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Frimpong commits to representing Ghana
Emmanuel Frimpong has been given the green light by FIFA to represent Ghana and aid their bid to qualify for the 2014 World Cup.
FIFA this week confirmed that its players' status committee had approved the change, switching Frimpong's eligibility for England to Ghana.
Frimpong, 20, had represented England at Under-16 and Under-17 level, but he confirmed two years ago that he had ambitions to represent Ghana.
The midfielder, who was born in Kumasi, said: "I have always said that, no matter what, I will always play for Ghana because I believe I am a Ghanaian".
Frimpong is currently on loan at Championship side Charlton after finding first-team opportunities hard to come by at his parent club Arsenal.
Ghana resume World Cup qualifying in March at home to Sudan, and trail group leader Zambia by three points after two matches.


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Kevin Youkilis returns to Fenway Park on Monday as a member of the Chicago White Sox.
The third baseman was traded to Chicago on June 24. The move was made to clear a spot for rookie Will Middlebrooks. But a secondary issue was the strained relationship between Youkilis and manager Bobby Valentine.
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Want to come in for a cup of tea
I would ask him...
If the human brain is capable of containing 140 years of memories then why do people keep forgetting things?
I would also thank him for saving my life three times already, keep up the good work.
Thank him for giving me such a wonderful and supportive family.
I'd tell him he does a shit job of managing the world and should retire and make place for someone more qualified.
PS. I'd also thank for all the good he did for me.
I figure it'd be pretty cool to philosophize with an omniscient being. I'd probably ask for some solutions to paradoxes (just to see if there really is an answer), but I'd expect him to say something along the lines of "that shit is nonsense dude." The biggest choice is catering though. I'd love to have a few drinks with him, but what kind of libations does God prefer? I think I'd bring scotch as a gift (something tells me God likes the classy-type hard liquor), but obviously defer to his home bar since I figure heaven is probably pretty well-stocked. After that, I'll just let the alcohol do the talking -- it's bound to be a pretty interesting conversation if we're both tanked. The actual questions don't really matter too much -- a late-night bender with God would be incredibly more satisfying than asking questions that I probably wouldn't understand the answers to. "Remember Sodom and Gomorrah? You don't? Ah man, that shit was nuts. Have you heard about that prank I pulled on Abraham? I was all like 'hey, you should kill your son as an offering,' and he was all like 'alright let's do it,' and then I was all like 'dude, I was just kidding' -- Good Times"
I wouldn't want to meet God. Proving he exists would ruin the fun.
Then again, I could probably come up with a half-suitable explanation for why he might not actually exist anyway, so it'd all just be more brain-fodder. Along that vein of thought, I'd probably ask him about some philosophical questions, but always keeping in mind that he may or may not be a figment of my imagination. The point of view of a deity would certainly serve to broaden my mental horizons.
My turn?
Somewhere on the internet
send me to hell, lucifer did a hell of a lot more for humans than you ever did (lets face if it he never got eve to bite into the apple, we'd all be as brainless as any other animal).
if god exists he did a shitty job dealing out cards, to many people dealt 7-2's, and the ones holding the aces tend to be utter jerks.
What should I say God? Then I would know but I USED MY QUESTION UP!
I'm all right, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack.
well I speak to him in my prayers all the time, but I would ask him why he created us, for what purpose? why didn't he kill the devil? why is it that the whites have control of everything while minorities get the leftovers? why did he create different races? why did he allow there to be different religions? why did he allow us to make money so powerful? why do I have a penis, if im not supposed to have sex? oh theres so much I would ask.
Not much, ask him how he has been, what he has been up to recently, etc.
"So...may I please be reborn as a magical beast of fantastic?"
"No? Okay...how about...details on the next plague?"
Maybe we'd just sit around and play Cards Against Humanity.
Ask him why I haven't won the lottery yet.
Granblue has consumed me, please send help. Thanks bath for avi <3
I'd ask to have beer with him.
I'd probably just say.... WTF!?!
