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As Dakpa Topgyal fled with his nomadic family over the frozen peaks of Tibet, the 9-year-old would never again see his birthplace, two of his sisters or the sacred mountain that soared over his homeland.
Buddhism basics
Buddhism is the fourth-largest religion in the world, but many Americans know little about it.Schools of BuddhismThere are three main schools: Theravada, Mahayana and Zen. Charleston's Tibetan monks practice Mahayana Buddhism. This practice aims to develop universal compassion and an altruistic intention to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all living beings, without exception.Its core practices include generosity, ethics, patience, joyous effort, meditation and wisdom.Buddhism 101Buddhists seek Enlightenment, or understanding of the true nature of life, though the Four Nobel Truths and the Eightfold Path. The Four Noble Truths:Life is frustrating and painful.This suffering is caused by craving. We suffer when we want other people to conform to our expectations, want others to like us, do not get something we want, desire material goods, etc.Suffering can be ended. The way to end suffering is through the Eightfold Path.The Eightfold Path:Right view, or the right way to view the world. Wrong view occurs when we impose our expectations and desires, such as wanting things to be a certain way or fearing how they might be. Right view occurs when we see things simply as they are. Right intention. If we abandon our expectations, hopes and fears, we no longer need to be manipulative. We work with what is. Intentions are pure.Right speech. We say what needs to be said in a genuine way.Right discipline. We practice simplicity. We give up frivolous complications that cloud our relationships.Right livelihood.Right effort. When we see things as they are, we can work with them gently and without aggression.Right mindfulness. We are mindful of the tiniest details of our experience: what we say, how we perform our jobs, our posture and our attitude toward our friends and family.Right concentration. We often are absorbed in absentminded-ness. Our minds are distracted by entertainment and worry. Right concentration means we are absorbed in this moment, in things as they are.Sources: Charleston Tibetan Society, Buddhanet, buddha101.com
Instead, after surviving Indian refugee camps and decades of intense study, he would tour the world trying to preserve his beloved Tibetan Buddhism.
To learn more
Join the Charleston Tibetan Society's celebration of the Tibetan New Year 5-8 p.m. Saturday at 12 Parkwood Ave., Charleston.For more about the Dharma Center's classes or the new year celebration, call 937-4849 or go to www.charlestontibetansociety.com.
In 1993, those travels brought him to a sultry American city, one that also treasures its unique culture and history. Soon, he would call it home.
About 18 years ago, Geshe Topgyal moved into the Charleston Tibetan Society's Dharma Center, a quaint two-story house behind Burke High School. The only man in all of South Carolina to wear the Tibetan monk's maroon robes, he taught and made many friends.
Yet a vacancy lingered within.
Back home in the monasteries, monks live as "brothers," men joined in pursuit of enlightenment and a dedication to teaching as did that most revered teacher, the Buddha.
In Charleston, Geshe Topgyal had no "brother," no one who truly understood.
Now that has changed.
Tibetan Buddhism in South Carolina has a new teacher — and the geshe a new brother.
New arrival
The Charleston Tibetan Center was founded in 1994 to raise awareness of Tibet's culture, refugees and plight under Chinese rule.
A year later, Geshe Topgyal arrived to serve as its resident monk.
They opened the Dharma Center in 1998. It has since grown to nearly 90 members who, along with the general public, come for Buddhist teachings, meditation, philosophy, chanting and prayers.
Then in 2002, the group opened a second center in Columbia. Joyful as he was to teach across South Carolina, traveling back and forth taxed Geshe Topgyal's time and energy.
"Due to many inconveniences, we needed another monk," he says.
By coincidence, Dharma Center senior student Razi Alici traveled to India.
There he met a young monk, Geshe Thupstan Tsultim, who hailed from an area near China's border that remains the largest Tibetan enclave beyond Tibet itself — one eyed by the Chinese.
"Our biggest fear is cultural genocide," Geshe Topgyal says. "They would do the same thing they did in Tibet."
And few things strike such fear in the monks as that possibility. It is why they work so fervently to introduce Tibetan Buddhism to the world.
Alici proposed an invitation: Would Geshe Tsultim like to join an older brother in South Carolina?
Unique cultures
The older geshe's fingers drift over sandalwood prayer beads as he talks with a sharp intellect and calm, intentional demeanor.
In the Holy City and beyond, he has become a common presence at interfaith panels and schools seeking multicultural speakers.
Yet for so long, something was missing.
"I was not lonely or isolated," Geshe Topgyal insists. "But sometimes I lacked that core family member."
He once strolled Folly Beach in his monastic robes and felt people's stares like the burning sun above.
That cultural singularity has lessened with Geshe Tsultim's arrival last April. At 33, it was the younger monk's first venture outside India.
The two sat in the Dharma Center's living room recently in matching maroon robes and shorn black hair.
"The people's nature here is very nice," Geshe Tsultim says, grinning. The kayaking isn't bad either.
He compares himself to a bird who will return to the nest of his homeland one day.
But now is a time for service. The greater need is to introduce people to Tibetan Buddhism.
He searches for the English words to explain why. The monks talk in Tibetan before Geshe Topgyal steps in.
"Keeping Tibetan culture in your heart is not very difficult," Geshe Topgyal explains. "But keeping Tibetan culture alive in the world is through teaching."
Fleeing home
As a boy, Geshe Topgyal had never seen a Chinese person. But he'd heard the stories.
His parents, nomadic herders in the remote northern Himalayas, spoke of a Chinese invasion of Tibet, of monks tortured and monasteries ruined.
But the Communist army would have to ride horses or yaks over the Himalayas to reach Topgyal and his family.
Surely they wouldn't make it.
In 1968, they did.
Two of his sisters were working at the family's main base 100 miles away when Topgyal's parents made a wrenching choice: They would leave the sisters to save the rest.
The family fled into a gusty, frigid night to trek over the mountains. A sheet of ice split open, gulping two of their yaks into a dark abyss.
Eventually, they reached an Indian refugee camp with 700 Tibetan refugees and scarce water or sanitation. Death plagued every family. One of his sisters and a brother died.
Two months later, they moved to a larger, safer refugee camp in South India.
Topgyal's father, a devoted Buddhist, met the abbot of the world's largest Buddhist monastery who was operating near the camp.
At 10, Topgyal left his family's tent and joined the monks. Decades of study later, the Dalai Lama ordained him.
Then the monks sent him to lecture and do research at universities in Vienna, Germany, France, Switzerland and other nations.
At times, he struggled to accept the excess of wealth and materialism so contrary to Buddhism. But in 1992, after 24 years of work, he received the title of geshe, the highest monastic degree in Buddhism. The next year, he joined the World Peace Tour of Tibetan Monks. They stopped in 120 cities in 13 months.
It was a blur of lectures and travel.
Until the 86th stop.
