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SAINTS boss Nathan Brown has the luxury of a full squad at pre-season training and has been making the most of it.
With no players on England duty, all players bar honeymooner Lance Hohaia are back in the fold and well into their preparation for 2013.
With Keiron Cunningham joined by former Huddesfield assistant Jamahl Lolesi in the coaching department, Brown is seeking improvement across the board from his squad.
However, the 39-year-old Australian does not believe the side needs radical surgery to bring home the silverware after a four year hiatus, but has highlighted areas for improvement.
Stating how impressed he has been with the attitude of the senior British players in the ranks, Brown confirmed that Paul Wellens will remain club captain.
Brown said: "There is no need to change the captaincy. Wello sets a great example there, but there are things that I'll add to his leadership over this year which we will talk about.
"The greatest thing I have seen since I have been here is the best British players - the ones that have appeared in all the Grand Finals and played for England - are good people, great trainers, unselfish and you can't beat that.
"Those players used in right way set a great example to the young ones and also to the overseas players.
"An international coming over from Australia seeing how James Roby trains and how Wello and Jon Wilkin come in prepared to train, on time and how they look after their bodies is an asset.
"You don't do what this club has done for so many years if you are not doing things right."
Some changes have been made with Brown explaining that Lolesi comes in to work on the outside backs, with Cunningham focusing on the play of the forwards and hookers.
The squad will train up until December 23 and then they are off for 10 days. When they return, with friendlies arranged with Huddersfield and Wakefield, the season will be upon us.
Having a full squad is a luxury none of Brown's predecessors have had in recent years when Saints have trsditionally supplied big numbers of players to the national side – and Brown is keen to make the most of that.
"I feel very fortunate that I have been able to get my hands on them now – everyone's trying to get that improvement. We figure if we can get improvement – even a small one – it will hopefully be enough to catch Leeds and Warrington because they are the teams that are winning the trophies.
"I feel lucky that I have six weeks with most of the squad which is a luxury blokes who have come into this job in the past have not had."
Saints have seen Chris Flannery, Michael Shenton and Andrew Dixon depart, with Jordan Turner, Alex Walmsley and Willie Manu coming in to replace them.
He expects the new boys to bring some positive attributes to the club in 2013.
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"Jordan is the sort of player we'd like to improve over next 6-12 months as an individual."
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Paul Anka has made a few movies in his career, which is now in its sixth decade, and his uneven autobiography, appropriately titled My Way, makes it clear that he watched lots of movies while waiting for the spotlight each evening.
The Canadian crooner begins with a quote from, of all people, Henry Hill, the central character in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas.
"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster."
In Anka's case, the Ottawa-born son of Lebanese Christian parents always wanted to be part of "a cool scene." The coolest scene he could imagine was being part of the infamous Rat Pack, which included legendary American entertainers Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and, especially, the "chairman of the board" Frank Sinatra.
More than a lot of the kiss-and-tell memoirs that celebrities produce, My Way describes someone who knew within a very few years of his birth, in 1941, exactly what he wanted to do, and where he wanted to be. More than anything he wanted to be a singer and a songwriter.
Canada's capital is still not a place to do that in a big way, and it was much less so in 1957. That was the year Anka wrote and recorded Diana. He was 15. The song began his long association with legendary producer Don Costa, but he had already been performing on stage since the age of 11. Compared to Anka, Justin Bieber was a late starter.
Working with co-writer David Dalton, an American music journalist with some 15 books to his credit, Anka tells of illicitly driving his mother's car long before legal age, as he and a young band of schoolmates sang in clubs in nearby Quebec.
After Diana, everything changed. Both parents were 100 per cent supportive of their young star, and the family was soon living in New York and focusing on his meteoric career.
Several more top hits followed before his 19th birthday, including Put Your Head on My Shoulder and Lonely Boy. It was also around this time that Anka had his first significant romantic relationship. It was with former Mouseketeer Annette Funicello, who died earlier this month at the age of 70. Was it steamy?
"Annette and I hit it off," Anka recalls, "but her mother and a chaperone were all over her like white on rice." It didn't last.
Anka's recollections of his early years are definitely the most interesting part of My Way. So much happened to him, and he encountered so many legendary names all through his life, that the book frequently reads like Forest Gump.
While still in his teens, he collaborated with Buddy Holly before he died in a plane crash in Iowa in February 1959. The way Anka tells it, he and his managers were somewhat responsible for the tour that caused Buddy to take that doomed flight.
He also wrote It Doesn't Matter Any More, the last song Buddy Holly ever recorded. They had plans to do more collaborating had the Texan lived.
Anka, who has lived in Las Vegas for most of his professional career, devotes relatively few pages to his family life. It includes two marriages, five daughters and a son. He became a U.S. citizen in 1990, and his returns visits to Ottawa have been few.
He makes no mention of his brief involvement as one of the owners of the Ottawa Senators of the NHL in the early 1990s. Maybe he thinks nobody in Vegas cares.
Anka's most colourful stories involve his life in Las Vegas, particularly his association with Sinatra. He clearly loved hanging around the Rat Pack boys in their prime.
In 1968, Anka writes, Sinatra was in a bad way after the breakup of his brief marriage to Mia Farrow and he was seriously considering retiring. That's when Anka gave him My Way, the song he recorded for Costa just before the end of that year. It quickly put Sinatra back on top and his thoughts of packing it in were put away for a few years.
On balance, it's a very unflattering picture that Anka paints of his idol. Sinatra could occasionally be sweet and wonderfully generous, but when he drank heavily, which was often, he could be cruel and vindictive.
He says Sinatra was always accompanied by thugs who did his bidding, including physical violence. One of the victims of that was none other than Johnny Carson, who also drank heavily and was something of a Sinatra groupie.
Anka also includes lots about Sinatra's women, including his proclivity for prostitutes.
Far less interesting are the latter chapters where Anka goes on endlessly about his friendships with the likes of Donald Trump and Steve Wynn, the man who led the transformation of Las Vegas into the home of super casinos in the 1980s.
Among his other friends and associates then were Wall Street criminals Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken. Anka is also not the least bit reluctant to admit that much of his spectacular career has been managed in some measure by people connected to the mob. At no time does he express anything resembling guilt or embarrassment over this.
So perhaps Anka's reference at the beginning to Goodfellas is more appropriate than one might think.
Roger Currie is a Winnipeg writer and broadcaster. He grew up on Paul Anka's records on 45 rpm.


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ST. LOUIS -- Busch Stadium featured a back-and-forth battle between two of the National League's heavyweights on Sunday night, with the Dodgers prevailing as the victor, yet both sides leaving bruised.
The Cardinals got to Clayton Kershaw as few have this season, but the Dodgers delivered the game-winning blow against Trevor Rosenthal to escape with a 4-3 win in front of a sellout crowd. After sealing wins in each of the first two games of the series, Rosenthal couldn't preserve a tie as the Cardinals sought a sweep and sole possession atop the NL Central for the first time this season.
