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Gastric Ulcers and Weanlings: Effects of Diet Type
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Gastric ulcers can affect horses of all breeds, ages, shapes, and sizes. Weanlings are among these: They are transitioning from a diet of milk to one of forages and concentrates, while also experiencing the stress of separation from their dams. So, what type of feed should an owner provide to ease the transition's impact on a weanling's GI tract? A team from the University of Illinois led by Kevin Kline, PhD, professor of animal science, recently completed a study in which they determined that a forage-rich diet caused the least amount of gastrointestinal (GI) problems.
Kline and colleagues evaluated the effects of three different diets (an all-alfalfa hay diet, a diet of hay cubes and grain, and one consisting of a pelleted complete feed) on the GI health of 16 Standardbred weanlings (six colts and 10 fillies). The weanlings were divided into two groups of eight (three colts and five fillies each).
Researchers fed each group of horses a different diet during three 28-day periods. Both groups of weanlings were fed the all-alfalfa hay diet for the first 28-day period. Then, researchers fed one group the hay cubes and grain diet and gave the other complete feed for 28 days. The groups switched diets for the final 28 days.
At the end of each 28-day period, each weanling underwent an endoscopic examination to determine the number and severity of gastric ulcers present in the stomach. The veterinarian performing the endoscopic exams was blinded to the weanlings' most recent diets, except for the first round of exams in which all the horses were on the same diet.
"After Period 1 on the all-hay diet, the horses were found to have low ulcer numbers and severity scores, supporting the importance of a high-forage diet in young growing horses," Kline said in the study.
After the next 28-day cycle when the horses began consuming their new diets, the team noted that regardless of whether the weanlings ate the hay cubes and grain diet or the complete feed diet, the number and severity of the ulcers in the weanlings' stomachs had increased by 30%. There was no statistically significant difference between the ulcer scores among horses on these two diets, they added.
On the final endoscopic exams (after the third 28-day cycle), the horses' gastric ulcer scores were nearly three times higher than their base scores. The team said these results suggest that the weanlings did not adjust well to the high concentrate diets.
"This suggests that the gastric ulceration seen in the young horses in this study was a progressive, active pathology extending throughout the 56 days of both high grain diet treatments," Kline noted in the study.
The team hypothesized that "the finely ground pelleted feed required less chewing and might therefore have resulted in reduced saliva production." Because saliva (an alkaline) has a buffering effect on the stomach (an acidic environment), the team believes this imbalance likely contributed to ulcer formation in the stomach.
Previous study results indicated that alfalfa hay also has a buffering effect on adult horses' stomachs. Saliva can't be produced if the horse is not eating; thus, large amounts of time spent with an empty stomach (i.e., between feedings with little to no forage provided) can encourage ulcer development in horses. Therefore, most veterinarians and equine nutritionists recommend continual forage intake for horses.
Kline suggested that if young horses must be pushed to grow and gain weight for reasons such as showing in futurities or in preparation for an early sale, then the feeding of additional processed concentrates should be divided into several small feedings throughout the day and accompanied by plenty of good-quality forages.
Providing a pre-weaning creep feed that contains a high concentration of forage in addition to grain products can help weanlings adjust to consuming some grain before they are weaned. Starting with high-quality forage provides weanlings with most of their nutrient requirements, according to the researchers, reducing their need for additional concentrates.
The study, "Effect of Feed Processing Method on Average Daily Gain and Gastric Ulcer Development in Weanling Horses," was published in the March 2011 issue of the Journal of Equine Veterinary Science. The abstract is available online.
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The king is back! "Duke Nukem Forever" has been revived, and is nearing release in a shocking turn of events.
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The demo features a quick taste of the game's combat gameplay, in which the macho-protagonist, Duke Nukem, fights to save his babes from hoards of evil extraterrestrials.
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The game features plenty of sexual innuendo just like its predecessors -- the demo concludes with Nukem appearing to be receiving oral pleasure from a pair of females.
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"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all outta gum."
"Hail to the king baby!", Duke Nukem is back. Some may take Friday's announcement of
Duke Nukem Forever
's resurrection as a sign of the end of times, but it's hard not to feel a bit of excitement that maybe, just maybe, this bad joke could transform into a modern first-person shooter gem.
For today's younger generation of gamers, Duke Nukem may not ring many more bells than Q*bert, but there was a time when the brash talking, hyper-masculine, buzz-cut womanizer Duke headlined one of the best selling first person shooters of its decade (
Duke Nukem 3D
By the year 2009, those who still remembered the games used them more frequently in punchlines than in praise. After all,
Duke Nukem 3D
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Duke Nukem Forever
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Mr. Pitchford describes the protagonist, remarking, "In Duke's world this is all real shit. These fucking aliens are here and they're fucking our planet up and they're taking our chicks. There's a reason for that, and Duke is the only guy who can stop them. In his universe, that all makes perfect sense. As a result, he is the most important person in his universe. And he knows it. He enjoys it. He franchises it! He's got Duke Burgers opened up all over the country. It's a weird universe, but it works for him. He's the king!"
But the "king" has his work cut out for him if he hopes to win back gamers. After all if there's one thing more deadly than a pack of babe-stealing aliens, it's the risk of remaining a punchline from one more delay.
Despite the risk, Mr. Pitchford is the picture of confidence and exuberance. He says he can understand if some are skeptical, but promises not to disappoint. He states, "I think everybody feels the way I felt when Duke was in trouble in 2009. Yeah, we've been jerked around. But we kind of want him to be triumphant. In Duke's time of need, we almost want to support him. And I'm feeling that kind of love."
As for Nukem, he appears to be feeling the love, too.
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He gruffly remarks, "Yeah, but after 12 fucking years . . . it better be."
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Discussion in 'Trek Literature' started by Therin of Andor, Oct 30, 2012.
^I don't find that very logical...
Congratulations to Sydney-based science fiction writer, Edwina Harvey, for her newly-released short story collection, "The Back of the Back of Beyond". Andorian Ambassador Therin and his alter ego (ie. me) make guest appearances in the story "Get Me to the Worldcon on Time", and my dog, Jack, gets a meaty cameos in "Party with My Sweet 286".
