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More weight loss?!
I really was surprised today to see my weight go down another 3 pounds, so 6 total?
I usually weigh after breakfast, so I'm sure there's some fluctuation in there, but wow, definite downward trend. I was drinking a lot of fluids today too.
Granted, I have quite a few pounds to lose, and I was pretty shocked at the number right after the holidays! I am still breastfeeding my youngest, and I have a really hard time controlling my appetite while breastfeeding. I usually have to wean the baby to lose the baby weight. (Maybe that's a gatherer trait, breastfeeding and pregnancy may emphasize the hoarding tendencies?)
I did lose some weight the summer before last, but have been cheating and gaining since, back up to my high weight. I want to get down to lower than my low weight this year (lose 45-50 pounds). Judging by how easy it's been to stick with the gatherer diet, I'm confident that it's possible. I think dairy was my missing link, I craved it so, and now I know which dairy to reach for at those times. It's better than chocolate, if you ask me, even if it is just cottage cheese so far. (I haven't yet found or made any of the other superfood cheeses).
I've never really done calorie restriction, or much counting of portions, etc. I tried calorie restriction before BTD, and reduced my calories more every week, until I got down below 1000 calories and gained a pound! That's when I learned it wouldn't work. I've still had some ups and downs. The first up was general poor health after mono, then I struggled until I found BTD, and it went down. The other two spikes were my two pregnancies. I think that now I may be able to avoid those ups and downs. I wonder how the gatherer diet would affect my pregnancy weight gain? The world may never know...but maybe.

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Allen Bohnstengel and Ashley Jessick, along with their families would like to announce their engagement and approaching marriage.
The future Groom- Allen Bohnstengel; originally from Traer, is the son of Mrs. Karen (Lynn) Rohach of Hudson, Iowa and James Bohnstengel of Faribault, Minnesota He is the grandson of Arlene and the late Lawrence Wrage of Traer, Marlys and Berwyn Johnson of Cedar Falls and the late Eldon Bohnstengel of Traer. Allen graduated in 2008 from the Iowa State University, College of Engineering. He is an Industrial Engineer with the First Data Corp. in Omaha, Nebraska.
The Bride to be is the daughter of Duane and Gina Jessick of Omaha, Nebraska. She is the granddaughter of L. Myrtle and the late James Clayton Nalley of North Carolina and Phyllis and the late Eugene T. Jessick of Illinois. Ashley is a 2006 graduate of Wartburg College. She earned her Master's in Toxicology in 2010 at Iowa State University and is currently finishing her graduate degree at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
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The two met while attending Iowa State University. A wedding is planned for March 16, 2013 in Elkhorn, Nebraska. Allen and Ashley both live in Omaha, Nebraska where they will reside after the marriage.


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Dangerous surf conditions have closed 14 of Wollongong's 17 patrolled beaches while the city's Twilight Markets, scheduled for tonight, have been cancelled due to forecast rain.
Only Thirroul, Sandon Point and Woonona beaches remain open.
Wollongong City Council's lifeguards are monitoring these beaches and will close them if conditions deteriorate.
A moderate swell and southerly onshore winds have contributed to choppy, unsafe swimming conditions.
''We ask swimmers and surfers exercise caution when at our beaches as this is a dynamic environment and the conditions are always changing,'' a council spokeswoman said.
''Please remember: No flags, no swim.''
It is not known when the beaches will reopen.
The city's tidal rock pools and ocean pools remain open.
Tonight's Twilight Markets, at Flagstaff Hill, have been cancelled due to wind and forecast storms. The markets will return March 1.


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CHAMPAIGN -- Johnny Jimenez placed himself in rarefied air, and George Fisher had perhaps the most stunning verdict on the championship night of the Class 3A individual wrestling state tournament Saturday night at the University of Illinois' Assembly Hall.
In the process, the two Marmion athletes continued the Cadets' remarkable string of individual state titles in recent years.
Jimenez, who was pitted against fellow two-time state finalist Sebastian Picque of Sandburg in the Class 3A 120-pound finals, outlasted the former state champion from Hinsdale South 3-0 to capture his third consecutive state championship.
The junior won titles in the middle-tier division of the three-class state tournament as an underclassmen the last two years.
Jimenez earned the whitewash victory with a first-period takedown and second-period escape to score the only points of the match.
"I didn't want to settle for two (state titles)," Jimenez said. "The state finals I am a little more cautious. I just kept shooting and shooting. I just never stop wrestling. I'm going to start working toward a fourth (state championship) next week."
Fisher, also making a third straight appearance in the finals, took far less time in his 132-pound showdown against Oak Park-River Forest sophomore Larry Early.
The Huskies' standout entered the championship with a season-long 45-match unbeaten streak.
Fisher claimed first blood with an early takedown and then preceded to induce a crowd-gasping maneuver that suddenly terminated the match with 15 seconds remaining in the opening period.
In what proved to be the only pin of the combined 28 championship matches in the two upper classes, Fisher made what coach Ryan Cumbee referred to as "a textbook move."
The Michigan-bound senior, who dropped a heart-wrenching loss last year in the championship after claiming one of five state titles for Marmion has a sophomore, ended his prep career in stunning fashion by dropping Early.
"It's something we have been working on all the time of late," Cumbee said. "That's a headlock into a near-side cradle."
Early struggled to break free, only to have Fisher claim his second career title with the shockingly easy first-period win.
"Most of the time I don't go for a cradle," Fisher said. "(Former state titlist) Angelo (Silvestro) told me to go out with a bang. I went for the cradle. I just knew (Early) was a tough kid from Oak Park."
The Cadets' fourth consecutive season of producing multiple state champions was forged by a fierce will to win between the two practice room partners.
"(Jimenez) and George will literally go for 20 minutes without either one getting a takedown," Cumbee said.
Marmion had two other athletes make the medal round.
Bookend team members Anthony Bosco was fourth at 106 pounds, and Alex Fritz was sixth at heavyweight.
"It was definitely a little disappointing not to be in the finals," Bosco said.
"The boys who didn't achieve their goals this weekend definitely learned invaluable lessons," Cumbee said.
Jimenez and Fisher ended their individual seasons -- the Cadets are still alive in the team state series -- with 95 combined victories; Jimenez enters the Hinsdale South sectional Tuesday with a 48-2 record, while Fisher is 47-4.
Danny Goress also ended his career at Kaneland with a cherished final effort.
Five-time defending team state champion Montini had eight finalists in Class 2A, but Goress was little phased in capturing the Knights' first state championship since 1993.
Michael Sepke was the top seed for the Broncos at 145 pounds. But Goress was not about to be denied in his third career state appearance.
The Knights' four-year standout broke a scoreless first-period tie with a quick escape and takedown in the second period.
Sepke escaped Goress midway through the third period, and Goress was assessed a stalling penalty point.
But it would be the last point the Broncos' senior would score as Goress held on dearly for a 3-2 victory.
"I knew I had to score fast (to start the second) to gain control of the match," Goress said. "Every kid's dream is to be a state champ. I have dreamed about this since freshman year. Hard work is everything."
"(Goress) was so confident this weekend," Kaneland coach Monty Jahns said. "He was so in his game. He took one match at a time. He has matured so much since last year."
Goress improved to 43-3 with the win.
Kaneland senior Zach Theiss ended his heavyweight career with a fifth-place win at 285 pounds.


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For their service and dedication, volunteers from the American Red Cross Pike Chapter were recently honored as part of National Volunteer Recognition week in the Hawley Silk Mill.
The Executive Director of the Wayne, Pike and Monroe County Chapters Michele Baehr said the Red Cross could not complete the organization's mission without the volunteers, because 94 percent of the Red Cross is run by volunteers.
From the Wayne Pike Chapter, there are currently 40 people who volunteer their time in various capacities, either by working in the office, at a blood drive or at emergencies. There were 25 present at the recognition breakfast, where they received an appreciation certificate and a goodie bag. The combined times that the volunteers contribute to serving the communities, Baehr said is what "really keeps the Red Cross going." The volunteers' time, talent and smiles, she said are very much appreciated.
Present at the breakfast were members of the Board of Directors, which is also made up of volunteers from the community and a few American Red Cross regional staff.
Baehr introduced the Wayne Pike Chapter Office Manager Linda Barney who needed no introduction because she has been, "the glue to keep everything together."
People volunteering their time, Wayne County Commissioner Brain Smith said is very "meaningful" because if the number of people that volunteer ever had to be paid, it couldn't happen. As volunteers, Smith said they are all part of a special group as the area fire companies and those who visit with seniors at the centers are also working within the community to selflessly help others. These volunteers, he said "give from themselves, from their heart of their time and they do it as a sacrifice of their own time and their own families."
With Baehr and Barney, Smith said "we have a breath of fresh air," and he encouraged the volunteers to recruit others because when emergencies strike, the Red Cross is there to help.
When Baehr was a child, her family's home was destroyed by a fire. Because of that, today Baehr said that experience has "compelled my heart to really want to give to the Red Cross." Having been on the receiving end, Baehr said it is amazing and now that she is able to give back, it is "incredibly meaningful" because she will never forget the importance volunteerism.
Discussing the significance of funding, Baehr said working with the staff from other Red Cross chapters is very important because together their resources are combined. To keep "fun" in fundraising, Baehr said is essential because it allows for a great "level of passion and enthusiasm," that the volunteers invest in the blood drives, responding to disasters and helping those in need of assistance. To inform the public about all that the American Red Cross does, Baehr said she is looking to create a chapter newsletter to "cultivate a culture here."
Since 2008 Jeff Banks has been a part of the Red Cross team, but more recently he joined the staff as the Disaster Program Specialist. Although he has only been in his position for a few weeks, Baehr said Banks has already been very busy. Banks said he is looking forward to work with the volunteers and he hopes to see many people at the American Red Cross blood drives.
Now that Banks is on staff, Baehr said it would be good to have more volunteers, and so on April 24 on the third floor of the Hawley Silk Mill there will be an opportunity for people interested in volunteering to learn more.
As a "fabulous resource and asset," for the Wayne Pike Chapter, Baehr introduced the American Red Cross Northeast Regional Manager of Volunteer Services Susan Kalkhuis-Beam who is based out of the Lehigh Valley area. Kalkhuis-Beam said although the Wayne Pike Chapter is smaller, together the volunteers are "mighty," as they are a "fabulous group of people." With the number of dedicated volunteers Kalkhuis-Beam concluded that, "the Titanic was built by professionals, Noah's Ark was built by volunteers."
American Red Cross volunteers recognized for their service
For their service and dedication, volunteers from the American Red Cross Pike Chapter were recently honored as part of National Volunteer Recognition week in the Hawley Silk Mill.


