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Feeding Racehorses
On several occasions in the past year or two, we've discussed in this series the intricacies of feeding young horses for optimum growth. We've also walked you through the pertinent points of fueling the high-performance equine athlete, for maximum output with minimum fatigue. But there's one category of performance horse which combines both of these concerns in one package—and that makes feeding them a complicated issue.
It's generally agreed that racehorses, whether they be Thoroughbreds, Standardbreds, Quarter Horses, Arabians, Appaloosas, Paints, or even Trottingbred ponies, represent one of the hardest-working, most fit, and most stressed group in the equine population. Not only that, but they labor under a unique handicap—they are almost always asked to hit a performance peak while their bodies still are immature and growing. It's a double whammy that from a feeding point of view is a serious challenge.
How do you provide lots of energy for performance, without risking developmental bone and joint problems? How do you ensure correct bone growth while still offering enough "octane" in the diet to allow your racehorse to perform at his peak?
If you're going to compete a racehorse, it's important to recognize the dramatic stresses he's going to experience while pursuing a racing career. The very least you can do is provide him with the right fuel so that he can do his job to the best of his ability. A balanced feeding program might not, on its own, prevent injuries, but it can help prevent fatigue and ensure that your young go-getter not only races well, but continues to grow correctly until he reaches maturity. (With luck, that good bone growth will also help keep him sound and allow him to go on to a second career at stud or in the show ring).
Stressed In The Shedrow
A typical Thoroughbred or Quarter Horse destined for the track gets a very early start to his education. Most are first saddled as yearlings, and they begin galloping under saddle before they reach the age of two. Standardbreds are a little more fortunate, both because they generally are started as 2-year-olds and because pulling a jog-cart is significantly less stressful to young bones and joints than carrying a rider. (Arabians, because of the widespread belief that the breed matures late, often are started later.
By the age of two, most racing Thoroughbreds, Standardbreds, and Quarter Horses are being aimed for their first start, and when they become resident at a racetrack, they experience a drastic change in their environment.
Instead of roaming in lush pasture, they're confined to a stall 20 or more hours a day. Their diet changes from sweet grass to dry hay and (usually) copious amounts of grain. They're frequently subject to barns with poor ventilation and little or no chance for turn-out. Their only chance for exercise comes at morning work-out time. It's little wonder many of them become stressed, lose weight, and develop compensatory vices like cribbing or health problems such as small airway disease, ulcers, or recurring bouts of tying-up.
We're not likely to change the economic realities that send horses off to the track. But it behooves us as horse owners to do our best to help these young racing stars continue to grow and thrive as we place more and more physical demands on them. Keeping the diet as close to optimum as possible is one way to accomplish that.
Protein And Performance
Protein remains one of the first concerns of horse owners and trainers when they're buying feed, even though as a nutrient, protein really doesn't merit all that attention! For years, the racing community labored under the misconception that more protein in the diet equaled more energy for a racehorse. Fortunately, we now know that just isn't the case. Not only is protein a poor energy source, but some researchers believe a protein excess in the diet actually can compromise a young horse's performance by creating higher respiratory and heart rates with exercise, increasing sweating, and possibly even affecting his respiratory health (because his urine will contain higher levels of ammonia than normal, and he'll inhale those fumes in his stall!).
Nonetheless, young growing horses do need slightly higher levels of protein in their diets than mature horses because protein delivers amino acids, the building blocks for new tissue growth. Any horse which is still increasing in height or weight needs good-quality protein in order to support the correct growth of his bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, and other supportive structures. Hard exercise, such as race training, also increases the need for protein, to support increased muscle development and mass, and to replace nitrogen lost in sweat. This increase, however, is small—only 1%-2%.
As a rule, a 12-month-old youngster requires about 12.5% crude protein in his diet, a long yearling (18 months) about 12%, and a 2-year-old, 11%. If we factor in hard exercise for the long yearling and 2-year-old, we can bump those requirements up to 13%-14%, and 12%-13%, respectively. Any more protein than that is not needed by the horse, and it's a waste of money (because protein generally is one of the more expensive ingredients in a grain ration).
More important than the actual amount of protein in your racehorse's diet is its quality. All protein is not created equal. Different forms have different arrangements of the 22 amino acids, and your horse needs more of some amino acids than others for optimum growth.
The best-quality protein sources for horses contain high levels of the amino acid lysine, which is the "first limiting" amino acid (which means it is the one most likely to be deficient in the diet). A protein source that contains high amounts of lysine is said to have a "good amino acid profile," and finding that good profile is far more important for a young, growing horse than for a mature one. Soy protein probably has the best profile among plant sources palatable to horses, so when you are shopping for grain rations, seek out a feed with soybean meal as its protein source, rather than lower-quality cottonseed or linseed meal.
Alternatively, if you're feeding straight grains, such as oats or corn, you can top-dress soybean meal as a protein supplement; but whether that's necessary depends on the hay you're feeding. Young racehorses can benefit from a hay that is fairly high in protein (a good proportion of legumes—such as alfalfa or clover). You're unlikely to need protein supplementation in your horse's diet if you feed a legume-rich hay, as they generally contain between 14% and 25% crude protein. If you feed a grass hay (average 6%-14% crude protein), however, you'll probably need to consider adding some additional protein to the overall ration. Or you can supplement your horse's hay ration with another legume-rich form of forage, such as alfalfa cubes or pellets.
Protein And DOD
Protein's role in ensuring correct, optimum growth has been the source of much confusion over the years. In the mid-1970's, it was considered the major player in cases of developmental orthopedic disease (DOD), a catch-all term for bone and joint abnormalities in growing foals.
In one study, for example, weanlings and yearlings fed a diet 25% higher in protein than normal suffered slower growth rates and higher incidences of developmental bone and joint problems. This theory, though never proven, prompted many owners and veterinarians to restrict the protein intake of their growing youngsters, either as a means of correcting a DOD problem already in progress or in the hope of preventing one from developing. We now know that this approach isn't the answer; protein does appear to have a role to play in the complicated picture that is DOD, but it's a bit player, if you will, not the star and more likely to be a contributor if deficient than if in slight excess.
Few equine nutritionists recommend restricting protein in the diet, as this approach will almost guarantee that the foal suffers a slower growth rate and reaches less than his full potential in addition to compromising proper bone mineralization. Simply put, no colt or filly can build correct new bone or muscle if the building blocks aren't in his diet.
So, how do you prevent orthopedic problems from cropping up? There are no definite answers, as environment, genetics, and other factors all seem to play a role in DOD. From a nutritional standpoint, you can provide correct mineral support, which now appears to have a significant effect on bone and joint health.
Strength Through Chemistry
A young racehorse needs a serious dose of minerals in order to keep building healthy new bone and muscle while he's exercising to the limit. Calcium and phosphorus are the two macrominerals that have the biggest impact on his growth. If both are not present in sufficient quantity, and in the correct proportions (at least as much calcium as phosphorus), your youngster won't be able to construct sound, dense, resilient legs.
Forages and hay, as a whole, tend to be high in calcium and low in phosphorus, while most cereal grains (oats, corn, barley, milo, and so forth) are the reverse. Because racehorses eat such grain-dense diets (more on that in a minute), they frequently run the risk of taking in more phosphorus than calcium, so it's often necessary to balance things out by feeding a supplement that is high in calcium. Calcium carbonate, or limestone, is one of the simplest solutions; it can be added to the grain at a level of 60g a day (approximately two ounces) if necessary. Even molasses can be a minor source of calcium, so if you have a picky eater, don't hesitate to top-dress molasses on his feed — it's not just sugar!
To determine how much calcium and phosphorus really are being delivered in the diet, you'll need to run a lab analysis on your hay—a simple procedure we've recommended on a number of occasions in this column. Your local feed store or agricultural extension service should provide this sort of testing for somewhere in the $20 to $40 range. Once you have the printout, calculate what percentage of your horse's diet is made up of hay (by weight), what percentage is grain (by weight), and calculate the average calcium and phosphorus by combining the two. (Calcium and phosphorus values in a mixed commercial ration usually will be printed on the feed label or bag. If not, you can get it anlayzed at the same laboratory as the hay.) Don't forget to compare the overall calcium and phosphorus values to make sure there is at least as much calcium as phosphorus in the overall mix.