Instead, they settled for sharing that top spot with Milwaukee.
"It was two really good teams who don't want to lose," Cardinals second baseman Mark Ellis said. "I don't care if it's July. I don't care if it's April, or if it's October. Neither one of us want to lose. We want to go out there and play better than any other team. It was probably more intense than a normal regular-season game."
Adding to the intensity were some errant fastballs, two of which stung Dodgers shortstop Hanley Ramirez.
With the Cardinals trailing by two, starter Carlos Martinez hit Ramirez with a 98-mph offering to fill the bases in the fourth. Kershaw answered by drilling Matt Holliday with a first-pitch fastball to open the bottom half of the inning. Both benches were subsequently warned by home-plate umpire Ed Hickox.
Ramirez then took a 99-mph pitch from Rosenthal off the left hand in the ninth. It knocked him out of the game and brought about some harsh words from the Dodgers afterward, but also led to Rosenthal's unraveling.
Rosenthal, pitching on three consecutive days for just the third time this season, was a strike away from wrapping up a scoreless inning. Instead, the plunking extended the inning to Gonzalez, who drove pinch-runner Miguel Rojas home with his first hit in five at-bats on the night.
"Just a bad pitch in that situation -- down the middle, middle in and up in the zone," Rosenthal said. "Just like any game, I feel bad letting the team down. Obviously, to be one pitch away is tough, but that's how the game goes."
The Cardinals went quietly against Kenley Jansen in the ninth.
"It felt like we had a little edge tonight," Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis said. "It was a game we needed to win."
St. Louis made its push for a sweep by grinding its way back to tie the game against Kershaw, who allowed as many runs in seven innings on Sunday (three) as he had in his last seven starts combined.
Allen Craig worked out of an 0-2 count to deliver an RBI single in the second. Then, in an at-bat that showed shades of last October, Matt Carpenter sparked the game-tying rally in the sixth.
Carpenter, who began the Cardinals' NL Championship Series clinching victory over Kershaw with an 11-pitch at-bat last fall, drew a 10-pitch walk this time. Peter Bourjos, making just his second start of the month, then surprised everyone by lining a slider into the left-center-field stands.
"We knew going into this game with their guy on the mound, he's not going to give us a lot," manager Mike Matheny said. "I'm proud of how the guys kept going about it and Peter getting a big hit for us."
The game-tying homer was the first Bourjos has hit with a runner on since June 2012. It was just the second homer allowed by Kershaw in eight road starts.
"Bad breaking ball," Bourjos said. "It was a mistake, and fortunately, I didn't miss it."
Pitching in front of a national television audience and against the game's best, Martinez had the stage to showcase himself as one of baseball's brightest rising arms. The righty had his moments, striking out four of the first eight batters he faced, two on fastballs registering 100 mph.
But with those flashes came the reminder that the 22-year-old is still figuring out his own abilities. A triple and a two-out bloop single cost him a run in the second. The Dodgers then took two walks from Martinez and turned them each into runs with a pair of two-out singles in the third.
Speaking through a translator, Martinez said: "The problem here, I think, was emotion."
His manager agreed.
"It's something he's always going to be guilty of because he thinks more is better," Matheny said. "Sometimes it is, but sometimes it just takes him out of a rhythm. Then he got out of whack and we needed to get him out of there."
Martinez stranded the bases loaded in his final inning. He needed 74 pitches to navigate through those four innings, also the length of his last start. The Cardinals followed with four scoreless innings from the bullpen, including one from Shelby Miller, before blinking in the ninth.
"That was a great job of staying with it and fighting," Matheny said. "It was the kind of resilience and the kind of grit that we like to see."
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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People who live near the woman said when they noticed she wasn't out in her garden working every morning for a few days like she always did, something had to be wrong.
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"Its' just so unlike her to not be out and about," neighbor Lisa McFarland said. "Shes a very vivacious personality and out and about helping people in the community and she hasn't been seen, returning phone calls in three or four days."
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The names of those involved were not released and police say the investigation of the incident is ongoing.
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Clearwire shares slide on TWC stock selloff
News that Time Warner Cable had begun selling off its shares of Clearwire sent the WiMAX operator's stock sliding yesterday, a downward drop that continued today.
Clearwire's shares dipped about 6 percent to as low as $1.35 in morning trading before bouncing back to $1.41.
Time Warner Cable said last week that it planned to shed its entire 7.8 percent stake in Clearwire. It gave Clearwire's other investors the option to buy the 46.4 million shares first, before they went up for grabs by the public.
Thursday's announcement that all of the 46.4 million shares would become available through a public offering indicated that none of Clearwire's other investors elected to purchase them, prompting the decline in Clearwire's stock price.
Sprint is currently Clearwire's largest investor. Other companies with stakes in Clearwire include Comcast, Bright House Networks and Eagle River Holdings.
Time Warner Cable will sell the shares at a significant loss. It paid $550 million for the stock in 2008. At Clearwire's $1.48 closing price yesterday, the stake is currently worth only about $68 million.


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David and Alison Lea-Wilson, founders of Anglesey Sea Salt, collect and naturally filter Atlantic Ocean water from the Menai Strait, which separates the Isle of Anglesey from the Welsh mainland. Rather than evaporate the water by sun—which they see very little of in Wales—they heat the sea water.
This is the traditional way to make salt in the British Isles, different from the simpler evaporation that's done in France for Fleur de Sel and Portugal for Flor de Sal. After heating, the water crystals form on the surface. After ten days they're "harvested." The "crop" is a few hundred pounds of tiny, fragile, pure white pyramids of salt.
When you hold some in your hand you see a strinkingly complex latticework. The texture is fine and crumbly. Sprinkle it on top of your favorite dishes. You taste pure, clean flavors with crisp, delicate textures.
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With the air conditioner running more and more this summer, many of us are looking for ways to save a few dollars. It can be as easy as replacing the doors in your house.
Angie Hicks, with the service referral website Angie's List, told KPRC Local 2 an energy wasting door can be the first place to start when it comes to keeping that precious cold air indoors.
"Your front door is what sets the first impression for visitors to your home, but unfortunately over time that door can warp and crack and become less energy efficient," said Hicks.
During June, July and August in Houston, your air conditioner is working harder.
"When considering installing a new door, first you want to think about which style and what energy efficiency rating it might have to determine which door is going to be right for your house," Hicks said.
If your door is more than 15 years old, it is probably time to replace it and just like home appliances, doors now come with energy ratings.
While it may seem like a simple thing to unhook a door and pop in a new one, professional door installer Mark Spencer told KPRC Local 2 consumers really need to consider calling in an expert.
