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Regulators on Friday shut down Guaranty Bank, a big Texas-based lender felled by losses on loans to homebuilders and borrowers, in the second-largest U.S. bank failure this year.
Guaranty's failure, along with those of three banks in Georgia and Alabama Friday, brought to 81 the number of U.S. bank failures in 2009, a mounting toll and the most in a year since 1992 at the height of the savings-and-loan crisis.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized Guaranty Bank, with about $13 billion in assets and $12 billion in deposits, and sold all of its deposits and $12 billion of the assets to BBVA Compass, the U.S. division of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, Spain's second-largest bank. It was the first foreign bank to buy a failed U.S. bank. In addition, the FDIC agreed to share losses with BBVA on about $11 billion of Guaranty Bank's assets.
The collapse of Austin-based Guaranty Bank, whose parent company was Guaranty Financial Group Inc., was the 10th-largest bank failure in U.S. history. It is expected to cost the deposit insurance fund an estimated $3 billion.
The bank, with 162 branches in Texas and California, also suffered losses on mortgage-linked securities it bought from other banks.
Birmingham, Ala.-based BBVA Compass, with 600 branches from Florida to California, said the acquisition creates the 15th-largest commercial bank in the U.S., with about $49 billion in deposits. "This compelling transaction makes excellent strategic sense and represents an exciting growth opportunity for BBVA Compass as we continue to build the leading banking franchise in the high-growth Sunbelt region," Jose Maria Garcia Meyer, chairman of BBVA Compass, said in a statement.
In contrast to the big bank failures early in the financial crisis, many of the recently shuttered banks were undone not by exotic mortgage products but by garden-variety loans.
At the same time, a knot of big, complex banks collapsing in recent months is sapping billions from the federal deposit insurance fund that insures regular accounts up to $250,000, spurring regulators to court potential buyers from the world of private investment.
The FDIC last week seized Colonial Bank, a big lender in real estate development, and sold its $20 billion in deposits, 346 branches in five states and about $22 billion of its assets to BB&T Corp.
It was the biggest bank failure so far this year, and the sixth-largest in U.S. history, expected to cost the insurance fund $2.8 billion.
While losses on home mortgages may be leveling off, delinquencies on commercial real estate loans remain a hot spot of potential trouble, experts say. Many regional banks like Montgomery, Ala.-based Colonial hold large numbers of them. Many companies have shut down in the recession, vacating shopping malls and office buildings financed by the loans.
Also Friday, the FDIC seized two small banks in Georgia and one in Alabama: ebank, located in Atlanta, with $143 million in assets and $130 million in deposits; First Coweta, based in Newnan, Ga., with $167 million in assets and $155 million in deposits; and CapitalSouth Bank, based in Birmingham, Ala., with $617 million in assets and $546 million in deposits.
The agency expects bank failures will cost the fund around $70 billion through 2013. The fund stood at $13 billion – its lowest level since 1993 – at the end of March. It has slipped to 0.27 percent of total insured deposits, below the minimum mandated by Congress of 1.15 percent.
The costliest failure was the July 2008 seizure of big California lender IndyMac Bank, on which the fund is estimated to have lost $10.7 billion.
Among the 81 banks closed so far this year – compared with 25 last year and three in all of 2007 – were a stream of smaller institutions, many felled by losses on ordinary loans amid the souring economy, tumbling home prices and spiking unemployment. Their business was a far cry from the complex securities favored by Wall Street investment banks that precipitated the financial meltdown.
The average cost to the fund of a bank failure over the past 19 months has run higher than during the savings-and-loan debacle. That's partly due to smaller banks having higher resolution costs than larger ones, and because the steep decline in home prices that set off the current distress wasn't a factor in the earlier crisis, said Jim Wigand, deputy director of resolutions and receiverships at the FDIC.
Because of the tumble in prices, the loss rates on home loans and construction and development loans were higher for banks, with a domino effect on related securities, Wigand said.
Many of the smaller banks that failed in the recent run shared common attributes: rapid growth, heavy concentration of brokered deposits sold by securities firms to customers outside the bank's local area, and heavy lending in "hot markets" like Arizona, California, Florida and Nevada, noted Bert Ely, a banking consultant based in Alexandria, Va.
They are spread nationwide, though there is a concentration of banks in Georgia, where 17 have fallen since the beginning of last year, more than in any other state. That is a reflection of the local real estate market, whose distress has rippled throughout the economy there.
In Friday's other three closings, Stearns Bank, based in St. Cloud, Minn., agreed to buy the assets and deposits of ebank. United Bank, based in Zebulon, Ga., is assuming the deposits and $155 million of the assets of First Coweta; the FDIC will retain the rest for eventual sale. IberiaBank, based in Lafayette, La., is assuming the deposits and $589 million of the assets of CapitalSouth Bank.
Those failures are expected to cost the insurance fund an estimated $63 million for ebank, $48 million for First Coweta and $151 million for CapitalSouth Bank.
Last spring, the FDIC adopted a new system of special fees paid by U.S. banks and thrifts that shifted more of the burden to bigger institutions to help replenish the insurance fund.
The number of troubled banks on the agency's confidential list leaped to 305 in the first quarter, the highest number since 1994. Some analysts expect hundreds of banks to collapse over the next year or so.
Around 2,900 banks failed during the S&L crisis from 1980 through 1994.


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Russell and Morris VANCLIEF are buried in the Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, California.
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I believe that Russell and Morris were part of the George W. and Alice E. Van Clief family. They are found in Lompoc, California in the 1900 U.S. Census listed as "George R." and "David M." The birth dates given in the census would be correct, and since this census was enumerated on July 9, 1900, both boys would still have been alive at that time.
George W. Van Clief is also buried in the Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery. He died on October 21, 1936. It does not appear that Alice is buried in this cemetery.
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Headstone of Russell and Morris VanClief photographed by Elizabeth O'Neal, November 23, 2007, Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, California.
1900 U. S. Census, Santa Barbara County, California, population schedule, ED 158, page 11B, dwelling 247, family 247, George VanClief; digital image, Ancestry.com; from National Archives microfilm publication T623, roll 110.
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So I decided to blog about some of the inconsistencies that I've run into.
For this first post, one of my favorites,
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innerHTML is not part of any blessed W3C standard, it was introduced a long time ago in Internet Explorer. It's so damn useful and so handy compared to using the DOM interfaces that this property was replicated by other browsers.
There is however a difference that you must be aware of, in Internet Explorer you can not change
innerHTML on objects of type COL, COLGROUP, FRAMESET, HTML, STYLE, TABLE, TBODY, TFOOT, THEAD, TITLE or TR. You can do it in Firefox.
If you develop a site looking first how it works on Firefox and fixing it later in explorer, you may fall on this trap, thinking that everything is working ok, just to see that it's not working at all when you check it later in explorer.
If you want to support several browsers, better do it from the front up, or there may be some design decisions that may be hard to overcome when you discover that this or that trick doesn't work on one of your browsers.


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Friday, October 12, 2007
A Very Moo Xmas
Gee I must say it's tough trying to make xmas stuff not look tacky and boringly cliché. Took me ages to come up with anything but once I got on a roll it was okay and I started to really enjoy it. Plus, put linen as a backdrop and anything looks 10x better, hehehe.
Here's a sneek peek:
43 comments:
- emma said...
Wow, they are all gorgeous! I especially love the deer one (it would be great for any season!) and the bottom tree one is lovely and has just the right amount of Christmas-ness ;)
- 6:36 pm
- Claudia said...
Lara, these are beautiful! I have found my Christmas cards for this year (I will give a charity donation in lieu of buying charity cards :) ). By the way, I never thanked you for my letterpress cards from KirinCo - they are beautiful and just waiting for frames.
- 6:51 pm
- muralimanohar said...
That partridge in a pear tree is gorgeous! The Christmas tree one is really pretty, too. But LOVE the partridge one. :)
- 7:57 pm
- Heather Moore said...
Gasp! Man o man, you're a clever thing!
- 8:42 pm
They are absolutely awesome. I have been wanting to get some moo cards for ages .... this is a perfect reason.
- 9:22 pm
These are so lovely! Wow! You have a great design sense.
- 10:12 pm
love the tree! heheh.. linen is magic.
- 10:19 pm
- I am Jen said...