Two other minerals that seem to play a significant role in the growth and development of healthy bones, cartilage, and connective tissue are zinc and copper. Like calcium and phosphorus, these two minerals have a synergistic effect in the body; the level at which one is present in the diet affects how well the other is absorbed. Iron and molybdenum, two other trace minerals also seem to be involved in the absorption equation.
Although opinions differ as to exactly how much copper and zinc are needed by young horses for optimum growth, the usual recommendation for yearlings and 2-year-olds is at least 10 parts per million of copper, and 40 ppm or more of zinc (zinc's absorption rate varies widely, so it's a particularly difficult one to pin down). By far the easiest way to ensure that your racing youngster is getting enough of these two minerals is to feed a commercially formulated grain ration specifically designed for young, growing stock.
Other Minerals, And A Few Vitamins
Even those of us for whom chemistry was never a strong subject know that iron is an essential component of hemoglobin, the molecule in the blood that helps carry oxygen to the cells. It's common, at the racetrack, to supplement iron in the name of "blood-building" for optimum performance. However, true iron deficits are unlikely unless the horse is experiencing chronic blood loss. Whether most racehorses actually need this supplementation isn't clear. We do know that iron's absorption rate across the gut wall is quite low (only about 15% to 18% of the iron delivered in the diet actually is absorbed by the horse), but we also know that horses lose relatively little iron when they sweat. Most forages contain far more iron than the average horse could ever use, so real iron deficiencies are pretty rare.
If, however, your horse's poor performance prompts you to run a blood test, and he is shown to be clinically anemic (has a low red blood cell count even when a bit excited—beware falsely low hematocrits due to splenic sequestration in fit horses), before jumping to iron supplementation check the horse's copper status. Copper deficiency will cause the same type of anemia commonly attributed to iron deficits. Excessive iron supplementation interferes with copper utilization and can actually make things worse. Though iron supplements do have a
reputation for enhancing athletic performance, but it's important to remember that the equine body has no way to excrete excess iron—and in addition to interefering with copper utilization, iron toxicosis can lead to depression, dehydration, diarrhea, an increased risk of bacterial infections (because some bacteria find an iron-rich environment particularly inviting), and even liver failure and death. If you do supplement, follow the package directions as to dosage and don't operate under the mistaken belief that "if some is good, more must be better."
One other note: corticosteroid drugs alter iron metabolism, so if your horse is being treated with these, it's best to stop iron supplementation.
Perhaps it's obvious to suggest that your young racehorse receive salt in his diet, but then again, it's easy to underestimate how much sodium and chloride a horse can lose when he is exerting himself and sweating. If your horse won't use a stall-sized salt lick, you'll want to offer loose salt free choice in a bucket. Salt is the one nutrient that horses will consume in amounts adequate to meet their needs if given a choice.
Finally, consider the value of providing a general vitamin supplement for your racehorse. Stress increases the need for B-vitamins, especially B-1. Digestive upsets due to the stressful atmosphere at the track also can lead to your youngster's not being able to synthesize sufficient quantities of B vitamins in his gut, making a B-complex supplement a good idea. (Brewer's yeast is an inexpensive way to provide B vitamins).
Vitamin D, the "sunshine vitamin," also might be in short supply in the system of a horse which spends most of his time inside. Beta-carotene, the precursor of vitamin A, is far more accessible when a horse is grazing fresh pasture than when he's eating cured hay. Remember, too, that the older your hay is, the more its vitamins probably have degraded. The same goes for grain; the longer it is stored (particularly if it is stored in damp or humid conditions or exposed to sunlight), the fewer nutrients are retained. Try feeding a couple of pounds of carrots a day, or some hydroponically grown grass in order to provide beta-carotene as well as folic acid (a B vitamin) and vitamin D. Or you might choose to feed a commercially mixed grain ration with a good overall level of vitamin supplementation. Buy it in small quantities to keep it fresh. (It goes without saying that you should feed the freshest hay you can obtain. By the time a bale is one year old, its vitamin content is practically nil.)
Fueling Performance
Providing enough energy for your youngster to race at his best probably is the biggest challenge you'll face when feeding a racehorse. In order to provide serious energy, you need to feed carbohydrates, such as are contained in grains. However, the design of the horse's digestive system limits the amount of grain you can feed in a given meal or on a given day. His small stomach and adaptation for slow digestion of fiber make him vulnerable to colic and laminitis when he's fed large quantities of carbohydrates in a short amount of time. So you'll have to incorporate several strategies simultaneously to deliver the fuel he needs, without sending his system into a backspin.
The first, and simplest, strategy, is to feed small meals, often. This is relatively easy to do when your horse is stabled much of the time, and might encourage a picky eater to clean up his feed. Four or even five small grain meals a day are preferable to one or two large servings of carbohydrates at one time; mixing the grain ration with a fiber source, such as soaked beet pulp or roughage chunks, will help your horse slow down, chew his grain thoroughly, and digest it efficiently.
The second strategy is to provide calorie-dense meals that pack a lot of energy for their weight. For example, instead of feeding oats, which because of their hulls contain only about 50% carbohydrates, you might switch to a hull-less, starchier grain such as corn or barley, each of which is 70% to 80% carbohydrates. Processing the grain to open up the seedcoat (cracking, flaking, or rolling it) helps make the carbohydrates more available to the horse. If you do feed something other than whole grains, buy the feed in small batches, because the processing also allows vitamins and minerals to break down on exposure to air over time.
As a rule of thumb, no horse, regardless of his occupation, should ever be fed more grain, by weight, than forage; to do so is to risk digestive upset, or even gastric ulcers (which have an extraordinarily high incidence in young racehorses). Keeping the ration at least 50% forage is an excellent idea. In order to provide enough energy for hard training and racing, however, you might have to walk very close to that 50/50 line. If you have a nervous youngster who tends to leave his race in the barn or at the starting gate, g the amount of forage and adding fat (see below) to his ration. If you have a horse that can not maintain adequate weight on the above recommendations, don't forget to check his teeth and deworming status. Remember that while forage might not provide the concentrated energy your racehorse needs to run and to win, it's the fuel on which he performs all of his day-to-day maintenance metabolism, and without it, his digestive tract can't function normally.
One way to provide some concentrated energy to your horse's diet, without increasing its bulk by very much, is to add fat. Fat (usually in the form of vegetable oil) is an excellent energy source, supplying almost 2 1⁄2 times as much energy, pound for pound, as carbohydrates. It's not as versatile an energy source as carbos, because the horse's body only can burn it aerobically (the energy pathway used for slow, steady exercise rather than high-intensity, short-term sprinting), but despite that limitation, it has proven a valuable addition to the diet of many racehorses. Among the benefits of an added-fat diet are the following:
- Better muscle glycogen utilization during anaerobic (sprinting) activities, with less fluctuation of blood glucose and blood insulin concentrations;
- Less decrease in blood glucose during aerobic activities than shown by horses fed a traditional (high-carbohydrate) diet;
- Glycogen sparing (less depletion of stored glycogen), which has been shown to help delay the onset of fatigue.
In one study, horses fed a 15% fat diet performed better than those fed high-carbohydrate (40%) diets or high protein (25%) diets in racing-type activities and moderate-speed activities. The improvements were measured by their blood glucose concentrations (which decreased more slowly and for a shorter time period) and in terms of their blood lactate levels (which were substantially lower than in horses on high-carbohydrate diets). There is ample documentation as to the benefits of fat. Some research even suggests that feeding a high-fat diet might help horses reduce heat waste and dehydration when they're exerting themselves in warm weather.
High-fat diets are valuable for all sorts of racehorses, even sprinters such as Quarter Horses and Appaloosas. However, it appears that Standardbreds might have the most to gain. Young Standardbreds put in more training miles, and race more frequently, than any of their counterparts or any of the sprinting breeds. As a result, their energy needs are considerable. Feeding fat is a valuable way to increase the energy density of their diets without adding much more bulk (even a racehorse can only consume so much feed per day).
Nothing this promising comes without a caveat or two, of course. The biggest snag with feeding a high-fat diet is that the horse's system seems to need to "learn" how to burn fat in preference to carbohydrates, a process that sometimes can take a month or more. Although it's highly digestible, fat is not a natural part of the equine diet, and it appears, for reasons that aren't completely clear, that the horse's system takes time to adapt to the presence of vegetable fat. A little perseverance is required, because you won't see the benefits right away. In order to kickstart the fat burning, you have to challenge the horse's system with strenuous exercise (meaning, for the racehorse, that you can't just train him lightly to help his system adapt, you must train hard or race him).