"A door, unlike some other replacements, gets a complete frame overhaul. Everything on a door comes out. So no longer is that homeowner dealing with an older threshold that may or may not be efficient. Typically they are getting a threshold that is a composite material so even if it does get moisture, it will never rot," said Spencer.
Hicks also warns a poorly installed door can cost more money in energy bills and offer less security than the door that was replaced.
However, if a new door is out of the budget, Spencer said replacing the weather-stripping around the entrance or installing a storm door can be a less expensive fix and still offer energy saving benefits.
Door Replacement Hit List:
· Architecture: Decide what kind of look you want. If you live in an older home, it may not be architecturally sensitive to replace an entry door with a contemporary model.
· Durability: Because wooden doors are susceptible to rot and insects, fiberglass and steel are the materials of choice when longevity is an issue.
· Weather elements: Some exterior door materials do not stand up well to direct sunlight and extreme temperatures. Is your door properly shielded from the elements via a porch roof or overhang?
· Safety: Doors in 24- or 25-gauge galvanized steel are considered to be the safest, especially for security. Steel doors are often fire-rated at 20, 45, 60 and 90 minutes.
· Energy efficiency: The door you choose can affect the energy efficiency of your home. If this is important to you, check whether the model you're considering is a certified Energy Star door.
· On a budget? If you can't budget a complete door installation, consider replacing the doors weather-stripping to improve the energy efficiency. The addition of a storm door is also an inexpensive investment if our existing door is still in good condition.
Door Choices:
· Wood: Many people like the authentic look of a wooden door for historic homes or country ranches. These doors can be also custom-made. The trade-off comes in high maintenance. Wood doors should be repainted at least every two years to keep them from warping or splitting. If properly sealed, the material is extremely resistant to heat and cold from the outside. A single door can cost upwards of $500 or more.
· Fiberglass: Fiberglass doors come in many styles even looking like real wood, with minimum upkeep. Although it feels light, fiberglass is actually very durable against intrusion and its foam core provides excellent insulation.
· Aluminum: Homeowners will spend at least $600 on a good aluminum door, but they should also realize that many aluminum door manufacturers offer warranties of up to 20 years on their doors. Aluminum doors have an enamel finish that does not rust or need repainting, and they consist of an inner core covered by an aluminum skin.
· Steel: Best bet for security, as they are stronger than any other front door option. Steel doors always contain cores made of wood or steel within a steel frame and skin. These doors usually need to be repainted frequently, but they are the least expensive of all the common front door options. Homeowners can get a basic steel front door for less than $200. Disadvantages to steel are mostly aesthetic; steel comes in fewer style options and can't replicate the look of wood.
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Charlie MacDonald scored the only goal of the game to give Barnet a thoroughly-deserved first win of pre-season against Stevenage.
Trialist MacDonald handed the Bees the lead in the 30th minute, demonstrating all of his Football League experience in planting into the bottom corner from just inside the penalty area.
Martin Allen included two familiar trialists in the Bees squad; goalkeeper Sam Cowler, who made three appearances during the 2012/13 season, and Bondz N'Gala, who featured six times whilst on loan from Stevenage in the latter part of the campaign.
Former Watford and Queens Park Rangers midfielder Gavin Mahon was once again included in the starting XI, though Will Antwi was not included in the matchday squad.
The first chance went the Bees' way, Graham Stack launching a clearance into the path of John Akinde, who outmuscled his marker with ease before rushing his shot and slamming wide from 20 yards.
Akinde saw another chance go begging just three minutes later when he nodded Keanu Marsh-Brown's perfectly-weighted cross over at the back post.
Stevenage's first opportunity came when summer signing Tom Pett created enough room down the right hand side to sit up a cross for Chris Whelpdale, who promptly nodded narrowly over at the near post.
An injury to Stevenage defender Ronnie Henry following a challenge from Marsh-Brown saw a several minute delay and took some of the flow out of the game upon the restart.
Barnet took the lead on the half-hour mark after good play from Elliott Johnson, who had been pushed forward into a more advance left midfield role.
Johnson showed good presence of mind to hold off his marker before offloading to MacDonald on the outside of him, the 33-year-old placing beyond Chris Day and into the bottom corner from the left-hand side of the penalty area.
The Bees had been the better of the two sides in the first half and followed Allen's constant instruction to pass to the letter, deservedly taking a 1-0 lead into the break.
MacDonald nearly added to his tally shortly after the restart but the ball would not quite run for the former Brentford forward after a Marsh-Brown shot deflected into his path.
Johnson continued to revel in his left midfield role and almost provided the ammunition for Curtis Weston to double the lead; the energetic midfielder denied by Day at close-range.
From the resulting corner, Jack Saville flashed a header narrowly wide as the hosts continued to pile on the pressure.
A succession of corners failed to yield a goal for the Bees, who were enjoying a sustained period of control before ten substitutions just after the hour.
The sheer volume of change disrupted the flow initially – much as it had done against Peterborough on Saturday – but Luisma Villa saw a dipping volley drop narrowly wide after Day's near post shortly after his introduction.
Barnet came agonizingly close to a second five minutes before the end, with the lively Villa creator-in-chief once more.
A searching pass from the Spaniard found Jamal Lowe on the far side of the Stevenage penalty area and the young forward controlled before chipping to the back post for Ahmed Abdulla to guide against the underside of the bar. George Sykes could not convert from close-range with the follow-up as Stevenage survived.
Borough came as close as they had at the death, Roarie Deacon seeing his low effort blocked away for a corner by David Stephens – the only player to play the full 90 minutes for the Bees.
Barnet: Stack (Cowler 64); Yiadom (Abdulla 64, T), Stephens, Saville (N'Gala 64), Muggleton (Nurse); Marsh-Brown (Gambin 64), Weston (Sheriff 64, T), Mahon (T) (Vilhete 64), Johnson (Villa 64); MacDonald (T) (Sykes 64) & Akinde (Lowe 64).
Stevenage: Day; Henry (N'Guessan 21), Ashton (Worley 64), Wells, Dembele; Pett (Gordon 71), Whelpdale (Beardsley 74), Lee (Johnson 71), Deacon; Charles (Okenabirhie 64) & Calcutt.
Subs not used: Beasant (GK), Bond, Zola.
* T=Trialist
Attendance: 548
Referee: Mr D Rock.


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The Northwestern State baseball team entered Tuesday having lost nine straight games and having won only two games during Southland Conference play.
On this night, however, the Demons could do little wrong.
Northwestern surged to an early two-run lead against Southern at Lee-Hines Field and never trailed in a 9-5 victory. The Demons finished with 13 hits and committed only one error.
"This is what we're capable of doing," first-year Northwestern coach Lane Burroughs said. "We've known that all year, and for whatever reason, it just hasn't gone in our favor."
Southern, which wrapped up its Southwestern Athletic Conference Western Division schedule over the weekend, will look to get back on track when the Jaguars (19-19) complete the two-game series against Northwestern (12-33) at 3 p.m. Wednesday.
