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More than 200 Democratic members of Congress sign marriage brief to SCOTUS
Postedon Mar 09, 2015 at 03:30 pm
On Friday, March 6, Over 200 Democratic elected officials, 167 House Representatives and 44 United States Senators, signed onto an amici brief submitted to the United States Supreme Court urging the Justices to rule in favor of the freedom to marry this summer.
With end to New Mexico legislative session, the freedom to marry stands once and for all
Postedon Feb 20, 2014 at 02:00 pm
On February 20, a one-month legislative session in New Mexico drew to a close - and with the session's end, it's clear that marriage supporters in the state were successful in their campaign to defend and protect the freedom to marry.
Victory in Indiana: Harmful amendment will not be on the ballot this November
Postedon Feb 13, 2014 at 03:00 pm
Today, the Indiana Senate voted to move forward with only the first sentence of HJR-3, the proposed ban on same-sex couples from marrying. That means that the amendment will not be on the ballot this November. It's a big win and a big step forward in the state.
Indiana House committee advances harmful anti-freedom amendment to full House floor
Postedon Jan 22, 2014 at 08:30 pm
This evening, January 22, the Indiana House Committee on Elections and Apportionment voted 9-3 to advance HJR-3 to a full floor vote in the House of Representatives. The vote means HJR-3 is one step closer to passage, and the full House will consider the bill soon.
Gov Pat Quinn signs Illinois marriage bill into law
Postedon Nov 21, 2013 at 01:24 pm
Yesterday, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed the state's marriage bill into law.
Hawaii Senate committee advances marriage bill to full floor vote
Postedon Oct 29, 2013 at 10:00 am
Yesterday, October 28, a key Hawaii committee voted to advance a bill to extend the freedom to marry to same-sex couples in Hawaii. The Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee voted 5-2 to send the bill to the full Senate, where a vote is expected this week.
Newly introduced House bill would deny protections to married same-sex couples
Postedon Sep 19, 2013 at 11:30 am
Today, several members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a new piece of legislation that would allow individuals, institutions, and government contractors to discriminate against legally married same-sex couples simply by asserting religious opposition.
Hawaii Governor announces plans for special legislative session to pass marriage bill
Postedon Sep 09, 2013 at 07:00 pm
This afternoon in Honololu, Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie announced that on October 28 he will convene a special legislative session to pass a bill to extend the freedom to marry to same-sex couples across the state.
Respect for Marriage Act reintroduced in the U.S. Congress with record support
Postedon Jun 26, 2013 at 04:15 pm
Today, supporters of the freedom to marry in the United States Congress wasted no time in taking steps toward full and final repeal of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, by reintroducing the Respect for Marriage Act to finish the job.
Legislators in Delaware will introduce freedom to marry legislation today
Postedon Apr 11, 2013 at 10:00 am
Today, legislators in Delaware will introduce legislation to extend the freedom to marry to same-sex couples. At 2:30 p.m., a press conference to formally announce the introduction of the bill to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage will be held in Wilmington.


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HOME safety visits have been set up by Trading Standards in a bid to boost the safety of elderly and vulnerable people.
The free scheme includes trained officers visiting people's homes and testing appliances like microwaves kettles and toasters.
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DETROIT - The Movement Electronic Music Festival announced its 2013 lineup Wednesday.
The festival will take place in Detroit's Hart Plaza on Memorial Day weekend.
International techno pioneer Richie Hawtin, producer and saxophonist Dominic Lalli and drummer Jeremy Salker, prominently known as the live duo Big Gigantic, are just some of the festival's biggest acts.
The UK's acclaimed DJ, producer, and radio personality John Digweed is also scheduled to play.
According to event organizers, Detroit's own techno icons and world-renowned artists Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson will give fans a special side-by-side performance to close out the festival.
Other notable acts include Andy C and Luke Slater and Planetary Assault System (live).
Organizers said the official 2013 MEMF trailer can be watched on YouTube.
"This year's lineup is a reflection of artists that have been redefining electronic music for decades and those that continue to push the boundaries of the genre," said Chuck Flask, artist coordinator for MEMF.
Tickets for the festival are on sale now and can be purchased at www.movement.us. The cost for a three-day weekend pass is $79. The pass grants fans general admission access to the festival grounds with in-and-out privileges. The cost for a three-day VIP pass is $199 and includes extras that can be found on the website.
Event organizers said the festival features five technologically-rich outdoor stages; more than 100 artists; free Wi-Fi access on the grounds; a posh VIP setting located behind the main stage; dozens of official afterparties; an interactive technology center featuring the hottest gear in the industry; and several art displays to stimulate the senses.
Over 107,000 people from around the globe attended the 2012 festival, organizers said.
The 38 performances announced Wednesday, in alphabetical order, are as follows:
- A Tribe Called Red
- Amtrac
- Andy C
- Art Department
- Ben Klock b2b Marcel Dettmann
- Big Gigantic
- Brendon Moeller aka Ecologist
- Carl Craig
- Dave Clarke
- Dennis Ferrer
- Derrick May & Kevin Saunderson
- Drumcell
- George FitzGerald
- Hatcha
- J.Phlip
- John Digweed
- Luke Slater / P.A.S. Live
- Maetrik
- Mala
- Mike Parker
- Nicole Moudaber
- Noisia
- Onra
- Paco Osuna
- Richie Hawtin
- Rrose
- Ryan Elliott
- Silent Servant
- Slam
- Steve Rachmad
- SuperVision
- Tensnake
- Terrence Parker
- The Bug
- The M Machine
- Tommy Four Seve
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Candy Melts are also known as confectionery coating or summer coating. They are convenient wafers made of sugar, milk solids, vegetable oils, flavorings and colors. The Light Cocoa, Dark Cocoa and Dark Cocoa Mint-flavored Candy Melts also contain cocoa powder. Candy Melts taste delicious, but don't require the careful melting procedures of chocolate.
Before you begin, make sure all of your utensils are dry. Water causes melted coatings to harden and streak.
Melted Candy Melts are ready for molding when the texture resembles cooked pudding. For all methods, do not overheat by melting on too high a setting or for too long. Coating loses its proper consistency if overheated or if liquids are added. If coating becomes too thick, add 2 teaspoons of hydrogenated solid vegetable shortening per 14 oz. of Candy Melts.
A quick and easy way to melt candy in a microwave-safe bowl, spouted measuring cups, Wilton Melting Bottles or Disposable Decorating Bags. If you're using a bowl or measuring cup, microwave 1 package Candy Melts at 40% power or defrost setting for 1 minute. Stir thoroughly. Continue to microwave and stir at 30-second intervals until smooth and completely melted. By using bags or the Melting Bottle, you can squeeze the candy right into the mold for less mess.
If you're using a disposable bag, microwave as described above, squeezing bag between heating intervals to blend Candy Melts together. When completely melted, snip off end of bag and squeeze melted candy into molds. Throw away bag when empty.
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Fill lower pan with water to below level of top pan. Heat water to a simmer, then remove from heat. Put Candy Melts® in top pan and set in position on lower pan. Stir constantly, without beating, until smooth and completely melted.
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For Melting More Than One Color Place different colors of Candy Melts in oven-safe glass bowls or custard cups. Position bowls on tray on a low to medium setting, stir while melting. Left on the low setting, the tray will keep your assorted Candy Melts colors at the ideal melted texture while you are molding.


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Green Carver of Gordo, Pickens County, Alabama
Gordo, Pickens County, Alabama
Green Carver, son of John CARVER and Nancy CLAYTON was born June 09, 1828 in North Carolina. Green Carver married (1st wife), Lousia POWELL and (2nd wife) Martha L. STAPP, daughter of William Stapp and Mary Maxwell on November 21, 1855.
Green Carver, a horseman or rider in the cavalry for the Confederates during the Civil War. Green served with MCCAA Rangers, CO. "D", 8th Confederate Regiment Cavalry. Mustered into service NOV 14, 1861, he would have been 33 years old. The MCCAA Rangers served under General Joe Wheeler. Green was listed at muster as 3rd Sgt, later he is listed as being in Co. "I" of the 7th Alabama Cavalry, under the command of Colonel Hodgson's Regiment, of the Nathan Bedford Forrest Brigade. Records indicate that he furnished his own horse .. and a valuable one, at that.
