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Festive Anise Hard Candy Recipe
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- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup light corn syrup
- 2 to 3 teaspoons anise extract or 1 teaspoon anise oil
- 8 to 10 drops red food coloring
- In a large heavy saucepan, combine the sugar, water and corn syrup. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Cover and cook for 3 minutes or until sugar is dissolved. Uncover; cook over medium heat, without stirring, until a candy thermometer reads 300° (hard-crack stage).
- Remove from the heat; stir in extract and food coloring (if using anise oil, keep face away from mixture as the aroma will be very strong). Pour into a buttered 13-in. x 9-in. pan. When cooled slightly but not hardened, cut into 1-in. squares. Cool completely. Store in an airtight container. Yield: about 1 pound.
Editor's Note: We recommend that you test your candy thermometer before each use by bringing water to a boil; the thermometer should read 212°. Adjust your recipe temperature up or down based on your test.
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Twice during the first four days of the season, ESPN televised matchups between the defending world champion Giants and the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. Opening night featured a taut pitchers' duel in which Clayton Kershaw got the upper hand on Tim Lincecum, while on Sunday night, the Dodgers outlasted the Giants thanks largely to Aubrey Huff's sloppy outfield play. Even as the Dodgers were winning, both nights gave their fans cause for anxiety when rookie manager Don Mattingly summoned Jonathan Broxton to protect multi-run leads in the ninth. Broxton shut the door both times, but only after yielding solo homers in each instance, to Pat Burrell and Aaron Rowand, lowering his margin for error. (To be fair, he sandwiched those two appearances around a spotless save in the season's second game, out of the national TV spotlight.)
Up until the middle of last season, Broxton had shown himself to be a dominant and reliable successor to Eric Gagne and Takashi Saito, a 300-pound behemoth armed with a triple-digit fastball and a wicked slider. From Opening Day 2008 through June 26, 2010, Broxton struck out more hitters per nine (12.7) and yielded fewer homers per nine (0.3) than any other pitcher in baseball who threw at least 150 innings. He led the league in WXRL in 2009, and was near the top again in 2010. Sure, he'd blown a save in the 2009 postseason, but so did every closer not named Mariano Rivera, and only the fact that both that failure and his previous one—in the 2008 NLCS, when he served up a tater to Matt Stairs—came against the Phillies defined it as a trend.
On June 27 of last year (coincidentally, during a Sunday night ESPN telecast), Broxton suffered a meltdown that came to define his season. Handed a four-run lead against the Yankees, he flailed for an agonizing 48 pitches while manager Joe Torre fiddled. By the time the dust had settled, the game was tied; the Yankees would win in the 10th inning. Broxton had come into the game having converted 16 out of 17 save opportunities, with a 0.83 ERA and 48/5 K/BB ratio in 33 innings. He hadn't allowed an earned run in over a month, or surrendered a single homer all year. From that night onward, he was rocked for a 7.58 ERA, with a 25/23 K/BB ratio and four homers allowed in 29.2 innings; after blowing four out of 10 save opportunities over the next eight weeks, he was supplanted as the closer, with veteran lefty Hong-Chih Kuo and rookie righty Kenley Jansen doing most of the heavy lifting from late August onward.
Beyond noting a dip in velocity—down 2.5 MPH on his average fastball, and 1.6 MPH on his slider—nobody ever adequately explained whether Broxton's woes were rooted in fatigue, injury, mechanical lapses, or simply adjustments made by hitters. Back in mid-2009, inflammation in his right big toe led to a brief midsummer swoon and caused him to sit out the All-Star game, but other than a late July illness, he was never listed as even day-to-day for any injury in 2010.
The Dodgers restored Broxton to the closer role this spring, in part because as dominating as they can be, both Kuo and Jansen come with limitations. Kuo held hitters on both sides of the plate to a combined .139/.211/.192 line in 2010—that's one homer and 73 strikeouts in 60 innings—but he's a survivor of four elbow surgeries, including two Tommy Johns. The Dodgers, not wanting to push their luck, worked him on back-to-back days just four times last year. Jansen was a light-hitting catcher as recently as mid-2009; after converting to the mound, he rocketed through the system and joined the big club with just 56.2 minor league innings under his belt. Batters hit a feeble .130/.259/.163 against him, as he whiffed 41 in 27 frames, but walks were a problem: he issued them at a clip of five per nine, and his short history on the mound means that he's fairly raw and has never really faced adversity in that capacity.
Furthermore, the rest of the Dodgers bullpen is in a state of upheaval. Righties Ronald Belisario and Ramon Troncoso, so crucial to the team's success in 2009, were absent from the Opening Day roster after extending their 2010 woes into 2011. Belisario, beset by personal problems that have complicated his visa status, is currently on the restricted list, while Troncoso, who was ridden hard by Torre, is bound for Albuquerque, where he spent nearly two months last summer trying to recover his previous form. Over the winter, general manager Ned Colletti shelled out three years and $12 million for Twins mainstay Matt Guerrier, who doesn't miss enough bats to be worth that kind of bread, while the voids created by Belisario and Troncoso have been filled by such retreads as Lance Cormier, who was nontendered by the Rays last December, and Mike MacDougal, whose obscene walk rate (5.6 per nine) has kept him shuttling among 11 Triple-A and major league teams over the past five seasons while totaling 161.1 innings at the big league level.
Despite the questionable assemblage behind Broxton, Kuo, and Jansen, the Dodgers bullpen projects to be the NL's second-strongest unit according to PECOTA. To determine this, I tallied the top five playing-time adjusted WARP totals among each team's relievers, with a few caveats: relievers with less than 25 projected innings were excluded from the sample, as were swingmen who projected to pitch out of the bullpen in less than 40 percent of their appearances; also, in one case I swapped out a low-inning injury case in favor of a low-projected closer (John Axford). PECOTA-wise, most teams are into the sub-replacement realm by the time you drill past the fifth man, and on top of the already difficult challenge of predicting a class of players who get relatively little playing time in the first place, it's even tougher to predict how long teams will stick with potentially subpar performances given the availability of other options. While the resulting WARP totals are relatively minuscule given Colin Wyers' tweaks to our valuation system, we can get a feel for which bullpens the system expects to do well and which... not so much.
With Luke Gregerson and Mike Adams setting up Heath Bell, the Padres project to have the league's strongest bullpen, one that's largely the legacy of former general manager Kevin Towers, who traded for all three righties. Each member of that trio is forecast to be worth at least 1.2 WARP while posting ERAs below 3.00 and strikeout rates above 9.0 per nine. LOOGY Joe Thatcher and swingman Wade LeBlanc round out the quintet in respectable fashion.
The Dodgers' quintet—filled out by Guerrier and swingman Vicente Padilla, who's quickly working his way back from nerve entrapment surgery—ranks a solid second behind the Padres', with Kuo's 1.4 WARP forecast edging that of Broxton (1.3), and Jansen (1.1) not far behind. Of course, not even PECOTA can see inside the mind and body of the big Broxton to know whether he'll remain such an enigma. When he re-signed for just $2 million plus incentives, Padilla was mentioned as a potential fill-in closer should Broxton remain deposed; in his short time back in the NL (134.1 innings since late August 2009), Padilla has ratcheted his strikeout rate to 8.2 per nine while walking 2.4 per nine, compared to 6.1 and 3.2 prior to coming to L.A.
The Giants, Reds, and Rockies occupy the next tier. For the defending champions, the surprise is that Sergio Romo (1.3 WARP, 2.80 ERA) forecasts as more valuable than closer Brian Wilson (0.9, 3.11), but that's a function of the former's outstanding walk rate, which dipped to 1.7 unintentionals per nine last year, and the latter's starting the year on the DL due to an oblique strain. Wilson is forecast for 66 innings, after throwing 74.2 innings last season plus another 11.2 in the postseason. Those aren't unreasonable amounts, but it's worth noting that aside from Mariano Rivera, recent series-winning closers such as Keith Foulke, Bobby Jenks, Jason Isringhausen, and Brad Lidge have hardly been immune to injuries and/or significant declines in the year after. The remaining unit identified via WARP includes Dan Runzler, Ramon Ramirez, and Jeremy Affeldt, while omitting Santiago Casilla, who's coming off a career year after getting rocked for a 5.11 ERA over parts of six seasons in Oakland, but who may have turned a corner.