Monsters? They look like monsters to you?


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Indie Royale's "Difficult 2nd Bundle" of indie gaming fun has been expanded, adding bonus goodies including soundtracks, downloadable content, and new games. As the offer approaches its final day, you can now "pay what you want" (above a minimum price) for a grand six games.
The two new additions are shoot 'em ups Bullet Candy Perfect and Irukandji by Charlie Knight, whose Scoregasm was one of the bundle's original games.
They can be added to a Desura account, but, unlike the other games, not to Steam. If you've already bought the bundle, you'll find the games added to your purchase page.
Fate of the World, NightSky, Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! round out the bundle. It also now includes all Fate of the World Steam downloadable content, which usually costs $11.97. You get its soundtrack too, as well as those for NightSky and Scoregasm.
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I'm a very late comer to Linux, a Windows user since 2.11
I have tried both Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon and Zorin8
Very early in the boot process on both there is 7~8 sec pause/delay
It makes me think I may not be getting the best from my set-up.?
Is this pause something that can be investigated to see why the pause,
I did try bootchart on LM16, but I did not know where to start looking.
dmesg snip from Linux Mint
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[ 0.271533] ACPI: Dynamic OEM Table Load:
[ 0.271539] ACPI: SSDT (null) 00119 (v01 PmRef ApCst 00003000 INTL 20121220)
[ 8.837916] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
dmesg snip from Zorin
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[ 0.195436] ACPI: Dynamic OEM Table Load:
[ 0.195438] ACPI: SSDT (null) 00119 (v01 PmRef ApCst 00003000 INTL 20121220)
[ 7.282171] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Any advice on how to look at this would be appreciated.
Thanks... David
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Neonatal sepsis is a bacterial infection in the blood. It is found in infants during the first month of life. This may become a serious condition. If you suspect your infant has this condition, contact your baby's doctor right away.
Early-onset sepsis develops in the first 2-3 days after birth. Late-onset sepsis develops within 3-7 days after birth.
Neonatal sepsis is caused by bacteria. The infant may come in contact with bacteria during pregnancy, birth, or from the environment after birth.
Early-onset sepsis is caused by an infection from the mother. It may pass to the infant from the placenta or birth canal during birth. Antibiotics may be given to high risk mothers during labor. This may prevent early-onset bacterial sepsis in some infants.
Late-onset sepsis is caused by bacteria from the healthcare environment.
Infant boys have a higher risk for neonatal sepsis. Other factors that may increase your infant's chance of neonatal sepsis include:
Pregnancy conditions or mother's health issues that increase your infant's chance of neonatal sepsis include:
In most cases of early-onset sepsis, symptoms are present within 24 hours of birth. In almost all cases, symptoms will be present within 48 hours of birth. If your infant has any one of these symptoms, especially in first week, contact your doctor.
It is important for your doctor to evaluate any fever in your infant.
You will be asked about your infant's symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
Your baby's bodily fluids and tissues may be tested. This can be done with:
Images may be taken of your baby's chest and/or abdomen. This can be done with x-rays.
Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for your infant. Treatment depends on how severe the condition is. If sepsis is suspected, your infant will be hospitalized while you wait for test results.
Treatment may last 2-21 days.
Mild symptoms may be monitored without antibiotics. Your infant will be
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IV fluids will help support your infant until the infection clears. It may include fluids, glucose, and electrolytes.
Your infant may need
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To reduce your infant's chance of getting neonatal sepsis, your doctor may take the following steps:
Centers for Disease Control and Preventionhttps://www.cdc.gov
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologistshttp://www.acog.org
Health Canadahttp://www.hc-sc.gc.ca
Sick Kids—The Hospital for Sick Childrenhttp://www.sickkids.ca
Early-onset neonatal sepsis. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T901439/Early-onset-neonatal-sepsis. Updated August 11, 2016. Accessed September 26, 2016.
Late-onset neonatal sepsis. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T116619/Late-onset-neonatal-sepsis. Updated August 11, 2016. Accessed September 26, 2016.
