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It is an expression that has probably outlived contemporary usefulness but in the case of former Batavia boys basketball coach Jim Roberts, behind this good man stands a good woman.
Saturday is the night of the annual Batavia Night of Hoops, which Roberts started in 1994. In light of his retirement from coaching after last season, it was since decided to rename the event after him.
Hes not alone, however. In a rare and classy move signifying the support and influence his wife, Sylvia, provided her husband as well as the Batavia program, shes included as well.
An unbelievable influence, Jim Roberts said.
A ceremony dedicating the Jim and Sylvia Roberts Night of Hoops will be held at about 7:15 p.m. Saturday, before Batavias game against DeLaSalle to cap the triple-header.
Games pitting Wheaton North (Bulldogs coach Jim Nazos former team) against St. Joseph at 4:30 p.m. and a whopper of Benet versus West Aurora at 6 lead the schedule.
Its very humbling and greatly appreciated, said Jim Roberts, whose wife took seriously ill some two years ago, causing him to take a leave of absence from school in the spring of 2011 and eventually helping hasten his retirement from coaching to spend more time at home.
Happily, Sylvia Roberts is back teaching third grade at Schneider Elementary School in North Aurora, School District 129, where shes been since the couple moved here from Missouri in 1984 Jim returning home, San Antonio native Sylvia making a new home.
Sylvia was tremendously supportive of Jim all throughout his career, said retired Batavia head football coach and athletic director Mike Gaspari, who in 1985 became a head coach the same year as Roberts. Dave Andrews, Gasparis successor as athletic director, tabbed Gaspari to speak at Saturdays presentation.
She was instrumental to the success of the basketball program behind the scenes, I think, just from the support she gave her spouse, Gaspari said.
I just think its extremely appropriate. Im very proud of the fact the school district is doing this for the two of them. I cant think of a better way to honor them.
Grabbing a greased pig is as easy as getting the chronically humble Jim Roberts to talk about himself. Nazos said Roberts needed repeated persuasion to put his name on the Night of Hoops banner.
This must run in the immediate family. Appreciative of and pleased with Saturdays honor, Sylvia Roberts nonetheless admitted feeling self-conscious, and displayed her husbands brand of dry humor.
Ive been trying to get my name off of it, she said. Its too late. The posters are out.
In season, she said shed have the boys over to the house for lunches of bratwurst and big pots of chili. For the Night of Hoops she made the hospitality room welcoming for coaches and officials made it a special time, said Jim Roberts. He noted that on long Bulldogs road trips it was his wife who acted as disciplinarian.
She definitely made her mark as far as how the kids should behave on the road, he said.
Sylvia Roberts made brownies for the boys for their birthdays during the season. She said Corey Williams, who led Batavia to the Elite Eight in 1991, complained he never got his brownies. His birthday was in March, though, lending Mrs. Roberts an easy comeback.
I said, Youve got to keep playing to get them. And he got them one time.
From what she called the old Batavia she remembers upon arriving in 1984, Sylvia Roberts said shes appreciated the community support for the Bulldogs players, for her husband, for the fantastic crowds.
And over the past several years undoubtedly, for herself.
Things have worked out, she said.
There should be a fantastic crowd Saturday to acknowledge Sylvia and Jim Roberts, the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association hall of famer who compiled a record of 455-269 in 27 seasons all at Batavia.
As its getting closer here Im hearing more and more people talking about coming, Nazos said. Itll be nice to see Coach Roberts one more time on his court.
Kick-a-Thon results
Orders are specific the final amount of money earned at the 19th annual Kick-a-Thon, jointly produced by the St. Charles East and St. Charles North drill teams last Sept. 7 cannot be revealed until this Saturday evening.
Wed like to keep it as a surprise until that night, said Diana Artman, one of the Kick-a-Thon co-chairs along with Molly Craney and Rosanne Grenfell.
Representatives from LivingWell Cancer Resource Center in Geneva and the Fox Valley Chapter of the American Cancer Society, in Batavia, will be on hand as drill team members flip up big placards with numbers indicating the final haul. Its scheduled to happen around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, after the sophomore boys basketball game between the rival schools at St. Charles North.
A record 150 kickers signed up for last years Kick-a-Thon, breaking the 2011 record of 144.
I think a lot of people are excited to see what the number will be, Artman said.
Don and Leon
This Sundays Super Bowl marks the 20th anniversary of ESPNs first Play of the Year.
It was the play where Aurora Christian football coach Don Beebe, then a Buffalo Bills receiver, ran down Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Leon Lett who had a 40-yard head start to deny him a fumble-return touchdown in Super Bowl XXVII. Thats Super Bowl 27 for us non-Romans.
CBS flew both Beebe and Lett in to Dallas a couple weeks ago to film the two for an 8-minute interview, the only major feature interview on the show, that will air as part of the noon pregame show with Phil Simms. Perhaps Beebe will also get in a plug for his new book wrote by Denise Crosby, Six Rings from Nowhere.
The station will claim this is the first meeting between the Beebe and Lett in the 20 years since the Cowboys beat the Bills 52-17, but Jim Gibson of Big Talk Media said its actually the second and maybe the third.
Beebe and Lett were interviewed in and around Aurora this past August for a separate documentary film yet to be finished. Prior to that, Gibson said, their only contact was a Hi in passing at the Super Bowl in Tampa Bay four years ago.
Tune in Sunday.
Catching up with ... Megan Beitzel
Just a sophomore, Genevas Megan Beitzel is in her second year competing on the Vikings varsity gymnastics squad.
Friday she and teammates Ashley Puff, McKenna Merges, Dominique Brognia, Claire Scatterday and sisters Jenna and Grace Ginsberg will compete at Genevas own IHSA regional, which feeds into Tuesdays Glenbard West sectional.
Beitzel, a vault and bars specialist, qualified to sectionals last year and comes off a second-place Upstate Eight Conference finish on vault.
She lived in Bartlett till she was 3 years old, when Joe and Cindy Beitzel moved to a bigger place in Geneva. A bigger place was required for Megan and her three younger sisters.
Her favorite gymnast is the former U.S. Olympian Shawn Johnson. A high honor roll student who plays viola in high school orchestra, Beitzel has thus far earned a 4.3 grade-point average.
Q: Neither your parents were gymnasts; why did they get you involved?
A: I think they just kind of saw how much we were jumping and bouncing around and we needed to get our energy out. They put us in gymnastics and we loved it and just stuck with it.
Q: You said your high school coach, Kim Hostman, has been your coach since you started competing with the Geneva Park District as a little girl. Whats your relationship like?
A: We have a really close relationship since weve been together so long. Were just really close because of everything weve been through together, since shes seen me grow from being very little and getting better and better. Shes really a great coach and shes helped me a lot.
Q: You won state all-around competitions while with the park district. Howd that feel?
A: I think it just gave me more confidence and even more drive to be good and keep on improving because I saw the potential I had. So winning state just made me work even harder.
Q: Whats your go-to move?
A: The one thats really helping me out this year in vault is the pike tsuk.
Q: Can you describe that?
A: What you do is you start by running to the vault and after you jump on the board you turn your hands halfway onto the vault, then you push off with both hands and with your body you do a flip. But for the pike your legs are going to be straight and close to your chest.
