even enough to hardly feel. It is misting a little harder this morning, still not enough to wet the ground.
Susan. I planted Detroit Red, Early wonder beets, and something that listed as Beet, Swiss Chard. I had already planted 9 Napa Chinese cabbage. Madge brought in 18 Packman broccoli plants which look pitiful. The Co-op thought they had sold all their plants, but found these that had fallen or got pushed behind something. I will try to get them to looking better and then plant them. I want to get as much planted because of the rain chances we have for the next few days.
Scott, I didn't realize the Arkansas River ever got as low as the Red River gets about 9 years out of 10. (I think 2007 was the last year the Red River was above average for months and months.) I thought y'all always had oodles of rain and stayed green up there! (OK, that is true most years if not this year.) On that news report I think they said the Arkansas River was at 5% of its normal capacity, and as Larry noted, in some areas there is no water to release to irrigate the farm land, compounding the drought conditions.
I hope all of y'all got wonderful, wonderful rain.
We didn't have wonderful rain at all, and I don't think I'll trust the HPC's QPF the next time it shows something wonderful like 3.9". I'll just shrug and say, "I remember last time....."
We've had mist so light that you barely feel it even when you're standing outside in it. There must have been rain early this morning because the porch steps were wet and there was 0.10" in the rain gauge. It has been very cool and pleasant and that is great for the cool-season veggies in the fall garden.
While I am disappointed we didn't get significant rainfall, I think that things always work out in the end, so clearly we just weren't meant to get the rain the HPC predicted. We have our annual fundraiser for our VFD tomorrow, and the last thing we need is rain and mud because part of it involves outdoor cooking, so now I am (perversely, I know) hoping it doesn't rain a lot tonight and tomorrow. (I hope saying that doesn't make it pour.....)
I can see from looking at the Mesonet rainfall map that some of you received wonderful, wonderful rainfall. That's terrific. It is great to see rainfall on the map. Hopefully our autumn rainy season has begun for much of the state.
For us? The weather hasn't been as brutally dry here in 2012 as it has been in some other parts of the state, so we're okay even without this rainfall. Our ground is still cracked and the ponds are still empty, but the grass in the yard, if not in the pastures, is still mostly green, and some autumn wildflowers are blooming. We have a lot of chances for rain in the next few days.
Just an update on my rainfall amount. I received 2 tenths total. That was after both the Amarillo and Dodge City sites showed us right in the middle of the heaviest rainfall amounts. They had predicted 1.50 inches. The track turned and stayed south of us. The good rains were in the Texas Panhandle and then traveled over into the eastern OK Panhandle. They got good rains in eastern CO but they traveled NE and missed us. Glad there are some getting good rains. I'm trying to prepare my garlic bed now. I'm down to about 6 inches and it is dry as a bone. I had till the top 4-5 inches deep just before it was supposed to rain. I'm going to dig the trench this year like Martin suggests and fill it with horse manure compost with some mushroom compost mixed in on top. I decided to string a soaker hose back out and water the bottom of the trench good tonight. So I can till the compost in better after I add it tomorrow. Jay
Traveling along 33 this afternoon I strained to see the Cimarron River bed through the passenger window. Water has risen only slightly but the green water grass was standing tall and proud as egrets flitted about signifying renewed life. New grass blades are visible amongst the burn countryside as well. The driver was a fireman and he reminded me "it's nature's way of taking care of things".
I still worry about my trees, though. lol
Dawn, I hate to say it - It's probably going to rain a bit tomorrow. LOL Geez, right?
Dawn, the Arkansas river level upstream from lake Keystone is totally dependent on rain runoff and is the part that is so much lower than usual. In the Tulsa area (where they were taking the video) and downstream to Muskogee the water level fluctuates a little due to rainfall in the area, but mostly is dependent on how much water is being released from Keystone. By late summer the river usually looks pretty similar to how it does now since by that time of year they only release the bare minimum. Other than a few industrial plants, I don't know if the water from Keystone to Muskogee gets used. After Muskogee it becomes part of the shipping channel with locks and dams so it looks like a true river from there to the Mississippi.
We picked up a little over an inch here. It's looking like we may not get much more unfortunately. With temps not getting to 90 anymore, this will take us until the pecans are mature.
Jay, If it will make you feel better, you got twice as much rain at your house as we got at ours. The cooler weather sure is nice and the fall garden plants haven't wilted and drooped and looked pathetic in at least the last 48 hours. What a nice difference the temperatures in the 60s and 70s make. We'll likely be back in the 90s soon, but will enjoy the cool air temps while they last.
