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Recovering from Cervical Disk Surgery
You need to protect your cervical spine as it heals. Follow your doctor's instructions about being active and wearing your brace if you have one. Once you're no longer wearing a brace, you and your doctor can discuss other ways to help your neck recover.
|Taking walks can help you regain your strength.
You may go home the same day or spend 1–4 days in the hospital.
Right after surgery, you'll stay in the recovery room. You may then be moved to a regular room.
You will have a drainage tube in your neck. The drain will be removed in a day or so.
Your throat may be sore, so you may prefer a liquid diet for a day or two.
You'll be given pain medication as necessary. You may give yourself this medication through a PCA (patient controlled analgesia) pump.
Wearing a Brace
You may be given a brace in the hospital to help support your neck as it heals. Depending on your doctor's instructions, you may continue to wear it 24 hours a day for as long as 3 months. Ask your doctor whether you are permitted to take it off during the day for short periods.
At Home
At home, wear your brace and care for your incision as instructed. Gradually, you'll be able to get more active. Talk to your doctor about when and how to return to the following activities:
Driving. Ask a friend or family member to help out.
Lifting heavy objects
Returning to work.
Follow-up Care
Your doctor may need to remove the sutures or staples from your incision a few days after your surgery. Follow your doctor's instructions about keeping your incision clean and dry.
Your doctor will schedule one or more follow-up visits with you. If you had fusion, X-rays may be taken. Your doctor may also evaluate nerve function and arm strength if you had arm or hand pain, numbness, or weakness before your surgery. Once your neck is sufficiently healed, your doctor may recommend exercises or physical therapy to help strengthen your neck.
Follow your doctor's instructions carefully to ensure the best possible results and recovery from your surgery.
Call your doctor if you notice any of the following:
Fever over 100°F
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"When it comes to torture," Amy Poehler said Sunday night as she opened the Golden Globes award ceremony, "I trust a lady who spent three years married to James Cameron." Yuk, yuk, YUCK.
That same evening on PBS's "Downton Abbey," the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) admonished granddaughter Lady Sybil, "Vulgarity is no substitute for wit." Now that was clever.
I love Amy Poehler - who could not? - but her remark was yucky on several counts. It was a cheap shot at director Cameron in an inappropriate forum. But far lower on the taste scale, it made light of the waterboarding scene in a movie directed by Cameron's ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow. "Zero Dark Thirty" portrays the "enhanced interrogation techniques" practiced on al-Qaida prisoners as effective in helping find Osama bin Laden - a controversial view countered by foes of torture, among others.
Less serious but unpleasant nonetheless, Poehler's line oozed with the phony suggestion of intimacy between the stars and fans. Common to this and other self-celebrations of show business, the familiarity con also specializes in close-ups of stars' faces after some joke. When we see Dustin Hoffman laughing, we're supposed to be happy because he is.
The old Hollywood award show was a place to "see" the stars. The dirt stayed in gossip columns. Their actors' agents may have slipped an occasional snippet to the columnists, but the dish was not supposed to be traced to the tinseltown aristocrats themselves. Most tried to exude an air of dignified glamor and elegance. Glamour minus elegance is mere glitz.
"Downton Abbey's" enormous global success - aside from the eyefuls of Edwardian English luxury in costume and decor - is the characters' obsession with manners and maintaining a public facade of rectitude. That required not sharing embarrassing or otherwise problematic details with outsiders.
It doesn't matter whether the situation involves Lady Mary's reckless tryst with a Turkish diplomat or head housekeeper Mrs. Hughes' possible diagnosis of breast cancer - the characters try keeping it to themselves and select confidants. Much of the suspense revolves around whether they succeed.
(As an aside, this third season does try the patience on believability. The first was controlled in the number and nature of personal conflicts. The second got fast and loose with credulity, especially after the paralyzed Matthew suddenly rose from bed as a fully functional marital partner for Lady Mary.
This third season buries us with complications, a good third of them improbable. Is it plausible that the Earl of Grantham lost the family fortune by putting all the money into one stock? Must we buy into Matthew's high-minded but ridiculous reason for not wanting to apply his prospective newfound fortune to helping the family keep Downton? How likely was it for Lady Sybil to show up at Downton with the chauffer she had eloped with last season- an Irishman bearing Republican sympathies? One or two of those unlikelihoods would have sufficed.)
Anyhow, we may cringe as Martha Levinson (Shirley MacLaine), the Countess of Grantham's American mother, rubs her English in-laws' noses in the reality of their sad finances and scoffs at their proprieties. But we applaud her targets' ability to speak back without crossing the boundary into downright rudeness.
The Dowager Countess' reproof of Lady Sybill's vulgar comment - a slightly off-color reference to sex between a sister and her elderly husband-to-be - cuts deeper than a charge of indiscretion. She's saying it's not funny.
Keeper of the old-school formalities, the Countess speaks with pointed indirection to hilarious effect. She is a favorite with Downton audiences. We don't expect clever repartee to invade Hollywood award shows any time soon. But jokes about torture are not amusing. Can't they bring it up a notch?
- To find out more about Froma Harrop, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.


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There will be two new faces for Seneca East Local Schools and Lakota Local Schools as they start the new school year today.
Laura Kagy and Jon Detwiler are coming in as new superintendents for the districts, each having begun their educational careers as teachers.
Kagy is to join the administrative team of Seneca East, replacing Michael Wank. Kagy came from Clyde-Green Springs Exempted Village Schools, where she served as interim superintendent.
She said she has lived in the area for years, and her children have gone to Seneca East and thought that it would be the best fit for her and her family.
"The staff has made it a smooth transition for me," Kagy said. "The work really hasn't changed, just the venue."
Kagy began in the Tiffin City Schools District as a teacher and then as a building principal. She then moved to Clyde as a principal and from there moved to the central office.
"Each position has its rewarding qualities," she said. "As a teacher, you get to see the children's faces and see how they are impacted, where as a principal you see how the building as a whole is impacted."
For Seneca East, Kagy said that there isn't much to change, just to work in implementing the new education initiatives in Ohio, such as common core standards, teacher evaluation systems and online testing.
"Seneca East is to also begin implementing the 1-1 initiative, where students in grades 9-12 are to receive Think Pads for their classes," Kagy said. "The students will be able to access their textbooks from the technology and at some point they will be able to begin to submit assignments electronically."
So far Kagy said she has been able to meet a few parents and students at open houses.
"It is important to get out there and meet the community," Kagy said.
Detwiler has been involved in education for 23 years. He began as a science teacher for Fremont City Schools at Otis Elementary and at Fremont Middle School. He later became the assistant principal for the middle school and then the principal at McPherson Elementary School in Clyde.
Detwiler said he was ready for the change and thought the best change would be to go to Lakota as the district's superintendent.
"I always wanted to be a superintendent of a district, and living in the area, I knew Lakota was the best choice for me," Detwiler said.
With living in the area, Detwiler said he was able to vote for the levy for the new building that was built in 2011.
"For the district, I hope to bring a positive energy," Detwiler said. "I hope to continue the increasing academic scores and to take advantage of the great programs and staff and to provide a step up for success."
Detwiler said he plans to go out into the community and get to know the families and students and to explore what is next.


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Monday, November 18, 2013
While most authors who publish one book in a year find the process overwhelming, in 2013 Susan Sloate has seen three novels through publication in a single 90-day span. From July 2 to Sept. 30, her novels "Stealing Fire," "Forward to Camelot: 50th Anniversary Edition" (both published by Drake Valley Press) and "Realizing You" have gone live. To compound the difficulty, the books are written in three different genres and styles, with no subject, character or situation in common.
All three books are receiving laudatory reviews from critics and readers. "Stealing Fire," a love story about Broadway in the 1980s, has already become a No. 2 Amazon bestseller. "Realizing You" (co-authored with Ron Doades) introduces a brand-new genre: the self-help novel, teaching nonfiction life lessons through a fully-developed plot and characters in novel form.
The novel drawing the most attention this month is "Forward to Camelot," which Sloate co-authored with her writing partner, Kevin Finn. This new edition of the novel they originally published in 2003 coincides with the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas and offers little-known factual information about that tragic event, which was connected to a covert gun-running operation intended to lead to war with Cuba. Based on years of pre-Internet research, the novel spotlights little-known events that were occurring in the months before JFK's death, which the American public is still largely unaware of.
"Forward to Camelot" follows actress Cady Cuyler, who travels back in time to recover a priceless Kennedy artifact while searching for the truth about her own father's disappearance on the same day Kennedy was killed. Finding undeniable links between her father's disappearance and JFK's assassination leads her to a far more perilous mission: can she somehow save Kennedy from assassination, with the unlikely help of a courageous ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald?
"Our story began with JFK's Bible, which was used to swear in Lyndon Johnson aboard Air Force One on Nov. 22, 1963, then vanished," said Sloate. "That was our doorway into the adventure. What we found as we continued to dig was astonishing."
