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Oak Forest resident Ben Dumblauskas, 9, (right) watches as Dave Munch, with DuPage Rivers Fly Tyers, demonstrates how to make a fishing fly during the 20th Annual Tinley Park Fishing & Outdoor Show at Tinley Park High School Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, at 6111 W. 175th St. in Tinley Park. | Matthew Grotto~Sun-Times Media
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The Tinley Park Fishing Show lured in nearly 8,000 people to Tinley Park High School this weekend.
The show, in it's 20th year, featured about 200 exhibitors and vendors from throughout the country selling and displaying all things fishing and outdoor accompaniments.
The show benefits not only the most loyal fisherman, but also various high school programs.
Rich Komar, show manager, has been involved with the fishing show since the beginning.
"We needed to raise money for the football team, and we started this fishing show, and now 20 years later, it encompasses almost every program in this school," Komar said.
First-year visitor Tom McGrath, of Frankfort, has been fishing since he was a kid and was excited to come check out the goods.
"I'm checking out the new tackle, looking for lures, fishing poles and such," McGrath said. "I want to check out the boats. I saw the boats when I first walked in. They're amazing."
Wayne Fee, of Midlothian, has been coming the past 10 years.
"I'm just trying to pick up what I can find if it's a good deal on it," Fee said. "I'm buying a reel here in a moment."
Fee said the best part about the show is that everything is accessible.
"I get pretty good deals, and that's part of the reason I come here mostly. And you see a lot of stuff in one area so you don't have to go to a lot of different stores," he said.
The hot items this year? Bait and lures.
And luckily for Ken Postema from Reel Feel Baits in Lowell, Mich., he was able to sell, sell and sell.
"This is our first year. We were on a waiting list last year, and we're already signed up for next year," Postema said.
Brad Wilkins, co-owner of Crabby Bass Lures in Romeoville, also is a first-year vendor who specializes in soft plastic custom-made lures.
Their biggest selling item for the weekend?
"So far the fat whackers and hellgrammites," Wilkins said.
And for those who don't know …
"Fat whacker is a 4¾-inch stick bait and the hellgrammites is a 2-inch long feature bait that's specific to rivers that you find a lot on the DuPage and Des Plaines and the Fox River that are all local to this area," Wilkins said.
Jim Maher, of Beverly, came to the show looking for "some outdoor stuff."
"I'm looking to book a fishing trip for the summer," Maher said. "I'm going to see what they have, and I might get all my supplies. I'm looking for a new fishing rod and a new lure, the whole sha-bang."
Kevin Anderson, of Tinley Park, is looking to buy a new bait-casting reel.
"I recently got a nice bait casting rod and not a reel, so this a big upgrade for me," Anderson said. "It's just that time."
"The show gets me excited for fishing season, I can't wait to get out there," he said.
Same goes for Mary and Al Scepurek, of Clarendon Hills. The Scepureks have been fishing together since 1956 and have attended the show almost every year.
"We're just looking for some more fishing equipment. I love fishing," Mary said. "I love to fish for crappie, usually in Minnesota."
But mostly, Mary is looking forward to the start of fishing season.
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WHAT???? you can't be meeting with Karen, Doris, Karen is not feeling too well, and cannot meet you....she called me up....
What is an immersion blender, do you keep it under water? never heard of it.
Hiya Joanie... my tomatoes are just turning color.... shessshh.. had a hard time with basil this year... they go to school early here also, it was against my religion to go before labour day....that is when summer ended...
Joanie, we start early because we have missed so much school with severe winter weather. They have extended days and then forgiven additional days, so this is to try and head that off. Seems early to me too. G is ready to go back! We see our last summer movie festival tomorrow. He has really enjoyed those.
How can I dry some basil. Was at the library yesterday and they said there was a basil plant out back that some project had planted and they can't get rid of it all. It was huge. So I broke off a bunch of branches - - now what do I do with them? I washed them and they are hanging upside down like I used to do mint. Is that right?
Could she have a hot spot? Those will drive an animal nuts.
You never can tell ... she's got a look in her eye.
Beautiful little girl, Carol.
Yea - what's a hot spot. I thought it was the joint down the road a bit.
Evening. Decent day at work but I'm exhausted today and not sure why. Tomorrow will be a big day because of the staff meeting in the am. Had meetings with the boss and others today and still so far so good. She does want and expect accountability, which I do also but haven't had the ability to follow up with it. Now that the help is here I should be able to do what I've wanted to do all along most of the time. She does still sound like a bad a.. periodically but we'll see how much is bark and how much is bite.
