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Remember before Theo was here?
Hope all pinned on the 3 Cs - Colvin/Castro/Cashner?
The Cubs had Kosuke Fukudome and Carlos Pena, Doug Davis and Ramon Ortiz.
Mike Quade.
The giant empty promise of a heavily promoted, ridiculous Cubs/Red Sox series where we watched the Cubs give up 15 runs on National TV complete with Kevin Youkilis making a comet out of a Scott Maine pitch.
I tried to make a friendly bet with a bartender and after that homer he said, "Put your money where your liver is."
In August people saying the always hilarious "wait til next year," and my response was "What are you even talking about?"
What if Baez comes up next year and Castro's found his bat and glove so Baez goes to third oh wait there's Olt if he clears up his tear duct he could be fantastic but don't forget Bryant cause that's a special bat you might not be able to hold him back but maybe he's in left or right either way probably Baez goes to short so Castro can go to second unless Alcantara becomes something else and maybe Castro or someone gets traded by a Cubs team dealing from strength (what?) with the "nice problem(s) to have" and I forgot about Christian Villanueva at third and that's not even mentioning the outfield or saying anything derogatory about Barney.
There's a new kind of hope that's based on guys like Baez rather than ohhhh... say a line drive bouncing off Lee Smith's back.
Kinda nice.
[email protected] ...neil walker warming
[email protected] ...neil walker warming up with a doughnut on his bat last night...cubs logo on it.
i wish i was a conspiracy theorist...he'd look good in cubbie blue.
cubs were last in SF july 28th...pit last played the cubs july 7th...
m.olt 1-4, single
m.olt 1-4, single
k.bryant 2-4, double
vogel 1-3, 2bb
smokies in the 2nd...baez 1-1, single, so far.
CB, two words: F ing
CB, two words: F ing brilliant.
Look! Alfonso Soriano
just got back from 2.5 hour
just got back from 2.5 hour anniversary dinner...game still on...it's a night of winning at life.
Happy anniversary!
Happy anniversary!
We told the cubs to stay on for ya
It's torture to watch this
It's torture to watch this thing.
well, the torture is over now
well, the torture is over now.
h.rondon still sucks. bleh.
Agreed. J Lake batting with
Agreed. J Lake batting with bases loaded and 1 out is torture. I mean you KNOW he wants to bunt, I mean hit a home run, I mean bunt, I mean hit a home run I mean . . .
He's a brand new breed of all
He's a brand new breed of all or nothing hitter.
When Theo starts deciding his
When Theo starts deciding his roster cuts after the 5 FA filings, he can start with Rondon.......color me not impressed.
And one of those FA filings blew the game because he couldn't catch a 30 foot throw at home plate.
Agreed and agreed. I mean
Agreed and agreed. I mean Gregg looked lost . . . where did he expect the throw to be?
take a deep breath and say,
take a deep breath and say, "it was worth it because the Cubs gained a game on the WSux in the 2014 draft standings"
if this upcoming draft had
if this upcoming draft had anyone worth a damn it might matter more.
the 2014 draft, highschool and college, is shaping up to be an extremely weak draft.
c.rondon will probably go 1st overall. if the 2013 draft class was added to the 2014 class rondon probably wouldn't go top 5. it gets weaker after that...
tyler beede (college SP), trea turner (college SS), justin bellinger (HS 1st, best HS bat)...
it's going to be a SS + SP heavy lower 1st round. there's not a lot of quality power and even the SP aren't all that awesome.
the summer wood bat invitationals/leagues this year have been boring. no standout pitching or "woah" batting breakouts...especially from the highschool crop.
hell, this is shaping up to be a draft class where a guy like vogelbomb would be a mid-round 1st round pick...power is extremely lacking...about as much as SP with great stuff who demonstrate good control.
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Sustainable development is a way to ensure our city grows wisely by preserving land and resources protecting the environment. This will help us to continue enjoying our quality of life, and allow future generations to do
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The comprehensive land use plan for the City of Baton Rouge-Parish of East Baton Rouge, FUTUREBR incorporates these principles and actively pursues opportunities for public outreach and education in matters
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Why Sustainable Development?
Sustainable development in the global context has implications in our daily lives and our built environment. According to a study of the world's oil reserves, between 1950 and 2050, eighty (80) percent of the world's oil
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Reasonable presentaion 3/5
Got some good tips.
Very nice demo of Rx with a not so obvious/cliche demo, the kinect demo idea was really cool ;-)
Cheers, Martin
Amazingly cool demo, especially the Kinect part.
Bart is SO NICE lol
Great presentation, Bart. The use case for Kinect is great, and I have some ideas I can't stop thinking about ... but this forum isn't a great place for it. Is the cloud programmability team still hiring?
Great presentation, Bart. FYI, for those who are just using VS2010 with framework 4.0 and want to get the Dictionary example going, you can still do this but you have to use the FromAsyncPattern() method. Also be sure when you create your service reference to the dictService that you mark it as async in the advanced properties.
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As the ribbon was cut on the long-awaited Pocahontas County Wellness Center, Delegates Denise Campbell, D-Randolph, and Bill Hartman, D-Randolph, were proud to provide project coordinators with a $25,000 state grant for the purchase of bleachers.
"This center is vital to the well-being of the people in this community," said Campbell who spoke Saturday during a ceremony for the center and presented the check. "So we were thrilled to be able to secure this money to help complete the facility."
Hartman was also at the event, held in conjunction with the Pocahontas County Pioneer Days.
"This wellness center certainly is going to be very important to the residents of Marlinton and to the future of the city," Hartman said.
House Speaker Tim Miley said that as he considered grant recommendations to send to the governor for funding, the 43rd District delegates made a strong case for the need to complete the wellness center by adding bleachers.
"Delegates Campbell and Hartman strongly believe that a center like this is a valuable resource for their constituents, and I certainly agree," Miley said. "I am pleased to be able to recognize the hard work they do on behalf of their counties by helping them acquire these funds."
Campbell and Hartman said they are grateful to project coordinators, in particular Roger Trusler and Mike Holstein, for many years of work on the center.
"This was eight years in the making," Campbell noted. "They were on a mission and they would not take no for an answer - thank goodness."
Hartman added, "I would never dreamed they would have been able to accomplish so much. But they would never admit that it couldn't be done."
The Pocahontas County Wellness Center, includes multipurpose rooms, a racquetball court and a fitness rooms, is to be used for public fitness and health care education classes and other activities.
"When I learned that the center lacked funding for the bleachers, I felt it was extremely important that the Legislature and governor take steps to help," Campbell said. "Not only are the bleachers important for family members and others in the community to watch ball games, but they can be used for community meetings.
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Faulty Guitar Hero 3 Guitar?
Posted 02 November 2007 - 08:43 PM
Well, as the story goes, I purchased Guitar Hero 3 for the Xbox 360 on Wednesday. Being impressed by the guitar's sheer sexiness, I was ready to rock it out. But, to my dismay, my yellow button was unresponsive!
After some troubleshooting, I came to the realization that the fret board (the long black shaft with the green, red, yellow, blue, and orange buttons) was a little loose. So, as any xbox-scene member would do, I took it apart! Some of my findings will come later in this tutorial, as I believe them to not be the direct cause of unresponsive buttons; I don't want to confuse anyone.
