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Max Emanuel Cencic - Rokoko (Decca)
The spectacular rise of the countertenor over the last decade has seen several float to the top of the superstar recording stakes. Pre-eminent among them is ex-Vienna Boys Choir member Max Emanuel Cencic who, after a slew of releases on various labels, has now signed exclusively to Decca. His first release for them is Rokoko, an album of dramatic arias by the often overlooked composer Adolf Hasse. Cencic is a bold singer who takes risks but has the technique to pull them off. Hasse's arias span the full dramatic range, from plaintive lament to heroic coloratura, and Cencic is in spectacular voice and command throughout. It's muscular, virile singing, and the disc is hugely recommendable.
Iestyn Davies - Your Tuneful Voice: Handel Oratorio Arias (Vivat)
British countertenor Iestyn Davies also enjoys an extensive and acclaimed recording history. His latest release, Your Tuneful Voice, has him take on a range of arias from oratorios by Handel. Exquisitely accompanied by The King's Consort and with contributions from soprano Carolyn Sampson, this finds Davies at his most congenial. Far less the obvious showman than Cencic, Davies sings with a quiet and direct sincerity that communicates superbly both text and music. Virtuosity is there when required, always at the service of the musical line and weighted with dramatic intention. A very beautiful recital, well worth adding to your collection.
Krassimira Stoyanova - Verdi (Orfeo)
Soprano Krassimira Stoyanova has come late to the Verdi celebrations. Better late than never in this instance as I'd rate this as the best soprano Verdi recital to appear for some time. The repertory choices may seem a little safe, but they represent where Stoyanova's voice and temperament are most suited. She offers surprising bite in Aida's daunting 'Ritorna Vincitor' (she takes the role on for the first time in Munich next season), but is able to use her luminous voice to magnificent effect in arias from Il Trovatore, Don Carlo and Otello (among others). She has the style, a voice of immense beauty and flexibility, and a peerless technique. Simply titled Verdi, this is a disc of quality and integrity.
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Please check the status of this specification in Launchpad before editing it. If it is Approved, contact the Assignee or another knowledgeable person before making changes.
Launchpad entry: https://launchpad.net/products/upstart/+spec/job-serialisation
Upstart is currently a largely parallel system, serialisation is only provided within a single job; it is not possible for one job to delay the starting or stopping of another until it has completed itself. This specification proposes allowing serialisation by waiting for the completion of events before moving on to the next state.
While researching example jobs, it became apparent that there are two common pairing of job events that other jobs will be using. Jobs that depend on another will be started on the started event, because they need it to be running, and will therefore be stopped on the stopping event. The other major kind of jobs are those that believe the other job depends on them; they'll be started on the other's starting event so that they can be running by the time the other is started, and will be stopped by the other's stopped event because they want to be around if there's any possibility the other job is around.
For the first kind of job, we'll almost always want it to be stopped before the job it depends on is allowed to stop. For the second, we'll amost want it to be started before the job that is a dependency on is allowed to start.
While this can be done within the pre-start or pre-stop tasks, e.g. by waiting for initctl emit to complete; it's going to be sufficiently common that it's worth upstart handling this by default.
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When installed, tomcat becomes a dependency of the apache web server. It's not possible for apache to run without it; so apache should wait until tomcat is running, before starting.
hal depends on the dbus daemon, maintaining a connection to it. While it can cope with dbus going away, errors maybe left in the log. It would be better if hal were stopped before dbus could stop.
This scope of this specification is limited to the changes necessary to allow for serialisation of jobs.
The starting and stopping events will be serialised.
The started and stopped events will not be changed.
Handling of the serialised events (as defined by EventCompletion) must complete before any further action is performed.
- Failure of the events is ignored.
- These events will be introduced in the documentation later, as specifically serialised events, to avoid people using them without realising that they have this effect.
Instead of job_change_state in init/job.c starting the process directly when entering the starting or stopping states, only the event will be emitted. The job will be in the appropriate state, but with no process running.
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Infant and young child feeding are a cornerstone of care for childhood development.
World-wide about 30% of children under five are stunted as a consequence of poor
feeding and repeated infections. Even in resource poor settings, improved feeding
practices can lead to improved intakes of energy and nutrients, leading to better
nutritional status.
Over the past decades, the evidence of biological requirements for appropriate
nutrition, recommended feeding practices and factors impeding appropriate feeding
has grown steadily. Moreover, much has been learned about interventions that are
effective in promoting improved feeding. For example, recent studies in Bangladesh,
Brazil and Mexico have demonstrated the impact of counselling, in communities and
health services, to improve feeding practices, food intake and growth.
The Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding aims to revitalize efforts
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upon past initiatives, in particular the Innocenti Declaration and the Baby-friendly
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difficult circumstances, such as infants of mothers living with HIV, low-birth-weight
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As silly as this article is it took me a bit to find how to stop Skype from starting automatically on my Mac running OSX Lion. I have been running Skype version 4.X because the new Skype versions, specifically Skype 5.X, has really taken many steps backwards on the Mac in my opinion. I am so fed up with Skype on the Mac I am considering stopping to use Skype at all. Not only can you not stop Skype from starting automatically via the Skype Preferences window anymore but the new UI (User Interface) for Skype in Skype versions 5.X+ is horrible. Gone are the days where you could actually not have Skype engulf your entire screen or when Skype was actually useful for certain things. I definitely feel as if they stopped putting the do not start Skype on login outside of the Preferences configuration window simply to make it harder to find.