More skepticism is merited regarding the Reds' ranking. I've already pointed out that PECOTA isn't terribly sanguine about the Cincinnati rotation even without knowing that it's Dusty Baker calling the shots, and the same goes for closer Francisco Cordero (0.4 WARP, 3.86 ERA). Count me as somebody who will take the under on Aroldis Chapman's projection for 112 innings and even 11 starts; it's his 1.8 WARP that's driving this ranking, more than he'll contribute if he's confined to a setup role. Bill Bray for 63 innings as their third-most valuable reliever? He's managed just 75.1 innings over the past three seasons, and has never topped 47.
The good stuff from the Rockies' ranking rests entirely on the projections for Huston Street and Rafael Betancourt, forecast for 1.3 WARP apiece with similar ERAs (3.36 and 3.31, respectively). PECOTA doesn't think much of Matt Belisle (4.75 ERA, 0.0 WARP) despite last year's breakout, and after he tied for the league lead in relief innings, it's fair to wonder whether he'll be able to repeat his success with a similar workload.
Of the three teams on the next tier, I've discussed the lack of depth behind Carlos Marmol and Kerry Wood recently, and lauded the prospect of the aforementioned Towers turning the Diamondbacks' historically awful bullpen into something less awful than that via the acquisition of J.J. Putz. The headscratcher is the Braves. Manager Fredi Gonzalez has begun the year with rookie Craig Kimbrel and high-velocity lefty Jonny Venters as co-closers, but PECOTA hates the latter, forecasting a 4.75 ERA and -0.5 WARP even after his strong rookie campaign (83 innings, 1.95 ERA, 101 K/9, 1.3 WARP). Venters missed most of 2008, and his work as a starter in 2009 wasn't so strong, so you can sort of see why the system sees regression ahead, but it's reasonable to believe he'll be much better than that. In any event, his total isn't included in the Braves' ranking, while Kimbrel, Peter Moylan, Eric O'Flaherty, George Sherrill, and Scott Linebrink make up the quintet of choice.
As for the Brewers, the system's very down on Axford, forecasting a 4.62 ERA and -0.2 WARP, but then 27-year-old rookies aren't guys who are likely to have impressed PECOTA anytime in the recent past. Ageless Takashi Saito carries by far the best forecast of the remaining bunch (1.0 WARP, 3.05 ERA), with Zach Braddock, Mitch Stetter, and Sean Green within a run or two of replacement level. PECOTA isn't too wild about the Cardinals, either, with Jason Motte's 0.4 WARP forecast heading the list, and Mitchell Boggs' -0.8 (not included in the tally) looking particularly bloody. Closer Ryan Franklin comes in at 0.2 WARP with a 3.93 ERA, but he's been in the league's top seven in WXRL in each of the past two seasons, and his career .273 BABIP defies our forecasting system. Expect both NL Central contenders to have better bullpens than shown, though not as good as the Reds'.
Near the bottom of the table is some grim news for the Phillies, for whom Lidge is forecast to toss just 25 innings (one reason I chose that number as a cutoff). His projected 0.1 WARP owes much to him gritting out an awful 2009 camaign, though let's face it, replacement level could be optimistic for a guy with a Grade II rotator cuff strain that may sideline him until the All-Star break. PECOTA remembers replacemen closer Jose Contreras (-0.1 WARP, 4.37 ERA) less than fondly from his days as a starter, though it's worth noting that the ancient Cubano took to a relief role surprisingly well, striking outa batter per inning and setting a career low for walk rate (2.5 per nine). Ryan Madson (0.5 WARP, 3.60 ERA) is another key to the equation; if he can climb back to the 75-80 inning level he occupied in 2008-2009, instead of the 59 innings we've forecast for him, that will help as well. On the other hand, when LOOGY types Antonio Bastardo and J.C. Romero, projected for a combined 79 innings, qualify as the upside while concealing Kyle Kendrick, Danys Baez, and even lesser lights (if such a thing is possible), you can understand why the Phils' pen rates as a distinct minus at the moment.
Given that, and the four-game spread between the Phillies, Braves, and Marlins in our Depth Chart projections, it's worth noting that the Fish in the bullpen are looking green around the gills. Leo Nunez (0.3 WARP, 4.04 ERA) is nobody's idea of a classic closer, and the verdict is decidedly split regarding the pair of former Padres (Edward Mujica and Ryan Webb) who arrived via the Cameron Maybin deal. Mujica's forecast (0.4 WARP, 3.92 ERA) is the sunniest among the Marlins' relievers, while Webb's (-1.1 WARP. 5.42 ERA) is so bad that he falls out of the quintet of choice, with Clay Hensley and Michael Dunn (-0.3 and -0.6 WARP, respectively) only slightly less underwater.
In any event, using PECOTA to pick on the pens is admittedly an imperfect exercise, but this does suggest something close to bullpen parity in the three divisions, with the West featuring the by far the best ones, the East the worst, and the Central… somewhere in the middle, as usual. Provided Broxton comes around and does what the Dodgers and our projection system expect them to do, their bullpen should be able to support one of the league's top rotations, and aid their quest to return to the postseason.
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Nice article and great information Jay, but good luck trying to figure out what managers are going to do all year.
Apr 05, 2011 06:13 AM
Jay Jaffe
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I'm not exactly sure how PECOTA and the Depth Chart elves apportion saves, to be honest. I'll check.
Apr 05, 2011 07:06 AM
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Mesoraco gets rare pairing with Arroyo
PHOENIX -- It wasn't normal to see Reds catcher Devin Mesoraco behind the plate on Friday as Bronson Arroyo started in his final spring tune-up. Arroyo always has primary catcher Ryan Hanigan as his battery mate during the regular season.
"It's just his turn. Hani caught yesterday," Reds manager Dusty Baker said. "Down here in spring, I like to go every other day so they don't go more than a couple of days without playing.
Mesoraco, who will likely start two games and have three off each time through the rotation during the season, can also stay sharp like other reserve players.
"Your extra guys play every day, almost. Then when the season starts, they don't play as much," Baker said. "That's why when the season starts, you have to get them in there pretty early, but without taking away the reps from your starting team or else they will lose whatever sharpness they had."
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EADS chief says no rush to sell off Dassault stake
The head of European aerospace giant EADS said Thursday he was in no rush to sell off its holding in Dassault Aviation as a major shareholder has urged.
"It's not a strategic investment and we will decide on the future when we think it's time to do that, I do not see a terrible urgency to proceed," Enders said at a meeting of the European American Press Club.
Since last month, an activist investment fund, The Children's Investment Fund, has been publicly calling upon EADS to sell off its 46-percent stake in the French aircraft maker, saying it is a poor use of capital.
According to the latest published information, the fund holds around 1 percent of shares in EADS, which is to change its name in January to Airbus after its commercial aircraft unit.
Enders called the stake in Dassault Aviation, which makes the Falcon business jets and Rafale fighter used by the French military, "a very good investment", but noted EADS had inherited it when the company was formed in 2000.
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EADS in June signed a 90-year agreement with the French government giving it the first option to buy any shares EADS decides to sell.


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Got bored of not seeing an Impact review on here recently so I'm deciding to write one of my own! If only I had gotten to the name Sudden Impact first...
How was the go home show to Lockdown and the Impact Zone's swan song? Let's get to it.
The Crowd 5/5
The crowd was rocking tonight and it got me pumped to watch.
Austin Aries promo and Aries vs. Hardy
Madison Rayne-Madison is talented but right now is at the bottom of the Knockouts division. Story with Earl Hebner went nowhere except to introduce Taryn Terrell and she hasn't been involved in much since. Tag team with Gail Kim might be picking up. Again, TNA's lack of commitment to the women (remember, you're not WWE, the women draw) being a cause. She should be seen more.
Score: 2/10
In a previous post a while back I gave my thoughts on TNA's storylines at the time along with a grade but now I want to expand on that a bit. This time I am going to grade the company's use of every single active member of their roster and give a short blurb on the positive and negatives in the way they have been used in recent months along with some likely suggestions for improvement.
