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The five-member board of the exchange voted unanimously to keep its current requirement that insurers terminate most individual policies Dec. 31 because they don't meet all the requirements of the Affordable Care Act.
The decision ends a weeklong drama over what would happen for policyholders who will lose their existing coverage at year-end and face finding replacement insurance that may cost them substantially more in many instances.
Covered California, the state exchange, considered allowing renewals into 2014 as Obama proposed or a short-term extension through March to give people more time to shop.
But state leaders ultimately rejected those options. They expressed concerns about further confusing consumers and worried that widespread renewals could keep too many healthy customers out of the broader risk pool that will shape future rates.

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We survived yet another overnight bus arriving at Istanbul's Sultanahmet. Wow, its now the 4-5 th time we arrive at this location. We head off to ur hotel in no time just to find all the pensions full. I was ready to give up and check into the 200 euro a night Best Western Hotel when Angela told me to try Side hotel.So we head over just to find it also no vacancy. We tried two additonal hotels one 160 euro, other 99 euro, we settled for the 99 euro Hotel Uyan. The price was quoted in Euro but the hotel lady quickly converted the money to Turkish Lira and charged us such, what the heck, this actually costs more, as I remembered what Roger from yesterday told me that he was tricked by his hotel also quoting him Euro charge him Lira and made a profit from conversion of currency. Anyway to over charge tourists....
Anyhow, we had a very nice breakfst complete with chocolate jam, fruit, juices even egg and omelet, what a treat
Today our agenda is shopping and city tour, no more museums. We visited Istikal street where the modern Turkish people live and have fun. I saw the European NBA store selling jerseys shoes and other sports wear. There was even a photo of Jordan Farmar on the wall. I am surprised there were no photos of Hedo Turkulu or Mehmet Okur in the store. The NBA is promoting itself in Turkey as basketball now become a very fashionable sport here in Turkey.
Next we walked down Istikal street and found a sweet store. We both stepped in a bought a bunch of sweets such as Turkish delight, pastachio and almond marsapan, hazelnut brittle before we left the store. We then found a fish market and fruit market and bought some nice mulberries. In the afternoon, we visited Grand Bazaar, spice market for some last minute shopping. GrandBazaar was filled with clothing store, gold store, souvenior, carpet etc with very little food so it didn't interestme as much. So we head back to spice market and bought more items there.
That night I did the hamam again,except this time the attendants weren't as good as the ones in Cappadocia. The attendants left me on the marbel slab for a long time before he came in and scrubed me really quick before he stepped out
I walked back through the beautiful Aya Sofya and Blue Mosque hearing the tourists chatting in all different languages and feeling the cool breeze blowing at me, ahhh, how comfortable. Now I am just wondering about my future return to this magical country for more explorations.
As this is the last night of our trip, I went to bed relatively early anticipating the early fight back to the US.


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Callas died from a heart attack in her Paris apartment on September 16, 1977, exactly a month after Elvis Presley and in similar circumstances - ravaged by pills and unable to cope with a world that seemed to have forgotten her. It is the decline that interests Zeffirelli rather than the years of triumph, when Callas' exploits on and off stage filled the gossip columns.
Zeffirelli refers to this high-profile phase of the singer's life as "all that VIP shit". "What fascinated me," he says, "was how that voice happened, how she made it possible. How much did it cost her to become Maria Callas? She wasn't born that way, she constantly fought to become the best. She never enjoyed the 99 good things she had done, she was always tormented by the one mistake."
But the daily routine of a confirmed recluse would have made for dull viewing, so Zeffirelli and his scriptwriter Martin Sherman invented a story with shades of both Sunset Boulevard and The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
The English music impresario Larry Kelly (a pony-tailed Irons) is determined to tempt Callas out of her self-imposed retirement. He knows that with Callas, money has no leverage.
The reason Callas consistently turned down offers for a comeback concert was because she could not bear to sing in what she considered to be the shadow of her former voice.
Zeffirelli was struck by a conversation with Callas' Italian maid, Bruna, who told him that "la signora didn't sleep at night, she listened to her own voice. I tried to take the records away from her, but she wouldn't let me". The image of 53-year-old Callas in her Paris apartment, listening to the Callas of 15 or 20 years earlier while she waited for the sleeping pills to take effect, is a central one in the film.
It also suggests to Kelly a way of working on her vanity: if she agrees to star in a filmed version of Carmen, he will give her back her lost youth by arranging for her to sing in playback to the only recording she ever made of the opera - with conductor Georges Pretre in 1964. In the end, after recording this Carmen Special, Callas gets cold feet and tells Kelly to scrap the TV film, which is never released.
There was a real-life Larry Kelly. He was the American impresario who gave Callas her US debut at the Chicago opera in 1954 and signed her up for a concert to inaugurate his Dallas Civic Opera Company. But Zeffirelli says that the character in the film is "a mix of me and him and other friends with whom she quarrelled but who in the end she trusted".
Zeffirelli himself had to sweet-talk Maria into taking on a full-scale opera in 1964. This had been a year in which she had given only recitals, because she was fearful that she was losing her voice. The opera was Tosca - a play-safe option for Callas. The venue was Covent Garden where, says Zeffirelli, "she gave a magnificent performance, although the voice was no longer what it had been".
A few months before she died, Zeffirelli tried once more to coax Callas out of retirement for a one-off performance of Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. She played for time, saying that she would think about it while on holiday in Greece and Egypt with "some friends".
But the director soon discovered that "she never went away that summer - she stayed in her apartment, pretending she was travelling, pretending she was constantly having guests here and there. In fact she was lazily sliding towards death".
The singer's final moments will not be shown in Callas Forever . Zeffirelli has come up with an old-fashioned ending - Maria walking slowly back to her Paris apartment after her last meeting with Kelly, choosing seclusion, however painful, over artistic compromise.
It is in the same spirit that Zeffirelli has avoided what he calls "the painful, vulgar, VIP material". There is bitterness in his voice as he reflects on the years when Maria exchanged musical perfectionism for the social whirl: "We didn't miss any opportunity to tell her she was a fool, that it was a crime that Maria Callas should end up like this. And she would always say, 'Oh, I've worked so hard, I need a rest, come on, I want a family . . .' which she couldn't have, because Onassis refused.
"There are rumours that he made her lose a child. She was apparently four months pregnant in 1963, and he said, 'Get rid of it.' But we don't know . . . in any case, I didn't want to touch it."
If he mostly avoids the subject of the Greek shipping magnate and serial womaniser in his film - except for one flashback - Zeffirelli is more than happy to commit his views of the man to tape; he returns to the subject obsessively, as if picking at a wound.
