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The image: The cover of the latest issue of Spain's Magazine de Fuera de Serie provocatively features an image of First Lady Michelle Obama's face on the body of a bare-breasted slave. (See the cover at right and below.) The image of the slave was taken from Portrait d'une negresse, a painting by French artist Marie-Guillemine Benoist that was completed in 1800, six years after France's abolition of slavery. Many experts say the original painting "is meant to symbolize emancipation and empowerment," says Neetzan Zimmerman at Gawker, and the article accompanying the image — titled "Michelle Granddaughter of a Slave, Lady of America" — is reportedly a glowing tribute to Obama. Still, the cover, designed by artist Karine Percheron-Daniels, managed to offend swaths of the internet.
The reaction: Because the image is "so obviously offensive, the mind attempts to rationalize" whether something was lost in translation, says Althea Legal-Miler at Clutch. But make no mistake: The "image has nothing to do with acknowledging Obama's enslaved foremothers, and everything to do with reinforcing and extending the historical denial of black women's individuality and agency." And even if the image is meant to be a commentary on the progress of racial attitudes, it "hardly seems a good excuse for depicting the First Lady as both sexualized and enslaved" on a magazine cover, says Jessica Wakeman at The Frisky. Percheron-Daniels claims that Obama would "love" the cover, but the controversial artist, who has several other works that hijack images of famous people, could very well just be seeking attention, says Victoria Cavaliere at New York's Daily News. Judge for yourself:
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A newspaper says Joe Paterno's will was ordered permanently sealed from public view along with all related court filings at the request of an attorney. The Citizen's Voice of Wilkes-Barre reports that it's the only will sealed in the county in the past 18 months. A local lawyer who has worked on estate law for four decades calls the move ''very strange.'' The paper says court officials could not determine Friday which judge ordered the will sealed. The judge who oversees the court system didn't return messages, nor did the estate lawyer. Paterno amassed a Division I record 409 victories at Penn State. He died in January at age 85, months after he was ousted following sex abuse allegations against retired assistant Jerry Sandusky.
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Dwayne De Rosario, Toronto FC reach deal: report
Rebuilding TFC agrees to contract with Canadian veteran selected in MLS re-entry draft last month.
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Canadian star Dwayne De Rosario has come to terms with Toronto FC, paving the way for his return to the MLS club.
A source confirmed that the former league MVP and Toronto had agreed on a contract. Attempts to reach a club spokesperson were not immediately successful, but a news conference is expected later this week.
Toronto selected the 35-year-old De Rosario in the MLS re-entry draft last month after D.C. United opted not to pick up his option at the end of the season. Had De Rosario not agreed to Toronto's offer, TFC would have held the right of first refusal for him in MLS.
De Rosario made $654,300 in 2013 but will undoubtedly earn less in Toronto, which will be looking for the Canadian international to mentor younger players while offering support to a new-look marquee attack.
Toronto has already signed Brazil's Gilberto with England star Jermain Defoe expected to join him soon as part of a megabucks designated player strike force.
A native of Toronto, De Rosario ranks sixth on the MLS career scoring list with 103 goals. Twenty-seven of those came in a Toronto FC jersey from 2009 to 2011.
He was traded to New York just two games into the 2011 season after a public contract dispute. De Rosario upped the money ante in September 2010 when he celebrated a goal in a 3-2 home loss to San Jose by pretending to sign a cheque.
Much has changed since then in Toronto. Only two players (Ashtone Morgan and Doneil Henry) remain from De Rosario's last game in a Toronto shirt — a 2-0 win over Portland on March 26, 2011.
DeRo is the latest piece of the Toronto FC puzzle as manager Ryan Nelsen continues his rebuild. Since the end of the 2013 season, Toronto has also acquired MLS experience in the form of Brazilian midfielder Jackson and defender Justin Morrow while picking up draft picks in trading away the rights of goalkeeper Stefan Frei and midfielder Bobby Convey.
Toronto first acquired De Rosario in 2009 from Houston in exchange for defender Julius James and allocation money. De Rosario, who had scored 15 of Toronto's 33 goals in 2010, was subsequently shipped out in exchange for midfielder Tony Tchani, defender-midfielder Danleigh Borman and a first-round pick.
