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She nodded and kissed him back, he was in a good mood, she didn't want to ruin that... but they needed to see Albert to see if they could become in the pack. She thought it would be nice, to be in the pack, it would let them become real wolves. She paused and rose, "okay I'm going to go find him," she sighed, but realised this was futile as there was a knock on the door and she walked to open it.
"You're really going to have to stop doing that," she murmured as he smiled back.
"Alpha sent me, to see where you stand," he explained, his arms wrapping round her. She let out a low growl as his hands moved lower down her back and she tried to push him off. But it didn't really work.
"Let me go," she warned and he did so.
"Sorry, I thought we were friendly now."
"Not that friendly," she sighed, "but you know I don't mind you and it's not me you have to convince," She looked at him and he stepped forward.
She brought up a hand and placed it on his chest, "no. Stay there, you may be Beta but this is still our apartment, I'm sure Lazarus won't mind getting up and talking to you." He looked at her hand and took the step back, obliging to her wishes.
"I can talk just fine from here. I don't even have to get up," Lazarus said, staring at the blank screen of the TV.
Melissa stepped aside, allowing him to see Lazarus from where he was stood. "Then how do you stand with me, Lazarus?"
There was a pause before he spoke again, "as long as you keep in line, I am quite happy to be civil with you," he glanced up at Albert, "but I can assure you, I will make your life more of a living hell than it already is if you so much as put a hair over said line."
He nodded and she could tell something was ticking over in his mind, "so should I tell the alpha you're in?"
He waved a hand dismissively, returning his gaze to the TV, "fine," he muttered,
He nodded and looked to Melissa who put her hand on the door, "don't overstay your welcome," he nodded again.
"I'll see you, Emerald."
She took a moment and swallowed, "good bye, Albert," she took a deep breath and closed the door in his face.
"Though if he keeps that up, I may hospitalise him... which is quite a feat for a wolf," Lazarus growled quietly.
"Keeps what up?" She asked absently, staring at the floor.
"Never mind," he sighed, pulling the piano stool over to the window where he lit a cigarette, leaning out slightly so the breeze caught his hair. She nodded and dragged herself into the bedroom with a sigh.
When there she sat at the desk and pulled out the drawer, in it, was a long gold chain with an emerald pendant. She looked at it absently for about an hour. "When I look in your eyes, they remind me of those precious gems. This precious gem," he then produced the necklace from his pocket and she squealed, "took all my saving but it was worth it, for my Emerald."
Lazarus then broke her thought as he appeared in the doorway. "What's wrong?"
She handed him the gold pendant, "take it, sell it, and destroy it," she sighed, "anything."
He took it from her uncertainly and studied it for a moment before glancing back at her, "why?"
"I don't want to be his Emerald. I don't want it." Nodding, he left the bedroom for a brief moment to discard it, throwing it in the bin before returning. "Thank you." She muttered closing the drawer it came from. He didn't say anything, instead sitting on the edge of the bed. "I'm not his, I know it. But, I keep getting flash-backs every time I see him and it was so sweet... but so much has happened since then, I'm not his."
He was stung, though he masked it, his face straight. She had put up with worse from him after all. The only difference was her old lover was still alive. "You'll need to tell him that loud and clear and make sure he gets the message this time. As if marrying someone else wasn't a big enough clue," he rolled his eyes.
"Yes, of course," she nodded, folding her arms and rested her head upon them, "of course."
"Well...." he paused, lying down and staring at the ceiling, "unless you don't want to tell him."
"No, you're here now. I'll tell him..." she turned so she was looking down at the dark wood of the desk, "you're here. You're mine."
"Mmm, but are you mine?" he asked, a strange twist in his stomach pushing the surely ridiculous question from his lips.
Her head moved up slowly and she twisted robotically to stare at him. She was frozen in shock and disbelief. "No..." she paused, "No, you did not just ask me that!"
He seemed surprised by his own question himself, "no... At least, I didn't mean to. I dunno where that came from, sorry," he mumbled.
"No, you doubt me, don't you? Deep down you don't know where my loyalties lie!"
Sitting up, he shook his head, "I trust you," he told her, "I do."
"No, you don't. Or else you wouldn't have asked, Lazarus, I'll tell him, I will. Just don't leave me... I'll tell him, I'm yours!"
"Why would I leave you...?" he questioned, still shocked by his own words, inwardly cursing himself.
"Because you don't trust me."
"I do trust you!"
"Then why'd you have to ask?"
"I didn't have to; I don't know where the question came from," he closed his eyes and rubbed his temples, "it's not that I don't trust you... I'm just scared of losing you," he mumbled, realising that it was from the fear of Albert tearing her from him that the question had sprung.
"You will never lose me," she sobbed, "you have every part of me and you'll never lose that." He rose and stood beside her, slipping his arms around her, apologising. She leant against him, unable to stop the tears as she had already wound herself up, her arms limply returning the hug.
"I'm sorry," he whispered again, lifting his hand to wipe away the tears, guilt twisting his guts knowing he had caused them to fall.
"Stop apologising," she whispered, looking up to him with her watery eyes, "please." He nodded silently, biting back the words, though he couldn't hide the remorse in his eyes, which made her roll hers before she slightly laughed softly, "Oh Lazarus, my fool." She whispered, reaching up with her hands to kiss him, resting them on his cheeks.
"I don't think 'fool' covers it," he muttered.
"Shh," she hushed, looking into his eyes, her thumbs stroking his cheeks gently. He obliged, falling quiet again as he squeezed her gently, She delicately used her hands to lower his head slightly and she rose on her knees, kissing him once more, sorrowfully due to her tears (although she tried to hide it.)
Kissing back, he did his best to smile, though he wasn't too sure if it succeeded or not, but she noticed it falter so she slipped her hands from his cheeks, to behind his neck, linking them together as she pulled away, "you have no need to worry because my soul, mind, heart and body are all yours. You know this. I love you."
"I love you too," he murmured softly, still embarrassed that his irrational fear had managed to upset them both. She wanted this over with, she wanted Albert gone.


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PURPOSE: Critical illness leads to profound muscle catabolism, and muscle dysfunction is present long after ICU discharge despite full recovery of other organ failures. Retrospective data indicate that decreased muscle mass at ICU admission associates to lower ICU-free days and higher mortality in elderly patients. Recently, pectoralis muscle area (PMA) measured on chest CT scanning has been found to be a useful surrogate of skeletal muscle mass in COPD and healthy individuals. To better clarify the impact of skeletal muscle mass on critical illness, we took advantage of the PMA measurement at ICU admission and investigated its association with patients' severity score and with short term, in-hospital clinical outcomes.
