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Despite regularly watching the news, first of all I missed the election results; 'A Hung Parliament' I was told,
'yes', I thought, 'I would rather like them all to be hung.'
Then I missed Gordon Brown resigning (after watching the TV for ages I was so bored watching the black door of Number 10 that my eyes shut) and then the Cameron-Clegg combination being agreed (too busy working this time). Oh well, I was obviously not meant to partake more than that, serves me right for living in France! Not that any of it really matters to me anyway, we'll probably be voting again in less than a year.
I didn't manage to miss two stories that would further confirm the circus politics and electoral saga in the UK:
1) Boy 14 voted – investigated by police. Yes, the incompetent people organizing the voting not only didn't know whether to let people vote or not, but they also let a child vote!
2) Councillor looses seat by draw of a card. A Tory former councillor lost his seat to a Labour opponent after they obtained an equal number of votes and the winner was decided by drawing a playing card… the highest number wins. WHAT? Maybe this is democratic but it seems absolutely mental to me.
Doesn't the political voting system seem more logical in France somehow? I honestly never thought I would even think yet alone say out loud such a thing but the events of the past week have changed my mind!


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Oil City Community Alliance Church
Friday, June 05, 2020
Pursuing Jesus Christ, building His kingdom, and proclaiming His offer of freedom, healing, and life!
Worship Service
Date: Sunday, March 29, 2020
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: OCCA
Join us for worship on Sunday mornings! The dress is casual (though you can dress up if you want), and our pastor teaches Biblical sermons that are relevant to current life and culture in the Oil City region! We also have Children's Church available after the worship music (during the sermon time) for K-2nd grades.Previous Page

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When it comes to building investment portfolios that can meet client needs regardless of how the markets and the economy are behaving, advisors are eager to use insights from world-class money managers. That's exactly what will be delivered by two winners of the Investment Advisor/Envestnet |Prima 2013 SMA Managers of the Year awards in a web seminar on Thursday at 2 p.m.
During the free one-hour session, David Rolfe, chief investment officer of Wedgewood Partners, and Mary Fitzgerald Kane, portfolio manager for Gannett, Welsh & Kotler, will be guided by Envestnet Vice Chairman Gib Watson in an exploration of each manager's unique alpha thesis and investment process, and will address the challenges that the markets and the economy are likely to present to advisors and their clients for the rest of 2013.
In a ceremony during the Envestnet Advisor Summit on May 1, Rolfe and St. Louis-based Wedgewood were named an SMA Manager of the Year in the U.S. large-cap equity category for their Large Cap Focused Growth strategy (Wedgewood won in the same category in 2011). Rolfe (left) was also named the inaugural overall SMA Manager of the Year, acknowledging his "deep experience and sole focus on this strategy that gives this team a competitive edge" over his peers in both the large-cap space and in the entire SMA universe.
In that same ceremony on May 1 in Chicago (see our news article on all the winners) in which the 9th annual SMA Managers of the Year awards were announced, Kane and GW&K were named an SMA Manager of the Year in the fixed-income category for their Enhanced Core Bond Strategy. GW&K also was named a manager of the year in 2013 for its Small-/Mid-Cap Equity Strategy, and last year, the Boston-based firm won SMA Manager of the Year for its municipal bond strategy.
During the Thursday seminar, the two managers—both CFAs—will explain their strategies, suggest where they might fit into a client's portfolio, and look ahead for what the rest of the year will hold for both equities and fixed income.
As we wrote in the June 2013 cover story on the SMA Managers of the Year, Wedgewood's large-cap strategy seeks to identify stocks that the investing team believes are mispriced in the short term. Relying on bottom-up research, the 18-22 positions in the strategy are chosen based on what the Wedgewood team believes are those companies' ability to sustain superior profitability relative to their competition. Looking at its investments as business owners rather than as investors focused on shorter-term trends, the stocks in the portfolio must also have the potential to grow profits at a double-digit rate over a full market cycle, financial strength, compelling valuations and a unique business model relative to the strategy's other holdings.
As for GW&K's Enhanced Core Bond Strategy, Kane (left) and her team are active bond managers who use top-down analysis to determine the overall sector allocation of the portfolio along with the firm's own bottom-up fundamental research to select individual securities for the portfolio. The team does not attempt to forecast short-term interest rates, but its research and analysis allows it to form a view of the business cycle and the longer-term outlook for interest rates, which then determines sector allocation, maturity and duration benchmarks for the portfolio.
We invite you to register for the June 6 seminar.
We also invite you to read more about the SMA Managers of the Year on our special landing page, which includes video interviews with David Rolfe of Wedgewood and Mary Fitzgerald Kane of GW&K.


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Get Out Of My Bathroom
I am a good tipper. I always have been. I tip for food and cabs and help with my luggage, and anything else that seems appropriate. But I see no reason to tip someone that helps me wash my hands against my will.
I am very good at washing my hands; I've been doing it for years. I'm so good at washing my hands, I can even do it in a restaurant bathroom. I turn the water on, pump some soap when available, run my hands under the faucet while rubbing them together, and dry off with a paper towel. I could do it a million times in a row without making a mistake. But if a restroom attendant watches me to make sure, I'm supposed to give him a dollar.
By society standards, a restroom attendant is considered a classy element of a nice restaurant. By my standards, I consider him a complete nuisance.
Let's start with the aspect of the tip. Next to the captain of the S.S. Urinal is always a tip jar. Why? The reason I tip other people in the service industry is because I couldn't do the job myself. I can't get my own food at a restaurant, I can't drive my own cab, and I can't always get all my bags myself. But without a rest room attendant, my life would improve. I could wash my hands just the same, and I wouldn't have to worry about someone watching me pee.
It is awkward to pee in front of someone else. Especially when that someone is just standing there, waiting for me to finish. When guys go to the bathroom, they pretend there are no other guys anywhere near them. That gets a lot harder when a guy two feet away is wearing a blazer and calling you sir.
Guys are hung up about this, and we always will be. I don't think the fear stems from homophobia; it's a fear that we're doing it wrong. I've seen grown men approach urinals and not use any hands. I've even seen one man put his hands in back of his head like he was being robbed. And while my instinct said, "freak!" in the back of MY head I wondered if that was how I'm supposed to do it. Maybe I'll ask the bathroom attendant. He seems to have no other purpose beyond answering my riddles three.
Well, he does often have a basket of mints. And if there's one time I'd like a mint, it's when they're kept in the bathroom. I know the mints are individually wrapped, but there's still a chance some bathroom vapors crept inside. And I know my fear is irrational, but so is keeping mints in a bathroom.
There is the argument that I should tip the attendant because he has a crappy job and depends on us to make a living. Until there are no "help wanted" signs left in any Burger King, I don't buy that logic. That person, while applying for jobs, picked the one located directly on my path from the sink to the door. You know what? Homeless people also ask me for money in exchange for doing nothing. But I give it to them more often because they don't stand there watching me pee.
The one good thing about bathroom attendants is they keep crazy stuff from going on in the bathroom. Let's be realistic - bathrooms are places that get messy easily, and that are often home to much illegal activity due to the prevention of cameras. But let's stay realistic - the restaurants that need to watch their bathrooms carefully are rarely those that do. The worst five-star restaurant bathroom, even sans attendant, looks nicer than the nicest bathroom in Starbucks history. When the bathroom key is attached to an empty syrup bottle, you're much more likely to stumble in on a crime scene. Or something that looks like you just missed stumbling in on a crime scene. Or something that smells like someone exploded while stumbling in on a crime scene.
I'm not sure of the solution to my bathroom attendant predicament. For now, I just ignore the guy and leave. But occasionally I'll be in a place with an attendant for a few hours. And since my bladder is the size of a mint, I often visit the bathroom a few times during that stretch. Which gets increasingly awkward each time.
"Hey, I remember you. You're the guy that keeps leaving without a tip."
"I apologize. Here's a tip - stop watching me pee."


