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Jeter feels good after first game of Spring Training
TAMPA, Fla. -- Derek Jeter said that he has not felt this good on the field for over a year, and with his Spring Training debut now in the books, the Yankees' captain is excited to be able to count on seeing his name in the lineup more and more.
Jeter returned to action on Thursday, playing five innings at shortstop and going 0-for-2 in New York's 8-2 Grapefruit League loss to the Pirates at George M. Steinbrenner Field.
TAMPA, Fla. -- Derek Jeter said that he has not felt this good on the field for over a year, and with his Spring Training debut now in the books, the Yankees' captain is excited to be able to count on seeing his name in the lineup more and more.
Jeter returned to action on Thursday, playing five innings at shortstop and going 0-for-2 in New York's 8-2 Grapefruit League loss to the Pirates at George M. Steinbrenner Field.
Jeter worked an eight-pitch at-bat in his first plate appearance against Bucs right-hander Charlie Morton, grounding into a 4-6-3 double play, and he grounded out to third base facing Jeff Locke in the fourth inning.
"It was good. It was good to get back in a game," Jeter said. "I haven't played in a game in quite some time. Today was the first time I've swung off of live pitching. It's good to get the first game out of the way and get into a routine of playing games."
Defensively, Jeter had no balls hit his way, though he did record a putout on a caught stealing that ended the fifth inning.
After Jeter was limited to just 17 games last season due to injuries, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said that he was pleased to see Jeter run hard down the baseline on his fourth-inning groundout, showing no signs of a limp or discomfort.
"To me, that was where it was most noticeable last year, when he was running the bases," Girardi said. "For me, that's where it's going to show up."
It was a bang-bang play at first base; in fact, Girardi believed that Jeter had beaten the throw from Pirates third baseman Josh Harrison. Had this been a game where the new replay rules were available, Girardi said that he might have even tried to challenge the call.
"I thought he ran pretty hard today down to first, and that was really good to see, because we haven't seen that in a while," Girardi said. "You've got to go back to 2012. So that's a great sign for us and a great sign for him."
Jeter has been saying that he is giving little thought to his surgically repaired left ankle, having had the benefit of a full offseason of training to strengthen his lower half. Thus, busting it pain-free out of the box was not exactly a revelation to him.
"For me, I've done it already," Jeter said. "I've run a lot. You guys may not have seen it, but I've run a lot. It's always good to do stuff in game action. I felt like I hadn't been out there in such a long time. I'm not concerned about running; that doesn't cross my mind."
Brian Roberts played his first game as Jeter's Yankees double-play partner on Thursday, and he said that having Jeter confident and strong will be important to the club this season.
"I think we all know what he's capable of doing," Roberts said. "You're talking about getting a premier player in the game, if he's healthy. It's hard to replace a player like that at shortstop, so I think everybody, for a lot of reasons, is hoping that's who you get this year."
Jeter said that there is little that he is still curious to try in a game situation. He has been showing off his jump-throw from shortstop during infield practice, and he assumes that will translate to games. About the only thing Jeter has not done defensively is dive for a ground ball or line drive.
"I'll look forward to that," Jeter said. "I haven't met too many people that practice diving for balls. It's something that I think just comes with practice and comes with games. It will happen when it happens. Right now I'm not where I want to be, but that's why we have 30-something games in Spring Training."
Girardi has said that he is generally planning on playing his starters every other day at this point in Spring Training, so Jeter's next game is scheduled to come on Saturday at 1:05 p.m. ET against the Phillies at Steinbrenner Field.
Those at-bats are important, considering that Jeter has not been at full health since sometime during the 2012 season. Girardi said that he is running Jeter's camp without restrictions, so Jeter can plan on getting about 60 at-bats this spring, working up to playing three straight days at some point in the future.
"I feel like I haven't played a game in a couple of years," Jeter said. "That's what it felt like, even though I played a couple last year. Just getting into a game, feeling good -- that's what I was most excited about."
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @bryanhoch and read his MLBlog, Bombers Beat.


text: COCLCG 2 Posted October 13, 2012 NOTE: skip 11 responses or you'll end up reading the same thing twice. I'm presuming we've all made a dreamlands deck. It's such a powerful combination that's it's a bit hard not to try one out. It's rather difficult to be original with the idea, so when I decided to make mine a long time ago I thought I'd put my own spin on the ones I've seen and create a servitor themed deck around the dreamlands idea. I never playtested it though until recently and discovered that it does a **** fine job of doing what it does. I have developed a variant which I'll post after this one which removes the dreamlands to make it an original servitor theme deck which I can call a lot more unique. The temptation to go beyond the cards that it contains and get a bit fancy was strong, but I think it plays better just as it is, that being : THE DARK BYAKHEE Priestess of Bubastis x 3Performance Artist x 3Ward Phillips x 3Stealthy Byakhee x 3Ya-Te-Veo x 3Hungry Dark Young x 3The Mothers Hand x 3Shrieking Byakhee x 3Moonbound Byakhee x 3Byakhee Servant x 2Ancient Guardian x 3 Cavern of the Flame x 2Vale of Pnath x 2Guardian Pillar x 2Stygian Eye x 2Infernal Obsession x 2 Burrowing Beneath x 3Power Drain x 3Writhing Wall x 2 The synopsis is simple: Performance Artist, Ward Phillips, Power Drain and Writhing Wall shut down any fancy pants decks with lots of character tricks and in story card effects, especially bouncing decks and when enters play characters, three bells and ice shaft etc, and can also protect the destruction of supports ( even disrupts in the case of Writhing Wall ). It evens the playing field down a bit more to characters versus characters in story, which is the way it's meant to be. The majority of the characters are servitors ( 23 of them ) and are designed to come out at a fair rate of speed. Hungry Dark Young drags a 2 cost character with it ( usually a sac'd artist or Ward ), Mothers hand combined with Priestess refreshes the domain for another 3 cost character. Shrieking Byakhee pulls another 3 cost Byakhee out of the deck for 2 cost ( usually Moonbound to give all the servitors an extra terror icon or Servant for some fast oomph ), and it all seems to happen lots quicker than it should. Shutting down