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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Jan 12, 2013) - Inmet Mining Corporation ("Inmet") (IMN.TO) today provided the following comment with respect to First Quantum''s press release, issued earlier today, and the corresponding letter addressed to David R. Beatty, O.B.E., Chairman of the Inmet Board of Directors.
Mr. Beatty said, "The Inmet Board of Directors is well aware of its duties and responsibilities with respect to the First Quantum offer. We note that, while First Quantum says it wishes to engage in friendly discussions, it is simply not. This is further demonstrated by the letter sent Friday, which is plainly hostile and counterproductive. The Board and its advisors are engaged in a thorough and rigorous process to evaluate First Quantum''s offer and to explore the full range of all potential alternatives that may provide greater value to Inmet shareholders, including those activities that have been commenced prior to First Quantum''s bid. We remain committed to serving the best interests of all Inmet shareholders."
As stated in a press release on January 9, Inmet''s Board is considering, among other things, whether or not the First Quantum offer adequately compensates our shareholders for Inmet''s full value, including the untapped exploration and expansion potential of Cobre Panama and the substantial increase in valuation our shareholders will receive once Cobre Panama reaches commercial production. Inmet''s Board is also considering the potential risks associated with receiving First Quantum shares as consideration.
Mr. Beatty added, "Inmet is very proud of its track record of building long-term shareholder value and we are very comfortable that the decisions we have made regarding Cobre Panama have positioned it to become one of the world''s largest and lowest-cost copper mines."
The Inmet Board will file a Directors'' Circular and make a formal recommendation to Inmet shareholders on or before January 24, 2012. Until then, Inmet shareholders are advised to take no action and not tender to the First Quantum offer.
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When I was growing up my Grandmother (this time, my Mom's Mother), always used to make applesauce/spice cookies. They were awesome. I woke up thinking about these last week and had to track down the recipe. I emailed my Grandma to ask if she had it, she didn't. However, my Mom did! She had the cookbook that the recipe came from. Betty Crocker's Cookbook, the 1969 edition. All I had to do was modify the recipe to make it gluten-free. I did just that. The cookies smelled amazing while they were cooking. In addition, I used my homemade applesauce that I made a huge batch of last week. I really think that just added to the wonderful flavor of these cookies. These cookies really said "fall" to me. The flavors were everything representative of the season. The recipe for the frosting that Betty Crocker suggests is not the one I used. I actually used the Cinnamon Icing that I used for my pumpkin cookies the other day. All of my taste testers have raved about these. They aren't the prettiest cookies, but who cares when they taste so good?!? They didn't want to flatten out when they baked, so next time I will probably shape them a little flatter before putting them in the oven. The texture and moisture level was perfect, so I don't see altering the recipe to try to alter the shape.
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Applesauce Cookies
**Applesauce Cookies – from Betty Crocker cookbook 1969
½ cup softened butter or margarine
¾ cup applesauce
2 ¾ cup flour (I used Gluten Free Pantry's All-Purpose mix that includes guar gum, so didn't add any xanthan gum; make sure to add this if you don't have it in your mix already)
1 ½ cups packed brown sugar
1 cup chopped pecans (I used walnuts)
1 tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp ground cloves
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
½ tsp baking soda
2 eggs
Heat oven to 375. Mix butter and applesauce. Stir in remaining ingredients. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls about 1 inch apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until almost no indentation remains when touched – 8 to 10 minutes. Immediately remove from cookie sheet. Cool. Frost with Caramel Frosting if desired. About 6 dozen cookies – 70 calories each. (BTW, this made no where near 6 dozen, more like 2-3 dozen)
Caramel Frosting
**This is the recipe for frosting that Betty Crocker Suggests; I did not use this one
½ cup margarine or butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
¼ cup milk
2 cups powdered sugar
Heat margarine in 1-quart saucepan until melted. Stir in brown sugar. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir over low heat 2 minutes. Stir in milk. Heat to boiling; remove from heat. Cool to lukewarm. Gradually stir in powdered sugar. Place pan of frosting in bowl of cold water; beat until smooth and of spreading consistency. If frosting becomes too stiff, stir in additional milk, 1 tsp at a time. Frosts a 13 x 9 inch cake or fills and frost two 8 or 9 inch cake layers.
Cinnamon Frosting
**This is the icing/frosting that I used
2 cups powdered sugar
2 TBSP milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Mix all ingredients together until icing is the right consistency to ice cookies. You can half this recipe if you want less icing.
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Aug 30, 2012
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Georgia College's home cross country event, the Bobcat Invitational, originally scheduled for Aug. 31 at 6 p.m. has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances regarding the teams involved. No make up date will be scheduled.
The Bobcats will now start their season Saturday, Sept. 8 at the Bronx, N.Y. event, the Fordham Fiasco.


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This video of a bear attacking a monkey during a bicycle race at Shanghai Wild Animal Park is making the rounds today, and it's awful.
A park official told Shanghai Daily that the bear was wearing an anti-biting muzzle, and the monkey "wasn't hurt."
But this is the latest in a string of controversial incidents at the zoo. Last fall there was an uproar when they held a "Wild Animal Olympics" featuring 40 different events. And earlier this week the UK tabloid The Sun printed photos of animals forced to do circus tricks.
