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New Method for Scoring Sweat Losses in Horses Proposed
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Researchers believe phenotypic, or observable, traits of different sweating patterns can help estimate how much sweat horses lose during exercise.
Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt/The Horse
Warm summer weather is just around the corner, which means many owners will be hosing sweaty horses after exercise on a regular basis. But how much sweat are you rinsing down the drain after each ride? The National Research Council and German Society for Nutrition Physiology's current estimation methods depend on the amount of work the horse performs, but a group of researchers from Germany and the United Kingdom have proposed a new scoring system to measure sweat loss in exercised horses.
"We've performed a number of studies on the effects of sodium chloride on the acid, base, and mineral status in sport horses, and as a result, we are aware of the high importance of exact data on electrolyte supply and, thus, on sweat losses," relayed Annette Zeyner, a professor of animal nutrition at Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
Zenyer and colleagues hypothesized that scoring equine sweat loss via specific, externally visible characteristics would be more practical and accurate than current estimation methods. The team employed 17 Warmblood-type mares that participated in two separate exercise regimens on consecutive summer days:
- Light Work: 10 minutes fast walk, 10 minutes trot, 5 minutes canter, 5 minutes trot, and 10 minutes slow walk; and
- Medium Work: 15 minutes fast walk, 10 minutes trot, 10 minutes canter (including some gallop), 5 minutes trot, 10 minutes canter, and 10 minutes slow walk.
The team groomed and weighed the horses before exercise and three hours after exercise to determine body weight losses, which they corrected for water intake, fecal and urinary output, and estimated respiratory water losses. Immediately after completing each exercise regimen, they unsaddled and photographed the horses to record sweat patterns.
Upon reviewing their study results, the researchers noted five distinct sweating patterns, which were each directly associated with a defined sweat loss range according to body weight losses. Using this data, they devised the following sweat loss scoring system:
|Sweat Score
|Phenotypic (Observable) Peculiarities
|Sweat losses determined in the study
|Area under the saddle partly dry, but partly dark, sticky, and moist; sticky throat area; flanks darker than normal
1 – 4 liters
(0.2 – 0.7% of body weight)
|Wet area under the saddle and on the throat; small white areas at the edges of the saddle corners may occur through foaming friction surfaces between throat and reins as well as on the posterior; inner limbs (with heavily muscled or fat horses) may be white-colored due to foaming
> 4 – 7 liters
(> 0.7 – 1.2% of body weight)
|Snaffle leaves a clear wet impression on the head (often with foam on the back piece and noseband); throat and areas under saddle and girth consistently wet; flanks clearly wet
> 7 – 9 liters
(> 1.2 – 1.5% of body weight)
|Throat and flanks completely wet; moist, dark wrinkles above the eyes; in heavily muscled or fat horses white-colored between posterior inner limbs because of pronounced foaming
> 9 – 12 liters
(> 1.5 – 2% of body weight)
|Horses additionally dripping fluid above the eyes and under the belly
> 12 – 18 liters
(> 2 – 3% of body weight)
"Other important factors which are difficult to quantify (e.g., athletic fitness, climatic adaptation, hair length, etc.) can also have significant influence on sweat losses," the team noted.
They believe their proposed scoring system to be more accurate than other methods because it takes these factors into account, but added, "further studies are required to verify the score proposed here and to check it can be applied to other conditions."
The study, "Scoring of sweat losses in exercised horses—a pilot study," will appear in an upcoming issue of Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition.
About the Author
Casie Bazay, NBCAAM
Casie Bazay holds a bachelor of science degree in education from Oklahoma State University. She taught middle school for ten years, but now is a nationally certified equine acupressure practitioner and freelance writer. She has owned Quarter Horses nearly her entire life and has participated in a variety of horse events including Western and English pleasure, trail riding, and speed events. She was a competitive barrel racer for many years and hopes to pursue the sport again soon.
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Eurasian Jays: Suspicious Stashers or Stealthy Stealers?
In order to prevent other birds from stealing their winter food supply, Eurasian jays, a member of the crow family, try to stealthily hide their collection when a potential thief is near. However they are also minimizing their sounds in an attempt to stay unnoticed and spy on other birds' hoards.
Eurasian jays are creative hoarders that bury food like acorns and seeds in thousands of locations over the course of a year so they can retrieve their reserves when food is scarce. However, these hidden reserves do not always remain a secret and the stealing of these hoards is a common practice among species in the animal kingdom.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge first conducted an experiment where they gave the jays options to hide food in two different mediums: gravel and sand. The birds' preferences for using these different substrates were tested when they were alone, when they had another bird that could see and hear them and when there was another bird that could hear but could not see them.
The researchers found that if a Eurasian jay is hiding it's plunder and hears but does not see another bird nearby it will hide its cache in the less noisy substrate, in this case, the sand. Researchers conclude that this is done to avoid drawing unwanted attention from potential thieves that might then try to spy on the bird.
In the second experiment, researchers measured how many times the subjects chirped or made vocal noises depending on who was around.
They found that pilfering birds vocalize less when spying on another bird caching compared to when they are alone. The researchers believe that the jays are quieter in order to prevent their presence becoming known to the caching bird that might otherwise hide their cache elsewhere or stop hiding food.
Rachael Shaw, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge and co-author of the paper, said: "As humans, we understand that other people can hear what we are doing, but there is only limited evidence for this ability in other animals. Our study of Eurasian jays is the first to report that a member of the crow family will suppress acoustic information by vocalising less when spying on another individual that is caching."
The new research can be found in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Read more at the University of Cambridge.
Eurasian Jay image via Shutterstock.

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Ive written a tetris clone one of my first reall programs. While I used a tutorial to get the basic outline and functions I didnt use there code. After several days of learning GDI calls I finaly managed to get the block on screen and falling down. I was pretty estatic. A few switched variable fixes later I had it up and running pretty well i thought. That was untill I answed the phone and was chatting letting the program run. My collision detection isnt the greatest, took a few revisions to get it right but i thought i had it working great. ( and i did as i later discoverd) when i saw all the blocks just clump up at the top and it not starting a new game. I thought for shure it was my detection wasnt returning true when the blocks moved meaning to start a new game. After an hour or so in the debugger I found it wasnt my collision at all. It was the newgame call.
thats my new game function. it gets called on initalazion and when collision returns true during the movement function.Code:void NewGame() { start_time = GetTickCount(); GAMESTARTED = false; int y = 0, x = 0 ; //startout the map for(;x<MAPWIDTH;x++) { for(;y<MAPHEIGHT+1;y++) { if(y==MAPHEIGHT) Map[x][y] = TILEGREY; else Map[x][y] = TILEBLACK; } }
What ended up causeing the error is where i declare y and x as 0.
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it works. I have no idea why from everything ive learned that should be the exact same save for where its done. Newgame is only called on initalize and a true on collision during move. So its not run though part way at any other time and even if it were the loops would be run any way. I cant figure out how thats any diffrent and why its causeing problems. Can any one else explain it?Code://startout the map for(int x = 0;x<MAPWIDTH;x++) { for(int y = 0;y<MAPHEIGHT+1;y++)


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"Dances weave through the program, from a Stravinsky gigue to a Bach allemande, a Stravinsky gavotte and a Bach siciliana. And there is beautiful song from both composers."NYTimes
"Kavakos and Nagy are quite prepared to don the workmanlike overalls of Stravinsky's neo-classicism and wear them unadorned
. The effect is to make the music sound at once more individual and more modern than usual. The solo Bach is in the same mold, tonally even leaner, deft in articulation, the curves of the rubato negotiated with a subtle ease to make many another performance seem gauche by comparison."Irish Times


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HOUSTON - Two nights of robbery sprees have businesses on Houston's northwest side on alert.
Three men robbed customers and employees at a Hartz Chicken restaurant; it was one in a string of at least four robberies Wednesday night.
Employees say three men had their faces covered when they ran into the Hartz restaurant just after 7 p.m. Wednesday. Once inside, two of them jumped the counter, demanding cash from the register, and wallets and cell phones from employees and customers.
"They caught everyone off guard. And with the gun already drawn, there's nothing you can do but to do what they say," one victim told Local 2.
At least four businesses on the north and northwest part of town were robbed between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., including another Hartz restaurant in the 5700 block of Hollister, the Family Dollar in the 500 block of Crosstimbers and a Shell gas station at Tidwell and Highway 290.
