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An Erie man is in jail this morning on charges related to a vehicle chase with city police earlier this month.
Ricardo L. Burgos, 19, of the 2100 block of Cascade Street, is in the Erie County Prison on $50,000 bond after he was arraigned late Wednesday afternoon by Erie 6th Ward District Judge Dominick DiPaolo on 26 charges, including a felony count of fleeing police and misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence.
Police accuse Burgos of speeding away from a traffic stop on the city's west side and leading officers on a pursuit on the evening of Oct. 14. Police also charge that Burgos tried to destroy a bag of marijuana that he had while he was seated in the back of a patrol car, according to the criminal complaint filed in the case.

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Meet Chasity Brinn - an adult figure skater who will conquer the figure skating world or cry trying.
Meet Chasity Brinn - an adult figure skater who will conquer the figure skating world or cry trying.
"..not caring that they're wasting their young years doing something where no man is ever gonna find them..."
This is amazing!
She's so dedicated!
Go, Chas! Keep 'em coming.
i look forward to following your saga.
Love her!
Hah, sass like that will melt the ice. Get it gurl.
We'll have to wait to see what she's like on the ice, but I can tell you already - you have definitely picked the right person to do this series!
If the skating doesn't work out, Chasity would make a great stand-up comedienne. She has that dry, sarcastic sense of humour that seems to be very popular nowadays.
I really do hope she does well on the skating front, though! And, from the few clips we have seen so far, she looks pretty good.
As she said herself - nobody knows about Adult skating. So, it will be fascinating to follow somebody competing in that side of the sport, so that we can find out more about that other world.
Good luck Chasity
P.S. Is it just me, or does Chasity have more than a passing resemblance to a certain Miss Marchei...
From what we've seen so far, Chasity's best move is her layback, right?
To get to the National Adult Championship competition, she will have to go through the Pacific Coast Sectionals scheduled for March in wait for it Las Vegas! She can skate in the morning and warm up the audience for Wayne Newton at the MGM Grand at night!
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She seems capable of becoming very intense! "Get out of my way, I've been here since 7am"
What level does she compete at?To get to the National Adult Championship competition, she will have to go through the Pacific Coast Sectionals
There are championship events at Adult Nationals at Adult Gold and Masters Intermediate/Novice and Masters Junior/Senior levels, for which skaters qualify through the adult sectionals.
But not all events at Adult Nationals are championships. There are also open (nonqualifying, nonchampionship) events at those levels, as well as Adult Silver and Adult Bronze. No need to qualify through sectionals -- just pass the requisite tests, pay your entry fee, and show up.
Many skaters who plan to enter open event at ANs also enter adult sectionals, but it's not necessary.
Surely many of you can relate! What would you "buy" your coach?
What a unique name. How is it pronounced? Chass-ity? Or is it Chastity misspelled? Serious question. You would not believe the names some people give their children
Go Cassidy!
"She requires a little more patience than my average client."
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With consumers not spending money, sales of PCs and other electronics are nearing their lowest points ever. Despite poor shipments, some categories like netbooks continue to post impressive growth.
The latest shipment numbers from IDC for the U.S. are in and HP has kicked Dell off its perch at the top of the PC shipper list for America. IDC reports that overall global shipments for the quarter were down 7.1% to 63.5 million units shipped.
IDC analyst Bob O'Donnell said in a statement, "HP's dethroning of Dell as the U.S. market share leader and extending its worldwide market share lead is a testament to the company's solid record of business execution over the last several quarters and indicates Dell still faces some challenges in its efforts to reignite its business."
Dell has struggled to turn around as it sheds employees and closes facilities in massive cost cutting measures to help it better compete in the marketplace and become more profitable. IDC reports that the global shipment numbers were better than it had expected. IDC predicted the drop in global PC shipments would be 8.2% from the previous quarter, but the drop was 7.1% according to the firm.
Gartner's numbers for the quarter look a bit different with the drop in global shipments at 6.5% and 67.2 million units shipped. According to both Gartner and IDC, the netbook category is continuing to drive PC sales. The firms both reports that some improvement has been seen in the PC market with inventory levels falling, but Gartner and IDC have different opinions on the impact. IDC reports that it expects production to be stable over the next quarter with Gartner saying the restocking isn't an indication that consumer demand is improving.
Gartner's George Shiffler said, "We are seeing some evidence of channel inventory restocking, particularly in the United States. This restocking should not be interpreted as a recovery in PC end-user demand; it's still unclear if the global PC market has hit the bottom."
Intel leans more towards the findings of IDC with an announcement this week that it believes the bottom of the market has been reached. The top five PC vendors globally, in order, were HP, Dell, Acer, Lenovo, and Toshiba. In the U.S., the rankings were HP, Dell, Acer, Apple, and Toshiba.
quote: With consumers not spending money, sales of PCs and other electronics are nearing their lowest points ever.
quote: A machine that lasts 10 years from now should still be useful for a lot of tasks outside of gaming, so reliability does matter. You'd save money not only on the computer, but the labor of replacing it, etc....
quote: I'd really love to see a company make a really high quality computer like the PS/2, but more attractive. Not that the PS/2 was ugly, is was just plain, but the quality of those computers was so outstandingly high, it's a good starting point. Use the finest materials for the case, spend some serious effort on aesthetics, and ship it with a proper keyboard that weighs at least five pounds and has the clicky feel of the old IBM keyboards, and I really think people would pay for it. A beautiful computer with very high quality parts, an excellent keyboard, and excellent design would sell.
quote: The latest shipment numbers from IDC for the U.S. are in and HP has kicked Dell off its perch at the top of the PC shipper list for America.


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Three New Jersey teens are currently locked up on murder charges after they allegedly punched a man to death during a game of "Knockout, according to the New York Daily News[1].
The three teens, all from Jersey City, followed the homeless Hoboken man, Ralph Erick Santiago, 46, down a street back in September. One of the boys punched Santiago, causing him to fall back from the blow and collapse onto an iron fence, where he died after his neck was wedged between two posts, police said.
After the cops released video of the teens near the scene of the crime (screenshot above), they eventually turned themselves in. They are being held at the Hudson County Youth Detention Center without bail. Ironically, Santiago was disabled some 20 years ago in the Bronx after a similar attack, according to NJ.com[2].
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Just had a sub-contractor of MASTEC do an install(it was his 1st) & it's NOT yet working. Here's a pic of the splitter he used & the layout of what he had done.
All lights on deca module are GREEN
I activated my MRV online @ our D* account. The Beta is gone on each of my set-up screens. Under Status it says no Networked DVRs found.
Without a router, the receiver is using the same IP address as another receiver.
It seems the DECA/SWiM install works fine, but without DECA to router bridging, there is no DHCP to have the network settings controlled.
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HANOVERTON - The United Community Scholarship Foundation will hold its annual silent auction on Feb. 23 and one of the more interesting items up for bid is a part of the fender from the "Blue Deuce" Dodge raced last year by reigning NASCAR Sprint Car Champion Brad Keselowski.
