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- Oct 14:
- Champion Minnesota Lynx already a hot ticket for next year
- Minnesota Lynx's Janel McCarville: 'I would love to be back'
- Oct 12:
- Minnesota Lynx see more WNBA titles on the horizon
- Oct 11:
- Minnesota Lynx players enjoy day-after celebration with fans
- Minnesota Lynx return to WNBA throne with sweep through postseason
- Oct 9:
- Minnesota Lynx one win from a second WNBA championship
- Oct 8:
- Tom Powers: Focused Lynx look like a lock to add to their ring collection
- Minnesota Lynx reserves stepping up just in time
- Oct 7:
- Minnesota Lynx expect a leaner, meaner foe in Game 2 of WNBA finals
- Oct 6:
- Minnesota Lynx give Dream a rude awakening in WNBA Finals opener
- Lynx 84, Dream 59: Minnesota cruises in WNBA Finals opener
- Minnesota Lynx: Bad back can't keep Janel McCarville out of Game 1
Even when they aren't at their best, the Lynx can still win big, which might be a scary thought for the Atlanta Dream, who head home with a 2-0 deficit in their best-of-five WNBA Finals series with Minnesota.
"If I were the (opposition), I'd certainly think so,'' Maya Moore said Tuesday night after the Lynx dismantled Atlanta 88-63 in Game 2 at Target Center.
Afterward, the Lynx groused about turnovers, miscues and errant shots.
The blemishes, though, were hard to see for a sellout crowd of 12,313. Seimone Augustus scored 20 points, and Lindsay Whalen and Moore added 14 each to give the Lynx a chance to wrap up their second WNBA title in three seasons in Game 3 Thursday in Duluth, Ga.
"In spurts, we were good,'' Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said.
The Lynx committed 20 turnovers, which led to 25 points by the Dream, who are on a threshold of sorts, too. Atlanta has been in the championship series three of the past four years but in the previous two trips came away empty.
The Lynx also were gritting their teeth about missing 9 of 31 free throws.
"Of course, it wasn't our best game,'' Whalen said. "We had a lot of turnovers, some miscues and things like that. But all things we know we can fix and clean up. We'll watch the video. We'll learn from it. But I think it just shows ... just our ability (to survive) when there are rough patches.''
Power forward Rebekkah Brunson was grim-faced at her locker afterward.
"We've got some things we really need to clean up before we go down there for Game 3,'' she said. "We can't be satisfied. We haven't accomplished anything yet. We still have plenty of work to do.''
You will have a tough time convincing the Dream that the Lynx stunk on their home court in what could be the last time fans get a chance to see them play this season. Minnesota, 6-0 in the postseason, shot 56 percent and used various runs to offset Atlanta's vow of getting meaner and physical after getting blown out by 25 in Game 1.
"They did a fine job of shooting,'' Dream coach Fred Williams said.
Said guard Alex Bentley: "They are bringing their 'A' game. We just need to bring ours.''
Minnesota built leads of 11 points after the first quarter and 15 by the half. It would climb as high as 26 behind textbook pick-and-rolls, soft jumpers off screens and athleticism in the open court. Atlanta, meanwhile, shot a paltry 35.8 percent and battled foul trouble.
In vowing to get more physical after a meek performance in Game 1, the Dream scratched, clawed and sent bodies on the floor. Angel McCoughtry, one of the league's premier scorers, was the most visibly frustrated of Atlanta's players. After going 6 of 24 in Game 1, she was just 5 of 18 but led the Dream with 18 points. She fouled out with 3:54 remaining in regulation.
Atlanta is convinced a change of scenery will change their fortunes.
"We're not giving up,'' guard Armintie Herrington said. "It doesn't matter how many we are down. We're going to go into it just like we always do. We're going to play for each other and play hard and try to get a W. Nobody's giving up in this locker room. We still have each other's back and we still want a championship.''
Two years ago, the Lynx clinched the WNBA title on Atlanta's Philips Arena.
"We know that Atlanta will bring everything,'' Augustus said. "They will throw the kitchen sink. They will do all they can to avoid elimination.''
Said Williams: "There is really no panic mode. It is our turn to go home.''