Finn adds, "Every JFK assassination novel deals with Lee Oswald as the lone gunman, but the evidence is clear much more was happening. Killing Kennedy removed him as an opponent for the CIA and anti-Castro groups operating in the US. Everyday Americans were supposed to be so inflamed about his death that they would demand war with Cuba, forcing Lyndon Johnson, Kennedy's successor, to invade Cuba and depose Castro. It was an ingenious plan."
Who were these gun runners? What drove them? How close were they to invading Cuba? Was Lee Oswald really a double agent, with secret files that could expose the plotters?
Sloate and Finn answer these questions in a roller-coaster adventure that goes further than any previous JFK novel in identifying the sinister forces ranged against JFK in 1963. The characters include JFK himself, Jackie and Bobby Kennedy, Lee Oswald and Lyndon Johnson, all depicted as they really were, not air-brushed by history, and offers what they believe is the real solution to the assassination conspiracy.
Sloate has one final caution for readers: "The facts support the fiction. Gunrunning, the plot to kill JFK and a second invasion of Cuba… that all really happened. No novelist could make this stuff up."
Sloate, the author of 20 previous books, is speaking at the Mount Pleasant Library on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 6:30 pm about the assassination and will appear on Mornings with Kelly Golden, at 94.3 WSC, on Friday, Nov. 22, between 6 and 9 a.m. Her book tour schedule for "Forward to Camelot" is available online at www.susansloate.com.
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Grassland Dairy Products and Catholic Diocese Team Up to Feed Peruvian Orphans
Grassland Dairy Products and Catholic Diocese Team Up to Feed Peruvian Orphans
WI Butter Creamery Provides Essential Dairy Nutrition to 1,000 Children in Need
Grassland Dairy Products, Inc., the largest family owned butter creamery in the world, is providing essential dairy nutrition to an orphanage in Peru, located in South America. This past week a load of dried milk arrived at the orphanage that will be used as an ingredient in meals for the children.
Through a unique partnership Grassland Dairy Products, Inc., of Greenwood, Wis., has teamed up with the Catholic Diocese of La Crosse to help feed young people around the world. The Diocese's "Project Milk" is helping children get the nine essential nutrients that milk provides to help keep bones strong and bodies healthy. This effort is due in large to Grassland processing and shipping dried milk to the orphanage in Lurin, Peru, located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
Jessica Mollison, the orphanage's development director knows firsthand the importance that Project Milk has for Casa Hogar Juan Pablo II, the Peru orphanage.
"Project Milk has been sending annually powdered milk to the orphanage and other nearby communities," Mollison says. "In the last two years alone, since Grassland has become a partner, the program has shipped more than 60,000 pounds of powdered milk to provide vital nutrients such as Calcium and Vitamin D to more than 1,000 children."
Project Milk started in 1984 with the two-fold purpose to provide milk to the children at the orphanage and the surrounding neighborhoods and to raise awareness of the economic difficulties of dairy farmers in Western Wisconsin. Since its inception, approximately $800,000 has been contributed to this cause and over 375 tons of dried milk has been shipped to Peru.
Grassland recently installed two state-of-the-art milk driers allowing the plant to dry 28,000 pounds of powder per hour or 4.7 million pounds weekly. The milk driers allow Grassland to get the most value from patron milk by drying down the milk into a powder used as a food and beverage ingredient.
"We can ship three times as much milk powder than liquid milk," says Grassland Vice President Trevor Wuethrich. "One can store powdered milk longer than any liquid product while still providing essential nutrients."
The orphanage uses the dried milk as an ingredient mainly for breakfast. The children's favorite meal is creamy rice with milk and cinnamon.
"The kitchen also uses the dried milk to make nourishing meals including shredded chicken in a cheese sauce and soups," Mollison says. "All of these are really yummy and the children are most appreciative of a meal."
The Grassland and Project Milk partnership stems from a small town connection between Father Keith Kitzhaber and Dan Kitzhaber, brothers who grew up on a farm in the Greenwood area, and the Wuethrich family, which has owned and operated Grassland since 1904.
Father Kitzhaber videoed the children at Casa Hogar unloading Grassland's shipment of dried milk. "Grassland employees might go to a restaurant and see Grassland butter on the table, but when they got to see the orphans unloading the milk they produced that really brought full circle an emotional connection to the project," Wuethrich says.
For more information on Project Milk, contact the Diocese of La Crosse Office of Ministries and Social Concerns at 608.791.2667 or email@example.com.


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As Prince George approaches his first birthday on Tuesday, the future heir to the British throne is growing into a spirited toddler whose every milestone is met with pride by his mom and dad, Princess Kate and Prince William.
"As for any new parent, it's exciting and a joy to be a part of," a palace source tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story. "It's a wonderful thing going through your baby's first year."
For the heir to the British throne (behind his dad and grandfather, Prince Charles), it has been a year filled with adventure (the royal tour Down Under), sweet moments (singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" with Mom) and sleepless nights (for which William recently shared his coping strategy).
And like many parents of a nearly 1-year-old, William and Kate, both 32, have begun planning for baby no. 2.
Although the palace won't comment on the ever-present pregnancy rumors, a source close to the couple confirms they plan to give George a sibling not too long from now, but "they don't say when."
Still, the pieces are in place: William is preparing to start a long-term job with an air ambulance service, a job close to the couple's country home, Anmer Hall.
"It's a great, family-friendly environment," says a source who has visited there.
For much more on Prince George's milestone birthday, including a special gatefold baby book of his first year, pick up this week's issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday


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"Tolle lege! Tolle lege!" "Pick it up and read it. Pick it up and read it." That's what children's voices said to St. Augustine of Hippo when he was in despair 'way back in the late fourth century. The "it" was the Bible. He took the advice, picked up the Sacred Scripture, and started to read Romans 13, 13-14. It changed his life…and ours, too, for that matter. That's because Augustine went on to become one of the most influential philosophers of Christianity and of western civilization.
As Father Anthony Ciorra, a great friend of the Archdiocesan Catechetical Office, reminded our staff the other day, this is good advice for all us. The Bible is not simply that book that we pull off the shelf to record family births, weddings and deaths. It's not just a wedding or religious jubilee gift. It's the living Word of God, emphasis on living.
Sacred Scripture is inspired by the Holy Spirit to speak to all generations until the end of time. You could read the same passage on three different days or three different years, and discover each time that your understanding of that passage and of yourself is deepening.
Pope Benedict XVI, an admirer and scholar of St. Augustine of Hippo, released a wonderful exhortation recently, one that reminds us of the importance of picking up and reading our copies of the Bible. It's called Verbum Domini and you might enjoy reading it.
Then do yourself a favor. Discover the liveliness, influence and relevance of the Word of God by coming to the Second Annual New York Catholic Bible Summit on Saturday, June 25, here at the Catholic Center and sponsored by the Archdiocesan Catechetical Office, the American Bible Society and Fordham University. It's your chance to meet, hear and talk with some of today's best scholars, historians, artists and musicians – a host of experts who will make Scripture a livelier experience than you ever dreamed. There will be workshops in both English and Spanish. Keynoters are the Rev. Donald Senior, CP, who edited the New American Bible and who is now president of the Catholic Theological Union; and the Rev. Gabriel Naranjo, CM, Secretario General de la Confederación Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Religiosas/os (CLAR) Bogotá, Colombia. Among the many experts is New York's' own Msgr. Robert Stern, president of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, who will speak about the Holy Land, ancient and modern. That's a timely topic and will give added context to our reading of the Word of God. Find out about the rest of our speakers and register today, so we can get you into the workshop of your choice. If you prefer registering by mail, you have that option, too.
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Ora and Jean Preston celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary June 23, 2012.
They were married June 23, 1962, in Findlay at St. Mark Methodist Church by the Rev. Ora Johnson.
Ora was an accountant at American Standard, retiring after 40 years.
Jean is a homemaker and was a foster parent and in-home daycare provider for many years.
They are parents of two children, Christine (Randy) Davidson of Luckey and Kevin (Susan) Preston of Cincinnati. Three granddaughters complete their family.
They celebrated their anniversary with a family gathering in June and recently returned from a trip to Alaska.
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Pete at MIX10: Your Favorite Things at MIX
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Tiger Tiger Tiger.
I also loved the NUI and Total Experience Design sessions.
Cool! About 4.50 in the Mix10 iPhone/MonoTouch app gets a little show and I'm the weird guy in the pink top. Nice!
There's me at 2:50...lol
I'm at 3:15. I learned that I REALLY need to improve my Blend skills.