Available through peggybrightbooks.com - eBook formats for now, but I have a paperback version coming. Thanks so much Edwina, it looks like wonderful fun and I'm in great cameo company by the look of the honour roll at the back!
At the risk of doing three posts in a row, time is running out for Dayton Ward's "Peaceable Kingdoms" sighting contest. Three more prizes of ten still available:
I some new Nookbooks today, including the SCE: Wildfire and Breakdowns omnibuses.
I got The peaceable kingdoms novel and a new Star into darkness calendar.
I found the book of essays, "Fan Phenomena: Star Trek" (Intellect Books, 2013), edited by Bruce E Drushel, tonight. In the same series was "Fan Phenomena: Batman", edited by Liam Burke.
Other books in this series include "Doctor Who" (in stock), "Twin Peaks", "Star Wars" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
^^ Re: Fan Phenomena: Star Trek: I reviewed that one a few months back. It's an interesting collection. (http://treklit.blogspot.com/2013/09/fpst.html)
I just pre-ordered the 2015 Ships of the Line calendar from Amazon. Anyone know which artists/designers are involved for this edition?
I just won a free design-it-yourself T-shirt! I decided to make it Trek publications-related:
Therin Park T-shirt by Therin of Andor, on Flickr
I'm not sure exactly when in 2013 this came out, but the omnibus of "Kevin Keller: Drive Me Crazy", featuring the George Takei guest appearance in issue #6 ("By George!" by Dan Parent) of this "Archie" spin-off, was available in a local comic store this week:
Kevin Keller omnibus by Therin of Andor, on Flickr
George Takei supplies an introduction. There are also three more non-George stories and bonus features.
The alternate covers (below) for the individual issues are included in the omnibus:
Kevin Keller #6 by Therin of Andor, on Flickr
Landing party by Therin of Andor, on Flickr
"Captain, the tricorder identifies the alien as a sitting duck."
"No Time Like the Past" by Greg Cox arrived Down Under on Tuesday! I collected my copy tonight from Galaxy Bookshop, Sydney.
What happened to Spock's legs? Quicksand? Transporter mishap?
Obi-Wan Kenobi mistook him for Darth Maul.
Deep foliage?
Or drunk. In Australia, a drunk person is often described as "legless". (Which causes some interesting comments about Legolas, too. The "party elf".)
This is the latest in the series of Diamond Select money boxes.
Spock's legs? Judging by the bloated yet satisfied expression on the duck's face, I imagine possibly it's eaten them. This might fit with the perturbed, slightly pained (meaning deep agony, because this is Spock), yet scientifically curious expression on Spock's face. And the tense, ready-for-action stance of the Andorian (Therin?), who is clearly reaching for his phaser.
"A strictly carnivorous duck. Fascinating..."
Then again, if I recall correctly, this duck was raised in a factory by alligators, yes? I imagine it's picked up some unusual habits.
Tonight, Galaxy in Sydney had the companion book/box for the Running Press "Light-up Phaser". This one is a light-up "Starship Enterprise" and features a model of the TOS ship on a stand, plus a miniature 32-page illustrated book by Chip Carter. It even references TAS's Robert April!
Starship Enterprise miniature book by Therin of Andor, on Flickr
I got my story anthology Star Trek SCE Things Past I can't wait to read this series of stories. I really liked Sce Out of the Cocoon stories.
This looks really awesome with the lights on. I was very pleasantly surprised by how bright it is!
New Trek stuff arrives Down Under tonight by Therin of Andor, on Flickr
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Concepcion, Larkin to throw first pitches for opener
Lifetime Reds shortstops and former captains to toss simultaneously before game
By Mark Sheldon / MLB.com
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Two of the greatest shortstops in Reds history and the last two players to hold the title of team captain will make ceremonial first pitches on Opening Day.
Before the Reds host the Cardinals at 4:10 p.m. ET on March 31, Dave Concepcion and Barry Larkin will throw their pitches simultaneously.
Both players will be pulling double duty of sorts on Opening Day. Concepcion was already named last month as the grand marshal of the 95th Findlay Market Opening Day Parade. Larkin will be performing his regular job as an ESPN analyst on Baseball Tonight, which will base its pregame show live on Crosley Terrace outside of Great American Ball Park.
Concepcion enjoyed a 19-season career spent entirely with the Reds from 1970-88, and he was named team captain in 1983. He was inducted into the Reds Hall of Fame in 2000, and his No. 13 jersey was retired by the Reds in 2007.
Larkin had his own 19-season career, all in his hometown of Cincinnati, and was named team captain before the 1997 season and entered the Reds Hall of Fame in 2008. His No. 11 was retired in 2012, the same year he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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3 SUNY Delhi Students were arrested on Sealed Indictment Warrants following a 3-month investigation conducted by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation Division with the assistance of the Delaware County Probation Department and SUNY Delhi University Police Department. 21-year-old Jerome Swaggard of Brooklyn was arrested for 3rd & 4th degree Criminal Sale of Marihuana, 21-year-old Matthew Balzano of Chester was arrested on 2 counts of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance, for allegedly selling a hallucinogenic substance known as "Molly". Also charged was 20 year old Robert Plaut of Farmingdale for 2 counts of 3rd degree Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance & 1 count of 5th degree Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance, for allegedly selling "Mollies". All 3 were arraigned in Delaware County Court and were held without bail pending future court appearances. More arrests are anticipated.
The Broome County Special Investigations Unit Task Force arrested 26-year-old Heather Brower of Bainbridge on Friday on 2 counts of prostitution, plus 1 count each of criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument. Brower was charged after she allegedly agreed to perform sexual acts with undercover detectives in exchange for money, upon arrest, she was found to have hypodermic needles & a small amount of heroin. She was also wanted on active arrest warrants in the Village of Johnson City Court and the Town of Dickinson Court. Brower has been remanded to the Broome County Sheriff's Correctional Facility.
32-year-old Benjamin Ildefonso of Walton was sentenced in Delaware County Court to serve 3 consecutive, 4-year prison sentences after being convicted on 3 charges of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance. Ildefonso was also ordered to pay a $3,000 fine as well as restitution to the Delaware County Sheriff's Office, a court surcharge, DNA fee and Crime Victim Assistance fee.