Not tacky at all or cliche. Love,love love them all. Especially the partidge in a pear tree.
- 11:02 pm
- Hollabee said...
They're fantastic...Love em!
Xmas...guess I'm still not used to the Aussie Xmas climate... :) not in that mood yet ;)
- 11:14 pm
- sumthings said...
lovely!!! a Merry MooMas to you!!
- 11:37 pm
- dopeattic said...
seriously take my breath away! the work is fantastic, a treat for the eyes! what amazing ideas for the holidays, lovely as usual, never disappointing:)
- 1:10 am
- Victoria E said...
Love love love!
- 2:02 am
- Mymsie said...
Love them all, especially the tree and the kitchen prints.
- 2:16 am
- Jessicah said...
The deer are fantastic! I hope they will be available as fabric too :)
- 4:04 am
- Little Bitsys said...
Tare so beautiful Lara! Great job on keeping them non-cliche yet festive. Just when I thought I would be keeping my holiday spending in check, darn. ;)
- 4:04 am
- Little Bitsys said...
Oops, I forgot to mention how in LOVE I am with linen! When I saw your new designs on linen it took approximately 2 nanoseconds to purchase! I personally just purchased a huge amount of linen for sewing clothes, winter schminter. :)
- 4:09 am
- Kloth & Bolt said...
These are great. I really like the trees! Was just searching around for christmas cards...-kb
- 6:54 am
Wow, that is so pretty. I have been reading and enjoying your blog for a while now, anonymously, but now I just had to say something - beautiful! You are so good at what you do.
- 7:10 am
- Danielle said...
Yes, alright you've twisted my arm, one of each please. =D Those look really great Lara!
- 9:01 am
- MissK said...
Well i know where i'll be getting my Christmas stickers and cards from this year.
- 9:07 am
- Corrie said...
oh woooooooooooooow! they look fabulous! well done! I can't wait to see them and buy them all up! I think my favourite is the tree with the birds but I think they're all gorgeous!
what a job
- 9:46 am
- of paper & thread said...
these designs are brilliant! ~ your work is so inspiring :-)
- 10:31 am
- paperseed.wordpress.com said...
Lara, these turned out beautifully! Love the color combo and themes.
- 11:30 am
- Amy Nieto said...
All fantastic, as always!
- 11:37 am
- Jhoanna said...
Love your take on the Christmas theme! Especially love the pear tree with birds - brilliant!
- 1:17 pm
- Sarah said...
Way to go Lara!! these designs are fab!
- 6:49 pm
- clara said...
simply gorgeous and eye-catching too!
- 11:52 pm
- Brooke said...
They're all lovely designs! I especially love the reindeer; I'm really into reindeer this year for some reason.
- 3:34 am
- Artsy Momma said...
I wish I could get the deer as wrapping paper! It is festive with just enough of a modern twist. Love it!
- 12:03 pm
- Freshly Found said...
These are very good! You are talented!
- 3:05 pm
- leslie said...
oh, i love them. love them. love them.
you are super talented.
in so many ways.
- 10:34 pm
- bkhdesign said...
I like your xmas card
- 5:06 pm
Brava! I especially love the tree print!!
- 2:44 am
- Freshly Found said...
Hi Lara
I so enjoyed your designs that I have mentioned them on my blog too. I hope that is ok with you. They really are inspiring! Denise
- 6:25 am
- Jess said...
Beautiful, Lara! I love them all!
- 10:04 am
- Jelly Wares said...
OMG... These fabrics definately aren't boring or tacky!! Well done, I just love them all.
- 11:05 am
- mizu designs said...
You did a great job not making it tacky. Agreed - xmas stuff can look sooooooo bad. Thankfully you saved it.
- 5:21 pm
- Gabrielle said...
Lara you are so talented! I love the partridges and pears, and the deer, just lovely. Thanks also for the inside peek into the printing process - very interesting indeed.
- 5:43 pm
- Kate said...
all absolutely beautiful..everyone will love them :)
- 11:55 pm
- melissa deakin said...
i don't know where i have been...missed out on a lot.
these are gorgeous!
- 10:42 am
- elly yap said...
an untacky christmas? lara i think you just performed a christmas miracle. ;}
- 8:07 pm
- lindsey clare said...
Lara! i adore these. they are definitely one of my most favourites of all your designs so far :)
i love the simplicity of the reindeer, and of course the cooking one is right up my alley!
the best thing is that cause they're available through Moo, they're not going to sell out in a day like all your other stuff ;)
well done on another great collection!
- 4:00 pm
- Kristine said...
Gorgeous Christmas designs. The colours are great. And I agree with your comment about linen - everything does look good with a little linen mixed in.
- 11:46 pm


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Faris grew armpit hair for months to play The Dictator's leading lady
Actress ANNA FARIS couldn't wait to finish filming SACHA BARON COHEN's outrageous comedy THE DICTATOR - because the funnyman insisted she grow disgusting armpit hair for her role as an organic grocery store boss.
While Cohen and her co-stars were celebrating at the wrap party, Faris was in the shower hacking off months of unsightly growth.
In a taped interview with U.S. TV host Jay Leno, which will appear on his Tonight Show on Friday (20Apr12), the Lost in Translation star reveals, "It took a few months, but I was naive enough to think... 'It's got to be kind of light and cute, wispy,' but it really wasn't. It was revolting. It was long and coarse and black.
"About an hour after we wrapped the last day, I didn't have a party, but it felt like a party for me. I went into the shower, where I had to cut it with scissors, and then it sort of clogged the drain up."
But she admits she didn't exactly hide the fact she was growing her armpit hair: "It was a great party trick. If I really wanted to shock and gag people, I would show off my armpit hair at parties. It was remarkable."


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by Tom Utescher
The Villa Maria Hurricanes blew into town to square off against the swimmers of Mount St. Joseph Academy last Thursday evening, and the perennial AACA powerhouse dealt the Magic a 61-33 setback.
Mount St. Joe displayed decent depth by taking second place in eight races and garnering five thirds, but Villa, the defending PIAA Class AA state champion, captured first place in 10 of the 11 events. The only obstacle in the path of a first-place sweep by the visitors was a victory in the 50-yard freestyle by Mount senior Katie O'Connell, who won in 26.90 seconds.
The Magic's dual meet record leveled off at 2-2 for the season. Villa rose to 4-1; the only blemish on the Hurricanes' record is a loss to Unionville High School on a day when some team members were competing at another event. Last Thursday things went better for Mount St. Joe in junior varsity competition, but the Hurricanes still prevailed, 50-44.
Neither team has a swimming pool of its own, and each holds "home" meets at a nearby boys school. Thursday's contest was hosted by the Mount at La Salle High School, the Magic's customary venue. Villa Maria practices and stages home events at all-male Malvern Prep, just a few minutes away.
Taking on Villa is always a tall order for the other AACA schools, and MSJ coach Janet Pudlinski remarked, "I just wanted our girls to get out of the water knowing they did everything they could to swim as fast as they could. When you have talent next to you, you want to use it to push yourself."
The Magic's last meet had been back on December 19, and the Mount's mentor said, "We looked like we hadn't raced in awhile. I hoped we might win more than one race, but we weren't really crisp and sharp."
Most of the top talent from VMA's state championship squad has returned this winter, and last Thursday the 'Canes jumped ahead at the outset and stayed there. Visitors Sarah Hitchens, Olivia Tierney, Lauren Law, and Julia Murphy opened with a victory in the medley relay (in 1:55.26), while the Magic were runners-up with Steph Elbe, Dana Zielinski, Christine Sipos, and Jen Lehman.
Mount sophomore Christina Formica finished second in both the 200 and 500-yard freestyle races. The 200 was won by Villa's Molly O'Brien (2:01.60), who also won the 100 free (55.87 seconds). First in the 500 went to the visitors' Lauren Law (5:23.86), netting her second win of the meet following a triumph in the 200 individual medley (2:17.13)
Mount junior Lexi Meister took third in the I.M., and she was a very close second in the butterfly, where she was out-touched by Alyssa Myers of the Hurricanes (1:04.50). Zielinski, a Mount senior tri-captain along with O'Connell and Taylor Held, was the runner-up in the 100 free, and sophomore Julia Sowa was third in the breast stroke, where the top spot went to the Hurricanes' Tierney (1:12.87).