Cool video; look who is talking at 3:30:)
I loved the Silverlight and Windows Phone sessions. Bill Buxton was as incredible as usual; I'm still saving my picture from MIX09 here: http://crocusgirl.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/inspiration-boost/
Yup, there I am stuttering at 6:35. I am definately excited and have big plans for Silverlight on Windows Phone 7. However having thought about it, Mix10 is about the people you meet. Amazing stuff. Thanks Pete.
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1. Sci-fi movie/book about a retro-ish gang leader who after beating people up, raping, stealing, etc, is taken to prison where he later is chosen to participate in a "special treatment" program to "cure" him.
2. Also, a term used in the CWO book to describe a person who is perfectly moral, nonviolent, etc; but has no free will.
2. Also, a term used in the CWO book to describe a person who is perfectly moral, nonviolent, etc; but has no free will.
Clockwork Orange is the best movie ever.
The Zebu가 작성 2004년 01월 25일 (일)
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Can you define these popular missing words?
A object (or person in the case of the movie) which appears normal on the outside but is completely artificial on the inside.
In the case of the movie A Clockwork Orange, Alex appeared to be normal after his treatment but since he is incapable of chosing evil and is therefore forced to chose only good, he's humanity is in question.
not_michael가 작성 2004년 10월 11일 (월)
someone who appears normal to the eye and holds the colors of life (orange), but is really a tool for someone or something else (clockwork)
Alex, from the movie A Clockwork Orange became a clockwork orange for the government.
sam가 작성 2005년 03월 16일 (수)
A clockwork orange comes from an old London saying "queer as a clockwork orange". A clockwork orange is actually a wind up doll that is controlled by both god and the devil. Anthony Burgess uses this for his book to symbolize the government almost brainwashing Alex in order to control his bad behavior.
"queer as a clockwork orange"
chelseag가 작성 2006년 10월 16일 (월)
A novel which came out BEFORE the movie, commonly fooling idiots. Learn to read.
Floyd: Have you read the novel 'A Clockwork Orange'?
Goldorf: Isn't that a movie?
Floyd: Idiot.
Goldorf: Isn't that a movie?
Floyd: Idiot.
girl.가 작성 2006년 03월 16일 (목)
Oddest, most kickass movie.
Alex is a stud.
Alex is a stud.
Alex:No time for the ol' in and out, love! I've just come to read the meter.
Schmuck가 작성 2003년 11월 20일 (목)
one of the best damn movies ever
o, my brother, stop slooshing the sounds of Ludwig van and turn on the tele for a bit of the ol clockwork orange
Droog가 작성 2003년 11월 01일 (토)


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|Bioactive Glass Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration
Natural materials are renowned for their unique combination of outstanding mechanical properties and exquisite microstructure. For example, bone, cork, and wood are porous biological materials with high specific stiffness (stiffness per unit weight) and specific strength. The outstanding mechanical properties of these materials are attributed to their anisotropic structures, which have optimized strength-to-density and stiffness-to-density ratios. Working at ALS Beamline 8.3.2, researchers from Berkeley Lab and the Imperial College London have created bioactive glass scaffolds that mirror nature's efficient materials. The three-dimensional glass scaffold is as porous as trabecular bone, has a compressive strength comparable to that of cortical bone, and a strength-to-porosity ratio higher than any previously reported scaffolds.
Scientists are developing new materials and structures inspired by biological materials with properties to satisfy a variety of applications. The ability to develop porous constructs with high mechanical strength, for example, is important for a broad range of emerging applications, including filters, catalyst support, and tissue engineering scaffolds. Particularly for orthopedic surgery, the regeneration of large bone defects in load-bearing limbs remains a challenging problem. The compressive strength of cortical bone, primarily in the shaft of long bones and as the outer shell around trabecular bone, has been reported to be in the range of 100–150 MPa in the direction parallel to the axis of orientation (long axis). It is difficult to design and fabricate a construct that will combine the large pores necessary to promote bone regeneration while substituting for, at least temporarily, the tissue by maintaining these loads in vivo.
Porous metallic implants used for replacement in fractures have well-documented fixation problems, and unlike natural bone, cannot self-repair or adapt to changing physiological conditions. As a consequence, the implant becomes loose over time. Bioactive glass and ceramic alternatives have shown excellent potential in repair and regeneration of bone defects due to their ability to support bone cell growth, form strong bonds to both hard and soft tissues, and adjust their degradation rate while newly formed bone and tissue are being remodeled.
Recently, researchers from Berkeley Lab and the Imperial College London worked at ALS Beamline 8.3.2 to emulate nature's design by robocasting bioactive glass scaffolds. Robocasting, or direct-ink write assembly, is a layer-by-layer assembly technique used to build scaffolds with structures following computer designs, creating periodic patterning and controlled fabrication of the filaments into constructs with qualities similar to those of biological materials. The scaffold architecture can be optimized to achieve the desired mechanical response, accelerate the bone-regeneration process, and guide the formation of bone with the anatomic cortical-trabecular structure.
The final product is a three-dimensional glass scaffold whose compressive strength (136 MPa) is comparable to that of cortical bone, the compact, dense bone material that forms the outer shell of most bones. The scaffold's porosity, or void fraction, is 60%, comparable to that of trabecular bone, the spongy material that comprises the inside of vertebra and the ends of longer bones and is the site of metabolic activity such as ion exchange and red blood cell production. The strength of this porous glass scaffold is ~100 times that of polymer scaffolds and 4–5 times that of ceramic and glass scaffolds with comparable porosities previously reported in the literature. The glass scaffold's biological performance in both small animals (mice) and big (miniature pigs) is currently under systematic evaluation at the University of California, San Francisco.
The ability to create structures that are both strong and porous could make scaffold fabrication applicable in a wide array of applications, including tissue engineering, filtration, and catalyst support. The use of glass also opens new possibilities in the field of bone regeneration, utilizing the easily tailored bioactivity and biodegradation rates, as well as the release kinetics of different ions, to achieve materials with the desired properties.
Research conducted by Q. Fu and A.P. Tomsia (Berkeley Lab) and E. Saiz (Imperial College London).
Research funding: National Institutes of Health. Operation of the ALS is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Publications about this research: Q. Fu, E. Saiz, and A.P. Tomsia, "Bioinspired strong and highly porous glass scaffolds," Adv. Funct. Mater. 21, 1058 (2011); Q. Fu, E. Saiz, and A.P. Tomsia, "Direct ink writing of highly porous and strong glass scaffolds for load-bearing bone defects repair and regeneration," Acta Biomater. 7, 3547 (2011).
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - You know, this is one of my favorite winter dishes, money well spent, and certainly very column worthy. So why have I not featured it in the past two years? Bad memories. Twice I tried to host a big Cioppino party and twice I failed miserably. Once, while tending to my arriving guests, I forgot to tend to the big pot loaned to me by Moody's and burned the whole batch. (The pot, by the way, was fine.) Another time I forgot not to drink and, again, the soup suffered. Or so they tell me. Betty Crocked strikes again!
Well, the third time's the charm and this year my Cioppino had guests singing "That's Amore!" Of course I had to invite a whole new group of friends who would not feel compelled to reminisce about my previous disastrous attempts. But that's OK. Cioppino, if done well, has a way of bringing people together for life. And if not done well, it will make your guests feel better about themselves.- -
2 onions, coarsely chopped
3 Tbls. olive oil
1 28 oz. can whole stewed tomatoes and all the juice
1 24 oz. jar spaghetti sauce (Ragu is fine.)
1 tsp. salt
1 1/2 lb. mahi fillets or other firm, white fish (cod works), cut into 2 x 3-inch pieces.
8 oz. clam juice
2 lb. raw shrimp, 16-20 count, easy to peel, tail on. (I peel them, but shell on is fine, if a bit messy in mixed company.)
2 lbs. clams, in shells
As many king crab legs as you can afford, but two big ones is ample. Slit the legs lengthwise and then cut into three 4-inch pieces.
1 cup white wine
1 cup chopped parsley
In large, heavy pot saute onions in olive oil until soft. Add tomatoes, spaghetti sauce and salt. Cook over medium heat until flavors are well blended, about 10 minutes. Add fish and cook on low heat, no stirring, until fish is done, about 20 minutes. Add clam juice, clams, and crab legs simmer on low heat for about 15 minutes, bringing it back to simmer. Next add the shrimp and wine, stirring gently to submerge shrimp. Cook over low heat for another 5 minutes. Add parsley a few minutes before serving. This Cioppino can be prepared ahead of time and re-heated (on low) when guests arrive. Serve with a crusty garlic bread for dipping. My favorite pre-made, in the frozen section at Save Mart, is Alexia's artisan Garlic Baguette.


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Mental health issues are at root of problem
While politicians talk about gun control, the media continue to victimize parents and relatives of the slain by zooming in on the faces of those whose lives were changed forever. Today the politician knows it's more newsworthy (and less work) to talk about tighter gun control than to make sure existing laws are enforced. They are both missing the real point.
