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Though still nowhere close to the starting pitcher they so desperately need, the Angels continued the rebuilding of their bullpen by agreeing to a three-year deal with right-hander Joe Smith worth over $15 million, according to John Heyman of CBS Sports.
The signing of Smith would add yet another veteran reliever to the Halos' bullpen group. The 29-year-old was 6-2 with a 2.29 ERA and three saves in 70 appearances with the Cleveland Indians in 2013. Over parts of seven different seasons with the Indians and New York Mets, Smith is 27-16 with a 2.97 ERA in 439 total appearances.
However, Smith has not posted an ERA above 3.00 since 2010, and is 16-9 with a 2.42 ERA and 152 strikeouts in 197 innings pitched over the past three seasons.
Smith comes to the Angels just a day after the team got reliever Fernando Salas in the deal that brought David Freese from the Cardinals for outfielders Peter Bourjos and Randal Grichuk.
However, Smith is expected to serve in the seventh and eighth innings for the club, as general manager Jerry DiPoto said in recent national interviews that Ernesto Frieri will serve as the team's closer in 2014.
With Smith on board, the Angels now have three veteran relievers to go along with hard-throwing righty Dane De La Rosa, who had a breakout season in Anaheim in 2013 after two brutal seasons in Tampa Bay.


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Height: 6-1 ▪ Weight: 180 lbs.
Born: September 29, 1939 in Bonham, Texas
High School: San Diego in San Diego, California
College: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
NBA Debut: October 14, 1967 ▪ ABA Debut: October 20, 1974
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Can Execs On Trial in 2009 Get Impartial Jurors?
How would you like to be an executive facing trial right now, especially one about your compensation? Wall Street has melted away, everyone is blaming everyone, bonuses are the outrage of the day and there you are. You might as well wear a tie with a bullseye on it to the trial, right?
Well that's exactly what James Treacy's lawyers worry about for their client after seeing the results of a survey they commissioned of about 400 New York City residents. Treacy (pictured), the former president of Monster Worldwide, was indicted last year on securities-fraud charges in connection with stock-options backdating at the company. The trial is scheduled for April 20.
Treacy's lawyers at Steptoe and Johnson made a recent motion asking that during jury selection, potential jurors should be quizzed about their ability to be impartial regarding senior-level executives.
"[T]he credit crisis has plunged the country into an economic downturn unseen since the Great Depression," wrote Steptoe's Evan Barr. Amid the negative publicity on corporate executives who were portrayed as "reckless and greedy," Barr said he was concerned potential jurors may allow the events of the past several months to impact their attitudes" toward executives and making it more difficult to get a fair trial.
In the motion, he cited the survey done by jury-research firm Empirical Creative, which shows the following:
• 60.2% of the participants believe that the recent economic crisis has been caused mainly by senior-level corporate executives who have committed financial crimes.
• 47.3% of the participants believe that if the United States government accuses a senior-level corporate executive of committing financial fraud, he or she probably did it.
• 29% of the participants believe that a senior-level corporate executive is definitely or probably guilty when they hear that he or she has been accused by the United States government of committing financial fraud.
• 30.2% of the participants feel that even though they may tell a judge that they can be a fair and impartial juror in cases involving senior-level corporate executives who are accused of committing financial fraud, the current economic crisis will make it very difficult for them to presume that such defendants are innocent until proven guilty.
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HOUSTON -- Like most NBA fans, Chuck Hayes marvels at some of the acrobatic dunks he's seen Blake Griffin pull off this season.
Houston's best low-post defender was determined to keep Griffin from adding another one on Wednesday night.
Hayes stifled the Clippers' rookie star and Kyle Lowry scored 20 points in the Rockets' 96-83 win over Los Angeles.
Griffin had 14 points and 11 rebounds. But he went 5 for 16 from the field and coughed up three turnovers with Hayes smothering him all night.
"I'm a fan of what he's doing," said Hayes, who also had 11 boards. "From a fan standpoint, I'm entertained, just like everybody else. As a competitor, I'm telling myself, 'He's not doing that on me."'