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Lesley Holden and son find cultural curiosities and religious relics are more than enough to keep young minds occupied.
'Why is Burma called Myanmar?" asks my 10-year-old as he points to a Myanmar Beer sticker on the door of our clapped-out taxi. Secretly I think Burma Beer sounds better. We all have lots of questions and the big one is how can my child have fun in a country with limited infrastructure after years of oppressive government and international isolation?
I want him to gain a sense of the Asia I experienced as a young backpacker. The world seemed foreign before globalisation and there were fewer travellers. Since then, Burma has become Myanmar, sanctions have been eased and tourists, including children, are welcome.
Burma is full of grand narratives to capture a child's imagination. The magnificent golden Shwedagon Paya, crowned with diamonds, emeralds, sapphires and rubies, is thought to be one of the oldest Buddhist temples in the world. Burma has haunted, crumbling colonial edifices and the charred evidence of Japanese occupation. There are ever-present monks and nuns who seek both enlightenment and democracy; "the Lady", Aung San Suu Kyi, has been released like a dove from her home prison and the military-dominated government is embracing reform. It is a happy ending a child wants to believe.
At 10, Jack is accustomed to pulling his own bag around Asia. The loop we travel is Yangon to Inle, Mandalay, Bagan and back to Yangon. Our soft landing in Yangon, formerly called Rangoon, is a hotel with pool. The plan is to stay in places with pools where possible, to beat the midday heat after a morning outing. We make the transition to calling the country Myanmar. It rhymes with "Mingalabar" - the chirpy greeting extended to us everywhere in this friendly country.
Burmese food is not too spicy and there are plenty of Indian and Chinese options for kids, reflecting centuries of immigration.We get around in battered old taxis. At the other extreme are toy-like new Mazda taxis that zip around the streets like wind-up mice.
Our cultural immersion begins around Yangon's Shwedagon Paya, among the flower sellers, sculptors chiselling giant Buddhas, shops selling maroon-coloured robes and other Buddhist paraphernalia, food vendors and kids selling plastic bags for carrying shoes past the temple threshold. Majestic staircases with souvenir stalls tucked on each side signal the scale of the temple complex.
A young monk sees Jack craning his neck to look at the Jataka ceiling murals and offers to explain their stories, in English, and shows us around the temple. We observe a women's "day of birth" sweeping ritual. The monk asks me what day of the week Jack was born.
Embarrassed, I can't remember and pick Wednesday. He asks, "Morning or afternoon?" That much I do remember - it was morning. Wednesday counts as two days in the Buddhist eight-day week.
Shwedagon is an entrancing place around sunset as the golden stupa begins to glow and shimmer while the sound of a meditative blend of chanting, gongs and bells increases. The monk shows Jack where to stand to see the refracted light from a giant emerald on the stupa. Spots are marked blue, orange, yellow and red, and green. Jack is mesmerised by the place. Not once does he mention he is bored.
Later, I tell him that in 1988 Aung San Suu Kyi stood with her two sons and English husband at Shwedagon Paya and declared her support for independence. Her youngest child, Kim, was 11 and after that event did not see his mother again for many years. This family story of sacrifice and higher purpose resonates with a 10-year-old. Later, we buy old currency that displays the portrait of Suu Kyi's father, General Aung San, a national hero who was assassinated in 1947.
At Inle in Shan State, a day-long boat trip is perfect for a young adventurer. Long boats with motors, wooden seats and lifejackets zoom noisily across the lake to see where fishermen row with their legs and see floating village life, temples and stupas. The scene at a hill-tribe market at the southern end of the lake is an ancient tableau. It is surreal watching my child pick his way around cow dung, oxen and carts, past women in costumes smoking cheroots, selling wood and vegetables, like an invisible time traveller. No one seems to notice us or tries to sell us anything. There's work to be done.
An unexpected highlight hidden in a reedy canal is a Burmese cat preservation program at the Inthar Heritage House resort. We are smothered by 30 affectionate cats, bred from Australian and American stock. The breed used to be the royal palace and temple cat.
In the afternoon a thunderstorm breaks. Driving rain and strong winds force us to shelter at the village of Inthien. Jack is cold and wet but it is good for a city kid to experience some elemental drama. A night's stay at the Golden Island Cottages II, in a bamboo villa on stilts over Inle lake, has us all feeling like kids in a tree house. Mandalay is a sprawling, sweaty, Chinese-influenced city and the most challenging place to travel with a child because of the traffic. The Mandalay City Hotel, with pool, is a perfect downtown bolt-hole after a morning spent undertaking a palace and temple tour. Later, we take Jack to see the Moustache Brothers show - another family who tell the story of modern Burma. While most of the script goes over his head, he loves the costumes and vaudeville feel of an edgy comedy troupe that satirises the nation's military government and has seen the brothers jailed.
We buy souvenirs from Mandalay's gold-pounding district, where rhythmic work undertaken by beaters produces the squares of gold leaf sold at temples. Yet Myanmar is one of the poorest countries in the world, even though it looks self-sufficient, with abundant food and crops.
We leave Mandalay by boat, taking a comfortable six-hour journey along the mighty Irrawaddy to the vast temple complex at Bagan. The city has more than 2200 temples and stupas, which sends our boy into a spin - how many do we have to see, he asks? - but a hotel pool and charming horse-and-cart ride to the Ananda Pahto temple, where a guide shows him where to stand to see a giant, gold serene Buddha seemingly smile, livens Jack up.
At sunset, the lantern-lit "restaurant street" has plenty of dinner options and after a meal we have a trishaw race back to the hotel. Next day, an early morning trip to Mount Popa means climbing the 700 steps to the hilltop temple accompanied by monkeys stalking the walkway roof, demanding peanuts from pilgrims. Jack's initial fear of them dissolves by about the 100-step mark.
So why is Burma called Myanmar? The former military government changed the colonial name but not everyone likes it. There are a lot of other changes taking place in this country but, for us, travelling to Myanmar at this time is special and at times humbling. Of course, there were days where the heat got us or we got to each other. But those moments were far outweighed by Jack's sense of wonder, adventure and fun, along with soul searching. He finds the few kids we saw begging or serving him in restaurants confronting and shook hands with a boy who sold postcards outside the Monsoon Restaurant in Yangon; a young, brilliant salesman who could secure sales in five languages. The boy's education was sponsored and Jack thought he had a great future - just like Burma.
Later, I work out Jack's actually Friday's child. His animal sign is a guinea pig but I suspect he would prefer it to be a Burmese cat.
Burmese daze: Keeping the kids amused
See Shwedagon Paya at sunrise or sunset.
Sule Paya is the only temple in the world that is also a roundabout. It has many temple cats.
Explore the Bogyoke Market (closed on Mondays).
Take a boat trip to markets, temples and stupas.
Visit the Intha Heritage House for Burmese cats. It's at the southern end of Inle Lake near Paw Khon village.
Hire a car and driver for a day-long "three ancient cities" tour.
Visit the gold-pounding district.
See U Bein bridge, the longest teak bridge in the world.
Visit the Nylon Ice Cream Bar.
See a performance by the Moustache Brothers. The show takes place most nights at their home. Tickets are $10. Take a taxi; the drivers know where the house is.
Take a boat trip to Bagan.
Take an early-morning horse-and-cart ride to the temples. Ananda Phato is a good place to start.
Shwesandaw is a good temple from which to view sunset; Shwezigon Paya, the golden temple in nearby Nyaung U, is also wonderful to see during the early morning or at sunset.
Dine in "restaurant street".
Getting there Singapore Airlines has a fare to Yangon for about $1160 low-season return from Sydney and Melbourne, including taxes. Fly to Singapore (about 8hr), then to Yangon (3hr); see singaporeair.com. Australians require a visa for stays of up to 28 days. There are scant ATMs or credit card facilities outside five-star hotels, so take US currency.
Staying there In Yangon, the Chatrium has rooms from $US189 ($179.80) a night; see chatrium.com. The Savoy has rooms from $US276; see savoy-myanmar.com. The boutique Clover Hotel City Centre, near Sula Paya and markets, has rooms from $US90; see clovercitycenter.asia.
At Inle Lake, the Golden Island Cottages II has rooms from $US90 a night; see gicmyanmar.com. At Nyaung Shwe, PYI Guest House has bungalows from $US50; email email@example.com.
In Mandalay, the 67-room Mandalay City Hotel has rooms from $US60 a night; see mandalaycityhotel.com.
In Bagan, Thante Nyaung Oo has bungalows from $US60 a night; see thantenyu.com.


