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Dennis Myllyla thought he'd struck a fine bargain with the Michigan Department of Transportation. MDOT would get fill for a nearby highway construction by dredging a pond on his farm near Arnheim, Mich., and Myllyla would get the pond.
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Schmierer and Hyslop have recovered some of the logs and are hoping to carbon-date them. Schmierer also hopes to identify the species of tree.
"If I had to guess, I'd say it was an elm," said Miller, "but I really don't know. I'll be real curious to find out how old they are and what species."
Schmierer plans to make two displays from chunks of the ancient trees, one to put on exhibit at Alberta Village, the Michigan Tech forestry field site, and the other for the atrium of the U.J. Noblet Forestry Building on campus.
"And Michigan Tech is going to give me one as a momento," said Myllyla.
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Smith had a goal in the second period, three in the third period and two in the fourth period.
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Immunohistochemistry of a lung lesion showing Mycoplasma reactivity in the center of the abscess, field case.
Photo credit: Ricardo Rosenbusch, DVM, PhD
Editor's note: Last in a Mycoplasma bovis roundtable series.
Eye-balling a sick feedlot animal with pneumonia and saying for sure that it has a Mycoplasma bovis disease is a tenuous diagnosis at best. It may very well have an M. bovis infection, but most likely it also has bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) or other pathogens that are at work.
Diagnosing M. bovis
Diagnosing an M. bovis infection isn't easy. "To me, the biggest challenge to the producer and the veterinarian is detecting early symptoms of Mycoplasma bovis," says Ricardo Rosenbusch, DVM, PhD, Iowa State University. "With other diseases, you get early symptoms, and then you can have relatively early intervention. With Mycoplasma bovis, you get a call because someone has crippled calves. Those calves have had a pneumonia for 15 days and an arthritis for three or four days. They've probably been treated, and you're coming in for the second treatment. The chances of success are going to be relatively low because of late intervention."
Rosenbusch has been searching for early signs that might indicate an M. bovis problem. "Is there a cluster of early signs you can look for? Veterinarians who deal with veal operations look for conjunctivitis as a reliable early sign. They look at calves coming in at 7 or 8 days of age. If they break with conjunctivitis, they start worrying about Mycoplasma bovis. They put them in an early almost-metaphylactic treatment."
On the other hand, Rosenbusch notes, the feedlot and stocker operators seem to rely on a moist cough as a symptom. "They don't see enough conjunctivitis as a symptom because they have problems with flies and most calves already have conjunctivitis. They've learned to associate a moist cough presentation at a week after arrival with Mycoplasma bovis. I wish we had better science."
Rosenbusch notes that in a study where calves were infected with a known strain of Mycoplasma bovis and transported to a feedlot, there was a major outbreak in the feedlot. Every dead animal was necropsied. "We had a significant mortality of 7 percent. We observed every animal, and we knew exactly on which day the infection was started. Every strain of Mycoplasma bovis that came out of that outbreak had the same fingerprint as the one we put in."
However, the cowboys could not find the Mycoplasma bovis animals. "They were correctly pulling out the Mannheimia hemolytica cattle and they were being treated, but the M. bovis animals were not pulled," Rosenbusch says. "Febrile responses reached 103° but were never high enough to cause a severe enough depression for the cowboy to pull the animal."
Within this consolidated lung, there are many raised, white-yellow, sharply demarcated foci of caseous necrosis. Cheesy exudate may be expressed from a cross-section of lung. These foci of necrosis are often 2-10mm in diameter but occasionally coalesce to form large areas of necrosis.
Photo credit: Dan Grooms, DVM, PhD
What do Mycoplasma bovis lesions look like? Rosenbusch explains that there are two types of Mycoplasma bovis strains. Fifty percent of the strains coming from the field will produce abscesses and 50 percent will not. With abscessing strains, the presentation in the lung will be a coagulative necrosis lesion that can be up to 5mm in diameter, never much larger than that. Histologically, the center has formed around a bronchus that has accumulated a lot of neutrophils. The epithelium is still normal. That whole area of accumulation of neutrophils expands and is surrounded by a band of mononuclear cells, monocytes and lymphocytes. There's very little evidence of a fibrotic capsule; often there's no capsule whatsoever. "It's not truly an abscess like you would see with a Pasteurella multocida abscess."
The lesions don't grow beyond that even if the animals have been clinically affected for 40 to 50 days. Lesions tend to be cranial in distribution but can be in the diaphragmatic lobes also. Wherever there are small localized lesions, the surface of the lung will be elevated. "It has goose bumps all over it, which is something you do not see in M. hemolytica," notes Rosenbusch. As you cut, you see relatively dry, white caseous lesions. "You almost always see that the septums of the lung are enlarged, and the histopathology to that is thrombosis of the lymphoid system of the lung. The septums are tremendously enlarged on histological examination. When you look at the lung, you can see the divisions between the lobes much more than in a normal lung or an M. hemolytica or a P. multocida lung."