Q: Thats all? Just kidding. I must ask, are you related to former Geneva quarterback Brandon Beitzel?
A: Were cousins. We live in the same neighborhood.
Q: Did you two ever engage in head-to-head competition in any sport?
A: We never really had any competition between us. I just saw how successful he was and it just helped me reach my goals because I saw how determined he was.
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LaBarbera Wants You to Dump Oprah's 'Lesbian Tea'
A lesbian-inclusive ad campaign run by Starbucks, a week prior to Mother's Day, has Americans for the Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) president Peter LaBarbera going after the coffee giant with one of his "dreaded" email campaigns.
In a "Take Action" memo to his followers, LaBarbera writes:
For Mother's Day Starbucks released the commercial below, voiced by Oprah Winfrey and hawking a new "Oprah Chai" tea. The ad celebrates all sorts of moms-including the "two moms are better than one mom"-shown with the affectionate lesbian "moms" at right and the "M's" in "MOM" in what I suppose is an alphabetic homoerotic embrace.
Messages like this no long shock a post-Christian America shaped in part by decadent corporations pandering to the highly organized LGBT lobby. Starbucks already has sold its corporate soul (is that an oxymoron?) to the homosexual agenda. Its executives made that clear in 2012 when they defiantly rebuffed a boycott threat by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and affirmed that support for homosexual "marriage" is a "core" Starbucks value.
The absurdity of LaBarbera's campaign is compounded by the fact that his campaign launched the day after Mother's Day, when the holiday-centric ad campaign was already finished.
The ad campaign at the center of LaBarbera's latest non-controversy is part of the launch of Starbuck's new Teavana Oprah Chai Tea, which according to the coffee giant, was personally developed by media maven Oprah Winfrey.
In addition to the barista prepared Oprah Chai Tea Latte's, Starbucks is also selling Oprah Chai Gift Sets, the proceeds from which will benefit youth education through the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation.
LaBarbera's latest rant isn't the first time that Starbucks has drawn ire from anti-gay activists. In 2012, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) started the "Dump Starbucks" campaign in reaction to the corporation's support of marriage equality. A year later, TheTeaParty.net also urged its followers to swear off shopping at the Seattle based coffee shops by signing NOM's "Dump Starbucks" online petition. Two years later, as of this writing, there are a mere 68,204 signatures on the petition. The "Dump Starbucks" Facebook page hasn't seen an update in eleven months.
There is little fear that any boycott or letter writing campaign by LaBarbera will have any effect on Starbucks' corporate culture that promotes inclusion. The day NOM announced its boycott in 2012, Starbucks shares were trading at $53 per share. Two years and three anemic boycotts later, the stock trades at $71 per share.
LaBarbera's crusade against Starbucks isn't the first time he's gone after a corporate food industry giant. In the past he's protested McDonalds and Chilli's restaurants for their alleged promotion of a "gay agenda." As of this writing, both businesses appear to be doing just fine without him as a customer.


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"'Overcast and rain is like my favorite weather' -- everyone from Southern California. Shut up."' -- Jared Hoeniges.
The 19-year-old graphic design student at Azusa Pacific University is not the biggest fan of rain. He moved from Seattle three weeks ago.
"That's part of the reason I came to Southern California," Hoeniges said. "After 10 months of (rain) it's not good. I let them know you may like it for a day, but I come from where it's like that 24/7. It would get old if you (lived there)."
The weather system dumped a tenth to a quarter-inch of rain below the foothills, a quarter to a half-inch in the foothills and a half-inch or more in the mountains, according to meteorologist Mike Watkins of the National Weather Service office in San Diego.
Watkins said Southern California will see similar rainfall into the weekend.
"The moisture that is pulling up is out of the south, from the tropics," Watkins said.
Drivers in Southern California didn't fare well Thursday.
By noon the California Highway Patrol reported hundreds of accidents from the 15 Freeway in Barstow to the 5 Freeway in Santa Clarita.
The CHP's Southern Division said there were 342 crashes reported in Los Angeles County between midnight and 9:30 a.m.
There were 80 crashes reported during the same time Jan. 17 when the weather was clear and sunny and temperatures were in the 70s.
In Ontario, the CHP investigated the scene of an overturned tractor trailer at the Milliken Avenue offramp of the westbound 10 Freeway.
Although the speed limit is 65 mph, motorists need to slow down in the rain, said Rick Quintero, a CHP spokesman for the division.
Quintero advises drivers to leave early for their destinations in order not to rush on rain-slicked roads.
"When you're rushing, you tend to speed," he said. "Allow some extra time. Consider alternate routes."
Freeway drivers should avoid the outer lanes because that is typically where water tends to collect, Quintero said.
He also said motorists should increase their distance from other vehicles, and use extra caution on cloverleaf exit ramps.
Some drivers Thursday were forced to dodge debris on the road.
Highway 18 near Big Bear Dam saw several rocks in the road, causing members of the online forum socalmountains.com to alert one another.
Mountain roads have been somewhat hazardous in recent days, according to those who posted on the site:
"Cold, frozen snow on the ground + rain = landslides on arctic circle. It always has. The rain melts the ice that's holding the rocks in place. In these conditions we've always chosen another route due to the risk of being hit by falling rocks!!" -- BootsNBridles.
"Yeah, that's why we had all the rock slides over the past week, especially on hwy 38, snow's melting from the warmer temps and stuff is giving way..." -- Benny (N6BWX).
"Yeah, 38 has been iffy too! We've been up and down it a few times lately and it's like playing dodge the rocks!" -- BootsNBridles.
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STOCKTON - The McNair girls basketball team's uncharacteristically cold second half may have had to do more with cohesion and less with layups against Palo Alto-Gunn.
STOCKTON - The McNair girls basketball team's uncharacteristically cold second half may have had to do more with cohesion and less with layups against Palo Alto-Gunn.
Fortunately for the Eagles, their defense was on from the opening tip and tournament MVP Mandy Coleman's double-double helped the hosts to a 55-35 victory in Saturday's championship of the McNair Winter Shootout.
The Eagles held the Titans to a single basket in the first quarter and led 34-6 at the intermission to take control.
Coleman scored 10 of her game-high 14 points in the opening half and tallied 15 rebounds for McNair (11-0) to go with six steals against Gunn (7-3) in the middle of the Eagles' full-court press.
"It's been weird having a 'revolving door' lineup," said McNair coach Anthony Matthews, who keenly felt the absence of junior guard Bykema Mobley who was injured in Friday's semifinal against Calaveras and may be out for three weeks. "It's hard to find a good chemistry with injuries every other game. To be able to persevere and get the win is a testament to our girls."
Gunn solved McNair's press enough to score 29 second-half points fueled by sophomores Megan Mahoney and Olivia Tapia's eight and six points, respectively, while all-tourney selections junior Zoe Zwerling and senior Claire Klausner each chipped in seven points in the loss.
"We probably played better after we had a chance to settle in a bit against their pressure," Titans coach Sarah Stapp said. "There were a lot of lessons to be learned and this will help us to get better."
The Eagles missed several layups and had several turnovers against Gunn, which played full-court defense as well.