It was the second time the Hartz on Hollister was robbed in just one week.
In the Family Dollar robbery, Houston police say three masked men walked into the store held the employees at gunpoint.
Officials said the suspects took money from the cash register. As the suspects were leaving, police said they grabbed a woman's purse in the parking lot and stuck a gun in her face.
The suspects got away before officers arrived and no injuries were reported.
While police haven't confirmed if all of Wednesday night's robberies are related, the suspect descriptions are similar -- three men who had their faces covered -- and in a couple of the cases were seen leaving in a dark vehicle.
The crime spree follows another string of robberies on Tuesday night, also in northwest Houston, when three to four armed men held up a Valero, a customer outside of an Advanced Auto, and a McDonald's.
Officers believe those three robberies Tuesday may have been related because of their proximity to one another -- and the suspect's method of operation -- but they haven't yet said if they believe the same suspects are responsible for Wednesday night's cases.
Whoever they are, employees are just hoping they'll be caught soon.
"These guys are armed. And someone will get hurt if they're not stopped," said the victim.
Police are reviewing surveillance video from several of the businesses that were robbed Wednesday night, trying to get more information that could help identify the suspects.
If you have any information that could help investigators, call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
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Kidney Stones
Kidney stones are often the result of underlying conditions and illnesses such as cystinuria, dehydration, or hyperparathyroidism.
The majority of small stones are likely to pass spontaneously within 48 hours. However, some stones do not. More complex procedures may be required to remove kidney stones that do not pass.
At UT Southwestern Medical Center, our caring and compassionate urologic specialists use state-of-the-art medical resources to provide diagnostic examinations and effective treatments for patients with kidney, ureteral, and bladder stones.
UT Southwestern is home to a state-of-the-art lithotripter, which provides the campus with a completely noninvasive means of treating small to moderate ureteral and kidney stones in an outpatient setting.
For stone prevention, the Mineral Metabolism Center is internationally renowned and provides comprehensive metabolic evaluation and medical therapy for recurrent stone formers. Many of the diagnostic protocols and medical treatments for stone prevention in use worldwide were developed at UT Southwestern.
New & Noteworthy
Margaret Pearle, M.D., (left) and Beverley Adams-Huet, M.S., have found that people with either calcium oxalate or calcium phosphate kidney stones should not take extra calcium on their own, but should check with their doctors to determine the most effective dietary guidelines.
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|STS-128 Shuttle Mission Imagery
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|S128-E-007693 (3 Sept. 2009) --- NASA astronaut John "Danny" Olivas, STS-128 mission specialist, participates in the mission's second session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 39-minute spacewalk, Olivas and European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang (out of frame), mission specialist, installed the new Ammonia Tank Assembly on the Port 1 Truss and stowed the empty tank assembly into the Space Shuttle Discovery's cargo bay.
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Tanyas Adonis – Horse For Sale
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Tanyas Adonis – Horse For Sale
Breed: Quarter Horse
Gender: Stallion
Color: Chestnut
Height: 13.3 hands
Temperament: 7 (1 – calm; 10 – spirited)
Date of Birth: May 2002
Age: 6
Registered: Yes
Location: Honolulu , HI 96822
Country: United States
Price: $ 23,000
He is for sale at $23,000 which includes shipment to California, Oregon, and Washington. Woldwide shipping discounts available. Video of Tanya's Adonis with a 14 Year Old Rider in Summer 2008 and Pedigree of Tanya's Adonis with Peppy San Badger, Doc Bar (3x), and Poco Tivio (2x) at the website for tradewindsranchllc where you can also view his foal for sale and a mare in foal for sale. Tanya's Adonis is a rare find with both Doc Bar and Peppy San Badger as his great-grand sires. The sire of Adonis is Tanya's Kai Bar a very well known stallion in Hawaii. Adonis has wonderful bone, conformation, and is a very gentle breeder by hand or in the pasture. Professional training by New Town and Country Stables. This /">buying online propecia quality stallion will be the basis of a great breeding program or could be cut to make a fast and powerful performance horse.
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Deconstructing pictures of JOBS
26 Jan 2013 | in Steve Jobs news
Now that I've covered most of my thoughts on the independent Steve Jobs biopic JOBS, whose premiere is today at Sundance Film Festival, it's time to cover form i.e. production values.
Let's review the official pictures that we've seen emerge from the film's promotional campaign.
The first picture was that of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs sitting on his desk:
Which was trying to reproduce the below picture from 1981:
Most people here would first see a striking resemblance between the two men. And I have to say, it's really well done indeed. At a quick glance, they do look a lot alike, and it becomes obvious why Kutcher was picked to play the part of young Steve. But of course, being the obsessive-compulsive type with those pictures of Steve Jobs, I couldn't help but notice a few things:
1. Physical build. The two men certainly have some things in common. But Kutcher's build is very different from Jobs's. Jobs was very wiry when he was young (in his hippie, fasting days especially), and in the mid-1980s, but he put on some weight at various points in his life. Not that he ate too much fat, of course; but probably more because he, like your fellow webmaster, was more into work than into sports. You can tell that in the picture above; and you can tell that Kutcher used to be a model, too. Basically, I wonder if Kutcher's very athletic build will be credible as the impersonation of SJ on the big screen. Noah Wyle was better suited in that regard.
2. The watch. Look closely. In those days, Steve was a young millionaire, and showed off a little with his BMW motorcycle and his, yes, gold watch (after all, it was the 1980s). The watch that Kutcher wears is actually not bad, because SJ owned one very similar —only a few years later. So we're dealing with a little anachronism here. Here is an example from 1984 that proves it:
3. The THINK poster. I would have been surprised if they had gotten that one right. But it's the first thing that jumped to my eyes when I saw the picture of Kutcher. You see, that poster was not random. Its history was actually very well documented by Jef Raskin's nephew —it is a variant of the Apple Syntax poster from 1980 (link from the Wayback machine). The original one featured Pascal syntax tips, and Steve Jobs was directly involved in its design. The version on his desk was using the same type as the Pascal header of the poster (3D letters with the Apple rainbow colors), applied to the IBM motto, THINK.
Unfortunately, the production crew of JOBS seemed to have bad eyes and to lack this information, as the type on their THINK poster seems to be dead flat.
My verdict:
Historical accuracy rating: 8/10
The second picture released by the JOBS team was one of the co-founders at the West Coast Computer Faire of April 1977:
And, for context, two photos from the 1977 faire:
Steve Jobs was actually wearing his first suit that day, after the advice of Regis McKenna and Mike Markkula. I have very little to say here, the resemblance is striking and the costumes almost identical. (The same can't be said of Woz though). Of course, I did find a couple things to complain about 🙂
1. The badge. A blowup of both pictures will get my point across:
You might think I am too harsh with the movie, but this is actually non trivial. The West Coast Computer Faire was actually Apple's grand entry into the personal computing market, the first time they were ever considered seriously. And McKenna was instrumental in getting the young scruffy Steves to look like businessmen on that day. So having handwritten, diagonal names on their badges is actually far from the truth of what that show was. In addition, Jobs's first name on the badge was "Steven", not "Steve" (I'll admit I'm picky with that one).
2. The booth. This is not about Steve, but the Apple booth, but again a small misconception on the importance of the West Coast Computer Faire for Apple. The movie makers couldn't have guessed it from the black and white pictures (since they didn't ask your fellow webmaster for advice) but that booth was actually lit by neon lights to look serious and attract visitors. Markkula put up heavy money for this, for a startup. Check this out:
3. The hair. Steve's was a lot dirtier 😉
Historical accuracy rating: 9/10
I'd be interested to know what you guys think of this. I must say I was a little disappointed. With the great production values and all this talk of a 'wow' performance from Kutcher, I was actually expecting something close to the reality of Steve's youth. That's not what I saw in this clip.
Where do I start?