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The Ray I. Riley Reading and Digital Preservation Room is located on the third floor of Moody Memorial Library[map]
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The automaker plans to have four of these IT development centers in the U.S. GM last month opened one in Austin, Texas, where it plans to hire up to 500 people. The other locations haven't been announced. Mott said the centers' locations would be chosen based on the quality of talent they'll be able to attract, including their proximity to universities.
GM has relied on outsourcers for about 90% of its IT work, from developing software to operating data centers. Mott, who was named GM CIO in February, intends to reverse that percentage, bringing 90% of the company's IT work in-house and using outsourcers for just 10%. It's a high-risk strategy change that will mean hiring thousands of tech pros and building a new culture of IT innovation and collaboration with the rest of GM. But Mott maintains that IT staffers will better understand the automotive industry and thus come up with more innovative ways to use technology than outsourcers could.
[ Want more on GM's hiring? Read GM CIO: Why We're Hiring Recent College Grads. ]
GM already has a data center in Warren, north of Detroit, that will be the site of one of GM's two global data centers. GM plans to consolidate its more than 20 data centers into two. The new development center is at the same location as the data center. The company says it has jobs available in software development, project management, database management, and business analysis, and that it's recruiting recent college graduates and experienced professionals (Applications at careers.gm.com/itjobs.)


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Rapid City, Sd — The Rapid City (SD) YMCA is calling it quits on a proposed $13.2 million expansion to its facility. After two years of fund-raising, the Y had raised about $8 million.
"We're tickled with knowing what we have raised, but the glaring fact is we're $6 million short," Roger Gallimore, Y executive director, told the Rapid City Journal.
The expansion was intended to add parking and meet the growing programming needs of the Y, the newspaper reported. The original plan was to build a four-story parking garage with a fifth floor that housed a 15,000-square-foot wellness center and an indoor track. The building was to be funded by donations.
Gallimore told the newspaper that construction costs were considerably higher than they were at the time of the planning. The project was ultimately abandoned because the Y's board of directors didn't want to put the Y's other program at risk.
Close to 600 businesses, foundations and individuals donated to the project. Donors have the option of having their gift returned or adding it to the Y's endowment fund or capital reserve.
"We're going to continue to aggressively pursue capital options to hit those key areas: after-school, wellness and child care," Gallimore told the newspaper. "This doesn't mean that the YMCA is going to stop."


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This weekend concluded the back-to-back Tire Rack SCCA weekends in Ft Myers, Florida with the 2nd annual Tire Rack Ft Myers ProSolo. The two big debuts for this event were the RaceChick contingency supporting the ladies classes as well as the first properly deep field of SSC entries. For her 2nd place finish in the Ladies Challenge, from the SSCL-filled L4 class, Jennifer Bedell earned a $50 Gift Certificate from RaceChick.
While there was some rain on Saturday, it was mild enough that the classes on street tires still ran. Unlike the other tour events where the fastest time from each session counts, a Pro Solo counts the fastest left and right side times from the whole weekend. This meant that the runs in the rain were basically just for fun, but they were fun!
The Super Challenge had some early departures as well as cars with multiple drivers and classes. Three competitors in a Porsche 997 GT3 were changing tires between runs, with some drivers in SSR and others in SS. David Lineberry lucked out and advanced all the way to the top four because his first three match-ups all departed early, giving him three bye runs. He finished third overall; sometimes being lucky is as good as being skilled.
Pro Solo isn't just for pros; there were some pros in attendance but we had all levels of driver experience and car prep. It's the most fun and excitement you'll have autocrossing. The drag strip starts and mirrored course add a whole new element of tension and adrenaline to the experience.
Despite his Fiesta ST going into limp mode on his last Super Challenge Run, Mike King claimed the event's top honors.
Challenge Winners:
Super Challenge: Mike King, H Street Fiesta ST
Ladies Challenge: Nicole Wong, L1 Chevrolet Grand Sport
Bonus Challenge: William Gravely, AS Porsche 911 40AE GT
Complete class and challenge results may be found here.


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Massachusetts Senate Hopefuls Tapping Diverse Donor Bases
For what could be the most expensive Senate election in Massachusetts history, Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is relying heavily on donations from the financial services and health care sectors while his chief Democratic rival, Elizabeth Warren, is tapping the wallets of lawyers, fellow academics, union members and filmmakers.
Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is relying heavily on donations from the financial services and health care sectors while his chief Democratic rival, Elizabeth Warren, is tapping the wallets of lawyers, fellow academics, union members and filmmakers.
The race for cash comes as the two bulk up their campaign accounts for what could be the most expensive Senate election in Massachusetts history.
Brown pulled in more than $880,000 last year in donations from bankers, investors, venture capitalists, private equity professionals and others working in the financial services sector, according to an Associated Press analysis of itemized campaign contributions filed with the Federal Election Commission.
The donors worked for firms including Goldman Sachs, Fidelity Investments, J.P. Morgan, Barclays Capital, Bain Capital, BNY Mellon, State Street Bank and Credit Suisse.
That's in addition to the $60,000 Brown accepted from political action committees representing the financial services industry.
Warren received far less — about $175,000 — from individual donors in the financial services sector.
Warren took in far more than Brown from lawyers, collecting nearly $700,000 from attorneys compared to Brown's $348,000.
In an even starker contrast, Warren — a consumer advocate and Harvard Law School professor — received more than $309,000 from backers who identified their profession as professor. She's also a hit with her fellow Ivy Leaguers, collecting more than $100,000 from donors associated with Harvard University.
Brown received just $22,000, from professors.
Warren has also pulled in checks from the entertainment industry, including Hollywood heavyweights like Barbra Streisand, Danny DeVito and Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, each of whom donated $2,500.
Self-described writers, filmmakers, film editors and artists contributed more than $203,000 in itemized donations to Warren compared to Brown, who pulled in less than $15,000 from the same group.
Candidates are required to list itemized contributions from individuals who donate more than $200 to their campaigns.
Both candidates also received support from the health care and pharmaceutical industry.
Brown received about $185,000 in itemized donations from doctors, nurses, dentists, medical device manufacturers, health care executives and those working for health care providers including Fallon, Harvard Vanguard, Partners Health Care, Steward Health Care, Covidien, Massachusetts General Hospital and Sanofi Aventis.
Brown also received another $123,850 from political action committees representing the health care and pharmaceutical sector.
Warren received more than $165,000 from the health care industry, but she collected more from individual doctors and nurses who donated more than $136,000 to her compared to $69,648 to Brown.
Brown has also received the backing of local fishermen, boat captains and workers in the seafood industry who contributed nearly $29,000 to his re-election campaign. Warren received virtually no contributions from local fishermen.
Brown's campaign has played up his in-state donations during the current election cycle.
"Unlike Professor Warren who is heavily reliant on out-of-state money from Hollywood elites and far-left liberals, Scott Brown is proud of the broad base of support he has received from within Massachusetts," said spokesman Colin Reed.
Warren's campaign was quick to point out that Brown received a torrent of out-of-state money during the last few weeks of the 2010 special election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of the late Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy.
They said Warren has relied on smaller individual donations than Brown. Democrats have tried to paint Brown as "one of Wall Street's favorite senators."
"Elizabeth's fight for middle-class families continues to gain strong grassroots support here at home, with more than 23,000 people in Massachusetts contributing an average donation of $64." said campaign press secretary Alethea Harney. "People here and across the country want Elizabeth in the United States Senate taking on the big banks and special interests."
There's also a significant difference in how much each candidate raised outside Massachusetts. Warren collected 63 percent of her itemized donations from outside the state compared to about 40 percent for Brown.
Warren relied heavily on help from donors in California, New York and Washington, D.C. More than 17 percent of her itemized donations came from California, compared to 12 percent from New York and 9 percent from the nation's capital.
Outside Massachusetts, Brown relied more heavily from donors in New York, who contributed nearly 8 percent of his itemized receipts, followed by California, Illinois and Connecticut, each of which contributed less than 4 percent.
The reports also show Brown collected far more than Warren from political action committees in 2011.
Brown pulled in $1.6 million from PACs, more than ten times the $142,000 collected by Warren, who entered the race in September.
Among the PACs donating to Brown were groups representing defense contractors like Lockheed Martin Corp., Boeing Co., and General Dynamics Corp. He also received more than $30,000 in individual donations from workers and administrators at Raytheon.
Brown serves on the Senate Armed Services, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs committees.
Many of the PACs supporting Warren represent labor unions, including the Sheet Metal Workers International Association, the Laborer's International Union and the American Federation of Government Employees.
Brown, the only Republican in Massachusetts' congressional delegation, is facing a tough re-election campaign.
Although one recent poll showed him with a 9 percentage point lead over Warren, other polls have had the two locked in a tight race. Brown has cast himself as the underdog in a state where voters generally favor Democrats.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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Cops Reportedly Called on Selena Gomez's House Party [PHOTO]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Just hours after we reported that Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber are back together, TMZ claims that the police were called to Gomez's house last night (June 17) due to a noise complaint from her neighbors.
According to the site, neighbors from Gomez's neighborhood in Hidden Hills, Calif., contacted the cops around 11:30 PM, and police showed up to warn the singer and her friends to tone it down. One neighbor allegedly said that the noise from Gomez's home was so loud that her "windows were rattling."
Gomez herself even posted a photo from the night on Instagram, captioning it: "Tacos, live music and candles. such a beautiful night with beautiful people." Check out the photo below.
According to TMZ, sources close to Gomez's family think that the noise complaint is linked to her reconciliation with the Biebs. Though Gomez allegedly got back with Bieber because he "cleaned up his act," other insiders are claiming that Bieber is actually a bad influence on the former Disney star.
Beliebers + Selenators, what do you think?