TNA currently has a lot of stories going on for a two hour weekly show so I thought I'd go through them and give each of them a letter grade as to how well I think they are going.
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Rialto >> When former Rialto Unified Superintendent Harold Cebrun agreed he would leave his job at the end of March, he and the school board agreed: Neither would say a disparaging word about the other. Three months later, the district has paid out more than $30,000 for violating that non-disparagement clause.
At Wednesday's school board meeting, the board agreed to pay a $33,687.50 settlement by a 4-1 vote, with board member Edgar Montes dissenting, during the closed-doors session that preceded the general meeting.
According to the terms of Cebrun's Feb. 28 separation agreement, each instance of a disparaging comment made by either party would result in a $20,000 fine. Wednesday's agreement related to five instances of school board members making remarks about Cebrun, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter but who were not authorized to comment publicly.
Cebrun, who was hired in February 2009, was placed on paid administrative leave last September. The move was apparently part of the fallout from the arrest of former district accountant Judith Oakes, who had a personal relationship with the superintendent.
He is not a suspect in the Oakes embezzlement case, according to Rialto police. She is accused of stealing $1.8 million in lunch money proceeds from the district's Nutrition Services Department over the past eight years.
Cebrun faced indirect criticism from two reviews from the state's Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team, which helps public school districts with their finances. (Both reviews were requested of FCMAT in July 2013, prior to Oakes' initial arrest in August.)
• On Jan. 6, FCMAT's review of the district's contract and purchasing processes found that "the highest level of administration" did not follow proper purchasing procedures and that contracts were sometimes approved by Cebrun or his office without proper oversight.
• On Jan. 14, FCMAT's review of the district's special education programs found "a systematic lack of focus on instruction and lack of guidance from the highest level of leadership," along with more than $1 million in unnecessary expenses.
Cebrun's separation agreement spelled out the last words the district was allowed to say about him, which were read out by board president Joanne Gilbert at the board's March 7 meeting:
"Dr. Harold Cebrun, Sr. and the Board of the Rialto Unified School District have agreed that he will retire effective March 31, 2014. Dr. Cebrun has served in various capacities in public education for 40 years, including 5 years as Superintendent of the District. The Board respects Dr. Cebrun's long history of service to public education, thanks him for his service to the District, and wishes him well in the future. Dr. Cebrun thanks the Board and District employees, students and parents for the opportunity to serve in Rialto for the past 5 years, and has only the best wishes for the District. Please direct any further inquiries to Joanne Gilbert, the District's Board President."
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It is impossible for human beings to walk on the surface of water. Yet some creatures can do so by means of the special body structures that Allah has given to them. For example, an insect species called the pond skater walks on water by pressing its thin, long legs into a kind of elastic skin on the surface of the water. As the legs of the insect depress the water, a small hole is formed on the surface. This way the insect spreads its body weight over quite a wide area.
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A new study showed that discussing end-of-life care decisions with a team of doctors experienced in pain management and palliative care may lower intensive care use when patients with advanced cancer (cancer that is not curable) are in the hospital. Palliative care is treatment that focuses on reducing a patient's symptoms (such as pain), improving quality of life, and supporting patients and their families. People with cancer often receive treatment to eliminate the cancer and treatment to ease symptoms at the same time. However, recovery from cancer is not always possible. For people diagnosed with advanced cancer, the time will come when the treatment changes from a focus on curing the cancer to primarily palliative care, often called end-of-life care.
This study included a range of specialists who were part of the Duffey Pain and Palliative team of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University. The team of two nurses, a social worker, a palliative care doctor, a pharmacist, a nutritionist, and a chaplain help manage a patient's symptoms and provide emotional support for patients before, during, and after hospitalization.
In the first four years after the pain and palliative care team began, researchers found that the number of patients who chose palliative care and declined to have any lifesaving measures slowly increased, from 81% to 95%. While the number of patients who received care in the intensive care unit (ICU) during their last hospitalization did not change, the number of patients who received mechanical ventilation (use of a machine to help a person breathe) for more than 14 days decreased from 10% to 5%.
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Discussing an advanced cancer diagnosis and end-of-life care is difficult for many people. However, it is important to have open and honest conversations with your health care team to express your feelings, preferences, and concerns. "The multidisciplinary team's goal is to support patients and families to relieve suffering, while still working as hard as ever to help patients maximize the length and quality of their lives. A better understanding of the benefits and limitations of intensive care in such situations seems to steer more patients towards choosing palliative care and withdrawal from ICU support," said lead author Allen Ray Sing Chen, MD, PhD, MHS, Associate Professor of Oncology and Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and 1993 Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO Young Investigator Award recipient.
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- What is my diagnosis? What does this mean?
- What is my chance of recovery?
- What is the goal of treatment? Is it directly treating the cancer or improving symptoms, or both?
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In light of the market's recent broad based selloff, energy offers some very attractive entry points, based on the strength and stability of its businesses, attractive and growing dividends and low valuations.
The recent escalation of tensions in Israel and Gaza highlights the very tenuous environment in the Mideast. We think geopolitical issues will continue to pop up and will push oil prices toward the higher end of their trading range, providing the group a tailwind.
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We initially recommended Occidental Petroleum during the first week of October, in which we highlighted many of the company's appealing investment characteristics: a strong management team led by President & CEO Steven Chasen, a great balance sheet with a net debt to total capital ratio of 5%, a secure resource base with 60% of oil and gas production coming from the U.S. and relatively secure international operations with a primary focus in the Middle East being the United Arab Emirates and shareholder-friendly strategy of growing production by 5-8% per year and returning incremental cash flow to shareholders by steadily increasing the dividend (a greater than 15% growth rate since 2002).
Since that recommendation OXY's shares are down more than 13%. While some of the decline was likely due to the ensuing drop in energy prices and to the overall market decline since the presidential election, another factor was investor reaction to Occidental's third-quarter earnings call on Oct. 25.
On that call, the company reported solid results, with flat production that was equal to the record production of the previous quarter and up 4% from the third quarter of 2011. Domestically, the company had record production for the eighth consecutive quarter, up 8% from a year ago. But the company also highlighted how, in order to sustain historic returns on capital, its drilling costs would have to come down (production costs were $15 a barrel for the first nine months of 2012 compared with $12.84 in 2011). Unless and until costs declined, OXY would slow its drilling program.
In the event that costs don't come down, and the company cannot maintain acceptable returns on capital, OXY's strategy will change, such that the company will find other ways to improve shareholder returns. In fact, the CEO was pretty vocal in his frustration of OXY's poor stock price performance, and made it clear if the market didn't give the company credit for increasing shareholder value and that they would try to address that with more aggressive dividend or share repurchase strategies.
We would add to OXY at its current stock price.
RDSB is one of the five major integrated oil companies, with operations in exploration and production, refining and marketing. The company delivered solid earnings in its most recent quarter, slightly beating consensus estimates. Highlights for the quarter included E&P results in line with expectations, better-than-expected refining results and chemical results below estimates due to reductions in European capacity and the impact from Hurricane Isaac in the Gulf of Mexico.
The company gave an update on its large development projects, which continue as planned. As these major projects from Qatar, Canada, Kazakhstan and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico come on stream over the next three years, Royal Dutch should see a major structural jump in its free cash flow generating capability. Management has indicated to investors that a major portion of this increased cash flow of $7 billion or more will go to boosting dividends and shareholder value. At less than 8x 2013 earnings estimates, a free cash flow yield approaching 8.3%, and with a 5% dividend yield, Royal Dutch Shell offers investors a conservative and opportunistic yet relatively stable way to invest in the energy sector.


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Shoplifters took £771 of clothes from Blackburn Matalan
3:10pm Thursday 30th January 2014
3:10pm Thursday 30th January 2014
A GROUP of thieves were caught stealing clothing worth £771 from Matalan in Blackburn.
The town's magistrates heard four women and two men were in the car which had travelled from their homes in Bolton.
Arpad Kovaks, 23, of Carslake Avenue, Bolton, and Zoltan Petrovics, 38, of Calder Road, Bolton, pleaded guilty to stealing from Matalan.