- the weird, forced intonations. "That changes e-ve-ry-th-in'". Steve spoke fast, especially in those days. And he certainly didn't speak to Woz the way he did keynotes in the 2000s;
- the depiction of Wozniak as basically a corporate stooge, in a suit, saying "Hi Charlene" to a colleague. He did like the comfort of a salary from working at HP, but I don't think anyone could say Woz was the corporate type;
- the exchange on "the operating system" as if the term was new and coined by Wozniak. Yes, seeing what you typed on a keyboard on a TV screen was extraordinary. But this had nothing to do with the expression "operating system" which had been around for a good ten years then. As an example, Gary Kildall's popular CP/M had been developed in 1973, three years before the Apple I…
- "nobody wants to buy a computer"… coming from Woz? It's true that the idea of selling was stranger to him. But certainly not the idea of personal computing, since he was so familiar with it after attending the Homebrew meetings, where it was pioneered.
Woz actually confirmed what I felt in writing to several blogs, starting with Gizmodo, I quote:
Totally wrong. Personalities and where the ideas of computers affecting society did not come from Jobs. They inspired me and were widely spoken at the Homebrew Computer Club. Steve came back from Oregon and came to a club meeting and didn't start talking about this great social impact. His idea was to make a $20 PC board and sell it for $40 to help people at the club build the computer I'd given away. Steve came from selling surplus parts at HalTed he always saw a way to make a quick buck off my designs (this was the 5th time).
The lofty talk came much further down the line.
I never looked like a professional. We were both kids. Our relationship was so different than what was portrayed. I'm embarrassed but if the movie is fun and entertaining, all the better.
As he says:
It's only one clip. The movie should be very popular and I hope it's entertaining. It may be very correct, as well. This is only one clip. But you'll see the direction they are slanting the movie in, just by the dialog style of this script.
I hope he's right.
Historical accuracy rating: 4/10
5 Responses to Deconstructing pictures of JOBS
jbdurand commented on 6 Feb 2013 at 11:00
tres bon article!
Tu devrais écrire à Woz, il te repondra surement.
Anthony Dingding commented on 15 Feb 2013 at 10:53
Steve Jobs was a great man. I had treasured everything in him like no other before, I was saw in him such a hard work man, i love this guy!. Rest in Peace Steve. MAy all work may teach us to be a better person ever.
thank you man.
armandoartist commented on 19 Feb 2013 at 18:27
Excited about the movie! so excited i did a drawing of Steve Jobs
Kathy commented on 2 Jul 2013 at 21:00
So… it was kind of strange that just a few days after Mr. Jobs passed away, i was faxed a copy of his Quitclaim Deed and Grant deed to my office, of Course accidental i am sure….Since i have nothing to do with any Escrow transactions….. He was a Great man and kinda neat to have these documents.
Karen commented on 28 Aug 2013 at 13:45
Well, the Jobs movie has been out for a while… I thought it was OK. Not bad. Not great. Just OK. Which isn't what Steve deserves, but oh well. Kutcher does very well in it. But the script needs help.
The time period covered isn't enough. It's the same as in Pirates of Silicon Valley, yet somehow the movie accomplishes less, even though it has more time and more budget. No Pixar. No NeXT. No Blue Box. Since I'm a Steve Jobs superfan, I know what's missing. But the average viewer has no idea.
The Jobs movie also kicks Jef Raskin in the balls. That's uncalled for. Even a Steve fan like me knows Jef deserved better.


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Military ID Verification Service, Troop ID, Raises $2.1 Million
Iraq War veteran and Troop ID founder, Blake Hall, has scored a cool $2.1 million from notable investors, such as David Tisch and Mark McLaughlin. The former elite soldier has raised a total of $5.7M for his identity service that verifies military credentials and partners them with brands. Read More


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At SETIcon 2012: Planetary Spit-Swapping, Dark Energy As a Singularity and Other Bizarro Space Science
by Rebecca Boyle
I'm huddled outside the Hyatt hotel entrance, shivering with a notepad in hand and half listening to the pop music coming from "Christia and Derick's wedding reception," when Erika Dunning breaks the news. "The International Space Station is passing overhead in four minutes," she says, reading her NASA iPhone app. "Thirty degrees above northwest, 66 degrees max elevation."
Heads turn, and we all gather around the only telescope at this parking lot star party. "This will be a good view," Erika assures her fellow SETIcon attendees. She's 12 years old. A couple minutes later, the hodgepodge group of science fiction fans, aspirational rocket scientists and self-affirmed space nerds all stare skyward, watching as the unmistakably steady and surprisingly bright ISS sails over the hotel. A small cheer rises. "Sweet!" says Nick Orenstein, 29, capturing the moment pretty much perfectly. "I've never seen this before."
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Donald recalled to replace injured Chisenhall
By Jordan Bastian / MLB.com
On Saturday, Donald was recalled from Triple-A Columbus after the Indians placed third baseman Lonnie Chisenhall on the 15-day disabled list with a fractured ulna in his right forearm. Chisenhall was set to undergo surgery in Cleveland on Saturday evening and is expected to miss at least four to six weeks.
"It's an unfortunate thing for Lonnie, it really is," Donald said. "You never like to see a guy go down, especially since we're good buddies. It's tough to see that, but at the same time, it's happened to a lot of people. It's happened to me. It's happened to a lot of guys. It's part of the game.
"I'm very happy to be back here and I look forward to contributing."
Chisenhall was hit on the right arm with a pitch from Orioles lefty Troy Patton in the fifth inning of Cleveland's 9-8 loss on Friday night. The 23-year-old third baseman's operation -- aimed at setting the fracture -- will be performed by hand specialist Dr. Thomas Graham at the Cleveland Clinic.
As for Donald, he will slide into the same type of role he held earlier this season for the Indians. The 27-year-old utility man will provide depth at second base, shortstop and third base, as well as in left and center field. Donald was optioned to Columbus on May 12 after hitting .178 (8-for-45) overall and .095 (2-for-21) against lefties in 16 games with the Tribe earlier this year.
"He's here to back up the infield and the outfield," Indians manager Manny Acta said. "We had him at Triple-A playing some outfield. He played some center field and some left field. Obviously, this is a move that sooner or later we were going to make."
At Columbus, Donald hit .252 with two homers, seven doubles and 18 RBIs in 40 games for the Clippers. He appeared mostly at shortstop (21 games), but bounced around the diamond defensively, mixing in nine games as an outfielder. Donald believes he is now better equipped to handle a reserve role for the Tribe.
Donald said he beat himself up over poor games and added that his daily workout routine was too aggressive on the days he was not in the lineup.
"I didn't handle it very well," Donald said of his previous stint with the Indians. "I didn't take command. I didn't take hold of what that position brought. I let it affect me. I wasn't even-keeled with it. I think this time around, I'm definitely going to try to do things a lot different and try to handle the situation a lot better."
Acta hopes Asdrubal makes AL All-Star squad
BALTIMORE -- When the American League All-Star team is unveiled on Sunday, Indians manager Manny Acta hopes he will see shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera included among the players deemed to be the game's elite.
"It'd be nice," Acta said on Saturday afternoon. "He's starting to establish himself as an All-Star player in this league and that usually happens when you start piling up All-Star Games. This would be his second one, if he makes it."
Indeed, Cabrera's first All-Star selection came one year ago, when he earned a spot on the AL team via the player balloting. Cabrera was then named the starter at shortstop after Yankees All-Star Derek Jeter pulled out of the contest.
Last season was a breakout campaign for Cabrera, who hit .273 with 25 home runs, 32 doubles and 92 RBIs in 151 games for Cleveland. The 26-year-old shortstop has been strong again in this season's first half, hitting .292 with 11 homers, 17 doubles and 38 RBIs through 67 games, entering Saturday.
Heading into Saturday's action, Cabrera had hit .278 with six home runs and 13 RBIs in his last 13 games.
"He's been solid the whole year," Acta said. "He got a lot of publicity last year because of the home runs and stuff. He's got 11 already. He's been huge. He's the guy I want at the plate when the game is on the line. He's just been steady."
Acta is also hoping that second baseman Jason Kipnis -- up against the likes of New York's Robinson Cano, Boston's Dustin Pedroia and Texas' Ian Kinsler at a star-studded position -- might make the cut for the AL squad, too. Through 75 games, Kipnis has hit .279 with 11 home runs, 45 RBIs, 47 runs scored and 18 stolen bases for the Tribe.
"It'd be nice to see Kipnis, too," Acta said. "I know we have a lot of good second basemen in our league, but managers can pick guys, too."
Santana works out before game, nearing return
BALTIMORE -- Indians catcher Carlos Santana took a step toward returning to the lineup on Saturday afternoon.