Bon, No, no, no. No rain is allowed to fall here until this time tomorrow. The fire station is spotless, including the floors, and all the fire trucks are washed and polished and shiny and pretty. We don't need no stinkin' rain to fall here for the next 24 hours. It is hard to have a cookout for a couple hundred people in the rain. If rain falls, we'll work around it somehow, and no one will complain because the rain is needed. The way our luck has been running this week, I am not expecting to see much, if any, wet stuff falling from the skies.
Scott, I am glad you've had enough moisture to carry the pecans to maturity.
Thanks for the explanation about the Arkansas River. I didn't know it depended entirely on runoff at that end of it. No wonder it looked so awful in that news story.
I have little experience with big or fast-moving rivers, although every now and then the Trinity River would get a little rowdy and wild and flood a little bit when we lived in Fort Worth. I think we've only had a couple of years since moving here that the Red River was really high and running fast, and I guess the last time was in 2007 when we had all that flooding. It did have a pretty good water level in part of 2010 too, but it wasn't at flood stage. Mostly it is so low by mid-summer you can walk across it, going from sandbar to sandbar in some places without ever touching water....and that's in a normal year. This year wasn't as bad as last year, but neither year was a good year for the Red River in the summer months.
We have a new pasture on our place that is full of green grass and wildflowers out west of the barn. The only problem is that it is supposed to be a pond, though you'd never know it to look at it right now.
I think I am the big winner here. For the 3 day total, we are at 3.78 and still a little mist in the air. Like Dorothy's, ours has been slow light rain most of the time with periodic burst of heavier rainfall, so it is soaking in just fine. I was a D4 drought area, so really needed this rain.
I picked black eyed peas, green beans, squash, and a lot of peppers today. This rain should bring on a lot more, but I also have a healthy crop of squash bugs and mosquitoes.
Hooray for all you NE OK gardners who finally got the kind of rainfall that is measured in inches. Multiple inches! Y'all still have a huge deficit though, so need a lot more.
If y'all are the rainfall winners, we're the losers down here with 0.15". While I am not thrilled about that low rainfall, at least we won't have a huge mosquito hatch like we had after 3" of rain in fell over about 4 days in August. With West Nile Virus being so bad this year, the last thing we want is more mosquitoes. A friend of ours has been hospitalized with West Nile Virus, and it is so much more awful than you can imagine. Until this year, I didn't realize what a truly wicked virus it is.
We only got the Friday rain here in the Tulsa area were I am. A little over an inch. A couple of times we got sprinkles yesterday and today, but nothing measurable. Temps and soil are both perfect. If not for the empty ponds, everything is really good.
I'm glad things are looking up, Scott. I've learned to live with empty ponds, but that doesn't mean I am happy about it. It is just that I've learned it doesn't do one bit of good to fret and worry about it. I do keep my lily pond full with the water hose, but it is just a small backyard pond. Because it has fish in it to eat mosquito larvae, we don't let its water level drop too much. Anyhow, it is hard to water lilies to grow well without water.
This week the temperatures look pretty nice, but we only have a 20% chance of rain on one day so it is starting to look like it will be a dry September for us.
Y'all, I'm going to link today's Keetch-Byram Dtought Index page. Look at the improvement in the numbers in many areas!
Here is a link that might be useful: Today's KBDI Map
Burn ban is no longer in affect for several counties. I was really hoping I could burn this week, but oh well we will just keep hauling trash to town. Maybe if we get some more rain in the next couple, but after this summer i'm not holding my breath.
Here is a link that might be useful: burn ban map
I am so glad the burn band has been lifted for some of you.
I live in the western edge of Arkansas, about 4 to 6 weeks ago every county in Arkansas was under a burn band. The band is lifted in every county now. Many ponds and streams are low, or dry, but my surface soil is in good shape.
We are very glad to see ours lifted because we have so much to burn that was left over from the storm. Some became firewood, and some was taken to the county dumping place for limbs and things, but there are a lot of leaves and sticks and limbs that fell later. I may not be able to breath here tomorrow from all of the burning I expect to happen in the neighborhood. We have a huge stack in our yard that we need to burn.
When we have a county burn ban, our commissioners usually lift it once our KBDI drops below 600. I don't know that the OFS uses that same criteria when making recommendations to Gov. Fallin, but I have been expecting them to lift the ban for some counties for a couple of weeks now, so the move didn't surprise me.