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By David Leon Moore, USA TODAY
The Oregon Trail is once again an arduous journey, full of danger and uncertainty at every turn.
In college football, anyway.
Eugene …Corvallis… take your pick or, rather, choose your poison.
Ask Southern California. The Trojans have been the class of the Pacific-10 Conference for the past eight years, posting an unprecedented run of eight consecutive conference titles, eight consecutive Bowl Championship Series games and eight consecutive 11-win seasons.
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But USC hasn't won in the state of Oregon since 2005.
Let's recap:
•In 2006, the Trojans were 6-0 and ranked No. 3 going into a game against Oregon State in Corvallis. The Beavers pulled a 33-31 upset.
•In 2007, USC was 6-1 and ranked No. 9 heading into a game against No. 5 Oregon in Eugene. Ducks 24, Trojans 17.
•Last year, USC was coming off a 35-3 thrashing of Ohio State and was ranked No. 1 heading back to Corvallis. The shocker: Beavers 27, Trojans 21, the only blemish in a 12-1 season for USC.
In the past three seasons, Southern California is 34-5 overall but 0-3 in Oregon.
"We've played good teams all over the country, in a lot of conferences, and our toughest games seem to always come from within the Pac-10," USC coach Pete Carroll says.
It could be more of the same this season, as Oregon (No. 14) and Oregon State (No. 25) are ranked in the preseason USA TODAY Coaches' Poll. They and No. 12 California are expected to give No. 4 USC a battle for the league title.
The Trojans will try to break their three-year losing streak in Oregon on (uh-oh) Halloween night at the Ducks' raucous Autzen Stadium. They'll face Oregon State in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum the week before, and even though it's on familiar and friendly turf, that doesn't figure to be a gimme, despite the Beavers' 3-38-3 record at USC.
Oregon State coach Mike Riley, once an assistant at USC, says there isn't any magic to his success against the Trojans.
"You just have to play a great football game, and you have to finish it," he says. "You have to play a really, really efficient game. Lasting against that team is the hard part."
The Beavers are in the middle of, for them, an extraordinary streak. Oregon State, for years something of a conference doormat, has gone 10-4, 9-4 and 9-4 in the past three years, finishing each season with a bowl victory (vs. Missouri, Maryland and Pittsburgh).
OSU's dynamic Rodgers brothers gave Southern California fits last year, and they're a year older and perhaps better.
Tailback Jacquizz Rodgers, or Quizz as he is called, set a Pac-10 freshman record last season with 1,253 yards and was the first freshman to be named the league's best offensive player. His brother James Rodgers, a junior wide receiver, is also a potent threat.
The Beavers' bugaboo has been sluggish starts; they opened 2-3 in each of the past three years. That's not likely this season, as the first three games are against Portland State, UNLV and Cincinnati.
Oregon is more accustomed to success, rising to national prominence under coach Mike Bellotti. The Ducks hope they won't suffer in the transition from Bellotti, now the athletics director, to Chip Kelly, formerly the offensive coordinator.
Oregon, coming off a 10-3 season that ended with a Holiday Bowl victory against Oklahoma State, should again be explosive on offense. The Ducks return a 1,000-yard back in senior LeGarrette Blount (1,002 yards, 17 TDs), and they're looking forward to seeing what dynamic junior quarterback Jeremiah Masoli can do in an entire season.
Masoli, a junior college transfer, emerged as a star after a series of injuries. He threw for 1,744 yards and rushed for 718. In his last four games, Masoli had a passer efficiency rating of 170.8, and some preseason magazines are calling him the best signal-caller in the league.
No one is predicting it for this season, but the way things are going it wouldn't be too much of stretch to one day see Oregon and Oregon State's season-ending "Civil War" be a clash between the Pac-10's best teams.
In any event, the Oregon Trail again figures to be a rugged trek in 2009.
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Gil Patterson's comments are organized by team, starting with extended spring training and going up through Triple-A Sacramento.
Extended Spring Training
OC: How's Michael Ynoa?
He had a few set-backs during April and May, but the last three weeks he has stepped it up a little bit. From an organizational perspective, you want to teach these guys to be mentally and physically tough. You can, if you are not careful – especially if a guy always seems to have something wrong – you can sometimes start to look on at him with a little bit of disfavor. You've got to stop yourself. I'm a perfect example. I had eight surgeries [during his playing career]. Did I fake them all? Did I not want to pitch anymore in the big leagues after being 21 and pitching in the big leagues? Even back from my Yankee days when Billy Martin would say, 'Gil, you're a pussy. You've got to pitch with pain.' And sorry about using that word, I hate using it, but it was like, 'Billy, since I was five, this is all I have ever wanted to do. Why do you think I am here at 21? 'Cause I'm so damn good, but you guys pitched me 300 innings in one year.'
But, Ynoa is starting to turn that corner. I said to him once when he pitched, I said, 'hey, I don't care if both legs are broken, you are still going out there to pitch.' And he smiles. I really just put the ball in Ariel's [Prieto, A's Arizona Rookie League pitching coach] court. I said to him, 'one day at a time, just make this guy a man, physically and mentally.' And I was talking with [Ynoa on Saturday] and he threw a bullpen with Keith [Lieppman, A's farm director]. I said, give me the most fierce, most relentless animal that you know. I was thinking, a lion, a tiger or a bear, something like that. He said, 'a buffalo.' I said, 'a buffalo?' So that is his fiercest and most warrior-like animal, so that is what I am calling him right now. I said, 'you're a buffalo. Nothing stops you.' So we had a little bit of fun.
Last week, he threw a game and the ball is just coming out of his hand very nice. He's 92-95. And you want the velocity, and that is basically what everything, in a sense, revolves around. He does have a chance to be a beast, or a buffalo, and that's what we are going for with Michael. It was nice to see him step up like that.
Deyvi Jimenez is another kid. He has been throwing the ball very, very well. I would hope to see both Jimenez and Ynoa in Vancouver before the year is over. In fact, Jimenez might even start there. I think with Ariel here [in Arizona] we are going to give Michael a little taste of game play. He hasn't really pitched in a real, real game for us yet. He pitched a little bit last year and stuff, but let him pitch a few times underneath the lights here and then we'll see.
It's not a rush. He's not going to pitch in the big leagues next year. But it is a process. I'm not going to be silly and compare him to Stephen Strasburg, but there are some steps for him. They are just a little bit lower. I think for now, let him get his feet wet here. Let him pitch the way that we all believe he is capable of and then go ahead and put him in that environment [Vancouver]. I'm looking forward to that. I certainly hope it can happen this season.