Green Carver and his sons have moved to Gordo, Alabama and opened a general store called, "Carver and Sons". Store went bankrupt when people recessing credit, refused to pay bills. Sons and son-in-laws both had worked at "Carver and Sons" including, James Monroe Carver and his son, William Stanford Carver. Green Carver was living in Gordo by 1901, when he was manager of the first city election. In 1900, Rebecca Elizabeth Carver, daughter of James "Jim" Monroe Carver, married Tom (John Thomas) Noland. Her father and grandfather Green Carver built them a home on "Carver Road" in Gordo. Jim's sons also lived on that road, as did Green Carver.
Green died in Gordo on December 30, 1904. Green Carver is buried beside his wife Martha at Liberty Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, which he donated the land for from the original Carver Homestead in Pickens County, Alabama. Green Carver joined Liberty Primitive Baptist Church on June 1879 and he was chosen as deacon on July 1881.


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Place beans, olive oil, sea salt and pepper in a medium saucepan and bring to a gentle boil. Reduce the flame to low and simmer 2 to 3 minutes. Turn flame off and add lemon juice, parsley, garlic and red onion. Mix and serve hot or chilled.
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Dehorning calves is a necessary management tool that prevents injuries to both people and cattle. But, it's important to take steps to minimize the pain associated with dehorning.
Sheila McGuirk, veterinary clinician at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine advises dairy producers keep the following points in mind. McGuirk shared these tips at a recent Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin Calf Care Workshop.*
- Dehorn calves prior to six weeks of age. If you can see the horn bud, it is not too early for removal.
- If dehorning calves with heat make sure the device has a diameter slightly larger than the horn base.
- If you use paste to dehorn calves, calves must be housed in individual pens.
- Decrease the odds of horn re-growth by clipping the hair around the horn buds for better visualization and therefore better contact for paste or heat; regardless of the dehorning method used. This step also reduces the risk of infection.
- Discuss pain management with your veterinarian. Talk about local anesthetics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and/or sedation. Make sure to discuss meat withdrawal time frames for each method of pain management. Sedation is optional but it can make local nerve blocks and restraint easier. If using a local anesthetic be sure to wait five minutes after administering to the calf before dehorning.
- Be sure to monitor your calves closely after dehorning, especially those under sedation.
*Reprinted with permission from Sheila McGuirk.
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This post is an experiment in order to see how far this entry could travel from my blog "mouth" ("mun till mun" - "mouth to mouth" in Swedish) to other blog "ears" ("hörsägen" - story / tale in Swedish). It will be interesting to see if it will result in new "eyes" (readers) to my journal here on EGO Sole Trader and to Stefan Engeseth's blog post on Detective Marketing that referred me to The Word of Mouth Manual: Volume II by Dave Balter, in the first place.
I got inspired to write this post after a phone conversation with Stefan about his forthcoming book, Sharkonomics, and how to use word of mouth and referral marketing for spreading the good word. Going through the comment thread on Anita Campbell's post, Up Your Sales in a Down Market Is a Crash Course in Selling, sparked my interest to finally press the publish button on my blog!
What is your take on the concept of "word of mouth"? Will you download the "manual" after reading this post and checking out the different links?


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AT Bench Update: Now with Mobile, Smartphone, and GPU 2011 Results!by Dustin Sklavos on 2/1/2011 3:10 PM EST
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- CPUs
- Smartphones
- Mobile
- Laptops
- GPUs
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sircod - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkI'm happy to see your 2011 GPU bench is up, I was wondering when you would get the newer cards on there. But one thing I would love to see is average framerates across all the games you tested, once for each of the three tested resolutions. I'm not as concerned with how well a card performs at individual games as I am with its overall performance. Reply
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkThe relative performance of the cards really varies depending on the resolution. If you averaged out the data, you'd completely miss the fact that AMD cards tend to drop off in performance a bit more slowly than NVIDIA cards with higher resolutions. As a result 2560 is a much different case than say 1680. Reply
ProDigit - Saturday, February 05, 2011 - linkSee that?
The benches are so corrupt!
There's an Atom N450 in second place, right next to a corei3.
Then there are some corei5's at the bottom right inbetween more atom processors!
Unbelievable! Reply
ProDigit - Saturday, February 05, 2011 - linktoo bad there is no bench done on the Atom N550 for netbooks. Reply
gevorg - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkI really like how the Anand Bench is improving. Some areas needs work though. For example, values for GPU idle noise levels are pretty useless. I assume these are from reference cards, but if you actually take a measurement from a "real-world" cardd like Asus, XFI, Saphire, etc, the idle noise for them can go well under 20dBa, and not 40+dBa as shown in the Bench. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkThis is because the way Ryan measures noise levels for GPUs is at a distance of 12" from an open case, and the noise from system fans contributes to the overall noise levels. So in this particular benchmark, the noise floor is ~40dB, though if you close the case and measure at a distance of 3' you'd drop to probably 30-33dB. (It would still be a "tie" however.) Reply
Brian Klug - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkJust to chime in with Jarred, our speakerphone volume level in the smartphone bench has a noise floor of 51.8 dBA. I'm still adding lots of data in there as well.
-Brian Reply
halcyon - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkWill you be adding Nokia N8 results to the smartphone bench? Reply
Brian Klug - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkThe N8 should be in there as the N8-00, I had that in there but didn't have it set to live. We're still adding lots of benches to the Smartphone bench in particular.
-Brian Reply
Cat - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkI think. Reply
trake1 - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - link4890 needs to be placed in the 2011 GPU Batch, not the 2010 please. Reply
lvewell - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkThe smartphone bench is great. Thanks for the creating it. AT has reviewed the Dell Streak and I was hoping you would list it on bench--preferably with the results of it running Froyo. Reply
Brian Klug - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkOh good point, I need to add those numbers as well. We're still adding lots of benches to the Smartphone bench in particular.
-Brian Reply
O8h7w - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkI think that the bench, in it's current form, doesn't make use of the database as good as it could. I'm trying to find out what graphics card to buy...
But how do I do that? I don't have much use of comparing all cards in a single test, nor do I have much use of looking at all tests of a single card. The only thing usable is to compare two cards, but I feel that is rather limiting.
I would like to be able to choose any combination of tests, and any combination of cards. A list with multiple choices shouldn't be too hard, am I right? But it needs to be a tree instead of a list, don't lose the grouping of tests into categories...
Of course, if you could add pricing too, it would be even better. It would be the ultimate hardware comparison tool!
Just my thoughts /O8h7w Reply
seapeople - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkWhat's better, I think it would be great if I could just upload a picture of myself to the Bench and have it automatically figure out exactly what CPU and graphics card would be perfect for me, find the nearest retailer, and automatically purchase them for me and have them delivered to my house within 1-2 business days. That wouldn't be too hard, would it? You just have to do some slight tinkering... it would be so great, I wouldn't even have to think before I buy my graphics card and computer. Reply
MeanBruce - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkDude, you are hilarious! Yuk yuk yuk! Reply
driscoll42 - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkI have used the Anandtech Bench many, many times to help people choose the right card for their build. Truly this is one of the best features of Anandtech that sets it apart from all the other review websites. While I hate to add more suggestions to the pile to give you more work there are a couple.
1. I know that not every card can be retested for say the 2011 GPU bench, but there are some cards and configurations in tests that don't make the bench, like the 5770 CF which I had to go to the article to compare would be useful. I don't know how many aren't in there, but is it much harder to add every one?
2. It is occasionally useful to know the integrated graphics performance of a CPU. In days past they were are basically terrible, but since AMD and Intel are putting emphasis on the GPU as part of the chip, could the integrated graphics of the CPU be tested and added to the GPU bench? As time goes on the graphics performance of the CPU will only increase and a baseline to compare would be fantastic. Reply
doczero - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - link6950 1GB Battleforge 1680x1050 Max quality + 4xAA Doesn't appear to match the scores posted in the review.
Review score 65.9
Bench score 23
Thanks. Reply
DarkForceRising - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkI was just curious as to what the reasoning was to split the GPU benchmarks into two separate categories. Your CPU bench is all in one list, making comparisons between anything rather easy. But the GPU bench is split up, meaning that for older cards, you have to do a two part comparison (comparing an old card to a card on both lists, and then comparing that card to the new card you want to examine).
It seems like it could be because you changed the benchmarks somewhat between years, but again, I look at the CPU bench page. Have you been using the exact same benchmarks for the CPUs this whole time? It just seems like you could at least find some benchmark overlap between most of the cards between the two years.
And that's pretty much my long winded way of complaining that I can't easily compare my 4850 to the new GPUs.