We are having small fires in our county, but nothing that has gotten the least bit rowdy or out-of-control lately, so I think that they could lift even our burn ban (our KBDI is 661 this morning) right now (which they did not), and we wouldn't have serious wildfire trouble at this point in time. The trouble will come after you have a few frosts and killing freezes if it is still very dry and then you have all that dry, standing vegetation which will burn easily whether it is dead annual vegetation or dormant perennial vegetation. We need to have a really wet fall and winter so that the winter fire season isn't bad.
Nothing about our soil is in good shape, Larry, except where I've been watering in the veggie garden and around the fruit trees. We're starting to see cracks in the soil near the house where we haven't had them before, so today and tomorrow I'm going to try to water long and hard in those areas to try and get those cracks to close back up. I'll probably have to water a while, let it soak in, then water again, etc. You know how hard it is to get clay to absorb water when it is rock-hard.
Carol, I imagine it will be a real relief to everyone to be able to burn that piled up wood from the big storm that hit your area. As long as it is sitting there, it is such a fire hazard. I'd rather be able to burn that stuff deliberately and have it under control than to have a raging wildfire burn through the area and get it.
Some of the Texas counties have been lifting their burn bans here and there along the river. One county made the announcement lifting their burn ban, then said that people should NOT go out and burn brush or do prescribed burning of land for brush removal because it still was too dry to burn. That made me wonder why they lifted the burn ban if they were going to stand there and say "but don't do any burning". That whole thing made no sense.
I hope they are right. I've been too busy with the fall garden to watch the weather very much....well, except for watching the weather outside around me in the garden, where it has been warm, windy and dry with very, very low relative humidity. Yesterday our RH bottomed out at 17%, which is awfully low for this time of year.
I hope your weather guy is right! I'll have to go over to the Weather Underground website and see if Dr. Masters is blogging yet about whatever the models are showing might develop.
This week we are seeing new cracks in the ground all around the house where the soil never cracked last year, even though our KBDI came perilously close to 800. Today it is only 663, but new cracks are appearing daily. I think we maxed out last year at 776 and we didn't see the cracks we're seeing right now. They are in areas where we've never had the ground crack before even in a year when less than 19" of rain fell. I expect we're seeing the effect of back-to-back drought years that have depleted deeper soil moisture much more than I thought was occurring.
I hate to "wish" for a tropical storm or hurricane to hit the Gulf Coast just so we can get moisture, but if one is going to hit it anyway, then I hope it sends big bands of rain our way.
Our weather guys are singing the "high pressure blues" and telling us that we'll have a gorgeous, though dry, week this week but they aren't saying much about next week yet.


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Respiratory muscle fatigue during exercise.
The metabolic cost of breathing
At rest, breathing is primarily an inspiratory activity, while expiration is a passive process. Thus, the oxygen cost of breathing at rest is only about 2% of total body oxygen consumption. During exercise, when expiration also becomes an active process, the oxygen cost of breathing increases from 3-5% during moderate exercise to 10% during strenuous exercise. In highly trained individuals the latter may rise to 15-16% of V[O.sub.2max]. (1,2) The implication of this greater oxygen cost of breathing is that the respiratory muscles require a greater proportion of the cardiac output with an increase in exercise intensity, thus leaving a smaller percentage of cardiac output available to the active limb locomotor muscles. This may significantly contribute to the onset of skeletal muscle fatigue.
Do respiratory muscles fatigue during exercise?
Numerous studies have shown that the respiratory muscles are subject to fatigue in a similar fashion to limb locomotor muscles. Evidence for this has been obtained during laboratory exercise tests, as well as during exercise in the field. Ozkaplan et al. (3) found that MIP was significantly reduced in moderately trained men and women after an incremental exercise test to exhaustion. McConnell et al. (4) demonstrated that an incremental shuttle-run to fatigue (exercise lasting 10-15 minutes) leads to a significant reduction in MIP (8.2%), and thus RM fatigue in moderately trained men. Lomax and McConnell5 demonstrated a significant reduction (29%) in MIP after a single 200 meter swim in 7 competitive swimmers. Chevrolet et al. (6) found significantly lower MIP values in both marathon and half-marathon runners after a race, while Ker and Schultz (7) observed similar results in athletes after an ultra-marathon event.