In the course of a couple of visits to Onassis' luxury yacht and one to his private Greek island of Skorpios, the director had ample opportunity to observe the couple's relationship. "I was shocked by what was going on between the two of them. I began to think that she was doomed to a terrible disaster," he said. Onassis, says Zeffirelli, "hated all Maria's friends . . . he wanted to create a desert around her . . . and he managed to".
Having divorced Tina for Callas, Onassis later dumped the soprano for a more enticing challenge: the recently-widowed Jackie Kennedy.
It was not, says Zeffirelli, a gentle transition. "The way he handled it was absolutely shameful to the last degree." He describes Onassis as "a brute who used sex as one of his weapons".
Up until then, Zeffirelli adds, Callas, whose marriage to the much older Meneghini was, by all accounts, less than passionate, "had always been having sex with her characters onstage, with herself onstage - she had that kind of total sexual, emotional experience every time she performed".
Zeffirelli has settled into a love-hate relationship with Callas. He loves her talent, which he describes as "phenomenal . . . she had that grinta, that stature - she was always good, never bad - even when she was fat like a whale". But he hates the way she wasted it. "She misused her voice; she sang 110, 115 roles in that short time . . . which is unheard of".
After her discovery of sex, parties and Onassis, "she neglected severely her practising. She began to smoke and drink and go to bed very late".
And while he still worships Callas the singer, Zeffirelli is not sure he liked Callas the person: "She was very banal, not an interesting sexual animal. Her horizons were rather limited to middle-class satisfactions."
Was the film Zeffirelli's way of dealing with the feeling that he could have done more to prevent Callas' decline? But he dismisses the suggestion: "We all felt guilty . . . but who could imagine that Maria Callas would die at the age of 53?"
He believes that Callas let herself die because "in the end she no longer had Onassis and she no longer had her voice - the weapon with which she could fight any battle".
"The singer has this extreme situation of having this piece of fresh air out of which they create this sound . . . which is, in some ways, a monstrosity. So it's a special, limited case of defeating nature, creating possibilities that normal men can't reach. But at the same time, it's vulnerable."
And how does Zeffirelli feel that he has aged? "Oh, I get better and better. But I don't have to sing."
- Daily Telegraph
Forever Callas premieres in Europe next week. It will screen in Australia at the end of the year.
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Commentary: The sports world is upside down
The world is upside down.
While we try to prevent our eyelids from freezing shut, out in Los Angeles, the Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings play a hockey game in Dodger Stadium. The game-time temperature was expected to be between 60 and 70 degrees.
The NFL is hoping that long-range forecasts of Super Bowl game-time temperatures in the mid-20s are accurate, and they're hoping that those models showing the possibility of a major snowstorm next weekend never materialize.
People who paid $5,000 for two tickets will be sitting in frigid temperatures, assuming that they aren't prevented from going by the league changing the day of the game to accommodate the weather.
The Pirates' home opener is scheduled for March 31.
I did some research and you'll have to trust me on this, but on the typical March 31 in Pittsburgh, you can expect temperatures in the high 40s to low 50s and a 60 percent chance of precipitation. I'd put your chances of being miserable at about 75 percent.
And, of course, the NHL will determine its champion in mid-to-late June. Indoors. On ice.
This only happens when fans have been dumbed down to the point that they accept this stupidity and when the leagues scheduling the games have monopolies.
I'm a free-market guy, and I understand that nobody is forced to buy a ticket to a game, but that doesn't change the fact that it's unfair for the NFL to give fans the choice of not going to see the team that they have invested so much time, emotion and energy into or paying $2,500 to sit in freezing drizzle.
I'm still holding out hope for The Blizzard of 2014.
• The Dodgers' $8 billion TV contract kicks in on the Feb. 25.
If the Pirates are getting $20 million per year on their TV deal, it will take them 40 years to reach $8 billion.
• The Yankees have spent well over $450 million on free agents this year.
• Seattle Seahawks defensive back Richard Sherman said that white people who referred to him as a thug after his postgame, nationally televised rant following the NFC championship game were actually using that word as a substitute for the N-word — the implication being that they are racists.
The media, not surprisingly, weren't too quick to challenge him.
One columnist who did was Jason Whitlock of ESPN, who is African-American. He said it was "completely dishonest" and offensive to read race into the controversy.
Whitlock said people might view Sherman as a thug because he looked "predatory" and went on to say, "I'm not going to let someone paint all of these people that use a derogatory word as somehow they're flaming racists."
There was a pretty strong consensus that Sherman acted like a jerk when he trashed his opponent after beating him.
• Plaxico Burress did two years of hard time for accidentally shooting himself with an illegal gun in a crowded New York City nightclub.
On Friday, former Dallas Cowboy Josh Brent got 180 days for causing the death of his friend and teammate Jerry Brown in December 2012, when he crashed his Mercedes on a suburban Dallas highway.
Brent's lawyer tried to convince the judge that the cops' blood tests showing twice the legal limit of alcohol in his system were flawed.
They also hoped to benefit from a trial a few weeks earlier in which a Texas judge let a 17-year-old drunk driver who killed four people off without prison time. His defense had been that he was coddled by his parents into a sense of irresponsibility.
Brent served 30 days in an Illinois prison for DUI back in 2009.
And he gets off with 10 years' probation and 180 days in jail?
Did I mention that the world is upside down?
• Words can't describe how glad I am to not be going to Sochi for the Winter Olympics.
• After the Yankees signed Japanese superstar free agent pitcher Masahiro Tanaka to a seven-year, $155 million contract, major league baseball apologist and Fox Sports contributor Ken Rosenthal wrote that baseball's natural order had been restored. "The Yankees need to be the Yankees — for their own sake, the sake of their fans and for Yankees haters everywhere. This is not a team that should be getting outbid by the Pirates for catcher Russell Martin, as it was last season."
It's guys like Rosenthal, apologizing for the Idiots Who Run Baseball instead of ridiculing them, who enable major league baseball to exist despite going against every normal person's understanding of what a league is supposed to be.
Here's hoping Tanaka goes 34-0 with a 0.98 ERA and the Yankees finish 162-0.
John Steigerwald's blog can be found at www.justwatchthegame.com, and he is the author of "Just Watch The Game." His column appears each Saturday.
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Jennifer Hudson is the new Aunt Jemima
If you notice, Hollywood loves to give black actors the Oscar for playing the most stereotypical roles possible. For the longest time, the only black person that ever even won an Oscar was the woman who played the Mammy character (I think the character's name was actually Mammy) in Gone with the Wind. Then Sidney Poitier won one for one of those "magical negro" characters he played in the 1960s.