OC: Who else is standing out?
Omar Duran is throwing well. He will most likely start [in Arizona]. It's almost where we originally started [in talking about Ynoa]. You want to build a mindset that nothing stops me. He got hurt last year. Sometimes you scratch your head and try to figure out why, but then you look on the DL and every team in the major leagues and the minor leagues, people unfortunately break down, whether it be position players or pitchers. Everyone, for the most part, puts in the same workload. Everyone, for the most part, has the same conditioning style and throwing program. There's not one team that's a whole lot different than another. A lot of times that's just genetics that happens to somebody. But he is definitely getting better and throwing the ball very well during extended.
Brett Tomko and I have a good relationship dating back from last year. He is going to be in a simulation game [on Sunday]. I believe he is going to go two innings. He is feeling much better. For someone to go through that little nerve feeling, he threw the ball very, very well in his first BP session a few days ago. I'm very much looking forward to seeing him. You hate to put a figure on it, but today is June 13th, so, heck, by the end of this month, he could be helping a team somewhere. And that might be a little quick because you have to build up arm strength. But the progress he is making is very good.
Dan Giese had made a very good recovery [from Tommy John surgery. He reported to Sacramento on Tuesday.] He basically had the surgery the same time that Josh Outman had his. Josh threw a bullpen [on Saturday] and threw very well. I'm looking forward to seeing how he feels the day after. His bullpen yesterday was really encouraging.
Jonathan Joseph has good stuff and he is going back to Vancouver. He struggled a little bit in Kane County.
Argenis Paez has a great sinker. I mean, a great sinker. His velo has picked up a little bit.
Jorge Pena has a chance to be something. He reminds you of Freddie Garcia. He had some knee arthroscopy, I believe, and they are just trying to get that better, but he throws the ball very well. I'm hoping we can get him going in game action.
Kane County Cougars
OC: What has been the key to Ian Krol's succces this season?
Ian Krol's maturity [has helped him succeed this season]. Funny story, when he came to Instructional League last year, I mentioned to the players that this is a young man who is just out of high school and we all remember that. We will remember the choices that we all made out of high school. He didn't have the luxury to go to college and grow a little bit. So I said, 'Good morning, Ian.' And he says, 'hey, what's up?' And I said, 'Woah, woah, woah, woah. Mr. Gil does not do 'what's up?'. Gil does, 'Good morning, Gil.'' Well about four days later, he walks by and sticks his head into the coaches room and says, 'Good afternoon Gil. Can I get you lunch?' So he wants to grow up and I think the maturity off of the field is helping him on the field.
Jimmy Escalante [Cougars pitching coach] has done a great job with him. [Krol] is just able to do all of the things that you talk about a pitcher doing: be a warrior, be relentless, throw strikes. He's got a good breaking ball. The ball jumps on hitters even though the velocities might not light up your eyes. He's got a good change-up and he pitches to contact. His numbers, for any player let alone a high school one, are tremendous. We couldn't be any happier for him than we are.
OC: How has Robert Gilliam looked to you?
Robert Gilliam has had not a rollercoaster, but there's been more on the uphill for him. He's still got a power arm. In fact he and I just talked [on Saturday]. The change-up is a very important part of pitching. Fastball command and then being able to change speeds [are the most important parts of pitching]. Sometimes he wants to throw the ball by guys a little bit more than he should. But he is learning. Each time out, you are hoping that they learn something. But he's got a good fastball with life on it. For the most part he commands it well. And he's does have a good change-up. He's not trusting it as much as he should right now, so he and Jimmy this week are going to work on it some more. And he's got really two good breaking balls. He's got a curveball and a slider.
OC: Justin Marks struggled early in the season but has done better lately. Why was that do you think?
It's his first full season in professional baseball really other than spring training. It's a little bit different than college and I think he had to find his niche. Jimmy Escalante, again, has done a tremendous job in helping him find it. I've been very happy with Justin. He is a hard worker. Maybe early on he wasn't quite as open-minded as he's become but I think the more and more he lets Jimmy in, the better and better that he gets. We always tell the pitchers that it is not always our way. We don't know everything. It's not our first rodeo, though, so we do know quite a bit, but we do try to let them have their own feedback and discussions with us and communications with us. But he has pitched very well.
The one time I was there he tried to go through the whole line-up without throwing a change-up, but he's just not that guy. He was trying maybe too many different things and I think now he's just resolved himself that he's a pitcher, which means that you still attack guys with your fastball but you have the ability to change speeds and throw some breaking balls that second time around [the line-up], throw your first pitches for strikes. Those are going to be very, very important to him.
He's got the four-pitch mix that he must use all of the time. It's almost like there is nothing above major league average. Everything is major league average, let's say, or maybe a tick below. What makes everything above major league average is command and the ability to use all of those four pitches in different counts. Because he does have a fastball, slider, cutter, change-up and curveball. When he puts them all together, he's tough. Really tough.
OC: Other standouts?
Connor Hoehn has struck-out a lot of guys this year. He's done a nice job.
OC: There had been some talk of moving Hoehn to the rotation. Is that something in the future with him?
You know, I did that this spring and it just didn't fit in [when the rosters were set]. I think he does have more of a bullpen mentality.
Josh Lansford, Jared's brother, just the other day, I don't know what happened, but he's pitched at 90 all year and the other day he was 92-95. He's also made progress with the breaking ball.
Bo Schultz has done a tremendous job getting groundballs. His groundball percentage is just stupid good. Jose Guzman has pitched well enough for us, as well. Jose Pina, we just moved his arm slot down.
Stockton PortsOC: Who stood out for you with Stockton when you were there last week?
Mike Madsen is on his way back. He threw the ball really well. That was nice to see. His arm strength is back. He's pitching at 90. My thought is to just keep sending him out there. He's been through a lot of set-backs the last couple of years and so it was nice to see him throw the ball so well and get into the sixth inning. That was kind of neat to see.
I saw Andrew Carignan, Fautino De Los Santos and Brett Hunter [during his visit]. The good thing with Carignan is that he is healthy. And, for the most part, throwing 92, 93 about every game. But just like [Saturday] night again, he walked two more guys in his inning. He's just in a tough spot trying to find that rhythm and trying to be able to repeat [his delivery]. Sometimes people worry too much about mechanics and delivery and whether someone says they are good or bad, the person throwing the baseball is the biggest judge. Whether someone else says it is good or bad, if he can repeat even a bad delivery, he's going to throw the ball for strikes. He's just, at this point, unable to repeat very well. He's a bit frustrated but in his head it's like 'okay, I'm feeling a little bit better with rhythm tonight, let's go see how I feel again tomorrow.' That's a nice little attitude to have and I hope, and I think he will, continue to go with that. If it's at the point where he stops feeling confident when he gives up some runs, then that is something to look at, but I think he is strong enough mentally to get that.
