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Man accused of threat
Robert Gene Maclaskey, 47, 2131 N. Ninth St., No. 2, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of retaliation against a witness and violation of a protection order, according to the Grand Junction Police Department.
Maclaskey called the victim and told him to relay a message that if his mother didn't drop the restraining order against Maclaskey, he would come after her legally and "have someone go after her new boyfriend and mess with his vehicle," according to an arrest affidavit. Police interviewed Maclaskey, who said he called the woman's son but denied making those threats.
Fight surprises resident
A Mesa County resident had a rude awakening early Sunday morning when seeing two men and a woman he did not know fighting on his doorstep, according to the Mesa County Sheriff's Department.
The men continued to fight after deputies arrived and ordered them to stop. Deputies used a Taser on one of the men. Both men received summonses for fighting in public, and the woman was issued a summons on suspicion of consuming alcohol as a minor, the Sheriff's Department said.
Man carrying child booked
Christopher Keith Andrews, 34, 515 Court Road, was arrested Monday on suspicion of reckless endangerment, probation violation, child abuse and meth possession, the Mesa County Sheriff's Department said.
Witnesses told deputies Andrews was carrying a crying child in the 500 block of Court Road, according to his arrest affidavit. The small girl who was with Andrews told police Andrews had been carrying her around and telling her people were shooting at them, but she could not see them, the affidavit said.
Deputies found a cap for a syringe and a small baggie with a white substance, which tested positive for meth, in Andrews' pocket, the affidavit said.
According to the Grand Junction Police Department:
Dustin Daves, 19, was issued a summons June 12 on suspicion of consuming alcohol as a minor near mile marker 32 on Interstate 70.
Justin Konavage, 19, was arrested Thursday on a warrant after a motor vehicle crash. He also received a summons on suspicion of reckless driving, driving under the influence of alcohol, driving with an excessive alcohol content, driving under restraint, underage possession of alcohol and failing to present evidence of auto insurance.
Breanah Ramirez, 25, was issued a summons Friday on suspicion of littering at Seventh Street and Patterson Road. Another motorist told police he saw Ramirez drop orange peels and pea pods after she ate the food. Ramirez said the motorist made an obscene gesture and honked his horn at her and appeared to be yelling profanities, so she believed she was involved in a road-rage incident.
Derek Riley, 24, was issued a summons Sunday on suspicion of interfering with police, having a dog at large and being intoxicated in the roadway at North Ninth Street and Bookcliff Avenue.
Someone stole items valued at less than $100 from a vehicle Monday that was parked at Wal-Mart, 2545 Rimrock Ave.
According to the Mesa County Sheriff's Department:
Someone vandalized a mailbox July 7 in the 1400 block of 19 Road.
Deputies responded to a report Thursday of an assault that occurred in the 500 block of Grand Valley Drive.
Deputies responded to a report of an assault to the 400 block of 32 Road on Friday. Deputies determined a man struck his girlfriend in the face during an argument.
Deputies are investigating a break-in that occurred Friday at a storage unit in the 500 block of Centennial Street.
Deputies contacted an intoxicated man who was begging for money in the 3200 block of F Road on Saturday. Deputies had warned the man earlier that day about loitering. When deputies contacted him the second time, the man was issued a summons on suspicion of trespassing, and he was taken to Colorado West Mental Health for detoxification.
Deputies were dispatched to a fight Sunday in the 400 block of Coronado Way. Deputies contacted three intoxicated men, two of whom had warrants for their arrest. The three men received summonses.
Deputies were dispatched to a report of felony menacing Sunday that occurred in the 400 block of 32 1/8 Road. Deputies contacted several people who either witnessed the event or were involved in the incident.
Deputies took a report of a robbery that occurred Sunday in the 2900 block of Orchard Avenue, where a man was struck in the head with a board by two other men. The suspects then took cash from the victim's pocket and fled on foot.
A man reported that someone drained coolant from his truck while it was parked near Vega Reservoir on Friday. Damages are estimated at $3,000.


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|Pictured: Me as a child
I really hate that response.
There are two main reasons I hate that response:
1. No, I'm really not that smart!I don't say this as a point of humility. I'm really not that smart. I found a subject that interests me so I was willing to put the time needed into studying. I never finished an advanced placement class in high school (I dropped out of AP calculus).1 I've written before about my slacker, no direction lifestyle in my post high school years, but it's worth repeating. I missed 85 days of school my senior year. I had no plans for a career, and I definitely had no interest in science or math.
I'm a little embarrassed about my first math class when I finally decided to go to college. I took the placement test and was put in the correct class for my math abilities. On the first day of that class we were given an assessment to make sure we had the math knowledge needed to succeed in the class. Questions for the assessment were things like:
What is 107+24?
What is 25+81?To this day, I still use a calculator for simple arithmetic like 8+5 (My calculator is just much cooler now). So no, I'm not really smart. I'm not too far from average and I definitely don't have any special or magical ability for math and science. I had an excellent chemistry professor that showed me how amazing science is and a few really great mentors. Once I saw how amazing the universe is it was an easy decision to learn more.
2. Science isn't difficult!I also hate that response because it gives the idea that somehow science is difficult or unclear. That's far from the case, and I'm not just saying that because I have a "brain built that way" (see point #1). Yes, to become an expert in some area of science it does take years and years of studying, but isn't that true for anything? I don't think most people would be taken aback by how incredibly smart their plumber is, but it took him years to learn his trade. In the same way, it has taken me years to understand quantum mechanics (and I'm probably not much closer to understanding it than your plumber is).
Journalists have a knack for making science sound difficult, and I think they are partially to blame for scientific illiteracy. Some of them joke about how hard it is to understand science and make a special effort to point out that they don't understand what they're reporting on. This, among other reasons, is why I hate science reporting. As a science reporter it's cool to be scientifically illiterate. Imagine if a field reporter was uneducated about the war they were covering, and instead of studying up and correctly reporting the situation they just joked about not understanding it. In all but a few cases, I'm sure that reporter would be fired. But for some reason it's okay for a science journalist to joke about not understanding the thing they are reporting on!
Science is meant to be clear!
In a odd twist, the point of science is to make things easier to understand. Science was developed as a way to understand the universe, not as a way to separate the smartest people in the world into a class of their own. Science takes complex ideas and simplifies them. We look at questions about the universe, test them, and come away with an answer! Science is supposed to be clear!