Karen glad you father is doing better. How long do they think he'll stay in the hospital? I anticipate rehab is going to the major thing. Hope he doesn't try to get out of bed. They now have "alarms" when they try to get out. Glad your sis is going to his bills on line now. Hopefully he'll let her keep doing it after he gets back. I'm hoping this will stop all the quacks from hitting him up for money.
Carol, doesn't Belle like to be brushed? Fion loves it. I bet once you get her used to it she'll love it too! Never heard of a cat "hot spot" either! Wonder if you can get a flea collar for her too.
Sorry Doris I know nothing about drying basil. That's Rags and Virginia's area of expertise.
Dee my gkds start school tomorrow. They had their class meetings last night and tonight I believe. But they get out mid May too and obviously don't get too many snow days. Whole other schedule you'll be getting into. How are the dresses coming?
Rags glad you are back safe and sound. Hope the doctor appointment went okay today. Hope whatever they do it makes you feel better. Hope you had a good time up the river.
Nat, hope PT will help Paul and he will do what they say. The hard part is keeping up after the therapy is over.
Well I don't remember what was on the first page so I'm just going to say good night and I'll be back tomorrow. Have a great day!
Carol, have you tried Revolution instead of Frontline? I have used it on Misty since we got her in 2006. It works great, and you just squeeze the tube onto the back of her neck ( under the fur). Once a month is all you need, and it works for fleas, ticks and worms.
Good morning,
Doris, I freeze basil in ice cube trays and then transfer to plastic bags. We also freeze just the basil. Check out the site above. Or you could make a basil infused olive oil. Check out site below.
Everyone have the best day you can. Back later.
Ahhhh good morning...AIWWTW.... love it.
A friend of mine grows bay leaves, it is nothing like the dry ones you buy in the store, absolutely beautiful, and the smell...wow. this is what she told me to do with them, wash the out, then put them on paper towels, to dry completely, when they are dry, put them on a paper plate, (ddo not overlap them), and put them in the freezer, when they are frozen (singularly), put them in a plastic bag, get as much air out of the bag, and keep them in the freezer, use as necessary. I have tried this method with the basil, and it works. basil leaves are softer, so it takes a little longer time to dry them, but the same process. I have also tried Sharona;s ice cube freezing them.
Joanie, I tried Revolution with Laska, and I thought she was going to die, she went into convulsions, and her legs just collapsed, she had to spend an overnight at the vet. this was over a year ago. The vet said this can happen, but very, very rare....but it happen to us...I do the frontline and heartworm separately....
hope everyone has a good day.
Sharona, just read the blanching of the basil.... sounds great, gonna try it.
Good morning ladies,
My dad is trying to pull out his IV and leave the hospital. They have put up the rails and his is right by the nurses' station so that they can keep an eye on him. I can't believe that he is doing this with all the pain that he is in. Dr. and case worker wants him moved to another facility. I guess you can only stay so many days there before they move you to another place. My sis and her husband are going down this Thurs. to check some of them out. My DH, DS, sis and I will be leaving early Wed. We were going to leave on Mon but sis wants to sleep in a bed and Ca sis' DH will be leaving Wed to go back to look after his sick dad. Sis here can be a complainer. I just hope that we don't have trouble with her.
I will be officially finished with my PT this Friday. They told me that I have done so well that I will not need to come back and make up that last week. One of my therapist will be giving me more exercises to do at home. I can now wear a sandal on my left foot and can touch my foot and leg without having pain. It is amazing what they have done for me to be able to wear a shoe again. The compression sock keeps my foot from swelling. PT had me to go without the compression sock and wear my sandal. My foot did swell. I had to put the sock back on. I only had a little pain afterwards.
I go see Dr. Criste today. I will tell him that I am not interested at this time in a transmitter for pain. I will show him that I am able to walk and can wear a sandal with the compression sock. I hope to get released from him. One more dr to go!
Dee my sis will take care of the bills while he is in the hospital. I don't think he will let her take care of them when he gets home. The nurse says that he has been trying to leave the hospital everyday. He slept last night to the relief of his nurse. You are a movie buff!
Rags my dad is more feisty than me! Hope you have good news from your dr.
Diva D while we are in N.O. we hope to get rid of a lot of his subscriptions or other things that he thinks are free but he is paying for. He get a ton of mail each day. I bet that is why he wants to get back home. See you at 11: 30. I have a dr appt before. I hope to be on time if he doesn't keep me too long. We didn't get rain.
Joanie I hope the facility that my dad goes to keeps and eye on him or he will be trying to get out of there everyday and might succeed! The hospital is doing a wonderful job at keeping him in his bed. I just hope that he gets the same care at the next place.
