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Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM) added 1.55% with the finishing price of $42.61 in Friday Trading Session. The stock price showed -33.19% negative in value from one year high price and revealed 3.12% up in value from its one year low price. In the recent week Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile S.A. stock price volatility was noted 3.52% while for the last month volatility was seen at 2.95%. Its Average True Range (ATR) shows a number of 1.4. Return on assets (ROA) results to 11.00%. While Return on investment (ROI) reached to 13.30%.
Analysts contributed mean rating at 2.3. This recommendation scale based between 1 and 5. Analysts offer the company with a rating of 3 would be a sign of a Hold rating. Analysts pass on shares a rating of 1 or 2 would be signifying a Buy. A rating of 4 or 5 would tip to a Sell suggestion.
The -5.42% declining picture painted by the trends generated around 20 SMAs. The established market sentiment toward the stock has created a trading environment which can suitably be described as pessimistic.
There has been declining move seen around 50 SMAs. The stock price is showing -8.75% distance below 50 SMA. On the surface, it seems as the higher the 50-day moving average goes, the more bullish the market is (and the lower it goes, the more bearish). In practice, however, the reverse is true. The 50-day moving average is perceived to be the dividing line between a stock that is technically healthy and one that is not. Furthermore, the percentage of stocks above their 50-day moving average helps determine the overall health of the market. Many market traders also use moving averages to determine profitable entry and exit points into specific securities. Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM) has demonstrated declining trend based on recent movement of 200 SMA with -17.96% during the course of recent market activity. This trend reveals recent direction. The current direction of 200 SMA is downward. When the price over the last 200 days is moving with increasing trend, look for buy opportunities and when it shows decreasing trend the price is below the last 200 days, look for sell opportunities.
The current value of the RSI is 37.23. The relative strength index (RSI) readings highlights overbought above 70 and oversold below 30. The stock also has a beta of 1.15. When beta is less/more than 1, it can be interpreted that the stock is theoretically less/more volatile than the market – something traders will surely be keeping an eye on.
In terms of profitability, The Company has a profit margin of 20.60%, gross margin of 36.20% and an operating of 29.10%. The stock price changed -2.25% in the past week. Shares of the company have performed -20.13% over the last three months and moved -8.60% over the last 12- months.


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Thanks to an alert reader, I've found out that last month Ancestry.com sent out a survey to a few of its users soliciting feedback about its search system:
If you have a few spare minutes, we would love to get your feedback on your experiences with search on Ancestry.com. Our goal for search is to make it easy for you to find all the records about your ancestor as easily as possible. Your responses to this short survey will let us know how well we are meeting this goal, and will help us to prioritize areas for improvement.
The survey was indeed brief. Ancestry asked about search usage, satisfaction, accuracy of results, and relevancy of results.
I've had many discussions with colleagues, both while at Ancestry and while at FamilySearch about Ancestry's "New Search." In these colleagiate discussions, the number of search results often came up. People who had no indigestion when Google returned 43,000 results experienced consternation when New Search returned 4,300. (Ancestry doesn't expect you to review all 4,300, folks.)
In the survey Ancestry asked about the number of search results. Were there too many? Just about right? Too few?
(BTW, what's up using the word "new," as in "New Search" or "New FamilySearch?"Do these people think they will never replace the "new" system? How confusing was it when the new FamilySearch.org came out, making new.FamilySearch.org no longer new?
I've got an idea. Let's start calling FamilySearch Family Tree "Newer FamilySearch."
But I digress…)
A premise behind New Search is that it is good to return results that only partially match the search criteria. These results are valuable, according to the premise, because they contain unexpected, but relevant records. The search is also more resilient against mistakes in records, such as indexing errors or mistakes by record creators. A name can be misspelled. A birthplace can be misreported. New Search could often find these records.
Ancestry asked outright if users "prefer for Ancestry.com to suggest potential record matches, even when they do not exactly match [the] search query." They asked how well they are doing at finding records that don't exactly match the search query and if Ancestry.com makes it hard to find intended records.
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it sounds to me like Ancestry is reexamining the premise behind New Search. It will be interesting to see how Ancestry proceeds. Stay tuned…
What's your experience? Do they return too many results? Is the long list of results a price you're willing to pay to find records with errors? How often does Ancestry find—correctly find—records you weren't expecting?

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This recipe will not give you crispy kuih bahulu. When it hot from oven, it has crispy crust but it only last for 1-2 hrs..
And from my past experiences, use cold eggs straight from fridge give thick and stable batter..also make sure to beat for at least 20mins or more until very very stable and thick.
Old fashioned Ji Dan Gao (传统烘鸡蛋糕) Kuih Bahulu
(recipe source: learnt from Jane's Ah Mah and flavours magazine, re-created by Sonia aka Nasi Lemak Lover)
*makes 60pcs + one mini loaf
5 eggs (large), cold from fridge
150g sugar
1/8tsp salt
170g plain flour or all purpose flour
3tbsp soda fizzy drink (Not baking soda!!)
Cooking oil, for greasing
1. Pre-heated oven to 180C. Put sugar in a shallow ovenproof dish and place in oven for 2mins or until sugar hot.
2. Add salt into eggs, beat over high speed (KA mixer at speed 8) in a mixer till fluffy (about 2-3mins).
3. Change to medium speed (KA mixer at speed 4), gradually add in hot sugar while beating. Continue to beat for 20mins until thick and pale. Beat over slow speed for another 3mins.
4. Put flour in a shallow ovenproof dish and place in the oven for 2mins, stir flour after bake 1min. Set aside to cool down, then sift flour on a clean paper.
5. Grease oil and heat Bahulu mould in the oven and set to 200C.
6. Add in fizzy drink. Then fold the two end of the paper, slowly pour flour over egg mixture and mix over low speed (KA mixer at speed 2) till combined and smooth. Do not over mix.
7. Remove Bahulu mould from the oven, spoon mixture into mould.
8. Bake for 14mins (no fan) at middle rack or until golden brown.
9. Remove mould from oven and put on wire rack, use a toothpick or bamboo skewer, prick cake with skewer and lift out. Cool on wire rack or bamboo basket. Store in air-tight container once cooled.
10. Grease warm mould again before use and put into oven to re-heat for another 2mins. Continue to bake until all mixture finished.
11. For slight crispy Bahulu, turn cakes onto tray and return to oven at 180C for 5mns. Cool on wire rack (optional).
Thanks to Angie sent me this CNY card, feel so nice to receive this hardcopy of CNY card, nowadays peoples only sending e-card included me, hahaha.. She is very busy selling CNY cookies now, wishing her 生意兴隆 !
I am submitting this post to Chinese New Year Delights 2013 hosted by Sonia aka Nasi Lemak Lover


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Long queues in China for second batch of Lumia 920, yellow variant sold out
The Nokia flagship store in Shangai, China has received its second batch of Lumia 920 stock. Now one would think that the second number of units would sell comfortably, but the Nokia store has already sold out on the yellow variant in just 20 minutes. This is yet more news of the Lumia 920 not meeting consumer demand.