Also, some way of comparing multiple (more than two) of any class of hardware would be excellent. Reply
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkDrivers play a big part of this.
The scores in CPU Bench don't "go bad"; however for GPU Bench we have to constantly rebuild things as driver releases change performance. To include your 4850 I'd have to rebench it; as it stands I already have 31 different configurations and this doesn't include lower-end cards such as the GT 430.
As a result it's not very practical to cover every last card in existence, so for cards 2+ generations out you're only going to see 1 or 2 cards represented. It's not ideal, but if you know how a 4850 performs relative to a 4870, then you have enough information to make an informed decision. Reply
DarkForceRising - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkFair enough. I figured there was something that I hadn't thought of. Reply
marraco - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkThey are seriously lacking on 560/570 SLI. There is no info, and those are one of the best bang for the buck choices. Reply
Funtastico - Friday, February 04, 2011 - linkAgreed! I have a feeling they're working on it and will continue to add upcoming cards to this list. Any comments from Dustin/Ryan?
Bless your souls for the hard work you've all put into this. This site shines out amongst its competitors because of commendable work such as this.
Wishlist: Will more upcoming games be added to this list in the future?
=0) Reply
ScruffyNerfherder - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - linkUsing the 50% level of each phones brightness setting doesn't make sense as there is no correlation between the brightness level setting for each phone. What that level represents is specific to each device. Instead, actual measured brightness levels should be used or some method that makes more sense.
For a decently design SoC with decent OS/drivers and application, the screen backlight should be the dominant power user of the system while web browsing or any activity the require only a few seconds of processing for a much large time of the user reading while the CPU can be idle the majority of the time. I suppose Flash advertisements on some pages may keep the CPU from being idle as often. Reply
7amood - Wednesday, February 02, 2011 - linkNICCCCCCCCCCCCCE...
would love to c how the next generation Galaxy S would compete with the old generation galaxy s and other smart phones. Reply
Aone - Wednesday, February 02, 2011 - linkBench outlook might be readable better, if "Lower is better" is marked w/ color or graphically. Reply
Hrel - Wednesday, February 02, 2011 - linkI'm very disappointed to see 1080p is still not included in the GPU bench. No HDTV runs any higher, so nothing else really matters. Except maybe 900p and 720p.
I also want cards tested all the way down to the HD5670 at least. The 5770 is still out of some peoples price range. Though this is more minor since adding cards is just a matter of running the tests. GTS450?
I'd really like to see an averaged score at each resolution, or just 1080p, for each card across all games you test on. As it stands now I have to go through copy down all the scores and do the math myself every time you release new bench or new cards. Ofcourse when I do it I balance minimum frame rates from Crysis at 60% and the rest at 40% and I only do 4-6 games total; Crysis counts as 2.
Then I'd just like to see Sandy Bridge in the mobile bench. Specifically the 15.6" Clevo boxes with the GTX460M and the GT540M as well as the Compal with the GT540M. Though I'm sure you guys will get on that ASAP all on your own. Reply
ssohall - Wednesday, February 02, 2011 - linkPlz add Core i5-2400 to the bench. Is it wise to wait for all the mobos to be replaced or just go and get one and use SATA 6 gbps coz i think i been waiting long enough (2-3 months now) to buy sandybridge Reply
redisnidma - Wednesday, February 02, 2011 - linkAnandtech would be the last place I would look for unbiased benchmarking. People looking for "professional" reviews should try Techreport, Phoronix, Bit-Tech or any other. Reply
NateSLC - Thursday, February 03, 2011 - linkCould you update your Droid X numbers with the official 2.2 OS? The numbers there don't mean much to me otherwise. Reply
vzv - Friday, February 04, 2011 - linkSmartphone bench is awesome. Apart from wanting to see more Graphics benchmarks, it would be great if you can add links in the results from product name to a spec sheet with cpu core, frequency, battery rating, gpu core, frequency, ddr frequency, etc. Reply
alfredska - Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - linkThe GPU database is immensely useful. Reply
ritagreen - Friday, February 18, 2011 - linkcasinospel
Note, that there are also some desktop processors in the list (because some
laptops are equiped with desktop CPUs and for comparison). Reply
ritagreen - Friday, February 18, 2011 - linkNote, that there are also some desktop processors in the list (because some
laptops are equiped with desktop CPUs and for comparison). Reply


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LG G Pro 2 - Mini Reviewby Joshua Ho on 3/4/2014 10:00 AM EST
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- Smartphones
- Mobile
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JoshHo - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkI apologize in advance for the poor product photos, I don't actually have a dSLR of my own so the Lumia 1020 was the closest thing I could get. Reply
Gunbuster - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - link"Korean OEMs may be shifting their visual styles soon."
I would hope so. Those screens look terribly dated. Reply
ddriver - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkAnd people complained touchwiz was bad... What's with the "windows 3.1" styling LOL Reply
noel_newell - Friday, October 03, 2014 - linkI agree, it does. I can't see how this phone can match up to some of the top phones on the market (at http://www.consumertop.com/best-phone-guide/ for example). Reply
dawheat - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkNice mini review though I'd ask for a couple additions:
- screen reflectance - I've found that not all LCDs are the same and combined with max brightness gives an overall idea of outside legibility
- more direct comparison to its competitors - I think most users in this segment will wonder whether to get the Note 3 or LG Pro 2. So is the better camera worth the digitizer/pen? Being 6 months after the Note 3, is anything else noticeably better hardware wise? Reply
JoshHo - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkUnfortunately I don't have the equipment to test reflectance, I really would like to test that as well when it comes to screen protectors and such.
I personally can't say which is better. If the pen is of secondary concern then the G Pro 2 is probably a more well-rounded phone. Reply
TrackSmart - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkThanks for the "mini review"!
As a heads-up:
I've read the entire article, but I still don't know how "KnockCode" works or what it does (a small oversight). I'll be googling it momentarily, but it might be worth adding just a few words on this for future readers. Reply
JoshHo - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkThanks for the input, I'm going to make sure to cover that in the follow-up. Reply
ddriver - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkLooks like LG stopped one feature short of copying the note 3 completely. "Note" hardware without a stylus to compliment it = fail. I love the s-pen, wouldn't go back to a pen-less device ever. Reply
kmmatney - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkIt's pretty much a poor man's Note 3. I was planning on buying a Note 3, but it was $300 for 16GB, while the LG Optimus Pro G was $99 for 32 GB (and the rest of the specs were on par). Since this was my first foray into using a larger phone, I figured I would get the cheaper model. At least if I break it, I'm not out so much money - at least that was my thinking. If you don't use the pen, this is a cheaper option. Reply
gostan - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkA writing style that's very unlike anandtech. Reply
JoshHo - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkHow so? :) Reply
ASEdouard - Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - linkI feel it reads exactly like a usual Anandtech mini review. Reply
Hrel - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkAm I the only one who doesn't want to stop EVERYTHING I'm doing because I have to 2-hand my phone to check a text?! Seriously, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
4.5" is very near the upper limit of how big a phone can be. You gotta stay with .3" of that... on the absolute highest side of the scale. Reply
ddriver - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkGrow bigger hands :) Reply
retrospooty - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkI think its a technique issue. You shouldn't need 2 hands on a 5 inch phone. 5.9 maybe, but not 5. Reply
Hrel - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkI'm a 6'4" 240lb German Man. I can one hand a basketball. But I have to contort my hand to reach the upper left corner of a Galaxy S4. That's 5", that's too damn big. Reply
ddriver - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkIs anyone forcing you to buy big phones? I don't understand why people have to complain for stuff that is not mandatory but entirely optional. Reply
fokka - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkbelieve it or not, people want good phones, maybe even phones with flagship specs. but for various reasons, not everybody likes the ever growing form factors of the recent years. the problem now is that besides the z1 compact, there are almost no high end phones left under 5 inches, and phones continue to grow.
if you are fine with those big phones, that's great. other people would prefer to get the same power in a device an inch shorter though, because they find it more practical. but sadly that got harder and harder. that's why we complain. we don't need you to join us, i just hope you can understand us a bit better now. Reply
ddriver - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkWhat is the purpose of a flagship phone with a tiny display? The tiny display only further cripples the functionality of a mobile device, there are much less things you can do on a small display, so why would you need the extra CPU performance or RAM? A phone with a small display will suck at watching videos, viewing photos, reading books, web browsing - so why do you need the performance? Reply
Belard - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkI agree, also need to fit the phone in my pocket along with my wallet. I like to be able to use the phone one handed. Hence, I don't want any of these HUGE phones. My wife, on the other hand uses her phone as her main computer (web / fb / etc) and doesn't mind using 2 hands and of course she has a purse.