Diva N we will be talking about you the most! Your ears will be burning!! Our schools start around the 17th of this month. They go early because of the snow days. They make up 5 days of snow days and after that they don't have to make up any more.
Carol do you think that Belle might be allergic to the Frontline or maybe you should use less. I think a pest bomb will be more effective at getting rid of fleas. Yes it is a stick blender.
Laureen the hospital is wanting my dad moved to another health care facility. I don't know how long he will at the hospital. Sis will see about it. No way will he let her keep paying his bills unless he is unable to live in his house. If he is put in an extended home care he might try to leave and harm himself in trying. Glad your work days are not like before. Hope you get to do what you were wanting to be doing again.
Sharon are the outlaws behaving themselves after the stir up? I heard of freezing the basil too.
Have a good one,
Hi! Remember me??? Sorry for the long quiet spell.
We had a great trip to the Branson area. American Idol was in Branson for tryouts and it was fun to see their bus and driver, however, I would have liked it more if Keith Urban or Harry Connick Jr. would have poked their head out of the bus!!! LOL I don't think they were even there, just producers of the show for some preliminary tryouts.
Roofers completed their job on my Mom's house yesterday, and she is exhausted. She was constantly looking out the windows to see what was going on or actually going outside to check on them. Her neighbor (also 92) told her they left a box on the garage roof. She went outside to give them the info and they politely told her they weren't finished yet but when they were they would pick everything up!! LOL
I had a tooth pulled and will go back in another week to have a tooth added to my partial. Thankfully, he will get it fixed so I will only be without my partial for the day. Hibernation day for me!! He is retiring October 1st so I have to find a new dentist for us. Really like this dentist and have went to him since in my 30's. I hate change!!
Then I had another bout with a UTI last week. 3 days of antibiotics cleared it up. Last one I had was the day after Christmas.
I am not surprised but it is starting to happen - drama between my SIL and two nephews. Not much love between them, and now the fireworks are starting. I plan to stay neutral.....and hopefully my Mom will do the same........
Hopefully tomorrow we will head to Chicago to my son's work and watch him in action and then have lunch with him, do a little shopping until he is off work, and then drive out of the city with him to our car at the train station. Then on to his house to visit with GD's and DIL. We will see what the weather is tomorrow morning and our "mood".
We went to an Aerosmith concert with our DIL and son-in-law. It was fun but I wasn't too happy when all the people around us stood for the whole concert. I am not a stander and I pay for a SEAT!! The music was great and I would stand to "see" them and then sit down and listen!!
Also this month we have had computer and phone land line problems not once but 3 times. It was out over the weekend each time. The company gave us a $10 discount for the no service time. Doesn't seem like just compensation for the time we had no service, but it is challenging to try to win with those big companies!! It did prove to me that maybe we can live without a landline, but not a computer!!
Happy Birthday to the ones that had a birthday while I was MIA.
Karen I see some progress in your health. Keep up the good work. I pray for your Dad and his recovery. Be thankful you have 2 sisters to help with your Dad.
Marlene thinking of you and praying for speedy healing.
Dee you have so much fun with you GS. Enjoy your posts about your activities.
Hello to others I haven't mentioned. I enjoy reading each one of your comments.
Until next time, Susan
Karen, Doris just called me.....she can't make it for lunch.
Welcome back Susan. don't think I could do without a landline....some how a landline is like "home"....
I know, I know!!! I know what a "hot spot" on a pet is......I had a dog proned to getting them if I didn't keep his undercoat of fur combed out (esp on the heat of Texas). Front line should take care of the fleas but it take time. Wonder if Belle got exposed to some fleas when she was visiting with the dogs?
Karen--have a safe trip and prayers for your dad to get well sooner and for the nurses keeping him from falling out of his bed.
I've always wanted to grow a bay tree. Did just start a ginger plant from a sprouted ginger root but then gave it to a friend.
Susan--keeping up with a very busy schedule I see. What better way to spend time than with family and concerts and travel,etc.
We just went to the Paramount Summer Classic Film series and saw The Philadephia Story and Casablanca. Two great films. I have always loved going the the Paramount Theater. It's one of those that is renovated with all the fancy trapping of the theaters in that day.
Today just finishing up odds and ends around the house to get ready for tomorrow. Ready to get this over with. Will go out for lunch with some friends today tho.
Lots more to get gone today so I will signed off. Have peaceful days.
OK, Now Marlene and Kim know what a hot spot is but they sure don't tell me! Is it just coincidence that they both live in the south???