As an example of the opposite of clarity, take a look at this picture:
Now, the correct answer to the question is 8. But the real question I have is why write it like that in the first place? By writing it like that you're just being unclear for the purpose of being unclear, and that's not what science or math (especially math) is about. Here's an analogy of why you shouldn't feel stupid if you got the answer wrong:
Calling you stupid for getting that math problem wrong would be like me writing a really really long drawn out sentence without any punctuation and trying to put a bunch of ideas together in the same sentence and then I'd be really upset at you because you didn't understand what I was trying to say but you should know what I'm saying because the words are right there just read them what are you stupid?There is a much easier way to write the question:
Mathematically I'm asking the same question, but by adding parenthesis you make the question much easier to understand.2 Sure, there are rules in math to define where those parenthesis are supposed to be placed. Sure, we could answer the question without them, but why make it harder than it needs to be?
The person that originally posted the picture wrote an article on why it was alarming that 74% of Facebook users got the answer wrong. It may be alarming that so many people got the answer wrong, but that doesn't tell me that 74% of Facebook users are stupid. It tells me that we're only being clear enough for 26% of Facebook users to understand us. That's a number that we need to work on.
[1] My thoughts on calculus since then have...changed (Get it? Calculus is math all about infinitesimal changes? Right? Anyone? Ok, never mind, I 'll keep my dumb jokes to myself).
[2] There is one reason to use an unclear problem. If you're trying to teach the mathematical order of operations it can be helpful to make a ridiculous problem. That way you force students to really think about what the order should be. In the real world, though, it's not necessary.
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I have uniforms that I wear at work and I pay to
have the uniforms laundered. I also pay for occasional repairs on the uniforms
and I pay for work shoes that I have to wear in my job. Are all these expenses
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B.C., Indianapolis
If your work clothing constitutes a uniform in the eyes of the IRS, you will be entitled to a deduction. The uniform has to be clothing that is required by your employer, and (this is the gray area) not suitable for everyday wear.
To qualify as a tax-deductible uniform, your clothing must not be able to pass for clothing a normal person would wear when not on the job. This description is fairly dubious because of course we all know there is no such thing as a normal person, and often people wear their work uniforms after they get home from work because they don't want to bother changing clothes.
Some items that qualify as tax-deductible uniforms are easy to spot. Jumpsuits with your name embroidered on the pocket, for example, are an easy mark for tax deductibility. Firemen and policemen and UPS drivers all wear uniforms that are clearly uniforms. Uniforms sporting a company name or logo will usually pass the deductibility test.
If your uniform qualifies as a uniform for purposes of itemizing, you can deduct the cost of purchasing or renting the clothing, and the cost of cleaning and repair. Deductions are taken as part of your Miscellaneous Deductions, on Schedule A. Your total deductions must be higher than the Standard Deduction in order for you to itemize. For 1998, you will be able to itemize if your deductions total more than the following amounts:
- Single $4,250
- Married Filing Jointly $7,100
- Married Filing Separately $3,550
- Head of Household $6,250
- Surviving Spouse $7,100
In addition, your total miscellaneous deductions including uniform expenses are limited to the amount by which the deductions exceed 2% of your adjusted gross income.
The cost and maintenance of work shoes, hard hats, safety glasses, work gloves, and other protective clothing are also deductible as uniforms, as long as the items are required in your job.
Some clothing may seem like a uniform but it won't fit the IRS definition. For example, I traveled to an out-of-town speaking engagement once, years ago, and inadvertently left my garment bag at home. When I arrived at my hotel, late at night, I realized all my dress clothing was still on my bed at home. It was too late to go shopping (this was before the advent of stores being open 24-hours a day).
As I was pondering my dilemma in the hotel lobby, I noticed that all the hotel employees wore crisp, neat-looking business suits (neat, as in clean and ironed, definitely not neat as in stylish). The suits had the look of a uniform, but maybe that was because all the employees wore the same suit. Anyway, I was desperate, and I inquired as to the source of the suits. The hotel manager explained that the suits were the uniform of the staff, and that all uniforms not in use were kept in a closet behind the front desk.
He let me check the closet and, sure enough, there was one that fit me. I was allowed to borrow the "uniform" for my speech the next day, and no one was the wiser. (Okay, maybe everyone knew I was wearing a hotel clerk's uniform and was just too kind to comment on my choice of attire. But at least I didn't have someone's name on the pocket or the hotel insignia across the back of my shoulders& ) Because this uniform could be worn outside the job premises and, presumably, pass as regular clothing, this outfit would definitely not qualify as a uniform for purposes of itemizing deductions.


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Progress in search for new GM
Plans are progressing to replace the general manager of a shire council on the New South Wales Monaro.
The GM of the Bombala Council, Don Cottee, resigned earlier this month...
The Mayor, Bob Stewart, says interviews for the position will be held in the next few days.
He says a decision should be made early next week.
"We interview Wednesday, Thursday and Friday," Councillor Stewart said.
"We'll have a special meeting of councillors next Tuesday and hopefully we can determine the successful applicant on the Tuesday meeting."
Councillor Stewart says people with a broad range of experienced applied for the job.
"We had ten applicants and we're down to five interviewees.
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I won't be competiting, too many things on the go to have 2 race series on the go at weekens=ds
@ratboy That is a shame, however if some drivers can't make races, will you happily step in as it is not a permanant role.
I'd say most likely not as I have little free time after work, friends, family time and the CC
Well that is a shame, @jonnyw360f1 would you consider…
I'm afraid not, I don't have that much spare time for this stuff as it is, so with the Collantine Cup I'm afraid my time is taken up.
10am Saturdays is better, but still not ideal, because at 9pm Saturday I am usually out and not playing video games.
@ed24f1 – Don't take this offenisvely but do you take part in the Collantine Cup, if so surely that is more innconvinate as it starts 11am here and that is 10 at night for you.
NOTE TO ALL WANTING TO PARTICIPATE: Does anybody know when the Collantine Cup finishes so we can work the championship during the gap between 2nd + 3rd seasons unless there is an imminant start, as I am not prepared to just roll over to Magnificent Geoffrey unless I really have to, by the way I am not trying to poach your drivers or anything, all I know is that the drivers you have picked are good and reliable, I don't want to settle for second best or the type of online drivers you get who just crash everybody.
Errrhm… PS3? X360? PC?