Santana went through a pregame workout with head athletic trainer Lonnie Soloff and it is possible that the catcher might be cleared to play in Sunday's game against the Orioles. The catcher has missed the past three games due to soreness in his back and right side.
"We're just trying to get him on the field -- plain and simple," Indians manager Manny Acta said. "We just don't want to put him out there and jeopardize having him go on the [disabled list] or losing him for a longer period of time."
After taking a break from all baseball activities on Thursday and Friday, Santana did some hitting and played catcher prior to Saturday's game in Baltimore. The catcher exited Wednesday's game in New York after experiencing mid-back tightness. He had also been dealing with a right rib cage issue.
The Indians were pleased with Santana's progress on Saturday.
"We're satisfied with where he's at," Acta said. "So we're going to see if we're going to be able to get him out there [Sunday]."
Acta did not rule out the possibility of keeping Santana out of the fold until Monday, though.
Beyond the health woes, Santana also has been struggling with a persistent slump. Through the first six games of the current road trip, he was mired in a 1-for-16 funk. Dating back to May 18, Santana has hit just .151 (14-for-93) across 27 games for Cleveland.
Overall, Santana has hit .220 with five home runs, 11 doubles and 29 RBIs in 63 games.
Quote to note
"You grind yourself to death. Even though I didn't play all that much, it was like I was playing a doubleheader every day with the way I was working. It just wasn't smart. It wasn't efficient. It wasn't a productive way to do things."
--Indians infielder Jason Donald, on his flawed approach to game preparation early in the season
Smoke signals
Indians manager Manny Acta has been encouraged by his team's recent offensive performance. Entering Saturday, the Tribe had hit .316 (37-for-117) with a .325 (13-for-40) mark with runners in scoring position and 23 runs scored over the past 28 innings. In the previous 44 innings of this road trip, the Indians hit .176 (26-for-149) with a .100 (3-for-30) showing with RISP and only five runs scored.
"They did pick it up [Tuesday] in New York," Acta said. "And it just carried over. We're having better at-bats. Overall this month, the quality of our at-bats weren't as good as the first two months. Whether we ran into some good pitching, or the guys had a tough time, that's a different story. But I really like the way we've swung the bats starting in New York."
Designated hitter Travis Hafner (on the 15-day disabled list due to a right knee injury) is scheduled to play in Minor League games for Triple-A Columbus on Saturday and Sunday. After those rehab appearances, Cleveland will determine whether Hafner will be ready to be activated on Monday. The Indians will need to remove a player (infielder Jason Donald and outfielder Aaron Cunningham are two candidates) from the roster.
Sidelined center fielder Grady Sizemore (back/knee) and left-hander Rafael Perez (left lat) are scheduled to take steps forward in their rehab during the coming homestand, which begins Monday. Sizemore is slated to resume running drills and Perez is scheduled to resume throwing off a mound. It is still unclear when either player might be able to rejoin the Indians.
Acta said he used closer Chris Perez in the eighth inning of Friday's 9-8 loss to the Orioles simply to ensure the reliever got some game action. Perez had not pitched since June 22. Had Cleveland gone into the ninth with a lead, Vinnie Pestano would have served as a temporary closer.
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Major League Bastian, and follow him on Twitter @MLBastian. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Gene Simmons is going to have one less talking point in his upcoming interviews. He'll no longer get to field the question that he is most frequently asked: how does he feel about KISS, one of the most influential bands of the past four decades, not being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame? Because on April 10, they'll finally join that always-controversial institution, along with Nirvana, Peter Gabriel, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Linda Ronstadt and Cat Stevens. Also being honored this year: the Beatles' late manager Brian Epstein, the Rolling Stones' former manager/producer Andrew Loog Oldham and Bruce Springsteen's longtime backing group the E Street Band.
The induction ceremony will take place at Brooklyn's Barclays Center on April 10 and will be open to the public. An on-sale date has yet to be announced.
One thing Simmons will still be able to gripe about: the fact that it took KISS fourteen years to be inducted (they were first eligible to be voted in in 1999, 25 years after the release of their 1974 self-titled debut), but Nirvana was inducted the minute they were eligible: their debut single, "Love Buzz," was released in 1988, so this was their first year on the ballot. One question Simmons is sure to field often in the coming weeks: whether or not he and Paul Stanley will perform with former members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss at the induction ceremony (he told Radio.com that they would not).
The Hall of Fame has not announced which members of each band will be inducted. In the case of KISS, the obvious choices are the founding members. However, Criss first left the band in 1980 and Frehley in 1982, and a number of guitarists and drummers have passed through the ranks since then: among them, Criss's immediate replacement, Eric Carr, who died in 1991 after a battle with cancer.
— Brian Ives, Radio.com.


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No Mercedes seat for Alonso in short term says Wolff
Toto Wolff has dismissed reports Mercedes could be eyeing a future with Fernando Alonso.
When rumours of the German marque's flirtation with the obviously frustrated Ferrari driver Alonso first arose recently, team sources immediately reacted by hinting that Nico Rosberg's contract is in fact on the verge of being extended.
But while Alonso's arrival would have reunited McLaren's exciting 2007 pairing of the Spaniard alongside Lewis Hamilton, team boss Wolff sounds less keen.
Indeed, when speaking to Spanish reporters at Mercedes' Brackley factory on Wednesday, he said Hamilton's rivalry with Rosberg this year cannot be compared with the "dirty" situation that existed at McLaren seven years ago.
"We'll let them keep fighting," Wolff is quoted by the Spanish news agency EFE, "so long as the war is not dirty.
"A conflict like the one between Alonso and Hamilton will not happen here," he insisted. "If something like that did happen, it would have serious consequences."
Pondering the Alonso rumours in even more detail, Wolff explained that the Spaniard will not be wearing silver overalls "at least in the short term".
That, Wolff said, is because both Rosberg and Hamilton "have long term contracts".
"Fernando is one of the best drivers on the grid," he added, "but it is not in our plan to change the formation of the team."
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Sore Rosario recovers to get win vs. Marlins
By Joe Morgan / MLB.com
MIAMI -- San Francisco reliever Sandy Rosario earned a win Friday after taking a line drive to the chest Thursday. He pitched two scoreless innings of relief with a bruised sternum in the Giants' 14-10 win against the Marlins.
"He really won the game there for us," San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said. "He stopped their momentum and threw great. At that point, we've got to have somebody stop it.
"If I have to go get him, then we are going to run thin on pitching. For him to give us two innings was clutch, especially after what happened to him yesterday."
When Rosario heard he was credited with the win by the official scorer's discretion Friday, he was surprised. Rosario thought fellow reliever Jose Mijares, who entered the game in relief of starter Chad Gaudin, got the victory.
"That's good to know," Rosario said, laughing. "I'm so happy now. Now I know. I didn't know that one."
Rosario's availability Friday was determined by a pregame throwing session, according to Bochy.
Rosario's status was in question after an Adam LaRoche liner hit him in the chest during Thursday's win against the Nationals. Rosario had trouble breathing in the immediate aftermath but felt much better Friday.
"He's doing all right. He's a little sore. Right now, he is [available]," Bochy said before Friday's game. "I'll wait until he throws and stuff."
Said Rosario of his injury Friday afternoon: "It's good. I'm sore. I have to go out and see how I feel after I throw and go from there."
Rosario said he experienced pain breathing for the first hour after taking the hit, but it quickly subsided. He said it went from "terrible" in the first hour to "better."
"I feel like I can throw," Rosario said. "We'll see how it feels after I throw."
The hour Rosario described as "terrible" began with some scary first few seconds. Despite his shock from taking a liner off the chest, the pitcher recovered and threw LaRoche out at first.
"At the moment, I didn't think," Rosario said. "I was just trying to find air for the first five seconds. I was trying to breathe, and I couldn't. But I'm getting better."
Belt flexing muscle during hitting streak
MIAMI -- Brandon Belt's bat has provided plenty of pop while the Giants lineup's season-long struggles have carried into August.
The 25-year-old first baseman extended his season-best hitting streak to 11 games Friday. He is batting .432 (19-for-44) with four home runs during the stretch.
"I'm seeing [the ball] pretty well," Belt said. "I think that's the main thing that helps you feel good every day you go out there is knowing that if you can see the ball well, you're going to have a good chance of hitting the ball hard. That's definitely a feeling you want to have."