any of the opponents attempts to remove characters with the aforementioned protection also lends to an ever expanding playing field. Then of course there are the annoying dreamlands. I've purposely only put 2 copies of all of these and Infernal / Stygian to lessen the chances of clogging multiples in the hand, and they're all great cards so it doesn't really matter how they come out and in what order, but the nice spread seems to make them flow alright throughout the turns. Ancient Guardian is my favourite card of the entire deck. At 3 cost ( with the Priestess ), I've used this guy multiple times to refresh the dreamlands locations and Ward Phillips ( even better when the opponent has forgotten that this deck can do that ). Invaluable and far better suited to this deck than Y'Golonac. I'm still testing Thunder vs Burrowing but along with all the ability control I'm liking the immediate removal of major supports that burrowing provides. The extra servitor terror icon i'm finding useful too to combat cards like rays of dawn and misk type characters trying to hide behind a terror faction shield. So that's it. Stop any tricks, pump out the characters and use the supports to do what they do best !! its pretty much becoming my benchmark test deck when making my trickier decks that rely on surprises and abilities. I've found that I've been getting a bit too fancy with my decks in an effort to build something I haven't built before ( and believe me I reckon I've done them all ), so returning to and actually playing this deck has taught me that sometimes less is more : simple is sometimes more effective. Finally, i also got to include my 2 favourite character illustrations in cthulhu, The Mothers Hand and Ancient Guardian ( now with a similar Ya-Te-Veo ). LOVE EM !! ( And yes, yes, you could reconfigure with byakhee attack and some card discarding byakhees for a different approach, but this is where the 'trying to be tricky' sometimes gets in the way of a good solid game plan ). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites

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Missouri lawmakers could have to cut about $370 million from Gov. Jay Nixon's budget proposal if they don't want to go along with his optimistic revenue assumptions.
Missouri lawmakers could have to cut about $370 million from Gov. Jay Nixon's budget proposal if they don't want to go along with his optimistic revenue assumptions.
Republican legislative leaders were still fuming Wednesday about the Democratic governor's budget proposal, a day after he outlined it as part of his State of the State address.
"This budget, as I see it, is an absolute political fiction," Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Kurt Schaefer told Nixon's budget director during the first of what will be many hearings on the governor's proposal.
Nixon proposed a record-high $27.7 billion budget that would boost education funding by nearly $500 million, provide better pay and benefits to state employees and pour more money into such things as social services, parks and tourism promotion. That already has created tension with GOP lawmakers who want to spend less and tap into any surplus for an income tax cut.
The governor's budget proposal typically serves as the starting point for lawmakers, who must pass their own version by early May. The legislative budget plan then goes back to Nixon, who can cut but not add to its expenditures. The 2015 fiscal year starts July 1.
Several differing financial assumptions have contributed to the gap between the governor and lawmakers.
— Nixon is using a rosier economic outlook to project that the state will net $66.5 million more in general tax revenues than Republican legislative leaders are expecting during the current fiscal year. Nixon similarly is projecting $148.5 million more in revenues than GOP lawmakers are anticipating for the 2015 fiscal year.
— Although Republican lawmakers are unlikely to do so, Nixon's budget assumes they will expand Medicaid eligibility for low-income adults under the terms of President Barack Obama's health care law. Nixon projects that a Medicaid expansion would result in $94 million in new revenues and cost-savings that he has incorporated into his budget plan.
— The governor similarly is assuming that lawmakers will pass a variety of bills that will generate around $60 million in additional state revenues. Most notably, Nixon assumes lawmakers will grant amnesty to overdue taxpayers to encourage them to pay up without facing penalties. He figures that would bring in about $52 million for the state's general fund. Lawmakers had included a tax amnesty provision in an income tax cut bill passed last year, but Nixon vetoed that legislation because of concerns about the tax cut.
Republican legislative leaders already have said that they don't plan to use Nixon's revenue figures or expand Medicaid eligibility. Prospects also are uncertain for the tax amnesty legislation and other proposed tweaks to state revenue-collection laws.
Schaefer said Nixon's budget plan is "inflated" and "bloated" and creates a "false expectation" of large funding increases for schools and various programs. Other senators on the Appropriations Committee also expressed frustration during Wednesday's hearing.
But Nixon's budget director, Linda Luebbering, downplayed the differences. She told The Associated Press that the governor and lawmakers have started with conflicting budget desires in previous years and still have been able to close most of their budget gaps.
"I don't think it's all that sizable in the grand scheme of things," Luebbering told The Associated Press. "We also have several months to discuss all of this."


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After a 15-year battle to bring her murderer to justice, Mersina Halvagis can finally rest in peace.
Although it took two Victorian Supreme Court jury trials and two Court of Appeal hearings, justice was served at long last on Friday as serial killer Peter Norris Dupas lost an appeal against his second conviction for her murder.
Ms Halvagis was brutally stabbed to death as she tended to her grandmother's grave at Fawkner cemetery, in Melbourne's north, in 1997.
This was the second time Dupas had appealed against his conviction for murdering the 25-year-old.
"It is the end," Mersina's father, George Halvagis, told reporters outside the Court of Appeal on Friday.
"We've been through so much."
Her youngest brother, Bill, said the family and Mersina could finally rest in peace knowing the court battle was over.
"Finally, Mersina can lay to rest," he said.
"We can get on with our lives and remember her, and move on and cherish the moments we had with her.
"It's about time justice was served."
Dupas, 59, is serving three life sentences for the murders of Ms Halvagis, Nicole Patterson and Margaret Maher.
He has four convictions for rape and remains a suspect in the murders of several other women.
Dupas was granted leave to appeal after arguing that the trial judge, Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth, erred regarding the reliability of identification evidence when determining its admissibility.