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Ryan Spooner scores, earns third star of the game
Providence, R.I. -- The Providence Bruins fell to the Portland Pirates 3-2 this evening at the Dunkin' Donuts Center. Ryan Spooner and Bobby Robins scored in regulation, and Niklas Svedberg made 37 saves in regulation. The Pirates came out strong after the puck dropped in the first period, and had an early chance to gain the lead. Bobby Robins went off for interference, but the Pirates could not capitalize on the man advantage, and the P-Bruins successfully killed off their first penalty of the game. The game soon shifted into a back-and-forth effort from both teams, with the P-Bruins edging their opponent in chances. A late period power play on a Russ Sinkewich tripping call saw Providence unleash a barrage of shots on Portland's Chad Johnson, but the goalie stood tall and the period expired with a blank scoreboard. Providence began the second period with sustained o-zone pressure, and earned themselves an early power play on a Chris Summers roughing minor. Graham Mink began the shooting with a stuff attempt, but was stonewalled by Johnson, and Maxime Sauve was similarly frustrated after making a few quick moves but only hitting post. Towards the end of the Summers penalty, the P-Bruins finally got their break. Ryan Spooner was fed in front of the goal from Matt Bartkowski, got denied, and then ripped a shot from the circle moments later, putting the P-Bruins up 1-0. The goal was his eighth of the season, and was assisted by Aaron Johnson and Craig Cunningham. Providence had continued pressure after the power play timed out, but Portland struck back minutes later on a rush, tying the game at one. Darien Dziurznyski netted his second of the season off assists from Brandon Gormley and Brett Hextall. Almost exactly two minutes later, Bobby Robins tucked the puck between Johnson and the post, again giving the P-Bruins the lead. His third of the year came from Kevan Miller and Christian Hanson. The Providence lead was threatened soon after, as Sauve went off for slashing, but the P-Bruins hung on to kill it off, and circled around Johnson after Sauve left the box, finding themselves with a multitude of chances but unable to make anything work. With four minutes left in the second, Dziurznyski picked up a pass from Brendan Shinnimin and tossed it past Providence netminder Niklas Svedberg to tie up the game once more. Portland was given a last-minute chance when Jamie Tardif got caught hooking, but the P-Bruins killed off their chance, and the period timed out in a 2-2 tie. The third period opened with some leftover energy, but soon after showed little resemblance to the high-octane period that came before it. Both teams' biggest chance came after a Brandon Gormley high-sticking call morphed into a four-on-four battle due to a tripping call on Providence's Johnson 30 seconds into the Gormley minor. The P-Bruins had about a minute and a half to themselves after Johnson's penalty ended, but did not find themselves on the receiving end of a game-winner. The two teams ended the period in a 2-2 gridlock, sending the game into overtime. The quick, five-minute overtime yielded the same results, and the game was sent to the shootout. Spooner put the P-Bruins up in the first round, and remained the lone scorer for the next three rounds. Portland's Chris Conner gave the Pirates hope, but was quickly silenced by Carter Camper. Ethan Werek put the Pirates back in contention, and Jordan Szwarz sealed the deal in the seventh round to give the Pirates a 3-2 win over the P-Bruins. |
- Anthony Camara
- Scott Campbell
- Andrew Cherniwchan
- Mike Collins
- Tommy Cross
- Craig Cunningham
- Jack Downing
- Alexander Fallstrom
- Rob Flick
- Justin Florek
- Matt Fraser
- Seth Griffith
- Nick Johnson
- Alexander Khokhlachev
- Jared Knight
- Matt Lindblad
- Mike Moore
- Joe Morrow
- Tyler Randell
- Bobby Robins
- Ryan Spooner
- Malcolm Subban
- Niklas Svedberg
- Zach Trotman
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A Girl Worth Fighting For
What Hillary did right.
Friday, June 6, 2008
The Fight of Her Life:Ten years ago, at a White House farewell for a favorite staff member, Hillary Clinton described the two kinds of people in the world: born optimists like her husband who see the glass as half-full, and born realists like herself who can see the glass is half-empty. As she ends her campaign and throws her support behind Barack Obama's remarkable quest, Hillary could be forgiven for seeing her glass as, quite literally, half-empty. The two candidates traded primary after primary down the stretch, two titans matching each other vote for vote. In the closest race in the modern era, she and Obama split the Democratic wishbone nearly right down the middle, but she's not the one who got her wish. Yet for Hillary and the 18 million of us who supported her, there is no shame in one historic campaign coming up just short against another. History is a great deal wiser than Chris Matthews, and will be kinder, too. The 2008 contest has been one for the ages, and the annals will show that Hillary Clinton has gained far more than she lost. The Obama-Clinton match will go down as the longest, closest, most exciting, most exhausting ever. Obama ran an inspired campaign and seized the moment. Clinton came close, and by putting up a tough fight now, helped fortify him for the fight ahead. Our campaign made plenty of mistakes, none of which has gone unreported. But Hillary is right not to dwell on "woulda, coulda, shoulda." From New Hampshire to South Dakota, the race she ran earned its own place in the history books. While the way we elect presidents leaves a lot to be desired, it has one redeeming virtue, as the greatest means ever invented to test what those who seek the job are made of. In our lifetimes, we'll be hard-pressed to find a candidate made of tougher stuff than Hillary Clinton. Most candidates leave a race diminished by it. Hillary is like tempered steel: the more intense the heat, the tougher she gets. And has any candidate had to face fiercer, more sustained heat? As a frontrunner, she expected a tough ride, and as Hillary Clinton, she was accustomed to it. But if she was used to the scrutiny, she could not have anticipated – and did not deserve – the transparent hostility behind it. In much the same way the right wing came unglued when her husband refused to die in the '90s, the media lost its bearings when she defied and survived them. Slate at least held off on its noxious Hillary Deathwatch