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Smoked Clams With Tequila Sauce Recipe
Jul 31, 2012 4:01 pm
Spiked shellfish, now with fewer actual spikes!
The inspiration for these smoked clams for Pampano's Sea to Table menu came from the region in Mexico where La Paz is located, Baja California. Their popular regional dishes are not only coastal, but they are super-light and fresh for summer.
The "almejas," or clams, are traditionally cooked over an open-wood fire; my interpretation was to slow-cook them and smoke them at the same time with hickory wood chips. I finish them with tequila and a touch of mezcal to accent the smoky wood flavor.
Servings: 4
1 cup hickory chips, soaked in water for 30 minutes
40 manila clams
3 tablespoons soy oil
1 shallot, minced
2 medium tomatoes, diced
1/2 medium onion, diced
1/4 bunch cilantro, chopped
1 shot tequila blanco or mezcal
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 cup clam juice
juice of one lime
To smoke the clams (should be done outdoors):
- Add the wet hickory chips to a large pot over medium heat and set a strainer in the middle of the pot.
- Put the clams in the strainer and cover well with a lid. As the smoke starts getting intense, the clams should start slowly cooking.
For the tequila sauce:
- While the clams are cooking, heat the soy oil in a sauté pan over medium heat for 30 seconds. Add the shallots and cook for less than a minute, then add the tomatoes, onions and cilantro.
- Sauté for one minute and add the shot of tequila.
- Add the butter and clam juice. When the butter is melted, finish with the lime juice and salt to taste.
- By then the clams should be ready. Set them in four serving dishes and pour the sauce on top on each one. Serve immediately.
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What a girl wants–for her country and society
Yes, Filipina teens do have opinions on 'issues that matter,' as seen in a newly launched book put together by Modess
Adults can vote and choose their leaders, but what about the underage youth who can't?
Sanitary pad brand Modess recently gave young girls an avenue for their concerns through the "Your Voice, Your Move" campaign. The project collected these girls' thoughts, which were posted online, and neatly compiled them in a book that was given to Philippine senators.
The hardbound book, "Girl Talk: A Collection of Filipina Teen's Voices on Issues that Matter," was recently launched at the Mind Museum in Taguig.
According to Modess assistant brand manager Nikka Arcilla, the brand came up with the idea to recognize the power and potential of young girls and the impact they can make. There are around eight million teenage girls in the Philippines, and since these girls cannot vote yet, Modess gave them the means to be heard.
"Young girls are often underestimated, but they care about what's going on in their country," Arcilla said.
The girls were asked earlier this year to post their "shout-outs" or messages to senators on the website www.makeyourmove.com.ph. There were around 1,000 entries, and the best quotes were chosen and included in the colorful, easy-to-read book with illustrations.
The books are not for sale, but a copy may be requested through the Modess Facebook page www.facebook.com/modessangelsofficial.
The teeners posted messages concerning good leadership, corruption, education, poverty, environment, employment, youth issues, health.
Kristine Faith said, "Just don't make the people disappointed, okay? Deal." Petrina said, "Push for quality education, especially in public schools."
Abby called on the senators to "provide shelters for the less fortunate, especially those children scattered on the streets. Hope you'll notice them."
Melrose asked for "lots of jobs that fit the course of the graduates," while Mae wanted "a law against cyberbullying." Aiel requested for "free medicines for senior citizens."
Teen stars Bea Binene, Louise de los Reyes and Barbie Forteza were present at the book launch. They also had their own shout-outs.
De los Reyes called on the senators to "stop the drama and act on things that matter." Forteza asked them to prioritize their countrymen's interest and not their own. Binene, meanwhile, asked them to "look at the problem as a whole, and not just stick to one issue."
Other speakers in the launch who shared their thoughts were Anna Oposa, co-founder of the Save Philippine Seas organization; Paulina Miranda, a student leader from the University of the Philippines; Rachel Racelis, a faculty member at the University of Makati; and Eligh Yu, founder of the Leaders International Christian School.
Arcilla added that now the messages were expressed, the team will monitor the senators' responses to the girls' questions and concerns.
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There's a cross-referenced check-list by habitat! A slender book with its strengthened, plasticized cover that easily fits into your pack. Beautiful illustrations and great information. A must have to get the most out of your trip "Islas Encantadas". You'll be glad you got this for your trip. Can be purchased used through Amazon.