A good smaller phone is the Motorola X (there is an excellent review on this site for that phone) which most reviewers loving how the phone feels, its weight, etc. It has just started in Europe with very good reviews... considering its been in the USA market for over 6 months. The moto X has a 4.7" screen and a very small body.
The only thing that SUCKS on ALL ANDROID phones is Google Maps 7.x, which is why I dread replacing my AtrixHD which has issues from a drop, needing replacement. When I updated my phone, it stuck on the horribly useless Maps. Luckily, I can revert that particular APP to factory default. I'm researching to see if I can rip out 7 and install 6 when I get a new phone... otherwise, I'm screwed. Google should have fixed it months ago.
* Having a prettier map display is useless if its useless, doesn't work right and worse - require far more button presses than what is necessary. Reply
kmmatney - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkFor the most part, I have given up placing my 5.5" phone in my pocket. I've gotten used to it. They are starting to make dress shirts with larger, hidden cell phone pockets, and I think this will eventually catch on.
I do agree that Google maps seems to keep getting worse and worse... So has the Android music player. Actually a lot of Apps in Android seem to be getting worse, and anytime I want a new App it seems to take several tries to get anything decent, or not riddled with annoying ads. Reply
retrospooty - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkYou are holding it wrong. Reply
brothamon - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkI now have a Xperia Z ultra. I can check messages with 1 hand, i just cannot write them.
I would never go back to a phone with a smaller then 6 inch screen. Its so nice to be able to read news / do work / read emails on a giant screen.
I can actually use the smart functions of my phone and use my laptop much less then i used to with a smaller device.
I have a hard time even holding an Iphone, it tends to just want to fall out of my hand cuz its so small. Reply
jonup - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkCouldn't agree more with you. 4.7" with G2 bezel would be the best I could comfortably do with one hand. My N5 is pushing it sometimes. Reply
fokka - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linki'm on your side. too bad you gotta go 5" or go home when it comes to "proper phones" nowadays. i just hope the z1 compact starts a trend and we see capable competitors in the form of a new and non-gimped one mini and s5 mini soon. Reply
blzd - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkScreen size alone does not determine one handed usability. The size and shape of the bezel around it does as well. 5" phones feel great in one hand right now even if you can't reach the top without shifting, if bezels get even smaller (something LG has been pushing for a while now) that could extend to larger screens as well. Reply
R0H1T - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkAlright I have to ask but how exactly does AT know that X device cheats in benchmarks & Y doesn't ? Reply
dtek - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkOEMs whitelist benchmark apps so that when the apps are launched, it will plug in all CPU cores as active and run them at max freq for the duration the app is running. That's what AT generally looks for. A normal behaving app will leave the SoC in idle states and ramp up based on instantaneous needs for the workload. Reply
jonup - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkhttp://www.anandtech.com/show/7187/looking-at-cpug... Reply
jonup - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkAnd it appears Samsung might have stop cheating with KK. Reply
R0H1T - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkThanks for the link, evidently I didn't read the GS4 review on this site, but I don't seem to recall very many Samsung (phone)reviews out there with KitKat installed on the device so do you have any link cause I'm curious as to how the performance is without the usual cheat sheet. Reply
Hrel - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkYou guys should review this new laptop soon: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=34... Reply
kmmatney - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkLooks pretty awesome - but I like the line in the description "Insanely Lightweight: 6.39 pounds". I have a 17.3" laptop, so the weight is no big deal to me, I'm used to it. There must be a lot of metal in there, used for heatsinks and heatpipes. Reply
Death666Angel - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkFrom the first page, Note 3 comparison: "newer SoC" -> Pretty sure they have the same SoC, you even state so in the table. :-) Reply
JoshHo - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkSorry for leaving the typo up for so long. I thought I corrected it, evidently not...
You might be able to tell that I thought the G Pro 2 was 8974AB for quite a while... Reply
aryonoco - Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - linkSo I'm just wondering, is Brian still the smartphone editor or not?
Don't get me wrong, you are doing a very fine job Joshua, but there is a part of me which misses Brian's quirky sense of humour! :-) Reply
Arbie - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkaryonoco - Brian couldn't review this phone because it has a micro-SD slot. Foolish LG is evidently unaware that nobody wants those and they're going the way of the dodo. Reply
ddriver - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkLOL spot on. Reply
fenneberg - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkAlso, - Brian + AT do not like a spare battery in a shirt with larger, hidden cell phone pockets. Reply
blzd - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkDid you fail to notice the whole chart indicating your phone cheats on benchmarks? It's included with ever phone review such as this one. Reply
Gunbuster - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkI know it's trivial but who designs the charger so it covers up your own company logo? Total marketing fail. Reply
retrospooty - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkUh.... Pretty sure that pic above is the anti theft device put on by whatever show the pics are taken from. Same as you see in any mobile phone store so no-one walks off with the device. Reply
Gunbuster - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkThat makes it even worse. Would you show up at a trade show and then put black tape over your company logo? Reply
kmmatney - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkI'm pretty sure their booth has a lot of large company logos, so I don't think anyone isn't going to know who makes the phone... Reply
Scrote - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkOn the first page, in the photo at the top what is that green light thing sticking out of the phone? Reply
CoryS - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkThat's the security cable connected to it at a booth. For some reason he used a picture they probably took when it was announced as the cover photo. Reply
Scrote - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkThanks ^________^ Reply
kmmatney - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkI have an LG Optimus Pro G and one big problem I have is that the buttons are far to easily pressed, so I find the phone unusable without a cover. So the glossy back cover plate doesn't matter, since you need a cover anyways. I don't now if the button pressing is due to bad design, or just the phone being so big. Reply
vision33r - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkLG needs to open up to rom development because their locked bootloader is hurting sales. The LG G Pro has been sitting on 4.1.2 since the phone was released. A leaked 4.4 is out but lacks the modem for other locations. They are too slow with the updates and I don't have any faith with them providing timely updates and bad custom rom support. Reply
phoenix_rizzen - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkLG Optimus G was very easy to unlock using the FreeGee app in the Play Store. Had SlimBean 4.3 and SlimKat 4.4 running on up until I returned it in January with a dead touch layer.
LG G2 was also very easy to unlock using the FreeGee app in the Play Store. Had SlimKat 4.4 running on it the second day I had it.
Don't know about the LG Optimus G Pro or the LG G Pro 2, but I'd assume they'd be supported by FreeGee. Reply
mihaikiss - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkYou've mismatched the specs of the G2 Pro with those of the Note3 in the spec table at the beginning of the article... ;) Reply
JoshHo - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkI've checked and to my knowledge the spec table is correct.... Reply
TracyJHughes - Wednesday, March 05, 2014 - linkThe LG Optimus G Pro is truly an amazing smart phone. I believe it is the best phone available on the market. If you are shopping around for a new phone, stop and check out this phone. It has powerful specs, a comfortable feel for the hands, which provides an enjoyable experience. http://num.to/2775-4892-5183 Reply
victorson - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkJoshua, great mini review (as always, much more informative than other 'full' reviews), but one thing I don't understand. You are saying that "the white point is also quite blue, likely because this phone is intended for the Asian market". So people in Asia prefer blue? :) Or is it that they don't care about calibration? Could you explain what you mean by this? Reply
JoshHo - Thursday, March 06, 2014 - linkIn general it seems that the Asian market prefers bluer white points for display calibration, although this may be a universal preference. Reply
vista1984 - Friday, March 07, 2014 - linkgood review. i am thinking of this phone or g3 or nexus 5.
lg did very good job on the hardware design. now i hope they can catch up the software update speed like samsung, if not better. Reply
jk1 - Friday, March 07, 2014 - linkvery, very few reviews mention sound quality in the 2 audio uses that i care about the most- as a telephone to make actual phone calls, and as a music player WITH HEADPHONES.
how do callers sound to you, and how do you sound to callers? i know it's hard to generate a NUMBER to put on a BAR GRAPH, but that doesn't mean it's unimportant. i really like the information here at anandtech, but would very much appreciate this kind of additional information.
further, no one with a set of functional ears will want to listen to music from a smartphone's speakers- front facing, rear facing, reflected or whatever. if you want to use it as a music player, you will use headphones, and from what i read ELSEWHERE the lg series has a better dac than the samsungs. i can't belive i'm the only reader who cares about this.