Hunter is about the same way. His arm is feeling good, not great. His arm angle is kind of like that Carlos Marmol of the Cubs' motion. That's where he is at now. And he's repeating that better. He just spins off a little bit. He knows what his key is.
Of the three, De Los Santos, at this point, might be the most advanced. His arm continues to feel good and that is our biggest objective with all three of them, or with anybody, really. [laughs] And he's pitching at 94-96 and more consistent in the strike-zone. I'm not going to say major league command yet, but more consistent. The slider is getting better. Don Schulze [Ports' pitching coach] and Ariel and Lefty [Craig Lefferts, the Vancouver pitching coach] have done a nice job with that, so he's coming. He's coming and we are very happy with the progress.
OC: How has Paul Smyth looked?
Paul Smyth has been amazing. Heck, he should be pitching in Oakland. [laughs]
OC: Is Smyth's throwing motion like Brad Ziegler's?
Smyth's arm angle is at three o'clock. He bends over a little bit and is at three o'clock with the angle. Ziegler's is more four o'clock. But, boy, I tell you what, [Smyth] is something. No fear. Come right after you, here you go. Come get this. He does have some deception, but he can spin a breaking ball. He can throw a change-up. And he does have some movement. He is not afraid to go right after you. He does keep the ball down. It's not a diving-bombing, Roy Halladay sinker, but it is awfully good.
OC: What has Shawn Haviland improved on over last year when he struggled in the second half?
Shawn Haviland is just better [than he was last year]. I think he is able to command the baseball better and recognize what hitters might be trying to do. We added a cutter, of course, and that has helped him some. He just has an idea. The other thing I think is that last year at the end of the season he might have just gotten a little bit fatigued, but we are really happy with the way that he is pitching.
Midland Rockhounds
OC: Talk about the Midland pitching staff?
With Figgy [Pedro Figueroa], I don't want to set the bar low because, quite honestly, I set it high, but when guys move up, whether it be Anthony Capra or Figgy, even Ben Hornbeck, especially from Single-A to Double-A, that's a pretty good jump. Like I said, I don't want to set the bar low for us. I want to set it high. When I would visit out there, there were some teams who had pitchers go back for the second and third year. And, yes, those teams pitched well. And some teams even sent guys back who had 10 or 12 wins and a 3-something ERA back to the same league.
Like I said, not to set the bar low, but Figgy is learning. Capra is learning. Carlos Hernandez, it's his second year in the league and he is pitching a little bit better. Travis Banwart, it's his second year and he is pitching much better. Jared Lansford, it's not his first go-around and he's pitching very well. I think in general I was happy with [what he saw at Midland]. Ryan Edell has pitched very well. He's the guy we got from Cleveland. So you have Figgy, Capra, Edell and Hernandez, who has pitched fine except for every so often a start where he'll post some pretty high walk totals. Travis has pitched very well. So it's nice to see those guys pitch well.
Of course, the bullpen [in Midland] has been very, very good. Justin Friend went down with a sore elbow about a week ago, but he has pitched well for us and Lansford and Jason Ray and Justin Souza has come back [from Sacramento] and has pitched really well. And Beau Vaughan has had a tremendous season for us. Daniel Sattler was pitching great until a couple of outings ago. Derrick Gordon has held his own and Mickey Storey, of course.
OC: What happened with Hornbeck? He seems to be pitching better now that he is at Stockton. Was it command with him in Midland?
It always seemed like with him that there was always one inning where he would have a blow-up. In a perfect world, you could put enough people around him where you could not force him through it, but get him through it. It just didn't work out that way. Basically what you said is true. He does need to command all of his pitches just a step better. I didn't mind the move down to Stockton. It's tough being in player development. You want to put guys where you challenge them, so you make a move that is mentally tough, but you want to make sure that they continue to gain confidence. It's such a Catch-22. Sometimes when you are moving a guy up a level, if he doesn't pitch well, he's going to go back and how is he going to adjust to that? Is it better to start him off low and move him up once he pitches good, but then what if he thinks he is too low and he isn't happy and he thinks he should be up? So many things go through your head, but he strong mentally and physically and really he is getting better each time out.
We did have to lower his arm angle just a little bit in Stockton. It was just a little bit too high in Midland, so we did lower his arm angle a little bit and we feel much more comfortable with the little bit lower arm angle.
OC: With someone like Hornbeck, will he be given a lot of time to see if he will work out as a starter before he would be moved into a relief role?
Basically, two or three people will tell me when it is time, Billy [Beane, A's General Manager] and Keith, of course, but yes, I still like him as a starter. He kind of reminds me of – again raising the bar high – a Cole Hamels with just a tremendous change-up and a pretty good little fastball that he can locate. Not overpowering. Has a little bit of a cutter, almost a slider and a little curveball. Like I said, I'm still not ready to pull the plug on him as a starter.
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OC: The back of the River Cats' bullpen has been impressive with Sam Demel and Henry Rodriguez [note: this interview took place before Demel was traded].
Guess what pitch Sam Demel throws now? [laughs]
OC: Cutter?
Of course. I've told him not to go crazy [with the pitch], but his cutter is 90 to 91 and his fastball is 93 to 94. He can sink it. He's got a great change-up and a good slider. He's got four weapons that are not big changeable weapons. Basically all of the pitches are fastballs. It's a fastball that cuts, it's a fastball that sinks, it's a fastball that moves and a fastball that goes slow, with the change-up. It's almost the same arm everything except the ball is going three different ways, right, left and down. And then he's got a slider. His walk ratio and his strike ratio are all improved. He is just able to command the ball better and repeat his delivery better.
And Henry Rodriguez is the same way. Henry has just finally, I think, matured enough to say 'I don't need to throw 103. Ninety-nine is more than good enough.' And then again, be able to repeat.
OC: Other River Cats of note?
How about the years that Clayton Mortensen and Travis Blackley are having? Mort, we added a curveball in spring training. I told him that he could be Roy Halladay, Jr. He can sink it. He has a little cut-slider piece and now you add a little curveball into the mix, a little bit of a wrinkle to get guys off of the fastball. He's got a great sinker and a tremendous change-up.
Blackley, in the times that I have seen him, has thrown the ball really well.
OC: Is it hard to incorporate a guy who was brought into the system mid-season from independent ball like Blackley was this year?