It's about mental illness and how our politicians, health care systems and the media continue to fail us in fixing how we treat and report on mentally ill people. Law-abiding citizens who obtain guns legally are not these shooters. The common denominator is diagnosed or undiagnosed mental illness. Make our politicians responsible for these murders, (and so many like this), by asking them why they have neglected to make effective, funded mental health treatment available to every U.S. citizen.
Don't let this tragedy pass you by without making that point to every politician you have ever voted for or against. I have just emailed every politician I could think of that I hold responsible. You should, too, before we have to send our kids to school in Kevlar. Come on, people – please do it for the memory of the innocents who died as well as those around you who suffer daily from mental illness.
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After the World Series
With the World Series having concluded last night, the MLB 2013-14 "off-season" has officially begun.
So there are a number of things that now come into play, including:
Per Article XX-B of the CBA, any player on an MLB Reserve List who has accrued at least six years of MLB Service Time and who is not signed for the following season automatically becomes a free-agent at 9 AM (Eastern) on the first day after the conclusion of the World Series. The player's former club retains exclusive negotiating rights with the player up until midnight (Eastern) on the 5th day after the after the conclusion of the World Series, after-which the player is free to sign a Major League contract (or minor league contract) with any club, including with the player's former club.
Scott Baker, RHP
Kevin Gregg, RHP
Matt Guerrier, RHP
Dioner Navarro, C
An Article XX-B MLB free-agent who signs a Major League contract after 11:59 PM (Eastern) on the 5th day following the conclusion of the World Series receives automatic "no trade" rights that extend through June 15th of the following season, even if the player re-signs with his former club. An Article XX-B MLB Free-Agent who receives "no trade" rights this way can waive the right, but if he does, his club can trade the player only for player contracts and/or cash with a maximum aggregate value of $50,000. Note that a player who signs a Major League contract after becoming a free-agent by any other means (Outright Release, Non-Tendered, or Article XX-D or MLB Rule 55 minor league free-agent) does NOT receive automatic "no trade" rights through June 15th.
If an Article XX-B MLB free-agent signs a minor league contract at least ten days prior to MLB Opening Day, and then is either not released by 12 PM (Eastern) on the 5th day prior to MLB Opening Day or added to an MLB Active List (25-man roster) or MLB Disabled List by 3 PM (Eastern) on MLB Opening Day, the player automatically receives a $100,000 retention bonus, and the player can unilaterally opt-out of the minor league contract on June 1st if he has not been added to an MLB Active List (25-man roster) or an MLB Disabled List by that date.
An Article XX-B free-agent is designated a "Qualified Player" if the player spent the entire immediately-preceding MLB regular season on a club's MLB Active List (25-man roster) and/or on one or more of the club's inactive lists (7-day, 15-day, and/or 60-day Disabled List, Military List, Bereavement List, et al) and/or on the Active List or an inactive list (7-day or 60-day Disabled List, Military List, Bereavement List, et al) of one or more minor league affiliates of that club, and the club offers the player a guaranteed contract (known as a "Qualifying Offer") for the following season.
The Qualifying Offer must include a salary at least equal to the average salary of the 125 highest-paid MLB players from the previous season. The exact amount of the average salary of the 125 highes-paid MLB players from the previous season will be communicated by the MLB Labor Relations Department (LRD) simultaneously to all MLB clubs and the Major League Baseball Player's Association (MLBPA) within ten days after the conclusion of the MLB regular season.
To be valid, a Qualifying Offer must be extended by a club no later than 5 PM (Eastern) on the 5th day following conclusion of the World Series. The LRD then provides the MLBPA with a list of players receiving valid Qualifying Offers and the amount of each offer.
The Qualified Player has until 5 PM (Eastern) on the 7th day after receiving the offer to decide whether to accept or decline. If the Qualified Player accepts the offer, he is considered "signed" and must be immediately added back to his club's MLB Reserve List (40-man roster). If he declines the offer, the player is free to sign with any MLB club, including his former club.
A club receives one compensatory draft pick between the 1st and 2nd rounds in the next MLB Rule 4 Draft (First-Year Player Draft) if the Qualified Player subsequently signs a Major League contract with another MLB club. If more than one club receives this type of compensatory pick, the draft order for the picks is the same as it is for all other rounds in that draft (clubs select in inverse order of league standings from the previous season, and in the case of two clubs finishing with the same record the previous season, league standings from two seasons back will be used to break the tie, and if If the clubs are still tied, league standings from three seasons back, four seasons back, etc, will be used to break the tie).
MLB clubs are not permitted to extend a Qualifying Offer to an Article XX-B MLB free-agent if the player has agreed in advance to decline the offer so that the club will obtain a compensatory draft pick once the player signs with another club.
An MLB club that signs a Qualified Player forfeits its 1st round selection in the Rule 4 Draft, unless the club selects in the Top 10 of the 1st Round, in which case it forfeits its next-highest pick. The next highest draft pick (or draft picks) will be forfeited if the club signs more than one Qualified Player (one draft pick forfeited for each Qualified Player signed). Draft picks subject to forfeiture include the club's own Rule 4 picks, compensatory draft picks awarded to the club after losing an Article XX-B Qualified Player, and draft picks that were awarded as the result of the Competitive Balance Lottery or as the result of the Rule 4 SBP Forfeited Draft Pick lottery (including any lottery draft pick originally awarded to another club and then subsequently acquired in a trade). A compensatory draft pick awarded to a club for failing to sign a pick from a previous Rule 4 Draft is NOT subject to forfeiture. NOTE: A Rule 4 Draft pick forfeited as the result of a club signing a Qualified Player is not transferred to any other club (it just disappears).
A Qualified Player who signs a Major League contract after 11:59 PM (Eastern) on the 5th day following the conclusion of the World Series receives automatic "no trade" rights that extend through June 15th of the following season, even if the player re-signs with his former club. A Qualified Player who receives "no trade" rights this way can waive the right, but if he does, his club can trade the player only for player contracts and/or cash with a maximum aggregate value of $50,000.
If a Qualified Player signs a Major League contract with a new club after the MLB Rule 4 Draft, or if a Qualified Player signs a minor league contract with a new club and either remains in the minor leagues or is later added to the new club's MLB 40-man roster, the player's new club does NOT forfeit a Rule 4 Draft pick, and the player's former club does NOT receive Rule 4 Draft pick compensation. However, MLB clubs are not permitted to sign a Qualified Player to a minor league contract just to avoid losing a draft pick.
It is VERY unlikely that the Cubs will extend a Qualifying Offer to any of their Article XX-B MLB free-agents, although nothing will preclude the Cubs from re-signing any or all of the players to a 2014 major league or minor league contract.
ARTICLE XX-D: Any MLB player who has accrued at least three years of MLB service time, or who was eligible for Salary Arbitration as a "Super Two" after the previous season, and/or who has been outrighted previously in his career, has the right to be a free-agent if the player is outrighted to the minors. The player can exercise this right upon being outrighted, or (but only in the case of a player who has accrued at least three years of MLB Service Time and/or has been outrighted to the minors previously in his career) he can opt to defer the right until after the conclusion of the MLB regular season (he is given three days to decide if he is outrighted during Spring Training or the MLB regular season, and he has eight days to make up his mind if he is outrighted during the off-season). If a player eligible to be a free-agent under Article XX-D elects to be a free-agent immediately after being outrighted, the player's contract is terminated and the player receives no termination pay. (Because unsigned players do not receive termination pay, players eligible to be minor league free-agents under Article XX-D who are outrighted during the off-season before being tendered a contract for the following season almost always opt for free-agency immediately). But if the outrighted player accepts the Outright Assignment, the player's existing contract remains in force, and the player can elect free-agency beginning on the day after the conclusion of the MLB regular season up through October 15th. (A player who had the option to elect free-agency upon being outrighted only because he had been eligible for Salary Arbitration as a "Super Two" after the previous season does NOT have the right to defer free-agency until after the conclusion of the MLB regular season). However, an outrighted player who deferred the right to be an Article XX-D minor league free-agent until the conclusion of the MLB regular season is NOT eligible to be a free-agent if the player is added back to an MLB Reserve List (40-man roster) prior to the conclusion of the MLB regular season.
MLB RULE 55: Sometimes called a "Six-Year Minor League Free-Agent," an unsigned minor league player is automatically declared a free-agent per MLB Rule 55 if the player has spent all or any part of at least seven separate seasons on a minor league club's Active List and/or Disabled List (including all or parts of any season spent on Optional Assignment to the minors), and/or if the player has been previously released or non-tendered in his career and his present contract (known as a "second contract" even if it's his third or fourth minor league contract) has expired. Note that a player who ordinarily would have been declared a Rule 55 minor league free-agent is NOT eligible to be a free-agent if the player is either added to an MLB Reserve List (40-man roster) or agrees to a minor league successor contract with his previous club by 5:00 PM (Eastern) on October 15th or by 5:00 PM (Eastern) on the 5th day following the conclusion of the World Series (whichever is later). The deadline for an MLB club to tender a contract to an unsigned minor league player who had previously agreed to a successor contract is January 15th. If an unsigned minor league player is not tendered a contract by January 15th, the player becomes an unrestricted free-agent.