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[I apologize in advance if this post is not appropriate for the OpenCL forum.]
As part of the Open Toolkit project, I have implemented a C# wrapper for the OpenCL flat API. The first preview release is now publicly available for testing: if you are interested in using OpenCL from .Net, please take a look into the OpenTK.Compute namespace.
[li]The bindings are CLS-compliant and usable by all .Net and Mono languages (C#, VB.Net, …)[/16d5z31g][/li][li]They can be used along with the rest of the Open Toolkit (OpenGL/OpenAL), but theirsource is also usable stand-alone.[/16d5z31g][/li][li]The source is released under the MIT/X11 license and can be used in both open- and closed-source projects.[/*16d5z31g][/ul][/li]The current plan is to stabilize the flat API, before layering OO sugar on top (modeled after the C++ headers).
Since I do not have access to an OpenCL implementation at this point, any and all feedback appreciated.


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Rafi Santo (@empathetics) is a "new media & learning theorist, educator, technologist, activist, researcher, photographer, meditator, cook, [and] learner". Doug Belshaw, co-kickstarter of Purpos/ed, interviewed Rafi earlier this month about his views on the purpose(s) of education as well as his work on 'hacker literacies'.
The embedded media player should appear below, but if not, the interview can be found on archive.org.
(if you're interested in the concept of 'hacker literacies', Rafi's just had a paper published)


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The most common problem among Hard disk drives is a bad sector. There are two types of bad sectors: logical and physical. While logical bad sectors are easily fixed using particular software, physical bad sectors can be irreparable. But it doesn't mean there is absolutely no hope. There is still a chance to recover them depending on how "deep" they are. So, below I am going to consider only physical bad sectors, their symptoms, reasons for appearing, types and ways for possible maintenance.
There are mainly two symptoms you can come across with:
1. Blue screen of death appears often showing the error code indicating that a memory read attempt failed. It follows with inevitable restarting and the next blue screen follows pretty soon with similar error code again. The same message is displayed when there is a problem with DDR memory. But memory modules are easily replaced, or even repaired by replacing the bad chip.
2. Operating system doesn't boot with a message showing that some system files can't be found.
One of the reasons for bad sectors is that some areas of HDD, which are most often used, "wear out" and become harder to read and finally, completely inaccessible. Though it is possible to "recover" these sectors using some applications, it is better to get a new HDD for usage as the main system drive and the repaired one use for other purposes. The reason is that even though the bad sector is fixed, all your data is safe and the HDD is working again, there is a risk that the previous or the next sectors are also about to crash soon. Using for additional storage purposes is not the worst choice for such hard drive.
Another reason for physical bad sectors is a shock, which exceeds the acceptable limits, especially, inflicted while the HDD is operating. In this case numerous bad sectors are almost unavoidable. Usually, after such an accident HDD comes to an absolutely useless condition, when it will keep making a specific sound trying to start spinning, but never will. Imagine a disk rotating with the velocity of over 5000 rpm. Is it possible to make a single dot on it by touching it with, let's say a pencil? The answer is "No". It is absolutely impossible to avoid a nice clear circle instead of a dot. For an HDD such a circle means a huge area of storage, which is inaccessible.
Nowadays, the HDDs have average size of 500 GB and the price ranges around $70. This is an affordable price, but the information contained in HDD might be more expensive. So, such problems as described above need some solutions, and favorably with positive results. As I mentioned, depending on the situation you are, you can use software, which in most cases are helpful. These kinds of applications are able to access the drive regardless the file system and recover the data and even the bad sectors. If you are not sure or it seems that the HDD is completely dead, probably, it is better to have the job done by a professional.


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Firearms License Application Process – Paper Applications No Longer Accepted
Paper Applications No Longer Accepted
Indianapolis, IN – The process to apply for a license to carry a firearm is transitioning from a paper process to an electronic application. This will streamline the application process for citizens as well as the processing completed by local agencies and the Indiana State Police.
The electronic application process already existed, but an enhanced version will be available on Monday, March 25, 2013. It will no longer be necessary to print a completed application and mail it to the state police for processing. A properly completed firearm license application will be transmitted from the applicant's computer to the proper police agency for approval. Once approved by the local police authority the application is electronically transmitted to the Indiana State Police Firearms Section for further processing.
Part of the application process includes having a set of fingerprints associated with the license application. While most fingerprints are submitted electronically, some are still submitted on paper fingerprint cards. Effective May 15, 2013 only electronic fingerprints will be accepted. As citizens complete their application they will be directed to a list of locations for electronic fingerprinting. There are currently more than 60 locations statewide, serviced by Morpho Trust USA, that provide electronic fingerprint services.
For locations and information about this vendor, visit this link:http://www.l1enrollment.com/state/?st=in.
To start the firearm license application process, visit this link:http://www.in.gov/isp/2828.htm


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Jordan Goldstein
Principal/ Managing Director, Gensler
M.ARCH University of Pennsylvania; B.S. Architecture 94' University of Maryland
Goldstein co-leads Gensler's Washington DC office's 7 design studios and 275 staff, focusing on the vision, strategic direction and business operations. In addition to office leadership, I also lead design teams focusing on commercial office buildings, workplace and restaurants. He is a firm believer in the importance of design education and teaches a graduate course on product design at the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Design each fall. Through an interdisciplinary workshop approach, students work firsthand with manufacturers and are guided through the product design process from design brief to scaled prototypes all in one semester.