Without further ado, my Guitar Hero 3 Guitar Fix
* Please ignore my lack of proper guitar vocabulary *
Guitar Hero 3 Guitar
Torx driver
T8 bit (I think that's the size)
-Step 1-
Removing the fret board from the guitar:
This step is very simple. Simply flip the guitar over and push the lever from one side to the other (left to right.. up to down.. depends how you're looking at it). This will unlock the fret board, allowing you to pull the fret board away from the guitar.
-Step 2-
Unscrewing 2 screws:
In this step, you remove 2 screws using your T8/torx driver. They're located here-
-Step 3-
How the fret board/guitar works:
Basically, there's a green PCB (Printed Circuit Board) on the end of the fret board with 8 "golden" points. In the receiving end of the guitar, there are 8 metal pins. When the fret board is inserted into the guitar, the 8 metal pins in the guitar make contact with the 8 "golden" points on the fret board. We'll be working with the green PCB.
-Step 4-
Finding the "tabs":
Basically, the green PCB is secured by 4 tabs. There are tabs in the bottom left corner, bottom right corner, upper left corner, and upper right corner. What were gonna do is move the PCB IN FRONT of the tabs. By "in front," I mean in the direction of the guitar (if it were being inserted into the guitar) The tabs are indicated by the red arrows-
"Bottom" tabs:
Different angle:
"Upper" tabs:
-Step 5-
Moving the PCB:
So here comes the actual fix. Since you already removed the screws in step 2, all you have to do is carefully pry the 2 halves the fret board open. As in, grab the "top" of the fret board and pull it upwards; Grab the "bottom" of the fret board and pull it downwards (This may be easier to do with just 1 hand, seeing as how you'll need the other). With your free hand, grab/finagle/move the green PCB in front of the tabs. I found it easier to do the "bottom" of the green PCB first, then do the "top." It should look like this-
*Notice- the tabs are no longer present because they're located behind the green PCB*
-Step 6-
Putting the fret board back together:
Now that the green PCB is in its new position, make sure the fret board is securely and properly closed. Now take the 2 screws from earlier that you removed and screw them back in. Now slide the fret board into the guitar, kick on your 360, and test it out!
IF this doesn't work, you may want to completely take apart the fret board and take a look at the wiring inside. I found this-
Although it looks as if the "pins" are strategically placed, I'd double check.. perhaps even remove the wiring from them to get this-
Well, that's all I got. I surely hope I've been of help!
Enjoy rocking it out with your fixed guitar!
Posted 03 November 2007 - 03:13 PM
Posted 04 November 2007 - 06:17 AM
Posted 05 November 2007 - 12:40 AM
I thought from day 1 that the detachable neck was a bad idea. What exactly were they thinking? My intention was to possible just hard wire the sucker. I think I'll start first here.
Well done!
Posted 05 November 2007 - 12:49 AM
Posted 05 November 2007 - 02:18 AM
Posted 05 November 2007 - 03:29 AM
Maybe they will make addon necks in the future? Something to make the guitar look different
That would be awesome
Posted 07 November 2007 - 04:41 AM
And holy crap to the amount of views this thread has gotten! Almost 8000 in just a few days!
I agree with commandersafi.. new/custom necks would be friggin' sweet!
Posted 07 November 2007 - 05:57 AM
Posted 07 November 2007 - 07:44 PM
Posted 08 November 2007 - 07:51 PM
And I am very pleased with the results
Just two things I'd add, for novices like myself who want to do this:
Use a T10 torx screwdriver bit, not T8. A full set cost me $12 at Lowe's, you can prolly find one cheaper!
Take out the first four screws instead of just the first two, it'll give you a little more room to do it.
Now the neck fits tightly with the body, doesn't budge, and plays perfectly! I'm so happy! Thanks for posting this!
Posted 08 November 2007 - 09:05 PM
Removing more screws is fine.. I just did the minimal amount.
I'm glad it worked out for you! Have fun being a rock star!
Posted 09 November 2007 - 04:21 AM
Edited by Birdy2k2, 09 November 2007 - 04:23 AM.
Posted 15 November 2007 - 06:04 PM
Does anyone see this as an issue?
Im curious if to much stress is being put on the pins, since the guitar neck is very tight. I had to press pretty hard to lock it in.
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Toyota Doesn't Make Cars Like This Any More
by Seth Easton from West Virginia | February 19, 2012
My mom gave me this car w/ 276,000 miles on it and it is still going strong. Of course, she drove it very gingerly and always kept up with the maintenance. The number one reason I love this car: it is simply very fun to drive! This car is a tiny featherweight compared to today's bloated "econo" cars, so 93 hp is plenty and acceleration feels immediate and strong (it's a 4-speed manual), not to mention that you can peg the speedometer to 110 with little drama. It's crazy how quick this little junker is, actually. It also has non-power, mechanical rack-and-pinion steering, which gives it a go-kart feel (it'll work out your forearms too!). Add to that about 40 mpg on 87 octane and it just makes sense. It's not the coolest looking car on the road, but it's got an old-school vibe. I actually still see quite a few these cars (as well as mid-90s Honda Civics) on the road during my commute, so people out there are still lovin' these things. I hate their replacements for these (the Echo and Yaris) -- they are ugly and slow in comparison. Old-school Toyota rules!
Purchased a new car
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Does recommend this car
great car
by gas saver from san jose, CA | January 15, 2012
I bought 1996 w/ 10 miles (new). It ran to 218,000 and still sounds strong (had to sell becuse was total loss in accident). NEVER had trouble with anything!!: but I always did oil change, fluids, timing belt and tires upkeep. Original everything (powertrain, interiior fine except carpet by pedals was worn), was a manual 2 door, and this was my FAVORITE VEHICLE IN 25 YEARS!!! Now I'm looking for another!!!
Purchased a new car
Uses car for Commuting
Does recommend this car
This is one pricey piece of junk!
by Ex-Tercel Owner from Milwaukee, WI | January 19, 2011
First of all, I've owned Japenese imports for over 15 years (long before the hype). I didn't realize what an over-priced (resale wise) piece of garbage my Tercel was until years later. I purchased this vehicle with 50,000 miles on it. At 65,000 I began to burn a small amount of oil...no biggy. By 90,000, I had a plume of blue/gray smoke whenever I started up the car. Needless to say, this "eco-saver" did not pass emissions and I spent about $700 at a Toyota dealership only to have them finally tell me I would need a new engine. I purchased this vehicle at an upscale Toyota dealership and had it inspected at another certified Toyota dealership prior to purchase. I spent a small fortune keeping up with regular maintenance, (oil changes, fluid flushings, timing belt, new tires, new alternator, etc. All to no avail!!! What a waste! These cars are probably even worse now...all these years later! Import reliability is a lot of hype! After owning many reliable American vehicles, you can get a newer, lower milage, more reliable American vehicle for the price! Save your money and keep on looking!
Purchased a new car
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Does not recommend this car
toyota tercel ruleS
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Ladies and gentlemen it's showtime at last.
One of the best surprises we've had in a long time arrived in our e-mail on Tuesday this week, from the Center for Consumer Freedom in Washington D.C. announcing it has formed HumaneWatch.org to be a watchdog to fan away the smoke and clear the mirrors of propaganda spewed by the Humane Society of the United States.
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In the announcement, CCF Director of Research David Martosko said, "Nearly one million Americans donate money to HSUS every year, and most are completely unaware that they're bankrolling PETA-style propaganda, far-reaching anti-meat campaigns, a huge staff of lawyers, and bloated pension plans for HSUS executives.