until March; most of the press corps began a breathless Clinton Deathwatch last Thanksgiving. The question that turned her campaign around in New Hampshire – "How do you do it?" – brought Hillary to tears out of sheer gratitude that someone out there had noticed. For a few searing days in New Hampshire, we watched her stare into the abyss. Any other candidate forced to read her own obituary so often would have come to believe it. But as she went on to demonstrate throughout this campaign, Hillary had faith that there is life after political death, and the wherewithal to prove it. In New Hampshire, she discarded the frontrunner mantle and found her voice. For a race that was largely won or lost in Iowa, the discovery came a few days too late. But the grit Clinton showed with her back to the wall all those months will make her a force with a following for years to come. The chief hurdle for Clinton's presidential bid wasn't whether she could do the job; Democrats never doubted she would make a good president. Ironically, the biggest question she faced for much of the race is one she answered clearly by the time she left it: whether America was ready for a woman president. No one asks that question any longer. For all the sexism she encountered as the first woman with a serious shot at the White House, voters themselves made clear they were ready. The longer the race went on, the more formidable she looked in the general election. In this week's CBS News poll, she was beating John McCain by nine points, even as she was losing the Democratic nomination. Last year, the press and other campaigns insisted that Clinton was too polarizing and that half the country was united against her. Now, a woman who was supposed to be one of the most polarizing figures in America leaves the race with handsome leads over McCain in places like North Carolina, a state her husband never carried. When her campaign started, aides often described Hillary as the least known, least understood famous person in America. During this campaign, it became clear that in certain quarters she's the most deliberately misunderstood person as well. The recent RFK flap was yet another attempt to suggest that her every miscue was part of some diabolical master plan. Yet while talking heads imagined the evils of Hillary Clinton, voters finally came to know and understand her. They saw someone who knew what they were going through, who would stick with them, fight for them, and get back up when she got knocked down. The phony, consultant-driven shadow boxing of the last few years has dulled Democrats to the party's historic mission – to defend the values and stand up for the interests of ordinary people who are doing all they can just to get ahead. For those voters, Hillary Clinton was the champion they've been looking for, a fighter they can count on, win or lose, not to let them down. That's a fight she'll never quit. Like the woman in New Hampshire, we still wonder how Hillary does it, but this time, the tears are on us. As we wish her well, our hopes are high, our hearts are full – and if our glass is empty, it was worth every drop. ... 11:58 P.M. (link)
Friday, May 30, 2008 The Adventures of Bobble-Foot: For enough money, any McClellan or Stephanopoulos in Washington will write a kiss-and-tell book these days. But the memoir Larry Craig just announced he's writing could launch a whole new genre: don't-kiss, don't-tell. Craig revealed his plans on Boise television during Tuesday's coverage of the Senate primary to choose his potential successors. For the senator, if not his viewers, it was a poignant moment, one last point of no return in a three-decade-long political career. With a touch of empathy, the local reporter told Craig, "You're looking forward now to a much different life for yourself." Alas, the life Craig described isn't much different from any other retiring pol's, nor does he sound like he's looking forward to it. He hinted that he is entertaining a number of lobbying offers. Because of ethics rules, he explains, "There are some one-way conversations going on, 'cause I've said I can't talk, but I certainly can listen." Perhaps they can figure out some kind of code. These are heady times for the Idaho senator. Last Sunday, on National Tap Dance Day, the first-place St. Paul Saints, a minor league baseball team, drew their biggest crowd of the year with a special promotion in Craig's honor: a bobble-foot doll commemorating the bathroom stall at Minneapolis-St.Paul airport. The team website reported, "Saints Have Toe-Tapping Good Time, Win 9-3." The bobble-foot promotion gave Craig a way to test his market value even beyond the lobbying and book worlds. Scores of Craig bobble-feet are now available on eBay, selling for upwards of $75 apiece. You'd better hurry: Like successful appeals of uncoerced confessions, supplies are limited. The upcoming memoir may be the last we ever hear from the man, so it's worth asking: What kind of book will Larry Craig write? Consider the possibilities:
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Mr. Romney's Neighborhoods: Mitt Romney has a new motto: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. In the past two months, he has transformed himself from John McCain's sharpest critic to one of his most active surrogates. For more than a year, Romney traveled the country talking up his chances of becoming president. Now he coyly downplays any chance of gaining the vice-presidential nod.
On Saturday, we learned of another surprising reversal. In mid-May, the state Supreme Court voted to allow same-sex marriage in California. This weekend, news leaked that Romney has decided to buy a house there. With property in Massachusetts and California as well as New Hampshire and Utah, the crusader who once warned his son that Democrats would usher in same-sex marriage now owns homes in two of the eight jurisdictions on earth that allow it.
Diane Bell of the San Diego Union-Tribune—who began her column Saturday with the immortal words " Mitt Romney is in escrow"—sparked a rush of rumors by asking: "Could Romney be planning to establish residency in California with an eye on the governor's seat? Gov. Schwarzenegger is forced out by term limits in 2010. Stay tuned ..."
If Romney wanted to buy into a slumping market, his timing couldn't be better. San Diego real estate prices are down 18 percent from a year ago, making even La Jolla beachfront a bargain. When Schwarzenegger's term runs out, the California Republican Party will likewise be the political equivalent of a vacant lot.