Petrovics was ordered to do 200 hours unpaid work and Kovacs 100 hours.
They were both ordered to pay £145 costs.
Two juveniles and another adult have already been dealt with.
Philippa White, prosecuting, said staff at the store saw a group of people pushing a trolley stacked with clothes on to the car park.
They followed and saw three women throwing the clothing into the back of a car. Staff challenged them and removed the clothing but the group drove off before the police arrived.
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Early British WWII dispatch riders steel helmet. This is a one of a kind, not messed about with, early WWII paratrooper helmet with fibre rim, converted to an early experimental dispatch riders steel helmet. Still in its original paint, and overpainted with white winter cammo whitewash which has since worn off. In effect it is a paratrooper helmet with an early, swapped over dispatch rider liner, before they mass produced dispatch rider steel helmet shells of a similar shape.


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It's Only Good if You READ it — A Schleicher County Game Warden checked seven hunters from Georgia who had 12 deer in their camp. When the checking was over and the ink dried, the warden had written 13 citations and warnings for exceeding the limit on white-tailed buck deer, improperly tagged deer (mule deer tag on whitetail), untagged deer, and other tagged violations. The warden offered to give the hunters some Outdoor Annuals, but they stated that they had the books and had not read them. The hunters left a total of $2,400 with the local justice of the peace. Restitution is pending.
Too Bad, So Sad — A Midland resident arrested by a Sterling County Game Warden had his day in court. The subject pleaded guilty to the charge of hunting deer at night, and the judge assessed the maximum fine of $4,000 plus cost of court of $211. The subject's license will be suspended for a year, and he will pay $1,575 for restitution. The court allowed the subject to keep his .270 Weatherby magnum rifle. *Note: The landowner also voided the corporate lease the subject had in the amount of $22,000 with no refund.
"Field Dressed" — Wardens were checking a hunting camp right after dark. When the occupants of the camp came out to greet them, the wardens were somewhat concerned that one of the male hunters was wearing a dress or skirt. Being the professionals they are, they continued with the contact and found that the hunter had been successful in killing two turkeys, one of which was untagged and the other was improperly tagged. While receiving his citation, the Tarrant County hunter asked the wardens, "How do you like my new hunting dress?" They replied that it was nice, but it might be a little cool. The hunter replied that the wind did cause some problems. The dress turned out to be a "camouflage kilt." The hunter's wife stated that this was the new fad in hunting apparel, and she had bought the kilt for him.
Cooking Up Trouble — Lampasas and Burnet county wardens responded to a landowner complaint of four people trespassing in their river cabin. The wardens parked away from the cabin and approached on foot to watch what was happening at the location. The officers observed all the windows of the cabin covered by blankets and loud talking from inside. A woman from inside the cabin attempted to drive away and was stopped while the wardens caught three males leaving out the back of the cabin. All signs of a meth lab were present so the Narcotics Team from Lampasas was called. Numerous scales, lab equipment, chemicals, a handgun, and a large amount of methamphetamine were found in and around the cabin. Four adults were arrested and charged with manufacture of meth., possession with intent to distribute, and felon in poss. of firearm. This was the second-largest meth lab bust in Lampasas County.
Hide and Seek, You Lose — A Wood County Game Warden went to a location south of Hainsville when he received information in reference to late duck hunting the day before. The warden arrived and the shooting started and continued for an hour. The hunters exited the marsh an hour later. Two men and one woman stopped to rest about 20 yards in front of the warden when one of the men stated, "I wonder if the game warden got tired, gave up and left." At that point the warden turned on his light and said, "No, I'm still here." Charges pending.
The Imposter — Nacogdoches County Game Wardens concluded an investigation regarding a citizen complaining that a man claiming to be a game warden pulled her over. A local man was charged with a felony count for impersonating a public servant.
They DO Make Game Wardens Like That!!! Uvalde County Game Wardens observed a vehicle driving slowly down a farm to market road. The vehicle came right in front of where the wardens were sitting and shined a light into the brush. The wardens weren't sure if it was a police spotlight due to the position of the light; the vehicle drove to the Zavala County line and turned around. The vehicle approached the same location and lit up the night again; this time the wardens heard two shots; the vehicle repositioned and shot again. A short pursuit ensued, and the vehicle was stopped in Zavala County. After the wardens secured the scene and put the subjects into handcuffs, one of the subjects asked the female warden, "Maam, y'all aren't going to call the game wardens on us are you?" The warden informed the subjects, again, that they were the game wardens. Three individuals were then transported the Uvalde County Jail. Cases pending.
Tragedy — Mason County Wardens Jerry Gordon and James Nixon responded to a fatality hunting accident in Mason County. The wardens had just checked the camp a few minutes before the incident occurred. The initial investigation showed that the victim's rifle was laid on the back seat of a pickup, and he had started throwing clothes, bags, etc. on top of the gun when something apparently struck the trigger causing the rifle to fire, striking him in the chest. Further investigation is being done by DPS Ranger Joey Gordon and Mason County SO.
Hefty Price to Pay — A Coleman County Game Warden was patrolling a county road when he observed a green car driving around in a pasture. When he made contact, he found the subject to have two felony charges against him while in possession of a .22 caliber rifle. A search of the vehicle turned up a freshly killed set of antlers that Boone & Crockett scored 148. The subject was also hunting on the property without landowner's permission. After using good investigative skills, Randall filed charges of no hunting license and hunt deer with a rimfire rifle. The restitution for the 148-deer will be $4,683.10.
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Yesterday, we posted about a technique used in ham radio to solder together project boxes/radio chassis using PCB copper cladding. Some folks, in comments and on the twitters, were wondering how well this works. Take a look. Here's a lovely Wheatstone Bridge Regenerative (WBR) Receiver built inside of such a chassis using the Manhattan-style circuit construction technique (using small pads as connecting points on a conductive surface).
As somebody said in the comments to the chassis piece, imagine some lovely copper etching on the faceplate.
BTW: Here are some MeSquares and MePads you can get for easy Manhattan circuit building. We've mentioned them here before. [Thanks, Roy Roberts!]
The WBR – A Simple High Performance Regen Receiver
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COUNCIL tax bills in Bury are set to rise — but only by an average of £3.
Bury Council has decided to "freeze" its part of the council tax, but an increase in the police precept will mean the total bill for residents will go up by 0.2 per cent.
This will mean residents in Band D houses will have to pay an extra £2.97 per year.
At a budget council meeting being held last night, it was also set to be agreed that council house rents will rise this year by 2.5 per cent, less than inflation.
The council had originally planned to spend £22 million over three years on upgrading its 8,000 houses, which are managed by Six Town Housing, but this will now go up to £34 million.
The council also endorsed cuts of £9.6 million in 2014/15, comprising £7.4 million in line with the budget agreed last year under the Plan for Change, plus a further £2.2 million of mostly internal efficiencies.
Cllr John Smith, cabinet member for finance and corporate affairs, said: "We know how much Bury residents are suffering in these tough economic times, whether striving to get a job or struggling through on low incomes while the price of essentials rises all the time.
"So, despite huge and unprecedented cuts to our budget, we have decided to freeze the Bury element of council tax this coming year.
"This year, the government has slashed the money we receive by almost 9.9 per cent, and we expect an even bigger cut of 14 per cent next year."
The meeting also approved a £500,000 project to upgrade the A56 Bury New Road through Prestwich.
Council leader Mike Connolly added: "I am delighted that we've been able to freeze the council tax this year, and I know that residents will welcome this. The budget is also a good deal for tenants, and I'm sure Prestwich residents will welcome investment in their area."
Explaining the rise in the police precept, Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd said: "Part of the money will be used on recruiting 50 police constables for neighbourhood policing teams in Greater Manchester.
"That means there will be a net reduction in police officers of 300 in 2014-15, rather than 350."
- Last night, the Conservative group was to table an amendment to the budget plans of the ruling Labour group, which outlined £3.576 million of spending priorities. The Tory proposals included plans to create 52 new apprentices for young people, reinstating free parking in all council pay and display areas in Bury on Sundays and offering one hour of free parking on weekdays.