The lung from a Mycoplasma mycoides infection shows a yellow, stringy, well-demarcated limit to the lung lobules and a deep meat-red color of the tissue in between. "That's very similar to what Mycoplasma bovis looks like," says Rosenbusch.
These classic lesions are what Dan Grooms, DVM, PhD, Michigan State University, sees as well. "Maybe we misdiagnosed this, but at times, I'll see that classic small abscess throughout the cranial-ventral distribution, and in the midst of that, we'll see what looks like some have been coalescing together to form a bigger area of necrosis. More commonly, we see the miliary lesions throughout the lung."
"When we first started looking at these lesions, we thought about tuberculosis," says Rosenbusch. "Miliary is an OK term, but in abscesses, it's not a caseous type of lesion. What's missing is the fibrotic component. You don't see bundles of fibroblasts and a lot of collagen."
Mycoplasma bovis lesions are clearly different compared to M. dispar, says Rosenbusch. "I don't think you would even need immunohistochemistry. Pathologists who have seen M. dispar or even M. hyopneumoniae in a pig lung, and then who have looked at an M. bovis lung, clearly know it's a totally different species. Also, many pathologists who started using immunohistochemistry have dropped it to lower the cost to the consumer. They're now doing diagnosis on histopathology only because their eyes are already trained. They can do a very good job and can be over 90 percent accurate with histopathology alone."
Severe synovitis and arthritis of the stifle joint extending distally into the tendon sheath of the peroneus tertius.
Photo credit: Dan Grooms, DVM, PhD
Bob Glock, DVM, PhD, Arizona Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, adds that a pet peeve as a diagnostician is when people who are looking at almost any lung abscess automatically call it Mycoplasma. "To me, these are not typical abscesses because they tend not to develop a capsule of fibrosis. They are really areas of coagulative necrosis. I see a lot of abscessed lungs that I can explain with Arcanobacterium pyogenes. I think we've gone overboard in looking at an abscess and declaring it a Mycoplasma."
Tom Noffsinger, DVM, Twin Forks Clinic, Benkelman, Neb., believes more slaughter audits need to be done to help get a handle on Mycoplasma lesions. "What my treatment crews are telling me is that if we have 1,000 head of calves come through the hospital, the incidence of Mycoplasma lesions at slaughter in the calves that responded to a very short, intense treatment is low. The incidence of Mycoplasma lesions in the lungs of re-treat pens is much higher. We're finding that those lesions were present on arrival or shortly after."
Rosenbusch agrees. "The swine industry has learned that unless you do pre-slaughter checks, you will not get a true picture of Mycoplasma and pneumonia. I think what's going to happen in the cattle industry is that we're going to have to bite the bullet and necropsy a fraction of our animals at 15 to 30 days after arrival until we learn what we're doing. It's a big expense," he concedes, but "we will be blind until that happens."
Samples for diagnosis
As far as clinical diagnostics, Noffsinger has found Mycoplasma mainly by the use of PCR on lung tissues, in conjunction with aerobic and anaerobic bacterial cultures and looking for viruses, such as BVDV, in tissues. He usually submits lymph nodes and lungs when diagnosing respiratory disease.
Because of middle-ear infections in younger and veal calves, Alvin Baumwart, DVM, Highland Veterinary Clinic, Arapaho, Okla., typically sends the soupy ear or joint fluid to the lab for a diagnosis and believes the gold standard for diagnosis is culture. "I want it demonstrated in the lab before I will say it's M. bovis," he says.
Alvin Baumwart, DVM, believes the gold standard for Mycoplasma bovis diagnosis is culturing the organism.
Grooms adds that pathologist Ted Clark, DVM, Dipl. ACVP, from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, recommends sending in synovial tissue, as well as joint fluid. "He thinks we get better isolation results," says Grooms. "So we turn in not only fluid but also a piece of the synovium to help increase our yield."
Rosenbusch prefers using the immunohistochemistry test because it gives a pathology link to a high-level presence of Mycoplasma in the lesions. "We won't get an immunohistochemistry-positive signal unless we have 107 or 108 Mycoplasma accumulating in one location. That's a lot of Mycoplasma in one spot."
He says most PCRs can detect 103 or 104 organisms from a sample. "What goes into a PCR reaction is less than a tenth of a milliliter, so even if you send 10mL of ear exudate or a big chunk of lung, they're going to sample a very small amount. So Mycoplasma has got to be there at the site of sampling or you miss out. Even with immunohistochemistry, you can section only a piece big enough to put on a 2-in. by 1-in. slide. If we sample the wrong part of the lung, we're not going to get the immunohistochemistry signal. I think there are gross lesions that are classical enough that they can guide a pathologist or a veterinarian in the field."
Richard Sommers, DVM, believes in necropsying as many dead animals as possible.
Richard Sommers, DVM, Silver Lake Veterinary Clinic, Inc., Silver Lake, Ind., notes that some clients don't want to spend money on diagnostics anymore. "They just assume Mycoplasma is going to be there, and they feel they'd be better off spending the money on vaccine."