Marlene, my thoughts and prayers are with you tomorrow - won't be much longer and you are as good as new! Have a great lunch and since you have that ahead of you, Karen & I will only say nice things about you. Now when it comes to a few others, the tables are turned. Watch out.
Best go get beautified before lunch. Yea sure. Sounds nicer than gotta go comb my hair.
Susan - you are living a busy life - keep it up.
What are hot spots on dogs and how can we detect them?A hotspot (also known as pyotramatic or moist dermatitis) is a condition which involves an area of skin which has become inflamed and infected. The affected skin often appears as a moist, oozing, reddened area that is painful and very itchy to the dog. Hair loss may also be seen. Continued licking and chewing at the area by the dog worsens the condition dramatically.
What causes hot spots and can they be prevented?Anything that causes itchiness of the skin can lead to the development of hot spots on dogs. Some common triggers are atopy (allergies to things in the environment such as grasses, trees, weeds, dust mites, etc), food allergies, fleas, mites, insect bites and skin wounds. A bacterial infection of the skin (typically caused by staph) develops by taking advantage of the damaged inflamed skin. The infection is often deep in the dog's skin and, in addition to the moist oozing appearance, an odor is often present.
Read more: http://www.cesarsway.com/skin-...ts-FAQ#ixzz39cpGWuLw
I am feeling fine, Carol. And, in my humble opinion, a root beer float, or as locals around here call it - a black cow, is always made with vanilla ice cream and root beer!! LOL
That is right! Marlene knew far better than I how to describe a hot spot. They are quite common in the deep south on cats and dogs. Their poor skin gets irritated by any little thing, then becomes inflamed, they lick at it and worry with it, and it becomes infected sometimes. Zoe gets them because she's a delicate thing (at 125 pounds), and has sensitive skin.Hah! That Belle is a character! That is too funny.
Natskie, our Skype picnic was awesome! We'll have to do that again, only this time, I'll give you the main course recipe and you give me the dessert one. That chicken in white wine and mushrooms was divine ... can't remember where you said you got it, but I love it and am going to fix it for family. It was so good to chat with you.
I will talk about lunch more later but as usual it was great. No, you did not have a picnic, you two!
Before I forget I want to give you information on a book I saw at the library
Doll Fashion Studio by Joan Hinds. It has 20 patterns for American Girl Doll Dresses/clothes with the patterns included. You would have to copy the patterns onto something else because they are printed on both sides of the paper. They look darling tho and great directions. I looked it up on Amazon and you can get it there for $17.?? which is pricey but there are lots of patterns included and the cost of patterns at the store is unbelievable.
Dee, I was thinking of you with this as you will have a girl coming up. I know Sharon did it herself but some of us aren't that talented!! Susan, do you sew enough?
Looking forward to hearing all about D&K's lunch date. Don't leave out any details!!
I tried sewing when my daughter was little. Made her a few outfits and even sewed a mother and daughter look alike dresses to wear to our church's Mother & Daughter banquet. But, I decided I really didn't like to sew.......I still have my machine in the basement. I did mend my husband's work jeans for years, but gave that up to. Holes, buy new???? ha ha Hasn't been opened in years. I bet it is "froze" up. Might be a good Craigs list item.......
Marlene, big hugs and prayers, you know we are all with you.
People have hot spots too... poor Belle...
Kimmie, that was a fabulous time, we should do that more often. I loved it.. The chicken with white wine, is a very old recipe, that I got from Daly Rhama... I usually do not give it out to too many people... I am so glad you enjoyed it....
Hmmm. did Doris say, gotta get beautiful for lunch????
Too bad Karen and the other one did not get together today....
Had a great chicken/strawberry/pecan salad that was scrumptious. Karen had a pastrami on rye with potato salad. That plus all the talking and drinking was loverly.
So there - ye ladies of little faith. And I use the term ladies loosely.
Guess your ears burned off, almost. We both decided that we need to be more like Marlene and her attitude and love of life. You are one great gal who has been through so much but keep coming on so upbeat.
We sure don't want to be like 2 people you should be able to figure out - who think you can share food over skype. Hey, they don't even know how to do that. Hey Nat, is that the voice of experience to say that people have hot spots too?
To all of you - Karen looked terrific and is going just great with the walking, etc. So, we don't have to worry about her anymore. Pretty soon we will stop worrying about Marlene and that sort of leaves Rags to worry about You gotta get well too, gal. Karen, meant to ask you how much weight you have lost. It sure shows.
Evening. Sounds like all is good in the world this evening! I wondered why my ears were hurting in the meeting I had with the big boss this afternoon. But I'm sure nothing negative was said about me!! That salad sounds good Doris!! Glad to hear Karen is walking good.
