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First, we need to admit that Freddy Galvis' parents provided him with a first-name that is eminently chantable. Things probably would not have played out as they did if the rookie hitting eighth was named Ezekiel or Sam or, hell, Domonic.
Somebody asked Roy Halladay last night if he had ever heard his name chanted by a stadium of 45,000 people and he smiled when he admitted he hadn't. But that's what he gets for going by Roy instead of Harry or Leroy. Give people a two-syllable word and some beer and chances are good that you will end up with a chant. Throw in some short shorts and a speckled ball and you will end up with soccer.
That being said, the folks who witnessed last night's victory over the Marlins did not start chanting "Jim-my," even though the Phillies' new three-hole hitter went 2-for-5 with two runs and an RBI. Nor did they chant "Pol-ly," even though the veteran two-hole hitter went 2-for-5 with a run and an RBI. With the bases loaded and two out in the third inning of a 3-1 game, the 206th consecutive sell-out crowd at Citizens Bank Park made a collective decision to rally behind a 22-year-old rookie who entered the at-bat with one career hit.
It was a fascinating look inside the psyche of the Philadelphia sports fan. As Halladay noted afterward, the national definition of folks from these parts tends to focus on the more cringe-worthy manifestations of sports fanaticism. Even the compliment that area athletes often dole out includes a qualifier: It's a great place to play. . .when you are winning.
But that's what made last night's eruptions of "Fred-dy" so noteworthy. This wasn't an outbreak of post-production affirmation. As Galvis dug into the batters box to face Josh Johnson with the bases juiced, he was hitting exactly .077 on the young season. For the better part of four games, he had looked completely over-matched by a big-league fastball. The only reason he had a chance to break the game open was the Marlins' decision to walk the bases loaded in order to face him.
When Galvis left the on-deck circle and walked toward home plate, every logical synapse in your brain told you to bet on the Cy Young-caliber starter who stared in from the mound. Yet as he dug his cleats into the dirt, the chant took hold: a murmur at first, barely distinguishable from the white roar of a crowd that was still attempting to come to grips with a two-run lead. Galvis took a change-up for a ball, and the words began to coalesce. By the time he fouled back a 2-2 fastball, the entire stadium had found its rhythm. The kid was right on a 94 mile-per-hour fastball that has made plenty of major league sluggers look foolish. El Guante had a bat.
Johnson delivered his sixth pitch to Galvis, and the imminent unfolded: a line drive to right field, two runs sprinting home, and entire stadium roaring its approval. He stood on second base, and the chant continued.
Fred-dy! Fred-dy! Fred-dy!
It was not a race thing or an age thing or a performance thing. It was a Philadelphia thing. Any fan with an ounce of self-awareness will recognize the city's tendency to crush the spirit of a superstar. Mike Schmidt, Donovan McNabb -- even Jimmy Rollins and Ryan Howard have felt the sting of unfulfilled expectation. There was a time when Cole Hamels was booed in his first start of the season. That time was last year.
Philadelphia loves an underdog because Philadelphia is an underdog. The Buccaneers and Lightning may have cost the city more parades than New York, but hating Tampa Bay isn't much fun because we know we are better than Tampa Bay. You can't even buy a good sandwich in Tampa Bay. New York, though? We hate New York because New Yorkers think they are better than us.
Look at the athletes that remain a part of the Philadelphia sports scene. Ike Reese was a special teams player. Hugh Douglas was an undersized defensive end from a no-name school. Ron Jaworski is known more for the punishment he took than the punishment he doled out. In Rod Barajas' one season with the Phillies he posted a higher OPS than Chris Coste posted in his major league career.
What we witnessed last night might end up being the first unforeseen plot point of the sprawling epic that is a 162-game baseball season. In Galvis, the Phillies and their fans have their new underdog. We saw it in 2009 with J.A. Happ, and in 2011 with Vance Worley. This time, though, we might see it in the line-up. And that's an important thing. Not since Jayson Werth burst onto the scene has this team and this fan base had an opportunity to rally around a great story. Nobody expects Galvis to do what Werth did, or even to do what he did last night on a consistent basis. Whenever Chase Utley returns to the line-up, Galvis will either head back to Triple-A or, more likely, rotate to the next position that succumbs to injury's inescapable bite.
But whatever he lacks at the plate, Galvis has the potential to off-set with his injection of a quality that has often eluded the Phillies line-up in the years after 2008: the energy of an underdog. A simple statement of his age does not do him justice. Mike Stanton is six days older than Freddy Galvis. But Mike Stanton looks like a Transformer. Galvis looks like Ryan Howard's son.
Besides, Mike Stanton changed his name to Giancarlo. . .after hitting 34 home runs and slugging .537. Freddy was Freddy when he slugged .311 at Double-A Reading, and he is still Freddy today, a baby-fat-boasting, high-sock-wearing, exuberantly-chattering Venezuelan playing a new position opposite a potential Hall of Fame shortstop while weighing in at 180 pounds. You'd buy Freddy Galvis a beer if you weren't so worried about the LCB swarming your ass. Hell, the kid might need a back-up I.D. just to gain entrance to a visitor's clubhouse.
In 1993, back before the Phillies began their Decade of Suck, a first-place team called up a 23-year-old shortstop who was hitting .233 with a .313 slugging percentage in his first season at Triple-A. Kevin Stocker would play just seven more seasons in the big leagues, finishing his career at the age of 30 with a .254 batting average and .682 OPS. That first year, though, he hit .324/.409/.417 while starting 70 games for the eventual National League champs.
While the early returns suggest that Galvis will not approach those numbers, they also suggest that the presence of a likable and defensively-sound young adult might awaken the selfless and refining paternal instincts of a line-up that at times seems to lose itself in the existential struggle to repeat success. The image that stuck with me most from last night's game was captured by a Comcast SportsNet camera focused on the Phillies dugout. As Galvis grabbed a bat and prepared to walk up the steps for his short stay in the on-deck circle -- the Marlins were already indicating that they would intentionally-walk Carlos Ruiz -- Jimmy Rollins approached the rookie from behind and gave him a wrap-around pound on the chest. As he offered some verbal form of, "You got this!," the veteran shortstop's face was alive with the kind of focused enthusiasm that can only arrive when your desire to see somebody else succeed matches the desire you feel for yourself.
Rooting for Galvis is like rooting for Squints at the swimming pool: you put logic aside and yell like hell, even if you think he is out of his league. The Phillies line-up features a legion of high-priced veterans who can serve as a repository for fans frustrations. Galvis is the little kid inside of all of us that still dreams about the day when an entire stadium chants our name.


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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) — Officials say a fast-growing wildfire in southern Oregon has destroyed homes and forced dozens of evacuations.
Fire managers say a blaze erupted near Sprague River around 2 p.m. Sunday and had mushroomed to nearly three square miles after nightfall.
The South Central Oregon Fire Management Partnership says the wildfire burning through timber and brush in the Moccasin Hill neighborhood has destroyed an undetermined number of homes and other structures.
But spokeswoman Erica Hupp says crews won't know more about the types and numbers of structures burned until the scene can be accessed in daylight.
She says that before sundown, Klamath County sheriff's deputies evacuated more than 100 people from homes along two roads in the area. There was no word of any injuries.
The Red Cross has set up a shelter at a community center in Sprague River, which is about 25 miles northeast of Klamath Falls.

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MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — Two children were rescued Friday from a sailboat that was stolen by their father, who is accused of abducting them from their mother's home in Central California, authorities said.
The Coast Guard, FBI and South San Francisco police had been tracking the 40-foot sailboat Unleashed, which was sailed from a harbor in Alameda on Tuesday. Police said earlier that day, Christopher Maffei had removed his 3-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son from their mother's home while she was out.
The children's rescue came hours after the guard spent most of Friday following the boat as it slowly sailed down the rugged central California coastline. Chief Petty Officer Mike Lutz said a guard airplane followed the boat south to Monterey Bay, where the rescue occurred.