Belt's power surge during his hitting streak has accounted for more than 25 percent of his team-leading 15 homers. After belting only seven long balls in 411 at-bats last season, Belt has more than twice that total in 48 fewer at-bats in 2013.
"I'm putting some good swings on some balls," Belt said. "I think swinging at pitches I'm able to drive is key. Laying off a lot of pitches I can't [drive]. I'm just putting some backspin on them and hopefully they carry out."
The first half of August has seen Belt at his best. He is batting .431 (22-for-51) with a .500 on-base percentage and five home runs since the month began.
"He's really been swinging the bat," San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said. "Brandon, he's really been working hard and he's getting better at-bats, driving the ball better like we know he can."
In an effort to jump-start a Giants lineup that entered Friday ranked 28th in the Majors with only 449 runs scored, Bochy has batted Belt third eight times and cleanup once in nine games since Aug. 7.
Belt, who batted third against the Marlins on Friday night, is hitting .395 (15-for-38) with four home runs, nine RBIs and 11 runs scored since his move up into the heart of San Francisco's order.
"It's definitely a confidence booster," Belt said of his new spot in the lineup. "Just knowing that the coaching staff has confidence in you putting me up in that spot. It's definitely a responsibility because there's a lot of runs to be driven in up there, and I just want to go up there, do my job and hopefully stay up there."
Said Bochy: "He's done a good job in that three-hole."
Posey gets break during grinding season
MIAMI -- After catching 164 pitches in the Giants' 4-3 win against the Nationals on Thursday, catcher Buster Posey earned the night off Friday. San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said he may also sit Posey on Sunday.
Following Sunday's game against the Marlins, the Giants fly home to begin a series against the Red Sox on Monday night.
"After talking with him that [Friday] would be a good day to take off, he may take the day game off here, too," Bochy said. "... It's nothing to be concerned about. Just catching. That was a long game [Thursday]."
Posey, whose 2011 season ended after 45 games due to a broken ankle, played a career-high 148 games and 16 postseason contests in 2012. He caught a staff that ranked seventh in the Majors with a 3.68 ERA.
The All-Star catcher has appeared in all but six games this season, but Bochy emphasized that San Francisco's early-season troubles on the mound were more of a burden on Posey.
The Giants entered Friday ranked 20th in MLB with a 4.04 ERA. Also, the staff's pitches per plate appearances, WHIP (walks plus hits per inning pitched) and walks per nine innings are up from last season, leading to longer innings and longer games for Posey behind the plate.
With a lineup that entered Friday ranked 14th in the National League in runs, extra-base hits and RBIs, sitting a key bat like Posey is difficult. The catcher entered Friday leading San Francisco with 61 RBIs and an .859 OPS (on-base plus slugging percentage) and ranked second with 14 homers.
"It's been a little different year in respect we have played longer games," Bochy said. "You look at the first six weeks, we had our pitching struggling a little bit. There's some long games. It's a different game.
"You catch 145, 130 pitches or you catch 200 pitches. That takes a toll on you, and that's been the difference, too. It's not just a game. It's what type of game it is. We've played longer games this year."
Bochy comments on Manuel's dismissal
MIAMI -- Giants manager Bruce Bochy was surprised by Friday's dismissal of Phillies manager Charlie Manuel, the winningest skipper in club history. However, Bochy acknowledged that the move was understandable.
Manuel led Philadelphia to five straight National League East titles and back-to-back World Series appearances in 2008 and 2009, but losing records this year and last spelled the end.
Bochy and San Francisco sit in last place in the NL West this season after winning World Series titles in 2010 and 2012.
"It's funny in this game how quickly things can turn around," Bochy said.
Bochy had nothing but praise for his colleague when reflecting on Manuel's accomplishments.
"Charlie did a great job there and had a heck of a run and has a lot to be proud of," Bochy said. "But listening to them, they talked all week and this is what they decided to do, and it makes sense."
Joe Morgan is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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FTC: Uncle Sam Will Give You $50K if You Can Think up a Way to Stop Robocallers
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October 19, 2012 12:51 PM
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Contest will only stop "illegal" robocalls, i.e. those intended to sell a product or receive a donation
With just two weeks before Americans elect their next president, both incumbent Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are busy -- in digital form --
harassing beleaguered voters
with robocalls
. Both candidates vowed not to funnel super political action committee (PAC) funds to pay for third-parties to conduct the practice that many find annoying, but both candidates -- awash in hundreds of million from
a record-shattering campaign
on both sides of the aisle to court special interests -- appear to have abandoned their promises.
But the
U.S. Federal Trade Commission
is offering a bit of solace to frustrated citizens. It has created a "prize competition" called the "
Robocall Challenge
", which:
...is intended to provide recognition to individuals, teams of individuals, for-profit legal entities and/or non-profit organizations (collectively, "Contestants") for developing proposed technical solutions or functional solutions and proofs of concepts that can block illegal robocalls (each a "Solution").
federal telemarketing laws
outlaw most
robocalls looking to sell products
(though the aforementioned political calls are legal). The competition focuses on block "illegal" calls, so it won't exactly offer relief from the advertising.
But for those with an axe to grind against the pesky automatons of the phone lines, you can win up to $50,000 USD yourself or as an organization/group of less than 10 individuals.
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The FTC will be providing participants with data to use in the study. The Commission will be holding a Q&A session on the event on Oct. 25, the day the program kicks off. The contest will run through January 17, 2013, at 5:00 pm ET, with winners announced in April.
Winners will be selected based on:
Whether their solution works (
particularly on mobile devices
) (50 percent of the score)
Ease of use (25 percent)
How easy it is to roll out (25 percent)
Not everyone is so intent on killing the robocaller, though.
University of Denver
Political Science
Professor Seth Masket
in a
recent interview
with a CBS Corp. (
) station commented, "It's really just a very inexpensive way to contact a lot of people at once. You don't even really need employees to run the thing. It's so inexpensive to contact that one extra person that as long as you've persuaded even a handful of people, it can be seen as worth it."
We're guessing he won't be entering the contest.
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Hoyer Statement on Defense Authorization Act
Stephanie Lundberg
WASHINGTON, DC - House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement in support of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, which will be voted on in the House this afternoon:
"The conference report to this vital Defense Authorization bill for Fiscal Year 2010 takes important steps to enhance our military readiness, our national security, and the well-being of our military families and federal employees.
"This conference report authorizes $550.2 billion in budget authority for the Department of Defense and national security programs at the Department of Energy, as well as $130 billion for overseas contingency operations. It is a serious response to the real, immediate, and rapidly changing threats our nation and our troops face.
"Among its most important provisions are those that help to rebuild our Armed Forces, which are worn down after years of war. It provides $11 billion and $2 billion to re-equip the Army and Marine Corps, respectively, as well as $6.9 billion to meet equipment shortfalls in the National Guard and Reserve. In line with President Obama's request, it also adds an additional 30,000 troops to the Army, 14,650 to the Air Force, 8,100 to the Marines, and 2,477 to the Navy. And it authorizes 30,000 more Army troops in Fiscal Years 2011 and 2012. To ensure safety and dignified living standards for those troops, it commits $350 million to construct new Army training barracks and $200 million for facilities in the National Guard and Reserve.
"This conference report also orients our country in the direction of the new national security strategy put forward by the Obama Administration, which includes redeployment from Iraq and a commitment to the stability of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The conference report reflects those priorities: it requires the Secretary of Defense to report on the progress of redeployment from Iraq; it sets clear goals and timelines for progress in Afghanistan; it funds and trains the Afghan and Pakistani security forces for counterinsurgency; and it enhances accountability by requiring the Administration to closely track all defense articles provided to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"One of the gravest threats to our national security is nuclear proliferation. That is why this bill expands counter-proliferation programs within the Departments of Defense and Energy, including the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.
"I am also pleased that this conference report protects public money by reforming defense acquisition. It builds on the important reform bill President Obama signed in May by strengthening oversight of the acquisition process and expanding the civilian acquisition workforce at the Department of Defense, relieving some of its reliance on private-sector contractors. The result will be net savings for taxpayers.
"The conference report also sees to the needs of our troops and our families. It serves reservists and their families with expanded defense health coverage, improves active-duty housing, helps friends and family visit wounded troops during their recoveries, and more.