Camilo Godoy took the loss in his latest midweek start, giving up five runs (three earned) in four innings.
Northwestern took its 2-0 lead in the second when Garrett Kilgore delivered a sacrifice fly and Matt Burns followed with an RBI single.
Southern battled back over the next two innings, scoring its first run on an RBI single by Jose De La Torre and the other on a throwing error by Northwestern starter Ahston Sivigliano.
But Northwestern broke loose for three runs in the fifth and added four more in the eighth.
"We just had those two bad innings where we couldn't execute," Southern coach Roger Cador said.
Burroughs took no chances when it came to snapping the nine-game losing streak.
He finished the game with relievers Steven Spann and Cameron Brewer, whose work is usually reserved for weekend action during conference play. Spann gave up a long homer to right by Gavin Webster before giving way to Brewer, who held Southern hitless over the final two innings and earned his fourth save.
"We felt like we had a chance to get the win and went for it," Burroughs said. "We went for the neck."
Northwestern, which had been swept in its past two Southland series, won for the first time since beating Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on April 12.
"This is how I envisioned our team all year, and it just hadn't happened," Burroughs said. "Maybe we get hot here at the end of the year."
None of the nine Northwestern runs was scored by the same player. Eight of the Demons' nine starters had at least one hit.
Edwin Gomez went 3-for-5 with a double. Burns was 3-for-4 with two RBIs out of the nine hole, but Cador said he was even more impressed by the shortstop's defensive efforts.
"He's a heck of a player. He took away five hits from us tonight," Cador said of Burns.
Tyler Kirksey had a nice night at the plate for Southern, going 2-for-5 with a triple and two runs scored out of the leadoff spot. Brian Rowry was 2-for-5 with a double and De La Torre finished 2-for-4.
The homer by Webster was the second for the sophomore outfielder in as many games.


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>Look What I Can Do!>25,000 miles later
So it appears that about 120 miles ago--which would have been around the week of Feb 20th I guess--I logged my 25,000th mile on RunningAhead since 2002. Actually not all of those were logged on RA since I don't think it even existed in 2002, but Eric was good enough to import my Coolrunning (blech) log a back around 2006 or so, and every mile since then has been logged right here. Give or take.
This is what 25,000 miles over 10 years looks like:
That's a lot of running in circles, going nowhere. You can see I took a little hiatus there from the 2nd half of 2004 until the middle of 2006. And I'm kind of in a big slump right now and overdue for one of those clumps of 300 mile months that usually go before a period of decent racing. But hey. I've stayed on the road and kept at it. So there's that.
In honor of this momentous accomplishment I will now hit the Donate button to the tune of $25,000--a dollar per mile.
(Okay not really but you should feel free to.)
Runners run.
Mikey that's a really impressive body of work and an encouragement to keep at it. Thank you.
"If you have the fire, run..." -John Climacus
Should we call you Long Run Mikey?
From a while back...
... In the spirit of the holidays I have been inspired to share a gift as well, with newbies and veteran runners alike. Since credentials seem important here, I have posted on RA for 18+ months.
My message/gift to you. Speed the hell up. Run like your hair is on fire. I have been running consistently over the last 36 or so years (slightly less time than I've been walking) virtually all of it injury free. I attribute all of it to occasionally blazing; utterly abandoning all reason and sanity and getting down to a primal level of predator or prey.
Yes, I race--from here to the mailbox and back, around the dining room table, and from 40m to the marathon. Sometimes I even challenge a pack of local kids to race me on their BMX bikes. Sure, most of my running is at an easy pace, but it's far from gentle. Well, sometimes it is. Sometimes it's not.
Make it a goal to make your own goals. Running for 10--20--30 years may be important to you. But for some of us, occasionally shaking hands with our inner beast and making the well fed neighbors scowl disapprovingly as we blow foolishly into a hellish kick with yet more than half a mile to go in a random, ho-hum, hello-how-do-you-do-8-miler just to see if we still can feel pain? Well, that is what makes all those dates with The Road worthwhile in the first place.
Run slow to run fast, but for the love of all that is holy run fast. Insanely fast. Foolishly fast.
Did I mention it works? This year I will have logged more miles than Jeff, aka JTH, aka The Philosopher. Which is really all that matters. I am not as fast as I was in the 80's but I'm getting there.
Make your motto whatever you want your motto to be. Start easy, then run like you stole something.
Remember--there are lots of finish lines. Boatloads of them, really.
The Logic of Long Distance
I'm calling you Around The World Mikey.
(circumference of the earth at the equator is 24,900ish miles give or take)
Nice going Mikey. Love the attitude dude.
25,000 miles in only 10 years? Bastard!
(And really impressive.)
50,000 Miles Later
That should be a blog title. Has a nice ring to it.
Nice work fun.
Dad, Runner, Programmer
Really inspiring! As a relatively new runner (3 years) I love to see this stuff. Although I mostly lurk on here, I lurk very actively, every day. So even though you don't know me, I feel like I know all of the regulars on here and you folks have given me a ton of help in so many ways! Keep it going! I'm sure there are many, many more like me that get their healthy dose of motivation here.
2015 Goal:For now, keep running!
That's pretty inspiring Mike!
Now, best of luck getting out of your slump!
Ra Due Runner
Now that is cool... Nice piece of work.
Log 1500
13.1 under 1:40 1:30
26.2 under 3:45 3:15
Interval Junkie --Nobby
Yeah, really amazing.
2016 Goals: Lose the 10lbs I gained for not having goals
Not bad for a hobbyjogger, keep it rollin' kid.
E.J.Greater Lowell Road RunnersCry havoc and let slip the dawgs of war!May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your SPF30, may the rains fall soft upon your sweat-wicking hat, and until you hit the finish line may The Flying Spaghetti Monster hold you in the hollow of His Noodly Appendage.
You should get a Sweet Jacket for running around the world.
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Just run.


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A MAJOR drive to stop children going into care across Worcestershire is kicking off - amid hopes a shock 22 per cent rise can be slowed down.
Worcestershire County Council has agreed a new strategy aimed at stopping the numbers of looked-after children soaring.
As your Worcester News revealed back in May, over the last five years it has rocketed 22 per cent to more than 600, putting massive pressures on the council's budget.
The Conservative leadership has already agreed to pump an extra £3.5 million into the fund, taking it to £25.7 million, and has now endorsed a new blueprint to reduce the numbers.
The strategy, which runs to 2017, includes:
- Around £332,000 will go on recruiting 20 new suitable foster carers
- A target has been set for reducing initial referral rates from 3,163 per year to 2,700 during that period
- The number of emergency care placements, currently running at 178 per year, is targeted to drop to 133
- A 15 per cent reduction in the average number of weeks children are in care
- Making sure at least 60 per cent of children who leave the care system are in the education system, or if they are turning into adults some kind of training or employment; at the moment this is around 40 per cent
The council is aiming to bring the numbers down by being better at early intervention - targeting resources on measures to help struggling families turn their lives around.