When they arrived in Charleston, Geshe Topgyal felt a primal connectedness to the city. Perhaps in an earlier life, he had lived on these salt-aired shores of the Atlantic.
A year after the tour ended, Topgyal received an invitation from the Tibetan society: Would he become its resident teacher?
No threat
Students arrive at Charleston's Dharma Center for a midweek class, sitting in serene silence on cushions in a prayer room awash in brilliant hues of red, orange and yellow.
Geshe Topgyal leads them through a series of prostrations and meditative chants before beginning.
Last week, they discussed generosity. He compares it to a seed planted within a person.
"If you plant the seed on a rock, it will not grow," he says. "But if you plant it in fertile soil, it will germinate and sprout. Morality and ethics are like the fertile soil that will allow the seed of compassion to grow and bring maximum fruit."
Universal ethics, he explains, should not be motivated by threat of arrest or judgment from God.
Morality must be motivated from within.
"It is a wholesome way of life through voluntarily restraining from deeds that are harmful to one's self or others," he says.
The students take detailed notes, and he often calls out questions to be sure they understand.
Often, guests come here "fed up with their faiths," Geshe Topgyal says.
Some are upset over conflict within their congregations or after church sex scandals arise, but not necessarily to leave their faiths. Buddhism does not espouse God as creator, so it can be compatible.
"You can use it to make your own faith more effective," he says.
Student Heather Crotts agrees. She grew up a Christian Scientist and recently became a Buddhist. She notes that Buddhism's emphasis on "loving kindness" reflects many faiths.
However, Buddhism provides practical ways to apply concepts like loving kindness and mindfulness, Crotts says.
Geshe Topgyal compares it to providing a recipe and a menu "so you are confident to go into the kitchen and learn to cook."
"You train one's mind and then one's heart," he adds. "This is unique to Buddhism — and is most needed."
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Polite, unoffensive manner to refer to someone as an asshole.
He is such an *A hole*.
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The polite way to use the wonderful expletive, ASSHOLE. They use this ALL the time on the radio (Jim Rome) but I mean cmon, it means the same damn thing...
Los Angeles Lakers are a bunch of lazy A-holes.
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a shorter way to say asshole
You Ahole
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Ass hole
that A-hole thinks that car is a jetta
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a playful way of calling someone and asshole when they really are, but you dont want to sound mean :]
Goddamnit Jeff you are such an ahole.
There are WAY TOO MANY aholes in this vicinity right now.
There are WAY TOO MANY aholes in this vicinity right now.
von x0jessicaaax 1. April 2007
A way of making a humerous jesture on calling someone asshole for when they do something assholishly stupid.
As the Globe smashed Dr. Evil in the balls he yelled "Way to Go! AHOLE!
von Badger187 20. August 2008
short and less swearing way of saying Asshole
"you A-holes are in trouble now"
"what an A-hole"
"you A-holes are crap"
"what an A-hole"
"you A-holes are crap"
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The Mill Creek and Huttonsville area was hit hard by Friday's storm and many homes are still without power.
Downed trees and damaged power lines along U.S. 250/Rt. 92 still mark the weekend's devastation from high winds.
However, the solidarity and resilience of the area's residents were just as visible along the roads Monday, where teams of neighbors could be seen removing fallen trees and cleaning up damage.
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Along U.S. 250, neighbors Jody Swecker, Robert Casey, Bob Casey, John Kabler and Keith Holesberry worked together to saw and move 10 large trees from their own properties and neighbors' residences.
"We're all neighbors, and this is what neighbors do," Swecker said about the work the group had accomplished.
Mill Creek Fire Department Chief Rodney McAtee said Mill Creek and the surrounding areas were without power from Friday night to Sunday afternoon.
"Mill Creek also ran out of water," McAtee said. "We ran out at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday, and we had to borrow a generator from the Huttonsville Public Service District."
Through the use of the generator, the town's water supply was replenished by approximately 1:30 a.m. Sunday, McAtee said.
In order to ensure public safety, the Mill Creek Fire Department offered free water from its 8,000-gallon tanker truck at the fire house. However, McAtee said nobody had come to them for water yet.
Despite the power outage, McAtee also said local businesses did everything they could to serve the community.
Kay Simmons, an employee at Bob's Mini Mart in Mill Creek, said the business used its generator to make sure everyone could purchase items.
"It was pretty bad," Simmons said. "But we tried to make sure everybody got what they needed. We closed after dark Friday night and opened back up in the morning."
Fuel, ice and bread were the most sought-after commodities, she said.
In Huttonsville, the water supply wasn't exhausted, but the storm did cause considerable damage.


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" the UH Warriors just beat notre dame, ho forealz? BOOM KANANI!! "
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The act of booming a kanani, usually said when a situation is triumphed.
Robotic Machine: "You've just won 2948302948 Million Dollars!"
Guy: "YES! BOOM KANANI!"
Guy: "YES! BOOM KANANI!"
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Billie Joe is seeking treatment for substance abuse. We would like everyone to know that our set was not cut short by Clear Channel and to apologize to those we offended at the iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas. We regretfully must postpone some of our upcoming promotional appearances.
Billie Joe is seeking treatment for substance abuse. We would like everyone to know that our set was not cut short by Clear Channel and to apologize to those we offended at the iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas. We regretfully must postpone some of our upcoming promotional appearances.
my wishes go to u Billy Joe,
my wishes go to u Billy Joe, hurry back, and I agree with everything he says
I don't know why you were so
I don't know why you were so upset because all you guys basically were anyways was the opening band for Rihanna. If you don't like it then quit being media whores that play pop fest. Either way F Justin Beiber.
What BJA said was totally
What BJA said was totally right... someone had to say this some day. But I don't think that he needs treatment, he lives with his family and there is no way to appear with this "substance abuse". This is called Marketing.
This is not the first time he
This is not the first time he has freaked out. He is under alot of pressure. I dont blame him. They have been around since 88 and for some little teeny bopper to come along and get more time then him i would be pissed too. That is one of the reason's I love him, he stands up and speaks his mind. They only people he offened are the teeny boppers. I heard alot of applause so didnt sound like any one was offened in my opinion. Well all know billie joe has always used drugs and if he feels like it's time to get help I will support him throughout it. Whatever his decsion is I have and always will be one of their biggest fans whether he gets help or not. He has let the drugs control him. I just dont understand why people are making a big deal about it. He doesnt need to be controlled by the media. It's his life and he decides how to live it. I've used drugs and occasionally do, so I can understand how he is feeling, it gets to the point where you have just had enough of that lifestyle. I dont care if he does drugs as long as he doesn't let them control his life but that's his decision, but i want him to be around for as long as possible for his sons. We all need to support him in his decisions. He is my inspiration and role model. He is inspiring me too get help myself even though I use them occasionally, cocaine maybe 3-4 times a year, so i can better myself. Thank you billie for being my inspiration and role model. Love you always.