Sorry, but I won't be racing. I already race with a bunch of guys as it is and that gives me all the fun I could ever want.
Just so everybody knows it is PS3!!
@formula-1 I'm not involved in any of the leagues hosted on this site; but "roll over to Magnificent Geoffrey?" Do you have to be so disrespectful?
@raymondu999 – There was no intention at all to be disrespectful to @magnificent-geoffrey as I said in a previous post I am not trying to poach his drivers what I meant was, I am not going to give up my championship because there are others, and many drivers have said they wont be involved due to the Collantine Cup, as I said I wont give in, that is why I asked for the finishing date for the Collantine Cup as I would like to run my championship, even if that does mean inbetween the second and third series, as I said there was not disrespect intended and I do apologies to @magnificent-geoffrey if he has read this, but it was just the way I worded it.
@raymondu999 – do you wish to get involved or not??
@formula-1 Just that "rolling over" for someone implies that they have done something that forces you to have to roll over and bend to their will.
I'm more of an offline racer (I go either against AI; or by LAN against friends) so not interested much.
You say you don't mean to be disrespectful and yet you post something like this?
I find that offensive.
"There was no intention at all to be disrespectful to @magnificent-geoffrey "
The trouble is, the original post:
a) Suggests that other series already running are not welcoming and too strict
b) Invites a list of existing Collantine Cup drivers specifically. Minus Mag of course.
The entire thing is disrespectful.
If you want to set up a series with a different time slot, fine, good luck to you. But don't treat it as a contest between series.
Just my tuppence worth.
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I was so delighted by the response of last week's Vintage Vision! The comments were filled with positive responses, words of wisdom and even motivating thoughts on continuing the feature. Fashion Bomb reader Jeda wrote, "I love this feature, and Dorothy is a classic beauty. I love that clean, polished look, and I'm sure its making a come back. I would love to see Eartha Kitt in a vintage feature, she was bad ass! Blessings."
So, with that being said, here I am this week with the next icon. Today's feature is dedicated to a woman who possessed a smile that was bigger than life itself – her feisty style was what distinguished her from the ordinary – you know her as the legendary Eartha Kitt.
Originally born as "Eartha Mae Keith", this American singer, dancer and actress took the world by storm with her unique singing style and eccentric tastes. In 1943, Kitt started her career as a member of the Katherine Dunham Company and remained a distinctive addition until 1948. Her next endeavor involved using the voice that would soon make her an instant hit – from "Let's Do It" to the epic "Santa Baby" – Kitt began to make her mark on the world.
The star continued to shoot to unparalleled realms of success when she landed her first starring role as Helen of Troy in Orson Welles' Dr. Faustus. In 1967, she was cast as the sultry Catwoman in the Batman television series. Kitt conquered the world of film, television, music and even Broadway. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Kitt was on fire!
Eartha's style was impeccable. From wearing leopard print from head to toe to rocking the heck out of Catwoman's black bodysuit, she was a woman who embraced femininity and made sexy look classy. Aside from an enviable figure, her presence was also extraordinary. Kitt was a force of incomparable talent and her legacy will continue to live on through her constant inspiration. Interestingly enough, her colleague, Orson Welles, once coined her as "the most exciting woman in the world."
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This was one difficult feature! This woman is the definition of raw talent. If you can, please read up on Eartha Kitt! She was absolutely amazing. There was so much information I wanted to include in this feature but, for the sake of time, I summed everything up as best as I could! On another note, how about those legs!!?
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This weekend we successfully ran a dress rehearsal for our "go-live" of SJLinked, our electronic health record that will transform the way we provide care.
It will allow us to improve all aspects of care, creating a patient centered model that connects primary care, inpatient care and all our ancillary services.
This is not a small project and has taken 18 months of dedicated leadership by AnneMarie Czyz, MS, RN, our executive sponsor, and Chuck Fennell, our vice president and Chief Information Officer. An outstanding group of clinical and IT professionals from across our system is on their team, supported by a great partner in EPIC, the software company. So how did the rehearsal go?
More than 180 registration and scheduling staff from our primary care centers, registration and St. Joseph's Physicians offices migrated 20,000 appointments and 10,000 new registrations. This will allow registration to be live across the system for any appointment scheduled after May 1.
We also ran this week three complete patients through the system from beginning to end. Thank you Joe Bick for coordinating this effort proving that staff could successfully code and bill from beginning to end using information entered by staff throughout the hospital!
Were we a bit nervous? Yes. Did we find minor problems? Yes. Did we quickly get them resolved? Yes!
In other classrooms this weekend surgeons also learned the system, taking time on a nice Saturday to practice their skills in preparation for "go live." We appreciate their support, as they will be key end users.
We have interviewed many hospitals, and observed a few "go lives." We know from them that the secrets of success are personal preparation in advance, then lots of support those first weeks to resolve issues. We promise we have a great structure in place to ensure lots of help and support during "go live." Superusers on the floor, a bank of experts in the DeFuria Room to solve issues, administrators and teams of trainers will fan out across the organization to hear your concerns and relay messages to the central core to solve those issues. We proved this weekend we can do it!
Thank you to all the staff: nurses, registration, admissions and more for your hard work and enthusiasm this weekend.
Of course we are holding the links from across our system that represent how this new system will forever link how we provide care; below are some pictures from this past weekend. One unified patient record will unify us for communications! Here we go!
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NAC end Vitesse run
High-flying Vitesse Arnhem saw their six-game unbeaten run ended by a Donny Gorter penalty as they lost 1-0 at NAC Breda.
Gorter converted his spot-kick in first-half injury time after Marcus Pedersen felled Anthony Lurling in the area.
There was a hint of controversy surrounding NAC's penalty after referee Pieter Vink had initially indicated there would be no injury time. However, Vink decided to let time run on after Vitesse duo Nicky Hofs and Pedersen earned his ire and were shown yellow cards.
Heerenveen also enjoyed an away win, beating Roda JC 2-1 to leave the home side just outside the relegation zone.
The visitors took the lead with two goals in quick succession either side of half-time through Oussama Assaidi (42) and Filip Djuricic (49). Roda hit back six minutes later through Jagos Vukovic but were unable to find an equaliser.
FC Groningen had a late equaliser from Petter Andersson to thank for salvaging a 1-1 draw on their visit to RKC Waalwijk.
RKC had led most of the match after Sander Duits opened the scoring in the 17th minute, but Andersson struck with 17 minutes left to make it 1-1.
