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asking for a £5 donation to win this prize for Cure Leukaemia because every penny will help save lives
Cure Leukaemia
£1,220.47 raised
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My Target:
£1,220.47 raised so far
How to make a donation
Donate online at - www.justgiving.com/SupportStan
By mobile internet Scan this code on your smartphone to go straight to Cure Leukaemia's page.
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Over 400 Premier League players sign up to Support Stan and they could be YOURS!
20 individual boards have been signed by every Premier League club, signatures include that of Sir Alex Ferguson, Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard & Yaya Toure, over the 2012-13 season and are being be raffled off in a text-to-donate campaign that aims to raise funds for Cure Leukaemia to fund more specialist nurses to offer new treatments and drugs trials to leukaemia patients across the West Midlands. Chelsea signed their board at Villa Park on Saturday 10 May, completing the set.
And with this seasons big news events, some of the boards are now even more special and are sure to become collectors items! The Manchester United board includes the signatures of now retired Sir Alex Ferguson and legend Paul Scholes, the Everton board is signed by the new Man Utd manager David Moyes and the Chelsea board is signed by Frank Lampard - on the day he broke the all time goal scoring record at Chelsea and of course European cup winning manager Rafa Benitez.
Talking about the campaign, Stiliyan said: "The team at the Centre for Clinical Haematology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham have been with me in my battle against leukaemia for many months. I have personal experience of how important it is to have access to specialist nurses, clinicians, pioneering drugs and treatments. Without the help of Cure Leukaemia, all this would not be available for other patients with their own battles with this disease.
"What we're trying to do is draw people's awareness to this illness and do something practical by raising funds and helping to combat the disease. I'm delighted that the cause has been supported by my team-mates and my colleagues throughout the Premier League. It's very touching and the amount of money we raise can make a real difference."
To donate £5 to Cure Leukaemia's Support Stan campaign and be in with the chance of winning every signature from all the 20 boards, text STAN19 to 70070 £5 or donate on this page.
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with this seasons big news events, some of the boards are now even more special! The Manchester United board includes the signatures of now retired Sir Alex Ferguson and legend Paul Scholes and the Everton board is signed by the new Man Utd manager David Moyes!
Reigning champions of Europe Chelsea FC signed their board at Villa Park on Saturday, where Frank Lampard broke the Chelsea all time scoring record. For just a £5 donation, YOU could be the owner of every one of these signed boards!
On Saturday 10th May, Chelsea FC will be the 20th and final team to sign the Support Stan boards. They could ALL be yours for a £5 donation! Show YOUR support for Stan, donate £5 to Cure Leukaemia and you could WIN every board! You can enter as many times as you like! UTV!
Tell friends how your fundraising is going...Thank you to everyone who has donated so far! Tottenham FC, Southampton FC and Wigan FC have all signed their boards. Not long now until we have them all signed! Get bidding!
Supporters have the chance to own signatures of star players from every Barclays Premier League club while raising money for Cure Leukaemia thanks to a terrific text & justgiving campaign.
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Cure Leukaemia also part funds the World Class Centre of Excellence for Clinical Haematology at the QE Hospital Birmingham, offering new life saving drugs & treatments to blood cancer patients. Our message remains simple, the more funds we raise, the more nurses we employ, the more lives we save.
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Donations 53
Keep strong Stan.
Donation by Katherine & Stephen Sinfield on 10/10/13
Best of luck for the future Stan, and well done for this amazing show of unity from the Premier League clubs
Donation by Alan de Grey on 27/09/13
Good luck Stan
Donation by Darrin Hill on 31/05/13
+ £5.00 Gift Aid
Wishing Stan a speedy recovery.
Donation by Fiona Beaumont (Forget-Me-Not Project) on 27/05/13
+ £1.25 Gift Aid
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Keep Fighting Stan. COYS (UTV too Andy Grays :-) )
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Here's to your recovery STAN. Courtesy of JA606
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Good luck for the future Stan, you have certainly been missed at Villa Park this season.
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Bulgarian Spurs fan, Let's all support Stan and this cause!
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Donation by Anonymous on 10/05/13
With best wishs from the Fugelmere Close Baggies.
Donation by Paul Jones on 10/05/13
Lets beat this disease.
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Stay strong skip :-)
Donation by Macca - 9 year old Villain!! on 26/02/13
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Lost a great friend when a teenager many years ago. We must keep raising money to improve lives. Good luck Stan from all Canary fans.
Donation by Canary Kim on 21/02/13
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Good luck !
Donation by Doru Pavel on 20/02/13
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- Text donations£0.00
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It's been a while.
Over the last month, I've found myself starting a post, deleting, starting again, and then just moving onto something else. I feel a bit jumbled inside, and haven't really been sure how to say what's on my mind. Some days I'm not even sure I know what's going on in that cavernous space; it's such a swirl of activity. Recipes are overflowing, but the words…well, those seem to be in short supply.
And yet I feel a knot in my chest where my heart takes residence; a throbbing in my head with thoughts that need to be set free. The words, though. The words are elusive, a hodge podge of letters not quite connecting to form words, let alone sentences, that make any sense. Much is happening here these days. I'm not sure why I feel so guarded to share it. These pages usually occupy a hallowed space in my world. Life has taught me these last few years, though, that sometimes less is more. More for me, more for my girls.
This is not to say that I'm taking a break. On the contrary, I'm trying to find a way to ease back into being here more often. I feel incredibly thankful to every one of you for sharing in my life, and for letting me into your own by way of my recipes. When I don't write here, I feel guilty, as if I'm letting you all down. But also as though I'm letting myself down. Feeling so overwhelmed by life is frustrating, and while I've etched words of encouragement into my arms, it is not always easy to follow my own advice.
I found Michael's ipod recently. I listened to it a lot after he died, and then I stopped. I had put it away in a safe place, and forgot where it was exactly. So much for safe places— a metaphor for life. No place is safe, at least not in the place I've called home my entire life. Every corner in this city holds a memory that makes me ache for more moments that are no longer possible. And so, away we go soon. Peace and quiet are deep cravings I can no longer ignore. We shall see where this next chapter takes us. As a friend so lovingly summed it up—"leap, and grow wings on the way down".
eggs in purgatory
Serves 2 to 4
Music Pairing: Journey of the Featherless by Cloud Cult
There are many things I'll miss about being in this city. On those mornings when I need to get lost in my own thoughts, I wander into Cafe Mogador in the East Village after dropping the girls at school. A creature of habit, I order the Moroccan Eggs, poached in a spicy tomato sauce, served with thick, fluffy, warm pita. A big pot of sweetened mint tea are a must, too.
This recipe is a mash up of that dish, also known as shakshuka, and an Italian recipe called Eggs in Purgatory. Guanciale, pork jowl, is what is usually used by Italians, but nubby chunks of bacon or pancetta are common substitutes. In a pinch, when neither are available, I use proscuittto, which I always have in the fridge. That is the version I'm sharing below. Note: the Israeli dish, shakshuka, doesn't use any pork, so you can also leave it out all together for a vegetarian friendly meal.