"A Coast Guard cutter approached the vessel and just started talking to them," Coast Guard spokesman Thomas McKenzie said. "He put his hands up and surrendered without incident."
Maffei's daughter Brooklynn and son Devin were being examined by medical personnel and would be reunited with their mother, McKenzie said.
Maffei is the former boyfriend of the children's mother, Jennifer Hipon. She told reporters that she was at a courthouse filing custody documents on Tuesday when Maffei went to her house and took the children from her elderly mother.
South San Francisco police say that after running off with the children, Maffei drove to the harbor in Alameda and left on the 40-foot sailboat. He sailed the boat out the Golden Gate, and headed down the coast, police said.
A fisherman spotted the sailboat off the San Mateo County coast on Friday, and law enforcement started a slow-speed chase as they tried to intercept the vessel, police said.
McKenzie said the stolen boat was recovered and would be returned to its owner.


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There are few sensations that can beat the thrill of a frivolous purchase. After struggling all month to make sure that the rent, bills, and car payments are paid in a timely fashion, it can be downright exhilarating to blow a big chunk of change on something unnecessary.
Sadly, the thrill passes once the next billing cycle kicks in. That $300 pair of shoes may have seemed like a well-deserved extravagance, but now it's starting to feel like an ill-advised and anxiety-provoking mistake.
The morning-after regret of the frolicsome purchase is familiar to almost anyone living on a budget. However, it's something that billionaires never have to confront. They can indulge their whims and buy every toy that catches their fancy, however briefly. This includes antique cars, jumbo jets, and even spaceships. No urge is too outrageous and no desire is too extravagant.
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Gold closed lower for a sixth straight week on Friday, its longest losing streak in eight years.
Gold lost $25.70 to settle at $1,648.90 an ounce. It's now 8 percent below the recent peak of $1,792 an ounce it reached on Oct. 4. It rose as high as $1,900 an ounce in August 2011.
The latest decline came after the Federal Reserve released minutes of its December meeting showing that policymakers disagreed over how long to keep a bond-purchase program in place.
Traders inferred the Fed might shorten the program, which could send U.S. interest rates, and therefore the dollar, higher. That in turn would hurt the price of gold, which investors often buy as an alternative to holding dollars. An index measuring the dollar against six other currencies is up 1 percent this week.
Other metals also fell. March silver lost 77.4 cents to $29.946 an ounce. March copper fell 2.35 cents to $3.6935 per pound. March palladium lost $8.65 to $688.50 per ounce. Platinum for April delivery fell $21.40 to $1,558.50 per ounce.
March contracts for key agricultural commodities fell as well. Corn fell 9 cents to $6.8025 a bushel. Soybeans lost 19.25 cents to $13.6725 a bushel. Wheat fell 8.25 cents to $7.4725 per bushel.
Benchmark crude for February delivery closed up 17 cents at $93.09 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
In other energy trading, wholesale gasoline lost 3.34 cents to end at $2.7643 a gallon, heating oil fell 0.74 cent to finish at $3.0177 a gallon and natural gas rose 8.9 cents to end at $3.2870 per 1,000 cubic feet.


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G2066, Reviewed October 1993
Formulating a ration is a matter of combining feeds to make a ration that will be eaten in the amount needed to supply the daily nutrient requirements of the animal.
In addition to being nutritionally adequate, a good cattle ration should be economical, palatable and free of toxic substances. Efficiency is increased when rations are consumed at a level to supply a larger amount of energy in relation to body weight. Cattle on full feed usually gain faster and require less feed energy for a pound of gain when they consume high-energy rations. This is due to a larger daily energy intake on this type of ration, which results in a larger percentage of the daily energy being left for gain after body maintenance requirements have been met.
Whether high-energy rations composed largely of grain produce cheaper gains than lower-energy rations depends on the price of grains and roughages in relation to their nutritive content.
The computer is useful in building a ration with those feeds that meet the nutritional requirements of the animal at the lowest cost. Missouri cattle feeders can obtain the services of a computer for ration computation through the MU Extension.
Some examples of beef cattle rations for different feeding and management systems are given in Tables 1 and 2.
Table 1
Rations for growing and finishing beef cattle
Table 2
Complete mixed rations (as fed).
The daily protein requirements of cattle and the percentage of protein needed in the ration are given in NRC tables. A larger percentage of protein is needed in rations with higher energy density. This is because fewer pounds of the high-energy ration are needed daily to meet the animal's energy requirement, but the protein need stays the same.
Cost per unit of protein should be the primary consideration when buying protein supplements for cattle. In addition, the value of needed minerals, vitamins and other additives has a bearing on choices. The percent of the protein value that is derived from non-protein nitrogen (NPN) should be considered because some reduction in performance will occur when large amounts of non-protein nitrogen are used with low-energy rations.
Oil meals — soybean, cottonseed and linseed — are of approximately equal value per unit of protein for cattle. Many good commercial supplements and pre-mixes are available. Good formulas for pre-mixes and protein mixtures are available from agricultural experiment stations if you prefer to mix them yourself.
Urea and other non-protein nitrogen compounds can be used to replace part of the protein in ruminant rations. Non-protein nitrogen compounds are converted to protein by bacteria in the rumen. Use of urea or other NPN compounds can often reduce protein costs.
A mixture of six parts ground shelled corn and one part urea is approximately equal in energy and protein equivalent to seven pounds of a 44 percent supplement. Use this as a guide for comparing costs.
Liquid and dry urea supplements appear to be equal in value for beef cattle.
The available energy level of the ration limits the efficiency of cattle in using urea as a replacement for plant protein. All of the supplemental protein may be furnished by urea with good results when high-energy finishing rations are fed. When low-energy growing rations are used, urea may need to be limited to not over half of the protein value in the supplement for best economy.
More urea can be used if the natural protein in the supplement has low degradability in the rumen of the cattle (high bypass protein). Examples of high rumen bypass proteins are blood meal, corn gluten meal and hydrolyzed feather meal. Low bypass protein, those highly degradable in the rumen, include soybean meal, corn gluten feed and alfalfa hay.
The major mineral considerations in cattle rations are calcium, phosphorus, potassium and salt. Trace minerals such as iodine, copper, cobalt, zinc and selenium have been shown deficient sometimes in feedstuffs used in practical cattle rations. Sulfur additions to urea supplements have been beneficial in some trials.
Selenium may be deficient for cattle and sheep in grains, crop wastes, fescue and other grasses grown on certain Missouri soils. Selenium supplementation increased the daily gain of steers grazing summer fescue pasture at the MU Research Farm.
Alfalfa and other legumes are high in calcium. Grains are deficient in calcium but nearly adequate in phosphorus. When fed with grass hay or silage, high-grain rations require more calcium than phosphorus supplementation to correct deficiencies and keep the calcium-phosphorus ratio between 1:1 and 2:1. Limestone is a source of calcium. Bonemeal and dicalcium phosphate supply both calcium and phosphorus.
Mineral deficiencies can be corrected by:
The last is a satisfactory method under most conditions, but some animals will over-consume minerals, while others may eat less than they need.
Vitamin needs of beef cattle are chiefly A, D and E. Bacteria in the rumen of cattle are considered to have the ability to synthesize vitamin K and the B vitamins in sufficient quantities to meet the animal's requirement. An exception would be a need for B vitamins in the receiving ration of stressed feeder cattle. Niacin has improved the performance of feedlot cattle on high-grain rations in some studies.
The most important vitamin to consider in cattle feeding is vitamin A. Normally, feeding 15,000 to 30,000 IU of vitamin A per head daily will supply ample vitamin A for feedlot cattle.
Vitamin D additions are normally unnecessary in the ration if animals are exposed to sunlight. A deficiency might occur in winter during long periods of cloudy weather.
Most rations fed to beef cattle in Missouri are adequate in vitamin E. Adding two to five IU of vitamin E per pound of high-grain rations devoid of leafy roughages has increased feedlot cattle performance in a few Corn Belt trials, but not in others. Injecting new feeder cattle with vitamin E may reduce the incidence and severity of sickness in the starting phase.