The Lumia 920 was made available at the Shangai Nokia store earlier this month, and we covered some photos that were published showing large consumer interest with many queueing up to get their hands on the flagship Windows Phone. Previously, the first batch of stock lasted only 2 hours, so the 20 minutes is quite an improvement, or the number of units available second time round was less.
China is an important market for any manufacturer, not to mention the platform smartphones will be powering. Windows Phone has broken into China quickly, as shown in recent Kantar data. This was also the case with the Lumia 800, which launched in the country earlier this year. In fact, it was reported that the Lumia 800 overtook the iPhone with regards to marketshare. Who would have though, eh?
Crowd gathering for first batch of Lumia 920s at the Shangai store
Microsoft currently owns just 3% of the smartphone market in China (according to Kantar data), and with Lumia Windows Phones appearing to sell like hotcakes it paints a positive picture for 2013. Huawei is expected to unveil its Ascend W1 Windows Phone at CES 2013, which will then be unleashed in several markets, including Asia.
We still wait on exact sales figures for the Lumia 920, but from what's been reported in multiple markets, we'll be betting that a fair few have been shipped but it could well be that Nokia just hasn't been able to produce enough.
via: Nokia Power User; thanks, sunny, for the tip!
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Kalyn's Kitchen Celebrates a Birthday with Four Questions for Readers
As my nephew Ethan once said to his mom when they arrived home from the store with his birthday party decorations, "Let's get this party started." For my birthday, I'd like to take the day off and let those who are reading talk about themselves for a change. If you feel like playing along, here are some questions to talk about in the comments:
- What's one way your life is different than it was four years ago?
- How did you find the blog and how long have you been reading?
- If today was your birthday, what would you want on the menu?
- What should Kalyn be sure to do once she's retired?
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After inadvertently airing live coverage of a car chase that ended with a man's suicide, Shepard Smith of Fox News has issued an apology to viewers of his show. The incident occurred as the cable network carried a live feed of a man fleeing police on the interstate west of Phoenix.
In the footage, the man abandoned his vehicle and began running across a field, before pulling out a gun and shooting himself in the head. Despite being filmed from a helicopter hovering above the scene, the footage was graphic enough to prompt immediate yelling in the Fox News studio.
The scene led anchor Shepard Smith, who had been speaking over the video and describing the man's actions, to yell "Get off it, get off it" several times to his studio crew. The broadcast abruptly cut to a commercial.
"We really messed up," Smith said when the program resumed shortly after the break. "And we're all very sorry. That didn't belong on TV."
Smith explained that the five-second time-delay that would normally keep such an event from being seen by viewers somehow didn't keep the suicide from being televised Friday.
The event spurred several people to upload video of the chase scenes from Studio B with Shepard Smithto YouTube Friday; others expressed their amazement and/or horror on Twitter.
There had been little indication that events would take such a dramatic turn earlier in the broadcast, as Smith spoke over live footage showing the man, who was suspected in a car-jacking, trying to elude police in a red SUV near Tonopah, Ariz.
After pulling off the highway and onto a dirt road, the man got out of the driver's seat and appeared to take some items from the car. Then he set off running down the road, and eventually onto a grassy area, where he turned a weapon on himself — just after the camera zoomed in on him.
"I personally apologize to you that that happened," Smith said when his program returned. "That was wrong. And that won't happen again on my watch. And I'm sorry."
He then promised to give an update on the story and the video later tonight, before repeating, "I'm sorry."
Update at 11:30 a.m. ET, Oct. 1. Fox Cites "Severe Human Error."
In a statement sent to reporters, Fox executive vice president of News Editorial Michael Clemente says:
"We took every precaution to avoid any such live incident by putting the helicopter pictures on a five second delay. Unfortunately, this mistake was the result of a severe human error and we apologize for what viewers ultimately saw on the screen."
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Detroit's Miguel Cabrera won the American League's Most Valuable Player award on Thursday after becoming baseball's first Triple Crown winner in 45 years, and San Francisco's Buster Posey was voted the National League honor.
Cabrera received 22 of 28 first-place votes and 362 points from the AL panel of Baseball Writers' Association of America to easily beat out Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout, who had six firsts and 281 points. Trout was voted AL Rookie of the Year earlier in the week.
Posey recovered from a devastating leg injury that cut short his 2011 season, became the first catcher in 70 years to win the NL batting title and helped San Francisco win its second World Series title in three seasons. He got 27 of 32 firsts and 422 points from the NL panel, outdistancing 2011 winner Ryan Braun of Milwaukee, who was second with 285 points.
Cabrera hit .330 with 44 homers and 139 RBI to become the first Triple Crown winner since Boston's Carl Yastrzemski in 1967. The last four Triple Crown winners have been voted MVP, including Mickey Mantle in 1956 and Frank Robinson in 1966.
Cabrera also led the league with a .606 slugging percentage for the AL champion Tigers. He became the second straight Detroit player voted MVP, following Justin Verlander in 2011, and was the first Venezuelan to earn the honor.
Before the season, he switched from first base to third to make way for Prince Fielder, signing as a free agent.
The 2010 NL Rookie of the Year, Posey set career highs with a .336 average, 24 homers and 103 RBI for the World Series champion Giants. His 2011 season was cut short by a collision with the Marlins' Scott Cousins on May 25 that resulted in a fractured bone in Posey's lower left leg and three torn ankle ligaments.
Posey, the fifth overall pick in the 2008 amateur draft, won the NL batting title after teammate Melky Cabrera requested a rules change that disqualified him. Cabrera, who hit .346, missed the final 45 games of the regular-season while serving a suspension for a positive testosterone test and would have won the batting crown if the rule hadn't been changed.
Ernie Lombardi had been the previous catcher to capture the NL batting championship, in 1942.
Catchers have won the NL MVP just eight times, with Posey joining Gabby Hartnett (1935), Lombardi (1938), Roy Campanella (1951, 1953, 1955) and Johnny Bench (1970, 1972). The other winning catchers were Lombardi in 1938 and Gabby Hartnett in 1935.
Posey is the first Giants player to win since Barry Bonds was voted his record seventh MVP award in 2004.
Pittsburgh outfielder Andrew McCutchen (245) was third, followed by St. Louis catcher Yadier Molina (241).
NOTES: In his first season with the Angels, Albert Pujols didn't finish among the top 10 for the first time in his career. While with St. Louis, he won three times, was second four times and also finished third, fourth, fifth and ninth.