"When it comes to fair treatment for our federal employees, the conference report includes two important provisions; I worked hard to see that they were included. First, on the issue of pay, it brings an end to the National Security Personnel System and returns all employees of the Defense Department to the more fair General Schedule pay scale. Second, it allows retiring federal employees to credit their unused sick days toward their pensions, instead of taking months of sick leave at the end of their careers, which is a waste for them and for taxpayers.
"Finally, this conference report includes landmark provisions to strengthen enforcement of hate crimes laws: laws that punish crimes motivated by a victim's race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or status as a member of our Armed Forces. Such crimes sow fear and division in communities, but all too often are not investigated or prosecuted with the vigor they demand. This legislation is a powerful message that they will not be tolerated.
"I want to thank Chairman Skelton, the Armed Services Committee, and their staff for their months of hard work to bring this legislation close to enactment."


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- 5th largest oil producer in Sub-Saharan Africa; 2nd largest producer of wood in Africa; aiming to become world's leading manganese producer
- Work on economic diversification as part of the Emerging Gabon Strategic Plan
- Strong potential for mining (iron, uranium, diamonds) and wood sectors
- Economy highly dependent on the oil sector with declining crude reservesRe-emergence of budget and current account deficits
- High cost of factors of production, linked with inadequate infrastructure (transport and electricity)
- High unemployment and endemic poverty
- Worsening political context
Risk assessment
Weak oil prices weighing on growth
Activity slowed in 2016 under the impact of low oil prices, but increased spending aimed at alleviating social tensions ahead of the presidential election and foreign finance helped to some extent sustain consumption and investment. In 2017, growth is expected to stabilise at a relatively low level. Facing a gradual decline in its oil production as crude oil reserves are being depleted, in addition to the fall in crude prices, the government's ability to invest is more limited. The effort to diversify and modernise the economy, undertaken by the government as part of the Emerging Gabon Strategic Plan (PSGE) launched in 2010, is stunted. With higher debt-servicing costs and a fiscal adjustment, the public investment programme should all the more slow. In addition, investments in the mineral ore and wood processing industries as well as those in the agriculture sector (palm oil and rubber) are expected to decelerate as well. Foreign investment might suffer from the political turmoil following Ali Bongo's contested re-election in August 2016. The political situation and repeated strikes in the oil sector should limit a significant rebound in growth. Nevertheless, the IMF support with an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) will contribute to stimulate economic growth. There is work needed concerning the effectiveness of investments, together with a number of obstacles to growth that need to be cleared (unreliable electricity supply, inflexible job market and shortage of skilled and trained workers, and concerns around the security of contracts). Finally, the benefits of growth are far from being shared across all layers of society. Despite abundant natural resources and per capita income amongst the highest in Sub-Saharan Africa, poverty remains endemic and unemployment high.
Public and external accounts in the red
The public account surplus started to dwindle as of 2010 following the huge public investments made with the implementation of the PSGE. The budget fell into the red in 2015 as a result of the collapse in oil revenues, which forced the government to cut public spending. The continuing plunge in oil receipts in 2016, at the same time as spending was increased for the elections and the preparations for the Africa Cup of Nations (2017), led to a further deepening of the deficit. This should however shrink in 2017 thanks to the slight recovery in oil prices. The government also plans to drastically reduce capital spending (roughly 30% in 2017 Budget) to balance the budget. A three-year EFF arrangement of 642 million USD signed with the IMF will help the government to address fiscal imbalances.
The public debt increased rapidly in recent years, rising from 19.7% in 2012 to 62% of GDP in 2016 as a result of a Eurobond issue and the depreciation of the CFA franc. There has also been a rise in its borrowing costs on the financial markets for Gabon.
In 2015, the country also recorded its first current account deficit in seventeen years following the collapse in oil exports (down to 77% of total exports) and this despite the contraction in imports linked with falling domestic demand and world commodity prices. Exports continued to fall in 2016, still suffering from lower oil sales which largely offset the increase in manganese and wood sales. In 2017, the current account deficit is likely to shrink slightly thanks to the slow rise in crude oil prices and the continuing expansion in non-oil exports.
Acute post-electoral crisis
The disputed re-election of Ali Bongo in August 2016 triggered violent confrontations between the supporters of the opposition candidate, Jean Ping, and security forces (two days of riots, deaths and hundreds of arrests). The Constitutional Court confirmed the victory of the outgoing president in September, which did not stop the European Union observers to keep denouncing the failings of the Gabonese electoral system. Calm has since returned to the country but its political landscape needs to be rebuilt as legislative elections initially planned for December 2016 and then scheduled to July 30th 2017, have been postponed to April 2018. The opening of a one-month national dialogue by the Ali Bongo administration, but without Jean Ping and his allies, concluded after two months of discussion without calling into questions institutional balances: the conclusions recommend the non-limitation of elected representatives, including the President.
There is enduring social unrest, further fostered by the level of inequality and failings in terms of basic services. The teachers' strike since October 2016 to claim, bonuses, wage arrears and the construction of new classrooms comes up against a government that acknowledges the grievances but claims not to have enough money to access those requests. A call for the general strike of the National Organization of Petroleum Employees (ONEP) in March 2017 was added to the repeated strikes in the sector since the beginning of the year. Finally, the long-term development of the country remains limited by governance shortcomings.
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What's in a name? For Chicago-area wedding filmmaker Keith Anderson, everything. He jumped into the business "with both feet" in 2002 with a company name that brought him into contact with more video clients than his two-person studio could handle, but didn't really connect him with the high-end bridal clientele that matched the custom-crafted work he was producing. It was actually Keith's wife and shooting partner, Jennifer, who suggested that they name their company "All Occasions Video," when they first entered the business. "I hated that name," Keith recalls. "But, in the end, it was the right thing to do, because it made the phone ring." And even though he's been mostly successful in shedding that old identity, over the last 2 years, since rebranding his company as Wedding Day Cinema, he says, "I still get calls from clients who say, 'It sounds like you do a lot of different things.'"
Doing a little bit of everything put All Occasions Video on the map, but Keith found, over time, that he didn't want to do all those different things. "My passion was doing weddings. Wedding clients just appreciated my work so much more than corporate clients. With corporate work, the dollars came easily. But they just stick it on a shelf. There wasn't an emotional bond to the work like there was with wedding clients."
Aiming HighMeanwhile, Keith was developing a reputation in the video industry as a filmmaker who consistently won Creative Excellence Awards (CEAs) from WEVA for his dazzling wedding work and creative edits. But his "all things to all people" company image seemed increasingly at odds with that. "All Occasions just didn't sound specialized enough for someone who was asking people to spend top dollar for a wedding film," he recalls. "I wanted to distance myself from that name and to cultivate a client base on the upper tier. I felt like there was an open market for top-end wedding films. No one was going for it; no one was asking top dollar in the market in Chicago."
The heart of Keith's increasingly high-end brand has always been the signature edits he delivers, which are unique in the Chicago market in the way they capture what he calls "the classic Chicago-style wedding" in a customized short film edited in Adobe Premiere Pro. At the time he started developing his style, Keith says, "No one was offering what I call the 'Vignette'-an 8-14 minute wedding, edit that anybody could sit through, especially during my presentations. I would show the vignettes and they would book jobs for me." Today, with Wedding Day Cinema, Keith provides a 20-30 minute edit that he brands "The Feature."
On a typical Wedding Day Cinema event, Keith shoots with a Canon 5D Mark II, while Jennifer runs a Canon 60D. They also set up a Sony EX1 (Wedding Day Cinema's camera of choice before the company went all-DSLR last summer) for audio acquisition. Jennifer's direct involvement ends when the shoot is over; Keith handles all the editing.
Jumping PlatformsAs an editor, Keith says, "I've been working in Premiere from Day One." He started with Premiere 6.0, working in Windows, and progressed through successive versions, upgrading to CS5 last year. After running his old PC "into the ground," he says, "I jumped platforms, and went over to the Mac prior to going to CS5. I went to a Final Cut users' meeting, and I tried to like Final Cut. I tried to wrap my head around the workflow, but it didn't take."
The main reason Keith considered switching to Final Cut was that he was still overwhelmed with All Occasions edits at that time-the customary backlog that comes from running a volume business-and it was easier to find freelance editors who worked in Final Cut. "I'm just so glad I didn't do it," he says, "because CS5 can read XML files from Final Cut so well."