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From the May 17, 2004 issue: Looking at the outrage over Abu Ghraib.
May 17, 2004, Vol. 9, No. 34 • By RICHARD STARR, FOR THE EDITORS
THE MILITARY'S TOP OFFICERS and civilians are constrained by strictures against "unlawful command influence" from expressing their true feelings about the members of the 372nd Military Police Company who face charges of conspiracy, dereliction of duty, cruelty and maltreatment, indecent acts, and assault for their all-too-well-documented sadistic abuse of Iraqi detainees in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison. Not operating under such constraints ourselves, we admit to looking forward to a fair trial of the accused followed by their harsh punishment. They have endangered any American unlucky enough to find himself at the mercy of our enemies in the war on terror. They have impeded our progress in that war. More fundamentally, they traduced their mission, betrayed their fellow soldiers, and disgraced their country. Anyone up or down the chain of command who was criminally complicit should be prosecuted, too.
That said, we were made uneasy by the indiscriminate orgy of outrage in Washington last week. For all the talk of the hysteria and paranoia and hatred those unspeakable photographs are going to unleash in the Arab world, it was here that they seemed to have their most potent effect. Pulses quickened among everyone who has it in for President Bush and the American effort in Iraq. We watched the Senate Armed Services Committee's grilling of Donald Rumsfeld gavel to gavel on Friday and could not readily distinguish between senators' anger over the crimes at Abu Ghraib and their rage that Rumsfeld had not given them a heads-up when CBS was about to broadcast the photographs. It is undoubtedly true that this was a breach of courtesy, as one senator put it. We wouldn't blame the senators in the slightest if they decided to drop Rumsfeld from their Christmas card mailing lists. We don't doubt the sincerity of Sen. Carl Levin's "dismay," as he called it, that when Rumsfeld "briefed senators in a classified session last week on events in Iraq, just hours before the story broke on television, you made no reference to the impending revelations."
But outside of Zone 1 on the Washington, D.C., taxicab map, these are trivial lapses. And on this point, our sympathies are entirely with the embattled secretary of defense. No one was left in the dark about the ongoing investigation at Abu Ghraib. It had been public knowledge since January for anyone who cared to know. There was no "coverup"--a word that was on the lips of every other hyperventilating Democratic congressman last week. Gen. Mark Kimmitt publicly announced in Baghdad on March 20 that criminal charges had been filed against six soldiers and that 17 had already been "suspended from their duties until the outcome of the investigations." He described the collapse of good discipline in the unit as a "kind of cancer that you've got to cut out quickly." Nowhere in the record of events made public so far is there a hint that allegations of wrongdoing, once leveled, were ever brushed aside or not taken with utmost seriousness by the military chain of command.
Neither are we sympathetic to the arguments of defense lawyers for the accused, echoed by friendly reporters, who want to point the finger of blame anywhere except at their clients. The prison guards were badly trained, we hear; they thought they were doing what the interrogators/contractors/CIA wanted them to do; they were cogs in a corrupt military machine. We might say something like that if we were being paid to defend these lowlifes. And, yes, there do seem to have been lamentable weaknesses in training and command. But "sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light" is evidence of a lack of humanity, not a lack of training. And consider this lovely detail: The Washington Post reports that there is "a new batch of photographs similar to those broadcast a week ago [which include] pictures showing crude simulations of sex among soldiers." Did the CIA encourage them to do that, too?
The Bush administration's enemies fantasize that there has been an effort to "suppress" this story. To the contrary, this is probably the least "suppressed" such story in American history. Indeed, we are told there are more horrifying pictures and video to come. There's only one way to drain this poison, and it isn't further breast-beating, from the administration or its foes. Bring on the trials, and the punishment.
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The full number of attributed deaths can be prevented through radon mitigation only by eliminating radon in homes, a theoretical scenario that cannot be reasonably achieved. Nonetheless, the burden of lung-cancer deaths attributed to the upper end of the exposure distribution is expected to be reduced by lowering radon concentrations. Perhaps one-third of the radon-attributed cases (about 4% of the total lung-cancer deaths) would be avoided if all homes had concentrations below the Environmental Protection Agency's action guideline of 148 Bqm-3 (4pCiL-1); of these, about 87% would be in ever-smokers. It can be noted that the deaths from radon-attributable lung-cancer in smokers could most efficiently be reduced through tobacco-control measures, in that most of the radon-related deaths among smokers would not have occurred if the victims had not smoked.