More recently, Halle Berry and Denzel Washington made history in 2002 when they managed to win the Academy's top two acting awards for playing a filthy slut who banged Billy Bob Thornton and an angel dust-tootin' gang banger respectively, in a year in which the Academy just so happened to also present the aforementioned Sidney Poitier with some sort of lifetime achievement award. Hmm…
Hence I was less than surprised when subsequent accolades for black actors included Morgan Freeman receiving a Best Supporting Actor award for his role as the magical negro water boy in Million Dollar Baby; Forest Whitaker getting Best Actor for playing Idi Amin as, essentially, a gorilla in a military uniform; and Jennifer Hudson winning Best Supporting Actress for reviving the Mammy archetype in Dreamgirls.
I was kinda surprised though at the way Jennifer Hudson is being put forth as a new, more progressive standard of beauty. Cracka-ass cracka magazines that usually feature hot, waifish models on the cover are featuring Jennifer Hudson as if to say fat women can be beautiful, too, god damnit! I wonder though if there isn't a covert racist element to the idea that a fat black woman who can sing is also beautiful.
As pointed out in this Washington Post story a few weeks ago, when mainstream magazines need a fat woman to put on the cover, they ususally reach for a black woman. Of course they suggest that this is positive, but I'm going to go ahead and put forth that it's negative. At the very least, it suggests that a lesser standard of beaty is necessary for black women, but I seriously doubt that's all there is to it.
In fact, I wonder if white people aren't drawn to fat sistas like Jennifer Hudson because their very image calls to mind the old Mammy archetype. I don't have a link to it, but there was a story in the New York Times not too long ago about how companies love to use Mammy figures to sell various products. Think about it: who wouldn't want a fat black woman to bring them a plate of pancakes every morning?
Which brings me to my point: Do white people love Jennifer Hudson because they're genuinely attracted to women with faces like pit bulls and rolls in their necks, or do white people love Jennifer Hudson because she secretly reminds them of pancakes, if not slavery? Maybe it's the former, but my guess is that it's the latter. If that's the case, it would be difficult for me to view her success as of late as a sign of progress.


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Triangle may be one of the most difficult movies I've tried to recommend so far.
Not because it's a difficult movie to champion, quite the contrary, this movie is awesome.
It's just that… discussing ANY of it can cross into spoiler territory. So how do I put across enough of what's good about this flick in order to make you want to see it, without ruining any of the juicy goodness when you DO see it?


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NtB Loves: Jamie Drake, the King of Color
If your tastes run toward the colorful, you probably adore Jamie Drake's high-end interior designs as much as I do. His firm, Drake Design Associates (previously), has gained a worldwide rep for color schemes that are at the same time eclectic and sophisticated. Some may wonder how you can stay classy when you're working with more than three main hues in a room, but Drake does it and he does it well.
These are the offices of Drake Design Associates, to give you one example of how Drake plays with color. With clients as diverse as Madonna and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, he must of course design spaces that aren't as richly colorful, but even his neutral interiors feel bright and brilliant.
Er, not that that's one of them!
Like what you see? Then you simply must have a looksee at Jamie Drake's New American Glamour, which is an amazing book full of lush photos and fun, over the top writing!


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HP Announces the EliteBook Revolve, a Windows 8 Convertible for the Business Crowd (video)
See that laptop up there? Basically, HP has announced something like that every year for we don't even know how long. It's always a convertible PC of the traditional sort, one with a fixed screen that swivels around and can fold down into tablet mode. It always supports a mix of pen and finger input. It's always made of sturdy magnesium alloy. And it's almost always aimed at businesses.
All that's true of the EliteBook Revolve, the laptop HP unveiled today and which we've so helpfully featured in the photo gallery below.
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Due to a tightening of regulations, accountants working in the sexy area of forensic accountancy have had a fairly peaceful year. But as Jon Robins reports, that does not mean we may never see a Maxwell-style fraud case again.
It is not likely that many people are drawn to a career in accountancy in pursuit of glamour and excitement, but if they are, they could do worse than make a beeline for forensic accountancy, where it is possible to combine number crunching with the more obvious thrills of tracking down the proceeds of drug cartels or dealing with the fall out of a Maxwell-style fraud.
The image of the forensic accountant being the sexy member of the family is one that Humphry Hatton, partner in charge of forensic services at Deloitte & Touche, wants to move away from. "It's a bit corny," he says. Mind you, Hatton does let slip the smallest details of the time he spent in Latin America investigating a drug smuggling operation. And then there was the headline-making political risk case which involved "a risk of physical danger".
By contrast, life in the forensic accountant market has been fairly peaceful, with the big five firms maintaining the same stranglehold that they do elsewhere. But life has not been without its surprises. For example, there was the House of Lords' ruling in the Prince Jefri case where KPMG came to blows with the prince of Brunei over the adequacy of its Chinese walls.
The Law Lords called for accountancy firms to separate their departments to prevent confidential information passing between them. So far, the line from the big five has been that they will keep their departments in-house.
The case was decided on particular facts, says Chris Lemar, head of the disputes analysis and investigations group at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Lemar adds that far more has been made out of the case than ought to be. "The concept of auditing involves independence, so to suggest that by being an auditor you're in league with a client is odd," he says.
The firm has no plans to hive off its forensic practice. "It's clear that there is no regulatory need to do so and we don't find the conflict issue in the UK a barrier," Lemar says.
But not everyone is happy with the mega firms' approach to conflict of interest issues. Andrew Mainz left PwC, where he was a partner, with four senior staff to set up Forensic Accounting in April. "We were fed up with all the conflict," he admits. "How can you possibly act against 'Mega Corp' when 'Mega Corp' might be your client tomorrow?"
Mainz is unimpressed with what the big five offer their clients. "They're over-priced, too bureaucratic and completely stuck on conflicts," he says.
Tony Levitt, partner in charge of the London office of RGL International, says that there is an opportunity for niche players. RGL claims to be the world's biggest stand-alone forensic practice. Over the last year, he says that the UK practice's profits have increased by around 30 per cent. He cites the Lloyd's litigation as a dramatic illustration of the problems that the major firms have with conflict. "We were appointed on every one of the major cases because all the big firms were either auditors to Lloyd's syndicates or involved in the market someway," he says.
Forensic accountants at the big five admit that they can lose a lot of work because of conflict. But, as one accountant points out, if they lose one big job because of conflict, more often than not it goes to the next available big-five firm.
Unsurprisingly, Lord Woolf's shakedown of the civil justice system has hit the forensics as fewer cases go to trial. According to Deloittes' Hatton, the reforms have had a greater effect on the smaller scale litigation and been felt most acutely in the regional offices.