It also has been found that a high-fat diet works best in conjunction with a high-carbohydrate intake. Therefore, while replacing some portion of the carbohydrates in the ration with fat is useful, there doesn't appear to be any benefit in offering more than 10%-15% fat overall.
How do you deliver fat to a racehorse? The simplest way is to seek out a commercial grain ration that has supplemental fat in it (look for a level of at least 6% crude fat, and preferably 8% to 10%). That way, the picky eaters in your barn can't sort ingredients or turn up their noses at the unfamiliar "greasiness" of their feed. You also can top-dress vegetable oil (corn or soy oil often can be purchased in bulk through your feed store), working up to 11⁄2 to two cups per day in total. Or you might prefer to investigate rice bran (a powdered feed supplement containing an average of 22% fat, but, unless supplement, has an extremely reversed calcium to phosphorous ratio-beware and read the labels) or a commercial fat supplement such as Purina's Athlete (14% fat). As you gradually increase the proportion of fat in your racehorse's diet, you might be able to decrease the amount of grain he receives in small increments.
A Few Tips
Although a racehorse will perform to his best advantage if he's not carrying around any excess body weight, there's a big difference between being fit and being underweight and run down. Far too many racehorses are the latter, unfortunately, and far too many trainers mistake simple ribbiness for good muscle tone! Like any other type of athlete, a racehorse must have stored reserves to run on, or he'll run out of gas in the stretch. Be sure to provide your horse with enough groceries so that he's able to maintain some cover over his ribs and spine. If he's a picky eater, or the nervous type which walks his condition off in his stall, try making his diet more energy-dense by substituting corn or barley or a high fat extruded or pelleted feed for oats or an oat-based sweetfeed. (Don't neglect regular deworming and dental care, both of which can have a serious impact on a horse's ability to maintain condition.)
If your horse consistently has loose manure, his diet might be short on fiber. Try cutting back slightly on his grain and offering more hay. If he won't clean up any more than he's already getting, consider adding another fiber source, such as soaked beet pulp or roughage cubes, to his ration. Hard and pebbly manure, on the other hand, often is an indicator of dehydration. Since water probably is the most important nutrient your racehorse can get, take every opportunity to encourage him to drink (except, of course, immediately post-exercise). In hot weather, or after any serious exertion, you might want to offer him water with an electrolyte solution in it to help him replace trace minerals lost through sweat. However, be sure to offer him plain water as well.
Lastly, take every opportunity to allow your horse to escape the stressful environment of the racetrack and have some down time in a grassy paddock. The age-old prescription of Dr. Green still will cure many of a racehorse's ills, and that goes for mental disorders as well as physical ailments.
About the Author
Karen Briggs
Karen Briggs is the author of six books, including the recently updated Understanding Equine Nutrition as well as Understanding The Pony, both published by Eclipse Press. She's written a few thousand articles on subjects ranging from guttural pouch infections to how to compost your manure. She is also a Canadian certified riding coach, an equine nutritionist, and works in media relations for the harness racing industry. She lives with her band of off-the-track Thoroughbreds on a farm near Guelph, Ontario, and dabbles in eventing.
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Returning after a three week hiatus, "Saturday Night Live" debut a new cast member and caught up viewers on the latest headlines with the help of host and musical guest Drake.
Sasheer Zamata, the first female African-American cast member on the show since Maya Rudolph left in 2007, appeared in almost every sketch in the first half hour and proved to be a triple threat— a comedian, dancer and a singer. In a sketch introduced by BET personality Sway (Kenan Thompson) Zamata came out dancing as teen Rihanna.
The interview moved to Rodriguez who immediately exclaimed, "No, you're the one who's lying!"
A-Rod, who is suing Major League Baseball after receiving a 162-game suspension as as result of a drug investigation, continued to explain how he is not only suing the MLB, but is also "suing steroids for being inside my body." The baseball player blamed his iPhone's autocorrect for creating incriminating texts between him and Anthony Bosh, who claims to have supplied Rodriguez with testosterone and human growth hormone.
The faux Piers also interviewed Bieber, who was trying to cover up his egg-throwing incident at his neighbor's home by declaring it a Canadian tradition.
The "Weekend Update" with Seth Meyers and Cecily Strong also took on the bridgegate fallout. Meyers remarked, "If you cross this guy," showing a picture of Christie, "you don't get to cross this guy," showing a picture of the George Washington Bridge. Meyers also touched on President Barack Obama's proposed restrictions on NSA surveillance.
"President Obama proposed a series of overhauls to government surveillance program to change the way the NSA collects phone data, for example they'd like to change back to collecting it secretly," Meyers said.
Strong also commented on recent revelations that the Obamacare site is still vulnerable to hackers. "Hey Hackers," she said, "If you could figure that website out, it's all yours."
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Night - 1.4.7 -Release/General Discussion - Printable Version
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Night - 1.4.7 -Release/General Discussion - mcborzu - 2010-10-06
Night started as a project for myself to learn skinning but quickly evolved into a full skin. It's main features include: TV Show Logos, Bigger Episode thumbs, more realistic 3D thumbs in some views, and keeping fanart complimentary rather than the focus. Amongst other features just a skin that tries to do things differently...ENJOY!
Release Trailer - Youtube link
Night is available via the Addon Repo - Settings > Add-ons > Get Add-ons > XBMC.org Add-ons > Skin > Night
Or via Git - git://github.com/bartowski/skin.night.git
Or ppic and the XBMC-Passion site compile all skins every day, you can download a .zip of the 10.5 compatible Night - DOWNLOAD
What makes Night Different
-TV Logos
-Customize the Homepage anyway you want - Up to 10 custom Items on Home
-ExtraFanart, random/cycling Fanart in TV and Movie section
-Quick/Fast window transitions
-Jukebox View
-3d Wall
-More realistic 3d thumbs
-Movie and Music specific genre thumbs
-Clearart on Pause
-Season Fanart
-Genre Fanart (Movies)
-Plus many more....
Logo Button
To get logos go to Settings -> Skin -> Movie/TV Options then click the button to search and download logos
If you like to say thanks, please consider donating any amount no matter how small to one of the below:
- mcborzu - 2010-10-06
The Devs would like us to wait one week before Repo upload so this should be available maybe next Monday - October 11th
So for this week I'm at a feature freeze. Only bugs or small changes/fixes...
Git as always is up to date. For those that don't like GIT here is a regular DOWNLOAD
Please if you notice anything let me know, I don't want something dumb like a broken subtitle button to get by me...
- agoMiST - 2010-10-06
There's a slight glitch in the Movie Wall View, nothing major, just the watched overlay on the bottom row disappears when a film is highlighted.
This skin is many shades of awesome!!!
- prae5 - 2010-10-06
Also you still have a typo in the "Skin settings - Movies / TV" screen (in screenshot above too). Currently says "Use local a landcape.jpg....." should be "Use local a landscape.jpg....."
- zwat - 2010-10-06
when we are on textstrings maybe also change "user needs" to "you need"
and a mistake i did with the musicgenre logos. its psychedelic and not psycedelic
- zwat - 2010-10-06
looking through ur lables for hardcoded strings. this was a quick search so might be more. have phun
- zwat - 2010-10-06
- mcborzu - 2010-10-06
thats pretty cool, was there some type of program that gave you those results...
- prae5 - 2010-10-06
A grep for the string <label> should give you similar results.
- mcborzu - 2010-10-06
prae5 Wrote:A grep for the string <label> should give you similar results.
True, it looks like I missed alot of strings but script-Rom_Collection_Browser-gameinfo.xml doesnt count, in my eyes, as it a supplemental script. And Includes_Next_Aired.xml isn't officially in Night yet, but thats just a simple 'find and replace all' to localize those....
- zwat - 2010-10-06
i used notepad++ and find in files for <label> and copied the result i could spot that had hardcoded strings. i would just try to make it a general coding habit to use strings.xml for labels. makes it easier when putting the file out to the public.