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Officials at the Kane County State's Attorney's Office answered 48 calls on their election hotline last week, most due to polling or registration questions and a handful of electioneering complaints.
Prosecutors also personally visited about half the 96 polling places in the county on Election Day to ensure there were no violations, State's Attorney Joe McMahon said Tuesday during his monthly media briefing.
"Overall, we're very pleased with the process," he said.
Assistants State's Attorney Amy Engerman said that in the 2008 election, officials received 120 calls, but most of these were questions for the Aurora Election Commission, which is separate from the county and has its own legal counsel.
Engerman said this time around, some common queries and complaints were from voters who had problems finding the right entrance at a polling place, such as a school, or whether an ID was needed to vote. Typically, a government issued ID is only needed to vote early.
"This was a pretty big election for us this year as far as the hotline goes," she said. "Some voters think that an ID should be used on Election Day. Some don't. It goes back and forth."
McMahon said most of the polling places that his staff visited were in Elgin and Dundee townships.
"All inquiries were resolved at the site, no charges were necessary and there were no disruptions to the voting process," he said.
McMahon said election judges working at each polling place have the hotline number provided by his office as well as a hotline for Kane County Clerk Jack Cunningham's office for general questions, such as where to vote.


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Thursday night's Confederations Cup semi-final proved a couple of things that most people already knew but some still deny. Firstly, that you don't need goals to have a good time. Secondly, that penalty shootouts are a terrific way to determine victors after an inconclusive duel, adding a whole new layer of drama to an unpredictable contest.
The most unsatisfying way for a match to be settled from a neutral viewpoint is with a goal in the last minute of extra time or, when the rules permitted it, a golden goal. Both of these make late outcomes feel premature, denying us the more textured denouement of a shootout and leaving us with the same sense of being cheated that we get when a hitherto well-plotted movie ends with the hero escaping from a sticky situation by suddenly waking up to find it was all just a dream.
Not all shootouts are great, of course, and great ones can be great for different reasons. The trial is designed to be short and emphatic, yet there is a wide range of ways for the resolution to be reached.
Thursday night was a prime example of one genre of entertaining shootout: a fusillade of ace marksmen. Spain and Italy offered a textbook retort to anyone who barfs the cliche about shootouts being like Russian roulette. Shootouts are not governed by chance. Teams who believe they are lotteries tend to lose.
Sir Clive Woodward, a rugby manager whose success was built on open-minded meticulousness, once said footballers could be coached to ensure they scored at least 99 out of every 100 penalties.
That assertion was based on the belief that when players miss it is because of mental failings, either a lack of focus or a surplus of nerves. And the best way to neutralise nerves is to hone technique.
This entails following a process that simultaneously dehumanises the fateful kick while boosting that crucial human fuel, confidence. In much the same way that the world's best golfers continually practice four-foot putts, footballers can rehearse penalties so diligently that taking them becomes an almost mechanical process, a deed that they barely have to think about and can therefore execute as coldly as contract killers.
The belief that they have achieved such a state of callous excellence adds confidence and helps them to tame the emotions that can still creep in as the stakes, physical discomfort and atmosphere bring to bear forces that cannot be replicated in training (though trying to replicate them makes sense, which is why Aidy Boothroyd took Woodward's advice before the 2006 Champions playoffs and asked Watford fans to stay behind after a match at Vicarage Road to boo his players as they practised spot-kicks).
On Thursday night, with each set of players facing one of the best goalkeepers in the world after 120 minutes of intense action in conditions so humid that the BBC commentary team felt unable to complete a sentence without referring to the weather, every Spanish and Italian player until Leonardo Bonucci dispatched technically perfect shots into the net. It was perhaps the coolest shootout display since Italy's triumph in the 2006 World Cup final or Zambia's victory in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations final. The latter was made even more uplifting by the fact most of the Zambians went for the most risky option – hitting high rather than low – and that the extraordinary background story to their success generated a level of pressure and eagerness that few, if any, teams had experienced.
Background stories can be crystallised beautifully in shootouts. England's victory over Spain at Euro 96 was made all the more exhilarating by the redemption of Stuart Pearce. Antonin Panenka's chip in 1976 was all the more glorious because no one had dared do it before and, some might say, Chelsea's defeat in the 2008 Champions League final was made all the more amusing by John Terry's slip, just as their triumph last year was all the more poignant because it was secured with Didier Drogba's last kick for the club.
Then there are the shootouts when the hero is a villain, like Harald Schumacher in the 1982 World Cup semi-final, in which the West German goalkeeper should not have been on the pitch to save two penalties since he had knocked out Patrick Battiston earlier in the game; or the 2010 quarter-final when Luis Suárez was rewarded for his cynical handball in the last minute by Asamoah Gyan missing the ensuing penalty – Gyan showed great gumption to score the first spot-kick in the shootout but Uruguay still prevailed to claim a win as deliciously incorrect as adult frolics in a church.
Then there is the scope for twists and turns even within what is supposed to be a brief exchange (we're back to talking about the penalties here, forget the frolics). The dullest shootouts tend to be when the first one is missed and all the others scored, such as in the 1991 European Cup final when Manuel Amoros's early miss for Marseille confirmed the fear that Red Star Belgrade's dastardly plot of playing for a shootout from virtually the first minute was going to pay off, though you still had to admire the deadliness with which Red Star converted theirs.
In contrast, the most gripping can be the epic ones where you wonder whether anyone is going to miss, with the ignominy that will befall the eventual goofer growing with each successful strike. Consider the drama of the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final between Cameroon and Ivory Coast when every player, including both goalkeepers, scored from the spot before Samuel Eto'o botched his second attempt and Drogba converted again to seal a 12-11 win and confirm their status as kings of the marathon shootouts following their 11-10 victory over Ghana in the 1992 final.
On the flip side, we have seen improbable sequences of misses when we wondered whether anyone was going to score, most memorably in the 1986 European Cup final when Helmuth Duckadam saved all four Barcelona penalties to seal a historic coronation for Steaua Bucharest.
Then there are the shootouts in which momentum veers one way and then skids to a stop and hurtles amazingly in the other direction. No one would be still talking about the 1995 FA Cup fourth-round replay between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Sheffield Wednesday if Wolves had not fallen 3-0 behind in the shootout yet still emerged victorious, as Wednesday missed their fourth and fifth before Chris Waddle managed to avoid blazing their sixth one over the bar, instead donking it straight into the goalkeeper's arms.


