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Mums, here's your chance to win a gorgeous hamper from Kidspot and SPC® Fruit Snacks, valued at $160! We have THREE of these beauties to give away, and all you have to do is share your best tips and recipes for getting your kids to eat their daily serve of fruit and veg. CLICK HERE TO ENTER DAILY NOW!
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BOYZONE will perform at Westonbirt in July after announcing their Forest Live debut this summer.
In a continuation of the celebration of their 'BZ20' anniversary, Ronan, Keith, Shane and Mikey will be performing in four spectacular woodland locations as part of the Forestry Commission's annual concert series.
After 21 singles, seven albums and 25million record sales, Boyzone are still going strong. In a phenomenal start to a musical career, they scored 16 consecutive top five singles such as 'Love Me For A Reason', 'Father and Son' and 'Picture of You' and the run included six number one's 'Words', 'A Different Beat', 'All That I Need', 'No Matter What', 'When The Going Gets Tough' and 'You Needed Me'.
Forest Live is an independent programme organised by the Forestry Commission bringing music to new audiences without commercial branding or sponsorship. Income generated from ticket sales is spent on improving the local forests for both people and wildlife. With everything required for a great night out, including full catering and bar facilities, the gigs are renowned for their relaxed atmosphere.
Frontman Ronan Keating said: "We're pleased to be part of the Forest Live tour this year for the first time. It's going to be great to perform our hits in such beautiful locations".
Boyzone plus guests will be performing:
- Thursday 12 June - Sherwood Pines Forest, Nr Edwinstowe, Notts
- Sunday 6 July - Delamere Forest, Nr Northwich, Cheshire
- Friday 11 July - Thetford Forest, Nr Brandon, Suffolk
- Friday 18 July - Westonbirt Arboretum Nr Tetbury, Glos - Tickets £42.35 (including booking fee) go on sale at 9am Friday 10 January from the Forestry Commission box office tel 03000 680400 or buy online at www.forestry.gov.uk/music.


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I wonder what would be the penalty for a Patimokkha offense in addition to confession, admonition, and being driven out of the community -- is there bad karma associated with a Patimokkha offense? What happens if some monastics live alone without a community to apply the penalties for their offences? If a serious offense does not directly harm others, will it produce bad karma? For instance:
"3. Should any bhikkhunī go among villages alone or go to the other shore of a river alone or stay away for a night alone or fall behind her companion(s) alone: this bhikkhunī, also, as soon as she has fallen into the first act of offence, is to be (temporarily) driven out, and it entails initial and subsequent meetings of the Community."
I understand this rule is for the protection of bhikkunis, but it's very difficult for the modern bhikkunis to abide, especially when they have to stay alone (e.g. hosting a vihara) or travel alone. The Buddha apparently considered the violation of the above rule as a pretty serious offence. Would such an offense generate bad karma if no penalty is applied? I was told that some Patimokkha rules are not observed nowadays by common understanding. Is it OK to do so?
I also wonder if there's a penalty/bad karma for a Sekhiyavatta (novice rules) offense, such as:
"7. {8} I will go {sit} with eyes lowered in inhabited areas: a training to be observed."
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To my feigned surprise (because I know I am kind of a big deal), I receive many e-mails from publicists of various foods and beverages. When I go through my email each morning, I assign these hopeful messages to a subfolder for later review. They just aren't in my wheelhouse of fresh produce marketing. Yet I just can't bring myself to delete them and regulate them to eternal oblivion. Today is the day where I recall some of those emails and shine a little light from the Fresh Talk blog on these overlooked topics.
The subfolder has 76 entries, so I obviously won't touch all the bases today. But here is a sampling:
From the foodie inbox:
1. Wine Battles Introduce New Year's Salute with Bubbly
--Entertain your holiday guests with the first-ever Champagne Battle--
Gist: "Wine Battles is a tournament style social wine game where you drink amazing wines to become a more knowledgeable wine enthusiast. This New Year they bring you the "New Year's Salute"—a social champagne game."
Best line: "Celebrate the New Year with a buzz and an education."
Source/agency: Wine Battles/Olive PR Solutions
2. Seaweed is Washing Ashore in More Kitchens Across the Country -Seaweed Becomes Popular Ingredient in Dozens of Dishes
Gist: "From spinach to arugula, greens can easily dress up any dish so restaurants from coast to coast are taking a unique under the sea approach and sprucing up their menu with the hottest new ingredient- seaweed!"
Best line: "Delectable Dungeness Crab is taken to new depths with Joslin's Sesame Seaweed Salad, which includes a medley of Wakame seaweed, Napa cabbage and ginger vinaigrette."
Source/Agency: Wild Mushroom Steakhouse/Empower Public Relations
3. 'tis the Season for Potlucks – What Foods Travel Well?
A noted cookbook author suggests some easy on-the-go holiday dishes any hostess would love
Gist: "You've been invited to yet another holiday potluck dinner or office shindig, but what to bring?"
Best line: "Grace O admits bringing food to a party can be tricky. Your dish has to be prepared ahead of time, survive being packed and transported, and look elegant once it's plated at the party site. Also, it needs to taste great at room temperature."
Source: Grace Ouano/Scout PR
4. How about a post on adding some old-world class to your holiday party fare?
Gist: "No longer just the fish of your grandparents' generation, sardines make for great entertaining inspiration. Top a cracker with sardine, avocado and a splash of lemon, work up a piquillo pepper and sardine tartine or cook up sardine deviled eggs or beer battered sardines with wasabi mayo!"
Best Line: "Caught along the central California coastline from the same fishery which made Monterey's Cannery Row famous, each tasty, nutritional powerhouse is free of artificial ingredients or fillers."
Source: Wild Planet Sardines/Crier Communications
5. Three easy breakfasts to tame your New Year's Eve hangover
Gist: "How do you soothe a New Year's Eve hangover? Breakfast food that offers comfort without effort. To that end, Chef Nisa Burns shares three easy hangover-helpers from her book Kitchenability 101 below."
Best line: "After a night of NYE partying, potassium-rich bananas are your friend and can help take the edge off the headache and nausea."
Source: Nisa Burns/PRbythebook
Rats! There are still 72 or so foodie emails left to sort through and that won't get done today.
For those dogged publicists who keep sending releases to my inbox, keep it up if you must. One pointer: send a link to the news release online. That could improve your coverage here at Fresh Talk. With any luck, I may eventually work my way down the foodie blogger list to "a checklist of pantry must haves," "sweets by mail," "eight gifts to build confidence in new cooks," "mouthwatering vegetarian recipes" and so on.


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Obama to Stress Jobs During Speech, GOP's Rubio Set for Response
The American public will get rhetoric and imagery in President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. The speech will contain a heavy dose on the economy and play out against a visual backdrop dominated by the nation's current debate over guns.
Obama this evening will make a case for measures and proposals that he says will boost job creation and put the economy on a more upward trajectory. But in the audience will be many Americans invited to the witness the speech because of their experience with gun violence.
That confluence of message and symbolism illustrates where Obama is in his presidency following his re-election.
His economic blueprint represents unfinished business. The gun debate, spurred by the December tragedy in Newtown, Conn., is part of his new agenda.
On the other side of the aisle, Republicans plan to cast President Barack Obama's second-term agenda as more "big government" and offer a series of proposals to boost economic growth and reduce the federal debt.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will deliver the Republican response to Obama's State of the Union address tonight. He says Republicans will pursue policies that would create jobs for middle-class families, tame the federal debt and hold down future spending.
He says Republicans "don't just want to be the opposition. We want to be the alternative."
Rubio will deliver his address in both English and Spanish. It comes as Republicans say the party needs to do more to attract Latino voters. Obama won 71 percent of Hispanic voters last year against Republican Mitt Romney.