Neonatal sepsis (sepsis neonatorum). The Merck Manual Professional Edition website.
Available at:http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/pediatrics/infections%5Fin%5Fneonates/neonatal%5Fsepsis.html. Updated May 2013. Accessed September 15, 2015.
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Professor Emeritus Named to National Environmental Engineering Academy Board
By Marcia Goodrich | Published
C. Robert Baillod, professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been elected to a three-year term on the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE). Baillod was one of two board-certified environmental engineers elected to a three-year term by the AAEE membership.
The AAEE consists of 2,600 board-certified environmental engineers and members, is a primary professional society for environmental engineers, and serves as the lead society for accreditation of environmental engineering programs for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
Baillod is the founding editor of the Applied Research and Practice Section of the AAEE Environmental Engineer publication. He also serves as co-leader of the National Environmental Engineering Body of Knowledge Working Group and represents AAEE as an alternate member of the ABET Board of Directors.
Baillod served on the civil and environmental engineering faculty for 39 years, where he worked to develop Michigan Tech's nationally ranked environmental engineering program. He is a licensed professional engineer, a fellow and life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and was a founding member and institutional coordinator of Michigan Tech's National Center for Clean Industrial and Treatment Technologies. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors and served as president in 1992. He is an expert in wastewater treatment and reuse and has published extensively on wastewater treatment processes.
Baillod served as a member of the Portage Lake Water and Sewage Authority Board for more than 30 years and currently chairs the board. He was appointed to the Michigan Transportation Commission by Governor John Engler in 2002. He also serves as an advisory trustee of the Michigan Tech Fund and as a member of the Torch Lake Public Advisory Committee.
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 60 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Hornets should get ready in case Johnson falls free
Hornets should get ready in case Johnson falls free
Thursday, August 11, 2005
John DeShazier
Like manna, Joe Johnson falls, likely there for the taking for any NBA team starved for his services. And the Hornets are still hungry.
Are they hungry enough to try to do some late feasting?
Johnson doesn't want to return to the Suns, having told the franchise not to match the five-year, $69.2 million contract offer sheet he received from Atlanta. And what Phoenix will take in a sign-and-trade deal for one of the most versatile players in the league is fairly paltry: a $4.9 million exception, two first-round picks and a starter or substitute such as Boris Diaw, who isn't half the player Johnson is.
But Johnson still is on the market, courtesy of the Hawks, whose ownership group has thoroughly butchered the deal that would've sent him from the team with the most regular-season victories last season to the one with the least.
Which means the Hornets, or any team with money to spend, still have a chance to swoop in and pluck Johnson, who wouldn't be human if he hasn't soured at least a little on Atlanta as a franchise and destination.
If he could be talked into joining the Hawks, there's no reason to believe he would close the door in the face of the Hornets without listening to a sales pitch. Especially not now, after Atlanta has embarrassed itself and caused people to question the wisdom of Johnson, who thought he had a done deal but now must be wondering what direction a team is going when it has an ownership group such as the Hawks.
It's not too late for the Hornets to chase, and it won't be until every "i" is dotted and every "t" is crossed.
And that could take awhile. Long enough, probably, for the Hornets to slip in and pirate off the bona fide difference-maker that they didn't sign during the offseason.
Although the Hawks envision him as a point guard, Johnson seamlessly could fit in with New Orleans as an offense-initiating small forward who can shift to the point or off guard when the situation warrants.
Atlanta today is a house divided, one side convinced that the other wants to operate on the cheap, the other claiming that giving up two first-round picks for Johnson is too steep a price to pay.
Steve Belkin, one of nine members of the group that owns the Hawks, serves as the team's NBA governor and won't approve the deal. He's the only owner who won't sign off, but since he speaks on behalf of the team in its dealings with the league and has been granted a preliminary injunction by a Boston judge that prohibits the others from removing him as the governor, it hasn't happened.
Meanwhile, Johnson dangles.