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Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II USM
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In Part 2 of our best lenses for the Canon EOS 5DS R review, we're looking at the best optics for travel, wildlife, portrait and event photography. Whether you're looking for a versatile zoom for weddings, a prime for the best quality portraits, or a professional sports and wildlife lens, we've got all the data you need. So let's analyze the scores in five different categories — short telephoto prime, long telephoto prime, "fast" telephoto zoom, "slow" telephoto zoom, and super-zoom — to discover the best-performing lenses in each group.
In Part 2 of "Best lenses for the EOS 7D Mark II," we're looking at the performance of primes on Canon's flagship APS-C sensor.We've analyzed over 300 fixed-focal-length lenses on the EOS 7D Mark II, including own-brand Canon EF and EF-S lenses that are designed specifically for use on the Canon APS-C sensor. Covering a range of third-party alternatives as well, our comprehensive analysis will help you pick out a prime, whatever your photographic needs.
Back in 2013, Nikon introduced its first AF super-telephoto with fluorite to reduce the weight while also suppressing color blurring with the 800mm f5.6E FL ED VR. The 400mm f2.8 is the second model in the maker's super-telephoto lineup to undergo the same treatment. Read on to find out how well this substantially revised lens performs.
Canon has updated the original 400mm f4 DO lens using its new gapless diffractive optics construction, which promises high image quality. Read on to find out how well this new model performs.
After analyzing the performance of the new Zeiss Otus 1,4/55 in Nikon mount we've had the opportunity to do the same with the ZE (EF) mount version. Read on to find out how well this fast standard lens performs.
After the publishing the test results on the Nikon 500mm and 600mm f/4 super-telephoto lenses, we've now turned our attention to the 300mm and 400mm f/2.8 versions. Read on to see how well these legendary models perform.
In the lead up to Photokina 2012, Canon announced the new Canon EOS 6D full-frame entry-point model within days of Nikon publicizing their most-affordable full-frame camera to date, the 24-Mpix D600. While the EOS 6D boasted some attention grabbing features including built-in WiFi and GPS and slightly undercut the Nikon on price, it couldn't match its rival in one or two key areas, namely the less populated AF system and lower resolution sensor.
First seen at the Olympics in London in 2012, the Canon EF 200-400mm f/4 IS USM Extender 1.4x is a pro-oriented super-telephoto zoom with a built-in 1.4x tele-converter. Engaging this extender converts the zoom into a 280-560mm f/5.6 on a full frame camera, making this one of the most versatile lenses in the firm's line up. Read on to see how well this $11,800 zoom performs with- and- without the 1.4x converter engaged while mounted to the Canon EOS 5D Mk III.
Announced in early 2011, the Canon EF500mm f/4L IS II USM and EF600mm f/4L IS II USM are updates to two highly respected lenses aimed squarely at professional wildlife and sports photographers, or those who want the best image quality possible at these focal lengths. These Mark II versions aim to take everything that was good about their predecessors and turn them up to the max.
There are only a small proportion of photographers who can really justify buying a lens that costs the same as a small car, but if you really need a 400mm f2.8 lens then the chances are that you are going to get yourself one. To stick with the motoring analogy: Canon's EF 400mm f2.8L IS II USM is not at all like a small car, it is rather more like a Formula 1 Racing car.
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1dx 1ds mk2 results
Dear admin,
Could you test the canon super tele prime lenses on 1dx and 1ds mk2 bodies plz? the 1ds mk2 VS nikon D4 makes a better sharpness comparison, the 1dx vs D4 (D4s) gives a up to date comparison, both makes sense.
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Added by Sophie - DxOMark | April 30 , 2014
Re: 1dx 1ds mk2 results
This is an interesting suggestion, and even if the 1dX is a bit old now we will try to add it in our database (it might take some time though!).
Best regards.
Added by darrask | April 16 , 2013
"a wide 400mm lens"
That's an oxymoron.


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Much of that changed when AMD acquired ATI last year. Not only did ATI miss the Radeon HD 2900 launch window by almost six months, but NVIDIA's high-end GeForce 8800 became the undisputed ultra-high-end GPU as well.
The one thing that didn't change on G92 is the process node. NVIDIA's foundry partner, TSMC, forwarded a second memo to DailyTech confirming G92 is in mass production at the company's Fab 12 with samples available now on 65nm process node. NVIDIA's GeForce 8500 and GeForce 8600 are manufactured on TSMC's 80nm node; GeForce 8800 GT will be the company's first 65nm graphics processor.
NVIDIA guidance suggests G92 will be here next month, followed by AMD's marketing blitz for RV670, RD790 and Phenom. All three AMD offerings are expected to launch on the same day, which AMD distributors have penciled in for late November. Intel is expected to launch its 45nm Penryn processors on November 12, and any NVIDIA launch will likely coincide with that announcement.
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along with the upcoming title Crysis. The confirmed launch date by Electronic Arts for Crysis is November 15, 2007.
However, G92 fans might get a quick preview of the new GPU on October 29, 2007, when the company officially lifts the embargo on 8800 GT.
Neither AMD nor NVIDIA have released "firm" pricing for the products, though we can reasonably infer several key points regarding the price. Since RV670 is effectively a smaller R600, performance will be very similar to existing R600-based cards on the market today. However, since the card only utilizes a single-slot cooler and a considerably smaller die, the cost of these cards should be lower than existing R600s.
G92, which was originally called GeForce 8700 until just last week, has a soft suggested retail price of $250, according to NVIDIA board partners. Since the GeForce 8800 GT will be launching first, it's fairly likely that AMD will adjust the suggested price of RV670 depending on the outcome of initial GeForce 8800 GT feedback.
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On June 10, we will have state primary elections for both Democrats and Republicans; this we know for sure. What we dont know, and what many are worried about, is will the actual voting and election process work honestly and smoothly the way its suppose to.
If either distant or recent history is any guide, dont count on it.
Our states problems with elections and voting has been of two types: 1) expanding laws that have allowed more and more people to vote, and 2) the election system operations that made it more difficult intentionally or unintentionally for people to actually cast an honest ballot and have it honestly counted.
Lets start with history. Whether some will admit it or not, our state has a long and ugly history of spending a lot of time, energy and even blood, keeping people from voting. In the Colonial Era, voting was limited to white males who owned substantial property which in those days was probably less than 15 percent of the states population. In the next 350 years of so, we have gradually expanded the voter pool, but many times going backward with more restrictions as opposed to moving forward and following a consistent pattern of progress.
The first big change was a reduction in the property requirement and then after the Civil War the biggest expansion of all at least for a while came when African Americans got the right to vote.
But, by 1876, we began to revert to past history and virtually the entire black population was quickly excluded from voting. In the early 20th Century we moved forward again when women got the right to vote but it came about by the actions of the federal government and not SC state government.
The second wave of enfranchisement of African Americans came with the passage of the Voting Right Act of 1965; again it took a federal action that was fought long and loud by virtually every white politician and civic leader in the South at the time.
In recent years, the legal barriers to more people voting and the attempts by many to make legal voters ineligible to vote have continued with all sorts of new and different legal devices. The most recent is the so called voter ID law that makes it more difficult for some people to vote by requiring new and special forms of identification.
In trying to understand this controversy, two facts explain it all: 1) the majority of current voters who are negatively impacted by voter ID are old, African American and students (i.e. heavy Democratic voters) and 2) according to the SC Election Commission, there has not been a single case of voter fraud that voter ID purports to stop in decades.
The second set of problems relates to the voting system itself. Can candidates have fair access to being on the ballot? Can people vote in a reasonably amount of time? Are the ballots counted fairly and reported promptly?