The Delaware County Sheriff Deputies investigated a 1-car motor vehicle accident on Lower Third Brook Road in the Town of Walton. 42 year old Karin Hamlin of Walton was issued a traffic ticket to appear in the Town of Walton court on May 29th after the vehicle she was operating on Lower Third Brook Road slid out of control striking the guide rail causing damage to the guide rail, then crossing over the opposite side of the roadway and becoming stuck in a ditch. No injuries were reported.
Motorists are advised that the State Route 7 southbound on-ramp to Interstate 81 southbound is closed today. Motorists traveling south will be detoured to State Street to Bevier Street onto Broad Street, then to the Interstate on-ramp on Broad Street. Motorists are advised that State Route 17 between exit 71 and 72 will be reduced to one lane in both directions today, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM for work related to the Kamikaze Curve area projects.


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I was intrigued today (8/08/2013) observing a male Speckled Wood butterfly - having persued a female; cornered her; where nose-to-nose he continually flicked his wings seemingly encouraging courtship. He turned and endeavoured to conjoin his backend on to hers. But, she was having nothing of it and lay down on her side as if 'playing dead'. Whereupon, after a brief tarry he flew away. When a female butterfly says "No" she means it and he knows it!
Nice observation. I too have seen this behaviour in female Speckled Woods.
I echo Michael's comment, except that I have not seen this behaviour.
Very nice to have it captured photographically.
With years of 'looking' I have observed a Speckled Woods' charming gambling in sunlit woodland groves where they flit, dance and have-a-go at other butterflies or small fly-born invertebrates that dare encroach into his staked-out sun-patch they decide alone to own. And, the way they spiral pirouetting hither and thither with a rival Speckled Wood sometimes out of sight above the canopy is a delight to see. And, they return sooner or later to their sunny domain full of shadows which are owned by more secretive invertebrates that prefer dark, damp, hideaway earthy homes. The female Speckled Wood in question continued to lay on her side after her suitor had departed. Only, up and fluttering away when I placed my camera too close to her embarrassment.
She was feigning dead because of her extreme embarrassment at having your camera lens watching all the action :-)


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My Solutions for the Rays "Waterlogged Balls" Situation
Sometimes I just think that the Tampa Bay management just makes a deal with itself not to whine more than once a month. Seriously here folks, two months ago it was about attendance has to increase to even be able to afford a winning team. Next it was the lack of Season Tickets, which numbers near 10,000 to increase at least 50 percent to provide financial stability for the team. But the latest one might be the best one of them all. I know that the new move south about 90 minutes might be difficult for some of the players, but the wild part is that now the baseballs are the ones in danger.
It seems that a lack of planning or maybe the addition of some better hitters has brought to light the problem of baseballs hitting the lakes behind the 5 practice fields at Charlotte Sports Park. What is amazing is that when they were setting up the drawings to lay out this complex, or event to upgrade certain fields and fence locations, the glint of the water and the parking lots did not pop into their minds as hazards. This is not the first time the team has had to endure a parking lot situation. At the old complex they had one field on the main4-field setting in the southeast corner who right-center and right field used to send balls into the players parking lot.
You would see the first 25 or so spaces empty when you first got to the complex and reporters and minor league players would take those spots not knowing the left handed batters would be seeking their cars windshields and looking to produce tell tale marks on hoods and roof tops. The Rays did find a way to combat that element by making mostly the left handed hitters' play in scrimmages on one of the other 3 diamonds to take away the threat of car harm and rising insurance rates. Even at Progress Energy Field, the old Spring Training game site, you had a left field and right field shopping mall of cars to choose from if you hit it long and deep.
I remember going out to Progress Energy before an away game in Sarasota two years ago and watching the Batting Practice balls go out the left field fence and smash into about 5 cars windshields before the construction workers putting the upgrades on the neighboring Mahaffey Theatre finally got wise and moved their cars further from the onslaught of baseballs. They had already gotten about 7 cars either in the windshield or on their body parts and I scampered around and collected over 24 balls that day, just over the left field wall. But down the old right field line, players could hit paying customers cars parked along 1st Street South along the street sides. So what is so unusual about the Port Charlotte situation?
Well, if a baseball gets waterlogged, it is pretty much garbage for some time, or for ever depending on the total amount of time it takes a swim in the water. Maybe this Spring Training the Rays might have to suck it up and expect the added expenses, but in 2010 there might be some unique changes in the structures. Maybe they can develop a screen system like the City of Clearwater did along McMullen-Booth Road to combat balls going out of the softball fields and ending up in the windshields of cars going 45 mph down the road.
Or maybe you can have the guys go nuts all day long shagging balls and give them each a player-signed ball after the day to show your thanks for a job well done. I hate to say it, but I would drive down there every day to get a bit closer to fulfilling that fantasy of playing baseball instead of football. These are only a few of the ideas that pop into my little mind daily that could help the Tampa Bay Rays in some way. Maybe that is one of the reason I write my blog, to get this stuff out of my brain before it explodes, or maybe I write it because I want this team to be here for as long as I live, and that might be a long time.
So, Rays Front Office, the choice is yours. Either you think about one of those ideas I gave you, or you have to suck it up and pay out the money for new balls daily. I know this complex is not Raymond J Namoli complex, but it has a beauty and a confined space that just says baseball. This is the infant stage of the new complex, problem will arise daily and be dealt with, but if the fact that baseballs are flying into the lakes or the parking lot might cause further financial damage to you, then think about a few of these solutions. I can be there at 9 :30 every day if you need me until April, then I have reservations to shag balls daily in the right field stands at the Trop.
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I love the idea of giving the fans a chance to get the balls! You know there are a bunch of kids who would love to do it! But isn't it amazing what some people DON"T take into consideration when they are planning things? I grew up in the city of Newton Massachusetts and we had two high schools – Newton North & Newton South (I know – original.) Anyway, the new Newton North opened while I was still in school (when it was time for HS I went to South) and it had all the bells and whistle. A few weeks after it opened, it was noted that the bottom the swimming pool was peeling and they needed to drain it to refinish it. The problem – they soon discovered that the pool had been built without a drain in it! The fire department had to pump in out! So sadly I can see how the Rays management might have missed the LAKES behind the practice fields. It does make you wonder at times how these idiots can be running things and not the likes of us! Oh well! Happy swimming!