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New Leopard features announced
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WWDC 2007, SAN FRANCISCOJune 11, 2007Apple® today unveiled a near final version of Mac OS® X Leopard, the sixth major release of the worlds most advanced operating system. Scheduled to ship in October, Leopard introduces over 300 new features, including a new Desktop and Dock with Stacks, an intuitive new way to organize files; an updated Finder featuring Cover Flow and a new way to easily browse and share files between multiple Macs; Quick Look, a new way to rapidly preview most files without opening an application; Time Machine, a new way to easily and automatically back up and restore lost files or a complete Mac®; Spaces, a powerful new feature to create groups of applications and instantly switch between them; and enhanced iChat and Mail applications, which easily allow users to communicate even more creatively.
Leopard is the best release of Mac OS X to date, surpassing even Tiger, and will further extend Mac OS Xs leadership as the most advanced and innovative operating system in the world, said Steve Jobs, Apples CEO. We think current and prospective customers are going to love Leopard, and that it will help make the Mac even more popular.
Leopard includes a completely new Dock featuring Stacks, which can help manage a users desktop clutter caused by browser and email downloads. With the click of a mouse, users can instantly fan out the contents of a stack to easily see each item. Leopards Finder has been completely redesigned, adding Cover Flow as an innovative way to quickly browse and locate files and applications. Finders new Sidebar simplifies the organization of files on a Mac, and adds easy access to shared Macs and PCs on a home network. Subscribers to .Mac can also use the new Back to my Mac" feature to browse and access files on their remote Macs over the Internet. Also new in Leopard is Quick Look, an innovative new way for users to instantly preview almost any file, and even play media files, without opening an application.
With its unique ability to let users travel back in time to find deleted files, applications, photos and other digital media, Time Machine is a revolutionary way to protect your digital life. With just a one-click setup, Time Machine automatically keeps an up-to-date copy of everything on the Mac. In the event a file is lost, users can use Mac OS Xs Spotlight to search back through time to find and then instantly restore the file. Time Machine can automatically back up a Mac to an external hard drive connected with a FireWire® or USB cable, to a server, or wirelessly to an AirPort Extreme® base station with an attached hard drive.
Leopard also includes three new technologies that take full advantage of the latest developments in processor hardware: full native 64-bit support to enable applications to take complete advantage of 64-bit processing while still running side by side with existing 32-bit Mac OS X applications and drivers; easy multi-core optimization and scheduling to take advantage of the latest Intel hardware; and Core Animation, helping developers easily create animated user experiences as amazing as Leopards Spaces and Time Machine in their own applications.
Other new features in Leopard include:
Leopard Mail, offering more ways to customize and add personal style to email than ever before, with more than 30 beautiful stationery designs and layouts that look great on a Mac or Windows PC; Notes, making it as easy to take and organize notes as it is to compose and read emails; To Dos, for creating lists viewed directly in Mail and automatically sync them with iCal®; and data detectors that automatically sense phone numbers, addresses and events so they can be easily added to Address Book or iCal;
Leopard iChat with iChat Theater, letting users present photos, presentations, videos and files in a video conference; Photo Booth effects, enabling users to transform their iChat video in real time with fun distortion and color effects; and video backdrops that allow users to choose any photo or video that makes them appear to be anywhere in the world, or out of it;
Leopard iCal, introducing powerful group calendaring features based on the open CalDAV standard that make it easy to organize and coordinate schedules with other people;
Spaces, giving users a powerful new, clutter-free way to create customized spaces on the desktop with only the applications or files needed for each project, and the ability to quickly switch between them with one click of a mouse or keystroke;
Web Clip, bringing anything that a user wants from a web page to Dashboard as a live widget;
Boot Camp, making it possible to run Windows natively on Intel-based Macs*; and
new development tools, including Xcode® 3 with a next generation editor; an all new Interface Builder for easier integration of advanced animation effects into an application; simpler debugging; and support for Objective-C 2.0; DashCode, a better way to create new Dashboard widgets without writing a line of code; and Xray, a new application for optimizing application performance.
Pricing & Availability
Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard is scheduled to ship in October and will be available through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apples retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $129 (US) for a single user license. The Mac OS X Leopard Family Pack is a single-residence, five-user license that will be available for a suggested retail price of $199 (US). Volume and maintenance pricing is available from Apple.
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Anyone know the differences in the beta Bootcamp and the one included in Leopard?
The beta will be disabled once the official is released. I don't think there ae any new features being added to it.
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They just need to "take it to the limit" and have realtime reflections within Textedit.
yay, reflections!
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Anyone know the differences in the beta Bootcamp and the one included in Leopard?
One new feature is a menu option that allows you to reboot the to other OS while essentially freezing your place in the current OS.
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UNCTAD's quarterly Investment Policy Monitor offers the latest country-specific data on global investment policies.
The Monitor finds that during the period under review (December 2009 - March 2010) 62 countries or economies introduced new national policy measures affecting their policy framework for foreign investment.
Twenty-eight economies adopted investment-specific measures, most of which aimed at liberalizing the entry of foreign investment into previously closed sectors. Amongst these entry-related measures are those taken by:
Nine countries enacted investment-specific policies aimed at promoting and facilitating foreign investment. Among them:
Ten investment-specific measures were undertaken with regard to the operations of foreign investors. These include South Africa's moves to remove restrictions on inward and outward capital transfers.
Only a few countries tightened their policy frameworks for foreign investment, resulting in some instances of nationalizations. Examples include:
Several countries introduced measures aimed at promoting outward investment. These include Madagascar, South Africa and Thailand, which relaxed foreign exchange regulations or related approval requirements.
Forty-three economies enacted measures related to foreign investment. Most of these measures (undertaken by at least 23 economies) involved the adoption of new, or the prolongation of existing State aids and stimulus packages implemented to counter the continuing financial and economic crisis. At the same time, some economies have started to terminate existing stimulus programmes. While such exit strategies could have a potentially dampening effect on investment flows (as some TNCs are still struggling with the effects of the economic crisis), they could also create opportunities for firms to acquire shares released by governments.
Seventy-three economies took investment measures at the international level, continuing the trend of concluding new investment agreements at a rapid pace. The 37 new international investment agreements (IIAs) signed between December 2009 and March 2010 include:
Overall, the general direction of global investment policies is towards more openness for and facilitation of investment. However potential challenges remain, including:
International policy monitoring and analysis can play an important role in ensuring that current endeavours to combat investment protectionism do not remain one-off initiatives. In that vein, UNCTAD regularly offers information on:
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January 18, 2013
Overthinking It
The Scurrilous Lie About the WBC
Baseball players are often described—or describe themselves—as creatures of habit. And at no time is their adherence to routine more evident than during their methodical preparation for the season, when they shake off a winter's worth of rust and ramp up for the coming campaign. Pitchers, especially, are dependent on spring training to build up arm strength, incorporate new offerings into their arsenals, and learn to work with their batterymates. But every three (or, starting in 2009, four) springs, including this coming one, an event takes place that threatens to disrupt that routine: the World Baseball Classic. The timing of the tournament has caused concerns that pitchers who choose to participate in it could be adversely affected, which likely explains why the United States squad that was announced on Thursday, while stocked with star position players, is relatively short on impact pitching talent.
There's some basis for this fear. In May of 2006, not long after the first World Baseball Classic concluded, Nate Silver observed that the pitchers who'd taken part in the tournament had performed far worse to that point in the regular season than PECOTA had predicted, prior to Opening Day, that they would. The pitchers had posted a collective 5.08 ERA in over 1,000 innings compared to a projected mark of 4.10. Some of the difference was attributable to a higher-octane league-wide offensive environment than PECOTA had anticipated, but even after accounting for that discrepancy, the WBC pitchers' performance still stood out as particularly poor. Starting pitchers with WBC experience began the regular season with especially disappointing results.