The committee's model and general approach to assessing lung-cancer risks posed by indoor radon and cigarette-smoking are subject to considerable uncertainty because of gaps in our scientific knowledge of effects at low levels of exposure. This uncertainty should be reduced as an improved understanding develops of molecular and cellular events in the induction of lung-cancer at low levels of exposure to radon and other toxicants and of the role of various factors influencing susceptibility to lung-cancer. The long-term follow-up of miner populations is strongly encouraged, as is completion of the case-control studies of residential exposures now in progress. The committee encourages further meta-analysis and pooling of case-control data. However, the committee recommends that new case-control studies not be initiated until those in progress are completed, data are analyzed and synthesized, and judgments rendered as to the likely value of further residential studies.
Despite the limitations of existing data, the committee found key observational and experimental data that, along with theoretical considerations in radiobiology and carcinogenesis, provided a basis for the models developed and used to estimate radon-attributable lung-cancer risks. The major shortcomings in the existing data relate to estimating lung-cancer risks near 148 Bqm-3 (4 pCiL -1) and down to the average indoor level of 46 Bqm-3 (1.24 pCiL-1), especially the risks to never-smokers. The qualitative and quantitative uncertainty analyses indicated the actual number of radon-attributable lung-cancer deaths could be either greater or lower than the committee's central estimates. This uncertainty did not change the committee's view that indoor radon should be considered as a cause of lung-cancer in the general population that is amenable to reduction. However, the attributable risk for smoking, the leading cause of lung-cancer, is far greater than for radon, the second leading cause. Lung-cancer in the general population and in miners is related to both risk factors and is amenable to prevention.


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As expected, Bench's latest underwear and jeans show turned into one big, loud spectacle Thursday night at the packed SM Arena in Pasay City. It had an elevated stage, floating canoe, harnesses, giant video screens, hydraulics and several mosh pits.
Dubbed "Bench Universe," the two-night show marking Bench's 25th year was in keeping with the vision of and tradition started by Suyen Corp. CEO Ben Chan of producing a biennial fashion-cum-flesh-baring extravaganza that began early in the new millennium.
Provocative poses
As in years past, the show, directed and choreographed again this year by Robbie Carmona, with overall direction by Johnny Manahan, featured some of the hottest celebrities around, including boxer Manny Pacquiao and wife Jinkee, and Bench's first and iconic model, Richard Gomez.
Looking dignified in a gray suit with one sleeve in red, Gomez didn't wear skimpy underwear this time, unlike in past shows. An early high point of the show was when the first Bench TV ad showing Gomez rowing was run on the giant screen—this was a seminal moment in Bench's marketing. Gomez was Bench's first major celebrity endorser.
With the absence of perennial stripper Wendell Ramos, on-screen bad boys Jake Cuenca and Paulo Avelino gladly did all the disrobing this time—to the crowd's delight.
Cuenca was in his element as he titillated the crowd with a series of provocative, raunchy poses before unsnapping his orange briefs to reveal a much skimpier pair of beaded black undies. The crowd, especially at the sight of his rear, went wild.
Loudest cheers
But the loudest cheers were reserved for Coco Martin, lead star of the TV soap "Walang Hanggan," who appeared in the show's finale. And unlike Cuenca, Martin didn't have to strip to his undies to bring the crowd to a frenzy.
Although looking hunched at first from all the weight of his load—a series of metastasized deer horns wrapped in teal fabric—Martin roused the audience as he struck various king-of-the-world poses wearing worn jeans and sleeveless top.
Actresses Kim Chiu, Bea Alonzo and Lovi Poe also had their fair share of admirers, but the cheers they generated from the crowd paled in comparison to those given the boys, who included Aljur Abrenica and Dingdong Dantes.
Apart from moving from the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City to its newer, bigger venue, the latest edition of the Bench special featured American imports, including models Allison Harvard and Dominique Reighard, and Los Angeles Asian-American hip-hop band Far-East Movement.
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Just like two years ago, Bench flew in a dance group from LA, as well as Filipino fashion designers based in the Middle East—Michael Cinco, Furne One and Esra Santos.
Known as the "Dubai designers," Cinco and company and their suites were featured with equally talented Philippine-based designers Randy Ortiz, Cary Santiago, Rajo Laurel, Joey Samson and Ivar Aseron.