I am usually happy with the idea coming into maturity in a plan, but maybe they did not think we would have heavy hitter on the squad?
The wild part about building something on a large scale is sometimes a small step can be lost until it is all over. I have to think that when Walt Disney World in Orlando was built, they forgot a few things long the way, but masked them well enough to furnish the solutions without everyone noticing them.
Believe me, I would not want to run this ball club. Not that I can not handel pressure or even have a baseball mindset, but becuase of the constant B S I would have to shovel daily. I would need a dumptruck for some of my quotes lol
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All great and viable ideas! Keep up the insightful work.
It was just funny when I first read about it yesterday.
During B P you lose maybe 40-50 balls per game, and also have some given away by players and that is okay. But if they hit the water by go it is a crime against nature. Hopefully an alligator will not eat one of those balls and die.
Then the Fish and Wildlife Commission will be aprked by the roadside with binoculars looking for balls hitting the water, or endangering the cranes and herons that are heading south again in March.
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EDITORS NOTE: Please read Solid State Drive (SSD) Benchmark Performance Testing to understand how the benchmarks used in this article should be interpreted.
It's show time! All claims to performance are either made real or proven false in our testing, and although SSD's clearly offer some advantages it sometimes takes seeing a product compared to the performance of others to prove the point. Not very long ago I decided to take action and get System Speed Test v4.78 back in our test rotation. This software is solid, and the results are more accurate than any others available that I have used.
I doubt that when DOS died, Vladimir Afanasiev ever thought he would see his System Speed Test software used again in professional reviews. This program offers comprehensive system information, but it also has a powerful benchmarking tool for memory, processor, and disks. In terms of disk performance, it measures interface and physical transfer rates, seek and access times at the hardware level, and it does so without delay or interference from Operating System software or running processes. This is why Benchmark Reviews will continue to use this test: it polls its results directly from the hardware without the need for Windows!
To detect the Random Access Time of each device, we ran full test routines on all products a total of five times. The highest and lowest scores were ignored, and the remainder was averaged. This would be pointless however, because in every single access time benchmark the test results were identical. In the bandwidth tests the results were extremely close to the others, and therefore required averaging.
To my complete surprise, System Speed Test access time benchmarks places the Mtron Pro 7500 SSD at the very top of our results. With a lightning-fast 0.08 ms access time, every other SSD is forced to live in the shadow that the MSP-SATA7525 has just created. The sub-0.1ms group of top performers also includes the MemoRight GT, Mtron Pro 7000, and Mtron MOBI 3000. Clearly, Mtron knows a little something about keeping random access time to a bare minimum in their Solid State Drives. The OCZ SATA-II OCZSSD2-1S64G, Samsung MCCOE64G5MPP, Silicon Power SATA-II SP032GBSSD750S25, Patriot Warp PE128GS25SSDR and original OCZ OCZSSD64GB maintain the midrange level or random access times between 0.14ms and 0.23ms.
At the slower end of our SSD response time chart is the original SATA Silicon Power SP064GBSSD25SV10, OCZ Core Series, Crucial's CT32GBFAB0, and the Super Talent MasterDrive MX finishing out the list. In reality you couldn't begin to perceive these subtle differences, but technology should get better with time and not the other way around. It's also worth keeping in mind that our Hard Disk Drive alternatives are a much slower to react: Western Digital's Raptor took 8.53ms to respond, followed by 12.99ms for the Seagate 7200.11, and 15.39ms for the 7200 RPM (most are 4800 RPM) Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 notebook drive.
Bandwidth is a whole other consideration once you record the results. In our tests, both the Western Digital Raptor and Seagate 7200.11 Hard Disk Drives showed strength as only a select few SSD's could meet or exceed their buffered read performance. A larger 32MB buffer in the 7200.11 makes a 7200 RPM HDD difficult to keep pace with, and the 10,000 RPM spindle speed offer enough of an advantage to keep the Raptor on top. Close on the Raptors' tail was the OCZ OCZSSD2-1S32G and OCZSSD2-1S64G, which is based off of the Samsung MCCOE64G5MPP-0VA SSD which performed the same. The Seagate 7200.11 HDD was nearly matched in buffered read bandwidth by the Super Talent FTM60GK25H and Patriot Warp, with the Mtron Pro 7500 a short distance behind marking the end our our high-bandwidth finishers.
Leading the midrange portion of our SSD group was the SATA-II Silicon Power SP032GBSSD750S25 which performed almost identically to the older SP064GBSSD25SV10 SSD. The Crucial/Lexar CT32GBFAB0 trailed close behind, while the OCZ's CORE SSD performed at the same level as the Crucial/Lexar SATA-II SSD, while the OCZ Core Series SSD, Mtron Pro 700, and Mtron MOBI 3000 complete the midrange list. The low-end portion of our drive performance chart is occupied by the original OCZ SSD, which lasted mere minutes on the market after being released early 2008.
Looked at a different way, and ignoring the dominant buffered read speed results trend set by the Hard Disk Drives, the top SSD's actually did well to hold ground against the Raptor and 7200.11, which are at the very top-end of HDD performance.
Disk Hardware Tested:
Crucial / Lexar 32GB 2.5" SATA-2 SSD CT32GBFAB0
Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 2.5" 60GB SATA 7,200 RPM HDD HTS721060G9SA00
Samsung 64GB 2.5" SATA-2 SSD MCCOE64G5MPP-0VA
Seagate 7200.11 500GB 3.5" ST3500320AS 7,200 RPM SATA-II Hard Disk Drive (32MB Cache Buffer)
Western Digital Raptor 74GB 3.5" WD740ADFD 10,000 RPM SATA Hard Disk Drive (16MB Cache Buffer)
Although Benchmark Reviews completely endorses the test results of System Speed Test for our benchmarking, it's always good to have other sources. We decided to then test our collection of SSD products using the HD Tach RW and ATTO Disk Benchmark tool in the following sections. Please continue to see if our results were a fluke or not.