Toronto's MLS record since De Rosario was traded away is 16-50-34. The 13-year MLS veteran has played 324 regular-season and 24 playoff games in MLS. He started his career with San Jose and Houston, winning four league titles.
A finalist for MVP in 2005 and 2006, he has been chosen to the league's best XI six times. De Rosario has also captured MLS goal of the year honours twice, in 2004 and 2005.
He hoisted the MLS Cup in 2001 and 2003 with San Jose and 2006 and 2007 with Houston, earning MLS Cup MVP honours in 2001 and 2007.
De Rosario finished 2011 with D.C. United, winning the Golden Boot as the league's top scorer and MVP honours.
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Rachida Brakni, Eric Cantona, Joanna Preiss, HPG, Marie d'Estrées, Jérôme Le Banner
The French porn star turned actor-director known as HPG edges closer to the mainstream with this black comedy.
LOCARNO - A broody young woman resorts to desperate measures to become pregnant in this dark comedy from the actor-director Hervé-Pierre Gustave, aka HPG, who also co-stars. A former porn star who later crossed over into directing, Gustave is a maverick figure in French cinema, with a spotty track record mostly consisting of experimental shorts and narcissistic documentaries. All the same, his second narrative feature is far more watchable and conventional than his dramatic debut We Should Not Exist, which made a minimal splash at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes six years ago.
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Hip Movements is an uneven affair, with a tone that lurches between caustic humour and surreal melodrama, but it also has an irreverent charm and a strong authorial voice. Opening in France next month following its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland two weeks ago, Gustave's unorthodox comedy could appeal to more open-minded members of the established worldwide audience for Francophile cinema. The presence of football legend Eric Cantona and his off-screen wife Rachida Brakni in the cast may also boost the film's modest commercial prospects.
Brakni plays Marion, a fiery young woman who leaves her husband when he refuses to collaborate in her motherhood plans. Her subsequent clumsy attempt at becoming pregnant via a drunken one night stand leads her to an unlikely lesbian affair, a sperm-stealing raid on a hospital and a fateful encounter with Hervé (Gustave). An intense loner and martial arts obsessive recently fired from his zookeeper job for depressing the animals, Hervé now works as a night-watchman at a warehouse. Cantona gives an edgy comic turn as his boss, a sentimental sadist with a lucrative sideline pimping out his monstrous wife, played by the busty transsexual Marie d'Estrées.
There are distant echoes of vintage John Waters and Pedro Almodovar here, but Gustave is less of a self-conscious stylist than either, his excursions into campy excess appearing more accidental than artful. He also lightens the mood with some zippy visual flourishes, punctuating longer scenes with recurring footage of martial arts quick-step exercises that are both dainty and hilarious. Though its plot may be heavy-handed and its characters cartoonish, Hip Movements still skips along with an agreeably goofy, cultish energy.
Venue: Locarno Film Festival screening, August 9
Production companies: Capricci Films, HPG Production, Le Fresnoy
Cast: Rachida Brakni, Eric Cantona, Joanna Preiss, HPG, Marie d'Estrées, Jérôme Le Banner
Director: HPG
Producer: Thierry Lounas
Writers: HPG, Thomas Wallon
Editor: Isabelle Prim
Music: Géry Petit
Sales company: Capricci Films
Rating TBC, 86 minutes
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Oskar Lafontaine, who resigned as German finance minister, was the notorious exponent of the false belief that taxes had to be harmonised within the European Union. He combined this with the other false belief that British business paid too little tax and should pay as much as German business.
On the British side, we have compounded the error by boasting about how low our social security charges are, and how we shall achieve faster economic growth by having a lower total tax burden than our competitors.
Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, got the Germans to tone down their demands from harmonisation to co-ordination. This means a narrowing of the band between different national rates of indirect taxation to even out prices in the single market for goods and services, and similar treatment of withholding tax on interest, to create a level playing field in the single financial market.
Fiscal policy as a whole also needs to be co-ordinated, so that countries do not breach the Maastricht deficit ceiling of 3 per cent, and so that their combined fiscal stance fits in with the European Central Bank's monetary policy. Apart from that, governments have freedom to tax and spend as they wish, and will need to use it more actively as they have lost control of monetary policy.