These are all pretty basic questions about can we make democracy work properly or are we going to be more like a banana republic where the political power structure and corrupt insiders control the process for their own advantage.
Unfortunately, recent history here in South Carolina is pretty shameful about these issues as well.
Lets start with the last election. Amazingly, almost 250 candidates were thrown off the ballot because of a legal technicality about where they filed a certain piece of paper. Though if affected both Democrats and Republicans, the apparent truth is that this was purely manipulation by corrupt insider politicians of both parties that had the effect of keeping challengers to incumbents off the ballot.
There are also dozens of other issues about how we run our elections that determine how well our democracy works. A recent authoritative study by the Pew Charitable Trust Election Initiative tells a pretty sorry story about South Carolina. The sturdy measured 17 different criteria for open, fair and efficient elections across all 50 states. This is what they found for South Carolina:
Our overall score was 65 percent out of 100 and we were ranked 25th overall among the states;
We are getting better as in the last two elections prior to 2012, we were in the bottom 25 percent of states and now we are at the middle;
The recent online voter registration procedures have been a big positive;
We do not require a post-election audit of returns;
People who have disabilities or illness issues have a very difficult time voting.
In short, the results are mixed. We continue to have real problems based on the legacy of racial discrimination and a system of partisan plantation politics that corrupts the system. On the other hand, we are making some progress.
Phil Noble is a businessman in Charleston and President of the SC New Democrats, an independent reform group founded by former Gov Richard Riley. Email him at email@example.com.
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NUNN — Most businesses are born from a lifelong dream.
Twila Henley's Grouse Malting and Roasting started — literally — as a dream.
Years ago, she woke up in her home state of Ohio having dreamt that she brewed some beer out of quinoa (pronounced keenwah), a specialty grain.
"I thought it was strange," said the 27-year-old Loudonville, Ohio, native. "I wondered what it meant. I never brewed, and I didn't appreciate beer. Beer was a fraternity party flip-cup game. I didn't drink a lot of alcohol."
She wasn't a big beer drinker and she followed a gluten-free diet, anyway, having some issues with intolerance.
"It's funny how things just fell into place," said Henley, now one of five finalists for the University of Northern Colorado's Monfort College of Business Entrepreneurial Challenge, where she will present her business plan in a format based on the TV show "Shark Tank" on March 7.
She's seeking the $25,000 top prize to launch her business of roasting gluten-free malt for the craft-brewing industry. She's the only Weld County finalist in the running against two medical-related companies, an organic gardening company and an outdoor fitness company.
"We'd use the money a few ways," Henley said. "Malting is complex and very hands-on, but the improvements we could make with automation would help with consistency."
Shortly after that dream, she moved to Colorado to get her master's in food science at Colorado State University. While there, she took a brewing science class and developed a passion for it.
"I quickly discovered the importance of malts in developing a high-quality brew," she said, with a nod to the science geek laughing inside who loves the research. "I'm a mediocre brewer, but I'm an expert malter."
She interned at Rebel Malting in Reno, Nev., and learned the tricks of the malting trade. She graduated in 2011, and she turned her attention to starting a business.
"I was always looking for ways to make money growing up," she said, noting that she ran a lawn-care business when she was 14. But she also loved experimenting, trying recipes in the kitchen, expanding on them.
As an adult, she learned to appreciate good, craft-brewed beer, but there is little out there for those who have issues with gluten. And she wasn't alone. Research told her that almost 3 million Americans have Celiac disease, and 23 million Americans have gluten intolerances.
"There's not a lot of gluten-free beer on the market, and it's probably not good quality," Henley said. "It's nearly impossible to make good, gluten-free beer out of sorghum and rice syrups."
The challenge was on. Malt is one of the four essential ingredients in beer, and she was in one heckuva an area for craft brewing, with several in Fort Collins, Loveland, and now three in Greeley.
While interning at Rebel, Henley experimented with malting millet, a gluten-free grain that has some of the properties of barley, which is commonly used in beer.
"I've spent quite a bit of time trying to prove it's possible to brew high-quality, gluten-free beer," Henley said in her small, rented greenhouse alongside Golden Prairie Inc., owned by the Hediger family, who farms organic millet in Nunn, about 15 miles north of Greeley.
She still holds down a full-time job at Noosa Yoghurt in Bellvue as a quality assurance manager. But the rest of her time is focused on boosting Grouse Malting and Roasting to the next level — launch.
She's not only made an effort, she's got five letters of intent from area craft brewers who want to try her malted millet, once she gets moving on a larger scale.
Her 33-page business plan is half the size of her master's thesis, but she did it — with the help of a lot of advise from experts.
"I'm a scientist," she said. "To wear the hat of a CEO is a challenge."
She took out a personal loan to get some used equipment for the start-up, one piece being a coffee roaster that her boyfriend, William Soles, 27, configured to hold the smaller millet seeds.
The pair will mix up their first batch of malted millet this week.
She said she hopes to malt 60,000 pounds of millet in her first year, and she has grand plans to grow 15 percent in year two, and 400 percent by year three, or potentially sooner. She plans to make pale malt, roasted malt and crystal malt.
She loves the idea that she's helping out the local farmers.
"Until recently, there really hasn't been a market for millet," Henley said. "We're able to give farmers a better price for the crops."
She also plans to donate 1 percent of her profits to northern Colorado's first Farm and Food Business Investment Club.
Eventually, she will experiment with other gluten-free grains and potentially test the baking market. But with craft brewing capturing the market in northern Colorado, beer will do for now.
I've spent quite a bit of time trying to prove it's possible to brew high-quality, gluten-free beer.
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Engineer Frank Newham has examined the 19th-century construction of The Battery seawall, and he came away impressed.
History of the Battery seawall
1730s: The site becomes a defensive strongpoint in the city facing toward the harbor. Broughton's Battery becomes an armed encampment, later evolving into Fort Wilkins.1804: A severe storm sweeps away palmetto log seawall. Replaced by stone ballast wall made from ballast out of arriving ships. Designation the "Battery" surfaces from 15 guns mounted here during War of 1812.1893: After enduring hurricanes, storms and an earthquake, city leaders decide to rebuild, reinforce and strengthen what is known as the "High Battery" wall and path, setting up the "promenade" seen today. High Battery path measures about 0.3 miles.1917-1919: The elevated concrete middle section known as "the Turn" takes shape, joining High Battery with the Low Battery.1909-1919: The Low Battery takes shape, creating the seawall that joins with the Turn and extends toward Tradd Street. Route measures about 0.9 miles.City of Charleston Seawall Evaluation and Study/records.
For more than 100 years, the stone-block barrier facing Charleston Harbor has protected the tip of the Charleston peninsula against hurricanes, erosion, tides and time.
"It's amazing to me that it's still here in 2013," said Newham, who works for the city of Charleston and is senior engineer on an upcoming Battery project. Of the construction methods, he added, "it's not how we would build it today."
But the protective Battery seawall is in need of repairs. The first of three phases along the 1.2-mile route will begin this summer when a 120-foot section at the very point of the Charleston peninsula — known locally as "the Turn" — is tackled.
That work should cost at least $3.5 million, though city officials, ever fearful of the sensitive and historic nature of the work, issued a warning to any marine contractor looking to bid on the job next month.
"Due to the complex nature and historic significance of the walls, specific construction expertise is required for this project," the city said. "Only those contractors with significant experience and expertise will be allowed."
Place in history
Over its lifetime, The Battery has evolved from the natural marsh of centuries ago, to Palmetto logs, to the stone protector of multimillion-dollar mansions showcasing the city's wealth.