In fact, many forensic accountants report that the emphasis on the "front-loading" of cases has caused a greater involvement at an earlier stage in the big-ticket litigation work. Hatton says that if anything, costs have increased in the big-ticket litigation as case management conferences are treated as major hearings in their own right.
Over the past decade, the accountants have had a lot to keep them busy, with mega frauds such as the missing Maxwell pensions fund, the £6bn collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, and the hunt for Nazi gold in the Swiss banks. The latter was reported to have had 400 people working on it.
But since those halcyon days there has been talk of a downturn in the market and cutbacks at the big firms. But the only real evidence of downsizing in the big five has been at PwC, where 50 staff have left the forensic department since Pricewaterhouse and Coopers Lybrand merged two years ago. PwC's Lemar says that the exodus was largely a result of the merger. "Some have gone through downsizing, others have gone through natural drift," he says.
At the beginning of the year, Stephen Lewis left PwC to join Clifford Chance, becoming the first forensic accountant to join a magic circle firm (The Lawyer, 31 January).
Elsewhere firms are reporting growth. Not least at KPMG, where the forensic department reported last year as its best year ever, with fees shooting up by 50 per cent to £33m. There might well be a trend towards tighter corporate governance in the wake of scandals such as the Maxwell case, says Nick Andrews, a partner at KPMG Forensic Accounting, but there are still plenty of big frauds taking place.
Andrew's assertion is borne out by a new KPMG survey which found that the figures for major reported fraud last year were double the previous year's figures. There were 72 cases of serious fraud reported, each of £100,000 or more, costing a total of £667m.
Like many forensics, Kroll Lindquist Avey managing director Ted Baskerville expects the current merger and acquisition activity to be good for the accountants as deals "done in a hurry and done with a bit of infatuation" turn bad. The firm was the result of last year's merger between the international investigation agency Kroll Associates and London forensic accountants Buchler Phillips Lindquist Avey.
Baskerville says that files such as BCCI and Maxwell make the difference between a good year and a great year. "Everyone says we need a catastrophe and that will really turn the market around," he says. But he is not without hope, believing that there are big frauds just waiting to happen. "They just haven't happened yet, but I'll keep my fingers crossed."
Arthur Andersen
The global professional services organisation's forensic accountancy practice has 50 dedicated specialists divided between its fraud and disputes units. The practice draws heavily on industry experts elsewhere. The firm claims: "Staff work within a business consultancy practice rather than within an accountancy practice." It is currently recruiting, but there is no information available about fee income.
Areas of specialisation include competitions and regulatory disputes, valuation disputes, expert determinations, ADR and fraud investigations. The forensic team represented the Premier League in the negotiations for TV rights and provided the expert determination on the sale of a large chain of betting shops from Grand Met to Brent Walker.
Deloitte & Touche
Deloittes was the first of the big-five firms to have a dedicated forensic practice and the department now comprises five partners and 44 fee earners. In the last three months, the firm has taken on eight new people nationally. The fee income from forensic work represents 2 per cent of the firm's total fee income.
Areas of specialisation include fraud prevention, assets tracing, business intelligence and expert determinations. The forensics team has led some of the largest multi-jurisdictional investigations, such as Banco Ambrosiano and BCCI.
It has been some time since there has been a corporate collapse on the scale of BCCI or Maxwell, says partner in charge of forensic services Humphry Hatton. But he adds: "There is no reason to believe that business practices have changed. There may need to be a change in the economy to flush them out."
Ernst & Young
In London there are approximately 100 fee-earners working in the firm's fraud investigation, litigation support and valuations groups. Fee income is estimated to be in the region of £20m. The three departments have taken on five new staff over the past 12 months.
Areas of specialisation include expert determinations, ADR, tracing assets, and fraud prevention. The group has been the lead investigator on the collapse of Barings Bank, the fund management problems at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and Codeloco, the Chilean copper producer.
According to John Smart, a partner in the fraud investigation group: "There has been a lot of talk in the press that we [the big five] are frustrated with conflict. Although there is frustration, most of the work we get conflicted out of seems to go to another big-five firm."
KPMG Forensic Accounting has 150 fee-earners throughout the country and last month it appointed four new partners. Last year was a record year for the department with profits growing by 50 per cent to £33m.
Areas of specialisation include commercial disputes, professional negligence, fraud investigation, regulatory investigations, expert determinations, and arbitrations. Last year the firm was involved in one major arbitration involving more than $2bn (£1.3bn) and international fund-tracing work seven years after the Gruppo Torras case, one of the largest fraud cases in the High Court.
Nick Andrews, a partner in the department, says: "It is clear post-Woolf that it is important to get forensic accountants on board sooner rather than later because the case moves quickly and before you know where you are it has settled."
There are about 150 fee-earners in PwC's disputes analysis and investigations group, which has lost 50 members of staff since the merger two years ago. According to Chris Lemar, who heads the group, the departures are a result of the merger, downsizing and natural drift. The department represents "about a £25m business".
Areas of specialisation include construction disputes, insurance claims, fraud investigation, intellectual property, and computer and e-business.
The department has representatives in Italy, the West Indies and Hong Kong working on international construction disputes. The firm is still involved in work from the investigation into Nazi gold in the Swiss banks.
According to Lemar, a flat UK litigation market has characterised the last 12 months. "The UK legal market has looked elsewhere and we've done the same," he says.


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Test Firing My New Kiln For The First Time
Posted 06 July 2013 - 10:40 AM
Yesterday I vacummed the garage and moved anything out that I thought might be a problem and set up my steel shelf for the posts, shelves and other kiln gear. I also found some metal pieces at the hardware store to use as shims since the back legs needed to be up a bit to get it level and it said not to used wooden shims.
I finally got brave enough to drill a hole in the bottom and top for the Orton kiln vent. Was much easier than I thought! Well except for laying on the floor trying to get their new spring loaded cup installed underneath the kiln! Back is still wonky and thought for a minute I'd have to play the tune help I've fallen and can't get up! I did manage to get up it wasn't pretty but I'm on my own two feet again lol.
I went and bought a dryer vent and hose. This was actually one of the things that also delayed me. My house has hardiplank cement siding and the manufacturers website said only special materials and blades could be used to cut and set up the dryer vent. So I dithered around not wanting to ruin the siding on my house or cause a leak from water getting in, seriously don't think hubby would understand THAT. Soooo what I ended up doing was using the side garage door. I wanted to be able to open it anyway for airflow since there are no other windows in there. What I did was cut a piece of plywood to fit the door opening about 4 feet up leaving the top open. I then cut the dryer vent opening through it and installed the vent out through the center. The open door actually holds the plywood in place. Not a perfect solution but I hope it will work as both my air flow and vent openings. I could have just left the door open and ran the vent on the ground out through it to the outside but I live in the national forest and am terrified of slithery things coming to visit so the plywood blocks the bottom and keeps them outside where they belong. Doing this of course means I can't leave with the kiln running but for safety issues I shouldn't be leaving anyway.