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By Jon Wiederhorn
Back in 1991, many viewers were shocked to see Madonna's audacious documentary Truth or Dare, both because of the bossy arrogance of the protagonist and because many of the scenes in the movie, which took place during her controversial Blonde Ambition Tour, were set up. Today, in an age of reality television, such hubris and artifice are hardly a surprise. What's truly surprising is when a mega-celebrity—in this case Madonna—walks in unannounced for a 25th anniversary screening of her own movie.
Related: Britney Spears Wishes Madonna a Belated Happy Birthday in New Video
That's what happened on Wednesday night (Aug. 24.) in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art, and viewers in the audience were slack-jawed, Billboard reports. At the screening, the pop superstar sauntered in, natural as could be, and started chatting with fans.
In addition to the surprise appearance, The MOMA anniversary screening featured a roundtable Q&A with the film's director Alek Keshishian, Blonde Ambition Tour choreographer Vincent Paterson, and dancers Jose Gutierez and Salim Gauwloos.


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Local 'Princess' shares love of cooking
The first time Jianna Garcia helped her mom make guacamole — she was about 6 years old at the time — she decided she wanted to be a chef.
"I would scoop out the avocados and put them in the bowl," Jianna said. Armed with a plastic butter knife, she chopped the tomatoes and the onions.
The fourth-grader at Providence Elementary School has prepared a lot more recipes since then, such as puddings, salads and popsicles, with a few that required heating up in the microwave.
To be a real chef, she knows she has to conquer her fear of the oven.
"I've just started, so it might be awhile," Jianna said. She tried a recipe recently that required it, and she burned herself a little.
Jianna's mother, Melissa Garcia, said she thinks her daughter may be inspired by her dad, who works as a restaurant manager.
"When she first said she wanted to be a chef, we said, 'OK, and tomorrow it will be a fireman,'" Garcia said. "But she's stuck with it."
Jianna's goal, Garcia said, is to be a chef on the Food Network. Her daughter has been encouraged by the children she's seen featured lately on the cable channel.
To that end, Jianna's parents have helped her with a blog, www.theprincessinthekitchen.blogspot.com, which features Jianna's food adventures and recipes.
They also signed Jianna up for the Taste of Home Cooking School on Saturday.
Kids who want to learn how to cook have other opportunities through the Texas AgriLife Extension Service.
Maggie Jover leads cooking and nutrition programs, including one designed for youths called Super Saturdays several times a year. Last weekend, Jover and area youths learned about Greek cooking and ingredients.
She plans another Super Saturday sometime before Christmas.
"We learn about healthy food preparation and healthy eating," Jover said.
Jianna will have a small table at the cooking school where she will share her recipes and sell aprons she makes out of recycled T-shirts.
But mostly, she said, she plans on taking the classes and learning more recipes.
"I want to learn about using the stove and can conquer my fear," Jianna said.
PEGGY HEINKEL-WOLFE can be reached at 940-566-6881 and via Twitter at @phwolfeDRC.
Taste of Home Cooking School
What: Vendors and demonstrations
When: Doors open at 4 p.m. Saturday; show begins at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Denton High School auditorium, 1007 Fulton St.
Tickets: $12, available online at www.dentonrc.com or at the Denton Record-Chronicle office, 314 E. Hickory St.


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BERLIN – The annual environmental report cards for state legislators were released last week by the Maryland League of Conservation Voters (MLCV), and the improved scores across the board in Maryland were mirrored by local lawmakers for the most part with few exceptions.
The MLCV each year issues a scorecard of sorts rating the environmental voting records of state senators and delegates across Maryland from the most recent General Assembly session. The annual publication reviews each legislator's individual voting record on a wide variety of environmental bills and assigns an overall percentage to each lawmaker akin to a grade-point average.
Rising scores on both sides of the aisle continued this year with state senators scoring an average 69 percent for positive votes on environmental legislation, while members of the House of Delegates scored an average of 80 percent. A total of 60 legislators scored a perfect 100 percent and no state lawmakers got a score of zero for the first time since 1982. Eight legislators earned scores below 20 percent.
It is important to note the report card prepared by the MLCV reflects only the black-and-white vote on an environmental issue and does not take into account the overriding importance of an issue on a legislator's constituency. In a fictional local example, a lawmaker could find him or herself in the difficult position of voting against a bill that would protect wetlands along the ongoing Route 113 dualization project if a yes vote would mean stalling a project so important to his or her constituents.
The annual report card is an effective barometer for gauging how state lawmakers vote on environmental issues across the board, but it is important to view the results in the context of a long record of conservation votes and not on the specific votes on individual issues.
With that said, the MLCV was generally pleased with the 2007 results, which saw scores go up in both the Senate and the House, and across Democratic and Republic lines. Scores also improved along geographic lines with representatives of no areas of the state scoring much better or worse than any other area.
"We believe the high, and greatly improved scores coming out of this year's legislative session show the importance of the environment as an issue for legislators and the public," said MLCV executive director Cindy Schwartz.
Locally, just about every delegate and senator saw their scores improve over last year with some doing better than others. For example, Delegate Norm Conway (D-38B) saw his score improve from 58 percent lifetime to 100 percent this year. Freshman Delegate James Mathias (D-38B), who obviously has no former track record on the annual report card, scored 82 percent. Mathias voted in favor of all of the identified bills on the floor, but voted against two of the four bills identified in the Economic Matters Committee.
Perhaps the biggest gain locally was achieved by Senator Lowell Stoltzfus, who saw his 11-percent lifetime score improve to 44 percent this year. Stoltzfus often dismisses the annual report card because the survey is subjective and does not take into account all of the larger issues with a particular piece of legislation.
Senator Richard Colburn (R-37) saw his lifetime score of 15 percent increase to 45 percent in 2007, while Senator E.J. Pipken (R-36) saw his lifetime score 41 percent drop to 33 percent this year.
Delegate Rudy Cane (D-37A) earned a perfect 100 percent score after achieving a lifetime score of 83 percent. Delegate Page Elmore (R-38A) saw his conservation voting record stay relatively neutral with a 50-percent score this year compared to his lifetime score of 48 percent.