A minor league free-agent can sign a contract with any major league or minor league club (including the player's former club) without any restrictions. A club receives no compensation for losing an MLB Rule 55 or Article XX-D minor league free-agent.
J. C. Boscan, C (filed)
Michael Bowden, RHP (filed)
Darnell McDonald, OF (filed)
Henry Rodriguez, RHP (did not file)
Eduardo Sanchez, RHP (filed)
Four of the five players who were eligible to file for free-agency per Article XX-D did so, but nothing would prevent the Cubs from re-signing any or all of them to 2014 minor league contracts (if the player agrees).
Jeffry Antigua, LHP
Kyler Burke, LHP
Alex Burnett, RHP
Yeiper Castillo, RHP
Jaye Chapman, RHP
Johermyn Chavez, RHP (ex-OF)
Rafael Dolis, RHP
Eduardo Figueroa, RHP
Cole Gillespie, OF
Marcos Mateo, RHP
Edwin Maysonet, INF
Thomas Neal, OF
Brad Nelson, 1B
Dae-Eun Rhee, RHP
Henry Rodriguez, RHP (was Article XX-D FA eligible - did not file)
Nate Samson, IF-OF
Tim Torres, IF-OF
Casey Weathers, RHP
Ty Wright, OF
Because he had accrued at least three years of MLB Service Time when he was outrighted to the minors on July 19th and did not elect to be a free-agent at that time, and then was not added back to an MLB 40-man roster prior to the conclusion of the MLB regular season, Henry Rodriguez was eligible under Article XX-D of the CBA to file for free-agency starting on the day after the conclusion of the MLB regular season up through October 15th. He chose not to do so. However, he is also eligible to be a Rule 55 Six-Year Minor League Free-Agent (6YFA) post-2013, and Rule 55 does not require the player to file. Unsigned minor league players eligible to be a Rule 55 6YFA are automatically declared a free-agent at 5 PM (Eastern) on the 5th day following the conclusion of the World Series (meaning 5 PM Eastern next Monday), so Rodriguez will automatically be declared a free-agent at that time unless he is added back to the Cubs 40-man roster (not going to happen) or unless he and the Cubs agree to a minor successor contract for 2014 (very possible, given his choice not to file for free-agency per Arcticle XX-D when he had the chance).
So far, four players who were eligible to be a Rule 55 6YFA post-2013 have signed minor league successor contracts with the Cubs for 2014:
Edgar Gonzalez, INF
Marcus Hatley, RHP
Jonathon Mota, INF
Ryan Searle, RHP
Although these four players will not be a 6YFA next Monday, they will be eligible for selection in the December 2013 Rule 5 Draft. As a matter of fact, the player the Cubs selected in the Rule 5 Draft last December (RHP Hector Rondon) was a Rule 55 6YFA post-2012, but he and his club (the Cleveland Indians) agreed to a minor league successor contract. So while the Cubs never had a chance to sign him as a minor league FA (which would probably have been their preference), they were able to acquire him by selecting him in the Rule 5 Draft.
To entice a 6YFA to sign a minor league successor contract, a club will usually offer no less than "40-man roster split contract money" (at least $40,000 for players who have not been on a 40-man roster before, or at least $80,000 for players who have previously been on an MLB 40-man roster). In other words, the player's salary is what he would have been paid (or maybe even a bit more) if he had been added to the MLB 40-man roster, he just isn't on the 40. Depending on the pending minor league free-agent's leverage (estimated value on the open market), an NRI to Spring Training and/or a player "opt-out" right if he doesn't make the club's MLB 25-man Opening Day roster (or AAA roster in some cases) might be part of the offer, too.
If a player and a club cannot agree to a minor league successor contract for the following season, the only other way the club can be sure to keep the player from becoming a minor league free-agent is by adding him to their MLB 40-man roster prior to the deadline (5 PM Eastern next Monday). The only player eligible to be a minor league 6YFA post-2013 who might be added to the Cubs 40-man roster prior to the deadline is LHP Kyler Burke, who was also eligible to be a 6YFA post-2012 before agreeing to a minor league successor contract just prior to last year's deadline. But Burke might not be as willing to re-sign a minor league deal this time around.
Michael de la Cruz, RHP (previously released by TEX)
Carlos Figueroa, INF (previously released by CHC)
Humberto Garcia, INF (previously released by CHW)
Nate Maldonado, C (previously released by CHC)
Yomar Pacheco, RHP (previously released by PIT)
Zach Putnam, RHP (previously non-tendered by CHC)
Brohiglyn Rivero, RHP (previously released by TB)
Orbandy Rodriguez, RHP (previously released by AZ)
Roberto Vahlis, C (previously released by TOR)
When a club signs a minor league free-agent who has not yet completed the "seven minor league seasons" needed to be automatically declared a 6YFA, the player (known as a "second-contract player" even if it's the player's second, third, fourth, fifth, et al contract) can be signed to a multi-year contract covering as many seasons as the player has left before becoming a 6YFA. But that's only if the player agrees. The player might only want to sign a one-year contract so that he can be a minor league FA again the next off-season and possibly score a contract with a higher salary. (Carlos Figueroa and Nate Maldonado are Cubs minor league coaches who signed 2013 player contracts, so they probably signed for only one-year and both probably will not sign a 2014 minor league successor contract at this time).
So it is possible that at least some of the nine Cubs minor league players eligible to be a Rule 55 "second-contract" minor league FA are already signed for 2014 (TBD). Note that of the nine potential Rule 55 second-contract free-agents, H. Garcia, B. Rivero, and R. Vahlis would NOT be eligible for selection in the December 2013 Rule 5 Draft if the player agrees to a 2014 minor league successor contract, but the other six (M. de la Cruz, C. Figueroa, Maldonado, Pacheco, Putnam, and O. Rodriguez) would be eligible for selection if the player signs a 2014 successor contract.
In addition to the pending MLB and minor league free-agents, a couple of roster deadlines are now in play:
Besides players who are eligible to be a Rule 55 minor league free-agent, any player not eligible to be a Rule 55 6YFA or second-contract FA who was outrighted to the minors after signing a major league contract for the previous season cannot be added back to the club's MLB 40-man roster beginning at 5 PM (Eastern) next Monday up through the conclusion of the Rule 5 Draft. These players are:
Julio Borbon, OF
Gerardo Concepcion, LHP
Trey McNutt, RHP
Starling Peralta, RHP
Dave Sappelt, OF
It is VERY unlikely that any of the five players listed above will be added back to the Cubs 40-man roster by next Monday's deadline.
The four players on the Cubs MLB 60-day DL must be reinstated to the MLB 40-man roster no later than 5 PM (Eastern) next Monday, and a player cannot be placed onto a club's MLB 60-day DL until after ther start of Spring Training (and then only if the club's 40-man roster is full and the injured player is replaced on the 40-man roster by another player).
Kyuji Fujikawa, RHP
Mat Gamel, INF
Matt Guerrier, RHP (already reinstated from the 60-day DL and he remains off the Cubs MLB 40-man roster because he is an Article XX-B MLB FA)
Arodys Vizcaino, RHP
Beginning at 5 PM (Eastern) next Monday, any player on an MLB 40-man roster not eligible to elect free-agency per Article XX-D who would have been eligible to be a Rule 55 minor league FA if he had been on a minor league roster at 5 PM (Eastern) on the 5th day folllowing the conclusion of the World Series cannot be outrighted to the minors until he signs a major league contract for the following season. The player can be traded or released at any time or non-tendered on 12/2, but he cannot be outrighted to the minors after 5 PM next Monday until he signs a 2014 major league contract.
These players are:
Alberto Cabrera, RHP
Welington Castillo C
Junior Lake, OF
Josh Vitters, INF
(BTW, that's how and why Cleveland released OF Thomas Neal last January instead of outrighting him... he was a Rule 55-eligible player, but he hadn't signed a 2013 major league contract yet).
An injured player (including a player rehabbing an injury) who accrued any MLB Service Time the previous season cannot be outrighted to the minors after 5 PM (Eastern) next Monday. However, an injured player who did not accrue any MLB Service Time the previous season and who does not qualify to be a minor league FA per Article XX-D or MLB Rule 55 (until he signs a major league contract for the folllowing season) can be outrighted to the minors anytime up until 15 days prior to the start of the 2014 season. (The injured player could also be optioned to the minors during Spring Training anytime up until 15 days prior to MLB Opening Day).