It is a myth, fostered by successive Chancellors of the Exchequer, that British business is lightly taxed. Corporate taxes on income are 3.9 per cent of GDP in the UK, above the EU average, but only 1.5 per cent of GDP in Germany. The UK pays the highest tax on corporate property, with business rates and capital gains tax at 2.1 per cent of GDP. Business rates are a regressive tax, unrelated to profits, whose main merit is to guarantee that all businesses pay some tax. If they are included, UK business pays 6 per cent of GDP in tax, the highest rate among industrial countries.
It is an illusion that low employers' national insurance contributions redeem British business. These amount to only 3.4 per cent of GDP, or half the EU average, and just over a quarter of the high French and Swedish figures. With employers' social security, British and German business look lightly taxed, both paying just under 10 per cent of GDP.
The big error is to omit the burden of private social security, or employers' contributions to pension schemes. The UK claims to be in a much better position on pensions that most other EU countries, because it relies more heavily on funded schemes and does not have such big unfunded future pension liabilities. Another way of looking at it is that a low public social security burden gives the UK the meanest state pensions in Europe, and that private pension schemes impose a burden on the economy so as to supplement meagre state payments with more generous private provision.
Employers' contributions to private pension schemes are 3.6 per cent of GDP in the UK, above the average of 2.5 per cent for other countries. The British corporate tax burden, including these, comes to 13 per cent of GDP, slightly higher than the German burden, although well below that of other countries, notably the US, where employers' private health and pension contributions are 7 per cent of GDP.
Corporation tax rates are a poor guide to the size of tax burdens. The UK has a lower rate than most countries of 31 per cent of corporate profits. Sweden, with one of the heaviest corporate tax burdens, has an even lower rate of 28 per cent. The EU average is 36 per cent, and Germany has a high rate of 50 per cent (the average of the two separate rates for undistributed and distributed profits). The British tax rate is lower, but the UK has fewer tax-free allowances than Germany and other countries, and thus a wider tax base and a bigger tax burden.
When Nigel Lawson, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, changed the corporate tax system in his 1984 Budget, he slashed both capital allowances and tax rates. He may have made the system more efficient, but the UK has not had the same incentive as other countries to modernise its capital stock. Gordon Brown, the present Chancellor, has taken away much of the advantage of lower corporation tax rates by accelerating payments.
The effective tax rate on the income on business capital (including property but excluding social security taxes) corresponds more closely to the corporate tax burden. It is 45 per cent in the UK, far higher than the 31 per cent EU average, or the low 24 per cent rates in France and Germany, but not that much higher than the 40 per cent rate in Sweden and the US.
Government policy in the UK falls back on the false Thatcherite doctrine that a low total tax burden is good for enterprise and economic growth. If we exclude social security, Britain's tax burden is almost exactly the EU average of 30 per cent, and well above that of France, Germany and the US. If social security taxes are included, then Britain looks like the lowest taxed country in Europe, apart from Ireland and Spain, with a burden of 36 per cent. Yet private social security provision must be added in, otherwise differences in tax burden become due mainly to differences in the public-private mix of social provision.
The UK's total burden rises because employee and self-employed contributions to life insurance and pension funds are a high 8.4 per cent of GDP, well ahead of France, where they are 5.7 per cent of GDP, and Germany, where they are only 2 per cent. Not all such contributions are used to finance retirement, but it is an advantage to be able to use long-term savings before normal retirement age. Nor do all savings go into long-term forms, and the boundaries between different kinds of personal saving vary widely across countries.
Arguments about the tax burden are in any case beside the point. There is a clear positive correlation in the EU between the total tax burden (including public but not private social security) and the standard of living as measured by GDP per head. The UK, with a low tax burden, has a relatively low standard of living. Denmark, with the highest tax burden, has the highest standard of living. Is it any wonder that so few Danes leave Denmark because of high taxes?
High taxes do not cause a low standard of living. A high standard of living enables a country to levy high taxes, and to finance high public expenditure. Taxation is progressive, rising with income, across countries as well as within them.