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These have a problem with the light relay staying on and melting the light cover. It sounds like you have the opposite problem. The fix is new cover and light sockets with a thermal fuse and a new control board with a larger light relay. Contact LG customer service, it should be a free repair.
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Discussion in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' started by Jiraiya, May 9, 2009.
As far as I know the film was finished for its original release-date in December '08.
It was a TV series on a budget and a TV schedule not a feature film. I highly doubt 22 episodes each season had notes that were meticulously kept about the footage and the transfer logs. Nor did they most likely keep the 1" videotapes or 3/4" dubs of a timecode/keycode burn-in window roughcut.
We know Paramount saved the 35mm camera negative from the above post since Michael Okuda confirmed that with Paramount but that is a lot of footage.
TNG episode director cuts
AuntKate brought up something on another thread about a memorable episode
Memory Alpha mentions:
even though:
I wonder what a 'director's cut' would look like?
Perhaps if TNG does eventually get a TNG-R a few episodes will get revisited and get a 'director's cut' if Paramount/CBS and Gates McFadden were interested in doing it. That itself would raise the price for remastering those episodes as:
1. they may increase running time of the episode
2. music cues would no longer be the same
3. would need additional sound FX
4. would need to have a complete remix on the sound for all scenes changed and music, FX added.
5. they would need to retelecine more of the original camera negative for the director to be able to look at (even if just in standard definition) to do a new edit, and then the selects would have to be retelecined at high definition to conform to the new edit.
Perhaps if a fan-collective of 8 episodes were done as a test in HD for Blu-ray it could be director's cuts of a few? Would that be enough to get people to buy them in HD?
Yet they were able to find the exact scene they wanted from Menage a Trois for scanning for the finale of Enterprise, so presumably they are indexed in some way...
So a lot of fans think TNG would transfer to HD quite adequately without a lucas style interference of the effects, and I don't buy it. And then I watch "Thine Own Self" on Virgin 1 and I have to ask what exactly is being smoked? Data has his face torn off, flashing lights aplenty. Now, in all honesty, how can anyone defend these effects? His face is swollen to accomodate the interior detail but it looks terrible. Really terrible. OK for the day maybe, but the day as passed.
How could anyone in charge of a HD release let this episode pass without a major rework and expect to find further work?
To those who argue the original effects are adequate, I say, get real, and watch the series again. Much of it stood up on a 12"" black and white portable in the late eighties, but now? Not even close to acceptable.
I agree and just like TOS-R if it happens we'll see TNG-R. Visual effects would be redone in CGI. Physical live-action effects may not be redone though. It would be up to the producers. It's purly a cost thing and there WILL BE a budget they have to keep to.
There a 7 seasons. Before committing they may decide to do a fan collective type of thing to see about cost and time to do say 8 episodes before making the decision to commit resources to the entire season 1.
Simple. Those are the FX of the show. The horribly unconvincing plane flying at the beginning of Casablanca wasn't changed when it went to blu-ray because that's part of the original movie. I'm against changing things for the sake of changing things; the whole point of doing HD transfers is to preserve the original content, not change anything. No colorizing movies for me, no crazy digital changes just because we can. The HD transfer of the Twilight Zone changes absolutely none of the many silly-looking FX.
However, that argument doesn't even matter. The TNG remaster folks would have no choice but to change the FX. TNG will never get a proper HD transfer without all new FX. So your argument and mine is neither here nor there.
Well... redoing digital effects would have no bearing on practical effects, such as Data's facial damage in Thine Own Self.
The 35mm resolution transferred to 1080p would show practical effects very sharply. It also shows flaws of props and makeup that do not hold up beyond 500lines of resolution.
The effects quality in question for many posts on this thread is the early CG visual effects that do not hold up very well in the first few seasons.
Something just occurred to me.
Generations is about to be released on blu-ray. I had forgotten that there was one TV series stock shot of the ship reused, yet it didn't look like crap on the big screen and will presumeably be in high definition on the blu-ray release. Doesn't this imply there are still film masters of the ship shots at least?
TNG Remastered I say in 20 more years or when TNG is 40 years old.
For a remastered TNG I would love to see some new ships not the 40th Excelsior or Miranda. More importantly I want to see no more shots of the 4 foot model. It is so very clear in season 3 and later when the 6 footer model was used and then the fat bottom 4 footer was used.
Wow you really think they will wait another 20 years? That is a LONG time! I think they will of least attempt a Fan Collective set in the next couple years to see how it turns out and how the sales are.
The stock material shot for "Encounter at Farpoint" was made by Industrial Light & Magic. Most if not all of the remaining ship shots were made at Image G. The GEN shot from TNG had been made by ILM. That's not to say that film elements of all the ship shots don't exist. I'm just saying that it's possible that only some -- perhaps very few -- ship shots still exist on film.
Are you kidding? That shot stuck out like a sore thumb because of how crappy it looked compared to the amazing effects work done by ILM in that movie.
It looked like crap because Matakovitch, the guy who had to put it together optically (not digitally), had to try to time and wedge it to make the different paint job seem something like the GEN paintjob (impossible to do) AND eliminate a ton of weave in the elements ... it was a total nightmare, and basically just because Berman and Lauritson tried to save half a day of mocon stage time at ILM.
The MINIATURE fx from the first few seasons don't hold up well, because a lot of them (the ones with the 2fter especially) looked horrible 20 years ago.
They look like 1985 TZ eps, which for me is worse than most TOS fx in lighting and presence.
Star Trek TNG FX season 1 & 2
What are TZ eps? Do you have a Memory Alpha URL link?
By the way I was just watching the special features on season 4's last disc and I checked out the last 2 episodes and man are they unsharp! They just do not compare to Voyager which was only 5 years later and that is due to the telecine used at the time of production and if it were telecined to digital tape in 1990-91. As far as I know they used D2 video format to master to.
Re: Star Trek TNG FX season 1 & 2
TWILIGHT ZONE. Rob Legato, the vfx guy on TNG, was doing similar stuff for TZ a couple years earlier, compositing film elements on video, along with what looks like chromakey stuff.