In the back stroke, the hosts collected second and third place thanks to a pair of freshmen, Elbe and Haley Sannem. The winner here was Hitchens of Villa Maria, in 1:01.23.
Hitchens is actually the defending state champ in the 100 free style, but in this meet she swam the back stroke and performed on all three winning relay teams. She led off the 200 free relay (1:43.84), followed by Murphy, Julie Dobson, and O'Brien, and she anchored the 400 free relay (3:48.07), where she was preceded by O'Brien, Law, and Claire Schumann.
The runner-up quartets for the Magic in those two races consisted of Elbe, Meister, Formica, and O'Connell in the 200, and Formica, Elbe, O'Connell, and Zielinski in the 400.


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March 24, 2006
Juan Carlos Venis '09 is part of a generation that was repeatedly and unambiguously warned about the dangers of smoking.
"I was silent in high school (about this issue) but always opposed to smoking," the Wabash College freshman said. "I have family members who smoke. Some have been able to quit, but others can't yet. They've always told me it was a habit they knew they shouldn't have started. I have Wabash friends who aren't able to quit either."
It took a devastating first-hand account from a man who lost his wife to lung cancer to spur him to activism.
Venis is part of Voice, a state, youth-led movement designed to counter the marketing approach used by tobacco companies. He's working with the Montgomery County A.H.E.A.D. Coalition (Advocates Helping to Educate Against Drugs) to recruit other Wabash students to serve as youth facilitators and help educate area children about the dangers of smoking. So far there's a group of six Wabash students working to spread the positive message, with strong participation from the local PRIDE chapter.
That group is joining with PRIDE on Drop Dead Day May 6 at the Tippecanoe Mall in Lafayette. The event symbolizes the number of deaths attributable to tobacco use.
Venis was the convocations chair on West Lafayette High School's student council. He invited Rick Stoddard to speak at one school program. Stoddard started working closely with anti-tobacco groups after his wife died of lung cancer at age 46. The poignant account of his loss inspired Venis to join Voice and other drug- and tobacco-free organizations like the Tobacco Control Partnership, now called the Tobacco Free Partnership.
He's continuing his crusade in college.
"It's important to get younger people to not pick up the habit," Venis said. "Obviously it's expensive and dangerous to your health. We don't nag, but give information and help people to quit. We're not against smokers, but the marketing tactics of the tobacco industry. They're still skirting the rules and appealing to young people. You could say with Voice, we're planning our own marketing tactics."
Kelly Trusty, A.H.E.A.D. executive director, said it's important to have college students willing to appeal to youth about smoking.
"Tobacco companies target college students and high school students," Trusty said. "With Voice, it's targets targeting targeters and banning together. I know a lot of these guys have been involved in activism, and want to be part of this community and help make it stronger. Plus some have helped fight the tobacco industry in their hometowns, so they bring a cool experience."
Besides participating in such symbolic events as Drop Dead Day, the Wabash youth facilitators also are available for presentations. Area youth groups can take advantage of funding from the Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Industry, as part of the tobacco master settlement agreement of 1998, to do projects related to the fight to curb smoking.
Venis isn't ruling out a renewed charge to advocate a smoking ban in Crawfordsville and Montgomery County too.
"At this point, providing information to the community is the best thing we can do right now," he said. "If we can sustain the group and keep moving forward, we'll propose a smoke-free ordinance again, poll the community and see how such laws are working elsewhere. It's definitely something we're not going to forget."
Coggeshall is a Crawfordsville Journal Review reporter. This story first appeared in the Journal Review March 24.


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Hanigan blasts Reds over Cubs
Cincinnati, OH – Ryan Hanigan hit a three-run homer and Brandon Phillips smacked a two-run shot to lead the Cincinnati Reds past the Chicago Cubs, 7-4, in the opener of a three-game set at Great American Ball Park.
Joey Votto went 2-for-4 with a solo homer and scored twice and Xavier Paul drove in a run for the Reds, winners in four straight.
Bronson Arroyo (5-4) allowed three runs on six hits over six frames to get the win. Aroldis Chapman stranded a pair of runners in the ninth for his 11th save of the season.
Scott Feldman (4-4) was tagged for a season-high five runs on seven hits over 5 1/3 innings to absorb the loss.
Feldman also stroked his first career homer, a two-run blast in the second inning, and Luis Valbuena and Darwin Barney added one RBI apiece for the Cubs, losers in five straight.
"Scott was just one pitch away from another solid outing. A hanging curveball. It seems like that been our motto lately. One hanging off-speed pitch in situations when we can do anything with the baseball," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said.
The Cubs jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the second inning. Valbuena doubled then moved to third on a Dioner Navarro single. Barney followed with a sacrifice fly to center to plate Valbuena before Feldman helped his own cause with a two-run blast to right field to give the Cubs a 3-0 lead.
The Reds scored five runs in the fourth to take the lead. Votto smashed a one- out solo homer to left-center. Phillips singled and Todd Frazier walked to put two on with two outs before Paul laced a single to center to bring Phillips across. Hanigan followed with a two-run shot to left to give the hosts a 5-3 edge.
"Sometimes in a game like that you get into a deficit and can't get anything going. Luckily for us, Hanigan got an opportunity there and popped one out of the park," Arroyo said.
Ryan Sweeney opened the eighth with a double to right before coming around on a Valbuena single up the middle.
Phillips' two-run shot in the eighth gave the Reds some breathing room. Votto singled before Phillips cracked a no-doubter over the wall in center.
Game Notes
Votto extended his hitting streak to 12 games. Over that stretch, Votto is batting .510 with four homers and 10 RBI ... Phillips extended his hitting streak to a season-high 11 games ... The Reds starting pitchers are 6-0 with a 2.24 earned run average over the last 10 games ... Cincinnati is 17-6 at home this season ... The Cubs have dropped six of their last seven games.


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11:00 am
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood "Thank You, Grandpere Tiger!/Neighborhood Thank You Day" Thank You, Grandpere Tiger! - Grandpere Tiger comes to visit, but is only in town for a short while. Daniel is sad that Grandpere can't come to the special Thank You Day celebration later that day. Daniel learns to be thankful for the time they DO have together, and is then surprised when Grandpere appears at the celebration after all! Neighborhood Thank You Day - The neighborhood celebrates Thank You Day by putting notes in the Thank You Tree. D
11:30 am
Sid The Science Kid "Sid's Health Day" Sid wonders what is the best way to always stay healthy? At school, Sid and his friends discover that there's lots of ways to stay healthy: washing hands to avoid germs, eating nutritious foods, brushing teeth, and exercising!. D
12:00 pm
WordWorld "Pl-Pl-Plane/Mail Mix Up" Pl-Pl-Plane: Frog and the Bug Band are headed to have some fun on the beach, but not everything goes as Frog had planned. Frog loses the letters "PL" from his plane and must search through the jungle to find them. After some crazy jungle adventures (including a run-in with a giant Frog-kissing plant), Frog realizes that fun doesn't always have to be planned! Mail Mix Up: Duck offers to help Kangaroo deliver letters to his WordFriends, but he forgets Kangaroo's instructions and delivers the wrong letters to everyone. D
12:30 pm
Caillou "Cooking with Caillou" Caillou Makes a Meal: Caillou makes pizza for dinner with his family, and learns that home-made pizza can be just as good as the fast-food pizza they have delivered to their door.and it's fun to make! Educational Objective: Taking time and effort to do things yourself, rather than having them done for you. Caillou's New Groove: Mommy and Daddy are gone overnight and Grandpa and Grandma are babysitting. D
1:00 pm
Barney & Friends "Lost and Found and Pot Full of Sunshine" Lost and Found: When everyone gets tickets to the circus, BJ convinces them to let him hold onto the tickets until show time. Distracted by the fun of playing basketball, BJ loses the tickets. After a frantic search, he finds the tickets and learns a valuable lesson about responsibility. D
1:30 pm
Thomas & Friends "Helping Each Other" Stop that Bus! - Thomas feels bad that Bertie doesn't get to travel on the rails so he decides to take Bertie on a tour of Sodor by rail. Bertie rolls onto Thomas' flatbed and soon they're off on their adventure. Bertie loves the sights but he needs to go and collect Dowager Hatt and her friends. D
2:00 pm
Curious George "Hamster Cam/The Great Monkey Detective" Hamster Cam - Steve's pet hamster, Hogie, is on the loose in the city streets with nothing but a small video camera tied to his back. George helps Steve track his whereabouts using clues from the hamster cam and his best monkeyish map-reading skills. But can a monkey with a map keep up with a hamster on the run? The Great Monkey Detective - It's mystery movie night at Chef Pisghetti's restaurant. D
2:30 pm
Martha Speaks "Martha in the Doghouse/Martha Models" Martha in the Doghouse - Martha just wants a nice quiet place to take a nap. Martha Models - Carolina is over the moon when she finds out that Mindy Munchhausen, host of "Operation Catwalk," will be judging Wagstaff City's dog costume parade.G
3:00 pm
The Electric Company "Fromage Here to Eternity" Lisa is chosen to write a story on Skeleckian cheese-making for the school paper, but Annie is determined to scoop her. D
3:30 pm
WordGirl "Bonkers for Bingo/The Ballad of Steve McClean" Bonkers for Bingo - Granny May is the city's newest bingo champion. WordGirl challenge Granny May in a bingo tournament to make sure that she's given up her evil ways. Vocabulary Words: Undefeated, Adore. D
4:00 pm
Wild Kratts "Mystery of the Squirmy Wormy" Aviva miniaturizes Chris and Martin for an underground mission with earthworms, in search of the answer to the mystery "Why do worms come above ground when it rains?" But they have to hurry, as they soon discover that life as a worm is full of dangers at every turn. Science Concept: Wet objects can be changed by heating and cooling. If a worm is left in the hot sun, their skin will dry up and they will die. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "A Fraction of a Chance" When Matt, Jackie and Inez get stuck in the vortex of a cyberportal, it's up to Digit to rescue them. He just needs to find the U.V.O. D
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Nassau County residents sent a clear message on Nov. 5, overwhelmingly approving of the job County Executive Ed Mangano has been doing by giving him an 18-point margin of victory over Tom Suozzi. Mangano keeps the job he won from Suozzi in an upset four years ago.