He also argued that the verdict was unsafe and unsatisfactory because it was based on unreliable evidence provided by lawyer Andrew Fraser, who shared a unit with Dupas at Port Phillip Prison while jailed on drug charges.
Mr Fraser said Dupas performed a mime of his attack on Ms Halvagis and told him he did not leave any forensic evidence at Fawkner.
He said Dupas had also appeared shaken when a Greek inmate accused him of Ms Halvagis's murder, saying "How does that c*** know I did it?", and stroked a homemade knife found in the prison garden, while saying "Mersina".
Chief Justice Marilyn Warren said two judges were added to the bench to hear the appeal case.
In a 125-page judgment, Chief Justice Warren, President Chris Maxwell and Justices Robert Redlich, Geoffrey Nettle and Bernard Bongiorno found that Justice Hollingworth had not erred in allowing the identification evidence of three witnesses who saw Dupas at the cemetery on the day of the murder.
"Her Honour did consider the asserted infirmities of the identification evidence of each witness," the court said.
"The trial judge took account of the weight that could properly be assigned to that evidence and concluded that there was no danger that it would be given greater weight or that it would not be addressed by appropriate directions (to the jury).
"We agree with Her Honour's conclusions."
They found the jury had been given appropriate directions about the potential unreliability of Mr Fraser's evidence and were still entitled to accept it.


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An irate Queens customer was killed in another episode of gas station violence early this morning, authorities said.
The 28-year-old man went to a Gulf gas station on Van Dam Street, near Review Avenue, shortly before 6 a.m., to use the ATM — but it wouldn't work, cops said.
He started cursing, kicking the machine, and tried to pummel Jasjeet Walia, 28, according to a relative and cops. The store manager said he appeared intoxicated.
"He started kicking the machine out of anger. He was saying, 'your gas station sucks, you suck'," said Rajeet Walia, who is Jasjeet's brother, and also an employee. "The guy was outside telling customers 'don't take gas from here."
Walia said the man tried to hit his brother with two gas nozzles.
Jasjeet fought off the man and placed him in a chokehold, cops said.
"My brother held him down and told me, 'I don't want this guy to escape, I already called the cops,'" said Rajeet.
Chris Reese, 44, a private investigator, said a passerby tried to help out, and tied together the man's hands. "The guy was already down when the passerby tied his hands," said Reese.
When EMS arrived, the man was unresponsive — and they took him to Elmhurst General Hospital, where he died.
Police are questioning the worker, but it was not immediately clear if charges will be filed.
Owner Jerveil Singh said surveillance camera shows the customer instigating a fight, and plans to start self-service at the station after midnight because of the violent incident. "It's getting dangerous," he said. "I don't want to get these calls at night."


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This poll, fielded January 13-16, 2009, is a part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicits public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. A national sample of 1,079 adults was surveyed, including an oversample of 204 African Americans. Opinions were sought on how well George W. Bush handled his job as president, how Dick Cheney handled his job as vice president, and whether things in the country were going in the right direction. Respondents were asked their opinions about how they thought President George Bush would go down in history, how newly elected Barack Obama handled his presidential transition, the level of confidence they had in President Obama and Congress to make decisions for the country's future, the expectations they had for Obama's performance as president, whether he got off to a good start in dealing with the economy, and the confidence level they had that President Obama's economic program would improve the economy. Views were sought on the kind of priority the president and Congress should give several issues including the economy, the situation in Iran, in Israel, and in Afghanistan, the federal budget deficit, education, global warming, health care, immigration issues, the United States campaign against terrorism, and taxes. Respondents were also asked questions about and the kind of priority that should be given to items that could be included in the economic stimulus plan such as upgrading schools with new technology, computerizing American medical records, extending unemployment insurance and health care coverage, and putting a moratorium on home mortgage foreclosures. Several questions addressed race relations and asked such things as whether Blacks in the community receive equal treatment, whether respondents felt they were ever denied housing or a job because of their race, and whether they felt they had ever been stopped by the police because of their race. Additional topics covered included respondents' personal finances, the war in Iraq, the situation in Afghanistan, the United States military prison at Guantanamo Bay, the treatment of terrorist suspects, embryonic stem cell research, and race relations. Demographic variables include sex, age, race, education level, political party affiliation, political philosophy, religious preference, and household income.
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Millard Whittle lives in a house on a hill. He has lived in that same house, on that same hill, for sixty years. Before that, he lived in an old house in that shady spot for fifteen years. And, before that, he lived in another house, the house in which he was born, for twenty-five years. For all but three days of the last century, Millard Whittle has lived on the same road, Whittle Road, a road which the county named after him. On Saturday, Millard will celebrate his 100th birthday with his family and friends at Mt. Carmel Church, where he began attending before World War I.
Millard Whittle was born on May 1, 1910 to James and Bessie Davis Whittle. William H. Taft was president. Mark Twain had just died, claiming that he came to Earth on Halley's comet and left this world when it returned. Maybe that's when Millard Whittle hopped off the comet and took his place. You see, like Mark Twain, Millard Whittle is a story teller. Not appearing to be anywhere near his biological age, Millard Whittle still has an elephant mind and spins stories of distant yesterdays as if they happened only just yesterday.
He'll never forget the killer tornado that struck the Mt. Carmel community 81 years ago. "That afternoon of the tornado was rainy. There was a thunder cloud back in the west," Millard remembered. Millard and two or three of his friends went to play catch with an older man, who loved baseball too. "We got tired and started home. I looked back toward Chester. It looked like a whirlwind, except it was getting bigger and bigger. Pretty quick the wind picked up. Shortly that thing swept out there where we were. We had to hit the ditch. I don't think right there it would have picked us up, but it would have blown you down. You couldn't have stood up out there," he continued.
"I'll never understand. That tornado came in from the west. It tore everything down between Chester and over here on Highway 338. When I approached Mt. Carmel church, it just flattened it. It just went right down. It didn't tear it up. It just squished it. It made a right turn at the new school house across the road there, a hundred yards away, doing just a little damage to one of the porches. I guess it blew a board or two off it. Then it headed directly in this direction," Whittle concluded.