This morning I loaded the shelves positioning them at the correct heights to place the ^06 cones in the center and in front of the peep holes as instructed. Allowing for room away from the thermocouple and used 1/2 inch posts for the bottom shelf right above the floor of the kiln as suggested. Also allowed for a least one element row to be between each shelf. I put 2 test cones on each shelf.
I have a question the books say to place the shelf posts above the legs of the kiln stand for support. But then they also say to use 6 legs, 3 per half shelf.... How do you do this? When I placed the posts in line with the legs the other 2 posts did absolutely nothing in helping to support the shelves. I'd really like to know what the secret is to get 6 posts, 3 per half shelf with 4 positioned above the kiln stands legs om each level and still have a balanced shelf. I have an 8 sided kiln and shelves.
I entered all the starting data into my kiln log book. Not sure exactly what all I am supposed to record so basically put everything in it. The number of shelves, type of shelves, post heights, cone placements, cone number, and drew a picture of where everything was placed in accordance to the kiln and stand. I also wrote down the starting number on my electric meter as well as all the programming data the controller gave me on review. Probably over kill but if something goes wrong maybe my teacher will be able to at least look at what I did and tell me what I did wrong.
Once loaded I programmed the Bartlett V6-CF controller to do a fast glaze fire. And am now sitting here watching the temperature rise and listening to it click and hum its way to hopefully the proper temperature.
Only thing I am not sure of is how long its supposed to take to run through a fast fire ^06 glaze cycle. I'm too scared to leave the room now that its running... Guess I should have brought snacks!
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Posted 06 July 2013 - 11:09 AM
Even with a vent, aren't there still some fumes? Do you have a CO detector in there with you, just in case? (And a fire extinguisher? Safety first!)
I read that the posts just need to be in line with each other for support, but I figure someone with more actual experience can answer your question better...I'm interested to know as well!
Posted 06 July 2013 - 11:19 AM
Yes I have a fire extinguisher about 8 feet from the kiln in the room as well as one in each room of the house.
I realize it would be better to have the vent going out one wall and the fresh air coming in another but the set up just doesn't work for that. Even if I had vented it through the wall it would have only been around the corner from the open door so am hoping it doesn't make any difference but then someone with firing experience may be able to tell me differently.
Will keep you posted am up to 883 degrees!
Posted 06 July 2013 - 02:54 PM
Keep in mind that the kiln vent does not ventilate the room. In addition to the vent on my kiln, I have an exhaust fan installed at the peak of the ceiling above the kiln. I got it from Grainger www.grainger.com. The role of the ventilation fan is to remove fumes and reduce heat. When the kiln is firing, I have at least one window open across the room, even in winter. Someone with more experience may tell you differently, but IMO, sitting in an unventilated room with a firing kiln is not a good idea.
To keep critters out of the vent, I covered it with a cover meant to go on a dryer vent. The one I got is green plastic and came from Lowes.
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Posted 06 July 2013 - 07:51 PM
good for you!!!
never heard of the nonsense of putting the posts inside in line with the base legs. to put half shelves in, just put the posts where the crack between halves lines up at the sharp point at the end of the crescent so one half shelf is on one half of a post and the other end is the same. the outside center of the half shelf gets one and the center opposite gets one. that is 4 posts if you use half shelves. if you are using only half shelves, no whole ones, mark the place you put the posts so you can line them up each firing. a black magic marker triangle put on the top brick works for mine. that way you can see where all of them go as you load. you will need to renew the marks if the firing fades them too much.
it would be so simple to send a drawing of this but how???
Posted 06 July 2013 - 09:19 PM
It took 3:56 hours to run the full cycle successfully. It is currently cooling off and am not sure how long it will take to get to 150 degrees which is when the book says it can be opened but am thinking tomorrow morning I ought to be able to pop it open and see what the test cones did.
Posted 07 July 2013 - 12:23 PM
Not sure what everybody else's kiln setup looks like so kind of had to guess how to position everything and basically went with what the kiln manual said for safety setup.
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Posted 07 July 2013 - 12:39 PM
WOW! how did you suspend it from the ceiling???
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Posted 07 July 2013 - 02:00 PM
WOW! how did you suspend it from the ceiling???
That's the easy part, it just requires some bolts. The big issue is, getting the posts, shelves and ceramics works to stay in there.
Posted 07 July 2013 - 07:35 PM
Posted 08 July 2013 - 08:41 AM
So Terry, how did the firing go?
Posted 08 July 2013 - 03:44 PM
The firing completed successfully, no early shut downs or wiring heating up too much, which was one of the purposes of the test firing along with oxidizing the elements and cooking on the first coat of kiln wash. I want to shout YAY it didn't blow up, burn down the house or have any mysterious shutdowns!
The temperature in the kiln seemed to have a bit more variation from top to bottom than I thought it would. The top shelf cones only got to about the 2 o'clock mark, the middle cones were at the 6 o'clock mark and the bottom shelf seemed to be a bit more than that since it was starting to crumple a bit at the tip where it touched the shelf. I asked a question about this under another heading and was told this is kind of normal for an electric kiln. The kiln was also empty except for shelves, posts and cones which I am told could make a difference with heat transference and retention, etc. I will see my teacher tomorrow so am going to take the cones and kiln log with me and ask his opinion.
After that I will load it up for my first bisque firing and am reading through my books to find a good basic cycle to start with for that. I am looking for a basic yet reliable cone 04 bisque cycle for hand made (not thrown) pieces, mostly slab but I also have a coil vase waiting to be bisqued as well. Would like to load that tomorrow and fire the next morning since I don't know how long a bisque load will take and am still leery of going to bed with it running downstairs. I know I will get more comfortable with it running without my constantly checking on it but its going to take awhile.
Posted 08 July 2013 - 04:07 PM
Programmable kilns do have that problem, as most run off of one probe maybe two. I fire my old L&L without setter and do the switches each individually to balance out the kiln temp. You will find that a full load will balance out better, as radiant heat is better in a full pack.
Posted 17 July 2013 - 03:14 PM
pugaboo, this picture of my neighbor's beautiful pot shows the triangular mark i put on the top of the kiln bricks to show where the posts go. it is faint in the one closest to you because that is where the opening is and it gets hot there and burns it off.
computer and phone are working again. god loves west va but sometimes i wish it could get into at least the 20th century!
it won't work. my neighbor who designs web pages says that loading this was so difficult because of the software installed by cad. she calls it stu......d.