The area started out as a tiny cannon-armed fort in the 1700s, and would later be the place where pirates were hanged, according to history and lore.
The most popular civilian use dates to around 1848 with the development of the "High Battery," or the tall, eastern section facing the harbor and protecting White Point Garden, the tree-lined park behind it.
Charleston leaders recouped much of their initial building costs by selling residential lots on the waterfront street it helped create, dubbed East Battery.
During the Civil War the Battery site would become part of an armed Confederate encampment, and also was where locals watched the bombardment of Fort Sumter.
The next big growth phase came in the early 1900s when Mayor R.G. Rhett extended The Battery walk farther west to create "the Low Battery," which runs along the Ashley River toward the western end of Tradd Street. That effort also reclaimed land totaling some 47 acres of mud flats, marsh and water for building new homes.
Author and historian Robert Rosen said the completed full walk of The Battery represents the "must see" stops for anyone visiting Charleston.
"I guess you could say The Battery is to Charleston as Central Park is to New York," he said. "To me, it's kind of the signature place."
But The Battery has been a maintenance headache since it was created, as saltwater, hurricanes, an earthquake and the settling of landfill have upset the architecture and pavement levels, and exposed weaknesses in old concrete.
The work to be done
The brick seawall today, while in reasonably good shape, does have leaks, particularly spots where grouting has eroded. For now though, the lead-off work will be at the Turn, which is supported by wooden pilings and includes a wooden deck covered by concrete.
As part of the repairs, the pilings will be exposed, and weak points will be strengthened where needed. Also, the deck surface will be redone.
One of the major changes visitors will see is that the walk-up leading to the Turn's platform will be changed. from the current concrete steps to a ramp. This will accommodate those with disabilities and baby strollers.
The High Battery also will see its 4-by-8-foot bluestone slabs lifted and reset once new fill dirt is placed under them. Openings in the stones facing the water will also be filled. The cost is projected at around $800,000.
"This part of The Battery doesn't have any timber as sociated with it," Newham said. "It's concrete and stone, whereas 'the Turn' and 'the Low Battery' both have a wooden platform underneath them."
The Low Battery, which runs nearly a mile from the Turn to the Coast Guard station, would be repaired at a later time, possibly years later. Besides making repairs to the outer seawall, which could require installing hundreds of feet of new coffer dam, officials hope to level the sidewalk. Currently, the sidewalk has settled and angles up toward the river, steeply in spots.
City officials have not put a completion date on the entire project or come up with a detailed cost estimate, though the work could run as high as $15 million for the entire 1.2-mile stretch.
But they are confident that the planned repairs will protect The Battery and help it last another century or more.
"If we do it right," city engineer Laura Cabiness said, "nobody will be able to tell anything has been done."
Robert Behre contributed to this report. Reach Schuyler Kropf at 937-5551.
Project engineering manager J. Frank Newham at the Battery City of Charleston has plans to start fixing up the Battery Seawall. ( Leroy Burnell/postandcourier.com/5/13/2013 )×


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Today, everyone is trying to figure out how to how to store, how to optimize, and how to make sense over their vast data stores. One problem is that the velocity of this incoming data is not slowing, it is accelerating, and data stores are filling up faster than ever. The Apache Hadoop Distributed File System was designed to help distribute data around the network while enabling analysis through MapReduce commands. This type of approach is also available in ways that leverage the best in class storage capabilities of Cleversafe. This post provides a bit more on this.
Cleversafe has announced that their Dispersed Storage Network (dsNet) is now open to MapReduce analytics. This enables developers/programmers to build programs the same way they would for other Apache Hadoop related capabilities, but now they can tap into incredibly large, secure data stores backed up with Cleversafe's capabilities to protect data.
Cleversafe's dsNet offers unparalleled security for your dispersed storage, while resulting in only one (as opposed to HDFS's 3) copies of the storage. They slice data and distribute it across nodes in a sector. When it is to be used for computations, the data is stored in traditional format on the node. This enables both storage and analytics rapidly, without the need for extended duplication.
Enterprise decision makers need access to their data, at lower opportunity costs and with less capital investment. While the "do more with less" is a great mantra, coming from good intentions, simply repeating it does not make it so. Nor does saying it, make it possible. Solutions such as Cleversafe's dsNet can help your agency adhere to the many federal mandates and regulations. It makes the following easier:
- adherence to data policies – data is now machine readable
- cost savings and data center consolidations – requires 60% less storage space than HDFS, saving storage space, data center space and electricity
- enhanced security – dsNet provides a great amount of security for your dispersed data
As decisions makers are inundated with requirements, regulations and mandates, sorting the wheat from the chaff becomes more and more difficult, Cleversafe's dsNet is the wheat in dispersed data storage.
For more information on Cleversafe and Hadoop MapReduce, go here.
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KITZBUEHEL, Austria - Dominik Paris became the first Italian since the great Kristian Ghedina to win the famed Hahnenkamm downhill on Saturday, while Squaw Valley racers Travis Ganong and Marco Sullivan led the American men in 19th and 24th place, respectively.
Both Steven Nyman and Ted Ligety missed a gate on the treacherous side hill just above the finish pitch.
"It was really tough conditions," Ganong said. "The track got really icy and bumpy throughout the week. (Friday) night it was really cold and the surface got pretty hard. It was the real deal this year, definitely rough and tough, but it was fun."
Paris mastered the gnarly Streif in Kitzbuehel to become the first Italian since 1998 to win the famed downhill - his second win of the season - while Canadian Erik Guay finished second ahead of Hannes Reichelt of Austria. American Andrew Weibrecht was 34th.
With the World Championships around the corner, from Feb. 4-17, Sullivan is 11th in the World Cup downhill standings and Ganong is 16th.
"I'm at the point now where I'm not just skiing to finish. I'm really charging and taking chances and risking more," said Ganong, who recorded a career-best seventh-place finish at the Stelvio downhill in Bormio, Italy, in late December. "With that will come mistakes, but it also brings a lot more speed and a puts you in the fight for the podium. Things are going in the right direction for me and I can't wait for World Champs."
Ganong also competed in the combined on Sunday, but he skied out on his second slalom run.
MARIBOR, Slovenia - Lindsey Vonn powerfully mastered the Golden Fox in Maribor for a stunning giant slalom victory that marked the 59th Audi FIS Alpine World Cup win of her career.
Julia Mancuso of Squaw Valley finished eighth and Mikaela Shiffrin was 13th for her fourth GS top-15 this season. Hometown favorite Tina Maze was second to maintain her leads in both the overall and GS standings.
Vonn is now three wins short of Austrian great Annemarie Moser-Proell's women's record of 62. It was Vonn's first GS win since March 9, 2012, when she clinched her fourth overall title with victory in Are, Sweden. All six of her podiums this season have been victories - three downhill, two super G, one giant slalom).


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A far too avid user of Myspace.
person 1: Leave me a myspace comment!
person 2: I just left you one you mywhore!
person 2: I just left you one you mywhore!
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A teen, usually a girl, who whores herself on myspace with hundreds of pictures, some being half naked.
Christina is such a mywhore, I swear I saw a nipple slip in one of her pics.
מאת Dylan (Jimmy) 13 באוגוסט, 2007
Someone who is on websites such as myspace or facebook so much that they can be considered a whore for that website.
That girl is on myspace so much, she is a MyWhore.
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A word for when there is nothing left to say meant to throw off the competition.
"I can't believe you left me hanging there all alone, I never want to see you again!"