Noel Manapat did the overall styling, Dom Gallardo the lighting design.
Furne One drew inspiration from underwater creatures and the marriage of man and machine. Using primarily white, glowing and transparent materials, he utilized metal, Swarovski crystals, electric bulbs, rubber, plastic and various pieces of junk.
Cinco did a nearly all-black suite he dubbed "Fearless." His inspirations, he said, were animals and insects that strike fear in humans. He used such materials as fiberglass, ceramics, visors and nets. He covered most of the models' faces with visors to emphasize their bodies and underwear.
"I want to show the beautiful side of these fearsome creatures in a couture way," said Cinco in an e-mail interview. "Like the hooded cobra in fiberglass headdresses, laser-cut mirror in crocodile skin patterns caressing the women's arms and the tarantulas, which looked like soldiers in armor made of strips of plastic."
Taking advantage of the Arena's vast space, stage and production designer Gino Gonzales conceptualized a huge, flat, 7-ft-high stage to make room for mosh pits and a hydraulic platform.
No surprise element
The concept had its pluses and minuses. While the mosh pits gave select audience members the space to snap pictures and see the show up close, the stage was too high for the first and second rows of the patron section.
The surprise element offered by a multilevel, multidimensional stage used in past shows was also sacrificed in favor of space. Except for the lit, overhead canoe attached to a harness carrying Enchong Dee, the performers' comings and goings became rather predictable.
Although such a setup gave dancers more room to maneuver, it also made it a bit harder for the audience to focus their attention on certain details.
This became evident especially at the end of each segment, when all the characters, including the stars, emerged on stage. At some points, the show had too much going on, amplified in no small way by the basketball court-size stage.
"Bench Universe" lived up to its title: vast, sprawling, ambitious, but also beautiful and at times swinging from glorious to ordinary due to its sheer scale and occasional randomness.
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Going to the beach with a picnic lunch a bottle of rum and talking getting to know each other
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A nice dinner to get to know each other better.
I would take a girl on a first date anywhere she would like to go
Something simple. Coffee, lunch. Anything we could both agree on.
Honestly, I am up for almost anything, I will leave it up to you
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TGiFs Salad bar, all the appetizer beer wine, there cheese cake an coffee.
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Most summer camps filling up despite recession
"A lot of parents have come to rely on camps," he said. "If both have jobs, they need camp as a kind of daycare. It's not just a luxury any more."
Glen Brook, which hosts about 80 campers at a time, is taking steps of its own to control its budget – expanding a garden so it now provides a hefty chunk of the vegetables consumed by campers and staff.
"It didn't start out with the intention of saving money, but suddenly, when the bottom fell out of the economy, we realized how lucky we were," Braden said.
Betty Bussel, who heads the American Camp Association's New England section, said other cost-conscious steps that camps are taking include forming cooperatives to make bulk purchases and shifting some field trips closer to the camp.
"Many camps that never used to allow shorter sessions are allowing them – suddenly offering two- or three-week options," Bussel said. "Some are offering discounts if you sign up early or bring a sibling along."
Many New England camps have a built-in advantage – having served multiple generations of families who loyally perpetuate the ties.
At Camp Lanakila in Fairlee, Vt., a boys' camp founded in 1922, this summer is fully booked, with a waiting list, said director Barnes Boffey.
But Boffey, like some other directors, said he has some apprehensions about the summer of 2010 if the recession continues – particularly in regard to recruiting the 8- and 9-year-olds who'd be coming to camp for the first time.
At Shaffer's High Sierra Camp in California's Tahoe National Forest, director Scott Shaffer says he expects to serve more campers this summer, who will stay on average for a shorter time.
"For parents, even if it's tough financially, they'd rather cut back a little than eliminate it altogether," he said.
Also full up, though only three years old, is Camp Kupugani in Leaf River, Ill., a multicultural girls' camp that has been able to expand from 25 to 50 campers despite the recession.
The camp has a scholarship fund to help ensure a diverse enrollment. Director Kevin Gordon said about 40 percent of last year's campers received some aid.
One of the families expecting some scholarship help this year was able to afford the full $1,500 tuition for a two-week session last year, but has taken a hard hit due to the recession.
Joe Mathy of Lisle, Ill., said his landscaping business has suffered as customers cut back on spending. He's already paid a $400 deposit for his 12-year-old daughter, Sophia, to go back to Kupugani for two weeks starting in June, and hopes the scholarship fund will cover the rest.