In the day's final game, NEC Nijmegen moved away from the relegation zone with a 1-0 win at Feyenoord thanks to Nick Van der Velden's seventh-minute goal.
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Bani Walid bombed by the barbarians from Misurata
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ALGERIA ISP / According to Akhbar Libya Elmokawama in Bani Walid, Misurata militias bombed the city and affecting the homes of civilians. A 13 year old boy who replaced his father as a salesman in a store, got a shell on the tray. He's dead. The child martyr named Abdelhamid Ben Ali Abd Nabiy Lama. ^ Although this picture you will not see it in the Western media. Those who have installed the democracy Jourdenes <=RATS of Libya.
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Yao Ming and his former teammates from the Houston Rockets reunited at a charity game in Beijing, China, in the same venue of the 2008 Olympic basketball final.
Retired Chinese basketball star Yao Ming launched the first charity game in Beijing in 2007 with another NBA star Steve Nash.
The game saw the Chinese National Basketball team versus the NBA Stars, who included Joakim Noah, Metta World Peace, Kyle Lowry, George Hill, and Luis Scola.
It was good practice for the Chinese team as they prepare for the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship, which will be played in Manila in early August.
Thousands of spectators showed up to watch the game, despite the heavy rain in the city.
Brazilian football star Kaka also turned up to show his support.
The match was a reunion of sorts of the 2007/2008 Houston Rockets team.
This year Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming's role was not playing - but coaching the NBA Stars team.
McGrady played CBA in the last season and he almost won a ring at the NBA championship this year with the San Antonio Spurs.
Yao Ming, the owner of Shanghai Sharks, hopes to work with 'T-Mac', leaving the window open to sign his former teammate for the Shanghai basketball club.
The third quarter of the game was played by the children of migrant workers in Beijing, on behalf of the Chinese team and the NBA Stars.
The game ended with a win for the NBA Stars as they defeated the Chinese Basketball squad 61-58.
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OK place to stay for the price. Decent location hidden away in a hutong and clean enough. Lack of atmosphere though. There's three common areas. One outside so weather dependent, one inside but next to the rooms so no noise or smoking and a TV / PC / WiFi area where the drinks are. The TV area's the best place to hang out but the staff sit there all day watching soaps. Result is guests don't really have any place to chill and mingle so there's no atmosphere or backpacker interaction.
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A split in the Arab world continued to widen today over acceptance of the U.S. peace proposals. Algeria announced at the last minute that it would not participate in a meeting of Arab foreign ministers and defense chiefs scheduled to open tonight in Tripoli, Libya. Earlier Algeria indicated that it would send a delegation. Iraq and Syria, which also had planned to participate declared later that they would not. The meeting was called to create Arab unity behind Egyptian diplomatic efforts. President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan have accepted the American peace initiative. Iraq is vehemently opposed to a peaceful settlement with Israel. Syria alone among the 1967 combatants has refused to accept the United Nations Security Council's Nov. 22, 1967 resolution. Both Syria and Iraq are governed by militant left wing Baathist parties. In Jordan, where the guerrillas are strongest and most influential, Foreign Minister Anton Attallah put a damper on peace efforts Friday when Israel's acceptance of the American initiative was announced. He said the U.S. peace effort was "still-born" because of Israel's reply.
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New thread for chiefs who choose their hard - all welcome!
Moving on from this thread which is full:
I'm avoiding all pictures and talk of cake, it all sounds way too delicious. Even Tea's porn cake
After thinking it was going to be me and DS completely alone for the next week turns out this weekend is going to be fun after all. My sister is coming round tonight for a mini Randall and XDH has made a surprise babysitting offer for Sunday so I shall be having a proper BBQ themed Randall.
I have not prepared. This weeks weigh-in will not be a good one!
Hello? I haven't had my iPad for last 2 days ( busy at work and then left kicking thing in office). I have just logged in and you lot have gone cake bonkers! What's been going on??? Carrots and humous chiefs, not carrot cake!
Loooove the bucks fizz stuff, but im old enough to remember brotherhood of man! My gig was The Specials actually, you mockers (double!) but you know Cliff can be good on his day.... Freebie gig through work so extra good!
Have such a vision of you now!
Randall, yay to bad ass Randalling.
Dinky, I always wanted to be in Pans people or legs and co. The Specials were good.
Lovely lovely day here, shop done, off to Parkrun now. Happy Chiefing
Very nice day here too, and I thought the weekend was meant to be miserable. Have a lovely new car, need somewhere to drive it to! I had put on this morning (not my weigh-in day) so am forbidding all Randalling in this house, although have earmarked the icecream to be finished so it's gone and I can stop thinking about it! Sorry if that sounds horribly bingeful.
Have lovely Parkruns all of you who do it.
Yeah pb at Park run, beat best time by almost 1 minute!
I also appear to now be quite blonde (for me!) and have shorter hair than expected after my hairdressers appointment this afternoon.
Still sunny!
Hope you are whizzing around in your new car Double and that those Randalling are doing well
Lost you all in the forum re-shuffle.
Maintaining well on 6:1 (fasting one day a week) and no snacking in between meals on week days (weekends excluded as usual). No longer weighing myself but this morning DH had to punch another hole in my belt.
But the best news is that I'm now running non-stop for 25 minutes! Okay, so I am slow (I cover 3.3km in that time) but I am happy! I love it. 5km here I come.
Oh dear. My mini Randall turned into a maxi Randall. It was a really lovely night and something we haven't done for far too long, but we ended up talking crap til 4 o'clock!
After the BBQ tomorrow I'm going to have to fast my arse off if I don't want weigh-in-Wednesday to be a complete disaster.
I'm going on a hen weekend next week too. Bugger.
This week I shall mostly be eating - dust.
Well one on the run Lizzy
Wowzers, well done Bssh!
Go Bssh!
Good Randalling, Randall
Well done Bssh, and Lizzy you sound very glam!
Randall, you sound like, well, Randall TBH!
Oh dear, fish and chips yesterday, today pub lunch! So much for not Randalling ...
TMI warning - poo mentioned, well it is the poo thread?
Hey chiefs, the cake is all gone thankfully. My colleagues ate loads and I took the rest to my mums where my siblings and nieces and nephews polished the rest off.
Tea did you take a picture??
Lego did dh enjoy the cookies, they looked fab! And how was the spidey cake?