Keselowski drove a Dodge to win the championship and will drive the Penske Racing Team Miller Lite Ford Fusion this year after the team switched to Ford during off season.
The auction, which is the foundation's largest fund raiser will be held in the high school cafeteria from 7 a.m. until noon and is called the "All-U-can-eat-eggstravaganza."
Tickets are $7 for adults and $4 for children two to 12 and will be available at the door.
Jen Johnson, a member for the scholarship committee, said there will be more than 100 items auctioned off.
In the past, items have included gift certificates from local restaurants including the Spread Eagle in Hanoverton, jewelry and sailboat rides.
The part of Keselowski's race car came about after David Humphrey, a Salem-area resident and manager of Team Penske's NASCAR trackside mobile merchandise trailer, made the offer on behalf of his wife, Joyce, and himself.
"Dave goes to the same church," Johnson said, "and said he had something for the auction."
Humphrey was in Charlotte, N.C. on Friday preparing for the Daytona 500 and said that normally Johnson's mother was looking for items for the auction and he would "nose around" for merchandise.
He said the part is from Keselowski's 2012 Dodge "Blue Deuce" but was unsure which race it competed in, but is definitely a genuine race-used piece.
"It's a cut-away from the driver's side above the wheel," Humphrey (see David Humphrey on Facebook) said, adding it has "Goodyear" on it.
"It has tire marks, it's worn from underneath," he said, adding it's not so big of a piece as to get in the way and not so small as to go unnoticed.
"It's a piece of the 'Blue Deuce,'" he said.
If whoever purchases it wants it autographed or personalized by Keselowski, Humphrey will be back home at the Easter break.
"Whoever buys it, I'll pick it back up and whatever they want done, Brad will personalize it ... whatever they want," hesaid.
Keselowski needed 125 starts to claim his Sprint Cup title, the fewest since Jeff Gordon was crowned the first of four times after 93 starts in 1995.
The "All-U-can-eat-eggstravaganza" will feature omelets, fruit crepes and donuts.
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First time dad-to-be Channing Tatum is already in baby mode – studying books and watching documentaries.
But there's one thing he's still lacking: mastering the art of diapering.
"I have never changed a diaper before, so I may need some help learning," Tatum, 32, told PEOPLE at Thursday's New York premiere of his new movie Side Effects, presented by the Cinema Society and Michael Kors.
"I don't have friends who have kids, so it's going to be an interesting experience to learn how to change a diaper. I hope I don't have any problems where the diaper falls off and the baby [poops] on the ground," said PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive, whose baby with wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum, 32, is due this summer.
"But once the baby is born, I'll definitely do the diaper changing. If it means touching the [poop] and getting peed on, I'll still do it. I'm up for the challenge."
One thing the Magic Mike star has mastered is keeping his pregnant wife relaxed and happy.
"Oh man, I'm not even getting into what I do to pamper Jenna. I'm doing anything that she asks for," he explains.
"She jokes to me all the time by saying, 'If I feel good, then the baby feels good or if I'm happy, then the baby is happy.' And I'm like, 'That is such an urban myth. You're just saying that to get me to do everything for you.'"
"I know it's probably true, but I like to joke about it and she hates it. I'll go to the store to pick up shakes or give her 1000 foot rubs. A foot rub now through the nine months if I have to, just to keep her happy and comfortable."
Channing Tatum: I May Need Diaper Lessons
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Ulysses S. Grant led two lives: His first life, a professional soldier, dedicated to carrying out the dictates of the nation's political leaders, and his second, a president by popular demand during the rancorous Reconstruction years after the Civil War.
In his first life, Grant, who nearly pulled the plug on his West Point career before graduating, attained a success well beyond the expectations of his contemporaries, his own father, and maybe even himself. He had appeared to be a lost soul prior to the Civil War.
Then his victories in the West provided the North with the will to continue the fight when spirits lagged and some predicted the great American experiment in self-government had run its course. Abraham Lincoln said of him: "Grant is the first general I've had" in this war.
Grant's defeat of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, which effectively ended the Civil War, catapulted this unpretentious cigar-smoking general to the stature of national hero, the likes of which had only been seen twice before – in George Washington and Andrew Jackson – and once since in Dwight Eisenhower.
On his second life as a two-term president, the pendulum of judgment on Grant's performance has swung both ways more than once, and nearly 150 years after Grant's first inauguration, the jury is still out.
Just as Grant led two lives, one might say noted historian H.W. Brands, in his latest presidential biography, has written two books under the cover of a single title.
The first is a 380-page gripping and fast-paced account of the Civil War in which Grant either is in the forefront of the action, or is looming in the shadows just off stage. Brands' approach of chronicling Grant's exploits through the general's archived letters to his wife, Julia, gives Brands the advantage of not needing to explore every minute detail of the war. He keeps the narrative flowing by shifting from Grant to Lincoln, William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip Sheridan to flesh out the picture.
Brands' civil war, like Grant's civil war, was all about slavery, the one issue that would split asunder the fragile mid-19th century union of sovereign states. Slavery was the issue; "states rights" was just the code.
This war put an end to legalized slavery in this nation, but it also quashed the notion that some members of the nation – in this case, member states which just had lost an election – could defy the will of the majority and overcome defeat at the polls simply by dissolving the federation.
You'll recall secession was not a new idea. South Carolina came within a few votes of seceding way back in the 1790s after the first northerner was elected president. They tried again in 1828. By December 1860, many fed-up but short-sighted northerners were ready to wish their southern brethren a good riddance.
In this book, Gen. Grant develops a clear vision of what the war is all about. Brands refuses to buy into the romantic fantasy that the Confederate soldiers had all the bravery, and the Confederate generals had all the brains.
He describes as brilliant Grant's strategy to cut off and isolate the main body of the Confederacy from the West, and then to constrict them in an ever-shrinking box. In Grant and his eventual subordinates Sherman and Sheridan, Lincoln had finally found a general willing to treat this deadly conflict as all-out war.
Brands even makes a strong military case for Sherman's notorious march through Georgia and then back up through the Carolinas. He quotes Sherman as saying: "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it."
As the fighting came to an end at a farmhouse outside the crossroads village of Appomattox Court House, Va., Grant was mirroring the thinking of his political role model, Lincoln, when he demanded his men treat the defeated enemy with the greatest respect.
Upon the death of Lincoln, Brand's second book, about a 200-pager, begins. This book is a slower-moving, sometimes plodding and more nuanced treatment of a war hero turned president.
By most accounts, Grant's successes in the polarized political atmosphere of Washington, where the general was out of his element, were limited, at best. Many have judged his presidency a failure.
In Brands' sympathetic hearing of Ulysses Grant, his presidency was successful in that Lincoln's dream of a reunited nation under a single government was achieved during his eight years in office. Talk of secession faded, never to be seriously discussed again. Yes, there were scandals in the Grant administration, and yes, Grant's political naivete uncovered glaring inadequacies.
It was Grant who exclaimed: "I am not a politician, never was, and never hope to be."
Grant formed a Cabinet the way he might form a military staff: Gather your trusted buddies around you, point the direction, and let them do their thing. Brands would stipulate that probably wasn't the best way to run the nation, but it was the way Grant knew.