Romney's staff quickly shot down any Golden State ambitions. A spokesman told the Associated Press, "Governor Romney has been looking at property on the West Coast because he has family in California, and because his wife, Ann, spends a good deal of time there riding horses." The AP noted that son Matt lives in San Diego, "while son Josh lives in Salt Lake City." That's 750 miles away—less than a month's ride on horseback!
Romney spent the weekend at John McCain's Western getaway with other vice-presidential hopefuls. The La Jolla purchase gives him one more advantage over the rest of the field: He now brings the most undisclosed secure locations.


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Mint Brownie Pie Recipe
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
- Green food coloring, optional
- 1 carton (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed
- 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips, melted
- Additional whipped topping and chocolate chips, optional
- In a large saucepan, melt butter and chocolate. Stir in sugar until smooth. Add eggs and vanilla. Stir in flour until well blended.
- Pour into a greased 9-in. springform pan. Bake at 350° for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
- In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Beat in extract and food coloring if desired. Fold in whipped topping. Spread evenly over brownie layer. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Remove sides of pan just before serving. Melt chocolate chips; drizzle over the top. Garnish with whipped topping and additional chocolate chips if desired. Yield: 8 servings.
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It was scrumptious - and so easy to make. The only change I made was using Hot Fudge Topping as a drizzle. I made it for my husband's meeting & they loved it.
This recipe was fantastic! My family devoured it on Christmas Eve - it literally was gone in minutes with people asking for more. The only change I made was based off of a previous reviewer's suggestion. Instead of melting chocolate chips for the drizzle, I chopped up Andes mints into small pieces and distributed them across the top of the pie. Everyone loved it!
I made this for a church potluck, upping the peppermint extract to 3/4tsp. It was very tasty and gone in a flash! (Oh, and I used Hard Crack ice cream topping to drizzle and it cut very nicely.)
So yummy! I whipped this up in no time, and to rave reviews!
This is good, but it didn't have the wow factor for me. It does make a nice dessert for St. Patrick's Day, so I will make it again. The only change I would make is to skip drizzling the chooclate. It tastes good, but it doesn't cut nicely. Instead, I would opt for drizzling chocolate syrup or Sprinkling chopped Andes candies on top like I saw on the recipe for Grashopper Pie.
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amethyst (ām'ə-thĭst) Pronunciation Key
A purple or violet, transparent form of quartz used as a gemstone. The color is caused by the presence of iron compounds in the crystal structure. |
one of the precious stones in the breastplate of the high priest (Ex. 28:19; 39:12), and in the foundation of the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:20). The ancients thought that this stone had the power of dispelling drunkenness in all who wore or touched it, and hence its Greek name formed from _a_, "privative," and _methuo_, "to get drunk." Its Jewish name, _ahlamah'_, was derived by the rabbins from the Hebrew word _halam_, "to dream," from its supposed power of causing the wearer to dream. It is a pale-blue crystallized quartz, varying to a dark purple blue. It is found in Persia and India, also in different parts of Europe.


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Though there are many folks in Indianapolis sports and legal circles who would like to see Jack Swarbrick be a candidate
to follow the late Myles Brand as NCAA president, the man himself has very decidedly (and politically correctly) thrown his
own hat far outside the ring of debate.
There's a lot to like about Swarbrick. Not only is he a fine legal
mind, an astute businessman and a sports fan, he's also imminently accessible and surprisingly straightforward. This
is a guy who answers his own phone—and answers every question. I wish I could say the same about the folks at my own
college alma matter.
There's also this: Swarbrick is an Indiana native, former Indiana Sports Corp. chairman and
Indianapolis attorney. He knows the value of maximizing the NCAA's economic impact on the Circle City. There's no shortage
of local folks that would back him for the job. Swarbrick has been involved in almost every major sports initiative this city
has known over the last two decades, including being a key member of the delegation that landed the 2012 Super Bowl.
Did I mention too, that Swarbrick knows when to defer. That's what he did late last week when I asked him if he is
a candidate to become the next NCAA president. It's not a ridiculous question. Not only is Swarbrick nationally respected,
but he was a finalist for the job when Brand was hired in 2003.
"I think [NCAA leaders] have made it quite
clear they want the leader to come from the university presidents' ranks," Swarbrick said.
Swarbrick didn't say he isn't interested in the job. Still, he makes a good case for a university president to
be the next NCAA honcho.
"They understand the issues from a campus-wide perspective, and they have the credibility
and cache with other presidents that will help move the NCAA's agenda along," Swarbrick said.
to succeed Brand include; University of Hartford President Walter Harrison, University of Georgia President Michael Adams,
Penn State University President Graham Spanier, University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman and Southeastern Conference
Commissioner Mike Slive along with NCAA Executive Vice President Bernard Franklin.
The next NCAA president faces
one of the most challenging times in the association's history, Swarbrick said.
In addition to college sports
spending issues, Swarbrick said the new president—the fifth in the NCAA's history—must grapple with compliance,
ethics and enforcement issues; as well as multi-media agreements including television, radio and Web deals.
is one of the least stable times the NCAA has faced and the next president will have to find the glue that holds all this
together," Swarbrick said. "There's just so much change right now."