Randall yay for surprise arrangements and babysitters!
Lizzy you're getting faster every week, well done!
Bssh well done on the running
Well Dh and I Randalled well on Friday night for his birthday. I had a major hangover when I went to collect the kids to be confronted by dd who couldn't "get her poo out!" I had to, well I can't even describe it, traumatic doesn't even begin to describe it. The poor baby. And she is fine now so I'm not sure what to do? Except try to wipe it from my memory?
I'm working today, cup final day, the sun is coming out and I have a healthy packed lunch with me! Anyway, ko is 3pm so I better get back to work. Happy Sunday everyone!
Bank Holiday weekend and half term is a particularly hard combo Double. I'm going to try not to snack next week but think I will eat some lovely hearty main meals.
Well, it was v nice, and I haven't eaten much else so will be OK.
Tiger suffice to say I understand!!
I made a cake!!! I am blaming all you lot with your cakey chat. It was a Venetian carrot cake , no flour, lots of ground almonds. Obviously the carrots in it negated any calorie content. Phew.
Actually have eaten like a horse, and therefore will expect a horse type weight this week. tiger I feel your poo trauma....
I Randalled. I mean really Randalled.
Fasting today and tomorrow in the vain hope of negating some of the effects. I'd be more than happy just to maintain this week tbh, as long as I haven't gained that'll do for me.
That sounds grim t say the least Tiger, glad she's feeling better though!
Sounds like some lovely weekends have been had. Hope everyone's enjoys their soggy bank holidays
Had no rain at all here Randall, but have had another pub lunch so I suspect a weight gain is on the cards tomorrow.
Evening all you Randallers and poo pullers
Busy weekend, Dh completed his triathlon, did so so well. Randalled big style afterwards.
Been up doing the Malham safari and lots of walking today.
Hate my hair, look weird. Dh loves it though. Hat shopping this week
Hello all!
Lizzy it's always odd when you have quite a dramatic change isn't it? Do you get a surprise when you catch your reflection ?
Tiger poor you! I remember someone saying to me once that you really know you're a parent when you're glad to catch your child's vomit in your hands. I now know exactly what she meant... Oh, and the Spider-Man cake was awesome, ds2 was so thrilled with it.
This weekend is soooo hard. I'm finding more and more that I'm good(ish) Mon-fri then I let myself go a bit over the weekend, but often I feel a kind of food-hangover guilt/regret and shame. I love food (hence becoming a chief) and am clear that I want to be able to enjoy eating out when with friends/on holiday etc but I feel like I'm getting too emotional about food. Not sure if that makes sense. I weigh
well record as I weigh myself every morning and night but don't tell me off please on a Weds, maybe I should switch it to Fri so I see the benefit of the goodness and can have made up for any weekend mishaps?
Anyhoo, I hope you've all enjoyed the lovely sunshine and have had marvellous weekends!
I've put on a lb which is disheartening but not really surprising given how off-plan I've been. It's made a difference to semi-lose DH's support while he concentrates on getting used to his anti-depressants and wants to eat nice things. But I need to get past that.
Good luck to everyone starting half term in the rain! Rain here, they won't be able to go out on their bikes which will make them grr.
Where is everyone?
Randalling is shedding the lbs like a bugger!
I'm in a queue to get on a ride at Alto Towers. Sadly it is one with a huge feck arf squirrel for toddlers rather than any scary ride.
I haven't exercised or fasted for four days <sob> because I've been at my parents and my Mam's appendix burst so I've been a bit of a Florence so no time to cater for my diet. I've had wine most evenings to medicate life with 4 boys and 2 slightly dotty parents. I'm now stuck at a theme park with a toddler. The healthiest food on site is a fresh apple donut. I will drink booze and go to an all you can eat hotel restaurant tonight.
I'm having the sort of week that made me a Chief.
Missing all Chiefing and Chiefs.
Oh Tea, hope your Mom gets better soon.
Food and drink sounds fab though!
Blimey Tea poor Mum, that must have been horribly scary. Hope she's on the mend now, sounds seriously painful.
I envy your Alton towers fun (even if it is only the kiddy rides!), haven't been for almost 3 years <sniff>.
Don't worry about a tiny gain Double, easy on - easy off. You're doing really well to stay focused when you've got so much else going on. Keep going chief
Lizzy you really are too kind! Another 2.4lb off somehow, very confused but totm did start yesterday so maybe that had something to do with it. Anyway, I need a massive chiefly push for the next weigh-in as another 2lb off would make 4 stone lost in exactly 5 months. I'm on a hen weekend this Friday and Saturday which will involve some serious Randalling so it's going to take a Herculean effort and more than a little luck if I want to get there!
Onwards and downwards chiefs
That's so fab Randall
Tea hope your mum is better quickly. An apple doughnut counts as at least one of your 5 a day surely?
I'm not doing well, have actually only eaten cake today. Luckily the cake is now all gone. DH not doing so well and food not a proper priority at the moment, might need to allow myself a week off or something.
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Panjiva data shows global trade growth from May to June at a reduced rate
As was the case from April to May, global trade activity showed growth, albeit at a slower rate than earlier in the year, according to data from Panjiva
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As was the case from April to May, global trade activity showed growth, albeit at a slower rate than earlier in the year, according to data from Panjiva, an online search engine with detailed information on global suppliers and manufacturers.
U.S.-bound waterborne shipments, which fell 2 percent from April to May, posted a 2 percent gain from May to June at 1,083,511. This is an improvement over a 1 percent decline from May to June a year ago, and total shipments for June were up 5 percent annually. Panjiva officials said that shipments for the first six months of the year are up 5 percent.
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Oil and Energy Demand in Developing Countries in 1990
How much of the world's oil and energy supply will the non-OPEC less developed countries (NOLDCs) demand in the next decade? Will their requirements be small and thus fairly insignificant compared with world demand, or large and relatively important? How will world demand be affected by the economic growth of the NOLDCs? In the study on which this article is based, we try to develop some reasonable forecasts of NOLDC energy demands in the next 10 years.' Our focus is mainly on the demand for oil, but we also give some attention to the total commercial energy requirements of these countries. We have tried to be explicit about the uncertainties associated with our forecasts, and with the income and price elasticities on which they are based.