You are sorry ? YOU ARE SORRY
You are sorry ? YOU ARE SORRY ?! I can't believe it. This fuckin' channel gave you juste one fuckin' minute and YOU are sorry ?! I can't believe it. You just have to be fuckin' proud ! Get well soon BJA, I'm so fuckin' proud to love GreenDay ;)
(We are waiting for you in France !)
I agree with Hiatt. Nothing
I agree with Hiatt. Nothing but true!
Get well soon, Billie Joe.
Get well soon, Billie Joe. We love you!!! Can't wait to see you in Fairfax, VA in January. Really looking forward to the new albums! You're the best!!!
Get well Billie!We love you
Get well Billie!We love you very much!
Get help Billie!Do it for
Get help Billie!Do it for yourself and youf family!I'm sure you will overcome even this.We will be here waiting for you. WE LOVE YOU !!!
always with you ... always
always with you ... always with your music .. always with your voice that takes me in every moment of life ....
Get well soon Billie. Love
Get well soon Billie. Love you guys. See you in Toronto!
Take whatever time you need,
Take whatever time you need, just get well.
id be mad to they let have
id be mad to they let have usher have all the time and he didnt really offend any one hes just saying that he is not new like Beiber?? so they shouldn't let all these new ppl going over there show
It's understandable that you
It's understandable that you got angry Billie! So don't apologize, 'cause it wasn't fair!
I'm so inspired by all of you, and I can't wait to buy !Uno! tomorrow!
And I hope you'll get well soon, Billie !
Do not apologise! Every true
Do not apologise! Every true GD fan is behind you 100%
I love you so much Billie, get better soon baby♥♥
Good for him
Good for him
Putting any rehab issue aside
Putting any rehab issue aside...when a band chooses to participate in these bullshit promotional dog & pony shows..they KNOW time is tight to stay on schedule and not screw the next artist out of THEIR time. If it was a GREEN DAY show and a stage manager was giving me the hook---I'd have done the same thing....and publicly called the douchebag out on stage.. If it was MERELY a preplanned stunt to generate sales...I would think a band as GREAT and as HUGE as Green Day would no longer have to result to BIEBER-ESQUE antics as that.
Yeah! Haha. Got some
Yeah! Haha. Got some flashbacks there when Billie Joe went crazy on stages back in the 90s.
I honestly dont know what you
I honestly dont know what you could be "abusing" i mean im not sure if you were drunk or whatever, but thats just the thing to do when youve been around for 20+ years and your set gets cut for usher and shit like that. you dont need to apologize man...pretty much everyone there in that crowd was there to see nicki minaj or justin bieber. you guys deserve a grammy or something for that performance, im proud of you all.
DO NOT APOLOGIZE!!!!!!!! keep
DO NOT APOLOGIZE!!!!!!!! keep it rockin, man...fuck everyone else, haha
I am looking at the footage
I am looking at the footage from the "incident" show and other recent shows, and it does not seem as if "hard drugs" are the issue, HOWEVER, we are not privy to what he is doing inside of his personal life. Just know that I worked in treatment as a Nurse for 3 years in my 13 years as a RN and a fan, I can tell you that no one gets well unless they want to. So be that as it may...get wherever you want to be Billie. LG from the LBC.
I was on the Jimmy Kimmel
I was on the Jimmy Kimmel Live site, and they said that Green Day would be appearing? This was last night. Of course we are all worried and hopeful that whatever is going on with you BJ, you are taking time to take care of yourself. I suggest going to Eric Clapton's treatment place and re-charging your batteries! Then you can get centered, get fit AND ADD A LA DATE TO THE END OF THE TOUR! Much love and support, Peace.
I really am proud of this
I really am proud of this band.I don't want what happened to legends like Heath Ledger happen to him too. He is a father. I have always followed him like my father. I love u guys. I wish you a speedy recovery Billie. We're with you.
Billie, we all love you, we
Billie, we all love you, we're all on your side. Whatever's wrong, know that you've got SO much support. I don't know what's going on with you, but I hope everything sorts itself out. We got 3 new records and a tour to celebrate! Chin up, Honey!
ClearChannel SUCKS and you
ClearChannel SUCKS and you were spot on for calling them out. Too bad your management doesn't have the balls to take advantage of them screwing you guys instead of sucking up to them to make sure you get airplay!
Bravo Billie.. Now that is
Bravo Billie.. Now that is fuckin' rock 'n' roll. DO NOT CHANGE A THING. I will see you in January, You better smash the shit out of everything on stage. Drink Up!
Come on, Really?... Really?
Come on, Really?... Really? Seeking treatment? Green Day is by far my favorite band and has been since the early 90's and this is the most Rock & Roll thing Green Day has ever done. You were so right Billie. That was bullshit. Such a huge act like Green Day deserves more time than what they gave em. You rock Billie!! Just because Billie got a bit drunk and told it how it was, doesn't mean he needs help. They were rushing Green Day off to bring up a fuckin' DJ? Are you kidding me? The only way that night could've been any better is if Green Day came back out and played "Kill The DJ" in the middle of that douches set. "Hold him under water til that mother fucker drowns" Green Day... You Rock!!!!
Billie, i'm with you. i'll be
Billie, i'm with you. i'll be with you ever.
oh shit...come on, we love
oh shit...come on, we love you!


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The colorfully illuminated "Night Lights at the Gardens" returns next Wednesday to Feb. 16 at Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens.
The show, from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, and until 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, uses innovative lighting, art and entertainment to transform the Botanical Gardens' historic architecture and vast horticultural collection.
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Campus Ministry > Faith Traditions at SLU
In hopes of nurturing the spirituality of all SLU students, Campus Ministry works together with religious leaders and ministers of different faiths.
Click on the name of your religious affiliation to find out more about resources at SLU:
We find inspiration in the following words from the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue for our collaboration:
"We recognize that in the interrelated context of our contemporary lives, inter-religious cooperation is no longer an option but a necessity. One could say that to be religious today is to be inter-religious. Religion will prosper in this century only to the extent that we can maintain a sense of community among people of different religious beliefs who work together as a human family to achieve a world of peace."
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Procedure taken when it is easier to break people off into autonomous groups rather than attempt any sort of compromise, understand, or advancement of society. Often politically advantageous due to appealing to small minds, and exaggerates all previous issues that led to the segregation in the first place.
People of different colours are rape and pillage our towns and detroy our moral culture, so we should use segregation to keep them away from us. Note the idiocy of such a claim
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putting people or things apart from the rest because of color or size.