Although individuals with the weakest inspiratory muscles experience the greatest amount of RM fatigue, high levels of fitness do not protect individuals from developing RM fatigue. Thus, even athletes with above-average respiratory muscle strength and endurance experience RM fatigue. The magnitude of RM fatigue is directly related to the duration and intensity of exercise; most researchers agree that sustained exercise at intensities higher than 80-85% of V [O.sub.2max] consistently cause fatigue of the diaphragm at the end of exercise. (8)
Does RM fatigue affect exercise performance?
Given the high demand for oxygen and blood flow by the respiratory muscles during whole-body endurance-type exercise, it is not surprising that exercise performance is impaired during high-intensity exercise. Harms et al. (9) found that with respiratory muscle unloading, well-trained cyclists exercised for 1.3 [+ or -] 2.0 min longer (an increase of 14.4%) during a constant workload test at 90% [VO.sub.2max] than during control conditions. On the other hand, exercise time significantly decreased by 1.0 [+ or -] 0.8 min (15.1%) with respiratory loading compared with control conditions. Therefore, decreasing the work of breathing led to a significant improvement in time to exhaustion. Furthermore, respiratory muscle unloading also resulted in reduced [VO.sub.2], a decrease in minute ventilation, and reduced perceptions of respiratory and limb discomfort. These findings were confirmed by Babcock et al., (10) who demonstrated that mechanical unloading of the respiratory muscles during heavy sustained exercise prevented diaphragm fatigue.
Does RM training affect exercise performance?
A number of studies investigated the effects of resistive loading on RM strength and have reported increases in MIP of 8-45%. (8) Whether this improvement in RM strength translates to an increase in exercise performance, is somewhat controversial. McConnell and Romer (11) analysed all the RM training studies and concluded that weak experimental designs, insufficient statistical power and inappropriate performance tests could explain the negative findings of earlier studies. Studies that have shown statistically significant improvements in performance utilised fixed work rate tests or time trial-type performance measures. In these cases, performance improvements between 24% and 50% (for fixed work rate tests) and between 1.8% and 3.5% (for time trial tests) were reported.
The magnitude of the observed training effects may be sufficient to provide athletes with a winning edge. Thus, for athletes constantly seeking for ways to enhance their performance, RM training may provide a legitimate ergogenic aid.
In conclusion
* Respiratory muscles of healthy individuals do fatigue during whole-body endurance exercise.
* The higher cost of breathing during exercise compromises blood flow to active limb locomotor muscles.
* Respiratory muscle fatigue can impair exercise performance in trained individuals.
* A number of studies show that respiratory muscle training may improve exercise tolerance and could thus have ergogenic benefits in trained individuals.
(1.) Aaron EA, Seow KC, Johnson BD, Dempsey JA. Oxygen cost of exercise hyperpnea: implications for performance. J Appl Physiol 1992; 72: 1818-1825.
(2.) Harms CA, Wetter T, McClaran SR, et al. Effect of respiratory muscle work on cardiac output and its distribution during maximal exercise. J Appl Physiol 1998; 85: 609-618.
(3.) Ozkaplan A, Rhodes EC, Sheel AW. A comparison of inspiratory muscle fatigue following maximal exercise in moderately trained male and females. Eur J Appl Physiol 2005; 95: 52-56.
(4.) McConnell AK, Caine MP, Sharpe GR. Inspiratory muscle fatigue following running to volitional fatigue: the influence of baseline strength. Int J Sport Med 1997; 18: 169 -173.
(5.) Lomax ME, McConnell AK. Inspiratory muscle fatigue in swimmers after a single 200m swim. J Sports Sci 2003; 21: 659-664.
(6.) Chevrolet J, Tchopp J, Blanc Y, Rochat T, Junod AF. Alterations in inspiratory and leg muscle force and recovery pattern after a marathon. Med Sci Sports Exerc 1992; 25(4): 501-507.
(7.) Ker JA, Schultz CM. Respiratory muscle fatigue after an ultra-marathon measured as inspiratory task failure. Int J Sports Med 1996; 17(7): 493-496.
(8.) Sheel AW. Respiratory muscle training in healthy individuals. Physiological rationale and implications for exercise performance. Sports Med 2002; 32(9): 567-581.
(9.) Harms CA, Wetter TJ, St Croix CM, Pegelow DF, Dempsey JA. Effects of respiratory muscle work on exercise performance. J Appl Physiol 2000; 89: 131-138.