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SALISBURY, N.C. - Officials at Catawba College in Salisbury closed more than half its dormitory buildings Wednesday so exterminators could deal with a growing problem of bedbugs.
Students living in Abernethy Village, on the west end of the school's campus, were told to leave their dormitory rooms and take all their clothing and bedding to be washed. About 120 of the school's 1,000 students were affected.
Meanwhile, officials at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem announced stepped-up efforts to deal with bed bugs, which are becoming a major problems across the United States.
At Catawba, school officials said they received a few complaints last week and increased pest management control efforts. But, they said, the problem grew rapidly this week.
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Dec 12 – Jim welcomes Peter Boockvar, Managing Director and Chief Market Analyst at The Lindsey Group LLC. Peter and Jim focus their discussion on market valuations. Peter sees nearly all asset prices as overvalued, with the bond market the most extreme case. Peter believes that we are in the final act of the central bankers ability to maintain high levels of asset prices.
Dec 11 – Jim welcomes back Joseph Dancy, manager of the LSGI Technology Venture Fund LP, and a professor of oil & gas law at Southern Methodist University. Joe and Jim discuss the 40+% decline in the crude oil markets over the last five months, and why it took most analysts and investors by surprise.
Dec 10 – In part-two of Cris Sheridan's interview with Matthew Kerkhoff of the Dow Theory Letters, Matthew explains why the commercial banking system has a much more profound effect on the prices of goods and services than central banking policy.
Dec 9 – Cris Sheridan welcomes Matthew Kerkhoff, Director of Research at Dow Theory Letters. Matthew believes that very few people have taken the time to understand how QE actually works. Most people believe the Fed is printing money and this would directly result in higher inflation, or even hyperinflation.
Dec 8 – This week Jim and John cover the topic of early retirement, and offer strategies to make it work for the long term. Early retirement can be a voluntary decision, or in the case of a job lay-off, non-voluntary. Jim discusses critical age thresholds for IRA's and Social Security benefits.
Dec 6 – In Jim's first Big Picture topic, he explores what has changed since July, when the price of WTI crude was $107 a barrel and is now selling in the $66 range. Has the world changed that much in five months? Jim looks at global economic growth rates, as well as the global supply of oil. He also discusses the critical topic of a shifting power structure in energy.
Dec 6 – Jim welcomes back Richard Dickson, Chief Market Analyst at Lowry Research. Richard notes that the current market has a number of risk-on and risk-off equities all doing well. He mentions that the October downturn came close to hitting a technical sell signal, but it never happened and the market recovered.
Dec 5 – Jim welcomes back Brian Pretti CFA, Managing Editor of ContraryInvestor.com. Brian and Jim cover a range of macroeconomic topics including the recent weakness in the price of oil. They discuss the benefits to the consumer of cheaper gasoline versus the threat to the domestic energy industry, and it's great run of creating well-paying jobs over the last five years.
Dec 4 – Jim is pleased to welcome Keith Barron PhD, an exploration geologist who co-founded Aurelian Resources in Ecuador in 2001 and ultimately discovered the colossal Fruta del Norte gold deposit in 2006. Keith and Jim cover the gold industry, how it has changed, and why so many mining companies have struggled to survive.
Dec 3 – Cris Sheridan welcomes Baijnath Ramraika CFA. Corporate profit margins are at all-time highs and have remained at such levels for far longer than normal. Many say this is unsustainable and have predicted a sudden crash to occur over the past couple years, only to be proven wrong.


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Saturday 27 December 2003
Meanings of Christmas: A Christmas card from St John through which the light can shine
Suppose we had no shepherds or angels, no manger, wise men or star - what then would we draw on our greetings cards?
What would our Christmas cards look like if we knew about Jesus only from the Gospel of John? Without Luke's shepherds or Matthew's wise men, without the angels or the manger or the star? Today, on the third day of Christmas, the Church celebrates St John the Evangelist, as if to focus our minds on his distinctive presentation of the festival; yet John tells us nothing of the actual birth of Christ. Instead, he gives us his great prologue, familiar to many as the final lesson in the traditional carol service, or as the gospel for Christmas Day: "In the beginning was the Word . . ." John does not describe the events; he gives us their meaning.