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"HOW the hell did we get into this mess?" When Sarah Jessica Parker asked that question on the first episode of the HBO series "Sex and the City" in 1998, it came in the midst of an opening monologue that signaled the end of one kind of pop cultural heroine ("No one has breakfast at Tiffany's") and the birth of a new one ("Welcome to the age of un-innocence"). Her name was Carrie Bradshaw, a New York writer and wit whose search for true love with a man never got in the way of her sex drive or close female friendships. Romance was dead, the show announced, but female desire was alive and kicking, usually in $400 designer heels.
Fast forward to "Sex and the City 2," the sequel to the hit 2008 movie, written and directed by Michael Patrick King, that has generated some of the most hostile and outraged reviews in recent memory. "The horror, the horror," wrote one critic. "Nothing says putrefying, rotten and vile quite like this sequel," wrote another. Everything about the film has been faulted, even its enthusiastic embrace of flamboyant conspicuous consumption, an ethos, nay, a philosophy, that often inspired little more than indulgent chuckles in the past. In 2008 Vanity Fair estimated that the first movie name-dropped more than 20 designers. This time few are paying attention to the clothes: they're too busy fulminating over the movie's other perceived sins.
The gravest of these sins in my unscientific survey are behavioral: the women act like ugly Americans and debase every aspect of Muslim culture they come in contact with. Also: they're women. And middle aged. Girlish. Have had bad work done. Or maybe not enough. "A cross," David Edelstein wrote in New York magazine "between (late) Mae West and (dead) Bea Arthur." "Like a plastic surgeon," Tom Maurstad wrote in The Dallas Morning News, "storyteller King keeps trying to find new ways to lift and tighten his characters, but they have become garish caricatures of themselves." "What's not to loathe?" Richard Roeper asked. Apparently nothing. At rottentomatoes.com, which compiles reviews, the first "Sex and the City" movie earned a 53 percent approval rating from top critics, while the sequel received — eek — just 9 percent.
To borrow a tactic from the TV show, which invariably featured Carrie posing the week's Big Question to her readers: Was "Sex" actually 50 percent worse the second time around? Not from where I was seated, though I happily concede that the sequel is about as bad as the original. They're just lousy in different ways. The new sex puns ("Lawrence of my labia") are as wince inducing as the old, and Mr. King's direction remains strictly small screen. What has changed are the locations: in the first film, the friends visit Mexico (funny!), but this time, they yuk it up in the Middle East (not funny!). But what has really changed? The characters, the critics, the context: how quickly yesterday's pleasure can pop, just like an economic bubble.
The new film's sex-capades turn on Carrie's restlessness in her new marriage to Big (Chris Noth), an agitation she quiets during a junket to Abu Dhabi with "the girls": Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis). After flying first-class-ultra in separate compartments, they are picked up at the airport in their own white Maybach sedans (which start at $417,000, in case you were wondering) and whisked to a hotel that's a stand-in for the Emirates Palace, an haute-decadent Abu Dhabi hotel with amenities like a gold-dispensing ATM ("gold to go"). In 2008 the real hotel initiated a "million dollar package" for guests that included seven nights in a suite, use of a Maybach and a "day trip in private jet to Iran to create your own Persian carpet from the most exclusive and well-renowned hand-maker."Continue reading the main story
The four friends don't visit Iran, alas, where they might have seen some Muslim women fighting the powers that be; they don't even make it to the real United Arab Emirates. The production couldn't shoot in Abu Dhabi because authorities apparently denied it access after reading the screenplay. (Morocco played the role instead.) It's anyone's guess how far they read before the objections started flying, but I bet they didn't dig the swans and men's choir at the wedding of one gay sidekick, Stanford (Willie Garson), to another, Anthony (Mario Cantone) early in the story. Same-sex marriages are illegal in New York, but homosexuality is illegal in the United Arab Emirates. Liza Minnelli belting out "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" at the wedding probably sealed the deal.
The excesses of the gay wedding might be forgivable (they are sure eye-popping), but whatever good will the women retained dissolved for many critics when they hit the Middle East. It was swell when the women went south to indulge in cultural clichés in Mexico or, rather, at a ritzy Mexican resort. There they drank margaritas, listened to a mariachi band, joked about the water and laughed uproariously when Charlotte, after accidentally slurping the water, soiled her pants while a maid silently cleaned nearby. I don't think Mr. King was engaging in some stealth political commentary with the maid's presence. She was just part of the scenery.
That kind of breezy entitlement is nothing new for "Sex and the City," which after all pivots on four white professionals, most of whom barely work yet manage to enjoy all the pleasures of a narrowly demarcated city that bears next to no resemblance to the New York in which most people live. As it does with a lot of romance fiction, fantasy constituted a large part of the show's appeal. But unlike many bewitching romantic figures, including Holly Golightly, Carrie and her friends paid their own way. In the first season, in an episode coyly titled "The Power of Female Sex," a rich man whom Carrie beds leaves a thousand bucks on the nightstand the morning after, and she briefly contemplates and rejects going Golightly.
Granted, shopping for Manolos might seem an inane form of female empowerment, but when a woman pays for those shoes herself, it means something. The problem was that the show's creators appeared to take Barbara Kruger's brilliant slogan "I shop therefore I am" without the requisite irony, and, over time, couture idolatry became a form of identity politics for the characters. (Given this, it's no surprise the show embarrassed itself whenever it attempted to take on race and class.) The failure to grow up as the characters aged and began to lead adult lives, at times painfully adult lives with disappointing husbands and fertility issues, signaled that the party was long over before the show, after six seasons, mercifully ended.
The first movie continued in this same giddy vein, exemplified by montage sequences of Carrie modeling clothes, and when it opened critics generally embraced it and its materialistic esprit. Two years — and the worst economy since the Great Depression — later, critics, whose numbers are thinning rapidly, no longer see the joke, any joke. As a passionate takedown by my friend (and occasional New York Times contributor) Matt Zoller Seitz at IFC.com made clear, I wasn't the only viewer taken aback by Miranda's impulsive decision to quit her law firm in a climate in which a powerhouse like Latham & Watkins lays off hundreds. "They should have ended the scene," he wrote, "by having a giant bag of money fall out of the sky and land at her feet."
Instead, Mr. King sent the women to Disneyland, oops, the Middle East, which clearly is no laughing matter, however hard he tried to invoke the Hope and Crosby road movies and, more subtly, Frank Capra's "Lost Horizon," about a utopia. Initially Abu Dhabi appears like a paradise to the characters, who stay in a $22,000-a-night suite complete with butlers. But Eden has its price, and, during a visit to a souk, a torrentially sweating Samantha, in the midst of a hot flash, brandishes a fistful of condoms at an increasingly large, enveloping crowd of unsmiling men. The friends escape the crowd with the help of some local women in niqabs, who soon drop their black veils to show off their designer outfits.