The sauce is meant to have a spicy kick, but you can scale back on the pepper flakes, for a milder version (which I often do, for the kids). If you want to up the spice factor, fresh chopped jalapenos simmered in the sauce will do the trick nicely.
2 tablespoons (30 ml) of olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped
1 garlic clove, chopped
1/2 teaspoon hot chili flakes
4 to 5 slices (42 grams) Prosciutto di Parma, roughly chopped
One 28 ounce can San Marzano tomatoes
Generous pinch of dried basil
Sea salt, to taste
6 eggs
Add the oil to a 10-inch skillet, and heat over medium-low flame until shimmering. Add the onion, garlic, chili flakes, and prosciutto. Saute until the onions are lightly golden, and softened, 3 to 5 minutes, stirring a few times to make sure nothing sticks to the bottom of the pan. It will look like there's too much oil—don't worry. It'll give the sauce some body once you add the tomatoes.
Use your hands to squeeze the tomatoes, crushing them, as you add them to the pan. Pour in any juices from the can, too. Add the basil, and season with the salt. Bring the sauce to a gentle boil, then reduce the flame to a simmer. Let cook for 20 minutes.
At this point, the sauce can transferred to jars, cooled, and then stored in the fridge or freezer.
If using immediately, use a spoon to create six little "pools" in the sauce. This is where your eggs will rest to cook. Crack the eggs, one at a time, into each of the wells you created, letting each egg set for 30 seconds to 1 minute before cracking the next one. You can crack them into a ramekin first, and then slide them into the skillet, if that feels more comfortable.
Gently spoon some of the sauce over the whites of the eggs, being carefully not to cover the yolks. Cover the skillet, and let cook until the whites are set, about 3 minutes. Keep a close eye, to make sure you don't overcook the yolks if you prefer them a bit runny.
Bring the skillet to the table, and serve family style, with a crusty loaf of country bread.

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February 27, 2013
Gridlock, Tehran-Style
Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
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Don't shoot for big, splashy agreements with Tehran -- that just gives opponents on both sides something to shoot at. Besides, the idea of a grand bargain with the United States appears to make Khamenei nervous.
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By Raenelle Kwock
Observer Staff Writer
Single affiliation strengthens Eastern Oregon athletics, according to school officials. Coaches and administration agree NAIA affiliation is a positive step in the right direction.
We were "breathing a sigh of relief when the decision was made," Eastern men's basketball coach Art Furman said.
The decision was announced in November.
Eastern had been a dual member of the NAIA and NCAA Division III since 1996. The Mountaineers had to follow NCAA rules for all teams, even though they competed in an NAIA conference and for NAIA championships.
Scholarships and recruiting have been affected by Eastern's NAIA affiliation.
The NAIA does allow athletic scholarships, while NCAA Div. III does not.
"It certainly opens the door and under NAIA rules we could offer scholarships if we choose to," Eastern Director of Athletics Rob Cashell said. "It's available to us if and when we choose to go down that road," Cashell said.
Furman said that just the fact that the opportunity for scholarships are available is a plus.
"If that happens, that will be down the road," he said.
Eastern women's basketball and softball coach Anji Weissenfluh said everyone needs to "wait and be patient."
She said it is something to look forward to down the line and for years to come.
Easier recruiting
While the door is open for scholarships, a more tangible and immediate effect of the change will be in the area of recruiting.
Basketball recruits now can be evaluated with other players on campus, rather than just by videotape.
"That's big for coaches," Furman said. "It's big for players. Videotapes don't tell you anything."
Not only do recruits benefit, the team is allowed more games and practice time to develop chemistry.
Basketball can now play 32 games, and engage in 24 playing and practice weeks under NAIA rules, far more than in NCAA Div. III.
"All things big benefit from it now," Furman said.
Weissenfluh felt the same way.
She said seeing how recruits play individually and mesh with the rest of the team allows her to "see what you could get and weed out."
Eastern cross country and track and field coach Ben Welch said it is easier and less confusing to talk to athletes.
He said there is a "tremendous lack of knowledge" with athletes understanding the various affiliations.
Scheduling for his sports will is not affected, Welch said.
One affiliation provides a "common direction and clarity of focus," he said.
Having a home
The Eastern football program will have a new home with the NAIA Frontier Conference. Football has played an independent schedule since 1996.
Cashell said Eastern's Oregon NAIA football-playing brethren, Southern Oregon University, has also made a formal application for membership to the Frontier Conference. No other NAIA schools in Oregon play football.
Eastern's membership gives the Frontier Conference six football teams and an automatic berth in the NAIA 16-team National Championship playoffs.
The Frontier Conference, an NAIA Region I member, is made up of eight schools from Montana, Idaho and Utah.
Only five Montana schools in the Frontier Conference field football teams: Carroll, Montana Tech, MSU-Northern, Rocky Mountain and Montana-Western.
The Mountaineers will not have a schedule within the conference in the fall because of contractual obligations. They will play their games against MSU-Northern, Rocky Mountain and Montana-Western.
Eastern will have probationary membership in 2005 and will play a limited conference schedule.
In 2006, Eastern will have full membership and play a round-robin conference schedule (10 games).


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Norwegian Jewel Cruise Review by bwmj: Norwegian Jewel - Trans-Atlantic
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Norwegian Jewel - Trans-Atlantic
Destination: Transatlantic
Embarkation: Miami
On April 22 my wife and I embarked on a 15 day trans-atlantic cruise on the Norwegian Jewel. It was awesome. The ship is beautiful; the crew was fantastic. We had sailed on NCL in Hawaii last summer and it was terrible. The service was horrible. But on the Jewel (because it's not an American registered ship and primarily has an international crew) was superb. The check-in was slow and hot. But once on the ship we couldn't ask for better. The food was excellent. The specialty restaurants were great. We chose to visit a specialty restaurant 3 times and made reservations between 5:30-6:00 in order to get the 2-for-1 deal ($20 for Cagney's Steakhouse and $15 for the Le Bistro). Food in those 2 places was fantastic.
The sea was extremely calm - almost like glass the entire trip. The were a few small whitecaps in the Mediterranean but very smooth. The temperatures was about 65-75 but breezy. It wasn't like Caribbean cruise temperatures. But they kept the pool temperatures at 82 More and 88 degrees. Being at sea for a week before the first port-of-call was one of the best parts of the trip.
The nightly entertainment was awesome. The big NCl shows were incredible. Entertainment in the lounges was very good, too.
Our ports of call were Funchal, Madeira; Rome; Naples/Pompeii; Crete; Athens. crete was our least favorite but they were all so great.
There was a laundry room on the ship (deck 9) that's free (except for detergent). Once people realized it was there it was extremely crowded.
The average age of passenger was about 70. We're in our mid-40's. But surprisingly, the "seniors" really weren't grouchy and complainers.
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Up, Down & All Around
By Stacy Pepper Schwartz
Leaping Legs
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Amston, CT 06231-1084
Up, Down & All Around
is an exercise and movement program on DVD. It is intended for children ages two and up. Designed for all ability levels, the program teaches body awareness, strength, endurance, and agility.
Eight main tracks and three bonus tracks take the children through several elements of movement. They learn about low, mid-level, and high positions; directional movement; personal space; and more. I believe the exercise on personal space could be especially beneficial for children who struggle to understand that concept.