Melengestrol Acetate
MGA® is a hormone material added to the ration of feedlot heifers. It improves rate of gain and feed utilization and suppresses estrus in feedlot heifers. Rate of gain was improved 10.3 percent and feed efficiency 6.5 percent in an average of 47 trials. MGA® may be combined with Rumensin or Bovatec in supplements or rations offered to heifers.
Bovatec® are feed additives that change rumen fermentation and improve the feed conversions of feedlot cattle by approximately 8 to 10 percent. Both are effective for steers and heifers fed growing or finishing rations. They give some protection against acidosis and founder when cattle are fed high-grain rations. Rumensin® has reduced feed intake with little change in rate of gain for cattle fed high-grain rations. Bovatec® has shown some improvement in daily gain for cattle fed high-energy rations.
Rumensin® has increased rate of gain and feed efficiency of cattle fed corn silage and other roughage rations. Cattle on pasture or those fed high-roughage rations have gained an average of 0.2 pounds more a head daily and had about a 15 percent improvement in feed efficiency when fed Rumensin®. Similar results can be expected with Bovatec®.
Growth stimulants implanted beneath the skin behind the ear include Compudose®, Ralgro®, Synovex®, Steer-oid®, Heifer-oid® and Finaplex-S®. Ralgro® is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for both steers and heifers. Synovex® has a separate implant for steers, heifers and calves under 400 pounds. Compudose® has been cleared for steers. Also, it is cleared for heifers fed in confinement for slaughter.
Compudose® is effective for approximately 200 days. The other implants last about 100 to 125 days except Finaplex-S®, which has about 65 days efficacy. Implants have increased rate of gain by 8 to 15 percent and improved feed efficiency by 6 to 10 percent when cattle were fed growing and finishing rations.
Antibiotics in the ration of feedlot cattle generally give a slight improvement (3 to 5 percent) in rate of gain and feed efficiency. Improvement from antibiotics can be expected to vary greatly with different groups of cattle and feedlot conditions. Antibiotics are fed to reduce liver abscesses in cattle fed high-concentrate rations.
Be sure to follow label instructions for the number of days prior to slaughter that drugs and additives are to be withdrawn.
Corn and milo are the principal grains fed to beef cattle. Limiting wheat to 50 percent and oats to 30 percent of the grain in finishing rations of beef cattle is recommended. Some experienced feeders use larger amounts of wheat successfully.
The price of grains should be compared with their nutritive value to select those to feed. The value of grain, especially milo, varies because of variety, processing methods and other factors. Milo is usually considered to be worth about 90 to 95 percent and wheat 100 to 105 percent the value of an equal weight of number 2 corn in beef cattle rations.
Most processing methods improve the value of milo more than they do that of corn. This is because the starch of milo is less digestible. Processing methods developed for grains in recent years included high-moisture storage, steam flaking, grain exploding, popping, roasting and micronizing.
High-moisture grain
Milo harvested with a moisture content of 25 to 30 percent and ensiled has improved feed efficiency of cattle by 8 to 15 percent, although it causes little increase in daily gain. Improvement from high-moisture processing of shelled corn has been less and more variable.
High-moisture milo or corn should be ground or rolled before it is fed. However, processing high-moisture corn in rations that have less than 15 percent roughage is questionable.
Whole vs. ground dry-shelled corn
Dry, whole shelled corn has been equal or slightly superior to ground or rolled corn in high-concentrate beef cattle rations in many recent trials. Processing appears to have some value for dry-shelled corn in rations with 20 percent or more roughage content, or when corn is very dry, less than 12 percent moisture.
Mixture of grains
Feeding a combination of grains or feeding a dry grain with a high-moisture grain can reduce acidosis and improve gain and feed efficiency about 5 percent. This is because grain type and method of processing influences the rapidity with which the starch in the grain is digested in the rumen and the proportion of the starch that is digested in the rumen versus the small intestine. Cattle fed a combination of 50 to 75 percent high-moisture corn and 50 to 25 percent dry corn or milo gained 5 percent faster and 4 percent more efficiently in University of Nebraska trials. Adding dry rolled corn or whole shelled corn to high-moisture milo rations improved the performance of cattle.
Byproduct feeds
Byproduct feeds may be a cheaper source of protein and energy for beef rations than conventional feeds. Your MU Extension specialist has a computer program to figure the relative value of feeds on the basis of their nutrient content. Byproduct feeds available to Missouri cattle producers include soybean hulls, corn gluten feed, distillers grains, brewers grain, corn bran, oat bran, rice bran, wheat mids, whole cotton seed and poultry litter.
High-concentrate rations
All-concentrate rations have been used successfully to finish beef cattle. With the possible exception of whole shelled corn, a higher level of management is needed to make this system work under feedlot conditions. Problems associated with all-concentrate rations include reduced energy intake, founder and other digestive problems, parakeratosis of the rumen wall, and greater incidence of liver abscesses.
An optimum minimum roughage level in high-grain rations appears to be about 7 to 10 percent hay equivalent of the total ration. This would amount to approximately 1.50 to 2.50 pounds of hay or 6 to 8 pounds of silage per animal daily. In most cases, rate and consistency of gain have been slightly in favor of minimum roughage rather than all-concentrate rations.
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Bulldogs post 67-42 victory in home opener
The Adrian College men's basketball team won its home opener Monday night, defeating the University of Michigan-Dearborn 67-42. The win keeps the Bulldogs undefeated.
"It felt good to get a win at home," said Adrian College coach Mark White. "We're still taking it one game at a time. We developing as a team and each game we set out to accomplish the objectives we set for ourselves. We want to be consistent, both on the road and at home."
From the moment the game began, Adrian (5-0) was all over the UM-Dearborn (2-6) players. The Wolves struggled to get off an open shot for a majority of the game and turned the ball over 27 times.
"Our defense is getting better due to the reps in practice," said White. "We're a young team with a lot of new players. They are beginning to understand the results that come with our defense. It creates turnovers and frustrates offenses, which leads to wins. Our success reinforces the importance of our defense."
For the Bulldogs offensively, it was the Eric Lewis show in the first half. Lewis scored Adrian's first seven points and finished the half with 17. The Bulldogs methodically picked apart UM-Dearborn's zone defense. Adrian utilized great ball movement to create openings all over the court and took advantage.
"We're an up-tempo team," White said. "We want to attack on offense. We came into the game knowing that Dearborn ran a zone defense, and we wanted to attack it from the inside and the outside."
The Bulldogs were indeed an up-tempo team as they finished with 16 fast-break points.
With 8:34 left in the first half, Adrian had already built itself a 23-8 lead and continued to extend it. UM-Dearborn answered with a 9-0 run against Adrian's reserves. The Bulldogs went back to their starters, and the momentum swung back in Adrian's favor. The Bulldogs took a 36-20 lead into halftime.
The second half saw Adrian come out relaxed and loose. The Bulldogs quickly put the game out of reach, going on an 8-0 run to start the half, capped by an alley-oop from Darryl Flemister to Lewis.
"Lewis was fantastic in every aspect tonight," White said. "He did a great job defensively and on offense he didn't force anything. He took great shots and had a great shooting percentage. He's a great player that put in a lot of work in the offseason. The improvement from last season to this season has been fantastic."
With a 60-32 lead and less than six minutes left in the game, White made the decision to put in his reserves and pull his starters. The Bulldogs continued to hold at least a 25-point lead for the remainder of the game.
Lewis led the Bulldogs with 23 points and six steals, despite playing only nine minutes in the second half. He shot 11-for-16 from the field.
"We're performing at a high level, and it's team effort," Lewis said. "I'm able to do what I can because of our game plan and my teammates. If we keep working as a team, there's nothing we can't do."
Lewis also discussed the Bulldogs' excitement for playing their first home game of the season.
"It was great coming home," Lewis said. "The entire team has been looking forward to it. It was great to play in front of a home crowd and show them what we can do. We wanted to send a message that Adrian is serious this year."