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NHL Game Night: 3-2-12 Rangers at Lightning
Belief is growing.
Mathieu Garon allowed 3 goals on 19 shots for the win.
First Period
NYR Anisimov (13), (McDonagh), 10:09
Second Period
NYR Gaborik (31), (Stepan, Richards)(PP), 2:43
TB Pyatt (7), (Connolly, Lee), 7:09
Third Period
TB Purcell (18), (St. Louis, Stamkos), 3:37
TB Stamkos (45), (Lee, Purcell), 10:17
NYR Dubinsky (7), (Gaborik, Stralman), 16:33
TB Malone (11), (Purcell, Brewer), 1:58
Ryan Malone and Steven Stamkos were the game's first and second stars. Who has two thumbs and a fantasy team that cleaned up in this game? This guy! (I've got Stamkos, Purcell, Gaborik, and Stepan. Yes, you should be envious.)
The Lightning had some moments where they got hemmed in their own zone tonight, but this new group of d-men seems much more mobile and much more positionally sound than the pre-deadline edition. They're more capable of riding out surges and they helped stake the Lightning to a nice 31-19 shots advantage tonight against the conference's top team. They deserved this win tonight, and they're now just 4 points out of the last playoff spot (and 6 back in the division). A win tomorrow night in Carolina would put them no worse than 2 points out of 8th place, and possibly also 4 back in the division. Tomorrow night is THE game, and I've got a feeling this group of players will be flying tomorrow. They've got the scent of blood in the water. I just wish Vinny Lecavalier and Victor Hedman were healthy for this run, because if they were the Lightning might well be worth betting on making it in after tonight's game.
Brian Lee still doesn't fully know Guy Boucher's system, but you can already tell that Steve Yzerman robbed Ottawa in that deal. I might've done a little cartwheel when I saw the press release for the trade, because this guy was expected to be a stud righty-shot 2-way defenseman when he was drafted in the top-10 by the Senators. Nothing against Gilroy, who is pretty athletic in his own right, but this guy is a potential thoroughbred. I was shocked Ottawa gave up on him. He's mobile. He sticks his nose in. And, what I really like and I think even the Lightning may not have fully appreciated, this guy is cooler than Billy Dee Williams in the offensive zone. You saw poise and command tonight from the point from Lee, and it led to 2 assists. I love that pick up. This guy's got a chance to be a permanent fixture for the Lightning, whether he plays on the top pair with Hedman or the second pair in the future.
Keith Aulie was +1 with 2 penalty minutes, 3 hits, and 1 blocked shot in 10:39 in his Lightning debut. It was too small a sample set of minutes to really say much one way or the another except: #3? Man, they gave you Eric Charron's number? What did you do to get the equipment guy that mad at you already? They gave that number to Sergey Gusev and by the time it was through with him he never played another NHL game. Be afraid, Aulie. Be very afraid. That digit is cursed.
Brandon Segal was -1 with 1 shot in 4:51.
J.T. Wyman had 1 blocked shot in 12:12.
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5 tips for hiring the right candidate
For many hiring managers, this is the toughest hiring market in 10 years. The time-to-hire metric most recruiters use to gauge their work is expanding beyond comfort.
How can this be, when our national unemployment rate is still above 7 percent? Many labor economists believe the true unemployment rate for candidates with a bachelor of science degree and more than two or three years of experience is actually 3.5 percent. It's even lower in industries that are growing and rapidly evolving.
Ask any recruiter what the problem is and they'll tell you that for many jobs, they simply can't find or attract the right candidates. If you've found it difficult to attract the right talent to your organization, consider these five possible ways to improve your hiring effectiveness.
1. Focus on the outcomes of the role rather than the person who will do it.
The job boards are filled with positions that focus too narrowly on a set of predetermined education requirements, skills and traits rather than the desired outcomes of the role. Too many job postings list experience requirements interlaced with generic responsibilities and meaningless catchphrases such as "communicate effectively" or "create value." It's far more productive to define the significant outcomes and goals of the position, before defining the person and the required skill sets.
2. It's not about you. It's about attracting top talent in a tight market.
Stop creating job descriptions that have a heavy focus on your company, business model and presence in the marketplace. Hiring is about the talent — their needs, growth and opportunities for growth.
In this respect, recruiting is like sales. Do you have an opportunity that would be a better or superior career opportunity for the candidates you'd like to attract? Superior can be defined by many factors; better commute, promotion, an enlightened CEO or a better manager. Remember, "better" is in the eye of the beholder.
And does the job description creatively express why someone should be interested in learning more? Many companies are confusing their corporate branding with the appropriate sales approach required to attract and secure the right talent.
3. Quickly identify the candidate's primary acceptance criteria.
Somewhere early in the hiring process, create a way to uncover what your candidate would identify as the most important criteria they'd want or need to accept a role. This will enable your team to more quickly evaluate those criteria, and see if they are reasonable for your firm. Having this information also will allow you to tailor your future interviews to address these criteria.
4. Improve your hiring IQ.
Though we are through the worst of the Great Recession, most hiring managers aren't up to speed on how to hire effectively. Many are using old techniques and their gut to interview and gauge incoming talent. Big mistake.
Encourage all managers involved in the hiring process to use a consistent process that includes the ability to sell the candidate about the role. Many managers do a poor job selling the company because they don't have a lot of time to keep up with competitive job market information, or they're too burnt out to do it effectively.
Educate your team about the trends; make sure everyone that meets a candidate knows and can articulate why your organization is better. The process of selling innovators, top performers, executives or technologists is less effective if it's not carefully customized.
5. Evaluate your hiring process.
After you hire your next employee, spend time with her after she's been on board for about two months and ask how you could have done a better job in the hiring process.
Did you miss an opportunity to better prepare her for the role? Could you have explained the opportunity she was being presented with any better? How would she evaluate the hiring process? What did your organization do better than others she interviewed with?
Also, call a candidate who didn't accept your position and ask them the same questions. Use this information to improve your sourcing, interviewing and hiring process.
Skilled workers aren't finding compelling reasons to give up their perceived security for a lateral new position. The best companies will evolve their recruiting practices to be more strategic, consultative and sales-oriented if they are to attract the people most likely to help fuel growth and profits.
Stephanie Klein, president and CEO of Experience Factor, a Denver recruiting firm, and chair of the Denver Workforce Investment Board, can be reached at 303-300-6976 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Transforming Power of Hospitality
24-Hour Seminar: Pray, Study, Reflect, Create
In a setting of prayer and reflection, participants examine issues of great relevance to Christian life and ministry.
Saint John's Abbey Guesthouse
Collegeville, Minnesota
Cost: $75.00 (includes housing and meals)
Scholarhip funds available to those actively working in ministry.
The Transforming Power of Hospitality
The practice of hospitality, in a Benedictine perspective, is about more than delegating the task to a small group of volunteers for Sunday mornings. It is the core dynamic of being a community as every person shares the commitment to welcome one another as Christ. Such a profound spirit of welcome transforms relationships, decision-making, and the way we make space for those with whom we might disagree. Yet, fostering a deeply felt sense of community built on hospitality continues to elude too many Christian leaders and the people we serve. Read More
Sam Rahberg is Director of The Benedictine Retreat Center of St. Paul's Monastery and a
2005 graduate of Saint John's School of Theology·Seminary.


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By a nose?
The Arlington Million was the world's first million-dollar horse race, and the tradition continues Saturday at Arlington International Racecourse, 2200 W. Euclid Ave., Arlington Heights. $20-$250. (847) 385-7500 or arlingtonpark.com. 10 a.m. gates open Saturday, Aug. 17, with a 12:15 p.m. post time
Look to the sky!
The Aeroshell Aerobatic Team, the Lima Lima Flight Team and Sean D. Tucker & Team Oracle are some of the headliners at the annual Chicago Air and Water Show. The show takes place in the skies above Chicago's lakefront, from Fullerton to Oak Street. North Avenue Beach is the central gathering point for the show. Free. Visit cityofchicago.org. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 17-18
Grilling 101
Learn grilling from the experts at Weber Grill's school Saturday. The menu includes roasted summer potatoes with rosemary and orange; cedar-planked scallops with grilled corn salad; and strip steaks topped with heirloom tomatoes and blue cheese vinaigrette. $85 per person. Registration is required. Weber Grill is located at 1010 N. Meacham Road, Schaumburg. (847) 413-0800 or webergrillrestaurant.com. 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 17
National Honeybee Day
Celebrate National Honeybee Day on Saturday, Aug. 17, at the "Beekeeping: How to Get Started" open house at Kline Creek Farm, 1N600 County Farm Road, West Chicago. Guests can learn the process of starting one's own hive and the equipment that is required. Learn how to care for the bees, how to extract honey and more. Visitors can also tour the farm's honey house and see how honey gets from a beehive to the kitchen. For all ages. Free. No registration is required. (630) 933-7200 or dupageforest.org. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17
Dogstravaganza! Festival
Dogs and their human companions are invited to spend a day of fun together at the Dogstravaganza! Festival at the Tail Gate dog day care center, 830 N. Addison Ave., Elmhurst. Highlights include doggy swimming in the center's indoor pool, contests, a clown, animal adoption events, a dog ice cream social and more. Free. (630) 834-3030 or tailgatefordogs.com. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17
Calling all antique collectors
Sixty antique dealers will be on hand with everything from antique furniture and vintage clothing to folk art, jewelry and more at the Chicago O'Hare Antiques Show and Sale at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, 5555 N. River Road, Rosemont. Admission is $10 and is good for all three days of the show. (708) 366-2710 or chicagoohareantiques.com. Noon to 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18
Afrofest & Jamaicafest
Get double the festival fun at Afrofest and Jamaicafest at the Greenbelt Cultural Center located in the Greenbelt Forest Preserve, 1215 Green Bay Road, North Chicago. A market, dancing, costumes, fashion show, a limbo contest, food and live music are some of the highlights. Free. Note: Use the entrance on the east side of Green Bay Road. (847) 968-3477 or lcfpd.org. 2 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17
See which team will come out on top when the Legends Football League Playoffs (formerly known as the Lingerie Football League) take place Saturday at the Sears Centre Arena, 5333 Prairie Stone Parkway, Hoffman Estates. $17-$87 for both games; $15 parking. (888) 732-7784 or searscentre.com. 7 p.m. Eastern Divisional Game and 9 p.m. Western Divisional Game Saturday, Aug. 17
Matrimonial mirth
GayCo, Chicago's oldest lesbian and gay sketch comedy troupe, returns to the suburbs with its hot-topic revue "Weddings of Mass Destruction" Saturday at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell St., Arlington Heights. $25. (847) 577-2121 or metropolisarts.com. 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17
Nora Dunn solo
Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Nora Dunn, who recently co-starred in Drury Lane's "Boeing Boeing," debuts her solo show, "Mythical Proportions," at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago. Inspired in part by Dunn's childhood in Chicago, the show consists of monologues from characters ranging from an octogenarian Hollywood doyenne to a 7-year-old mystified by television. $24-$38. (773) 975-8150 theaterwit.org or mythologicalproportions.com. Previews continue at 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 17-18; the show opens at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19
Singing the blues
Blues legend and recent recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, Buddy Guy performs on the same bill with George Thorogood & The Destroyers Saturday at the Ravinia Festival, 418 Sheridan Road, Highland Park. $75-$85 reserved seating; $33-$38 lawn seating. (847) 266-5100 or ravinia.org. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17
A 'Rite' riot
Igor Stravinsky's avant-garde ballet "The Rite of Spring" caused a riot when it debuted in Paris 100 years ago. Let's hope the reaction won't be as raucous when the Grant Park Music Festival performs the work alongside John Adams' "Harmonium" this weekend at Millennium Park's Pritzker Pavilion, Columbus Drive and Randolph Street, Chicago. Free. (312) 742-1168 or grantparkmusicfestival.com. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17
Bloody ruler
After a run in downtown Chicago, Organic Theatre Company brings its production of Albert Camus' "Caligula" to North Central College's Meiley-Swallow Hall, 31 S. Ellsworth St., Naperville. $30; $20 students/seniors. (630) 637-7469 or northcentralcollege.edu/showtix. 7:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17
TV tales
Comedian and impressionist Mike Toomey tells tales of how 1960s and '70s television affected his life in the show "TV & Me" this weekend at Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. $32. (630) 584-6342 or pheasantrun.com. 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17
Local singer returns
Chicago singer-songwriter Michael McDermott returns to Rosemont this weekend for a show at the Montrose Room, located inside the InterContinental Chicago O'Hare hotel, 5300 N. River Road. McDermott emerged on the local music scene in the 1990s, when his debut album "620 W. Surf" produced the hit song, "A Wall I Must Climb." He's made literate and personal music ever since, documenting the ups and downs of his life with driving folk-rock anthems. Tickets start at $15. Go to montroseroom.com. 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17
Soapy star
Soap star Walt Willey, aka Jackson Montgomery on ABC's "All My Children," performs standup this weekend at two Zanies locations: Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles, (630) 584-6342, $25 plus a two-item menu purchase. Then at MB Financial Park, 5437 Park Place, Rosemont, (847) 813-0484, $50 VIP meet-and-greet one hour before the show. zanies.com. 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, in St. Charles; 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18, in Rosemont
Dark Side outside
Get a sense of what made the concerts of Pink Floyd such a sensory experience in the 1970s when "The Pink Floyd Experience" plays Saturday at RiverEdge Park, 360 N. Broadway St., Aurora. $20-$60. (630) 896-6666 or riveredgeaurora.com. 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17
Big band dance
Step out on the dance floor as the 16-piece Bobby Sanders Orchestra plays big band tunes at the Big Band Dance at Metropolis Ballroom, 6 S. Vail Ave., Arlington Heights. Singles and couples are invited. Those who prefer not to dance are welcome to attend for the concert. Admission is $15 per person. For information, call (847) 392-0918. 7 to 10 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18
Louise Mosrie
Nashville artist Louise Mosrie performs a concert of Americana, bluegrass, folk melodies and stories at The In-Law's Restaurant, 720 Milwaukee Ave., Gurnee. The event is hosted by the Lake County Folk Club. Admission is $12; $10 for seniors and club members; $5 for teens. Call (847) 602-8882 by noon on the day of concert for reservations. Visit thelakecountyfolkclub.org. 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18