Mr. King's sartorial sisterhood might not recognize cultural divides, but American critics are having none of it. At Hollywood.com, Thomas Leupp, under a headline that read, "This Is the New Torture Porn," wrote that it "could become an effective inspirational video for suicide bombers — provided they can endure the film's two-and-a-half-hour running time, of course." Responding to another scene, in which Samantha is arrested for making like Deborah Kerr on a beach, Steve Persall, of The St. Petersburg Times, wrote: "I can't say I blame the authorities. Sorry, but when in Rome or Abu Dhabi (or Morocco), you do as the locals do, especially in these times." Gee, it's a good thing that Stanford and Anthony decided to stay home.
The scene of Samantha in the souk has been branded insulting to Muslims. Certainly it's insulting to comedy lovers and to the character, a shrewd number sold out by her director for an unfunny gag about the unruly female body. This and other scenes of the women with Muslims are often awkward, though that's partly a function of Mr. King's direction. Yet there's also something touching about a few of these encounters, as when the women wonder how you eat fries when you're wearing a veil, a question that strikes me as an uncharacteristically honest admission of difference in a mainstream American movie. Too bad the women weren't guys and went to Las Vegas, where they could have indulged in the kind of critically sanctioned masculine political incorrectness that made "The Hangover" such a darling.Continue reading the main story


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National League
• Nationals 6, Marlins 1: In Miami, Ross Detwiler departed with a lead for the third start in a row and this time the bullpen held on as Bryce Harper and Washington won. Harper, back in the Nationals' lineup after missing one game with the flu, hiked his average to .364 with four hits.
• Reds 1, Phillies 0 (Game 1): In Cincinnati, Jay Bruce singled with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning in a game suspended overnight because of rain. The game resumed in the bottom of the ninth with a few hundred people in the stands. Bruce's single off Phillippe Aumont (1-2) came only 9 minutes and 19 pitches after it restarted
• Reds 11, Phillies 2 (Game 2): Reds starter Mike Leake (1-2) drove in a run with his first career triple during Cincinnati's five-run second inning. The Reds had two singles, a double, a triple, Todd Frazier's homer, a walk and a hit-by-pitch during the rally.
• Brewers 4, Giants 3: In Milwaukee, pinch-hitter Blake Lalli lifted a long single in the bottom of the ninth inning to score Josh Prince and give the Brewers their third straight win. Brewers starter Kyle Lohse did not allow a hit through the first five innings as Milwaukee built a 3-0 lead.
• Padres 7, Dodgers 2 In Los Angeles, Everth Cabrera, Chris Denorfia and Kyle Blanks all homered off Clayton Kershaw in San Diego's win. Cabrera was 3 for 4 and added a double and steal for the Padres.
• Mets vs. Rockies, ppd: In Denver, the game was postponed as another spring snow storm passed through the Mile High City. No makeup date was announced.
American League
• Red Sox 6, Indians 3: In Cleveland, converted closer Alfredo Aceves coasted through five innings, Mike Napoli and Daniel Nava drove in two runs apiece and the Red Sox, bonded by the tragedy in Boston, struck quickly against Justin Masterson for their fifth straight win. Aceves (1-0), who began the season in Boston's bullpen, took a shutout into the sixth before giving up three runs.
• Rays 6, Orioles 2: In Baltimore, Kelly Johnson and Shelley Duncan homered, James Loney had three RBIs and Tampa Bay beat Baltimore to snap a four-game skid. Matt Moore (3-0) gave up two runs and five hits in 6 2/3 innings.
• Athletics 7, Astros 5: In Oakland, Calif., Bartolo Colon pitched six crisp innings, Josh Reddick doubled in two runs during a six-run first and Oakland defeated Houston to complete another three-game sweep. The Athletics swept a three-game series at Houston during the first week of the season.
• White Sox 7, Blue Jays 0: In Toronto, Tyler Flowers hit a three-run homer and Jose Quintana pitched 6 2/3 sharp innings to lead Chicago over Toronto. Alex Rios also homered against his former team to back Quintana (1-0).
• Tigers vs. Mariners: In Seattle, late. The game was tied at 1 in the 14th inning at the Star's press time.
• Angels vs. Twins, ppd: In Minneapolis, the game was called due to rain. No makeup date has been determined.
• Royals 1, Braves 0: In Atlanta, Wade Davis pitched five-hit ball for seven innings, Jeff Francoeur had a fourth-inning RBI single, and the Royals stopped the Braves' 10-game winning streak. The Braves were seeking their first 13-1 start since 1994, but the powerful Atlanta offense - which homered five times off the Royals on Tuesday - finally was stifled.
• Rangers vs. Cubs, ppd: In Chicago, the game was rained out. No makeup date was announced.


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Nicole Horvitz, a Los Altos Hills City Planner, said city staff initiated the amendment to create "more direction."
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If you experience barely suppressed outrage when the United States Customs Service examines your iris and fingerprints as you pass through the transit lounge at Los Angeles airport, then uber-leaker Edward Snowden is probably your new hero.
The former CIA analyst and newly sacked Booz Allen Hamilton consultant blew the whistle last week on the US National Security Agency's digital spying systems, including the Prism and Boundless Informant programmes.
Exactly how these systems pry into the lives of anyone anywhere in the world is unclear. However, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and others are all targeted. On one hand, that means the NSA must be sifting through a lot of gossip and cat photos in its efforts to find patterns of evil in cyberspace.
On the other, the documents show the information produced by these systems is running far ahead of public understanding, let alone political oversight and regulation, and gaining all the time.
The notion that personal privacy is a right rather than a privilege is being eroded at blinding speed.
Of course, much of the activity targeted by such surveillance is repugnant - human trafficking, drugs, illegal arms and criminal gangs. But the most powerful impetus for this invasion of privacy derives from the American response to terrorist threats.
This has produced what one of that country's foremost reporters on clandestine operations, Steve Coll, describes as "a bloated national-security state", which "contains far too many official secrets and far too many secret- keepers".
"More than a million people now hold top-secret clearances," he notes, although Snowden's ejection from the circle of trust reduces those numbers by one.