This still was the 19th century – pre-Teddy Roosevelt – when the president's job was to dispense federal jobs and keep the federal offices running. It was the job of the Congress – that same Senate and House of Representatives locked in stalemate today – to govern the nation.
Lincoln had been an aberration. He was president during the most devastating war our nation had seen up to that time. But after Lincoln, a vengeful Congress was ready to reclaim its rightful role, a role it would jealously guard for another 35 years, through the presidencies of stalwarts like Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield and Chester Arthur.
In Brands' assessment, if Grant had left the job of governing to Congress, the nation likely would have backslid to pre-Civil War values. In many states, freed slaves would be citizens without rights. The states rights fight would continue. Lincoln's dream would be squandered.
Brands insists Grant never lost sight that the Civil War was fought over slavery. Grant, in an unpopular move, sent federal troops into the Deep South to stanch the wanton killing of blacks by the Ku Klux Klan and white paramilitary groups. It would be almost 90 years before another general-turned-president would send troops into the South to protect the civil rights of its citizens.
Brands makes the case that it was during the North-South split in the Republican Party and the resurgence of the Democratic Party that revisionist historians tarnished the image of a heroic Grant, a general and president who was larger than life right up to his death. So now, more than a century after his interment in that grand memorial overlooking the Hudson River in New York's Riverside Park, the question remains unresolved: Which is the true Grant and which is the revisionist Grant?
This book, the first major Grant biography in a decade, comes down squarely on the side of a president dealt a serious disservice by historians.
Yet the suspicion in this quarter is that the final word is yet to be written on the character and presidential ranking of one of our country's most successful wartime generals, and one of our least revered presidents.
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
By H.W. Brands
718 pages, $35
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Chad Fox is landing on the DL again, apparently re-injuring his right elbow playing catch with Scott Eyre. If you play the game of six degrees of separation, Will Ohman's ghost just played a trick on Chad Fox. Or maybe it was just being overly optimistic to expect his oft injured right pitching elbow to hold up. Fox has been on the Cubs 25 man roster for a whopping 17 days. He was activated May 2nd, so in his 2nd stint with the Cubs he's made it to the DL faster than his first. In 2005 he went on the DL April 26th, and he's spared us this time as his injury that year occurred while on the mound. I have vivid memories of his pain on that cold April night in 2005:
when he threw a slider Monday night and felt the "pop," he knew it was bad.
This time the diagnosis is ulnar neuritis or inflammation of the ulnar nerve. For a 37 year old pitcher with a history of 3 surgeries on the elbow (he didn't get surgery after the 2005 event), it's not surprising that pitching, given his surgical history, will make the nerve cranky. The ulnar nerve passes behind the medial/inside of the elbow called the cubital tunnel but this area is what most people call "the crazy bone", which gets it's name because impact to that area often dings the nerve causing sharp pain and tingling. The nerve is susceptible to inflammation leading to what is called cubital tunnel syndrome where the ulnar nerve inflammation leads to pain, numbness or even weakness in the hand, starting on the inside of the elbow and radiating down the forearm into the ring and little fingers. If the symptoms don't calm down with rest and anti-inflammatory medication then there are surgical options including transposing (moving) the nerve to a location anteriorly (further in front of the elbow) where it isn't as likely to be crimped from repetitive bending. There are alot of variations on that surgery. The fact that Chad Fox has had 3 previous surgeries, including Tommy John (Ulnar Collateral Ligament reconstruction), and he opted not to have surgery with his last "event" in 2005 indicates he will pass on any procedure this time as well. Expect the nerve symptoms to calm down but always be eager to come back with repetitive activity. The timeline to recovery? Well Cubs trainer, Mark O'Neal said:
"it could take a week, it could take two weeks, it could take two months. Who knows?"
The extra righty spot in the bullpen moves on. Kevin Hart, Chad Fox and now Jose Ascanio. My guess is if Ascanio, who has been closing for the Iowa Cubs (9 saves) can throw strikes, Lou is gonna fall in love with another hard throwing option out of the bullpen. Ascanio in Iowa has pitched 21 innings, given up 14 hits with a 2.08 era. Now if those numbers could translate to the big club, trainer Mark O'Neal's most pessimistic prognosis just might be a bit too optimistic.
UPDATE [1:00PM CST]: It will indeed be Jose Ascanio getting the call-up.
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Yay! It works! (I presume this is the numbering system you were going for.)
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"It could take a week, it could take two weeks, it could take two months. Who knows?"
I believe Rumsfeld said this about Iraq.
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Does Fox have his own supply of oil that will pay for the whole thing so it doesn't cost the Cubs anything? (Thanks, Mr. Wolfowitz)
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In all seriousness, why does Chad Fox merit his own thread? What we have here is just another failed Hendry reclamation project---- in this case one from the middle of the Dustbag Era who has pitched a total of 11.1 ineffective innings for TCC. The last time he made a significant contribution to a team was 2001 when he was 30 and the last time he was any good was 2003. We didn't get him until 2005---way past his expiration date.
Chad Fox's only historical importance as a Cub, as far as I can tell, was as a talking point when the subject of Dusty Baker pushing pitchers past their physical limits came up.
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"Chad Fox, I just cant quit you." - Jim Hendry.
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Considering Fox's performance to date, this isn't such a bad thing for the team. It was a nice potential story, but I imagine few among us expected him to be very relevant to the '08 Cubs.
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Don't let the door hit your ass on the way to the training room, Chad.
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The numbered comments should work now. The numbers are based on when the comment is made, so in flat view it'll just go down sequentially. In threaded view though, if someone replies to a comment the numbering may jump to something different if the reply came after a new comment. See #1, 7 and 2 for example at the top of this page.
So if you want to refer to comments by numbers, it's there now.
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In order to be able to activate minor leaguers (players not on the 25-man roster as of 8/31) for the post-season (as the Cubs did with Kevin Hart and Geovany Soto last year, when Hart and Soto "replaced" Mark Prior and Angel Guzman), there needs to be a similar number of players on the DL who can be "replaced" by any minor leaguer(s) the Cubs might want to make eligible for the playoffs (if they can get in). At the very least, Chad Fox can perform this function.
EXAMPLE: Let's say Angel Guzman goes on a 30-day rehab assignment to Daytona when EXST ends on June 4th, and then is activated from the 60-day DL and is optioned to Iowa after the rehab assignment is over on July 4th. (As long as Guzman spends less than 90 days active on a regular season minor league or major league roster in 2008, his 4th minor league option will be preserved for 2009).
So then let's say the Cubs recall Guzman on September 1st, and he pitches great out of the bullpen the last month of the season and so Lou wants Gooz on the post-season roster. But because he wasn't on the 25-man roster on 8/31, the only way Guzman can be eligible for the post-season is if he replaces a player who is on the DL. That's where Chad Fox (if he doesn't come back healthy later in the season) might be useful.
I just used Guzman as an example, but it could be any Cubs minor leaguer. Last year at this time there was no reason to expect Geovany Soto or Kevin Hart would be added to the Cubs post-season playoff roster as "replacement" players, so who knows which yougster might burst on the scene this September and light it up.