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A Piece of Love and Humanity
At a fundraising dinner for a school that served children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered an unforgettable speech.
"I believe", he began, "that when a child like Shay, who was physically and mentally disabled, comes into the world an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child."
He then went on to tell a story about the time he and Shay walked past a park where boys Shay knew were playing baseball. When Shay expressed an interest in playing ball despite his handicap, his father approached one of the boys on the field and asked if Shay could play.
"We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning," was the reply, "but I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him to bat in the ninth inning."
Shay's team scored three runs in the eighth inning but still entered the bottom of the ninth three runs behind. They managed to get the bases loaded with two out, and Shay was scheduled to bat. Not only did his team let him but the opposing team did everything possible — intentionally making wild throws with the ball Shay softly hit – so that Shay could be credited with a grand slam and win the game for his team.
"That day," said the father softly, with tears in his eyes, "the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world. Shay didn't make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making me so happy, and coming home and seeing his mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day."


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Brian Ryman enters his 15th year as the director of operations for the Lipscomb athletics department.
Ryman served as director of baseball operations in 2006. He was named an assistant coach for the 2007 and 2008 seasons before returning as director of baseball operations in 2009 and 2010. In 2011 Ryman began to serve as the Director of Operations for the entire department as well as director of baseball operations.
Ryman's responsibilities with the baseball program include managing baseball camps, over seeing fundraising, team travel, on-campus recruiting, and summer league placement for the Lipscomb players.
Ryman is also baseball's liaison with Lipscomb athletics compliance. He also works closely with the National Bison Club and the Lipscomb Baseball Alumni, organizing various team events throughout the year, and he helps coordinate the Lipscomb Baseball Alumni & Friends Golf Tournament.
A native of Jefferson City, Tenn., Ryman served as a manager and student assistant at the University of Tennessee. During his time with the Vols, the team went to three SEC tournaments, three regionals, and one super regional, and the College World Series in 2005.
Ryman was born May 30, 1980. His late father, Keith, was a scout for the Chicago Cubs and his brother played at Carson- Newman College. He attended Jefferson County High School, Hiwassee College and The University of Tennessee.
Ryman was named head coach of the Nashville Outlaws, a collegiate summer league team, in February of 2010.
Ryman is married to the former Kristin Peck who is the head softball coach at Lipscomb University. The couple resides in Nashville, Tenn.


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:: i printed out pictures of gavin's first year and strung them all over the house ::
:: gift bags for cousins – planned/picked/stuffed by big brother ::
:: lemon cream cheese cupcakes! ::
:: presents from all of gavin's lovies::
a shaker rattle handmade by faith + asher
a bob marley shirt from kody + jade + regg
a handful of happily wrapped goodies grandpa stowed on the plane from grammy's house
the biggest-most-loved-orange-bouncy-ball-ever! from amelia + uncle jeffrey
:: birthday hat – handmade by his crafty cousin faith astoria ::
:: a bucket of gavin pictures to thumb through while washing cupcakes down with IBC root beer ::
i promise you that despite the picture below -
grouchy gavin did manage to smile and enjoy himself during his quick lil' celebration.
the giant orange ball was all the party rage.
happiest i've ever seen him in his whole 365 days!
silly, silly boy - i love him so.


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Walking Honolulu's Queen Street
Where Honolulu's urban past and future meet.
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It's easy to overlook Queen Street. Unlike King Street, Ala Moana Boulevard and the other crosstown thoroughfares, Queen Street is simply a back street. It's just 1.4 miles long, and, while it's useful for zipping between Ala Moana Center and downtown, it won't get you anyplace by car that you couldn't also walk to if you set your mind to it. Unless you have specific business on Queen Street, it might be a stranger to you. But it's worth getting to know. In 12 blocks it runs from the glass canyons of downtown, through the attorney-saturated Capitol District, along Kakaako's somewhat seedy automotive corridor, and ends amid the high-rise condos and fresh concrete curbsides of urban renewal. Queen Street is rich in both character and characters. Join us as we explore some of its variety.
Site of Kekuanohu, The Old Fort
In 1816, following a delusional Russian doctor's attempt to claim Hawaii for the tsar, the Hawaiians built a fort heavily armed with cannons to keep unwanted visitors out of Honolulu Harbor. The fort's massive, 12-foot walls were torn apart in 1857 and used to fill the harbor to accommodate an expanding downtown. Today, in a small park at the corner of Queen and Fort streets, a single cannon can be found where the fort once stood, still aimed at the mouth of the harbor, but not deterring anyone. Fort Street Mall and Queen Street.
Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation (DOBOR)
At the corner of Queen and Richards streets, on the cusp of the downtown financial and government districts, stands a 10-story, modernist office building with a mix of law offices and state-government agencies. DOBOR is among the latter. When long-time swimmers at Ala Moana Beach Park objected to the appearance of stand-up paddle boarders, it was DOBOR that set up lanes to separate the two. In addition to refereeing such cases, the agency regulates fishing tournaments, surf contests and other ocean events. It manages public boat ramps, moorings and other marine facilities. It registers vessels, promotes water safety and—when it has the chance—advocates sharing. "The pie isn't getting any bigger, and slices are getting smaller," says agency official Clifford Inn. "Today it's paddle boards, tomorrow, who knows? Jetpacks? Hovercraft?" 333 Queen St., Room 300, 587-1972.
Family Drug Court
The actual courtroom moved from downtown to the new Kapolei Courthouse in 2010, but the program's offices—where the case workers and stuffed-animal toys are found—stayed behind. Through a combination of treatment, sanctions and relentless drug testing, the Family Drug Court helps parents hobbled by substance abuse regain custody of their children. "We try to help parents get their heads out of their butts, so to speak, so they can raise their own kids," says Jim Lutte, Family Drug Court coordinator. 345 Queen St., No. 302, 534-6600.
Hale Auhau
The name literally translates as "tax house," which is precisely the purpose for which the Works Project Administration built this beautiful Spanish-style government building in 1939—a rather meta instance of New Deal stimulus spending going toward the construction of a place where revenue for stimulus spending was collected. The Department of Taxation moved out 20 years ago, and the Department of the Attorney General got the keys. The attorney general's office is the largest law firm in Hawai'i, with 180 lawyers on staff. Not all of them work at Hale Auhau, though. 425 Queen St., 586-1500.