A report on it says some children "stay looked-after longer than they should" because the right adopters cannot be found, or efforts to reunify them with their families are not intense enough.
It says being in care "isn't in children's best interests" and that fresh efforts are needed.
It follows a forecast that if Worcestershire's trends continue, by 2022 it could have 985 children in care.
The overall cost of children's social care in the county, including fostering, adoption and placements is £44 million.
Councillor Adrian Hardman, the leader said: "The children that we have in our care are the most vulnerable in Worcestershire, this is very important."


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MAJOR changes are in the pipeline for commuters catching trains through East Lancashire when new timetables come into force next month.
Rail services between Blackburn stations and Colne, and the Lancashire-Yorkshire express route, are set to be retimed by up to half-an-hour as part of a wholesale shake-up of the north-west network.
Bosses at Northern Rail say the alterations have been brought about because of the electrification of First Trans-Pennine Express services.
This affects not only the Blackpool South to Colne 'stopper' service but also Blackpool North to York trains, calling at Blackburn, Accrington and Burnley Manchester Road.
It could mean an earlier start for some, with a new 07.23 train from Colne arriving in Blackburn for 08.02 and similarly the 08.23 service retimed for after 9am.
Return trains from Blackburn at teatime will usually leave just before the half-hour mark, instead of either 10 minutes or two minutes before the hour.
A Northern Rail spokesman said: "Northern services across the network are being revised as a result of the enhancement of First TransPennine Express services between Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, York and Newcastle.
"Services between Blackpool and York have to fit between other trains throughout their journey, on congested sections of the network, such as between Leeds and York.
"As part of the recast of service, it is therefore necessary to retime these trains, and similarly to retime the trains between Blackpool South and Colne.
"Whilst there are retimings to services, current frequency levels and journey opportunities are maintained on these routes."


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DETROIT - The North Terminal at Detroit Metro Airport has been evacuated after a suspicious device was found in the x-ray machine around 6:15 a.m.
Airport spokesman Mike Conway said hundreds of passengers were moved out of the terminal and taken to Smith Terminal.
Fire trucks, ambulances and police cars are on the scene. It isn't known what the item is but the bomb squad has been called in.
The check-in areas and gates near that security check point have also been evacuated and traffic has been rerouted.
Anyone headed to the airport should avoid the North Terminal. News stands and restaurants have also been closed.
If anyone has a flight leaving, they should call ahead and check in with their airlines to see when their flight will depart. Air Canada, AirTran, American Airlines, Frontier, Lufthansa, Royal Jordanian, Southwest, Spirit, United and U.S. Airways all fly out of the North Terminal.
Chopper 4 over the scene saw dozens of passengers hauling their luggage from the North Terminal to the old Smith Terminal.
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TechElect has identified six of the most critical policy reforms that American policymakers from across both sides of the aisle need to embrace if the United States is to restore its leadership in the race for global innovation advantage. Indeed, the United States would go a long way toward enhancing its innovation competitiveness if it tackled these six steps as the first items on the 2013 legislative agenda.
TechElect rightly focuses first on skills and investment, specifically boosting American students' math, science, and engineering skills and ensuring America's technological leadership through strategic investments in scientific research. Unfortunately, the United States is currently lagging on both accounts. For example, U.S. students in the class of 2011, with a 32 percent proficiency, came in just 32nd out of the 65 nations whose students participated in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). Worse, 22 countries "significantly outperformed" the United States in the share of students reaching the proficient level in math. But lackluster science and math scores don't afflict just U.S. middle- and high-schoolers. Only 34 percent of seniors at four-year U.S. colleges demonstrate proficient quantitative skills (while only 38 and 40 percent demonstrate proficient document and prose literacy skills, respectively). The United States must get serious about improving the math, science, and engineering skills of America's students, and ITIF lays out a number of ideas for how to get there in Refueling the U.S. Innovation Economy: Fresh Approaches to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education, including by employing more teachers themselves educated in math and science and by adopting new educational approaches, including more project and team based learning.
At the same time, the federal government must redouble its investments in scientific research, which have faltered as a share of our economy for many years. In fact, to restore federal support for research and development (R&D) as a share of GDP to 1987 levels, Congress would have to increase federal support for R&D by almost $110 billion—per year. This faltering support has been especially apparent in federally funded university research. America ranks just 22nd out of thirty major nations in university research and development as a share of GDP. Worse is that we are falling even farther behind. From 2000 to 2008, the United States ranked 18th in the growth of government-funded university research. Meanwhile, the United States also risks falling behind in scientific research in the most cutting-edge technologies. For instance, over the next five years, China is poised to invest twice as much (in current dollars) in life sciences research as the United States (and four times as much as a share of the GDP). Just as it has been in the past for everything from the development of semiconductors to the Internet to monoclonal antibodies, robust federal investment in strategic areas of scientific research are imperative to ensure that the next generation of breakthrough technologies emerge from the United States.
In addition to investments in research, the federal government should leverage its procurement budgets to support next-generation technologies. For instance, advanced energy technologies are central to boosting national energy security, increasing U.S. warfighter capabilities, reducing energy costs, and ultimately reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. To accelerate the development of advanced energy technologies, agencies like the Department of Defense (DOD) and General Service Administration (GSA) should leverage their procurement budgets to act as early markets for new energy technologies. This could directly support innovative advanced energy technologies in energy storage, energy-efficiency, smart grids, and power electronics at a much faster pace than if left on their own. One needs to look no further than the impact DOD's procurement practices have had on microchips and jet turbines to recognize the potential influence through small changes in procurement.
Strengthening incentives for companies, whether domestic or foreign, to invest in the United States in R&D, workforce training, and new plant and capital equipment is essential. Unfortunately, other countries have moved far beyond the United States in redesigning their tax code to incent these types of investments. In fact, the United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the OECD and just the 27th most generous R&D tax credit out of the approximately 45 nations that offer one. Clearly, the next Congress and Administration must take up corporate tax reform. But simply "broadening the base and lowering the rate" won't be good enough. While simplifying the tax code is important, any tax reform that reduces or eliminates key incentives for investing in R&D, innovation, or capital equipment (especially in traded sectors, like manufacturing) will only reduce, not boost, U.S. growth and competitiveness. Reforming the U.S. tax code should also include measures specifically designed to incent innovation and commercialization, such as by introducing a patent box that would allow corporate income from the sale of patented products to be taxed at a lower rate than other income.