Not really, and you know why? Those guys are usually a little bit more mature and they have been around the game. You kind of pick their brains first and then maybe you say, 'hey, I've seen this work with some guys.' And then maybe you throw out a guy's name that maybe he knows and you say 'this has worked for him, do you want to try it?' And then they try it and they say 'hey, that's nice.' Or, in his case, I just watched him and I said 'this is big league stuff. This is stuff that you can pitch in the big leagues with.' I think maybe back in the day he tried to go hard, harder, hardest and instead of going smarter and sometimes a little bit slower. He has been a nice addition.
Jonathan Hunton's numbers at Triple-A have been excellent. We've basically added a two-seamer to him and have gotten him to trust his change-up more and he has made very nice adjustments there.


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Jones Day Reavis & Pogue has made an aggressive entry into the Italian market with a team hire from a leading boutique firm and the transfer of two of its own partners to Milan.
David Rosso, a Jones Day partner from Chicago, and Peter Sternberg, a Jones Day partner who was previously based in Paris, will both relocate to Italy. The two partners have extensive experience representing US and European companies investing in Italy as well as Italian companies doing business in other jurisdictions.
Rosso is part of Jones Day's government regulation group and focuses on energy, while Sternberg is a member of the business group and specialises in technology transactions.
They will launch the Milan office with a team hired from M&A and project finance boutique Macchi di Cellere Gangemi.
The team is led by Marco Lombardi, Stefano Macchi di Cellere and Ettore Scandale, who all join Jones Day as partners. They have taken four assistants with them to the new office.
It is understood that Scandale was responsible for running Macchi di Cellere's Milan office, while Macchi di Cellere himself is the son of one of the firm's founders.
Their practice has focused on M&A, capital markets, telecommunications and tax. Roberto Truffi of Studio dell'Avv Truffi in Milan has also been hired to help launch the greenfield office. He joins Jones Day as of counsel. The office will have a total of 20 lawyers when it opens this month.
Rosso said: "We see great opportunities in the rapidly evolving Italian market.
"We see great opportunities in the rapidly evolving Italian market. Italy is a vital link in our European and global presence"
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"Italy is a vital link in our European and global presence and we're delighted that we're being joined by lawyers of the calibre of Lombardi, Macchi di Cellere, Scandale and Truffi."
The Milan launch gives Jones Day a total of 26 offices, including London, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, Brussels and Geneva. Plans for a Rome office are also underway.
The Italian launch comes less than two years after the Madrid opening in January 2000, when Jones Day merged with local firm Tena Munoz y Asociados. In October it merged with specialist competition firm G&J Abogados.
Jones Day managing partner Patrick McCartan said: "We're committed to maintaining our position as one of the leading global law firms with substantial capacity in all of the significant financial and business centres in the world. Therefore, it's important for us to have a strong team in Italy, one of the largest economies in the world."


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May 1, 2012
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M – The rest of the NCAA better watch out because these Lobos can hit.
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The University of New Mexico baseball team is playing its finest baseball of the season and the nation is beginning to take notice. This week the Lobos received votes in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches' poll for the first time since the preseason.
"That's nice and everything, but we want to get to Omaha," UNM head coach Ray Birmingham said in reference to the site of the College World Series. "The only team that gets to brag is the No. 1 team at the end, and that's where we want to be."
The Lobos are a hot-hitting team, and rank seventh in the nation in batting with a .318 average. They are led by sophomore DJ Peterson, who ranks third in the NCAA with a .437 average and is tied for the national lead in hits with 80, and junior Mitchell Garver, who is batting .380 and is tied for fifth nationally with 73 hits.
But it doesn't end with those two. Freshman Ryan Padilla is hitting .364, which ranks fourth among freshmen in the NCAA. Seniors Ben Woodchick and Trey Porras both are currently well above their career-highs, with Woodchick at .335 and Porras at .312. Lastly, junior college transfers Josh Melendez and John Pustay are enjoying their first season of major college ball with .331 and .307 averages respectively.
It truly is a total team effort. The hit totals from the Lobos' past 12 games speak for themselves: 12, 14, 14, 19, 15, 8, 16, 12, 13, 12, 10, and 12. That averages out to over 13 hits per game, and, not surprisingly, the Lobos have a 10-2 record over that time.
Peterson also leads the nation in total bases with 140 and is second in RBI with 57. Garver ranks 10th in total bases with 117 and is tied for fifth with 20 doubles.
As a team, the Lobos also rank near the top of other offensive categories. They lead the NCAA in hits with 518, and they rank fourth in triples with 25, eighth in runs with 332, 11th in runs per game with 7.4, and 12th in slugging percentage at .463.
Meanwhile, Melendez leads the Mountain West in steals by a wide margin. He has 19, which is eight more than any other player. And in their 9-1 victory over UNLV on Sunday, Apr. 29, the Lobos set a new season-high with five stolen bases.
But it hasn't just been about hitting this year for the Lobos. Their staff ERA currently sits at 4.57, which would be the lowest staff ERA since the 1977 team posted a 4.13 mark. They are also on pace to strike out the second-most batters in a single season in UNM history, behind only the 469 the 1968 team punched out.
"That is a tribute to (pitching coach) Dave Martinez," Birmingham said. "The pitching has been a difference maker."
It absolutely has. The Lobos lead the MW with a 12-3 conference record, and, as important as their hitting has been, they would not be in first place if not for the excellent work of their pitchers.
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Posted: August 27, 2012
While the historic drought of 2012 has not impacted Pennsylvania as severely as the Midwest, increased climatic variability over the past decades has raised the likelihood of future severe droughts in Pennsylvania. Below are some general tips and links to additional information about managing private water supplies during droughts.
Monitoring water levels
Water level meters can be used to measure the level of groundwater in a well in comparison to the pump intake but these meters are costly and best left to use by water resources experts. Instead, water well owners can access and monitor groundwater levels in nearby monitoring wells operated by state and federal agencies. The USGS, Pennsylvania Water Science Center provides graphs of groundwater levels in comparison to historic norms for each county of Pennsylvania. Similar maps for rainfall departures from normal at a variety of time scales (one month to one year) are available from the National Water Service, Mid Atlantic River Forecasting Center.
Conserving water
Water conservation is always a good idea, but it is especially important during droughts and is even mandated during declared drought emergencies. Penn State Extension has numerous publications on water conservation ranging from emergency steps to immediately reduce water use, to longer term strategies that will continually save water.