Voters also gave their seal of approval to the County Legislature, returning all incumbents and preserving — even increasing — the Republican majority. Mangano and members of the Legislature now must respond to their mandate with action.
There are several issues they must address soon, and how well these issues are handled will likely determine the county's future. We ask Mangano and the legislators to roll up their sleeves, work together and begin solving these problems.
The county's assessment system has been the bane of several administrations. County executive after county executive has tried to repair the system, but come up short. It is responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in county debt.
We need Mangano & Co. to devise a workable solution. He has made some headway. Corrections to the tax rolls for residential property are being made immediately, so they don't appear year after year. This has cut down on the refunds paid to homeowners.
The commercial assessment system is where the biggest refunds are generated, and little has been done to fix problems there. Trying to get schools, towns and special districts to pay their share of refunds has become a losing proposition, as the county has failed in two attempts to do that in court. Dropping its latest efforts to shift the refund burden would be a good move.
Mangano and the Legislature must also find a way to pay back the refunds that are owed. Keeping money that home and business owners are entitled to, simply because government can't agree on a repayment plan, is unacceptable.


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Chevron meeting will be bellwether for Richmond
Richmond city officials will watch closely next week when Chevron Corp. hosts its annual security analysts meeting.
The event is when the publicly held company reviews the results of the previous fiscal year and discusses its plans, goals and projections for the coming year, said Lloyd Avram, a Chevron spokesman.
It's particularly important for Richmond this year because last fall a Chevron official hinted that state and local government demands for more taxes and fees from the 3,000-acre refinery on the city's western border were threatening the plant's viability.
In a November New York Times story, Mike Wirth, an executive vice president with the company, said the combined total of state and local taxes exceeded profits at the Richmond facility. "Refineries that don't make money don't stay open," he told the newspaper.
Chevron's profits fell from $23.9 billion in 2008 to $10.5 billion in 2009 - and that seems to be a far more important factor in the future of the company's Richmond refinery than the local tax rate.
The Richmond refinery - which opened in 1902, three years before Richmond incorporated as a city - employs 1,300 people and contributed around $32 million in local and property taxes to the city's $144 million budget for the year ending in June. The refinery is the No. 3 producer in the company's refinery fleet, processing 243,000 barrels of oil a day.
In recent years, Richmond city officials have become emboldened, approving a business license tax that was struck down by the courts and requiring the oil company to pay a utility tax calculated by city officials, instead of a flat rate determined by the company. And with work halted by a court ruling last year that found a $1 billion retrofit project report environmentally incomplete, there is speculation that an announcement to close the refinery could be made soon after the company meeting next week.
But it is disingenuous to include Richmond's paltry tax bill in the financial misfortunes of Chevron and other oil giants that have seen profits plummet as global demand for fuel has decreased even as global manufacturing capacity has grown.
Some Richmond officials, including Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, are determined to forge a new tax agreement between the company and the city, which has an estimated $10 million budget shortfall this year.
"The residents, the council and I have made it clear that we will no longer be dominated by Chevron," McLaughlin said. "It's a new era and we will not be rolled back. We can co-exist, but we expect any business that operates in the city to play by the rules and pay its fair share."
The Richmond City Council voted to appeal the court decision that knocked down Measure T, the city business license tax challenged by Chevron as unconstitutional.
"I totally reject the fact that our taxes have anything to do with their (Chevron) bottom line," said longtime Councilman Tom Butt. "No one is trying to drive Chevron out of Richmond, and what they're going to do is based on a strategic plan. They may be losing their ass, but it's because of the worldwide energy market, not our tax rate."
With a population of 102,000 residents amid a thriving metropolis, Richmond is no longer the distant, rural outpost it was when Chevron opened its doors. Unless Chevron officials can make radical changes in their ability to operate in a dense, urban environment where clean earth and air are as important to residents as profits are to the company - then perhaps it is time for Big Oil to pull up stakes and move on down to El Segundo.


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This may be the most ho-hum statewide election ever held in California. But there couldn't be more at stake for ailing Republicans. They're teetering on life or death.
Does the state GOP begin the lengthy road back to recovery? Or does it fall into the long sleep?
Or, as research fellow Bill Whalen of Stanford's Hoover Institution puts it, do we keep "watching the bowling ball go down the stairs?" The bowling ball being the tumbling GOP voter registration (now only 28.4% of the electorate) and share of statewide offices (zilch).
Do Republicans pit former U.S. Treasury official Neel Kashkari or Assemblyman Tim Donnelly against popular Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown in the November runoff?
Again Whalen: "The sacrificial lamb or mad cow disease."
That's strong stuff. But Whalen has party bona fides as former chief speechwriter for Republican Gov. Pete Wilson.
And he's far from alone.
National GOP strategist Karl Rove has warned that a top-of-ticket candidate "prone to the outrageous behavior that [Donnelly] routinely engages in" could tarnish all Republican candidates on the ballot. "Mr. Donnelly is quite prone to sharing the weird recesses and corners of his mind, [and] it could be really problematic for the GOP."
The worry is that Donnelly would suppress Republican turnout, scare Latino Democrats to the polls and dry up money for all GOP candidates.
Alarmed, former Gov. Wilson, 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) all have endorsed Kashkari, 40, a moderate running in his first political race.
Issa — one of California's most prominent Republicans and an outspoken conservative — slammed the right-wing Donnelly for attempting to link Kashkari, a Hindu, to fundamentalist Islamic law.
"There is no place in any public discussion for this type of hateful and ignorant garbage," Issa said. "It is crap like this that gives Republicans a bad name."
Donnelly's response was that the GOP establishment is right to feel threatened. "I'm a threat to the country-club Republicans," he said, "because I might bring a little more country into the club."
Donnelly, 48, from Twin Peaks in the San Bernardino Mountains, actually is a pleasant fellow with a sense of humor. Even if he does preach the gun gospel — an armed society is a safer society — and once was nabbed carrying a loaded handgun into Ontario airport.
He also led a volunteer Minuteman unit that hounded Mexicans illegally crossing the border.
"He makes a mockery of the system," Whalen asserts. "He bases his campaign on being outrageous."