So for example, Arodys Vizcaino (who spent the entire 2013 seaason on the Cubs MLB 60-day DL and thus accrued a full season of MLB Service Time) cannot be outrighted to the minors after 5 PM next Monday, but if Matt Szczur (who did not accrue any MLB Service Time in 2013) was to suffer a serious injury during the off-season or during Spring Training, the Cubs could outright him to the minors or option him to the minors (even though he was injured), as long as they do so at least 15 days prior to MLB Opening Day.
A "Draft-Excluded Player" is any minor league player eligible for selection in the Rule 5 Draft whose contract is selected and who is added to an MLB Reserve List (40-man roster) between August 15th and the Rule 5 Draft.
While a "Draft-Excluded Player" can be non-tendered on 12/2 and released or traded at any time, he cannot be sent to the minors by Optional Assignment beginning with the conclusion of the MLB regular season up until 20 days prior to MLB Opening Day, and a Draft-Excluded Player can be outrighted to the minors prior to the Rule 5 Draft only if Outright Assignment Waivers are requested no later than 2 PM (Eastern) on the 4th day following the conclusion of the World Series.
If Outright Assignment Waivers are not requested by 2 PM (Eastern) on the 4th day following the conclusion of the World Series, Outright Assignment Waivers cannot be requested until 25 days prior to MLB Opening Day, and the player cannot be sent outright to the minors any earlier than 20 days prior to MLB Opening Day.
At present the only player on the Cubs 40-man roster with "Draft-Excluded" status is LHP Zac Rosscup, who would have been eligible for selection in the December 2013 Rule 5 Draft if he had not been added to the Cubs 40-man roster on September 3rd. However, any minor league player eligible for selection in the next Rule 5 Draft who is added to the Cubs 40-man roster between now and the November 20th deadline will have"Draft-Excluded" status up until 20 days prior to 2014 MLB Opening Day. What that means is the Cubs cannot add a minor league player who is eligible for selection in the Rule 5 Draft to their 40-man roster between August 15th and the Rule 5 Draft and then outright him to the minors if they need a slot on the 40-man roster sometime later during the off-season. They could trade him or release him, or non-tender him on 12/2, but he cannot be sent to the minors (outrighted or optioned) until 20 days prior to 2014 MLB Opening Day.
The Cubs have until November 20th to decide how many and which of their minor league players eligible for selection in the December 2013 Rule 5 Draft they wish to "protect" from selection.
The Cubs also must decide by 11/20 which of their Rule 5 eligibles to place on the AAA Iowa 38-man reserve list, making them eligible for selection in the Major League Phase of the Rule 5 Draft only. This is an important decision, because the Cubs (at present) have 50 players eligible for selection in the Rule 5 Draft (51 if Juan Carlos Paniagua is declared eligible by MLB), but there are only 38 roster slots available on the AAA roster. Most clubs leave three or four AAA roster slots open for free-agents who sign minor league contracts prior to the Rule 5 Draft (most free-agents who sign minor league contracts prior to the Rule 5 Draft want to be placed on the AAA reserve list so that they are eligible for selection in the Major League Phase of the Rule 5 Draft), so the Cubs will probably place about 17 or 18 of the Rule 5 eligibles on the AA (Tennessee) reserve list or on a Class "A" reserve list to leave more slots open on the Iowa roster.
This matters because if a club decides not to keep a player selected in the Major League Phase of the Rule 5 draft on its MLB 25-man Active List (and/or MLB DL), the player must be placed on Outright Assignment Waivers, where any of the other 29 MLB clubs can claim the player for the $25,000 Rule 5 waiver price and assume the Rule 5 obligations. If the Rule 5 player is not claimed off Outright Waivers, the player then must be offered back to the minor league club from which he was drafted, and the player's former club can reclaim the player for $25,000, with the player being automatically outrighted to the Reserve List of the minor league club from which he was drafted.
There is no such "right of return" for players selected in the AAA and AA phases of the Rule 5 Draft, so if a player is selected in the AAA or AA Phase, he is gone.
Which players the Cubs might decide to add to their MLB 40-man roster is unknown at this time, although it is a virtual lock that one will be Arismendy Alcantara. So while there are presently 50 players eligible (51 if Juan Carlos Paniagua is declared eligible by MLB), the final number will be dependent on how many players are added to the MLB 40-man roster by the 11/20 deadline, and how many minor league free-agents are signed (or re-signed) prior to the Rule 5 Draft
CUBS ELIGIBLE FOR MLB RULE 5 DRAFT POST-2013(last updated 10-31-2013):
NOTE: Any player eligible for selection in the Rule 5 Draft who is added to the Cubs 40-man roster by 11/20 will be removed from the list, and any Cubs minor league player eligible to be Rule 55 6YFA or second-contract minor league free-agent who signs a minor league successor contract between now and the Rule 5 Draft will be added to this list, as will any FA from another organization who signs a minor league contract with the Cubs prior to the Rule 5 Draft.
Players who are most-likely (as things stand right now) to be placed on the AAA Iowa reserve list roster are in bold
(The players most-likely to get selected in the AAA or AA phases are Flores, Giansanti, Lorick, Morris, Noble, Paulino, Rohan, Soto, and Zapata).
Arismendy Alcantara, INF (will very likely be added to the MLB 40-man roster by 11/20)
Gioskar Amaya, INF
Frank Batista, RHP
Dallas Beeler, RHP
Julio Borbon, OF
Justin Bour, 1B
Marcelo Carreno, RHP
Lendy Castillo, RHP
Javier Castro, RHP (release candidate)
Zach Cates, RHP
Hunter Cervenka, LHP
Pin-Chieh Chen, OF
Casey Coleman, RHP
Gerardo Concepcion, LHP (Cubs would probably be thrilled if another organzation would assume what's left of Concepcion's contract)
Willson Contreras, C
Wes Darvill, INF
Antonio Encarnacion, RHP (release candidate)
Luis Flores, C
Anthony Giansanti, OF
Edgar Gonzalez, INF (was a post-2013 6YFA - re-signed for 2014)
Enyel Gonzalez, RHP (release candidate)
Carlos Gutierrez, RHP
Jae-Hoon Ha, OF
Marcus Hatley, RHP (was a post-2013 6YFA - re-signed for 2014)
Marco Hernandez, INF
Eric Jokisch, LHP
Austin Kirk, LHP
Matt Loosen, RHP
Jeff Lorick, LHP
Eric Martinez, RHP (release candidate)
Trey McNutt, RHP
A. J. Morris, RHP
Jonathon Mota, INF (was a post-2013 6YFA - re-signed for 2014)
Chad Noble, C
Alan Oaks, RHP (acquired from independent club and signed for 2014)
Juan Carlos Paniagua, RHP (see NOTE)
Loiger Padron, RHP
Amaury Paulino, RHP (TJS rehab)
Felix Pena, RHP
Starling Peralta, RHP
Greg Rohan, INF (back surgery last off-season - never came back 100%)
Jose Rosario, RHP
Victor Salazar, RHP (release candidate)
Dave Sappelt, OF
Brian Schlitter, RHP
Ryan Searle, RHP (was a post-2013 6YFA - re-signed for 2014)
Elliot Soto, INF (on RESTRICTED LIST - will be serving a 50-game suspension in 2014 after testing positive for Drug of Abuse)
Nick Struck, RHP
Yao-Lin Wang, RHP
Oliver Zapata, OF
NOTE: Juan Carlos Paniagua signed his first contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks as "Juan Callado" on 5-8-2009 and pitched for the DSL Diamondbacks in the Dominican Summer League in 2009-10, but the contract was "pending" for almost two years and was never officially approved by MLB. The contract was eventually rejected by MLB due to "fraudulent paperwork" and Paniagua (Callado) was suspended for one year and then was declared a free-agent. He signed with the New York Yankees in March 2011 but then was suspended again and that contract was rejected, too, because his birth certificate could not be verified. Paniagua was cleared by MLB in 2012 and he signed with the Cubs on 7-9-2012. Therefore, Paniagua could be eligible for selection in the Rule 5 Draft for the first time in December 2013, since 2009 was his "first season" on the field, and he was 18 on the June 5th immediately preceding the signing of his first contract, or he might not be eligible for selection in the Rule 5 Draft for the first time until December 2015 if 2012 is considered Paniagua's "first season" for Rule 5 eligibility purposes (TBD).