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When having anal sex with a girl using her shit as lube you cum inside of her and she lets it drip on the table... Black and white
Segregation really turns me on
লিখেছেন- MartinLuther&MalcolmX 16 de নভেম্বার de 2011
a beautiful thing. it comes in 2 forms wrongful as in african aparteid and the american segregation which was blatant discrimination. and the rightful as in the north of ireland 2 peoples not living side by side not because of political or racial agression or influence its because we hate them as much as they hate us, its just a pity there is no massive walls to keep them away from us.
segregation for the north of ireland is good and the way its always been and should be
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Hoard's Dairyman: Heifer raising and its effects on udder development
Heifer raising and its effects on udder development
by Kristy Daniels
The author is in the Department of Animal Sciences at The Ohio State University, Wooster.
Relating heifer-feeding strategy to milking herd performance has been
a 100-year challenge. We're beginning to get answers.
Rearing dairy heifers so that they become productive members of the herd is a goal that all dairy farmers strive to achieve. For more than a century, researchers have been investigating how nutritional management strategies can help farmers attain this goal.
In 1906, C. H. Eckles at the University of Missouri embarked upon what was to be an eight-year experiment centered on defining, if possible, practical ways for producing quality milk cows through heifer management strategies. The research he did was aimed at addressing the question of, "Does a good dairy cow or an inferior one derive her special dairy characteristics by inheritance, or is it a result of her treatment from birth to maturity?" Eckles' work was practical and focused on monitoring feed intake and overall body growth measures followed by milk production. The results that Eckles found hinted at the possibility that diet can impair milk production, but udders were not directly measured for effects on growth or tissue development.
Questions remained
It would take the passing of roughly 50 years before nutritional effects on udder tissue composition were considered as a possible explanation for the reduced milk yield observed in some instances. In the late 1970s/early 1980s, researchers designed multiple experiments that primarily used weaned heifers to examine the effects of nutrition on mammary development. Initial findings suggested that animals showed impaired mammary development when fed high-energy diets prior to the onset of puberty but not afterwards. Thus, researchers generally extended their conclusions to imply that the entire time from birth to puberty represented a time where the udder may be harmed by elevated daily body weight gains achieved through nutritional strategies. However, this is not necessarily true. It must be remembered that results should be interpreted within the context under which they were conducted. So, while initial conclusions likely were valid for weaned heifers, what about preweaned heifers? Might they respond differently to diet?
Going younger
About a decade ago, scientists revisited the study of nutritional effects on mammary development. This time they looked at preweaned heifers. The general consensus was that, at this stage of life, elevated nutrient intake actually may have positive effects on mammary development, much like what is seen with frame growth. As a result, the past decade has produced a great volume of experimental work focused on the nutritional management of preweaned heifers and measures of mammary growth and development, and, unfortunately to a lesser extent, subsequent milk production.
In the early 2000s, researchers at Michigan State University showed that higher energy and protein intakes commonly associated with "accelerated" calf growth programs added to growth of mammary parenchymal tissue (the epithelial portion of the gland that will one day secrete milk). If subsequent milk production had been measured in those animals, there may have been higher milk production due to enhanced development of this tissue, but we have no way of knowing this. Nonetheless, studies such as this have painted a slightly different picture of the effects of nutrition on mammary growth and development in preweaned heifers. This period of growth seems to be a time when the udder is not adversely affected by level of nutrition. In fact, many signs actually seem to point toward a positive effect.
Possible reasons
The biological reasons for this still are largely unknown. Many in the field ponder whether these newer findings simply are associated with the attainment of "normal growth" in calves that are not limit-fed. An alternative is that the various nutrients fed to preweaned heifers fundamentally alter the growth trajectory of the udder in some way that may have lifetime consequences. To that end, various research groups recently have observed that the two main types of tissue in the udder respond differentially to diet in preweaned heifers.
The parenchyma, reproductive tissue really, appears to be less impacted by diet than the mammary fat pad (the supporting tissue in the udder that does not play a direct role in milk secretion). It is the fat pad that directly responds to elevated nutrient supply by growing in size and fat content. This tells us that, despite not being fully functional until roughly 24 months of age, the mammary glands of heifer calves are far from inactive. These findings call for further study into the role of nutrition on early-life mammary growth and development.
Difficult research
From a production standpoint, it is undesirable to study mammary gland development and composition at select time points without having corresponding milk yield data. Likewise, having only milk yield data without an idea of the influences on mammary development and composition is undesirable from a mammary biology standpoint. These challenges have permeated 100 years of study in this area.
While it is easy to measure such things as initial body weight and final body weight, it is difficult, if not impossible, to measure initial parenchyma and mammary fat pad weights and compare them to final weights as measures of mammary growth in the same animal. Finding a solution to these challenges and many others while addressing experimental pursuits is daunting but not impossible.
As mentioned, the ultimate goal for those in this field is to find a way to rear heifers as efficiently as possible without negative consequences for their milk yield potential in the herd. Scientists and industry collaborators could benefit mutually from combined efforts to finally get to the bottom of diet-induced changes in mammary growth and development. Over 100 years of uncertainty is long enough!


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Dr. Robert M. Friedlander, M.D., (third from left), of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery, was the featured speaker in the Saint Vincent College Boyer School Lecture Series on November 7 in the Dr. Frank J. Luparello Lecture Hall. Welcoming him to the Sis and Herman Dupré Science Pavilion were, from left, Andrew Egan, a junior biology major from North Huntingdon; Karalyn Hillebrecht, a junior biology major from Pittsburgh (15226), and Michael Bartkowski, a senior biology major from Natrona Heights. Dr. Friedlander is chair and professor of neurological surgery, UPMC endowed professor of neurosurgery and head of cerebrovascular neurosurgery at UPMC Presbyterian. His talk was entitled, "Role of Cell Death Pathways in Neurologic Diseases and a Career as a Physician Scientist."


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Elisha Powers, who has turned 4 since the incident last week, saw her father, Shawn Powers, bleeding after he accidentally cut his right arm with a machete as he was chopping branches.
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Ok, I'm pretty fed up with the way xbox/ microsoft offers people things like 800 points and then doesn't deliver or how their rewards for renewing subscriptions never actually show up in a HUGE PERCENTAGE of the accounts that are created for rewards. I am keeping track of the next incentive/ scam here.
Today, 4-11-12 I have played two hours (the longest most boring hours of my life) of Gunstringer, a Kinect game.
I will also log in to my facebook account and leave it up and open for one hour.
This should take care of two out of three requirements for triple play. I know that my Hulu hours are already up for the month of April but just in case I will also leave my xbox on to stream 10 hours of HuluPlus. Lets see you find an excuse for not giving me the 300 points. Are you not going to find my email again this time like you did with the 800 MS points offer that brought me here in the first place? Or are you just not going to reward the points and then not respond to requests for action?
Today, 4-11-2012,
I played Gunstringer from 3pm-5pm - Gaming complete
I ran facebook from 5pm till about 7pm - Social completed
I ran HuluPlus from 7pm until about 8:40pm.