I don't have to go to TREKCORE or anyplace else to remember how bad some of these shots are. Just look at the end of LAST OUTPOST for the two xmas ornament lookin' ships in front of the planet. Pretty much all the 2ft ship shots look rough to me. A lot of that is the 30fps instead of 24, which always makes it harder to do scale stuff credibly, because the higher frame rate gives it more of a video like presence (if you have ever seen the old movie OKLAHOMA, you might know what I mean ... it was filmed and shown at 30fps, and it has this awful unfilmlike feel.
There was SOME really good stuff. That terrible time squared episode had some really nice work in it that should have been in a better episode.
Here is an update this week from a review of
Star Trek The Original Series: Season Two (Blu-ray) review
He is referring to the TNG feature films being released in Q4 2009 and TOS season 3 on Blu-ray through early 2010:
September 17th, 2009
Woo hoo! that's Q4 2010. So if they do anything I'm guessing the reality may be 2011 for any TNG release on Blu-ray in any form (entire seasons vs. fan collectives vs. best-ofs)
And it is highly doubtful they would not keep TNG episodes' original aspect ratio of 1.33:1 full frame.
I hope this is the case. The sooner the better!
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How To: Laundry Cup Wall Art
December 1st, 2011 | by Bonnie Getchell
An amazing reader asked if we had any ideas for the cups/lids that come with laundry detergent. This question got my crafting wheels turning! With laundry cups/lids, magazines and magazine ads left over from the Black Friday madness, I made some cool wall art! This project is the perfect way to save those pointless and wasteful magazines and turn them into something worth looking at!


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This study is provided by ICPSR. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community.
German Election Panel Study, 1976 (ICPSR 7513)
Principal Investigator(s): Forschungsgruppe Wahlen (Mannheim)
This panel study was conducted in three waves: two preceding and one immediately following the German federal election in 1976. The study represents a joint project of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the Zentralarchiv fur Empirische Sozialforschung, the University of Cologne, and the Zentrum fur Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen, Mannheim. The design of the questionnaire and its wording attempted to assure continuity and comparability with the GERMAN ELECTION PANEL STUDY, 1972 (ICPSR 7102), especially in eliciting information on party preference, the evaluation of leading politicians, and opinions about important political issues. Of particular note is the measurement of attitudes toward the political parties: several different measures were used to tap the various dimensions of party preference. Respondents were asked to separately evaluate each party and leading politicians, including the candidates for the position of Chancellor, Helmut Kohl and Helmut Schmidt, on a feeling scalometer and to rank the parties in preference order. A central focus of all three waves was the respondents' self-placement of the political parties on several versions of the left-right ideological dimension. Another component of the election study dealt with the respondents' opinions toward important problems, including the salience of economic issues for the German population. Open-ended questions were asked concerning the respondents' views of the economic situation, the election campaigns, a new political party, the German democratic process, public officials, and law and order. In the post-election wave, respondents were asked about the most important tasks facing Germany and the party that could best deal with these tasks, the reasons for the electoral outcome for each party, and their political participation and voting decisions during the election campaign. Also probed were respondents' views of their financial situation, the efficacy of old age pensions, unemployment, nuclear power plants, and the political unification of Western Europe. Additional items queried respondents about their general political activities, voting behavior and intentions, and political party preference. Also explored were respondents' satisfaction with their life achievement, views of the future, abortion, and divorce, and their vacation plans. Demographic items specify date and place of birth, age, sex, education, marital status, social class identification, occupation, income, union membership, political party affiliation, and religious preference and church attendance. See also the related collection, GERMAN ELECTION ASTUDY, 1980 (ICPSR 7963).
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This data collection has been deaccessioned; it is no longer distributed by ICPSR. These data are currently available at German Election Panel Study, 1976. Additional information may be available in Data Collection Notes.
This study contains a weight variable (V3) which produces a representative sample of the voting-age citizens of the Federal Republic when used in analysis. The weight variable corrects for sex and age biases of the sample, and was constructed by comparing the age by sex distribution of the first-wave respondents with the census distribution. This weight variable should be used when analyzing any of the three panel waves.
Study Description
Forschungsgruppe Wahlen (Mannheim). German Election Panel Study, 1976. ICPSR07513-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1978. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07513.v1
Persistent URL: https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07513.v1
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Subject Terms: abortion, attitudes, candidates, divorce, economic conditions, elections, European unification, Kohl, Helmut, leisure, life satisfaction, nuclear energy, pensions, political attitudes, political campaigns, political interest, political participation, political parties, public confidence, public opinion, voter attitudes, voting behavior
Geographic Coverage: Germany, Global
- 1976
Universe: German citizens aged 18 years and older who resided in private households, excluding West Berlin, in 1976.
This study contains a weight variable (V3) which produces a representative sample of the voting-age citizens of the Federal Republic when used in analysis. The weight variable corrects for sex and age biases of the sample, and was constructed by comparing the age by sex distribution of the first-wave respondents with the census distribution. This weight variable should be used when analyzing any of the three panel waves.
Sample: A three-stage stratified, random sampling procedure was used, involving first, the selection of regional sampling points (WAHLBEZIRKE), then households within each sampling point, and finally individuals within each households. The first wave was conducted in the spring of 1976 and 2,076 respondents were interviewed. The second wave produced 1,529 panel respondents who were reinterviewed in the fall of that year. The third wave took place shortly after the October election and yielded 1,196 of the original panel respondents.
personal interviews
Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Performed consistency checks.
- Standardized missing values.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
Original ICPSR Release: 1984-06-19
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Tonight was exceptionally bad....but it is going to be rough for a bit and we are going to have to brace ourselves for some tough nights.
"Winnable Games" are going to have to be re-defined for a bit.
The high Shump has been on has to end as the adrenaline wears off and he just plays within the game...this really is a good thing although statistically it won't for a bit
Amare is starting to regain form and we are gonna have to figure out he and Melo's chemistry even if they are not starting games together.
Felton too is gonna have to shake off rust
....but it will all come together and the undeniable talent on this roster will show....hopefully Bruce Lee (^^^) approves this too!