Adam Meier had eight points and nine rebounds, while Sean Gallant finished with eight points, four rebounds and three assists. Ben Rodak finished with six points and three rebounds, while Rickey Jackson added six points for the Bulldogs.
Adrian will host Mount Union on Wednesday for a non-conference game.


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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pittsburgh bridge has been renamed for Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough on his 80th birthday.
County officials gathered Sunday to rename the 16th Street Bridge in McCullough's honor. A Pittsburgh native and two-time Pulitzer prize winner, he says no honor has touched him like the decision to rename the bridge after him.
McCullough, who wrote a book about the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, says there's "something special about a bridge."
The span across the Allegheny River was built in 1923 to connect the Strip District with the historic H.J. Heinz plant. The county council had approved the name change in December and deemed Sunday "David McCullough Day."
McCullough joins Roberto Clemente, Andy Warhol and Rachel Carson among those who have city bridges named for them.


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The AeroCard Universal Mac Driver is a universal driver that is compatible with over 30 of the most popular 802.11b wireless LAN cards on the PC market today. Now, you can turn any PC-only wireless card into a Mac-compatible card. Enjoy the broad selection of wireless cards in the PC market today or share a card between Mac and PC.The freedom of wireless connectivity is here with the advent of wireless 802.11b LAN cards. Wireless connectivity gives you the freedom to work wherever you want. Now Macsense gives you one more freedom, the freedom to use a PC wireless PCMCIA card on your Apple PowerBook.Download the free evaluation version and test it with the card of your choice. The evaluation version will function normally and will have full functions for a trial period of thirty minutes. After the trial period, you can reboot to renew the thirty minute trial period, or you can purchase a driver license to remove the time restriction.Whats New in this Version- Support Mac OS X 10.1.x and 10.2 (Jaguar). - Auto association to the strongest network. - Support closed network with 64 and 128-bit WEP encryption. - Accept ASCII, Hexadecimal, and AirPort WEP keys. - Support for ad-hoc, computer-to-computer wireless connection without a base station. - Select surrounding base stations from a pull-down list. - Support AppleTalk printing and file sharing. - Display diagnostics information on the card. Display MAC addresses of associated base station and card. - Optimized performance under WEP. Macsense Main. Macsense, Xsense, Manufacturer of Ethernet and Internet Solutions, Hubs, Switches, DSL Cable Routers, Mac/PC/Playstation Game Controllers, Transceivers, USB Peripherals and More...Universal - Universal Messaging - Universal Im - Universal Converter - Universal Calendar - Macsense - Xsense - Ethernet - Hubs - Switches - Lan - Network - Internet - Dsl - Cable - Gigabit
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I understand all the words there, but the order in which you have arranged them does not make sense to me. Please explain what you mean. Particularly, please explain what you mean by "precise". As an engineer, you should have an acutely developed understanding of precision. this is my understanding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precisionI do not see how it relates at all to the Earth's orbit.
You seem to be saying "If things were different, they would be different." Is this a goldielocks argument? Everything is juuuuust right, thus god.
? I do not understand the second half of that sentence. Nor do I understand what being an engineer has to do with it.
Great leapin jesus, man. Where on earth are you studying engineering and where did you come up with these ideas?
Utter garbage - You know, I have some faith in the intelligence of people, but here my will to continue is failing. We have known for hundreds of years that the Earth's orbit around the sun is an ellipse, its shortest radius is 5 Million Kms shorter than the longest.
You are not an engineer - why are you lying?
Yes, I, unlike you, have thought about it - it is not very precise at all.God is not necessary.
Your post is the same as a piece of stupidity common on the internet as a facebook extract. I posted the shortened reply to accompany you on the shortened bus.
One of those reasons is because I am a mechanical engineer.
Sorry I realized the error as I was closing my laptop, was in a hurry for my final.... In engineering <cut>
Hi, I'm confused... are you studying to become a mechanical engineer or do you already have your degree?Welcome to WWGHA, hope you enjoy your stay.
You believe evolution and there is no evidence for that. Where is the fossil record of a half man half ape. I've only ever heard about it in reading.
So, not an engineer. Thanks for clearing it up.
Well yeah, if you believe that what defines someone as being an engineer is a piece of paper of recognition that they completed 4 years of education in the field of engineering, then yes I am not an engineer.
Yes, that is what is commonly meant when one says they are an engineer. If anyone asks you what you do, say "I am a student at university studying to become an engineer".
(i) Weather and "other things[1]"do not affect radioactive emissions. (ii) The variations in Carbon dating are well-known and can be factored in with remarkable accuracy.(iii) Carbon 14 is not the only way of dating, there are many other isotopes all with varying half-lives.Case closed 1. Is that a technical engineering term?
Fair enough, will do. But if its a question of profession, being that being an engineer can be considered a profession, I have seen compensation for engineering projects in which I have taken on, just another way to look at things.
There are many ways to look at anything. And, there is common usage. It takes humility and experience in good measure. I am comfortable with thinking you were not being dishonest and am happy to move on.
Like I said, I am more than willing to keep talking with you on the subject, there's a lot to talk about.
.. is I believe there are things in this universe that lack common sense to be explained with..... As a believer, that is one aspect of my belief of God. Just think about the amount of precision that goes on in our galaxy's orbital system, if by chance it happened to fall into the position that it is in presently, ..
Another aspect about the "precision" of the orbits. Isn't it odd that none of the orbits of the bodies around our sun are stable, or that any of the orbits align symmetrically? Don't designers love symmetry?Some related info http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-172738.html
.. Some of the people claimed that it has not changed over the course of the years, but then others claimed otherwise...
OKay.. Do any of the conversations on that site seen to state that the orbits are stable and symmetrical? Have you any reasons to believe that the orbits around the sun are stable and symmetrical? Wouldn't the lack of stability and symmetry lead you to believe that your previous awe of precision is perhaps misplaced?
Please elaborate on what you mean as far as "stable" and symmetrical", these are two words that I have not referenced...
OKay.. Let me put this into simple terms. "Do any of the conversations on that site seen to state that the orbits are "unchanging" and "line up with one another in an orderly fashion"? Have you any reasons to believe that the orbits around the sun are "unchanging" and "line up with one another in an orderly fashion"?? Wouldn't the lack of stability and orderliness lead you to believe that your previous awe of precision is perhaps misplaced?
The site has educated scientists speaking of the changes of the orbits over time, that they don't all agree on what the changes are, none are saying that the historical orbit paths have been unchanging.


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12 U.S. Code § 282 - Subscription to capital stock by national banking association
Every national banking association within each Federal reserve district shall be required to subscribe to the capital stock of the Federal reserve bank for that district in a sum equal to six per centum of the paid-up capital stock and surplus of such bank, one-sixth of the subscription to be payable on call of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, one-sixth within three months and one-sixth within six months thereafter, and the remainder of the subscription, or any part thereof, shall be subject to call when deemed necessary by the Board, said payments to be in gold or gold certificates.
Section is based on part of the third par. of section 2 of act Dec. 23, 1913. The rest of the third par. was not included in the Code. For classification of other pars. of section 2 of this Act, see Codification note set out under section 222 of this title.
Section 203(a) of act Aug. 23, 1935, changed name of Federal Reserve Board to Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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A tabular report lists information in rows, like the rows of a database table. The column headers in a tabular report correlate to table column names. A cross-tabulation report (crosstab report, for short) is a two-dimensional matrix or spreadsheet that has look-up criteria listed across the top in the column headers and down the left side in row headers. The data you're looking up—which is usually summarized by an aggregate function such as SUM(), AVERAGE(), or COUNT()—occupies the inner cells of the matrix.
For example, suppose you work for the world-famous Pubs bookstore chain, and the CEO wants to know how well each of the company's stores are selling the books of the company's authors. You could create a 3-column tabular report by using a view like the one that Listing 1, page 22, creates. This view, vwSales, lists total book sales grouped by store and by author, with each author-store-sales tuple listed in one row. Figure 1, page 22, shows the tabular report that Listing 1's view generates. However, your report would be easier to read and would convey more information if you presented it as a crosstab report, such as the one that Figure 2, page 22, shows. The crosstab report lists the store names horizontally in column headers instead of alongside the author names in the rows. So, to find sales for author Stearns MacFeather at Bookbeat, you'd look at the cross section of the Stearns MacFeather row and the Bookbeat column.
