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NEW YORK -- As Scott Boras and first-round Draft pick Michael Conforto chatted in front of cameras Friday afternoon, one of Boras' other clients in Queens interrupted the conversation for a big hug.
A chipper Matt Harvey, who is out for the season while recovering from Tommy John surgery, was happy to stumble upon his agent in the Mets' clubhouse. Harvey has indicated on multiple occasions since going under the knife his desire to be aggressive in his rehab, but Boras is just fine with things progressing slowly.
"A competitive athlete is never comfortable with the timeline," Boras said Friday. "I just watched Matt throw. He looks great. His extension, ball's coming out of his hand. It really is exciting to see him at this stage, and I'm really encouraged about what can happen next year.
"I don't want Matt Harvey to ever change. I want him ready to run the race every day. I appreciate that. I also trust that the overseeing of the well-being of the player and of the organization is factored into Matt's competitiveness, and I think that's the dynamic that's working here."
In terms of Harvey's timetable, Boras said pitchers who wait 14-16 months after the surgery to get into a game have a higher success rate than those who wait 10-12 months. Following the longer rehab program would mean Harvey -- who had Tommy John last October -- would not participate in the Fall Instructional League.
"With elite athletes, high-velocity guys, to err on conservatism and more time is the proper course," Boras said.
Harvey isn't Boras' only client to have his ulnar collateral ligament reconstructed. Washington's Stephen Strasburg tore his in 2010, and Miami ace Jose Fernandez got the bad news in May.
The recent surge of hurlers requiring Tommy John surgery is concerning enough to Boras that he invested resources into studying the data on his own. He said since 2004, the 500 pitchers 25 years old or older to break into the big leagues have a Tommy John rate of 3 percent. Those who make their debuts between ages 19 and 21 have an 18 percent rate.
"Those young men who debut at the big leagues at those ages have velocity, but they also don't have the benefit of a mature body like a 25-year-old," Boras said. "The issue is, can you put players like that at that age in the Major Leagues and not hurt them?"
Boras thinks so, but it might require a potentially dramatic fix. He suggested curtailing those young phenoms' innings limits even more than they already are. If a pitcher tosses 110 innings one year, have him do 120 the next, then 130 after that. That would give young pitchers more time to truly grow into their bodies before carrying a significant workload. It might also mean a guy like Fernandez would not necessarily throw 172 2/3 innings as a 20-year-old Major Leaguer.
A program like that, however, would lead to the rest of a club's pitchers having to pick up the slack.
"That would mean all we'd have to do is expand the rosters," Boras said. "That's going to increase what? Costs. But the cost of losing a 19-, 20-, 21-, 22-year-old franchise player that are the best we have, the most exciting we have, I think is far greater than it is by increasing the rosters to 26, 27."
Tim Healey is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Little Rock, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Arkansas governor Mike Beebe announced Thursday that Wal-Mart will join an Arkansas program intended to change the way that private insurers and Medicaid pay for services. Wal-Mart's Arkansas employees' insurance plans, which cover about 57,000 workers, will become a part of the statewide program.
The retailer has committed $670,000 toward a tracking system to measure the program's success as well as distribute information about the reforms.
Wal-Mart will also serve on an employer advisory council for the state.
The Arkansas Payment Improvement Initiative moves away from a fee-for-service model to one where insurers pay for "episodes" of care rather than each individual treatment.
"Governor Beebe is leading a first-of-a-kind payment-reform effort in Arkansas that health experts elsewhere are following closely. We respect the work being done in Arkansas, and we are excited about the opportunity to offer real support to such a meaningful project in our home state," said Sally Welborn, Wal-Mart's SVP benefits.

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Brewers stung by Bruce's late homer off Smith
Gallardo gives good effort, tossing seven innings and allowing two runs
CINCINNATI -- Jay Bruce couldn't let the Brewers get out of town before making his presence felt.
One of the game's great Brewer-killers snapped the longest slump of his career in a big way Sunday, hitting a go-ahead, two-run home run in the eighth inning to beat Will Smith and the Brewers, 4-2, at Great American Ball Park.
Brewers starter Yovani Gallardo rebounded from a two-run first inning to pitch through the seventh and Rickie Weeks delivered a tying, pinch-hit single in the top of the eighth, but Bruce answered in the bottom of that inning with a "can't predict baseball" kind of moment.
On the mound you had Smith, a southpaw with a "slider of death" who had not surrendered a home run to any of the first 61 left-handed hitters he had faced this season. In the batter's box you had Bruce, who had driven in a run with a first-inning fielder's choice, but was hitless in his last 26 at-bats.
"You still have to respect what kind of hitter he is," Smith said. "Guys go through slumps, they snap out of them at any time. He snapped out of it that pitch."
The pitch was a 93-mph fastball, high and tight in a 1-2 count. Smith's previous two pitches had been sliders away, one for a swinging strike and the next for a ball.
Left-handed hitters have swung and missed Smith's sliders 32 percent of the time this season, compared to 11 percent of fastballs. He didn't second-guess the decision to come back with a fastball to Bruce, who is no ordinary left-handed hitter. He's hit more home runs off left-handed pitchers over the past five seasons (48) than any other batter in baseball, period.
"I think it's the right call at that time," Smith said. "He took a pretty good slider the pitch before, I just didn't throw [the fastball] exactly where I wanted to. It wasn't a bad, bad pitch, but it was still up where he could get to it. He's a good hitter, too. He did what he was supposed to do to it."
Said Brewers manager Ron Roenicke: "Smith gets out left-handers with his breaking ball, that's a pitch they have a lot of trouble with -- but he's not just a breaking ball pitcher. He mixes a fastball and a breaking ball, and that's why he's hard to hit. After the fact, maybe it is easy to say what he should have done. If he had missed with the fastball, you would have felt worse about it. He put it where he wanted to and Bruce did a great job."
Bruce has done it to the Brewers before. His 25 home runs (in 90 games) against the Brewers are his most against any opponent, and his 59 RBIs match his career total against the Astros.
Of active players, only Albert Pujols (42), Aramis Ramirez (34) and Adam Dunn (34) have hit more homers against Milwaukee than Bruce.
"He has a very, very good slider, and I just tried to get something that I could handle and not give in to his approach, not give in to his plan," Bruce said. "And I was able to do it right there at the end. It wasn't a bad pitch; it was up and in and it was a tough ball to get to, and fortunately I was able to get to it."
After setting a high standard in the early months of the season, Smith has found more trouble of late in his first full season as a reliever. Opponents batted .162 against him in April, .231 in May and .283 in June. Sunday marked his second appearance in July and his 46th appearance overall, the most in the Major Leagues.
"Being a starter in the past has helped with this transition [to] throwing a lot," Smith said. "I don't think that's an issue. ... I've hit my fair share of bumps in the road, but you just have to keep moving forward and try to get back to the way it was before. High standards or not, you still have to pitch well. Today just wasn't one of those days."
The Brewers dropped the series, two games to one, and fell to 3-7 against Cincinnati this season.
In a bounce-back outing from seven days earlier against the Rockies, Gallardo rebounded from a two-run first inning by scattering six Cincinnati hits and allowing no more runs from the second through the seventh. He might have gone back to the mound for the eighth inning had a situation not called for Weeks to come off the bench to deliver his game-tying single off Reds starter Mat Latos.