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Scarlets 22 Cardiff Blues 16
Three penalties during the final quarter from replacement Aled Thomas saw the Scarlets claim their first win in this season's LV= Cup at the expense of regional rivals Cardiff Blues.
The visitors, who had opened their Anglo-Welsh campaign with a win over Wasps last weekend, led 13-3 during the opening half thanks to a try from flanker Luke Hamilton and eight points from fly-half Gareth Davies.
But the Scarlets hit back through a converted penalty try and a Liam Williams penalty to level.
Davies put the Blues back in front, but Thomas stepped up to give the hosts the victory.
The Blues struggled during the early going and conceded a steady stream of penalties, which Scarlets centre Gareth Owen took advantage of to give the hosts a 3-0 lead, although he was off-target with two further penalty attempts.
But it was the visitors who registered the first try on their first foray into Scarlets' territory.
Fly-half Davies made the break down the short side and found Gavin Evans and Hamilton in support for the flanker to canter over for a converted score.
Davies extended the lead with a penalty, but the Blues then lost prop Sam Hobbs to the sin bin for an awful challenge on Wales full-back Williams.
Hobbs' shoulder charge flattened his opponent, and the Blues loosehead was fortunate the card issued by referee JP Doyle, who was within a couple of yards of the incident, was not red.
Despite the numerical disadvantage, Davies put the Blues 10 points to the good with his second penalty.
But Hobbs' absence did prove costly for the Blues just five minutes before the break.
Their seven-man pack splintered at a scrum five yards from their own line with Campese Ma'afu, just on as a replacement, collapsing to concede a penalty try, which Owen converted from straight in front.
More scrum trouble yielded a penalty for the Scarlets moments later.
Williams was wide from the halfway line, but levelled the scores with a successful attempt right on half-time, only for Davies to respond by putting the Blues back ahead four minutes into the second half.
The Scarlets turned up the heat and wing Andy Fenby had a great chance to hit back for the Scarlets after gathering in Dan Newton's lovely cross-kick, but he was hauled in by the cover defence.
Williams looked to have registered the Scarlets second try as he slid over after the hosts had stretched the Blues defence, but he was denied by the video referee Tony Rowlands, who adjudged he had not grounded the ball.
They did at least level matters with a penalty from Thomas, the Scarlets third goal-kicker of the evening, with 15 minutes remaining.
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POLICE are hunting a man who robbed a Winchester garage armed with a knife.
The man entered Pittvale Garage on Romsey Road on Thursday at about 7pm and demanded money from the till.
The offender demanded money from the till but agreed to take three packets of tobacco valued at around £20 when he was told the there was no cash.
After leaving the garage he walked towards the city centre.
The man was wearing a hooded top and scarf to cover his face and is described as white, about 5ft 6ins and of slight build.
He was wearing a grey hooded top with a black pattern on it, black tracksuit bottoms and trainers.
Detective Constable Steve Roman, said: "This petrol station is located off of a roundabout on the road that leads to Hursley. The site is secluded and set back from the road but is well illuminated.
"I am appealing for anyone who may have seen the offender in the Romsey Road area to come forward and speak to us. I would urge anyone with any information to get in touch with us at the earliest opportunity."
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TROY Batchelor is expecting a much more exciting weekend of Grand Prix racing in Malilla after two turgid rounds in recent weeks.
Following visits to two gaters' paradises, Tampere in Finland and Prague in the Czech Republic, the series moves to Sweden and a track known for fast times and plenty of opportunities to pass.
The Robins' skipper is looking forward to taking to the track as he bids to climb from 14th in the standings and believes he is still in with a chance of making the top eight and securing a spot for next season.
"The last two rounds have been really tough because you can see a rider make a start and win a race and then in the next one he runs a last," he said.
"Malilla is a great track and is great for racing so if you have some speed there you can make the semis and the final.
"The doors open to do it (make the top eight) but it's good to have a safety net in the qualifiers.
"The GP qualifiers are a very tough road, I've been there before and know how hard they can be."
Following the Robins' defeat to Wolves on Thursday night the Aussie returned to the track to test his equipment, something he believes is vital if he is to make an impression at World Championship level.
"When it comes to the GP I have a lot of equipment and always want to take my best stuff. I'm always testing and always trying to get better because I don't just want to be in the GP, I want to win some races," he said.
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Hemophilia and Inherited Bleeding Disorders
Hemophilia and the menstrual cycle
Can hemophilia affect a woman`s menstrual cycle?
A woman with hemophilia is at increased risk for heavy and/or prolonged menstrual bleeding, pain with periods, and painful ovulation. Many of these women also report difficulty with getting pregnant.
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how can i make flash file
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easily and to be funny
There is no Flash involved on the page to which you linked. Please explain in more what it is you're trying to achieve.
i know that no flashbut there are photoschanged when i change page http://arab.q2all.net/i want to colloet these photos to flash if it has same speed
Why do you want to use Flash? It isn't supported on various Apple devices, such as iPads. Why not use a simple JavaScript slideshow instead? You can find any number of them available to download if you do an internet search.
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From your post, I assume you want a slideshow. Flash is horrible for animation on any OS whether it be a mobile one like iOS (doesn't even work) or on a desktop.It bogs down performance and causes lag. It is rarely smooth. Javascript is a good option but I recommend a jQuery slideshow. It is based on HTML5 and is a lot better in terms of set up and customization.
If you tell us what kind of slideshow you want, we can suggest some nice options that are free.
It may be correct that flash isn't necessarily the best option for this, but to contend that flash is 'horrible for animation' and 'causes lag' is complete nonsense. HTML5 animation and canvas are a lot less sophisticated and generally more processor intensive.


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I am writing this letter to share with you and all fellow cigar smokers an outrage that happened to one of my closest friends, Gust Geralis. In May, Gust, a longtime cigar aficionado and an upstanding member of the community, was at his son's Little League baseball game (outside) and was enjoying one of his Cuban Cohibas. During the third inning, to Gust's total surprise, the umpire called a time-out, walked into the stands, approached my friend and told him that this was a "nonsmoking" league and that he would have to extinguish his cigar. Gust's obvious response was that this was a public city park and he was outside. The umpire retorted that he had three choices: one; extinguish the cigar, two; go smoke it in the parking lot, or three, that he would actually "call the game." Gust, in total shock, and not wanting to cost his son's team a loss or have him endure any further embarrassment by creating a scene, walked to the parking lot and finished his smoke sitting on the bumper of his car.
What is this world coming to when a man can't smoke a cigar at an outdoor Little League game? I was so outraged that I actually called the city's parks department and asked them if there was any rule about not smoking, and if so, would they send me a copy. They responded that there was no such rule, and after hearing the story, said that the umpire's actions were apparently his own.
I am so tired of being treated like a leper or a criminal just because I smoke cigars. I feel that this was a violation of my friend's and all cigar smokers' civil rights, and it must stop. If somebody doesn't like cigar smoke, either at an outdoor event or in a cigar-friendly establishment, they can exercise their rights by leaving. Is there any organization that we can join to help stop this persecution? What happened to America, the land of the free?
Ronald Zambetti II
Brunswick, Ohio
Editor's note: Ron, that is an outrage. Just when we think the health police can't get any worse, we hear a story like yours. The best thing you can do is to keep raising cries of protest when people exceed their authority under the current laws. And, keep working with your local politicians in search of compromises that honor the rights of all Americans, including cigar smokers.
Dear Marvin,
Your interview with Francis Ford Coppola in Cigar Aficionado (October 2003) is a classic. You did a wonderful job, and got inside the emotions of the filmmaker of a classic—a real revelation.
Michael Lynne
President/New Line Cinema
New York, New York
New York, New York
Dear Marvin,
Your interesting October 2003 interview with one of the world's premier filmmakers, Francis Ford Coppola, was outstanding—especially his lengthy background remarks on the torturous difficulty in making and casting The Godfather his way. His candid depictions illustrated the dozens of threatening roadblocks he encountered with Paramount brass that could have derailed the project at any stop along the way, from location to budget to vision. To think of The Godfather placed in modern-day Kansas City with others (Robert Redford, Ryan O'Neal, Carlo Ponti) in the seminal roles rather than Brando, Pacino, Caan and Duvall makes a moviegoer's mind whirl—especially for the millions who consider the film one of cinema's best. The Best Picture Oscar must have been sweet justice; Best Director for The Godfather: Part II the icing.