Rosenbusch says that may be true to some extent. "There can be a resistance to going to the diagnostic lab as prices go up. Immunohistochemistry now is in the range of $50. A PCR is probably in the range of $30 for an individual animal. You talk about ideal diagnostic situations, but the real world clashes with the economics of diagnostics more and more."
Baumwart agrees that economic realities play a role in necropsies. "The cost of animals is up, and the cost of necropsies is up. Also, the dead-animal fees have escalated. If we necropsy an animal, the renderer may or may not pick it up. We've reached a new era in how we handle our deads. I don't know how BSE is going to affect the dead-animal service. That does have an indirect effect on necropsies. People are not bringing us their dead animals as they used to. They want answers, but they want telephone answers."
"This is a touchy subject," adds Rosenbusch. "Mycoplasma bovis has mortality. We're going to be dealing with necropsy and with carcass disposal."
But for Noffsinger, necropsies and diagnostics are important, at least on the feedlot level. "In the operations where we see the best progress, every animal that dies is posted. The triangle between teaching diagnostics and observation and pathology is very important for management, for veterinary staff and for lay people."
Sommers also believes in necropsying as many dead animals as he can. "The point I emphasize to my clients is that a dead animal is an opportunity for us to learn and to not make the same mistake again. It's not a hard sell in my practice. We have only one renderer left in our area and may have to go to composting. I'm as concerned as everyone about the BSE/composting issue. But there is a wealth of information within that dead animal."
Prevention – stockers and feeders
Sommers believes in having a plan for immunizing stocker cattle. He has an injection-site map for every vaccine so he knows what is put where and when. He never puts viral and bacterial vaccines on the same site with the exception of a core antigen vaccine that will co-exist with a viral vaccine. "Whatever side we choose for the Mycoplasma the first time, we put it on the opposite side two weeks later. We've been doing this for 18 months on one particular stocker operation with much success." He says the stockers get TSV-2 and Mycoplasma 12 to 24 hours after arrival, plus a dose of 5-way MLV vaccine, a core antigen vaccine and a dose of modified-live Pasteurella vaccine. "It doesn't make any difference if they're four-weights or seven-weights; they all get the same thing."
Sommers adds that there is also a Hemophilus problem on this operation. "We always give the Hemophilus vaccination by itself and the modified-live Pasteurella separate. This client changes needles on every 16 to 18 animals. A dirty needle never enters the vaccine bottle."
For stockers purchased through sale-barn operations, Baumwart recommends Mycoplasma bovis and a double dose of modified-live respiratory vaccine. "When I saw the poly-arthritis problem solved because of the Mycoplasma vaccine, I felt more strongly about recommending the vaccine to stocker operators." For northern ranch cattle, however, he's not recommending Mycoplasma vaccination.
Sommers believes stress at vaccination has a lot to do with vaccine performance. "Any animal or human's immune system can be overcome by too much stress. When I get an animal that's not stressed, that animal responds to the vaccine. Then it's up to choosing which vaccine to use. I don't think you can use multiple mixtures of vaccines. Combining viral vaccines in the same syringe with bacterial vaccines is wrong, because I don't think that animal's immune system is capable of mounting a proper immune response to these types of vaccinations. So you choose the vaccines that you think are the most important and give them separately."
He adds that if an animal has had a modified-live vaccine while still on the cow or two weeks prior to shipment, then it will probably respond better to a Mycoplasma bovis vaccine. "You may give it another modified-live vaccine on arrival with little stress because it's already got an immune response. It can concentrate on Pasteurella and Mycoplasma, for instance."
Sommers thinks that getting stocker operators to vaccinate for M. bovis will be a hard sell. "It's difficult to get them to vaccinate even for the viruses. If I had to rank them in order, I'd vaccinate them for the viruses, and second, I'd vaccinate with a good Pasteurella vaccine. If we can't get these guys to vaccinate the cow or their calves, how are we going to get them to give Mycoplasma?"
Rosenbusch adds that in the 2002 Kansas Mycoplasma stocker survey, about 14 percent of respondents were using some type of killed Mycoplasma bovis bacterin in stockers (www.beefstockerusa.org). "That's a significant amount of use for that industry in Kansas."
Is Mycoplasma bovis vaccination at the feedlot too late for any response? "Our biggest dilemma is that when they get off the truck at the feedyard, it's too late to start the process of immunization, and it's a huge challenge for us to overcome," states Noffsinger. "The use of Mycoplasma vaccine on arrival in high-risk cattle at the feedyard in my locale has not changed morbidity or mortality or arthritis symptoms. I don't know if our management is so poor that it overrides the vaccine."
Noffsinger is interested in whether the use of these products can help. "If we have a load of calves coming in from multiple origins and 30 percent already have changes in their lungs, will a couple of doses of these products help the other 70 percent?"