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Thanks Tracy! Accommodations were excellent! Exactly as described. July 29 to Aug. 1, 2014. Thanks on behalf of Claude & Sue Clement. (with The Lemire family group). Note to readers: You won't be disappointed ... perfect in any season and close to some spectacular sites ... particularly Glacier National Park - Montana is Beautiful! :-) .
We stayed here for 9 days over the 4th of July and for our son's wedding. It was a perfect house for us and our grown children and 3 grandchildren. It was clean with lots of space in a fantastic setting in the Flathead Valley--the views of the mountains and farm fields are great. The large yard, wrap-around deck, and hot tub made it very easy to hang out and enjoy this real Montana experience. The house, rooms, and grounds are larger than indicated in the photos. The property manager and caretaker were wonderful taking care of all our questions and needs from booking to departure. They were always available to us and responded quickly to any of our inquiries. If you want an urban, modern contemporary property, this is not for you, but if you want a truly wonderful Montana experience in a large clean home, I highly recommend it. We can't wait to come back in the future. Thank you so much for the memories.
We stayed at this amazing home while we were involved in a wedding in Bigfork for fourth of July weekend, and found it exactly as is described on the website, with great hospitality to go along with it! It was a gorgeous property and home complete with a beautiful deck and outdoor dining with view of the mountains, a hot tub, large relaxing porch to drink your coffee in the mornings while you watched the birds, beautifully landscaped yard and flowers, new washer and dryer, spacious living room, bedrooms, and bathrooms, a library and piano, even games and stuff for the kids to play with. Betty (she manages the property with her husband and son), was so hospitable, helpful, and easy to communicate with both before we rented and afterward (she even went out of her way to send some stuff to us that was left behind). They greeted us on the spacious porch and showed us around the property and house, explaining everything we needed to know. She even left us a big basket of fruit and a plate full of "Betty's famous brownies" (divine!). They were both laid back and attentive, and even though they live in the lower level of the very large home, we still had our privacy and never really heard them or felt like they were even there ...except when they checked in on us as they were attending to the grounds. They were gone for a family celebration part of the time, but were accessible to us if we needed it. They were just total gems and the kind of people that you trust renting a house from! The house was spotless and comfortable, and it was an easy departure with just having to strip the linens and place them in the laundry room (no long clean-up!). The home is in a great location...close to the quaint town of Bigfork and Echo and Flathead Lake, and an easy drive to Glacier National Park. Don't miss eating at Echo Lake Cafe...amazing! It was just a perfect place (and incredibly affordable for a home as large and lovely as this! Compare...you won't find one at a better price I don't think!) and we are already talking about how to go back there this summer with our friends - just to enjoy Glacier some more! I would and have already recommended this property to friends and family.
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text: Charity Partners Millwall Football Club supports a number of charities, predominantly in South East London and surrounding areas. Having enjoyed a close relationship with Prostate Cancer UK during 2013/14 we again worked with them in 2014/15. Here are the details of some of the other charities with which we have close links and how you can find out more about the work they do. Peckham Foodbank Millwall Football Club has taken the initiative to support one of our local Foodbanks in response the increasing evidence of food poverty in our community. It in no way undermines or minimises other charitable commitments as it seeks no financial giving. Foodbanks meet the short-term needs of thousands of vulnerable people. Every matchday, fans bring no perishable foodstuffs and other essentials to the blue routemaster bus situated in the car park where members of the Supporters Club accept the items prior to the match. Demelza House Hospice Demelza South East London is a six-bedded hospice in Eltham providing a large range of hospice and care services to children, young people and their families. Life-limited or life threatened children or young people and their families benefit from a wide range of facilities. At the end of the child or young person's illness, Demelza offer a comprehensive service of support using a bereavement suite - known as the Butterfly Suite. Help for Heroes Millwall have worked closely with H4H over a number of years. The charity provides direct, practical support for wounded servicemen and women and also funds projects and initiatives to make a real difference to the lives of our wounded heroes. H4H prides itself on a 'Money In and Money Out' policy that ensures every penny raised is spent or allocated to the direct, practical support of men and women of the Armed Forces whose lives are affected in the line of duty. For Jimmy Following the murder of their son Jimmy Mizen in May 2008, the Mizen family has been determined of two outcomes. They will not be beaten by his death and that something good will come from it. For Jimmy works to make young people safer by building a legacy of peace in Jimmy's memory. They do this by creating unique projects that take young people beyond the school gates. London Taxi Benevolent Association for War Disabled The object of The London Taxi Benevolent Association is to help War Disabled persons, in their homes and hospitals, throughout London and the Home Counties, by providing entertainment, outings, and much needed specialised equipment. Their aim is simple; to work for the benefit, comfort and enjoyment of the War Disabled, to the best of their ability. Year after year, drivers and committee members are prepared to give up their time and money to bring happiness and pleasure into the lives of these men, and women, who gave so much for us all. In May 2015, the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the charity took veterans to the final Liberation Parade near Arnhem in Holland. Other charities receiving support from Millwall Football Club include: Heart4More (Tobi Alabi), All Saints Church/Salvation Army (Fr Owen Beament), Lewisham Hospital, Women's Aid, Millwall Community Trust, Millwall Lionesses. The Matchday Charity Collections for 2015/16 have all been allocated. Details will be published in due course. If you wish to request assistance in raising funds for a local charity, please write, including an SAE for reply, to: Charity Requests, Millwall Football Club, The Den, London SE16 3LN. You must send your request on charity headed paper with a charity number where possible. Please be advised, however, that the majority of our resources and support is devoted to our chosen charities. No charity requests will be accepted via phone or email. MFC Signed Merchandise There is a charge for this service as follows (charges do not include the cost of merchandise): Replica shirts or footballs £50 plus vat Celebration cards £25 plus vat Money raised via this service will be donated to our chosen charities. Please note that we can only arrange signed merchandise between August and April. Signed merchandise requests should be made through the Lions Store.


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Anne Arundel County Public Library's goal is to provide all of their services to customers of all abilities. We have several programs and services, such as Library by Mail, available to provide assistance to those who need it.
One computer in each branch is wheelchair accessible. All public computers are equipped with Windows Narrator screen reader software, and Windows Magnifier text-enlarging software.
Visual Impairment Aids
- Large-Print Materials - At all branches
- Kurzweil 1000 software is available at the Odenton Regional Library. This software incorporates communication and productivity tools to ease and enhance the reading, writing, and learning experience for the blind or visually impaired. Please ask staff for assistance.