Hayes, the NBA's shortest starting center at 6-foot-6, flustered New York center Amar'e Stoudemire (five turnovers) a week ago. As he did leading up to his game against the Knicks star, Hayes studied video highlights of Griffin and broke down his weaknesses.
"It's unbelievable what he's doing," Hayes said. "At the same time, as I'm watching it, I'm also scouting him. I know exactly what not to let him do."
Griffin produced his lowest point total since he scored 13 in a win over Sacramento on Dec. 6. He was held under 20 points for only the sixth time since Dec. 3, but avoided giving much credit to Hayes.
"I just missed a lot of shots," Griffin said. "I didn't have great energy and just missed shots. You know you're missing shots, but you're just searching for that next one to go in."
Aaron Brooks and Luis Scola added 16 points apiece for the Rockets, who are 24-5 against the Clippers since 2003.
Randy Foye scored a season-high 20 points and DeAndre Jordan grabbed 12 rebounds for the Clippers, who shot 36.4 percent (32 of 88) and mustered a season-low 10 points in the final quarter while dropping their fourth straight road game.
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"We just couldn't put the ball in the basket," coach Vinny Del Negro said. "We didn't shoot well enough to put some pressure on them."
The 6-foot-10 Griffin made his first basket on his 101st dunk of the season, an easy one-hander following an offensive rebound with 7:40 left in the first quarter.
But with the bulky Hayes pushing him away from the basket, Griffin was quiet the rest of the half, going 2 for 7 from the field and grabbing four rebounds.
"If I keep my body on him and go strength-for-strength, muscle-for-muscle," Hayes said, "I have a chance."
The Clippers' reserves rallied from seven points down to take a 44-42 lead with five minutes left in the half. Both starting lineups were back on the floor for the last four minutes, and Hayes' layup with eight seconds remaining gave Houston a 55-52 lead.
Jordan threw down a one-handed dunk with 8:35 left in the third quarter, off Griffin's assist, to cut the Rockets' lead to 59-58. The teams combined for eight turnovers in the first eight minutes of the sloppy third, and the Clippers built a 70-65 advantage when Foye set a new season high with consecutive driving layups.
Houston went 4 for 19 from the field in the third, but only trailed 73-70 because the Clippers gave away six turnovers in the quarter.
Rockets reserve guard Chase Budinger drove for a dunk 15 seconds into the fourth, and Courtney Lee swished a jumper from the wing to put Houston back in front.
The Rockets extended their lead to nine as the Clippers missed their first 15 shots in the last quarter, many of them uncontested tries from close range. Baron Davis ended the Clippers' drought with a short jumper with 5:43 remaining.
"That's huge," Lowry said. "We weren't making shots, but having them not make shots definitely helped us during that stretch."
Houston rookie Patrick Patterson flipped in a hook shot and Brooks drove for a layup to extend the Rockets' lead into double digits for the first time at 86-75.
- The Rockets have won 11 of the last 14 meetings with the Clippers in Houston.
- The Clippers were outrebounded (50-44) for the first time in eight games.
- Griffin has 37 doubles-doubles this season.
- Griffin wore a black sleeve on his left arm to protect the elbow he hurt on a hard foul by Dallas' Brendan Haywood on Tuesday night. When asked about his elbow after the game, Griffin said it was all right.
- The Rockets held an opponent under 100 points for the third time since Dec. 22 -- when they beat the Clippers 97-92 at the Staples Center.