This is Millard Whittle's 101st baseball season. He loves baseball and would have loved to play it as a career, wishing he could have had the opportunities like kids do today. Whittle did play a little ball, playing a few games for Mt. Carmel H.S. and a semi-pro mill team in Thomaston. He has seen all the rookies from Babe Ruth to Jason Heyward. His favorites were Bob Feller and Dizzy Dean, but Millard is, win or lose, a die-hard Braves fan, still watching and listening to every game he can. The pitching foursome of John Smoltz, Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Steve Avery were his most recent favorites.
For fun Millard sits in his fifty plus year old rocking chair on his front porch on a warm day watching the cars go by. He remembers his first car, a 1930s Model A, which he bought in 1936 from a Buckhorn school teacher. "I think I paid $175.00 for it. He just had the engine reworked. They must have done a good job on it, because I drove it for 14 years," Whittle chuckled.
For a man who remembers a lot, Millard wants to be remembered as a Dexter man who tried to treat everybody like he wanted to be treated. "I don't think I will leave any enemies here." Mr. Whittle said. "If I owe you some money, I'll pay you back. If I owe you an apology, I'll do the same," said Millard, who farmed his land for more than seventy years. On Sundays, he attends Mt. Carmel Church, where he taught Sunday School, helped others in need and, along with his wife Julia, kept the grounds well groomed.
Although Millard Whittle has more than his share of memories of the past, he never loses sight of the future. He keeps up with the news on television and in the papers. Whittle pondered, "I don't know where we are headed. That last depression ain't like this one. Our leadership is way different. One day, some of these countries that we owe so much money to are going to want their money, ain't they? How we got into this mess, I don't know. I thought, we thought, we were electing good common sense hard-working people."
Mr. Whittle invites his friends to join with his children, Winston, Royce and Jane, this Saturday from 2-4 p.m. at Mount Carmel Church to celebrate his milestone. If Millard Whittle had just one wish on this, his 100th birthday, he would wish for our society to change. "I'd love to see the world as a whole change back to the way it used to be. Everybody is in a hurry now. People loved one another back then. I realize if you went back to the way we used to be, money was short, but if I had anything to do with it, I'd love to see some of the old days," Whittle prays. So when you blow out your candles, all of us will be wishing and blowing with you. So, here's to you Millard Whittle, may you have another century or at least until your comet returns in 2062.
Meanwhile, the mourning doves still coo, the mockingbirds still mock and bumblebees still buzz out on the Millard Whittle place, just as they have for the last one hundred years.


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Catholics get skittish when they hear talk about evangelization. The combination of confusion and fear is a powerful one. It prevents many Catholic men and women from talking openly about their faith with those who don't share it and letting their "light so shine before men" (Mt 5:16). It prevents even more Catholics from inviting others to learn more about the faith or challenging people to think more deeply about
questions of belief.
Plenty of Catholics will deny that of course. They'll say they do bear witness to Christ … just not with words. Rather, they claim, they bear witness with their lives, heeding St. Francis' advice to "Preach the Gospel always. When necessary, use words."
There are, however, a couple of problems with that line of thinking, starting with this: The saying is a medieval urban legend. If you talk to scholars of Francis' life and work, like the ones I work with at Franciscan University, they'll all tell you the same thing: not a single historical account exists of him saying those words. He certainly lived that way. It captures something of his approach to preaching the Gospel — but not
all of his approach. And the words still aren't his.
That's not to say that witness isn't important. It is. It's incredibly important. "Faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead" (Jas 2:17). People need to see us living the faith we proclaim. It's what makes our words credible. It is, in many ways, the heart of evangelization — new or otherwise.
The importance of witness, however, doesn't give us license to dispense with words. Words matter too. They're essential. And the reason they're essential is because none of us are so truly and clearly living the Good News that the witness of our lives is sufficient for bringing people to faith.
As I tell folks when they use this excuse on me, "If you really think your witness is sufficient, that words aren't necessary, go talk to your sister or your spouse and ask them if the witness of your life is so powerful, so moving and complete, that they can just look at you and know everything they could ever possibly need to know about God, Jesus Christ, and the Church, about sin and grace, sanctification, and salvation. Can people see it all in how you live every minute of every day? Could a complete biography of your life replace the Gospels? Or is something, at least occasionally, lacking?"
The answer, obviously, is that something is lacking. A whole lot of somethings are lacking — from my witness, your witness, and the witness of every fallen human being in this world. Even the holiest saints the Church has produced, St. Francis included, needed to use words to lead people to Christ.
The Second Vatican Council's Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity (Apostolicam Actuositatem) acknowledged the importance of bearing witness to Christ with our lives, noting that such a witness has "the power to draw men to belief and o God."
But it then goes on to say:
However, [the lay apostolate] does not consist only in the witness of one's way of life; a true apostle looks for opportunities to announce Christ by words addressed either to non-believers with a view to leading them to faith, or to the faithful with a view to instructing, strengthening, and encouraging them to a more fervent life. "For the charity of Christ impels us" (2 Cor 5:14). The words of the Apostle should echo in all hearts, "Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel." (n. 6)
Again, both words and witness are essential. They work together. They complete each other, making our apostolate effective and whole. The Church doesn't give us the option of picking one over the other. Nor does she give us the option of letting our preference for one mode of evangelization be our excuse for neglecting the other mode.
Instead, she calls us to overcome our reluctance to evangelize and to do it in word and deed. Not just for the sake of others, but for our own sake as well.
Dr. Scott Hahn holds the Fr. Michael Scanlan Chair of Biblical Theology and the New Evangelization at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he has taught since 1990, and is the founder and president of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.
This is an excerpt from "Evangelizing Catholics: A Mission Manual for the New Evangelization."