I hope your question gets answered MisterBrownEyes. I too have kept track of my progress for these points,
I chose to do 10 hours of online gaming (ME3 and Halo helped out big time), used MSN on MSNBC.com for over 10 hours, and watched youtube for over an hour. I doubt I will get my credit too but I am hopefully optomistic.
Sorry you had to play Gunstringer btw...
I hope you get your points, but for the record the majority of things that goes wrong are the consumers fault not the companies.
The customer is always right.
Browneyes>> If you ever worked in a company before, like I have, you know that is a false statement.
Ambassador, not an employee from Microsoft.
i usually get my points but its hard for me to track since stats havent updated since febuary
Gem - In my 20's I worked in sales, customer service and client relations/ event management for three very large companies in NYC. While technically you are right, in principle you do the best to give the customer what they want, to make them feel like they are always right.
A company's reputation can be made or broken by the quality of customer service. And this rewards program does pretty much everything wrong. I take it back, they've done exactly everything wrong. Meanwhile, I don't have my 800 sign up points and as long as I don't I'm going to continue to voice my concerns on this forum.
Today, 4-14-2012 I watched HuluPlus from 12PM until 3:48PM when gold signed me out for whatever reason, now I'm back on as of 3:50PM.
I already have my facebook req met, and my gaming req met. This brings my Hulu total hours to 5.5 hours. And that's only since the time I started tracking for triple play, I already had hours on hulu before then.
Update for 4-14-2012,
Turning hulu off now for the day unless girlfriend wants to watch shows later. I have been on from 12PM until 6:44PM (put on a few movies and went to run errands). This puts me at well over 6.5 hours today, plus well over 1.5 hours the previous day I was on, for a total of 8 hours so far.
Add one more hour of Hulu tonight, so that puts me at well over 9 hours.
this is what i have done so far i better get me points
YOUTUBE is find a video thats says 1.10mins long play it then leave xbox for that time then theres your hour on youtube,
ONLINE, just look at the time you have played game for then start playing (for instent i played mw3 looked at time it was 6day59hours so i played till the time says 7day22hours so i no i have racked up well over 10hours)
NETFLIX, is what i used i signed up for 30day trial netflix tells you what you have watched so i no how meny hours i have racked up so far i have watched over 15films each fillm is over 1hour long so i no i have racked up over 15hours on netflix
can someone tell me if black opz zombies or team deathmatch counts as online multi-player gaming for the 10 hours needed. I currently have a few hours watched on iplayer and will do the 1 hour on youtube.
This is my 1st time posting in the forum so sorry if i have posted in wrong place :)
i wish there was some kind of way to track our progress :(
ive got the 10 hrs of multi player, got the 1 hr of facebook, and am trying to watch muzu.tv for 10 hrs. guess im gonna just let it play videos over and over so there is no way they can tell me i didnt watch 10 hours video!
A pop up or email when you hit it would be great. It's crazy to worry about those points like this but I need them to push me over the pending threshold.
I started on the 10th, I just hit 12 hours of gaming on Homefront, I'm fairly certain I have everything for youtube and I got iHeartradio app streaming about 4 hours every morning.


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Elementary Energy: Electrical, Analytical and Illuminative Thinking
This course takes an in-depth look at how to save a butt-load of electricity. This course will illuminate the connection between pushing "on" buttons and increasing Westminster's carbon footprint.
The course will empower students with a variety of highly complex skills, such as unplugging things and putting on a sweater. Students will be charged to consider electricity as the chief campus contributor to climate change.
Prerequisite: Flip the Switch 101.
Course Readings:
Learn more about what greenhouse gasses are and where they come from
Introduction to Water Conservation: Desert Consciousness, Aquatic Responsibility, and Hydrological Awareness
This course explores connections between wasting water and the effect it can have on natural waterways. For example, the fact that the Colorado River can no longer reach the sea. We will take an in-depth approach to methods of showering, washing hands, and brushing teeth.
It is important for students to know that we live in a desert, and water waste is not something to be taken lightly. The practical analysis of our dry climate will lead students to not be water-hogs. Course is well suited for anyone whose body is up to 75% water.
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Macro Wasteonomics: Hands-on Active Recycling
A study of how individuals and organizations dispose of their waste. We will cover the theories surrounding the nation's and world's waste production as a whole.
We will highlight the fact that Americans throw away their weight in garbage every month.
We will include a study of the relationship between not recycling and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (a big patch of plastic twice the size of Hawaii that floats in the Pacific Ocean).
The disparity between resource input and waste output will be examined (i.e. closing the loop).
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Overconsumption and Our Garbage by the Numbers
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We will explore applications of how you're getting yourself places. We will analyze the variables that contribute to your impact on air quality, and awareness of SLC's summer and winter inversion are highlighted.
The concept of "smogging" (putting out airborne, cancer-causing pollutants that other people have to breathe) will be particularly stressed.
By the end of this course, you will know that your student ID is actually a UTA bus pass, how to rent a bike from Westminster Bike Collective (or learn to fix your own), and how to effectively bum rides up the canyons.
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We will explore the concept of "Vagrant Vegetables," a phenomenon in which veggies and other foods travel an average of 1,300 miles from farm to fork. Connections will be made between Vagrant Vegetables and climate change (one year of importing foods to California created the equivalent in Greenhouse gasses of nearly 40,000 cars on the road*).
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Add specialty details to timeless Simplicity sewing patterns and instantly enhance your decor. Simplicity Education Director Joy Macdonell will provide you with the personalized support you need to create custom piping, ruffles, topstitching and more. Sew professional-looking details, including envelope closures and invisible zippers that make it easy to change out your decor at a moment's notice. Plus, find out how to create your own fringe, tassels and covered buttons for a unique twist on these classic adornments. By the end of this class, you'll have essential skills for sewing designer touches that lend personality and charm to any room.
Meet your instructor, home decor sewist and television host Joy Macdonell. Gain an overview of the techniques you'll learn in class that can be applied to pillows and many other projects of your choosing, including pillows, curtains, slipcovers and more!
Dive into basic decorative seams and finishes with Joy's expert advice along the way. Begin with an overview of how to choose fabrics, learning how to identify grain and bias lines that will work best for your projects. Then Joy demonstrates how to measure, cut and sew piping, including tips on how to avoid puckers and achieve gracefully curved corners. Finish the lesson with Joy's tips for seamlessly joining purchased braided cord, from start to finish.
Learn how fun ruffles can be as you work through a wide variety of styles. You'll have a close-up view of Joy's techniques for creating fold-over, circular, hem-stitched, two-toned and chic tubular ruffles. You'll be amazed by the "wow" factor of your finished ruffled pillow projects!
Explore a variety of designer edges and the construction techniques for each type. Start by creating topstitched flanged borders that add a touch of delicate movement to each pillow. Then learn how to use the playful vintage look of rickrack in surprisingly modern ways. You'll finish by creating a tidy bound edge that can add a beautiful pop of color to any project.