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A Comedy of Terrors
Anything can be funny, right? There are two schools of thought, there. The first is the theory that anything has the potential to be amusing. Comedy is all about puncturing bubbles of pretention, going after targets that deserve skewering. As long as the joke teller is punching up instead of punching down, the only limitation is their imagination. The other school of thought is that some subjects are too sacrosanct to be mocked and to even attempt them is, at best, in poor taste. We wouldn't dream of making fun of the Nazis, right? Ah…as a matter of fact, we would! There's a long and... Read More


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Princeton University will honor four exceptional New Jersey secondary school teachers at its 2012 Commencement on Tuesday, June 5.
This year's honorees are Daniel Kaplan, Matawan Regional High School, Aberdeen; Dana Maloney, Tenafly High School, Tenafly; Enzo Paterno, Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies, Edison; and Victorina Wasmuth, Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School, Jersey City.
The teachers were selected for the award from 75 nominations from public and private schools around the state. Each teacher will receive $5,000, as well as $3,000 for his or her school library.
"The four teachers we honor with this award reflect the very finest teachers in the profession today. Combined, these outstanding teachers have nearly 75 years of classroom experience, and we have much to learn from their wisdom," said Christopher Campisano, director of Princeton's Program in Teacher Preparation. "They serve as a constant reminder that the foundation of all learning is built on the student/teacher relationship, and they hold fast to the belief that all students deserve a quality education."
The staff of the Program in Teacher Preparation selected eight finalists, each of whom was visited at work by a member of the program staff. Award winners were selected by a committee that was chaired by Dean of the College Valerie Smith and included Campisano, three members of the Princeton faculty, a school superintendent and a state education official.
Princeton has honored secondary school teachers since 1959. The University received an anonymous gift from an alumnus to establish the program.
"By serving as role models, mentors and coaches, these remarkable teachers are an indelible source of inspiration to all current and future teachers," Campisano said.
Teachers honored this year are:
Daniel Kaplan
When classes end on Friday afternoons at Matawan Regional High School, the halls empty quickly as students and teachers begin their weekend. But the Physics Club draws a crowd to Daniel Kaplan's classroom, where students tackle projects and prepare for competitions.
Kaplan earned a doctorate in physics from Princeton in 1982, and has 25 years of experience in industry and two patents to his credit. For the past seven years, he has combined that experience with a passion for teaching to transform physics from an abstract subject to a hands-on experience for students at Matawan.
"It is easy to motivate those students who want to learn, who have the parental support and the competitive edge to place value on education," Matawan Principal Michele Ruscavage wrote in nominating Kaplan for the award. "It is the students who are unmotivated, disillusioned and have difficulty understanding the value of an education that energize Daniel to excel in his teaching strategies."
Kaplan, who earned a bachelor's degree in physics from the State University of New York at Albany in 1977, said his approach to teaching was influenced by his work in industry, where he saw that human interactions were key to successful scientific exploration.
"My approach to teaching provides my students with a number of opportunities for both individual breakthroughs and, more importantly, a chance to achieve these magical moments of a shared group success," he said.
He exposes students to a range of hands-on lab experiments, some challenging students to achieve a specific target and others that encourage them to discover important principles on their own.
Former student Asher Wasserman wrote that Kaplan's success is a product of "his dedication, his charisma and his love of teaching."
"He created an environment where the goal was not to get a grade or to memorize equations, but to learn about physics through building projects like bridges or racecars," Wasserman wrote. "This concept, that physics is something inherently fun and beautiful, is part of what has led me to study physics in college, and for this inspiration I am truly grateful."
Dana Maloney
Literature is alive and the traditional term paper is dead in Dana Maloney's classes at Tenafly High School.
After Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake in 2010, Maloney developed a unit that asked students to study fiction and nonfiction on the country, to listen to Haitian folk tales and to write cards that were translated into French and delivered to Haitian schoolchildren. The project ended with a challenge for students to find the links in the different works and to think about solutions to problems in the world.
"What distinguishes Ms. Maloney from other effective English teachers is her ability to keep making her work new and relevant to her students' lives," wrote Michael Cohen, the district's K-12 supervisor of English, in recommending Maloney for the award. "Moreover, when she develops a new unit or a new assignment for her students, it is always tied clearly to what I would identify as the ultimate goals of her teaching — namely to promote her students' ability to take independent lines of inquiry, to think critically and creatively, and to become socially responsible young men and women."
Maloney teaches classes on world literature, English composition and creative writing at Tenafly High School, where she has worked for 21 years. She earned a bachelor's degree in English from Duke University in 1987 and a master's degree in English from William Paterson University in 1995.
A student's passing comment several years ago about the limits of the traditional term paper led Maloney to challenge herself — and her students — to rethink the high-school standby. The result is the "inquiry and action" project, which encourages students to study and work to address real-world problems such as global warming, racial profiling and depression in teenagers.
"In the 21st century, the possibilities for extending reading and writing beyond the limits of the printed book or student paper change the way we teach and learn," Maloney said. "Literature can enable and empower us to read the world — and act in the world."
Perhaps the most commonly utilized word in Ms. Maloney's vocabulary is "more," wrote student Maxwell Klausner.
"In every situation of critical thinking and creative drafting, she pushes her students never to settle for average, but rather to exceed satisfactory effort and reach our highest levels of ability," Klausner wrote.
Enzo Paterno
Enzo Paterno was one of the architects of Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies, where 150 students take challenging engineering-technology courses for four years, in addition to other rigorous classes.
Paterno developed an electronics and computer engineering technologies curriculum that includes lectures on engineering theory and concepts, along with lab experiments, hands-on activities and projects. Paterno taps his industry experience, 10 years in the classroom and a high-energy teaching style to help prepare students for today's global workplace.
"Enzo treats his students as young engineering professionals," wrote Paul Munz, who was principal at the school, in nominating Paterno for the award. "Students are constantly challenged to think critically and to apply all of the academic and technological tools they have at their disposal to solve real-world practical problems."
The capstone of the four-year engineering curriculum is a senior project that challenges students to conceptualize and create a new product. The project simulates industry practices by including design reviews, seminars, progress reports and a detailed engineering notebook.
"This project was carefully designed by Mr. Paterno to help students think independently, learn skills of analysis and make real-world decisions on products based on cost and efficiency," wrote Saswathi Natta, a graduate of the school who is now a junior electrical engineering major at Princeton.
Recent projects have included a security system that unlocks using a personal identification number coupled with a pressure-sensitive device activated by foot, and an electronic medical interface that wirelessly transfers heartbeat, lung function and temperature information from a patient to a remote doctor's cell phone.
Paterno said he is driven by the need to prepare students for the future.
"Students need to differentiate themselves in order to compete effectively in today's world environment," Paterno said. "Mastering problem-solving skills provides one of those differentiators that will give our students a better chance to achieve their academic and career goals."
Paterno earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University (now Polytechnic Institute of New York University) in 1984 and a master's degree in the discipline from Polytechnic in 1987.
Victorina Wasmuth
Math is much more than numbers and variables in Victorina Wasmuth's classroom at Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School in Jersey City.