No pitcher threw more than 17 innings in the 2006 tournament—in 2009, the high was 20—and pitch counts were strictly regulated. (In the 2013 tournament, pitch counts will reportedly return to their 2006 maximums of 65 pitches per game in the first round, 80 in the second round, and 95 in the semifinals and finals, after rising five pitches per round in the 2009 event.) Given those light workloads, it seemed like a stretch to say that the WBC pitchers' lousy start to the season as a group could be blamed entirely on overuse. Instead, Silver proposed an alternative explanation:
As worrisome as that article was, its findings were based on a fairly limited sample of performance—roughly one sixth of a season for 58 pitchers. Now we have much more data to go on: not just the rest of the 2006 season, but the entire 2009 season, too. So has the pattern of WBC pitchers struggling in the regular season persisted over time, or were the initial concerns overblown?
To find out, we can generate "retro" projections for each pitcher who appeared in one of the World Baseball Classics and went on to pitch in the majors in the same season. Such a projection for, say, Felix Hernandez, who pitched in two games for Venezuela in the 2009 tournament, would tell us what his 2009 regular-season stats would have been projected by PECOTA to be, based on his pre-2009 performance and scaled to the 2009 major-league run environment. By comparing each pitcher's pre-season projection with his actual performance, we can assess whether the group as a whole underperformed expectations.
Here are the results for participating pitchers from 2006, 2009, and both tournaments combined, further broken down by role (starter/reliever):
*Not including Fu-Te Ni, Scott Mathieson, Adam Loewen, Davis Romero, Manny Corpas, Peter Moylan, Philip Barzilla (no projections)
While there have been examples of pitchers having disappointing seasons after appearing in the WBC or being injured during or shortly after the tournament, one could say the same about those who skipped the WBC to stay in spring training, since injuries, when dealing with a large enough population of pitchers, are an inevitable byproduct of pitching. Isolated examples don't constitute a trend, and hard evidence that WBC participation raises the risk of injury has proven difficult to find. As the results of this study reveal, convincing evidence that WBC participation raises the risk of poor performance appears to be equally elusive.
Thanks to Ryan Lind, Rob McQuown, and Colin Wyers for research assistance.
A version of this story originally appeared on ESPN Insider .
Ben Lindbergh is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @benlindbergh
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Not saying you're wrong, but how do we know that PECOTA wasn't a bit biased during these years?
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text: Smell the Coffee: In search of lively eyes By Karin Fuller June 16, 2012 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I'm drawn to people with lively eyes and a curious spirit. Those who are willing to step out of their comfort zone and take risks.They aren't so easy to find.Last weekend, one of the workshops I attended at a writers conference was on creativity, how to force more of it into your everyday life. Most of us aren't lucky enough to have jobs that require creative thinking on a regular basis. We push papers or process patients or simply produce, with the most creative part of our day being how to mentally entertain ourselves till we're through.Although some of that particular workshop's techniques for how to force more creativity would be hard to explain in this space, the nut of it is simple. Something most 4-year-olds know.You keep asking why.Ask it enough and you're forced to explore, to step beyond what you already know.More of the same begets more of the same. It's when you shake things up a little that they get interesting.The workshop, taught by singer-songwriters Doug and Telisha Williams, stressed the importance of challenging yourself. "Put yourself in places where you can fail," Doug Williams said. "Failing isn't a bad thing -- it forces you to come up with new ideas, to strategize."It's not possible to steal second base while keeping one foot on first. You have to make a crazy run for it once in a while or you'll be stuck forever on first.Risk-taking seemed to be the theme of the conference, as it was the subject of the banquet's keynote speech, given by author Lee Maynard. Maynard has about the liveliest eyes I've ever encountered, perhaps the result of having taken so many risks in his life. Likely more than anyone I've ever known. I suspect he's loved the hell out of them all.They've polished him so much he shines.He talked about the importance of pushing ourselves and our writing. Of not taking the easy way out. Of putting ourselves in places that make us uncomfortable. The difference between fear and afraid. And not making excuses.I suspect all this hits home with me because I'm such a creature of habit. I'm not a risk-taker. In fact, I'm probably one of the most conservative people I know. But I'm also bursting at my conventional seams, so desperately tired of being the responsible one, of letting my 9-to-5 shtick drain me dry. Life has more to offer than that. I wanna shake my tree a little. I'm just not sure how. I want lively eyes.For many years, my biggest excuse for not stepping out of my comfort zone has been my lack of a formal education beyond high school. I've always thought it marks me as stupid or indicates to others that I'm not ambitious. Yet I know I'm a hard worker. I know I give it my all. Still, I've let that niggling fear of being viewed as dumb or unqualified hinder me from pursuing more than what's been within arm's reach.Einstein once said, "If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."I've been that fish for far too long.I wonder at what age I stopped chasing down whys. How I managed to become this combination of complacent and resigned. I'll be damned if I'm going to let it be too late to change.On my wall at work is a poster that says, "Do one thing every day that scares you." That's the person I want to be. I'm searching for ways to step outside my comfort zone.To let my eyes be lively.I've heard curiosity can make them shine.And a bit of risk can make them shine even more.Reach Karin Fuller via email at email@example.com. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 City of Milton tries to revive Morris Memorial property 2 Mitch Vingle: WVU's Lyons watching bombshell merger news 3 Former Boone school board members indicted 4 Morgantown coal operator Laurita indicted in alleged campaign finance scheme 5 Consultant says Yeager Airport needs to extend runway Horse rides get spina bifida campers moving Previous Story Dance gala tours classical, Spanish, African styles Next Story


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OAKLAND -- Cram the romance. Baseball is not romantic. But we are supposed to think so, this time of year. The Giants and A's are opening their seasons Monday. The Giants are in Los Angeles, playing the Dodgers. The A's are in Oakland, playing the Seattle Mariners.
The players aren't thinking romance. They're not thinking about the renewal of spring. Or the rebirth of American ritual. Or the salubrious April breeze full of hope, wafting across the diamond. Or any of that syrupy stuff that people like to wax poetic about on opening day.
Cram the romance. No baseball player likes to think of their job as syrupy. How do I know this? I asked. The Giants and A's reached the playoffs in 2012. The Giants won the World Series. The 2013 calendar doesn't care. Giants pitcher Ryan Vogelsong said he mostly appreciates the freshness of opening day, the opportunity to prove yourself again.
"You're ready for it to be here," Vogelsong said. "Spring training is a little long. I know there is a lot planned for our home opener, to celebrate. But at the same time, it's going to be nice to get it over with, turn the page and start over. That's what I like. Whether it's your first or last opening day, you're starting over."
And over on the A's side of the bay?
"That's an interesting word, romance," said Steven Sogard. "It's an interesting way to put it."
But it's not really the right word, Sogard agreed. He's a utility infielder for the A's who had a hot spring, batting .444. He wears eyeglasses -- even on the field and at the plate -- so he is obviously an intellectual egghead.
"I'd say 'exciting' is a better word than 'romantic,' " Sogard said. "Especially with our team. Nobody expected us to go as far as we did last year. We think we can go farther. It's exciting driving to the ballpark. I would be surprised if anybody here didn't feel that way."
All right, then. Opening day is exciting. That's a legitimate statement. And fresh, as Vogelsong implied. Opening day is definitely fresh. But not romantic.