Crosstab reports fall into two categories: fixed-width and variable-width. For fixed-width reports, you know at design time the number and names of the columns in the report. Using a T-SQL query to produce a fixed-width crosstab report is straightforward because you can hard-code a CASE expression embedded in an aggregate function to evaluate each column of output. Listing 2 shows an example of using CASE expressions in a fixed-width crosstab query for our Pubs bookstore application. The first CASE expression in Listing 2 says: If the value in the Store column equals "Barnum's," then return the value in the Sales column; otherwise, return 0. The crosstab query uses SUM() functions in its column expressions, so there's no need to pre-aggregate the data in the view it uses for its data source. So, in its FROM clause, the crosstab query in Listing 2 uses the vwSales2 view that Listing 3 creates, instead of vwSales. If you're using COUNT() or AVG() as your aggregate function, leave "Else 0" off the CASE expression; otherwise, the answers will average or count transactions that have sales values of 0, which don't really exist. When you drop "Else 0" from the CASE expression, you get NULL values instead of zeros for author-store combinations for which no records exist.
But let's say that Pubs has a hundred bookstores, with new ones opening and others closing each month. For this situation, you need a variable-width crosstab report that dynamically reads the store names from the data and produces a column for each one, no matter how many exist that month. Let's explore two very different methods of producing variable-width crosstab reports. The first example uses dynamic SQL in a stored procedure to create a crosstab query string that contains CASE expressions. The EXEC command executes the query string to return the report. Instead of CASE expressions or dynamic SQL, the second example uses the new relational features in ADO.NET—the data-access component in Visual Studio .NET—to cross-tabulate the data. Along the way, I point out advantages and disadvantages of each method.
Using Dynamic SQL
The stored procedure procXTabDSQL, which Listing 4 shows, uses the vwSales2 view and a local cursor that loops through a list of store names to generate a crosstab query string. The query string starts with the row header as the first column. The procedure then opens the cursor on the list of store names. The cursor fetches the individual store names into the variable @StoreName. Each iteration generates a string containing a SUM() function wrapped around a CASE expression, then concatenates that string to the varchar variable @strSQL. Each SUM() function generates a column of output in the final report.
The CASE expression in the first SUM() function is for the Barnum's bookstore column of the report. SQL Server interprets the embedded apostrophe in "Barnum's" as the delimiter for the comparison string and tries to compare the data stored in stor_name to Barnum instead of Barnum's. To fix this problem, the code must replace the single quote in the name with two single quotes. The first quote in a double-singlequote sequence is an escape character for the second quote; it tells the SQL Server string parser to interpret the second quote as a character rather than a string delimiter. The apostrophe in the column label \[Barnum's\] is OK because it's a column label embedded in square column brackets. Listing 2 contains the correct CASE expression for the Barnum's column of the report.
The difficulty grows when you try to generate this SQL query from a string that is itself delimited with single quotes. You must provide an escape sequence for the comparison string's leading and trailing single quotes. The comparison string is contained in a variable, so you must programmatically replace its single quote with two single quotes by using a REPLACE() function. Unfortunately, the REPLACE() function also uses single quotes as string delimiters for its string-literal arguments. So to replace one single quote with two single quotes in the @StoreName variable, you have to use the awkward syntax
The ASCII number for the single quote is 39. To improve the readability of the CASE expressions in Listing 4's code, I selectively use CHAR(39) in place of some of the single quotes.
After the code has finished looping through the store names, it concatenates the rest of the SQL string to the varchar variable. When the SQL string for the crosstab query is complete, the code calls the EXECUTE procedure to generate the crosstab result set.
Using ADO.NET
Even though you've overcome the single-quotes problem, you must still contend with the 8000-character limit of varchar variables. If the dynamic SQL string exceeds 8000 characters, the query will crash. You might think that 8000 characters is enough for any query you would generate, but the final SQL string can become quite long, depending on the number of columns and the character length of each CASE expression. Our example's query will crash at about 100 columns. You can programmatically limit the number of columns so that the query doesn't crash, but if you need more than the limit, you're out of luck.
One way to overcome this limit is by leveraging ADO.NET's relational features. The following example generates a variable-width crosstab report with as many columns as you need without using SQL cursors, dynamic SQL, or CASE expressions.
Listing 5, page 24, shows this example's Visual Basic .NET code, which describes a class called XTabDotNetDS. Notice the Inherits DataSet statement in callout A at the top of the class. If you aren't familiar with ADO.NET, a DataSet is like a miniature in-memory database. The DataSet object has a Tables collection. An ADO.NET table is called a DataTable. Each DataTable has a Rows collection, which contains DataRow objects, and a Columns collection, which contains DataColumn objects. The DataSet object also has a Relations collection that contains DataRelation objects, which describe the referential relationships between the DataTables. The Inherits DataSet statement ensures that the custom DataSet class starts with all the collections and capabilities of the ADO.NET DataSet base class. When the XTabDotNetDS object is created, the constructor for the class calls three procedures: Get3Tables(), AddXTabTable(), and FillXTabTable().
Get3Tables(). The Get3Tables() procedure that callout B in Listing 5 shows uses a SqlDataAdapter object to populate the DataSet with records returned from the stored procedure that Listing 6, page 24, creates. The SqlDataAdapter object in .NET serves as a bridge between a SQL Server data source and a DataSet object. The stored procedure from Listing 6 returns the three source tables. When SqlDataAdapter calls multiple tables from SQL Server into a newly created DataSet, ADO.NET assigns the generic names Table, Table1, Table2, and so on to the new DataTables. Renaming the tables to something meaningful at this point is a good idea so that you don't have to reference the indexes or the generic names when using the tables. I chose Stores, Authors, and Sales for table names. Note that you don't need to write code that explicitly opens and closes the SQL connection object when you're using SqlDataAdapter; SqlDataAdapter handles it for you behind the scenes. After adding the tables, the code creates a DataRelation between the Authors table and the Sales table on the au_name columns. Eventually, the code iterates through the Authors table to create the row headers of the crosstab report. For each Author row header, the code uses this DataRelation object to find the sales data to populate the rest of the columns in that Author's DataRow in the crosstab table.
AddXTabTable(). The AddXTabTable() procedure at callout C adds a fourth DataTable, XTab, to the Tables collection. This table will hold the final crosstab report. After adding the DataTable, the code creates the schema for it by adding columns to its Columns collection. The first column in XTab, Column(0), is for row headers, which will contain Author names. The other column names will be the store names from the Stores DataTable. To get the store names, you can create a DataView.
The DataView constructor takes the Stores DataTable as its parameter. The DataView is a wrapper around the DataTable object. The code can still access all the DataTable's properties through the DataView, but the DataView adds important methods you don't otherwise have. In this case, all you want is for the DataView.Sort method to put the stores in alphabetical order. After the code sorts the stores in the DataView, the code loops through the rows and appends a column for each store to our XTab DataTable. Store(0), Barnum's, becomes the column name of Column(1). Note that the code sets the data types of the new columns to System.Single to hold the currency data and makes 0 the default value.
FillXTabTable(). All that's left is to fill the XTab DataTable with data by using the FillXTabTable() procedure that the code at callout D shows. The procedure begins by dimensioning the object variables, then loops through the rows in the Authors table. For each row in the Authors table, the code creates a new DataRow for the XTab DataTable and puts the author's name in the first column—Column(0). The rest of the columns in the new row contain zeros by default.
Next, the code invokes the Author DataRow's GetChildRows method on the DataRelation object to retrieve from the Sales table an array of DataRows that are linked to the author. The array (arowSales) contains one DataRow for each store that had sales for that author. For example, GetChildRows returns a one-element array for author Sheryl Hunter, who had sales only at Barnum's bookstore.