There's also this: Even when Californians were electing Republican governors, they were moderates, including Ronald Reagan. The conservative icon's rhetoric was right-wing, but he governed as a centrist: a record tax increase, the nation's most liberal abortion law, arguably the most impressive environmental record ever.
Neither Donnelly nor Kashkari "has a chance of beating Brown," Whalen says, echoing virtually every political observer and poll. "The question is what happens down the ticket. Kashkari would run better."
Unlike some others, however, Whalen doesn't think Donnelly would be permanently fatal to the California GOP.
"It would be just a black eye," he says. "Black eyes go away. But it takes time for a black eye to go away. The Republican Party in California can't be sitting around waiting to recover from black eyes."
But longtime Republican analyst Tony Quinn doesn't believe the state GOP would ever recover from Donnelly heading the party ticket.
"He's going to be an enormous embarrassment," Quinn says, "and Republicans will have to deal with it across the country."
He figures Donnelly, nevertheless, will finish among the top two in the open primary — far behind Brown — and advance to the November runoff. That's because California Republicans, he theorizes, are more in a mood to send a message to politicians than to help their party. And they like a candidate who speaks his mind, no matter how outrageous he might seem to GOP honchos.
"The ideologues will come out and they want to protest," Quinn says. "People simply don't believe the political establishment is doing anything to make their lives better. You have a combination out there of malaise and protest."
And in a low-turnout election — as Tuesday's is expected to be — the ideologues usually dominate.
A new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll, however, found that Kashkari — with his bigger bankroll for advertising — has moved ahead of Donnelly among likely voters, 18% to 13%. Brown is still miles in front at 50%.
If Donnelly should emerge as the governor's challenger, one veteran GOP strategist intends to lead a "Republicans for Brown" coalition. He's Rob Stutzman, a senior advisor to Republican Meg Whitman's losing campaign against Brown in 2010 and a former chief spokesman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"To be credible in the future, the Republican Party needs to make a stand against Donnelly," Stutzman says. "Our message will be: 'It's OK to split the ticket. Vote for Brown and then for Republicans down the ticket.'"
At least two down-ticket Republicans are given outside chances of winning statewide office in November.
The best odds are with Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin, who's running for controller. Another conceivable Republican victor is secretary of state candidate Pete Peterson, who heads the Davenport public policy institute at Pepperdine University.
Also at stake for Republicans is legislative relevancy. They'll be trying to win enough seats to prevent Democrats from regaining their supermajorities in both houses.
But to prevail, Republican candidates can't be stumbling around trying to run away from their party's standard bearer.
Kashkari would be ho-hum. But Donnelly could be horrendous — even while helping late-night comics sound hilarious.


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Melville Straus, a longtime champion of Guild Hall as its chairman and a distinguished and successful businessman, died after a long illness with brain cancer on Thursday in New York City. Mr. Straus, who was known as Mickey, was 75.
For many years, he and his wife, Leila, spent summers and weekends in a beautiful residence filled with local artists (great and unknown) set on Hook Pond in East Hampton. He joined Guild Hall's board in 1992 and became chairman three years later. The founder and chief programmer of the cultural center's Hamptons Institute, he led Guild Hall's $14 million capital campaign for the renovations of its building and grounds, which were completed in 2009. He retired last year.
"Since my first meeting with Mickey Straus 15 years ago, he was my best friend," Ruth Appelhof, Guild Hall's director, said on Monday. "He was mentor, sage, magician, pied piper and visionary. He made Guild Hall the vibrant institution it is today."
Barbara Jo Howard, the director of marketing and public relations, recalled his "joyful love of the arts, a kind and sincerely generous heart, and a genuine respect for all people. He was a very rare and special person."
After graduating from Dartmouth College and Harvard University, where he received an M.B.A. and was a Baker Scholar, he had a long career in the investment industry and since 1998 has been head of Straus Asset Management. In addition to Guild Hall, he has served as a board or committee member of many arts-related institutions. These include the American Ballet Theater, Museum of Modern Art, Independent Curators, Inc., and American Friends of the Royal Ballet School. He was also a member of the Dartmouth President's Leadership Council and of the Board of Visitors at the John Sloan Dickey Center. He served previously on the Board of Overseers of the Hopkins Center/Hood Museum at Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Alumni Council.
He leaves behind his wife, three children: Scott Straus of Madison, Wisc., Alexandra Straus of Los Angeles, and Ben of New York City, and two grandchildren. Two sisters, Margie Stein of San Diego and Mary Straus of Tucson, and a brother, John Straus of Denver, also survive him.
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Los Angeles – Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that deputies in his office are launching an independent inquiry into how Health Maintenance Organizations review and pay insurance claims submitted by doctors, hospitals and other medical providers.
This investigation is prompted by reports that California's five largest health-insurance providers are denying insurance claims at rates of up to 39.6 percent.
"These high denial rates suggest a system that is dysfunctional, and the public is entitled to know whether wrongful business practices are involved," Brown said.
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Reconnecting America's Bill Sadler Joins The 2012 Next American Vanguard Class
Reconnecting America Program Associate Bill Sadler has been named to the 2012 Next American Vanguard Class. Sadler is one of 43 people selected from nearly 200 applications by Next American City for this year's class. According to the announcement at Americancity.org, Next American Vanguard Class members were chosen for their bright ideas for cities, experience in the field and ambition for the future.
Sadler is based in Denver, and is actively engaged in transit planning and TOD initiatives at the corridor and regional scales around the country, providing education, research, capacity building and technical assistance support on these projects.
In his application for the 2012 Next American Vanguard Class, Sadler wrote:
"Most of my place-based work is focused on the Denver region's multibillion dollar transit expansion and the TOD opportunities it will create. I recently completed a TOD implementation strategy for the West Corridor light rail line in Denver, which lifted up the recommendations from 14 station area plans and provided strategies for moving all these plans forward in a realistic, holistic and coordinated fashion. I am now working with the regional MPO, the Denver Regional Council of Governments, to do a similar analysis on three other transit corridors. I have also been working with several nonprofits and foundations to launch Mile High Connects, an equity collaborative seeking to ensure that TOD benefits all populations. As part of this effort, I served as project manager and primary author of the Denver Regional Equity Atlas, a spatial analysis of how transit provides access to opportunity for residents of the Denver region with respect to housing, jobs, education and health. It has received local and national attention for its innovative, spatially-based approach to documenting the opportunities and challenges transit will create for the Denver region's most disadvantaged residents. Other communities across the country are taking notice of these projects and undertaking similar efforts."
Asked what difference he hopes to make in his community in the next five years, Sadler wrote in part:
"I expect to see the fruits of my current planning efforts develop into bricks-and-mortar development that includes affordable housing choices, space for small businesses, educational opportunities, healthy food and other amenities that are essential to a complete community. My vision is that equity becomes institutionalized into the planning process and just a common part of community and economic development decision-making."
Sadler and the other members of the class will be assembling in St. Louis in October, along with past members of the Vanguard, for workshops, tours and panel discussions about how to improve American cities. A host committee, led by the Partnership for Downtown St. Louis, and including members from HOK, STLStyle, Preservation Research Office, McCormick Baron Salazar and others, has lent time and support to the event.


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That young up-and-coming Oklahoma City team is again making things difficult for the Dallas Mavericks in the playoffs.
This time, the Thunder might not let the defending NBA champions get past the first round.
Even though Kevin Durant has struggled shooting, and each of the first two games has gone down to the closing seconds, the Thunder have a 2-0 advantage in the best-of-7 series. The first-round series shifts to Dallas for Game 3 on Thursday night.
Last year, Dallas needed only five games to get past the Thunder's lineup of 20-something players in the Western Conference finals. But there was an overtime loss by Oklahoma City and every game was tight.
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A Massachusetts judge has allowed some evidence to be suppressed in the murder trial of Aaron Hernandez, court documents show.
The former star Patriots tight end had asked the court to suppress the evidence — an iPhone, a Blackberry, an iPad and two iPad minis — which was obtained when his home was searched last June after the killing of Odin Lloyd.
Defense lawyers argued that that evidence was not part of the original search warrant and that a state trooper did not have the proper paperwork when he entered Hernandez's home.
Tuesday, the Bristol County Superior Court granted that motion, allowing that evidence to be thrown out.
Earlier this month, the court denied Hernandez's motion to exclude a digital video recorder, a hard drive and Hernandez's cell phone.