Cram the romance. Once the first pitch is thrown, the grind begins. Opening day certainly wasn't romantic for Bruce Bochy in his first game as a major league manager. It was in 1995. Bochy sat in the San Diego Padres dugout. His team lost 10-2 to Houston. The sports talk shows were not happy.
"They were ready to hang me," Bochy said the other day, remembering the reaction. "I was thinking, 'One game, and they want me fired?' This is a tough job."
Fortunately, the Padres won the next day. All was well. Bochy eventually made his way to the Giants, where he has managed two World Series winners. All was even more well. Not romantic, though. Bochy is one of the best in the business. He has done it a while. But his stomach still churns when he gets to July, and he must make a tough lineup change or bullpen choice.
Cram the romance. A baseball season is many things. But primarily and happily, a baseball season is an unwritten book, just waiting for players to provide the plot points and write the manuscript. Because no one can ever predict the next twist.
I went back and checked. A year ago at this time, no one predicted that the A's would win the American League West and be inspired by a film about a dead guy who does a weird dance called the "Bernie Lean."
But it happened.
I went back and checked. A year ago at this time, no one predicted that the Giants' Buster Posey would come back from a mangled ankle to bat .336, or that the team's ace closer would be injured and force a slightly built right-hander named Sergio Romo to slam the door on opponents during a second World Series title run in three seasons.
But it happened.
I went back and checked. A year ago at this time, no one imagined that both the A's and Giants would grab the Bay Area's attention through the autumn -- yes, even peeling eyeballs away from football in October -- to become a daily conversation topic.
But it happened.
And it could happen again. People must believe so, anyway.
The Giants, after their World Series victory, are in line to potentially sell out every home game. The A's say their ticket sales are 33 percent ahead of a year ago. This has the promise of being a very non-boring summer.There will be smiles and cursing. There will be dreadfully humid August night games in Atlanta or Kansas City. Best not to think too deeply about what it all means. Best to just sit back and enjoy the show.
"It's game time," Bochy said after the Giants' last spring training out.
"It's go time," Sogard said Saturday as he arranged his Coliseum locker stall for the next six or seven months.
Cram the romance. Let's play ball.
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Wow, I guess you learn something new everyday. Pacers drafted Jerome James? . That must have been before I followed the Pacers.
I almost did not post this article. It is rather obvious and there is no inside info here, but for what its worth
State of the NBA: Free-agent gems coming to market
Scramble will soon be on: Ray Allen and Michael Redd are the most prized players
By Steve Luhm
The Salt Lake Tribune
Third of a four-part series leading up to Tuesday's NBA draft
The NBA draft is Tuesday night in New York.
The league's recruiting-and-signing period for free agents begins in July.
If you believe the two events are unrelated, think again.
Asked about the upcoming scramble for free agents, Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said, "We're aware who's out there. We'll see what happens in the draft - that will have a big impact on what we're thinking - and we'll go from there."
The Jazz need a point guard, and in the NBA, there are two ways a team
can re-stock its cupboards. It can draft players, or it can sign free agents. That's it.
If the Jazz can't position themselves to draft a point guard such as Wake Forest's Chris Paul or Illinois' Deron Williams, they will almost certainly pursue a free agent such as Antonio Daniels or Earl Watson.
Otherwise, they risk entering a new season with a huge hole on their roster.
"There are players we have interest in, when we look at our team," Sloan said. "But whether we can get them, that's another thing."
"I don't know, when we look at the whole list, that we look in terms of all the free agents," Jazz vice president of basketball operations Kevin O'Connor said. "I think we look at the list, decide on the players we're interested in and go to work."
O'Connor prefers chasing unrestricted free agents - players who can unconditionally sign with any team.
When the Jazz have gone after restricted free agents such as Elton Brand and Corey Maggette in recent years, they haven't had much luck. Their offer has been matched and O'Connor's attempt to upgrade Utah's roster has been stalled.
"You wait 15 days and you hold your breath, but unless the home team doesn't want them, the home teams wins," O'Connor said.
This summer, the two key free agents in the NBA are Milwaukee's Michael Redd and Seattle's Ray Allen.
Both are veteran shooting guards who can score as well as any perimeter player in the league. Both will command huge salaries, but both could change the future of whichever team ends up with them.
In Milwaukee, the Bucks are trying to keep Redd, who averaged 23 points per game last season and established himself as one of the game's best pure shooters.
In February, Redd told owner Herb Kohl that staying in Milwaukee was "a priority," but the Bucks are going to have plenty of competition to re-sign him.
Redd attended Ohio State and some believe the lure of home could lead him back to the Cleveland, which is about $25 million under the salary cap and will be the No. 1 player in this summer's free-agent market.
Another possibility: Denver.
The Nuggets, desperate for outside shooting, don't have enough cap space to sign Redd. But they could get him via a sign-and-trade deal, using point guard Andre Miller and his $8.1 million salary as bait.
The Nuggets would give Redd a chance to play for his former coach, George Karl.
"I could see why people could make that connection," Redd said. "Obviously, I played for George. We had a good rapport. So people are going to make that connection."
Indiana and Dallas are also interested in Redd. The Pacers must replace Reggie Miller, and the Mavs already went after Redd once. He signed their $12 million offer sheet in 2002, when he was a restricted free agent. But the Bucks matched the offer.
The same teams interested in signing Redd will also look at Allen, because they play the same position and have similar games.
Sonics general manager Rick Sund recently said that keeping Allen "is a top priority, because he's an All-Star caliber player."
Allen is finishing up a six-year, $71 million contract with Seattle and probably isn't interested in taking a pay cut. When the Sonics offered a five-year, $75 million extension last season, agent Lon Babby turned it down and halted negotiations.
Does that mean Allen is leaving Seattle?
"You can't handicap these things," Babby told the Tacoma News-Tribune. "It's a process that's got to unfold. Where it goes remains to be seen. . . . [But] he had an excellent season and is the premier free agent on the market."
A position-by-position look at some of year's top free agents:
It is not a strong year for free-agent points guards, although Seattle's Antonio Daniels plans to to opt out of his contract in Seattle. His presence deepens a pool that also includes unrestricted free agents Earl Watson of Memphis, Boston's Gary Payton and Charlotte's Brevin Knight.
Marko Jaric (Clippers) and Chris Duhon (Bulls) are restricted free agents but, barring an astronomical offer from another team, neither L.A. nor Chicago expected to let their young and talented point guards get away.
Daniels will be highly sought-after following his departure from Seattle, which is committed to Luke Ridnour as its starter. That's why Daniels left. He wants big money and he wants to start.
Cleveland is a possible destination for Daniels, considering the Cavs could be as much as $25 million under the salary cap. They have another advantage if they pursue Daniels, who played for new coach Mike Brown and new assistant Hank Egan when all three were in San Antonio a few years ago.
Payton is 37, but he might have earned another nice contract by helping lead Boston into the playoffs. His leadership was one reason the young Celtics turned around their season, and general managers around the league probably noticed.
Payton says his top priority is remaining in Boston, but it's known he would not forego a chance to return to the West Coast.
"He has to decide if [Boston] is the right place for him down the road," said Celtics executive director of basketball operations Danny Ainge.
Other unrestricted point guards who are likely to draw interest from teams looking for solidify their backcourts are Damon Stoudamire, Jeff McInnis, Tyronn Lue, Steve Blake, Milt Palacio and Howard Eisley.
Washington's Larry Hughes is a prolific scorer with a knack for getting to the free-throw line. He's unrestricted and will likely be targeted by teams which lose out on Redd and Allen but are left with money to spend.
Others who figure to command plenty of attention - some despite a considerable amount of off-the-court baggage - include Latrell Sprewell, Kerry Kittles, Jon Barry, Lucious Harris, DerMarr Johnson and Casey Jacobson.