Children's music artist Steve Blunt (
) performs live original music in the background. The music is very catchy and pleasant to hear. Some children's videos become annoying after multiple times of hearing them. That is not the case with
Up, Down & All Around.
At the company's website,
, an eight-page pdf movement guide is available, as well as coloring pages and other activities to download.
My family enjoyed this DVD. Not only did the children have fun and get moving, but they also learned important concepts. I recommend
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Beluga (Huso huso)
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|great sturgeon
|Huso (1)
|Up to: 2,072 kg (3)
Length: 1 - 3 (max = 5 m) (2)
The beluga is classified as Critically Endangered (CR) on the IUCN Red List. Listed on Appendix II of CITES and Appendix II of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS or Bonn Convention) (1).
The beluga (Huso huso) is the largest sturgeon in the world and the largest European freshwater fish; it can reach up to five metres in length (2). This ancient fish has an elongated body shape and a flattened, slightly upturned snout (3), with the mouth located underneath (4). There are five rows of bony plates (or 'scutes') that run the length of the body, one along the back, one on each flank and two on the undersurface (3). The short, fleshy barbels in front of the mouth are feathered at the ends (2). The body is predominantly dark grey or greenish whilst the belly tends to be white (3).
Found in Europe, principally in the Caspian Sea with spawning occurring mainly in the Volga River (9). Beluga are also found in and around the Black, Caspian and Azov Seas as well as the Adriatic (2).
Belugas are anadromous fish, spending most of their life at sea but migrating to fresh water in order to spawn (4).
These large fish can take up to 18 years to reach sexual maturity and even then will only spawn once in every two to four years (2). Adults migrate upstream in the spring or autumn to spawn in shallow pools; a single female can produce between 300,000 and 7.5 million eggs, which are attached to stones on the pool floor (2). Once they have emerged, juveniles migrate downstream to the sea (2).
The fleshy barbels in front of the mouth are used to search for prey on the seafloor and riverbed (5); juveniles feed mainly on small invertebrates whereas adults tend to consume fish such as anchovy, gobies and herring (2). Belugas spend the majority of their time in the lower reaches of the water column, near to the substrate (3).
Sturgeon have survived since the time of the dinosaurs but some populations of the beluga are today threatened with commercial extinction, principally as a result of overfishing (9). The eggs are highly prized as caviar, for both their quality and quantity (4). The beluga is the most famous of the caviar sturgeons, and is featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive fish (3). Previously effective management of Caspian Sea fisheries have recently collapsed and illegal fishing is now rife; the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service estimated in 1998 that more than 50 percent of worldwide caviar trade was illegal (9). In addition, habitat destruction through the pollution of coastal habitats and the alteration of river systems through dams, pollution and silting have further affected beluga numbers (4). The Volgograd Dam for example, has blocked almost all beluga spawning grounds (9).
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) (7) imposed a six-month ban on sturgeon catches in June 2001, but conservationists are concerned that this has not gone far enough to save the beluga sturgeon (6). The majority of the sturgeon population is now supported artificially (8); hatcheries may be the sole reason belugas still persist in the Caspian Sea (9). The United States is the biggest importer of caviar and the Fish and Wildlife Service is currently considering listing the species under the Endangered Species Act, effectively banning importation (6), but time is running out in the fight to save this ancient fish
Caviar Emptor:
Authenticated (13/8/03) by John Waldman, Hudson River Foundation.
- Anadromous: in fish: those species that spend most of their lives at sea but migrate to fresh water to spawn.
- Barbels: fleshy projections near the mouth of some fish.
- Invertebrate: animals with no backbone.
- Spawning: the production or depositing of large quantities of eggs in water.
IUCN Red List (March, 2011)
Fishbase (September, 2002)
- Cihar, J. (1991) Freshwater Fish. Aventinum Publishing, Prague.
- Paxton, J.R., Eschmeyer, W.N. [eds.] (1994) Encyclopedia of Fishes. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.
Natural Resources Defence Council, Wildlife Conservation Society, SeaWeb (Dec, 2000) Roe to Ruin: The Decline of Sturgeon in the Caspian Sea and the Road to Recovery. Available at:
- Nelson, J.S. (1984) Fishes of the World [2nd edn.]. John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York.
CITES (September, 2002)
Caviar Emptor (September, 2002)
Caspian Environment Programme (September, 2002)


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This is the Scale's first international post! I've been in Japan for about 3 weeks now and been from the middle to the bottom to the top and back to the middle!
This isn't my first journey to Japan, at age 2 (1989) I first lived in Kyoto for 1 year – for those of you who can remember 1989… I'm sure it was a good year, I had a great time!
Around the mid 90s I was very involved with Aikido and Kendo. It was around this time I went back to visit Kyoto when my dad was there. My mum has been a big driving force behind my Japanese experience. Having studied Japanese in her Undergrad and going on to study Japanese management in S.E. Asia her love of Japan runs deeper than mine. She has introduced me to many things related to Japan, specifically around martial arts.
- Aikido
- Kendo
- Budo
- Zen through Kyudo – this is an interesting critical response for those who have read the book
- Isamu Noguchi
Noguchi interests me for two reasons. Firstly his sculptures and secondly he is a mixed kid (just like me!), his mother is American and father is Japanese. His work really engages the moment.
Whilst in Sapporo I visited one of his last efforts as a Sculptor, Moerenuma Park (wiki). It is a park that is considered to be "one complete sculpture", and they nailed it! I spent a solid day exploring most of the park. From the peak of Mt. Moere to the Forrest of Cherry Trees to the Glass Pyramid. As you walked along and looked into the distance you could see each individual sculpture blend with another and forming a larger piece. Everything is deeply considered and deeply connected.
Here are a few images I took of the Park:
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If there is anything you get out of these Friday link post's, I hope that it opens at least one path of investigation, which hopefully will lead to many many more.
All the best from Osaka Japan,


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May 2, 2016
A Marine from Jacksonville, North Carolina, has died following a crash during the first night of the Harley-Davidson spring motorcycle rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Staff Sgt. Michael Delamere died following a crash Friday night
on U.S. Highway 17 in Garden City Beach.
The Highway patrol says a minivan turned in front of Delamere's motorcycle. A female passenger, who was not identified by investigators, also was hospitalized.
Delamere was assigned to the Marine Special Operations School at
Camp Lejeune.
No charges have been filed but the accident still is being investigated.
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PASADENA, Md. (WUSA9) -- Anne Arundel County police need your help finding information about a report of shots fired.
At approximately 9:59 p.m. on Saturday, police found empty shell casings near the intersection of Whitaker Road and Liberty Circle, officials said.
A home near the intersection was struck by a stray bullet but the bullet did not go through the home and no one was injured, officials said.
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But I'm not writing an article about that (just read Brien's if you want to know basically how I feel about it). I'm writing to tell you this: Michael Pineda is not Phil Hughes. It's important to remember that, as much of our (well, my, as I don't speak for you) fears are based, at least in part, on our experience with Hughes' dead arm last season.