"She begins her A.P. (Advanced Placement) calculus classes by declaring that calculus is the study of change," McNair Principal Edward Slattery wrote in a nomination letter. "She understands math as a language that explains how reason works if you have the patience to go step by step, that math is a way the brain makes sense of the world."
Wasmuth's teaching career spans 30 years, and for the past 17 she has been helping students at McNair use math to make sense of the world. Along with teaching calculus and algebra, Wasmuth advises the National Honor Society, helps guide the admissions process at the magnet school and created the Epsilon Club, where students tutor their peers in math.
Mixing pinpoint preparation with a well-honed sense of students' comprehension, Wasmuth keeps trying new approaches until her students are on track. Math, she wrote, is not a spectator sport.
"I expect my students to engage in discussions, blackboard work, guided lectures, solving word problems, hands-on activities, using technology, cooperative work and class presentations," Wasmuth wrote.
Among the results: Last year, all 22 of her students who took the A.P. calculus exam earned a 5, the test's top score.
"Through her example and instruction, we learn to approach problems with a balance of logic and creativity," wrote student Jennifer Tang. "We learn that while every problem might not have a direct answer, every question has something to teach us."
McNair English teacher Holly Smith wrote that the lessons of Wasmuth's success are no secret.
"You must work hard. You must care about the work you are doing. You must trust those you work alongside," Smith wrote. "You must do your work with integrity (and) accountability, and always make it a reflection of yourself and your personal best."
Wasmuth earned bachelor's and master's degrees in education from the University of the Philippines in 1971 and 1976, respectively, and a certification in mathematics from St. Peter's College in 1991.


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Microsoft Company Meeting 2005
(Updated: reposted with Post-Company Meeting immediate reactions.)
Pre Company Meeting
So I'm getting ready for the Microsoft Company Meeting, ready to get to campus early and jump on a bus and get my morning box lunch, feeling deep sympathy for all the admins who get to SafeCo field sometime after 7:00 am to guard spots for their groups.
Do something nice for your admin this next week. And if you're smart, do something nice for your admin every week.
So in your dream Company Meeting, what would you like to see? Here, I'll share a few:
Dates: I said it once, I'll say it again: I want some dates for all of these innovations stuffing our pipeline. But wait, aren't date-based releases bad? Look, Vista was no longer about being a feature-based release after the Longhorn Reset. If it's not making the date, it's got a "Cut!" fate. Plus, our customer pay us good money to license our software and we need to give them value for actually getting around to shipping something on occasion.
Review System Overhaul: we announce that the "rank and yank" stack rank review system and The Curve is a thing of the past, where it belongs in the industrial era. For 2006, we'll have a new, fair, review and compensation system that is appropriate for a 21st century company that endeavors to hire the best, smartest, "A+" people. (I said endeavors.)
Management Flattening: as part of the reorganization, each of the three new businesses were taking on the mandate to flatten their organizations to reduce bureaucratic middle management and get the decision makers close to the front-line contributors.
Mea-Frickin-Culpa: no, it's not always been this way. No, it's not just that we have a culture of criticism. Yes, something has reached a critical stage where the best of Microsoft is peeling away from the company, some severely disillusioned with what a lumbering, slow beast it has become. All I'd be happy to hear is, "There is something wrong. We know what it is (tell us). We're going to fix it and here is how."
Dissent: No, I have no grand plans of organized dissent. How many dissenters are even out there? Fifty? One-hundred and fifty? A few thousand? Beats me. All I can say is don't clap if you don't want to, throw in a boo or a hiss. If something outrageously false is said, kick in with a "eeeeenk!" wrong buzzer. I guess that's my dream: when all the bogus claims of success and everything being alright is echoed through SafeCo field, the audience goes "eeeeenk!"
Post Company Meeting
One word: Wow!
Short phrase: I think our customers are going to be delighted silly this coming year!
- Investors realize that we can ship and what we are shipping is well worth investing in Microsoft. It's their way of saying, "More, please!"
- We never forget that a lot of what we're shipping is a year or even years late and commit to never letting this happen again.
I love Microsoft and I especially love the Company Meeting. I am so thankful that it's back and hopefully will happen again every year. Any vestiges of doubt or ennui get blown away once you actually see what we are on the verge of shipping. My only worry now is that we're shipping so much that some really good stuff is going to die on the vine out of lack of attention.
As for my wishes above: zip. We have Vista's ship-ish date as: before the end of next year. There was a slide showing all the software being shipped this next year, and both Vista and Office 12 were emblazoned with "Beta." Beta than nothing.
There were lots of good words from Lisa and from Steve about adjusting and what to focus on (e.g., finding your own personal mid-year review that you can do without). Good words. Actions, of course, speak louder. However, those good words can be used to your advantage to cleave through useless process and meetings and to focus on the customer and on the code.
The software looks fantastic in my opinion and I was pretty impressed that given how much they showed not much at all went wrong (the main thing that seemed problematic was Steve's clicker to advance the PPT slidedeck). The XBox 360 makes my heart beat fast and my fingers quiver. And I understand it plays games, too.
I'm probably going to stop posting here for a while just so that I can start writing my own gadgets for Start.com and look forward to them working with Vista. I'm energized and cautiously optimistic.
And I hope all the folks who do the real work of Microsoft are energized, too, and feel empowered to start managing up and kicking bureaucracy's butt around the building and to focus where we can have the best impact. We don't ship process. We don't get "Ship Its" for process. We ship software products. If whatever you're doing or required to do isn't focused on that, it can go join the old mid-year review on the junk pile. But it's up to you to start heading it towards that junk pile.
(FYI: I'm preparing for some OOF-age so updates here might be on the light-side.)
Your Wishes and Reactions?
What do you hope happens at the Company Meeting? What are your post Company Meeting thoughts?


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HONOLULU (AP) -- Hawaiian Airlines said Monday it plans to buy more than a dozen new Airbus planes to help it meet demand for travel between the West Coast and the islands.
The airline signed an agreement with the Toulouse, France-based airplane manufacturer to buy 16 new A321neo jets, each seating about 190 passengers in first and economy class.
The planes — to be delivered four to seven years from now — will allow Hawaiian to open new markets and boost service to cities it already flies to, the airline said. The Honolulu-based airline plans to add 1,000 jobs as part of the expansion.
"It's an exciting new chapter for our business. It underscores the confidence we have in our company and the market in which we operate," Hawaiian CEO Mark Dunkerley said in a telephone interview.
The move also ensures Hawaiian remains the "most competitive carrier in the marketplace," Dunkerley said.
The single-aisle plane will carry fewer passengers than the 294-seat Airbus A330 and 264-seat Boeing 767 jets Hawaiian currently flies between Hawaii and the West Coast.
But it will carry more than the 123-seat Boeing 717 the airline uses on interisland routes. The aircraft is not intended for flights between the islands.