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LA MURE, France (AP) Simon Spilak won the fifth stage of the Criterium du Dauphine on Thursday, while Team Sky riders worked hard to protect Chris Froome's overall lead.
Spilak, of Slovenia, pulled away on the ascent of Cote de Laffrey, the final climb of the day.
The Katusha rider completed the 189.5-kilometer (117.7-mile) stage from Sisteron to La Mure in 4 hours, 51 minutes, 24 seconds. Wilco Kelderman outsprinted Adam Yates to finish second, 14 seconds back.
''It's been a really hard stage with the heat and I don't like the heat at all,'' Spilak told the event's website. ''Only with 500 meters to go I've believed I could win the stage.''
Alberto Contador attacked on the descent of Col de la Morte to build a lead of 57 seconds over Froome, 23 kilometers (15 miles) from the finish.
But Sky riders Richie Porte and Mikel Nieve Iturralde led the pack on the Col de Laffrey to catch Contador.
Froome, the 2013 Tour de France winner, is still 12 seconds ahead of Contador and Kelderman in the overall standings.
''Sometimes, days don't look so hard on paper and turn out to be very hard,'' Froome said. ''That's what happened today when Contador went up the road and put us under pressure. But I asked my teammates to stay calm. They have done such a massive job today.''
Among the riders who dropped out on Thursday, Jerome Pineau of France suffered a hand injury after crashing out at the 14-kilometer mark.
Friday's stage is a 178.5-kilometer (110.9-mile) trek from Grenoble to Poisy featuring three minor climbs. The race ends on Sunday.


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maybe we can give him green light to go next step
but it's true this map lack a graphic theme right now
something about the region which can give the feeling of the place
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Intel Z77 Chipset motherboard Review
Back in November, Intel delivered a refresh for the Extreme lineup with the move to socket 2011 and their Sandy Bridge Extreme Second Generation Core i7 processors. The X79 PCH chipset was used and gave us a glimpse of where the mainstream offerings would go. The socket 1155 Z68/P67/H67 chipset motherboards for the mainstream when coupled with the Second Generation Core i7, Core i5 and Core i3 processors such as the 2600K, 2500K and 3120 are still pretty potent performers. In the guise of moving forward Intel is releasing their 7 Series chipset board for the mainstream user well ahead of their upcoming 3rd generation Core series processors due later this year. Along with the Z77 Panther Point 7 Series chipset, Intel is releasing a total of 10 different chipsets for both the mobile and desktop user. For the desktop you get the H77 for the mainstream consumer, Z75 for the mainstream performance user and Z77 is the full enthusiast package that supports a wealth of new features. I will be looking at a couple new offerings from Gigabyte and MSI to see which feature sets have been implemented in anticipation of the next processor launch from Intel.
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Motherboards that use the Z77 and 7 Series chipset are designed for use with Intel's 2nd and 3rd generation Core i7/i5/i3 processors using the LGA 1155 socket for the mainstream segment. The Z77 chipset is what I will focus on for this quick look as it is the chipset that is labeled as being the one that supports "Ultimate Performance Tuning." The block diagram shows 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes broken down into 1x 16x, 2x 8x, 1x 8x+1x 4x+1 x 4x with Intel Thunderbolt supported. Three independent displays are supported with one as VGA with the other using DP or HDMI 1.4. Up to 14 USB ports are available with a maximum of four being USB 3.0. Intel integrated Gigabit LAN connectivity is used and has been a prominent feature on many of the latest Intel-based motherboards released lately. A new management engine firmware is used with the 7 series chipsets with Intel Extreme Tuning as a supplementary feature. DDR3 speeds of up to 1600MHz are officially supported while motherboard manufacturers are listing speeds of up to 2666MHz (OC). Connectivity to and through the Z77 PCH is through a DMI (Direct Media Interface) 2.0 and FDI (Flexible Display Interface) pathways that carry both data and the integrated graphics information. Intel's Rapid Storage and Responsiveness technologies are supported to improve the user experience. Six SATA ports are supported from the Z77 PCH with a maximum of two being SATA 6Gb/s with RAID support. An additional eight PCIe 2.0 lanes are dedicated through the Z77 PCH.
There are already motherboards on sale through e-tailers and offer a way to upgrade the feature set with an existing processor SKU or move up to the next generation when it becomes available. I will be looking at a few examples from several manufacturers showing what is available currently. From MSI there is the Z77A-GD65, and from Gigabyte the Z77X-UD3H. Each with an expansive feature set that takes advantage of the tools available on the Z77 PCH for use with Intel's 2nd and 3rd Generation Core series processors.
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A late equaliser from substitute Gylfi Sigurdsson earned Tottenham Hotspur a 2-2 draw at Chelsea in a pulsating London derby on Wednesday that prolonged a three-way battle for two Champions League places.
The Iceland international shot low past Petr Cech on 80 minutes to deny Chelsea, who were twice ahead, a victory that would have effectively guaranteed the hosts a top four finish and Champions League football next season.
With two matches remaining, third-placed Chelsea remain in pole position on 69 points, followed by Arsenal (67) and Spurs (66).
Chelsea went ahead on 10 minutes through Oscar's close-range header but a stunning Emmanuel Adebayor strike from 25 metres hauled Spurs level 16 minutes later.
Ramires rifled Chelsea back in front six minutes before halftime but Spurs finished strongly and Sigurdsson struck from Adebayor's cushioned back-heeled layoff.
Spurs have still not won at StamfordBridge since 1990.
Andre Villas-Boas, booed by Chelsea fans on his return to west London after he was sacked by Roman Abramovich in March last year after less than nine months in charge, acknowledged Spurs face an uphill task to get back among the continent's elite.
"The result did not quite turn out how we wanted it and our situation changes slightly because now our fate is not in our own hands and we have to rely on others to slip up," the Portuguese said.
"Anything can happen. The Premier League is completely unpredictable. These next fixtures before the emotional last day of the season can be decisive."