(10.) Babcock MA, Pegelow DF, Harms CA, Dempsey JA. Effects of respiratory muscle unloading on exercise-induced diaphragm fatigue. J Appl Physiol 2002; 93: 201-206.
(11.) McConnell AK, Romer LM. Respiratory muscle training in healthy humans: resolving the controversy. Int J Sports Med 2004; 25: 284-293.
ELMARIE TERBLANCHE, PhD
Professor, Department of Sport Science, Stellenbosch University
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Bill Davis shared this history of Ghent College and Ghent School with The News-Democrat after the structure was destryoed by fire Sunday. Davis researched this for the "Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky."
Ghent College in Carroll County, Ky., was founded in 1867, when local citizens led by James Frank formed a corporation creating a private nonsectarian college for white students at Ghent. A three-story brick college building was built on the western edge of town the following year, at a cost of $31,700.
Now that the 2010 U.S. Census is complete, local governments have the task of reviewing population numbers to consider any changes that might be needed in election districts.
Carroll County Judge-Executive Harold "Shorty" Tomlinson told fiscal court Tuesday, April 12 that he initially didn't believe the commission would be needed because of the slim amount of growth that Carroll County saw from 2000 to 2010 — up 656 people to a 10,811 people.
The Carroll-Henry county area recently became the inspiration and blank canvas for a student's senior thesis photography project.
Lauren DiFulvio, a senior at College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio, photographed a series of portraits and environmental shots in Port Royal, English, Turners Station and Carrollton for her thesis project.
The Carroll County Board of Education looked deeply into three schools' problems and successes at a working board meeting Thursday, April 14. Administrators from the Alternative Learning Center, Cartmell Elementary and Kathryn Winn Primary schools gave presentations of test scores, attendance trends, and other measurable success or failure statistics and what they mean.
Preliminary results from the 2011 ACT test taken by Carroll County High School juniors last month show that the district is well-positioned for the 2011-12 school year, when the college entrance exam will play a more prominent role in academic assessment statewide.
Three Carroll County residents, including two juveniles, have reportedly confessed to setting fire to the contents of the Ghent Schoolhouse Sunday, according to Carroll County Sheriff Jamie Kinman.
The brick exterior of the building located on Hwy. 42 near the city limits, remains standing, but the building is considered a total loss, according a sheriff's office news release. It has been vacant for about six or seven years.
The Carroll boys' tennis team overpowered first-year program Grant County, 4-1, on Tuesday April 12. While Carroll won most of the matches, head coach Juan Fernandez said there is room for improvement.
"A special mention to Tim Yup," he said, "even (though) he lost, (it was) his first match he did very well and came back from (being) down 0-5 to 5-5 in the first set."
Missed opportunities.
That was the name of the game for Carroll County in their All A tournament match up against Owen County at home Saturday.
The Lady Panthers edged the Lady Rebels in hits, 6-5, but left 13 runners on base and committed five errors. Final score: Owen 7, Carroll 1.
The Carroll County baseball team defeated Gallatin County 20-2 Monday night in five innings after leading 14-0 after the first inning.
Derek Williams gets the win on the mound, allowing three hits, two runs and striking out six.
Ethan Stewart had three hits; Zach Wise had two doubles and a walk; Dillon Craig, Tyler Gross and Trey Boles had two hits; and Austin Crowell hit a double.
If weather permits, Carroll was scheduled to take on Trimble County in the All A title game Tuesday. The winner advances to play DeSales High School in the Sweet 16.
Carroll County High School boys took first place overall out of seven teams in the home track meet Tuesday. Down some key athletes, the girls finished in fifth place, but were within 13 points of finishing second.
However, it almost looked like the meet would not even happen. Head coach Joe Creager said at about 11 a.m., lanes 1 and 2 were still completely covered in water from the soaking the area endured the day before. The teams were also unable to compete in discus because of the wet conditions.
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Right now I'm brewing a saison using Wyeast 3724. I figure fermentation will be done in a few days and then I might rack it to a secondary to let the yeast settle out some more.
At the same time as I ordered the saison kit from Northern Brewer, I also ordered the petit saison kit with a pack of Wyeast 3711. I got to thinking, would it work to brew the petit saison, and then dump that on to the 3724 yeast cake? Or am I better off just chucking the trub and using the 3711 smack pack as I originally planned?
You'll get fermentation and probably tasty beer pitching onto the yeast cake. The main problem is that the cell count is higher than necessary, so the yeast won't reproduce. Yeast reproduction is important during fermentation, but I can't remember why off the top of my head. I think there's a sticky in the Yeast forum.