"(Gunn) is a legitimate team," said Matthews, whose squad is preparing to play in the West Coast Jamboree next week. "We didn't shoot our 3s well, and we left a lot of points off the board with missed layups. We put benchmarks on our season to see where we're at, and this was a chance to give us a playoff atmosphere."
The Redskins (8-3) opened the fourth quarter with a 10-0 run to take a 40-35 lead, but Danielle Pacheco's 3-pointer and teammate Ashlyn Crenshaw's layup put the Trojans up 46-42 with 42 seconds left.
Calaveras forward Brianna McGinness missed a shot to tie the game bounced off the rim at the buzzer to give Lincoln (5-5) the win.
Crenshaw was named to the all-tourney team, along with Excel Academy's Letty Infante, whose 36 points lifted her squad to a 74-67 win in the consolation championship against Stagg.
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Should any provision in this chapter be found to be unconstitutional by a court of law, such provision shall be severed from the remainder of the chapter, and such action shall not affect the enforceability of the remaining provisions of the chapter.
(Pub. L. 101–336, title V, § 515, formerly § 514, July 26, 1990, 104 Stat. 378; renumbered § 515, Pub. L. 110–325, § 6(a)(2), Sept. 25, 2008, 122 Stat. 3558.)
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Stockton, CA
Jeanne Victoria Mikaio (Danielson)
Dec. 21, 1951 - Feb. 1, 2013
Jeanne Victoria Mikaio, was surrounded by her loving family as she passed peacefully on
February 1, 2013, after a hard fought battle with cancer. She was born on December 21, 1951 in American Samoa, to her beloved
parents Oscar and Fane Danielson. She was the eldest of 13 children. On January 25, 1975, she married her beloved husband Tanielu "Mik" Mikaio who she is now reunited with in Heaven. For the past 20 years, they resided in Stockton, California.
Jeanne was an employee of the San Joaquin County Worknet division and has proudly provided services for 12 years. She loved playing bingo, hanging out with her friends for lunch and hanging out with her grandkids, especially her youngest, eating sweets. She had an infectious smile that could draw anyone in to her and a huge heart to love everyone who was a part of her life.
She is survived by her children: son and daughter-in-law Jeffrey and Christine Mikaio, Surprise, AZ; daughter and son-in-law Danielle and Frank Funes, Stockton, CA; son Reeves Mikaio, Ewa Beach, HI; daughter Ashlee Mikaio, Tempe, AZ, and her grandchildren Ashley and Iona Mikaio; Jayden, Mahianela and her precious baby Alina Funes. She also leaves behind her sisters Edith Kim and
Hilda and her brothers, Oscar
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Danielson, Wallace Danielson and Beaver Danielson, along with numerous extended family members and friends.
A viewing will be held on Monday, February 11, 2013 from 1 pm - 9 pm at Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home, Lodi, CA. Mass and final farewell will be held on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 10 am, St. Michaels Catholic Church, Stockton, CA. Online guestbook at cherokeememorial.com.


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Joyce Skinner Henry
Joyce "GG" Skinner Henry, 89, loving mother, grandmother, great- and great-great-grandmother of Colleyville, Texas, peacefully passed away surrounded by her loving daughters Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012.Joyce was born March 2, 1923, in Booneville, Ark., to Aaron and Vora Skinner. She moved to Oklahoma City in 1952, where she owned and operated Joyce's Beauty Salon until she moved to Fort Worth, Texas, in 1967. She owned and operated hair salons in Fort Worth until 2004. "GG" as she was lovingly known, loved her family, gardening, cooking and family gatherings; especially, Thanksgiving when everyone got their favorite pies. When mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's her family began to understand what a beautiful strong, resilient woman she really was. She lived alone, ran her business, and never ever complained about anything. She was a true woman of independent means.She was preceded in death by her parents; granddaughter, Allison; sister, Jessie Mae Henry; half-sisters, Mamie Carter and Ollie Doyle; brothers, A.V. Skinner and Glenn A. Skinner; half brothers, Audley Skinner and Baxter Skinner; and nephew, David A. Henry.Survivors include her daughters, Carol Gaston and husband, John, and Darlene Chesser and husband, Don; son, Ron Henry and wife, Treva; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren, Taylor Marie Berry and Levi Masyn Barnhart; four nephews; one sister-in-law, lovingly known as "Sis"; and her precious Chihuahua, Como.Service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Evans and Miller Funeral Home Chapel in Poteau. Burial will be in Monroe Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Brown, Owens and Brumley Funeral Home, Fort Worth.


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Are Long-Acting HIV Medications the Key to Better Adherence?
April 25, 2014
If you haven't heard of "GSK744," it has the potential to become the first HIV medication that need only be taken once a month.
GSK744 (short for S/GSK1265744) is an investigational integrase inhibitor; it is a long-acting version of the U.S. FDA-approved HIV medication Tivicay (dolutegravir). What's the big difference? Well, this new drug is being developed specifically to have a very long "half-life," which refers to the time it takes to break down inside the body -- GSK744 takes a lot longer to break down in the body than currently approved HIV meds. As a result, early studies suggest that -- although the drug will need to be injected by a clinician -- it may only need to be taken once every 30 days, or even longer.
The idea is that therapies like GSK744 could address adherence concerns because the regimen is only once-a-month instead of once-a-day, and the treatment would be administered and directly observed by a health care professional. (It's also being investigated for possible use in pre-exposure prophylaxis for the same reason.)
That said, when it comes to adherence, what works for some will not work for others. Taking a daily pill gives some people the freedom to make their own travel schedules, to take their medication on their own terms and in comfortable settings. Some people won't want to go to their doctor (and pay to see the doctor!) every month to get their medication, while some people may struggle with taking a daily reminder of their HIV status and might welcome a less-frequent dose.
Research on this drug -- as well as other ones like it -- is still in its early stages, and even if further studies prove successful, it will likely be years before any long-acting antiretrovirals are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. But still, excitement about long-acting regimens is on the rise. What do you think? Would you take advantage of long-acting injectables? Or do you prefer to take your medications on your own time in pill form? What would make you switch?
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Pearls from the past
The day my grandmother Helen showed me a string of pearls I was surprised, since she knew my indifference to fancy and expensive jewelry.
Yet, I admired the iridescent luster of the bluish-grey orbs and how they diminished in size, from the front of the necklace to where they joined a silver clasp.
She told me how her father presented them to his only daughter on her 16th birthday and how special she thought they were.
"I want Betsy to have them when she turns 16," my grandmother told me.
I wanted to hand them back and tell her she could give the necklace herself to her only great granddaughter.
But, at the age of 101, grandmother Helen knew better than to defy the age genes much longer.
During her funeral, two years later, I remembered the pearls—safely stored in a cloth container in the bottom of my jewelry box.
While planning Betsy's birthday celebration earlier this month, I realized it was time.
The night before family was to gather, I retrieved the necklace, placed it on the kitchen counter and thought about what my grandmother would say to her great granddaughter.
I didn't have to wait long.
First came tears. Then came her words, spilling out onto a birthday card.
I considered the age of the 90-year-old pearls, and imagined the gift, rising from the dusty hooves of the cattle my forbearers raised, rounded up and shipped east in box cars.