Chelsea visit Aston Villa on Saturday before hosting Everton on the final day on May 19, Arsenal are at home to Wigan on Tuesday and finish at Newcastle while Spurs play away at Stoke on Sunday and then welcome Sunderland to White Hart Lane.
"We have to win one game to guarantee top four, we will try to win both to be in the top three," said Chelsea interim manager Rafael Benitez.
"We had chances to score the third goal on the counter-attack we had chances to kill it. It was an open game, it was good for the fans, but not for us.
"Their second goal was offside but still, we had to defend it better. We controlled the game but we ran out of legs, we were tired, especially in the wide areas."
The last two matches between Chelsea and Spurs had produced 12 goals and an entertaining clash did not disappoint.
Chelsea struck first when Gary Cahill headed goalwards from a corner and Oscar nodded home.
Spurs had been on the backfoot for much of the first half until Adebayor, picking the ball up inside his own half, was allowed to run towards goal before unleashing a swerving shot that nestled in the top corner.
Neat interplay involving Oscar and Fernando Torres on the right flank created the opportunity for Chelsea to restore their lead with Ramires latching on to a pass from Torres to toe-poke a first time shot past Hugo Lloris.
Ramires wasted a great opening after the break when he slipped in the penalty area and the tiring hosts were made to pay when a fine piece of skill from Adebayor allowed Sigurdsson the chance to salvage a point.
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sunday night ambience
like this track;
or this one;
let share some good ambient music to get through tonight, yes?
Let's throw a lovely bit of Bersarin Quartett into the mix, eh?
i've got a playlist on my itunes of ambient/quiet/hushed/nighttime music
so far it's spat Tortoise, The Magnetic Fields, Iron & Wine, Kurt Vile, Matt Elliott, Still Corners, La Sera, Broken Social Scene and M83 at me.
<3333333 this playlist.
do you share playlists?
I'd sub to that
I'm putting this EP out next week
and it's some really beautiful ambient/electronica stuff.
yes. been on an ambient tip for the last few days.
Stars of the Lid- Piano Aquieu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkKYTvSPzNs
Solo Andata- Ablation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMEuC9oHqRE
Set Fire to Flames- And The Birds
KTL- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPneoIM9ugE
Any more woodwindy/stringy droney ambient stuff people can recommend?
I love it
perfect for this back end of winter kind of feel.
I'm trying to think of another one that I like to go to at this time. Had it on sportify before I deleated it all after not using it much. Its by a lass who plays cello and I swore it was a on Type as well but I can't seem to place her name now.
Murcof is good'un tho too.
The only Skelton I am familiar with
is Verse of Birds from last year. That was more modern classical than ambient but truly stunning
I've not dug any deeper than that record really
might do one day, that album is pretty spesh to me.
FOund the other one I was thinking of.
hildur gudnadottir
ambient/modern classical, same thing to me.
Also, thanks for the tip off on that Hildur chap.
Sounds lovely.
I'd say there's a diference between the two
but most records straddle the two these days
I've never really heard a modern classical album that...
gets above ambient in energy so, they're kinda one and the same to me. Maybe there is a really rawkus strine I've not heard tho.
There is a strand sure
but call it what you like really, is just a name
ambient is more of a multi genre mood thing rather than a genre its self
wouldn't mind hearing some of that rawkus modern classical at some point then haha.
Get confused with these genres.
What's the difference between ambient and drone?
Often something that is drone (especially prettier drones)
can also be called ambient...but if it gets more intricate (Boards of Canada etc) then I guess it can only be ambient.
drone is music consisting of long, sustained/repeated notes and chords
anything from Gregorian chant to Indian ragas to minimalism like Tony Conrad to Stars of the Lid to Sunn o))) can count as drone.
ambient music in the strict sense is more about unobtrusive 'background' music which isn't necessarily that musical...like, there might only be the faintest trace of melody. see Eliane Radigue, Eno's ambient stuff...
but then there's an inevitable crossover.
La Monte Young is the crux of this, given that his minimal take on drone pretty much laid the foundations for Eno, Tangerine Dream and the like.
Ahh Murcof's sick.
Love his use of strings. I'm a sucker for any vaguely cinematic atmospheric string work.
off in shower then i'm going to update the playlist. i take it most people include chilled electro stuff when they talk about ambiance. its all good.
Has anybody heard '...And Darkness Came' ?
Details are here: http://headphonecommute.bandcamp.com/album/and-darkness-came
Pretty perfect if you're looking for ambient/soundtrack composition-y type music (a la Clint Mansell, Bersarin Quartett, Clem Leek etc.) I've been listening to it non-stop to help with my work, I can't recommend it enough.
black reindeer - they buried her under the bleeding swans
the BR stuff is great. 'Music from the film that never got made' and 'Real life is overrated' are great little records.
golly this is nice
never heard of him
nice thread Jords
howabout something very ambient indeed, one of my faves - Pausal..
amazing for a sunday-morning-after-a-heavy-one, as well as a gentle goodbye weekend soundtrack to drift off to..Mehodor this'd this
also i bloody love Ekca Liena
this is wonderful track - Mising Weeks
if you can dig out the album Pathless that has Fading Youth 1 & 2 which is probably my favourite of HIs. gorgeous stuff
I'm very glad to have discovered these guys
"Tulsa, OK multi-instrumentalist and Scissortail Records guy Dylan Golden Aycock delivers this stunning batch of drone-folk meditations fashioned with a truly refreshing mix of synths, loops, air organ, and expressive pedal steel. These sunken timber hymns harken back to the roots of American experimentalism but stand in their own new space, lonesome bedroom ballads tinged with universal nostalgia."
i was invited out but i can't get off my sofa
we've spiralled from pure ambience, so i'm adding this. gorgeous <3
I've got Hildur Guðnadóttir on at the moment.
Fantastic stuff. Does anyone have any more ambient/droney recommendations in this and the Richard Skelton kinda vein? I'm after more stringy/woodwindy stuff.