Weeks' clutch hit scored Logan Schafer, who doubled, tripled and scored two runs in a spot start for right fielder Ryan Braun. The Brewers were otherwise held in check by Latos (eight innings, four hits, two runs) and Jonathan Broxton (sixth save).
"I think the Reds have probably one of the best three starting rotations in all of baseball, and they did their thing," Schafer said. "Getting two runs for this offense is a low score. We have the ability to put up a lot more runs really quickly."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Tequila Sunrise
How a New Upscale Day Dawned for Mexico's Ancient Firewater
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Don Rigoberto notices my eyebrows lifting. "Amazing, huh?" he says. "I also used to think Tequila was for construction laborers." Then, three or four years ago, Isadora's affluent clients began ordering top-of-the-line Cuervo, Sauza and Herradura. Now, Tequila outsells Scotch here and at many other upscale restaurants in the Mexican capital. "See those drinks," says Don Rigoberto, pointing to a row of six thin elongated crystal shot glasses lined up at the bar ready to be taken to a dining table upstairs. "Tequila--all of them."
When I was growing up in Mexico during the 1950s, the preferred drink of sophisticated society was the highball, a tall glass of whiskey with soda of some sort. There were exceptions, like the Guadalajara crowd, who had the temerity to dress up as charros--dandified Mexican cowboys with broad-brimmed sombreros, dark bolero jackets and tight trousers spangled with silver buttons--and drink Tequila.
On trips to Guadalajara with my father, an American ex-pat businessman based in Mexico City, we would occasionally dine with these would-be charros at homes and restaurants, where they would prep themselves for a meal with a few Tequilas, expertly licking grains of salt off their fists, tossing back a shot of the fiery alcohol, sucking on a lime and finishing the ritual with a gulp of spicy tomato juice called sangrita. But Guadalajara society notwithstanding, Tequila back then was low-class quaff. Cheap and powerfully inebriating, it was the drink of the poor--or of the politicians and mariachi balladeers who considered them their constituency.
Only one other alcohol was lower on the social ladder--mescal. It was distilled from different species of agave plants (maguey) than Tequila, and was usually sold with a drowned agave worm (actually, a caterpillar) at the bottom of the bottle. But nowadays, even mescal--minus the caterpillar--is being marketed in Mexico, the United States and elsewhere as a pricey digestif. (See sidebar on page 285.)
Perhaps the biggest surprise of all is to encounter the man generally credited with persuading imbibers to shell out $40, $80, $100, even several hundred dollars for a single bottle of Tequila. His name is Martin Grassl, a tall, mop-haired, baby-faced 30-year-old Austrian, who seems more likely to be carded in a bar than credited with giving new direction to a national drink.
Grassl arrived in Mexico in 1990 with a new MBA and a mandate from his employer, an Austrian trading company, to find a Tequila classy enough to sell in Japan. After thorough research, Grassl decided none existed. Instead, he proposed to develop a new brand--"a kind of Tequila eau-de-vie," he called it--for his employers. When they showed no interest, he resigned and embarked on that quixotic quest on his own.
His father, a dentist back in Austria, who was disappointed his son hadn't become a doctor or lawyer, didn't see much merit in Grassl's business plan. Fortunately, his aunt, who owns a small eau-de-vie distillery, decided to back him with a $100,000 loan. "That money saved me," says Grassl.
With the loan, he rented a small Tequila distillery near Guadalajara for a few weeks, and contracted local artisans to fashion a sleek bottle that he had designed with a glass cactus stuck inside on its bottom. In 1991, he produced his first batch of Tequila and called it Porfidio. The name seems a misspelling of "Porfirio," as in Porfirio Díaz, the dictator who presided over turn-of-the-century high society and was overthrown at the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. Entrenched Tequila producers snickered that it was impossible to take seriously a foreigner who couldn't even get his brand name right and didn't realize that agave wasn't a cactus.
Grassl, who displays a wry sense of humor, offers his own explanations for the apparent miscues that he says were calculated to draw attention and commentary. Higher-priced Tequilas carry a label with a brief personal historical note signed by the brand's owner. Grassl assumed the pompous pen name of "Ponciano Porfidio"--a dig at the pretentiousness of his competitors and himself. As for the cactus in Porfidio's bottles, "Well, everybody knows the cactus is practically the national symbol of Mexico," says Grassl. "You just look at the bottle and you know where it comes from."
When it came to marketing Porfidio, he was all business. He carted samples--at $150 a bottle--to liquor trade shows, first in Europe and Asia. Then he turned his sights on the United States, where he chose as his importer Todhunter Imports Ltd. in West Palm Beach, Florida. He left the Mexican market for last. "When I first came here, Mexicans looked down on Tequila so much that I don't remember it ever being served at weddings," says Grassl. "Now, it's everywhere."
What changed their minds? According to Grassl, the prestige that Porfidio and the other superpremium brands gained abroad convinced Mexicans that Tequila could be synonymous with sophistication. This, by the way, is not the sort of explanation that Mexicans are likely to embrace. "It's supposed to be good for your heart, and it's made in Mexico," says Felipe Ahumada, a Mexico City-based real estate developer, giving his own spin to the recent rise in popularity of Tequila in his social circle. "We have our national pride," adds his wife, Sheila.
Whatever the reasons, Mexicans account for 60 percent of Porfidio sales. According to Martin, politicians, business impresarios and drug barons seem to feel that there's no better way to demonstrate their appreciation of important colleagues than to send them whole cases of Porfidio Silver ($25 per bottle), Porfidio Añejo Blue Agave ($40), Porfidio Reposado ($80) and, most popular of all, the Porfidio Single Barrel Añejo ($80), nicknamed Cactus, for the cute glass sculpture on its bottom. Late last year, Grassl introduced in Mexico and Asia--and to a limited degree in the United States--the priciest Tequila in the world, Porfidio Barrique de Ponciano, at $500 a bottle.
In the United States, superpremium Tequilas have become popular for many of the same reasons that cigars and small-batch Bourbons are experiencing a renaissance. "Consumers are dedicating more time for themselves to indulge in life's finer things," says Ken Ruff, vice president of national accounts at JBB Worldwide, the U.S. distributor of two pricey, high-quality Tequilas, El Tesoro de Don Felipe and Chinaco.
To convince Americans that Tequila can be numbered among preferred spirits, superpremium distributors are trying to sweep aside its hairy-chested image. "We're talking after-dinner drinks here," says Harrison B. Jones Jr., senior brand manager for Sazerac Co., which distributes Herradura in the United States. "I don't think anybody is going to be gulping shots of these Tequilas while chowing down on burritos."
While Mexico takes the lion's share of Porfidio, the United States, with 30 percent of sales, is the largest export destination. Close to 10 percent is evenly split between Asia and Europe. South America accounts for less than 1 percent of sales.
Just a couple of years ago, Porfidio might have been dismissed as a "boutique" brand. But in 1996, Grassl sold 300,000 liters, and last year, sales exploded to an estimated 2.4 million liters--at an average retail price of about $50 a bottle. "My biggest problem is how to handle a cash flow that's increasing 800 percent a year," says Grassl. One solution was to build a Tequila distillery of his own, something he finally did last year near Puerto Vallarta. Incredible as it seems, Grassl still rents five independent distilleries for several weeks to a few months a year to produce his Tequila. He doesn't even own his own bottling plant, although he does have state-of-the-art mobile equipment.