Because of his success in livestock markets, I could see my great grandfather, G.E. Stuckey, carefully selecting the jewelry and presenting it to Helen in a special box.
Perhaps he secured the clasp of the pearls while his daughter admired their color and handiwork through a hand-held mirror.
I wished I had asked her.
Betsy became misty-eyed when she pulled the pearls from a white bag and read how proud her great grandmother was of what she had become on her rite-of-passage birthday.
Later, after the party goers had gone home, Betsy's new kitten pounced on tissue paper strewn about the living room.
But my daughter's interest was elsewhere.
She had gone upstairs to place the pearls round her 16-year-old neck and gaze at her own reflection in a bathroom mirror.
Somehow, somewhere, I sense that my grandmother Helen knows just how special a gift they are.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's president said Tuesday that it would be a "grave crime" if anyone brings war crime allegations against his government over its conduct in the final months of a quarter-century civil war, saying it would be a victory for forces opposed to peace on the island nation.
Mahinda Rajapaksa did not mention any country in an Independence Day speech, but the United States has said that it is frustrated at Sri Lanka's lack of progress in post-war reconciliation and accountability and says it will bring a third resolution to the United Nations human rights body calling on Sri Lanka to do more. Details of the resolution have not been revealed.
"I see the allegations of war crimes attempted to be brought against Sri Lanka in Geneva as a victory for those who are opposed to peace, "said Rajapaksa, adding it was a "grave crime" to make such accusations based on information provided by "separatists and losers."
Rajapaksa said the proposed resolution was against peace, justice and fairness.
Sri Lanka has faced questions over the tactics it used to defeat Tamil rebels in 2009 to end a 25-year civil war. Government troops have been accused of targeting civilians and hospitals, blocking food and medicine for civilians, and deliberately under countering the number of civilians trapped in the war zone.
The rebels were accused of using the civilians as human shields, killing those who tried to escape and recruiting child soldiers. According to a U.N. report, 40,000 ethnic Tamil civilians may have been killed in the final months of the fighting, mostly by government attacks. The U.S has sponsored two resolutions calling on the Sri Lankan government to initiate an inquiry into allegations of war crimes.


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Lehtonen injured, but gritty Stars fight back to beat Canucks, 4-3
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Brenden Dillon scored the go-ahead goal with 3 minutes left in the third period and the Dallas Stars rallied past Vancouver 4-3 on Friday night to end the Canucks' six-game winning streak.
Reilly Smith, Cody Eakin and Antoine Roussel also scored for the Stars, who overcame a 3-1 deficit to win for the fifth time in six games. Backup goalie Richard Bachman rebounded from a rough start and earned the victory in relief of injured Kari Lehtonen.
Daniel Sedin, Chris Higgins and Alex Burrows had goals for the Canucks, and captain Henrik Sedin became the club's career scoring leader.
Dillon, a 22-year-old native of the Vancouver suburb of Surrey, B.C., was playing his first NHL game in his hometown. He gave Dallas the lead for the first time when he slid behind coverage from his defensive position and fired in Jamie Benn's cross-ice pass.
Dallas outshot Vancouver 29-28. The Stars were blanked on four power plays, while the Canucks could not convert on three.
After allowing three goals on the first six shots he faced, Bachman stopped 15 straight shots to finish with 21 saves.
Henrik Sedin became Vancouver's career scoring leader by getting two assists to surpass former teammate Markus Naslund. Sedin now has 757 points, one more than Naslund. The former teammates hail from the same hometown of Ornskoldsvik, Sweden.
Vancouver's Ryan Kesler played his first game since last spring's playoffs after recovering from shoulder and wrist surgery. Kesler drew a loud cheer as he came out to take a faceoff on his first shift. He quickly made an impact by drawing an interference penalty on Dillon just 1:16 into the game.
But the Canucks could not capitalize on the power play, in part because a wide-open Kesler fanned on a one-timer of Henrik Sedin's cross-ice pass. Kesler had another chance around the 5-minute mark, but Lehtonen stopped him as he attempted a backhand while coming around the net.
Kesler had another excellent chance during another power play midway through the first period, but the puck hit Lehtonen's blocker and the crossbar and bounced away. Lehtonen came up big a little while later as he got the shaft of his stick on Jordan Schroeder's wrist shot that appeared headed for the top corner of the net.
But Lehtonen left the game moments later during a TV timeout and was replaced by Bachman. Mason Raymond scored on the first shot Bachman faced as he stuffed in a pass from Jannik Hansen, but the goal was disallowed because of incidental contact.
Only 11 seconds later, Smith beat Vancouver goalie Cory Schneider from a sharp angle.
Daniel Sedin drew the Canucks even 3:21 into the second period when he roofed in a backhand from along the goal line as his twin brother Henrik passed the puck from behind the net.
Higgins gave the Canucks a 2-1 lead 53 seconds later as he fired home a shot from the high slot for his third goal of the season. Kesler earned his first point of the season as he drew the second assist on the play.
Henrik Sedin took sole possession of Vancouver's points record midway through the second when he sent a cross-ice pass to Alex Burrows, who made no mistake as he one-timed the puck behind Bachman.
After Henrik Sedin broke the record, the crowd gave him an extended standing ovation — even while he sat on the bench, then back on the ice and during a TV timeout. During the break, the Canucks aired a video saluting him, with Naslund offering his congratulations.
Henrik Sedin responded by raising his stick and clapping in support of the crowd.
Eakin brought Dallas within a goal at 17:50 of the middle period, jamming in the puck after it trickled down Schneider as he tried to squeeze Trevor Daley's shot.
Roussel tied it for the Stars at 12:22 of the third period when he stuffed in a loose puck during a scramble.
NOTES: Three fights occurred 3 seconds apart in the second period. In the middle bout, former Ivy League teammates Aaron Volpatti of Vancouver and Ryan Garbutt of Dallas squared off. Volpatti and Garbutt played together during three seasons at Brown. … Dallas wing Ray Whitney, 40, sat out his seventh straight game with a foot injury. … Stars forward Jaromir Jagr turned 41. … Canucks defensemen Andrew Alberts and Cam Barker were scratched for the 13th straight game. They have yet to play this season. Vancouver forward Andrew Ebbett was also scratched. … It was the first of three meetings between Dallas and Vancouver this season. … Stars defenseman Aaron Rome played his first game against his former team since leaving last summer as a free agent.


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Admission Process & Major Declaration
Admission to the College of Business
Admission Criteria:
1) Minimum of 44 credits earned
2) Combined (cumulative, including transfer grades) GPA of 2.50 or above
3) Pre-core GPA of 2.50 or above (students admitted to UW Oshkosh BEFORE Fall 2012 are required to have a 2.20 Pre-core GPA or above)
4) Earned a grade of "C" or better in every Business Pre-core course
5) Completion of all Business Pre- core courses
*If you do not meet the admission criteria listed above, please see the Admission Appeal List Process page for more information
Admission Process:
Students are allowed to apply for admission to the College of Business if they have met all the Admission Criteria listed above. The application for admission allows the student to enroll in an unlimited amount of upper-level (300/400) business department courses and to declare a major.