It's our nature to connect the two. And there are a lot of reasons to: both suffered a drop in velocity following a rookie season where they faded in the second half. They're both on the Yankees. They're both young. They were both working on new pitches when this drop suddenly happened (Hughes was working on his changeup and cutter, Pineda on his changeup exclusively).
But Brien's article brings up exactly why we shouldn't connect these two: when Phil Hughes was suffering from dead arm to start the spring in 2011, he was throwing, as Danny Knobbler of CBSSports put it, "87-89 mph with more 87s than 89s." In the same article by Aaron Gleeman of NBCSports, Joel Sherman and Knobbler agree that scouts were "stunned" by Hughes' drop in velocity.
This spring, Pineda's velocity has been steadily improving, with hints of much more power in the future: "I have more," he told The New York Times' David Waldstein. "Nobody throws hard in spring training, because it's spring training. You work on what you need to. Now I'm focusing a bit more on making a good pitch." Scouts have differed on his actual velocity, with some insisting that he's around "89-91 with a couple of 93s" on Sunday, with others slightly higher at "90-93 with a few 94s". Add to these numbers the fact that he has been slowly increasing his velocity from the beginning of spring training, and you have a much, much different scenario than our 2011 Phil Hughes dead arm maelstrom.
It's important to remember that this is not a particularly uncommon occurrence (players beginning the season with slightly lower velocity numbers). Remember what Joe Girardi said last season? "I've seen some of our other pitchers velocities jump in the first game. I saw (David) Robertson's jump a little bit. I thought (Rafael) Soriano's jumped a little bit. A little extra adrenaline is what gets that going."
Listen, I know there are legitimate reasons to be worried about Pineda, and his velocity does count as one—his hit-and-miss control this spring training is the rarely talked about question mark—but it's incorrect to link him to Hughes. This time last year, Joe Girardi was openly "curious" about Hughes' ability to make it back to 93 mph. Add to this the fact that Hughes had suddenly started throwing his cutter more than his four seamer, and he needed other pitches to "get people off [his] fastball," well, then you have the makings of a dead arm injury. (And yes, I know every pitcher needs secondary pitches to get people off their fastball.) Only two weeks after the above article ran, Hughes would be sent to the disabled list, and admit that "something had to be done, the arm strength just isn't there."
This really doesn't seem to be the problem for Pineda, as nearly everyone on the Yankees (except Brian Cashman) likes what they've seen. Just ask Russell Martin, who said, importantly, that, "If you hit 94 here, you can easily just add a couple miles an hour once the competition gets a little more heated [in the regular season]." This seems to me to be one (of various) standout differences between Pineda's 2012 and Hughes' 2011.
Ultimately, I am worried about Pineda, and not just because I took him in my fantasy draft. But I think it's important to separate what to really worry about from the semi-fantastical patterns and connections our nervous brains make when we worry.
Just repeat it to yourself: Michael Pineda is not Phil Hughes.


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2013 CO 42. No. 10SC218. People v. Flockhart.
Pre-Deliberation Jury Instruction—Challenges for Cause—Judicial Disqualification.
The Supreme Court held that the trial court erred by giving a pre-deliberation instruction in defendant's criminal trial, because to do so was not authorized by rule or existing law. The Court found, however, that the erroneous instruction constituted non-constitutional trial error and was harmless. Accordingly, the Court reversed the court of appeals' judgment and remanded the case to the trial court to reinstate defendant's convictions. The Court further held that a trial court retains discretion to conduct challenges for cause in open court, and that the trial court did not err by denying defendant's motion to disqualify the trial judge.
2013 CO 43. No. 11SC961. Planning Partners International, LLC v. QED, Inc.
Contract Providing for Award of Reasonable Attorney Fees—Proportional Diminishment—Discretion Afforded to Trial Courts.
Petitioner challenged the court of appeals' ruling that a trial court must apportion attorney fees in proportion to the amount recovered on a promissory note, less the amount recovered on the counterclaim. Petitioner argued that apportionment is not mandatory when determining reasonable attorney fees under a contract providing for such an award. The Supreme Court agreed, concluding that the determination of whether and how to apportion attorney fees is typically within the discretion of the trial court. Accordingly, the judgment was reversed.
2013 CO 44. No. 11SC29. Allen v. People.
Sexually Violent Predator—CRS § 18-3-414.5(1)(a)(IV)—Risk Assessment Screening Instrument.
The Supreme Court upheld the court of appeals' decision affirming petitioner's designation as a sexually violent predator under CRS § 18-3-414.5(1)(a)(IV). The Court held that although the trial court makes the ultimate designation, it should give substantial deference to the Sex Offender Management Board's scored risk assessment screening instrument. A trial court that deviates from the results of a scored risk assessment screening instrument must make specific findings to demonstrate the necessity of its deviation.
2013 CO 45. No. 09SC1084. People v. Gallegos.
Sexually Violent Predator—"Established a Relationship"—"Promoted a Relationship"—CRS § 18-3-414.5(1)(a)(III).
The Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part the court of appeals' decision affirming petitioner's designation as a sexually violent predator under CRS § 18-3-414.5(1)(a). The Court held that an offender "established a relationship" with his or her victim primarily for the purpose of sexual victimization where the offender created, started, or began a relationship primarily for that purpose. Here, petitioner had lived with the victim and treated her as his stepdaughter for the three years preceding the assault. The Court held that, based on these facts, petitioner had not established a relationship with the victim primarily for the purpose of sexual victimization. Thus, he should not be designated as a sexually violent predator.
The Court also held that an offender "promoted a relationship" if, excluding the offender's behavior during the commission of the sexual assault that led to his or her conviction, the offender otherwise encouraged a person with whom he had a limited relationship to enter into a broader relationship primarily for the purpose of sexual victimization. Because the trial court failed to consider whether petitioner promoted a relationship with his victim primarily for the purpose of sexual victimization, the Court remanded the case to the court of appeals with instructions to remand to the trial court to make specific factual findings and determine whether petitioner promoted a relationship with his victim primarily for the purpose of sexual victimization.
2013 CO 46. No. 09SC384. Uribe-Sanchez v. People.
Sexually Violent Predator—CRS § 18-3-414.5(1)(a)(III)—"Promoted a Relationship."
Applying its interpretation of the term "promoted a relationship" in CRS § 18-3-414.5(1)(a)(III) from People v. Gallegos, 2013 CO 45, the Supreme Court held that the court of appeals erred when it concluded that petitioner promoted a relationship with his victim by violently sexually assaulting her. The Court remanded the case to the court of appeals with instructions to remand to the trial court to determine whether to designate petitioner as a sexually violent predator under the proper interpretation of "promoted a relationship."
2013 CO 47. No. 10SC794. Candelaria v. People.
Sexually Violent Predator—CRS § 18-3-414.5(1)(a)(III)—Specific Intent.
The Supreme Court held that an offender need not specifically intend to establish or promote a relationship with the victim primarily for the purpose of sexual victimization to satisfy the relationship criterion of the sexually violent predator statute, CRS § 18-3-414.5(1)(a)(III). The Court accordingly overruled the court of appeals' decision in People v. Stead, 66 P.3d 117 (Colo.App. 2002), to the extent that it conflicts with this holding. In addition, the Court upheld the court of appeals' judgment affirming the trial court's specific findings and resulting designation of petitioner as a sexually violent predator.