As impressive as Porfidio's sales figures are, they lag far behind market leader Cuervo's 50 million liters in 1996. But a more moderate-sized traditional producer like Herradura (5 million liters sold in 1996) has to be glancing over its shoulder. Grassl insists hisgrowth hasn't hurt any fellow Tequila producers. The real losers, he asserts, are whiskeys of all varieties in Mexico. "In the U.S., I think we're taking market share from the single-malt whiskeys," he says.
Until recently, his expanding business kept Grassl on a 100-hour-a-week work schedule, which leads one to wonder how he found the time to meet his Guadalajara-born wife, Cecilia. In a sense, the local bureaucracy played go-between. Despite Mexico's efforts over the last few years to cut red tape and encourage freer trade, many government officials at the local level continue to be notorious for passing new regulations that require exporters to devote countless hours negotiating for permits and dispensations. The lawyer Grassl used--and still uses--for these negotiations was the woman he eventually married. "I was spending more time with her than with anybody else in the business," he says. They now have a young son, and live a five-minute walk from his headquarters, a former two-story house in an upper middle-class Guadalajara neighborhood. It has an armored door, electronically operated and surveyed by closed-circuit television--a reminder that nowadays successful business people in Mexico must take kidnapping threats seriously.
t's a Monday morning and Grassl drives his huge Ford Lobo recreational vehicle to the town of Tequila, some 30 miles northwest of Guadalajara--the capital of the state of Jalisco--to inspect a distillery. On the way, he expounds on the liquor's history and production methods.
The rainy season has left the undulating terrain bright green and the blue agaves more intensely azure. By law, Tequila can be produced only from blue agaves; the plants, which look like inverted, spiny-armed octopuses, must come from a few government-specified districts--most of which are in Jalisco--and the fermented agave juice must be distilled twice and account for at least 51 percent of a Tequila bottle's content. The most upscale Tequilas are 100 percent blue agave distillates.
These regulations, known as the Normas, are cited as evidence that Tequila enjoys the same state-sponsored and time-honored cachet as Cognac and Champagne in France. But in fact, the Normas date back only to 1978. At the time, Margaritas, mixed mainly from cheap Tequila brands, were becoming one of the most popular drinks in the United States. The Mexican government wanted to ensure that this new source of export revenue wasn't threatened by adulterated or downright toxic Tequilas. So, in effect, the Normas were intended to make drinking Margaritas safe for American college kids and other young bar patrons. According to the regional chamber of commerce for the Tequila industry, Tequila was poured into an estimated 600 million Margaritas north of the border in 1996.
Nowadays, the publicity for superpremium Tequilas often suggests that they are rooted in an ancient, noble, even sacred past. It's true that before the Spanish Conquest, Tequila's predecessor, pulque (or octli, in the Aztec language), a fermented agave juice, was consumed during religious rituals by priests and aristocrats. But for the most part, the Aztec ruling class preferred to drink chocolate, sometimes as a fermented brew. The illustrated histories handed down from the Aztec era include many complaints about widespread consumption of pulque among commoners.
It was the Spaniards who introduced distillation into the New World, and turned agave juice into chest-thumping Tequila. According to Grassl, an inveterate collector of Tequila lore, the first mention of the distilled juice occurs in the 1600s. "Back then it was called vino de mezcal," says Martin, explaining that the distinction between Tequila and mescal is a recent one. As late as the 1800s, it was still known as vino de mezcal and peddled as a cure for all sorts of illnesses. "Even syphilis," says Grassl.
Arriving in the town of Tequila, population 20,000, we are greeted by an oversized statue of a jimador, or agave harvester. Standing astride Tequila casks, he is wielding the long-handled blade used to chop off the saw-toothed agave leaves and get at the pineapple-shaped core, or piña, which holds the juice.
The prosperity that recent sales of Tequila of all prices has brought the town is evident in the newly paved streets and freshly stuccoed façades of the two-story buildings along the main thoroughfares. Both Cuervo and Sauza have built Tequila museums, with displays of harvesting tools, production devices, and historical photos and posters. On the town's outskirts rise scores of Tequila distilleries cheek-by-jowl.
We drive through the massive portal of a fortress-like distillery that Grassl has used in the past and plans to rent in the coming months. The factory doesn't appear to have changed much since it was built in the 1880s. An enormous pile of agave piñas, each more than 100 pounds, lies on a sheltered outer terrace. Inside the distillery, more piñas have been quartered and crammed into ancient ovens, where they are steamed for 12 hours and then allowed to cool for half a day.
Their juice is filtered, and this aguamiel, or honey water, is allowed to ferment in metal vats. It is then heated in huge, century-old copper stills. The vapors are collected and condensed in copper coils. The process is repeated, producing a twice-distilled Tequila that is colorless and more than 70 percent alcohol. It is then usually diluted with water to 40 percent alcohol, or 80-proof Tequila.
After sitting for two to four weeks in large oak vats, this most common Tequila is ready for sale. If the Tequila is allowed to repose in smaller oak barrels from two to 12 months, it has the legal right to be sold as reposado. Tequila that is oak-aged for more than a year is called añejo (or muy añejo, if aged more than two years) and has an amber color.
"In this industry, there are no great secrets--just successful work formulas that might cost more or require more effort," says Grassl. "If you want the best Tequila, you buy piñas from riper agave plants--more than seven years old. You let the aguamiel ferment longer and at lower temperatures. You distill for two and a half hours, instead of just an hour, and you go through a triple distillation to remove the impurities that cause hangovers. For the reposados and añejos, you use only 100- to 200-liter barrels--instead of the 500-liter barrels--because the more exposure the Tequila has to the oak, the better it will be."
Grassl prefers to buy his agave piñas on the open market rather than commit himself to any particular growers. When he rents a distillery or bottling plant, he orders the staff out and replaces them with his own crews. At the bottling facility he has rented near the old distillery, seven young men and women dressed in shorts and T-shirts are corking and packing Porfidio bottles by hand. "I look for people with no previous job experience--to make sure they haven't had time to learn bad work habits," says Martin. His entire labor force--in the distilleries, bottling plants, administration and sales--amounts to fewer than 60 people.
On the way back to Guadalajara, we stop at one of Grassl's favorite lunch places, a restaurant in an ejido, or communal farm, that harvests agave plants and processes its own Tequila. He orders a medley of spicy pork and beef dishes, along with guacamole and tortillas. "Sometimes their Tequila is pretty good," he says, bringing a shot glass of the liquid up to his nose for sniff. Apparently, not today, though. He asks for beer instead.
Back at his office in the late afternoon, Grassl recounts anecdotes about his native country--his adolescence on the ski slopes and his son's panicked reaction to snow when he made his first trip to Austria. Grassl says he would never consider moving back.
So what's left on his wish list, after having amassed a megafortune at a youthful age in the New World under the unlikeliest circumstances? "I'd like to meet Arnie Schwarzenegger," Grassl says about another Austrian who did pretty well on this side of the Atlantic. "We probably have a lot in common."
Jonathan Kandell formerly reported on Latin America for The New York Times. Tasting Away in Mescal-Ville
As with Tequila, the concept of a superpremium mescal was pioneered by foreigners. In 1995, two California importers--Pamela Hunter, who runs a public relations agency, and Carl Doumani, then co-owner of Stags' Leap Winery--began marketing their Encantado brand across the United States at $40 a bottle.