"We're looking at more than just immunity to Mycoplasma," adds Baumwart. "We're also looking at viruses and Pasteurellas."
Sommers indicates that his clients' feedlot animals that have been vaccinated for Mycoplasma bovis also have very few middle-ear infections, and he's seen a decrease in arthritis. These animals are vaccinated upon arrival and then two weeks later in the opposite side of the neck. "I think there's an opportunity, by using the vaccine, to not have to concern ourselves with treatment. I don't think treatment is going to be highly successful anyway. Everybody wants a cure-all, and it's not out there. The best treatment is prevention."
Grooms adds that a Michigan feedlot veterinarian has tried multiple times to use Mycoplasma vaccines at the feedlot level but has not had much luck in reducing morbidity or mortality. "I've had two opportunities where I've used Mycoplasma vaccines and we have had luck, but in both instances, we also made major management changes," says Grooms. "The change in management may have made as big a difference as the vaccine, but I can't convince them not to use the vaccine because things are better. To me, the jury is out on these vaccines. I do believe we can probably make as much of a difference through management changes."
Prevention – cow-calf
Veterinarians have differing opinions on vaccinating calves on cows. Baumwart recommends a double dose of killed viral vaccine on calf operations when the calves are going back on the cows. "People who are willing to follow any vaccination program are going to buy higher-priced and better-quality cattle. The people who need more vaccine and better management are going to continue to cut corners."
Baumwart has seen pneumonia in his home-grown stockers, but no polyarthritis that he has diagnosed as Mycoplasma. "I still recommend modified-live vaccine if the calves are not going back to the cows," he says.
Sommers has been able to trace back and found that calves receiving two modified-live vaccinations while still on the cow were much superior to animals that received killed vaccines. "In the mama-cow herd, if vaccinated well enough that you can give modified-live to the calves, those calves are the cream of the crop," he says. "That type of cowman is also most likely to give the Mycoplasma vaccine because he is a top-flight operator."
"It's important for us to get a nice modified-live vaccine in that calf as soon as we can, whether it be branding or pre-weaning," adds Noffsinger. "The industry is learning. I don't know where we got this 205-day weaning date. That's obviously the time that well-bred animals are changing gears from passive immunity."
Noffsinger's vaccination program is based on modified-live viral products given multiple times. "I think getting vaccines into the calf is the only chance we have to change the production system. We don't know about the efficacy of the vaccines, but if there's a place for the use of them, the calf level is the place."
Grooms agrees. "If a Mycoplasma vaccine has a place, that's probably where it needs to be used. But, is the Mycoplasma vaccination necessary if we vaccinate them for the other things – the viruses that may be the predisposing problem – and then we manage them correctly? That's where we need research. If calves are preconditioned correctly before they go into the backgrounding operation, we're covering them during that critical high-risk period."
It's not just about vaccination, adds Baumwart. "I don't think we would disagree that if the building blocks of nutrition and immunology are not there, we're fooling ourselves. We need to get those animals up to speed as far as immunology, or diseases like Mycoplasma bovis and others will come in and haunt us."
Once again, prevention comes around to economics. "The only way you're going to make part of this work is for somebody at the feedlot end to pay a good premium to have calves vaccinated," says Sommers. "They have to pay premium enough to give the cow-calf guy the incentive to get it done right."
Baumwart believes the industry is on the right road. "Diagnostics are increasing. The knowledge base is increasing, not only to veterinarians but to lay people, our technicians and to our cattle owners. I think we're challenged, and I don't think it's going to stop here. We need to know more about the problem and potential solutions."
This information is from a Bovine Veterinarian Mycoplasma bovis roundtable sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim and moderated by Bob Glock, DVM, PhD.
Economics of mycoplasma infections
Economic data surrounding Mycoplasma infections is difficult to come by, but we do know that treating cattle for Mycoplasma in the feedlot is very costly. "The presence of this organism in a group of calves can have almost zero effect on total morbidity, but can double the treatment cost," says Tom Noffsinger, DVM. "Your cost can go from $21 to $42. And that doesn't include labor, chute fees, the extra effort in the system."
"My limited experience would indicate the feedlots or even stockers would have a 30 percent pull rate under non-Mycoplasma bovis conditions," adds Ricardo Rosenbusch, DVM, PhD. "They say 30 percent of arrivals would have to have some kind of medication. When Mycoplasma bovis is involved, that number jumps up to close to 80 percent."
It's even more difficult to assess costs in the cow-calf industry. "The cow-calf sector is a big black hole," says Rosenbusch. "We don't know the incidence. We don't know how many are positive for Mycoplasma bovis, but arthritis and middle-ear infection seem to be a much lower frequency event."
That's not to say that arthritis and otitis in cow-calf operations isn't costly. "You treat them for two weeks and send them home still limping and head-tilted, and you hope everything is all right," says Alvin Baumwart, DVM. "In the past, if you knew they were going to have multiple joints, you'd tell them they're better off not spending the money. Economically, it's crushing, but the breath of fresh air is that there might be some alternatives out there."