TechElect is spot on that U.S. trade policy needs to get more sophisticated, placing greater focus on market opening, trade promotion, and trade enforcement. With 95 percent of the world's consumers living outside the United States, it's vital that U.S. trade policy secure fair rights for U.S. enterprises to reach consumers in these markets. But it's also important that the United States retain its leadership position as being the world's leading advocate for liberalized, market-based trade. Unfortunately, whereas the United States currently has only one new trade agreement under negotiation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the European Union is actively negotiating free trade agreements with at least five countries (Canada, India, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Ukraine) and two trade blocks—the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC)—that represent an additional sixteen nations. The United States needs to actively work to create new high-standard free trade zones, including by initiating a new Trans-Atlantic Partnership with like-minded European and Commonwealth nations.
With the documented incidence of industrial espionage cases having risen over 40 percent in the past two years, America must better protect its digital networks through more effective cybersecurity partnerships. Protecting America's digital networks is vital not only because core industries like finance and aviation depend upon it for their day-to-day function, but also because America's intellectual property (e.g., it's knowledge base) resides within digital systems, and these are vulnerable to foreign theft if not properly defended, as TechElect presciently notes.
Finally, immigration reform should be one of the very first—if not the very first—priorities of the next Administration and Congress. Historically, one of the greatest strengths of the American innovation system has been its open embrace of the world's best and brightest talent, but today restrictive immigration policies have largely rolled up the welcome mat for foreign talent, often forcing those from abroad who graduate from America's leading universities to depart upon graduation. But fortunately strong legislation already exists to rectify this situation. There is already bipartisan support—in both houses of Congress—for the Startup 2.0 Act, sponsored by Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS), Mark Warner (D-VA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Chris Coons (D-DE). The Startup Act 2.0 would make new visas available for foreign students who graduate with an advanced degree in a STEM field from an American university. As many other countries have done, the Act would also create an Entrepreneur's Visa that would allow foreign-born entrepreneurs already legally in the United States to stay here if they are able to raise $100,000 in capital to start a business and hire at least two American workers. Passing the Startup 2.0 Act should be one of the first priorities Congress takes up when it gets back to work.
In the coming weeks, a plethora of reports will emerge enumerating the most urgent priorities for the next Administration and Congress to address. TechElect's Six Steps to Jobs, Prosperity, and Innovation cuts through the thicket and succinctly highlights the six key steps that should be the starting point for policymakers after the November 6 election.


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The 61-year-old Transportation Building located at 370 Jay Street in downtown Brooklyn is getting a much-needed facelift.
The 61-year-old Transportation Building located at 370 Jay Street in downtown Brooklyn, long home to the Metropolitan Transit Authority's administrative offices, will soon be getting a much-needed facelift. The boxy and grim-faced building—most recently called "an eyesore" by borough president Marty Markowitz—will be transformed into The Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), a new emblem for Brooklyn's emergence as a center for innovation.
International architecture and design firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates provided renderings of what the future space might look like, although the school has yet to choose an architect or finalize a design.
The renovated building will provide an official home for NYU's new CUSP program—a joint venture between higher education institutions and tech industry mainstays including IBM, Cisco and Siemens—providing students and faculty with approximately 150,000 square feet of office, administration, classroom and high-tech research space. An additional 40,000 square feet will be earmarked for the creation of incubator spaces for spin-off companies and special office spaces for tech leaders.
These tenants will be connected by a highly visible "network": a line of shared spaces such as conference centers, common labs, new media spaces, cafes, fitness centers and public gathering spaces, where the academic and business community can mingle alongside the residents of Brooklyn.
The activities within will also be strikingly expressed through a new façade. Visible from any angle, the clear glass 'linear network' running through the building will pulse with life 24 hours a day. The rest of 370 Jay Street will be wrapped by a shimmering façade of faceted metal panels that weave across the building, picking up both the reflections of light from the sky and activity from the street.
The development of this state-of-the-art center is projected to be complete in 2017, although CUSP classes will begin in the fall of 2013. For more information, visit http://cusp.nyu.edu.


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ORANGE PARK, Fla. - Rich McGuffie said he had his reasons to spend over 10 hours hanging from a cross in his Orange Park neighborhood Friday.
Channel 4 got a call from witnesses Friday afternoon about a man who had crucified himself outside of his Orange Park home on the corner of Orion Street and Arora Boulevard.
When Channel 4 arrived at the home, McGuffie was tied to the cross. McGuffie told Channel 4 his wife and son helped him get on the cross and helped him get food and water throughout the day on Friday.
McGuffie said he had always wanted to make a statement like the one he made Friday night. McGuffie said he put himself up on the cross for many reasons; he wanted to draw attention to the deaths of Somer Thompson and Christopher Barrios, two local children who were murdered. McGuffie said he also wanted to draw attention to what he calls a senseless war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
McGuffie said he is comfortable standing in awkward uncomfortable situations because of the time he spent as a Marine. McGuffie will get down from the cross at 12 a.m. Saturday.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Parks and Wildlife Law Enforcement division has two new chiefs who started as of May 1.
Mark Simmons has been named Chief of Special Operations. He will oversee all the agency's special units within the law enforcement division which are: marine theft unit, environmental crimes unit, covert unit, and wildlife investigators and will also oversee the forensics laboratory in San Marcos. All the investigators in these units are game wardens who have been assigned to these special tasks.
"All the investigative units in the past have been thought of as individual units. I plan to cross train all of these investigators away from individualized disciplines for a more cohesive investigative team focusing their talents on high-priority investigations regardless of specialization for the overall benefit of the agency," Simmons said.
Simmons has been a captain in the covert division, an investigator in environmental crimes, and an internal affairs captain and has been a warden for 20 years.
Bill Robinson has taken over the position of Chief of Fisheries Enforcement. He has been in charge of aquatics enforcement, district supervisor in Kerrville, and an instructor in the game warden academy. He has been a warden for 32 years.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo softball team split its doubleheader with Nova Southeastern Saturday afternoon at University Softball Stadium. The Sunshine State Conference showdown saw the Sharks defeat the Lions in game one, 3-2, before Saint Leo upended Nova Southeastern, 3-2, in game two.
The Lions (19-12, 2-3 SSC) collected 13 hits and stole six bases in splitting the twin bill.
Tiffany Thompson highlighted the contest for the Lions going a combined 2-for-4 in the two games with two singles and a RBI sacrifice bunt in game one. Danielle Ferarra was 1-for-1 with a pitch-hit double to left center field for the game winning run in the bottom of the sixth in game two.
The visiting Sharks (12-14, 2-4 SSC) jumped out, in game one, to an early lead in the first inning scoring a run off a single to right center field by Erika Garcia. The Lions answered back in the bottom of the second with a triple from Angela Kafalas down the left field line driving in Cassie Boggs from first base. Tiffany Thompson would lay down a sacrifice bunt scoring Boggs from third and giving Saint Leo a 2-1 lead.
Nova Southeastern would battle back in the third inning scoring two runs and win game one of the doubleheader.