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J.A. Murphy's Tavern, the Fells Point bar on Aliceanna Street near Broadway, will be celebrating its first birthday tonight. In its inaugural year, the bar has become known for its generous happy hour ($1 shots, anyone?), its down-to-earth staff, and its tasty but affordable pub grub.
Tonight from 7 p.m.-2 a.m., the bar will hand out free jello shots, free drunken gummy bears, and free Grand Marnier while supplies last. There will also be raffles and giveaways.
Opening a bar in 2009, defying the recession, and remaining open a year later is quite an accomplishment. "Was it a smart decision? Probably not," says Keith Murphy, co-owner (and Top Single featured in our February issue). "But we've done everything we can to make it affordable. In the recession, most bars only get one strike. The last thing we'd ever give is poor service, and we go out of our way to provide fun."
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Six-pack in session
Blog | Feb 10, 2009 | 4:30 PMJohan Santana is on a mound for the first time since his October knee surgery and joining him on the bullpen six-pack here this morning is Duaner Sanchez and Oliver Perez. Its only been a few pitches, but so far,...... -
The Early Show
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No insurance=no WBC for Santana
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A true gangsta
Blog | Feb 13, 2009 | 4:30 PMJohan Santana and Freddy Garcia just finished their conditioning drills and walked over to greet Jerry Manuel. "Playa, playa!" Santana yelled over, smiling. To which Manuel replied, "A true gangsta." Garcia seems like he's wondering what the heck is... -
Santana officially out of WBC, Garcia in rotation?
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Santana throws, more Livan
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David: I'm the Wright man to lead Mets
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2009 Mets rotation
Blog | Feb 16, 2009 | 4:30 PMAs of today, with everyone healthy, this is the Mets' rotation to start the season: 1. Johan Santana 2. Mike Pelfrey 3. Oliver Perez 4. John Maine 5. Tim Redding Pitching coach Dan Warthen explained that Pelfrey's better numbers against...... -
Sandy Koufax in camp soon?
Blog | Feb 16, 2009 | 4:30 PMOver dinner last night, Sandy Koufax told owner Fred Wilpon that he may be stopping by in the next day or so for one of his annual chats with the Mets staff. Koufax, a longtime friend of Wilpon's, usually visits...... -
Beltran, Pagan arrive
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For starters
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Quote of the day
Richard Roeper, "Movie 43″ is the "Citizen Kane" of awful." (Roger Ebert)
Chart of the day
The stock market is at a new all-time highs. (Crossing Wall Street)
Five years in, the bull market is finally front page news. (The Reformed Broker, Big Picture, Sober Look)
When the market finally puts aside the bad news, the risk is to the upside. (The Reformed Broker)
How do you get a secular bull market revved up? (Conor Sen)
What would surprise market participants the most at this point? (All Star Charts)
Overbought (Mexico) and oversold (Korea) markets. (Global Macro Monitor)
When profits are made in a serious trend. (Dynamic Hedge)
Structured notes based on Apple shares took a bath this week. (Jason Zweig)
A little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors. (Barry Ritholtz)
Beware companies trying to pass off earnings misses on the weather, politics, etc. (Kid Dynamite)
Revisiting the 4% withdrawal rule in retirement. (StreetEYE)
Time to start thinking about Apple ($AAPL) as a value stock. (Quartz)
Apparently investors have forgotten the past decade for Apple. (Pando Daily)
Peak Apple. (Economist)
Soros says hedge funds suck. (Bloomberg)
Ackman vs. Icahn: no one comes off well. (Dealbreaker, Kid Dynamite)
Vanguard has some serious momentum. (InvestmentNews)
How much is Vanguard's much publicized ETF index shifts costing investors? (Focus on Funds)
iShares is getting into the target date corporate bond ETF business. (IndexUniverse)
UK austerity: a tale of the tape. (Econbrowser, Money Game)
Don't get too excited about shrinking balances at the ECB. (WSJ, Sober Look)
A Q&A with Shaun Rein on The End of Cheap China: Economic and Cultural Trends That Will Change the World. (OpenMarkets)
Housing supplies keep tightening. (Quartz)
Rising home prices could bump up consumer spending. (WashingtonPost)
Robert J. Shiller, "The bottom line for potential home buyers or sellers is probably this: Don't do anything dramatic or difficult." (NYTimes)
A look back at the economic week that was. (Bonddad Blog, Calculated Risk)
The economic schedule for the coming week. (Calculated Risk)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
Don't get fooled by preparing to fight the last investment war. (Abnormal Returns)
What you missed in our Saturday morning linkfest. (Abnormal Returns)
Top clicks this week on the site. (Abnormal Returns)
Barack Obama, "I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football. " (TNR)
Want to burn fat? Work out on an empty stomach. (ScienceDaily)
Telemedicine is coming ever closer to reality. (GigaOM)
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French president-elect Hollande promises 'kinder, gentler austerity' (+video)
As leader of Europe's No. 2 economy, French President-elect François Hollande has the power to challenge German Chancellor Angela Merkel's austerity doctrine.