It's all about keeping roster options open, even if the slots ultimately aren't needed.
So injured guys (even slugs) can have some value. In fact that was the only value Mark Prior had to the Cubs last season (as a scarecrow allowing the Cubs to activate Soto or Hart as his "replacement" in the NLDS).
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AZ-Phil, thanks! Wow, I could help out the Cubs doing THAT. And I will also work for the minimum and promise not to file for arbitration. I'll even pack my own lunch and lay off the postgame spread. Do you have Hendry's number?
Seriously, do you have a scouting report on Ascanio? Other than "Throws very hard, sometimes has trouble finding plate?" I just hope he isnt' another Beltran/Novoa.
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Last September he showed a 94 MPH fastball that breaks left to right and rises and a HEAVY sinker in the mid to high 80's while beating the Nationals.
[edit} Oh, and I should mention his slider that moves opposite to his fastball and sometimes breaks so much he can't control it.
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no such thing as a rising pitch.
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yes, it's an illusion but that's what Ascanio's fastball looks like nonetheless.
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Then how did Ryu hit that bird?
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Tonight's game is going to be on WGN. Woohoo!
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I like that we got rid of Oh-Man! for something useful. And a 23y.o. fireballer is fine w/me.
Article up on IowaCubs.com about JASON DUBOIS acquisition
Not looking good for Jake Fox who can play 1b and is, of course, available from the Smokies.
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Ascanio suffered a broken back in 2005. Anyone have the details?
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I just sniffed around a bit in ESPN's sortable MLB Stats:
The Cubs are "6th" in baseball according to their wierd splits, BUT the interesting thing is the team's BAA is like .233. Now THAT is telling.
Also, this is 3/44 but the offensive stats are truly impressive when compared to the rest of the NL - and all of the ML. .372 TEAM OBP?! It is going to be a very, very interesting summer.
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What weird splits?
That list is sorted by ERA.
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"The Cubs are "6th" in baseball according to their wierd splits..."
These are PITCHING stats. Sorry...
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I guess its not really weird.
Just "interesting" I guess that the .500 Cleveland club's pitching staff is ranked #1, but by era only. Looking deeper, the other stats, such as BAA, arguably more important, whould kick them down considerably.
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Again... it is not a "ranking." It is just sorted by ERA, and you can sort by any stat you want.
They probably automatically sort by ERA because it is the most known and understood stat.
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i see.
makes sense.
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I saw today that Dempster has the best BABIP in the league at .211. I suppose that goes a long way to explain his success.
Although, in fairness to him, he's done a great job of getting the ball down. I think his GB% was near 60% last time I checked.
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Most of his pitches are indeed around the knees - so far, an amazing transition this year. Hope it keeps up.
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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
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MOUNT PLEASANT — They came from 52 countries around the world to become U.S. citizens and renounce allegiance to their native land.
Civics quiz for citizenship
Applicants for citizenship are required to demonstrate a knowledge of U.S. history and government during an oral exam in which they are asked 10 questions from a list of 100 questions. They must answer six questions correctly to pass the civics portion of the naturalization test.
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What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?
What is one responsibility that is only for United States citizens?
The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?
What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
When must all men register for the Selective Service?
Who is in charge of the executive branch?
What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
What did Susan B. Anthony do?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Why did the colonists fight the British?
How many justices are on the Supreme Court?
For the answers and to see more questions, visit the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services site.
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Charles Pinckney National Historic Site celebrates Constitution Week with free events scheduled through Monday at 1254 Long Point Road in Mount Pleasant.
The park preserves the last 28 acres of Snee Farm, a plantation that was once owned by Charles Pinckney, a principal framer and signer of the U.S. Constitution.
On Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m., the public is invited to a screening of the 2010 documentary on Pinckney that was produced by SCETV. "Forgotten Founder: the Story of Charles Pinckney" features original art work, period illustrations, historical documents, dramatic re-enactments and studio interviews.
Throughout the week, visitors may take part in the "I Signed the Constitution" program, signing a scroll in remembrance of what occurred 226 years ago in Philadelphia when Pinckney and 38 other delegates signed the world-changing document on Sept. 17, 1787.
All events are free. For more information or group reservations, call the park at 881-5516 or go to nps.gov/chpi/.
Gergel, who said his grandparents were from Poland and Russia, led 111 people in an oath as they swore to become Americans.
"It's a relief. It was an arduous process," said John Lee, 19, a Myrtle Beach resident from South Korea.
His mother, Meesook Lee, also became a citizen. The family has a dry cleaning business and John Lee is a student at Clemson University.
"There are a lot more opportunities in America than you can find anywhere else," he said.
The naturalization ceremony took place Tuesday in a large tent erected on the grounds of the Charles Pinckney National Historic Site.
"I finally get to vote. No more showing the green card," said Renate Marek, 41, a native of Germany who lives in Columbia.
Lance Cpl. Tung Lam, who came from Vietnam, said he arrived in Los Angeles with his parents in 2004. Lam, 20, is stationed at the Marine Corps Air Station in Beaufort.
"Today feels like I'm reborn. I consider it my second birthday," he said.
The candidates for citizenship represented a diversity of nations including the Philippines, India, China, Canada, Nigeria, Jamaica, Venezuela, England, Russia, Mexico, Argentina and Somalia. They pledged to support and defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. They promised to bear arms on behalf of the U.S. when required by law.
The citizenship applicants completed a three- to four-month process of naturalization that included passing a U.S. government and history exam and demonstrating the ability to read, write and speak English. They also went through an extensive background check and security clearance.
In federal fiscal year 2013, some 5,000 people in South Carolina became U.S. citizens. Weekly naturalization ceremonies occur at government offices, said Karen Dalziel of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Some immigrants petition the court for a name change. "A lot of them like to Anglify their name. Some of them like to choose an historical name," she said.
The naturalization ceremony was the 16th annual one held at the Pinckney Historic Site under the auspices of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the National Park Service and the U.S. District Court. The Daughters of the American Revolution provided refreshments and distributed U.S. flags. The Wando High School Choir performed the National Anthem, and the Citadel Color Guard participated. Councilwoman Thomasena Stokes-Marshall congratulated the new citizens and welcomed them to Mount Pleasant.
Senior Airman Alvaro Koo, 24, of Panama, who wore military fatigues, said becoming a citizen meant he could re-enlist in the Air Force in the next few months. Koo, who came to the U.S. with his parents, said he is stationed at Shaw Air Force Base near Sumter.
"You lose something," he said of renouncing his Panamanian citizenship. "At the same time, you gain something new," he said.
Emmanuel Tayi, 23, of Ivory Coast in West Africa, serves in the Air Force. He said that his new U.S. citizenship gives him more opportunities in the military.
"It's like a next step," he said.
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Just got home. Sour that I missed the 1st, but oh well.
What did I miss? No goals, apparently.
Completely dominated play in the first. Something like a 15-4 shot differential. Hit the post three times. Tootoo fought Jared Boll 3 seconds into the game. No score yet, but a much better outing than saturday.