"Switching to the Mac platform was really expensive," says Keith. "I started with a laptop. I called [Senior Business Development Manager] Dennis Radeke over at Adobe. I told him I was holding off [on a desktop purchase] until the new Mac towers came out. I gave him the specs of the laptop I was considering and asked him if CS5 would run on it. He said I should have no problem editing a couple layers of DSLR footage on it, and he was right."
Keith says he edited all his HD wedding footage for 8 months on his Mac laptop using CS5 Production Premium and an external RAID drive and Blu-ray burner. Then he upgraded to a 12-core Mac Pro with 16GB of RAM and an SSD drive for his primary editing system. Overkill, perhaps, but Keith says, "When I buy a system, I want to get 6-7 years out of it.'"
Perks of Production PremiumKeith says his reliance on Adobe applications in post isn't just about his facility with Premiere Pro-it's about the seamless integration of CS5 Production Premium. "I love Dynamic Link. I think that's Adobe's strongest suit. I right-click a clip that I have an audio problem with and I can send it straight to Soundbooth. With the new CS5.5, you can send it right to Audition, which is an even more robust sound editor. I fix it up in Soundbooth, save it, and Dynamic Link sends it right back to the Premiere Pro timeline. Dynamic Link is Adobe's bread and butter, and it works as advertised."
Keith also appreciates the versatility of CS5 Production Premium's format support, and the ease with which it ingests an array of formats when he's working with footage from the 5D Mark II, the 60D, the EX1, and occasionally a GoPro camera-all ingested from different media. "Bringing everything into Premiere Pro, I go to the Media Browser to find what I'm looking for. I use separate bins to keep my Project Window neat and tidy. One for raw footage, one for miscellaneous stuff, one for sequences, that kind of thing. I'll just bring in all the stuff. Premiere Pro will go ahead and conform it so it will all play nicely."
One essential component of Keith's edit workflow is working in Premiere Pro's Multicam editor. When he first upgraded to CS5 on the MacBook Pro, he says, "I just couldn't believe it worked-on a laptop? I threw all these different formats on a laptop, and it played smooth enough to get the job done, to get a rough cut, which is all I needed."
Keith says he follows the same exact workflow now on the Mac Pro tower, with the an approved NVIDIA card for GPU acceleration enabled by Adobe's powerful Mercury Playback Engine. "It's really smooth. I've got all different formats on the timeline. There's obviously no rendering, no conforming of the DSLR footage. It just chews right through it."
Keith says that on a typical Wedding Day Cinema project he'll cut the ceremony in the Multicam interface in Premiere Pro CS5, use Plural Eyes to sync the audio (particularly for the reception), and then tweak the audio in Soundbooth. He says he'll also create some effects in After Effects using Adobe's presets. "I'm not a heavy After Effects user, but I know just enough to be dangerous," Keith quips. "I know how to create a Composition and use one of their text animations that looks like you spent all night making it when it really took all of 10 minutes to do."
With the project edited, he's ready to author for DVD or Blu-ray in Encore. There, Dynamic Link comes in handy again: "By using the Dynamic Link feature instead of launching Media Encoder separately," he says, "it creates a Dynamic Link between Premiere Pro and Encore, and it tells Encore, 'Hey, you figure out what the bitrate needs to be,' and it does it automatically." This is a far cry from "the days of old," he says, when he needed to keep a chart on hand to reference bitrates for wedding DVDs clocking in at different lengths.
"In Encore," he continues, "I'll create my menus in Photoshop. The Dynamic Link between Encore and Photoshop is seamless. You just right-click on your Menu, select Edit Menu in Photoshop, Photoshop opens up, there everything is. Click File > Save and it goes right back to Encore."
Editing an Award-Winning TrailerLast August at WEVA Expo 2010, Wedding Day Cinema added to its already-crowded trophy case with a Gold Creative Excellence Award (CEA) in the Trailer category. As with most movie trailers, the real magic comes from what happens in the edit. "There's a transition in that clip that a lot of people ask me about," he says, that comes from the TV show The Bachelor. "It gets totally blown out. It's like a flash, but it's not a matte white. All the colors ramp up so it ends up looking like a flash. When I saw it, I thought, 'I wanna make that.'" So he created his own version in Premiere Pro CS5, and made it the main transition in the trailer.
"In Premiere Pro, you can stack up multiple effects and save them out as a particular effect. The two effects in Premiere Pro that allow you to achieve this effect are Brightness and Contrast and Compound Blur. You ramp up the Brightness and Contrast and the Compound Blur over time, using keyframes. You start with a low value and increase it until it's blown out on the screen. The position of the keyframes dictates the speed of the ramp."
Keith says trailers are a key part of the Wedding Day Cinema experience, which is all about attentiveness to what couples really want in a product custom-built to their expectations. "The trailer is more about future marketing than anything. The key to it is getting it up online the week after the wedding when they're still really high on the wedding"-a goal that would be virtually impossible to achieve without a postproduction workflow that empowers a filmmaker/editor to produce compelling and creative edits quickly. "It keeps the excitement alive," he says, "and does a lot of my selling for me."
Stephen Nathans-Kelly (stephen.nathans at infotoday.com) is editor-in-chief of EventDV.


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He is coked up on his "tough guy" image that he likes to cultivate. Plus he has gotten his ego stroked for so long now by far-right intellects like Anne Coulter and Michelle Malkin that he is out of control.
I own a home in NJ and was promised that I would see tax relief for all the cuts to teachers, firemen and police. There has been none, in fact, my taxes have gone up each year under Christie.
But don't let that get in the way of a good story authored by big money through their paid-for surrogates who claim Christie is making a big difference. He is making a big difference-for them. Here is further proof;
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More information just out on this incident. Apparently the heckler was cursing at Christie in front of his wife and young children.
Do you really believe we should be THANKING Chris Christie for curbing middle class workers compensation while be continues to favor the wealthy through his political policies??!!
All the while be rude towards the people who had a part of putting him in office.
Where are the true leaders? The ones who lead by example. Who do not put others down. Who dont yell to be heard. Who dont bully. Where are the leaders who are great thinkers? Who can make change for the good of most.
Chris Christie is no leader. He is a bully...........
So the common guy who has no power, no media at his finger tips, cursed at a politician who has a habit of calling people stupid about one of his educational policies. Poor Chris Christie......
Fakes News just confirmed that Fatso was completely innocent and it was all the other guys (a confirmed evil librul) fault
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What's it like to be a rat in a hole?
My fiancée is a teacher. No one hates her. The media and politicians don't tell her they hate her job and want her fired. Her NJEA rep sends her frantic emails and tells her to leave angry messages with local legislators, and she deletes them because she thinks that distracts from her job. She chooses to stay above the fray, and in doing so she doesn't think people are out to get her. Do you know why? Because that narrative is entirely made up in order to mobilize NJEA constituents. It's like when liberals say there is a conservative war on women -- there really isn't, but they are hoping that will cause at least one person to kick in a couple bucks to the Obama campaign.
It's a real shame that you've allowed yourself to become a pawn of your union, on the faulty premise that if it didnt exist we'd go back to the days of the robber barons.
By the way, my fiancée isnt tenured because she's only in year 2 at her current district. The union offers her no protection at all, except she still must pay $1000 in dues every year. Protection money that guarantees nothing. In the old days that was called extortion.
Copernicus, man, you opened a door that didn't need opening it. The OP's story wasn't about education policy or Christie's unpopularity with, but it was about his reaction to a heckler. Which I agree was uncalled for and unbecoming of a public figure. I don't care what the heckler said his mother was, what his father smells like, or what he did in Christie's general direction. A leader is the one that the "men" should look at to emulate. Regardless of the followers necessarily need a model or not.
As I've mentioned before, I am a huge supporter of teachers and I don't despise unions in general (though I certainly don't presume they're nearly worth their trouble). But you need to stop drinking the union Kool-Aid. There is a MUCH bigger picture out there.
Politicians are in the public eye 100% of the time. They dont get a pass, a vacation, but please dont feel sorry for them. They make many friends in the business world to set themselves and their families up for life.
You do also know that the people he ridicules and calls stupid have families also. They are then broadcasted for all to see. Imagine the embarrassment you'd feel if your son or daughter observed you being called stupid by a government official and then broadcasted for all to see.
The general public also does not have the media right there to defend themselves, to have a rebuttal, to defend their side of the story.