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Closer to home, the timing is politically unhelpful for the New Zealand Government, which has escaped major political damage despite its principal electronic spy agency, the Government Communications Security Bureau, unlawfully spying on New Zealand citizens.
The NSA disclosures coincide with patch-up legislation here which is designed not only to make that activity retrospectively acceptable, but to ensure it can happen in the future.
Apathy rather than acceptance has so far greeted those moves, but the more the privacy itch is scratched, the greater the danger of backlash.
Also potentially affected is one of the smart New Zealand companies at the forefront of the drive for innovation in "weightless exports" - the intelligence software company Wynyard Group.
An offshoot of Christchurch-based Jade Corporation, Wynyard is one of the rash of tech stocks seeking to list on the NZX in the near future, with a $70 million initial public offering which will release about $26m to accelerate its global growth plans.
Underlining the fact that much of this growth is expected in the US intelligence-gathering industry, the company last month opened offices in Arlington, Virginia, where the Central Intelligence Agency has its headquarters.
Most significantly, Wynyard's growth ambitions are founded on projected growth in sales of its newly developed intelligence software, which is attracting global interest from national security agencies, police forces and financial institutions.
Graphics in the Wynyard prospectus claim the firm's potential global market has grown from US$2.6 billion (NZ$3.3b) to US$5.3b in a single year between 2012 and 2013, with the market for intelligence software making up the lion's share of the increase - from US$1b to US$3.5b.
That's partly down to the fact its new products make it a player in new areas for the first time, but it also reflects the exponential growth in intelligence- gathering that has prompted such unease following Snowden's disclosures.
"To deal with these risks, entities need actionable intelligence and must be diligent in the collection of evidence and in the investigation of events," the Wynyard prospectus says. "Investment in software to provide this capability is not optional in the financial services, government and critical national infrastructure markets."
It boasts in the document of its intensely loyal culture and how heavily it vets those whom it employs. London- based executive Paul Stokes told me last year that the company was providing jobs for some of this country's smartest maths and computer science graduates.
"More and more of them are coming because they're driven by the idea they want to help catch bad guys," Stokes said at the time.
Wynyard has the makings of an extraordinary New Zealand success story, based on smart people doing work of great value and competing with some of the world's biggest players in the defence and security industries.
But there's one risk that's not in the prospectus that arguably should be: the risk that the good guys catching the bad guys won't always be seen as the good guys if their capacity to delve deeply into what should be private goes too far.


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The Pirates are shopping for a starting pitcher, but, with RHP A.J. Burnett and LHP Wandy Rodriguez already in the mix, the club does not need a top-of-the-rotation guy — which is a good thing, because the team cannot afford one, anyway. GM Neal Huntington will go after someone to fill either the 3, 4 or 5 spot, preferably a veteran arm who can be counted upon to eat some innings.
RHP Kevin Correia is a free agent, and management has given no indication it will try to bring him back. RHP Charlie Morton is out until at least July as he recovers from elbow surgery, and might be non-tendered. Even if RHP Jeff Karstens, who's in his last year of arbitration eligibility, is tendered a contract, the Pirates will want to bring in a free agent to provide injury insurance and competition in spring training camp. Despite his Jekyll-and-Hyde performance in 2012, RHP James McDonald is in the plans for the rotation next season. Rookies Jeff Locke and Kyle McPherson are minimum-wage options. Of the two newbies, McPherson was more impressive during the September auditions.
Free agents can begin signing with other clubs after midnight Friday. Options for the Pirates, considering the team's needs and budget constraints, include:
RHP Kevin Milwood: Turns 38 years old Dec. 24 … $1 million in 2012 with Mariners … Went 6-12 with 4.25 ERA and 1.391 WHIP in 28 starts (161 innings). Verdict: He was a bargain this year for Seattle. He's mulling retirement, but Pirates might be able to tempt him with offer.
RHP Tim Stauffer: 30 years old … $3.2 million in 2012 with Padres … Pitched in just one game in majors before having season-ending surgery on flexor tendon in right elbow. Verdict: Worth a gamble. If healthy, he should get a decent number of offers.
RHP Chris Young: 33 years old … $1.1 million in 2012 with Mets … 4-9 with 4.15 ERA and 1.348 WHIP in 20 starts (115 innings). Verdict: Pirates have liked him for a while. Maybe this is year they finally get him.
RHP Carlos Villanueva: Turns 29 years old Nov. 28 … $2.28 million in 2012 with Blue Jays … 7-7 with 4.16 ERA and 1.269 WHIP in 38 games (16 starts). Verdict: Wants a multi-year deal and assurance he'll be a full-time starter. That's what Correia got two years ago, and you saw how that worked out.
LHP Jeff Francis: Turns 32 years old Jan. 8 … $2 million in 2012 with Royals … 6-7 with 5.58 ERA and 1.478 WHIP in 24 games (113 innings). Verdict: Could be reunited with Clint Hurdle, who was his skipper with Rockies from 2004 to 2009.
RHP Bartolo Colon: 39 years old … $2 million in 2012 with A's … 10-9 with 3.43 ERA and 1.208 WHIP in 24 starts (152.1 innings). Verdict: It looks like he's still got some gas in the tank, but Pirates' also-ran outlook hurts their chances.
RHP Randy Wells: 30 years old … $2.7 million in 2010 with Cubs … 1-2 with 5.34 ERA and 2.058 WHIP in 12 games (four starts) … Was super (12-10, 3.05 ERA) as rookie in 2009, but has gone 16-22 with 4.62 ERA in 67 games since. Verdict: Recent struggles will reduce his cost, but do Pirates really want another big question mark (a la J-Mac) in their rotation?
RHP Freddy Garcia: 36 years old … $4 million in 2012 with Yankees … 7-6 with 5.20 ERA and 1.370 WHIP in 30 games (17 starts). Verdict: Doesn't seem to be much upside left.
RHP Rich Harden: Turns 31 years old Nov. 30 … $1.5 million in 2012 with A's … 4-4 with 5.12 ERA and 1.427 WHIP in 15 games. Verdict: Still has good strikeout stuff, but batted balls are finding holes more often these days.
LHP Francisco Liriano: 29 years old … $5.5 million in 2012 with Twins/White Sox … 6-12 with 5.34 ERA and 1.468 WHIP in 34 games (28 starts). Verdict: Probably too costly for the Pirates.


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