The hard drive allegedly contains files showing Hernandez holding the murder weapon and his movements around the time of the murder. The phone, according to prosecutors, had text messages Hernandez sent to Lloyd, as well as the former NFL star's alleged right hand man, Ernest Wallace, on the night of the killing.
Hernandez is charged with first-degree murder in the 2013 death of Lloyd. He is also charged with the murders of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado in Boston in 2012.
The Bristol County District Attorney's Office told NECN Tuesday afternoon that it cannot comment on the case, due to an ongoing gag order.
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First Bulldog on First Team since 2004-05
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Senior goaltender Jackee Snikeris (Downingtown, Pa.) was named first team All-ECAC Hockey on Tuesday, becoming the first Yale player to earn first-team honors since Erin Duggan '05 in 2004-05. The honor marks another achievement for the record-setting Yale net minder, who was named first team All-Ivy League last week and is also a nominee for the Kazmaier Award as the top player in women's college hockey. Snikeris is also a finalist for two more ECAC Hockey awards, Goaltender of the Year and Student-Athlete of the Year, which will be announced later this week.
Snikeris posted some of the most remarkable numbers of her stellar career this past season, highlighted by her .941 save percentage that currently has her ranked seventh in the country. That figure set the school record in that category, and gives her four of the top eight single-season save percentage marks in Yale history. Her 1.98 goals-against average this season ranks third, trailing only her own 1.67 mark from 2008-09 and the 1.978 mark posted by June Mendoza '80 in 1978-79. Snikeris has four of the top seven single-season goals-against averages in Yale history.
In 16 conference games this season, Snikeris posted a .940 save percentage, second only to Cornell's Amanda Mazzotta. Snikeris had a 1.91 goals-against average in ECAC Hockey games.
Snikeris had three shutouts this season, all in ECAC Hockey games. She extended her school career record in that category to 16 -- four more than any other player. She also finished her career with a save percentage of .931, breaking the school record in that category (.915, Sarah Love '06) by 16 points. She had a career goals-against average of 2.12, breaking the school record in that category (2.61, Shivon Zilis '08) by nearly half a goal. Her 2,092 career saves place her fifth on Yale's all-time list.
Snikeris played her best down the stretch, as Yale vied for an ECAC Hockey playoff spot despite missing two key defensemen due to season-ending injuries. She had three shutouts in her final seven games, stopping 202 out of 211 shots in that span for a .957 save percentage and a 1.27 goals-against average. She made 32 or more saves four times in those seven games. Her season was also highlighted by a career-best 49-save effort Jan. 3 against Boston College.
Snikeris accomplished it all while playing through an injury, suffered in the third game of the year, that cost her seven games.
Snikeris is a history of science, history of medicine major in Branford College. She will earn her fourth ECAC Hockey All-Academic Team selection this season. She will be published in the Journal of Surgical Radiology for research work she did this past summer at Stamford Hospital.
In addition to her work on the ice and in the classroom this year, Snikeris has also been active in the community. She and her Yale teammates will soon lead their third annual bone marrow donor testing drive, an event they became involved in because of teammate Mandi Schwartz' battle with cancer. Snikeris and her teammates have been involved in multiple activities to raise funds and awareness for Mandi's cause, including the "White Out for Mandi" that brought a record crowd of 1,066 out to a game at Ingalls Rink earlier this year. They have also "adopted" a nine-year-old Yale-New Haven Hospital patient, Giana, who is recovering from surgery for a brain tumor. Among other community service initiatives, Snikeris also participates in Yale's Relay for Life for the American Cancer Society and had volunteered at a local hospice. She is a graduate of Yale Athletics' Kiphuth Leadership Academy, designed to help Yale student-athletes become world-class leaders.
The All-ECAC Hockey honorees are determined by a vote of the league's 12 coaches.
Report by Sam Rubin '95 (firstname.lastname@example.com), Yale Sports Publicity
Yale's First Team All-ECAC Hockey Selections
1995-96 Laurie Belliveau, G
1996-97 Laurie Belliveau, G
1997-98 Laurie Belliveau, G
2004-05 Erin Duggan, D
2010-11 Jackee Snikeris, G
2010-11 All-ECAC Hockey
Forward Kelly Babstock, Quinnipiac
Forward Rebecca Johnston, Cornell
Forward Brianne Jenner, Cornell
Defense Laura Fortino, Cornell
Defense Lauriane Rougeau, Cornell
Goaltender Jackee Snikeris, Yale
Forward Chelsea Karpenko, Cornell
Forward Jillian Dempsey, Harvard
Forward Kelly Foley, Dartmouth
Defense Josephine Pucci, Harvard
Defense Sasha Sherry, Princeton
Goaltender Rachel Weber, Princeton
Forward Catherine White, Cornell
Forward Kelly Sabatine, St. Lawrence
Forward Liza Ryabkina, Harvard
Defense Sasha Nanji, Dartmouth
Defense Leanna Coskren, Harvard
Goaltender Victoria Vigilanti, Quinnipiac
Forward Kelly Babstock, Quinnipiac
Forward Brianne Jenner, Cornell
Forward Carly Mercer, Clarkson
Defense Alyssa Gagliardi, Cornell
Defense Marissa Gedman, Harvard
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Gyorko slams Cards just before long rain delay
ST. LOUIS -- There was a point this season when Jedd Gyorko spent his time staring at his numbers from the disabled list.
"It's not a lot of fun," Gyorko said. "I did a lot of soul searching, kind of tried to find myself while I was on the DL. I think it has worked out pretty well."View Full Game Coverage
ST. LOUIS -- There was a point this season when Jedd Gyorko spent his time staring at his numbers from the disabled list.
"It's not a lot of fun," Gyorko said. "I did a lot of soul searching, kind of tried to find myself while I was on the DL. I think it has worked out pretty well."View Full Game Coverage
Gyorko made that loud and clear Saturday night as the rain began to fall at Busch Stadium. With the Padres trailing by one run and the bases loaded in the seventh inning, Gyorko turned on the second pitch he saw and sent it flying toward the left-field wall.
The 347-foot fly ball caromed above the wall for a grand slam and three-run lead before rain halted the game against the Cardinals just two batters later. Following a 1-hour, 46-minute delay, the Padres added a run in the eighth and proceeded to halt their two-game losing streak with a 9-5 win over the Cardinals.
"It was good to see Jedd come through in a big way," Padres manager Bud Black said. "Good at-bats that inning against [Cards reliever Kevin] Siegrist and then Jedd got a ball that he could get on the pull side and hit it well."
The Padres, who entered Saturday with the lowest-scoring offense in baseball, loaded the bases in the seventh with two one-out singles and a walk before Gyorko stepped to the plate against Siegrist. His blast came on a 94-mph fastball left over the plate and marked his second grand slam this season and the third of the second baseman's career.
"Just a fastball down and in and I was able to drop the head on it," Gyorko said. "It probably wasn't a bad pitch, I was just able to put a good swing on it looking for something hard in."
"I guess I didn't get it in there enough and he got his hands to it," Siegrist said. "He put a good swing on it."
The Cardinals jumped on rookie Jesse Hahn during a 27-pitch second inning. Jhonny Peralta and Oscar Taveras hit RBI doubles. Matt Carpenter sent a two-out double to left field to score two more before Hahn worked out of the four-run inning, the worst in his 12 starts in the Majors.
"I felt good in my warmups. First inning felt great," the rookie said. "Just a couple mistake pitches hurt me. I left them up and they hit them."
An offensive onslaught put the Padres back into the game in the third as two-out hitting helped them capitalize on early singles. Gyorko singled to plate the Padres' first run before Jake Goebbert emptied the bases with a three-run triple to even the score.
Hahn, who hadn't allowed more than three runs in any of his previous 10 starts after surrendering four in his Major League debut, put Matt Holliday on with a two-out walk in the fifth and watched him score on a triple from Matt Adams as the Cardinals moved back ahead.
The rookie got two outs in the sixth before exiting. He allowed a career-high five runs on seven hits.
"I thought overall he threw the ball fine," Black said. "They got to him, they got some hits against him.They got the big inning against him, but he got us into the sixth inning."
While the Padres had squandered chances in losing the first two games of this series -- they stranded a combined 16 runners -- they had other plans Saturday.