Bicycle races were also a part of the "Animal Olympics" — which China.org reports were suspended for a few years after protests from animal rights activists in 2006.
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Floodlight failure at SC Braga may have helped Manchester United FC recover to win, Wayne Rooney telling UEFA.com: "After the lights came back I think we played the better football."
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Manchester United FC have secured their passage to the UEFA Champions League round of 16 as Group H winners with two games to spare, yet Wayne Rooney told UEFA.com he and his team-mates are still keen to win their remaining matches in the section. After a contest that was briefly interrupted by floodlight failure, SC Braga attacker Alan said the Portuguese side have much to learn from their back-to-back losses to Sir Alex Ferguson's men.
Wayne Rooney, United forward
It was a strange game. Until they got the goal we played too slowly but we knew if we could speed up our passing we could win. We needed more movement which was something we looked to put right and after the lights came back on I think we played the better football. Thankfully we managed to get the win while scoring three goals.
I was a bit lucky with my penalty as I slipped but it went in and I am happy to have scored. [Despite having missed from the spot against Arsenal FC at the weekend] I had no doubts about taking another one tonight. We're through as group winners which gives the coach the opportunity to rest a few players if he wants to do that. Of course, as players we want to keep playing and keep this momentum going while looking to win more games.
Ryan Giggs, United midfielder
They were the better team in the first half and had the better chances and it wasn't until Robin van Persie came on that we started to play a little better. When he burst through [in the move that led to the first goal] I think everyone knew there was only going to be one outcome. I read last week that people were comparing Robin to Ruud van Nistelrooy in that he used to put away chances more often than not and I think that's probably the case at the moment with Robin – his confidence is high.
In general our form is good. We are looking forward to getting all our players back to fitness, like Chris Smalling who returned tonight and looked like he hadn't been away at all. The manager and the players said that [our performance in this tournament] wasn't good enough last year. We put that to the back of our minds and started really well this time with four wins from four games – you can't ask for more really.
Leandro Salino, Braga midfielder
We were very distracted in the last ten minutes and when that happens against a team like Manchester United you will ultimately pay the price. We have to be focused for 90 or even 95 minutes, if needs be. Unfortunately we lost for the second time against them, having had an advantage. Our defeat came about mainly because of our own mistakes. Having said that, this match is already over and we can't dwell on it. We are still not out of the UEFA Champions League. In our group only United have qualified and we will continue to fight for second place with Galatasaray and CFR. We will look to win our next two games against those teams.
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I think we played really well tonight but you just cannot make any mistakes against an opponent like United. We made a lot of errors in the closing stages of the match and that's why we lost it. We still haven't talked among ourselves about what went wrong in those last ten minutes. We first have to clear our heads and then analyse things. We still have our hopes in this group and we will fight until the last minute to get the points we need to qualify. Despite the fact we lost both games against United, we showed what we can do. Of course, it's never good to lose, but we will emerge from this even stronger than before.


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First Checks Being Mailed Under Decree Ending One of Longest-Running Sexual Harassment Cases in EEOC History
CHICAGO – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that checks are now being distributed pursuant to an $8 million consent decree entered by federal district judge Joan Gottschall in what is believed to be one of the longest-running sexual harassment cases in EEOC history. Defendant International Profit Associates (IPA), the employer responsible for the sexual harassment of its female employees, is a telemarketer of small business consulting packages, located in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.
The decree provides for payment and distribution of the full $8 million in installments over three years. IPA made initial payments totaling $2.5 million into a professionally administered settlement fund on March 7, 2011, and checks are now being mailed to 82 women who were the victims of the harassment. The decree also provides for wide-ranging injunctive relief against IPA. The company's compliance with the decree will be overseen by two court-appointed monitors.
"All employees are entitled to a workplace that is free of sexual harassment," said EEOC General Counsel P. David Lopez. "Unfortunately, there is a continuing need for law enforcement in this area, and this consent decree makes an important contribution to our mission to eradicate sexual harassment with its strong injunctive relief provisions and the relief provided to the individual women."
The case (EEOC v. International Profit Associates, N.D. Ill. No. 01-CV-4427), was filed in federal court in Chicago on June 12, 2001 under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The amount of the payments being made today varies with the severity of the harassment suffered by each of the victims, with the highest payments being $70,000 and the average payment being in the range of $30,000. When the final installment payments are made and distributed, the average of all payments per victim will be approximately $100,000 per person.
According to the EEOC, IPA had a pattern or practice of sexually harassing its female employees, and the court made a formal finding to that effect, upon IPA's concession, on June 14, 2010, prior to trial. The EEOC had alleged that the harassment involved a systemic pattern of sexual assaults and propositions, inappropriate touching, and crude sexual comments. EEOC had also contended that the highest ranking officers of IPA not only fostered a pattern and practice of sexual harassment but personally engaged in the harassment themselves.
There were extended delays in the more than nine year course of the litigation, as IPA filed numerous motions which the EEOC described as frivolous. These included a series of unsuccessful motions for sanctions by which IPA asked the court to punish EEOC in connection with the agency's pursuit of the case. Trial of the case began on July 6, 2010. On the first day, in the middle of jury selection, IPA advised the EEOC and the court that it was willing to meet EEOC's demands.
The balance remaining due on the $8 million decree is being personally guaranteed by the principal founder, owner, and chief executive of IPA He has, in addition, secured his personal guaranty by signing mortgages on certain of his personal real estate interests.