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Editor's note: The following column appears in the July 2014 issue of Dairy Herd Management.
The romantic notion of the farmwife life I wanted started with my grandma, the neighbor ladies, and small-town idealism. The goal was simple; settle down, marry a dairy farmer, and then spend my days baking pies, raising babies, and farming alongside my husband in the rural Midwest. While some tasks remain the same, the definition of the word "farmwife" bears stark differences between my generation and the generations before us.
I am proud to call myself a farmwife. My husband Nate and I milk 175 cows in the rolling hills of Southern Wisconsin. I also hold a full-time job as a sire analyst with Genex — a career that keeps me on the road as much as I am in our farmhouse office.
Before we had our daughter, I was able to help with everything that took place on the farm once I turned the computer off. Now, with a little one in the picture, I can't get to the milking parlor as much as I used to. We are blessed to have two employees in addition to my husband and fatherin- law. Therefore, luckily, I am not relied upon for the daily tasks like milking and feeding. This provides us the luxury of not having to schlep the baby out for chores in the -30°F Wisconsin weather. Though I struggle with my withdrawal from the day-to-day operations on our farm, I truly love my job and the work that I do. I find comfort knowing that there are many other farmwives out there like me, who chose to keep a career in addition to working on the farm.
Working off-farm can be for financial reasons, there being no need for another full-time employee, or perhaps a woman's passion lies with her career. Whatever the reason, we are a busy breed! Also, the farmwife is no longer tied to the traditional roles of childcare provider, cooking and farm work. We are businesswomen, bookkeepers, chefs, gardeners, calf feeders, bill payers, heat detectors, milkers, maids, feed mixers, calf pullers, first-aid givers, computer technicians, mothers and wives.
In one day, I could breed our heifers, order semen, visit my Genex clients, get groceries, pull a calf, weed the garden, register calves, drop off and pick up the baby from daycare, and end the day with a home-cooked supper or run food out to the field for the midnight hay crew. My best friend, another farmwife, was appointed the software and computer guru for her family's cropping operation. She handles precision farming information and bookkeeping, because the men in the picture are technologically challenged. That's something Grandma and the neighbor ladies never would have fathomed!
Some things haven't changed. I enjoy gardening, canning, and swapping recipes (over email or Facebook) with my neighbor farmwives. My hands are rough and calloused, I scold the men for driving the skidsteer on my lawn, and I always make sure to pack a lunch and smear my husband down with sunscreen before he heads out for an afternoon of fencing.
It's a hectic lifestyle, but ever so gratifying. I have the utmost respect for the rest of the women out there in the trenches. We are the glue that holds everything together and ringmasters of farm life chaos.
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One of the hardest lessons I learned during my training as a doula was that I had to bite my tongue and listen even to harsh, antagonistic, inflammatory or extreme criticism. If I ignored every criticism that seemed at first to be completely off base, I could not function in the hospital environment at all because I could not adapt to the structures and realities of that environment. When I did bite my tongue, when I did listen, I found that I learned valuable lessons about my own assumptions.
It is entirely too easy to get on a moral high horse on any side of an argument. The problem with this is that we don't learn. The minute we become more preoccupied with proving the other person wrong than with listening to their position, we close down the possibility of any learning happening on either side. When I stopped and listened to the criticism leveled at me, even when it was patently unfair and off base, the people leveling the criticism noticed. They began to listen to my point of view more openly because I was willing to make that step and really hear them.
To collaborate successfully, a practitioner must have a "listening relationship" with the other collaborators. Doctors must be willing to hear the criticisms of midwives and other doctors, because without hearing those criticisms, there is no chance at all of doctors learning anything new. And midwives must be willing to hear the concerns of doctors. It is not until midwives are willing to acknowledge the fears that govern the practice of medicine that they will be able to communicate effectively about the safety of their practices.
In the Midwifery Today book Paths to Becoming a Midwife I talk about listening to criticism. One of the most important points is that even criticism that seems hostile and destructive can be simply constructive criticism phrased badly. Criticism is valuable and should be cherished, even if it is hard to listen to.
Those who practice in the medical model have much to learn from those who practice in the midwifery model, and vice versa. Doctors have much to learn about the importance of emotional and psychological issues in labor, the importance of caregiver presence and the importance of letting the body do what the body does so very well without interference. Midwives have much to learn about the balance between trusting birth and respecting that such a powerful event has the possibility of going powerfully wrong. It is vital that practitioners of either philosophy avoid the trap of "encampment." The instant you, the midwife, or you, the doctor get so caught up in protecting your role or philosophy that you forget to learn as much as you can to help women the best you can, your clients and patients have lost. Above all else, you must remember that your job is to serve women. You do not serve them by being blind to other perspectives.
- Jennifer Rosenberg, Eugene, OR
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We did prenatals and accompanied women to births [in Mexico] for a few years with the midwife. She had been attending births in the community for more than 25 years, rarely doing more than two prenatals on each woman, never checking blood pressure or urine, rarely having any complications. She wasn't uncommunicative, but her teaching style was simply to allow us to be at her side. I kept waiting for her to say, "Now you're ready. You do it." She never did. But one day she called me to say she wouldn't be attending any night births anymore, only those by day. And that very night three women went into labor, one after the other, and I reluctantly began to attend births on my own.
The years went by, births went on, and I realized the fantasy of The Teacher was silly. The Teacher was Life itself -- every woman, every birth... The most profound teachings I continue to receive are from Everyone. Part of the reward and mystery of doing consultations is discovering the incredible strength, wisdom and adaptability with which each of us lives out our lives. Most "regular" people, particularly those in the vulnerable position of "patient," aren't greeted for their inner wisdom, but given half a chance everyone has powerful life lessons to share. Self-taught implies that one somehow figured everything out alone, when in fact, the opposite is true. I did not go to midwifery school and I did not apprentice with a Grand Teacher.
Well, yes I did, but not in one single body. Life, illness, love, and death -- together they continue to be my great Teachers.
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Q: Does anyone have information about or experience with successful VBACs with an extended uterine scar (8 in. vs. 4 in.)? A woman is interested in homebirth who was attempting an unassisted homebirth with her last baby. Upon SROM she found a foot presenting. She and her husband went to the hospital and the doctor on call did a c-section but had to extend the incision to get the baby out. He assured and reassured her that she had a perfectly good chance of delivering vaginally next time, given she has a care provider.
- Anonymous
A: Having just completed reading in order to assist at cesarean sections I feel that to say a single closure on the uterus is not as strong is not entirely accurate. There are many who feel the single layer produces less strangulation of the tissues and less damage, which would actually make the scar stronger rather than weaker. The more important piece of information is where the scar is located. If the incision was extended upward toward the fundus of the uterus, it is similar to the classical and would have a higher chance of rupture. A VBAC in the wrong hands can turn disastrous. It plays both ways: doctors who ignore the scar and use induction techniques or homebirth midwives who don't recognize a stalled or arrested labor as a possible problem.
- Peg Bowning, CNM
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In response to the question about abdominal pain and mood swings [Issue 4:16]: I recommend the book Fertility, Cycles and Nutrition, by Shannon, M. (Cincinnati: Couple to Couple League International, 3rd ed., 2001). She has good advice for handling possible causes of those types of problems.