The code then loops through the author's sales DataRows and places each sales total under the XTab column identified in the stor_name field of that sales DataRow. Stores for which the author has no sales retain the default value, 0. When the XTab row is finished, the code adds it to the DataTable's Rows collection and returns to the top of the loop to process the next author. When all the authors are processed, the XTab DataTable is finished, as Figure 3 shows.
To view the results in a .NET Windows Forms DataGrid, you can assign the XTab DataTable to the DataGrid's DataSource. If you want the DataGrid to be sorted when it first appears, you can use the code that Listing 7 shows to wrap the table in a DataView, sort the DataView, and assign the DataView to the DataGrid's DataSource.
Two Roads Diverge
These two approaches to creating dynamic crosstab reports produce similar—but not identical—results. The ADO.NET version includes a row for every author in the Authors table, whereas the dynamic SQL version excludes authors who have zero sales across all stores. This difference could be important depending on the purpose of the report. The ADO.NET version gives you the flexibility, through code, to exclude authors with no child records in the Sales table. One way is to simply check the count of rows that the Author DataRow's GetChildRows method returns. If no sales records exist, the code doesn't add the new row to the crosstab DataTable. The converse, getting the SQL crosstab query to return rows of authors with no sales, is more difficult, but possible. To include all authors in the dynamic SQL version, you might decide to start by adding into the source data at least one dummy sales record that has a sales value of 0 for each author record that otherwise has no sales. Unfortunately, this approach won't work if you're using COUNT() as the summarizing function because those dummy sales will count, too, and you don't want that. The way around this problem is to pre-aggregate the source data by using the summarizing function you want, then add the dummy records, as long as every author gets at least one. Then, in the crosstab query, always use the SUM() function. The code that Listing 8 shows creates a function, dbo.fn_Sales(), that UNIONs the pre-aggregated records from vwSales with a set of dummy records—one for each author-store pair—which you generate by using a cross join. If you replace dbo.vwSales2 in Listing 4's crosstab query with dbo.fn_Sales(), the final result is the same as the one you achieved with ADO.NET: All authors will appear in the report.
An advantage of the dynamic SQL approach is that it doesn't require the Microsoft .NET Framework. If you're using Visual Studio 6.0, for example, you can easily create an ADO recordset from the dynamic SQL crosstab table and bind it to a flex-grid control. On the other hand, the ADO.NET approach isn't necessarily tied to SQL Server. You can easily adapt it for use with databases that don't support CASE expressions, such as Microsoft Access.
Cursors in SQL Server are slow and expensive in terms of resources; they're a last resort when no other alternative is practical. Dynamic SQL is inefficient because SQL Server doesn't reuse the query plans it generates from directly executed SQL strings. You also need to consider security issues when executing SQL strings. I avoid cursors and dynamic SQL wherever possible, and the ADO.NET solution lets me do just that. When I use ADO.NET, I don't worry about the 8000-character limit of varchar variables, and I have better control over my output than with T-SQL, as I mentioned earlier. So as long as I'm working in the .NET Framework, I'll use the ADO.NET solution.


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How much will my insurance go up after an accident?
By Insure.com - Last updated: Dec. 10, 2009
When shopping for car insurance. drivers choose mainly based on price, service and reputation. But one element that's often overlooked is a company's "surcharge schedule" — a predetermined premium increase that's charged if you cause a car accident.
Let's say you had a spotless driving record for the past 15 years. Last month you caused an accident. Now there's a claim on your car insurance in order to pay for damages. You suspect your rates will go up at renewal time, but what's a standard increase after just one accident?
Examples of insurance surcharges after accidents
"It's the hidden secret in our business," says Pete Giancola, owner of Pete Giancola's Insurance Agency in Deephaven, Minn. adding that there's "a huge difference from company to company" in surcharge amounts.
Car insurance companies are required to file rates with each state insurance department where they operate, and included in that is how they're going to determine rates after a claim is made. In some states, insurance companies are legally required to give you a copy of the "surcharge schedule." However, trying to read these schedules can make your head spin.
"They make it extremely difficult to read," Giancola says.
The surcharge schedule lists points and percentages and you often have to do your own math to figure how much of an increase you would pay percentage-wise. But it may be worth the headache because the car insurance rate differences can be significant.
Many car insurance companies follow the Insurance Services Office's (ISO) standard of increasing a premium by 20 to 40 percent of the insurer's base rate (which is the average rate charged in the state before discounts and other adjustments, plus the insurance company's claims-processing fee). According to the ISO, for multicar policies the surcharge is 20 percent of the base rate for the first two vehicles on the policy, and 40 percent for a single-car policy.
For example, say you insure two cars at a premium of $300 each and the insurer's base rate is $400. After an accident, you may get a surcharge of $80 (20 percent of $400) on both, so your total surcharge would be $160 — an increase of about 27 percent on the policy.
But many insurers operate with their own surcharge ideas — some higher and some lower.
According to a 2008 surcharge schedule from State Farm, for example, if you had an accident within the first 12 months of your policy period, your base rate would increase by 10 percent after the first accident (and another 45 percent after the second). In the same scenario, a person insured with Progressive who is between the ages of 25 to 44, would see a 29.5 percent increase on his policy after the first accident (56.2 percent for the second), according to the company's 2002 surcharge schedule. A 2005 AAA Auto Club surcharge schedule shows an increase of 30 percent for the first accident and 150 percent for the second major accident. (Insurance companies do not file new surcharge schedules each year. A new schedule is filed only when an insurance company wants to increase or decrease its rate. But it's rare that an insurer would file to decrease, says Giancola.)
While a car insurance policy may look like a bargain initially, a high surcharge level could send your rate through the roof after an accident. "Some companies offer cheaper policies, but God forbid you have an accident," Giancola says.
Surcharges vary by state and insurance company, and some penalize you for moving violations while others focus only on "chargeable accidents" (meaning at-fault accidents for which your insurance company must pay out more than $500 or $750 per accident after your deductible has been applied).
If you're shopping for a car insurance policy, Giancola recommends that you ask an insurance company for a copy of its surcharge schedule (sometimes called an "insurance point plan") before you buy. Also, ask this question: "If I have an accident within the next 12 months, what would my end result premium be without discounts?"
"A lot of times, the agent doesn't want to answer that question. You gotta push it," advises Giancola.
While individual insurers can choose differently, ISO does
not recommend a surcharge on "property damage only" accidents where the damage is under $1,000. Also, if the accident is caused by a new driver (driving less than two years) who already receives a surcharge for being inexperienced, there should be no additional surcharge for his first accident. There are also state exceptions to surcharges.
Also, some insurance companies will not figure your increase based on their base rate, but rather on what you were paying before the accident. Keep in mind that your location, age and driving record, as well as the "loss experience" (meaning claims made) of drivers similar to you affect the percentage increase of your insurance premium.
Most companies try to remove the rating variables that might skew your premium increase related to "loss experience." For example, if you live in a state in which the majority of your insurance company's customers live in urban areas, but you live in a rural area, you don't want your premium increase to reflect the claims of urban motorists. Likewise, if your insurance company happens to insure more youthful drivers than middle-aged drivers, and you're middle-aged, you don't want your rate increase to be affected by those higher-risk, higher-charged, younger drivers.
By factoring out drivers who aren't in your age group and drivers who don't live in your area, insurance companies say they can derive an equitable increase in your premium.
Rate increases not exactly a science
You might find yourself getting double- or triple-whammied by your individual circumstances. For example, if you make a claim and have a birthday before renewal time, your birthday might bump you into a higher risk category along with the claim, shooting your rate through the roof.
Or, if you've made a claim and bought a more expensive car before renewal time, you'll likely see a significant increase — perhaps as much as 100 percent.
Remember, too, that circumstances can work in your favor at times. If you turn 40 and enter a lower-risk category, or if you buy a car that's less expensive to insure, your savings might help offset any increase due to an accident.