1) Students must make an appointment with a Business Advisor in the Undergraduate Advising Resource Center (UARC), Student Success Center Suite 202, and bring their current STAR to check admissions eligibility. Students are encouraged to meet with their advisor about two weeks before their assigned registration date for the semester they plan to admit.
2) Students will have a message on their STAR above their In-Progress Courses section indicating their application is pending review after their appointment. This indication means they are eligible to add as many 300/400 level business department courses that they would like as long as they meet other course prerequisites.
3) Students who are taking BUS 284, Professional Skills in Business, in Fall 2015 or later at UW Oshkosh skip to #4.
Students must create and submit their Professional Development portfolio (Self Awareness, Market Awareness, Professional Connections, Communication Skills and Technology Literacy) by creating a Portfolio in D2L and submitting it in the appropriate COB Admission course drop boxes by the deadline (listed below). For details, see the College of Business website: http://www.uwosh.edu/cob/undergraduate/admission , or go to Sage Hall 1608, the College of Business Undergraduate Office.
4) At the end of the current semester, and after the deadline (below), the applicant's academic record will be reviewed along with the Professional Development portfolio if necessary and admissions decisions will be administered based on the criteria above. Transfer students must request final transcripts to be received by UW Oshkosh Admissions Office no later than January 1st for spring acceptance or June 1st for fall acceptance.
5) Admission notification letters will be e-mailed to the UW Oshkosh e-mail account after the deadline (below); generally late July for fall admission, and late January for spring admission.
6) The indicated major(s), minor(s) and emphases in the student's academic advising meeting will be added to the applicant's records appearing on the STAR and transcripts near the beginning of the admit semester. After that, the student's advisor will be changed to a College of Business faculty advisor for each major declared.
Deadline to complete admission process:
Fall admission deadline: May 20
Spring admission deadline: December 20
NOTE: Students not meeting the admission requirements (above) may be able to keep up to 21 credits of upper level business department courses. However, they will be removed from all courses for which they do not meet the prerequisites
Professional Development Portfolio
Portfolios are only required for students who have taken Bus 284 (Professional Skills in Business) PRIOR to Fall 2016 or transfer a class in as Bus 284. Students who take Bus 284 Fall 2016 or after will complete the standards through that course.
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh's College of Business prepares its students not only for success within the classroom, but most importantly, success upon graduation. As the only business school in the state with an internship requirement, our students obtain the real-world experience needed by today's employers. Read about some of the internships on the Featured Internships page.
Undergraduate students also participate in College to Career Conference (formerly Networking Night), a unique opportunity that brings students and employers together to socialize and learn about potential employment opportunities.
UW Oshkosh's Career Services helps to further prepare students for opportunities to receive resume assistance, participate in mock interviews and connect with internships and jobs upon graduation.
Below are the five standards of professional development that students must complete in order to be fully admitted to the College of Business.
Click on + to open/close the selection.
- Standard 1: Self - Awareness
Be self-aware and confident in your interests and abilities. Know how this relates to your majors of interest before making a final choice when admitting to the College of Business.
Applicable College Learning Goal:
Business Skills, Interpersonal Skills - Students will gain a greater understanding of themselves and their strengths and how they relate to working with others and in their chosen work environment.
Activities to Complete this Standard:
Take Personal Globe Inventory through WISCareers and review the Interest Profile, Explore Occupations, and Full Report tabs. The registration code for UW Oshkosh students is osh-c427. Find it at http://wiscareers.wisc.edu/.
- Standard 2: Market Awareness
Be aware of the market and how your chosen major fits within the realistic scope of employment.
Applicable College Learning Goal:
Business Environment - Through occupation research, students will have a greater understanding of opportunities and issues facing their chosen occupation.
Business Skills, Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving Skills - Students will have the opportunity to gather data and organize it for analysis.
Activities to Complete this Standard:
Use Occupational Outlook Handbook to explore what you can do with majors of interest. Find this resource at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/
Verification Tools:
Create and submit a summary of an occupation which includes:
- Fields within occupation (nature of work)
- Educational requirements
- 10 year growth projection
- Median Salary
- Lowest and Top 10 Percent Salaries
The summary should be in bullet point format and in you own words. Do not copy and paste directly from the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
- Standard 3: Professional Connections
Be aware of the culture of business and trends in employment.
Applicable College Learning Goal:
Business Knowledge - Students will gain more information regarding their specific functional area as well as business relations as a whole.
Business Environment - Students have the opportunity to hear speakers and interact with organizations and understand issues facing the business world.
Activities to Complete this Standard:
- Attend at least 1 UW Oshkosh Career or Internship Fair
- Attend at least 3 business student club meetings or other approved College of Business development sessions.
To verify club attendance, print off the Club Attendance Verification Form below. When the form is completed, scan the form and add the electronic version to your Professional Development Portfolio. Be sure to follow the directions on the form correctly.
- Standard 4: Communication Skills
Display professional communication skills.
Applicable College Learning Goal:
Business Skills, Communication Skills- Students have the opportunity to display professional written communication skills.
Activity to Complete this Standard:
Create an essay to reflect on the following admission processes, answering the three prompts below:
- Identify at least 3 activities you completed in your professional skills class/or the admission process that were most valuable and briefly describe each activity.
- Discuss what major you choose to pursue once admitted and why you want to pursue that major?
- Finally, discuss two action steps that you plan on initiating once admitted to the College of Business. (This could include attending events, joining a professional club, steps to secure an internship, etc.)
The essay should be professional, including correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and approximately 500 - 750 words. Paste your essay into the Admissions Essay page to your Professional Development Portfolio in the appropriate Dropbox folder.
- Standard 5: Technology Literacy
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Fatmah Fallatah
M.Sc. candidate, Nursing
King Adbullah Scholarship Holder
Fatmah Fallatah, Nursing student and King Abdullah scholarship holder.
by Meredith Dault
January 27, 2012
Fatmah Fallatah came to Canada from Saudi Arabia in 2008 with a King Abdullah scholarship to do a Masters degree in Nursing. Fallatah first did a six month intensive English language training course in Toronto, while looking at which institute to do her Masters. Already trained as a nurse, with lots of real-world experience, she applied to a number of graduate programs -- including the Master's of Nursing Science program at Queen's.
"I chose Queen's for the name," she explains with a smile. But it wasn't the only reason. She was impressed by how responsive the university was to her questions. "One day I called and asked a question, and they transferred my call to the graduate coordinator and she answered my question so nicely!" she laughs. "While at another university I had applied to, I was struggling to get help. I had to go there in person and ask for help to answer my question!"
Before she was even accepted into the program, Fallatah says she'd had the chance to speak to a faculty member about her research. "And in less than five days I got my acceptance," she says, "it was the first acceptance that I got from any university. Queen's was very quick and good."
Now in the second year of a small, thesis-streamed program (she is one of three students!), Fallatah, who started in 2010, says she's had a great experience so far. Rather than training in a hospital setting and pursuing hands-on learning, Fallatah's work is research-based. The two year program is built around course work in the first year, and independent research in the second.
Her research is specifically geared around looking at the the social support needs available to the family members of people who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis. "My father was diagnosed with it twenty years ago," Fallatah explains. "I am interested in how families handle this disabling condition, especially when the person who has the disease is the person providing financially for the family."