That said, it was surprising to learn that for Coppola, the process of making his most famous film is still viewed by him 30 years later as a horrible, exhausting experience that nauseates him to this day. Thank God for the profit percentage points that helped him buy his winery in the mid-'70s. Perhaps a great 1993 bottle of his Niebaum-Coppola Estate Cabernet Sauvignon helps dull his painful memories these days. What wonderful medicine!
Craig Forrest
Los Angeles, California
Dear Marvin,
Two thumbs up for your extraordinary interview with Francis Ford Coppola. As one who was actively engaged in the movie industry during the Coppola years, I was fascinated with the candor of Francis's comments and his revelations surrounding The Godfather saga.
Francis is an industry giant who not only raised the level of filmmaking, but also spawned an unusually talented generation of filmmakers and actors. All of them learned from both his special genius and steadfast commitment to his principles.
The Godfather era coincided with a low point in the fortunes of the movie industry, which had been decimated by television. It brought new owners and studio heads, some of whom were incapable of walking the difficult line between business realities and creative imperatives. His success was clearly a victory for creative freedom, but it also was achieved within the constraints of economic necessities.
I particularly enjoyed his comments regarding the cast of many who took credit for his success—not an unusual Hollywood trait. Knowing most of those who claimed this credit, it was not surprising. We all know who would have been blamed had The Godfather failed. From close observation of all the circumstances, I can assure your readers that The Godfather belongs to Francis.
Alan Hirschfield
Former CEO/Columbia Pictures and 20th Century Fox
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Dear Marvin,
I read your article, "The Godfather Speaks," in the October 2003 issue of Cigar Aficionado with great pleasure. As an avid fan of the trilogy of Godfather movies, I enjoyed the bird's-eye view of the whole project and feel like I know the characters and Mr. Coppola better. I plan to now go back and read Mr. Puzo's book. I had no idea that the book differed in so many ways, though not surprising when it comes to books-turned-movies. It seems that many things in life that are full of struggle and tribulation end with a product matched by no other. The Godfather is no exception. Even though Mr. Coppola does not wish to enter the world of the Mafioso any longer, he still appreciates the end product that came from the whole experience.
As I puff away on the free Macanudo Robust included with the October issue, I would like to thank you for putting out such a high-quality and enjoyable magazine. My wife does not smoke cigars, but she fights me to read Cigar Aficionado when it arrives at our house.
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Apothecary wrote:seems legal to me, as you were not explicitly trying to beat your discs in to change their flight characteristics.
dicking around throwing skip shots at a practice basket ≠ grinding the bead down on the pavement or throwing them against the wall to get them to act "seasoned."
Agreed, but, say I only threw one disc to keep the rest from getting really beat, and it just so happened to be one I wouldn't mind being more seasoned?


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My name is Joshua Smart and I am from Ardmore, Oklahoma. I was home schooled and also attend the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics where I took Calculus and Physics. I am a National Merit Finalist. I will be attending the University of Oklahoma and plan to major in Engineering Physics, which links the pure scientist with the engineer.
During my high school years I was involved in community service. I was a reading mentor for a local elementary school where I worked to help children improve their reading skills. I'm also very involved in my church where I volunteer as camp counselor each summer. I also went on a mission trip to help rebuild a church that had burned down. I was a Boy Scout for four years.
I am fascinated by physics. I love learning about the way the universe works. I really admire the great physicists like Einstein, Heisenberg, and Galileo. My favorite physicist of all time, though, is Sir Isaac Newton. In my opinion he is the most brilliant man who ever lived. He laid the foundation for modern physics, and wrote on the most influential books of all time, Principia. Isaac Newton has been one of my role models for life and my admiration for him is one of the reasons I want to major in Physics.


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How to Build a Bamboo Bike
Approximately one in eight people worldwide lack access to safe water, and more than 3.5 millon die annually from water-related disease. Japanese company Nippon Basic is looking to change that with its Cycloclean, a bicycle that purifies water for drinking. Riders bike to a lake or river; once there, they insert an attached hose into the water, place the bike's rear wheel into a stationary stand, and start pedaling. The energy generated activates a pressure pump that propels water through the bike's multi-unit filtration system, producing about 1.3 gallons of clean H20 per minute (depending on how fast you're pedaling). According to the company's website, it takes 10 hours (and likely several cyclists) to produce enough drinking water for 1500 people.
The bike also features puncture-free tires to prevent flats and navigate hard-to-reach areas.
Much of Carlos Marroquin's home village of San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala, was devastated by a 36-year civil war. But today, thanks to some clevel engineering, a lot of the village runs on bicimaquinas: pedal-powered machines such as water pumps, grinders, and threshers constructed from donated bikes and local materials. Marroquin found Maya Pedal, the organization behind these machines. He has invented his own, including the biciliquadora (bicycle-powered blender). It helps local women produce organic shampoo from plants they grow in their homes.
Construction is easy: Volunteers fit the rear wheel of an everyday bike with a homemade dynamo—created from a hub, an axle, and a part of truck tire—which is then attached to a modified rack that secures the base of the blender. Once the bike is put into a stationary stand and its rider starts pedaling, the dynamo drives the blender's blade, stirring and mixing at the same rate as the pedals' revolutions per minute.
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Healthy Danks shifts to harnessing command
NEW YORK -- The five walks issued by John Danks while pitching for Triple-A Charlotte on Tuesday night left the left-hander to characterize his second Minor League rehab start as not being awful but not being great.
Then again, the major positive emanating from this five-inning, 92-pitch effort centers on the fact that Danks now is worried about problems germane to every other starting pitcher and not nearly as focused on his health. Danks might only need two more rehab starts before returning to the White Sox and completing the comeback from season-ending arthroscopic shoulder surgery last Aug. 6.
"Health-wise, I feel great," Danks told a pool reporter Wednesday from Columbus, where the Knights were playing. "Even right now, day after, I feel great. Between starts and on the side, everything feels good. Everything is progressing. I'm coming along. I'm on an upswing still."
"Now we're talking about games and sequences and pitches and baseball stuff," said White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper of Danks. "Before it was just, 'How you feeling?' Well, he is feeling better, and now it's trying to fine-tune things and be equipped enough to come up and win a Major League ballgame, and that's what we're still searching after."
Danks struck out four and allowed four hits, including a Matt LaPorta homer. His velocity was in the 88-89-mph range, topping out at 90 or 91. For a second straight rehab appearance, Danks also liked the way his cutter was working.
"Last year when I was active, I wasn't always able to make the cutter do what I wanted to," Danks said. "So to regain feel for that and make it do what I want, that's a big pitch for me, because it plays off my changeup big time."
As for that changeup, one of the things Danks needed to work on was getting greater velocity from his fastball to present a greater differential between the two pitches. Cooper pointed out Wednesday that Danks' changeup was never by the book, with a fastball at 92 mph and a change at 85 or 86.
"But the hitters showed us they're out front, because he's got a real good changeup," Cooper said. "He throws it with great hand speed and it had the hitters out front. The hitters will be the first ones to let you know if it's not enough."
Next up for Danks figures to be a Sunday start with Charlotte at home against Pawtucket, with one more Charlotte start to follow. If everything progresses accordingly, Danks could be back with the White Sox for the Marlins home series the weekend of May 24.
"All I know is he's closer, and it could be imminent, really -- but he has got a few more things to iron out," Cooper said. "It's been a big climb since he left Spring Training, and he's been climbing all winter. But to pitch and pitch effectively at the Major League level, you have to have things in order. He's getting closer, and hopefully real soon he'll have it all in order."
"If I take that [Tuesday] stuff down, with just halfway decent command, I think I have a chance," Danks said. "That's not too far from where I'm at normally."