Hawaiian could use it to fly new nonstop routes between Western cities and Kauai, Maui and the Big Island, Dunkerley said.
The airplane's smaller size and fuel efficiency also will give Hawaiian the option of using it fly to "one or two" smaller Western cities the airline currently doesn't serve. Dunkerley declined to mention specific potential destinations, noting the first plane won't be delivered for years. He also said he didn't want any places he didn't name to feel left out.
In line with industry customs requiring varied pay and work conditions for different airplanes, Hawaiian is negotiating with its pilot and flight attendant unions for agreements covering the new Airbus.
Dunkerley said the pilots' union will vote on ratification and the airline is still talking with flight attendants. The Airbus deal is contingent on Hawaiian finalizing agreements with both unions.
Most of Hawaiian's recent growth has been on international routes. Eight of the airline's nine new destinations over the past three years have been in the Asia-Pacific region. New York City was the ninth.
Dunkerley said the new planes will allow Hawaiian to address unmet domestic demand.


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Federal regulators are facing a decision on whether to allow another big media merger. This time, it's AT&T and DirecTV. Yesterday, the board of AT&T voted to acquire the satellite television company in a deal worth almost $50 billion. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that the hope is to be a stronger competitor against the likes of Verizon and Comcast.
JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE: Like other big media companies, AT&T has been desperately trying to tell the future of the media business and get ready for it. CEO Randall Stephenson made clear today that he believes the future lies in video. Customers are increasingly turning away from cable and satellite companies and watching video over various digital devices. Stephenson spoke on a conference call with analysts.
RANDALL STEPHENSON: Just like the last six, we're about delivering large amounts of data over these networks. The next six years is going to be about delivering video. That was, frankly, the key rationale for trying to do something with DirecTV.
ZARROLI: Buying a satellite TV company might seem to be an unlikely way of preparing for the future but the deal is meant to help AT&T bulk up for the new video age and become a much stronger and more powerful media player. It will have access to 20 million new paying TV customers in addition to the six million it already has. It will be able to offer them lucrative bundled packages of mobile, Internet and video services. Blair Levin is a former FCC official now with the Aspen Institute.
BLAIR LEVIN: It's not about growth. It's about revenues. It's very profitable. And it does cover a lot of the country for video that AT&T wire line services do not cover. And so this gives them the ability to have a nationwide video offering.
ZARROLI: The merger will also make AT&T a much bigger player in the media business. It will be able to sit down with content providers and negotiate better deals for movies and TV programs. The deal comes on the heels of another big proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Tim Karr, senior director of strategy for the advocacy group Free Press, says these mergers are costing big media companies a huge amount of money.
TIM KARR: You include the massive amount of money that Comcast is wanting to spend on Time Warner Cable, these companies could easily deploy super-fast gigabit fiber Internet services to every single home in America.
ZARROLI: Karr says mergers like the one announced this weekend will leave a marketplace dominated by a few super-large players and that won't be good for consumers. But Blair Levin says a lot of other things are happening that could reshape the media landscape, like the debate over open Internet rules and the sale of more wireless spectrum. And regulators will have to factor in all these changes as they decide whether to approve the merger.
LEVIN: In this particular case, you have multiple deals, you have multiple changes in technology happening and you have multiple regulatory things going on. So, I think it's a very, very tricky thing.
ZARROLI: Meanwhile, he says, competitors such as Amazon and Google are designing new technologies that could further reshape the media business. Levin says it will be up to federal regulators to balance concerns about competition with company desires to grow bigger, a task that promises to be challenging. Jim Zarroli, NPR News, New York. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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WACO, Texas (AP) —ANGELA K. BROWN,Associated Press RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI,Associated Press
WACO, Texas (AP) — Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident.
The announcement came the same day federal agents said they found bomb-making materials belonging to a paramedic who helped evacuate residents the night of the explosion. Bryce Reed was arrested early Friday on a charge of possessing a destructive device, but law enforcement officials said they had not linked the charge to the April 17 fire and blast at West Fertilizer Co.
"It is important to emphasize that at this point, no evidence has been uncovered to indicate any connection to the events surrounding the fire and subsequent explosion … and the arrest of Bryce Reed by the ATF," the McLennan County Sheriff's office said in a statement.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said earlier Friday that the agency had instructed the Texas Rangers and the sheriff's department to conduct a criminal probe into the explosion.
"This disaster has severely impacted the community of West, and we want to ensure that no stone goes unturned and that all the facts related to this incident are uncovered," DPS Director Steven McCraw said.
McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara said residents "must have confidence that this incident has been looked at from every angle and professionally handled — they deserve nothing less."
The statement did not detail any further reasons for the criminal investigation and said no additional information would be released.
Reed, meanwhile, was in federal custody. A criminal complaint unsealed Friday afternoon said he was arrested after McLennan County deputies were called earlier this week to a home in Abbott, a town about five miles from West, and found bomb-making materials — including a galvanized metal pipe, canisters filled with fuses, a lighter, a digital scale and a variety of chemical powders.
"After further investigation, it was determined that the resident had unwittingly taken possession of the components from Reed on April 26," says the complaint signed by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives special agent Douglas Kunze.
An ATF explosives specialist and a chemist examined the items and agreed the "combination of parts can be readily assembled into a destructive device," the complaint says.
Reed made an initial appearance in federal court in Waco on Friday, but did not enter a plea.
Officials have largely treated the West explosion as an industrial accident, though investigators still searching for the cause of a fire that preceded the blast have said they would treat the area as a crime scene until all possibilities were considered. Authorities have focused on ammonium nitrate, a chemical commonly used as a fertilizer, but that also can be explosive in the right conditions, as the cause of the explosion.
Reed was one of several paramedics who helped evacuate residents from nearby apartments after the fire erupted and shortly before the explosion. He has spoken to The Associated Press extensively, and said he was devastated by the explosion, which he said killed one of his closest friends, Cyrus Reed. Bryce Reed eulogized the firefighter at his funeral; the two are not related.
Bryce Reed's wife, Brittany Reed, declined to comment early Friday.
"I can't. No comment, no comment no comment right now," she said before hanging up the phone.


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The man in charge of Anthony Weiner's campaign is stepping aside in the wake of new revelations that the candidate exchanged lewd online messages with several women. But Weiner says he's staying in the race to become mayor of New York.
Danny Kedem, who joined Weiner's campaign in early spring, resigned over the weekend, the candidate said on Sunday.
"We have an amazing staff, but this isn't about the people working on the campaign. It's about the people we're campaigning for," Weiner said after speaking at a Brooklyn church, according to The Associated Press.
On Thursday, Weiner and his wife held a news conference to acknowledge the latest sexting scandal in which the candidate said he'd exchanged messages with up to three women since last summer, a full year after he resigned from Congress amid a similar "sexting" scandal.