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Wilshere admitted his return from six weeks out offered little in the way of a dynamic drive as he laboured through an hour against Norwich on Saturday, but Wenger maintains he will have to carefully manage all of the options available with Wilshere likely to be on the bench as Tomas Rosicky comes into the starting XI for Monday night's match with Everton.
Wenger insists the gamble on Wilshere's fitness is one he will not take again. "I rushed Jack back a bit. He was not completely ready," Wenger said on Arsenal Player. "How careful have I to be? To listen well to the medical advice and that is what I have to do, use him when everything is all right and listen to him as well, how he feels."
He added: "Jack has been out for six weeks, so maybe it was a bit too rushed what I did. I will get advice from the medical department and how he feels as well and as well use my experience and the fact I know him very well. He practices with me since he was 16, so I know quite well how his body responds to things."
The Frenchman went on to say: "We play again on Saturday, so it is important to make the right decisions and find the right balance in the team because all these players are super quality," said Wenger, whose side moved up to third on Sunday. "You must keep the spirit and overall focus of everybody. that is the most important thing."
Wilshere, meanwhile, accepts he probably needs a bit more time to fire on all cylinders again. "I know it was only six weeks, but you still lose your match sharpness and it takes a few games to come," Wilshere said.
"It was frustrating, because I was flying just before I got injured in March. I felt good, confident, and then picked up another injury.
"Things then drag a little and you lose your sharpness, but this time it wasn't anything like as long as the one before, so hopefully this time I can get it back more quickly.
"I needed that game on Saturday - you always need your first one out of the way.
"I wasn't great, I know it myself, I am better than that, but you need just to get that first game in so that your sharpness and understanding come back."
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"Lunatic" - the word derives from the Latin word "luna", meaning moon, and stems from an ancient belief that certain people are driven insane by the presence of a full moon.
We were still two days away from a full moon Wednesday afternoon, so how to explain the two lunatics I saw who were driving insane within about a five minute span around 3:05 p.m. on the 401 eastbound, between the DVP and Kennedy Road?
They were both in white vans. Co-incidence? Who knows?
The first was in a Kia Sedona minivan. I could see him - I think it was a male; hard to tell these days with heavily-tinted windows - coming behind me, weaving in and out of various lanes, cutting off other largely-unsuspecting drivers, making a complete - um, human exhaust emissions outlet port of himself.
He eventually took the collector lanes, and I lost sight of him.
Seconds later, there was another white minivan on my tail, this time a Pontiac Aztek. Again it was hard to tell, but it might even have been a female driver. I'll assume so, for the sake of pronoun consistency.
She was so close to my rear bumper that not only could I not see her front bumper in my rear view mirror, I couldn't even see her hood. She couldn't have been more than a metre away.
Regular readers know I always drive in the right-most lane whenever possible, not just because it is the "Jim-Only" lane, but because it is the lane that safety, courtesy, and the law demand that you drive in.
But at this particular moment, I was in the left-most lane, passing other cars.
It wasn't as if I was exactly hanging around blocking traffic. It was pretty busy, all lanes pretty solid, although moving well at around the "real" speed limit (a buck-twenty).
Yes, there were a few car lengths of space ahead of me - I had to leave room not only for myself in case I had to brake, but room for this idiot behind me too.
My habit is always to let these jerks go on ahead and have their crash with somebody else, but again, there was no room to my right to pull over safely. Besides, where was she going to go?
As it turns out, traffic did start to slow, and I had to brake. Again I did as I always do in cases like this - tapped the brake pedal to light up my brake lights, but kept my foot on the accelerator in case she didn't slow down in time and I had to prevent her from ramming in to me.
When she saw the brake lights she stabbed at her brakes - I could see the nose of her Aztek dip (with a nose like the Aztek's, it's hard to miss) and she swerved onto the shoulder, afraid she would in fact hit me.
Would you not think this might serve as a wake-up call to this driver?
As soon as traffic returned to normal speed, there she was, a metre off my tail again.
What goes through people's minds who drive like this?
Not much, apparently.
I was in a brand-new BMW. Did she really think her brakes were likely to be better than mine?
I somewhat uncharitably thought - well if I drove an Aztek, I might want to get the heck off the highway as quickly as possible too, before anybody recognized me.
But seriously: did she have a sick child in the car? Did she have to pee? Was she late for work? Or a nails appointment?
What could possibly be important enough that running a very substantial risk of having a serious crash at a pretty high speed made any sense whatsoever, to gain at most a few seconds to her destination?
She eventually cut somebody off on the right, and rocketed on down the road.
Where are Julian Fantino's troopers when you need them?
DGMS - Don't Get Me Started.
Then I thought, somewhat immodestly, that it was a good job it was me she was tailgating. An awful lot of drivers would have responded to her aggressiveness with more of their own, which would very likely have escalated it into a potential tragedy, as so often happens on our roads these days.
What, my too-fertile imagination then wondered, if she had tried to pull this stunt on her fellow human exhaust emissions outlet port in the white Kia Sedona?
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Following the club's 2-1 defeat on Wednesday at home, Sporting Director and Head Coach Gregg Berhalter spoke to the media on the turnaround needed ahead of Saturday ... said Berhalter: "We're not victims in this whole thing. The way we perform we didn't deserve to win that game and it wasn't a pretty soccer game all around. The whole thing wasn't pretty. Our job is to come out here and entertain the fans and play attractive soccer and we didn't do that we didn't live up to our end of the bargain tonight. It was hesitancy, it was guys not moving and it's too bad because especially when they got the red card we could have gotten more out of that and we didn't."
Crew defenders Waylon Francis and Giancarlo Gonzalez represented the Crew in Brazil during the 2014 FIFA World Cup and returned on Wednesday with a start after meeting the team in New York last weekend ... Gonzalez started and played in every single match for The Ticos ... Gonzalez also added successful spot kicks during penalty kicks on June 29 as Costa Rica advanced past Greece and in the team's final match against the Netherlands on July 5 in the Quarterfinals.
With his assist on Adam Bedell's goal in New York on July 12, Ethan Finlay has scored a goal or an assist in six of the last eight League matches he's played in dating back to May 17 at Portland ... Finlay scored his first career tally in Oregon before returning home for a second goal against Chicago on May 24 ... on May 31 in Toronto, Finlay added an assist on Justin Meram's tally to open the scoring before scoring on June 4... the Crew was held scoreless in the 0-0 draw on June 7 and Finlay missed action on June 29 ... he returned with the team's lone goal in the 1-1 draw at Colorado on July 4 ... the Crew earned an own goal on Wednesday night against Sporting KC in just the second match in eight League contests Finlay has played in of late in which he did not record a goal or an assist.


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For a long time we did not have any applications related to something more serious except the games, it's time to improve, so I suggest an excellent piece to work on android;)
So we got to the messenger from the famous Facebook developer, who is once again ready to offer us some new content and new features, how useful will it be?
A new version of the application of one of the most popular social networks in the world ... Which, by the way, may not be familiar to many, and this is what we will try to fix!
Another messenger? Yes, that's right. Of course, with the next set of some functions that someone needs, someone is needed, and some are completely useless ...
And today a little corporate, and to be more precise, it's the history of the browser, which appeared not just and literally at every step is ready to tell you about it and poke a finger.
Useful application that allows to record your communication, and, it is completely focused on modern technology and capabilities of smartphones!
Fresh application that will allow your body to prepare for the spring, by the way, it's time to start! Nevertheless, there is a plan to be calculated only 30 days!
This is an interesting application created for designing their own design solutions and interior design houses, apartments or rooms that can be very useful!
Browsers for mobile platforms becomes more and more, I have a feeling that even more of them than the PC, so that developers need to compete with the most?