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Nearly two full weeks into the new league year, one of the Baltimore Ravens' top free agents has finally found a new home.
Safety James Ihedigbo, a notable contributor to the Super Bowl XLVII championship team made the announcement about his future Tuesday night via Twitter.
Ihedigbo inked a two year deal in Detroit according to multiple reports. The safety had visited Motown early in the free agent process and the team hosted two other free agent safeties before a deal was reached.
The former UMass standout joins former Ravens secondary coach Teryl Austin in Detroit, Austin was named Defensive Coordinator in January after former Ravens Offensive Coordinator Jim Caldwell replaced Jim Schwartz (Mt. St. Joseph) as the team's head coach.
Ihedigbo was a very pleasant surprise during his tenure in Charm City, signing just before the start of the 2012 season after being released by the New England Patriots. He immediately made an impact on Special Teams and later on the defensive side of the ball en route to playing in his second straight Super Bowl.
The former undrafted free agent was extremely valuable for the Ravens' secondary in 2013, starting all 16 games at strong safety after the team's acquisition of former Oakland Raiders S Michael Huff proved fruitless. Ihedigbo tallied 101 tackles, his first three career interceptions and forced two fumbles.
After the 2013 season, Ihedigbo told WNST.net he played for the league minimum in Baltimore and felt he had "outplayed his contract". Both he and the Ravens admitted rookie Matt Elam likely played out of position last year at free safety, making it logical for Ihedigbo to end up finding work elsewhere and the 2013 first round pick to shift to the strong safety position.
The Ravens have thus far failed to find a new starting free safety although they did add depth to the position by signing former St. Louis Ram Darian Stewart last week. Other safeties on the roster include younger players who have mostly been special teams contributors like Brynden Trawick, Jeromy Miles, Omar Brown and Anthony Levine.
New Ravens secondary coach Steve Spagnuolo has also lost cornerback Corey Graham to Buffalo via free agency.
The only unrestricted Ravens free agents remaining on the market are TE Ed Dickson, DL Terrence Cody, RB Bernard Scott and TE Dallas Clark. WR Brandon Stokley announced his intention to retire at the end of the 2013 season. Of the group, only Dickson has reportedly been offered a deal to return to Baltimore.


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As the nation hurtles toward 2013's "fiscal cliff" — a combination of tax increases and spending cuts designed to tackle the nation's ballooning deficit — pundits from across the political spectrum are inciting full-scale panic.
They warn about the tax increases the fiscal cliff could bring while destroying a fragile economy and ravaging a citizenry facing difficult economic times. They call upon the president and congressional Republicans to do whatever is necessary to reach a compromise to avert this coming tax disaster.
My advice to President Barack Obama is different. He should let us go over the precipice.
I have no desire to cause a fiscal calamity, but I do believe that the current tax policy in Washington is so politicized and the rhetoric so detached from reality that no productive compromise can emerge. We need a fresh start before we can reach any meaningful consensus on future tax policy. The path to this fresh start lies just beyond the fiscal cliff.
The roots of the problem trace back over a decade. When Congress enacted the 2001 tax cuts, the so-called "Bush tax cuts," Senate procedural rules prohibited any permanent tax cut that would add to the long-term deficit. Mr. Bush and the 2001 Congress had two alternatives. They could structure a permanent package of tax reductions and revenue measures that would not increase the deficit, or they could settle for a temporary, budget-busting tax act. They chose the latter course, including a sunset provision that would end the Bush tax cuts after 10 years.
But the politicians of 2001 had a stealth agenda for their "temporary" tax cut. They predicted that tax reductions that lasted a decade would become so entrenched in our political culture that future Congresses would be all but forced to extend those cuts (as Congress did in 2010). Notwithstanding their temporary nature and their deficit-swelling effect, low tax rates would become viewed as a permanent fixture. When the tax cuts were due to expire, the American people would refuse to let them go. Like a house guest who never leaves, the temporary tax cuts would effectively become permanent.
That political trick had its intended effect. It led to the rhetoric we hear today. It created the current political reality that to let these temporary taxes expire would be equated with affirmatively choosing to raise taxes. Additionally, any attempt to compromise upon rates between the Bush rates and the projected 2013 rates — a tax cut in substance — will be decried as a tax increase. More than a decade later, Mr. Bush and the Congress of 2001 are still in control of the national tax debate.
Fortunately, there is a way out of this morass. There is a way to make clear that the 2001 tax cuts were temporary and that extending them, in whole or part, would be to cut taxes. President Obama can risk the political fallout of making this hard choice. He should simply let the Bush tax cuts run their course. He should let the fiscal cliff work its magic.
When we go over the fiscal cliff, our economy will not be destroyed overnight. Tax rates will rise, but they can be brought back down. Government spending will drop, but it can be restored. The damage can be undone. But, the benefits will be worth the trouble.
Once on the other side of the cliff, Congress and the American people will come to understand the reality of the 2001 tax cuts. They were temporary. And they will be gone.
And once the cuts are gone, Congress and the president can work quickly to reduce taxes but in an environment where everyone is using the same terms — where a tax cut is called a tax cut, even if it's less generous than the 2001 cuts had been.
In this environment, politicians will be free to enact tax reductions that meet the needs of 2013 rather than slavishly following dictates from 2001. The Bush tax cuts will be gone. The Obama tax cuts will take effect. The fiscal cliff will have served us well.
Jeffrey A. Cooper is professor of law at Quinnipiac University School of Law.