- gabbott - 2010-10-06
So the extrafanart when enabled... Will it only use the fanart in the extrafanart folder or will it also use the fanart in the movie folder itself as well?
Asking because it I want my default fanart for a movie to be in the rotation does it also need to be in the extrafanart folder as well?
- mcborzu - 2010-10-06
gabbott Wrote:So the extrafanart when enabled... Will it only use the fanart in the extrafanart folder or will it also use the fanart in the movie folder itself as well?
Either/or...You can have just 1 movie with extarfanart and the rest will use the default fanart.
- zepa24 - 2010-10-06
Not sure if you already put it back, but on the previous release, the first Button (from the left) when displaying the Menu, was mapped to the Settings screen, you may want to map it back to the Subtitle Download Script
- gabbott - 2010-10-06
mcborzu Wrote:Either/or...You can have just 1 movie with extarfanart and the rest will use the default fanart.
Thanks.. for clarification, for a movie that is using extrafanart... will the fanart in the movie folder itself also be used in conjunction with the fanart in the extrafanart folder?


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MARIN COUNTY — FBI agents raided a home in an exclusive San Rafael subdivision Thursday morning, but federal officials declined to say why they were in town.
In a spectacle that startled neighbors, a team of about 18 agents, joined by five San Rafael police officers, served a search warrant at 40 W. Seaview Ave., a 5,000-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bath home on a ridge between the Dominican University neighborhood and the bay.
"At this time the affidavits are sealed and I can't go into further details," reported FBI spokeswoman Julianne Sohn. She declined to elaborate.
"We assisted the FBI," San Rafael police Sgt. Mike Vergara said. "I really don't have much comment on it."
One neighbor on the quiet street who asked to remain unidentified said agents wearing flak jackets pulled up in SUVs at about 7:15 a.m. and knocked on a door at 40 W. Seaview, telling a bystander they were serving a search warrant.
Some of the agents appeared to depart after about a half hour, but at least several others remained there several hours later.
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Provo • Every. Single. Day.
That's how often BYU linebacker Brandon Ogletree thinks about last year's rivalry football game against the University of Utah, a 54-10 loss often referred to as "The Nightmare" by BYU fans around the globe.
"It was a tough pill to swallow," Ogletree said. "Still is. As a college football player … losses stick with you a lot more than wins do. The wins are fun, but the losses really stick with you."
It stuck more than the massive Utah flag that Ute defensive end Derrick Shelby tried to plant in the middle of the painted "Y" at midfield when the bloodbath was over. The act could have touched off a brawl, but most of the sellout crowd of 63,742 had long since hit the exits, and most of BYU's players, their heads bowed in shame, had shuffled off to the showers.
"I kinda went into a shell, so I don't remember anything that happened after the game," Ogletree said.
Make no mistake about it, though. This was a memorable loss for the Cougars, who have gone 11-1 since the turnover-filled debacle. It was on their home field, against their biggest rival, and the 44-point margin of victory was Utah's largest over BYU since a 49-0 win in 1922, the first year BYU acknowledges it started playing football.
Senior quarterback Riley Nelson, who will try to snap the 2-0 Cougars out of their two-game losing skid to the 1-1 Utes on Saturday (8 p.m., ESPN2) when the longtime foes meet at Rice-Eccles Stadium, said during June's BYU football media day that it might have been the darkest day in Cougar football history.
"Total, absolute nightmare," Nelson said.
Like everything else in this rivalry, where there is misery, there is also elation. Utah defensive back Quade Chappuis' recollection of the win, after intercepting a Heaps pass in what Utah fans like to term "The Beatdown," is how he can never seem to wipe the huge smile off his face when he returns home to Utah County, having played prep football at Lone Peak High.
"There was just turnover after turnover. Nothing was going in their favor, and it seemed like we had good momentum and couldn't be slowed down," Chappuis said. "It is obviously exciting to beat any team by that much, but when it is your rival, it is even [more exciting]."
Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said every year is different, with its own set of circumstances, and last year's game doesn't give Utah an advantage on Saturday. He said the only similarity is that the Utes were coming off a loss (to USC) last year, and are coming off a loss to Utah State this year.
"We went down to [USC] and we played well. We didn't come out with a victory, but I thought we played well and our guys executed fairly well for the most part," Whittingham said. "This week, like I have said over and over, was a complete shambles as far as how we executed [against Utah State]."
If there is some consolation for the Cougars, it is that they recovered well from Jake Heaps' gargantuan early mistake, had a 10-7 lead late in the second quarter, and were down just 14-10 at halftime. They simply imploded in the second half offensively, defensively, and on special teams, finishing with seven turnovers, just 11 rushing yards on 22 attempts, and eight penalties, to Utah's three. The defense's swagger was sapped on Utah's first drive of the second half when a cornerback misplayed a long pass from Jordan Wynn that Dres Anderson took to the end zone for a 59-yard touchdown and a 21-10 lead.
Utah scored 24 points in the fourth quarter, as John White ran wild through the gut of the BYU defense for touchdowns of 62 and 35 yards and V.J. Fehoko returned a Nelson fumble 57 yards for the game's final score.
"At the end of the day, the scoreboard tells the truth, so that day it was 54-10, and that day they beat us by 44 points, and that day they were a better football team," Ogletree said. "We have a little chip on our shoulder from that."
When it was suggested the Cougars would be out for revenge this year, Ogletree called that notion "a little melodramatic" and said they seek redemption more than revenge.
BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall, who somehow managed to get the Cougars to win nine of their next 10 games last season yes, the schedule weakened considerably said the big loss will not affect this year's game.
"We watched it [Monday], and I hardly remembered it, to be honest," he said. "I remembered three or four of the plays that worked against us, but, man, I had forgotten about all the turnovers, and the different things that happened until then."
Suffice it to say players such as Ogletree haven't forgotten. Hard to do that when you think about it every single day.
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Quarterback Jake Heaps set the tone for BYU's misfortune early, losing the football in his own end zone on the third play of the game. Derrick Shelby pounced on it for a Utah touchdown.
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From "Bias" magazine December 9, 1952, front cover and page 27.
"Seldom had the Public Library's Story Hour for grade school children drawn a better house than it did last Wednesday afternoon when W. A. Lemons' troupe of Boy Scout and Cub Scout Indian dancers was scheduled to perform. With some re-arranging of the audience, however, Mr. Lemmons and the Scouts mangaged to make enough room to put on their dances, and Bias' cameraman, peering over eager childrens' shoulders got the picture on today's cover and the one above. The dancers on the cover [above left] whose faces show are (left to right) Mike Walsh, Fritz Shaeffer and Harold Compton, the deer-horned medicine man.
"The dancers in the picture on this page [left] are (left to right) Al Lemons, Sioux medicine man; Mike Burns, Iriquois warrior,; Bob Schrader, in Oklahoma sunburst costume; Dan Dennehy, Sioux; Harvey Huxon, Iriquois, and (back to camera) Harold Compton. The dancers were organized in 1951 and now include Scouts from Troops 18, 11, 4, 8, 10, 5, 16 and 1, and Cubs from Packs 1,2,14,16 and 18. Only a small part of the entire group danced at the library. The Indians have danced for a number of orgaizations and schools here. Their next appearance will be as part of a show at the Star Roll Arena December 14,15 and 16."
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Griffin's an All-Star without question, but Love is the top rebounder in the West (No. 2 overall) and the No. 3 scorer in the West.
What he isn't, of course, is the most powerful dunker in the league. Griffin is that, with the added benefit of playing in Los Angeles, one of the league's largest markets, with a point guard adept at throwing him lob passes. That also makes him a fan favorite.
Griffin could have legitimized his starting spot if he hadn't suddenly become one of the league's worst foul shooters. Last season, he made 64 percent of his free throws (446 of 695). This season, he has made only 71 of 141 (50.4 percent).
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The cars (depicted above) are scheduled for delivery in 2014, with ARL service to begin in 2015. To speed up delivery of the vehicles and at the same time obtain price benefits, Metrolinx combined its procurement requirements with California's Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) Procurement Contract.
Last December SMART ordered 18 DMUs from Sumitomo and Nippon Sharyo, with options available to the California agency or other authorities; Metrolinx expressed its interest in exercising such an option earlier this year.