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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gunmen in northern Afghanistan assassinated a district intelligence chief while he was on his way to work Monday as authorities in Romania said two of their soldiers serving with NATO died in a roadside bombing in the east.
In the north, attackers ambushed the district official, Abdul Hussian, and sprayed his body with bullets as he was riding on his motorcycle near the city of Kunduz, the capital of the province with the same name, according to local police chief, Ghulam Mohayuddin.
Hussian, who was heading to his work in Chardara district died of his wounds, said the police chief. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, and Mohayuddin said an investigation was underway.
The Taliban have been behind scores of similar attacks, especially since they stepped up assaults on officials and government employees during their spring offensive this year.
In Bucharest, the defense ministry said two Romanian soldiers died after stepping on an improvised explosive device during a patrol in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday. The two were transported by helicopter to a military hospital at Bagram where they died of their injuries later in the day.
Defense Minister Mircea Dusa said in televised comments Monday that other soldiers were killed in the explosion but provided no further details. The two Romanians were identified as Vasile Popa, 28, on his second mission to Afghanistan, and Adrian Postelnicu, 34, who was on his first mission.
Romania has 1,029 troops serving in the NATO mission in Afghanistan; 22 have been killed.
In Kabul, NATO only said that a roadside bombing killed two international service members in the east on Sunday but gave no details on their nationality or mention any other troops dying in the attack.
This incident brings the number of NATO troops killed this month to seven, while 122 have been killed so far this year, 92 of them U.S. soldiers.
On Saturday, three American soldiers were killed by an Afghan wearing a security forces uniform after he turned his weapon against them in Paktia province, another apparent attack by a member of the Afghan forces against their international allies.
Killings by uniformed Afghans of foreign soldiers and civilians rose dramatically last year, when the so-called insider attacks left 62 personnel dead in 47 separate incidents, compared to 35 killed in 21 attacks a year earlier, according to NATO. So far in 2013, 11 foreign soldiers have been killed in seven such attacks, including Saturday's, according to an Associated Press count.
The attacks come as NATO and Afghan forces are in more intimate contact, with foreign troops handing over security to the Afghans and continuing to train them prior to an almost total withdrawal by the end of 2014.
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Rays on Cusp of Going From "Buyers" to Possible Trade Deadline "Sellers"
So when is too much, too much? What is that final tipping point where the Tampa Bay Rays consider themselves " sellers" instead of "buyers". Originally I was firm in my opinion that the team will hold tight on OF B J Upton and SP James Shields.
But as the team falls towards that double digit mark trailing the current American League Wild Card holder, the New York Yankees, at what point will the Rays throw up their hands and either give in, or buckle down and hope for another "Miracle of Summer".
At this point the Rays are 9 ½ games behind the American League East division leading Boston Red Sox and 7 ½ games behind the Yankees. With an unexpected late loss last night in Oakland, the Rays are on a slippery slope. This was suppose to be the time between series with Boston and New York for the Rays to pack on some victories, and possibly sneak back into the race before this Sunday's
Trade Deadline.
If the Rays do not take bot this series against the Athletics, plus their 3-game set against the Seattle Mariners in the Emerald City, they could be past that double digit comfort level. But when is it too late? When are the Rays past the point of no return in regards to a post season berth? In any other division this would not be an issue at this time, but in the strong A L East, being 10 games behind the A L Wild Card is a pretty steep rock to climb.
At some point between the West Coast trip destinations this team has to decide their path. Presently it seems that all engines are churning towards trying to catch the Yankees and pull off another super road trip. These next 5 games could produce either the selling of talent, or the revival the Rays need to thrust themselves back into this playoff race.
Personally, I am of the mind that if this team does stumble in their next 2 contests and go under 10 games back of the Yankees, Rays Vice President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman will accept a few more phone calls, listen intently and possibly sell high on a few guys.
I was hoping the season would come down to a key series in September. If the Rays go through an abnormal road trip free fall and come back home with a losing road trip record, they might be minus a few key players due to trades and deals made before the Sunday final bell.
If the Rays do begin plucking off a few of their player assets, it is great that these players would have played their last game in Tropicana Field against the rival Yankees, and took a victory with them on the road. But it also brings up a touchy subject that again, just like when the Rays traded SP Scott Kazmir while on the road (in Detroit), the home fans might never get a realistic chance to thank them for their past efforts. That is one of the really awful parts of the Trade Deadline coming on the heels of a road trip.
Hopefully this doesn't happen, but the possibility is still there for a last minute change, a up-grade, or possibly just the right time in the Rays eyes and minds. This is that time of the year that players and teams can not control, but right now, the Rays have the choice to be the "buyers or the sellers".