- Low-Vision Reading Machine - For individuals with macular degeneration, cataracts, glaucoma and other visual impairments. Magnifies print up to 60 times the original size. (At the Glen Burnie Regional Library and the Edgewater Community Library)
- Maryland State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped - Free service through the mail for eligible blind or physically handicapped individuals who are unable to read print. Information is available online: Maryland State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
- iPod Touches, loaded with 40 ebook titles, are available for checkout by blind or visually impaired customers. Please ask at the Information Desk in any branch for more information.
Deaf/Hearing Impaired Aids
- Sign-language interpreters are available with advance notice for library-sponsored programs. Call 410-222-7371.
Reading/Study Aids
The library provides a collection of literacy materials, known as the ABLE collection (for adults who are working to improve their reading skills and for adults who are learning English). Call 410-222-7371 for more information.
Kurzweil 3000 software for reading and comprehension assistance is available at all library locations.
Library by Mail
Library by Mail is a personalized library service for county residents of all ages who are homebound, either permanently or temporarily, due to illness, disability or injury. Delivers a full range of library services via the mail, free of charge. Library materials are sent via US Mail in a pouch that includes pre-paid postage to return the items to the Library. More information here.


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It comes as no surprise that Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon are building huge corporate headquarters – they're making the kind of profits that go hand in hand with altering a city skyline. Yet besides needing more space for a growing workforce, the buildings they have planned tell us something significant about the mood of each of the companies.
In many ways, architecture is still our most potent symbol of power and longevity, and the sheer size of their projects, the names of their architects, and the prices indicate that one-time tech outsiders have arrived firmly in the establishment.
But maybe Facebook should pause before letting star architects such as Frank Gehry remake a hillside into a 420,000sq ft warehouse housing more than 2,800 engineers. To believers in the "skyscraper" index – the unscientific theory that when a corporation starts investing in huge building projects, financial collapse must be imminent – all this construction might make you nervous about the future of the tech industry. As the architectural critic of the Financial Times, Edwin Heathcote, asked, "Is it that their hubris is beginning to show?"
The skyscraper index is mirrored in Silicon Valley by the "campus curse". Sun Microsystems and many other profitable tech companies saw their winning streaks diminish after building lavish corporate-village HQs.
Facebook's bungled IPO took place in the same year as the announcement of its new building project. And the curse is now being felt by Apple, whose project in Cupertino, California, which resembles nothing so much as a giant glass doughnut, is behind schedule and $2bn (£1.25bn) over budget.
Some estimate that Apple's project will eclipse the $3.9bn being spent on the new World Trade Center complex in New York and the office space will cost more than $1,500 per sq ft – according to Bloomberg, this is "three times the cost of many top of the line, downtown corporate towers". Company stock fell about 30 per cent last year.
Of course, these problems are not the stuff of catastrophe to Apple (apparently it can cover the overbudget in cash). Apple clearly has a confident vision of itself and its aesthetic. Yet given that we all know what capitalist-Randian message is being sent when the Bank of America Tower rises in phallic glory over New York, what does it mean when Apple builds a glass doughnut? Should we be afraid that these extravagant campuses might really burst the tech bubble?
But rather than worrying that the companies will soon burn out, maybe we should be concerned that their workers might. Because what these new buildings really embody is the Silicon Valley ethos writ large: for those on the inside, work is life.
With their green spaces, laundromats, and restaurants, these structures resemble nothing so much as self-contained, open-plan cities. As some have pointed out, it's almost a techno-corporate distortion of the hippie communes of the 20th century.
With Facebook's proposed green roofs and Apple's infinite glass, which will allow workers a constant view of hundreds of trees, the tech giants are building complete techno-bucolic habitats for their employees. In Amazon's building proposal, employees need not even leave their office to eat lunch under trees. Plans for downtown Seattle include not only fancy desk space but also bespoke weather. In the three proposed biospheres, employees will, according to Amazon, be able to "work and socialise in a more natural, park-like setting".
Above all, these new office plans emphasise the productive possibilities of casual collisions with workmates. That's what has been written into their design through carefully considered interactive workspaces and shared areas – in Google's complex, with parks, cafés, and public gathering spaces, no worker will be more than a two-and-a-half-minute walk from any other.
Yet there's little encouragement of interaction with the rest of the world. The inspiration that's born of serendipitous interactions with outsiders is not built into these primary-coloured utopias, as employees are encouraged to do almost every function except sleep within company confines.
And some may even sleep within a whisper distance of their desk. Facebook announced today that it's constructing a $120m, 394-unit housing community a short stroll from the Menlo Park office in San Francisco.
These designer buildings are erected to contain employees for as long as possible between company walls, not only because of the magnitude of the services they offer inside, but also because of the architectural isolation caused by their size and location.
Aside from Amazon, which will build in downtown Seattle, most of these tech developments have chosen to forgo city dwelling and build their own urban centres – Google in Mountain View and Facebook in Menlo Park. A recent article in the Los Angeles Times says, "Apple envisions the 176-acre campus as its own fortress of solitude that will cut off north-east Cupertino from the public".
We're left with complete eco-systems and approximations of urban and rural living, for the most part hidden from public view, and constructed in pursuit of drawing maximum productivity from workers. But will this techno-corporate echo chamber of free coffee and grassy knolls be enough to stave off the "campus curse"?
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This week, the controversial chef is urging the great British public to sample a fabulous new meat. A meat which is, apparently, not only delicious and nutritious, but also ever so slightly gamey, lovely and sweet, gorgeously tender and, best of all, very low in fat.
Already, it sounds too good to be true. Come tomorrow, doubtless there'll be great long queues snaking from every butcher and meat counter in the country as we dash out at dawn to buy this latest superfood.
Er, perhaps not. Did I forget to mention? We're talking about horse.
And so, instead of a buying bonanza, Ramsay's comments have provoked outrage among horse lovers, animal welfare campaigners and even our staunchest meat-eaters.
He might as well have suggested we tuck into the family golden retriever, for goodness sake - and I should know what I'm talking about.
I ate horse last year, in Kazakhstan. And while it was perhaps not at its gourmet best (served in huge boiled chunks in a lukewarm greasy stew with a sheep's head perched on top) the thought of what I was eating - and I'm not talking about the sheep's head - was a thousand times worse than the nasty taste.
But why is that? After all, we happily eat cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks and even deer on a regular basis. Over recent years, we've embraced all manner of faddy meats - ostrich, emu, even kangaroo and crocodile. But a nice juicy horse steak? Never.
There's always that risk that we could be eating a distant descendant of Red Rum, Black Beauty, the late great Desert Orchid or the long-lost cousin of a beloved childhood pony.
The same goes for horses as dogs in this country. As long as they have names and personalities, they're not going to make it onto our dinner plates this side of the Channel, thank you very much.