Phil, do you think anyone
Phil, do you think anyone else gets outrighted prior to 11/20? Who do you feel most likely to get selected in Rule 5?
not phil...obviously...
not phil...obviously...
re: rule 5...assuming the cubs place a.alcantara on the 40-man...
lendy castillo could be a target...so could eric jokisch (though i doubt it given how many teams passed on vidal nuno last year, who i wish the cubs would have targeted). there may be an interest in the old guy, brian schlitter who closed for iowa last year and didn't get a call-up in september. there's a good shot of someone taking an interest in jae-hoon ha.
all in all, there's no spectacular hitters and the hard throwing pitchers all have control issues or extreme inexperience. i wouldn't be too thrilled to see jae-hoon ha or eric jokisch go even if neither are high end guys. ha, in particular, can cover all 3 OF slots...jokisch is an interesting-but-boring lefty with good control/command, though he doesn't have much velocity.
i wouldn't be too shocked to jae-hoon ha added to the 40-man, myself. he's probably penciled in to play CF and occasionally LF for AAA next year.
Yeah, I was thinking
Yeah, I was thinking Schlitter for sure....my thought on Ha would be keeping him on a 25-man all season.
Ha on the 25? I was thinking
Ha on the 25? I was thinking the 40-man for Ha, but he has 250 PAs in Iowa and it isn't pretty. I definitely prefer to see him playing everyday in Iowa rather than rotting on the bench and playing once a fortnight against a lefty in Chicago.
I meant that I couldn't see
I meant that I couldn't see Ha sticking on another team's 25-man roster thru 8/31 without serious DL time. I would also have to think BJax, Vitters, & Szczur are all trade bait or throw-ins on any number of off-season deals.
if the cubs need 40-man space
if the cubs need 40-man space, i don't see how shoving c.rusin, d.bard, and/or b.jackson off of it would be of much consequence...
rusin is practically expendable, though b.jackson might be attractive to some teams because of the potential power and CF ability...still, if it came down between jackson and ha, i would rather protect ha.
i don't know what the club sees in d.bard...i sure don't know enough to know if they'd drop and expose him, though. that is a weird reclamation project to me.
bryant 1-4, 1bb, 2k
bryant 1-4, 1bb, 2k
soler 1-3, 1bb
almora 0-4
The Cubs Way
The Cubs Way
On "Swinging Bunts"
On "Swinging Bunts"
So, I have heard this term for 40 years - "Swinging Bunt". To me, this implies something intentional. I have never witnessed this coached in H.S. ball, and I never have seen this practiced during IF or BP at Wrigley before a game.
Is this something actually taught in the Minors - or does this actually mean "a muffed contact that luckily is well placed"?
I think of it like maybe taking a fat divot in golf - where the shot ends up luckily well-played (think the sand shot that you would have hit over the green on to the next tee if you had picked it clean, but instead makes it 10 feet from the hole luckily).
When I hear this Swinging Bunt an announcer states this as if it was a "Heads' up play", or "nice work", even, where I am thinking, "Geez - the guy was lucky to make contact there..."
I've always understood it to
I've always understood it to be more like "a muffed contact that luckily is well placed" -- i.e., he took a full swing but it (the ball) acted like it was a bunt. This would be a much more difficult skill than an actual bunt, which seems to be too much of a challenge for most major league players. If anybody can do this on purpose, more power to them. I don't think it could be a teachable (or repeatable) skill -- at least not against a major league 90+ mph fastball.
I think an "intentional
I think an "intentional swinging bunt" would be almost impossible. If you have that much bat control and hand/eye coordination, then just hit a line drive into the gap instead!
BTW, there are a bunch of
BTW, there are a bunch of baseball terms I've heard over the years that imply something different than the way they are used by baseball people. Other examples would be when they talk about a pitcher's command and control or when a pitcher has a "tailing fastball". To me, a "tailing fastball" implies that it moves farther away from the batter as it comes in towards the plate -- but most of the places I have heard that term being used, it describes a pitch that comes in on the batter's hands. That seems counter-intuitive to me, but there you have it.
On "control" and "command", I would think "control" meant "putting the ball where you want it" and "command" meant "getting the ball to do what you want it to do" but that's not how baseball people use it. For them, "control" means "can you throw it for a strike" and "command" means "can you throw it to a certain spot within (or outside of) the strike zone?"
I would bet that precision in language is not a big thing in the baseball industry. Once an incorrect usage takes hold, good luck in getting the usage to change by arguing that it the now-accepted usage doesn't make sense. I'm guessing a large number of baseball people also say "I could care less".
Control is being able to
Control is being able to throw strikes. Command is being able to place pitches in different parts of the strike zone, i.e., commanding the strike zone.
Almora now one for his last
Almora now one for his last 16. Next!
muffed contact
muffed contact
Once your married you rarely
Once your married you rarely get this.
You bad boy!
You bad boy!
In my experience, the contact
In my experience, the contact gets more muffed when you get married.
Lou Brock Part Deux
Lou Brock Part Deux
Cards interested in Castro?
stocked system at the upper
stocked system at the upper levels...
Shelby Miller is trade bait they'll most likely be dangling which is a good get in and of itself...
I would imagine another pitching prospect (Tyrelle Jenkins?) and maybe Kolten Wong? I could see Kozma or Descalso coming over just as a temp fix until Baez is ready to be called up. Darwin Barney seems destined to end up in a Cardinals uniform at some point in his career, might as well do it now.
Carlos Martinez initially signed with the Red Sox btw in 2009, mix-up in his last name and Red Sox voided contract, but presume they may still like the talent. Still could be a very effective starter or dominate reliever in his future.
2014 will be 50 years since
2014 will be 50 years since the Brock trade. I wonder if Theo or Jed know this part of Cub history. I don't think Castro is going anywhere . . . except, maybe 2nd base after Baez gets called up.
Cub prospect Soto too juicy
Cub prospect Soto too juicy or too smokey
50 game pinch
elliot soto...and nothing of
elliot soto...and nothing of value was lost.
"Astros claimed LHP Darin
"Astros claimed LHP Darin Downs off waivers from the Tigers."
shoulder soreness to end the season or not, nice score for a freebie.
So - then (other than "muffed
So - then (other than "muffed contact" which I enjoy with my wife) it is akin to a golf "shank" - but stays in-play and doesn't go out of bounds or in the water. Or a fucking lucky hit...
"Or a fucking lucky hit..."
"Or a fucking lucky hit..."
Which explains why the term "swinging bunt" has hung on for all of these years.
Dave McKay signs as 1st base
Dave McKay signs as 1st base coach for DBacks.
Brad Ausmus seen at Theo's Starbucks...Bruce Levine says Ausmus was interviewed today.
"According to Peter Gammons,
"According to Peter Gammons, the Dodgers strategy this offseason is to acquire both David Price and Masahiro Tanaka."
kershaw, grienke, price, ryu, tanaka...wtf?
bryant + soler, day off
bryant + soler, day off
almora 2-4, double, triple, 1bb
darvill 0-3, 1bb
Bryant practicing "swinging
Bryant practicing "swinging bunts".
"The Nationals announced
"The Nationals announced Friday that they will hire Mark Weidemaier to serve as an advance coach, focused solely on defensive alignments."
wow...a team has invented a coaching position for defensive alignments. wtf?
sweet...AFL games for those
sweet...AFL games for those of us in need of a televised baseball fix on MLB Network. plus, they're going to be trying out a new "instant replay" system...
Nov. 5: Mesa at Salt River
Nov. 6: Salt River at Scottsdale
Nov. 7: Scottsdale at Salt River
Nov. 8: Glendale at Scottsdale
Nov. 9: Peoria at Salt River
"All the games start at 7 p.m. Eastern time except for the Nov. 9 Military Appreciation Game, which will start one hour earlier."
unfortunately, there's only 1 mesa game...hopefully bryant + soler will be in the lineup.
good info Crunch, thanks for
good info Crunch, thanks for that.
also, AFL all-star game
also, AFL all-star game tonight, 8pm Eastern.
bryant + soler starting.
"Masahiro Tanaka suffered his
"Masahiro Tanaka suffered his first defeat of the 2013 season during Game 6 of the Japan Series on Friday, surrendering four runs on 12 hits over his nine innings of work."
...and it only took him 160 pitches to do it.
BA minor league transactions
BA minor league transactions oct 24-30
"Chicago Cubs
Released: RHP Juan Francisco, LHP David Villegas"
almora comes in bottom 6th to
almora comes in bottom 6th to replace soler in the field...0-2
bryant 1-4, single, 1k...2 errors, 1 glove/1 arm (had a few good plays with both glove and arm aside from the errors)
soler 1-1, single, bb...out of the game.
b.nicholas, 25yo AA 1st baseman w/ TEX, pretty much sealed up his AFL AS-game MVP going 3-4 with 2HR in this game.
Bryant muscles a single to
Bryant muscles a single to center in his 4th AB.
edit: damn and now he has the only TWO errors in the game.
they both were ugly errors..
they both were ugly errors...one was a ball right under his glove, the other a low/wide throw to 1st...
I saw his first play he made,
I saw his first play he made, the ball he threw looked like it was shot out of a bazooka.