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The Paleo Diet: Introducing It to Your Patients
By Jeffrey Tucker, DC, DACRB
Many of my patient's continue to refer to the Paleo Diet it as the "caveman diet," but I prefer the "ancestral diet." The Paleo diet is pretty simple: eat meat, vegetables and seasonal fruit. Avoid bread, pasta, rice, corn and refined sugar because these were foods our body was not meant to eat.
The Paleo diet is an opportunity for clients to reconnect to a more natural diet. But how do you tell a patient who has tried 10 different diets and failed at all of them that if they just try this Paleo food list and start making some lifestyle changes for 30 days, they will feel better? No one in their right mind would believe that. They hope that is true, but a much larger part of who they are definitely wouldn't believe that this (Paleo) is going to work.
Begin by explaining what the diet actually is.
The Paleo Diet is based on foods we ate prior to agriculture and animal husbandry (meat, fish, shellfish, eggs, tree nuts, vegetables, roots, fruit, berries, etc.). Foods that result from agriculture or animal husbandry (grains, dairy, beans, potatoes, sugar and fake foods) are not eaten.
Sometimes, clients will say, "but how can you live without grain and dairy?" I point out that the two most metabolic common food disorders are lactose (dairy) intolerance and Gluten (grain) intolerance. Shouldn't that tell you something? Grain has only been a part of the modern human diet for a relatively short time. As our ancestors settled into farms and with the introduction of grain, typical cities developed, and we no longer needed to be the hunter-gatherers that we once were. This led to limited physical movement (exercise) and a poor diet.
Our ancestors mostly ate foods that were easiest to hunt or gather at a specific locale and season. As nomads, we would have adapted to various mixes of foods. When I introduce a patient to the Paleo concept, I give them a food list and tell them, "if it is on the list, you can have it." In the beginning, the quantities consumed of each "on the list " food are entirely up to individual. You can make it meat heavy if you want, or vegetable heavy if you prefer, as long as the foods you eat are on the Paleo list.
Acceptable oils should be restricted to those from fruits (olive, avocado) or nuts (coconut, walnut, almond, hazelnut, macadamia). No high-tech seed oils could have existed back then. Grass-fed is preferred for meat to get the proper balance of Omega 3s and 6s. For everything else, organic is preferred. The only beverage that is truly Paleo is water.
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I believe the biggest hurdle almost every chiropractor struggles with in getting into this healthy aging/weight, loss/rehab practice thing, is that they don't know how to keep it simple and time efficient. For me and my practice, it has become easy. I use three things to keep this simple.
First, I create a simple realistic food list, a template if you will.
Second, I encourage body movement and I ask patients to wake up 15 minutes early and just start walking around their home. Once they are accustomed to waking up 15 minutes earlier, I start teaching them exercises to do during that time.
And third, I use a computer driven software system that measures body fat, lean muscle mass and hydration. Some patients use the software to calculate total calories eaten per day, and the number of calories burned per day. I can follow a client's food diaries online and I know when a client misses a workout.
If I choose, I can send my client an email, text message or call them on the phone and talk to them when they don't follow the program. When people know they are being watched and are being held accountable, behavior changes for the better. Accountability gives us our greatest gift: consistency. Once we consistently do that which we know is right (but sometimes hard), change begins to happen.
A simple part of the Paleo concept is community. We are social people and want to feel like we are part of something. A good way to build consistency is to belong to something that is bigger than you, in this case, a thriving office community that is committed to the change you are looking to make. Through belonging, belief is nurtured. Belonging satisfies one of our most basic primal needs. We have lived in communities or been part of a tribe for millions of years. My answer to solve this is to have small group exercise classes in your office as this creates community.
Patients shouldn't have to tackle the weight loss or health issues on their own. We have always solved our problems within the context of a group or tribe that is committed to our well-being. A mom can lose two jean sizes on the Paleo diet, her husband can get off high cholesterol medications and their kid can lower his/her risk of getting diabetes. Everyone seems to do well on the program. It inspires others. This will motivate the mom even more. How awesome is that?
I am seeing patients in their 50's get in better shape than when they were in their 40's. Create your group using the software and work patients out in your office until they can join a gym. Slowly, start to talk to patients about nutrition. They think they know it all! If you can encourage them to do a 30 day trial and they take the challenge to eat their best, you can help grade their food journal and offer suggestions/changes to make improvements.
The hardest part for patients is getting them off wheat and dairy. I pose a challenge to get off all dairy for two weeks. Once clients try it and feel better, the joints hurt less and mobility improves because there is less inflammation, the weight starts coming off and moods improve.
Paleo is everything in moderation. Some people can do the 30-day strict Paleo kickoff, but others need to make gradual changes. Pasta, bread, rice and sugar are usually the hardest to get off. So for week one, suggest they reduce bread intake by 50%. For week two, continue with 50% bread reduction, but add a vegetable with one meal. Then add veggies with two meals. Then cut bread back by 75%. Start adding more salads and opt for balsamic vinaigrette dressing. Some people need the small and slow change approach. I just keep reminding them that what you eat today, dictates how you feel tomorrow.
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South African Journal of Animal Science
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S. Afr. j. anim. sci. vol.41 no.3 Pretoria Jan. 2011
Effect of breed on performance and carcass characteristics of Mexican hair sheep
F.G. RíosI; A. Gómez-VázquezII,*; J.M. Pinos-RodríguezIII; J.C. García-LópezIII; A. Estrada-AnguloI; J. Hernández-BautistaIV; J.J. PortilloI
IFacultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, México
IIDivisión Académica de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, México
IIIInstituto de Investigación de Zonas Desérticas, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México
IVEscuela de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia. Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca. Oaxaca, México
To determine the effect of breed on growth performance and carcass characteristics in Mexican hair sheep, 48 lambs (average 38.9 ± 1.56 kg body weight, BW) were used in a completely randomized experimental design. The breed types assessed were 16 Pelibuey (PB), 16 Pelibuey x Katahdin (PB-KT) crossbred and 16 Pelibuey x Dorper (PB-DP) crossbred lambs. The lambs were fed a maize grain-based diet (88% concentrate and 12% forage) containing 155 g CP and 12.13 MJ ME/kg DM. The growth performance trial lasted 45 days. The average daily gain was significantly higher for the PB breed than for the PB-KT and PB-DP cross-breds. Feed intake in the PB and PB-KT was significantly higher than in the PB-DP. The feed conversion ratio was lower for the PB than for PB-KT and PB-DP lambs. Hot carcass dressing and leg perimeters were significantly lower for the PB than for the PB-DP lambs, and similar to that of the PB-KT lambs. The lowest dorsal fat values were measured in the PB breed, compared with both the PB-KT and PB-DP cross-breds. Mesenteric fat (as % of BW) in the PB was significantly higher than in PB-KT and PB-DP lambs. Empty rumen and small intestine weights (as % of BW) in the PB lambs were significantly higher than in the PB-DP lambs, but their large intestine was significantly smaller than in the other two breeds. It was concluded that the PB lambs have a better growth performance and carcass characteristics than the PB-DM lambs, but similar to that of the PB-KT lambs.
Keywords: Dressing percentage, longissimus dorsi, organ weights, lambs, Pelibuey, Katahdin, Dorper
The sheep industry in Mexico is characterized by a high demand for mutton. With a reduction of production costs in mind, many wool sheep producers have diverted from wool production and incorporated hair sheep into their sheep production systems. Hair sheep breeds are generally smaller in size and have lower growth rates than more traditional wool breeds, but are described as hardy animals with the ability to perform and produce under harsh conditions (Wildeus, 2006; Wildeus et al., 2007). The hair sheep breed mainly found in Mexico is the Pelibuey, which is kept for meat production because it is well adapted to the hot, humid climate found throughout much of the tropics (Gutierrez et al., 2005). However, its productive performance is inferior to that of other specialized meat producing breeds (Notter et al., 2004; Partida de la Peña et al., 2009). Recently, hair breeds specialized for meat production, such as the Dorper and Katahdin, have been used extensively in tropical areas to improve the weight gains of Pelibuey lambs (Canton & Quintal, 2007). The Pelibuey and hair cross-breds grazing in the tropics, have shown weight gains of less than 75 g/d (Piñeiro-Vázquez et al., 2009), but if fully confined or their diets complemented with concentrates, they achieved average daily gains (ADGs) of 191 to 218 g (Pineda et al., 1998; Greiner & Duckett, 2005; Wildeus et al., 2005; Galina et al., 2007). However, characterization of carcass merits is lacking for these breeds. It was hypothesized that the growth performance of the Pelibuey sheep breed, when confined and fed grain-based diets, is similar to that of the Pelibuey crossed with composite breeds such as the Katahdin and Dorper. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the effect of breed on growth performance and carcass characteristics in Pelibuey (PB), Pelibuey x Katahdin (PB-KT) and Pelibuey x Dorper (PB-DP) lambs.