- Charity Bailey, student midwife
I really enjoyed the shoulder dystocia issue [Issue 4:16] and passed it on to friends. I wish people would put their full names and where they live when they want questions answered or make statements. It helps put things in a better context. Most of the ones with "Anonymous" are not outlandish or embarrassing -- time to identify yourselves.
- Gloria Lemay
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Thank you for writing about shoulder dystocia. My third birth was complicated by this event. My daughter was 9 lbs 6 oz, and I have been told I have a narrow pelvis. I spent most of my labor, especially transition, on all fours, though I chose to deliver on my side. I had no interventions, certainly no epidural or Pitocin. I was attended by an unusual European-trained obstetrician and an experienced midwife in a large teaching hospital in Regina, Saskatchewan. My daughter's shoulders locked after her head was delivered, and her blood supply was cut off because the cord was around her neck. Within a frantic few moments the doctor, midwife and I all worked together to get her free, with the midwife directing me when to push, when to stop, and applying pressure first in back and then in front. The obstetrician tried several maneuvers while saying some foul words in several languages. He finally succeeded with the corkscrew maneuver. Baby's Apgar was 4 at 1 minute and she required resuscitation. By 5 minutes her Apgar was 9.
In those frantic few moments there was absolutely nothing any of the high-tech equipment could have done for us and my daughter would have been born dead by time they prepped me for a c-section. Instead, by using hands, minds and clear direction so I could cooperate, my daughter was saved. Her resuscitation was accomplished only by skilled hands and a small hand-held bulb. The midwife took care of that because I started a sudden very severe and heavy hemorrhage as soon as baby was born. The obstetrician was too busy delivering the placenta and stopping the hemorrhage to deal with the baby. They shot me full of Pitocin, but that came after the bleeding was pretty much stopped. The midwife decided to postpone sending my baby to the NICU (standard practice with such a low Apgar) until after she had a chance to nurse to help my uterus contract. In the end, we were both fine. I had no episiotomy or tear and she suffered no lasting ill effects (she is now 15.) After it was all over, the doctor and midwife stayed with me much longer than usual, congratulating themselves and me.
As I read your article on shoulder dystocia all I could think of was that we need people who are well trained to attend birth. Our emergency could have been handled as easily at home as it was in that hospital. It was the experience and cooperation of skilled people using skilled hands that changed that particular delivery from a disaster that could have killed both mother and child into a normal one with just a few tense moments.
- Anonymous
In a previous edition of E-News, a comment insinuated that physicians c-section woman because they get paid more for doing it. I cannot believe that this statement appeared in print! I, like most readers of Midwifery Today, do not believe that the c-section rate in this country is justified. There are many reasons for the increase in c-sections that are well documented in the literature, such as increased use of epidurals, increased use of electronic monitoring, etc. We must also keep in mind that many physicians are forced to practice defensive medicine as a result of rising malpractice claims. To assume that we are the only profession that cares about the well being of women, just because we are midwives, is ludicrous and will be our downfall. To bring about change, we must stick to the facts and not make inflammatory statements that have no merit. Unsubstantiated claims serve only to hurt the profession of midwifery.
- Robin Centner, CNM
I am 4'11" and was told that because of my height some midwives do not believe I can deliver a baby completely by myself (i.e. no episiotomy, etc.). In my first pregnancy I delivered a full-term baby that was just slightly more than 2 kgs, and I didn't even have any tearing. But I wonder if there is a correlation between a woman's height and her ability to give birth to a child. I'd like to hear about studies so I can present them to the midwives if problems occur in the future. These studies can either show a correlation or, preferably, that there is none.
- Chana
I am a junior entering the University of Kansas bachelor of science degree program at KU Med this fall. I've dreamed of becoming a midwife all my life, so this is the exciting first step to pursuing a master's degree in midwifery. Does anyone know of any scholarships/grants/internships that are specifically geared toward aspiring midwives? I love receiving E-News and reading the phenomenal wisdom of midwives worldwide. It's very exciting to know that I will soon be in a beautiful profession with such a supportive network of colleagues. Thank you for all the inspiration your newsletter has given me.
- Stephanie Bohling
The International Cesarean Awareness Network celebrates 20 years of education, support and advocacy for women, renewing its steadfast commitment to lowering cesarean rates and promoting vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC). After the fourth consecutive rise, U.S. cesarean rates have skyrocketed to 22.9%, an alarmingly higher rate than the 15% average recommended by the World Health Organization. In response, ICAN has stepped up efforts to supply information and support to women who are challenging the current return to outdated "once a cesarean, always a cesarean" policies.
ICAN, founded in 1982 as the Cesarean Prevention Movement by Esther Booth Zorn and other concerned parents, forged a new frontier by putting decisions about childbirth back into the hands of women who had experienced surgical birth. Consumer pressure successfully brought VBAC into the mainstream. Within two years of ICAN's premiere, the American College of Obstetricians (ACOG) issued its first guidelines for VBAC. As VBAC rates rose, the number of unnecessary cesareans declined. However, recent medico-legal trends threaten to unravel decades of work by ICAN and other organizations committed to maternal and infant health.
ICAN does not oppose medically necessary cesareans, but seeks to reduce the proportionately large number of cesareans that are performed for nonmedical reasons. ICAN believes that women are entitled to receive accurate, evidence-based information from their physicians about the considerable risks of repeat surgical birth. ICAN believes that informed consent is not a privilege, but a right of all birthing women.
Approximately 40 chapters in the US and Canada will be celebrating ICAN's 20th anniversary and conducting community awareness campaigns during April, which is Cesarean Awareness Month. For information on chapter locations and events, contact ICAN at www.ican-online.org
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NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Five Westminster College students attended the 34th Iroquois Club economic seminar April 16 in Conneaut Lake. They were accompanied by their faculty adviser Dr. Daniel Fischmar, professor of economics and business.
The seminar offered students the opportunity to discuss the views of the speakers. Mark Sniderman, executive vice president and chief policy officer of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank, shared staff changes in the Federal Reserve System. Wayne Nordberg, chairman and chief investment officer and partner of Hollow Brook Associates in New York City, presented an assessment of investment opportunities in the U.S. David Shribman, executive editor for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, presented on understanding politics.
"Students enjoyed meeting the conference's financial professionals and analyzing their predictions, using the knowledge and techniques acquired in their classes," Fischmar said.
Westminster students who attended were:
Joshua Auden, a recent graduate with a bachelor of science in business administration, is a son of Albert and Kathy Auden of Lake Milton, Ohio, and a graduate of Jackson Milton High School.
Julie Bearer, a senior mathematics major, is a daughter of Vincent and Linda Bearer of Acme and a graduate of Mount Pleasant Area High School.
Harry Bittle, a recent graduate with a bachelor of science in financial economics, is a son of Robert and Marianne Bittle of Sicklerville, N.J., and a graduate of Winslow Township High School.
Travis Kelly, a recent graduate with a bachelor of science in business administration, is a son of Timothy and Sharon Kelly and a graduate of Wilmington Area High School.
Dakota Marti, a junior business administration major, is a son of James and Mary Marti and a graduate of Wilmington Area High School.
Contact Fischmar at 724-946-7162 or email for additional information.


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Braves return to their old Mississippi digs
PEARL, Miss. -- The trip to Mississippi brought back memories for a lot of Braves players, many of whom passed through Trustmark Park en route to the big leagues.