2013 CO 48. No. 10SC146. People v. Hunter.
Sexually Violent Predator—"Stranger"—Statutory Interpretation—CRS § 18-3-414.5(1)(a)(III).
The Supreme Court held that the court of appeals erred in reversing petitioner's designation as a sexually violent predator under CRS § section 18-3-414.5(1)(a). The Court held that "stranger" in § 18-3-414.5(1)(a)(III) means either the victim is not known by the offender or the offender is not known by the victim at the time of the offense.
2013 CO 49. No. 11SC899. Gibbons v. Ludlow.
Professional Negligence—Transactional Malpractice.
The Supreme Court held that to sustain a professional negligence claim against a transactional real estate broker, a plaintiff must show that, but for the alleged negligent acts of the broker, he or she either: (1) would have been able to obtain a better deal in the underlying transaction; or (2) would have been better off by walking away from the underlying transaction. The Court found that here, the sellers failed to present evidence of the fact of damages; they did not establish beyond mere possibility or speculation that they suffered a financial loss as a result of the transactional brokers' professional negligence. Because no injury could be shown, the trial court properly granted summary judgment as a matter of law. Accordingly, the Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals with respect to the summary judgment on the professional malpractice claim and reinstated the judgment of the trial court, including the attorney fees and costs associated with the claims.
2013 CO 50. No. 12SA196. Concerning the Application for Water Rights of the City and County of Denver, Acting by and Through its Board of Water Commissioners in Douglas, Arapahoe, Denver, Broomfield, Weld, Adams, and Park Counties: City of Denver v. City of Englewood.
Water Law—Transmountain Lawn Irrigation Return Flows—Appropriative Rights of Exchange—Injury.
The Supreme Court held that the City of Denver may use properly quantified as transmountain lawn irrigation return flows (LIRFs) as a substitute supply of water for its civil action (C.A.) 3635 exchanges. Properly quantified LIRFs are legally indistinguishable from reusable transmountain effluent. The Court also held that junior appropriators, such as the City of Englewood, cannot claim injury solely on account of Denver's proper operation of the C.A. 3635 exchanges. Thus, the water court correctly decided Denver's Motion for Determination of a Question of Law under CRCP 56(h).
2013 CO 51. No. 11SC596. Marshall v. People.
Sixth Amendment—Confrontation Clause—Testimonial Statements—Laboratory Supervisor.
Petitioner was charged with driving under the influence of drugs, careless driving, and possession of drug paraphernalia after lab results revealed she had methamphetamine in her system when she caused a car accident. At trial, the People called the supervisor of the Colorado Department of Health toxicology lab to testify about petitioner's level of intoxication. During her testimony, the People sought to admit the lab result showing that petitioner had methamphetamine in her urine. Although the lab supervisor did not conduct the urinalysis test herself, she supervised the testing process, reviewed all the data generated by the test, made the determination that the data accurately determined that petitioner had methamphetamine present in her urine, and certified the test results. Over petitioner's objection, the trial court admitted the lab report without the testimony of the lab technician who actually performed the test.
The Supreme Court affirmed the district court's ruling regarding the admission of the lab report. Admission of the lab report did not violate the Confrontation Clause because the lab supervisor managed the testing process, reviewed all data generated, determined that the data accurately showed that petitioner had methamphetamine present in her urine, and certified the results. She therefore did not provide "surrogate" testimony of the sort found to be problematic in Bullcoming v. New Mexico, ___ U.S. ___, 131 S.Ct. 2705 (2011).
Admission of the lab report also did not violate CRS § 16-3-309(5), which provides that, on a defendant's timely request, the lab employee who "accomplished the requested analysis" must be made available to testify at trial. According to the plain meaning of "accomplish," the lab supervisor accomplished the analysis because she performed the final analysis of the data required to certify the results as accurate. Therefore, the lab supervisor's testimony satisfied the statutory provision.
The trial court also denied petitioner's motion for judgment of acquittal on the paraphernalia possession charge. Acting in its appellate capacity, the district court upheld the trial court's decision. Because the People conceded that there was no evidence presented that petitioner possessed drug paraphernalia, the Court held that the county court erroneously denied petitioner's motion for judgment of acquittal on this charge, and reversed the district court's judgment in this regard.
2013 CO 52. No. 12SC49. Industrial Claim Appeals Office v. Colorado Dep't of Labor and Employment.
Unemployment Benefits—Retirement Contributions—Offset Provision.
Respondent worked for the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (Department) for a number of years, and then retired. The Department made contributions to respondent's retirement fund, and once she retired, she began receiving retirement payments from that fund. When she was involuntarily separated from her job with the Department during a second period of employment, she applied for and was awarded unemployment benefits. Respondent's benefits were discontinued when a panel of the Industrial Claim Appeals Office (Panel) reasoned that respondent was ineligible to receive unemployment benefits under the "offset provision" of CRS § 8-73-110(3)(a)(I)(B), which provides that "an individual's weekly benefit amount shall be reduced (but not below zero) by . . . [t]he prorated weekly amount of a pension, retirement or retired pay, or annuity that has been contributed to by a base period employer." The court of appeals reversed, holding that the offset provision applies only when the employer has contributed to the claimant's retirement fund during the base period employment that made him or her eligible for unemployment benefits.
The Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the court of appeals. The offset provision applies when a claimant is receiving payments from a retirement fund "that has been contributed to by a base period employer." In contrast to the definition of employer, which specifically includes a time frame during which the employing unit must pay wages, and in contrast to the definition of base period, which describes the time frame for determining eligibility for benefits, the offset provision contains no temporal limitation. Therefore, it applies any time the employer has contributed to the retirement fund from which the claimant is receiving payments, regardless of when the contributions were made. Accordingly, the Court held that respondent's unemployment benefits can be offset by the retirement benefits she is receiving from a base period employer.
2013 CO 53. No. 12SA313. Concerning the Application for Underground Water Rights, Change of Water Rights, and Plan for Augmentation of Cherokee Metropolitan District, El Paso County: Cherokee Metropolitan Dist. v. Felt, Monson & Culichia LLC.
Civil Procedure—Intervention as of Right Under CRCP 24(a).
The Supreme Court held that Felt, Monson & Culichia LLC (FMC) did not have a right to intervene under CRCP 24(a) because FMC did not make a compelling showing that Cherokee Metropolitan District may not adequately represent its interest in the underlying litigation. Furthermore, FMC did not establish that the water court abused its discretion in denying its motion for permissive intervention under CRCP 24(b). The Court therefore affirmed the water court's denial of FMC's motion to intervene in the consolidated Case Nos. 2005CW06 and 2005CW20.
2013 CO 54. No. 12SA96. Asmussen v. United States.
Real Property—Deeds—Construction and Operation—Railroad Easement Right-of-Way.