The Jazz's Raja Bell also is unrestricted, but Sloan hopes Utah can re-sign him.
"He's done a good job for us," Sloan said. "He's worked hard and he's always tried to with us what we try to do from a team standpoint. That's been important to us, and I think it's helped him a little bit, too. . . . I love Raja Bell."
Phoenix's Joe Johnson and Philadelphia's Willie Green are restricted free agents. The Suns are not expected to let go of Johnson, who blossomed in Mike D'Antoni's freewheeling offense. But Green's situation is different.
He might have a chance to leave capped-out Philadelphia, where he was quietly effective last season in sporadic minutes behind Allen Iverson.
Former 76ers coach Jim O'Brien called Green a "consummate professional" because Green would often sit for long stretches of the season before getting a chance to play. And when Green got into the game, he responded.
In seven games when Iverson was injured, Green averaged 18 points a game. In all, Green averaged 18.1 points and 3.8 assists when he played at least 30 minutes.
The Clippers' Bobby Simmons is the clear-cut king among unrestricted small forwards.
A former second round pick, Simmons was a wash-out for two seasons with Washington before finding his niche as a hardworking member of the improving Clippers.
"I have to weigh my options - to see what's best for my family," Simmons told the Orange County Register. "I'd love to stay here because of my teammates and the coaching staff. . . . But it's going to be very interesting for a guy like me, who's never been in this situation before."
Beyond Simmons, the choices are limited.
New Jersey's Brian Scalabrine and Houston's Scott Padgett are unrestricted. But both have expressed a desire to stay home, and the Nets and Rockets have indicated they will probably re-sign these valuable blue-collar type role players.
Bryon Russell had his moments in Denver last season and wants to stay. But the Nuggets probably will look elsewhere for firepower off the bench. Russell probably will be looking or a new home, and he might find one because of his experience and affordability. Ditto for Shandon Anderson, another ex-Jazz player who spent most of last season in Miami.
Restricted free agents who could help elsewhere but aren't expected to get away from their current teams include Grant Hill (Orlando), Vladimir Radmanovic (Seattle), Kyle Korver (Philadelphia) and Matt Bonner (Toronto).
The NBA draft is deep with power forwards, and so is the free-agent market.
The list of unrestricted players who could be difference-makers next season starts with Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Donyell Marshall and Antoine Walker. Throw in players who can opt out of their contracts - Sacramento's Darius Songalia, San Antonio's Robert Horry and Toronto's Aaron Williams - and teams looking for power forwards have a variety of options.
Walker is one of those baggage-toting veterans whose past might scare off some teams, but he could provide plenty of offense for teams looking for an inside-outside scorer.
Walker returned to Boston via a midseason trade last year and sparked the Celtics' playoff drive. But it's likely Boston will keep Walker only if it can get him for the right price.
"A big part of the decision is on him," said Ainge.
Marshall wants out of Toronto - he became disenchanted with his role behind blossoming star Chris Bosh last year - and could end up in New Jersey. The Nets also are targeting power forwards such as Sean May, Ike Diogu, Charlie Villanueva and Fran Vazquez in the draft, and Marshall could turn out to be a sidekick for one of them.
Memphis' Stromile Swift is probably in the second tier of unrestricted free agents, but a team in need of relative inexpensive experience and athleticism could give him a long look.
Assuming Shaquille O'Neal does not opt out of his $30 million contract with Miami, Cleveland's Zydrunas Ilgauskas is the No. 1 free agent among centers.
He is unrestricted and will likely be renounced by the cap-conscious Cavs, who might try to re-sign him at a price that would help them pursue some free-agent help in the backcourt.
It's an interesting plan: team LeBron James with Ilgauskas and Redd - or Allen - and Cleveland could quickly move into a contending position in the Eastern Conference.
Ilgauskas earned $14.6 million last season, and he isn't keen on taking much of a pay cut. In April, the Cavs offered him a three- or four-year deal that would have averaged about $10 million annually, but Ilgauskas turned it down.
Seattle center Jerome James isn't a household name, but he was a key to the Sonics' division championship and playoff run. A former second-round pick by Indiana, he didn't do much with the Pacers, but latched on with Seattle and improved as last season went along. A nice payday awaits, either with the Sonics or another team looking for an up-and-coming 7-footer.
Others on the list of unrestricted centers are mostly veteran backup-types such as Andrew DeClerq, Ervin Johnson, Elden Campbell and Dikembe Mutombo.


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File broke off while having a root canal
the dentist broke off a file while doing a root canal and we left it there. about 1 to 2 years later i started having vision trouble in my left eye, head aches and my sinuses on the left side were always plugged up.i have been going back and forth to doctor after doctor and was finally diagnosed with chronic sinusitus. still having no relief from pain and foggy vision surgery was done on my sinuses. after surgery i was checked everything looked good.i went back for another check up 3 months later and the surgeon said my sinuses looked raw.i still had no relief from my original symptoms and kept thinking about the file in the root of my tooth. long story short after seeing a specialist i had the tooth removed. i am still in pain and have infection in that area. what should i do? thanks
At this point, from what you've described, it's difficult to tell whether the infection still lies in a tooth or retained tooth root (which can sometimes infect the sinus), or is now just in your sinuses. It is unlikely that any piece from that file remains, as this would most likely have been apparent on an x-ray or during you surgeries. You do need to get rid of any infection to feel better. I suggest you consider another opinion from an ENT physician, and if that opinion is your sinus is fine, then I would consult an oral surgeon regarding your tooth.
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Kids whose moms took omega-3s while pregnant had less allergies, kids who took multi-vitamins before age four avoided allergies, and kids who took probiotics had stronger immune defenses, three new studies reveal.In an omega-3 study, 145 pregnant women with allergies, or whose husbands or previous children had allergies, took 1,600 mg of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) plus 1,100 mg of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) per day or a placebo. The women started taking the omega-3s at 25 weeks pregnant and continued through the fourth month of nursing. Two percent of kids whose moms took the omega-3s had food allergies compared to 15 percent of those whose moms took the placebo. The researchers also measured eczema—dry, itchy skin rash—and found that 8 percent of kids whose moms took omega-3s had eczema compared to 24 percent for placebo.
In a multi-vitamin study, parents gave researchers lifestyle information for more than 2,400 8-year-olds including vitamin supplements, environmental exposures, and symptoms and diagnoses of allergic diseases. Kids who began taking multi-vitamins before the age of four were 39 percent less likely to have food allergies and allergic runny nose compared to kids who started taking multi-vitamins later in life or who did not take multivitamins.
Doctors in a probiotics study explained that during the first year of life, infants need communities of friendly microorganisms in the intestine to develop a strong and balanced immune response and that, without these healthy living colonies, kids are much more likely to develop asthma and allergies. Researchers analyzed stool samples from six-month-olds who took Lactobacillus casei or a placebo and found that the probiotics group had a greater number and variety of probiotics species. Doctors said these friendly colonies create a stable environment in the intestines that promotes a strong immune response and helps resist disease.


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A major ratings firm announced Wednesday it is reviewing the debt of 30 cities – including Sacramento, Oakland and Fresno – because of the continuing economic pressures in the state.
Moody's Investor Services also announced it was looking to upgrade the ratings of Los Angeles and San Francisco because of steps the cities have taken to reduce their debt and manage their accounts.
Los Angeles also has deferred spending in a number of areas and taken steps to reduce the size of its workforce.
The reviews could affect up to $14.3 billion in bonds issued by cities throughout the state, the company said. Moody's is one of the major credit rating services that determine the interest cities pay to borrow money.