Shortstop Andrelton Simmons made the jump from Mississippi to Atlanta last year on June 2. Simmons said he vividly remembers when Mississippi manager Aaron Holbert called him into his office and told him he was going to The Show.
"It was a surprise to me," Simmons said. "I was just focused on the task at hand, trying to get better. I couldn't believe it when he told me. I did not expect it."
Outfielder Jordan Schafer was on the Mississippi Braves' 2008 Southern League championship club.
"We had a special year," said Schafer, who cracked Atlanta's starting lineup in center field the next spring and homered in his debut. "That wasn't the most talented team, but we were scrappy and found ways to win.
"The guys came together that year and we had a special bond. I have good memories of that."
"It's good to come back," said Atlanta right fielder Jason Heyward, who arrived in Mississippi on July 4, 2009, and was in the big leagues in April 2010.
"This was a big step for me and for all of us in getting to the big leagues. I put up good numbers here. I'm happy that the fans here will get to see us play again."
This event was also a homecoming of sorts for left-hander Paul Maholm, a Mississippi native who pitched at Mississippi State; Atlanta pitching coach Roger McDowell, who played for the Double-A Jackson Mets in the mid-1980s; Atlanta third-base coach Brian Snitker, who managed the first Mississippi Braves team in 2005; and first-base umpire Lance Barksdale, a Mississippi native.
Michael Christensen is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Ten UC San Diego graduate students will step up the heat on ocean science at the 19th session of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Warsaw, Poland next week.
The event seeks climate solutions at what Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the convention, called a "pivotal moment" in international efforts to curb warming.
"We still have time and the means to limit warming to the internationally agreed two degrees Celsius target," she stated in a press release. "But to meet this international commitment, we must respond to what science is telling us."
The students will argue that the atmospheric changes expected from mounting carbon dioxide levels are only part of the problem.
"Even though the ocean covers 71 percent of the Earth's surface and takes up over 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases, thus buffering us from the true impacts of climate change, it frequently gets left out of the climate policy discussions," Natalya Gallo, a graduate student with Scripps Institution of Oceanography wrote in an e-mail to the U-T. "The ocean, and all of the amazing critters that live in it, don't have any representatives or delegates, and thus don't have a voice in the policy arena."
Gallo will discuss "ocean deoxygenation," or the loss of oxygen from the oceans as a result of climate change.
"Fish and crustaceans are particularly sensitive to low oxygen and low oxygen events cause mass mortality events," she wrote.
Her colleague, Lauren Linsmayer, will speak about the effects of ocean acidification, the gradual decrease in seawater pH from absorption of carbon dioxide in seawater. It also reduces carbonates needed for shellfish and other marine life to build shells and skeletons. That endangers economic powerhouses such as salmon fisheries and reefs.
"Corals, which provide an estimated $29.8 Billion of global revenue annually through the ecosystem services of coral reefs, such as food, jobs, tourism, pharmaceuticals, and biodiversity, are at greatest risk from ocean acidification," she wrote.


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OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. - Osceola County deputies arrested a man they said severely beat an elderly man after trying to steal from him.
Deputies said around 10:30 a.m. Friday, they responded to a home on Duxbury Drive in Kissimmee.
Upon arrival, deputies observed Justin Robertson running from the residence.
Deputies said they also saw a severely beaten 78-year old male lying on the porch with facial injuries, bleeding from his head.
Deputies said the elderly man was airlifted to ORMC with critical injuries.
Deputies spoke with witnesses who indicated Robertson became involved a verbal fight with the victim, who is a family member, officials said.
Deputies said Robertson severely beat the victim before running out of the residence to a neighbor's house.
Detectives interviewed the victim at the hospital and he indicated that the night before, he caught Robertson stealing his prescription drugs, officials said.
Deputies said early the next day, he observed Robertson taking beer and a television out of the residence, and when he confronted him, Robertson broke off a table leg and began beating him.
Deputies said during the fight Robertson took the victim's gold necklace and watch.
An 88-year old family member attempted to stop Robertson and he pushed her, injuring her wrist. She was treated for minor injuries, deputies said.
Robertson was arrested and taken to the Osceola County Jail.
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SAN JOSE — The opening of the Earthquakes' new soccer stadium has been delayed until the second half of the 2014 season because of excavation issues at the construction site, the team announced Monday.
Builders encountered concrete vaults deeper than expected and will need more time to prepare the site before the privately financed, 18,000-seat stadium can be erected, team president Dave Kaval said. The $60-million stadium will be located across the street from Mineta San Jose International Airport.
As a result, the Earthquakes will play eight home games at Buck Shaw Stadium, one at Stanford and nine in the new building. The opening date is unknown because Major League Soccer has not figured out how it will schedule games next year around the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Team officials had planned to open the stadium at the start of the season, but "there was just no way to do that," Kaval said. "It became obvious to us over the last couple of weeks that the original time won't work."
Construction crews uncovered numerous vaults, used munitions from the FMC factory that was once located there, steel beams and concrete pilings. The crews also had to drain the excavated vaults because of a high water table at the site.
"We have encountered incredibly difficult unforeseen conditions," Devcon Construction executive Peter Copriviza said in a statement. "With foundations over 10 feet deep, drilled piers, unexpected underground chambers, we have been presented with a series of challenges during both the demolition and grading process."
The Earthquakes decided to play their first eight home games at Buck Shaw to avoid a scenario in which they opened the season on the road while waiting for the stadium to be ready.
"We wanted to preserve the competitive nature of the season as a way to win the championship and not to just give it away to get more revenue dates in the new venue," Kaval said.
The Quakes' executive said the team will need to figure out some of the seating arrangements for season-ticket holders at Santa Clara University.
According to an email sent to fans, the team also will make a price adjustment because of the change and delay the payment deadline for season tickets by four months.
Contact Elliott Almond at 408-920-5865 and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/elliottalmond.


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Everywhere you look in the Pirates' spread option offense, there is a player capable of torching you for a big play every time they touch the ball. From senior quarterback Jake Raspopovich, who has set the school's all-time passing mark this season in throwing for over 2,400 yards, to senior running back Dylon Collins and wide receivers Aaron Dye and Cleveland Lomax.
There is no doubt that the Panthers (13-0) will have their hands full in the Class 5A North Semistate game at 8 p.m. Friday at Wayne Stadium.
"Merrillville is similar to teams we have played in that they like to spread the field and get their athletes the ball in space," Snider coach Kurt Tippmann said. "But I believe they are the deepest offensive unit we have faced all year."
While the Snider defense must be ready from the opening kickoff on Friday for a team that can points in bunches, it has gotten practice in facing such offenses recently. The Panthers held the dangerous North Side duo of C.J. Jackson and Anthony Linnear 20 points below their season scoring average in the sectional championship game, then slowed Fishers quarterback Connor Christiansen and running back Maurice Campbell late in last week's 36-35 overtime thriller.
"Our schedule, starting in the regular season, has prepared us to play very good offenses," Tippmann said. "You look at Bishop Luers, you won't play a team with better athletes with the ball in their hands than Luers."
Snider appeared to struggle at times up front with Fishers a week ago. Some of that could be attributed to the absence of First Team All-SAC lineman Weston Painter, who was out with a leg injury.
Painter has not practiced this week, yet will be a game-time decision on Friday night.