Karen sorry to hear Dad is trying to escape. I'm assuming he's still on pain medication and it may be confusing him some. Plus at his age people often get "sundowner's syndrome where they get confused once the sun goes down. They do not let people stay in the hospital very long at all. A week or 10 days is a rare thing. Once you are medically stable off to rehab you go or home! Glad to hear your sis is going down to check the places out. There are some really nice ones now and that's what you want so he will have some activities to participate in, in addition to the rehab. Hope he continues to improve physically so the mental status can follow.
Marlene, thoughts and prayers will be with you tomorrow. Know we are next to you in spirit as you go through this final surgery! Tomorrow will the first day of the rest of your life.
Welcome back Susan. You sure have been busy. How's your mom doing with the loss of her son? It is terrible how family reacts when someone dies. Everyone is hurting and it will take time to adapt especially your SIL.
My animals haven't had hot spots. Kiki is allergic to fleas and her lip swells up and we take her in for steroids etc. My son's beagle is allergic to environmental things and this summer has been bad for her. She's on benadryl. DS#2's dog is now on inhalers for her asthma and antihistamine because the pads of her paws break out and she chews on them. She didn't have the problem in MI. It started when they moved to KY. Must be something different in grasses or something.
Carol I love trying to figure out what the cats are thinking. Kiki and Fion have been getting along a bit better especially when it storms. We've caught her downstairs a couple of times and he hasn't chased her up the steps. They laid together at the top of the steps waiting for DH one night. Maybe they are happy BeeBee is not here! LOL!
Kids had their first day of school today. Talked to Elaina and it went fine. Poor Gavin got left at his school (they bus him to Elaina's school up a hill) because the bus got full. So he had to wait but didn't get too panicked. Elaina was more worried than he was per mom! LOL! Will talk to Gavin tomorrow. They are going to be early cause they have to get up about 5:30 to get ready to go to school cause Gavin's late at 7:45 and Elaina at 8 with long car lines driving the kids in. I don't miss those days!! LOL!
Well am heading to bed. Hopefully I won't sleep through the alarm tomorrow. On my own tomorrow cause my helpers aunt died at 103 years old and she's going to the funeral.
Have a great day and I'll be back tomorrow.
Good morning and good wishes to Marlene. May all the angels, fairies and aliens of wellness be with you.
Another hot day. My neighbour is working on his house this morning. I don't even care. They make so much noise in the night (vacation revellers) that they deserve some early morning noise from an honest labourer. He is working feverishly so he will have a house for his future wife to move into. He is almost 44 so keep working, neighbour.
SHH!! Just peeking in to say "good morning"!!!
what the hey Laureen??? ya can't be cutting in front of me.
Marlene, you are in our thoughts and prayers today. love ya
Doris, I did not like all the mean stuff you said about me....Kimmie, go get her. just because she did not meet up with Karen..(and where is the proof, if she did), does not give her the right to criticize our wonderful recipies on Skype.
I'd like to thank you, Carol, for posting Macarthur Park about the cake-in-the-rain the other day on Facebook. Now, it comes to visit my brain at least 10 times daily. You have ruined me. Now I like it!!
Getting ready for my Joslin appt. today. Nothing else on the agenda except a hair cut for Grant.
I really need to clean my house! I am looking forward to being back in my normal routing, it is so much easier to clean etc. when G is not here for the full day.
We have been on the go this summer so much of the time. He is spending the night tonight, the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie tomorrow, and then to school to see who his new teacher is going to be! Dee
Hi ladies,
Doris why did you let me forget to take a pic? Since I bought this new camera which I don't care for, I don't take pics like I use to. I really need to get a new camera.
Our lunch was lovely as usual. Diva D what was the name of your salad? What dressing did you choose? I meant to ask you since it looked so delicious! I had the pastrami on rye with potato salad. It was also delicious and so was the strawberry lemonade. It was to die for!!! We talked about all of you. I hope your ears were burning. We plan to do another lunch in Sept. I loved the menu at McAlister's!
I talked to my dad and he sounded alert and better. He told me he hurts and is coughing up blood. I will have to ask his nurse about that. Sis is on her way there. I hope she gets everything done before we get there. I know we will be cleaning and pitching when we get there.
My PT wanted me to go without my compression sock and wear my sandal. I did this on Tues. and had a little swelling by night. I put the compress sock back on and went to the dr then to have lunch with Diva D and went to the Dollar Tree. I didn't think I was going to make it out of there. I think I over did the walking. I came home and took the sock off and took a warm shower. It was so swollen around the ankle that I could hardly walk. I elevated it and left off the sock. I woke with just a little swelling around the ankle and put the compression sock on without any pain. I will tell PT that I can't go without the compression sock!