"The Word became flesh" (John 1.14): here, in one short phrase, is St John's answer to the question, "What is Christmas about?" He means every word of that phrase. "The Word became flesh": Jesus of Nazareth was a human being in every sense. He chucked pebbles into streams and savoured the smell of new-baked bread; he felt his heart lift when he greeted his friends, and he ached with every bruise of his battered body as he staggered under the heavy beam of the cross. Some of John's contemporaries solved the puzzle of Jesus by seeing him as a demi-god, who merely appeared to be human (and in some versions of the story cut when the going got rough). St John has no time for such nonsense: his Jesus knew our life from the inside, laughing and weeping with those whom he loved.
"The Word became flesh". The Word of God is God's self-expression, God's way of communicating himself. But what does that mean? The ancient temptation was to make Jesus super-human; our own is to make God less than God. Modern Christianity has a tendency to make it all too cosy, as if God is everyone's favourite uncle. We do well to be reminded by the Muslims, with their powerful sense of God's majesty, and by those Jews who avoid even speaking the divine name: God is not another person in the universe, merely more loving and more powerful than we are; God is the source of the universe itself, and of everything within it. The more that science discovers, the more we realise that we cannot begin to grasp even a fraction of our vast and wonderful cosmos. Still less can we grasp its Creator: the maker and sustainer of a million galaxies and of every feather on a finch's wing. That is the God to whom the Word gives expression; for it is the only God that there can be. That is the God - nothing smaller, nothing cosier, nothing more manageable - whose Word became flesh.
"The Word became flesh." We cannot defuse the paradox by redefining man or by diminishing God. But nor can we weaken "became". In the early church, theologians who disliked paradox tried to do just this. Some interpreted "became" as "had a close link with", as if Jesus were just a man inspired by God. Others took "became" to mean "mixed with", as if he were a sort of mongrel, a compound of human and divine, but not truly either. Mainstream Christians insisted that "became" meant "became": the Word of God, without ceasing to be what it was, began also to be a human being. Consequently, it became possible for us to see the unseeable and to know the unknowable. As Jesus said to his disciple Philip, "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father" (John 14.9).
"The Word became flesh." If God were just another thing in the universe, this would make no sense. For then, "divine" and "human" would relate to each other in the way that two colours do: if you have more of one, you have less of the other; when I add more blue to the green paint, it becomes less yellow. But God is not within the universe: he is its source. The presence of God, therefore, is not in competition with the presence of the things that he creates. That is why God can become human without diminishing his divinity, and why human beings, when they become more like him, can become more, not less, fully human. Jesus showed us what God is like precisely by living human life in as fully human a way as is possible. He showed us that we too can reveal God to one another through our ordinary human lives: "No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us" (I John 4.12).
This is what Christmas means for St John: that the One God and Creator, the source and the destination of everything that there is, who reveals himself through his creation, has communicated himself to us in a definitive way in the human person of Jesus of Nazareth. If St John were to design a Christmas card, he might put anything on it: shepherds or salesmen, stars or shellfish, magi or mechanics - any of these could reflect the presence of God in creation. Most likely, he would draw us the man Jesus, going about his ordinary business. However, John's cards would not be opaque, but translucent, like stained glass. For that would allow the light, like the glory of God, to shine through the world that God has made.
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Anibal Sanchez is no sidekick
No. 3 starter no-hits Red Sox through six as Tigers take Game 1
BOSTON -- Anibal Sanchez's fellow Detroit Tigers are quick to point out that he's no mere sidekick to the Justin Verlander-Max Scherzer top-of-the-rotation juggernaut. He's a true craftsman with natural movement on his pitches and the ability to do special things on any given day.
The Tigers know pitching, and they're not paying Sanchez $80 million over five years because he has a mellifluous-sounding name.
"Without a doubt, he has No. 1 stuff,'' Detroit catcher Alex Avila said. "At times it's some of the nastiest stuff on the team, and today was definitely one of those nights for him. His ball had so much action on it, I don't think even he knew where it was going sometimes.''