Source: #Tigers to hire Ausmus as manager
no managerial experience..
no managerial experience...can't speak spanish...neat.
that said, it's yet another team adding to the recent trend of not overpaying for a "name brand" manager. either we're seeing the new crop of future high paid managers coming into game all at once or the days are numbered for the $2-3m+ a year superman manager.
TheoEpstein to talk to Koyie
TheoEpstein to talk to Koyie Hill about Cubs managerial opening.
Koyie Hill
Koyie Hill
at least Hector Villaneuva speaks Spanish
Theo Epstein in heated talks
Theo Epstein in heated talks with Hector Villanueva
the twitterverse seems to say
the twitter verse (post Ausmus to Detroit) seems to say the Cub manager job is Renteria vs Lovulio, assuming Lovullo gets interviewed soon.
I think I'll be more interested in who the rest of who gets picked for the coaching staff. Any predictions based on who is buddies with Renteria or Lovullo that probably joins them (not counting Bosio) ?
Thought I saw some where that
Thought I saw some where that Lovullo gets interview tomorrow.
This all sounds eerily
This all sounds eerily familiar. Didn't TheoCorp go through a similar painfully long process before they picked Sveum? And make them all go through 17 hours straight of interviewing and all kinds of other tests? Jeezus Christopher, folks, it's a fucking baseball team, not the next head of the NSA. Just pick somebody already.
fwiw, Renteria's been getting
fwiw, Renteria's been getting over surgery and i don't think he's even been on a plane since recovering...all the interviews have been by phone...and Lovullo's been busy with BOS.
the fact they're probably going to spend less than $1m a year on whoever they pick is fine by me, though.
Jed and Theo's first
Jed and Theo's first interview with Renteria was in Southern CA, right after they spent a few day in AZ. They did this because Renteria had recent hip (replacement) surgery. So they did a face to face interview but traveled to meet him. The 2nd interview was supposedly by phone. The Tigers also interviewed Renteria in Southern CA, for the same reason.
sweet, thnx.
sweet, thnx.
overall, i don't even have a preference out of any of the supposed candidates, though i'm glad they passed on awesome-o solely because of the spanish thing. since he's a catcher i'm sure he speaks "baseball spanish" but i get the feeling castro needs a little supplemental supervision coming from a team authority figure.
as of now he probably won't
as of now he probably won't slip to 4th (expected to go 2nd/3rd on a lot of recent lists), but it's still too early know where he'll go so here's a BA writeup on jeff hoffman from ECU scout day...
historically, i haven't been a huge fan of his, but this article has helped me understand a bit more why he's coveted aside from his fastball and being a lefty.
Rays pick up $6.5M option on
Rays pick up $6.5M option on DeJesus...bye, bye Kim.
You can watch her on the
You can watch her on the amazing race.....if that's your cup of tea(boobs).
Did they ever say what the
Did they ever say what the Cubs got from the Nats for DeJesus? If not, when do they have to decide?
don't think anything has come
don't think anything has come of it yet...if anything but a salary dump was planning to be done.
it was done for either a PTBNL or a "conditional deal" (whatever that entails) depending on source.
either way, WAS got practically nothing from TB for him (m.spann...high 80s lefty fringe-starter/reliever with change+curve that he can't seem to get Ks with).
also, TB is expected to work out some multi-year deal with dejesus. i can't believe they want to pay him $6.5m (well, technically, $5m since he had a $1.5m buyout). whatever...hell of a way to spend limited resources, though.
Red Sox owners still being
Red Sox owners still being asshats...
won't let Lovullo interview with Cubs citing previous agreement when Theo left that Theo couldn't poach anymore personnel...even though Lovullo wasn't there when Theo was there, he came on with Farrell.
player trade for manager
player trade for manager imminent.
Maybe that's why Theo wanted
Maybe that's why Theo wanted to talk to Koyie Hill.
s.drew got a qualifying offer
s.drew got a qualifying offer today.
he's worth 14.1m? even if "just" for a single season?
great D and a passable bat, but wow.
he's never made more than 9.5m (2013).
Surprising. But probably
Surprising. But probably indicates what the Red Sox think of Middlebrooks as I imagine Bogarts has one of the spots on the left side of their infield sewn up.
soler (batting 3rd) + bryant
forgot the AFL games start tomorrow night, not tonight. sigh.
soler/bryant in the lineup tonight batting 3rd/4th.
Why watch an AFL game when
Why watch an AFL game when you can watch the slaughter rule get invoked for the first time in NFL history? God it's gonna be an ugly night. The middling teams are going up and down at will on the Bears. Can't imagine what will happen with Rogers and Co.
EDIT: I love being wrong. I need to make more predictions like this.
Rules to live by:
Rules to live by:
1. hurt the opposing team's franchise QB on the first drive
2. Let the wookie win
....better to be lucky than good
The Soler Sox!
The Soler Sox!
the ninja-to-ARZ trade rumor
the ninja-to-ARZ trade rumor machine is a bit concerning...
i'm assuming ARZ isn't stupid enough to include a.bradley, but unless it involves t.skaggs as a starting point...or c.owings (SS that can play 2nd) and d.holmberg as a starting point then meh...
j.barrett is interesting, but he's a pen guy...not much on the high interest tier for me besides these guys and their 2013 1st round pick b.shipley.
Unfortunately, Shamadizia
Unfortunately, Shamadizia seems like he has Cubbery written all over him. Toiling away for several years, the Cubs committing way too much money for a rookie, etc., showing flashes of brilliance wedged between rounds of poor pitching performances, just enough flash to make you think he could be something. Then, the Cubs trade him, don't get much, and he spends the next 3 or 4 years lighting up the league.
Hopefully this prediction will go the way of my prediction RE: The Bears slaughter that never happened thanks to a real football coach managing the offense, but we'll see.
You made your prediction in
You made your prediction in the first six minutes of the game?
And - you have not mentioned the sighting of the rare "Shea Mc Clellin" sack (3).
It appears as if is not held or tangled-up by O-Line players, he has the speed to put a literal hurt on a QB.
or "blocked" even.
or "blocked" even.
No, I made the prediction a
No, I made the prediction a couple hours before the game. I really almost decided not to watch, but I decided to try anyway, much against my better judgement, which obviously doesn't count for much. Mc Clellin did look good - I did a little comment on Cubbyblue's post.
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Meh, I messed that up. Mets are in.
Cards and Giants can still tie though.
Kershaw gets hurt by his defense and gave up 2 more runs. Blach has 8 shutout innings.
Mets already won as did Cards.
tomorrow is gonna be helluva fun if Giants hold on. We're all rooting for a 3-way tie I presume.
good news is now 5 K's for Lester through 4 (in a quest for 200 for season). Bad news is he's already at 86 pitches.
be curious how long Maddon sticks with Lester to try and let offense get back into it and get him the win (4-2 as I type, was 4-0)
Fwiw, he needed 2.1 IP to cross 200 for season so he got that at least. He also needs 9 K's for 200K's on season and he has 4 through 3.
cubs score 2 runs thanks to predictable reds pitching and horrible CIN defense...cubs only down by 1 now. heyward even got a gift 2rbi double out of an easy popout. neat.
something named Ty Blach has outpitched Clayton Kershaw through 6 innings (1-0 Giants).
not that finishing 2nd place will matter much nor did this game, but have to think if Hendricks pitches well tomorrow, he could leapfrog Lester in Cy Young voting. Don't see anyway Scherzer doesn't win it regardless and it doesnt' look like Lester has any incentive clauses that matter. Also might give Cueto some votes.
Rather remarkable how many teams have really good 1-2 options this year.
Nats: Scherzer and Roark (and Strasburg was great before injuries)
Cubs: Lester and Hendricks (and Arrietta is still damn good just not as consistently lately)
pretty much what I'm gathering from this thread is that it doesn't matter who you play in 5-game series, but no one wants to have to deal with Cardinal fans if we end up losing.
I can respect that.
first game for lester giving up more than 2 runs since july 24th. hell of a run.
doh, yes...dunno what happened there. jake arrieta is all "bro wut?"
lester going for #20...cubs haven't had a LH (thanks jpep for the correction) 20 game winner since d.ellsworth in 1963.
fwiw, all the games are free on mlb.tv
Short rest for MadBum would be 2 days. WC game is Wed., Games 1 & 2 are Friday/Saturday.
A left-handed one...
J-Hey not finishing with an offensive onslaught.
If Geoff Blum could be a Playoff hero, there is hope still...
Giants scare me. I think you're wrong about Bumgarner, he would pitch on short rest for Game 2 and then full rest for Game 5. Cueto would go Game 1, then short rest in game 4. Add in some really tough outs in that lineup and I want nothing to do with them. With that rotation they can easily steal a series.
Cards are a tough matchup. The rivalry evens out their comparable lack of talent. And like someone said, they love HRs, which is how to beat the Cubs. The upside is that I would feel really good about Lester twice against STL.


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