i'd appreciate reviews that address the use of phones as music players. you don't carry a separate camera anymore, most of the time. do you carry a separate music player? why? Reply
jk1 - Friday, March 07, 2014 - linkps- just reread my comment and it sounds like a rant, for which i apologize. i really DO appreciate the site, and i appreciate this review. i'm just asking for the addition of some audio specific information, which i think would make the reviews even more useful. Reply
phoenix_rizzen - Friday, March 14, 2014 - linkThe LG Nexus 5 and the LG G2 are part of the Anandtech.com audio benchmarking article from a month or so ago. Reply
hockey - Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - linkWith the massive movement towards smartphones, buying a phone has never been so complicated. It's not longer enough to simply buy a phone that dials numbers, takes grainy pictures, and send text messages. Reply
Davidjan - Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - linkLooks good. It supports Meenova MicroSD reader to add storage: http://goo.gl/2iJ6gf Reply


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Caramel Apple Cream Pie Recipe
When I first made this pie for my family, the reactions weren't real words—they were more "Ooh!" and "Mmm!" I created it to enter in a local fair. My goal was an apple pie like no other, and it ended up winning third prize. —Lisa DiNuccio, Boxford, Massachusetts
- 1 pastry shell (9 inches)
- 1/4 cup butter, cubed
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 4 medium tart apples, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch chunks
- 1-1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice, divided
- 1 to 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup caramel ice cream topping
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Whipped topping
- 1. Line unpricked pastry shell with a double thickness of heavy-duty foil. Bake at 450° for 8 minutes. Remove foil; bake 5 minutes longer. Cool on a wire rack.
- 2. In a large skillet over medium heat, melt butter and brown sugar. Stir in apples and 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice; simmer for 12-15 minutes, stirring frequently, or until tender.
- 3. Stir in flour; cook and stir for 1 minute. Drizzle caramel topping over pastry shell; sprinkle with pecans. Spoon apple mixture over pecans; set aside.
- 4. In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar, egg, lemon juice and vanilla until smooth. Pour over apples. Bake at 350° for 35-45 minutes or until a knife inserted into the cream cheese layer comes out clean.
- 5. Cool on a wire rack. Chill thoroughly. To serve, top with dollops of whipped topping; sprinkle with remaining pumpkin pie spice. Yield: 8 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 slice: 495 calories, 29g fat (13g saturated fat), 78mg cholesterol, 327mg sodium, 57g carbohydrate (41g sugars, 2g fiber), 5g protein.
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Pronunciation: meel-flur, meel-flêr • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: 1. A pattern of many different colorful flowers, leaves and vines. 2. A perfume distilled from several different kinds of flowers.
Notes: Some US dictionaries prefer a singular spelling, millefleur, but we prefer adding the S since in French the word means "a thousand flowers". English uses French millefeuille "a thousand leaves" to name a confection made of whipped cream and jam between thin leaves of puff pastry. Since it is a noun, it pluralizes normally: millefeuilles. The Italian counterpart of millefleurs is millefiori, the name of a clear glass paperweight embedded with glass rods of different sizes and colors cut cross-section to look like a multicolored flower arrangement.
In Play: Not only is the millefleurs pattern visually striking, it can be very practical: "Well, Maude Lynn Dresser loves millefleurs dresses because the food she drops on them is hard to see." Just be careful where you use this design: "The dinner was wonderful except that I felt the millefleurs pattern on the dinner plates inappropriate for the dead plants and animals lying on them."
Word History: Today's Good Word comes from a French prepositional phrase de mille fleurs "of a thousand flowers". Mille is the French version of Latin mille "thousand", the source of English mile (from mille passuum "a thousand double paces"). Fleur and flower share the same source, Latin flos, floris "flower, blossom". The Latin [f] sound came from an earlier [bh] in the Proto-Indo-European stem bhel-, bhle- "bloom, blossom". You guessed it: the old Germanic languages added the suffixes -s and -m and passed the resulting words down to English as blossom and bloom. (And now a mille mercis and a thousand thanks to Chris Berry for suggesting today's colorful Good Word.)


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Three days after his arrest, Cleveland abductor Ariel Castro told the FBI how he almost got caught twice over the last decade, including once when a girlfriend was suspicious that a TV was on in the room where he was holding one of three young women, NBC's Today reports Friday.
In exclusive report by NBC correspondent Kate Snow, Today aired excerpts from four hours of FBI interrogation tapes made after Castro's arrest in May. Snow said the tapes were obtained from a source "familiar with the criminal investigation."
Castro, 52, hanged himself with a bedsheet in his prison cell on Tuesday.
The former Cleveland bus driver was sentenced to life in prison plus 1,000 years on Aug. 1 for abducting three young women — Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight — over a 10-plus-year period and holding them them captive in chains in his Cleveland home.
On the videotapes, Castro says there were several close calls that could have led to his capture.
Once, he tells FBI interrogators, a girlfriend noticed that there was a television on in an upstairs room of his house in Cleveland where he was holding Knight.
"She says, 'what is that, you have a TV on up there?' My heart started beating and I was like, OK, she's probably catching on to something," Castro says.
In another incident, Castro says, he should have been spotted on surveillance tapes at the school where he abducted DeJesus.
Asked if that was a close call, Castro replies, "yeah."
He also tells FBI agents that he used Amanda Berry's cellphone to call her mother.
"I said something ... that I have her daughter and that she's OK," Castro tells the FBI interrogators.
He says he told Berry's mother that that "She's (Amanda) my wife now, something like that, you know, probably not the exact words."
Asked about the response from the mother, Castro says, "I hung up. We didn't have a conversation."
He also describes what happened on the day Berry escaped and alerted neighbors, ending the ordeal for the three young women.
Castro says Berry's' daughter, whom he had fathered, was always asking him why he locked all the doors in the house. On the day he was captured, he says, he left a bedroom door open.
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I am really going to miss Buck Pierce.
I admire the way he handles himself on the football field, his damn-the-torpedoes, full-steam-ahead style of play. Unlike most quarterbacks, he isn't afraid of getting hit by someone three times his size. He plays with reckless abandon, leading with his head and his heart.
More importantly, I think he's a real-life hero for the way he conducts himself off the field.
This soon-to-be 32-year-old quarterback -- whom the beleaguered Bombers shipped to B.C. this week for non-import receiver Akeem Foster -- never met a charity he wouldn't help or a cause he couldn't find time to support.
What with being a crusading columnist, I spend a lot of time eating free meals at charity events, but I couldn't hold a candle to Buck Pierce. (I'm not saying he ate a lot of free meals; I'm saying when he wasn't on the field, he was helping people who desperately needed help.)
When it comes to lending a hand -- hold on while I look up the appropriate phrase in the Journalist's Big Book of Clich©s -- he not only talks the talk, he walks the walk.
Before this season began, I joined Buck at a Canada Safeway store where we media types had gathered to decorate umbrellas to kick off the grocery giant's fundraising drive in support of SMD Foundation/Easter Seals Manitoba.
There was Buck, not only signing autographs for awe-struck shoppers, but bravely battling with glue and tape to festoon an umbrella with balloons, butterfly stickers, crepe paper, artificial flowers and hot-pink feather boas.
Even though I knew the answer, I asked him why a big-shot athlete would give up so much time to help his community.
Boa in hand, he laughed and said: "We should all be so lucky to come and do this. It's just as important to me as what I do on the football field. It's a chance to give back."
Not long ago, there he was going head to head with a gaggle of media personalities at a spaghetti-eating showdown in support of Winnipeg Harvest.
At a smoothie-making contest for charity last winter, there he was whipping up a concoction he dubbed Please Stop Snowing Outside, then standing around for an hour talking to fans, signing autographs and posing for photos.
In January, he and then-teammate Chris Cvetkovic, founder of the non-profit Cvet's Pets charity, along with a few other CFL buddies, quietly spent a week in Mexico working at a volunteer spay and neuter clinic, helping with operations on 1,327 dogs and cats they'd rescued from the streets.
There are a lot of stories like this. For instance, when the son of an old friend had a promising college career threatened by an injury, Buck, who knows a few things about being hurt, called to tell him that if he just kept fighting and believed in himself, everything would be OK. And it was.
When I visit a school for I Love to Read Month, the former No. 4 will have been there before me. The truth is, even before he arrived in Winnipeg, I was a rabid fan, because Buck spent his first five CFL seasons in B.C., where I grew up as a pudgy kid obsessed with the Lions.