She says while there has been a lot of research on how rheumatoid arthritis affects individuals, there has been little work looking at how it impacts family members. Fallatah plans to pursue interview-based research with people she's connected with through branches of the Canadian Arthritis Society in both Kingston and Toronto. "It will be interested to see what they say," she muses.
Fatmah Fallatah, taking in the scenes of Canada during her stay here. Let's take a train or go to the markets in Ottawa.
Fallatah, who commutes to Kingston by bus from her home base in Toronto, says she knew it was important for her to pursue a graduate degree. "You don't want to stay and waste your time doing the same work over and over again. You want to progress and continue your education. You see things you want to change in the future."
And says she is fortunate to be in Canada on a generous scholarship from the government of Saudi Arabia. When she finishes her degree in August 2012, she'll either return to the same hospital in Saudi Arabia where she had previously worked, only in a new capacity, or else she will embark on a PhD here in Canada -- ideally in nursing, but with a specialization in chronic illnesses or cancer.
Though she still isn't keen on Canadian winters ("my first winter… oh my god, it was so bad! I didn't like it at all" she laughs), she's happy with her decision to come to Queen's. She likes how independent she's been allowed to be within the program and is grateful for the support she's had from everyone on campus, from her supervisor to the university administration. "It's not like you are just a student. At Queen's, it really seems like they care about their students!"


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LA Galaxy 4, Vancouver Whitecaps FC 0
Saturday, July 30, 2011
The Home Depot Center – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Scoring Summary:
LA – Landon Donovan 10 (Sean Franklin 1) 61'
LA – Landon Donovan 11 (Penalty Kick) 75'
LA – Sean Franklin 2 (Landon Donovan 2, Todd Dunivant 4) 80'
LA – Adam Cristman 1 (Unassisted) 90'
Misconduct Summary:
LA – Michael Stephens (Yellow Card) 65'
LA Galaxy: Josh Saunders; A.J. DeLaGarza, Omar Gonzalez, Gregg Berhalter, Todd Dunivant; Sean Franklin, Michael Stephens (Dan Keat 85'), Juninho, Landon Donovan© (Miguel Lopez 84'); Juan Pablo Angel (Adam Cristman 67'), Mike Magee.
Subs Not Used: Brian Perk, Bryan Jordan, Hector Jimenez, Paolo Cardozo.
Vancouver Whitecaps FC: Joe Cannon; Jonathan Leathers (Peter Vagenas 73'), Alain Rochat©, Michael Boxall, Jordan Harvey; Gershon Koffie, Shea Salinas, Davide Chiumiento (Michael Nanchoff 81'), Camilo; Mustopha Jarju (Nizar Khalfan 62'), Eric Hassli.
Subs Not Used: Jay Nolly, Wes Knight, Greg Janicki, Jeb Brovsky.
Referee: Baldomero Toledo
Referee's Assistants Colin Arblaster and Kevin Duliba
4th Official: Tyler Ploeger
- With the win, the Galaxy are now 12-2-9 on the season, leaving them with a league-best 45 points. LA remain in first place in the Western Conference and are now six points ahead of second place FC Dallas, who host Chivas USA on Sunday. Seattle are now seven points behind the Galaxy and in third place, following their 3-1 loss at Houston.
- The Galaxy are now unbeaten in their last 14 league games, going 8-0-6 in those contests for 30 of a possible 42 points.
- The 14-game unbeaten streak is the longest in MLS this season and the third longest unbeaten streak in Galaxy history. The only streaks longer than their current streak, which is the longest for an MLS team this season, are a pair of 15-game unbeaten streaks, the first of which happened during the 1997 and 1998 seasons while the other started late in the 2009 season and ended in June 2010.
- The Galaxy have now won three straight games. This is their second longest winning streak of the season, beaten only by their four game winning streak from May 14-May 28.
- The Galaxy are now 6-2-4 on the road this season and have kept a clean sheet in five of those games.
- Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena made three changes to the team that defeated the Columbus Crew 1-0 on July 20 at The Home Depot Center in the Galaxy's last league game. Omar Gonzalez returned in central defense while Michael Stephens was back in the lineup in central midfield while Mike Magee started up front. They replaced Jovan Kirovski, who did not dress for the game, David Beckham who was suspended for yellow card accumulation and Miguel Lopez, who began the game on the bench.
- In addition to Beckham, Chris Birchall was also suspended for the game, serving the second game of his two-game suspension that he was given by the MLS Disciplinary Committee for a foul on Patrick Nyarko late in the 2-1 win over Chicago on July 9.
- While Beckham and Birchall were suspended, the Galaxy were also without Sean Alvarado, Chad Barrett, Leonardo and Donovan Ricketts, who all missed the game through injury.
- Dam Keat was in the 18-man squad for the first time in his MLS career. The first round MLS Supplemental Draft pick replaced Michael Stephens in the 85th minute to make his MLS debut.
- The game was tied 0-0 at halftime. This was the fifth consecutive league game that the Galaxy were tied 0-0 at the half. LA are 3-0-2 in those five games.
- Landon Donovan gave the Galaxy a 1-0 lead in the 61st minute with his 10th goal of the season.
- With the goal, he reached double figures in goals for the sixth time in his 11-year MLS career. Now in his seventh season with the Galaxy, Donovan has 10 or more goals in five of those years.
- Sean Franklin had the lone assist on the goal for his first of the season. He had a career-high six assists in 2010.
- Donovan added his second goal of the game in the 75th minute, converting a penalty kick for his 11th goal of the year. That goal leaves him tied with New York's Thierry Henry for the most in MLS this season.
- Donovan is now tied with Ante Razov for the third most goals in MLS history with 114 in 247 career regular season games.
- He is now tied for the MLS lead with three multi-goal games this season.
- Donovan is now 4-for-4 from the penalty spot this season.
- This was Donovan's first-ever game against the Whitecaps. The 20th different team that he has played in a regular season game. He now has seven goals and 10 assists in those 20 games, including four goals and two assists against the two expansion teams this year.
- Sean Franklin scored his second goal in as many games in the 80th minute, finishing off a pass from Landon Donovan.
- This was Franklin's first-ever MLS game with both a goal and an assist.
- Donovan collected his second assist of the year on the goal. He had a career-high 16 assists in 2010.
- Adam Cristman rounded out the scoring in the 90th minute with his first regular season goal in a Galaxy uniform.
- Cristman now has five goals in four different competitions for the club. One came in the friendly against Real Madrid, one came in the Open Cup loss to Seattle and two came in the Reserve League, including one against Vancouver.
- This was his first MLS regular season goal since June 10, 2010 when he played for D.C. United.
- Cristman is the 12th different Galaxy player to score a goal this season.
- Josh Saunders made three saves to keep his fourth clean sheet of the season.
- This was the Galaxy's 12th clean sheet in 23 games this season, equaling a club record that was set in 2009 and matched in 2010. In addition to Saunders four shutouts, Donovan Ricketts has six and Brian Perk has one while Ricketts, Saunders and Mike Magee combined for one other.
- Michael Stephens was shown the only yellow card of the game in the 65th minute.
- Juninho was not booked, meaning that he remains on yellow card warning. If he plays two more games without collecting a card, he will have one expunged from his record.