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I seem to remember hearing or reading that many of the Belgian strains produce their characteristic by products during reproduction. Over pitching if this is the case coil deprive your second saison of tasty Belgian funk or flavor
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Rack to secondary. Pour about 1/3 or so of the slurry into a sanitized jar. Pitch within a week to your next batch. You don't have to use the whole yeast cake.
Lots of us and I mean LOTS of us reuse yeast with no issues at all. You can wash the yeast or slant it or what I do is just reuse the slurry. It is not anything to be worried about as long as you are careful with your sanitation.
So if I save some of this slurry, could I just chuck it in the fridge for a while? I'm thinking maybe I could save the 3724 for the next time I do a Belgian Saison, but I don't know when that would be. I know from my experience in lab that yeast & bacteria can be left in the fridge pretty much forever but my purposes for saving microorganisms in lab are quite different from brewing.
So I guess the ear question is, would that slurry still be good after a few months in the fridge or do I need to get fancier with storage technique?


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This is the player everyone wanted to see, from the general manager who criticized him publicly to the coaches who bemoaned his lack of effort to the fans, media and even opponents who spent last season wondering, What the heck is going on with Matt Kemp?
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The answer still is not entirely clear. But Kemp sure looks different now.
No longer is Kemp, in the words of his agent, Dave Stewart, "the whipping boy" for anything that is wrong with the Dodgers. One year later, after facing major questions about his attitude — questions that surfaced while he was dating international pop star Rihanna — Kemp is a front-runner for National League MVP.
Kemp, 26, leads the NL with 20 homers and is second with a 1.053 OPS and 56 RBIs. He is running hard, playing hard, displaying the form that earned him both Gold Glove and Silver Slugger awards in 2009.
Another difference also is evident under new manager Don Mattingly and the Dodgers' new coaches: Kemp is paying greater attention to detail, restoring a part of his game that disintegrated last season under former manager Joe Torre and his staff.
Former Dodgers bench coach Bob Schaefer, now a special assistant in the Nationals' front office, recalls that Kemp was slow to back up plays, stopped taking fly balls during batting practice and declined to work on his throwing, diminishing his powerful arm.
"I had a few discussions with him about these parts of his game and his reply was, 'Why are you picking on me? I am good,' " Schaefer says.
"I said, 'First, I am not picking on you and second, you are not good. You are embarrassing yourself the way you play. Last year you won a Gold Glove, this year you are a poor fielder.'
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"Coaches and other players on other teams would ask me, 'What is wrong with your center fielder?' I have always told the players I coached, you get better if you work hard and you get worse if you don't work. He didn't work and he got worse."
Some perceived the differences between Kemp and coaches such as Schaefer, 67, and Larry Bowa, 65, as an old-school/new-age culture clash. Schaefer and Bowa, however, say they wanted only the best for Kemp, and Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti supports the view of his former coaches.
At one point last season, Kemp told the Los Angeles Times, in response to Bowa questioning his effort, "There's more there. I agree. It's something I need to sit here and think about and then change."
Stewart, Kemp's agent and the MVP of the 1989 World Series as a pitcher for the Oakland Athletics, acknowledges that the Kemp of 2010 was a lesser version of the one in '09.
Kemp hit a career-high 28 homers, but batted a career-low .249. His OPS declined from .842 to .760. His stolen-base total and success rate dropped markedly. He rated as one of the worst defensive center fielders in the majors, according to advanced metrics.
"In my opinion, was he the best player he could have been last year? Probably not," Stewart says. "He'll tell you that. He did say that. He admitted to that."
What turned it around? Only Kemp knows, and he declined to be interviewed for this article.
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However, his comeback reinforces a time-honored baseball lesson, one that is true even for players who possess immense talent, play for marquee franchises and date celebrities even more famous than themselves.
Young players take time.
Tough times in 2010
To Stewart, the trouble began less than one month into the 2010 season, when Colletti spoke disapprovingly of Kemp in an interview with a Los Angeles radio station.
Colletti said that Kemp's defense and base-running were below average and questioned whether the player had grown too comfortable in the first year of his new, two-year, $10.95 million contract.
"When your general manager is the first one to jump on you publicly, I'll always say that should never happen," says Stewart, who began his 16-year career with the Dodgers in 1978.