"Our daughter liked the camp very much," Mathy said. "It opened up her eyes to what the world is all about."
The Mathys' decision echoes those made in many budget-conscious families as they weigh whether to send a child back to a camp they've already embraced, said Sean Nienow of the National Camp Association, which helps parents select a camp.
"If Johnny's been going the past three or four years, to sit down and say 'You can't go' – that's a very difficult message to give," Nienow said.
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The police have also sought the help of the public to curb the menace of unauthorised parking. The public can inform the police on the telephone or through an SMS about any instance of unauthorised parking. The police have also asked the people to be alert about suspiciously dressed people travelling on two-wheelers or vehicles having number plates that do not look genuine or do not conform to rules.
Such information should be passed on to the police at the earliest, Mr. Padmakumar said in a statement issued by the City Police Commissioner's office.
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Claremont Police are searching for a vehicle involved in a hit and run.
About 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, a black Isuzu vehicle hit the side of another vehicle at Box Car Grille in Claremont and fled the scene.
Claremont Police Chief Gerald Tolbert said no one was injured. Police are searching the black vehicle involved in the accident, but do not have a license place number. The vehicle should have heavy front-end damage.
Anyone with information is asked to call Claremont Police at (828) 459-9295.
Severe storms in Catawba County on Tuesday night forced some area schools to close Wednesday or open on a delay.
Claremont Elementary School is closed Wednesday due to storm damage.
Bunker Hill and Foard feeder districts will operate on a two-hour delay.
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Facility to cater to needs of pump, motor, foundry sectors
One-stop shop for process and performance improvements
Rs. 30-crore centre will be inaugurated by mid-August
Coimbatore: The Coimbatore Industrial Infrastructure Association, which is implementing infrastructure projects for the foundries and engineering units here, will also focus on addressing manpower shortage faced by the units.
Skill improvement
According to its president, G. Rajendran, the association will embark on training and skill improvement programmes soon.
The education and training centre established on Avarampalayam Road here will be a common facility to cater to the needs of the pump, motor and foundry sectors.
Job training
It will be a one-stop shop for process and performance improvements for the foundry industry, skill development through on the job training, end to end pump testing, motor testing, product die and mould centre and floor space for exhibitions.
The Rs. 30 crore centre will be inaugurated by mid-August.
The common infrastructure works at the foundry complexes at Arasur, Kallapalayam and Manickampalayam will be completed soon and these works were on at a total cost of Rs. 22 crore.
Speaking at annual general meeting of the association, Mr. Rajendran said Rs. 15 crore more would go in for the common infrastructure planned and these would be completed by the end of 2007.
An international field visit and a trade fair visit were also proposed to give the Coimbatore manufacturers an insight into world class technologies. The domestic pump and motor industry had registered a 10 per cent growth last year as against 2004-2005.
Common facilities
The exports were worth nearly Rs. 80 crore and the foundries had achieved 25 per cent growth in the last two years. Mr. Rajendran was confident of achieving the performance targets envisioned in the project for the foundry and pumpset industry here by creating the required common facilities.


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The weirdness started at around 10:30am. I was in 4th period physics, and our teacher was just about to hand us our tests. Just as she was telling us to put our dividers up, the code red alarm rang. No one was very scared or anything, because the office had told us that we were going to have a code red drill sometime this month. We were laughing about how we didn't have to take the test, and we barricaded ourselves inside the classroom and hid on the floor behind desks just like how we were told to. We were supposed to be quiet, but we weren't very quiet at all. There was a lot of whispering and soft talking and stuff. :P
Everything was okay for about half an hour, but we were wondering why it was taking so long for the all clear signal to be given, since it usually happens pretty fast in drills. One person was bored, so he got out his cell phone (you're not allowed to use electronic devices during a code red) and checked the news. And the headline was about our school being in lockdown. He freaked out and showed it to all of us, and we asked our teacher about it. She got up from behind the barricade and quickly went to check her email and reported back to us. It was a real code red.
We all got kind of scared after that. We didn't really care much while we thought it was a drill, but now we were really worried. I went on my phone and found the same webpage, and I passed my phone around to people who wanted to read the article. The article said "check back later for more updates" so every ten minutes I would reload the page and see if anything had changed. Our teacher started confiscating phones after a while, but mine was never seen. I also texted my mom telling her that I was okay, a lot of people texted their parents to let them know what was going on, although most of them already knew. (Email can be quite convenient.)