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U.S. Budget Deficit Narrowed in July
Tax Revenue Increased at Faster Pace Than Government Spending
WASHINGTON—The U.S. budget deficit narrowed again in July due to tax revenue increasing at a faster pace than government spending.
The federal government's deficit from October through July totaled $460.45 billion, down 24% from the same period a year earlier, the U.S. Treasury Department said Tuesday. The federal fiscal year began Oct. 1.


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He is currently development manager for Prudential on one of the largest projects in the UK for a new sustainable urban community in the South of England for 10,000 homes, employment, education, health, community and other related facilities.
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He was Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development Advisor to the Government of Montenegro.
He is a member of the Scientific Panel for Expo Italia Real Estate (EIRE).
He is Chairman of the European Urban Regeneration Council of the Urban Land Institute.
He has been responsible for leading major urban development projects in Italy, Greece, France, Serbia, Russia, Montenegro and throughout the UK.
Advisor to various multi-national companies on the integration of Corporate social responsibility, sustainable development and real estate, and has presented papers on this subject to international conferences in the USA, Sweden, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Turkey, Hong Kong and Australia. In November 2002, for his pioneering work in this field, he was presented with the CoreNet Global Innovators Award.
First chairman of the Judging Panel for the CoreNet/American Institute of Architects Global Sustainable Design Leadership Awards.
Chairman of the Judging Panel for an International Masterplanning Competition (Velika Plaza) for the Government of Montenegro.
Member of the EU Fifth Framework CABERNET (Concerted Action on Brownfield and Economic Regeneration Network) programme set up by the European Commission to establish and disseminate best practice in sustainable brownland regeneration throughout the European Union.
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Appointed by the EU Commission as a member of the expert working group established to develop the Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment, a key action under the Sixth Community Environment Action Programme. His specific responsibility was to assess areas of research and skills necessary to drive sustainable competitive European Cities under the four key themes of the urban strategy viz sustainable urban management, sustainable transportation, sustainable design and sustainable construction.
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From 1986-2008 he was founding Managing Director and subsequently Chairman of Miller Hughes Associates, an international architectural and urban planning consultancy based in the UK.
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Amid the blitz of quarterly earnings reports next week, Joe Terranova of Virtus Investment Partners said Friday that he will be watching one stock.
"You're really going to need some solid performance from technologies, but in particular, you're going to get an early read on consumer discretionary, which I view as highly important to further appreciation in the S&P," he said on "Fast Money."
Terranova said the stock to watch was Coach.
Some of the companies reporting quarterly earnings next week include Apple, McDonald's, Honeywell, Procter & Gamble and Microsoft.
Stephen Weiss of Short Hills Capital, who liked Verizon, was clear about what he was doing.
"Here's the trade. Here's what you've got to do: Get rid of your defensive holdings and go with beta," he said. "Time to play offense, time to put on risk."
Trader disclosure: On Jan. 18, 2013, the following stocks and commodities mentioned or intended to be mentioned on CNBC's "Fast Money" were owned by the "Fast Money" traders: Steve Weiss is long SCCO; Steve Weiss is long CNX; Steve Weiss is long RIMM; Steve Weiss is long T; Jon Najarian is long MS CALL SPREADS; Jon Najarian is long AMAT CALL SPREADS; Jon Najarian is long ATE; Jon Najarian is long NANO; Jon Najarian is long TWI CALL SPREADS; Pete Najarian is long AAPL; Pete Najarian is long BAC CALLS; Pete Najarian is long GS CALLS; Pete Najarian is long JPM CALLS; Pete Najarian is long RIMM; Pete Najarian is long SBUX; Pete Najarian is long SBUX CALLS; Pete Najarian is long FB; Pete Najarian is long MSFT; Pete Najarian is long GE; Joe Terranova is long VRTS; Joe Terranova is long AAPL; Joe Terranova is long GS; Joe Terranova is long AXP; Joe Terranova is long MS; Joe Terranova is long GLW; Joe Terranova is long DELL; Joe Terranova is long MMM; Joe Terranova is long SWN; Joe Terranova is long XOM.


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LONDON -- England's Football Association has fined Chelsea's Ashley Cole $145,000 for insulting the governing body in an offensive Twitter post.
Cole was also warned about "future conduct" on Thursday by the FA. Last week, it charged him with misconduct and bringing the game into disrepute.
The England defender had reacted angrily to an FA commission questioning the evidence he gave in defending teammate John Terry against a charge of racially abusing an opponent.
The tweet, which was subsequently deleted, read "Hahahahaa, well done (hash)fa I lied did I," followed by a vulgar expression.
He escaped a playing ban from England _ being selected in Wednesday's 1-1 draw with Poland in a World Cup qualifier _ but also will be punished by Chelsea.


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Cakewalk recently announced Kinetic 2, the latest version of their fast and easy software for creating beats and electronic music on PC. Kinetic 2 has an estimated street price of $79.99 U.S., and is available at select computer, consumer electronics, and music and sound retailers.
The original Kinetic introduced the fastest way for everyone, regardless of musical experience, to create electronic music on their computer. By combining a simple click-and-groove interface with genuine Roland sounds for the first time, Kinetic made it easy and affordable for anyone to be a music producer.
Now with Kinetic 2, making beats has just gotten easier. Kinetic 2 has a new look and exciting new features that combine everything you need to build a track from start to finish. Just choose a musical style and then audition different sounds and professionally produced musical patterns in the Kinetic 2 browser. Once you find what you like, you can then layer patterns and sounds to start building the different sections of your song. Use DropZone to bring in your own samples and tap your computer keyboard like a drum machine using the GRID to create your own drum patterns and chords changes. Then add audio effects to your mix to sweeten the sound.
The real magic starts once you hit record. Kinetic automatically captures your performance as you trigger different song sections with dynamic DJ style cuts, change the mix, tweak sounds, and explore the other music making features that Kinetic 2 has to offer. Within minutes you have a complete track that you can export to WAV to burn on CD, or MP3 or WMA for your portable player or website—it's that simple.