Susan you are one busy lady. Dee and you just go and go! Glad to hear that the roofers will clean up after themselves. Hope your mom doesn't climb up on the roof to check it out like my dad!
Diva N did you take a pic of your picnic? I do not believe you had a Skype picnic!!
Diva D I agree with you about Diva N and Kimmie not knowing how to Skype!!!
Marlene prayers for your successful surgery and speedy recovery!!
Carol I do not care for root beer floats. I hope Belle is feeling better and not scratching.
Laureen I over did the walking yesterday and paid for it!! I walked that whole store when I should have just gone in for my reading glasses and left!!! Good gracious your animals are allergic!
Sharon I am surprised that you don't go out to hammer with the neighbor!
Hey,give me some credit Kim. I know Carola likes this song but I was the poster. I love this version.
I am on a ravioli pasta mission and I think I found the right ingredient ratio. Today, I made salmon and ricotta filled raviolis. They don't look so great but tasted divine. The sauce was a béchamel made with vino.
Those look good to me, Sharon. Send them on over!
Karen, it was called Berry/Pecan Salad and it came with that dressing - I didn't specify any. It was scrumptious to say the least.
oh, now you two "forgot" to take pictures...ohm that is a good one.... and yes, Kimmie and I did Skype...
Sharona, that looks so good.


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22 mpg, long highway trip, summer, A/C on, 4 people, stuff and three bikes hanging on the back.
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May 6′s flash crash shook markets and made headlines around the world. Most importantly, it impacted the individual investor who trusted the stock exchanges and their pricing efficiency. But when Apple (AAPL) traded at nearly $100,000 a share when it should have been around $235, investors can't help but wonder whether the market is no longer safe.
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Today's trading environment combines a tremendous amount of fast computer trading and a large number of players (hedge funds, banks, mutual funds, high frequency trading firms). The speed at which these trades go through the system compounded by the number of trades can set the scene for the system to lose control. Regulators, in trying to protect investors, have implemented some circuit breakers, but the jury is out on whether these measures will prevent a flash crash from happening again.
The flash crash was not limited to individual stocks. ETFs (exchange-traded funds which hold these stocks) plunged. I am a proponent of ETFs because you can buy and sell them easily and they offer diversification, performance and low fees. But on May 6, many ETFs fell far below the value of their underlying stocks. There was a huge disconnect in pricing.
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Avoid investing during times when there is strong news that would cause the market to panic. Market volatility is a sign that there may be a significant difference in the bid and ask price (the price the seller is willing to sell the stock for and the price that a buyer is willing to pay).
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Democrat Brad Schneider ousts Rep. Dold in 10th Congressional District
BY DAN ROZEK AND TINA SFONDELES Staff Reporters November 6, 2012 9:48PM
Democratic candidate for U.S. Representative from the 10th district Brad Schneider works a phone bank in Grayslake, Illinois as he and volunteers campaign Sunday November 4, 2012. | Tom Cruze~Sun-Times
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In an upset, Democrat Brad Schneider narrowly slipped past U.S. Rep Bob Dold Tuesday, ousting the freshman congressman and giving the 10th District its first Democrat in decades.
Dold conceded just before 11 p.m. He lost by barely 2,400 votes out of more than 200,000 cast.
Dold, a moderate, was remapped into a Democratic-leaning, north suburban district. At one point Tuesday, he appeared to be heading toward re-election.
But as votes from the Lake County portion of the district came in, Schneider narrowly surged past him.
The remaining precincts, however, were in Cook County, closer to Dold's home turf in Kenilworth.
"This is a close race no matter how you look at it — and we always knew it was going to be a close race," said Dold spokesman John McGovern.
Their battle for the 10th Congressional District seat had been one of the most hotly contested — and costly — congressional races in the country.
Dold has stressed his moderate credentials and independence in striving to hold onto a district that has been represented by a Republican for 30 years.
But after a congressional remap controlled by Democrats, Dold's new district contains about 60 percent of its former area and has lost some traditionally GOP bastions along the North Shore.
But Dold raised nearly $3 million to help hold onto the district, even airing TV commercials noting he agreed with President Barack Obama on the need to avoid raising taxes on middle-class families. An analysis by Congressional Quarterly showed that in 2011, Dold voted in support of Obama more than any other Republican in the House.
Schneider, who raised more than $1.6 million and used former President Bill Clinton to make automated phone calls on his behalf, pounded Dold as a Tea Party sympathizer who voted against key Obama administration programs.