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Prognosticators who picked the Tigers to advance to the World Series for the second straight year generally did so because of their dominant starting pitching, and a performance like the one Sanchez recorded in Game 1 makes Jim Leyland's team look downright scary. The Oakland A's gave Detroit a major scare in the Division Series by holding their own against Sanchez and Doug Fister, only to fall victim to the Verlander-Scherzer combo.
The Red Sox's approach against the Tigers -- against everyone, really -- is to exercise patience at the plate, foul off pitches ad nauseam, drive starters from the game by the fifth, sixth or seventh and then beat up on defenseless middle relievers. That collective team mindset helped Boston lead the majors with 853 runs, 363 doubles and a .795 OPS this season.
The danger of working deep counts is that some opposing staffs are more adept than others at sealing the deal. The Detroit staff led the majors with 1,428 strikeouts during the regular season. The Boston offense finished with 1,308 strikeouts, eighth-highest total in the game. If the Red Sox don't take a more aggressive approach and try to put the ball in play more quickly in Games 2 and 3 against Scher-lander, they run the risk of spending a lot of time lugging the lumber back to the dugout.
Sanchez, admittedly, had some extra motivation in this start. He broke into pro ball with the Red Sox organization as a 16-year-old free agent out of his native Venezuela in 2001. He pitched on the same Double-A Portland Sea Dogs team in 2005 with Jon Lester, his ALCS Game 1 opponent, before the Red Sox packed him off to Florida with a young shortstop named Hanley Ramirez in a deal for Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell.
Sanchez led the American League with a 2.57 ERA this season, but he was coming off one of his least impressive outings of the season. In a 6-3 loss to Oakland in the Division Series, he lacked his usual fastball command and the bite on his secondary pitches and allowed three home runs. The beating prompted him to tinker with his mechanics in a side session -- a risky proposition this late in the season.
"You have to do that, no matter what part of the season you're in,'' Sanchez said. "But it's not easy when you make changes between starts.''
The Boston hitters grew increasingly more frustrated and testy as the game progressed. David Ortiz showed his exasperation after two straight attempted check swings went against him in the first inning. Jacoby Ellsbury and Shane Victorino also appeared none too thrilled with home plate umpire Joe West and the Game 1 crew.
Sanchez played with the Boston hitters' heads by going against the scouting report on several occasions.
"One of the things that makes him so good is that he's very unpredictable,'' Avila said. "He throws stuff in counts where hitters normally wouldn't see it to keep them off-balance. He has the type of command where he can do that. There were at-bats tonight where I don't think they were thinking about 2-1 sliders with two guys on base or 3-1 changeups. It makes it a little tougher on a hitter.''
Leyland made a pivotal decision to let Sanchez pitch to Stephen Drew with the bases loaded in the sixth inning, because he didn't want to bring in lefty reliever Drew Smyly and have Boston manager John Farrell counter with Jonny Gomes. Sanchez summoned everything he had left in the tank. He punched out Drew for his 12th and final strikeout of the evening, and pumped his fist in triumph on his way off the mound.
On a strange night at Fenway, the Tigers actually wondered about the etiquette of the thing: If Benoit had sealed the deal and allowed the Tigers to join the 1956 New York Yankees (Don Larsen) and the 2010 Philadelphia Phillies (Roy Halladay) as the third team to record a postseason no-hitter, how exuberantly should they respond?
"Obviously, you can't say this in the heat of the game because you would be mentioning the no-hitter in a way, but I was thinking, 'If we do no-hit these guys, do we even go out on the field to celebrate?''' Verlander said. "I don't think that's right. I think we win the baseball game, we go out there and slap hands and come back in. That sounds crazy. Yeah, no-hitters are great in the regular season and they're exciting for you and us as well, but there are much bigger things going on here.''
Finally, consider this: On Saturday afternoon, Michael Wacha and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 1-0 to go up two games to none in the National League Championship Series. And Saturday night, in a game that took a hair under four hours to complete, the Tigers matched that achievement.
"One-zip -- that's crazy,'' Tigers outfielder Torii Hunter said. "That's a playoff game. I've been to seven postseasons now, and pitching and defense always win games. Offense ain't nothing.''
Sanchez, just a garden-variety ERA champion, made that readily apparent in Game 1. Now the Tigers are hoping that Scherzer and Verlander can follow his lead. Who could have envisioned that?