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CONCORD, N.C. - Notes from final, round 3 qualifying in Top Alcohol Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, Fourth annual Dollar General NHRA Four-Wide Nationals fueled by Full Throttle listing lane, driver name, elapsed time/top speed this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time/speed, and position in order prior to run:
Right Lane: Ray Drew Runs 5.608/254.47, Now #2; Best prior run: 5.853/254.38, Was #14
Weather conditions: air temperature 64 degrees, relative humidity 29 percent, barometer 29.49 inches, adjusted altitude 1,167 feet, track temperature 86 degrees.
Drew launched hard and
keep the car stuck and in the groove to go to the number two spot. Ray Drew's incremental times:
60ft-0.957 sec., 330ft-2.491, 660ft-3.694/205.69 mph, 1,000ft-4.727.
Right Lane: Marie Ferriolo Runs 6.056/246.08, Now #11; Best prior run: 5.783/248.98, Was #11
Ferriolo starts to shake right off the starting line and pedals it and then straight down the groove.
Left Lane: Mark Rogers Runs 5.715/246.39, Now #10; Best prior run: 5.825/245.32, Was #13
Right Lane: Cassie Simonton Runs 10.014/125.72, Now #9; Best prior run: 5.694/255.97, Was #9
Simonton was up in smoke as soon as she hit the throttle and clicked it off. rogers with a good pass with his quickest pass of the weekend. He moves up to the number ten spot.
Left Lane: Annie Whiteley Runs 5.541/256.50, Now #1; Best prior run: 5.727/257.04, Was #11
Right Lane: Todd Veney Runs 12.456/82.70, Now #9; Best prior run: 5.667/254.90, Was #8
Veney with problems right off the starting line and clicks it off. Whitely launched hard and was straight down the groove to go to the number one spot. Annie Whiteley's incremental times: 60ft-0.944 sec., 330ft-2.460, 660ft-3.647/208.81 mph, 1,000ft-4.670.
Left Lane: Andy Bohl No Time, Now #7; Best prior run: 5.624/257.28, Was #6
Right Lane: Dan Pomponio Runs 5.565/260.51, Now #2; Best prior run: 5.664/256.26, Was #8
bohl with problems as soon as the light turns green and he comes to a stop on the track about 100 feet out. Pomponio with a great looking pass to go to the number two spot, this is his career fastest pass. Dan Pomponio's incremental times: 60ft-0.944 sec., 330ft-2.481, 660ft-3.683/206.07 mph, 1,000ft-4.703.
Left Lane: Dale Brand Runs 5.530/262.33, Now #1; Best prior run: 5.622/257.38, Was #6
Right Lane: Paul Noakes Runs 5.695/247.66, Now #8; Best prior run: 5.628/259.61, Was #8
Brand with a great looking pass, straight down the groove to the number one spot, and this is his career fastest pass. Dale Brand's incremental times: 60ft-0.951 sec., 330ft-2.471, 660ft-3.661/208.62 mph, 1,000ft-4.674. Noakes with another good pass, but doesn't improve.
Left Lane: Chris Foster Runs 5.476/263.10, Now #1; Best prior run: 5.621/257.92, Was #6
Right Lane: Frank Manzo Runs 13.776/71.67, Now #5; Best prior run: 5.602/260.01, Was #4
Manzo is running a new car this weekend. He is shakes the tires as soon as he hits the throttle and clicks it off. Foster with his career quickest and fastest pass to go to the number one spot. That was a great looking pass. Chris Foster's incremental times: 60ft-0.945 sec., 330ft-2.445, 660ft-3.620/210.83 mph, 1,000ft-4.624.
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Attorney General Demands Reliant Energy Records for Probe of Possible Price-Gouging, Anti-Competitive Behavior Affecting Electricity Prices
Also Demands Energy Records From the Mirant Corporation
(SAN FRANCISCO) – Attorney General Bill Lockyer today demanded that Reliant Energy and the Mirant Corporation produce documents subpoenaed in the California Department of Justice investigation of possibly unlawful or anti-competitive behavior affecting soaring electricity prices in the state.
"There must be a short-circuit here because Reliant is claiming cooperation with our investigation while refusing to turn over documents," Lockyer said.
The Attorney General asked the San Francisco Superior Court to order Reliant and Mirant to produce subpoenaed documents that were due March 19. The Attorney General told the court that both power companies have failed to furnish documents despite being given assurances on the confidentiality of their sensitive and proprietary information.
"Reliant's sole basis for refusing to produce confidential information is its claim that the Attorney General may not share such information with other governmental agencies that the Attorney General may enlist to aid him in his investigation," the Attorney General stated in the complaint. "The argument simply lacks merit."
"Reliant has sufficient guarantees regarding the confidentiality of its information," the complaint said. "The Attorney General has stated that he will not share confidential data with governmental agencies which have acted as Reliant's competitors in the market or agencies with whom Reliant is negotiating energy contracts. Disclosure of confidential information by any subordinate officer is a misdemeanor and punishable by that officer being disqualified from acting in any official capacity in the department. Any government agency receiving information from the Attorney General to aid him in his investigation would be bound by the same requirement."
Similar arguments were made in seeking subpoenaed documents from power company Mirant.