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Workman flirts with no-no as Red Sox edge Orioles
Pitching around two delays, righty allows only hit with two outs in sixth
BALTIMORE -- Technically, Brandon Workman is just a fill-in in Boston's starting rotation, as Felix Doubront and Clay Buchholz recover from injuries and ineffectiveness. But if Workman continues to throw like he did on Tuesday night at Camden Yards, the Red Sox will find a way to keep him pitching every five days.
On a rainy night against the Orioles, the righty worked around two delays and turned in the finest start of his career. The performance couldn't have come at a better time, as only a vintage pitching effort allowed the Red Sox to pull out a 1-0 victory over the O's.
Workman, who had a perfect game for 4 1/3 innings and a no-hitter through 5 2/3, fired 6 2/3 shutout innings and threw a mere 67 pitches while walking one and striking out four.
"Yeah, I felt good tonight," said Workman. "I got in a rhythm a little bit later on. I was locating the fastball and throwing a curveball off it today."
Sitting through a 15-minute stoppage and then a 78-minute delay -- both in the second inning -- didn't faze Workman at all.
"I stayed locked in. It wasn't that bad," said Workman. "I went down and threw in the batting cage a little bit, stayed loose, stayed ready, so it wasn't bad."
In the ninth, nerveless closer Koji Uehara worked around a leadoff single by Steve Pearce to preserve Workman's gem.
After the hit by Pearce, Ryan Flaherty -- who had broken up Workman's no-hit bid with a two-out single in the sixth -- dropped down a sacrifice-bunt attempt. But Uehara pounced on it and fired to second, narrowly erasing Pearce. This, despite catcher A.J. Pierzynski suggesting Uehara take the sure out at first.
"I heard A.J. shouting, 'One, one, one,' but I assessed the situation and felt like I could get an out at second," said Uehara. "I knew how fast the runner was going to be able to run, so I was able to immediately go to second."
Though Red Sox fans might not know about Uehara's prowess on defense, it is something he takes pride in.
"I might be boasting a little bit, but I won two Gold Gloves back in Japan," said Uehara. "A 1-0 game is a situation that's most stressful, so I was glad we got the win.
If not for the two rain delays over the first couple of innings, Red Sox manager John Farrell likely would have allowed Workman to go deeper in the game.
"He was still plenty strong," said Farrell. "With 67 pitches thrown, typically he's not coming out of that game in a one-run game, but as effective as Andrew Miller has been against Chris Davis, the matchup felt like it was in our favor. And in light of the two rain delays, he had given us more than we anticipated when we came back and resumed play.
All the Red Sox had offensively was a two-out RBI single by Mike Napoli in the top of the third, but it proved to be enough.
"I got to two strikes and tried to stay short," said Napoli. "Runner in scoring position and two outs, just try and get a hit somewhere. Just got a pitch, stayed inside it and it fell in."
Brock Holt, who has a 10-game hitting streak, started that rally with a single up the middle. David Ortiz drew a two-out walk, setting up Napoli for his clutch hit against starter Chris Tillman.
The win enabled the Red Sox to improve to 2-6 on this nine-game road trip that concludes Wednesday at Camden Yards.
Boston seemed primed to extend the lead in the fourth, loading the bases with nobody out against Tillman. But Holt struck out and Xander Bogaerts hit into a double play, snuffing out that threat.
"We had opportunities against him," said Farrell. "He's been very good against us over the course of the last two or three years. He made a couple of big pitches to get out of situations, particularly in the second and the fourth, where we've got bases loaded and less than two outs and he makes some pitches to keep us just from scoring the one run. He kept them in the ballgame."
Workman's chance at a perfecto ended when he walked Nelson Cruz with one out in the fifth. The inning ended when Cruz ran on a popup by J.J. Hardy and was doubled off first.
The no-hitter ended with two outs in the sixth, when Flaherty hit a single to center.
"I wasn't really thinking about it," Workman said. "I was trying to stay in the moment and keep executing pitches and keep working each batter and not get ahead of myself."
Pierzynski narrowly missed a two-run homer to right in the eighth, when his drive was flagged down just in front of the wall by Nick Markakis.
As it turns out, the near miss didn't prove to be costly, as Workman got his first win of 2014.
"To get a win, get back in the win column, hopefully we string a bunch of them together right now," said Workman. "Any game is a big game. We're trying to win them all right now."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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After Takeoff in 2013, Time for Airlines to Reach Cruising Altitude
The big airlines--Delta Air Lines (DAL) and American Airlines (AAL), among them--took off in 2013. Can they reach cruising altitude in 2014?
Absolutely, says Cowen's Helane Becker. She writes:
2013 proved to be a very strong year for the airlines, trading up 57.6%. Our 2013 thesis of capacity discipline, last major airline merger and the beginnings of capital deployment announcements played out in line with expectations. We expect 2014 to be a strong year for the group, as the airlines have really only benefited from merger
announcements rather than merger synergies. We expect [United Continental (UAL)] and American to continue rationalizing capacity, helping with the pricing environment. United will announce their return of capital plans in late 2014 to be executed in 2015, while Delta will announce further capital deployments at their annual meeting in June.
Becker's top picks: Southwest (LUV), United Continental, Delta and American.
Top picks they may be, but they haven't all performed that way. WhileAmerican Airlines has gained 1.6% to $26.96, Delta Air Lines has risen just 0.2% to $29.28, United Continental has ticked down 0.1% to $39.90 and Southwest Airlines has dropped 1.3% to $19.17.
Is this the result of a shift into American from other airlines?


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A SWAN shot through the neck and head with a crossbow is set to make a miraculous recovery after receiving emergency treatment.
The critically-injured swan was found by a member of the public on the canal between Fiddlers Ferry and Widnes.
The distressed bird had also been shot several times with an air gun.
Alan Humphreys, of Village Vets, Woolston, treated the swan and is hopeful it will survive.
He said: "The swan was brought in as an emergency situation by the RSPCA on Wednesday evening.
"One of the cross bow bolts had gone through the trachea, causing significant difficulty in breathing.
"Had the bolt not been removed quickly the swan would have died.
"An emergency airway was put into the lung so that it could breathe with ease and the swan was then kept in an oxygen enriched environment overnight.
"The prognosis is looking good however there is a possibility of long term damage to the trachea.
"This is a particularly unpleasant attack on a defenceless animal which has lived in the local community for some time bringing pleasure to many who visit the area."
The incident was reported at 4pm on Wednesday, June 18.
PC Natalie Ford of Warrington West neighbourhood policing unit said: "By some miracle the swan was still alive and was rescued by the RSPCA.
"The swan had emergency surgery to have the crossbow bolts removed and is described as very poorly.
"We are urgently appealing for assistance from members of the public in Warrington and Halton to identify the offenders responsible."
Patrols have been increased in the area as part of the investigation.
Anyone with any information should contact Cheshire Police on 101, quoting incident number 632 of 18 June 2014. Information can also be left anonymously, via Crimestoppers, on 0800 555 111.


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Lol @ a pinhole in a child's ear foretelling greatness.
Pretty lofty stuff there. Could be a fun 9-10 years."I want to be MVP. I want to be Defensive Player of the Year. I want to be First-Team All-NBA. I want to be a Gold medalist. I want to be a hall of famer. I want to be a Champion. Everything that's the highest or the greatest that you can do, I want to do that."


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hi...got these the other day. this pic is of the 1st one...it says 1st series...i also have another one and it says 2nd series...i don't know much about hockey cards and i dunno if this is from 1969 or 1970 or even 1971? i know i am lucky that there are no marks on this card and this card is in remarkable condition...there are no creases and only one with a tiny, tiny bit of wear on one corner....anywayz, thanks for looking and i welcome any comments or info...love this site!
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Edwards set for pro boxing debut
Article by: MARK CRAIG , Star Tribune Updated: April 12, 2011 - 11:31 PM
Ray Edwards the boxer is moving on while the NFL stands still.
Ray Edwards the boxer is moving on while the NFL stands still.
The Vikings defensive end signed a contract on Tuesday for two professional fights. His ring debut at any level will be a four-round main event against a yet-to-be-determined opponent on May 20 at Grand Casino Hinckley.