Those include voting to repeal the president's national healthcare plan, said Schneider, who has loudly backed the health-care changes.
Dold ridiculed claims that he is a Tea Party favorite, pointing to endorsements from organizations that include the Illinois Education Association and the National Education Association to show he's not a member of that hard-core GOP faction.
And Dold has used the term Affordable Care Act rather than "Obamacare," in referring to the health-care plan.
He has said he would like to see more compromise in the health plan, including not banning people from getting coverage if they have pre-existing conditions. He also has said he thinks it "makes sense" to keep children on their parents' health insurance plans until they're 26 — another component of the president's plan.
Dold has blasted Schneider, a Deerfield resident, for refusing to release his tax returns and for his lack of success as a businessman, citing documents that show his consulting business reported no revenues for several years.
Dold and his family have long run a suburban-based pest control business.
The 10th District they're battling to represent sprawls across parts of northern Cook County and Lake County, reaching from Lake Michigan on the east to Fox Lake on the west.
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Will Goggin family murder go unsolved?
"Who did this," asked Rocky Faulconer a friend of the Goggins.
That's the question on everyone's mind, but we may never know. Harper is off the hook. Leaving only one other person charged with the murders; Tracy Culton.
Prosecutors said she admitted to planning the Goggin burglary. Admitted being there the night Bill, Pauline and Bettye Goggin were beaten to death and admitted to stealing Bettye's jewelry then selling it for drug money. Prosecutors said she didn't admit to murder. Now, that will have to be proven in court.
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We dug up court documents that said Culton "intentionally assaulted William and/or Pauline Goggin".
"Is that enough to say she murdered them," Action News asked. "It said she intentionally assaulted them."
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However the prosecutors aren't talking. So, we continued to question the deputy. What happens if Tracy Culton isn't found guilty of the murders?
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Meaning the case would be closed.
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Giants fans, of course, are familiar with Henry Schulman who I once called our knight-in-shining-armor beat writer (true story- you can read that here). He writes the Giants beat for the San Francisco Chronicle and yesterday he very generously agreed to let me interrogate- I mean, interview- him, for this blog. A big round of applause for people who are good sports with us bloggers! You can read Henry's fabulous work at www.sfgate.com and follow him on Twitter @hankschulman. Without further ado…
So first of all, tell us the abbreviated story of your life- where you grew up, went to college and how you eventually ended up writing sports for the Chronicle.
Well, the Reader's Digest version is: I grew up in LA, went to Fairfax High School and then I went to Northridge for a couple years and then Cal. I kind of always wanted to be in some sort of journalism. I actually wanted to be a radio announcer when I was a kid, but then I got caught up in Watergate when I was in high school, like a lot of kids my age, and I decided I wanted to be the next Woodward or Bernstein. So I went to school, got a Political Science degree at Cal and actually started working as a news reporter. I didn't do sports initially. I worked for a bunch of little papers in the Central Valley and here in the Bay Area and then I got hired by the Oakland Tribune in '85 to do business- I was a financial writer. That's kind of where my career was heading, covering high tech, Silicon Valley sort of stuff. Then two years later the All Star Game was in Oakland and they knew I liked baseball at the Trib, so I went out and did the fan stories for the front page. Later that year, the Tribune had some financial troubles and eventually sold. They had buyouts and a lot of people on the staff left. One of them was a guy named Nick Peters, who was the Giants writer and he took a buyout and went to the Sacramento Bee. The sports editor knew I liked ball and we got along well when we were working together during the All Star Game in Oakland that summer so I told him I'd love to come work for him and he said, "How 'bout the Giants beat?" I said, "I'll give it a shot." So five seasons at the Oakland Tribune doing Giants baseball and then I lost my job when the Tribune got sold and went to the San Francisco Examiner for five years. The first three years I didn't cover baseball because no beat was open. Then in '96 the Giants writer left, he went up to Seattle, and my old boss, gave me the Giants job. I was there two years and then the Chronicle job came open and I jumped ship. I've been there ever since, since '98.
So then the pressing question would be, what team were you a fan of growing up?
The Dodgers. Yes, I was a Dodger fan. I grew up going to games with my dad- he sold Union 76 gas and they were a Dodgers sponsor, so he would always get free tickets for really good seats. When I was older, there was a bus I could take, just a block from my house and it went right up and down the hill from Dodger Stadium, so my friends and I would take that.
I know in one of your recent articles you said "don't ask me this question" but I feel the need to ignore that and ask anyway… do you think we might see Brian Wilson's beard disappear next year?
Well, first of all, did you see on Twitter today, the pictures of him with the beard?
Yeah, I did. (You can see the photo right here, y'all.)