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The wagon: simple, sturdy, enduring, endearing, dependable and devoted. Wagons were a mechanism for travel and transportation once pulled behind a horse and maneuvered by a driver. One might imagine a wagon being used to transport feed from town to a homestead or to carry dairy from a farm to a general store. Who has imagined a wagon being used to forge a deep connection and, perhaps, a way to grow and share love?
Just last week the Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society acquired such a wagon and transported it from its loving home to our storage facility. I received a phone call a couple weeks before from a woman I will call Mary, as that's her name, who began to tell the story of how the wagon in her front yard came to be. Intrigued by her story, and the emotion behind her words, we met at her home so I could see this piece of history firsthand and determine if it would be a good fit for our collection.
The wagon is simple. Wood slat, metal hinges and fasteners, wood bottom rails with a wood trace. Clearly this was a handmade piece whose weathered look and feel spoke of many decades past. Mary shared with me that she originally called the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake inquiring as to its value and purpose as well as to determine a proper final resting place for it. The museum curator determined the wagon originated from the mid-to-late 1800s and was structured so that the sleigh bottom could be replaced with wheels during favorable weather. As the Adirondack Museum came to see but ultimately declined to procure the wagon, Mary learned of the LP-NEHS and gave me a call.
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Mary's wagon that was donated to the Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society
Because, you see, Mary was selling her beautiful Lake Placid home, a home she had built with her husband several years ago as their summer place. Not just a summer place, though. This was the home that held their hearts, their dreams, and their future. The new owners did not want this old wagon and she was fearful it would end up in the dump. Why the attachment to this old wood and metal relic in her front yard? Her husband had found it up the road from their house and rebuilt it piece by piece by scouring websites and calling everyone he could think of to learn more about the structure of old Adirondack wagons. He was a frequent visitor to Lamb Lumber but sought to keep as much of the original look and feel as absolutely possible. He loved that wagon and spent weeks and weeks bringing it back to life.
Sadly, Mary's husband passed away suddenly over a year ago. That first day we met at her home I had the pleasure of listening to Mary talk of her husband and their life together. She showed me his woodwork all over their home and spoke of the time he spent creating beautiful birch bark frames and shelves which now line the walls. His hand was everywhere. In sharing just a glimpse of their life together, their love of the Adirondacks, and love for each other, Mary created a connection which will never be forgotten. In sharing their story of this little wagon, those memories are passed on and become part of the collective memory of Lake Placid.
So last Saturday, a group from the historical society met at Mary's house to retrieve the little wagon. It was a cold day and snow covered everything but there was a spirit of generosity and acceptance in the air that lightened the mood. Mary stood by as we carefully slid the wagon through the snow and up into our moving truck. Once it was safely tucked in for the ride across town, we all turned to thank Mary for her gift to us and to you. Mary just said she was grateful. Grateful that all the time, energy, and heart her husband put into his project was not in vain. His love for and stewardship of this 100-year-old piece of history continues as it finds a new home in the history museum.
For anyone who has loved and lost, there can be no greater knowledge than that of having your loved one carry on in a meaningful way. So as we come into our holiday season this year, those of us at the LP-NEHS wish you and yours peace and joy. Make a new memory and remember an old one. Carry forward with love.
Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society
Contact: Jennifer Tufano
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Rhetorical Physics
Posted on | November 19, 2012 | 12 Comments
by Smitty
If U discuss Ds' 80 yr old free stuff strategy, Ds say UR racist & estab Rs say UR mean & divisive. This is pure insanity. #tcot #p2 #war
— Matthew Vadum (@vadum) November 19, 2012
More fully: "If you discuss Democrat's 80 year old 'free stuff' strategy, Democrats say you're racist, and establishment Republicans say you're mean and divisive. This is pure insanity."
In the Newtonian realm, we talk about force being the product of mass and acceleration. That's the 2th Law. For those who've spent the last few years leading a parched herd of horses to water and wondering why they vote for thirst, I'd like to suggest a Newtonian analogy.
The rational, intellectual, economic, historical, patriotic, liberty-oriented arguments that have been offered by conservatives everywhere from blogs to policy have been, well, massive.
Yet those arguments haven't overcome the acceleratingly negative, emotionally-oriented racial and class-warfare rhetoric of the statists. The Left has a substantially greater negative vector than that of the Right. Remember: enough speed in the wrong direction can weaponize a piece of insulating foam. Similarly, when dealing with people, a nonsensical argument delivered properly can devastate even the truth.
The facts don't sell themselves. The stupefying Gramscian trajectory of the last decades has meant that no mass short of the Sweet Meteor of Death is going to budge our benighted electorate.
Thus, without losing any of the enlightened mass that has built up on the Right, the challenge is to uncover our own means of accelerating that mass in the public discourse. For example, had I the budget, I should look to run really short (15 second) spots in swing states at a low frequency, say quarterly. All thse would do is feature a snippet of family dialog pointing out how jacked up the Obama Administration policies are.
Kid: "I want to go to college."
Parent: "We had to raid the college savings for gas. If you take loans, you're a slave to the bank. Plus, you're white, so you get no assistance. Because fairness."
Vary the theme that liberty is giving way to patronage. Say it sharply, quickly, a thousand different ways.
The physics of the situation are ugly, but turning the inertia around is going to take a long time. Sorry. The quick fix was served with the free lunch. At Ché Bernanke.
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July 3 – Happy Birthday Art Fowler
My first encounter with Art Fowler was his 1962 Topps baseball card pictured here. He was a member of the first Los Angeles Angels baseball team and according to Bill Rigney, the skipper of that ball club, when Fowler got hit in the head by a batting practice line drive and was lost for the rest of the infant team's second season, it destroyed any chance the Angels had of shocking the world and winning the 1962 AL Pennant.
The more I learned about Fowler, the more he sort of grew on me. For example, he didn't just have an older brother who had pitched in the big leagues, he had a much much older brother. His name was Jesse and he made his big league debut in 1924, when his younger sibling was just one year old. Art himself didn't get to pitch in the big leagues until 30 years later, in 1954, when he was a 31-year-old rookie member of the Reds starting rotation. He went 12-10 that season and then won 11 games in each of the next two years with Cincinnati. But by 1957, he had been converted into a full-time reliever with the Reds and when his ERA climbed above six in that role he was traded to the Dodgers. He spent the '58 season in the minors and then got into 36 games for the Los Angeles team that ended up winning the '59 World Series. He then went back to the minors until May of 1961, when his contract was purchased by the newly formed Angels.
One of the things Fowler enjoyed more than pitching was drinking and when he joined the Halos, he was entering the big league heaven for booze. That Angel team featured an All Star line-up of imbibers that included Ryne Duren, Bo Belinski, Eli Grba, Dan Osinski, Ken Hunt and of course Fowler. With their better than expected pitching and a potent lineup that included Leon Wagner, Lee Thomas and Albie Piersall, the second-year Angels were in first place as late as August 12th, finally finishing in third place behind New York and the Minnesota Twins. Fowler spent the rest of his big league playing career pitching out of the LA bullpen until he was released in May of 1964.
Instead of quitting, he signed on to continue pitching for the Denver Bears, the Twins triple A franchise in the Pacific Coast League. Billy Martin was the manager of that club and he took enough of a liking to his new 42-year-old right-hander to make him the Bears player/pitching coach. It was rumored that Fowler got the job because he happened to be Martin's best drinking buddy. Whatever the reason, it was the beginning of a partnership that would continue off and on for over the next two decades in five different big league cities.
It started when Martin was named manager of Minnesota in 1969 and continued in Detroit from 1971 through '73 and then in Texas for two more seasons. When George Steinbrenner hired Martin to manage the Yankees late in the second half of the 1975 season however, his baseball people had told him that his new manager had a serious drinking problem that needed to be controlled and they warned the Boss that Fowler was Billy's best drinking buddy. The Yankee owner thought hiring Martin but not Fowler would somehow reduce Billy's taste for booze. When that didn't turn out to be the case, Steinbrenner finally relented to Billy's request and Fowler was hired as Yankee pitching coach in 1977.
The Yankee pitching staff got along fine with their new mentor. Ron Guidry still claims to this day that Fowler was the best pitching coach he ever had. The fact of the matter was that Fowler's coaching philosophy was pretty simple, throw strikes and stay in the game. Fowler expected his starters to give him lots of innings and he expected his relievers to warm up and appear in games as often as necessary. One of the other reasons Martin loved Fowler was because he would do whatever the manager wanted. That included answering "yes" whenever Martin asked if so and so could pitch tonight.
Martin was famous for blaming his pitchers for Yankee losses. If one of the team's hurlers was struggling on the mound, an irate Martin would tell Fowler to go out there and give the guy hell. Instead, when he got to the mound, the portly coach would often explain to whoever was on the mound how angry Martin was back in the dugout and then plead with the pitcher to please start getting the ball over the plate or Billy was going to get even madder.
Though Steinbrenner and many sportswriters considered Fowler something of a joke, he did obtaint some impressive results. During his tenure in the big leagues, he mentored 18 twenty-game winners, a record for pitching coaches.
Still, the relationship between the Boss and Martin was too rocky to enable smooth pinstriped sailing for Fowler. Every time the manager angered the owner, Steinbrenner would threaten to fire Fowler. Finally in 1983, during Martin's fourth tour of duty as the team's skipper, he carried through on that threat and dismissed Fowler in June over Billy's strenuous objections. He tempered the harshness of his actions by giving Fowler his full salary plus a $20,000 bonus. When the press asked the terminated coach if he had been unfairly treated, Fowler told them he thought the Yankee owner was a great guy but that he didn't know nothing about baseball. He publicly urged Steinbrenner to listen to what Billy Martin tells him to do and the Yankees would get back to the World Series. He then went home to South Carolina and waited for Billy to call.
The phone rang again in 1988, when Billy was hired for his last tour of duty in the Bronx. That job lasted just half a season and when they were again fired, Martin's managing career was over which meant Fowler's was as well. Billy didn't last too long after that, getting killed in his pickup the following year. Fowler lived in his Spartanburg, SC home until 2007, when he died at the age of 84.
He shares his birthday with this Yankee GM.


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For the teams that did most of their cutting earlier, the process of getting the final few spots down to 75 is usually about housekeeping.
The Colts took care of theirs, by making three more moves Tuesday to get to the limit. They waived-injured wide receiver Nathan Palmer, placed safety John Boyett on the reserve/non-football injury list and moved linebacker Josh McNary to the reserve/military list.
Palmer will revert to IR if he's not claimed. He was signed off the 49ers practice squad last year and caught a pass.
The Colts drafted Boyett in the sixth round, knowing he'd likely miss most of the year after knee injuries limited him to one game as a senior at Oregon.


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WESTMINSTER, Md. – McDaniel recorded 91 digs as a team in a 3-0 win over Swarthmore in Centennial Conference (CC) volleyball action, starting a 2-0 Saturday.
The Green Terror (15-5, 4-2 CC) defeated the Garnet (11-8, 1-4 CC) in straight sets 25-23, 25-19 before following the victory up with a 25-4, 25-7, 25-12 win over Trinity (D.C.).
Kloe Martin (Littleton, Colo./Heritage) led the way in the conference victory, notching 20 kills and 26 digs – the first McDaniel player to reach 20 kills and 20 digs in a three-set match. Martin recorded her 20 kills against just three error in 45 attempts to hit a team-best .378.
Danielle Sullivan led Swarthmore with 12 kills and 12 digs.
Aces from Genna Weger (Shrewsbury, Pa./Susquehannock) and Maddie Moyer (Brookeville, Md./Sherwood) keyed a 7-3 stretch that helped the Green Terror open up a 17-10 advantage en route to the seven-point victory.
A 19-play rally in the second set ended with a Martin kill, knotting the set at 15-all – one of 10 second-set ties.
Kills from Martin around a Sullivan knockdown capped the 25-23 win.
Back-to-back Emme Petti (Ellicott City, Md./Mt. Hebron) keyed a 4-0 run late in the third set that opened up a 22-15 advantage en route to the six-point victory.
Alyssa Gilboy (Marlton, N.J./Cherokee) added 17 digs while Weger had 16. Colette Kellen (Derwood, Md./Covenant Life) chipped in 15 digs to go with her 28 assists and two blocks. Madeline Rose (Soddy Daisy, Tenn./Baylor High) added six kills, three blocks and two aces. Moyer added 14 assists and nine digs.
Against the Tigers (1-16), Haley Duff (Montgomery Village, Md./Gaithersburg) recorded five of her eight service aces in a 10-0 run that keyed the 25-4 victory.
Duff served another 10 straight points in the second set to open up an 11-1 lead en route to the 25-7 win.
Trinity closed within 16-9 in the final set before the Green Terror notched nine of the final 12 points.
Rose led the attack with 11 kills in 14 attempts without an error to hit .786 on the match for McDaniel, which hit .557 as a team. Caroline Savin (Shrewsbury, Pa./Susquehannock) and Petti added six kills each while Bryanna Smith (Fredericksburg, Va./Riverbend) chipped in five. Kellen added 21 assists and four aces.
McDaniel returns to action at home against Haverford on Thursday. Match time is 7 p.m.


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Pair of women's rowers on national scholar-athlete list
Hamilton College women's rowers Jess Pedersen '15 (Wellesley, Mass./Wellesley HS) and Hideko Nara '15 (New York, N.Y./Dalton School) have received 2013 national scholar-athlete honors from the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA).
2013 CRCA national-scholar athletes
Pedersen was a member of the varsity eight and primarily rowed in the three-seat and in the bow. She was in the three-seat of the varsity eight for Hamilton's fourth place finish in the third final at the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) championships in May.
Nara spent the spring rowing stroke seat for the second varsity eight. She helped the Hamilton second varsity eight to sixth place in the petite finals at the 2013 ECAC championships.
Hamilton was ranked No. 11 in the USRowing/CRCA Division III Top 15 poll at the start of the spring season and spent three weeks in the poll. In the final 2013 NCAA Division III regional rankings, Hamilton was No. 4 in the New York Region.
Student-athletes that make the list need a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or better through the fall semester. The student-athletes must be at least a sophomore in academic eligibility and must have rowed in the institution's NCAA eligible boat for a minimum of 75 percent of the spring races. The program's head coach, Eric Summers, must be a member in good standing with the CRCA. Summers just completed his ninth season at the helm.