"It's something I've always wanted to do in my life," Edwards said during a break in his training at Higher Power Training in Eden Prairie. "I can't put my eggs all in one basket, waiting for the NFL to settle the lockout. You never know when this lockout is going to end."
Edwards, 26, began incorporating boxing into his football training routine four years ago. He became more serious about boxing when the lockout became a probability about two years ago.
The 6-5 Edwards looks to be in prime fighting shape. He has just 8 percent body fat and weighs 255 pounds, which is about 13 pounds below his playing weight. His boxing trainer is Jeff Warner, a former professional heavyweight boxer and a pastor at the Rock Church Center in Burnsville.
Edwards signed for a guaranteed $5,000 plus 50 percent of the May 20 gate proceeds. If the lockout continues into June, he'll fight again under the same terms that month at Grand Casino Hinckley.
Edwards' future with the Vikings is in doubt. He is unsigned heading into his sixth season and could be an unrestricted free agent, depending on the terms that will govern the new labor agreement.
Edwards isn't expecting to re-sign with the Vikings, but he hasn't ruled it out. He said right now he's more focused on his boxing career than his football future or news about the lockout. With his size, strength, speed and quickness, Edwards has high expectations for his boxing career and believes he will surprise people who underestimate him because of his inexperience.
"There's always going to be people tell you that you can't do something," Edwards said. "It's up to you to make sure you prove them wrong by going out there and believing in yourself. I'm not trying to go out there just to say I tried it. I'm going out there trying to be the best."


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Kalyn's Take on Montreal Steak Seasoning Rub
(Makes a little more than a cup, could cut recipe in half if you don't cook beef that often. I used about two teaspoons of this mixture to season each steak. See list after the recipe for online sources I found which inspired my version.)
3 T Paprika (I used sweet paprika)
2 T black pepper (I used Smokehouse Pepper)
3 T salt (I used kosher salt)
3 T garlic powder (or granulated garlic)
2 T onion powder (or granulated onion)
2 T ground coriander
2 T dill weed
2 tsp. Cayenne pepper
South Beach Suggestions:
Other Montreal Steak Seasoning or Steak Rub Recipes:
Copycat Montreal Grill Seasoning from Coffee and Cornbread
Montreal Steak Seasoning from Chow
Sizzlin' Steak Rub from Nicole Weston at Slashfood
Spicy Steak Rub from The Spice Must Flow
Outback Steakhouse Steak Seasoning from Taming the Diabeastie
Tips from Other Bloggers about Cooking Steak:
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly, check ingredients.)
The Finger Test to Check the Doneness of Meat from Simply Recipes
How to Turn Cheap "Choice" Steaks into Gucci "Prime" Steaks from Steamy Kitchen
My Seven Steak Rules from Slurp and Burp
How to Grill Steak Like a Texan from The BBQ Report
How to Cook Perfect Sirloin Steak from The Cottage Smallholder
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A hearing in Hawaii for a man accused of killing Santa Cruz Assistant City Attorney Celestial Cassman in Maui was delayed Tuesday because a psychiatric review was not yet complete.
Second Circuit Judge Joseph Cardoza was set to review a psychiatric evaluation for Gerald Galaway Jr., but instead he set new court date for Jan. 29, 2013, prosecutor John Kim said.
Galaway, 39, had pleaded no contest in June to manslaughter and kidnapping for Cassman's September 2011 death. He later entered a motion to withdraw his plea and claimed he was in a "trance." Cassman, 35, was killed a day after she and Galaway arrived in Maui.
Maui police have said Galaway and Cassman fought on the side of a highway where Cassman was found dead.


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Cover Oregon website developer pulls 100 workers off project
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Oracle Corp. is pulling nearly two-thirds of its software developers from Oregon's troubled health insurance exchange project, even though the public still doesn't have access to the promised seamless, swift sign-ups for coverage, and key features are unfinished.
One hundred Oracle developers will leave by the end of this week, with 65 remaining to continue working on the site, Cover Oregon spokesman Michael Cox said Thursday.
Cox told the On Your Side Investigators that the Cover Oregon leadership team planned it that way.
"The goal was to build a system end-to-end and the workforce that was in place was for
the size and makeup to do that work," Cox said. "Now the goal is improve that system, so we can release it to individuals."
The cutbacks come after the online enrollment system was rolled out last week to insurance agents and community organizations - more than four months after it was originally scheduled to be operational and after the state has paid Oracle more than $90 million in federal funds on the project.
"That really signaled the end of the big production pushes and now we're in a post-production environment and that's going to require fewer staff on site," Cox continued.
As of last Friday, the organizations and agents reported the first sign-ups entirely online for private insurance: 700 people.
Early on, Cover Oregon planners hoped to have at least 38,000 people enrolled in private insurance by the end of February - and thought as many as 84,000 sign-ups were possible.
They envisioned a process in which people could go online, enter their data, have the system check their eligibility for tax credits and subsidies, and select a plan - all at one sitting.
Instead, the state has been taking the applications on paper and online and then, with 400 workers hired for the task, processing them manually. As of Feb. 6, the most recent data available, about 35,000 people have been enrolled that way in private insurance.
The state has enrolled about 67,000 more people in Medicaid using the hybrid system. Another 123,000 people have enrolled in Medicaid through a process that bypasses Cover Oregon.
Cox said Cover Oregon is now focusing on fixes to the system, launched Friday, with the hope of opening up to the general public before the current enrollment period ends March 31. But no date has been set for the public launch.
Website features that remain unfinished include the ability for small businesses and employees to enroll in coverage or interfaces that link the exchange to insurance carriers. Cox said work on those features is on hold, so fewer developers are needed.
"To erect a skyscraper takes a lot more people than it does to install the windows and doors," Cox said.
Oracle has refused to comment on the exchange debacle since the site failed to go live in October, and spokeswoman Deborah Hellinger told KATU the company declined to comment Thursday.
Exchange officials have hired a law firm to review the state's contract with the Redwood City, Calif., company and brought in two experts to review the coding of the exchange. Cover Oregon also contracted with a technology consultant to look at backup alternatives, such as working with another tech contractor to finish the site, buying additional software, or using technology that's functioning in other states or the federal government.
Since the failed launch, Cover Oregon has withheld approximately $35 million in payments to Oracle.
Cox said the staff cutbacks do not signal an end of the work relationship with Oracle nor the choice to go with another alternative to finish building the troubled exchange. The state would make that decision after open enrollment ends in March, he said.
Gov. John Kitzhaber's spokesman Nkenge Harmon Johnson said the developer cutbacks are "no surprise" and the governor "is aware that Cover Oregon continues to work with Oracle to set appropriate staffing and skill-set levels as needed during this project."
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On Your Side Investigator Chelsea Kopta contributed to this report.


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Fastest in Space – Unmanned
Top Speed: 153,800 mph
To escape Earth's gravitational pull, an object must be traveling around 25,000 mph. Accordingly, planetary probes are the fastest objects humankind has engineered. In 1976, the Helios 2 orbiter became the fastest manmade object, traveling twice the speed of Earth's orbit around the sun. The orbiter's speed was caused not by its own thrust but by an eccentric orbit caused by the mass of the sun. In its closest approach, the orbiter was 26 million miles away from the star–10 million miles closer than the planet Mercury. At its top speed, the Helios 2 was traveling 42.7 miles every second.
Fastest in Space – Unmanned
Top Speed: 107,000 mph
In 2003, the Galileo mission to study Jupiter and its moons had already been extended several years and the space probe was running out of propellant. Probes to distant planets use nuclear thermal generators, which keep them operational for decades, but eventually wear out, says Roger Launius, an expert on U.S. spaceflight. "Those are good for 30, 40 maybe 50 years, but they have a half-life," he says. "Over the course of a lengthy mission, you find you have less and less power to supply whatever systems are onboard." Instead of risking a crash into Europa, Jupiter's ice-covered moon, the Galileo probe took a controlled dive into the gas giant. Jupiter has a gravitational pull that is 2.5 times the gravitational pull of Earth, and as Galileo entered its atmosphere, it accelerated to a speed of 107,000 mph. At that speed, a trip from the Earth to the Moon would take 2.2 hours.
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