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Everything you always wanted to know about structural realism but were afraid to ask
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A structuralist perspective is one that sees the investigation of the structural features of a domain of interest as the primary goal of enquiry. This vision has shaped research programmes in fields as diverse as linguistics, literary criticism, aesthetics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and various branches of philosophy. The focus of this paper is structuralism in the philosophy of science, and in particular those movements that have endeavoured to articulate a structural version of scientific realism, now commonly referred to as structural realism (SR). The paper provides a critical survey of the debates raging over structural realism: it provides explicit statements of the different positions as well as the arguments put forward to support them, clarifies how the different positions relate to one another, draws attention to hitherto neglected arguments, and evaluates criticisms launched against different strands of SR. Attention to the history of the field is paid in as far as this is essential to understanding the contemporary scene, but documenting the long and intricate development of SR is beyond the scope of this paper. We begin by introducing the set theoretic conception of structure on which many of the positions that we are concerned with rely (Section 2). In Section 3 we introduce the two main strands of epistemic structural realism, discuss the central objections levelled against them, most notably Newman's objection, and present the Ramsey sentence formulation. Section 4 is dedicated to a discussion of ontic structural realism. In Section 5 we offer some concluding remarks.
KeywordsStructural realism Scientific realism Philosophy of science Theory change Ramsey sentence Newman problem Identity of indiscernibles
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- Title
- Everything you always wanted to know about structural realism but were afraid to ask
- Journal
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Volume 1, Issue 2 , pp 227-276
- Cover Date
- 2011-05
- 10.1007/s13194-011-0025-7
- Print ISSN
- 1879-4912
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- 1879-4920
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- Springer Netherlands
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- Structural realism
- Scientific realism
- Philosophy of science
- Theory change
- Ramsey sentence
- Newman problem
- Identity of indiscernibles
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- Roman Frigg (1)
- Ioannis Votsis (2)
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- 1. Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK
- 2. Philosophisches Institut, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, Geb. 23.21/04.86, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany


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Rebecca Black Drops New Track – "Saturday" [VIDEO]
As if Rebecca Black's "Friday" were not enough, she has followed it up with a sequel. We present to you, "Saturday."
As if Rebecca Black's "Friday" were not enough, she has followed it up with a sequel. We present to you, "Saturday."
Apparently when she's not singing about the days of the week, she is pretty good.
Why? That is what I am asking myself right now. Why do young girls think that they can turn anything mundane into a hit pop song with YouTube and Auto-Tune? Oh Wait! Rebecca Black did it! Get the turkey legs ready. It's Thanksgiving!
These two flawless rising pop starlets may be gunning for the title of "Most Annoying Music Video Ever." What do you think, are they more annoying than "Friday...
"Friday" superstar Rebecca Black is BACK with a new single!
Are you like me and constantly wonder how a pop masterpiece like Rebecca Black's "Friday" came to be?
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It seems like every week I run across a video of someone trying to make it big by going viral on the web like Rebecca Black did with Friday. This time, I think I may have found the next big star...
It may be scary for some to think about, but this treat is no trick! Rebecca Black expects her new album to be available for purchase by the end of October...
Now EVERY day is "Friday" for Rebecca Black!
Well... It's not Friday. No. Really. It's Monday and Rebecca Black just released the official music video to her latest attempt at popstardom...
In the latest attempt at going viral and somehow "making it" like Rebecca Black did... I bring to you Facebook "My Favorite Song"... It's kind of catchy...
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More than a thousand runners took to the streets of Milton on Sunday, September 26th raising $26,000 for The Nature Conservancy as part of the 2010 Dogfish Dash.
Registration for the 5th annual race opened on April 1, 2010 and closed at the end of July when the race hit the maximum number of 1500 registrants. In all, 1170 runners from 25 states finished the race, with 633 finishing the 5K and 537 completing the 10K.
The race included a costume contest, a post-race party featuring breakfast and Dogfish Head beer, keg sprints, raffle prizes and live music from Reedo & The Front Porch Offering.
2010 Dogfish Dash sponsors included M. Davis & Sons, Inc., All-Size Corrugated Products, Jefferson, Urian, Doane & Sterner, P.A., Parkowski, Guerke & Swayze, Bank of America, Citizens Bank, Lighthouse Construction, Country Malt, Go West, Singer Equipment, Quinonez LLC/David Brown Painting, Dupont (Clear into the Future), Hop Union, NEPA, Chesapeake Utilities, Tewell Warren Printing, MPG (Marketing Products Group), Inclind, Inc, Gamse, United Distributing and Patagonia.