Sunday's elections in Europe mark a change in the political map here. French voters elected the first Socialist president in 17 years and angry Greeks rebuked mainstream parties associated with crippling deficits, bailouts, and spending cuts, voting in record numbers for radical left and neo-Nazi parties.
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Although the common sentiment in both elections is a rejection of austerity, the implications are quite different. While French elections represent a new power center in Europe on the center-left, Greek elections represent further political disarray in Europe's southern tier.
The French voted in François Hollande, who promised a "new direction for Europe," blending growth policies with the austerity model adopted under German direction. Mr. Hollande was congratulated by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a phone call yesterday and invited to Berlin, a trip Hollande's team says he will waste no time in taking.
US President Obama also phoned the French president-elect and said he looks forward to hosting him at the White House before a G-8 summit at Camp David and a NATO summit in Chicago, both later this month.
European nations have slashed public spending the last couple years in an attempt to bring mounting public debt under control, but they have not seen the business and consumer spending necessary for a recovery. Unemployment rates have climbed, and economic growth has stalled, with some economies even contracting.
Mr. Hollande, a pragmatic social democrat and Keynesian, advocates what analysts call a "kinder, gentler" austerity. He is unlikely to make any radical changes to France's public spending.
His promotion to top job of the No. 2 economy in Europe makes him the first European leader able to challenge Germany's Angela Merkel, and brings to an end Europe's "Merkozy" duo of Mrs. Merkel and outgoing French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who have steered Europe through the economic crisis. Merkel's own ruling coalition showed signs of weakness yesterday, with a poor showing in local elections in Schleswig-Holstein, ahead of national elections next year.


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WASHINGTON -- The late Casey Stengel, peering down the dugout bench of the hapless New York Mets in 1964, allegedly asked: "Can't anybody here play this game?" It's a question Mitt Romney should be asking right now about his own stalled presidential campaign staff -- and about himself.
Any rookie in the game of politics should know that when you make a tactical mistake, which in his case is failing to come clean on his full record of income tax returns, you'd better do so right away to stop the bleeding.
The annals of presidential campaigns are replete with the carcasses of candidates who tried to stonewall pressures to reveal information possibly pertinent to their credibility, and paid the price. From Watergate to Gary Hart's womanizing and Bill Clinton's grand-jury lies that led to his impeachment, denying or clamming up only led to worse political problems.
Whether or not there is anything in Romney's pre-2010 tax returns that might damage his campaign, the sheer appearance of trying to hide something is hardly the way to build public confidence in a man who has been notably stingy about his private life, particularly in business.
For a candidate who bases his whole campaign on his success as a private entrepreneur, Romney can ill afford to decline to open wide his books that can document how he achieved it. There may be nothing detrimental there, and as one who has already taken political hits for the revelation of offshore bank accounts and the like, he obviously has reason to balk at further possible disclosures.
Tactically, however, his stalling has enabled President Obama and his campaign team to eat up valuable weeks of election-year time and attention on what so far has been a sideshow to the main event: the state of the economy in Obama's first 3 1/2 years in office.
In effect, the Obama team has been able, with coordinated negative television ads, to hijack the summer months of the campaign. It has thrown Romney on the defensive and kept him there, thrashing helplessly as long as he sits on those earlier tax returns. Calling on the president to apologize for a lame-brained aide's suggestion that Romney has committed a felony only magnified the Republican challenger's frustration.
When it comes to the point where even Romney's GOP supporters are pressing him to release the returns and get it over with, he finds himself even more isolated and looking either evasive of petulant, neither of which is a vote-getter.
The problem for Romney in the whole dust-up over his tax returns is that it seems to raise the basic question in the 2012 campaign: Whose side is he on? The rich and powerful or the rest of the country? That reduction of the equation may be simplistic, but in the art of shaping public opinion, it plays neatly into the old class-warfare litany.
In a campaign that is evolving into a fight for the middle-class voter, it makes no political sense for Romney to let the diversion go on. He needs to get the campaign back on Obama's conduct of the economy, now that his assault on the president's health-care reforms seems to have been defanged by the Supreme Court.
It is being alleged, inaccurately, that the Democrats are doing to Romney no more than what the Republicans did in 2004 to Sen. John Kerry with the "swift boat" attacks on his record as a decorated Vietnam War sailor. The significant difference is that the swift-boating of Kerry was pure distortion, whereas Romney's stonewalling on his past tax returns is an irrefutable fact.
Continuing to balk can only consume more valuable time in what the polls that the public and politicians seem to worship say this is an extremely close race. As the supposedly political genius Richard Nixon liked to say in his own simplistic way, "If you're on the wrong track, get off the wrong track and get on the right track."
That's one voice from the grave that Mitt Romney would do well to heed. Release the returns and let the Obama bloodhounds have a go at them, and then get on with making the case on why Romney deserves to be president.
(Jules Witcover's latest book is "Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption" (William Morrow). You can respond to this column at email@example.com.)