When he was traded to Winnipeg after the 2009 season and a series of concussions, being a fanatical fan, I told anyone who'd listen the Bombers were getting an old-school guy who'd sacrifice himself to get a win.
I still believe that. During the years, other players have told me they'd walk through fire for Buck, because they knew that's what he'd do for them. Say what you will about the "Swaggerville" defence, the Bombers would not have had a sniff at the 2011 Grey Cup without his grit and determination.
I've met many professional athletes, but I've never met one as decent and down-to-earth as Buck. He's the guy who doesn't forget a name and instead of talking about himself, he'd rather hear how you're doing. When he scores a touchdown, he acts like he's been in the end zone before.
Scrawled on the back of my official B.C. Lions jersey is Buck's signature. He signed it at 6:30 a.m. one day when, fresh off a horrific injury, he showed up to flog newspapers on the street to raise money for children's literacy projects in Manitoba.
Regardless of where the rest of his career takes him, this is a guy who is always going to lead with his heart. And that's why I'm really going to miss Buck Pierce.


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Greetings at a PartyProbability puzzles require you to weigh all the possibilities and pick the most likely outcome.
10 people are gathering in a room. Each person is meeting every other person. There are three types of greetings: a quick hello, which will take 40 seconds; a short chat, which will take 1 and a half minutes; or a longer greeting, which will take 2 minutes. Each greeting is completely random, and duration depends on the longer person. What is the probability that this gathering will take 1/2 an hour or less?
Assume no time loss between meetings with different people.
= 1/(8.73*10^42) !!!
All greetings need to be made, so firstly, there are 45 greetings:
9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1 = 45
If everyone has a short greeting:
45*40 = 1800 seconds = 30 minutes, which is ok, so if everyone made that short greeting, the probability would be 1/3^90 (Each greeting, each time depends on both people involved taking the short meeting).
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Since 1933 the Rogue Creamery has preserved the old world tradition of Artisan handmade cheese. In 1957 Oregon Blue Cheese was added to its popular line of Cheddar, and has since garnered world wide attention. Rogue Creamery's seasonal blue cheese, Rogue River Blue won "Best Blue Cheese in the World" at the 2003 World Cheese Awards, London. Other fine Blues include Crater Lake Blue, Smokey Blue, Oregonzola, and Echo Mountain. Daily Cheese Tasting at the historic cheese shop, with an extensive selection of Rogue Valley wine, Italian wine, and gourmet foods. Hours; Monday thru Saturday 9-5, and Sunday 12-5.
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CC hangs tough, but outdueled by A's Griffin
Lefty throws 118 pitches over six innings as Yankees shut out
NEW YORK -- The Yankees trailed immediately on Friday when CC Sabathia's left hand fired its first fastball, yet the night's biggest pyrotechnics might have been the verbal sparks between the ace and the home-plate umpire.
Athletics right-hander A.J. Griffin took his early lead and held it deep into the night against a baffled Bombers lineup, hurling shutout ball into the eighth inning as Oakland defeated the Yankees, 2-0, at Yankee Stadium.
Sabathia held Oakland to two runs in six innings, and he couldn't be too upset about that -- even after Adam Rosales' leadoff home run. But Sabathia was irked about a third-inning exchange with plate umpire Jordan Baker, whom Sabathia said had barked toward the mound.
"I can't be yelled at," Sabathia said. "I'm a grown man, and I didn't say nothing to him and he came from behind the plate, so, of course, I was animated."
The exchange came after Sabathia permitted a single to second baseman Jed Lowrie. Sabathia thought he had struck out Lowrie on a 2-2 pitch and shouted after the hit, and Baker apparently believed that Sabathia was complaining in the umpire's direction.
"It was just kind of a miscommunication," Yankees catcher Chris Stewart said. "CC was mad at himself. The umpire thought he was talking to him. It was overblown. It wasn't a situation, it just kind of looked like it."
Yankees manager Joe Girardi went to the mound to calm down his ace, Stewart tried to smooth things over with Baker, and a fuming Sabathia chomped on his glove before regrouping to escape the inning, recording one of his six strikeouts.
"When I was younger, I dealt with a lot, worrying about umpire's calls and things like that," Sabathia said. "As I've gotten older, I make it a point not to even look down on a check swing or anything like that. Just take that element out of the game."
Sabathia only permitted one run the rest of the way, when Derek Norris drove home Yoenis Cespedes with a sixth-inning single on a 3-0 pitch, but his night was done after that frame because the patient Athletics had battled to kick Sabathia's pitch count up to 118.
"He only gave up two runs, and he gave up one before he got an out, so after the first hitter he gave up one," Girardi said. "They fouled some pitches off. They got in some long counts, which made him throw a lot of pitches in the sixth inning, but I thought he threw OK."
Sabathia was helped in the sixth twice by the arm of Ichiro Suzuki, who picked up an outfield assist on a Josh Donaldson single off the top of the right-field wall and also made a strong throw home that pinned Norris at third on a Nate Freiman single.
But it wasn't enough to save the Yanks from their second loss in the last eight games, spoiling Girardi's 1,000th game as a big league manager as he watched Griffin scatter six hits over seven-plus scoreless frames.
"A.J. pitched great," Athletics manager Bob Melvin said. "It doesn't really matter what else goes on when you get seven shutout innings from your starter in this ballpark and you've got a fresh bullpen behind you. He was terrific."
The Yankees' chances against Griffin were scarce in the efficient effort, as they had two runners on base just once -- in the third inning -- and Griffin needed just nine pitches to navigate the fourth, fifth and sixth innings.
"He's got that real slow curveball, and that fastball has decent velocity on it, but it looks harder than it is because he's throwing that slow curveball at us," Stewart said of Griffin.
Adam Warren kept the game close after Sabathia's exit with three innings of scoreless relief, but a big hit proved elusive for the Yankees, who have enjoyed their share of thunder lately but finished 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position.
Brett Gardner chased Griffin with a daring bunt single on a 3-2 pitch to open the eighth, but Sean Doolittle recorded five outs in relief, including a double play on Vernon Wells to end the eighth. Grant Balfour struck out Eduardo Nunez in the ninth to pick up a one-out save.
"I think that's baseball. You're not going to be able to get them every night," Wells said. "I think you just want guys to try to have good at-bats. Sometimes the outcome is out of your hands, but [it's] just guys continuing to keep the same approach. We'll continue doing that day in and day out."
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Elyse Moody visits the Cobble Hill home of One Kings Lane employee No. 3, Day Kornbluth, and finds (no surprise) it's curated with a selection as clever and enticing as the site itself.
The Brooklyn brownstone Day Kornbluth calls home has a lot in common with her office at One Kings Lane, the online house-wares emporium known for flash sales that allow its more than 6 million members to purchase, say, luxe Frette Italian sheets (a steal at $399) or a pair of floating sconces that belonged to Diane Keaton, with a click. In fact, Kornbluth, the vice president of merchandising, sits down to supper and to meetings at twin tables—one at each location. Soon after she joined the start-up's California-based founders, Susan Feldman and Alison Pincus, in 2009, Kornbluth set about establishing an East Coast outpost—and discovered that conference tables are expensive and, well, usually ugly. So, in a move typical of both Kornbluth's innovative sensibility and the company's happy-hunting philosophy, "I got it in my head that we would use a reclaimed bowling-alley [lane] as a conference table," says Kornbluth, 32, who is eight months pregnant with her second child with husband Max Pitman, an internal-medicine resident. "I somehow convinced my husband to fly to Pittsburgh"—where, according to Craigslist, a 1950s bowling alley was being disassembled—"get these big slabs of it, and drive back in a U-Haul." She had bases custom made in Brooklyn for the remnants; both tables sport the telltale triangles that mark the path to a strike.
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A DRUNK Pensnett man has been jailed after he admitted waving a large kitchen knife around in a police station.
Wayne Collier told staff in the foyer at Brierley Hill Police Station he was not afraid to use the blade having entered the building after first being spotted pacing up and down outside.
Prosecutor Iain Willis told Wolverhampton Crown Court 37-year-old Collier then approached the desk and said: "I have got a knife."
Officers repeatedly asked him to put down the weapon but he refused as he told them, "Don't come near me."
Mr Willis told the court it was then the shutters were closed to protect people working behind them.
He told the court Collier was then restrained adding: "It is fortunate there were no members of the public present because there was real and potential danger for the officers."