- Todd Dunivant once again played the full 90 minutes at left back for the Galaxy. He is the only player on the club to start all 23 regular season games while also play the full 90 minutes in each.
- The Whitecaps were the last team that the Galaxy had not played this season. They are now 10-2-5 in their first game against a team this year.
- This was the first ever MLS game between the two sides. The Galaxy are now 13-4-2 their first time facing an opponent in MLS.
- Empire Field is the 35th different stadium that the Galaxy have played a regular season game in. They are now 16-14-5 their first time playing in a new building.
- The Galaxy now have a 2-1-3 all-time record in Canada in the regular season, going 1-0-0 against the Whitecaps and 1-1-3 against Toronto FC.
- LA are now 15-6-3 all-time against expansion teams, including 2-0-0 this year, outscoring opponents 7-0. In addition to today's win, the Galaxy also beat Portland 3-0 at The Home Depot Center on April 23.
- The Whitecaps will travel to The Home Depot Center for the reverse fixture on Saturday, September 17.
- The attendance for tonight's game was a sellout crowd of 27,500, the biggest ever for an MLS game at Empire Field.
- This was the third time the Galaxy and Whitecaps have played, but the first to come in an MLS game. They played to a 0-0 draw in 2007 in a friendly at BC Place in Vancouver while the Whitecaps won 2-1 in a friendly that was played in Edmonton in May 2008.
- The Galaxy will remain in Vancouver overnight and face the Whitecaps in a Reserve League game on Sunday at Empire Field. That game will kick off at 11 a.m.
- Following that game, the Galaxy will fly south to Portland ahead of their next game on Wednesday, August 3 against the Portland Timbers at JELD-WEN Field. That game kicks off at 7:30 p.m. and be shown live on ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes. That will be the second and final meeting of the year between the Galaxy and Timbers, with the Galaxy winning 3-0 at The Home Depot Center on April 23.


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Abiaka (Sam Jones) lived through some of the most tumultuous and dangerous periods of Seminole life during the 19th century. He was a medicine man who looked after his people. There were a number of leaders like Osceola who were better known by the Europeans, but Abiaka played just as great a role by keeping the Seminole people together and surviving through wartime to peace times. It was his stubborn and fierce determination to stay in the Florida peninsula, which steeled the Seminole people to resistance. Every Seminole who still lives today in Florida owes this fact to Abiaka.
Leaders of the Seminole can be both highly visible and invisible. Leaders such as Osceola were written about and much publicized to the non-Seminole society. Other leaders stayed in the background and exerted just as much influence. This background role was the mechanics of Seminole society that the U.S. military did not see and did not include in their copious war reports. A leader such as Abiaka could do his work without their knowledge and awareness. It was his style of leadership preferred by Abiaka and he seemed to have been successful in leading warriors in battle and moving the elders, women, and the children to safety.
Any group of people such as the Seminole who were relentlessly hunted, pursued, and whose material resources were destroyed gradually needs an intangible will to fight and to persist. Abiaka provided that inspiration and spiritual resources to prevail in war. His presence together with his medicine provided warriors in battle to believe that everything will come out alright in the end. This is the legacy of Abiaka.
(Written by Billy L. Cypress, Executive Director of the Seminole Tribal Museum Authority)
More information about Abiaka can be found on Wikipedia.


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I hope the spiritual workout of the Mount 27 is going well. I've found that using the audio version of the bible is very helpful to get the reading done, and helps tons when one needs to catch up by a book or two. If you have or use Spotify, then here is a link of a dramatized version of the New Testament for free: Dramatized New Testament - ESV. Or, the Center for Campus Ministry has a few copies available for your listening pleasure. I've found even using an audio version helps me to hear things in a different way than what I see and hear when I am reading it. The audio version brings the text alive in a whole new way. Keep up the good work - God love you.
Deacon Jake


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The Libyan Investment Authority recently sued Goldman over some 2008-vintage derivatives trades gone wrong. I wrote about it last week but didn't yet have Libya's complaint. That came out today -- here is the complaint, or in British the "Particulars of Claim" -- and it's fun reading.
So ... how'd we do? I dunno, I am the worst person to ask except all the other people, in that I have biases up the wazoo (I used to sell equity derivatives for Goldman! I did this sort of thing!1) and yet have no inside information and am relying on Bloomberg options calculators to figure out the answer. Still here we are on the internet. Let's do it.
The LIA accuses Goldman of ripping it off on nine options trades on six different stocks (Citi, Electricite de France, Santander, Allianz, ENI and UniCredit) in the first half of 2008. Those trades were dumb! I had previously read, and assumed, that they were complicated trades, but they actually weren't at all. Basically Libya bought a bunch of three-year at- the-money call options on stocks: If the stocks went up, Libya would make a (highly levered) profit; if they went down, Libya would lose its entire investment. The stocks went down. Libya lost its entire investment. That investment was about $1.2 billion. The end.
The LIA has two main claims: They should never have done those trades in the first place, and Goldman ripped them off on the price.
It is hard to argue with point 1! My general investing advice is that, if a trade loses 100% of its value, you should never have done it in the first place. You can take that to the bank, if your bank is in the past.
On point 2, here is some super duper rough math:
And here is a footnote that you might also find super duper rough.2
Libya thinks that Goldman made $350 million on these trades. I think it made about $128 million -- not, mind you, of realized profit over the life of the trades, but rather first-day mark against "market" values. (I can't tell you much about realized profit, and neither can Libya, nor is it that relevant to their lawsuit.)
Both are big numbers! But not that big compared to the fact that these were three-year trades on more than $5 billion worth of stock. And they were risky trades! Yes, Goldman hedged, but for the most part these were outright call options on pretty volatile stocks. Those are not trades that Goldman would want to do!3 Goldman was selling a whole lot of volatility here. In January through April 2008. A scary time to be had by all.4
If -- incorrectly, but useful for our purposes -- you assume that Goldman locked up $5.2 billion of cash for three years to keep these trades on, then its profits work out to 0.8% (my math) to 2.2% (Libya's math) a year. On risky trades! That's not, like, an amazing return. Remember, banks tend to get a return on assets of around 1 percent. Meh. All in all that pricing looks sharpish.
I don't know what lessons you can draw here other than that I miss selling equity derivatives. If you're inclined to stick up for Goldman here -- and, remember, I have my biases -- you might say, look, Libya wanted equity upside exposure, so it bought some calls. Those calls were fairly priced, and would have made Libya money if stocks had gone up. Stocks -- especially European bank stocks and Citi! -- went down. You buy at-the-money calls, the stock goes down, you get nothing. You spend $1.2 billion to get nothing, you're sad and mad and want restructuring and sue and so forth. But none of that is Goldman's fault. They're a dealer, someone came to them for a trade, they gave them the trade, they can't guarantee success.5
I guess that's not the point of the lawsuit though. The point is that the trades were super dumb. (Yep!) And that, while the LIA couldn't have known better, Goldman should have. Maybe?