Abraham Almonte reached with a one-out infield single in the seventh, Seth Smith singled to left and Yasmani Grandal walked to load the bases. A mound visit attempted to calm Siegrist before Gyorko connected.
When the second baseman went on the disabled list in early June with plantar fasciitis in his left foot, he was hitting .162. For the next eight weeks those numbers stared back at him.
Gyorko's average reached .199 on Saturday, and he has hit .348 with six RBIs in the team's last six games.
"Obviously it's been a work in progress," Gyorko said. "We've got a month and a half. I'm looking to keep it going, obviously I have a lot to prove I was a different hitter than I was in the first half."
Looking at Saturday's numbers and ahead sure beats looking on from the disabled list.
"Since he's come back, it's good to see him start to climb both in average and on-base percentage," Black said. "As the season gets into these last six weeks, I think you're going to see Jedd continue to produce. He's just too good of a hitter."
Alex Halsted is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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- 9:33 am
- S&P 500 rises, Dow falls
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Good morning.
Most of the main indexes are starting out higher, with the S&P 500 up 2 points.
Nasdaq +9 points
Dow -23 points
- 9:37 am
- Feeling Big Blue
- by Victor Reklaitis
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IBM is leading the Dow industrials lower, as Big Blue falls more than 4%.
Late Tuesday, IBM posted fourth-quarter revenue that fell short of estimates and disappointed with its earnings outlook.
Read more about today's notable moves in the Movers & Shakers column.
- 9:42 am
- Views on the indexes
- by Victor Reklaitis
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The main indexes haven't been moving together so far this week.
Colin Cieszynski, senior market analyst at CMC Markets, has a note out this morning with his takes on various indexes.
For the Dow, he says: It's "having an inside day after yesterday's reversal but remains stuck under 16,400."
For the S&P 500: "SPX500 continues to consolidate between 1,830 and 1,.875 with more support possible near 1,815."
For the Nasdaq 100: It's "breaking out to another new high today above 3.620 while RSI has turned up to suggest upward momentum accelerating again. Next measured test possible near 3,700." RSI refers to relative strength index.
- 9:49 am
- Liking biotech
- by Victor Reklaitis
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A common view among strategists for 2014 is that stocks won't match 2013's blockbuster gains, and the year might provide a so-called "stock picker's market."
Scott Redler of T3 Live makes comments along these lines in a note out this morning. He writes:
"This year is developing as many would have thought after outsized gains the past two years – with no big traction in the overall indices but stocks on the move in both directions. Stock selection tactics are key."
So what are his picks? They include biotech:
"The biotech sector continues to be the story of the market with stocks in the sector taking turns breaking out. I think we could see biotechs lead throughout 2014."
- 9:57 am
- More on Pimco move
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Pimco's big CEO news continues to get attention today.
One Morningstar analyst notes that he has concerns about whether the company will have people who can challenge Bill Gross after Mohamed El-Erian leaves.
Eric Jacobson says:
"I have a general modest concern that as the firm has evolved, other people have moved on on occasion, that the investment committee may have a slightly different feel to it than it used to, some different voices, a few less senior people with strong voices to counter Bill Gross' own personality, which is something I think that he actually has valued over the years."
Jacobson (you might be able to see his full comments here, but it could be a subscriber-only feature) also says:
"Bill Gross has been and remains one of the best managers in the business. He's also been one of the best at evaluating macroeconomic conditions, if not, as we said before, perfect. But we want to also have a sense that he will continue to be challenged in his ideas much in the same way that he has been over the years, in a way that's produced pretty good outcomes. That's probably the biggest thing on my radar."
- 10:02 am
- SPX wobbles
- by Victor Reklaitis
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The S&P 500 briefly turned negative in the last few minutes, but it's now back in mildly positive territory — last up about 1 point.
Overall, it's muted action by the main indexes in the first half hour of trading today. Perhaps some traders are more focused this morning on shoveling snow than making bets.
- 10:04 am
- Bank of Canada
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Breaking news in the last few minutes…
Bank of Canada leaves overnight rate at 1%
- 10:16 am
- Fresh session lows
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Stocks have been falling to fresh session lows in the last few minutes, with even the Nasdaq turning negative.
- 10:21 am
- USD & BoC
- by Victor Reklaitis
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The dollar rose against its Canadian counterpart after the Bank of Canada maintained rates on Wednesday as expected, says our short story on the BoC's decision.
- 10:24 am
- Mostly lower
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Checking in on the main indexes… they're mostly lower now.
The Nasdaq is still clinging to a slight gain after briefly turning negative. To clarify on that CMC comment quoted earlier (regarding the Nasdaq 100), that's a new 13-year high (since 2000).
S&P 500 was last -1 point
Dow -46 points
Nasdaq +4 points
- 10:27 am
- Pimco links
- by Victor Reklaitis
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In case you missed them, here's our short story on Pimco's CEO change that was revealed late Tuesday.
In addition, check out a take on the news from MarketWatch's Chuck Jaffe and a recap on the big outflows last year for Pimco's flagship fund.
- 10:31 am
- SPX indecision
- by Victor Reklaitis
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And now the S&P 500 is positive again.
It looks like the benchmark index could end up dancing around the break-even mark this morning.
It can't decide whether to show a small loss or a small gain. Sorry, can't resist anthropomorphizing.
SPX +1 point
Dow -28 points
Nasdaq +9 points (near its best level so far today)
- 10:39 am
- Nasdaq eyes July 2000 levels
- by Victor Reklaitis
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As happened on Tuesday, right now the Nasdaq is in positive territory and faring best among the three main indexes, while the Dow is in the red and faring worst.
The Nasdaq today has traded above its closing level on Sept. 1, 2000 (4,234.33), so if it can keep it together, by day's end we might be saying "highest close since July 2000."
For a while now, the phrase after the Nasdaq's recent advances has been "highest close since September 2000."
On July 17, 2000, the Nasdaq closed at 4,274.67, according to FactSet data. For now, that level isn't in danger of being breached.
- 10:47 am
- Big movers
- by Victor Reklaitis
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AMD is down 11% after its earnings report late Tuesday.
Coach is also getting beat up after its earnings report, last down about 6% for the worst performance in the S&P 500.
Anadarko is up 2% amid reports that David Einhorn's fund has acquired a stake in the company.
As mentioned earlier, you can read more about today's jumpiest stocks in the Movers & Shakers column.
- 10:50 am
- Icahn talks AAPL again
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Apple is also on the move (last up 1%) as activist investor Carl Icahn takes to Twitter to talk about the tech giant:
We feel $APPL board is doing great disservice to shareholders by not having markedly increased its buyback. In-depth letter to follow soon.
— Carl Icahn (@Carl_C_Icahn) January 22, 2014
- 11:17 am
- Comment: How to deal with expensive markets
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Brad McMillan, Chief Investment Officer for Commonwealth Financial, opined on earnings season in a research note, arguing buying overvalued markets is a bad idea for individual investors.
In theory, earnings belong to shareholders, so a P/E of 40 means the shareholders would get a 2.5-percent return on their money, while, at a P/E of 5, they would get a 20-percent return. If everything else is equal, except the initial price, the people who bought low can't help but do better.
The counterargument is that when prices are higher—at, say, a P/E of 40—growth expectations are higher. The higher price reflects future growth and, therefore, does not compromise future returns. This makes perfect sense for an individual company, but, for the market as a whole, it cannot be the case.
Using the Shiller P/E, which is at 25.6 at the moment, markets are expensive, in his view. Historically, the returns over the next 10 years may be from a nominal return of 3.5% to negative 4.4%, according to a research paper from AQR.
McMillan's advice: limit the downside exposure from an expensive market and cut back expectations.
- 11:20 am
- Nasdaq: Can you take me higher?
- by Victor Reklaitis
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The Nasdaq has been flirting with levels last seen in July 2000, as noted earlier in this live blog and as you can see in this chart.
According to FactSet data, if the tech-heavy index can finish above 4,234.33 (it's closing level on Sept. 1, 2000), then it will score its highest close since July 2000.
July 2000 certainly was a long time ago. Back then a top Billboard single was Creed's "Higher," which had that whole "Can you take me higher?" refrain. That's definitely a question that stock investors are asking these days after last year's big advance.