Experiment with texture and dimension as Joy walks you through the steps for creating three new design details. Start with a chunky pom-pom trim that can provide the perfect complement to any color in your fabric. Then learn how to create your own fringed fabric tassels from scratch, and attach them to the corners of a pillow to add a fun burst of personality. Finally, learn how quick and easy it can be to create fabric-covered buttons from virtually any fabric in your stash.
Tackle your first envelope pillow in a fun overview of this classic design. You'll learn how to work with any pillow pattern, including professional tips on how to cut and store the pattern pieces. Then cut your fabric and sew the envelope back with Joy's troubleshooting tips along the way. You'll love how easy it is to remove and change out your pillowcases using this elegant design.
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Sen. Joe Manchin's essay regarding violence and gun control was interesting, but the senator neglected to mention two key aspects of the problem - the breakdown of society's basic social unit, the family, and the occasional folly of our criminal justice system.
Regarding the latter, consider that William Spengler, who killed two firefighters in Webster, N.Y., last week, had a troubled past. He was convicted of manslaughter after killing his grandmother with a hammer in 1980. Manslaughter, mind you, not murder. He was given an indeterminate sentence, spent 18 years behind bars and was released. Oh, he was placed on "supervised parole," but while on "supervised parole," he obtained various guns that were used to kill the firefighters last week.
Yes, Spengler killed the firefighters, but their blood also is on the hands of the judge, the defense attorney, the prosecuting attorney, the parole board (and its supervisors) and the prison system. What's more, their blood also is on our hands, because we have not paid close enough attention and worked hard enough to ensure that our criminal justice agencies can protect us from the William Spenglers of the world.
But there's more to the violence we're witnessing today, and Sen. Manchin touched on several factors. Sadly, he neglected to mention a fundamental cause, the erosion of the family.
In years past, children were taught values and socially acceptable behavior primarily by their parents Today, many parents have opted out and are allowing others to shape their children.
Those parents may not know how to raise children, or they may not care. Consider:
In Newtown, Conn., news reports suggest that the killer, Adam Lanza, 20, came from a broken and dysfunctional home. They further suggest that he was mentally unstable but was introduced to guns by his mother, who would later become one of his victims.
The audience attending "The Dark Knight" in Aurora, Colo., the night of the theater shooting included young children brought to the theater by their parents. Why would any parent knowingly expose his or her child to the scenes of unspeakable violence in such a movie?
What is the solution? Today, I see only one. Involve our school systems even more in the upbringing of children - especially children from dysfunctional homes. And we can do that by hiring more counselors, especially in the early grades, to work with troubled families - the kids and their parents - with the goals of establishing healthy habits and helping the children develop into responsible citizens.
I've mentioned this to a couple of members of the Randolph County Board of Education, and they are quick to say that they are hamstrung by state regulations and a lack of funds. Perhaps, but they also show no interest in figuring out how to provide more counselors. How sad.
Sen. Manchin likes the idea of a non-elected, government-sanctioned body with "teeth" to attack our problem of violence today, and he points with pride to the commission that investigated the 9/11 attack.
I do not share the senator's enthusiasm, and he should be aware that huge gaps in national security remain more than a decade after publication of the 9/11 report. I fear that a panel looking into violence will be similarly ineffective and that the violence will continue and worsen, with more innocent people being killed because our basic social unit, the family, is disintegrating.
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I am writing in response to a letter that was written by Sandy Harshbarger and published in the Mirror on April 12.
Since some members of the Altoona Area school board were accused of being "ill informed," I would like to point out that Harshbarger is the one who is ill informed.
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I make my decisions based upon what I feel is in the best interest of the students and the district.
The matter at issue in the letter is still under investigation. Once the investigation is concluded, we will all have the facts, and then the taxpayers can feel free to make their own judgments based upon whatever the truth may be.
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For more than 35 years, new-vehicle dealers have donated Little Anne cardiopulmonary resuscitation training manikins to hospitals, police and fire departments and schools in the U.S. through the Medical Grants program of the National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation.
Reineke Family of Dealerships, in conjunction with the National and Ohio Automobile Dealer Associations, presented a Little Anne Automated External Defibrillator Training Unit to the American Red Cross Thursday at the West Market Street location in Tiffin.
"The American Red Cross is a very important piece to our community as well as across the nation" said Bill Reineke, Ohio director for the National Automobile Dealer Association. "We are happy to contribute to their efforts in helping those in need."
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Mary Ellen Coneglio, director of programs and services for the American Red Cross in Northern Ohio, points out features of the automated external defibrillator training unit.
Accepting the donation for the Red Cross were David Conley, director for Fostoria and Seneca County, and Mary Ellen Coneglio, director of programs and services in Northern Ohio. Representing the dealership were Bill Reineke, Dan Reineke, Suzie Reineke and Stacey Reineke. Stacey is a board member with the Hancock County Red Cross.
Coneglio said the manikins have always been a useful tool for training and demonstrations, but the newer units are lighter and more compact than earlier models. In addition, they now have been combined with AED training units. Many buildings now have defibrillators, so workers in those places can learn CPR and the use of an AED at the same time. Zach Doran of the Ohio Automobile Dealers Association said the association is to distribute 16 manikins throughout the state.
The Little Anne AED Training Unit will be used in the American Red Cross Northwestern Region of Ohio, an area that stretches from Toledo to Lima and from the Indiana border to Bucyrus. The region conducts training classes in private companies, community facilities, schools and other organizations for staff and the general public.
"Red Cross training in CPR and the use of automated external defibrillators is an essential link to learning lifesaving skills." said Coneglio. "We will be using this unit mostly for demonstrations at health fairs, presentations and for teaching. This unit will allow us to demonstrate the skills and then immediately have the student practice what they have learned."
Coneglio added the Red Cross uses manikins all the time. They have saved thousands of lives, and she expects the new unit to instruct thousands of people over its lifespan. The training unit does not deliver an electrical charge, but it allows a person to learn when to breathe, where to place the pads, how to plug them in and when to activate the unit. The AED trainer talks the life saver through the steps in using it, including when it should not be used. Almost everyone can learn the process.
"This size is able to be used for children and adults ... It's a very simple piece of equipment to take somewhere, open it up and put it on a table," Coneglio said.
Conley hopes Red Cross instructors can teach classes at Heidelberg University and Tiffin University.
"The colleges are actually looking at us more as a partner now. I've actually gone to Tiffin University a couple of times already," Conley said. "Their RAs (resident assistants) all have to have first aid, CPR and AED before they can even apply for the RA program."
"I think this is very important," Bill Reineke concluded. "I appreciate the Ohio Auto Dealers and the National Auto Dealers' interaction with the community. ... I think it's important to give back to our area."