The Supreme Court considered a certified question from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims asking whether Colorado law presumes that abutting landowners own the underlying fee to the centerline of an abandoned railroad right-of-way. The Court determined that the centerline presumption is a common law rule of conveyance that presumes that a grantor who conveyed land abutting a right-of-way intended to convey land to the center of the right-of-way—to the extent that the grantor owned the property underlying the right-of-way and absent a contrary intent on the face of the conveyance. Therefore, although the Court held that the centerline presumption applies to railroad rights-of-way, it also held that, to claim presumptive ownership to the centerline of a railroad right-of-way, an adjacent landowner must produce evidence that his or her title derives from the owner of the land underlying the right-of-way. Accordingly, the Court answered the certified question in the negative.
2013 CO 55. No. 09SC323. People v. Brunsting.
Criminal Law—Fourth Amendment—Exigent Circumstances—Safety of Officers as Justification for Warrantless Search—Search of a Curtilage—Probable Cause.
The Supreme Court considered the exigent circumstances exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement as it pertains to a search of a residence's curtilage motivated by concern for officer safety. The Court held that officer safety concerns fall within the exigent circumstances exception when: (1) the officers have an objectively reasonable basis to believe there is an immediate need to protect the lives or safety of themselves or others, and (2) the manner and scope of the search is reasonable. Here,
The deputy sheriff's initial entry into defendant's cartilage was justified by the exigent circumstances exception. The court of appeals did not consider conduct by law enforcement in response to observations made after officer safety concerns caused the first deputy to enter the curtilage. Accordingly, the judgment was reversed and the case was remanded to the court of appeals to consider the remainder of the issues raised on appeal concerning the conduct by law enforcement that occurred after the first deputy crossed into defendant's curtilage, as well as all other outstanding issues.
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Is it just me or is this board really religious?
I'm bothered when people are told to ignore the facts, ignore research, ignore doctors and to pray about things. I'm also annoyed when abortion gets brought up from a woman wanting information and she's essentially told she's going to 'hell' or something about 'gods plan', ect. Usually I ignore it unless someone pushes one of those buttons or assumes everyone else is religious and therefore we all believe the same things.
I do not feel oppressed nor offended. I just think that we all have to right to believe what we believe. There are a lot of post that I don't agree with and a lot of the reason I don't agree with them is because of my faith but I choose not to comment on those post. Those women have the same right I do just has you have the right to post this. The thing is though when you post on here you open yourself up to peoples thoughts and feeling no matter what they are.
diskomay- I would appreciate that very much!
Maybe I am an oddball but on BBC I assume people AREN'T Christians, but like I said earlier, I notice the lack of faith most likely because it stands out to me more than the religious stuff because that is my daily life.
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but see Disko, you saying that (I am sending out positive thoughts) is semantics, and essentially the same, praying IS thinking positive things and sending positive thoughts. Prayer is not always about intervention from a God... so if both are the same than who cares? Its both positive and that is all that matters.
Wicked....lol, I don't think anyone is praying for that BUT i do notice (not just in here but all over) that people say "I will pray for you" as if its an insult, like 'you are a piece of shit so I will pray for you' they make it an attack...this is more irritating to me than anything else. ONE because its BS and mean and spiteful, and two because it perpetuates the idea that people of faith are a-holes. and I have annoying people say it to me as well.
I do try and be careful when the post doesn't specify a prayerful person. Its hard though because I DO pray...nice things BTW....so I have now chosen to use the word meditate, it seems to be a perfect middle ground. Everyone is okay with meditation lol....
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Naturally, the best college football talent in the commonwealth resides at Virginia Tech and Virginia. But next season the state's best quarterbacks figure to hail from FCS programs.
That group became even stronger this week with Billy Cosh's transfer from Kansas State to James Madison.
Cosh, the leading passer in Maryland high school history and the son of K-State defensive coordinator and former Virginia Tech linebacker Chris Cosh, has four years of eligibility remaining. He elevates the quarterback-poor Dukes in a state teeming with quality.
Start at reigning Colonial Athletic Association champion William and Mary, where Michael Paulus figures to start. A transfer from North Carolina, Paulus was a Tribe backup for much of 2010, but he threw a last-minute, game-winning touchdown pass at Maine and started in W&M's victory over Villanova.
Paulus is among the most gifted quarterbacks to play for the Tribe, and in his second season under Jimmye Laycock, those talents should emerge.
From Williamsburg head east on I-64 to Old Dominion, where in two seasons Thomas DeMarco has thrown for 4,677 yards and 44 touchdowns and rushed for 1,325 yards. With full CAA membership looming in 2011, the Monarchs are about to encounter a serious competition upgrade, but what better way to face than with an established quarterback?
CAA rival Richmond has the most touted passer in Southern California transfer Aaron Corp, who two years ago bested Matt Barkley for the starting gig, only to injure his leg and lose the job. Corp threw for 645 yards and four scores at Richmond last year before sustaining a season-ending knee injury.
Not to be forgotten is Liberty's extraordinary Mike Brown. The Big South's 2009 Player of the Year as a sophomore receiver, he moved to quarterback last season and led the nation in total offense, passing for 2,956 yards and 23 touchdowns and rushing for 854 and nine.
Needless to say, Brown repeated as conference Player of the Year.
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The Torque DROIDZ Motion is going to be available next year, early 2013, possibly January. It's price is reportedly going to be below PHP 8,000.00. But seeing that this device is still weeks away, it may be just a matter of time before other brands one-up this device.
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Alarm as a Bogus Nanny Fools the Job Agencies
Byline: SEAN POULTER
FRIGHTENING loopholes in the vetting systems used by Britain's nanny agencies have been highlighted by an undercover investigation.
One in four was willing to put an unqualified young woman, whose only experience was occasional babysitting, into homes across the country.
Some agencies said they did not need to carry out the full background checks that would show criminal convictions and flag up someone who was a danger to children.
Meanwhile, other agencies were willing to accept bogus or unsatisfactory references, which provided little or no reliable evidence of childcare experience.
The probe was carried out by Which?
and the consumer watchdog wants Education Secretary Charles Clarke to set up a national register for qualified nannies.
The Government plans to launch a list of approved child carers, including criminal checks, next April but it is not expected to stipulate minimum qualifications or experience and the move is considered inadequate by experts.
Which? editor Malcolm Coles said: 'It's nerve-wracking enough leaving children in a stranger's care, without the added worry that nanny agencies may not be making the checks they claim.
'We want to see a full national nanny registration scheme so parents can make an informed decision about who they employ.' The Which? study comes amid concerns that youngsters are being handed over to unqualified nannies who have little idea about first aid skills and the right food, educational needs and discipline required to care for children.
Experts believe that a nanny should have at least two years' experience working with children, preferably in a nursery.
However, five out of 20 agencies approached by a Which? researcher pretending to be a 22-year-old with no qualifications and limited babysitting experience, said this was not necessary.
Ten agencies were picked at random and ten members of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation - a professional body for nanny agencies - were also contacted. One, in the north of England, offered the researcher a live-in post, in charge of a family's young children for much of the day, without even meeting her.
The same agency claimed that all its nannies were qualified, experienced and professional people. A London agency agreed to set up a meeting with parents looking for a nanny based on just a phone call.
The agency, which charges parents [pounds sterling]999 a time, states on its website that all staff have two years' childcare experience.