John Hendrickson, EEOC regional attorney in Chicago, said, "We are convinced that the $8 million consent decree in this case—yielding more dollars per person that either our Mitsubishi or Dial sexual harassment cases—is an excellent result, but we cannot find anything positive to say about the fact that an employer strung out a piece of civil rights litigation in the federal courts for almost 10 years."
"But whatever the employer's strategy," Hendrickson continued, "the EEOC never waivered. We were determined to pursue a just result which provided appropriate relief for the victims of IPA's discrimination and served the public interest no matter how long it took. We were not going to go away. IPA's obstruction and delay never really figured in our expectations in the case, and that will continue to be true, just as it is in all of our cases."
Diane Smason, the EEOC supervisory trial attorney responsible for the case, said "The claims in this case were based on allegations of absolutely egregious sexual harassment. We wanted the relief provided for in the consent decree to be appropriate in that context. We also wanted the relief to reflect the fact that the court itself made a specific finding that IPA had engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination. The decree and the fact that that sizeable checks are going out to the victims of IPA's discrimination are signal achievements. It's going to be a better day for all the women covered by the decree."
The consent decree includes injunctions against sexual harassment and retaliation, and measures designed to promote the eradication of harassment and accountability on the part of managers. It requires that IPA pay for two monitors who will review its policies and practices with respect to sexual harassment, assess its compliance with the training, prevention, and other measures being imposed, accept complaints of sexual harassment from employees, and report to the EEOC and the court. IPA must also report regularly to the EEOC on its handling of sexual harassment complaints. In the event IPA fails to measure up to the legal standards memorialized in the decree EEOC is authorized to return to court to seek additional court enforcement.
In addition to Hendrickson and Smason, the case was litigated by Chicago trial attorneys Jeanne Szromba and Ann Henry, with trial attorney Aaron de Camp joining the team prior to the scheduled trial.
The EEOC Chicago District Office is responsible for processing charges of discrimination, administrative enforcement, and the conduct of agency litigation in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and North and South Dakota, with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis. The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the Commission is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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The Ballater Highland Games are held annually on the second Thursday in August in Monaltrie Park, Ballater and in 2019 the Games will be held on Thursday 8th August.
There have been Games held in Ballater since 1864 and, apart from the war years, the Games have continued uninterrupted until the present day.
Many famous athletes and champions have competed at Ballater. Today the events form part of the circuits comprising the Glenfiddich Heavy Events Championship and the Grampian Games Qualifying Championship, which encourages the younger athletes to participate in the heavy and field events.
Ballater Highland Games prides itself in having something for everyone, young and old alike. On Games Day there are a number of varied trade stands, together with a funfair for the children. On occasion, personalities are to be seen, and one memorable day a military 25 pounder was fired by a certain television presenter to signal the start of the Hill Race.
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By Joe Lemire
After all the acrimony of deferring on the positional decision he didn't want to make, laboring through three injury-plagued minor league seasons and enduring a sweltering summer in Phoenix with an impossibly itchy knuckles-to-biceps cast, Sean Doolittle's ascension to the major leagues ultimately came swiftly.
Doolittle, a former two-way college star at Virginia, had made the Athletics' 40-man roster as a first baseman, but a series of injuries -- a twice-torn patella tendon in his left knee and a subluxed tendon in his right wrist -- forced a course correction.
After spending the summer and fall of 2011 relearning to pitch, he returned to High Class-A ball in Stockton (Calif.) to start the 2012 season. But Doolittle stayed there for only 19 days before a promotion to Double-A Midland (Texas). He was there nearly a month, crashing on an air mattress in the living room of two teammates' apartment, before the team embarked on a six-game road trip, after which he was summoned to Triple-A Sacramento, which prompted an immediate shopping trip -- for blazers, he said, and "shirts with collars and pants instead of shorts" -- to meet the requirements of the higher league's travel attire.
Then, after two Triple-A appearances over five days (with eight strikeouts of the 13 batters he faced), Doolittle was on his way to join the major-league club in Oakland, just 10 months after switching to pitching. There were just a few logistical problems.
"My car was still in Stockton, all my clothes were in Midland and I was living out of a bag that I had packed for a six-game road trip in Texas," he said.
Making the majors was a dream come true, but making it as a pitcher was not something that had ever crossed the now 27-year-old's mind. The suggestion to build up his arm strength to pitch had started as a way of occupying his time when he couldn't swing a bat. He says now that he never saw pitching as his ticket.
"I just didn't want to look back [in] 10 years and think, 'What if I had tried it?' " Doolittle said recently. "I didn't want to have any regrets and leave any stone unturned."
Two years after his debut, Doolittle has emerged as the best reliever in a crowded Oakland bullpen, with eight saves and a hard-to-believe 42-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio in his 29 innings of work. Earlier this spring, the oft-injured first baseman who could barely stay on the field was rewarded with a five-year contract that included two team options, a nearly unprecedented commitment of security for a relief pitcher, widely known as the most volatile position on any ball club.
"If you reflect on it, it's pretty amazing, but if you're part of it every day, he just is who he is right now," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "You look at the numbers and the performance, it's terrific, but if you back it up and look at it in a different perspective, it's pretty unbelievable. It's a one-of-a-kind story."