The experiment was performed at the Medical Veterinary School of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mexico. The climate is classified as semi-arid, i.e. dry and extremely hot in summer, with summer, the rainy season. The animal experimental procedures were approved by the Academic Committee of the Animal Science Department according to animal regulations enacted by the State of Sinaloa, México. Forty-eight male lambs, six months of age with an average body weight (BW) of 38.9 ± 1.56 kg, were used in the experiment; 16 of the lambs were Pelibuey (PB), 16 Pelibuey x Katahdin (PB-KT) crossbreds and 16 Pelibuey x Dorper (PB-DP) crossbreds. Data was analyzed in a completely randomized design with each group (treatment) having four replicates. The experiment lasted 45 days, during which the animals received a total mixed ration (155 g crude protein and 12.13 MJ metabolizable energy/kg dry matter of 65% maize grain, 12% Sudan hay, 11.7% soybean meal, 7.0% sugar cane molasses and 2.7% of a mineral premix. The following variables were measured: BW, feed intake, ADG and feed conversion ratio (FCR). At the end of the experiment the lambs were fasted for 16 h and slaughtered, and the skin and hot carcass weights were recorded. At 24 h post mortem the following data was recorded: chilled carcass weight, a sample of the longissimus dorsi from the loin at the 12th rib on which surface area was measured in cm2 and a marbling score done, 100 = traces, 200 = slight, 300 = small and 400 = modest (Jackson et al., 1997). Dorsal fat thickness (mm) at the 13th rib was measured and the mesenteric fat (kg) was weighed. The empty weights of rumen, small and large intestine were measured, and the gastrointestinal content was analyzed. The dressing percentage was calculated as carcass weight divided by slaughter weight, multiplied by 100. In the chilled carcass other morphological measures were determined: total carcass length, and leg length and perimeter, as described by Fisher & de Boer (1994) and Ruiz et al. (2000). Data was analyzed as a completely randomized (8 lambs per treatment) design. Initial BW was considered a covariate but was excluded (P >0.05) from the model. Monthly means for BW changes, ADG and FCR were analyzed using the Mixed procedure of SAS (1994). The Tukey test (SAS 1994) was used to compare means. Differences between treatments were considered significant at P <0.05.
The ADG was higher (P <0.05) for the PB breed than in the PB-KT and PB-DP crosses. Feed intake in the PB and PB-KT was higher (P <0.05) than in the PB-DP. Thus the FCR was lower for the PB lambs than for the PB-KT and PB-DP lambs. Hot carcass dressing percentage was lower (P <0.05) for the PB than for PB-DP lambs, but similar (P >0.05) to the PB-KT lambs (Table 1). Furthermore, leg perimeters were lower (P <0.05) for the PB lambs than for PB-DP, and similar (P >0.05) to the PB-KT lambs. The lowest (P <0.05) dorsal fat values were measure in the PB lambs, compared with both the PB-KT and PB-DP lambs. The mesenteric fat (as % of BW) was higher (P <0.05) for the PB than for the PB-KT and PB-DP lambs. The rumen and small intestine, as % of BW, in the PB breed were higher (P <0.05) than in the PB-DP cross, but the large intestine was smaller (P <0.05) in the PB than in the other two breeds (Table 2).
Average daily weight gain for the PB breed was higher than those found by Horton & Burgher (1992) for Katahdin (0.267 kg/d), Dorset (0.246 kg/d) and St. Croix (0.234 kg/d) lambs, but their findings agree with the results found for the PB-KT and PB-DP crosses at the final productive stage (Phillips et al., 1995). However, a previous study showed that the ADG of Pelibuey, Dorper x Pelibuey and Katahdin x Pelibuey averaged 0.232 kg/d with no differences between those breeds (Canton & Quintal, 2007). Our research findings confirm that when hair lambs are fed diets containing high levels of concentrate, they are more efficient in their productive performance, even when reared in hot regions, as was demonstrated previously (Schilling, 2005; Wildeus et al., 2007). The recorded average feed intakes in this trial for the three breeds (1.33, 1.32, and 1.23 kg/d) were very close to that reported by Canton & Quintal (2007) and Pérez et al. (2008) in hair lambs (Dorper x Pelibuey, 1.27 kg/d; Katahdin x Pelibuey, 1.18 kg/d; Pelibuey, 1.14 kg/d). Due to the lower mature body weights of the PB breed than the PB-KT and PB-DP crosses, one can theorize that the FCR would be lower, particularly on high-grain diets (Wildeus, 1997). Several studies have found that Dorper lambs have higher carcass weights than other hair lambs such as the Katahdin (Shackelford et al. (2005). Bunch et al. (2004) evaluated several hair cross-breds and found that the hot carcass weight was 26.8 kg in Dorper lambs which is close to that found for the Pelibuey lambs (28.4 kg) in the present study. However, when comparing carcass traits of different hair breed lambs under an intensive feeding system, there were no differences in hot carcass weight (Burke et al., 2003); their averages are similar to those found in the present study. The hot carcass dressing values observed for the PB-KT and PB-DP crosses in this study are similar to those found by Castro et al. (2007) for the cross, Pelibuey x Dorset (59.5%), slaughtered at a 45.9 kg body weight. The averages found in the three breeds in the present study can be considered excellent because they are higher than the results recorded by Pérez et al. (2008) who found hot carcass dressing values of 53.8 and 52.5% for Dorper and Katahdin lambs, respectively. The surface area of the longissimus dorsi measured in the present study for the three breeds, is less than the 14.1 cm2 reported by Horton & Burgher (1992) in Katahdin lambs, which is similar to that observed by Castro et al. (2007), who measured a value of 19.4 cm2 in a Pelibuey x Dorset cross. Godfrey & Weis (2005) registered a longissimus dorsi area of 10.4 cm2 in the cross, Dorper x St. Croix, similar to the results found in the present study. Regarding dorsal fat values: Burke et al. (2003) recorded 7.5 mm in cross Dorper x St. Croix lambs, and 5.9 mm in the Katahdin. In the Dorper and Katahdin, Shackelford et al. (2005) measured dorsal fat thickness values of 8.38 and 7.62 mm, respectively. However, in the cross, Dorper x St. Croix, Goodfrey & Weis (2005) recorded the dorsal fat to be 1.5 mm. This value is close to the values found in the present study. Marbling in the longissimus dorsi of the PB lambs was considered low, and for the PB-KT and PB-DP crosses it is defined as slight. This is lower than the value observed in wool lambs whose marbling score is modest (Jackson et al., 1997). Leg length was longer in the PB than in the PB-DP lambs, but leg perimeter was larger in the PB-DP and PB-KT than in the PB lambs. This data is in agreement with Bianchi et al. (2006a; b), who found that lambs with heavier weights have higher values for leg perimeters. In the present experiment it was observed that the gastrointestinal content influenced carcass performance. Lambs with heavier weights had lower carcass performances because they had higher gastrointestinal contents (kg). Mesenteric fat was higher for the PB lambs than for the PB-KT and PB-DP lambs. Bores et al. (2002) found for cross-bred lambs a value of 1.29 kg. This result is similar to that of the for PB-KT and PB-DP lambs in the present study. Skin weight was similar for the three breeds, contrary to the findings of Silva et al. (2006) who reported values of 11.9 and 13.0% for Dorper and Katahdin lambs, respectively. The rumen, and small and large intestine weights influenced carcass performance in Pelibuey lambs negatively. The fact that the PB lambs had a better growth performance than the PB-KT and PB-DP lambs can be partially attributed to the stressful tropical environment conditions in which PB lambs are better adapted to (Wildeus, 1997).
Under the present experimental conditions, it is concluded that PB lambs had a better growth performance than PB-KT and PB-DP cross-bred lambs. The cross-breeds, PB-KT and PB-DP, however, had more favourable carcass characteristics than the PB breed.
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Siskel & Ebert on 'Full Metal Jacket'
And I dare suppose that few people now believe "Platoon" was a better movie... even though "Platoon" won an Academy Award for Best Picture (while "Full Metal Jacket" got just one Oscar nomination... for writing).
"Full Metal Jacket" has a dream-like magic about it. Always did.
Anyways... enjoy Gene and Roger going hard at each other.
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- Joe Crawford said...
Full Metal Jacket is awesome in boot camp. It suffers when it hits Vietnam, when it's sardonic and funny, it stumbles and never gets up at the final action sequence.
Platoon has less wit and filmmamking bravura, but it has a seriousness (sometimes too serious) and realism that is moving and ultimately really good.
- April 17, 2009 at 9:31 AM
- DeAngelo Starnes said...
I really dig these Siskel and Ebert interludes you post. It was sad to see Siskel when he was obviously sick. I always liked him. Like both, in fact.
- April 23, 2009 at 4:20 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
^ Thanks, DeAng. It trips me out to realize how much I remember of these guys' comments and arguments... going back 25 years.
- April 23, 2009 at 7:18 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
Platoon has less wit and filmmamking bravura, but it has a seriousness (sometimes too serious) and realism that is moving and ultimately really good.
I need to see that one again, Joe. "Platoon" just didn't leave a lasting impression on me.
- April 23, 2009 at 7:20 PM
- Spencer Robinson said...
One of the best war films of all time. If you haven't yet, watch it now!
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