An REC member in the North West was also happy to hire the bogus nanny. A consultant told her: 'You don't have to be qualified, any experience is good.' Agencies in Yorkshire and Wales were also willing to place the researcher in live-in, fulltime jobs.
Most parents turn to agencies because they are authorised to carry out Criminal Records Bureau checks, which show convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings by the police. They can also check government lists of people banned from working with children. …


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Kim's mom fuming over trackFri, 10 Aug 2012 10:48 AM
Kris Jenner is angry at Kanye West's Perfect Bitch — the song that he wrote about girlfriend Kim Kardashian.
Kardashian is said to be flattered by her boyfriend's latest tribute — which tells how he's been with so many girls but now found his ideal woman — but her mother is upset at him referring to her as a "bitch".
A source told the Daily Star newspaper: "Kris told Kim to get a grip, saying no woman should be called such a term."
West (35) debuted the new song at New York's Dream Downtown club last Friday (3 August), where he was partying with Leonardo DiCaprio. He reportedly pulled out a laptop and asked DJ Reach to blast out his new songs.
Those who heard it said Perfect Bitch contains numerous references to Kim's famous curvaceous figure and eye-popping butt.
The hip-hop star previously rapped about being in love with Kardashian while she was still with her now estranged husband, Kris Humphries, on Way Too Cold.
In that track he said: "I'll admit I fell in love with Kim / around the same time she had fell in love with him / Well, that's cool, baby girl, do your thing / Lucky I ain't have Jay drop him from the team."
Perfect Bitch will be featured on West's upcoming album Cruel Summer.
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Tehran shifts on number of enrichment centrifuges, but number is still 'unacceptably high,' diplomat says.
Published: 07.04.14, 00:25 / Israel News
VIENNA - Iran has reduced demands for the size of its future nuclear enrichment program in talks with world powers although Western governments are urging Tehran to compromise further, Western diplomats said on Thursday.
Tehran's shift relates to the main sticking point in the talks - the number of uranium enrichment centrifuges Iran can maintain in a deal in exchange for a gradual end of sanctions.
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"Iran needs at least 50,000 centrifuges and not 49,999," the Iranian official said. "The other party is talking about a few thousands and this is unacceptable for Iran."
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in an apparent response to Kerry's remarks, said Tehran was ready to take concrete steps to ensure its nuclear program is peaceful but will not "kneel in submission" to do a deal.


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Rovio's feathered heroes have already put a dent in your social life. Now they're taking aim at your social network.Angry Birds officially went live on Facebook on Tuesday, bringing some new tweaks to its immensely popular formula. You'll start off with access to a few new gadgets, including a super slingshot, a handy targeting scope and a pig-rattling earthquake.
Of course, you only get the first few for free. As with most Facebook games, Angry Birds features a microtransaction model that lets users spend real coin to buy more in-game power-ups. The game also includes Facebook staples like gifting and leaderboards.
Three worlds await players: the familiar 'Poached Eggs' and 'Mighty Hoax' levels from previous versions, plus the Facebook exclusive 'Surf and Turf' set. That puts it a step ahead of the Google Plus version, which was released in August of last year and currently features only 'Poached Eggs' and a handful of 'Teamwork' levels.
It's a marriage made in heaven, provided heaven hates pigs. Angry Birds is closing in on one billion downloads across various mobile devices, but has yet to truly tap into Facebook's 800 million users. Combine those numbers and, by my math, over eleventy-gazillion people will be flinging birds at stuff in the very near future.
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Toyota hints F1 pull-out not impossible
30 September 2009
Toyota has confirmed what many in the F1 paddock have long feared by dropping hints that a withdrawal from competition at the end of the 2009 world championship campaign – following in the wheeltracks of Honda and BMW – is not out of the question.
Since its debut in the top flight back in 2002, the big-budget Japanese manufacturer has started 136 grands prix, but has yet to reach the highest step of the rostrum. That has been much to the frustration of the parent company, which has invested a considerable degree of funding into the F1 project – at one stage believed to be the highest-spending team on the grid – for what has on paper been comparatively little on-track return, with just eleven podiums to its credit from eight years.
The 2008 budget is understood to have been in the region of $300 million, and whilst the Cologne-based outfit has pledged its commitment to F1 for 2010, the fact that the parent company suffered its first annual net loss in seven decades last year – as the debilitating global recession tightened its grip on the automotive industry, with further losses anticipated this financial year – has plunged the continued existence of the team into serious doubt.
"We need to turn it into an F1 where you don't need so much money," team principal Tadashi Yamashina told a Tokyo news conference, according to the
newspaper. "We'll have to consider various issues while bearing in mind our ties with the main company."
Adding to the uncertainty is the fact that the Toyota F1 budget is not due to be signed off – or conversely refused – until November, when a more accurate financial forecast will be available, and both Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock are reported to have been advised by team management to look elsewhere for drives in 2010.
Yamashina added, however, that provided costs can be sufficiently cut – with more team members now flying economy class and fewer menu choices in the team canteen – the world's largest car maker will remain in the sport
"I believe in the car and I believe in our racers," he asserted. "We will never give up, and hope to someday stand at the centre of the podium."


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Del Mar-based Nicholas Investment Partners has hired Emmy Sobieski as a senior research analyst. Sobieski, who has worked at Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management, Oppenheimer Funds and Palantir Capital, is a former partner of San Diego Social Venture Partners.
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MGTOW smackdown, part 4
Posted by xsplat on November 9, 2012
Mike ash wrote a thoughtful reply to the discussion sparked by this thread on the MGTOW forum.
I'm dragging my reply out from the comments section of MGTOW part 2, as this is my first introduction to western grass eaters; I never knew that people like this existed. This isn't just a movement or a philosophy or approach to women, this is, apparently, also a body type and mental type of human. A group of guys with a similar psycho-somatic gestalt. The pudgy low testosterone grass eaters who advocate to others to avoid sex.
xsplat: "The MGTOW crowd seem to have intimacy avoidance issues, and view normal human emotions and psychological requirements as pathological."
Mike: You do realize there is more to intimacy than sex, right? One size does not fit all. What works great for you, works because it's what is important to you.
I have been married, had long term relationships, short term relationships, and am a father to a great daughter. I understand the attraction, and people feeling like they need to "have someone in their life". What I also realize, is that intimacy and relationships are not dependent on sex. I love having dinner with my parents, catching up on what they've been up to. I love planning an afternoon to catch up with my daughter who is busy with work and college. I love going on day long motorcycle rides with friends, followed by dinner and great conversation until the wee hours of the morning. You see, I experience "normal human emotions and psychological requirements" too.
Lack of sex has nothing to do with lack or avoidance of intimacy. My most fulfilling roles in life and relationships have nothing to do with my libido.
I wasn't commenting on the very notion of mgtow, I was commenting on the specific comments on that thread in the mgtow forum and what they imply about the commentors there. In those comments many expressed the idea that other people having sex was foolish, and worse. Comments like "I wouldn't trust that guy around my dog with the amount of hormones flowing through him". A distrust of sex way past any reasonableness to a pathological extreme.
So on that forum, with those guys, you aren't even men going your own way. You are men disgusted by and afraid of and averse to ANYONE having sex. Never mind just guys minding their own business and doing their own thing.