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During Doolittle's college recruitment out of Shawnee High in Medford, N.J., Virginia pitching coach Karl Kuhn asked the young man a poignant question: "Do you think that you're a pitcher that hits or are you a hitter that pitches?" Doolittle lamented over his answer for long enough that Kuhn told him not to worry and that they could get back to it. Just then, he piped up with his reply: "Coach, I just think I'm a baseball player."
(Incidentally, Kuhn noted, fellow Virginia two-way star Danny Hultzen, the Mariners' No. 2 overall pick in the 2011 draft, gave the exact same answer.)
Doolittle was a good enough baseball player that, after Notre Dame assistant Brian O'Connor took the head coaching job at Virginia, he prioritized him as his first signed recruit. Indeed, Doolittle joined O'Connor's first recruiting class. In doing so, he was joining a program with little baseball tradition outside of left-handed reliever Javier Lopez and two men who were immediate predecessors: Ryan Zimmerman and Mark Reynolds.
As a freshman, Doolittle started at first base, batted third and served as set-up man in the late innings, before returning to first base when the closer pitched the ninth.
"College is a rare opportunity to do both, and thank God you do," said Kuhn. "He was drafted in the 40-something round out of high school as a pitcher, came here and was drafted in the sandwich round as a position player and hitter and ended up being a big leaguer on the mound. I think that the lesson there is, We don't [yet] really know what they are."
Doolittle was a starting pitcher as a sophomore and junior, earning ACC Player of the Year in his sophomore season and leaving the program as its career leader in both RBIs (167) and pitching wins (22). Most big-league teams, Doolittle said, were interested in him as a position player, though a handful preferred him as a pitcher. Pretty much every club called to gauge his preference, hoping to avoid a case in which he was itching to switch at the first sign of struggle.
"I don't care -- my goal was to make you make a decision," he said of telling teams about the pitcher vs. player debate. "I think the general feeling was that the ceiling might have been a little bit higher as a hitter and, 'Let's see what he can do if he just focuses on hitting.'"
On draft day, his parents and grandparents joined him in Charlottesville at the house where he lived with teammates, a few of whom also had a vested interest in the draft. The rest of them, however, were merely curious where they would be going; Doolittle was also waiting to find out what he'd be doing.
He knew of a few scenarios whereby if Player A was selected with Pick X, that he'd go to Team B with Pick Y. The first round of the draft was on television, so he was hoping to go then.
"None of those worked out," Doolittle said. "Then it was just a waiting game, and I got really bored with it. I got tired of watching other guys get picked, so we were outside in the yard chipping golf balls, and it got too hot so I was watching a Deadliest Catch marathon on TV."
Finally, someone watching the draft ticker online saw his name scroll by with the 41st overall pick in the supplemental round. Told he was going to Oakland as a hitter, Doolittle said, "Sweet."
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After the first time Doolittle tore his left knee's patella tendon, in May 2009, he was treated with a platelet-rich plasma injection. He was in second full season as a pro, playing first base and batting in the middle of the Triple-A order. There was no indication that he would have swung a bat in a meaningful game for the last time as a professional.
That fall, he went to Oakland's instructional league with plans to make up his lost playing time in the Puerto Rican Winter League, when he tore the tendon a second time while swinging and missing at a pitch. He had surgery in October, but as of July 2010, the knee hadn't healed enough, so he had a second operation.
That arthroscopic procedure repaired the knee, allowing him to rehab for a return to the field. Doolittle graduated his rehab program in extended spring training 2011. Early one week, the trainer told him he'd be rejoining the Triple-A club when they returned home to Sacramento on Friday. On Tuesday, he swung and missed at a fastball up and away and heard a pop. He had torn a tendon in his wrist and was outfitted with an elongated cast.
"I couldn't bend my arm," he recalled. "I'm walking around Arizona in 120 degrees, and it [itched] terribly."
For the first weeks, all he could do was ride the stationary bike, ice and watch television in recurring cycles. He wasn't even allowed to run for fear of tripping and landing on his bad arm. Discouragement set in, doubly so because injuries at the big-league level created an opportunity that could have been his.
"There would have been a chance I would have been called up that year, but I was hurt, too," Doolittle said. "Watching the way that unfolded from the trainer's room was a little frustrating."
Eventually, farm director Keith Lieppman asked, "Why don't you just start throwing?" The plan then was still for Doolittle to return as a first baseman, but this might help stave off boredom.
The pitching rehab coordinator, Garvin Alston, devised a six-week program for Doolittle to do mechanics work on the side and throw at increasing distances. There was one catch: Doolittle couldn't catch. Like a quarterback afraid of jamming his fingers, Doolittle required a personal catcher, a duty that usually fell to Alston himself.
"It was a lot of fun," Alston said of those long-toss sessions. "He's a very witty guy, a very smart guy. He's always keeping up with everything going on, on the Internet or the news or what-have-you. There were some great conversations, some good laughter -- his attitude has always been good about whatever came his way."
What also helped Doolittle was an unfortunate coincidence: his younger brother, Ryan, was also an A's minor-leaguer rehabbing in Phoenix that same summer. Ryan Doolittle, a pitcher, had a strained flexor tendon in his throwing elbow, and both knew they'd be in town all summer, so they rented an apartment together, talked shop and kept each other positive.
"I think having each other there helped us both really get through the process of that mental grind that rehab can be sometimes," Doolittle said. "It was weird because, combined, we made a full healthy pitcher, you know?"