"You're talking about Dodger tradition. When Al Campanis was general manager of that club, when Peter O'Malley was the owner and Tommy Lasorda was the manager, there was never a time when Tommy didn't make every player out to be the best player in America.
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"You should never hear a general manager or staff publicly criticize a player. Whether he was playing well or not, it should not have happened."
In the team's view, however, the issue went beyond Kemp's on-field performance. To Bowa and others, he seemed distracted.
"The first two weeks of spring training, he came in with the greatest attitude I've ever seen a player have," recalls Bowa, who is now an analyst for MLB Network.
"He was energetic, outgoing, taking extra work. As spring training wore down, you could see it starting to tail. He got some life again around Opening Day. But by May, that was it. He was a completely different person."
Was it the new contract? The criticism from Colletti? A disconnect with the coaches? The difficult of maintaining a high-profile relationship with Rihanna during the season?
All of the above?
"I don't think it had anything to do with his ability," Bowa says. "But his mind was not in the place it needed to be when the game started."
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Privately, Dodgers people believe that Rihanna contributed to Kemp's lack of focus, citing a simple fact: The lifestyle of a pop star is different than the lifestyle of a baseball player who is in the middle of a 162-game grind.
Kemp and Rihanna broke up last December, according to published reports. Stewart, when discussing the impact of the relationship on Kemp, initially references his client's own comments.
"He said it himself: What he does in his personal life and private life away from baseball, in his opinion, does not affect what he does at the baseball stadium," Stewart says.
Stewart, though, does not necessarily share that opinion.
"He's a sensitive kid. He's learning to separate the two," Stewart says. "The baseball stadium is his own private domain. Nothing should enter that space.
"He hasn't quite harnessed that yet. This year is better. Every year he's getting better, with maturity, more time in the big leagues.
"It's not just his relationship with Rihanna. It's life in general. If it's not good, it finds a way to show itself with him. I think that's great. It's a rarity in people to be vulnerable enough to show that part of yourself."
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However, Stewart makes it clear that "as much as people want to blame Rihanna," Kemp also was sensitive to the public criticisms of him by the Dodgers.
Torre even benched Kemp for three games in June, punishing him, in part, for an argument he had with Schaefer, according to the Los Angeles Times.
"He got benched by Joe for his lack of effort and some reporters said he got benched because of me," Schaefer says. "I tried to keep him from getting benched and he would not change his ways."
However, Kemp slowly came around. In August, after one particularly rough game, Colletti said that he received a call from Stewart suggesting that he chat with Kemp. The two met later that day, in a private area of the Dodgers' clubhouse. The conversation lasted about 45 minutes. It was a man-to-man, open discussion, emotional in a good way, Colletti said.
Kemp acknowledged to Colletti that his play had been disappointing, even to himself. Colletti asked Kemp if he felt like he had been "carrying a lot of people on his back." When Kemp indicated yes, Colletti said, "take me off." The GM asked Kemp for maximum effort, nothing more.
The conversation proved a turning point in their relationship. How much did it contribute to Kemp's increased effort this season? Not even Colletti can say.
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"That's a question that I truly don't have an answer for," Colletti says. "I know his focus and dedication and work since spring training and in the winter time have been beyond reproach. He's locked in to not only saying he wants to be great, but doing everything, big and small, to get to that point.
"If that's a product of conversations he had last year, if that's a product of coaching, a product of him not willing to go through the type of year he had a year ago . . . those are all educated guesses. I don't know. He's the one person that can answer that. But his attention to the 'small things' inside a game has been excellent. Excellent."
Patience pays off
Of course, it's not just coaches and executives who grow impatient when a gifted young player fails to realize his potential. It's fans and sportswriters, too.
At one point last June, I wrote that the Dodgers should trade Kemp. My argument wasn't just that Kemp appeared to need a change, though that was part of it. The more significant part was that I saw no other way for the Dodgers to acquire a top-of-the-rotation starter, and that the team could not afford to keep together five prominent players, including Kemp, who were eligible for free agency after the 2012 season.
At the time, I thought the column made sense. Now? Well, could I have been any dumber?
It's an age of snap judgments, from managers and coaches trying to win games, front offices trying to justify big-money expenditures, media members trying to be first with cogent analyses.
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Baseball often requires greater patience.
"When you're a young player just getting into the game, sometimes you don't really understand the things that work for you and the things that don't," Stewart says.
"With this game, the more you play, the longer you play, the more you know about yourself, all around you're going to be better. It's the mental progression of baseball. When I was 39 and on my way out, there were still things I was learning."