And it's one thing to enjoy occasional companionship, and quite another to enjoy intimate sexual bonding. The two types of relationship are not two types of the same thing – they are in different categories. Both sexual and non-sexual share some attributes, and relations to kids can be very bonded, but sexual relationships give unique challenges and rewards. If it's not true for you that you have relationship avoidance, is it fair to say you have sexual-relationship avoidance?
Maybe you are different than most of the posters in that thread, but I don't hear a take it or leave it attitude at all. I hear a "everyone is very stupid and fucked up unless they leave it" attitude towards sex. A profound disinterest AND a profound aversion.
It's one thing to make a calculated decision to avoid risk. Women can be dangerous. But it's quite another to have an intense negative reaction to people showing a safe and effective and pleasurable way to avoid most of the risk of dealing with women, while enjoying their rewards. And it's another thing again to deny that there even are any rewards. But your crowd does more than just deny the possibility of successfully navigating the minefield of difficulties with women and living a more rewarded life, you go several steps further, and express that the very attempt is stupid and yes, pathological. You think it's sick to even try.
Do you agree that if test levels were taken that most of the posters would likely score EXTREMELY low? Do you agree that the average discourse on that thread is vulgar and immature and trollish? That most comments show a feminine emotional thinking style?
Honestly, judging by those comments, I don't see a bunch of guys making a personal lifestyle choice. I see a bunch of guys with something wrong with them. Wrong not just sexually, but in attitude and emotions and clarity of thinking. It reads like little girls are chatting in there. It is frankly shocking.
And while you may have been there and done that, the general tone of the comments is a complete lack of empathy with the human sexual condition. As if guys there are pre-pubescent. You guys are shocked and amazed that men would have and want love and sex with women. If that is not broken it is at the minimum a sign of being sexually developmentally impaired.
And the fact that the attitude there is that it is inconceivable to successfully date women is again a sign of social ineptness. But not just an internal ineptness, an ineptness that you project out to the entire of humanity.
And would you agree with the conclusion that I take away from the fact that many posters there find deliberate male dominance in relationship to be off-putting to be sign that the posters there are clueless about innate female/male sexual and social dynamics? Social retards, in other words?
And as none of the posters there have rebutted a single one of my points, nor even acknowledged any of them, but have instead universally responded with snark and eye rolling and ad hominem, I would not expect an answer to any of my questions here. There is an apparent inability to think with a direct, masculine, logical style by you guys.
Update: Credit to Mr. Wombat, who made this honest and introspective comment on the forum:
xsplat: I'd be very interested in seeing photos of the members. I imagine them a bit pudgy and man breasted, lacking in any signs of testosterone, and I imagine the friends they surround themselves with to be similar.
MrWombat: Meh – guilty. Maybe he's right, which raises a whole host of other questions. What is life about, if it's nothing but which chemicals happen to be running through your brain?
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November 9, 2012 at 4:54 pm
I don't think MGTOW avoid intimacy. They simply cannot find intimacy on the terms they are looking for so they have given up. (So have many women). One cannot go on strike if one isn't even employed. Involuntary MGTOW is actually men sent their own way.
Unfortunate really.
November 10, 2012 at 12:20 am
"Smackdown Part 4". Four. This is the FOURTH post on the same gripe…
There's no unbending in any of it, no calming of your anger. In fact it's getting worse, with endless paragraphs about the GENETIC superiority of your manhood over theirs. Genetic stuff makes it sound like you want to lead a lynch mob and put them thar dirty untermenschen in their grave.
Those paragraphs are why I'm commenting, angrily, now.
They insulted you. You showed them how wrong they were. Come on, a real man now leaves the little idiots severely alone, and sooner than this.
And NO repeat NO, neither MRAs nor lynch mobs are defined by their DNA's Testosterone code. Get off the bitter creep's road to hell before you're swamped with neo-nazi readers and nobody else.
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We're fairly certain that Kim Zolciak is pregnant with kiddo number five, but we're troubled by the fact that the reality starlet has yet to confirm the news herself. Sure, it's possible that Kimmie has some big magazine cover story planned for the big reveal, but several outlets have already reported on her possible pregnancy, and she's always one to tweet good news as soon as it breaks.
While Kim has been tweeting a bunch over the past few days, she's made no mention of another pregnancy. However, her daughter Brielle shared a photo of Kim holding her 9-month-old son, Kash, and we think we spot a bump.
Granted, Kim's belly isn't as big here as it was on her beach vacation a few weeks ago, but she's wearing a shirt this time. If you look closely at the above photo, you can even see little Kash's foot seemingly resting on the bump.
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Ball consensus 1st-team All-Big Ten, running back of the year
Madison - Wisconsin senior tailback Montee Ball on Monday was named a first-team All-Big Ten Conference pick by the coaches and media and the league's running back of the year for the second consecutive season.
Junior wide receiver Jared Abbrederis and senior left tackle Rick Wagner were also consensus first-team picks.
Junior Jacob Pedersen was the coaches' pick as the first-team tight end. Kyle Carter of Penn State was the first-team pick by the media. Pedersen was named the league's tight end of the year.
Junior center Travis Frederick was a first-team pick according to the media.
Ball finished second in the Big Ten in rushing yards per game with 127.3. Michigan State's Le'Veon Bell led the league at 137.3 yards per game.
However, Ball led the league in rushing touchdowns with 18.
"It is a new year and to have the award again is special," Ball said on the Big Ten Network. "It is something I will cherish for the rest of my life and I am really blessed to have it.
"Everything that I've been through this year and to still be here and fight just as hard as I did last year and to know that I've won the award makes it that much more special. Like I said, I am blessed."
Ball was asked what he will remember from his final season at Wisconsin. His answer: that memory might come this weekend when UW faces Nebraska in the Big Ten title game.
"Everyone knows how special this game was last year," he said, referring to UW's 42-39 victory over Michigan State. "Just knowing that we played in it last year and how much fun it was, I think it is going to be one memory I'm going to take from this year.
"There are a lot of memories I would love to take but I think this week is going to be a great one."
Junior linebacker Chris Borland was a first-team pick by the coaches but didn't make the media first or second teams. He was an honorable mention pick.
Teammate Mike Taylor didn't make the coaches' first or second team but was a first-team linebacker according to the media. Taylor was an honorable mention pick according to the coaches.
Senior cornerback Devin Smith was a second-team pick by the media and honorable mention according to the coaches.
Junior guard Ryan Groy was a second-team pick according to the coaches and honorable mention by the media.
Pedersen is second on UW in catches (25), receiving yards (337) and touchdown catches (four).
"I was very surprised, very honored," Pedersen said of being named the league's tight end of the year. "I've got to keep it going."
UW's honorable mention picks according to the coaches: Beau Allen; Marcus Cromartie; Travis Frederick; David Gilbert; Ethan Hemer; Drew Meyer; Devin Smith; Dezmen Southward; Mike Taylor.
According to the media: Beau Allen; Chris Borland; Marcus Cromartie; David Gilbert; Ryan Groy; Drew Meyer; Jacob Pedersen; Dezmen Southward.
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