The complaint is largely the story of how Goldman North Africa salesman Youssef Kabbaj did his job buttering up Libya. Kabbaj -- a vice president,6 by the way, so good on him printing trades with nine digits of profits -- did his job. He was good at it! He entertained the LIA team in his native Morocco (on Goldman's dime), and Mr Kabbaj addressed the LIA employees as his "friends" and his "team", and made them feel that he was part of their "team" (frequently bringing them small gifts, such as aftershaves and chocolates, when he visited Tripoli).
It's always the aftershaves.7 This campaign worked so well that "by March 2008, when some of the LIA employees had not heard from Mr Kabbaj for a few days, they contacted Mr. Kabbaj to check that everything was alright, and that Mr. Kabbaj was not upset with them. Mr Kabbaj reassured them that he was not."
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's economy expanded at the fastest level in two years in the first quarter as capital expenditure and exports turned higher, the central bank said Thursday.
South Korea's economy grew 0.9 percent in the January-March period from three months prior, accelerating from 0.3 percent growth in the fourth quarter, according to Bank of Korea's preliminary reading.
Over a year earlier, Asia's fourth-largest economy expanded 1.5 percent, the same level as the previous quarter.
The bank said capital expenditure increased after declining for the previous three quarters. Exports also turned higher after the fourth quarter's drop despite Japan's aggressive monetary easing programs that drove down the value of yen, which gave a boost to Japanese firms that compete with South Korean exporters.
Growth in capital expenditure and exports helped mask a decline in private consumption, which turned lower for the first time in five quarters.
The better-than-expected reading comes after the central bank slightly revised down its forecast for South Korea's economy to 2.6 percent growth this year, from 2.8 percent three months earlier, citing a downgrade in the global economic outlook. But Bank of Korea held its key interest rate steady for a sixth month in April after two rate cuts last year, saying that South Korea's economy is on track to slow recovery and is not weak enough to justify an additional monetary easing.
South Korea's government takes a more grim view on the economy. Last month, it said South Korea's economy will expand 2.3 percent this year, instead of 3 percent it had predicted three months earlier, blaming the yen's slide that dents exports and weak consumer sentiment.
The government proposed $15 billion extra budget to boost the economy and to create jobs, which is under the parliament's review.


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Governor: Europe position won't deter executions
Oct. 07, 2013
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri will move ahead with two planned executions despite efforts in Europe to block a common anesthetic from being used in the procedure, Gov. Jay Nixon said Monday.
German company Fresenius Kabi produces almost the entire supply of propofol, but the European Union is considering possible export limits as part of its anti-capital punishment policies. Missouri has enough to carry out its next three executions, the first scheduled for later this month, but Nixon declined to say what the state would do if it is unable to get more propofol. The Missouri executions would be the first to use propofol, which made headlines in 2009 when pop star Michael Jackson died of an overdose. .
Nixon said state and federal court systems, not European politicians, will decide death penalty policy in Missouri.
"A number of courts have already had an opportunity to review this matter," Nixon said, referring to broader legal challenges to the death penalty. "We're going to continue to monitor it very closely. At this point, there's no stay in effect."
On Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Corrections, alleging that the agency failed to comply with open records requests related to its planned use of propofol in executions.
The Missouri Society of Anesthesiologists has also urged the state to reconsider using propofol, warning that Missouri "is on the verge of triggering a national drug shortage that will have a severe impact on the general welfare of the citizens of our state and our country." The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has also expressed concern about any move that would limit access to the drug.
Missouri turned to propofol for executions only after the drugs it and other states previously used for lethal injection could no longer be obtained by prisons and corrections departments because drug makers did not approve of such uses.
Propofol is America's most popular anesthetic, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists. About 50 million vials are administered annually in some 15,000 U.S. hospitals and clinics — about four-fifths of all anesthetic procedures. The society said in a statement that propofol is popular because it works quickly and patients wake up faster with fewer side effects such as post-operative nausea.
Convicted killer Allen Nicklasson is scheduled to die by injection on Oct. 23 in the state's first use of propofol for capital punishment since changing its execution protocol last year. Joseph Franklin is scheduled to be put to death on Nov. 20.
Until recently, Missouri and other states with the death penalty used virtually the same three-drug protocol. That changed in recent years as drug makers stopped selling the traditional execution drugs to state corrections departments because they didn't want them used in lethal injection.
Nicklasson was convicted of killing a good Samaritan who stopped to help after Nicklasson's car became disabled on Interstate 70 in 1994. Franklin is scheduled to be put to death for the 1997 shooting death of Gerald Gordon at a St. Louis area synagogue. Franklin has also been convicted of racially-motivated killings in Utah and Wisconsin, and bombing a synagogue in Tennessee.
The uncertainty over Missouri's execution protocol prompted Republican state Sen. Kurt Schaefer, a 2016 candidate for Missouri attorney general, to suggest last week that Nixon consider reopening the state's gas chamber. Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster brought up the same idea in July.
State statutes currently allow executions either by lethal drug or by gas, though a gas chamber no longer exists in the state. Previous executions by gas took place at the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, which was built in 1836 and shut down a decade ago. It is now a tourist attraction, complete with tours of the old gas chamber.
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Arlen Specter certainly would have lost a Republican primary for his Senate seat. But will he win a Democratic primary? That question turns, presumably, on who runs against him and, at least as importantly, on the posture of the party establisment in Pennsylvania and nationally.
It seems likely that Specter sought assurances on the Democrats' posture towards his candidacy before making his switch, and that he made the switch only after obtaining some. It also seems likely that, before giving Specter assurances, the Democratic establishment would have extracted some promises from him.
The most important promise Specter could have given was not to stand in the way of passing the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, which would enable unions to represent a bargaining unit through a "card check" without winning an election. Specter has said he opposes this legislation and that his shift across the aisle will not change this. But the Democrats don't need Specter to support card checks; they only need him to support cloture (i.e. to vote to cut off the filibuster).
To my knowledge, Specter has never said how he would vote on cloture in this context and thus remains a "free agent" on this precise issue. So perhaps he has now assured Democrats that he will support cloture, which possibly could clear the way for passage of "card checks."
If Specter were to vote against cloture on this legislation, it seems clear that organized labor would try to take him down in the Democratic primary. And given labor's strength among Pennsylvania Democrats, it is possible that, quite apart from any commitments Specter may already have made, he will think twice before he becomes the vote that kills the Employee Free Choice Act.


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contest, and Old Bay Seasoning sent me a deep fryer, a seafood steamer and loads of products! It was time for me to learn how to make fish & chips. As luck would have it, I had just bought fresh cod. While Old Bay Seasoning sent me a few of their mixes, I wanted to make Anne Burrell's beer batter, from scratch. Fortunately, she recommends Old Bay Seasoning, so I got to work. I decided to use the deep fryer to make the potatoes, and to use a 3 quart cast iron pot to fry the fish. I also use peanut oil-- I just think it tastes better, though it's a little more expensive than vegetable oil
The cleanup takes care. Of course, you want to let the oil cool. I strained the oil, and labled one "FISH". I have these in the refrigerator, for future use. I read that the oil is good for 3-6 uses, depending on how dark it becomes. Eventually, it can go rancid, but I'm sure I'll be deep frying more things. I have tempura planned. I also want to make beignets. Obviously, I won't make beignets in the oil I cooked with fish. D'oh!