"It's pretty obvious we're going through a divorce right now," Hawks part-owner Bruce Levenson commented to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I would hope, sooner rather than later, (Belkin) comes to the realization that . . . all that needs to be worked out now is the property settlement."
And Belkin issued a statement as he left the courtroom in Boston on Tuesday: "I am pleased that the judge's ruling has provided clarity that we all needed regarding our decision-making and governance structure so that we can get back to the challenging task of building a championship caliber team."
If Belkin has his way, Johnson won't be a part of that building process.
Belkin would rather take his chances on the unknown instead of the better known, even though there's no guarantee either pick will be the next LeBron or KG, even though the first-rounder just as easily could become Bo Kimble or Harold Minor or Darko Milicic or Kwame Brown.
Which means the window leading to Johnson is open.
Now is a good time for the Hornets to try to crawl through.
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text: For all of the good things Krivsky has done to help the team so far I feel that leaving Edwin down this long is hurting the team. He is currently hitting .381 after playing 7 games in AAA, I'm not sure what else he needs to do to prove his ankle isn't a problem any longer. The bench has become weaker because of Edwin being down and we get more Rich at 3rd and that translates to more Rich in the cleanup spot. I don't know if the blame should be more on Narron for wanting to play verterans over kids that EE isn't back up or if it is Krivsky not wanting to DFA or send someone down to get him back up here, but either way it is a problem. This team is going to have to score a lot of runs to continue to win with the current BP and having Edwin's bat up here would only help.


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At the Colombian Embassy in Washington, Ambassador Carlos Urrutia says there's no doubt that his country's trade deal with the U.S. has paid off: Colombian businesses are sending more socks and cosmetics to California, beet sugar to New York and glass to Florida to help with hurricane repairs.
U.S. officials are equally excited, saying U.S. businesses have improved their sales to the South American country by 20 percent. Manufacturers are exporting more transportation equipment, petroleum and coal products, processed foods and a long list of farm products, including soybeans, pork, wheat, grapes and dairy goods.
But a year after the agreement took effect, the growth in trade is producing mounting anxiety in some quarters.
In California, for example, progress has come with a price for the once-dominant flower industry: Colombian imports have jumped 7 percent in the past year. Less than 3 percent of the Valentine's Day roses sold in this country were grown here. On New Year's Day, just two of the 41 floats in the popular Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., featured flowers grown in the Golden State.
"People don't think about where their flowers come from, like they do their food," said Kasey Cronquist, the CEO of the California Cut Flower Commission.
The unhappiness extends well beyond flowers. Opponents note that the balance of trade between the countries remains out of whack: The United States imported nearly $25 billion in goods from Colombia last year, while it exported only $16 billion.
In Washington, the trade agreement is under increased attack from critics who want President Barack Obama to do more to reverse the violence that persists in Colombia, where at least 20 unionists were assassinated last year.
Despite the complaints, Urrutia said the agreement was clearly benefiting U.S. consumers by giving them more products from which to choose.
Overall, he said, two-way trade between the countries is up by 5 percent, and Colombian companies have sent 187 new products to the United States in the past year, including photographic equipment, anti-inflammatory drugs, tropical fruit juices with sugar, and electrical transformers. He said 775 Colombian companies had shipped products to the United States for the first time in the past year, with 23 states getting at least one new Colombian product.
While the Colombian government doesn't track how many new jobs have been produced as a result of the trade pact, he estimated them to be in the thousands, adding that the unemployment rate in the country is declining. It stood at 10 percent in March, after averaging more than 12 percent for the last dozen years.
"We've been looking at the figures. What we see is encouraging. We're quite satisfied," Urrutia said.
To mark the one-year anniversary, Obama and his team have been busy touting the deal, too.
In an opinion piece published two weeks ago in The Miami Herald, which is owned by McClatchy, the president called the deal "a moment of great promise for our hemisphere," saying it had created new markets for U.S. businesses while the fast-growing economies of Latin America have helped people escape poverty.
Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank took a delegation of 20 U.S. companies on a trade mission to Colombia last week. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, are expected to arrive in Colombia on Sunday as part of a weeklong trip that also will take them to Trinidad, Tobago and Brazil.
In a speech in Bogota last week, Blank said trade missions between Colombia and the U.S. had become increasingly common. In 2007, she said, there were none, but there have been 13 in the past year.
"Tractors from a company in Texas now enter Colombia duty-free, a bath and body products maker in Florida made her first export sale to Colombia in January and Colombians can now more easily buy an iconic American product – a Harley-Davidson motorcycle – because the 15 percent tariff has been dropped," Blank said.
Colombia's human-rights record, which emerged as an issue on Capitol Hill before Congress approved the trade pact in 2011, remains a sore spot.
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, a nonprofit consumer group based in Washington, said Colombia remained the deadliest country for union members, with 471 unionists receiving death threats since the trade agreement took effect and at least 20 unionists reported assassinated.
Lori Wallach, the group's director, said many opponents were shocked that Obama had pushed the Colombian deal given the country's widespread record of violence.
"Now that the Obama administration is responsible for passing this agreement, the question is what will it do to reverse this horrible trend," she said.
Urrutia said the issue had the attention of the Colombian government "at the highest level" and that plans were in place to provide union leaders with armored vehicles, bodyguards and police protection.
"The facts are that Colombia has made a lot of progress," he said. "We still have problems. Any attack against a labor leader, a union leader, is one attack too many."
He acknowledged the situation that U.S. flower growers face while offering little sympathy.
"They're very unhappy; I can imagine," he said. "But you know, the problem is this is global trade. I think protectionism is no longer acceptable anywhere you go, including Colombia. . . . This is good for American consumers because they get first-quality flowers at cheaper prices."
Moreover, he said: "If Colombia were not involved, the U.S. market would be absorbing fresh-cut flowers being exported from Holland and Ecuador. We're not to blame."
Cronquist said there was no way U.S. producers could compete with the planeloads of flowers that entered the U.S. from Colombia each day through Miami.
He's convinced that more people would buy American-grown flowers if all blooms had country-of-origin labels.
"There's a lot of good buzz about buying local," he said. "It's not as much an issue about protectionism at all. It's more of an issue about patriotism and supporting our own farmers here at home."


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SOE Closes Three Studios and Lays Off 205 People
Well, this just plain sucks. There's not a good way to say it -- especially since I'm very biased, with some good friends involved -- but Sony Online Entertainment has shut down three studios, laying off 205 people! Bugger. I've got good friends in the SOE Denver studio, so this hits me a bit harder than this news might otherwise, but is bummer news any way you get it. I hate to see creative teams disassembled like this. Best of luck to all of those displaced. I hope you all find new places to create as soon as possible.
Here's the news via Gamasutra: SOE Hit With 205 Layoffs, Three Studio Closures, "Agency" Cancelled
Incidentally, this also marks yet another blow on the console MMO front, as The Agency was looking to be a big entrant into that field. It seems that Sony's push for MMOs on the PS3 is still struggling to gain traction... understatement, I suppose.
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A not so good news in addition to this, Sony has publicized that the business is going to lay off 10,000 employees. See it here: 10K workers to get pink slips in Sony layoffs. The company has been hemorrhaging money for the last 4 years and is looking for a way to stem the dismal tide of losses.


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As our vines enter veraison (the onset of ripening) phase of the growing season the anticipation and anxiety begin to heighten. While much of the US has been plagued by heat and drought, the Coastal region of California has been basking in almost perfect weather. As grape growers we measure the warmth of our seasons by Degree Days (a measure of hours that the vines are photosynthetically active). In 2004, the last "warm" vintage we experienced in Carneros, we were already at 1400 hours on today's date, August 9th. This year we are art 1200, which is identical to the cool but superb 2009 vintage. In fact the degree days for the last three years are almost identical and they were all "cool" vintages. So this mean's things will be perfect in 2012, right? Here's where the anxiety creeps in as we still have at least a month before Harvest starts and then 4-6 weeks of picking fruit, so we'll keep our fingers crossed that we dodge any extreme heat or heavy rains and bring this vintage in smoothly.