"I can't tell you absolutely what someone else is going to consider inappropriate or not," he told reporters.
Weiner, who before the scandal broke had been leading his main Democratic primary opponent, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, has dropped 9 percentage points behind her in a poll conducted following last week's revelations.
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Skype 5.0 also has some software upgrades that are not obvious upon opening the app. It is better at synching your messages between devices and has had its coding redesigned to work up to five times faster, according to a teaser video released Monday evening.
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As announced at the iPhone 5s launch, the Nike+ Move app is now available in the Apple App Store for free. Nike+ Move harnesses the power of the iPhone 5s' M7 coprocessor. Apple describes it as a dedicated sidekick chip that analyzes the movement of the instruments without utilizing the A7 processor. The results is more efficiency with tracking physical activites, such as significantly less battery consumption, while still giving fitness apps access to the gyroscope, accelerometer, and compass. Take a gander of the features of Nike+ Move:
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He was in more than 100 films, including such classics as Spartacus and El Cid.
But actor Herbert Lom, who died in London today at the age of 95, is best known as the perpetually peeved, increasingly insane police chief Charles Dreyfus in the Pink Panther films.
Driven mad by the comic incompetence of Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers), Dreyfus grew increasingly unstable (and increasingly funny, many would say) in the seven Pink Panther movies in which Lom played the part (starting with 1964's A Shot in the Dark).
The actor appreciated the role, but said it also had a downside.
"It was a godsend when I was offered the part," he once said, according to the BBC. "But it did become a double-edged sword as people started to associate me with Dreyfus."
IMDB.com reports that Lom — his name at birth was Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich Schluderpacheru — was born in Prague and made his film debut in 1937, in a Czech production called Zena prod krizem.
Sellers died in 1980, at the age of 54.
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Green Beans with Sesame-Miso Sauce
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...Farmers, gardeners and CSA shareholders know that when a crop comes in there's no stopping it. That's fine when it's something the family loves, but more difficult when it's a hard sell vegetable. My crew doesn't hate green beans but they don't appear on any of their last meal requests either. To not serve them isn't an option and I've learned the problem can be partially solved by varying the way they are cooked and presented. Green beans are rarely cooked to crisp tender perfection. Overcoming the tendency to over or under cook them nearly solves the problem, but it's also necessary to vary the way in which they're served if you want to prevent palate fatigue. It's possible to sauce beans in a healthy fashion that appeals to the eyes as well as a tired palate. The recipe for green beans with sesame-miso sauce comes from Hiorhiko Awano who is the chef at Kirakutei Restaurant in Paris, France. It costs pennies to serve and it's very easy to make. I love to serve this dish for buffets, potlucks and picnics. It holds up well and contains no mayonnaise, so it can sit without causing harm to it or you. Here's the recipe.
Green Beans with Sesame-Miso Sauce...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
1 pound green beans, cut into bite-sized pieces
1/3 cup rice wine vinegar
1/4 cup white miso
2 tablespoons ponzu sauce (see cook;s notes)
2 teaspoons grated ginger
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
2 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds + seeds to garnish
1 teaspoon dark Asian sesame oil
3 tablespoons mirin or cooking sake
1) Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add beans and cook for 5 to 7 minutes, or until beans are crisp but tender. Transfer to a bowl of ice water to stop cooking and set color. Drain when cooled.
2) Place rice vinegar, miso, ponzu sauce, ginger, sugar, sesame seeds, sesame oil and mirin in the jar of an electric blender; process until smooth.
3) Transfer beans to a mixing bowl. Drizzle with sauce; toss gently and taste for seasoning. Drain again. Mound beans in a bowl or on a platter. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and serve at room temperature. Yield: 4 servings.
Recipe adapted from The Ethnic Paris Cookbook.
Cook's Notes: Ponzu sauce is usually available in the Asian food section of large grocery stores. If you cannot find it, use 1 tablespoons soy sauce and 1 tablespoon lemon juice as an emergency replacement.
33 comments :
- Anne Fannie said...
- July 9, 2009 at 12:16 AM
- Nina said...
This is "one perfect bite" indeed!
Super! - July 9, 2009 at 12:37 AM
- La Bella Cooks said...
My husband is one of those that actually requests green beans so I know this one would be a big hit with him. What a tasty recipe!
- July 9, 2009 at 1:03 AM
- Pam said...
I am always looking for new ways to cook green beans. This sauce looks terrific.
- July 9, 2009 at 2:11 AM
- Unknown said...
Just lovely! I can cope with raw or lightly cooked beans when I am robust! They squeak!
For comfort food they need a good cooking! And your dish is just so yum! - July 9, 2009 at 5:00 AM
- Taste of My Life said...
Looks Yummy and with Sesame seeds must be smell nice!
- July 9, 2009 at 5:15 AM
- Martha said...
We love green beans but it is always nice to find a new recipe.
- July 9, 2009 at 6:55 AM
- Donna-FFW said...
Mary- We must be on the same wavelength today. however, yoyur beans look better than mine. I'll try them this way next time. Love the ginger addition.
- July 9, 2009 at 7:34 AM
- Laura said...
I've got a ton of fresh green beans from the garden I need to use. Will definitely be trying this one. Thanks!
- July 9, 2009 at 8:16 AM
- Claudia said...
;tis the season for green beans and these certainly beckon! Gorgeous recipe.
- July 9, 2009 at 9:17 AM
- My Little Space said...
What a lovely dish and very healthy too!
- July 9, 2009 at 10:06 AM
- Heather S-G said...
This is simply delicious...I could go for some right now :D
- July 9, 2009 at 10:08 AM
- Creative Classroom Core said...
Great photo! Some really tasty sounding beans!
- July 9, 2009 at 10:08 AM
What a delightful blog and I was tickled to have you visit mine. I can't wait to try the shrimp toast...soon! Have a happy and magical day. ~ Lynn
- July 9, 2009 at 10:38 AM
- Ann said...
Lovely, simple adn yet a very healthy recipe:) love that picture.
- July 9, 2009 at 11:31 AM
- theUngourmet said...
I have green beans growing in my garden this year. I would love to use them for your recipe. It sounds wonderful!
- July 9, 2009 at 11:46 AM
- noble pig said...
Miso and beans, what a concept!
- July 9, 2009 at 12:47 PM
- NKP said...
Blanching does seem to make all the difference in green beans.
I love your Asian recipe with the beans, they really do have an affinity for sesame. - July 9, 2009 at 1:17 PM
- Julia said...
Luckily my kids eat green beans well when steamed properly. I think you are so right when you say they are under/over cooked too often. I will have to try this sauce on them next time. We eat green beans weekly so it wont be a stretch! Thanks.
- July 9, 2009 at 3:41 PM
- Puna said...
With all due respect...ponzu should have vinegar on it. I'm a ponzu sauce snob. Those green beans look yummy though.