The unforgiven
Some car insurance companies give their customers a one-time "get out of jail free" pass. When you make a claim on your first at-fault accident, you might not see any increase in your premium at renewal time. This practice — sometimes known as "accident forgiveness" — is not industry-wide, so if your insurance company holds your rate steady, consider yourself lucky.
Companies that forgive first-time accidents often require that you fit a certain profile in order to escape a rate increase.
For example, State Farm Insurance Co. increases your premium for any "chargeable" accident — meaning any accident in which the company pays more than $750 in liability and collision claims combined. Its policyholders should expect to see the increase at renewal time on their liability, collision, and PIP or medical payments coverages. But State Farm also has a program called "forgive the first accident" for its policyholders who have been with the company, accident-free, for at least nine years. If you fit this description and have a chargeable accident, you won't see any increase in your premium.
USAA members in 43 states and Washington, D.C. who keep an accident-free record for at least five years will receive a surcharge waiver for one at-fault accident per policy. If you haven't been with the company that long, you can still buy accident forgiveness: For a few dollars extra a month, USAA lets you purchase an endorsement that forgives one at-fault accident. This endorsement is currently available in 17 states.
When you're shopping for insurance, it's a good idea to ask whether the insurer offers first-time accident forgiveness. It might save you a lot of money on your car insurance over the long haul.
If you're slapped with a surcharge, it does not last forever. Your surcharge will drop off after a determined length of time, which varies by state. For example, if you live in Minnesota, you're surcharged for 3 years, Giancola says. If you don't have another accident within those three years, your premium will drop back down. If you get hit by a surcharge, ask your agent how long it will last.
Source: www.insure.com
Category: Accident
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Zoo officials say a baby gorilla initially raised by humans acting as surrogate parents is thriving in the company of other gorillas as she reaches her first birthday.
The Cincinnati Enquirer (http://cin.ci/1fpRqkk ) reports that Gladys and her new family of Western lowland gorillas enjoyed a treat that included fruits, rice and sweet potato ahead of her birthday Wednesday.
The gorilla was born at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas, and her mother rejected her. She was moved last February to Cincinnati. Caregivers there dressed in furry vests and kneepads to act as surrogate mothers until an older female gorilla took over that role in June.
Keepers deem the project a success. Eventually, they hope to put Gladys in a gorilla group that includes a male and several females.
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Whisky lovers will appreciate the Thump Keg Brewing Co. Rye IPA, inspired by George Dickel Whisky, since the brew uses the same underlying grains to create the mash bill for this Rye IPA as those used in George Dickel Rye Whisky mash. A subtle spice with bursts of vanilla and smoke are balanced with the citrus and pine notes of a hop forward IPA to suit any beer or whisky fan looking for something distinctive. The Thump Keg Brewing Co. Rye IPA is available in a 12 oz. bottle (6.2% ABV), 6-pack with a suggested retail price of $9.49. It is also available in 20L kegs.
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"More than ever, adult beer and spirits drinkers are looking to try new and undiscovered experiences," said Thump Keg Brewing Co. Innovation Brand Director Jody Samuels Ike. "This enthusiasm for exploration is what helped inspire a unique product that is a true collaboration between the flavors of spirits and beer. From different styles to new drinking rituals, Thump Keg Brewing Co. provides adult beer drinkers new ways to enjoy beer responsibly by blending the refreshing-tasting character of beer with the flavor complexity inspired by award-winning spirits."
The name Thump Keg Brewing Co. is a nod to the craftsmanship the beer takes from the experience of distillers who used to listen to the sound of mash thumping against the keg when distilling their spirits. Beer drinkers will start to see this unique name on shelves in select markets including: Nashville, Tenn.; Austin, Texas; and the New York metro area. The launch will be supported through digital and social, sampling and educational events, on and off-premise promotions and public relations.
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Problem one was solved by 70% of the pupils. Problem 2 was solved by 60% of them. Every pupil solved at least one of the problems. Nine pupils solved both problems. How many pupils took the exam?
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450mm Standards Update
By James Amano, SEMI International Standards
Since the submission of the first 450mm proposal in 2007, the SEMI Standards Program has developed over fifteen 450mm wafer-related standards, and work continues to ensure that critical framework is in place to support future high-volume manufacturing. This vital work continued at a packed SEMICON West 2013 session entitled "Silicon Wafers — Future Standardization to Enable the Transition" (session photo below), with new proposals along with new approvals. The transition to 450mm manufacturing is accompanied by the development of various standards aimed at achieving cost, efficiency and technology improvements.
The most notable new proposal concerns development of a specification for a notchless 450mm wafer. Document 5604, Revision to SEMI M1-1013, Specification for Polished Single Crystal Silicon Wafer (Re: Addition of Notchless 450 mm Wafers). While a wafer notch is useful for alignment and orientation, there are impacts on yield and cost, with some estimating a loss of one to four dies per wafer. The existing SEMI M76-0710, Specification for Developmental 450 mm Diameter Polished Single Crystal Silicon Wafers, notes that a wafer notch impacts wafer symmetry, creating a stress area, and that while eliminating the notch would improve symmetry and stress issues, and new alignment method would be required.
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A related proposal calls for reducing wafer edge exclusion, the peripheral portion of a wafer where no viable device structure is possible. The current 450mm wafer specification (SEMI M76-0710), originally published in 2010, calls for a 2mm edge exclusion zone, but some device makers believe that this area can be further reduced, increasing yield. The preliminary proposal was discussed by the Silicon Wafer Committee during SEMICON West and will be refined and presented again during the North American Fall Standards Meetings at SEMI HQ in San Jose, California.
Another new proposal started at SEMICON West is an effort to revise SEMI M1-1013, Specification for Polished Single Crystal Silicon Wafers (Doc. 5605), adding site flatness quality requirements (SFQR) for the 16 nm technology generation, including 450mm wafers.
In addition to these two new proposals, the Silicon Wafer Committee approved an update to SEMI M73-0309, Test Methods for Extracting Relevant Characteristics from Measured Wafer Edge Profiles to include 450 mm wafers, and will be published in the coming months pending successful procedural review, joining two other recently published new 450mm Standards:
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- SEMI G95-0613 - Mechanical Interface Specification for 450 mm Load Port for Tape Frame Cassettes in the Backend Process
Standards development takes place throughout the year in multiple regions. To get involved, contact your local Standards staff and register for SEMI Standards Program membership at www.semi.org/standardsmembership.
For more information, attend SEMICON Europa 2013 (October 8-10) in Dresden. Features a "450mm: Towards a Global Cooperation" session with speakers from AIS, ASML, CATRENE, CNSE, EEMI450ENIAC, Entegris, EVG, Fraunhofer, G450CM, HQ-Dielectrics, METRO450, M+W, Recif, Rudolph, TNO, and TSMC. More information here: www.semiconeuropa.org/
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Central vs. Trinity: 'competition, not warfare'
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THERE ARE many good reasons why tonight's boys' basketball game between city rivals Manchester High School Central and Trinity High is one of the most anticipated season-openers in memory.
Coaches around the state have spoken of this as a likely preview of March's Division I championship game, with Trinity's defending champion Pioneers hosting Central's Little Green, possibly the only team capable of beating them.
Naturally, as one would expect from a match-up of premier teams, the game will feature some of New Hampshire's top players and two of its most respected coaches. Dave "Doc" Wheeler's Central lineup includes point guard Dawson Dickson and one of the state's most intriguing newcomers, forward John Martin, a transfer from Florida. Dave Keefe's Trinity squad includes Carmen Giampetruzzi, possibly the state's best all-around high school athlete, and forward Wenyen Gabriel, who, if recovered from a fractured tibia, figures to be the most dominant frontcourt player in Division I.
And, well, this is an intracity game, and those always inspire heightened intensity and heightened emotions, regardless of how talented the teams are. Given the talent of the two teams tipping off tonight, the atmosphere in Trinity's McHugh Gym should be electric.
But that intensity and those emotions, in addition to enhancing the excitement of a potentially great high school sports event, also can tarnish the competition — as what's become known as the "Turkey Bowl Brawl" sadly reminded us.