"I'd Rather Melo shoot with 3 men on him than Jefferies shotting wide open"
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Mets weighing their options with starter Mejia
By Spencer Fordin / MLB.com
NEW YORK -- The Mets still aren't sure what they have in Jenrry Mejia. The 24-year-old right-hander has bounced between the starting rotation and the bullpen in his brief big league tenure, and manager Terry Collins said Saturday that the Mets are currently reviewing how Mejia will best be used.
Mejia has always been viewed as a potential starter, but the Mets are concerned that he doesn't get deep enough in games to protect the rest of the bullpen. Mejia has completed six innings just twice in seven starts this season, prompting Collins to re-evaluate his status.
"Jenrry's stuff plays. It's good enough," said Collins. "Where you get a little concerned is the excessive pitches that he uses to sometimes get some outs. Look at last night -- in three innings, he had 63 pitches. That's a lot. In certain cases, we're lucky. We had Thursday off, so the bullpen was fine. We had a lot of guys down there we could use, but when you think you're going to get five innings out of a guy, you end up expending your bullpen a little bit. You've got to be good enough."
Mejia won each of his first three decisions this season, and Collins said the jury is still out on his ultimate role on the team. If the Mets decide that Mejia is a better fit in the bullpen, then Collins said the choice will be up to the player whether he'd stay, or start in Triple-A Las Vegas.
"I'm OK with him being in the bullpen, but he's got to accept it if that's going to be the decision. We have not made that decision yet," said Collins. "If that's our decision, then it's, 'Hey, we want to take a look at how this is going to work in the bullpen.' And then, if he wants to be here, he's got to pitch out of the bullpen. Certainly, we know he can do it and he knows he can do it."
Mejia faced the same decision in 2010 and decided to stay with the Mets as a reliever, but he said Saturday that he doesn't really know what to think. Mejia wants to be a starter, and he's concerned that a move to the bullpen could jeopardize his health. Mejia has had two surgeries on his elbow -- one Tommy John operation and one to remove a bone spur -- and he wants to protect his arm.
"I'm worried about my arm. I want to have a long career," he said. "If they make that point, then it's going to be hard for me. I don't want to get hurt again."
Mejia told Collins that he wants to stay in the rotation, and he said he'll ultimately understand if the manager decides he fits best as a reliever. The Mets aren't scheduled to make a decision until after Mejia's next bullpen session, and his rotation turn won't come back until Wednesday.
Mejia, when pressed again on his future, said he'll wait to see what the Mets decide.
"That's a decision we're going to make later," he said. "I told him I don't know if there's going to be a point to be in the bullpen because I've already had two operations. ... If he calls me and says, 'Get ready,' it's going to be hard. But you know, whatever decision he makes, there's nothing I can do."
Campbell earns first callup as Mets option Satin
NEW YORK -- It didn't take long for Eric Campbell to get a nickname.
Campbell, promoted to the Major Leagues for the first time Saturday, heard a familiar calling card as he made his way through the home clubhouse at Citi Field. All of his teammates have been calling him "Soup," after the ubiquitous brand that shares his surname, and Campbell takes it all in good fun.
Campbell had an eventful day at the plate in his big league debut in the Mets' 5-4 loss to the Phillies. He pinch-hit with the bases loaded in the sixth inning and drove in the go-ahead run on a sacrifice fly. Campbell had another chance with runners on second and third in the eighth inning, but he struck out.
"It was a real up-and-down day," he said after the game. "I was on a high after I got that RBI, and then I was put in the same situation again in the eighth inning and didn't produce. That's baseball."
Campbell, a 2008 eighth-round Draft pick of the Mets, has long awaited his big league callup, and he was batting .355 for Triple-A Las Vegas at the time of his promotion. Campbell can play both infield and outfield corners and has seen time at second base, and he's thrilled to try his hand in the Majors.
"It's a dream come true. A lot of emotions going through my head right now. I'm excited and I'm ready," said Campbell. "I came in here at the end of Spring Training and tried not to look around too much because I wanted to have that feeling. It's awesome."
The Mets optioned Josh Satin to Las Vegas to make room for Campbell, and manager Terry Collins said that the roster move should give the team some additional flexibility. Campbell has played everywhere in the Minor Leagues, providing Collins with a handy insurance policy.
"He brings us tremendous versatility, first of all. He can play anywhere," said Collins. "They've played him at second, they've played him at short, first [base], the outfield, third. He brings that flexibility. If something happens, outside of catcher and pitcher, this guy can play anywhere."
Campbell reached Double-A for the first time in 2010, and he struggled when repeating the level the next year. The 27-year-old starred at Triple-A last season and was recognized as the best rookie in the Mets' Spring Training camp, but he said it was natural to doubt whether he'd make the Majors.
"I've been playing for six years and never got that chance," he said. "I think that goes through every player's [mind]; you question whether you're doing the right thing. This definitely makes it all worth it."
Satin batted just .107 in limited playing time as the Mets' backup first baseman, and Collins hopes that he'll be able to find his comfort zone by playing every day for Las Vegas.
"Any time you get sent out, you're disappointed," said Collins. "But as I told him, he made this team because of what he did last year, and the fact that when he got playing time, he hit. He wasn't getting a lot of playing time right now, and it's a difficult position when you're used to playing every day."
Feeling better, Duda returns to Mets' lineup
NEW YORK -- Lucas Duda is feeling better and back in the lineup.
Duda, New York's first baseman, was held out of Friday night's game due to a case of food poisoning, and manager Terry Collins didn't expect to have him back for Saturday. The veteran made a full recovery, though, and after running through pregame drills, he talked his way into the lineup.
"I feel a lot better and I'll play today," said Duda. "I just told him, 'Hey, I feel good. I want to play.'"
Duda, batting .266 with four home runs entering Saturday, said he thought he contracted the sickness from eating an undercooked hamburger. Duda's illness came right when he was heating up at the plate, as the 28-year-old was hitting .316 with a .435 on-base percentage during May entering Saturday.
Duda, in his first season as the team's full-time starting first baseman, has played in 31 of the Mets' first 34 games, and 12 of his 15 RBIs have come in a victory. Duda was batting .282 with seven extra-base hits against right-handed pitchers, but he was bating just .188 against left-handers.
Spencer Fordin is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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