There was apparently a gunman sighted on the campus of a middle school just a few blocks away. That school, our high school, and my brother's elementary school were all in lockdown as a precaution. Police were on the campus of that middle school, looking for the gunman. He was supposedly a black man, with black clothing that walked with a limp.
We ended up sitting in the dark room, behind gum-filled tables, on the floor in lockdown for two and a half hours straight. We weren't allowed to get up or leave the room. And in the meantime, we got updates from that article: West Valley, my brother's elementary school, was still in session and was going on behind locked doors, the police searched two storage rooms on the middle school campus for this gunman and found nothing, they closed off all the four streets surrounding the middle school, there was a place for parents to come and receive information, the kids were all being kept inside. We didn't have anything to do, so we talked, played card games, etc. Our teacher gave us Starbursts every half hour or so as a reward. :P
Finally, at 1pm, we got an announcement from the speaker telling us that it was now "code blue" and we could take down the barricades, but we still weren't allowed to go outside. It was about then that we got the whole story (posted on Twitter): the report of a gunman was a hoax made up by a student. We don't know the student's name, or why they did it (it could be to get out of class, or maybe they were just mistaken) but regardless, we were allowed to go outside and have lunch, and then 6th period started like normal. Our physics teacher said that if she ever had to choose a class to get stuck with for two and a half hours in the dark, it would be us. :)
Well, the rest of the day was a little weird. 6th period was cut short by about 45 minutes because of the code red, I was supposed to give a presentation today, but it was rescheduled for Monday. We were supposed to take a quiz, but there was no time. I didn't have time to do my homework either (I was going to do it during lunch, but lunch was only 15 minutes today instead of 40) so my teacher said I could turn it in late for full credit. And we were supposed to have a quiz in history today, but instead we watched [I]Night at the Museum[/I] because our teacher thought that we had a long day and we needed a break.
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Jake Peavy to undergo season-ending surgery next week
Jul 9, 2010, 9:57 PM EDT
It's official. Jake Peavy will undergo season-ending surgery next Wednesday in Chicago to repair the
detached latissimus dorsi in his right shoulder, according to Dave van Dyck of the Chicago Tribune.
While Peavy hopes to be ready for the start of spring training next season, he cautioned about the unique nature of his particular injury.
"We hope to be up and throwing by spring training," Peavy said Friday.
"Obviously, this is uncharted territory because it's not common. While
(pitchers) have torn lats, they've never (had it) completely torn off
the bone with no attachments left. And that's where we're at. We're
hoping, around the start of the season, to be back in action."
"Nobody has had the surgery in baseball that we know of," he said. "So I
guess I'm a guinea pig and (we'll) see how it turns out."
Yikes. Peavy, 29, will make $16 million in 2011 and $17 million in 2012. The White Sox hold a $22 million club option on Peavy for 2013 or a $4 million buyout. Hopefully it doesn't become an albatross.
- andrewlw - Jul 9, 2010 at 10:55 PM
This sounds like it could potentially be career ending.
- Rippyyforni - Jul 9, 2010 at 11:34 PM
I wouldn't say he's sucking. He's still better than the vast majority of major league pitchers. Keep in mind that his small frame can only handle so much work. Add that to the fact that the Padres are involved in so many 1 run decision games (they lead the league by a large margin in fact) where the pressure to perform is much greater. Peavy is still their ace, no question about that. But he's also human. Give him time, and he'll have more dominant outings.
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- Alex Poterack - Jul 10, 2010 at 12:20 AM
Padres? This isn't their problem anymore…
- Eric Cioe - Jul 10, 2010 at 10:58 AM
You'd think the White Sox cap would give that away. If not that, the three references to Chicago and the White Sox might do it.
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Even sunny Del Mar feels gloom hanging over horse racing
On the surface, it might seem that today's horses are being pampered. Seabiscuit raced 89 times, after all. Whirlaway won the 1941 Kentucky Derby four days after winning the Derby Trial. Forego raced 18 times in 1973 alone. Compare the experience of those horses with that of Super Saver, winner of the 2010 Kentucky Derby, retired to stud after nine races.
Yet these numbers paint an incomplete picture of a complex problem. Some of the shading was illuminated in an award-winning piece last year by Bill Finley of the Thoroughbred Daily News, who found numerous sources who attributed the problem to the pervasive use of the diuretic Lasix, and other drugs. (Finley went so far as to test the effect of Lasix on his personal running program, and found that it improved his weight loss but slowed his speed.)