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Prince of Persia on the PSP is an enhanced version of The Warrior Within, featuring puzzles, maps, and redesigned levels.The Prince of Persia, a seasoned warrior, returns from the Island of Time to Babylon with his love, Kaileena. Instead of the peace that he longs for, he finds his homeland ravaged by war and the kingdom turned against him. The Prince is rapidly captured and Kaileena has no choice but to sacrifice herself and unleash the Sands of Time in order to save him. Now cast out on the streets and hunted as a fugitive, the Prince soon discovers that past battles have given rise to a deadly Dark Prince, whose spirit gradually possesses him.
Quick Glance
ESRB Rating: M (Mature 17+)
Game Genre: Role Playing Game
Release Date: 2005-12-8
Maximum Number of Players: 1
Product Title: Prince of Persia: Revelations
Manufacturer: UbiSoft
Power Score: 3.9 | 5 Reviews
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The darker, edgier Prince of Persia now available for PSP. . .
Strengths: Solid graphics, good blend of action/adventure/puzzles, new levels
Weakness: Another home console port, audio/frame rate issues, excessive load times
If you've played any of the recent home console Prince of Persia games, you'll immediately recognize Revelations as the mostly straight PSP port of Warrior Within that it is. Warrior Within was a decent game in its own right, and its translation here to handheld is pretty solid. Unfortunately, the same complaints that the console version received are still here. The darker, edgier (generic tough...
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Prince of Persia on the PSP
Strengths: +nice graphics +good challenging puzzles +basically an expansion of Warrior Within +new levels
Weakness: -load times -some slowdown
Prince of Persia comes to the PSP in a semi-new adventure. Players that played Prince of Persia 2 Warrior's Within will find many similarities. To those new to the series, you play as a Prince who possesses a wide range of spectacular moves. The prince can run up against walls and do amazing acrobatic moves. Players can choose to either fight with single or dual weapons. Players have their...
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By monsoonman - Aug 26, 2007
Excellent Game for mature audience
Strengths: Excellent Graphics and story line
I just got Prince of Persia for PSP couple of days back from Sears I was kinda sceptical on getting this game, since I was not really amazed with the one i have on Xbox - Sand of Time. But after playing on PSP my myth was broken. The PSP version has more to fight then jump from one wall to another. It has may weapon at his dispair and so much action to do. I just love the game and doesnt want to...
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Prince of Persia: Revelations
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Chicago Breaks Cold Weather Record
Chicago set a record low temperature today (Jan. 6) with a frigid -16 degree reading, which was observed Monday morning, according to the National Weather Service. That breaks the former record of -14 degrees set in 1894 and 1988.
The last time Chicago reached -16 was back on Jan. 16, 2009, when the temperatures hit -18. Another cold weather fact to consider: Chicago has only reached -16 or colder 51 days since 1871.
It's even colder in Rockford as it reached -18 degrees this morning but the city has not yet broke a record. The lowest temperature reached on Jan. 6 in Rockford was -19 degrees, which was set in 1988.
Rockford last saw a temperature of -18 on Jan. 3 but before that, the last time the temperature reached -18 degrees or colder was on Feb. 2, 2011.
The National Weather Service reports that the coldest airmass in nearly 20 years arrived Monday morning and is expected to peak slowly. Temperatures may not rise to above zero from Sunday night through sometime on Tuesday, if they do so at all.
This airmass will be accompanied by winds between 15 and 30 mph, resulting in dangerously low wind chill values between 30 and 50 degrees below zero. The worst conditions were expected to hit Sunday night through Monday afternoon.
Temperatures and wind chills this cold can easily result in exposed skin freezing within minutes and rapid onset of hypothermia, according to the National Weather Service.
Read more about the Chicago weather record on the National Weather Service. See more on your local forecast above.
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The Plot (Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
The Left Hand of Darkness is a report from representative Genly Ai to the Ekumen of Known Worlds, an organization of about eighty planets clearly analogous to the United Nations. Ai has been sent to enlist the two hostile countries of the planet Gethen, Karhide and Orgoreyn, to join the Ekumen. He needs a formal guarantee of welcome for his orbiting spaceship and the Ekumen representatives therein. This requirement is complicated for the ill-at-ease Ai by the dislike between Karhide and Orgoreyn, by their unsettled internal political states, and especially by the sexual ambiguity of the people of this world. They are hermaphroditic, combining both female and male sexual characteristics and playing one or the other sexual role at different points in their lives, depending on complex psychohormonal circumstances.
The Gethenians' competing governments are a challenge for Ai. His Terran reliance on sexual identity as a basis for forming relations of trust with another human offers no guidance on Gethen, only confusion and distrust. Estraven, the head minister to the king of Karhide, is banished, ending Ai's hopes of a friendly reception. The Terran envoy feels little for the exiled ally on whom he had pinned his hopes. Seers known as "Foretellers" predict that Gethen will join the Ekumen within five years. Hopeful of a better reception elsewhere, Ai moves from the medieval-flavored monarchy of Karhide to the bureaucratic country of Orgoreyn,...
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Form and Content (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
The Left Hand of Darkness is one of several novels describing the results of experiments carried out on other planets by beings from the planet Hain. On Gethen, the Hainish established a race of ambisexual humans. Gethenians are usually androgynous and asexual; once a month, however, they enter a state called "kemmer." During this period sexuality predominates over everything else. In kemmer, Gethenians develop male or female characteristics, but their specific gender is completely arbitrary and may vary from one cycle to another.