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Gary Kephart seldom made any headlines on the Mirror sports page.
Gary was Blair County's Raymond Poulidor, the famous Tour de France racer that had the misfortune of racing during the careers of two of cycling's greatest, Jacques Anquetil and Eddy Merckx. Poulidor would finish second or third in the world's greatest bike race eight times to the two legendary winners. Like Poulidor, Gary just kept riding, riding well and riding often.
I met Gary and cycling legend Ken Steel on the same day I was introduced to glycogen debt in 1975. On a late April day sliced from the edge of heaven, the two cyclists joined a Penn State Altoona physical education class for a 100-mile ride to State College and back.
I was in that class and was striving for an A that went to everyone that completed the 100-mile trek. Gary and Ken both rode me into the ground that day.
Though I managed to keep up with their blistering pace through the first half of the ride, I faded as I had my first experience with glycogen debt. I hit the "wall" somewhere around mile 70 and never saw the two riders again.
But that day was the beginning of a friendship that lasted for three-plus decades. We rode together countless times over the next 10 years. As I grew stronger, my youth eventually enabled me to get the better of Gary (six years my senior) on most days. Yet, whether in a race or a ride, he was never far behind.
Ken Steel dragged us through central Pennsylvania's countryside, and we came to enjoy the wonders and beauty of the region as much as the physical challenge of the mountains.
Through it all, Gary's dry sense of humor made us laugh - no matter the weather, terrain or how rude the drivers.
Perhaps my most memorable ride with Gary was a 350-mile adventure to central Virginia on the rugged Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway in August 1981.
Gary and I ended up in a remote campground called Peaks of Otter, northeast of Roanoke. Surrounded by peaks near or exceeding 4,000 feet, we had plenty of climbing amidst some of the most spectacular scenery in the Eastern U.S.
Hoping the weather would cooperate, we hadn't taken a tent with us. The gamble paid off the first few days, but a steady rain in the very early morning hours put us in a soggy state. We looked for what cover we could find but soon realized that the only protection came from the overhang of the campground's restroom building.
Having to that point enjoyed the peaceful quiet and clean air of the park, the pungent odor of the bathrooms was a stark and unpleasant contrast. We tried to sleep but we didn't have much success, leaving us utterly exhausted for the trip back north the next morning.
I had not ridden much with Gary in recent years but did enjoy a mountainous 100-mile ride with him and a group of mostly 50-something riders in September 2009. Gary, only a few months from his 60th birthday and the oldest person on the ride, outrode all of us on several long climbs.
Just like the Gary of the 1970s, he offered no arrogant boasting of his accomplishment. But you could tell how pleased he was.
In a strange twist of fate, I talked to Gary just a day or two before his last ride. He called my office to ask a composting question and we talked of his recent retirement, his big summer of riding and his late summer family vacation. We promised we would get together for a ride, just like the old days.
But it will now be only memories of rides gone by that I will savor, as Gary died riding down Carson Valley Road 10 days ago - on Wednesday, Oct. 3.
A tremendous bicyclist for the better part of four decades, he was more importantly a happily married man and a proud father and grandfather.
It's easy these days to be turned off by the unsportsmanlike behavior, skyrocketing salary demands, drug scandals and unseemly behavior of all kinds by athletes.
A guy like Gary Kephart, who did it for the love of the sport and pleasure of enjoying a beautiful place, stands out as an example of the way it ought to be.
I was mighty fortunate to have known him.
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Mike Bibby could be headed to the South Beach to join LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh with the Miami Heat.
Reportedly several Heat players, including James and Wade, have said they expect Bibby to be a member of the Heat soon.
The Heat released point guard Carlos Arroyo to make way. Bibby is currently going through waivers.
An NFL lockout is looking to be more and more of a certainty as the days go by before the collective bargaining agreement expires on March 3. Not exactly music to the ears.
And St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter sustained a mild left hamstring strain in Spring Training today.
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The 2011 NBA Playoff schedule has been set, with all eight first-round matchups locked down in the Eastern and Western Conferences.
The San Antonio Spurs and Chicago Bulls have secured the No. 1 seeds in their respective conferences, but perennial favorites, including the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics, are ripe for an upset with other teams lurking.
Even if they are struggling at the worst possible time, you can never count out either storied franchise.
Starting this Saturday afternoon, ABC, ESPN, TNT and NBATV will have full coverage of the 2011 NBA Playoffs in the first three rounds. The 2011 NBA Finals will be exclusively on ABC as the conference winners battle it out for the championship.
This promises to be another fantastic postseason with plenty of storylines, but it still all starts and ends with the two-time defending champion Lakers. The have hit the skids at the wrong time, their star players and coaches are being fined—possibly out of frustration—and their big man went down with another injury.
But with all of that being said, you still have to beat the champs in order to bee the champs.
Can you honestly say that you would bet against the Lakers and their shot at a three-peat?
Aside from the top teams, everyone will watch out of curiosity to see just how well the Miami Heat can play together in the first playoff series. They will battle the Philadelphia 76ers. Also, the Celtics will take on the New York Knicks in a classic rivalry. The Bulls should have few problems with the Indiana Pacers while the Orlando Magic will face the Atlanta Hawks in the playoffs once again.
Out west, the young, but upstart Oklahoma City Thunder are putting a lot of scare in teams throughout the conference. They start out with the Denver Nuggets, who have been on fire since they traded Carmelo Anthony.
In other action, the Spurs host the Memphis Grizzlies, the Lakers battle the New Orleans Hornets and the Dallas Mavericks take on the Portland Trail Blazers.
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This year's poster is a spectacular presentation of the theme "Revitalize, Reinvest, Renew."
Robert Rodriguez, a New Orleans native, has painted the essence of public works: the care and nurturing of our communities as a city being "planted" in the soil of reinvestment. The background shows fields of green, healthy communities growing strong. All this is taking place on the national stage, as represented by the curtains on either side and the typography reminiscent of a movie marquee.
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Best-selling author and U.S. Army veteran Wes Moore tells the story of his search for answers to some of the most difficult questions facing veterans returning from war.
Moore's (pictured at right) journey, spurred by the suicide of one of his oldest friends and a fellow officer, takes him into the personal lives of different soldiers as they attempt to re-enter society, establish new identities and – for many – find a new mission.
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another word for "cat" i.e. Mmmm how you so good cook chinese chicken
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Another word for cocaine. Good to use when in company and need to give it an alias.
"Fancy getting some Chinese Chicken later?"
by t.h.e March 19, 2007
When you dip your dick in sweet and sour sauce and tell your woman it's a chinease buffet.
Man: How about some Chinese tonight?
Woman: Oh, that sounds wonderful! What were you thinking?
Man: How about some *unzips pants* Chinese Chicken?
Woman: Oh, that sounds wonderful! What were you thinking?
Man: How about some *unzips pants* Chinese Chicken?
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A fried chicken of chinese decent, created by the communist chinese government to reduce mass population problems. While it has been often debated what causes the consumer to die (some believe its laced with cyanide) one thing is for sure, you take one bite and your brain stops tickin.