Baumwart says drug costs could be as high as $15 per day for two weeks, plus hospitalization if calves are brought in, and "that's conservative for hospital charges."
Dan Grooms, DVM, PhD, notes a producer he worked with who lost 58 out of 144 calves four weeks into the feeding period. Necropsies isolated Mycoplasma bovis in 29 of 33 calves, and BVDV was isolated in those 33, as well. Grooms believes Mycoplasma and BVDV were working synergistically. "That's obviously a significant eco-nomic hit to this producer," he says.
Mycoplasma bovis diagnosis
A lot of cattle carry and shed M. bovis; therefore, it is important to find M. bovis in affected tissue from an animal with a compatible clinical history, says Bob Glock, DVM, PhD.
When submitting samples to a diagnostic lab for M. bovis, Glock recommends sending:
Live animal
Ear swab
Tracheal wash (nasal swab less desirable)
Tendon sheath aspirate
Samples should be refrigerated in Mycoplasma media or PBS.
Postmortem samples
Affected lung
Tendon sheath
Affected tissues should be submitted in formalin along with any other lesions seen at necropsy. Samples should be refrigerated but not frozen if held less than three days.
There are a variety of test choices available. Glock suggests talking to the lab you use to determine what they offer and what they prefer. Advantages and disadvantages of different tests are:
IHC. Immunohistochemistry is a very reliable test to define if the animal is affected by M. bovis.
PCR. Very sensitive; preservation of specimens is less critical. This test should be used by a lab that has the ability to identify M. bovis.
Culture. Preservation of specimens is critical; samples should arrive refrigerated in less than two to three days.
Antimicrobial susceptibility: M. bovis isolates are quite homogenenous in susceptibility to antimicrobials. Test can be useful in herds with predictable sources of animals (i.e., integrated operations). Requires culturing.
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The owners of a family firm which was hit by tragedy have vowed their business will continue.
Kettley's furniture store in Yeadon was closed for a week in April after the death of Pauline Butler, 61, who was listed as a company director.
Her estranged husband John Butler, 62, who ran the business with his son, nephew and niece, has appeared in court charged with her murder.
Kettley's rose to national fame in 2012 when it appeared in the BBC's The Fixer series in which celebrity consultant Alex Polizzi helped to modernise the firm.
The couple's niece Nicola Davison stressed the business – which she runs with her brother Andrew Collop and cousin David Butler – would continue to operate as normal despite recent events.
She said: "We have all been here long enough to know what we are doing and we have very good staff as well. We are determined we want to keep the business on – it won't be run any differently at all."
John Butler has been described as the owner of the business but Nicola stressed the family members involved in running the company all had their own equal shares in it.
She said the family had been badly hit by Mrs Butler's death.
"It was such a shock to us all, and we want to thank people for their support," she added.
"We have had a lot of cards from people and a lot of sympathy. It is nice to know that people are showing their support.
"It is a family business so it has been a massive blow, but we are continuing it as normal."
A trial date was set for John Butler, of Larkfield Road, Rawdon, when he appeared over a videolink in Leeds Crown Court at the end of April.
He is charged with the murder of Pauline Butler, who was found dead at a terraced house in Cherry Lea Court, Rawdon, on April 14.
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My husband has been hard at work; the arbor and fence around the new garden annex are finished. He's decided to leave the posts long on the new section for now. We may need to tie a barrier around them if the corn gets too tall and the deer become too persistent. I'm not an expert on organic garden design, but bit by bit, I'm learning what works and what doesn't.
I thought I'd show you some before and after pictures:
More photos from this year . . .
The potatoes in the white boxes are growing like crazy. I keep covering the green with dirt and it keeps shooting upward. We've gotten a load of rain lately, so things are a bit muddy right now. I plan to work on cleaning up this area over the Memorial Day weekend.
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The whole Quran translation into Nepalese has been made for the first time. Parts of the Quran have been made so far in Nepal where about 2 million Muslims live. But this year, the translation of the Quran is completed thanks to the project launched five years ago by Islami Sangh Nepal organization which is the biggest Islamic organization in Nepal. The complete translation comprises a total of 1,168 pages. Nepalese Muslims, taking the first copies of the Quran in Nepalese, are expressing their happiness.2008-06-28 00:00:00


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Dr S Radhakrishnan: What is your religion?
Mahatma Gandhiji: My religion is Hinduism which, for me, is the religion of humanity and includes the best of all religions known to me.
Dr S Radhakrishnan: How are you led to it?
Mahatma Gandhi: I take it that the present tense in this question has been purposely used, instead of the past. I am led to my religion through truth and non-violence. I often describe my religion as religion of truth. Of late, instead of saying God is Truth, I have been saying, Truth is God... Denial of Truth we have not known... We are all sparks of Truth. The sum total of these sparks is indescribable, as yet unknown Truth, which is God; I am daily led nearer to it by constant prayer.