Up on Mt Veeder it's a little more challenging to compare data as the closest CIMIS weather station is in Oakville and not really indicative of conditions at Brandlin Vineyard. Most of Napa Valley proper is in full veraison so they are definitely experiencing a warmer vintage then Mt. Veeder. The last two seasons we harvested Brandlin in November and I feel pretty confident this year we'll have things wrapped up before Halloween, a few weeks earlier than the quite cool preceding years.
So at this time I can report that the hygiene of the vineyard is excellent, crop levels are in the average yield range and we will be making our final "color thinning" over the next few weeks to leave behind the best fruit we can.
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Magic Mesa, a recent acquisition
for owner Andrew Sulley and trainer Patricia Farro, will return to the turf on
Saturday at the Meadowlands when the 5-year-old mare breaks from post five in
the $32,000 allowance/optional claiming feature.
numbers are better on the grass," said Mike Farro, assistant trainer and
husband of Patricia. "We bought her so
we could run her on the turf down in Florida
this winter. She's versatile, so if
future races come off the grass, it should be fine for her."
A daughter
of Sky Mesa from the Saint Ballado mare Saintly Magic, Magic Mesa has made 23
trips to the post and sports a record of 4-9-5.
Of those starts, she's raced five times on the lawn, with a win, a
second and a pair of shows.
"She's not
the best in the morning," Farro said.
"We just take her out there and try and keep her happy. We haven't had her too long, so we're still
figuring her out, but she does have talent."
purchasing Magic Mesa privately, she's made two starts for the Farro barn, a
disappointing fifth in the slop at Parx on Sept. 2 and a solid runner-up finish
last out over a fast Monmouth main track.
looking forward to getting her back on the grass," Farro said. "She should be right up with the early
leaders, that's her style. I expect to
see her close up early and hopefully in front at the wire."
Victor Santiago has the call on Magic Mesa, who's been installed at 5-1 by
oddsmaker Brad Thomas. Her main competition
will likely come from Giulio's Jewel, the 5-2 favorite who exits an impressive
allowance victory last out on Delaware
First race
post for Saturday's card is set for 2:15 p.m., with gates opening at 11:30
a.m. The all-turf Monmouth-at-Meadowlands
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Austria's Kathrin Zettel won the women's World Cup slalom in dominant style on Sunday, holding off compatriot Marlies Schild.
World champion Schild was denied a 34th slalom victory, which would match the record in the discipline of Swiss great Vreni Schneider.
Red-hot Slovenian Tina Maze, whose giant slalom victory on Saturday was her second in as many races in the discipline this season, settled for third.
She grabbed the last podium place ahead of German Maria Hoefl-Riesch, who was skiing with a bruised left arm after a crash on Saturday.
Zettel, who was runner-up to Maze on Saturday, led after the opening leg, with Maze in second.
Zettel then delivered a blistering top second leg of 49.72 seconds for a combined time of 1 minute, 42.46 seconds.
She finished 67-hundredths of a second faster than training partner Schild, who clocked a combined 1:43.13, with Maze third with a combined time of 1:44.27.
"I love Aspen! It's where I had my first podium, my first victory," said Zettel, who claimed her first top-three World Cup finish there in 2005 and her first win in a giant slalom the following year.
Sunday's win was the ninth of a career that had been slowed by injury and her first since 2010.
It was all the sweeter that it came against Schild, the skier that Zettel said was the driving force of the Austrians in training.
Maze remained atop the overall standings with 310 points after four events, with Zettel second on 260.
"I'm feeling fit and strong," the Slovenian said. "Everything is going well for me."
The US' four-time overall World Cup champion Lindsey Vonn, still regaining fitness after an intestinal illness that landed her in hospital for a couple of days this month, opted not to compete.