- 11:31 am
- Typpo, I mean typo
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Market watchers on Twitter are poking fun at Icahn for getting Apple's ticker wrong in his tweet:
.@Carl_C_Icahn $AAPL, not $APPL — but I'm sure you've heard that already. Maybe Appell Petroleum Corp will have a nice bump today
— Ted Dunne (@teddunne) January 22, 2014
- 11:44 am
- Bleak future for gold?
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Is paying $1,240 for an ounce of gold too much? Some analysts think it is and the fair value should be around $800.
Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch columnist, writes about correlation between gold prices and interest rates. The findings are quite stark: if interest rates rise to 4%, the price of gold will fall to to $831.
Separately, Morgan Stanley has cut its gold price forecast for the next two years, with analysts cautioning that that isn't the end of the weakness for the precious metals. Analysts Peter Richardson and Joel Crane cut their 2014 gold forecast by 11.6% to $1,160/oz and cut their 2015 forecast by 12.5% to leave it at $1,138/oz.
In 2013, gold lost nearly 30%, but have risen $15 since the start of the year.
- 12:07 pm
- Top line vs bottom line
- by Anora Mahmudova
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A consensus estimate for earnings per share growth this quarter is 7.2%, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Meanwhile, revenue growth is expected to be nearly flat at 0.4%.
As has been the case with the previous few years, corporations grew their bottom lines, while top lines stagnated or even fell. Most analysts we have been speaking with say that revenues will have to grow in 2014 for markets to rise.
But this earnings season, investors seem to be not overly disappointed with such numbers.
- 12:21 pm
- S&P 500 sectors
- by Anora Mahmudova
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The S&P 500 index has been trading in a narrow range, dipping in and out of negative territory.
A look at the S&P 500 sectors does not reveal much, as 8 of 10 main sectors range from slightly up to flat. Two biggest losers are materials and telecoms, down 1% and 0.6% respectively.
Volumes are also rather thin, possibly due to a snow storm on the East coast. According to Factset, volumes on the NYSE and Nasdaq are about half of 30-day average.
- 12:50 pm
- Yardeni: stocks are fairly valued
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Ed Yardeni, at Yardeni Research writes that stocks are fairly valued and if economic growth continues at current pace, then the stock market will rise another 10% in 2014.
"…we are still expecting the S&P 500 to rise by about 10% to 2014 by the end of to 2014. That's in line with our expectations for earnings growth. In other words, we believe that the market's valuation multiple will be the same at yearend as now. However, between now and then it could roundtrip higher-then-lower in a melt-up scenario followed by a nasty correction.
"…barring a melt-up scenario, stock prices should track earnings. That seems to be the conventional wisdom as we start the new year. It may also be why stock prices have stalled in record territory while investors assess the outlook for earnings in 2014 in light of the current earnings season for Q4-2013."
- 1:22 pm
- Abbott falls on earnings
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Shares in Abbott Laboratories fell 2.2% after the company reported a 44% fall in profits in the fourth quarter.
- 1:30 pm
- Sandander Consumer USA Holdings IPO
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Auto lender Santander Consumer USA Holdings Inc. raised projections for the size of its initial public offering – in spite of poor market performance so far this year.
The firm said it plans to sell 75 million shares for $24 -$25, raising about $1.9 billion. The IPO is primarily an exit for the backers including private-equity firms Centerbridge Partners LP, KKR & Co. and Warburg Pincus LLC.
- 2:55 pm
- Twitter round-trips on Icahn
- by Laura Mandaro
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Twitter shares got a bit of a pop after Carl Icahn said on CNBC that he liked the micro-blogging site, though in the same breath he admitted he didn't own any shares. Twitter's stock rose as much as 2%, to $63.80, from the prior day's close of $62.53, though shares have since given up those gains and are trading down 0.5% at $62.20.
- 3:03 pm
- Allegheny shares drop
- by Anora Mahmudova
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After Coach, Inc, which slumped 7.2% on disappointing earnings, Allegheny Technologies Inc is the second worst performer on the S&P 500.
The specialty metals producer lost 5.9% after reporting a drop in sales in the fourth quarter due to low prices and shipments.
- 3:16 pm
- Earnings after the bell
- by Anora Mahmudova
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After the closing bell, eBay Inc, Sandisk Corp and Netflix, Inc are scheduled to announce their fourth-quarter results. For more about what to expect from these companies, read our preview here.
- 3:19 pm
- Spanish bull is roaring
- by Laura Mandaro
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How do you say, 'everyone into the pool!' in Spanish?
Spain's stock market, which is up a healthy 4% year-to-date based on the IBEX 35, has encouraged a slew of new equity sales. Well, at least a lot more than in years past.
According to Dealogic, four stock deals have priced for $1 billion so far this year, the fastest start to a year on record for the country. Offerings include a convertible from Acciona in the construction sector, and two sales from banks.
(Photo image courtesy of AFP/Getty)
- 3:27 pm
- Correction, where art thou?
- by Laura Mandaro
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One of the permanent themes of the nearly five-year-old bull market is wondering when a correction will happen. Everyone wants one, a wee one, to prevent a bigger crash and also to pick up a few goodies on the cheap.
Gary Thayer, chief macro strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors, dusted off the question on Tuesday with a note entitled "Is a stock market correction overdue?" In a word, YES.
The U.S. stock market has advanced for a year and a half without a major correction. You would have to go back to the late 1990s to find a longer period where the U.S. stock market rallied without a major setback. The good news is many of the conditions that fueled the strong market gains in the late 1990s exist again today. Nevertheless, a stock market correction is somewhat overdue.
- 3:28 pm
- On boring markets
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Jonathan Krinsky, chief market technician at MKM Partners sums up today's market neatly: "if it feels like the market hasn't done anything, it's because it hasn't."
According to Krinsky, today is the 4th narrowest range for a non-holiday week in the last 5 years. Yawn.
- 4:04 pm
- The close, and after
- by Laura Mandaro
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Breaking headlines:
Nasdaq Composite closes at highest since July 2000
Nasdaq Composite gains 17 points to 4,243
S&P 500 rises 1 point to 1,844
U.S. stocks edge higher; Dow drops 39 points
- 4:13 pm
- Netflix the after-hours star
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Netflix shares are up 14% after hours.
EPS of 79 cents a share topped forecasts of 65 cents a share
The company grew its video streaming subscribers to 33.4 million, within range of its previous guidance.
- 4:19 pm
- Loral's late-session pop
- by Laura Mandaro
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In case you missed it, Loral Space & Communications shares bounced 3% late in the regular session. Loral is exploring a sale, Reuters reported.
- 4:26 pm
- eBay jumps on earnings
- by Anora Mahmudova
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eBay Inc. shares jumped 9% after reporting earnings results. The company reports $850 million in profits on $4.5 billion revenue
- 4:34 pm
- Sandisk results
- by Anora Mahmudova
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In after-market trade, Sandisk Corp shares rose immediately after earnings reports, but gains quickly fizzled out and only slightly up.
The chip company reported a fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of $1.71 per share on $1.73 billion of revenue. Analysts polled by FactSet on average were expecting the chip company to post a profit of $1.58 a share, on revenue of $1.7 billion.
- 4:37 pm
- That's all.
- by Anora Mahmudova
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That's a wrap for this live blog.
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Certain technical rules and building requirements need to be observed in relation to shower tray seals. To provide you with everything you need for professional sealing of your flush-fitted or corner shower, Villeroy & Boch has partnered with the company MEPA to develop two MEPA Aquaproof shower seal sets that meet all relevant standards.
- Suitable for sealing corner showers and flush-fitted shower trays
- In combination with Villeroy & Boch shower trays, MEPA Aquaproof sets impress in tests
- The sets include sound-absorbing strips and tile insulating strips
- When installed correctly, the MEPA Aquaproof set meets all relevant standards for shower seals
Technical information
|Subway Infinity
|1000 mm
|1500 mm
|63,75 kg
|Product designation
|Shower tray
Ceramic. These shower trays are cut along the short side (unglazed) and have to be installed with the unglazed side against the wall., Total price includes the surcharge for cutting!, Please note: the outlet is positioned asymmetrically, not centrally!, The installation height of the shower can be reduced by 30mm if outlet fitting 9226 00 XX is used.


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