Dr S Radhakrishnan: What is its bearing on social life?
Mahatma Gandhi: The bearing of this religion on social life is, or has to be, seen in one's daily social contact. To be true to such religion, one has to lose oneself in continuous and continuing service of all in life. Realization of Truth is impossible without a complete merging of oneself in and identification with this limitless ocean of life. Hence, for me there is no escape from social service: there is no happiness on earth beyond or apart from it. Social service here must be taken to include every department of life. In this scheme, there is nothing low, nothing high. For all is one, though we seem to be many.
The deeper I study Hinduism, the stronger becomes the belief in me that Hinduism is as broad as the universe... Something within me tells me that, for all the deep veneration I show to several religions, I am all the more a Hindu, nonetheless for it.
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D-backs to take it easy upon return home
SYDNEY -- The D-backs are expected to arrive in Phoenix sometime in the late afternoon Sunday, and they will be told to stay away from the Salt River Fields facility and take Monday completely off.
On Tuesday, the team will hold a light workout before resuming its Cactus League schedule against the Cubs at home at 1:10 MST on Wednesday afternoon.
The D-backs will have a total of five exhibition games before the regular season reopens on March 31 at 6:40 p.m. MST against the Giants at Chase Field.
"We'll play everybody, just try to rotate them," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said of the exhibitions. "Won't play them very long."
The team's medical staff measures each player's variable heart rate and compares it to a baseline mark to gauge how they are responding to the stress.
"We'll be totally focused on recovery," Gibson said. "We've been taking their readings here, and when we came here they were really abnormally low. It's just hard on your system, so we probably won't push them as hard while we're in recovery from the trip. I think one of theories is you're more susceptible to injury when you tax your body like that. Hopefully by the time we get to the game Monday [March 31] we'll be ready to go."
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Laziness or ADHD
My son is 6 years old and is in the first grade. He seems to be very bright. His teacher said he reads on a 3.4- 4.4 grade level. He aces all of his spelling and math tests.
However, when it comes to writing or coloring he doesn't seem to like it. He won't get going on it. He procrastinates and seems to just zone out during writing. It's almost torture to get him going. His teacher and I have tried all sorts of things. We are currently using a behavior chart, and I've promised to award him if he writes every day for 5 days.
What do you think? Could this be a "medical" issue? I don`t wants to push him if he can't help it. Is there any way to know without taking him to a doctor? Thanks!
This could be boredom rather than either laziness or ADHD. It is possible the work comes so easy to him that first-grade work seems boringly childish and he does not want to bother with it.
Has someone asked him why he does not do the written work? Since his spelling and reading are so good, how about letting him try the next grade higher for written assignments?
Attached is a relevant article to show the school. Although the case in the article had a problem with aggression rather than work refusal, the same principle could apply, the need to challenge a bright child who is not following the rules.
Another possibility might be to find him a calligraphy class, and have him apply what he learns there to his written assignments. If he does have ADHD (and you have not said anything to convince me of that, but I could not be sure without an actual evaluation), then he should not be expected to delay the reward for 5 days; kids with ADHD do not have that much of an attention span. Start by awarding points each day, which could either be spent immediately or saved for a larger prize.
For more info on the daily report card and home token economy, see Professor Bill Pelham's web site or the handbook "A Family's Guide to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder" from Handbooks in Health Care Co.,
, http://www.hhcbooks.com/. Newtown, PA
Although both present behavioral strategies targeting ADHD, the strategies would also work for children without ADHD, and you do not need a diagnosis (or health insurance) to try them.
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The Windows Phone Marketplace is full of quality apps and games. Each week Windows Phone Central will round-up a handful of applications or games that fit a certain theme. For example last week we looked at panoramic photography apps. Future round ups may deal with sports games one week and news apps the next.
This week the round up focuses on doodle styled games. These are games where the animations and graphics are doodled on to your Windows Phone, often with a graph paper backdrop. We have games where your running a line, dodging balls, and jumping from a perfectly good airplane.
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Swimmers finish second at Lexington meet
LEXINGTON—With several swimmers missing from Saturday's competition at Lexington, the Gothenburg swim team had to settle for second in the team race to the host.
Lexington took first with 500 points, getting past Gothenburg with 481 points and 36 first-place finishes.
It was the final regular-season meet for the Gothenburg team before the qualifying competition July 7 in Minden.
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Dublin – Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted that his defence is more vulnerable than at any time in his 26 years at the helm of Manchester United and declared that if the side defend in Sunday's Manchester derby as they did at Reading last weekend "then God knows what's going to happen to us".
Ferguson said on Tuesday he would play Wayne Rooney against Cluj in Wednesday's Champions League dead rubber at Old Trafford because his metabolism requires three games for him to hit match fitness. But with the manager claiming that his captain, Nemanja Vidic, is fit neither to face the Romanians tonight nor City on Sunday – which may have been one of his decoy statements – it is the defence that leaked three goals at Reading which concerns him.