She missed a second straight slalom, having also opted out of the season opener in the discipline at Levi, Finland, won by Hoefl-Riesch.
Vonn, who was 21st and clearly exhausted after Saturday's giant slalom, is hoping to have her stamina back next weekend when the women travel to Lake Louise for their first speed events of the season.
Vonn won all three races there last season.
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Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway edged Adrien Theaux of France by 0.85 seconds to win a super-G race on Sunday and complete a sweep of the World Cup races at the Lake Louise Winterstart event.
Svindal also won Saturday's downhill, making him the first man to win both races at Lake Louise since Bode Miller in 2004.
He also won the super-G at Lake Louise last year.
"Most racers, including myself, you don't have the chance to win World Cups every day and when you feel you have a chance, you have to get after it," Svindal said. "Yesterday and today, I felt: 'This is a race I can win,' and you've got to try and take advantage of those opportunities."
The Norwegian was timed in 1 minute, 34.96 seconds. Joachim Puchner of Austria was third in 1:35.86 and Ted Ligety of the US was fourth in 1:35.87.
Five years ago, Svindal crashed spectacularly in a downhill training run at Beaver Creek, Colorado. Broken bones in his face and a severe laceration in his abdomen sidelined him for the entire 2007-2008 season.
The 29-year-old said the crash changed him as a racer. He was coming off a super-G win in Lake Louise and felt like Superman when he arrived in Beaver Creek.
"I was a second ahead of everyone on the training run, which is unnecessary because it was the first training run," Svindal recalled. "I went down hard and when I hit the fence, I wasn't so much Superman any more."
"The kind of risks I took yesterday and today, there's no need to take in training and that's the lesson learned from that experience," he added.
Svindal returned to capture the overall World Cup title in 2009 and the Olympic gold medal in super-G, silver in downhill and bronze in giant slalom at the 2010 Winter Olympics.


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A Halifax teenager will stand trial in January on four charges from an online extortion incident.
The 18-year-old pleaded not guilty Thursday in Halifax youth court to charges of extortion, possession of child pornography, distribution of child pornography and mischief.
The young man's identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act because he was 16 when he allegedly committed the offences.
Judge Jamie Campbell scheduled the trial for five days beginning Jan. 12. A voir dire on the admissibility of the boy's statement to police will be held in October.
Police allege the boy threatened in the fall of 2012 to post nude photos of a 16-year-old girl on the Internet if she didn't send him more naked pictures. When the girl refused, he allegedly sent the photos to some of her Facebook friends.
The accused and the victim knew each other, but the girl didn't recognize the name he was using on Facebook, police said.
The complainant's name is also banned from publication.


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Steelers' defense seems to snooze too early late in games
Friday, November 11, 2011
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
That late 92-yard winning drive Sunday by Baltimore surprised many members of the Steelers' No. 2-ranked defense, even though it has become more commonplace the past three seasons.
They and their fans should be used to it by now because it happens more often than they might like to admit. That includes a loss in Houston this season when an 85-yard fourth-quarter touchdown drive gave the Texans a 17-10 victory. There also was the near embarrassment when the winless Indianapolis Colts scored a touchdown to tie the score with 2:09 left in the game.
The defense slipped a spot to No. 3 this week after Joe Flacco hung 300 yards passing on the Steelers with yet another interception-free game. The Steelers defense's two interceptions are tied for fewest in the league and its four takeaways are tied with Miami for the fewest, although the Dolphins have played only eight games. The record low for a 16-game season is 12 by the 1986 Redskins.
Couple the anemic takeaways with the defensive lapses late in the game, and it's a wonder the Steelers are 6-3 and only a half-game behind the two leaders in the AFC North Division.
Linebacker James Farrior, who captains that defense, did not play last Sunday because of a hamstring injury, but acknowledged it was no fun to watch the long winning drive by Baltimore.