You only have to remember the scandal four years ago, when horse meat was found in salami imported from Belgium and Italy.
That instinctive shudder is shared by Ramsay's one-time protege Marcus Waering, the chef patron at Petrus in London.
"I would never eat horse meat and I certainly wouldn't serve it in any of my restaurants," he says. "It's not part of our food culture. It's absolutely unthinkable."
Is this not just the teeniest bit irrational?
After all, in France and Belgium - two of our closest neighbours - you can walk into pretty much any supermarket and find whole sections dedicated to horse meat, right there beside the beef and chicken. It comes in steaks, mince, burgers, family bags, barbecue packs, you name it.
The whole of Europe, it seems, is mad for it.
Austrians eat it in hot dogs, dumplings, or in a warming stew with a peanut sauce. Belgians like it smoked (for breakfast) or raw (in steak tartare). The Swiss are partial to steaks, the Germans have it in a sweet and sour sauce and, in Iceland, horse fondue is quite the thing.
While France is traditionally most associated with horse meat, the Italians devour the most - accounting for more than 80 per cent of the Eastern European horse export market - and favour it stewed, shredded in a rocket salad with a twist of lemon, or made into sausages.
But we British still baulk at it.
Perhaps now is time to reconsider, because Ramsay knows his stuff.
Horse meat is high in protein (twice as much as beef), low in fat (it has 40 per cent fewer calories than the leanest beef) and is rich in both iron and Omega 3.
It is also fabulously versatile and can substitute beef, pork, mutton or lamb in virtually any recipe.
In the new series of his food show The F-word, which starts tomorrow on Channel 4, Ramsay dispatches presenter and writer Janet Street-Porter to visit a horse farm in France, then gallop straight to Cheltenham racecourse, to barbecue up some horse meat to tempt the punters.
She was much taken by the new superfood. "Horse meat is a really good source of protein and one we should take seriously," she trills.
"In a world of mad cows, we should be opening our eyes to new types of red meat."
Certainly, horse meat is free from BSE - horse breeding has never been industrialised in Britain and horses are fussy, only feeding on grass and cereal.
But, before we start feeling all hot and bothered and generally appalled at the thought of a nice horse lasagne, it is not illegal to eat horse meat in Britain.
Both horse and donkey meat were eaten in some regions - especially Yorkshire - well into the late 1940s.
During food rationing, horse meat shops sprung up all over the country, complete with alarming notices - "Horse Meat - fit for human consumption".
Newspapers were awash with recipes and cooking tips.
"It went well in casseroles, meat and potato pies and was good for a roast, and not at all fatty," says Barbara Hickman, 83, a retired cook from Aylesbury, Bucks. "I was still buying it from my butcher as late as 1947.
"It would have been tough in a sandwich but I'd have it in a casserole again in a flash - it was lovely and lean - you just don't seem to see it any more."
Today, those who are not repelled by the idea of horse as a food, worry about the possible cruelty to any doomed animal or whether the horse has been contaminated by drugs it has been given during its lifetime.
But the trade in horse meat for human consumption is as strictly regulated as any other in the livestock business.
Horses don't get special treatment. They are killed by the same method used on cattle in many European countries. At the slaughterhouse, they are caged, killed with a bolt gun and the carcass is then portioned for cold storage.
So, if you can still stomach it, what should you look for when choosing your cut? Meat from the younger horses tends to be lighter in colour, while older horses produce richer, darker meat.
Best are "warm-blooded" or "hot-blooded" varieties - horses bred for lightness and speed such as Arab and English Thoroughbreds.
The trouble is, we Brits just don't fancy it, as enterprising butcher Bob Walker discovered when, in 1996 and to great fanfare, he set up shop in the market place at Smethwick, West Midlands, as Britain's only specialist horse meat butcher.
He lasted barely a year. "There just wasn't the demand," he said.
Does that mean we're missing out? Probably not. If you've ever eaten steak frites in France for under a tenner, you have most likely tasted it anyway.
My own equine experience left me violently ill within hours - although that could have been something to do with the vodka and sheep's skull.
Perhaps, with a piquant sauce and some fondant potatoes, it'd have been more palatable. But I'm not going to be tempted.
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Do You Know Me?-A Dialogue
"Do you know me?"
"Wait, don't answer!"
"Why not?"
"Just don't, please."
"I can try."
"No, you can't."
"I can."
"No one knows me, how could you?"
"I am good at reading people."
"Ha! I am sure you are, but I am not people, I am--"
"How so?"
"Your shining eyes make me think about nothing, but thoughts of you."
"Now you are being far too clever."
"Why would you think such a thing?"
"How can simply my eyes leave you polluted with thoughts of me?"
"I never said polluted--"
"Intoxicated, polluted--same thing."
"Not particularly--"
"You are driving me off course, remember the question I asked?"
"Yes, do I know you. Well, I do."
"No one does."
"You like to sit on the porch to watch the night come--"
"Lalala, I can't hear you!"
"--your favorite colour is purple and your favorite animal is a cat."
"Frisky little things."
"I know a lot about you."
"Please, please be quiet."
"No one knows me."
"I am No One."
"You must be then."
"I guess, you can also say that No One loves you."
"There you go again, making me blush."
"No one makes you blush like No One does."
"Then I will ask once more."
"Do you know me?"
"I know you, and I know how to love you."


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This is the moment two planes nearly smash into each other during a horrifically timed landing at a Barcelona Airport.
The large passenger air buses are seconds away from disaster as one comes into to land but has to abort.
A complacent pilot may not have pulled out of the landing in time, and could have hit the Aerolineas Argentineas plane.
It was forced to head back up with already-deployed landing gear.
The Aerolineas Argentineas flight took off as normal, and the Utair plane landed successfully on its second attempt.


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It appears that it takes up to 15 minutes for my request to appear in spiceworks after an email has been send. i believe it has something to do with the refresh rate... Is that something that i can tweak to 1-5 minutes?
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You'll need to check the email check interval in the advanced settings. Be careful as changing things in this area can make SpiceWorks act very strangely.
Click on Settings under "My Spiceworks" on the left side. Then click on "Advanced Options" then scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "Looking for additional settings?"
Next check the line that reads: "Email check interval**" The default should be set to 300, meaning it checks every 300 seconds or 5 minutes. Figure out how often you want it to check and calcucate the number of seconds and then click the value to change it and then click anywhere else in the white space on the right side of that page after you make the change and you should see a message saying it is saving changes.
It should take effect right away, but you may have to stop and then restart SpiceWorks.