In mid-August that summer at a follow-up appointment, the doctor told Doolittle his wrist would either need surgery, which required six-to-eight more months of rehab, or they could try resting it for three months in hopes it would heal naturally. Either way, Doolittle's 2012 season as a hitter was in jeopardy. He walked out of the office, called Lieppman and told him he wanted to officially convert to pitching.
A short while later, the A's had one of their advanced scouts evaluate Doolittle during live batting practice. It was the first time Doolittle had pitched in front of a radar gun since college, when he threw 89 to 92 mph as a starter at Virginia. Oakland's scout told him, "You didn't throw a pitch under 94."
Alston worked on adjusted Doolittle's mechanics some to leverage his 6-foot-3 frame and knew his protégé had a real shot at making the majors in his very first extended spring outing against the Giants, when he split the game with full-time pitcher Pedro Figueroa, who was also rehabbing.
"Next thing you know, the ball was just jumping out of his hand, and it had a little bit of projection and trajectory where the ball was going on a downhill plane," Alston said. "That's when I knew there was something special here."
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Doolittle logged 116 1/3 big-league relief innings in his first two seasons and returned to Charlottesville this January as an honored guest for Virginia baseball's annual fundraising banquet. Pitchers and catchers were reporting to spring training two weeks later, so he needed to throw a bullpen while he was in town. He went to his old home at Davenport Field, drafting the club's graduate assistant to catch for him with Kuhn, his old pitching coach, watching.
The pair started talking about his rarely used slider, when Kuhn offered a suggestion to adjust his grip to make it more like it was in college.
"I probably threw about seven sliders," Doolittle said, "and five of them were like the best ones I've ever thrown."
Asked about it later, Kuhn tried to deflect the credit but conceded that the end result was very positive for Doolittle.
"He had a smile from ear to ear," the coach said, "although I couldn't see the smile because it was underneath that beard."
Ah, yes, the beard. It's an unkempt reddish mane that obscures most of his face. He pranked his Twitter followers with an April Fools' Day joke in which he pretended to shave it. Doolittle is a cerebral interview -- and he was 95 percent done the New York Times crossword puzzle when I approached to speak with him -- who also is willing to show his personality on social media or when rocking out to "Careless Whisper."
Alston and Kuhn, who coached Doolittle half a decade apart, offered nearly identical praise in discussing his intellect and his ability to apply quickly what he had been instructed to do. Often that implementation was apparent the next day; other times, it was only evident much later.
Kuhn distributes a binder of his pitching rules to all incoming pitchers at Virginia. When Doolittle made his postseason debut in the 2012 playoffs, he retired the first batter he faced, which was one point of emphasis. Kuhn texted to congratulate Doolittle, "Great job getting the first guy you see."
"His text back was the rest of the rules that the bullpen has to follow," Kuhn said.
In Oakland's bullpen this season, Doolittle has emerged as the closer. He has converted eight of nine save chances. His 0.69 WHIP ranks third among all major-league pitchers with 25 or more innings, and his 13.0 K/9 rate ranks sixth.
"He had an electric fastball from the start, and I think that's why he progressed so quickly through the system because the guys at the lower levels couldn't catch up to it," Oakland catcher Derek Norris said. "He's deceptive, added with velocity, and when you combine those two, it makes for a lot of swings and misses."
Doolittle still throws his fastball, which averages 93.9 mph, the overwhelming majority of the time -- 84.9 percent of the time, in fact, according to FanGraphs.com. It's not just the velocity that makes it effective -- the pitch has great late life. So does Doolittle.
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Fernando Chavez' '72 Chevy C10
This guy is definitely into '72 Chevy pickups. He's owned a whole bunch of different classic cars and trucks in his lifetime, but the prominent vehicles on Fernando Chavez' long list of projects are Chevy pickups-mostly '68-72s, with '72s at the top. Over the years, he's built everything from stockers to Pro Streeters to four-wheel-drive Blazers.
"I just really like the lines of these trucks," is his uncomplicated explanation for his passion for '72s. But even love doesn't always mean long-term devotion and most of the Chevy trucks Fernando has built have come and gone, fixed up and sold. We have to say "most" because this bright blue C10 Shortbed is the exception to the rule. This one's been around for 12 years now, and it still gets driven, still gets worked on, still gets shown, and still gets a lot of attention.
When Fernando bought it from his cousin in 1998, the Chevy was a recently retired work truck running a six-cylinder and three-on-the-tree transmission, and finished in primer.
"It really needed a lot of help," he said. "The seats were falling apart. I remember my niece Giovanni and me driving around the neighborhood sitting on milk crates with no windows."
The first buildup took about a year and a half. Since then, Fernando-with help from his brothers Edward and Carlos and others-have taken the truck through several upgrades, a couple of different engines, numerous wheel and tire combinations, and other changes, finally arriving at the point it is today.
The Chevy still rolls on its factory frame. There was no reason to make a lot of modifications to the stock 'rails, but some fresh and upgraded suspension components were called for. Fernando revived the ride with Doetsch Tech shocks and Classic Performance Products springs. He dropped the front end 3 inches and bolted in an Early Classic Enterprises sway bar. The stock steering setup was retained. At the rear, 3.73:1 gears spin in the 12-bolt, and a CPP adjustable track bar (Panhard bar) and Hellwig sway bar control the ride. The factory front disc brakes have been modifed with custom chrome calipers and slotted rotors. The rear brakes are the stock drums. The CPP master cylinder and booster are chromed to help dress up the engine compartment.