"It was definitely sickening," Farrior said. "As a guy watching it from the sideline, I felt especially bad. We just have to get off the field. We had a lot of opportunities to get off the field, a lot of chances, and you just have to make that play. Somebody has to get that one play to get us off the field."
It's become an all-too familiar sight, including a near classic collapse the last time the Steelers played in Cincinnati, Nov. 8, 2010. The Steelers were cruising, 27-7, in the fourth quarter. Then the Bengals scored two touchdowns and quarterback Carson Palmer had them perched on the Steelers 12 with two downs and 44 seconds left to win it. He threw incomplete to Terrell Owens, and then James Harrison broke up a pass to Jordan Shipley.
"The same way Ben has engineered drives against other teams, it's tough against a good quarterback," safety Ryan Clark said. "And then sometimes on defense you do slack off, not saying your intensity but you make different calls than you would during the game to keep everything in front and you have a team that's patient enough to dink and dunk it down the field ..."
The Steelers defense ranked second last season, yet fourth-quarter failings plagued them.
Besides that Bengals game in 2010:
Baltimore beat them with a four-play, 40-yard drive to score a TD with 32 seconds left, 17-14.
Miami drove 52 yards to kick a field goal to take a 22-20 lead late before the offense pulled it out with a late field-goal drive.
After the Steelers scored a TD to climb within three of New Orleans, the Saints drove 55 yards for a late fourth-quarter touchdown to put the game away, 20-10.
New England scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns in a 39-26 win.
Buffalo moved 23 yards in 44 seconds to send the game into overtime with a field goal.
The Jets moved 50 yards on 13 plays to kick the winning field goal in the fourth quarter.
The Packers moved 70 yards on 10 plays to kick a field goal with 2:07 left and won, 31-23.
"I can't put my finger on why," said veteran defensive lineman Chris Hoke. "I don't think it's a lack of focus. I don't think it's a lack of conditioning. I just think that people are making plays and we're not.
"Even when we were the No. 1 defense in the NFL, we had collapses at the time."
That was 2008, when the defense in Super Bowl XLIII nearly suffered an epic collapse. Arizona, trailing, 20-7, took the lead on two fourth-quarter touchdowns after drives of 87 yards and 64 yards.
Many believe that was a prelude of what was to come in '09, when the Steelers collapsed monumentally during an infamous five-game losing streak, much of it because their defense allowed fourth-quarter leads to evaporate.
Hoke remembers those all too well, but he and no one is quite sure why the defense has failed late in games.
"I don't know if guys are playing more cautious because they don't want to give up the big play or what. We don't talk about it. Maybe as D-linemen we don't want to rush too hard up field because we don't want to give up the extra scramble or extra time in the pocket. But it's frustrating to give up those things, very frustrating."
At least they are not losing once they get a big lead. Like Bill Cowher's teams before his, Mike Tomlin's are money in the bank once they get a lead of more than 10 points. Cowher's teams were 105-1-1 in those situations. Tomlin's teams are 33-1.
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Despite reports that he would be fined for a hit on Ray Rice, linebacker James Harrison said he received no such fine from the NFL this week.
Trouble looming? Troy Polamalu did not practice for a second day in a row because of a rib injury. Others who did not: LaMarr Woodley (hamstring), Arnaz Battle (hamstring) and Emmanuel Sanders (knee). Everyone else practiced, although the Steelers listed Harrison as being limited because of a toe injury.
Ben Roethlisberger has an ever-so-slight right shoulder injury from when he stretched the ball out to try to score. He said, however, it will cause him no problems Sunday.
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I just baked my first loaves of sourdough bread using Nancy Silverton's starter method. It turned out very nice and I could taste the sourness of the bread. The crumb was very open, which really pleased me, being a beginning baker. However, when the loaves went into the oven, the bottoms of the loaves split open. It's a very rustic looking loaf, so all is not lost. It kinda gives it character, but I don't think I want to reproduce it. LOL
Any feedback on why this happened? I couldn't find any info about this when I did a search. The only thing I did differently was use Saltillo tiles that I just purchased and seasoned yesterday.