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a combination of the words 'good luck'. used as 'bye' in parts of ireland. also spelt: glac, g'lack, g'lac.
"right, im away"
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The act of going down and choking on a cock.
Damn! She threw the neck and went GLACK! GLACK! GLACK!
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A bird derived from the wedge in mount sinai, it is giant and has a huge dong. and used as a word and calling to other glacks and glackoloigists. There is only one person that preforms glackology.
Look at the size of that Glack. Its huge but my black snake will win
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Pussy fluid so sticky that it can be used as a powerful glue.
I couldn't pull out of the bitch because I was stuck in all her glack.
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The single best thing you can do to improve clothes washer efficiency is to replace an old inefficient machine with a new high efficiency washer. Traditional clothes washers use approximately 41 gallons per load (gpl) while high efficiency machine use only 23 gpl (Mayer, et. al. 2001).
High efficiency clothes washers are now offered by almost all the leading manufacturers and should be available wherever clothes washers are sold. For a list of stores in your area, try the ENERGY STAR store locator. All you need is a zip code!
No matter what kind of clothes washer you have, here are some basic tips that can reduce water use for clothes washing:
Vickers, Amy. 2001. Handbook of Water Use and Conservation. Water Plow Press, Amherst, Massachusetts.


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Game 75 Thread - Samardzija vs. Niese
Cubs go for the sweep!!!
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|Tejada, SS
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|*Rizzo, 1B
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|Wells, P
A solid debut for Rizzo yesterday, going 2/4 with a double and the game-winning RBI, even if the official scorer was a little kind to him on the extra-base hit and possibly even the single in his first at-bat. Regardless, the kid looked like he belonged in game 1.
In roster manuevering, Randy Wells has been DFA'd and Rafael Dolis called back up. I believe with an off-day coming up, the Cubs can skip the spot Wells was taking up in the rotation, since it doesn't sound like Ryan Dempster will be ready. Much like yesterday, I'll try and stop by Parachat for the Castro/Rizzo at-bats.
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Heh... Rizzo gone from playing 9 positions to 2?
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While it's very possible that the Cubs will place Randy Wells on Outright Assignment Waivers and then will allocate his spot on the 40-man roster to Jorge Soler (once he offiially signs), they might have DFA'd Wells because he can't be optioned to the minors until Optional Assignment Waivers have been secured, and it takes two days to get a player through waivers. (If the Cubs need a slot on the 40-man roster for Soler and it's not Wells slot, Lendy Castillo could be transferred to the 60-day DL, or a different player could get outrighted, like maybe Blake Lalli).
BTW, because he has accrued at least three years of MLB Service Time (and also because he has been outrighted previously in his career), Wells can elect to be a free-agent immediately or defer FA until after the conclusion of the MLB regular season if he is outrighted to the minors.
If he is outrighted and then elects free-agency immediately, his contract is terminated and he receives no termination pay (which would cost him about $1.3M in 2012 salary), so I can't see him electing free-agency immediately if he gets outrighted, even though he probably wants out of the Cubs organization at this point. He'll just wait until the conclusion of the MLB regular season (although if he opts to wait to be a FA until post-2012 and then in the meantime the Cubs add him back to their 40-man roster prior to the conclusion of the MLB regular season, he can't be a FA post-2012 unless the Cubs release him or non-tender him).
And of course if he were to get claimed off waivers, the Cubs would be off the hook for the $1.3M (or so) remaining on his 2012 contract.
AZ PHIL - K Goldstein?
AZ PHIL: Do you ever see Kevin Goldstein other than at Spring Training out in your parts?
The guy is certainly very opinionated about Cubs prospects and I truly wonder if he sees them with his own eyes or not.
Or does he just watch tape and look at boxes?
Just curious.
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Thanks PHIL! i mean Rob.
Re: Interview with Goldstein
"...when someone asks me how this all happened, I just kind of shrug my shoulders with embarrassment. Way back in the day, when years still started with 1s instead of 2s, I did some consulting work with BA to get their website off the ground. I continued to do some tech work for them here and there, while also starting an email-based newsletter called The Prospect Report on my own time. It was free, and just a hobby, but thanks to people like Jim Callis and Ron Shandler mentioning it, it started to grow and all of a sudden I had 2- 3,000 subscribers and people knew who I was … at least a few.
Then things kind of took a turn as I noticed scouts and front office people and GMs subscribing, and with that, I started to actually make contacts will people in the industry who would help me with my stupid little newsletter. Things got crazy when Peter Gammons, who I basically owe my career to, wrote about it, and all of a sudden I had like 10,000+ subscribers. Baseball America then bought the report, and hired me. I was there for three years, and learned a lot about how to write about prospects and scouting and the draft, and Baseball Prospectus offered me a position. It was an opportunity to really lead the prospect coverage for a big name, and that wasn't going to happen at Baseball America, so it was a better opportunity, and I jumped at it. From there came the opportunity to also be a columnist at ESPN and now the weekly national show on Sirius."
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Wed, 06/27/2012 - 1:41pm — The E-Man
AZ PHIL: Do you ever see Kevin Goldstein other than at Spring Training out in your parts?
The guy is certainly very opinionated about Cubs prospects and I truly wonder if he sees them with his own eyes or not.
Or does he just watch tape and look at boxes?
Just curious.
E-MAN: I have never seen Kevin Goldstein in person.
He tweeted that he was at a Peoria game when Javier Baez first got there and saw him hit a HR, and he also tweeted that he was at the MWL All-Star Game and saw Kyler Burke throw his worst game of the season, so he has seen some of the Cubs minor leaguers in person.
One of the interesting things about scouts is that they will watch a player once or twice and then develop a semi-permanent opinion of the player off that observation. So that's why clubs sometimes miss big on a player in the draft, or have an unusually high or low opinion of a prospect that might not match the way other organizations view the very same player.
It's funny when the scouts get together (like at an AFL game) and one will say (about some pitcher who has turned out to be pretty good) "I turned him in after I saw him throw in a game but the cross-checker saw him a month later and his velocity was down so my scouting director wouldn't draft him" and another will say "I never even saw that guy throw."
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Brian Cashman's interest in both Dempster and Garza just skyrocketed...
Andy Petittitte out 6 weeks with Ankle fracture (replaced in rotation with Sweaty Freddy Garcia)
Andy Pettitte left Wednesday's start against the Indians in the fifth inning after being hit in the lower left leg with a comebacker off the bat of Casey Kotchman.
CC Sabathia put on DL with Groin Strain
Sabathia was diagnosed with a Grade 1 strain of his left adductor muscle. He suffered the injury in the fourth inning of Sunday's start and told the team following a bullpen session Tuesday.
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Woo... this is fun.
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Did they switch over to 12" softball today?
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I haven't seen a beating like that since someone put a banana down my pants and turned a monkey loose.
Wells Grain of salt alert:
This from the comments section of NBC News, but caught my interest:
"this guy is from my hometown, near st. louis and boy is he an asshole. see him at bars all the time hammered and he is just such a prick. karma's a bitch, good to see him getting sent down."
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after all the Rizzo fun, the Cubs are single-mindedly back on track in the Quest for #1 draft pick
such dedication.
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It sure seems there is going to be more buyers than sellers this trade deadline, and I can't believe a number of contenders wouldn't dearly love Dempster and Garza. I can't pretend to know what value other GMs put on these two, but I can't see them ever worth more than they are right now.