Today's trainers tend to push their horses less hard than did their predecessors. For these and other reasons, today's track operators tend to worry about the long-term viability of their sport.
"No one that I know of has shown an inclination toward closing," Fravel said. "You might expect that this would be a little like the banking industry, that we'd see some consolidation. And it's somewhat amazing (it hasn't happened) given the stresses that some of the industry has been through."
In some states, racetracks exist essentially as an excuse for slot machines. In California, most racetracks exist almost as an act of defiance.
"Looking at the horse population tends to be a negative effort," Fravel said. "But at the end of the day, Del Mar continues to pay among the highest purses in the country. At the end of the day, I think there's still light at the end of the tunnel."
If you're going to rage against the dying of the light, what better place than Del Mar?


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Regis Corporation
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) fourth-quarter fiscal 2013 adjusted earnings of 6 cents per
share missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 10 cents by 40% and
the comparable year-ago quarter's earnings of 36 cents by
Negative same-store sales (comparable store sales) caused the
quarterly earnings to decline 7 cents. Along with this, mounting
labor costs, increased product costs and higher connectivity
costs also pressurized earnings in the quarter.
Total revenue declined 5.0% year over year to $502.3 million,
missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $514 million by 2.3%. The
quarterly revenues decreased due to a decline in comps and lower
Quarter Performance
Service revenues dropped 5.3% year over year to $390 million,
mainly due to a decrease in North American salon revenues and a
3.1% decline in service same-store sales resulting from a 3.4%
fall in guest counts. The shift of Easter from April to March
also played a role in pulling down the service same-store sales
during the quarter.
Product revenues dipped 4.9% to $102.0 million owing to a 3.3%
fall in product same-store sales. However, royalties and fees
revenues climbed 5.2% year over year to $10.2 million, gaining
from higher franchisee comps.
Consolidated comps in the quarter were down 3.1% due to a 3.7%
decrease in guest count, offset by a 0.6% rise in average ticket
price. However, the rate of decline in comps was slightly better
than the year-ago quarter's drop of 3.5%.
Cost of service as a percent of service revenues expanded 180
basis points (bps) to 58.9% as it was adversely impacted by
negative service comps and higher labor costs. Cost of product as
a percent of product revenues (adjusted) also climbed up 240 bps
to 53.5%, due to headwinds from regular clearance sales.
Annual Results
In full fiscal year 2013, the company reported earnings of 18
cents per share versus $1.14 per share in the prior year.
Earnings were also lower than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 24
cents. Total revenue was $2.02 billion, down 0.5% from the Zacks
Consensus Estimate and 4.9% from the year-ago quarter.
Store Update
During the quarter, Regis opened 28 company-owned salons while
closing down or transferring 118 company-owned units. On Jun 30,
2013, the company had 9,763 salons, of which 7,435 were
company-owned and 2,082 franchised.
Our Take
Although the Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) company has taken a set of
initiatives to boost its business, lower earnings and a
weaker top line reflect that the company's efforts are not paying
off. Initiatives taken by the company include installing
third-party point-of-sale software systems (SuperSalon),
implementing cost-effective promotions, revising its pricing
strategy and enhancing normal salon hours. Moreover, owing to the
continuous fall in guest count, the company has witnessed
negative comps for the past 20 quarters. We believe that the
sluggish comps trend will continue to affect Regis' result in the
next few quarters until the customer-visit patterns completely
rebound. Regis' profits are also expected to reel under pressure
due to higher labor costs and mounting retail expenses.
Some other retail stocks with a favorable Zacks Rank include
Five Below, Inc.
Steiner Leisure Ltd.
) and
Tractor Supply Company
). All these companies carry a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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With Obama in Israel, an array of signs, protests, and other forms of public notice have cropped up to bring Pollard's cause to the forefront, even as Obama has issued a statement saying that he has no immediately plans to release him. Today, during the President's speech in Jerusalem, a heckler added his voice to the chorus:
As you can see, Obama knew how to handle it. But that doesn't mean the issue is going away. The latest news is that Yityish Aynaw, the newly minted Miss Israel, whom President Obama will reportedly meet tonight at the State Dinner plans to bring up Pollard's issue if she gets the chance.
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