"It is not likely that (Weston) plays, but you never know with him," Tippmann said. "He constantly has ice on it and is getting treatment, but it will be a game-time issue if he plays or not."
Tippmann hopes his team does not come out with the same sluggish play that it displayed through three-plus quarters in the victory over Fishers. As players and coaches celebrated the overtime win on the field last week, many were quick to point out how the team underperformed.
"Our film room on Saturday was like a morgue, because we knew we didn't have our best game as players and coaches," Tippmann said. "In long playoff runs, there always seems to be a game where you are not at your best and you just have to survive that weekend. I think that was our game (last week). We can't replicate it or it will be the last game we play."
As has been the case throughout the playoff run, the Panthers will be playing within the borders of Allen County this week. Tippmann does admit that it is an advantage in keeping his team's after-school routine the same on Fridays, but perhaps more telling is Snider's road history as a program in semistate games.
"To my knowledge, at least in the time I have been here on the coaching staff, we have not won a semistate game on the road," Tippmann said. "All the years we have gotten to state, we have won semistate at home."
While history is on Snider's side in playing in Fort Wayne on Friday, the game will more likely come down to how well the Panthers defend the Merrillville offensive attack.
"We aren't going to shut them out, but we need to be able to tackle their guys," Tippmann said. "We cannot panic when they get a couple first downs, we just need to line up and play the next down.
"Good things will happen if we stay composed and play good, fundamental football."


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The Treasury will cover the cost of council tax rebates for flooding victims in England, David Cameron announced as he warned that recovering from the crisis would be a "very long haul".
Some local authorities have announced plans to exempt residents forced out of their homes from part or all of the bill.
The Prime Minister said councils which make the move will not lose out.
He tweeted: "I can confirm we will fund councils that give council tax rebates to people whose homes have been flooded."
A £4 million fund will be made available to councils to cover the bill for giving residents a rebate while they are out of their homes but it will be up to local authorities to decide how the scheme would work.
Councils will not be forced to introduce the payment exemptions, but a No 10 source said the "funding is there so there is no reason why it should not be taken".
They added: "We are sure councils will be very eager to do all they can."
The funding pot is open to English councils and comes alongside business rate relief for flood-hit communities.
Mr Cameron, who has expressed concern that councils had initially been reluctant to call in the Army, said: "I think you sometimes get a nervousness about who will pay for this, and a nervousness about admitting that you can't deal with this without military assistance.
"But, when you have something as big as this, what you need is a vast national effort, co-ordinated as it has been from the centre through the Cobra emergency committee and drawing on every single thing that you've got: whether that's money, whether that's military, whether that's pumping, whether it's enhancing the emergency services, everything that can be done needs to be done."
In a further indication of the ongoing disruption caused by the severe weather, Network Rail said the storm-damaged main line at Dawlish is not likely to be completely repaired until mid-April.
Originally, Network Rail said the stretch of line - an important link between London and the far South West of England - would not be repaired before March 18.
Some 84 flood warnings remained in place across England and Wales alongside the two severe flood warnings - meaning there is a danger to life - on the Somerset Levels.
A Local Government Association spokesman said: "Many people contending with flood damage to their homes have already been offered council tax rebates by their local authorities.
"Council budgets are stretched and demand for support is high, so it is good news that Government will be supporting local authorities' efforts to provide financial support to flood-hit homes.
"Local authorities are keen to work with Government to ensure the application process is straightforward and that the benefit quickly gets to where it is most needed."


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De La Rosa a candidate to start Wednesday
BOSTON -- There has been no official announcement by the Red Sox about who will pitch on Wednesday against the White Sox. But the club dropped a strong hint that it will be righty Rubby De La Rosa.
In his start for Triple-A Pawtucket, De La Rosa was pulled after just one inning.
"We took him out so he would be a candidate for sure," said manager John Farrell. "He and [Anthony] Ranaudo have been throwing the ball well there. But Rubby was shortened for the specific purpose of being a candidate for Wednesday."
When Clay Buchholz was on the disabled list, De La Rosa did a standout job in the rotation, going 2-2 with a 2.51 ERA in five starts.
It would not be surprising to see De La Rosa become a regular member of Boston's rotation at some point in the near future.
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Sometimes we wonder if that cow rattling the chute is worth keeping. Recent research suggests maybe not. Studies conducted several years ago with Brahman-crosses found that cows with excitable temperaments had lower pregnancy rates than their calmer herdmates. Wanting to know if this occurred in other types of cattle, researchers at Oregon State University conducted a study to look at the effect of cattle temperament and acclimation to handling on reproductive performance in Angus × Hereford cross cows. Their results were reported in the October issue of the Journal of Animal Science.
Over four hundred spring-calving range cows at two locations in eastern Oregon were tested for temperament using both a chute score and measurement of exit velocity from a squeeze chute. The chute score is a 5-point scale (1= calm, no movement, 2 = restless movement, 3 = frequent movement with vocalization, 4 = constant movement, vocalization, shaking of the chute, 5 = violent and continuous struggling). Exit velocity was measured with an infrared sensor and converted to a score of 1 (slowest) through 5 (fastest). The chute and exit scores were averaged to give a temperament score, either adequate (less than 3) or aggressive (more than 3).
About 25% of the cows were scored as aggressive and these cows had lower pregnancy rates (89%) than the adequate temperament cows (95%). At one location, cows were bred by AI and then exposed to natural service clean up bulls. The second location used natural service mating only. The fact that bulls were used indicates that the lowered pregnancy rates in the aggressive cows were not due only to stress during handling at AI. Cow body condition and calf birth and weaning weights were not different between the groups and there were also no difference between groups in pregnancy loss or loss of calves from birth to weaning. Decreased weight of calves weaned per cow exposed in the aggressive groups was related to the effect on pregnancy rate alone. Based on this and other studies, the researchers suggest culling on temperament or adapting cattle to handling could help in maximizing reproductive performance in beef cows.
These researchers reported on a second study on the effect of acclimating heifers to handling on reproductive performance. After weaning, they divided 6-month-old heifers into two groups of about 44 heifers each. One group was processed through a handling facility three times a week for four weeks. Heifers receiving more frequent handling reached puberty at an earlier age than their herdmates, but pregnancy rates after AI were not different. The more frequently-handled heifers had lower exit scores, but not chute scores compared to those handled less frequently. The researchers therefore suggest that exposing heifers to handling and human interaction may improve reproduction. They do caution that this training needs to occur when animals are fairly young. In a previous study, when they attempted to acclimate mature cows to handling, they were not successful at improving pregnancy rates. Questions remaining to be addressed are the minimum amount of handling needed and the best age for training.
In summary: Pregnancy rates were improved in groups of cows with less aggressive temperaments. Heifers acclimated to handling at about 6-months-of-age reached puberty at an earlier age and had slower chute exit scores than heifers handled less frequently. Acclimating young animals to handling and culling on temperament can have beneficial effects on reproduction in beef cattle.
Source: Cooke, R.F., D. W. Bohnert, B.I. Cappellozza, C.J. Mueller, and T. DelCurto. 2012. Effects of temperament and acclimation to handling on reproductive performance of Bos taurus beef females. Journal of Animal Science 90:3547-3555. Abstract available online.