"Life sucks, can I get me one of those chinese chickens over there."
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WELLSVILLE - The Beavers are on a streak.
For the first time this season, Beaver Local has won two consecutive games after defeating Wellsville, 40-29, on Tuesday.
The Beavers (3-14) had lost 12 straight before their two recent wins.
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Beaver Local's Sam Bishop drives against Wellsville's Shartece Taylor on Tuesday. (Photo by Aaron Petchal)
"I'm very happy for the kids," Beaver Local coach J.R. Walker said. "Anytime you beat a rival, that's a big plus. The kids have been working really hard and it's nice to see some smiles on their faces.
"We're sharing the ball much better and looking for each other. They're really playing team basketball. We just have to make sure we get more consistency."
The Beavers opened up a 14-6 lead after one quarter of play and went into the half with a 15-point advantage.
Sierra Wright led Beaver Local with eight points, while Sam Bishop and Maranda Kiddey both finished with seven points.
For Wellsville, Brittany Clendenning led with nine points, while Shartece Taylor added seven points. Only five Tigers scored in the game compared to nine players for the Beavers.
In junior varsity action, Wellsville won, 36-25. Ashley Bennett paced the Tigers with 15 points, while Jade Farve and Shawna Talbott both finished with eight for Beaver Local.
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For years, Ohio has been known as a haven for "puppy mills" - dog breeders who often subordinate the welfare of animals to the desire to maximize profits. That may be coming to an end.
State legislators have been attempting for several years to pass bills regulating high-volume dog breeders. A measure approved by the state Senate, SB 130, languished for months in the state House of Representatives. Then, last week, the House approved its version of the bill.
As those concerned about puppy mills have pointed out, the House version is substantially weaker than the Senate bill. Indeed, it is full of shortcomings.
But the bill is something, after many years in which unscrupulous breeders were not held to account at all.
If the amended bill is approved by the Senate, then signed into law by Gov. John Kasich, it will regulate businesses that produce at least nine litters of puppies or sell 60 or more dogs each year. They will be required to be licensed by the state Department of Agriculture.
Annual inspections of licensees will be required. Critics have noted the inspections can be performed by veterinarians who are retained by the very dog breeders they are supposed to be watching. At some point, that provision ought to be strengthened to provide true third-party inspections.
Another provision of concern involves how breeders' dogs are treated. The House bill permits use of cages that provide virtually no room for animals to move around. But the measure also allows the agriculture agency to alter that requirement to provide more space in cages. If the bill is enacted, the department should do that.
Even with its faults, however, the House bill is a start toward eliminating puppy mills in Ohio - and insisting that if puppies are to be produced in large-scale operations, some consideration must be given to the animals. Senators should approve the bill and the governor should sign it.


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In previous films, Morgan Freeman brought focus and gravitas to police detective Alex Cross, a character from a series of James Patterson novels. This film, based on the novel "Cross," appears to be set in the present day, but it's actually a belated origin story that strips the familiar Alex Cross character of 35 years.
Tyler Perry is an affable screen presence, but an unfortunate choice to portray Cross. Those familiar with Perry know he has written numerous "dramedies" starring himself as the pistol-packing, gospel-spouting granny, Madea. This is Perry's first role he has not written for himself. As Madea, he instinctively understands the importance of tolerance and faith in tempering human behavior. However, as Cross, a character grounded in logic, Perry struggles and fails to find his footing.
Cross the detective is harried by an assassin calling himself the Butcher of Sligo (Matthew Fox), who is a mixed martial arts fighter and expert marksman. The Butcher's main interest lies in torturing beautiful women, even if doing so means declining the kinky sex offered by a beauty on his hit list. Evil, talented and smart, the Butcher's is a fascinating creature. Although his backstory receives no attention, he is the only player who isn't lost in this meandering screenplay.
The script feels rushed into production, wasting precious screen-time on scenes such as those of domestic bliss or funerals that add nothing of importance.
Cross' game ought to be raised or ruined when the butcher takes an uncommon interest in the detective's life. Instead, Cross' affect remains flat following a series of tragic events - partly due to clumsy, lackluster writing, and partly because Perry's characterization doesn't convey the extraordinary powers necessary to intuit his adversary's motivations (Cross' Holmesian abilities are claimed, but never justified).
Edward Burns, playing Cross' partner and best friend, is underused and wasted in a thankless role, but some color is added by Jean Reno as an enigmatic billionaire planning to reinvent failing Detroit as a thriving technological center.
This subplot, appearing to rely solely on erecting futuristic buildings, receives off-handed treatment that renders it nonsensical. If we build it, they will come?
The few scenes worth attending depict action owned by the butcher and his split-second timing.
Ultimately, even these leave us cold because we don't care about his victims, and our ability to root for Cross is hampered by our inability to believe in him.
Judging by the film's weekend take of less than $12 million, and a fifth-place position behind films going on their second and third weeks of release, Summit ought to rethink this franchise - especially after it made the irreparable mistake of ensuring the Butcher won't return for an encore.


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Hoard's Dairyman: How your calves should grow
How your calves should grow
by A. F. Kertz
The author is the principal in Adhil, LLC, a St. Louis-based consulting firm.
Here's a look at how various replacer and starter strategies can perform.
A variety of milk or milk replacer feeding practices in the U.S. were found in the 2007 NAHMS survey. (See "Too many calf feeding mistakes being made," May 10, 2008 issue, page 343). This raises questions as to why this variety, and what are the expectations of a liquid feeding program for young calves? This may sound a bit academic, but actually it is a very practical issue.
What we should expect . . .
Unfortunately, many people do not know what calf performance in weight or height gain is because they are not measured. But there is a good method to determine what they might be. The 2001 National Research Council's Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle has a young calf model which can predict daily weight gain with inputs of calf body weight, ambient temperature, and library feed values for milk replacers, milk, milk by-products, and a calf starter. If you do not find appropriate feed values, you can create your own and save them in the library to use. The balance of this article will look at a few such scenarios developed with this model.
For the model, a series of assumptions were made. They were a thermal neutral ambient temperature of 68°F, body weights (BW) were pegged at 95 pounds the first week and bumped up by 10 pounds per week thereafter, and a 20 percent protein with 20 percent fat protein (20/20) milk replacer (MR). The model predicts average daily gain (ADG) based on both the amount of dietary protein available (protein-allowable ADG) and the amount of dietary energy available (energy-allowable ADG).
Figure 1 shows the first scenario which uses the 20/20 replacer with a more traditional feeding rate of 1 pound which would be provided in twice daily feedings of 2 quarts each.
Initially, both protein and energy allowable ADGs were similar at nearly 0.6 pound for the 95-pound calf. But, as the calf gained weight, note that protein allowable ADG declined only slowly while energy ADG rapidly fell off. Why is this? It simply reflects that as the calf gets larger, maintenance requirements for that greater body weight are much greater for energy than for protein. Since energy clearly becomes the most limiting, that is what determines what the actual ADG would be . . . not the higher predicted protein ADG.