Ashley Ehlers would get the loss and see her record drop to 5-2 on the season. Ehlers went the distance for Saint Leo. In seven innings of work she gave up just two hits and struck out two.
In game two, the Lions came to life late in the sixth inning.
Nova Southeastern would pick-up two runs in the fourth inning, and would not be able to cross the plate in the final frame.
Saint Leo was held to four hits and no runs in the first five innings. Brittany Ewing was hit-by-a-pitch in the bottom of the sixth and Sara Steiner doubled to center field driving in Ewing from first base starting the come-from-behind surge. Boggs would then double to center field scoring Rachel Heath – a pinch runner for Steiner – from second to tie the game at 2-2 with no outs. Ferarra, who was pinch hitting, drilled a deep double to left center field scoring Boggs to take the lead 3-2. That proved to be all Lions would need to hold off the Sharks.
Steiner, 11-5 on the year, threw a complete game for the Lions. In seven innings of work she gave up four hits, walked four and struck out six. Steiner was able to shut-down Nova Southeastern in the top of the seventh for the win.
Saint Leo will be back in action on March 17th in Clermont, Fla at 11 a.m., where they will face off against Ursuline University.
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How do you value a share in an estate agency (what is known in the US as a realtor)? Perhaps as a derivative of a leveraged investment in a highly cyclical market – in other words, with extreme caution.
London investors are getting a chance to use their own methods, with the initial public offering of Foxtons, the chain of London estate agents that was bought by BC Partners for £360m in 2007 at the peak of the UK property boom. It later went through a debt restructuring as the market sagged. Read more


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Meaning: 1. An extensive political area under one government that includes several distinct nations or territories. 2. An enormous enterprise with many branches under one authority, such as a sports empire.
Notes: In the 18th and 19th centuries European countries competed for the largest empires: the British, French, Russian, and Spanish empires were perhaps the largest, but Germany, Italy, and Portugal had smaller ones. The derivatives of this word all begin on the letter I: the neutral adjective is imperial and the noun, imperialism. Now, imperialism clears the way for another adjective, imperialistic "like an imperialist, in an imperialist manner".
In Play: Empires did not first arise in the 18th century. Empires go back as far as recorded history: the Assyrian Empire, the Greek and Roman empires, the Ottoman empire, the Persian empire, to name but a few. Despite the disappearance of all these, the word still has a figurative use: "Herb Vinaigrette started with only one restaurant in 1955, and now he has a culinary empire stretching around the globe."
Word History: Today's contributor raised an interesting question: Is there any relation between empire and empirical? It seems as though there should be, but the similarity today is purely coincidental. Empire is what French turned Latin imperium "rule, command" into. This word comes from im- "in" + parare "make ready, provide, arrange". Empirical goes back to Greek empeirikos "experienced", Latin empiricus, French empirique, at which point English borrowed it. The root of this word, peir-, comes from Proto-Indo-European per- "try, risk", which came to English via the more natural route through Old Germanic as fear. (Narges Torkashvand, a university student in Iran—formerly the Persian Empire, for recommending that we compare today's Good Word with empirical.)


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Bairstow Eves Estate Agents of Bridgwater are delighted to announce their move to new, larger and refurbished premises at 28 High Street, Bridgwater, just along from Angel Place.
To celebrate the move they are holding an Open Evening on Friday (July 11) from 4pm to 7.30pm.
Professional services will be available on the evening to offer their advice including a mortgage advisor and solicitor and light refreshments will be served.
To coincide with the open evening they are also running a Promotion where £50 'The Range' vouchers will be given away for the first 25 homes that are marketed with Bairstow Eves up until the end of September 2014 (terms and conditions apply).
Director Martin Howarth said: "As we have expanded we needed larger premises, and in addition to sales also offer a lettings and property management service and have an on-site mortgage consultant working with us under the 'Morgan Financial Solutions' banner.
"We look forward to seeing new and existing clients at the open evening on Friday, July 11, but should you be unable to attend please don't hesitate to contact us on 01278-420444."


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ANAHEIM -- The Angels received another strong outing from Jerome Williams and a few timely hits from the offense, but the bullpen couldn't hold the lead in a 5-4 loss to the White Sox on Thursday night at Angel Stadium.
The Angels entered the game 11-1 when leading after seven and the bullpen had posted a 2.79 ERA in its past nine outings, but Thursday was a different story as the unit surrendered three runs in the eighth and the club lost its fourth game in five days.
"You have to get it done, we have to hold leads," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "[I] put guys in there tonight that have been throwing the ball well for us, they just couldn't get it done."
The baseball season is only a quarter of the way done, but the Angels find themselves facing a steep uphill battle. The club is 11 games under .500 and 12 games out of first place in the American League West -- the largest deficit in team history after 41 games. For a season that began with World Series aspirations, a simple playoff berth seems like a tall task.
"You've got to start a streak somewhere," Mark Trumbo said. "We're going to need to do something pretty special to get back into it. You let enough of them slide, you're not going to be able to do that."
Three eighth-inning runs courtesy of a defensive miscue and three walks made Williams' six-plus innings go to waste.
"It's frustrating," Williams said. "But all we can do is pat each other on the back, support them, try to come back tomorrow and try to get a win."
Alejandro De Aza and Alexei Ramirez led off the eighth with singles, but the inning turned when Mike Trout made a wild throw to third on Ramirez's single, allowing the runners to advance to second and third.
Presented with a prime opportunity to get back into the game, the White Sox took advantage.
A wild pitch from Dane De La Rosa allowed the first run to score, then a single from Adam Dunn tied it up.
"We had some great at-bats," Dunn said. "Pitches that were close and we were able to lay of 'em for the most part and were able to string together eight or nine really good at-bats."
Things then went from bad to worse when Michael Kohn came in and walked Conor Gillaspie and Dayan Viciedo to load the bases. Then, on four straight pitches, Kohn walked Jeff Keppinger -- his first walk in 140 plate appearances -- to give the White Sox a 5-4 lead.
"Just an off night," Kohn said. "My job is to come in and keep those guys off base and unfortunately tonight, I didn't do that. Just chalk it up as a bad night."
The three-run eighth came after Williams turned in his third quality start, allowing two runs over six-plus innings. This just five days after he allowed two runs in 6 2/3 innings against the White Sox in Chicago.
After allowing Paul Konerko to single to lead off the seventh, Williams handed the ball to the bullpen, despite having only thrown 74 pitches.
"He's not as stretched out as I think he eventually will be," Scioscia said. "As we line up the bullpen, matching it up, we got out of the seventh fine. It was the eighth inning that was the issues, we just couldn't hold on."
Alex Rios started the scoring when he crushed his ninth home run -- a long blast over both teams' bullpens -- to give the White Sox a 1-0 lead in the top of the fourth.