"California cities operate under more rigid revenue-raising constraints than cities in many other parts of the country," said Eric Hoffmann, who heads Moody's California local government ratings team.
"Combined with steeply rising costs, these constraints mean that these cities will likely recover more slowly than their peers nationally, even if the state's economic recovery tracks the nation's."
Los Angeles and San Francisco, however, have shown greater resiliency over the past several years while other cities have been forced into bankruptcy because of their debt.
San Bernardino, Stockton and Mammoth Lakes are among the cities that have declared bankruptcy.
Los Angeles area cities with debt under review for downgrades include Azusa, Downey, Glendale, Huntington Beach, Inglewood, Long Beach, Palmdale, Redondo Beach, Santa Ana, Santa Monica and Torrance, the firm said.


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History of Scott State Park
Scott State Park and the surrounding countryside is one of the most scenic and history-rich locations in Kansas. It is the site of the El Cuartelejo Archeological District, a National Historic Landmark which contains the remains of at least 25 archeological sites. The park lies in a canyon formed by Ladder Creek, which feeds Lake Scott.
Lake Scott was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. However, the story of the area dates at least as far back as ca. 1700, and some evidence indicates early peoples camped in the area in the 1300s. Thousands of ancient artifacts have been found in the area, the result of careful archeological investigations beginning in 1898.
The focal point of the park is the remains of a seven-room pueblo called El Cuartelejo, the most northeastern example of a pueblo in the U.S. The pueblo is thought to have been built by Taos or Picuris Indians who, fleeing Spanish control in the southwest in the late 1600s, took refuge among the Plains Apaches already living in the region. They settled in the canyon, built pueblos and nourished crops with a system of irrigation ditches from a nearby spring.
The remains of El Cuartelejo were first excavated in 1898 by paleontologists from the University of Kansas, who also found evidence of other pueblos in the vicinity. They learned of the site from Herbert Steele, an early homesteader who purchased the land in 1888, and was curious about a mound of dirt, stone and Indian artifacts on his land. Only the foundation was left, but numerous artifacts were found at the site. Steele and his wife lived in a dugout until they built a home from sandstone found along the nearby bluffs. The home still stands and is preserved as a museum in the park.
The Steeles wanted to share the history of this land with the public so, in 1922, they transferred ownership in the two acres surrounding the El Cuartelejo ruins to the Kansas Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). In 1925, the DAR erected a monument at the site to commemorate its historical significance. The monument still stands near the ruins, which are on the National Register of Historic Places.
Once the ruins of the pueblo's foundation were unearthed in 1898, they began to degrade. In 1970, the Kansas Historical Society restored the foundation to its likely appearance when first discovered in 1898. Today, visitors can view the restored foundation and visit the Steele home, the DAR monument, and other sites and near in the park (including Battle Canyon, about one-mile south of the park entrance).
For more detailed information about this Kansas treasure, read the El Cuartelejo brochure or visit this Kansas Historical Society website. ( http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/el-cuartelejo-scott-county/12026 )


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"I just expected to run fast," Te'o said. "I ran faster than I ran at the NFL Combine."
At last month's Combine, Te'o ran a 4.82 in the 40-yard dash, which coupled with his performance in the 2013 BCS National Championship game against the speedier Alabama squad, sent Te'o's draft stock sliding downward at about a 4.2 pace.
However, on Tuesday, Te'o got back into a comfortable environment and his month of speed work paid dividends, as he ran a 4.69.
"I felt good," Te'o said. "I'm at home now. I'm in a place where I'm comfortable. I'm surrounded by people I know. I was pretty pleased with how I performed."
Te'o's draft position according to the experts rates anywhere from second half of the first round to second round. But this off-season has been mentally, emotionally and physically draining in many ways for Te'o. In the wake of his girlfriend scandal, he performed poorly in drills at the Combine and it seemed as if four years of incredible playmaking on the football field had been washed away in the eyes of many.
But not for Te'o.
"It's what you do on tape," Te'o said. "We play football with a helmet on and shoulder pads. All of these tests? It's something that you want to do well at. Whenever you are competing, you want to do well. These tests that we do, it can be frustrating. But it's a great learning opportunity and a great way to go out there and compete."
The critics that question Te'o's ability have said that his speed will factor in his not being able to play much against the pass in the NFL, which is a problem, seeing how the league is a pass-happy group. But Te'o doesn't see his evaluation in that regard.
"The question (NFL teams) have asked is how did I go from no interceptions (as a junior) to seven (as a senior)," Te'o said. "I've been a three-down linebacker my whole life. That is something that I'll work and continue to do."
Te'o has spent the past two-plus months training in Florida and while there, he spent time getting mentored by former Tampa Bay Buccaneer great Derrick Brooks and coach Jon Gruden.
"Whenever you can talk with somebody that has done what you are trying to do," Te'o explained, "it's a great blessing. The most important thing that he told me was that 'At the end of the day, it's football. You go out there and work your butt off and you make sure that you leave no doubt as far as your work ethic.'"
Te'o is returning to South Bend to spend the final weeks of preparation leading up to the draft in a place where he feels supported. He has several visits scheduled with various teams, but really has no clue where he'll end up being selected.
"It's definitely a dream come true," Te'o said of making the NFL. "At the age where you decide 'I want to do this for a living,' draft day is the day that you dream of. When that happens, I'm going to be very happy to spend it with my family that we finally made it."


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Berkeley, California (Thursday, November 04, 2010) - Neighborhood and community organizations who are prepared to be self-sufficient in a major disaster can now apply to get free containers stocked with emergency response equipment from the City of Berkeley.
The Office of Emergency Services now has applications available for the 2011 Community Emergency Supply Program application. Measure GG passed in November of 2008 provided funding for a limited number of emergency supply caches to be awarded to neighborhoods or community organizations that show a high degree of preparedness and organization. The Community Emergency Supply Program has been supporting neighborhood organizations with supplies and training since 2003. There are currently 52 City-awarded disaster equipment caches distributed throughout the city.
"It is essential that every household, family, apartment tenant, neighborhood and community group be prepared to survive for five to seven days on their own, until utilities and services can be restored," said Assistant Fire Chief Sabina Imrie. "This program enhances disaster preparedness in the Berkeley community by giving direct support to neighborhoods and community organizations. No one is prepared until everyone is prepared."
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Turning a Dream into Reality
AU arts patron Sylvia Greenberg always wanted to be on stage. "When I was getting ready for college, I wanted to go to New York and be an actress," says Greenberg. "My father said no, so I never pursued it, but I think being on stage was my big dream."
When theatre professor Carl Menninger learned that 91-year-old Greenberg had never had an opportunity to be an actress, he decided it was time to do something about it.
"I thought, how could we not make this happen?" says Menninger. "She has done so much for AU's Theatre Program. For me, helping turn her dream into reality was a way to thank Sylvia for her tremendous generosity."
A longtime supporter of the arts at AU, Greenberg and her husband, Harold, provided the funding to establish AU's Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theatre. Before it opened in March 2003, students rehearsed and performed in the Experimental Theatre, a small black box space on campus that was missing a backstage. "I really wanted AU students to have a place where they could feel like they were on stage," says Greenberg. "I think a lot of these young people have great talent, and I wanted to give them a place to cultivate that."
Menninger believes the Greenberg Theatre has helped to expand AU's Theatre and Musical Theatre Programs. "The [theatre] program would not be what it is today without her. Since Iarrived at AU 10 years ago, the program has doubled, and in no small part because we have a beautiful facility for students to use," says Menninger. "So, she's always wanted to act, and there's a theatre named after her—why is she not standing on the stage that has her name on it?"