Asked about next weekend's derby at the Etihad, he said: "Last weekend? Ha! Cartoon cavalcade. I think we're getting punished for every ball that goes in the box at the moment but, saying that, we should still be defending far better. Reading produced some fantastic balls into the box, but we do and should be expecting better. It's a worry, it's a concern."
United have conceded 32 goals in all competitions and only three times before in Ferguson's reign have they reached Christmas having let in more: 1998-99 and 2001-02, when they shipped 41 on both occasions, and 1999-2000, when they let in 35. That one of those campaigns should have been United's Treble-winning season shows that the goals conceded column does not tell everything.
Ferguson was upbeat and more responsive than at any such Champions League gathering this season. But when it was put to him that this season might pose the worst defensive problems he has encountered, he did not disagree. "Well, you see the goals against: we've lost 32 goals this season," he said. "I can't remember us losing so many goals before Christmas. I must say that. So it is a concern, there's no question about that. When you look at the side City could put out, with [Mario] Balotelli, [Edin] Dzeko … all really tall players, it's going to be a really big challenge for us on Sunday."
Sunday is undoubtedly playing on his mind, though. Last October's 6-1 thrashing at Old Trafford still weighs heavily, one of two Premier League defeats to City in 2011-12, and the manager hints in tonight's programme notes that he will abandon any swagger and go for safety, at a time when his defence cannot be trusted.
"We need to come out unscathed," Ferguson writes. "With so much at stake I wonder if there will be a bit of caution from both clubs [on Sunday]. Roberto Mancini and I will both have to think deeply about our selection and tactics and there may well be an element of playing safe. But don't count on it because it's a derby match when anything can happen and often does. The passion of the fans can easily spill over so that tactics go out of the window as emotions take over. We could be in for a masterclass of attacking football from both teams – in which case, hold on to your hats and enjoy."
Ferguson did not reject the well-argued case offered by Gary Neville, on Sky TV on Monday, that United's goalkeepers must be more commanding in coming for crosses into the box, which are proving to be United's undoing. "Well, they are getting free headers and that's the issue we've got to face - and we've got to arrest that," he said. – The Independent


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Michael Lang, Henry Diltz & 60 contributors
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Babysugar Diaries: Christian Siriano Designs Pour Moi?
People are always saying that maternity clothes are so much better than they were 10 or 50 years ago. And to their point, they are. However, there are some days when a billowing dress and a heaping sweater don't do much for an expectant lady's self esteem — even if it is the most glorious time in her life.
Christian Siriano, the spunky little designer from Project Runway who showed Heidi Klum and her crew just how fiercely talented he was during his Bravo days, is on a mission to clothe burgeoning bellies as he rolls out a maternity line, Fierce for Moody Mamas by Christian Siriano. Slated for Spring 2009, my current bump will miss out on his frocks, but if I'm lucky, perhaps I'll be able to take advantage of his sleek baby doll designs that he has sketched to perfection my next go around. I love that his models sport the same one-sided hairdo that he so fabulously flaunts.
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We challenged America to submit to be the IMA's next top blogger and America answered. Over the course of the next month, we'll post the finalists in the IMA's "So You Think You Can Blog" contest. After we've posted all five entries, we'll let our blog readers vote for the winner. This week: Meet Crystal Hammon.
If I want to become part of the IMA's blogging team (and I do), I'm supposed to write something about myself and the best anecdote or experience I had at the museum.
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#1. My husband and I were standing in the lobby of the IMA at a kickoff party for a big opening. A woman came up to me and said I looked exactly like Annette Bening. I have to admit, that was a few years ago and she may have had a few drinks when she said it. But still. There's not a menopausal woman anywhere who wouldn't savor that compliment. Call me shallow. I don't remember the exhibit opening but I do remember being compared to one of my favorite movie stars.
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#3. Sometimes I take a book to the IMA and read in the comfy leather chairs scattered throughout the galleries. I don't even look at the art. I know. That's what libraries are for. Here's the problem. I work in a library two days a week. Trust me. You don't want to read or study at a public library unless they have washable leather or vinyl seating. I'll let you figure that one out for yourself. Check out your books and read them at home or at the IMA. People are usually quiet when looking at great art. And you can sit down without worrying about well, as I said, I'll let you figure that one out.
#4. The IMA is a great place to go after a disagreement with your spouse or significant other. One summer day, after my husband said or did something I found atrociously thoughtless, I jumped in the car and headed to the museum for a walk. After nearly 30 minutes of stomping around the grounds in a rage, I started to notice that everything was in full bloom. I found myself in front of Robert Indiana's LOVE sculpture. It reminded me that my petty little fight didn't amount to much in the scheme of things. I remembered that my marriage (sort of like that LOVE sculpture) was permanent. It was a what-would-Jackie-do moment for me. I got in my car, headed home and made lunch for my husband.