Gino Antoniello, vice president, Transportation Systems Unit, Sumitomo Corp. of America, said the contract "not only represents our entry into the Canadian marketplace, but confirms that the DMU is a remarkable product. I believe we will see more and more municipalities looking at this technology as a way to start a first rail transit system or use it as a feeder link to larger commuter systems."


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Dubai's Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) today announced that Qabeela New Media are joining the #MyDubai initiative to produce a 12-episode travel series for the Emirate of Dubai curated by well-known Emirati social travel experts, Peeta Planet.
The "#MyDubai Trip" is a social travel series that documents the journey of some of the most influential Instagrammers from around the world as they experience Dubai.
The twist? Their itineraries are thoughtfully curated and crowd-sourced from several of Dubai's renowned social media personalities.
Peeta Planet is an international, award-winning travel series broadcast to 50 million TV viewers across the Middle East. It is a travel series about two brothers from the United Arab Emirates who visit countries across the world, with their journeys being destined by recommendations made on social media. With this being the first time the model of social travel has been applied to their homes city.
Rather than treading the tired, overdone tourist trails, brothers Mohamed and Peyman Parham Al Awadhi interact with their social media community to practice "social travel", travelling through the eyes of local people. The creators and hosts are enthusiastic about the "#MyDubai Trip" series as it draws upon local knowledge and aims to transform residents of Dubai into advocates of tourism for their city. Leveraging Peeta Planet's expertise in social travel, the brothers will use social media channels to crowd-source daily itineraries for the series, based on what a local resident would recommend for incoming visitors.
50 itineraries will be curated by residents of Dubai, who are prominent across social media, within their respective industries of fashion, food, sports, culture and entrepreneurship. The itineraries will be posted on Peeta Planet's Facebook page with the general public asked to vote for their favourite. The 12 most voted itineraries will then each be filmed as one episode of Peeta Planet's "#MyDubai Trip" series. Joining Mohamed and Peyman on the "#MyDubai Trip" film series will be 12 globally prominent Instagram users, chosen by another public vote.
Issam Kazim, Chief Executive Officer, Dubai Corporation for Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DCTCM) said: "Getting local insights into a destination's hidden gems and must-do activities is something that global travellers are increasingly looking for whenever and wherever they travel. By using social media to share our #MyDubai stories – as encouraged by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council – we can let the world know much more about Dubai. We can share the breadth and wealth of our activities, the diversity of our destination offering, our unique culture and heritage, and spirit of true hospitality. By working with local 'insiders', international instragrammers and the Peeta Planet team, we can create content that reaches all four corners of the globe and encourages visitors to experience a side of our city that may be unfamiliar and unexpected. We're very excited about what we'll see and where we'll go on 'The #MyDubai Trip'".
Launched in January 2014 by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, #MyDubai aims to create an autobiography for the emirate of Dubai, through social media. With over 1.34 million Instagram submissions of photos and videos to date, the #MyDubai initiative tells an interactive human story of residents and visitors to Dubai. The intention is to celebrate the everyday lives of the people and communities of the Emirate and show the city that is beneath the landmarks, headlines and superlatives.
Fully reliant on social media to determine the itinerary for their travels, Mohamed and Peyman are no strangers to the benefits of crowdsourcing. This expertise and know-how will be leveraged and put to the test as they explore their hometown with the "#MyDubai Trip" series.
"We believe that a city is defined by its people and their hospitality" said Mohamed Al Awadhi. "We want to create a sense of ownership and pride, empowering our community to take on the cause of promoting Dubai as local advocates. "The #MyDubai Trip" series will serve as a focal point for meaningful, fun and heartening activities to experience in Dubai, regardless of whether you are a resident or a visitor."
Also joining Mohamed and Peyman are their brothers Marwan (DJ Bliss) and Ehsan Parham Al Awadhi, well-known personalities in the UAE entertainment industry as a DJ/presenter and filmmaker respectively.
The "#MyDubai Trip" series will be filmed in September and October 2014 and scheduled for online broadcast between November 2014 and January 2015. All 50 pre-selected itineraries will be available online for local and international tourism purposes, both during and after the "#MyDubai Trip" series is broadcast.
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Birmingham & Glasgow
Following the decision to postpone the show at the Birmingham LG Arena tonight and after seeking medical advice, Arctic Monkeys must also postpone the show at the Glasgow Hydro on Fri November 1st.
Alex Turner has been diagnosed with Laryngitis and is regrettably not able to perform. The show at the LG Arena in Birmingham will now take place on November 20th and the show at the Glasgow Hydro will now take place on November 21st. All tickets will remain valid for these shows.
We wish to apologise to all ticket holders for any inconvenience this has caused. Please contact the customer services at the box office you purchased your tickets for any further assistance.
01.11.13 11:12 am
Alex, thank you for the invitation, I'm not up for damaging the band, I do think the fans deserve a bit more than being taken for granted. I'm not sure how much influence the actual band members have over such issues, but I'm pretty certain if we were all given an exclusive T-shirt or something similar, that would go a long way to saying "thanks for being loyal fans."
Cost to the band could easily be written off against the gains of good PR. I suspect their hands are tied and no such offer will be forthcoming. That's one reason I am saying people should claim their loss, the management company will be adequately insured, it's not a personal attack on the band - it's basically an insurance claim.
People should not be made to feel guilty for making a claim or feel they are being disloyal to their favourite band by claiming their losses.
By the way, the only faking it group of people outnumbering the p**s heads in pubs who say they were in the SAS, is the number of internet trolls claiming to be journalists. Have a nice day.
01.11.13 10:56 am
Be a little considerate to the people who didnt get to see theiir fave band
01.11.13 10:53 am
Well said Sadiesmith, I'd love to get hold of tickets for Sheffield or even Birmingham and happy that if cancelled it's getting rearranged..I love arctic monkeys, they from the village I'm from in sheffield.. They are amazing.. Still searching for tickets :-) xx
01.11.13 10:49 am
I am sorry but Alex Turner and the lads were out till early hours in the morning the night before the Birmingham gig. They should start to take some responsibilities and grow up a little. I wasted 2 hours of my time driving there and wasted £80 on a hotel room just to be told an hour before the show starts that they will not be performing, Absolute joke lost a lot of respect for these guys.
01.11.13 10:48 am
II understand he has a throat infection and had to cancel, but cancelling just moments before the doors opened and 1 1/2 before show time is poor behavior. - I'm very infuriated that people were still allowed to go into the LG just to be told to leave. I understand that Alex is ill and unable to perform but Laryngitis is an illness that doesn't just come about in 10 minutes you can tell you have it upon waking up in the morning- surely he also got diagnosed with it so they didn't have to leave cancelling till last minute. Also people telling us to 'get over it' and 'get a day off work' (for the rescheduled gig) REALLY? unfortunately for some we HAVE to work to earn money - which has now gone too waste - and we cant just get a day off work. get well soon Alex/
01.11.13 10:37 am
Hi 8955872ppu, could you please email me (firstname.lastname@example.com) regarding the hotel issue. I am a journalist in Birmingham and I am covering this story.o
01.11.13 10:07 am
sadie, you are very kind with your words and very understanding, if you paid for four top quality rooms in a five start hotel - but when you arrived the hotel had been boarded up, closed down and you were told to come back in a month... would you be so understanding? The band took the money and people who cannot afford it are out of pocket. In any other professional environment compensation or a gesture of goodwill would be offered. By the way, regardless of the terms & conditions on the sale of tickets, English consumer law overrides all T&C's - people can claim for their losses and should! Not sure what the situation is in Scottish law.
01.11.13 9:40 am
It's ridiculous that everyone's moaning they obviously wanted to perform but Alex being I'll can't be helped, I'm seeing them on Saturday in sheffield and we are still to see if they are performing then! Be grateful that they have re-arranged the whole thing there's people out there that would love tickets
01.11.13 9:24 am
Why don't you all stop moaning! They have arranged new dates so you will be able to see them, Alex can't help being sick he was most probably trying his best to be able to perform but wasn't allowed! I very highly doubt Arctic Monkeys would ever cancel their gig unless it was serious! Anyway, get well soon Alex xxx
01.11.13 9:14 am
I was proper getting worried you'd cancel Glasgow but I'm glad we have another date to look forward to! Can't wait to see you lot perform been looking forward to it for so long, get well soon dude!