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text: we know the winners of the bikes, but what about the other door prizes won during the event. They posted the winning numbers on the side of the County Store. Will they post the remaining winning numbers or do the prizes go unclaimed? Make plans for Vermont now... anyone who wants to ship their bike east can ship it to my house, unload a go to Vermont!! john shuck westport, CT


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Did anyone else watch the pilot for this show last week? It stars Colin Hanks and Bradley Whitford. I thought it was pretty good. I like both actors and Matt Nix, who created Burn Notice, is also the creator of this show.
My favorite exchange was: After Whitford vomits all over a crime scene.
Whitford: What? You've never played Good Cop/Sick Cop?
Hanks: No
Whitford: Well you were the good Cop.
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$400,000 fee award upheld in Steve Jobs case
Original post made on Nov 20, 2008
Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, November 20, 2008, 7:46 AM
a resident of Woodside: Mountain Home Road
on Nov 20, 2008 at 10:18 am
Ridiculous. Its just a freaking house. There's nothing really historic or special about it. How come we Americans make something so "special" out of a house that a wealthy person lived in. And this is not an anti-wealth post as I have enough wealth. Its just a statement about the ridiculousness of using materials items to create "historical significance."
Like or not like Steve Jobs, Steve was right in this case and the group focused on preserving this house is completely out of their sane and sensible mind.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Nov 20, 2008 at 11:00 am
The Jobs family's predicament is infuriating. Who in the general public is ever going to see the place anyway??? It's private property! Let him make a compilation DVD of the house with old and recent photos and movies...Put it in the hallowed Woodside Community Museum and be done with it! At least then whoever wants to see, can!
"Uphold Our Heritage"...I understand their "labor of love' but they are wrong and should be responsible for their own attorney bills.
a resident of Menlo Park: Menlo Oaks
on Nov 22, 2008 at 3:42 am
Very disturbing. All he wants to do is build a smaller, more modest, energy efficient home on that lot.
The house is a monstrosity. 17k square feet, uneven floors, something like 15-17 bedrooms?, each room at a different level, bedrooms all in a separate wing, etc.
This is such a shame. I feel bad for Steve on this one.


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Study: Antibiotics in Extenders can Prevent CEM Transmission
In the study, none of the mares inseminated with extended or frozen semen from the CEM-positive stallion or mares in the control group inseminated with raw CEM-negative semen developed clinical signs of vaginitis
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Researchers from the University of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Center recently investigated whether antibiotics in a semen extender could inhibit the growth of the bacteria Tayorella equigenitalis, which causes contagious equine metritis (CEM), and escape detection of the bacteria in horses bred by artificial insemination.
What is CEM?
Contagious equine metritis (CEM) is a highly contagious sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium Taylorella equigenitalis. The disease is spread through breeding or contaminated instruments and causes temporary infertility in mares, and a non-symptomatic carrier state in stallions. In addition to costs associated with infertility of the mares, infected stallions need to be treated and rigorously tested free from the disease before they can breed again. The disease can be catastrophic to the horse industry if it goes undetected. Stallions show no clinical signs, but can carry the CEM bacteria on their genitalia for months or even years. If tested positive, they need to be taken out of breeding for several weeks or even months.
Shaila Sigsgaard
CEM has a devastating effect on fertility; it is a very costly and serious disease in horse operations that practice natural cover. The United States has largely been considered CEM-free since 1978, when an outbreak occurred in Kentucky with significant costs to the Thoroughbred industry. Importation regulations currently apply to horses imported from countries considered endemic for the disease.
"Although there is no current threat to the U.S. horse population, it always raises concerns that imported horses may bring the disease into the U.S.," said Mats Troedsson, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACT, director of the Gluck Center and chair and of the Department of Veterinary Science.
In 2006, three imported stallions in Wisconsin tested positive for T. equigenitalis. All stallions had tested negative prior to exportation to the U.S. and again upon arrival. They had bred several mares resulting in normal fertility and no clinical signs of disease, Troedsson said. In 2008, a Quarter Horse stallion tested positive for T. equigenitalis upon routine testing required for frozen semen to be exported to Brazil. However, no clinical observations of disease or infertility had been reported in mares bred to this stallion.
The Study
In the study, the researchers compared T. equigenitalis growth in raw semen from a CEM-positive stallion and the same semen extended in media containing antibiotics. They also assessed the outcome in mares inseminated with raw, extended, or frozen semen from the same stallion.
The team chose at random 21 adult mares and assigned each one into three different groups to be inseminated with either raw, extended, or frozen/thawed and extended CEM-positive semen or insemination with CEM-negative semen (control group). Additionally, the researchers cultured semen from an experimentally infected stallion to test the effect of antibiotics in extenders on the growth of T. equigenitalis.
Upon analyzing the data, the researchers found the following:
- Commercial semen extender (EquiPro with amikacin and penicillin) contained enough antibiotics to prevent T. equigenitalis transmission to any of the mares in the study through artificial insemination with fresh, cooled, and frozen semen.
- Six mares inseminated with raw CEM-positive semen had clinical signs of CEM (e.g., vaginal discharge) at each sampling point after artificial insemination.
- In contrast, none of the mares inseminated with extended or frozen semen from the CEM-positive stallion or mares in the control group inseminated with raw CEM-negative semen developed clinical signs of vaginitis.
Shaila Sigsgaard
Following a subsequent national disease investigation, 22 stallions tested positive for T. equigenitalis, resulting in 715 mares having been exposed, Troedsson said, while only five of these mares (0.7%) tested positive for T. equigenitalis. This is in sharp contrast to previous outbreaks in Thoroughbred populations in the United States, France, Great Britain, etc., where natural breeding is practiced exclusively.
Troedsson said a possible explanation for the low CEM transmission during these outbreaks in 2006 and 2008 was that all mares were bred by artificial insemination with the semen extended in media containing antibiotics. Semen extenders with antibiotics are routinely used for artificial insemination in order to minimize any contaminating bacteria's effect on semen quality. However, CEM can potentially go undetected when semen is extended in media with antibiotics. If CEM becomes endemic in breeds that practice artificial insemination, it could potentially spread with devastating consequences and even enter Thoroughbreds through cross breeding using natural breeding.
Therefore, the rationale for conducting the present study was the low CEM transmission in mares bred via artificial insemination in an extender containing antibiotics during these outbreaks.
"We hypothesized that the inclusion of antibiotics in semen extender prevents growth of T. equigenitalis in extended semen and therefore reduces the risk of CEM transmission. It also makes it difficult to diagnose CEM in horses that are bred exclusively with artificial insemination," Troedsson said. "However, the purpose of the present study was not to show that it is possible to treat semen from infected carrier stallions. That could potentially make the disease endemic in the U.S., largely because of the difficulties to diagnose CEM in mares bred to a stallion."
Shaila Sigsgaard is an editorial assistant for the Bluegrass Equine Digest.
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OK, so i have never bought a baseball game before, but I am currently wanting to. I would like to know which one is better:
MLB 09: The Show
I know The Show has recieved superior ratings, but due to previous experiences, i would like to know from people who actually played these games.
So which one is actually better?


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Burning Your Customers' Penises With a Hair Straightener Is Bad for Business
Talk about dick moves: Two British drug dealers, one of whom is named Richard Johnson, are in jail after admitting that they attacked a late-paying mephedrone customer by putting his penis between hot straightening tongs. The customer, 18-year-old Anthony Dabbs, was so traumatized that he fled the town. Small business owners take note!
Scaring off your customers by attacking their genitals with fiery objects is bound to affect your bottom line. First, the customers you torture are unlikely to purchase your products again. Second, you might end up doing prison time—just like Johnson and Christopher Lilley, the two 24-year-olds who attacked Dabbs.
There's a lesson here for all you prospective mephedrone customers as well: When your dealers, to whom you own money, send a taxi to whisk you off to their business HQ, don't go. Yeah, just stay right where you are. Sadly, Dabbs didn't follow this advice and ended up with "a 2cm by 5cm burn, causing permanent scarring and a 'loss of function' for several months," as well as nightmares and PTSD.
Dabbs says he actually paid his fee to Lilley and Johnson, but they demanded more money. Which brings us to a third and final tip for you budding entrepreneurs out there: Don't be greedy.
Also, use hair straighteners only on hair.