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Rochette will not compete at Sochi Olympics
Starting a new thread b/c I don't think she had said so definitively up until this point. (Sorry if I missed a previous news item.)
Joannie Rochette will have different role at Sochi Olympics
Nick Zaccardi
Sep 16, 2013, 1:07 PM EDT
Excerpt (see full text for more quotes from Rochette herself):
Joannie Rochette wont be competing, but the Canadian figure skater who displayed tremendous courage in winning bronze in 2010 will still be at the Sochi Olympics. ... She hasnt competed at a major national or international event since and will go to Sochi with Canadian TV broadcaster CBC and sponsor Visa.
She said the decision not to try for a third Olympic berth just came naturally.
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Looks like Taylor Swift will have some fresh material for her next album!
The pop star, 22, and beau Conor Kennedy, 18, are over, sources confirm to PEOPLE.
The pair, who enjoyed a whirlwind summer romance frolicking through Hyannis Port, Mass., showing several public displays of affection, split a while ago.
"His friends have said it's over," says a source at his school, the Deerfield Academy, adding, "I have the feeling she ended it."
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In August, a source told PEOPLE Swift was "swept off her feet" by her then-boyfriend.
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EAST PALESTINE - The high school head football coach who was absent from the last game of the season has stepped down.
Gare Mattes told Superintendent George Fisk and board members in his resignation letter dated Oct. 30 he was "embarrassed" to not have been able to attend the last week of practice and the last game, and that the move has "compromised" his future effectiveness to coach.
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Mattes was first hired by the board three years ago and given a two-year contract. He was awarded another two-year contract last year and was finishing up the first year of that contract prior to the resignation. His current salary was roughly $5,080 a year.
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GM:"Word is Dodgers will go five years, close to $50M on (Cuban) Miguel Gonzalez. If so, he'll be a Dodger.:
Not yet...
Although I suppose they were as close as they could be yesterday, exchanging medical information on players and something turned up on one of the Rangers pitchers that caused the Cubs to squeeze the brakes. Names have been flying around, but Neil Ramirez, C.J. Edwards and Mike Olt seem to be the hottest names of late. Jeff Passan says the Rangers also showed interest in James Russell, although no one knows if he was part of what sounded like a 6-player deal...although once again, no one knows for sure.
Rumors be the teams will continue today to try and find a fit and that nothing in Garza's medical dossier caused a panic for the Rangers.
Indians beat reporter:
Indians beat reporter:
Matt [email protected]
Source tells me that if Rangers can't get Garza done by tonight with Cubs it's not getting done at all, which could open door for #Indians
I would rather hear Cubs not
I would rather hear Cubs not willing to move Garza for jizz in balls.
Also, crunch alert. Bedard thru 6, 2-2 tie no hits.
out of the game after 6.1ip..
out of the game after 6.1ip...103 pitches.
Brian Roberts shouldn't be
Brian Roberts shouldn't be the only recent inductee into the Trades That Never Were Hall of Fame.
Jake Peavy is right up there
Jake Peavy is right up there on the list too...
Buster [email protected]_ESPN
Buster [email protected]_ESPN
Scouts are going to walk away impressed by Peavy, whose velocity reached the low-90s; two earned runs in six innings, 3 strikeouts, no walks
That's nice Buster. But the
That's nice Buster. But the GM's also know that he could be on the DL with Kerry Wood-like regularity.
That's nice Buster. But the
That's nice Buster. But the GM's also know that he could be on the DL with Kerry Wood-like regularity.
Yeah, I don't see Peavy's
Yeah, I don't see Peavy's extra year of control as a good thing. I just threw it up there since he could be viewed as a Garza alternative to some team.
after today's ross wolf start
after today's ross wolf start...garza must be looking a little better...or anyone besides ross wolf.
5 hits in a row to start the
5 hits in a row to start the 5th...awesome.
1-6, 0 outs...men on 1st/2nd.
can the cubs quit using j
can the cubs quit using j.borbon as a pinch hitter with men on?
i guess that .175 BA over the past 2.5 months is too awesome to pass up using him with men on...btw, .171 with men on total, .143 with RISP.
...and he pops out to shallow left with men on 1st/2nd.
j.arrieta (AAA)
j.arrieta (AAA)
5ip 6h 2bb 3k, 4er for the loss
interesting tweet from Gordon
interesting tweet from Gordon Wittenmeyer...not sure how much tongue and cheek it is (ribbing his competitor beat reporter), particularly with the last hashtag.
Another close call with @PWSullivan in Denver bar. Security intervened before Police needed to keep @PWSullivan off N'Shore Cub fan #douche
KC Cougars wins in 10th, 6-5
KC Cougars beat Lugnuts 6-5 in 10th on a bases loaded single by Dan Vogelbach (after Almora strikeout)
Glad to hear he's still alive
Glad to hear he's still alive. Haven't heard much about Dan this year!
Glad to hear he's still alive
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Astro's double barrel ex-Cub
Astro's double barrel ex-Cub DFA's: Ronny Cedeno and Carlos Pena
what an arm on that Lake!
what an arm on that Lake!
Overthrew everyone, but...who cares!
At least he is not playing the infield!
Reminds me of some of AZ Phil
Reminds me of some of AZ Phil's comments about his play -- very toolsy (plus plus arm) and he'll wow you one minute, then leave you shaking your head the next. I remember a young Sammy Sosa being like that. Any coincidence that he chose to wear Sammy's old number? Didn't think so.
Junior Lake requested uniform
Junior Lake requested uniform #22 but Garza is still wearing it. He was assigned #21. He is not the first to have it since Sosa.
(Jason Marquis (2007-08), Milton Bradley (2009), Tyler Colvin (2010-11), Luis Valbuena (2012), Joe Mather (2012), Scott Hairston(2013) and now Junior Lake)
I prefer my personal theories
I prefer my personal theories to be unencumbered by inconvenient actual facts, thank you... I was actually under the impression that Junior had requested 21 after reading a Muskat article (dangerous, I know), but I may have read more into it than was there. A glass or two of wine while surfing the 'net can do that to you.
"I prefer my personal
"I prefer my personal theories to be unencumbered by inconvenient actual facts, thank you..."
It's people like you that keep my faith in human kind alive.
Saves the Cubs a few hundred
Saves the Cubs a few hundred K.
Atlanta [email protected]
The Braves have selected RHP Kameron Loe from Gwinnett (AAA) and will wear #40. A corresponding move will be announced prior to today's game
Speaking of #22...He's being
Speaking of #22...This time he's being written about in the NY Times:
Then another anterior capsule tear shut him down once more. He has no immediate plans for surgery, just rest, but Louisville parted ways with him June 28.
After Prior's latest setback, Baker told him he had not been that far from a return to the majors when his shoulder gave out. Several Reds relievers had been injured, creating openings on the roster. If Prior had been healthy, Baker could have recalled him.