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ANAHEIM – There is a new storyline developing for the Ducks when it comes to the beginning of a season.
Once a team that never got out of the gate cleanly, the Ducks have now started fast for the second season in a row. Jakob Silfverberg's goal in the sixth round of the shootout helped forge their sixth straight win, a 3-2 decision over the Phoenix Coyotes on Friday night.
Jonas Hiller stopped Phoenix captain Shane Doan at the other end and the Ducks are now 6-1. They started 7-1-1 last seson.
Hiller and Phoenix's Mike Smith had a goaltending duel through the first 65 minutes but it was the shooters who ruled afterward.
The Ducks scored four times in all against Smith while Phoenix (4-2-2) beat Hiller three times, but Silfverberg provided the difference with a clean wrist shot that beat Smith. Hiller made 30 saves while Smith stopped 37 shots.
"I thought it was a good hockey game," Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said. "It's just two teams that have played against each other for a while in the Pacific Division. We know how tough they are. They know how tough we were. It was a seesaw game."
The Ducks had scored 20 goals in the first five games of their streak, but were continually foiled by Smith until Nick Bonino found a way to tie it with 2:02 remaining in regulation.
Bonino intercepted a clearing attempt at the blue line and threw a floating shot toward the net. The puck sailed over the head of Dustin Penner, whose big body provided enough of a screen that Smith never saw the puck until it was behind him.
"I just tried to put it on net and about halfway there, I saw the line the puck was on was looking pretty good and Smith had no idea where it was," Bonino said. "Went in. I'm happy."
Rostislav Klesla snapped a 1-1 tie at 7:54 of the third when he put a shot on goal from the point that skipped off Ducks defenseman Bryan Allen past Hiller.
Teemu Selanne opened the scoring for the Ducks with a first-period wrist shot that slipped by Smith for his 677th career goal and second in two games. Phoenix's Antoine Vermette tied it midway through the second.
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I found this thread on another forum and wanted to share it with you all because I found it very well researched and convincing. I'm not taking credit for this, it is not my research, just sharing You can view the original thread here.
In Naruto Chapter 403 Tears, it is revealed that Itachi gave Naruto a gift, a special power to help him in the future (with a crow in his mouth). I believe I have discovered the inspiration for that power.
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"The Kogarasu Maru or "Little Crow", is a unique Japanese tachi sword rumored to have been created by legendary Japanese smith Amakuni during 8th century CE."
"The Kogarasu Maru is sometimes referred to as a Kogarasu Zukuri as the blade of the Kogarasu Maru was forged in the Kissaki Moro Ha Zukuri design. The Kogarasu Maru is unique as a bridge between the old double-edged Japanese Ken (based on the traditional Chinese straight sword) and the traditional Japanese tachi and eventual katana.
The Kogarasu Maru "Little Crow" is the most famous of the known Kogarasu Zukuri blades and currently in the Japanese Imperial Collection. The tang of the Kogarasu Maru is not signed but the blade is believed to have been made during the either the early Heian period or late Nara period, by the famous Japanese swordsmith Amakuni, who is said to have created the first curved Japanese sword and is believed to have lived during this period.
"There is an ancient legend that attribute this revolution in sword making to Amakuni, traditionally belived to be the maker of Kogarasumaru or 'Little Crow', the first curved NipponTo, now in the Imperial Household Collection. According to this legend Amakuni was the Emperor's swordsmith. One day he saw his lord's army returning from a battle and the Emperor ignored him instead to give the usual cheers for the good work made with the blades. Then he noticed that many soldiers had broken swords. They where chokuto or straight swords. He was so disappointed of this that he avoid to eat food and drink water for a week, studying a better way to make swords. According to the legend Inari (fox spirit), the Kami of swordsmakers, appeared in a dream to Amakuni, teaching him how to wrap a soft steel core in an harder one, and how a curved edge is more suitable to cuts and more resistant to shocks than the previous straight one. The day after Amakuni made Kogarasu Maru, the ancestor of all NihonTo."
"Ama-kuni of Yamato, who lived about A. D. 700, was a celebrated maker. One of his blades is said to have been carried off by a crow during the reign of Kuwammu-Tenno, A. D. 782, and has since been known by the name of the Kogarasu maru * (little crow). In A. D. 940 Taira Sadamori became the possessor of this sword, which was drawn by him in the wars with Masakado, who was until lately deified at Kanda, Yeddo. "
These are the covers for Naruto Chapter 3 and Chapter 185 (they're the same covers). We see a "Little Crow" just over Naruto's shoulder. Also, this is the only known chapter cover(at least to my knowledge) that has ever been repeated. (notice the significance of having the image of a little crow when Kishi introduces Sasuke into the manga and when Sasuke leaves Konoha to go to Orochimaru)
Ch. 3 & 185 cover pages:
Then there's the cover for Naruto Chapter 11, on this chapter cover we see a crow carrying a sword in it's beak and it appears to be presenting it to Naruto:
Ch. 11 Cover:
all the kunais almost suggest Hiraishin (Flying Thunder God Technique)
Notice in the backgrounds of each cover is the full moon, a clear symbol of Itachi. Naruto Chapter 142 Cover, this is a cover of Itachi with the full moon in the bottom lefthand corner. Naruto chapter 145 page 10 and page 11.
Also, one of the sources Itachi get's his name from is the Kamaitachi. The source of the name kamaitachi is kamaetachi, which means "attacking tachi". It was later changed to the name kamaitachi as a naming pun for "sickle weasel", by Toriyama Sekien. It's also of note that the kamaitachi itself is a wind demon. The Kamaitachi also makes an appearance in the Naruto series as one of Temari's summoning techniques.
Temari's sickle weasel summoning:
Well, there you have it. This is what I believe Itachi gave Naruto. Itachi gave Naruto a legendary sword named the Kogarasu Maru. The sword is most likely a chakra blade, which would allow Naruto to use his wind elemental affinity along with it to cut opponents at a distance - WraithX959
my own additions to this theory:
I was searching the internet for Cover Page pictures and here's what I found
notice anything?:
I wonder... if it really is a sword... how and when will it come to Naruto?


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One of our favorites is Early Girl Eatery. This family restaurant on Wall Street is owned by John and Julie Stehling. They have long been committed to sourcing their ingredients locally, and the board inside their entryway listing more than 20 local food purveyors is literally a sign of the goodness they serve. Their sunny, pleasant dining room will make you feel right at home while you dig into shrimp and grits, a fried green tomato napolean, or sweet potato black bean cakes. Their meals are affordable, fresh and delicious, and there's a nice variety of salads, sandwiches, and sides with good vegetarian options too. We love to take guests there for breakfast or lunch especially.
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Skip to comments.Best friend, indeed: Dogs take human cues better than chimps
Posted on 11/22/2002 10:34:10 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Washington - Research has long indicated that all dogs, from prissy Pekingese to slobbering St. Bernards, are the domesticated descendants of wolves. But scientists have tussled like puppies over the question of when and where the transition from wild carnivore to newspaper-toting pet began - and why, exactly, dogs and humans have gotten along so well.
Now, a new analysis of dog DNA pegs East Asia as the place where wolves and people began their dance of co-domestication - not Europe or the Middle East, as some experts have contended. The work also suggests that domestication began about 15,000 years ago, much more recently than some had previously concluded.
But it's an accompanying study, also being published today, that has dog lovers really panting. In the first direct comparison of its kind between dogs and chimpanzees, dogs demonstrated an uncanny ability to interpret human communicative cues - gleaning information from subtle hand gestures and even getting the meaning of a human glance - while the brainy chimps remained clueless to what was going on.
It may not be news to dog owners, but now it can be said with scientific assurance: Centuries of selective breeding have created an animal that in some respects, at least, understands us even better than our closest primate cousins.
"It looks like there's been direct selection for dogs with the ability to read social cues in humans," said Brian Hare, a Harvard biological anthropologist who led the behavior study.
Scientists suspect that wolves hung around human hunter gatherers long before the first one was domesticated, perhaps in the hope of stealing scraps of food. Eventually, the theory goes, humans cajoled a few to help with hunting or guarding and began breeding those that proved to be the best companions.
Peter Savolainen of the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, who led one of three dog studies appearing in today's issue of the journal Science, led a team that counted the number of mutations within a particular stretch of so-called mitochondrial DNA in 654 dogs from Europe, Asia, Africa and arctic America. It was the largest such study ever conducted.