After reading several scripts, Menninger discovered the perfect fit for Greenberg: Amy Herzog's 4,000 Miles. A finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in drama, the play explores the relationship between 21-year-old Leo and his feisty, 91-year-old grandmother, Vera, examining their differences, disagreements, and ultimately, their connection. Greenberg played Vera, which proved to be an ideal role for her.
"I think this show was written for me, because I could really identify with Vera," says Greenberg. "I use the same expressions she uses. I even say the same things [in real life that] she said in the script."
Presented at the Greenberg Theatre on November 24, 2013, Menninger organized the show as a staged reading with AU theatre students. "No one had to memorize anything because we read the script from music stands. We could rehearse as much or as little as Sylvia had time for," says Menninger. "She was terrific—she got a standing ovation. The cast took a bow, and instantly the audience was on their feet."
Aside from fulfilling her dream of being on stage, the performance fueled another passion in Greenberg: working with students. "I've never had more fun, working with Carl and all the young people," says Greenberg. "I've been connected with the students because I've always attended performances, but I never really got that close to them. I enjoyed getting to know them."
For Menninger, the intergenerational component of the play made the experience all the richer. "Because 4,000 Miles is about a grandmother and a grandson, it sparked so many interesting conversations between Sylvia and the students," says Menninger. "One day, we sat there with the young man who played Leo and he talked about his grandparents, and Greenberg talked about her grandson and the challenges of that relationship. There was so much to be learned without ever feeling you were learning anything."
Greenberg hopes that she can continue working with AU students and that her support for the arts will help them succeed. "I think there's a great deal of talent at AU, and I'd love to see these students be successful," says Greenberg. "It would make me feel really good knowing I was a part of that."
More than anything, Greenberg hopes that she can continue acting. "I enjoyed every minute of performing in 4,000 Miles," she says. "I loved the whole experience. I'm ready for the stage now."


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Location: Plant, Soil and Nutrition ResearchTitle: A role for root morphology and related candidate genes in P acquisition efficiency in maize Author
|Desousa, Syliva
|Clark, Randy
|Mendes, Flavia
|De Oliveira, Antonio
|De Vasconcelos, Maria Jose
|Parentoni, Sidney
|Kochian, Leon
|Guimaraes, Claudia
|Magalhaes, Jurandir
Submitted to: Functional Plant Biology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/28/2012
Publication Date: 6/28/2012
Citation: Desousa, S., Clark, R.T., Mendes, F., De Oliveira, A., De Vasconcelos, M., Parentoni, S.N., Kochian, L.V., Guimaraes, C.T., Magalhaes, J.V. 2012. A role for root morphology and related candidate genes in P acquisition efficiency in maize. Functional Plant Biology. DOI: org/10.1071/FP12022. Interpretive Summary: There is a growing understanding about how important root systems are to crop traits such as nutrient and water acquisition. For example, with regards to tolerance to low phosphorous (P) in the soil, it is now known that root system architecture (RSA), or where the plant places different roots in the soil within the entire root system, plays a key role in the ability for the plant to efficiently acquire P from low P environments. In this study we grew a diverse panel of corn lines on low and sufficient P soils in the field to identify P efficient (good yield under low P conditions) and P inefficient lines. Subsequently, these two lines were grown in a paper pouch system that allowed us to supply low or sufficient P nutrient solution and maintain root system architecture, and then a novel root imaging system we was used to digitally image the entire root system, and then quantitatively analyze images to determine root system architecture traits such as total root growth, the total volume the root system explores, and root angle. Statistical analysis of these root traits allowed us to identify root traits that are positively correlated with P efficiency. We also investigated the root expression of a number of genes that are candidates for controlling root growth and architecture and found several of these genes that were expressed much more highly in roots of the P efficient corn line. These findings may help to identify early molecular and physiological markers for P efficiency in corn, and may also provide the basis for identifying molecular determinants of P efficiency for use in crop improvement.
Technical Abstract: Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient for plants and is acquired from the rhizosphere solution as inorganic phosphate. P is one of the least available mineral nutrients particularly in highly weathered, tropical soils, substantially limiting plant growth. This work aimed at studying a possible effect of root morphology and the expression pattern of related candidate genes on P efficiency in maize. Our field phenotyping results under low and high P conditions enabled us to identify two contrasting genotypes for P acquisition efficiency that were used for the root traits studies. Root morphology was assessed in a paper pouch system to investigate root traits that could be involved in P acquisition efficiency. The genes, Rtcs, Bk2 and Rth3, that are known to be involved in root morphology, showed higher expression in the P efficient line relative to the P inefficient line. Overall, root traits showed high heritability and a low coefficient of variation. Out of the 24 root traits analyzed, 10 pair-wise comparisons yielded correlation coefficients exceeding 0.9. In conjunction with a principal component analysis we found that only four root traits were needed to adequately represent the diversity among genotypes. The information generated by this study will be useful for establishing early selection strategies for P efficiency in maize, which are needed to support subsequent molecular and physiological studies.


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THE funeral of former Accrington Stanley manager and chairman Eric Whalley will take place tomorrow afternoon.
The service will take place at St Wulstan's Church in Great Harwood from 1pm.
As a mark of respect, the offices at the Store First Stadium will be closed all day and the flag at the ground has been flying at half mast in memory of Mr Whalley, pictured above right, who passed away at the weekend.
The funeral will be family flowers only and donations can be made to the charity Cancer Research UK.
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The Little Xbox Guys Return This January...
McFarlane Toys is bringing Halo fans a second series of their Halo Avatars, blind bagged mini-figures based on the stylized representations of the Halo characters that are available on the Xbox 360 console.
Halo Avatars Series 2, slated for release this January, consists of eight 2 1/2" tall figures:
- Blue EVA Helmet & Legendary Tee
- Emile
- Anniversary Helmet and Tee
- Blue JFO Helmet & Black Noble Team Tee
- Brute Costume
- Metallic Gold ODST
- Banshee
- Red Spartan Mark VI
Each avatar figure comes disassembled and randomly packaged in a small "blind" foil bag. With a little luck, you might just find the ultra rare Avatar, the Banshee.
Halo Avatars Series 1 (see our story HERE) is available now.
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Photo By: Courtesy of David Buchanan
Andrew Buchanan of Los Altos Hills tied for fourth at last week's Northern California boys golf championships in Patterson.
There are days when an even-par round leaves a competitive golfer feeling less than satisfied. May 20 wasn't one of those days for Andrew Buchanan.
"I was happy to get even par," said the Los Altos Hills resident, who shot a 72 to finish tied for fourth at last week's Northern California Boys Golf Championships in Patterson. "It was really windy."
Those winds – which Buchanan estimated at 20-25 mph – made the rigorous Ranch Course at Diablo Grande Golf & Country Club even more challenging.
Soon after teeing off, Buchanan realized it wasn't going to be a day of record-low rounds for those in the 96-player field, and the Menlo School senior adjusted his expectations accordingly.
"I just tried to keep it around par for most of the day to move on (to state)," he said. "I thought that making par in those windy conditions would probably do it."
Buchanan was right. He finished only four shots behind winner Ryan Maund of Foothill High and easily advanced to the state championships. The top nine individuals – along with the first-, second- and third-place teams – qualified for state, scheduled June 5 at Quail Lodge & Golf Club in Carmel.
"I don't know the course, but I know the field will be really strong," said Buchanan, bound for Southern Methodist University in the fall. "It will be a fun day."
The Quail course is significantly shorter than the one Buchanan played at Diablo Grande, which he described as "short and skinny off the tee." Tee shots that strayed too far left or right often landed in high weeds.
"I lost two balls in the hazards, which led to bogeys," said Buchanan, who had as many bogeys (four) as birdies and made par on the other 10 holes. "It was tough off the tee, but the rest of the course was pretty manageable."