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Statement from Mets CEO Fred Wilpin on Joe Torre
"We are thrilled that Joe Torre has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Joe has distinguished himself throughout his career both on and off the field. His records and accomplishments as a player and manager speak for themselves. All of us at the Mets salute and congratulate Joe."


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Updated with Federal Reserve release of broad guidelines.NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Obama's re-election might have spoiled the party for bank stocks, but a catalyst is just around the corner. The Federal Reserve on Friday released instructions for the upcoming 2013 CCAR (Comprehensive Capital Annual Review)- the stress test that is annually run on big banks to ensure that they are well-capitalized for an adverse economic scenario. Passing the test with flying colors reassures investors about the bank's safety, crucial in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Depending upon how a bank fares in the test under hypothetical adverse scenarios, the Fed also decides whether it can go ahead with its dividend and buyback plans. Almost all banks passed the stress test in 2012, but a few, notably Citigroup ( C) did not receive the regulator's go-ahead for its buyback plan. In 2011, Bank of America's ( BAC) request for capital returns was rejected. In 2012, the bank decided against making a similar request for approval. Bank CEOs have learnt that they can't be too cocky about their capital deployment plans, as the Fed' models differ from their own. However, the Fed this time around has made one concession. While the regulator will still not share its model, it will permit CCAR banks to make "a downward adjustment" to their initial capital distribution plans before the Fed makes a final decision. The Fed will release the economic scenarios under which the banks will be tested on Nov. 15. Banks have until Jan.7 to submit the plan. Analysts at Goldman Sachs said in a report earlier Friday that banks are likely to do well in the 2013 review, entering the year "from a position of strength" given higher capital levels and reduced risk in loan books. "Tier 1 common has grown from 10% to over 11% for CCAR banks, which implies that, all else equal, cumulative loss rates can increase 250bp or 30% given the higher starting point. Additionally, loss rates should benefit from a loan mix shift away from home equity/card and into C&I," analyst Richard Ramsden said in a note. According to their analysis, banks can pay between 50% and 75% of their earnings and still maintain a Tier I Capital ratio above the stipulated minimum of 5%. However, risks remain including the possibility that the Fed will ask banks to incorporate Basel 2.5- a more conservative framework of measuring capital, which the analysts estimate could lower stressed capital by 100 to 300 basis points. That means a lesser cushion for banks to return capital.
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Janssen closes in on rehab assignment
KANSAS CITY -- Right-hander Casey Janssen, recovering from a strained oblique, threw his second bullpen session on Wednesday with no ill effects. Janssen said he is pain-free and will throw one more bullpen Friday before heading out on a rehab assignment.
Janssen said he threw more than 30 pitches in the Kauffman Stadium bullpen and concentrated on getting his arm to work fast again.
"I didn't get much of a Spring Training," Janssen said. "I want to get used to throwing all my pitches off a slope. I just have to keep going. One more on Friday and then I'll try to get out of here and have some self-worth."
Janssen believes it's important to cover every step in the recovery process because he wants to be in full duty mode when he is activated.
"When I get here, I don't want special treatment," Janssen said. "I want to be just another guy that Gibby [manager John Gibbons] can call on any night."
Janssen, who had 34 saves last season, has seen the Toronto bullpen go through some rough stretches during the opening month of the season. Nevertheless, Janssen is convinced that the bullpen will shake off a rough April and emerge as a team strength as the season wears on.
"The zeros can be contagious," Janssen said. "I don't want the first month to alter anybody's vision of what our bullpen is and can be. We've got some good arms down there. It's called earned run average for a reason. It's not 'earned run, first month.' These guys will get in a rhythm and this will just be a little blip on the radar screen."
Robert Falkoff is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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401(k) In-Plan Roth Conversions
You may have heard the buzz … 401(k) plans can now permit in-plan Roth conversions. But is this an option for you?
What is it?
A 401(k) in-plan Roth conversion (also called an "in-plan Roth rollover") allows you to transfer the non-Roth portion of your 401(k) account into a designated Roth account within the same plan. The amount you convert is subject to federal income tax in the year of the conversion (except for any nontaxable basis you have in the amount transferred), but qualified distributions from the Roth account in the future are entirely income tax free. The 10% early distribution penalty doesn't apply to amounts you convert (but that tax may be reclaimed by the IRS if you take a nonqualified distribution from your Roth account within five years of the conversion).
What part of my account can I convert?
Here's where it gets a bit tricky. Assuming your 401(k) allows in-plan conversions (plans aren't required to), you have to be entitled to a distribution from the plan in order to make a conversion. For example, you're generally entitled to a distribution from your 401(k) plan after you terminate employment. If your account balance is greater than $5,000, you also have the right to keep your money in the plan until you reach normal retirement age (typically 65). So in this case, your plan may allow you to transfer all or part of your account into a Roth account (except for any required distributions and certain periodic payments).
But what if you're still employed? If you want to transfer your pretax contributions and earnings into a Roth account, you'll generally only be able to do so if you're age 59½ or disabled, or you've received a qualified reservist distribution, because those are the only events that can trigger an eligible distribution (hardship withdrawals aren't eligible for rollover or conversion). In some cases, your vested employer contributions (and earnings) may also be available for distribution while you're still employed--for example, after the contribution has been in the plan for two years, or after you have 60 months of participation (the terms of your plan, and federal law, control). If your plan allows these distributions, it can also allow them to be converted.
Keep in mind that if you're entitled to an eligible rollover distribution, you can always roll those dollars into a Roth IRA instead of using an in-plan conversion.
Some employers aren't comfortable letting employees withdraw their retirement funds while they're still employed. The IRS has addressed this concern by letting 401(k) plans provide for the in-service distributions described above only if the employee intends to convert those funds. For example, a plan that currently doesn't let employees withdraw pretax dollars at age 59½ can be amended to allow those withdrawals, but only if an employee intends to roll those dollars into a Roth account--the employee would not be allowed to actually take a distribution of the funds, or roll the dollars over into an IRA.
What else do I need to know?
If you have the choice of an in-plan conversion or a rollover to a Roth IRA, which should you choose? There are a number of factors to consider:
- You can recharacterize (undo) a Roth IRA conversion if the conversion turns sour (for example, the value of the converted assets declines significantly), but you can't recharacterize in-plan conversions.
- In general, the investments available in an employer 401(k) plan are fairly limited, while virtually any type of investment is available in an IRA (on the other hand, your 401(k) plan may offer investments that you can't replicate in an IRA, or that aren't available at similar cost).
- Finally, 401(k) plans typically enjoy more protection from creditors under federal law than do IRAs (consult a professional if creditor protection is important to you).


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text: Holiday Safety Tips December 11, 2013 Crime Prevention Tips for holiday break 2013 Over the holiday breaks, burglaries have a tendency to occur more frequently at houses and apartments off campus. Therefore Xavier Police would like to remind all off campus residence that crime never takes a holiday and please consider the following safety tips. Take home or secure all valuables over the break. This includes electronic equipment, video games, computers, jewelry and anything of value. Campus Police ask that all students lock their doors and windows before they leave for break and ask a friend or neighbor to keep an eye your house or apartment. Leaving lights and or radios on timers will help make the house or apartments look occupied. Keep blinds closed on first floor windows. Put mail on hold or arrange with someone to pick up mail. You should also leave a home number with your landlord so he or she can contact you for emergencies and ask them to conduct regular inspection during the break.