With the Cubs system a veritable 'Death Valley' of starting pitchers, I would hold out for a Top 15 starting pitcher prospect for Dempster, and two Top 15 SP prospects for Garza. If I was Theo and didn't get what I wanted for Garza, I would keep him for 2013. As for Dempster, I would keep him until post season waiver deadline of 8/31.
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Defense matters to good teams.
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So you're saying the Dodgers are interested?
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Vitters 2 run double in a 4 run 3rd inning vs OKC (and scores on a Ty Wright back to back double). Iowa now down only 5-4 in the 4th.
Javier Baez is back in the lineup but DH-ing, 0-3. The Chiefs are losing to the Clinton Lumberkings, 3-1 in the 6th.
and the Smokies are losing 11-0 to Birmingham in the 8th. (ugh)
and the good news is... Daytona won 12-1 over St. Lucie. Greg Rohan went 5-5. Szczur went 3-6 with a HR and a double. Austin Kirk is 4-1 and went 6 shutout innings.
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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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Even though Hammel is missing start, don't assume he'll not be on #Cubs postseason roster. Maddon says elbow problem isn't that bad
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Maddon on #Cubs postseason rotation: "I don't want to announce anything. We haven't talked to anybody yet"
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Maddon hopes Soler can take BP in Cincy, play in sim game Tue. "All of that should give us some kind of indication of where he's at"
tarp on the field 40 minutes before gametime...meh.
travel day + rain in Pittsburgh. Why risk injury?


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At Midland Crash, 'Stolen' Souls and Scattered Belongings
MIDLAND, Texas— Petra Reyes, a 19-year-old member of the dance team for the minor league football club, the West Texas Drillers, was part of the procession honoring wounded veterans that was hit by a Union Pacific train Thursday.
She and her teammates were riding in a pickup truck behind the flatbeds carrying the severely wounded veterans. She watched the rig that was pulling the flatbeds make its way slowly over the tracks, to keep the veterans from falling, when the arm at the crossing came down.
In a matter of seconds, she said, the train blazed through, taking the second flatbed with it. She says she heard screams and saw people being dragged.
"We saw souls stolen from us," she said. "It was horrible."
On Friday morning, she could no longer remember which country song her teammates were singing before the event turned tragic about 4:40 pm local time.
Janet Scott, a member of one of the local chapters of Veterans of Foreign Wars, was part of a motorcycle brigade by the Patriot Guard Riders, a national group that honors veterans, that escorted the truck pulling the flatbeds. She has participated in the parade several years, she said, and it has always been along the same route.
Her group had crossed the tracks when they heard a booming noise as the train crashed into the second flatbed. She later rode back to the scene to help pick up the veterans' items scattered by the crash. Among them: pocketbooks, gloves and a single shoe.
"We brought the vets out here to show them how much we care," she said. "This is a tragedy that ain't meant to happen."
As part of the preparations, the riders had checked the train schedule, she said, and believed that no train was due until 7 p.m.
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Ms. Scott said her veteran's group planned to lay four crosses, ribbons and flowers at the site of the accident.
George McAlpine, a 60-year-old petroleum engineer, was at the opening ceremony of a car dealership when someone there got news of the accident via a text message.
"We were just in shock," he said, adding that he hasn't been able to stop thinking about the wreck. "Midland is a very sad town this morning."
Mr. McAlpine and dozens of other people gathered at a downtown square Friday morning to remember the victims. Many were crying as local pastors led them in prayer; others held small U.S. flags as they bowed their heads. Attendees lamented the tragic turn to what was meant to be a joyous event.
Midland Mayor Wes Perry, who spent time with the veterans before the accident, told those who attended the vigil that spirits had been high, with the veterans receiving the keys to the city. "They were blown away by the love and care from the community," he said.
He asked that the crowd keep a moment of silence after he read the names of each of the four fatal victims: Gary Stouffer, Lawrence Boivin, Joshua Michael and William Lubbers.
Mr. Perry said four people remained at the local hospital, one of them in critical condition.
During the crisis, he said, several of the veterans jumped into action, saving the lives of those around them.
"As a community, as a family, we have to gather around them," he added.
Pastor Roy Smith, of True Life Christian Fellowship, said the veterans were "bigger heroes than they were yesterday."
Police Chief Price Robinson said his officers are working with federal investigators to determine what caused the accident, but that it was too early to share any conclusions.
However, Rev. Smith had warned the crowd at the vigil: "All the questions of why may never be answered."
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by Jeff Stevenson
The author is professor of animal sciences at Kansas State University, Manhattan.
Reestablishing estrous cycles after calving has been studied since the 1920s. Back then, Sir John Hammond of Cambridge made some of the first recorded observations in dairy cattle. Early studies estimating when normal estrous cycles resumed were based on visual detection of estrus, palpation of the ovaries, or both.
Later, with the use of blood or milk progesterone immunoassays, onset of progesterone secretion by the first postpartum luteal structure or corpus luteum could be determined by scientists. With these tools, research has focused on when and how first ovulation occurs and what factors are possibly controlling (stimulating or inhibiting) the first luteal function in the dairy cow.
As we delve deeper into this topic, let's begin by defining some terms. Then, we will examine some of the recently identified factors that are associated with first postpartum estrous cycles.
Confusing terms
A number of terms are used interchangeably when describing the onset of postpartum estrous cycles. Anestrus literally means lack of estrus or estrous cycles - a common occurrence during pregnancy. This term can be confused with anovulation which is the lack of regular estrous cycles each associated with ovulation.
For example, a cow may be defined as anestrous but having regular ovulatory cycles when she does not display any heat signs before ovulation. Furthermore, a cow may be anovulatory (no ovulation) but displaying regular signs of heat. The former (anestrus but ovulating regularly) is very common. It indicates a lack of good heat detection on the farm.
Most of these situations come down to a people problem: Somebody thinks everybody is watching cows, but nobody is doing it! In other cases, it is a cow problem because cows are not showing heats. The latter problem, no ovulation but showing heat, is rare, generally only taking place when cows have follicular cysts. For more details on ovarian cysts, see the January 10, 2012, issue on page 21.
Recently, other descriptors used in the scientific literature include the terms ovular and anovular. Ovular cows have reestablished estrous cycles after calving and are ovulating at regular intervals (every 20 to 22 days), irrespective of behavioral estrus. On the other hand, anovular cows have not reestablished estrous cycles and are not having normal ovulatory cycles.
Recent studies in Japan have shed new light on this old story. Researchers chose to define delayed postpartum resumption of ovarian activity based on its relationship to reduced pregnancy rates.
They studied 219 cows in four commercial herds and monitored ovarian activity by collecting milk samples twice weekly and measuring progesterone. Where other researchers arbitrarily chose some threshold cutoff for cows that were considered to have delayed or nondelayed first postpartum ovulation, the Japanese study determined in these herds that the threshold to define delayed ovulation was 35 days because cows ovulating after that time had reduced fertility.
The table illustrates two studies by these authors summarizing some characteristics of postpartum cows as they first ovulate and resume estrous cycles. Note that fewer than 50 percent of cows had resumed estrous cycles by 35 days in milk - not different from studies in the U.S. From 12 to 16 percent of cows had prolonged luteal phases after ovulation had occurred.
Prolonged luteal phases were defined as periods exceeding 20 days when progesterone concentrations were elevated (> 5 ng/mL) in the absence of insemination. These prolonged luteal periods occurred because the corpus luteum was maintained and failed to regress. Short luteal phases (3 to 7 percent) were characterized by shorter than normal luteal function after ovulation, except for the first estrous cycle which is typically shorter than 20 days in dairy cows.