That's why tonight's opponents got together last Thursday for a proactive exercise in good sportsmanship, why administrators from the schools met Monday morning and why Trinity has taken steps to heighten security for the game.
"The relationships between the two schools is very solid, there's a strong spirit of cooperation, and our goals (for tonight's game) are the same," said Trinity principal Denis Mailloux.
"One can never fully predict what human behavior is going to be, but we're accentuating the positive. There's a good, healthy sense of competition, but it's largely among kids who have grown up together and played on other teams together. This is competition, not warfare."
For those of you unfamiliar with what happened at Gill Stadium on Thanksgiving during the city football championship, aka the Turkey Bowl, a brief re-cap:
In the third quarter, with Trinity leading 38-8 and Central starting to show its frustration, a fight broke out among opposing players along the Trinity sideline. Some spectators not directly involved in the game attempted to join the fray. Trinity coaches and administrators intervened. Little Green coach Ryan Ray pulled his starters, Trinity went on to win 52-8, and Central subsequently suspended five of its players.
Like Mailloux, Central principal Ronald Mailhot believes that's now all behind the two schools.
"What happened on Thanksgiving was an aberration, a once-in-a-lifetime kind of event," Mailhot said. "I'm convinced the coaches and players are not going to tolerate more of what we saw in the Turkey Bowl."
Just in case, school officials arranged to have three referees assigned to the event, rather than go with the tandem officiating normally used for regular-season games. To monitor what's going on around the court, Trinity hired an extra officer to work the police detail and asked staff and administrators to be on high alert.
Mailhot won't be at the boys' game — he'll be at Central dividing his time between two other big events: the school's annual chorus and jazz holiday concert, and the girls' basketball game between the Pioneers and Little Green — but two of his assistant principals will be.
The pieces appear to be in place to make this a memorable night — for all the right reasons.
"A lot of these boys have been friends for many years," Mailhot said. "We want them to have a lot of fun playing a game they may be talking about for many years to come."
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The moment was vintage Tiger Woods, and so was his reaction.
Seconds after Rickie Fowler made a 40-foot birdie putt on the 12th hole to pull within two shots of the lead, Woods posed over his 25-foot birdie putt until he swept the putter upward in his left hand and marched toward the cup as it dropped for a birdie.
Fowler, standing on the edge of the green, turned with a slight smile as if to say, "What else can I do?"
Woods won the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Monday and returned to No. 1 in the world for the first time since October 2010, the longest spell of his career. After all that time, after so much turmoil with his personal life and his health, Woods looks as good as ever.
"It's a byproduct of hard work, patience and getting back to winning golf tournaments," Woods said.
He essentially wrapped up his eighth title at Bay Hill with an 8-iron out of a fairway bunker on the par-5 16th that easily cleared the water and landed safely on the green for a two-putt birdie. Woods dangled his tongue out of his mouth as the ball was in the air, another sign of his swagger.
Just like his other two wins this year, Woods never let anyone get closer than two shots in the final round. With a conservative bogey he could afford on the final hole, he closed with a 2-under 70 for a two-shot win over Justin Rose.
Woods walked off the 18th green waving his putter over his head — truly a magic wand at Bay Hill — to acknowledge the fans who have seen this act before. His eighth win in the Arnold Palmer Invitational tied a PGA Tour record that had not been touched in 48 years.


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Block by block, resident by resident, Boylston Street on Tuesday slowly began to reclaim the life that had been scattered by the Boston Marathon explosions, which turned the bustling thoroughfare into a deserted crime scene.
For the first time since the two blasts on April 15, city officials allowed residents to return to their homes in a staggered, carefully choreographed progression. What they found was a raw, rainy tableau of time frozen.
Half-eaten pizzas, outdoor tables still set with silverware, beer bottles clustered on tables, Marathon balloons and banners. Bicycles locked to posts on the sidewalk. Many trappings of Boston's signature spring holiday remained exactly where they were when the explosions ripped through the crowd.
"Pompeii comes to mind," said Richard O'Brien, an official with the city's Department of Neighborhood Development, who helped escort residents to their homes.
The return was a wrenching one for residents, many of whom fled the chaos after the bombings with only the clothes they were wearing. City officials said they expected to reopen Boylston Street to the public by Wednesday morning.
Tracey Fulgan broke down in tears as she entered her studio apartment on Boylston Street. She hiked up several flights of stairs carrying the possessions that got her through the week — a backpack, a laptop, a shopping bag, and a black duffel bag.
The first resident allowed back, Stephanie Prashad, let out a deep sigh as she walked into her apartment above the Pour House, a bar across from the Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center. "You don't know how much I missed my toothbrush," said Prashad, 22, a Northeastern University student.
About 70 people returned on Tuesday, city officials said, in an area from which hundreds of residents had been displaced. Residents who returned were allowed to enter and leave the area with identification.
As the first signs of renewal emerged on Boylston Street, a ritual of mourning and remembrance also took place. As darkness fell, a few dozen family members of the victims gathered for brief, quiet reflection at the two bombing sites, where three people were killed and more than 260 wounded.
Transported in small buses, the relatives visited the scene of the first bombing, near the finish line, and then proceeded under a cold drizzle to an open tent at the second site. Huddled close together to avoid the rain, they faced the site for 10 minutes before slowly departing.
The public was not allowed into the area, along Boylston Street from Hereford to Berkeley streets, as residents began returning at 10 a.m.
Lindsay Donnellan and her fiance, Chris Mahoney, both 29, returned to a home between Gloucester and Fairfield streets.
"It's a relief," Mahoney said of being home again. City workers inspected the premises for structural problems and pests.
The pair had been watching the Marathon outside their home and fled with nothing when they saw the second bomb explode. "Terrifying," Donnellan said.
Since then, they had stayed with friends in Brookline and Allston, Mahoney said. As the front door to their apartment building opened, the smell of stale trash filled the air. On the steps lay a Boston Marathon bell on a lanyard.
As residents waited to return, they sat in tight knots in the ballroom at the Hynes Convention Center, waiting to be led down the street to their homes. Many spoke in hushed voices about windows blown out and the cleanup left to do. None had suitcases.
During Tuesday, the makeshift memorial that had been at the intersection of Boylston and Berkeley streets was moved to Copley Square, partly by burly public works employees who carried bouquets one at a time.
For some returning residents, the events of the last week had not yet sunk in.
"I think it will hit when we're back home," said Rebeca Oliva, 30, who lives on Boylston Street with her sister and roommate. Oliva's apartment lies between the two blast sites.
"We live where it's a memorial site," she said. "I was asked, the day after it happened, would I consider moving? I can't. It's my home."
At the Hynes, city official Richard DeRosa sat at a table offering counseling. One potential aftershock for residents already traumatized by the explosions is the possibility of deceased pets, said DeRosa, director of behavioral health for the city's healthy baby program.
Sharon Maes, who lives near the site of the second explosion, was wearing the same bright green pants and orange sweater on Tuesday with which she fled her apartment. The only difference, she said, was that she had cleaned off the blood.
Maes, 38, was standing outside her apartment, near the Forum restaurant, when the first explosion hit. A police officer screamed at her, "Lie down, lie down!" and she ran into the doorway of her apartment.
Maes said she was lying there when the second bomb went off just a few feet away.
"There's not a scratch wrong with me," she said in amazement as she sat in a Hynes ballroom. She had glass in her hair after the explosions, she said, but that was all.
"There was a lot of blood," Maes said. One girl was bleeding heavily from her face. A man with glass in his neck repeated over and over, "I'm so hot, I'm so hot."
When the police showed up to evacuate them, Maes said, she was too frightened to go out the front door. Instead, she and her husband left through the fire escape. "We don't even know if we locked the door," Maes said. She left without her wedding ring; her husband left without his wallet.
Coming back would be emotional, Maes said. "I don't know. I'm happy, but I'm sad," she said. "I'm very confused about how it will feel."
She trailed off for a moment, and then said, "It was such a nice day."Brian MacQuarrie at email@example.com.


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