Jesse Sanchez tweets...
Jesse Sanchez tweets...
Agent says Eloy Jimenez will sign for $2.8M on 8/1 or 8/2 at a press conference in DR. Turned down $5M from another team to stay with Cubs.
This gives the Cubs the entire trade deadline to whittle down the spending gap that leads to 2014 draft penalties.
16 years old...never played
16 years old...never played legit competitive baseball in his life...leaves $2.2m on the table to sign with the cubs...
what the hell is going on there? that just sounds insane. are the cubs buying his parents, siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles new houses or something? =p
Pics of Mr. Cub on stage at
Pics and Video of Mr. Cub on stage at Wrigley with Eddie Vedder at the recent Pearl Jam concert
Check out the Rolling Stone
Check out the Rolling Stone review as well. Pretty damn glowing!
Kris Bryant to make pro debut
Kris Bryant to make pro debut tonight for AZL Cubs.
Bryant went 0-for-3, made 3
Bryant went 0-for-3, made 3 errors. Pulled after 5th inning.
impressive. bob brenly
impressive. bob brenly approves.
fwiw, j.gray (who's not near 100 pitch per outing stretched, though he's still starting in R ball)
2g 5.2ip 8h 0bb 5k, 4er (6.35era) 1hbp, 1 balk
Perfect. Certainly the Cub's
Perfect. Certainly the Cub's Way on both accounts.
Bring him up!!
Bring him up!!
He's already a Cub!!
Puff piece on Archer.
I see Greg Rohan showed up
I see Greg Rohan showed up this weekend with the Arizon Cubs team.
Any idea if he's been hurt, or just not playing this year?
DUSTY: Greg Rohan had back
DUSTY: Greg Rohan had back surgery last off-season and has been rehabbing at Fitch Park since Minor League Camp. He is just starting to play in games now.
Ty Ty AzPhil!
Ty Ty AzPhil!
Javier Baez scouting report.
Cool. Seems like the waggle
Cool. Seems like the waggle is something that could be worked on fairly easily. No sense giving a pitcher an extra unnecessary advantage.
This is all speculation on my
This is all speculation on my part, but I think they moved him up to AA to expose him. It looks like he had learned to overcome his weaknesses at high-A so they wanted to show him that his approach wouldn't work at higher levels.
Normally this could cause a kid to lose confidence, but I don't think Baez has that issue.
That seems about right. There
That seems about right. There does seem to be something about him, one of those intangibles, but the breaking ball is always the nail in a major league career coffin.
Dont make us start him!!!
Dont make us start him!!!
-Theo dragging Garza to mound
Fingers crossed there's a
Fingers crossed there's a real workaround for Olt's eye! Guessing we'll see him soon, even if he doesn't see us. Ba dum.
Rosenthal: Olt, Edwards, and
Rosenthal: Olt, Edwards, and a third player.
Edwards! Yes!
Give us the Royal Baby Boy,
Give us the Royal Baby Boy, and we'll call it a deal.
Wow, one o-fer and three
Wow, one o-fer and three errors and Bryant already done.
I hate this trade. The guys
Heard an interesting thing on
Heard an interesting thing on 670 the SCORE today in Len Kasper's weekly visit.
HE said that the TheoJed group are remarkably patient and if they don't feel that they are getting the best deal for the Club, they will simply just make a qualifying offer and do this "all again next year".
It seems like this group may at least have a hint at knowing what they are doing? Or - maybe not. I am really curious what they saw in the Ranger's medicals...
So what is the deal with this new collective bargaining thing exactly?
I recall that should they lost the player, they would receive a n extra draft pick based on their record, ala the Pirates not signing Appel this year.
Where is AZ PHIL these days? Trying to stay cool?
[after posting I saw the "Breaking News"]
Additional confirmation:
Additional confirmation:
"Cubs starting pitcher Matt Garza was scheduled to pitch tonight against the Arizona Diamondbacks, but that is no longer the case. He's been scratched from the lineup and a trade to the Texas Rangers is close, confirms Jon Heyman."
Evan Grant via Lonestar Ball
Evan Grant via Lonestar Ball says third player could be Ramirez or Odor. And that the Cubs may get a PTBNL.
So how long before we
So how long before we actually know all 3 players and its confirmed?
The team really needs an
The team really needs an "Odor" around?
every lineup he is in stinks
every lineup he is in stinks
TR Sullivan says Rangers are
TR Sullivan says Rangers are getting a 2nd player.
Edit: It says they will "likely try to get a second player," whatever the hell that means.
We have to have a player of
We have to have a player of two in the minors that they could bring up.
Passan: Third player is
Passan: Third player is Justin Grimm.
Olt, Edwards, and Grimm is a very solid haul.
"Olt, Edwards, and Grimm is a
"Olt, Edwards, and Grimm is a very solid haul."
Cubs also getting a PTBNL
Cubs also getting a PTBNL
Phil, when can he be brought
Phil, when can he be brought up?
I have some breaking news...
I have some breaking news...
My first TCR Scoop!! The Cubs and Rangers are nearing a deal for Garza. BANK IT!
So Olt...
So Olt...
Now I gotta find out more about this vision thing since this is actually apparently happening. I would have thought that was the hang up last time, but I guess not. I remember last year we were talking about an Olt for Garza and some of the guys here were really creaming their pants over the possibility.
Anyone know what Grimm's
Anyone know what Grimm's ceiling is? Or what his trouble has been? On name value alone, I like him more than "Tepesch".
Excitement for Garza trade
Excitement for Garza trade quickly passed over by schadenfreude for Braun suspension.
Recent comments
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
Game is officially called...also officially a tie.
Stats count, no make-up date of course.
Yeah -- seeing the weather -- I hope KB and Rizz are inside, wrapped in blankets and drinking hot chocolate.
rain delay...thanks obama.
Thanks again Phil. We actually were in Mesa and drove around. Hopefully, I am back for some Fall League. If not I have all of spring training (like the smart people who move here!)
What Rob G said. I can't speak for Piittsburgh, but the other end of the state has had absolute crap weather for two days. Perfect day to take it easy.
tarp came off 10 minutes ago...let's do this.
He will not pitch another game for Cubs
/Unless injury in playoffs
Today is bullpen day
10/450 if they win WS
Carrie Muskat [email protected]
Even though Hammel is missing start, don't assume he'll not be on #Cubs postseason roster. Maddon says elbow problem isn't that bad
Carrie Muskat [email protected]
Maddon on #Cubs postseason rotation: "I don't want to announce anything. We haven't talked to anybody yet"
Carrie Muskat [email protected]
Maddon hopes Soler can take BP in Cincy, play in sim game Tue. "All of that should give us some kind of indication of where he's at"
tarp on the field 40 minutes before gametime...meh.


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