- July 9, 2009 at 3:54 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Puna...with all due respect adding vinegar to soy sauce or a mixture of soy and lemon will not make Ponzu sauce either. This was not a recipe for Ponzu sauce. It is a quick substitute to bring the salty taste of soy and the citrus taste of lemon to the recipe. Please read more carefully.
- July 9, 2009 at 4:24 PM
- Marina Capano said...
so Yummy!!
- July 9, 2009 at 5:40 PM
- Lyndas recipe box said...
My family loves green beans fixed several different ways, that way we don't tire of them- this sounds delicious, Mary!
- July 9, 2009 at 6:17 PM
- Cathy said...
Great timing. I just bought a big bag of green beans and was thinking about trying something new. Love the Asian flavors with the beans.
- July 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM
- chow and chatter said...
this looks awesome always good to learn new recipes LOL
- July 9, 2009 at 8:54 PM
- Susan said...
Oh Mary I love this combination. I think the sesame seeds add a little something special to the recipe. MMMMM... I have to try this.
- July 9, 2009 at 9:18 PM
These green beans look so good. I usually steam mine but I will try this recipe. I do love green beans. Thanks ♥ I hope you have a nice evening.
- July 9, 2009 at 10:08 PM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
I adore ponzu sauce--this looks amazing!
- July 10, 2009 at 4:15 AM
- Olga said...
that looks like a perfect side to go with so many things!
- July 10, 2009 at 11:05 AM
This dish is so simple and tasty. Very good way of incorporating some more green vegetables into the diet. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
- July 10, 2009 at 7:10 PM
- Lori said...
Palate fatigue- ha, I love it.
My Aunt used to make green beans with crackers and butter. OMG what a treat those were.
I make mine with olive oil, garlic powder and sometimes if I am feeling like it, some balsamic. OH YEAH.
Can you tell green beans are not a hard sell for me? - July 11, 2009 at 6:01 PM
- Sara Chapman said...
A fascinating recipe. I have lots and lots of flat peas that I need to use up and think I will try this one.
- July 12, 2009 at 1:41 AM
- sara said...
oh, excellent. Now I know how I can use up the rest of the white miso paste I bought for the first time ever last week. Though now I have to buy ponzu sauce - the cycle never ends! :)
- July 13, 2009 at 3:47 PM


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LYON, France – An international law enforcement operation co-ordinated by INTERPOL against the illegal trade in tigers has led to the arrest of some 25 individuals suspected of taking part in the illicit trade of one of the world's most endangered species.
The two-month operation (August-September) involved national enforcement agencies in six tiger-range countries (China, India, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam) and was co-ordinated by INTERPOL's Environmental Crime Programme at its General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France. It worked in close collaboration with its participating member countries to provide a single platform to National Central Bureaus for the exchange and co-ordination of intelligence via INTERPOL's I-24/7 secure police communications system.
In addition to the arrests, more than 50 kg of tiger bone – including skeletons and skulls – were seized, and key smuggling routes broken up during raids across the six participating countries.
"The national agencies involved in this international operation supported by INTERPOL have shown unscrupulous criminals who target threatened species that action will be taken to combat their illegal activities," said INTERPOL's Environmental Crime Manager, David Higgins.
Less than 3,500 tigers remain in the wild as a result of loss of habitat and the involvement of organized criminal networks engaged in the illegal trafficking of their skins and bones.


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The real Italian heart beats in the peasants. Somewhat our royals have been always underwhelming.
Take our former Savoy kings, for example. It is said that ladyfingers – savoiardi in Italian – have been created at the court of Amadeus VI duke of Savoy in honor of Charles V king of France. As the story goes, the head baker of Savoy was asked to invent something memorable to impress the king during a very rare visit to the Duchy.
Imagine: the medieval king is used to lavish banquets where he is served dishes like the tourte parmerienne, a pastry dish made to look like a castle with chicken-drumstick turrets coated with gold leaf. His head chef, Guillaume Tirel is considered one of the first truly "professional" master chefs in European history.
Then he goes to visit his brother-in-law in Savoy and he is offered sponge cookies. Wow.
I am not sure the story it's true, but we should have gotten read of them a few hundred years earlier. I mean, the would-be-kings Dukes.
Luckily we kept the cookies and used them to invent tiramisu. They are also lovely with gelato, warm custard, ricotta or simply dunked in good sweet wine like a Vinsanto o Moscato. And very, very easy to make.
- 75 gr (2/3 cup) 00 or pastry flour
- 75 gr (2/3 cup) sugar
- grated zest of 1/2 lemon
- 1 teasp vanilla extract
- 3 eggs, separated
- 1 scant tablespoon yogurt or milk
- 2 tablespoon powder sugar plus 2 tablespoon regular sugar, mixed in a small bowl
Preheat oven at 150 °C (300 ° F). Line a large baking sheet with buttered parchment paper. If you don't butter the parchment paper you will have to eat it as it's hardly possible to remove it from the cookies after baking.
Whisk egg whites until firm. Cream the sugar and egg yolks, add lemon zest, vanilla extract, flour and milk or yogurt and keep whisking to obtain a very thick batter. Fold in egg whites using a metal spoon. Make sure to incorporate them lightly, with circular upward movements so to obtain an airy mixture that will not deflate while cooking.
At this point, using a pastry bag, you should pipe the batter into 10 cm (4 inch) long strips on the baking sheet.
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Chesnut beats Kobayashi for Hot Dog Eating title: I was trying to think about a "real"-sport analogue for yesterday's greatest moment in competitive eating history.
Consider the who: The sport's greatest legend, a quasi-mysterious foreigner, against his biggest rival, an American upstart. The when and where:
If comp-eating wasn't such a farce (by design, mind you), this result would be cinematic in scope. It's like a mash-up of the first four "Rocky" movies.
Think about the greatest game or performance or moment in any "real" sport -- then consider them all happening at the same time. That's what happened yesterday at
And that's why, as laughable as it sounds, I have trouble coming up with an analogue from traditional sports history that compares to what happened yesterday with Chesnut and Kobayashi.
The idea that it was unprecedented in sports history gets choked down like that 66th hot dog at the 12-minute mark.
UPDATE: But what about the puke?! I totally neglected to mention the part where Kobayashi vomited -- on-camera, no less. That particular part of this "greatest" moment is apparently not allowed to air on ESPN, even though "reversals of fortune" -- particularly one of this magnitude -- is (a) part of the charm ("charm") of competitive eating and (b) only adds to the drama of yesterday's results. Is it because the clip is gross? Or because, technically, Kobayashi should have been disqualified for the R.O.F.? Show the clip! (Watch it here. This will be the most YouTube-able moment of the event.)
Will A-Rod skip the All-Star Game? If the best thing for his team is for him to spend the three days resting, he should. The fans who made gave him the mega-vote totals will understand. The worst thing he could do is force it, play in the ASG, then end up pushing back his full recovery. Just show up to SF to enjoy the spectacle.