Whatever lessons Kemp learned in 2010, he clearly is applying them this season. Stewart says that Kemp went back to basics, returning to his original strength and fitness coach in Arizona and others who "set him on a good path from the start" — and the right path now.
"Last year was a good learning experience for Matt," Schaefer says. "He knew he played poorly and I think he changed his work ethic."
Bowa concurs.
"(The criticism) might have paid off," Bowa says. "Maybe he went home this winter and said, 'Everyone can't be wrong about this.'
"This game will humble you real quick. It will bring you to your knees. You have to reach that low ebb before you go up again.
"You're going to get beat up at some time in your career. He got beat up last year. He didn't like it, getting ripped. In fairness, it might have done some good."
Maybe. Or maybe Kemp just needed to grow into the player he was destined to become all along.
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Well...we've been having fantastic weather. I can't believe it! It was 20C yesterday which is 68F!!!!
But tomorrow (Sunday) we're expecting snow and night time temps dropping down to -9C which is 15.8F. So winter is on the way. This snow probably won't stay. But my roses in pots - all 50 of them are going to be in the garage by tomorrow.
Watch out what you predict, Jim. We got down to around 20 last night and will again tonight, and it's now just Nov 22. Last year's January got down to 0 or close to it. This is abnormally cold, but it does happen. After being broiled alive all summer, we now are being turned into popsicles. Weather!
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"republicans hate everybody" REALLY?
Republicans give more than twice what Democrats give in charitable contributions.
In 2008 Arthur C. Brooks wrote a book that included information on this very question and found that even though on average Democrat households have higher incomes, the Republican or Conservative households donate more of their income. Republicans also donate more blood as well.
Anti-American sentiment? Wow. Really? :rolleyes: "No one wants to work for anything" is a generalized statement, implying that many people look for the easy way out and shy away from exerting excessive effort whenever necessary. I don't literally mean that "NO ONE" (not one single person) in this entire country is willing to work.... but I digress because I can see that my overall point has been missed entirely and I'm wasting my energy.
If it is true that liberals pay higher taxes, that is because they earn more and so, well, that is the way you figure taxes.
If you earn more, you have to pay more.
I would guess that if they didn't have to pay more they would not, of course.:lol:
I doubt that liberals say "I will just pay more taxes on my own, the government needs it to fund social programs to help the poor".:p
Anyway, if you're saying liberals earn more than conservatives...why would that be?
And, just to toss it into the mix, conservative red states view more online porn than blue states. :)
The disabled who depend on their disability checks? Those under 18 who didn't have a say in being born? Those with drug and alcohol addictions and other severe forms of mental illness? Veterans who are paraplegic? Those who were laid off from manufacturing industries that took their jobs to China and elsewhere? Those with severe learning disabilities that quit school because our schools are geared toward those that can regurgitate info and take a test but maybe can't think? So who are you specifically talking about?
Blue staters could opt for lower taxes and fewer benefits if they wanted to. We all could have lower taxes and fewer benefits if we wanted to. The government is not some giant troll that lives in D.C. or in state capitols and operates on its own. It is a group of people that we hire and fire at will. We generally just don't have the will to do much about them. It's sooooooo much easier to vote your party - no thinking or real facts required. :D
And imo, neither of the two big parties is really on the side of the average American. Both are controlled by money interests, so unless you are part of the top 1% or 2%, you don't have representation anymore.
Liz, who has no party and considers herself a Republidemotarian.
Conservatives give 30% more in charitable contributions than liberals, while earning 9% less income. They also donate more blood and volunteer more time. Conservatives are far more generous with their PERSONAL contributions, while liberals want to LEGISLATE (spend other people's money) on their social causes. I spent hours reading up on this and have yet to find anything that offers evidence to the contrary.
also, the working poor give a higher percentage of their income to charity than do the middle class or the upper class.
Not sure how those actually in need would see it...
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! Oh my goodness! Did someone really write "tune into Foxnews for balanced reporting"?!?! I just...WOW!
I just spent the last four hours canvassing door to door to get out the vote in my area. Please everyone, go vote. It is our civic duty as Americans as well as an honor to live in a country where we can vote for the candidate of our choice. In many states, today is the last day to do early voting, so if you are unable to go on election day, try to get in today. Your vote does matter.
Hence, I have a hard time imagining where your sources got their numbers-- maybe from tax returns, on which conservatives might be more likely than liberals to pursue and claim every possible deduction?