The winds were not, however, making drives more of an adventure. Putting proved crucial, and Buchanan sank some long ones early. He drained a 15-foot birdie putt and a 12-footer for par.
"It was nice to putt well early on," said Buchanan, who birdied two of his first three holes and was 1-under par at the turn. "It gives you confidence and you don't second-guess yourself later on."
Buchanan, who had one of the earliest tee times, capped his round by draining a 10-foot putt for par.
"Not making worse than par was really big," he said. "By staying even, I knew I would make it to state without worrying. It was really comforting and I got to enjoy my lunch."


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Anji Bai tea derives its name from the almost completely white color of its natural leaves. Due to the way it is produced, Anji Bai is considered a green tea, despite its name. Grown high in the mountains of Zhejiang Province, the one bud, one leaf picked from the Bai Cha bush offers a light apple green color and a very smooth, rich and slightly sweet taste. The depth of flavor is often described as "liquid silk". Anji Bai also has a high level of amino acids, which help to reduce cortisol and produce a calming effect.
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Providence District Environmental Workshop
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March 12, 2007
Eighth Annual Providence District Environmental Workshop to Be Held Saturday, March 24
The eighth annual Providence District Environmental Workshop will take place on Saturday, March 24, from 9 a.m. to noon, at the Luther Jackson Middle School, 3020 Gallows Road, Falls Church.
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Hosted by Providence District Supervisor Linda Q. Smyth, this workshop will focus on trees and discuss the benefits trees provide, natural and man-made threats to trees and what the community can do to preserve and protect them. The day's activities include a complimentary breakfast, two workshop sessions, a tree planting demonstration and a panel discussion with experts from the private and public sectors.
The complimentary breakfast will be served from 9 to 9:30 a.m. More than three workshops will be conducted by a variety of private and nonprofit organizations from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. From 10:45 to 11:15 a.m., participants will be able to partake in a tree planting demonstration on the school grounds. From 11:15 a.m. to noon, participants can attend a moderated panel discussion, which includes a question-and-answer session. The Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District also will provide order forms to buy native seedlings and the Fairfax County Master Gardeners will be hosting a plant clinic among the various event display participants.
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One of the best ways to truly see the nature and wildlife that surrounds us is through the lens of a camera. Distant raptors, tiny insects, quiet landscapes: All that nature has to offer takes on a new meaning when viewed as a potential photograph.
Whether you've been toting your camera on hikes for years, love to photograph the birds at your backyard feeder or are just getting started, we have photo tips that will inspire you to get outside, camera in hand!
Keep checking back! We'll be adding many more tips over time.
There's nothing more frustrating to a nature photographer than capturing a once-in-a-lifetime subject with a fuzzy, unsharp image. Photographer and blogger Rob Sheppard shares his tricks for bringing focus to your photos with Five Tips for Getting a Sharper Image and tips for Getting Sharp Pictures Like the Pros.
Pro photographer Rob Sheppard points out some basic techniques to keep in mind, including how to situate a subject within your frame and when to use your flash, which will help enhance all of your nature photos. Check out Three Simple Steps to Better Composition in Your Photos and Making Better Nature Photos.
Pro photographer Rob Sheppard offers tips on getting stunning close-up photographs without a macro lens. Check out Getting Close Without a Macro Lens and Beyond the Macro Lens.
What's easier than photographing nature in your own backyard? Check out How to Photograph Nature Through a Window for tips and tricks on capturing natural-looking photographs.
In their NWF certified habitat, a photography team teaches you how to attract, nurture and photograph a diversity of native animals in Backyard Photography at its Best.
2009 Photo Contest winner Robert Strickland tells us how he transformed his Florida backyard into a haven for wildlife photography in How I Turned My Backyard into a Photozone.
If you are just getting started in wildlife photography, the birds that visit your backyard may be your best subjects: Backyard + Birds = Pretty Pictures.
Nature photographers share their secrets for getting great images of backyard birds in Candid Cameras.
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Ever taken a photograph of a perfect bloom, then realized the image was...underwhelming? Rob Sheppard offers Six Tips for Photographing Flowers that will help ensure your flower photos are as gorgeous as their subjects, as well as Eight Tips for Capturing the Natural Beauty of Flowers and Flower Photos Beyond the Macro Lens.
The secret to getting great photos of butterflies, bees and other bugs: Get close! Rob Sheppard tells you how in his Tips for Photographing Insects and National Wildlife contributor Clay Bolt provides 5 Tips for Better Insect Photography.
Learn tricks for keeping your camera dry and how to work with the rain to produce interesting nature photos in Rob Sheppard's tips on Photographing When It's Wet.
Depending on your technique, images of water can be calm or exciting. Read our tips for photographing water.
Don't use cold weather as an excuse to stop getting outside with your camera! Read our 10 Tips for Winter Photography, then put on your gloves and get shooting.
In the air, in the water and on the ground, wild animals are often on the move. Photographer Daniel Cox tells us how he brings life and motion to wildlife photos in How to Make Your Still Images Move.
In photography, as in life, bigger isn't always better. Rob Sheppard tells how (and why) we should be photographing the small creatures that surround us in Seven Tips for Photographing Small Animals.
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Fire destroys Roseburg nightclub
ROSEBURG, Ore. - A fire destroyed a nightclub and heavily damaged a limousine parked outside Wednesday morning.
A Douglas County Sheriff's deputy noticed smoke coming from the roof of the Chrome Nightclub on Diamond Lake Boulevard around 1:43 a.m.
Firefighters responded and battle the flames for over 2 hours before they were able to bring the fire under control.
The Roseburg Fire Department said crews were putting 3,000 gallons of water per minute on the fire at one point.
Firefighters kept the flames from spreading to any adjacent buildings.
Diamond Lake Boulevard closed as fire crews worked the flames.
The structure, valued over $169,000, appears to be a total loss, the fire department said. The fire destroyed the contents of the building and heavily damaged a limo parked out front.
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212(e) is a mandate to encourage those on an exchange program to use that knowledge that they gained to benefit the home country. The regulation requires that exchange visitors who are subject to the two-year home country residence requirement to return to their "home" countries and be physically present there for a period of 2 years before being eligible to return to the United States in immigrant status.
How Do I know if I am Subject?
Check your visa and DS-2019 for a notation (but remember this may not be correct). An exchange visitor is subject to INA 212(e) requirement, if the following conditions exist:
If the exchange visitor is subject to INA 212(e) requirement, he or she cannot change his or status to that of H, L, K, or immigrant lawful permanent resident (LPR) until he or she has returned to his/her home country for at least two-years or received a waiver of that requirement.
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Once you are subject to the 212(e) requirement, you must fulfill it or obtain a waiver before returning to the US in immigrant status. Although you are not prevented from returning in another non-immigrant status, it may make obtaining a visa somewhat more difficult. For additional information on the 2 year home residency requirement see the Department of State's web page on the Exchange Visitor Program: http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1267.html#15
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I wanted to create a burger that uses the best ingredients from the whole Iberian peninsula, which includes both Spain and Portugal.
I developed this recipe from a pork tenderloin marinade I used and loved. The salsa is my own addition, to help temper the heat of the patty.
With the huge Asian influx in the Seattle area, I grew up eating all kinds of ethnic foods. This Pad Thai like burger is a combination of flavors that really epitomize the area I grew up in.
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I love jerk seasonings and Caribbean flavors in general.
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Grand Theft Auto 3 - the famous game GTA 3 is now on android! Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the bandit city of Liberty City, where the history of GTA games began. You will play for a criminal named Cloud, who by coincidence gets into the thick of events of gangster...read more