Barking up wrong tree?
Working with the common but not universally held understanding that such mutations occur about every 20,000 years, they calculated that domestic dog DNA first appeared about 15,000 years ago - and perhaps 40,000 years ago in the less likely event that domestication started with just one or a few wolves rather than many.
That's much more recent than the 100,000 years ago that scientists had concluded from a smaller DNA study published five years ago. The difference is significant because dogs were clearly widespread around the world not much later, and such a rapid dispersal would be added evidence of their popularity and utility.
But some researchers said they don't trust the new numbers, in part because such calculations are inherently dependent on so many iffy assumptions.
"I think it's still an open question," said Robert K. Wayne, the evolutionary biologist for the University of California in Los Angeles who oversaw the older study that suggested a more distant date.
Savolainen's group also found that dogs from East Asia had the highest level of DNA variability, suggesting that canine domestication originated around there, probably in eastern China or perhaps Japan.
But this finding too faces challenges. Italian researchers have recently gathered evidence pointing to Italy as being home to the world's first dogs. And other scientists have said they stand by their claim that dogs first appeared in the Middle East, perhaps in Israel or Iraq, in conjunction with the first agricultural settlements.
In a second study, scientists present DNA evidence that even New World dogs are the offspring of East Asian wolves and are not the descendants of native American wolves. The first dogs in the New World apparently came along as newly domesticated companions when humans migrated from Asia to North America across the Bering Strait about 12,000 to 14,000 years ago.
Outperforming chimps
"That tells us that dogs were very important," said Jennifer A. Leonard, now at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, who helped lead the study. "Remember, these are hunter gatherers in the Stone Age. They don't have a lot of stuff, and dogs have to be fed and to some extent taken care of."
No one knows what role dogs played so early in their domestication, Leonard said, but it may have included transportation as sled dogs, protection of food or hunting assistance.
In a third report, researchers describe several experiments aimed at unveiling the biological and behavioral essence of the human-dog relationship. One experiment presented dogs and chimps with two boxes, one empty and the other containing a treat. The team tested the animals' ability to read hints from a person as to which box had the food - hints such as pointing at the food box, tapping it or even simply glancing at it.
Dogs almost always picked up on the signals and picked the right box, while chimps performed no better than chance. Experimental controls ensured that dogs were not simply smelling the food.
Hare, the Harvard PhD candidate who designed the study after trying it out on his own two dogs at home, acknowledged that chimps perform better than dogs on many kinds of tests.
"But in this simple task involving . . . communicative signaling with humans, chimpanzees fall flat on their faces," he said.
In a separate series of experiments comparing test performance in human-raised puppies, kennel-raised puppies, dogs and wolves, Hare and his colleagues concluded that this communicative talent is not learned from human interaction during puppyhood and is not found in wolves. That suggests it has become an innate trait among dogs, the result of individual dogs having been selected and bred over hundreds or thousands of years on the basis of their ability to "understand" their masters.
BTW, I feel more secure on an airline flight that I know baggage sniffing dogs were used rather than just the X-rays. For my money, you can throw out the X-ray machines AND the security screeners. Just use trained dogs. Any person a dog don't want to fly with, I don't want to fly with either.
I have a similar story. I used to keep peacocks. One night I failed to lock them in the barn, and the next morning the leader of the flock was missing. I fretted for a couple of days, but my husband kept saying that the bird was probably just exploring the neighborhood. Finally, in frustration, I turned to the dog and said, "Where's the bird? Where's Danny Boy?"
My golden looked quizzickly at me, as if to say, "Oh, is that why you're so sad? I'll show you..." and off she ran, with her nose to the ground, criss-crossing my long driveway. She stopped with her nose in the grass close to the road. I walked down there and said, "Don't be stupid, that grass is too short for the bird to hide." Then I looked where she was pointing and found six tiny broken feathers that looked a lot like neck feathers. When my husband got home, he found the rest of the very dead bird in the brush across the road where a fox had dragged it.
I get teary when I tell this story because I'm sure the bird saved the rest of the flock by leading the fox down the drive while they escaped to their perches in the barn. Also, I do not know how my dog could track that particular bird when there had been 8 other birds running all over the place? How did my dog know that that was the bird I was looking for? and I'm so sorry that I told my dog she was stupid!
It gives me chills to remember this.
We adopted a 2 year old from Golden Retriever Rescue of Wisconsin in April. I thought I'd never have another dog after my other Golden died at 15 1/2, but I finally broke down and took on Max. He comes to the office with us every day and is just wonderful. He doesn't make us think of our other dog at all -- he's just different and wonderful in other ways. I do slip and call him Terra sometimes and wonder why he doesn't respond! :~)
signed: The humble servant of the Persian Chinchilla Freya
(okay, dogs ARE smart, and I do love them too)
Yep. :^)
I think the author has the science backwards. Early hunters would not have wasted their time attempting to domesticate a creature that did not already demonstrate a keen empathy for humans and an unusual ability to work with them. I suggest that these characteristics were inherent in the canine species that sprung forth from prior genetic stock in those ancient days and that selective breeding only refined preexistent qualities.
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text: My brother, who is an avid Bama fan and member of this forum, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He had the MRI yesterday to determine if it has spread. I'm asking all tide fans to pray that the cancer has not spread, and pray for a quick recovery. (Won't reveal his name - not sure if he would want that). Your prayers will be appreciated.


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Guide to the Stanford University Facilities and Grounds Collection
Collection Contents
Accession 2009-062 Reports, manuals, and other records 1956-12009
AFM [Administrative and Financial Management] Report for Grounds Department 1997-1999
Dutch Elm Disease project 1985
Engineering Associates, Report on Study of Grounds Operation 1995
Engineering Associates, Grounds Operations for Stanford University 1996 Sep
Engineering Associates, Grounds Operations for Stanford University 1996 Nov
Eucalyptus trees
Evaluation of Peninsula Sanitary Service Recycling Programs and Front-Loader Bin Service, Prepared by Brown, Vence & Associates 1995 Feb
Frost Amphitheater plants 1956
Grounds Services Operations Sections 1-9, [Overview; Supervisors and Crews; Grounds Maintenance Areas; Inventory Summary; Plant Inventory; Irrigation Inventory; Tree Inventory; Targets; Work Budget] 2009- March
Grounds Services Operations Sections 10-16 [Outage Class Reports; Cost Estimates; Equipment Operators Crew; Road Maintenance Crew; Grounds Perimeter Crew; Specialty Housing Crew; Cleanup/Weeding Crew] 2009 March
Grounds Services Operations Sections 17-18, [Shrub & Groundcover Trim Crew; Horticulturists] 2009 March
Grounds Services Operations Sections 19-23, [Pest Control Crew; Tree Crew; Construction Crew; Irrigation Crew; Appendix] 2009 March
Harris, Richard, "A Management Approach to Park Maintenance," with note by Herb Fong 2009
Landscape Maintenance Guidelines 1990
Los Trancos San Francisquito Creeks Monitor reports 2006-2008
Milestone Memos [gathered by Herb Fong] 1981-2004
Oaks, information re compiled by David Muffly 2006-2007
Presentation on work standards 1983-1984 and undated
Recycling Options for Stanford University, Prepared by Brown, Vence & Associates 1987 Sep
SLAC Memorial Trees
Solid Waste Generation Study, Prepared by Brown, Vence & Associates 1991 Dec
Solid Waste Management Plan, Prepared by Brown, Vence & Associates 1987 Sep
Tree information (includes heritage tree list 1977, list of Inner Quad trees and shrubs 1955, Tree Walk handout 1973)
Trees of Stanford, Campus Report 1984 Nov 14
WOFAC, work management program 1976-1977
WOFAC, work management 1980-1982
WOFAC materials 1976-1977
SUMC. A Management Review of the Facilities Department 1979 March
Syllabus for Biology 131 Mosses and Ferns undated
Bracewell, Ron. Trees on the Stanford Campus 1973 May


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Round 5 of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross series is in the books after visiting Anaheim, California for the 3rd and final time. SCOTT athletes were out in force looking for the coveted podium finish. On this date, only one SCOTT athlete would find the podium, while the rest found themselves battling for every point available.