In case you missed it from Tuesday night: Bonds 751.
MLB Stud, Team: The
MLB Stud, Player: Fred Lewis, the rookie filled in for Barry Bonds and hit a grand slam, his second of the season (a first for a Giants rookie).
OK, OK: Hunter Pence. There, I said it.
Durant Era begins for Sonics:
Will the Mavs get KG? Cuban wants him, but I still think that KG ends up in
NBA Free Agency: In case you missed it yesterday, I declared Darko Milicic the most intriguing remaining free agent of the season. Despite an early career that didn't live up to the pre-draft hype, he still has the tantalizing potential of a 22-year-old 7-footer with 3-ish years of NBA experience (including a ring!) (a) Who will sign him, and (b) how much will they (over-)pay?
Juan Carlos Navarro Watch: As a Wizards fan, I would be really ticked if they traded his rights, now that he's finally available to come over from Europe to play in the NBA.
Hockey: Jeremy Roenick retired. So I guess the question is how quickly he gets himself that TV gig he has so obviously wanted all these years. He rivals Curt Schilling (surprisingly quiet during his stint on the DL) for media whoredom. Not that that's a bad thing.
Tiger Watch: Let the speculation run wild over whether new fatherhood will hurt Tiger's focus, particularly merely three weeks into the experience. Hell, I went back to writing the Quickie within a week of the kid being born. (Wait... that isn't the same thing?)


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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were married Saturday in Correns, France, a spokesman for the couple says.
Jolie and Pitt wed in a small chapel in a private ceremony attended by family and friends at Provence's Chateau Miraval. In advance of the nondenominational civil ceremony, Pitt and Jolie obtained a marriage license from a local California judge. The judge also conducted the ceremony in France.
The couple's children took part in the wedding. Jolie walked the aisle with her eldest sons Maddox and Pax. Zahara and Vivienne threw flower petals. Shiloh and Knox served as ring bearers, the spokesman says.
Jolie and Pitt's wedding caps years of rampant speculation on when the couple would officially tie the knot. Pitt once said that he didn't want to marry until gay marriage was legal, but in recent years, both said they intended to. They were engaged in early 2012 after some seven years together.
"It's an exciting prospect, even though for us, we've gone further than that," Pitt told The Associated Press in an interview in November 2012. "But to concretize it in that way, it actually means more to me than I thought it would. It means a lot to our kids."
They have six children together, including three they adopted: 13-year-old Maddox, from Cambodia; 10-year-old Pax, from Vietnam; and 9-year-old Zahara, from Ethiopia. The couple's three biological children are 8-year-old Shiloh, and Knox and Vivienne, 6-year-old twins.
This is the second marriage for Pitt, who wed Jennifer Aniston in 2000. They divorced in 2005.
Jolie was previously married to British actor Jonny Lee Miller for three years in the late `90s and to Billy Bob Thornton for three years before divorcing in 2003.
Both Jolie and Pitt are prepping movies. Jolie's second directorial effort, the World War II odyssey "Unbroken," will be released in December. Pitt stars in the upcoming World War II drama "Fury," due out Oct. 17.


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Number of Undercapitalized Banks Falls To Lowest Level in Five Years
The number of undercapitalized banks in the U.S. fell to its lowest level since 2008, according to research from Charlottesville, Va-.based SNL Financial.
According to SNL, as of June 30 26 banks and thrifts were undercapitalized, based on the criteria of having Tier 1 capital ratios below 4%, compared to 38 institutions at the end of the first quarter and 56 institutions a year ago. Tier 1 capital is generally defined as a bank's main source of capital, primarily including commons tock and reserves.
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The firm said the number of undercapitalized institutions has fallen to the lowest level since the third quarter of 2008, when 14 banks were considered undercapitalized. The number of undercapitalized banks in the industry has steadily declined for the last 11 quarters, with failures accounting for the bulk of the decline. The trend was consistent through 2012 as well, when the number of undercapitalized banks decreased by 26 to 44 institutions.
According to SNL, just 20 banks have failed so far in 2013 — 12 of them during the second quarter.
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Episcopal High School alumni Tim Hightower knows what he wants in the offseason: a spot back on the Washington Redskins' roster.
Hightower, who graduated from the North Quaker Lane school in 2004, told Comcast Sportsnet's Ryan O'Halloran staying in the region would mean a lot. The Redskins traded for Hightower, now a free agent, just before the season's start.
"Just being around your family … it was special for me and this somewhere I would like to play for a long time," Hightower told O'Halloran Wednesday.
The 25-year-old running back rushed for 321 yards and a touchdown before tearing his ACL in the team's week seven matchup against Carolina. He averaged 3.8 yards a carry up until the injury, which sidelined him for the remainder of the season.
While rehabilitating, Hightower found time to visit his high school and give the football squad a pre-game pep talk. The surprise appearance came before the Maroon's final Interstate Athletic Conference game of the season.
"He spoke to us about how high school football games stick with you, how even now as an NFL player he can still recall specific plays against St. Albans, Landon and Woodberry," senior quarterback Austin deButts said afterward.
While wearing a Maroon jersey, Hightower rushed for 2,010 yards and 22 touchdowns.


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Though Great Britain won't be joining in any military action aimed at Syria, it appears the White House is determined to go ahead — most likely within the next few days and most likely with missile strikes.
We'll be following the news throughout the day and over the weekend. As Friday dawns, here's where things stand:
-- Evidence. The White House is expected to release, perhaps as soon as today, a declassified version of the intelligence it has been giving to members of Congress to support the case that President Bashar Assad's regime last week used chemical weapons to kill several hundred people and wound even more.
On Morning Edition, NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman said it's his understanding that a lot of that evidence "is circumstantial." It includes videos of Syrians who appears to have symptoms you would expect victims of a chemical weapons attack to suffer.
Evidence from "blood, soil and tissue samples" is being collected by U.N. inspectors on the ground in Syria, Tom added. Those inspectors are due to finish up their work and leave Syria on Saturday.
-- Congress. "The opposition to President Obama launching unilateral military operations in Syria exploded on Thursday when dozens of liberal Democrats joined scores of conservative Republicans in warning the administration that any strikes without congressional approval would violate the Constitution," The Hill writes.
And as Politico reports, a 90-minute conference call Thursday night between the White House and Congressional leaders "appears to have done little to change anybody's mind. Members issued statements afterward reiterating their long-held views on Syria."
-- Allies. While the British Parliament has rejected Prime Minister David Cameron's plan to join the U.S. in taking military action, France appears to still be on board. As The Associated Press writes, "President Francois Hollande said his country can go ahead with plans to strike Syria for allegedly using chemical weapons despite the British parliament's failure to endorse military action. He told the newspaper Le Monde that the 'chemical massacre of Damascus cannot and must not remain unpunished.' "
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