As Recorder Abigal Nixon jailed Collier for a year, she told him: "It is clear to me that had anyone challenged you in the state you were in they could have been hurt or worse.
"It is good fortune that no-one was hurt. The courts must punish those who carry knives in public - particularly when they are in drink."
She said Collier, of Broad Street, had been allowed to keep his freedom by courts in the past and concluded: "You have had your chances and you chose to disregard them."
The court heard there were no protective screens at the entrance to the building and the actions of Collier left one staff member "frightened and shocked" when the knife was produced.
Gurdeep Garcha, for Collier, who admitted possessing a bladed article, said his client had a drink problem and went on: "He has expressed a desire to address his troubles."
He said there was clear evidence of contrition and remorse from Collier who, he maintained, had made a "significant improvement" in his bid to put his life back on track but, at the time of the offence, he "could not cope."


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Janet's Granola
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- Tiffany Ann3/5/10, 10:37 AM
Boy, I'd give anything for your granola right now... looks devine.ReplyDelete
This looks amazing. I think I will give it a try. Thanks for the recipe.ReplyDelete
I am a granola fiend, and I haven't had chewy granola in a long time. I'm going to have to make this.ReplyDelete
I'm probably going to have to make everything you post, in fact.
Janet- This granola is perfect for girl's camp! The only way it could be better would be if you came along!ReplyDelete
Girls camp? Are you kidding? I'm SO there! Wouldn't miss it for the world. Thanks for the comments, Jeannette. You make my day so happy.ReplyDelete
I just made this and it's delicious. I modified it a bit for the ingredients I had at home- I'm missing the coconut a bit, but that just means I have to make another batch :) Delish!ReplyDelete
That looks fabulous...I love it..should try it as soon as possibleReplyDelete
You should try it as soon as possible. It's my favorite breakfast.ReplyDelete
I just LOVE this granola recipe. It's time to make another batch.ReplyDelete
I have been eating it as part of my breakfast, sprinkling a couple tablespoons on top of my oatmeal-in-a-jar (from http://www.thekitchn.com/oatmeal-in-jars-a-week-of-stee-143623 ) which I have topped with a dollop of delicious yogurt made with the recipe found here ( http://inthelittleredhouse.blogspot.com/2010/09/going-greek.html )
I also like it on some of the above mentioned yogurt for a snack.
Thanks for all the work you put into this wonderful blog. I'm looking forward to trying more of your recipes AND to making another loaf of the delicious crusty bread from another one of your posts.Replies
This comment was from Sharon B. For some dumb reason I couldn't get this to post. anyway...thank you so much for your comment. I need to make a new batch myself. I so glad you love the granola and thanks for the additional links. They look great!Delete
I love it ! Must try .. ThanksReplyDelete
Janet, I was wondering if you have put chocolate chunks in this granola? You can never go wrong with a little bit of chocolate...ReplyDeleteReplies
I sure have and you are right you can't go wrong with a little bit of chocolate.Delete


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This is the perfect recipe to treat this delicate fish. Chef Lee loves eating this fish not only for the health benefits, but for the flavor. The fresh sockeye salmon has a full-flavored, crab-like flavor because this fish dines mostly on small crustaceans such as krill. This is not the fish to use with complex sauces. My advice is to grill over hardwood or cedar plank. If you like complex sauces, use a farm-raised salmon. Let the sockeye shine.
Serves 4
2 pounds fresh sockeye salmon fillets
4 ounces fresh lime juice
2 cloves garlic, minced
4 tablespoon Octtavio Spanish Olive Oil (New item at the Cooking Connection)
1/4 cup fresh cilantro, coarsely chopped salt and pepper to taste lime wedges
Combine lime juice, garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper. Marinade the salmon for 20 to 30 minutes. Save some of the marinade to brush on the salmon while cooking.
Pre-heat grill to 450. Make sure the grill is nice and clean.
Place salmon flesh-side down directly on the grill, cover, and grill for 2 to 3 minutes. Turn 90 degrees and cook for another 2 minutes. Turn salmon over, add marinade and finish cooking with skin-side down.
Cook until the salmon has turned opaque at the thickest part of the fish or at your desired doneness.
Garnish with cilantro and fresh lime wedges.
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OAKLAND >> Yoenis Cespedes struck out looking in his first at-bat, then quickly regained the stroke that has made him such a central part of the Athletics' lineup.
On a day when Oakland's pitching wasn't crisp, his timing couldn't have been better.
Cespedes had three hits and matched his career high with four RBIs on his most productive day since winning the Home Run Derby, and the A's rallied from five runs down to beat the Angels 10-6 on Sunday.
"I've been working a lot, every single day, to try to get the swing that I got today," Cespedes said. "I didn't feel really well in the first at-bat but after that I started to feel comfortable."
Cespedes snapped an 0-for-13 funk with a two-run double in the third inning, added an RBI single in the fifth and then doubled in Josh Donaldson as part of a five-run sixth. It was Cespedes' first game with multiple RBIs since June 21.
Eric Sogard added three hits and two RBIs and Brandon Moss also drove in a pair for Oakland. The A's (62-43) moved a season-high 19 games over .500 and extended their lead to six games over Texas in the AL West.
Erick Aybar doubled and tripled for the Angels, who placed Albert Pujols on the disabled list before the game with a tear in his left foot that could end his season.
The A's took two of the first three games in this series primarily on the strength of their starting pitching. They got a big boost from their offense in the finale and a little help from the Angels' defense along the way.
Cespedes provided the biggest lift with his third three-hit game of the season. He went down looking in his first at-bat before his double in the third helped jump-start Oakland's comeback from a 5-0 deficit.
He later hit a towering popup in the fifth that landed for an RBI single when Angels center fielder Mike Trout lost it in the sun. The ball fell between Trout and right fielder Kole Calhoun as Moss scored from first with the tying run.
"You can't catch what you can't see," Trout said. "I had a good (read) on it but the last three or four steps it just went away. I couldn't do anything about it."
Trout had more fielding problems in the sixth after the Angels went up 6-5 on Aybar's double.
Stephen Vogt hit a sinking fly to center that bounced in front of Trout just as he nearly collided with Josh Hamilton racing over from left field. The ball landed in front of the two outfielders and rolled to the warning track as both players fell to the turf. Seth Smith scored on the play to tie it 6-6.
Sogard followed with a single off reliever J.C. Gutierrez (0-2) to drive in Vogt with the go-ahead run, then scored on Jed Lowrie's RBI double to give the A's an 8-6 lead. Moss and Cespedes also had RBIs in the inning.
The Angels lost for the seventh time in nine road games and fell a season-high 13 games out of first place.
Tommy Hanson was staked to a five-run lead after two innings but struggled with his command and was gone in the fifth. Hanson struck out five and allowed four hits but walked five -- three of which scored.
Oakland starter Jarrod Parker wasn't much better. He walked a career-high seven, but the A's got him off the hook.
The Angels scored four times in the first inning. Howie Kendrick and Mark Trumbo both drove in runs, and Alberto Callaspo added a two-run single.


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Full disclosure: I consider Greg Prince a friend. But I have plenty of friends who don't consistently write things worth reading. Greg is not one of them.
So I highly recommend that you head out to Foley's New York this Saturday and listen to Greg read from his new book, The Happiest Recap. Below is information, and later this month, Greg and I will discuss the book further.
If you aren't reading him, along with the fantastic Jason Fry, at Faith and Fear in Flushing, I urge you to start immediately.
Here's the info from Greg.
The book:
The Happiest Recap: First Base (1962-1973), by Greg Prince, the author of the fan memoir Faith and Fear in Flushing and co-author of the blog of the same name, is the first of a four-volume series detailing the first 50 years of the New York Mets through 500 Amazin' wins. First Base covers the Mets Classic period, in which the Mets are born, slowly begin to figure things out, enjoy a miraculous growth spurt, regress some and, finally, rise once more to unanticipated heights. 127 games, 127 wins. How often can a Mets fan find legitimate results in which the Mets never lose?
Published by Banner Day Press, available on Amazon:
Future volumes will be titled Second Base (1974-1986); Third Base (1987-1999); and Home (2000 & Beyond). Each will be released during 2013.
The event:
On Saturday, December 15, noon to 2 PM, there will be a launch party for The Happiest Recap series at Foley's NY, 18 W. 33rd St., between 5th and 6th. Books will be available for purchase, with a portion of proceeds going to help replenish necessities at East Elementary School in Long Beach, where the author attended third grade, played stickball badly and wandered by last August as Ike Davis hit a game-winning home run.