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Rangers best Flyers in Winter Classic warm-up
Dec 23, 2011, 10:33 PM EST
The New York Rangers came to play in what Ryan Callahan called a "playoff atmosphere," but the Philadelphia Flyers seemed to show up late on Friday night. The Rangers took the 4-2 win in the two teams' last match before the 2012 Winter Classic on Jan. 2.
The Rangers built a 3-0 lead that included a beauty of a goal by Marian Gaborik. Gaborik seemed to favor his shoulder following a tumble into the boards after what would eventually become the game-winning tally, but there's no word that the fragile forward is in any trouble. That's Gabby's 21st goal of the season, placing him in an early lead for the Maurice Richard Trophy.
The Flyers couldn't solve Henrik Lundqvist (28 saves) until Andrej Meszaros found the net on the power play 10:21 into the third period. Jaromir Jagr heard some boos in his first game back at Madison Square Garden, but the veteran said that MSG fans were nowhere near as … inhospitable as Pittsburgh Penguins fans.
That win places the Rangers at the top of the Atlantic Division as they're at 21 wins and 46 points with a game in hand on the Flyers:
The 2012 Winter Classic already comes with the added bonus of a natural rivalry, but judging from the current standings, there will be plenty on the line. Hopefully Philly will be focused all game long then or we could be in for another one-sided contest, though.
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- jkay1818 - Dec 24, 2011 at 12:36 AM
Based on their current play, speed and how physical they are and add the awesome goaltending, a Rangers vs Bruins playoff series would be a real treat. NYR are playing without 4 of their top 6 defensemen, should get interesting as the year progresses.
- hanktheking - Dec 24, 2011 at 11:04 AM
You never have nice things to say about Gabby. Dude is playing very well this season, going to the net getting garbage just as much as he is scoring "beautiful" goals. Go Rangers!
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This saturday, Aug. 7, will be the last day Parthenios Luncheonette, 132 N. Church St., will be open, said John Parthenios. John and his brother Jim have operated the restaurant since 1968. When asked why he was closing, John said: "Because enough is enough. How long am I supposed to go? I'm 73 years old!" Jim has been in St. Anthony's Hospital for three months with a variety of health problems. The Parthenois brothers began their restaurant careers in Beloit in 1962 with the State Café, Coney Island and Park Avenue Doughnut Shop. They also owned the Redwood Restaurant at 307 S. Main St. (now Sammy's) from 1968 to 1995. They owned Johnson's Restaurant, 312 W. State St., from 1969 to 1973. John said the Church Street business is for sale: "If they have brains, they can come here and make money. It is an excellent location. Call (815) 229-1984 if you are interested."


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A contract with a base bid of more than $71 million was awarded Monday by the Oklahoma Transportation Commission, the largest construction agreement in its history. Work on the project that involves the reconstruction of two interchanges along Interstate 35 in Norman is expected to begin in early 2015.
Oklahoma Department of Transportation Director Mike Patterson praised the five-year County Improvement for Roads and Bridges (CIRB) construction work plan Monday during a Transportation Commission meeting.
The CIRB plan, which was effectively created through the passage of House Bill 1176 in 2006, allows for county officials to suggest road and bridge projects to engineers, and ultimately the state, for completion. The plan will include structurally deficient county bridges.
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is unveiling plans to widen a 3-mile stretch of Oklahoma Highway 9 east of Norman.
State highway officials say there have been at least 136 wrecks on a 2-mile stretch of the highway over the past 10 years. The transportation department unveiled plans to widen the highway from two to four lanes at a public meeting Tuesday at the Little Axe Community Center.
The Oklahoma Transportation Commission unanimously approved the Department of Transportation's new eight-year plan Monday.
ODOT Director Mike Patterson said the plan, which covers federal fiscal years 2015 to 2022, includes 1,947 total projects with a cost of $6.3 billion.
The latest eight-year plan, Patterson said, accelerates some projects and delays others based on anticipated funding and need.
Gov. Mary Fallin announced Wednesday she's asking for federal aid for businesses in Purcell and Lexington affected by the closure of a state bridge that connects the two communities.