Since pulling out the original six-cylinder, Fernando has switched a couple of different small-blocks in and out of the truck. Ultimately he decided he wanted something that made some power but that would not be past the point of streetability, which led to this 2006 GM Performance 350. Fernando reports 450 horses from the blown small-block, and we don't doubt it. Engine builder Rick Roche topped the 350 with a Weiand supercharger, Weiand intake manifold, and Holley 750 blower carburetor with a Holley PowerCharger air cleaner. The ignition system is from PerTonix, and the serpentine belt system is from B&B Street Rod in Lake Havasu City. Cylinder heads are Vortec-style Edelbrock E-Tec aluminum high-performance heads, wearing valve covers from Billet Specialties. The exhaust ports empty into Hooker headers. Flowmaster mufflers and MagnaFlow exhaust tips with resonators provide the tone Fernando likes. "That's my favorite part, the way it sounds," he said. "People hear it and think it's a big-block-but it's not."
Harold's Transmissions in Phoenix built up the 200-4R AOD from an '87 Buick Grand National. The 2,000-stall torque converter, finned deep pan, and other components came from Hughes Performance.
The interior has come a long way since the milk crate days. Fernando and his passengers can now park themselves in style on an '88 Chevy pickup bench, upholstered in gray leather and tweed by Dominic Dominguez. Some of the tweed was saved for the top of the dash. Rick Roche installed and wired the Dakota Digital gauges and the A/C. In the Phoenix area, air conditioning is a requirement for any truck that gets driven, and a unit from Old Air Products keeps the cab from overcooking. The B&M shifter and two-tone Lecarra steering wheel are other custom components inside the cab, further modified with custom billet door handles, and a molded headliner.
We never would've learned any of this information if our attention hadn't been grabbed by the overall looks of Fernando's Chevy in the first place. Give Fernando's brother Carlos credit for that; he's the guy who smoothed out all the dents, patched up all the rust, and added the molded rolled pan. A custom billet grille replaces the stock egg carton piece and a cowl-induction hood was put in place to provide some fresh air to the engine-and to clear the air cleaner. Fernando retained the factory bed, which now features a smoothed tailgate and a Gaylord cover. His cousin Humberto installed the glass, provided by 20th Street Auto in Phoenix. The paint was shot by Carlos, but not during the latest rebuild. We were surprised to find out that the NAPA Bluebird Blue had been sprayed during the previous buildup, 11 years earlier. It still looks great.
The billet aluminum five-spokes are from Intro Wheels' V-Rod series. With 20×8.5s in front and 22x10s in the rear, there's still enough room in the wheelwells for the low-profile, high-performance Nitto Extreme radials, sized P255/35ZR20 and P285/35ZR22.
Nowadays, Ferrnando tries to drive the truck on a weekly basis, and shows it off whenever there's a show to go to.
So is it done?
Don't count on it. "I think this is going to be a never-ending project. Just when I think I'm through working on this truck, I come up with something else to change."
Why, we wondered. Since so many other cars and trucks have come and gone over the years-what's different about this one that has kept it in Fernando's possession for 12 years and counting?
"I can't bring myself to part with this one. I just always liked the way it sits. I drove it for three years as an everyday driver and I've been through this truck so many times, I know all the ins and outs. Now it's resting in my garage waiting for the next show or cruise. Every time I start to think about selling it, I just start looking at it and then change my mind."
Then turning practical, he said, "I know I'd never get my money out of it anyway."


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Defeated gay Republican Scott Herman of Wilton Manors becomes a Democrat
Scott Herman of Wilton Manors, a gay Republican who this fall got clobbered in a run for a seat in the Florida Legislature, is now a Democrat.
"I switched parties," said Herman, who recently ran in House District 94. Democrat Perry E. Thurston Jr. defeated Herman with 84 percent of the vote.
After more than 23 years as a Republican, Herman became a Democrat on Monday.
He said the state party ignored his campaign and, instead, sank thousands of dollars into an unsuccessful attempt to stop gay Democrat Joe Saunders from being elected to the House in Central Florida.
"After the treatment of RPOF, the way they treated all of us down here, ignoring us, we were not of value to the Republican Party," Herman said.
Herman said that before he switched parties, he spoke with leadership of both parties in Broward, including the county's gay Log Cabin Republicans club.
Herman said A. Jay (Andy) Eddy, a co-founder of the Broward Log Cabin club, spoke with him about staying in the GOP.
"I didn't want to put Andy into a predicament. I listened to what they had to say," said Herman, who plans to run a future campaign, this time as a Democrat. "The run for office is a given. It was never part of the thought process. I didn't consider the advantages or disadvantages until the day of my decision."
Eddy was a local mentor and campaign advisor to Herman, an Operation Desert Storm veteran who moved to South Florida a few years ago from North Carolina.
"He wanted me to remain his treasurer, and I said I can't," Eddy said. "I'm a member of the Republican Party Executive Committee."
Herman said he hopes no one thinks his decision was a "political stunt."
"It's not something I take lightly," he said, adding that he didn't want to be an Independent in Broward. "If you're involved in politics at all, as an elected or future candidate, you have to be either Republican or Democrat in these times," he said.