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Between 1985 and 2012 approximately 3,500 Americans died in terrorist attacks. Far more than 90 percent of attacks were instigated and carried out by domestic terrorists. Three thousand died in the single coordinated attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Subsequent investigations revealed that the Sept. 11 event could have been prevented with information at hand, if government security and law enforcement agencies had communicated and coordinated more intelligently.
To prevent such attacks, the federal government has created an enormous spying apparatus capable of tracking all the communications, movements, and internet activities of every American, whether in any way connected to terrorists or terrorist activities or not. This capability has been developed despite the Constitutional protection in the Bill or Rights against unreasonable searches and seizures, including seizures of personal information, and despite the Supreme Court's decree that citizens have a fundamental right to privacy. The court has judged that abridgement of citizen's fundamental rights must withstand strict judicial scrutiny. Homeland security trumps constitutional rights.
By contrast, more than 10,000 Americans die every year in homicides involving firearms, almost ten times the number of deaths from all terrorist attacks. Yet, adoption of sensible gun safety regulation is impeded by insistence on a strained interpretation of the Constitution's 2nd Amendment guaranteeing citizen's right to bear arms in order to enable the formation of militias. The federal government is willing to erode fundamental personal liberties to protect against so-called terrorist activities but is solicitous in protecting gun ownership, a far more dangerous domestic security threat.
Each year more than 400,000 Americans die from tobacco-related diseases, more than 10 million over the same 25-year stretch. Approximately 10 percent of these fatalities are caused by second-hand smoke afflicting non-smokers. Yet, the government holds that banning tobacco products would be an unconstitutional violation of the 5th Amendment's due process clause and would violate people's fundamental right to put themselves at deadly mortality risk. The worst killer in America receives judicial protection while the comparatively minor threat of terrorism submerges American's fundamental liberties.
What's the message here? It's seems to be this: As Americans, we must be perfectly free to kill one another or ourselves, but must sacrifice our basic freedoms to prevent others from doing so. Does this make sense?
Robert Repetto lives in Boulder.


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Breathe new life into garments taking up space in the closet, or thrift store finds. Designer and teacher Bobbi Bullard begins with a jean jacket redo - the basic pattern takes on a new look with fabric inserts. Then, update jeggings with a zipper for a fresh look with Angela Wolf. The closing segment features Cindy Losekamp sharing more ideas for updating garments from the back of the closet.
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Officially, the green monster you see before you is known as the Aston Martin CC100 Speedster concept – but that's not stopping Dr. Ulrich Bez from coining a different title for the car.
"I have nicknamed it 'DBR100,'" he says. In all honesty, we think that's a better title for this creation, considering the car celebrates Aston's centennial while channelling the spirit of Aston's legendary DBR racers, including the DBR1 that Sir Stirling Moss used to win the Nurburgring 1000-kilometer race in 1959.
Although it took Aston 100 years to reach where it is today, the automaker needed only six weeks to design and fabricate the CC100 concept from the ground up. Like all current Aston sports cars, the CC100 rides atop the latest iteration of the aluminum-intensive VH platform, but its body – constructed entirely from carbon fiber and built by supplier Multimatic — is obviously unique to the show car.
Shaped primarily by Miles Nurnberger, Aston's chief exterior designer, the CC100 Speedster seamlessly blends modern and vintage Aston cues into an aggressive but sensual form. Like the DBR1, the front fascia swells out from the traditional Aston grille aperture, flowing over the front fenders and tapering to a point just before the rear quarters, which balloon again over the rear wheels. Heat extractors placed in the front fenders are extremely large, and seamlessly transition into openings that expose the driver and passenger – who already make do with no windshield – to even more of the elements. The cockpit is split in two with both driver and passenger sitting within a scallop shape to resemble the door apertures. The stubby tail is framed by a carbon fiber valance panel, which neatly drips down to form the rear diffuser.
As expected, there's not much to the CC100 Speedster's cabin, but what's left is an interesting blend of Spartan and sumptuous accommodations. Driver and passenger are seated within deeply bolstered race seats, which are neatly trimmed in both Alcantara and Bridge of Weir leather – the latter matching accents used to adorn the center console and to form door pulls. The driver grips a small, flat-bottomed steering wheel and faces a minimalist dashboard. Circular gauges and manual toggle switches laid out on a flat plane are reminiscent of vintage racers, but the small pod to its side – which has Aston's familiar push-button shifter controls and a slot for the signature glass key fob – quickly reminds you we're in the 21st century.
Dimensionally, the CC100 is roughly 14.8 feet long, placing it roughly right between the smaller Vantage and larger DB9/Vanquish models. Aston won't disclose weight figures, but officials do suggest that the lack of bodywork and extensive use of carbon fiber results in a weight loss of some sort.
Although we'd hoped the 600-hp, 6.0-liter V-12 from the Vantage GT3 would somehow find its way underhood, the CC100 Speedster uses Aston's latest AM11-series 6.0-liter V-12. No power output is given, but we're told to expect "production car levels" of power, which would place that figure somewhere between 510-550 hp. That power is funneled to the rear wheels by way of a six-speed sequential manual transmission, similar to that used in the Vantage GT4 racer. Aston says the combination is enough to rocket the CC100 Speedster from 0-60 mph in four seconds and to a limited top speed of 180 mph.
Much as we'd love to see Aston build a small run of CC100s, much like how Mercedes-Benz and McLaren built 75 examples of the similar SLR Stirling Moss special edition, we're told this is strictly a concept. Don't be surprised to see it hit the auto show circuit, but not before Bez takes it for a lap around the Nurburgring this weekend, followed closely by Sir Stirling in an original DBR1 for good measure.
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The S&P/TSX composite index rose 44.11 points to 14,656.4.
The Canadian dollar was down 0.13 of a cent to 91.79 cents US.
Encana Corp. (TSX:ECA) shares were up $1.13, or 4.6 per cent, to $25.69 after it announced a deal to roughly double its oil production with a $3.1-billion acquisition of oil-producing properties in the Eagle Ford shale formation in south Texas from Freeport-McMoRan.
Meanwhile, U.S. markets were uneven amid testimony from Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen that the American economy is improving but that the job market remained "far from satisfactory" and inflation below the Fed's target rate.
The Dow Jones industrials ran up 117.52 points to 16,518.54, the Nasdaq lost 13.09 points to 4,067.67 and the S&P 500 index was ahead 10.49 points at 1,878.21.
Yellen told Congress' joint economic committee that she expects low borrowing rates will continue to be needed for a "considerable time."
At the same time, Yellen said geopolitical tensions, a renewal of financial stress in emerging markets and a faltering housing recovery are potential threats.
It was another heavy day for earnings as Tim Hortons Inc. (TSX:THI) earned $90.9 million or 66 cents per share, up from $86.2 million or 56 cents per share a year ago but missed estimates of 68 cents and its shares dipped 79 cents to $58.89.
"Overall things at Tim Hortons are performing well," said Allan Small, senior adviser at HollisWealth.
"They are growing but I don't think fast enough for the market, fast enough for investors and I think their stock price reflects that. It's been hovering around $59, $60 for some time and I think it will take a lot to move the needle."
Talisman Energy (TSX:TLM) shares climbed 91 cents or eight per cent to $12.02 as quarterly net income was $491 million, or 47 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $213 million or 21 cents per share in the first quarter last year.
It was another tough day for the tech sector, particularly in the U.S. where investors have been rotating out of biotech and technology stocks that ran up sharply last year and are now deemed a bit too rich.
"Overall, when there is uncertainty in the market, people sell their winners and the first thing you sell are the high multiple stocks and continue to sell until the economy justifies the multiples it's trading at," added Small.
The TSX tech sector declined 1.46 per cent as BlackBerry (TSX:BB) fell 41 cents to $7.94. In New York, Twitter fell 3.75 per cent to US$30.66 after plunging almost 18 per cent Tuesday.
Telcos led advancers with Telus (TSX:T) up 44 cents to $39.34 a day before the company posts earnings.
On the commodity markets, June crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange gained $1.27 to US$100.77 a barrel and the energy sector gained 0.66 per cent.
The base metals sector was down 1.33 per cent as July copper slipped two cents to US$3.03 a pound.
June bullion faded $19.70 to US$1,288.90 an ounce and the gold sector dropped about two per cent.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 14th Sep 2009 06:04 UTC
After eight years of hard work, the day has finally arrived. Today, September 14, the Haiku project has released its very first alpha release. With the goal of recreating one of the most beloved operating systems in history, the BeOS, they took on no small task, but it seems as if everything is finally starting to come together. Let's talk about the history of the BeOS, where Haiku comes from, and what the Alpha is like.
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thanks, Thom
by evert on Mon 14th Sep 2009 07:08 UTC
Thank you for a great article.
And also thanks must go to the Haiku team, yes I am impressed!
I love Linux on the server, but I'm not convinced yet to run it on my desktop. I envision a future where Haiku machines run on the desktop, connecting to Linux and Apple Xserve servers :-) Maybe some Microsoft machines would be allowed for old people who cannot swith to the newer systems ;-)