250 SX Class
Monster Energy Pro Circuit Racing and SCOTT athlete Martin Davalos came out swinging in Anaheim, winning his heat race and securing a great gate pick for the main event. Davalos got a great jump off the gate and ronded the first turn in third, quickly making a pass for second. Martin rode with great patience and consistency and eventually finished the race 2nd overall. This podium marks Martin's 2nd of the season and moved him from 7th to 4th in the West Coast 250SX point standings.
SCOTT goggle athlete Dakota Tedder rode well all day and qualified for the 250SX main event with a 7th place finish the first heat race. In the main event Dakota rode well and finished the race with a respectable 18th place finish.
450 SX Class
Things got interesting in the 450SX class this weekend, with many top riders getting caught in a third turn crash. SCOTT goggle athlete Andrew Short navigated his way through the carnage and managed to earn a 6th place finish in the 450SX main event. Short has been consistent this season and sits in 6th place in the 450SX point standings.
SCOTT goggle athlete Trey Canard didn't have the race he was hoping for in Anaheim. Canard transferred to the 450SX main by way of a 4th place finish in the second heat race. In the 450SX main event, Canard had several small crashes and mistakes that relegated him to 7th by the time the checkered flag was thrown. Canard now sits in 3rd in the 450SX point standings.
JAB Motorsports rider and SCOTT athlete Matt Lemoine had a great Anaheim 3. Matt qualified for the 450SX main event with a 7th place finish in the first 450 heat race. In the main event Lemoine found himself kickstarting his bike when the gate dropped, relegating him to a last place start. Matt was able to get his bike started moments after the gate dropped and he went to work climbing his way through the field. By the time the checkered flag flew, Matt had worked his way up to 11th, giving him his best result to date in the 450SX class. Matt is 17th in the 450SX point standings.
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Shane Moore, author of the Abyss Walker series, missed being included in our recent roundup of WoW-playing authors -- but that's not why we're profiling him today. Shane's been rabble-rousing on the battlefield and around town, cooking up a whole different kind of PVP stew on his home realm: a third faction.
If you've ever felt ambivalent about playing sides in the Horde vs. Alliance tug-of-war, you've probably dreamed of what a third faction could be like. Shane and his guildmates are playing around with the idea in game now. At more than 1,000 members and growing strong, The Third Faction claims to draw its powers from the mandate of the masses rather than the tyrannical whims of Azeroth's ruling dictators.


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I know when I was growing if you went to cross a street on foot or bike, it was drilled into your head by your parents to Stop, Look Both Ways, Walk.......Not any more.
you see some out jogging and they just continue on across the street with ear buds a blasting. Not sure about you but even if you are in the right....a car bumper is going to do some damage.
For the record, my last speeding ticket was in 1984, and I have never caused an accident, so no, I don't make a habit of bumping bicyclists.
Just sayin'
Be The Change You Want To See In The World
In my experience, bicyclists seem to think that they can behave like motorized vehicles when they want; then behave like pedestrians when they want.
I saw something so fantastic one day in Huntington Beach, Ca. that I thought I ought to post it here. Apparently, most bicyclists believe that they don't need to obey traffic laws at some locations. Like when they make right turns against a red light. Well, one day on my way home from work, this group of about 20 bicyclists blast thru a red light making a right turn. The policeman was waiting for them about 50 yards from the intersection and waved them all over. I didn't hang around to find out what happened, but was later told by a policeman that failure for a bicyclist to stop at a red light is a moving violation, same as if they were in a car.
I like to think that they all got tickets and for all of them, they got big fines and their car insurance rates went up.
My 1150 is very quiet, and it's not necessarily evident to a cyclist that I am approaching or overtaking. As a courtesy, I simultaneously scream and blow my horn as I get close. It takes a village.
R75/6, Non functioning 2014 FJR1300A
I'd advise that you make sure you use the horn (if you still insist upon doing so, even tho it's really not necessary) some several hundred yards before reaching us. a light "toot" is plenty, no big "honks", please.
Ride Safe, Ride Lots
You know I was kidding.
A world of twisties and elevation abounds starting at the edge of my driveway. It is very common to encounter singles, pairs, or entire postal teams of riders in my area, particularly on weekends. As a result, I've taken to strapping a Chuckie doll to my back, facing rearward, holding a video camera. I turn on my 4 way flashers and trail or move alongside the peloton. I hope, in some small way to contribute to the aire de Tour.
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There are vehicle drivers that blow stop signs, stop lights, weave all over while texting and do other dangerous driving antics. There also bicyclists who disobey rules. It is hard to understand all the rage on this forum against bicyclists. Most of the ones in my area obey the rules. There are a few young racing types that don't.
It is great to see people out on bicycles that want to lead a healthy life style and not pollute the environment. Don't judge an entire group of people because of a few bad characters whether it is motorists, bicyclists, pedestrians or people of other faiths and races.
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The rage I have is because the road I live on the local bike club use it for theirs group rides. This is with no regards with the other traffic. They ride in a large pack and will not let other traffic get a round. I have talked to them and they don't give a sh t. Even calling the police about this has not helped. There are soo many blind curves that if you did not know they are on the road you could hit one. Around here they act like one percentrs when it is mor like 99%.
I am also a bicycle rider was in a club many years ago. Our group rides were small packs most of the time single file.
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I guess eastern NC where I live is different.
In town there are few bicycles. Traffic is constant and moves prety quickly and the place has the highest accident rates in the state due to poor road planning, visual clutter and tons of kids and tourists. Bicyclists in genernal don't seem to get much kick out of riding in it and it would be insanely dangerous in many places- though there are a few bike lanes..
Outside of town, we've got lots of twisties in the country but few stop signs, lots of spots to easily pass, etc so despite the fact that one sometimes sees group rides of bicyclists and motorcyclists passing each other, tensions are pretty rare.
When I see them out in the country, I usually have sympathy for those nuts enough to want to pedal in our hot, humid summer weather and knowing that a passing spot is coming up, can leave plenty of room for everyone.
We're not totally free of those irrational urban tensions here but a lot less than some other more uptight places.
In NW Michigan last summer, there were hundreds of them on some type of multi day, group ride (in the hundreds) and they pretty much did what they wanted w/o any regard to rules of the road or the other traffic.
I have to admire their extra large testes. No protective gear (well there is a "helmet" that certainly wouldn't pass as a DOT approved helmet) spandex instead of armored jacket and pants insuring that a get off would be sure road rash or worse.
I will give you that the squid who does wheelies on I 70 in traffic in St. Louis gives motorcyclist a bad name. But they are the exception in my part of the country. We don't even lane split here.
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text: What a pity to have a hardcourt tournament replaced by clay. The decline of tennis in the US from the heady days of the 1980s is also alarming. From tennis.com: The 86-year-old ATP tournament in Los Angeles is in the process of being sold to a group for Bogota, Colombia, TENNIS.com has confirmed. The NY Times' Chris Clarey and USA Today's Doug Robson first reported the story. Owned by the Southern California Tennis Association, the event claims to have lost money for the past four years. The tournament, which was held at UCLA and called the Farmers Classic for the past three years, was unable to sign its two major sponsors for 2013. In the last two years, the ATP 250-level tournament tried to attract fans without paying appearance fees to star players, but was unsuccessful in doing so. Like the recently sold ATP tournament in San Jose, California, the L.A. tournament struggled after the retirement of popular U.S. stars Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, and Michael Chang. The tournament was unable to consistently recruit 2003 U.S. Open champion Andy Roddick and was never able to convince the sport's two biggest draws, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, to come to the U.S. so soon after Wimbledon. The event has been played in late July. The USTA has no current plans to try and replace the event. Next year, it is scheduled to be played the week of July 22, alongside European clay-court events in Umag and Gstaad. It is scheduled in between U.S. Open Series tournaments in Atlanta and Washington, DC. It is possible that the Bogota group is simply buying the tournament sanction, and will look for another place on the calendar to hold the event, possibly in February when the other Latin American tournaments take place. Los Angeles' demise will mean that California, which once hosted four ATP tournaments annually, will be down to one: Indian Wells, a combined men's and women's tournament held in March. In 1980, there were 36 ATP tournaments played in the U.S. Next year, there will only be 13. In 2014, unless a new tournament comes in, there will only be 12, as San Jose will move to Brazil.