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GUAYANILLA, Puerto Rico (AP) — He grew up in Puerto Rico, played percussion in his high school band, spent nearly a decade in the National Guard, served as a peacekeeper in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, worked as police officer and then joined the U.S. Army.
That was Ivan Lopez's seemingly unremarkable route into the military. But what happened from there — and why the 34-year-old soldier turned against his comrades with such deadly fury — were a mystery Thursday.
A day after Lopez went on a shooting rampage at the Army's Fort Hood in Texas, killing three people and wounding 16 before committing suicide, some of those who knew him were baffled by the explosion of violence.
"He had a lot of friends. I never saw him fighting. He never seemed like a boy who had emotional problems," said Guayanilla Mayor Edgardo Arlequin Velez, who was also the leader of the school band that Lopez played in in this small, working-class town.
Lopez was sent to Iraq as a truck driver in 2011 during the final months of the war there. He came home complaining of a traumatic brain injury, according to military officials. But they said he did not see combat and was not wounded.
He sought help for depression and anxiety and was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder, military officials said. But Army Secretary John McHugh said Thursday that a psychiatrist last month found no violent or suicidal tendencies. The soldier was prescribed Ambien for a sleeping problem.
He had no apparent links to extremists, McHugh said.
Glidden Lopez Torres, who is not related to the gunman but identified himself as a family friend speaking on behalf of the soldier's family in Puerto Rico, said Lopez's mother died of a heart attack in November.
Lopez was close to her and was apparently upset that he was granted only a short leave — 24 hours, later extended to two days — to go to her funeral, which was delayed for nearly a week so he could make it, the family spokesman said.
The family was not aware that Lopez was receiving any treatment for mental problems, the spokesman said.
He grew up in Guayanilla, a town of fewer than 10,000 people, where small, well-kept houses are painted bright colors. The house he grew up in was empty Thursday. It is a one-story, concrete home painted white with green trim.
There are few jobs in the town, and many young people have joined the military in recent years. A young woman whose parents live in the town, 33-year-old Army Spec. Aleina Rodriguez-Gonzalez, was killed in Iraq in 2005.
The mayor described Lopez as somewhat introverted and passionate about music. His parents attended school functions, and they seemed close.
Puerto Rico police officials and Torres, the family spokesman, said Lopez had worked as a state police officer from 2000 until he received leave to serve in the military.
Torres said Lopez's relatives are devastated, trying to comprehend the shooting.
"He was a very laid-back person. I would even say a bit shy," Torres said. "That's why we are so surprised."
In El Paso, Texas, where the Lopez family lived for about two years before heading to Fort Hood, Noah Georges lived across the hall. They were a quiet family, with a small daughter, he recalled.
Although Georges never heard the couple argue, "you could see there was tension between them."
"I never saw them leave the house together. It seemed obvious they didn't talk to one another much," Georges said.
In Killeen, Texas, where the family moved after Lopez was transferred to Fort Hood, neighbors in a three-story, blue and gray apartment building described him as friendly.
Shaneice Banks, a 21-year-old business management student who lives downstairs from the Lopezes, said her husband, who also works at Fort Hood, helped the family move in just three weeks ago. Hours before the shooting, Banks said, she ran into Lopez when he came home for lunch.
"They get an hour to come home," Banks said. "He was going to his car and I was like, 'Hey, how's your day going?' And he seemed perfectly fine. He was like, 'Day's going pretty good. I'll see you whenever I come back home.'"
After word came of a shooting at the base, Banks saw Lopez's wife frantically calling her husband over and over, trying to reach him via cellphone from the apartment courtyard.
"She was bawling because they have a 2-year-old and she was just holding the baby," Banks said. "My heart just went out to her. I was trying to get her information when I could, but she doesn't speak a lot of English. I told her, 'The last time you heard from him was like 3 o'clock. They could be shutting off the cellphone towers.' But of course that wasn't what happened."
Coto reported from Guayanilla; Weissert from Killeen, Texas; Mohr from Jackson, Miss. Associated Press writers Ramit Plushnick-Masti in Houston; Paul J. Weber at Fort Hood, Texas; Christopher Sherman in McAllen, Texas; Juan Carlos Llorca in El Paso, Texas; Eric Tucker and Alicia Caldwell in Washington; Lolita C. Baldor in Honolulu; Nedra Pickler in Chicago; Michael Kunzelman in New Orleans; Ben Fox in


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Cal State Fullerton gained the lead early in game two when Torrie Anderson led off with a double to right field at the top of the first inning. After a sacrifice bunt from K.C. Craddick moved Anderson to third, a sac fly from Lauren Lupinetti sent home the first run.
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At the end of seven innings, the game was still tied forcing the game into extra innings. At the top of the ninth, Kadie Baldwin led off with a single up the middle and was bunted over to second by Courtney Martinez. A Gaucho throwing error on the next play at second base allowed Baldwin to score an unearned run, the eventual game-winner.
The Gauchos loaded the bases at the bottom of the ninth but the Titans got out of the inning unscathed, holding on for the 2-1 win.
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In the first game of the afternoon, the Gauchos struck first at the bottom of the first. Jessica Ziegler walked with one out and then stole second one out later. A RBI single to center field from Beristianos sent the first run of the game home.
Fullerton remained scoreless until the top of the fifth when Whitney Kroh walked with two outs and then stole second. The runner advanced to third on a wild pitch before Torrie Anderson hit a home run to left field giving the Titans a 2-1 lead.
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I finally found the time to put together my collection of photos from the 2013 Hardrock 100.
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I was amazed at how dry the course was. There were no snow fields to cross and most streams were barely a trickle of water. The first river crossing I actually had to step in wasn't until after KT 90 miles in. It did rain on the first night from Grouse Gulch over Engineer Pass to Ouray. But I didn't get hit with any hail or have any risk of lightning. It definitely wasn't the same Hardrock that I remembered from 2011.
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