#5. I'm a big fan of the one-hour IMA visit. Let's face it. For the average Jane (that's me) who doesn't know much about art, the prospect of slogging your way through a complete exhibit, reading every line is like asking a first grader to read Moby Dick. Whether they can read it or not, they most certainly won't be able to connect all the dots. Not enough experience. I don't pretend to be something I'm not. But I don't deprive myself just because I'm a little ignorant. If there's an interesting exhibit, I go for an hour. I pick out one piece that really appeals to me. I try to learn all I can about that piece while I'm there. Then I leave. If I have time, I try to learn more afterwards. I may decide to go again for another hour. This is the only way I know to have an experience that sticks. I probably miss some important stuff with this technique, but I look forward to going back because I know I'm not going to make myself bored and tired. Good art deserves our best attention. I believe in giving it all I've got, an hour at a time. But that's just me. Everyone should do it their way.
Now for the boring, but totally true bio stuff I promised. Once upon a time, I was a corporate writer paid to write things for big business. It's the only kind of writing I ever found where you can make enough money to support yourself. After doing that for about 11 years, I started to connect with what one of my colleagues said about our work: "I'm really tired of writing pink champagne and having some attorney rewrite it until it becomes like distilled water." I'm not saying I'm a pink champagne kind of writer. But I did have a few moments of greatness along the way, especially while I was working for a company I truly believed in.
Gradually I worked up my courage to swap that life for one that now includes all my loves–books, kids, writing, yoga and more time for golf and family. (I know that last part sounds trite, but it's true.) In 2004, I finished a master's in library science, which allowed me to enter the library profession at a wage that keeps me above the poverty level. I knew it wouldn't pay as well, but I get to do and say what I want. It's hard to put a price on that. When I'm not working part-time at the library, teaching yoga, or helping my husband in a small, family-owned business, I write a blog, Leading Reads. It's mostly devoted to inspiring books, ideas, and people plus an occasional golf or yoga story.
Why vote for me? I write well, enjoy art enough that I visited Italy for an art and architecture tour a few years ago, and live just a few miles from the IMA. I can be there in a heartbeat. I don't know enough to be snooty about things, so I can promise you I won't have a highbrow complex if you give me this pleasure of blogging. A crown was promised with this position, but it's not necessary. If someone would occasionally tell me I look like Annette Bening that would be nice.
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Melanie Audette Says:
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:34 am
This is a good entry because it draws on many people's fears or hesitations about visiting a museum…it's gonna take all day; I might feel awkward because I don't know a lot about art…and it gives ideas about how to feel comfortable for those who might not otherwise (e.g., new visitors). For those who are museum junkies, Crystal also will appeal because they are typically like her–travelers, more urban dwellers, similar age… She draws you into the experience and makes you want to have one of your own. Nice job, Crystal! (Disclosure: I know her).
Bob Howell Says:
February 4th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Wonderful blog. Crystal is a fine writer, and appreciates the change that a good museum, and fine artwork, can have on a person. She will help to convey that change to those reading her blog. (And I do think Crystal is as beautiful as Annette Bening.) Disclosure: Yes, I know her as a good friend.
Many folks do not appreciate how restful a museum can be. Crystal does.
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February 5th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
This is a wonderful blog — well-written, great photos, feels like she's chatting with you and inviting you to the museum without any hype. I enjoy art, but am intimidated by Art Museums. Crystal Hammon makes me want to explore my local art museum (the GRAM in Grand Rapids, MI) as well as check out the IMA some day. I have absolutely no connection to Crystal, but I've read a lot of blogs lately!
Kim Andrews Says:
February 5th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
I, too, personally know Crystal, and I find her to be one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, and honest people I've ever met. Aside from her engaging and entertaining writing style, I would love to see the IMA through her eyes because I know that I can believe what I'm reading. Readers will connect with Crystal and her ability to relax and encourage her followers. Great entry, Crystal!
Kris Taylor Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
I was part of a selection committee that slogged through hundreds of portfolios for a corporate writing position – and Crystal came out on top. Her work proved that we had made a great choice. I believe that fans of the IMA may very well come to the same conclusion – and will then find they have found a gem.
Dona Robinson Says:
February 12th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Carrying a book in my car, so I can take time to enjoy the IMA and time for reading on one of those lovely couches is a great idea. Crystal's creative ideas, honesty and talent make a great combination. Her blog made me realize it's been too long since I visited the IMA. Crystal's many talents amaze me and I feel fortunate to know her.
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March 3rd, 2010 at 1:02 pm
I love your blog, Crystal! It was high-lar-ious.:) I especially like the part about sitting on the chairs at the IMA versus the public library. I wonder what those gallery guards would do if their chairs came under attack in the same way that ours do in the children's room? Seriously, though, I think you did a really nice job of relating the great things about IMA to everyday life.
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March 4th, 2010 at 11:36 am
I like the humor Crystal brings to the "blogosphere" and I was able to relate. You deserve this!
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March 5th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
Crystal, this piece was luminous! I vote for Crystal!!!
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