Prolonged intercycle low progesterone (6 percent) represented periods of at least 14 days between either the first and second cycle or between the second and third cycle. Normally, a period of 7 to 9 days of low progesterone exists from the time of luteal regression of one cycle until after estrus when the new corpus luteum becomes functional in the next cycle. Approximately one-third of dairy cows did not ovulate until after 35 days in milk.
Cows that ovulated after Day 35 in milk and those with prolonged intercycle low progesterone concentrations were associated with 50 and 65 percent reduction in pregnancy rates, respectively, compared with cows that resumed estrous cycles by Day 35. Furthermore, cows that did not ovulate before Day 35 in milk were less likely to conceive to first A.I. and less likely to become pregnant by 100 or 210 days in milk. Days open for late-ovulating cows (213 days) and for those with prolonged intercycle low progesterone (220 days) were greater than for early ovulating cows (152 days).
In the second study highlighted in the table, incidence of prolonged luteal phases (before any A.I.) after ovulation ranged from 9 to 17 percent in three herds. More than 64 percent of these luteal phases occurred after first postpartum ovulation, 31 percent after second ovulation, and 5 percent after third ovulation. Approximately 83 percent of these prolonged luteal phases were 20 to 28 days in duration.
These cows had reduced conception rates to first A.I. and fewer were pregnant by 100, 150, or 210 days in milk. Multilactation cows, compared with 2-year-olds, were three times more likely to have prolonged luteal phases. The other most important risk factor for prolonged luteal phases was postpartum complications and health disorders.
Cows to monitor
In summary, based on these two studies, more than 50 percent of dairy cows are at risk for poorer fertility when they have delayed resumption of ovulation and abnormal characteristics of postpartum estrous cycles (prolonged intercycle low progesterone and prolonged luteal phases) compared with cows that resume normal estrous cycles by Day 35 in milk.
Some of the risk factors include fresh cow health disorders and age. Fresh cow care, including clean calving areas, monitoring transition cows closely for subclinical signs of ketosis and milk fever, and adequate dry matter intakes, will likely reduce some of these risk factors for late ovulation. Happy A.I. breeding!


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While she always wanted to be a doctor, she first provided care as a nurse, and some of her early experiences helping cancer patients encouraged her to specialize in radiation oncology as a physician. Dr. Margaret MacDowell has been with Trident Health for the past 20 years since her residency, often teaming up with patients who are battling breast cancer. "I like having more of an ongoing conversation with patients, rather than me telling them what they need to do. I want them to be comfortable, and I want them to be able to say anything they want to me." Dr. MacDowell works from Trident Cancer Center through Radiation Oncology Associates of Charleston. Through the years, she has seen encouraging advances in radiation oncology and radiotherapy. "There are fewer side effects of treatment and less tissue damage because we can treat with smaller margins and still obtain good cure rates."
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Faye Dancer is the Director of Human Resources at Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Corporation and the founder of the 360 Leadership Series in Fort Smith. With both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from JBU, she is very familiar with the university and now enjoys teaching classes for JBU's graduate business programs. She loves learning from her students and tailoring her instruction to what is happening in their businesses and careers. Developing leaders is a passion for Faye in both her career and volunteer activities, one of which is her continued involvement in the 360 Leadership Series which hosts monthly leadership luncheons with a variety of speakers who share their leadership experience with the guests.
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The Cincinnati Bengals will be pleased with their selection of Warren G. Harding High School and Ohio State product Dan "Boom" Herron.
The Bengals took Herron in the sixth round with the 191st pick of the draft.
Herron felt - and I agree - that he should have been drafted higher, but when the call came Saturday, he was grateful.
"It was a little long wait, but I think God has a plan for me," Herron said. "I'm just very happy to be a Bengal now."
Herron's draft stock fell in the wake of two separate suspensions during his senior season. He played in just seven games in 2011, but was productive and finished with 675 yards and three touchdowns. He also caught eight passes.
Herron finished his college career with 2,946 yards and 32 touchdowns for Ohio State. He also caught 44 passes and had one receiving touchdown.
But the player known as Boom meant more to Ohio State in a trying 2011 season - and even before that - than the numbers show.
There was a reason Herron's teammates voted him the Buckeyes' MVP after the season and interim coach Luke Fickell named him a captain for the Wisconsin game.
Yes, Herron was one of the players involved in Ohio State's tattoos-and-memorabilia scandal. He was suspended for the Buckeyes' first five games. He also was suspended for another game for being overpaid for a summer job.
Herron knew he'd made mistakes and while he sat out those games as his penalty, he displayed the same kind of quiet leadership he'd been known for before the scandal.
Herron was contrite upon his return and it showed. The way he handled himself - both behind the scenes and on the field when he returned - helped him regain the respect of many fans.
But his teammates and the Ohio State coaching staff saw that side of him all along.?Herron never stopped working, even though he knew he was going to miss the first five games of his senior season. He ended up sitting out another game, but stayed positive, showed leadership off the field and helped his teammates even as he sat out half the season.
That's why Fickell made Herron a captain against Wisconsin, even when he knew he'd be roundly criticized for doing so. And that's why the Buckeyes voted the tailback their MVP after the regular season. They, too, were ripped for it.
Herron probably could have left Ohio State after the 2010 season and found himself in a much better position in the 2011 draft than he ultimately did this year. He had rushed for 1,155 yards, averaged 5.3 yards per carry and scored 16 touchdowns as a junior.
Herron's stock would never be higher, and deep down he probably knew it. But he didn't cut and run, and in the months that followed, Herron did what he could to repair his image and help the Buckeyes.
If a feel-good story could come from Ohio State's 6-7 season, Herron's redemption was it.


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Rescue personnel work at the scene of a fire that started in apartment G1 at Willow Creek Apartments Sunday night.
Firefighters from two departments extinguished a blaze at Willow Creek Apartments, 575 E. SR 18, Sunday night.
Fred Bishop, Clinton Township Volunteer Fire Department's chief, said the fire started in one of the bedrooms in apartment G1. The fire was contained to one apartment, but the rest of the building had smoke damage.
Bishop said smoke was coming out of the eaves and fire could be seen when firefighters arrived. Flames broke through glass and started going up the wall, he said.
The fire probably was out in half an hour, the chief said.
Bishop said he was unaware of any injuries.
The cause was undetermined. Bishop did not have a loss estimate and did not know how many residents were displaced. A Willow Creek Apartments representative at the scene declined to release information.
According to a release, local American Red Cross personnel responded to the fire early Monday morning to provide emergency aid to the families affected. Volunteers Ruth Stiverson, Steve Switzer and Vicki Allison-Patrick responded to the call for help, along with Fostoria/Seneca County Red Cross Director David Conley.
It states one family needed immediate food and clothing assistance and was helped at the scene. Assistance for other families was to be provided as necessary.
Personnel from Clinton Township Volunteer Fire Department, Tiffin Fire Rescue Division, Seneca County Sheriff's Office, Tiffin Police Department and Seneca Community Chaplain Corps responded to the fire.
Jacob O'Neil, a resident of apartment G6, said he was watching television when the fire broke out and he heard a resident of apartment G1 screaming about the blaze. People started knocking on doors and getting people out, he said.
At the scene, he said he knew there was damage to his apartment. He said a package of diapers in his apartment was covered in soot, and a coat that had been in the front closet was warm.
O'Neil said he planned to stay at the home of his father and stepmother for the night.
"I'm devastated," he said.