There are several possible ways to address this low ADG. The simplest is to boost the feeding rate of the 20/20 replacer from 1 pound to 1.5 pounds daily. Now, if we raise the powder feeding amount by 50 percent, we also would have to push up the volume by 50 percent. If not, the concentration, or osmolality, would climb to over 15 percent solids which can lead the calf to greater gut disturbances and risk for enterotoxemia.
Replacer more balanced . . .
Feeding 3 quarts of replacer twice daily (Figure 2) initially resulted in nearly doubling the ADG seen in Figure 1. But the pattern is now different. Initially, the energy-allowable ADG relative to protein-allowable ADG was in excess. Then it progressively declined as calf gain and maintenance went up. Then it ended up similar to protein allowable ADG at 135 pounds body weight.
But there is another major component missing from this picture. It is the starter intake and its nutrition . . . and starter intake will be limited without a good, clean, available water feeding program.
There are a multitude of factors that can affect starter intake. But let's assume that calves ate an average of 1 pound daily during the week before one of the two daily replacer feedings was eliminated. Let's also assume that they ate one-half of that in each preceding week, doubled intake to 2 pounds during the week of one-half replacer feeding, and doubled starter intake to 4 pounds during the week following complete weaning.
Starter's role . . .
Figure 3 depicts contributions of both replacer and starter for protein and energy allowable ADG. Starter contributions are placed alongside of replacer contributions. The starter protein and energy contributions are quite low at 115 pounds calf body weight but grow progressively as the calf gets heavier. Notice that at the 145-pound week, when we assumed starter intake would be 1 pound daily, that ADG had gone up in stair-step fashion from the previous week to about 1.4 pounds.
So now we are in the second week of the four-week weaning transition period. When one of the two daily replacer feedings is eliminated (see "one-half" in the figure), and starter is bumped up to 2 pounds daily, most of the protein allowable ADG and all of the energy allowable ADG then comes from the starter intake as replacer intake only provides for maintenance requirements with little available for ADG.
For the 165-pound week (Week 3 of the 4-week weaning transition period) following full weaning, ADG reached about 2 pounds . . . the level at which it should be until first calving. There was a fall-off of about 0.3 pound in ADG during the one-half feeding week, but imagine what it would have been like if the starter intake was not as high or other major treatments or changes also were done at the same time?
For Week 4 of the weaning transition period, starter intake should reach 5 to 6 pounds daily to maintain that approximate 2-pound ADG. After that point is when calves should be first moved from individual pens or hutches to their first grouping and receive their first feeding of forage in the diet as well.
Now here is the very practical part of the picture. Would you get the results depicted in these three figures or with other scenarios used? This would depend on a multitude of factors such as: protein/fat and feeding level of replacer or pasteurized waste milk, ambient temperature, facilities and calf comfort, quality and characteristics of starter, quality of water feeding program, health of calves, other major changes or issues, and consistency of overall program. Remember, calves are the most vulnerable animals on a dairy and so their performance really tells you how well or how poorly they are doing.


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on December 4, 2012 - 12:01 AM
Use it or lose it. How many times have you heard that timeworn principle of healthy brain aging? Scientists say that living a mentally active life is as important as regular physical exercise. Just as your muscles grow stronger with use, mental exercise keeps your mental skills and memory in tone.
But what kind of exercise is best for the brain? As with physical exercise, are certain kinds of "brain work" more effective than others? For some insight, we spoke to Dr. Anne Fabiny, chief of geriatrics at Cambridge Health Alliance and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Any brain exercise is better than being a total mental couch potato. But the activities with the most impact are those that require you to work beyond what's easy and comfortable – just as in physical weight lifting. Playing endless rounds of solitaire and watching the latest documentary marathon on the History Channel may not be enough.
"If it's too easy," Fabiny says, "it's not helping you."
Be a lifelong learner
You spent the first half of your life building what brain scientists call "cognitive reserve." That equates with dense networks of connections between brain cells. Experience and learning build and maintain the connectivity.
"Learning new things is really important, because you're using mental skills that you would not otherwise," Fabiny says. "When you're actually learning something, you are creating new neural pathways. That's hugely important."
As you get older, you want to keep what you have and maintain your neural networks in the best working order.
Think about it
Scientists have found that a wide variety of mental activities seem to help preserve our cognitive reserve – from playing board games to juggling. The more challenging tasks can have the most impact.
Think of all "mental activities" as a continuum from watching a TV documentary (passive; mildly challenging) to taking a class to learn how to converse in a new language (active; very challenging). Taking on a challenge like acquiring new language skills can be very difficult, but the benefits are greater, too.
"Don't just go to the library and learn new things that way," Fabiny says. "Be open to new experiences that cause you to see the world and do things differently."
Being challenged sometimes means being uncomfortable. One stereotype of aging is that young people are bold explorers, but older people are timid homebodies who "know what they like." Stereotype though it may be, it is easy to get in a rut.
"Over time, some people may become less confident, and learning new things becomes scary and intimidating," Fabiny says. "Learning seems harder, and it takes longer than it used to. It's just so easy to stick with what you know."
Getting out of your comfort zone from time to time challenges your mental skills. It includes things like traveling to a city that you haven't been to before, which forces you to navigate in unfamiliar surroundings.
"It's allowing yourself to be open to the world and not starting to make your world smaller than it needs to be," Fabiny explains.
Be social
While cocooned in our comfort zones, we run the risk of avoiding unfamiliar people, as well as circumstances. The resulting social isolation, aging researchers have discovered, puts people at risk for mental decline.
"By isolating socially and mentally, you can lose the reserve you have," Fabiny says. "If you're not using those neural networks, they'll just go away."
Here's one antidote: Seek a volunteer position that's a good fit with your skills and abilities, yet allows you to have contact with a variety of people and puts you in new settings and situations.
Aerobics for body, brain
Healthy brain aging should involve the rest of the body, too. There's abundant evidence that physical activity that gets your pulse thumping helps the mind as well as the heart.
"Aerobic exercise increases oxygen supply to the brain," Fabiny says. "The data show that this is at least in part how exercise can potentially stave off cognitive impairment."
And if that exercise involves mental skill and balance, like racquet sports or golf, it's even better. As you vanquish your opponents on the court or green, you might also notice an improved ability to keep score in your head.


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Imbued with a friendly tone and pithy wisdom, this handsome handbook to approaching life "in a better way" includes six of His Holiness The Dalai Lama's most accessible and inspirational public lectures. Following each talk are the original question-and-answer sessions in which His Holiness opens himself up to his listeners and-now-to readers everywhere. His characteristically candid guidance on living fully and responsibly, especially at the start of a new millennium, focuses on specific themes that range from religious tolerance to compassion and nonviolence. The book also includes a practical and highly readable introduction to Buddhism and The Dalai Lama's own spiritual heritage, written by the renowned Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.
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Introduction by Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
Transforming Mind
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I have been reading about Scalia and how there were limits on weapons during the time the Bill of Rights was drafted. Actually the quote is, "My starting point and ending point probably will be what limitations are within the understood limitations that the society had at the time, Justice Scalia said. They had some limitation on the nature of arms that could be born. So, well see what those limitations are as applied to modern weapons.