Posted 19 July 2013 - 08:45 AM
Programmable kilns do have that problem, as most run off of one probe maybe two. I fire my old L&L without setter and do the switches each individually to balance out the kiln temp. You will find that a full load will balance out better, as radiant heat is better in a full pack.
Most likely she has another problem too: On my experience, some kilns are nor programmed to fire to the temperature the manual says.
I mean: if the ^06 should be fired to 1886 according to the manual, when you push the ^06, it tells you it will go up to 1990 (e.g.)
I had to reset the cone temperature manually, especially for the high cones, otherwise the kiln was over-firing.
Posted 19 July 2013 - 09:39 AM
It is amazing how cool the exhaust pipe is. That has always impressed me.
Posted 19 July 2013 - 10:15 PM
I did a bisque firing and the cones all bent perfectly so you guys were right that having ware in the kiln helped balance the heat. I also think doing a bisque firing was slow enough it also helped even the heat by giving it enough time to soak through all the layers.
I too was impressed with how cool everything stayed on the exhaust pipe. I put my hand in front of the vent outside and barely felt anything. I touched the pipe between the motor and the outside connection again nothing. Makes me feel better about it running to know at least that part isn't hot to the touch. Now touching the kiln NO WAY. Left the fan running once the computer shut down the cycle and it cooled the kiln off quickly. The books said to allow twice the length of the cycle for it to cool down enough to open. Well the bisque cycle I did ran like 15 hours and it took just about 12 hours to cool off with the fan running. I'm not sure if that will cause a problem I for a glaze firing or not so I guess we shall see once I do one.
I did notice during the test firing that the kiln temperature on the controller popped up slightly higher than the chart in the book said for a cone 06 and I was just beginning to worry that I might have a problem when it shut off automatically completing the cycle. I will make note of final temps to watch this if it appears I have an over firing problem and adjust the temp manually if I have to. But the full load of bisque I ran with cones all bent nice and even and not over, well at least I don't think they over bent as I'm kind of guessing by what the pictures in the book says a properly fired cone should look like.
So that's it for now.
Happy firing everyone!
Posted 20 July 2013 - 07:44 AM
"I did notice during the test firing that the kiln temperature on the controller popped up slightly higher than the chart in the book said for a cone 06 and I was just beginning to worry that I might have a problem when it shut off automatically completing the cycle."
Don't worry about that. Cones don't measure temperature; they measure heat work. While a chart may give 1828 F. as the temp for cone 06, that is just for a kiln heating at a little over 100 degrees and hour. If you were firing slower, say 30 degrees/hr, the temp for cone 06 would be approximately 1795. If you were firing faster, say 280/hr, the temp for cone 06 would be about 1860.
"But it does move," said Galileo under his breath.
Posted 20 July 2013 - 08:10 AM
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CHENEY, Wash. – The Northern Arizona men's tennis team got perfect days from sophomore Dominic Bermudez and junior Patrick Schimmelbauer, but could not come away with a victory over its Big Sky rival Eastern Washington on Sunday afternoon. The Eagles handed the Lumberjacks a 5-2 defeat at the EWU Outdoor Courts, denying NAU its second conference victory of the season.
"We could've won and there was a time in the match where I thought we would," said director of tennis Kim Bruno. "We're playing a little better and a little better, but we still haven't gotten over the hump in these close matches. Our record could be a winning record at this point. We still have to figure that out."
Bermudez and Schimmelbauer teamed for an 8-3 victory at No. 1 doubles over Ilija Cuic and James Russell that evened doubles play at 1-1 after the Eagles got a win at No. 3. Eastern Washington's Chad Henninger and Julian Sanchez, the Eagles' top duo this spring, then clinched the doubles point for the home team, defeating junior Robert Martin and senior Robin Pezzutto by an 8-3 score.
The Eagles pushed their advantage to 2-0 when Kyle Koetje defeated Steven Say at No. 6, but Bermudez got NAU on the scoreboard with a 6-1, 6-4 win at No. 3 over Mario Navarro. After Eastern Washington countered with a singles win at No. 1, Schimmelbauer beat Henninger, who entered the week with the second-most singles wins in the Big Sky, in a three-set thriller at No. 4.
Schimmelbauer's win brought the Lumberjacks within one at 3-2 and things were looking good after junior Shaun Waters and Martin won the first set in their respective matches. However, the Eagles rallied for three-set victories at the remaining two spots to beat the Lumberjacks for the first time since 2008.
"Pat got a good (singles) win which he needed and he and Dom overcame some stuff at No. 1 doubles, so there were definitely some positives," Bruno said.
The Lumberjacks will return to the Pacific Northwest next weekend for one final road trip. They'll wrap up their season with their last Big Sky match against Portland State on Saturday and then will play their season finale against Seattle as part of doubleheaders with the NAU women's team.
1. Dominic Bermudez/Patrick Schimmelbauer (NAU) def. Ilija Cuic/James Russell (EWU), 8-3
2. Chad Henninger/Julian Sanchez (EWU) def. Robert Martin/Robin Pezzutto (NAU), 8-3*
3. Kyle Koetje/Mario Navarro (EWU) def. Ben Lantz/Shaun Waters (NAU), 8-3
*Clinched Doubles Point
Order of Finish: (3, 1, 2)
1. Russell (EWU) def. Pezzutto (NAU), 6-4, 6-2
2. Cuic (EWU) def. Waters (NAU), 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 6-4**
3. Bermudez (NAU) def. Navarro (EWU), 6-1, 6-4
4. Schimmelbauer (NAU) def. Henninger (EWU), 6-2, 6-7 (0-7), 6-1
5. Sanchez (EWU) def. Martin (NAU), 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
6. Koetje (EWU) def. Steven Say (NAU), 6-1, 6-3
**Clinched Match
Order of Finish: (6, 3, 1, 4, 2, 5)


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Ok everyone, so over the weekend my car got hit and is getting totaled so i have lots of parts and accessories up for grabs. I will be getting the car back and there is NO front end damage so let me know with anything u need. Lets start with the aftermarket stuff. The car is a 2001 T7 93. Last time i was at the dyno the car made 256whp and 293 tqr on its current setup. Aftermarket items for sale include a stg2 clutch disk, viggen PP and a lightweight flywheel (still brand new and in the box from GS), a freshly rebuilt TD04 mitsu turbo (less then 2k miles on it since the rebuild), a GS open air intake, 3.5bar FPR, big front mount intercooler, JZW stg 3+ ecu tune, GS triangulated rear brace, panasonic cd player, and a mechanical boost gauge with A-pillar single gauge pod. There are other aftermarket odds and ends but nothing that important. Short of the driver side doors and rear quarter panel, the car is still in perfect condition. i have a full grey leather interior and every stock part you could ever want such as seats, dash, ac compressor and so on. The engine has 122,*** on the odometer and also has T5 cams installed for performance. I am getting screwed on the whole deal so i am just trying to recoup a little bit of cash if i can. Please let me know what u want or need and i will do what i can to help you out. NO REASONABLE OFFER WILL BE REFUSED. The best way to reach me is by phone at 484-336-8807, my name is Harley. If i dont answer, PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE!. You may also respond to this post but it might take me a lil while longer to respond. Thank you everyone for you time, and i hope i can help you!