In addition, more than 75 volunteers contributed their time to make the 2010 Dogfish Dash a success.
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13:47, UK, Saturday 02 October 2010
Farmers in Australia are preparing for the worst invasion of locusts for up to 75 years, with fears millions of pounds worth of crops could be destroyed.
In the past few days, aircraft have begun spraying farmland with insecticides to try to slow the march of billions of the insects before they mature and begin to fly.
Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia are all affected, with hundreds of farmers reporting that locust eggs have begun hatching on their land.
A record number were laid in autumn, and the conditions have been perfect for them to thrive, with the country enduring its wettest September on record after years of drought.
The weather is also helping the farmers but their hopes of a best-in-a-decade harvest are now threatened by the locust invasion.
Steve Wahn, the primary industries minister in the New South Wales government visited a site near Bourke this week to see for himself the tiny insects which are infesting fields.
He calls it "a plague of biblical proportions".
"We are seeing survival rates of 80% or more from the locusts, whereas in a normal year you'd only get 20% or so which could survive. This is a huge challenge for us," he said.
"We've got potentially our best crop in a decade but potentially the worst locust plague in 30 years."
There is now a race against time to spray the insects before they begin to fly.
For the first few weeks of their life the tiny nymphs or "hoppers" are relatively easy to deal with, even though they begin to form huge bands which can travel 100 miles a day.
Aircraft can spray the fields and as the bugs travel through the insecticide they die.
But those which survive will eventually form huge fast moving clouds which can cover a wide area and devour entire crops within days.
Simon Oliver, the state's deputy plague locust commissioner, says he has been shocked by how rapidly the insects have already increased in number.
"If we don't get them in the next 10 days we may lose them as this temperature heats up they'll start to fledge and fly.
"Once they swarm it's virtually impossible to control them. They're highly mobile and they'll move right across the state."
Farmer Scott Mitchell found signs of infestation in the land where he grazes his sheep.
He and his neighbours have been looking forward to some relief after several years of drought conditions.
"We've just come out of one natural disaster and this is just something else we have to put up with," he said.
Wheat farmers in the area could be hit hard.
"They're looking at the best crop they've had in a long time and they need their crop to get out of financial trouble so if they get down and wreck that it's going to be probably a bigger disaster than we've had in this whole drought really," Mr Mitchell added.


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Model, Cutaway, Injector, Rocket Engine, M-1
This is a cutaway model of injector for the the M-1, a liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen rocket engine of 1.2-1.5 million pounds thrust. The M-1 was designed by the Aerojet as an advanced, high-performance first or upper stage powerplant for heavy-lift, deep space missions of the post-Saturn V (post-Apollo) era. The engine was conceived for use in the contemplated Nova super booster.
Nova was NASA's largest planned vehicle and went through several configurations in proposals. One envisioned as many as 14 M-1 engines to power the first stage. That vehicle had a first stage thrust of 17 million pounds. However, funding reductions caused Nova to be cancelled.
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- NASA, Lewis Research Center
- Date
- ca. 1966-1968
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Claudio Castiglioni: "Why stop at 150km/h?!"
In an interview with Motociclismo, Claudio Castiglioni (President - MV Agusta) has said that he believes the speed limits on Italy's roads should be increased to 180km/h, since modern sportsbikes are perfectly capable of travelling at that speed in perfect safety.
The Italian government is already said to be studying the possibility of increasing the speed limits on Italy's highways (the current speed limit is 150km/h), and Castiglioni says he wholeheartedly supports the idea. However, he adds that speed limits in towns and surrounding areas should be strictly enforced, and higher speeds should only be permitted on the highways.
'On our highway network, there are some areas with very little traffic, where going at 170-180km/h would absolutely not be a problem,' says Castiglioni, adding that higher speed limits may actually help, since those would allow riders to focus on their riding, rather than thinking about losing points on their license and having to pay hefty fines.
With a bike like the F4 CC to his name, we suppose Mr Castiglioni would support higher speed limits. But we'd like to know what's your take on this – please use the comments form to tell us about your views on the subject!
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