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FYI, my story on going home again, to Long Beach, twice in 2012 — before and after the storm:
Anything you can do to help spread the word about a book (born from a blog series that ran in 2011) that I think every Mets fan would love to read would be greatly appreciated.


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And we've seen over the years … and heard from guys with Stanley Cup rings all over their hands … how important it can be to end an early-round series when you get the chance.
First of all, obviously, you don't want to give the opponent any life at all. Second, later on these extra games you create, the additional travel, and the extra days off you lose, can come back to haunt you. And usually do.
You need 16 victories to win it all. The maximum number of games is 28. You want to use as few of the latter as possible to get to the former.
That's it from me today. Got an all-day assignment, mostly away from the laptop.
Today's sked: Nasvhille-Chicago Game 5; Pittsburgh-Ottawa Game 6 and San Jose-Colorado Game 6.
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A Musical Gathering of Family and Friends
With Celtic harps, hammered dulcimers, whistles, concertina, strings and more, Philip and Pam Boulding and their five grown children along with granddaughters Rowan, Kailey and Lindsey are joined by the lightning feet of the Raney Irish Dancers. Thomas Arthur entrances all with his lyrical juggling. Lively new spins on jigs and reels bring the champion Scottish fiddle and piano brother/sister duo, The McKassons, including percussionist Matt Jerrell to Yuletide for the second time. Soulful Irish songs sung by actress/singer Colleen Raney (another sibling of the Raney clan) will grace the hall, while her brother Mark Raney on vocals, guitar and cittern charms all with his warmth, humor, and poignant songs. Tom Creegan plays in Tacoma and Seattle per tradition with his haunting Uilleann pipes. Also featured are a childrens choir, and a magical tale from the Scottish tradition, The Yule Beggar providing a glimpse of another world through story, verse and eurythmy. The audience becomes a key part of the festivities, with members invited to don a costume and follow the processional through the aisles with the musicians, and join in the caroling near evenings end. The hall resounds in glorious harmony as we close singing All Through the Night.
About Magical Strings
Since 1980, Magical Strings has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Ireland and Japan. The group has toured and recorded with Dan Fogelberg, appeared on Garrison Keillors A Prairie Home Companion, recorded 16 albums on four labels, with a new original solo harp CD, Musings, just released this season. Philip and Pam Boulding were awarded a residency from an Irish arts organization in County Kerry to compose music in an old stone cottage on a bluff overlooking the western sea, a sojourn which has inspired much of the music on their recent CDs. Philip and Pam also design and build Celtic harps, run the School of Magical Strings, and host the Magic Hill Summer Harp Camp on their beautiful 5-acre home overlooking the Puget Sound.
About the McKassons
Ryan and Cali, a brother/sister band from the Pacific Northwest, perform their musical magic with a mythical melodic force that has been turning heads in the American Celtic music scene. Ryan, fiddler, and Cali, pianist, bring an exciting edge to the Scottish fiddle tradition, creating constantly evolving textures within a powerful mix of contemporary and traditional influences. Ryan was the youngest winner of the National Scottish Fiddle Championship in 1996. With two brilliant CDs, and a Kennedy Center debut this year, The McKassons join forces with Magical Strings for the second time in what promises to be a dynamic and lyrical collaboration this Celtic Yuletide season!
About Colleen Raney
Colleen Raney has been performing since the age of 4 as a singer, dancer, and professional actor in the Pacific Northwest, and most recently based in New York. As one half of the duo Mark and Colleen Raney, she has been putting her own spin on Irish music around the area for 15 years. Colleen also appears as a vocalist for various groups including Magical Strings, The McKassons, Rapparee and at the annual Everett Historical Theatre St. Patricks Day Gala.
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In the News: Winter 2012-13 natural gas net imports from eastern Canada half of five-year average
Net imports of natural gas via pipeline from eastern Canada into the northeastern United States this past winter (November 1, 2012 through March 31, 2013) averaged 1.06 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), less than half of the five-year average of 2.14 Bcf/d, according to data from BENTEK Energy, LLC (Bentek). Natural gas net imports from eastern Canada fell below the five-year same-day minimum over 60 percent of the time this winter (97 out of 151 days), according to the Bentek data.
Natural gas imports from eastern Canada into the northeastern United States have been decreasing every year since 2007. This has resulted in part from decreased imports of natural gas along the Maritimes & Northeast pipeline running from Nova Scotia into New Brunswick, Maine, and on into New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Another contributing factor has been the increased amounts of natural gas brought into the Northeast on pipelines with access to shale gas from the Marcellus formation in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Natural gas prices were flat at many market locations, but increased significantly at Algonquin Citygate. The Henry Hub price was nearly flat, increasing by 1 cent per MMBtu over the report week to close at $4.25 per MMBtu yesterday. Several trading points currently have a discount of 10 cents per MMBtu or more to the Henry Hub price. Opal in Wyoming and Malin in southern Oregon closed at $4.08 per MMBtu and $4.10 per MMBtu yesterday, respectively. Northeastern prices were somewhat elevated, with Transco Zone 6 NY, serving New York City, increasing by 11 cents per MMBtu over the report week, and closing at $4.49 per MMBtu yesterday. Algonquin Citygate, serving Boston markets, rose more substantially, from $4.65 per MMBtu last Wednesday to $5.16 per MMBtu yesterday, an increase of $0.51 per MMBtu.
The Nymex futures price fell week-on-week. The near-month Nymex price fell by 5 cents per MMBtu over the report period, from $4.214 per MMBtu last Wednesday to $4.166 per MMBtu yesterday. The 12-Month Strip (the average of May 2013 to April 2014 contracts) similarly fell over the report period, ending the week at $4.320 per MMBtu.
Total demand for the report week was down slightly. According to Bentek estimates, overall natural gas consumption in the United States decreased by 1.1 percent. The residential/commercial sector consumed 1.9 percent more gas for the report period. Industrial consumption of natural gas also increased somewhat, up 0.6 percent for the report week. Natural gas consumption for power generation was down on average, falling by 6.1 percent. Most regions consumed less natural gas for electricity generation, with the exception of the Northeast and Southwest, which consumed slightly more. Overall natural gas consumed in the electric power sector is down 23.3 percent relative to last year, partly due to higher natural gas prices, and its relative price to coal which may influence electric power plant dispatch decisions.
Total supply for the report week was up slightly. Bentek estimates that supply was up slightly for the report period. U.S. gross and dry natural gas production rose by 0.8 percent over last week. Production for the week is 2.4 percent above last year's levels. Canadian imports were essentially flat, increasing by 0.3 percent for the report period: imports in the West are up, imports in the Midwest are down, and imports in the Northeast are near zero. LNG imports, a very small contributor to U.S. supply, decreased by 0.9 percent.
Working natural gas in storage increased to 1,734 Bcf as of Friday, April 19, according to EIA's WNGSR. This represents an implied net injection of 30 Bcf from the previous week. The 5-year average and year-ago stock changes for the week were implied net injections of 50 Bcf and 43 Bcf, respectively. Inventories are currently 807 Bcf (31.8 percent) less than last year at this time and 94 Bcf (5.1 percent) below the 5-year average of 1,828 Bcf.
Two of the three storage regions posted increases this week. Inventories in the East and Producing regions increased by 21 Bcf (the 5-year average net injection is 28 Bcf) and 11 Bcf (the 5-year average net injection of 16 Bcf), respectively, while the West region posted a decline of 2 Bcf (compared to the 5-year average net injection of 6 Bcf). In the Producing region, working natural gas inventories increased 8 Bcf (4.5 percent) in salt cavern facilities and increased 2 Bcf (0.4 percent) in nonsalt cavern facilities.
Temperatures during the storage report week were 0.7 degrees warmer than the 30-year normal temperature and 1.6 degrees cooler than the same period last year. Temperatures in the Lower 48 states averaged 53.7 degrees, compared to 55.3 degrees last year and the 30-year normal of 53.0 degrees. While overall temperatures were less than a degree warmer than normal, temperatures varied somewhat across Census divisions. The West North Central Census division in the Midwest and the Mountain Census division in the West were relatively cool, averaging 7.9 and 4.6 degrees cooler, respectively, than the 30-year normal. In the South, the South Atlantic and East South Central Census divisions were relatively warm, averaging 6.9 and 5.0 degrees warmer, respectively, than the 30-year normal. Heating degree-days nationwide were 1.1 percent above normal and 16.7 percent above last year.