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Powered soft Tonneau
Hi folks,
I like to introduce myself first an to say "Hello" to everybody!
I´m a german and live not far away from Dusseldorf. Some weeks ago I bought an 2006 ESCALADE EXT (old model) an I really love this car. I´ve been several times in the USA and this year I could afford to by this large, good looking car.
The car has an electric soft tonneau bed cover, but it is not working at all. The tonneau ist closed and the wire to te two motors seem to be removed. I guess it was not working and someone may just cut it of. The wire on the side of the bed is still there. I did not check already if it has power or not, because first of all i have to get the motors working or replaced...
I opend the tailgate and removed the 4 torx screws of the platic cover of the motorized unit on the top to have a look on the two motors, because I was missing the wire
I nearly could see nothing because the bed cover is closed and I like to know how I could move forward, because I do not know how to proceed. I have some questions:
- If the motors are not working at all is it possible to replace them with 3rd party market motors?
- How could I get a closer look to the motor unit without removing the whole bed cover, because i do not have a garage and might get in trouble if I could not close it again.
- If everything would not work I have to by a new tonneau and I would prefer a hard tonneau one which a bit more security. DO you know a company which provide roll, slide or other covers who ship to germany?
I really need your help guys!!!
At the top of my blog site you could see my truck:
Best regards
Re: Powered soft Tonneau
It is an after market cover so most of us can't help you. The EXT comes with a 3 piece hard cover that remove separately.
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Re: Powered soft Tonneau
Does it power up at all? try bench testing it to see if you can get it to turn on. If you can't the motor is probably broken but if you can it might have been the wires. Check all the wires to see if they are pinched or broken or even hooked up to anything.
Does it have a name on the cover or motor at all? If it does you could try contacting the company to see if they make replacements or even have a troubleshooting website.
See, just cause its aftermarket we can help
Re: Powered soft Tonneau
Hi Folks,
sorry, but it seems I did not get an email to check the replies. Thank you for asking for further details...
As far as I can see in 2006 the powerd soft tonneau was one of the rare acessories for the EXT you could get and offerd directly from Cadillac. I read this in the list of options of this year.
Right now I came a bit further and can tell you some more details. Because of the situation the cover was closed when I got the car it was not very easy to get the thin open, because there were four Torx screws which had to be removed. I user a very short screwdriver for this, because the screw were on the upper side. Under the cover I found two motors and both are working when you feed them with 12 Volt
The tonneau slides easyly in the open and closed position but the situation with 4 7 feet wires to open and close the bed is not as comfortable as it should be. As far as I can see the complete control unit got "lost" and i need a replacement for it to get all stuff working. There is also a bedlight in the case for the two motors and a rubberknob to klose (maybe open) the bed directly on the case. I thing one is for opening the bed and the second is for closing it. Does anyone know which one is ment for what or does it not care...?
I will place some pictures on my side so you might know what to do:
Go to escalade-ext.blogspot.com and have a look at the last posts because I´m not allowed to post links
There is a wire with 12Volt near by on the left side. When I got the car there were no wires in the motor unit at all and not control unit as well.
I guess it works like this:
The (lost) Unit gets constantly 12 Volt
The unit "knows" where the end point OPEN and CLOSE are and stops the motor(s)
The unit controls the light of the lamp
The unit got a emereny funktion to CLOSE the bed without a remote
Has anyone an idea?
best regards
If you could post some pictures we would have a better idea as to what we are working with.


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As the title states, I am looking to pick up another Bugeye. My DD Previa motor failed, so it's time to get back into the Suby game. Willing to drive some, but it depends on the car. I have scoured CL, here, NASIOC, Autotrader, EBAY, etc to find one. I have a few that look promising, but always want options. Mileage? I would like to see it around 150K or lower, but if the car is right....
Prefer wagons, but sedans are ok. Would like to avoid silver cars, instead I would like a MBP or Aspen white one. MUST be 5 speed.
Anyone know anything for sale? Something sitting on a dealer lot, corner, someones driveway...?


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But instead of the firm's much-coveted luxury sports car, they have ended up driving funny-looking golf carts.
Despite their limited speed of 40km/h (25mph), they are a great relief for the officers on duty, who normally have to patrol the huge square on foot.
The cars have electric batteries with a range of 80km (50 miles).
The Lamborghini "street model", as it is known, has come to the square just in time for Christmas - one of the busiest times of the year.
'Deterrent for villains'
"People who come here don't need to worry," said Salvatore Festa, chief of Italian police in charge of patrolling the square - one of the world's largest pedestrian areas - and its surroundings.
"[The new cars] will make it quicker for us to move around and more rapid in possible pursuit situations," he added.
"But it is also more functional for personnel, who don't have to stand in the rain or take 25 minutes to do a round of the square," he added.
Being visible among the crowds, the car will serve as a "deterrent for villains", police hope.
Only two cars will be in action at any one time, with the other two charging up their batteries.
St Peter's Basilica, which attracts huge crowds on Christmas Eve for the traditional midnight mass, is always at the centre of security concerns due to the symbolic value of the church for Christianity.
The Christmas service, celebrated by 84-year-old Pope John Paul II, will be broadcast live to 72 countries.


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I just bought a 1991 STS and I'm doing a major tune up which includes changing the spark plugs, the park plug wires, the fuel filter, the air filter, the air cleaner mounting gasket, coolant flush, power steering flush, brake fluid flush and hoses, the EGR valve and gasket, cleaning out the throttle body bores, serpentine belt, the cap, the rotor, the oxygen sensors, the pcv valve, the engine oil, the engine oil pan gasket and filter, the tranny oil, the tranny gasket and filter, the tranny auxiliary hoses, the engine oil auxiliary hoses, checking and adjust the timing if necessary.