The Angels, who missed out on a scoring opportunity when Rios threw out Chris Iannetta at home plate on an Erick Aybar single in the third, wasted no time erasing the deficit.
Trout led off the fourth with a walk and on the very next pitch, Albert Pujols hit a two-run home run -- the 482nd of his career to go along with 18 in the postseason -- to give the Angels a 2-1 lead after four.
However, just as quickly as the Angels took the lead, they gave it back.
Gillaspie led off the fifth with a double, advanced to third on a groundout, and despite the Angels playing their infield in, scored on a ground ball to short that Aybar was unable to handle.
"This was a pretty big game for us and it's kind of indicative of how things are going," Trumbo said.
William Boor is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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HOUSTON - Following a story by Local 2 Investigates, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has expanded its investigation into Jeep Wrangler fires.
The NHTSA has asked Chrysler Group for information, documents and video pertaining to fires in 2007 to 2012 Jeep Wranglers.
The government has logged 23 total complaints.
A spokesman for Jeep said the request is routine and the focus of the investigation is on the 2010 model.
NHTSA confirmed that requesting information pertaining to other model years is standard practice and the focus of their probe is on the 2010 Jeep Wrangler, at this point.
Chrysler Group stressed the action is not a recall and should not be linked to a recent engine compartment fire in Houston involving a 2012 Jeep Wrangler.
"Six o'clock in the evening, I go out and I see smoke coming from the parking garage. I'm like, 'Oh, I feel bad for that guy.' I turn the corner -- there is my Jeep, just a blaze of glory," Jeep owner Mike Embry said.
Embry had purchased the Jeep from River Oaks Chrysler Jeep Dodge just hours earlier.
A Houston Fire Department report cited "failure of equipment" with "electrical arcing" of components not identified as the cause of Embry's Jeep fire.
If you have a news tip or question for KPRC Local 2 Investigates, drop them an e-mail or call their tipline at (713) 223-TIPS (8477). Copyright 2012 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Sony Announces VAIO Fit Series of Laptopsby Jarred Walton on 5/7/2013 5:25 PM EST
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Bob Todd - Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - linkI'm glad to see them ditching 768p screens on the mainstream model, but what the hell is the point of "thin and light" if the things can only last 3-4 hours even with ULV parts/integrated graphics? The 15E model only has a freaking 2670 mAh battery! Sony quotes a 3 hour 45 minute runtime which is absolutely pathetic. Mobile is supposed to be you know...mobile. Reply
Kutark - Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - linkHonestly, i can't think of many situations where i would be away from a plug for 3 hours or more. 3 hours and 45 min, whilst not spectacular, isnt exactly the end of the world. I think maybe you're over reacting a bit. I mean, if it was 4hr 30min would you still be having an anuerysm? Reply
Peskarik - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - link3h45m is probably in idle, which means if you do anything of value on the laptop then it is <2h, which is krap, because if my laptop runs <2h than I want at least the ability to replace/expand components. Therefore I'd choose T530 or W530 or something similar rather than VAIO.
P.S. I had Vaio 15" once, that was the worse laptop I've ever had. Reply
drealar - Friday, May 10, 2013 - linkNope, engadget did the review for Vaio Fit 15 and it lasted 3:37 hours which right on the money with what Sony advertised. Reply
Shark Tek - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkAs Peskarik said. That time is usually doing very very light stuff. Normally is way less than that.
A very typical situation in my case is that flying to my hometown takes 3.5 hrs. This laptop doesnt work for me. Reply
Tams80 - Thursday, May 09, 2013 - linkI was using my laptop for seven hours on battery today and that's a normal day for me. The only thing that stopped me going longer was that I ran out of power. OK, there were plugs nearby, but they were all being used. Reply
drealar - Friday, May 10, 2013 - linkFirst up it is $300 cheaper than typical ultrabooks and it really is not trying to be one. Secondly 1080p for the 15" really does eats up more battery, so I won't comment until other makers produce 1080p laptop at similar price point. BTW engadget reports that the Fit 15 lasted 3:37 hours, at least Sony is being more honest than most makers (advertised 7 hours but 5 hours with normal use). Given the Fit 15 is 5.05 lbs, I don't think they're suppose to be really mobile in the first place. Reply
PEJUman - Friday, May 10, 2013 - linkwhich part of thin & light implies awesome working hours? it's just another name for value/mainstream nowadays. I see workstation line requiring 8+ hrs nowdays, ultraportable/ultrabook at 6+hours. gaming line 3hrs min under light loads.
I for one is happy to see ivybridge i5 @ $600 (retail, non-sale/deal/clearance) with 1080p and 3+ hours. Reply
Hulk - Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - linkIPS screen option? Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - linkI've asked for additional details; hopefully I can update this with specs in the near future. For now, I would assume TN panels, but I didn't get a spec sheet/PDF so I don't know. Reply
bunnyfubbles - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linktheir 1080p panels are typically IPS Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkThey have done IPS 1080p on some 15.6" laptops, but their 13" VAIO 1080p was not, so it's a bit of a question mark. Hopefully it is, but then that would mean most likely the 14" is not as good as it would almost certainly be non-IPS. If anyone can find something out that states it is definitely IPS, let me know. Reply
Bob Todd - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkThis isn't remotely definitive, but Ars had a hands on and said they were TN. Not surprising given the starting price, but having an IPS option would be nice (I'll always happily add another $100 or more for a better screen). Reply
jaydee - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkPoor vertical viewing angles, probably not IPS:
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=6... Reply
jaydee - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkNo DisplayPort, not interested. When will manufacturers realize some people want laptops to drive 1440p monitors? Frustrating you can hardly find a notebook for less than $800 with DP, even though its been out for how many years now? Reply


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For financial years commencing on or after 1 January 2013, the German Ministry of Finance has amended Article 1 of its Foreign Tax Act to introduce the Authorized OECD Approach (AOA) for attributing profits to permanent establishments (PEs). On 5 August 2013, the German Ministry of Finance released for public comment draft Regulations (PE Regulations) on how the AOA will apply in practice. Once passed, the PE Regulations will be retroactively effective from 1 January 2013. They describe – among other things – how German and foreign insurance companies will be required to determine and document the profit that is allocable to foreign PEs of German insurers or German PEs of foreign insurers.
Some of the rules in the PE Regulations codify concepts and principles from Part IV of the 2010 OECD Report on the Attribution of Profits to Permanent Establishments (PE Report) into German law. However, other rules significantly deviate from international consensus and raise concerns about their acceptability to Germany's tax treaty partners in cases of double taxation. Such deviation is likely to have a material impact on those multinational insurers with PE profit attribution systems that follow Part IV of the PE Report.
Finally, the PE Regulations will impose a significant compliance obligation on insurance companies, requiring certain auxiliary and shadow calculations to be prepared on an annual basis for profits, assets, liabilities and equity attributable to PEs.