So what were the limits on scary weapons during that time?
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on February 8, 2013 - 7:53 PM
LOCKPORT – A North Tonawanda woman, arrested on cocaine possession charges Aug. 31 in Niagara Falls, pleaded not guilty to an indictment Friday in Niagara County Court.
Cindy L. Ventresca, 41, of Wallace Avenue, is charged with third- and fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Assistant District Attorney Peter M. Wydysh said a search warrant had been issued for Ventresca, and 0.16 ounces of powder cocaine was found when she was searched after the vehicle in which she was a passenger was stopped in Niagara Falls.


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on December 4, 2012 - 5:24 PM
Two women – one from North Tonawanda, the other from Sanborn – are suing a Massachusetts food supplier over allegations that it produced an organic spinach and spring mix infected with E.coli bacteria.
Erica Duerr, 32, and her mother-in-law, Beth Duerr, 60, filed suit against State Garden Inc. in U.S. District Court in Buffalo Tuesday.
The women claim they bought a package of the infected salad mix from a local supermarket in October and subsequently suffered serious gastrointestinal problems, including nausea and cramps, that required treatment at a local hospital.
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My sister [Kayleen] and I had a little spat over the heat in the house. I like things really hot, and she likes them cold, so I tried to turn the thermostat up while she was out walking the dog.
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On the airplane watching Heaven Can Wait. It wasn't even a particularly sad movie, it was something about the song at the end. And the altitude always gets you. I was just bawling.
Last time I cringed
Doing stand-up paddleboard yoga with some friends. There are elaborate poses, and we hadn't gotten everything waxed, and we had this handsome male instructor. I bought full-length board shorts for the next time!
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In the car the other day, Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?" I'm not a great singer, but that one is in my sweet spot. It's a song I share with one of my best friends in Canada, so I have to belt it.


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End state involvement in marriage
March 23, 2013
Within the next few months, Justice Anthony Kennedy will likely rule that same-sex marriage is mandated by the Constitution of the United States....
"Liberals are in our public schools forcing all sorts of subversive and down right deviant messages to our children."
May I suggest you stop hanging around our schools. You are freaking out the children.
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This piece is inaccurate and shockingly ignorant.
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"States and localities originally gave tax benefits and crafted specific legal systems in order to incentivize Americans to get married and have children within the context of marriage."
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And there you have, social engineering using the tax code. Glad to see a right wing nut job willing to move away from taking and finally treating everyone as equal. Now if we can get them to move away from their crime spree through the tax codes, where we have to bribe employers to provide jobs giving special tax incentives. It's all about freedom baby.
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The Four Corners might be a popular destination for biking, rock climbing and skiing, but water polo?
Not so much.
Recreation centers in Durango and Farmington have closets full of the required balls, nets and protective head gear, but no regularly scheduled times to play the Olympic sport.
�It�s sad because the rec center has all the stuff, but there�s no water polo,� said Sam Kuenzel, 17, who took a water polo class last fall as an elective at Animas High School.
Kuenzel said he was �devastated� when the class ended because it meant he no longer could play the game in Durango.
�We were begging our teacher (to continue the class),� Kuenzel said. �It�s an awesome sport.�
As an active swimmer, Kuenzel loves water polo because it combines swimming with a team sport, which contrasts the loneliness and tedium of swimming laps solo.
As he looks beyond Durango, he has made water polo part of his criteria for selecting a college.
It�s not for lack of trying that water polo has not caught on here.
The Durango Community Recreation Center has tried several times over the last 10 years to get people interested without success, said Kimberly Ebner, the aquatics director.
�I know it�s super fun. I played it in high school (in Chicago). I don�t know why it won�t pick up here,� Ebner said.
Farmington has had a similar experience, said Shana Reeves, the city�s recreation superintendent and a former water polo player.
�In �94, �95 and �96, there was a great effort to start a water polo league,� Reeves said. �We had some people who moved in from Albuquerque. They put on water polo (games), but it just didn�t stick, though.�
In Durango�s most recent attempt a year ago, the recreation center hired a water polo instructor, Heather Hofmann, who played the sport in high school in San Diego and while she was in the Coast Guard in Alaska and San Francisco.
Every Wednesday night for two hours, Hofmann taught the basic skills, such as passing and treading water. There were some scrimmages, but drop-in games often were an unattainable goal.
Usually, �there was me and a girl named Sarah there every Wednesday night. I could count on her to pass the ball to me,� Hofmann said.
Hofmann said she �never understood why I couldn�t get people to show up.�
When Hofmann took her daughter to a swim meet in Cortez, she was surprised to learn that its rec center had organized water polo.
Hofmann then thought, �My gosh. Do I have to drive from Durango to Cortez to play water polo?�
But Jenn Fast Wolf, a life guard and water polo instructor in Cortez, said it�s �been a struggle to get it off the ground.�
�We haven�t (gotten) experienced players (to play),� Fast Wolf said.
Cortez is a long way off from an organized league, although it has regularly scheduled times to play drop-in games from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Fridays and 4:30 to 6 p.m. Sundays, Fast Wolf said.
Unlike Durango, �we do have a lot of people who show up but just have a beginners group. We�re teaching a lot of people who don�t know a lot about water polo, ones from age 14 on up. We�re just trying to build an interest in the sport.�
Reeves thinks people might be intimidated because water polo is a �tough sport, like rugby in water.�
�You have to be in tip-top shape,� she said. �It�s short sprints. It�s often played in the deep end. It�s an aggressive sport, especially under water. Officials often don�t see what happens under water.�
Opposing players often will grab onto each other�s swimsuits to slow them down.
Steve Smith, who played the game in high school in St. Louis, thinks the sport has fizzled here for lack of institutional support.
Water polo is not a sanctioned high school sport in Colorado. While the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs has a men�s varsity team and Colorado State has a women�s varsity team, none of their current players graduated from a high school in Colorado, according to their teams� rosters.
In the last eight years, the CSU water polo team has recruited two to three players from within Colorado who had played at the club level in Denver, said Mike Moody, the head coach.
Moody believes the sport would catch on if Coloradans had more opportunity to play.
�I think there�s a lot of talent out there,� Moody said. �We just need more coaches as well as pool time.�
Smith, a teacher at Animas High School, taught water polo last fall at the high school. He got eight students, including seven boys and one girl.
�None had played before,� Smith said. �They all had a pretty good time.�
While they could scrimmage, they did not have the 14 players to play the regulation seven-on-seven games.
�It was more of a fun way to exercise,� he said. �We wouldn�t stand around or let them drown each other.�
Smith thinks Durango is more athletically inclined to individual sports, such as biking and skiing rather than team sports.
While he enjoys water polo, Smith said he is much �more passionate about rock climbing.�
With Smith teaching rock climbing as a physical education elective, class participation has more than doubled when compared to water polo this year, getting 20 students.
Kuenzel believes that water sports never enters the mind for most people because �we�re such a mountain town.�
�If people tried (water polo), I think they would really get into it.�


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