In a statement, Fallin said she's requesting an economic injury declaration from the U.S. Small Business Administration. That allows McClain and Cleveland county businesses to apply for federally subsidized loans.
Fallin declared a state of emergency two months ago that allowed state reimbursements of up to $100,000 for each of the cities and the two counties.
The Oklahoma Transportation Commission is set to meet and plans to discuss proposed state funding changes that have been passed by a state Senate committee.
The Senate Appropriations Committee last week voted 20-3 for a bill that would divert hundreds of millions of dollars in state revenue from transportation directly to public schools in Oklahoma during the next several years.
The bill now goes to the full Senate.
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation says a damaged bridge in Cleveland County will likely remain closed for several months, creating commuting nightmares for residents of Purcell and Lexington.
The James C. Nance bridge over the Canadian River connecting Lexington to Purcell was closed last week after the discovery of several cracks in the truss beams.
Department officials told the Oklahoma Transportation Commission this week that the repairs could take several months.
The closure isn't welcome news to many residents of Purcell and Lexington.
Officials have restricted the weight limit on a bridge in Cleveland County after discovering significant damage to the span.
A spokesman for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation says damage was discovered during an inspection Monday to the James C. Nance bridge over the Canadian River connecting Lexington to Purcell. The Norman Transcript reports that the weight limit was initially dropped to five tons, but officials increased it to 16 tons on Tuesday.
Oklahoma Department of Transportation officials said Monday they will set aside plans created over the holiday break about how to handle projects or lettings in 2014, after the mid-December budget deal approved by Congress generated some funds for states.
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ODOT Director Mike Patterson said in November that the agency is going be more conservative in issuing new projects because of these uncertainties in federal funding.


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Eastern National Bank regained profitability in the first quarter, but just barely.
The Miami-based bank, which is owned by the government of Venezuela, earned $61,000 in the first quarter, improved from a loss of $7.52 million in the fourth quarter. The improvement came because the bank suffered fewer tax charges and fewer expenses from problem loans.
Eastern National Bank's net interest income improved slightly, to $3.2 million. After taking a $1.8 million expense in the fourth quarter to reserve for future loan losses, the bank recovered $180,000 from its loan loss reserves in the first quarter. That recovery made the difference between profit and a loss for the bank.
Even though it reduced its reserve for loan losses, Eastern National Bank reported more problem assets in the first quarter. The bank had $14.3 million in noncurrent loans, or 4.52 percent of its total loans, and $9.8 million in repossessed property on March 31. That's up from $13.4 million in noncurrent loans, or 4.1 percent, and $9.4 million in repossessed property on Dec. 31.
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Monday morning misery for commuters after cable theft
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Rail travellers on busy commuter routes suffered delays today because of a fresh incident of cable theft.
Services to and from London's Liverpool Street station were hit after overhead cables were targeted by thieves near Cheshunt in Hertfordshire.
Network Rail engineers were working to repair the damage.
The incident is the latest in a series of thefts which have caused huge disruption to rail services in many parts of the country over the past year.
British Transport Police and rail companies have launched campaigns to warn of the dangers of stealing cable from railway lines, but crimes continue to be committed.
There were also difficulties for travellers on the Underground's Metropolitan line during the morning rush-hour.
A signal problem at Baker Street led to a part-suspension of the line between Wembley Park and Aldgate for a time and there were long delays on other parts of the line.
There were also minor delays on the Tube's Victoria line due to a faulty train at Stockwell in south London.
British Transport Police said the incident was reported at 5.15am today by a passing train driver who noticed a fire by the side of the line.
Officers attended the scene, with London firefighters and engineers from Network Rail, and discovered around 1,200 metres of copper cable had been stolen.
A British Transport Police spokesman said: "There is a common assumption that cable theft is a victimless crime, with the only effects being felt by the railway industry. This is not the case.
"Theft of cable can, and does, cause significant delays and cancellations to the rail industry - as well as costing the industry millions of pounds each year.
"What thieves don't realise is that they're attempting to steal cable, sometimes live, carrying up to 25,000 volts. Not only are they risking a court appearance, they're also risking their lives."
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