The novel takes place thousands of years later, when Genly Ai comes to this ambisexual world as an envoy from the Ekumen. Gethen has evolved into a complex society, shaped not by gender differences but by the alternation of frigidity and sexual activity; it has also developed two national superpowers (Karhide, a monarchy, and Orgoreyn, a communist state) and two principal religions (the Handdara and the Yomesh). The Left Hand of Darkness traces Ai's adventures on this planet in the course of fulfilling his mission. He gradually convinces the Gethenians—in particular, Estraven—that his stories of other worlds are true. Equally important, he himself comes to understand Gethen.
The novel begins in Ehrenrang, Karhide's capital, where Estraven has arranged Ai's audience with the king. Ai does not trust Estraven, however, and he is scarcely surprised when Estraven tells him that he can no longer represent Ai's interests to the king. The following morning, however, Estraven is gone, banished from Karhide on pain of...
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Places Discussed (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
Gethen/Winter. Planet similar to earth in size and having an atmosphere capable of supporting a humanoid but not human population. It exists in an unspecified galaxy and in a distant future. It is called Gethen by the people of Hain, an advanced and distant planet from which the protagonist comes, and is sometimes called Winter for reasons that quickly become obvious. The central figure is Genly Ai, a diplomat who represents an intergalactic political organization called the Ekumen; it is Ai's task to live on Winter for as long as it takes to slowly and gently convince the Gethenians that they want, of their own free will, to join the Ekumen. This organization, a noncoercive political confederation of loosely linked planets, is often alluded to in the novel but is never directly encountered. It is Ursula K. Le Guin's ideal political organization, and its purpose is to represent a potential alternative to the modern organization of competing nation-states.
Modern nationalism/patriotism is the subject against which the novel cleverly and entertainingly argues. Genly Ai's mission is impeded by the two conditions that are the most significant features of the planet. First, Gethen is in the midst of an ice age: This means that every feature of the planet, from its flora and fauna to its various cultural rituals and religions to its machines and technology, is shaped by the fact that Gethen is at all times extremely cold....
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Context (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
The Left Hand of Darkness can be compared to other works of fantasy or science fiction that concentrate on gender. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's separatist feminist novel Herland (1915; 1979) imagines an entire society of women. Herland—whose architecture, economy, industry, and religion is described in considerable detail—is a land of peace, harmony, and creativity. So, at first, is the society of hermaphrodites that Theodore Sturgeon describes in his classic science-fiction novel Venus Plus X (1965); Sturgeon's novel darkly suggests, however, that such utopias can only be attained by means of genetic engineering. Doris Lessing's science-fiction novel The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (1980) suggests the difficulty and necessity of leaving behind separatist models of men's and women's "zones."
Because science fiction facilitates imagining alternatives to contemporary society, many feminists choose this genre to express their ideas. Yet The Left Hand of Darkness—which won both Hugo and Nebula Awards for best science-fiction novel of 1969—stands out among other works, for both the originality of its conception and the care with which it is worked out. The novel was a "thought-experiment," as Le Guin explains in her introduction, in which she tried to imagine a world without gender. Le Guin's solution to this problem—making the Gethenians utterly androgynous and asexual,...
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Historical Context
The Space Race
The year that The Left Hand of Darkness was published, 1969, was the year that the first human,...
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Literary Style
The structure of this novel is a cluster of information from various sources. The main one, in terms of...
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Literary Techniques
The Left Hand of Darkness is a brilliant experiment in narrative structure. Although Genly Ai is the structuring consciousness of the...
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Social Concerns
A sophisticated novel of ideas as well as a work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness deals with a number of human, social,...
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Compare and Contrast
1969: The Woodstock Music festival took place on a farm outside of Bethel, New York, drawing between 300,000 and 500,000...
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Topics for Further Study
In the novel, Genly Ai draws the "yin and yang" symbol for Estraven. Study the ancient Chinese Naturalist movement that developed the...
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Literary Precedents
A highly original work, The Left Hand of Darkness is not so much specifically indebted to any particular work as it is reflective of...
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Media Adaptations
An audiocassette version of The Left Hand of Darkness, read by the author, was released by Warner Home Audio in 1985.
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What Do I Read Next?
Three of Le Guin's novels that follow the same cycle as this one—Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of...
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Bibliography and Further Reading
James W. Bittner, "A Survey of Le Guin Criticism," in Ursula K. Le Guin: Voyager to Inner Lands and to...
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Bibliography (Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Barrow, Craig, and Diana Barrow. "The Left Hand of Darkness: Feminism for Men." Mosaic 20, no. 1 (Winter, 1987): 83-96. This insightful essay suggests that Le Guin's feminist novel was specifically intended for male readers.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Ursula K. Le Guin. New York: Chelsea House, 1986. A collection of chronologically ordered and previously published essays tracing the general critical reception of Le Guin's work.
Bloom, Harold. Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness." New York: Chelsea House, 1987. This useful collection contains nine previously published...
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