Eddy reflected on Herman's party switch and said it is hard to guess whether being a Democrat will advance his political future.
"We have Charlie Crist and we have Scott Herman," Eddy said. "Sometimes down here, when you switch parties they look at you with skepticism."
Eddy said he understands Herman's disappointment with the statewide GOP and that even he has occasionally been asked to switch parties.
"I figure I do more good inside the Republican Party busting their chops than on the outside looking in," Eddy said.


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A lizard that lived 50 million years ago had both a third and a fourth eye.
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A 20-year experiment spots a reversal in the way two kinds of plants take up extra carbon from the atmosphere.
Bits of metal nestled inside diamonds suggest the space rock could have formed in a Mars-sized protoplanet in the early solar system.
Hoards of migrating shrimp and krill can cause large-scale turbulence in the ocean, a new study suggests.
Clawed pawlike forelimbs help true seals hunt like their land-dwelling ancestors.
Expanding missile defense capabilities could put the world on a slippery slope to space warfare.
Dogs unearthed at sites in Illinois were older than originally thought.
Genetic analysis suggests that sweet potatoes were present in Polynesia over 100,000 years ago, and didn't need help crossing the Pacific.
Norovirus targets a rare type of gut cell, a study in mice finds.
A desert discovery suggests that Arabia was an ancient human destination.
Compost is pinpointed as a source of plastic pollution, but environmental fate and effects unknown.
In humans, new neurons are still born in old brains, new research suggests.
Bootlace worms can stretch up to 55 meters long and ooze toxins that can kill cockroaches and green crabs.
The Bajau people of Southeast Asia have a gene variant associated with larger spleens, boosting their oxygen while breath-hold diving, researchers say.
New measurement of the fine-structure constant is the most precise yet.
This is the first time researchers have purposefully combined two specific atoms into a molecule.
A quantum dot–powered material could help reduce the number of hospital-acquired infections, including those with drug-resistant bacteria.
Hints that a distant galactic collision knocked dark matter askew fizzled with new observations.
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will set the stage for the next chapter of exoplanet exploration.
Starving cancerous tumors of oxygen was proposed to help kill them. But the approach can make some cancer cells more aggressive.
Over the last 100 years, the world's oceans have sweltered through a rising number of heat waves.
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His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum`s Shadwell breeding empire generously sponsor three of the races at Jebel Ali`s third meeting of the season this Friday.
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Trained by Ali Rashid Al Raihe, the four-year-old has won at both previous Jebel Ali meetings this season. He is the first mount of the UAE season for His Highness Sheikh Hamdan`s number one jockey Richard Hills.
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Mannjal is trained on the track by Dhruba Selvaratnam and the nine-year-old is seeking his ninth course win but he has yet to win over the 1000m minimum trip.
Selvaratnam said: "He has been a great servant over many years but is nine now and the trip is probably going to be on the sharp side especially first time out."
However he gets on, his full-brother Otaared should go very close in the following 1400m conditions race, sponsored by Derrinstown Stud.
Making his seasonal return also, the six-year-old has won on his first start in each of the last two seasons so the lack of a run is not a concern.
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Atlantic Brave who won this same race last year from Otaared.
It would be no surprise to see them fight out the finish again with Kaiss perhaps best of the rest.
Shadwell Farm sponsor the best of the handicaps, over 1600m and
Selvaratnam`s Swinging Sixties again clashes with Al Raihe`s Glen Nevis who beat him over 1800m a fortnight ago.
There should be little between them again and Selvaratnam said: "I think the drop in trip will suit Swinging Sixties and hopefully he can go close."
Mubarak bin Shafya trains top-weight My Indy who won the first and second rounds of the Al Maktoum Challenge for Saeed bin Suroor back in 2009.
He has not won since the second of those wins, in February 2009, but ran well enough on his sole previous visit to Jebel Ali.
Blues Ballad, trained by Satish Seemar, certainly cannot be ruled out and his jockey, Richard Mullen, said: "He seems in great form at home and goes well at Jebel Ali so he should not be far away but it does look a competitive race."


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For more than 100 years, Mars Associates have been practicing the art and science of making products and services that consumers love. We like to say that we have a "healthy dissatisfaction with the status quo." Because of this we are constantly evolving and growing as a company — and we are always striving to bring The Five Principles to life in the way we work. This is at the heart of our family-owned business. It's a rewarding challenge!
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Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have found that introducing testosterone in select areas of a male canary's brain can affect its ability to successfully attract and mate with a female through birdsong. They also found that enhancing song activity based on testosterone in one brain area can change the size of a separate brain area that regulates song quality.
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THQ today announced Homefront, a new First Person Shooter from Kaos Studios. Penned by John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Red Dawn), Homefront is set ten years after the economic collapse of the United States and follows the American Civilian Resistance as they fight to reclaim their homeland from an oppressive North Korean occupation. Featuring a personal, story-driven single player campaign and a full suite of multiplayer options, Homefront is scheduled for release on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC. Homefront will be unveiled at E3 2009 in THQs booth number 5300 in the West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Homefront isnt about going to war on the other side of the world or battling aliens from another planet; its about fighting foreign invaders in your own backyard and defending your right to live, said David Votypka, design director, Kaos Studios. Homefront combines the unsettling notion of an occupied America with interactive, player-driven narratives to create a deeply engaging single and multiplayer experience.
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