Every thing has been done but the spark plugs, the fuel filter, power steering flush, the EGR valve and gasket, cleaning out the throttle body bores, the cap, the rotor, checking and adjust the timing if necessary.
My question are how do I get to spark plugs 2 and 4. They are located on the upper left side of the engine and are hard to get to because there is some hoese in the way. How do I get around it?
How do I remove the 2 EGR valve bolts. Do I have to remove the fuel rail to get to them? I consulted the 1991 Eldo/Sev service manual and it doesn't say that I have to remove anything to remove the EGR valve, but I can't remove them with the regular wrench that I have. Do I need some type of special wrench to reach the bolts?
Do I have to disconnect the battery to replace the cap and rotor? Also, are there special instructions for them?
How do I clean out the throttle body bores or whatever? Do I remove the throttle body from the engine before cleaning the bores?
I haven't gotten around to the power steering flush, the fuel filter, and checking and adjusting the timing and I would like to know if there are any special instructions for them as well? For the timing, I just bought a Craftsman inductive timing light from Sears. Is it any good?
I previously owned a 1996 Concours and boy did the Northstar engine give me hell. I had to spend thousands of dollars on it at the good old dealership just for some of what I did with the 4.9. Boy am I happy to own a 4.9. It is so easy to do stuff yourself as long as you have the right tools.
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Left-hander Henry Owens had an outing consistent with a number of his recent games for Double-A Portland: He verged on unhittable, allowing just two singles; he got tons of swings and misses, with eight punchouts and 14 swings and misses resulting from his 89 pitches; and he walked four batters, resulting in both the only damage that came against him (a fourth-inning leadoff walk turned into a run) and abbreviating his outing. It was Owens' second straight start in which he worked exactly four innings — and his third straight with at least a walk an inning (his four on Monday followed five in his previous two outings).
Owens is second in the Eastern League in strikeouts (57), strikeout rate (10.2 per nine innings) and batting average against (.190, but he's also second in walks (27), and his 4.8 walks per nine innings this year represent a career-worst mark. All of that suggests that, whereas he looked like he had a chance to leave Double-A in his wake at the start of the year (when his command and control were locked in), it now appears safer to describe Portland as the right place for his player development at this time.
"The stuff's undeniable — the stuff and his ability to use it to get swings and misses and mis-hits," said Red Sox farm director Ben Crockett on this episode of Minor Details. "There are other things, some of which go beyond the box score. Controlling the running game is one point of emphasis coming into this year with some adjustments made. Particular pitch development — fastball, changeup are clearly strengths for him. He has a very good curveball as well. That's something that's been in the mix as well, a focal point. And overall command is something that does need continued improvement. … For us, fastball command continues to be paramount on the next level and it's something that gets exploited as you move up and face older, more experienced hitters who are less fazed by pure stuff. Those are things that Henry is still working on. He's made tremendous progress on those things.
"Clearly, the results are undeniable — he's having a lot of success, and there are a lot of positives to be had, but I think he's also had several outings this year when he's truly been challenged by runners on base, by tough situations, facing good hitters in leveraged situations and he's really had to work. So despite the couple outings where he undeniably hasn't given up hits — many or any hits — he's had other outings he's had to grind through, shorter outings where he's had to work hard. Those are things where there are huge developmental opportunities for him in those challenging starts as well as ones that are going well, to be pushing the envelope with some of the weaknesses."
— Garin Cecchini may remain a work in progress defensively — something that the 23-year-old acknowledged to Tim Britton of the Providence Journal — but he showed excellent situational awareness and aggressive instincts in setting in motion this 5-4-3 triple play, a collaboration with second baseman Ryan Roberts and first baseman Ryan Lavarnway.
— Left-hander Drake Britton is amidst a considerable struggle. He allowed his first homer of the year as part of a two-run yield in an inning of work that saw him permit two hits, walk two and strike out none. He's now gone five straight appearances without a strikeout, giving him 17 walks and 13 strikeouts on the year. Britton, who turns 25 on Thursday, has allowed five runs in 1 2/3 innings in his last two appearances. His outing could have been worse, but he was bailed out by the triple play.
— Right-hander Allen Webster was pitch inefficient but effective, tossing five innings in which he allowed just one run on three hits (a double and two singles) while walking three, striking out four and throwing just 59 of 99 pitches (60 percent) for strikes. The three walks snapped a stretch of five straight outings in which he hadn't issued more than two free passes. While Webster has spent plenty of time pitching with runners on base this year, he has still been stingy with runs. His 2.47 ERA attests in no small part to opponents' .205 average with runners on base against him and a paltry .128 average with runners in scoring position.
— Staef fo eikoom: Slumping? For the second time in three games, Mookie Betts did not reach base in the first game of Monday's doubleheader. That marked the third time in four games that he failed to get a hit — something that he did just twice in the first 35 games of this season for Portland. However, he did rebound in the night contest to go 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles. Betts, who started in center field in the first game and served as DH in the nightcap, has seen his line drop to a still-outrageous .378/.447/.585 with 21 extra-base hits, 19 steals, 22 walks and 13 strikeouts.
— Deven Marrero went 3-for-7 with a double and two steals in the doubleheader, with his line now creeping up to .294/.381/.449 with 16 extra-base hits and eight steals this year — in roughly one-third of the plate appearances that it took him to collect 22 extra-base hits last year.
— First baseman Travis Shaw keeps pushing for a promotion with his most consistent performance since tearing up High-A in the first half of 2012. He went 3-for-7 with a triple and homer in the doubleheader, bringing his line to .301/.392/.523 with eight homers in 40 games, including a colossal .329/.441/.600 line against right-handers. He has 17 walks and just eight strikeouts against righties.
— Left-hander Trey Ball, in his return from strep throat, could not get out of the first inning, allowing five runs on five hits (four singles, one double) and walking two. Four of the hits could be characterized as bad luck, given that two came on groundball singles and two were on soft hits in the air that found holes. Nonetheless, when his pitch count reached 36 in the first inning (20 strikes), he had to be pulled. He elicited three swings and misses. The 2013 first-rounder's ERA stands at 9.42 with eight strikeouts and seven walks in 14 1/3 innings.
— Second baseman Wendell Rijo has seen his performance tail off. He's 3-for-25 in his last seven games with a .120/.214/.280 line, a homer, a double, two walks and eight strikeouts in 28 plate appearances.
— Shortstop Tzu-Wei Lin went 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles. It was the first time in his career that the 20-year-old had collected multiple doubles in the same game, but the third time that he had multiple extra-base hits in a contest — in both the GCL in 2012 and Lowell in 2013, he had a game with a double and triple. The game boosted Lin's line to .235 with a .331 OBP and .309 slugging mark.
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