I mean, I don't think he can because he makes too much money off of it. It's one of those things where guys often will shave because of superstition, if things are going bad. I've actually known his publicist forever and we're good friends and I told her, "Hey, why not do a charity thing where you have an auction and then you auction off the right to snip off his beard?" She thought it was a great idea. But I'd say no, for now.
Probably just wishful thinking on my part. Anyhow, on another topic… what is the best press box in the Major Leagues, judging by a criteria of view and food?
[Laughs.] Ours, really.
Yeah. Because we're low, we're very low, compared to other ones and the food that they have is very good.
What's the best food that they have?
So every stadium has a press dining room and [at Giants stadium] they just do a good job with it. It's a buffet and there are – Dylan's gonna jump all over this if he sees it! – two entrees, usually, but there's always a healthy option, a good salad bar and soup.
I'll just include the healthy option part.
That's usually what I go for, but there's fried chicken on Fridays and that's what I go for then. But the view is also really good. Houston was the best, because it not only had a good view, but it had a direct stairway from the press box to the clubhouse, which ours doesn't have. But they moved theirs, they decided to sell luxury boxes there, so they moved the press box upstairs.
Now speaking of the Dylan you mention above- that is Dylan Hernandez, for those who don't know- I think we all want to know, how did the Twitter war start? How did it all begin?
It's a good story. First of all, you should know that Dylan and I are really good friends and in fact, I taught him a lot about baseball writing and he would admit that if you asked him. He worked for the Merc [San Jose Mercury News] and he was doing baseball for them up here and he asked me a lot of questions. I talked him through a lot of stuff and he got a job at the LA Times. Whenever that started, not last year, but the year before, I think, he had just started his Twitter account and I already had a few thousand followers. So he just walked over to me on Opening Day in LA and he goes, "Hey, why don't you do me a favor and insult me on Twitter? Because if you insult me, your followers will follow me." So I just threw an insult at him and he came back to me later in the night and said, "Man! I just got forty followers! Insult me again!" So that's how it started. We started insulting each other and it just sort of got a life of its own. It's like a boulder rolling down a hill, getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
This may be a question you get a lot, but I'm always curious to ask real journalists, how do you feel Twitter has changed the playing field? What are the pros and the cons of the prevalence of social media?
It's completely changed my job. When I started in the business in the early 80s, it was really no different than how they did newspapers in the 20s and 30s. You spent the day gathering news and if you had a scoop, you just tried to keep it as secret as you could. You would do everything you could to make sure that nobody else found out, you'd keep it a dead secret, and then the first time anyone would hear about it would be when they picked up the paper the next morning and looked at it. Then blogging came along and that actually started the immediacy and then came Twitter. Nowadays, reporters judge scoops by seconds. The national guys like Jon Heyman [CBS] and Ken Rosenthal [FOX] and Jerry Crasnick [ESPN] literally have to have it two seconds before anybody else does. So there's no thought that goes unwritten. You don't hold on to anything. Unless you're just one hundred, thousand percent sure that you're the only person who knows something and then you just want to wait until you can get upstairs and write it in context. Tweeting has gotten so pervasive that actually this year new rules are going into place in the Major Leagues to limit reporters from tweeting inside the clubhouse and during press conferences.
The pros are that it's more of a direct way for athletes to interact with fans, because they can get their message across and it's easier for us to get our message across. As reporters, we get to be a little more intimate with our readers and that's a good thing. The bad thing is that it's all noise, there's so much noise out there. Especially, and this is just one example, in player acquisitions and free agency. There is so much crap that goes out- it's endless. 99% of that is pure… nothingness. It's lies, it's rumors, it's innuendo. Someone can just tweet something and all of a sudden I get a call from my boss saying, "Hey, what about this?" and I say, "There's nothing to it. This is how it got started." And the reader or the casual fan really has no idea what's true and what's not true. So part of the role of the reporter is to be the sifter. I don't know if you bake, but you know how you sift flour?
Yeah, definitely, I bake. [Editor's Note: Ryan Braun-themed cupcakes, mostly.]
So all the crud stays on the top, the stuff you're not going to use and then the real stuff comes out at the bottom. So that's our job, to offer perspective and I think you'll notice, if you go back through my Twitter timeline and my blogs, that I don't deal in rumors. I don't print anything unless somebody who should know tells me.
Which us fans appreciate very much, of course.
Even I need to be more careful what I say, because I've gotten in trouble, more than once.
Have you?
Yeah, from the company.
Care to share examples?
Once I retweeted a tweet that had a curse word in it and my editor called to remind me that everything I tweet shows up on a feed that goes on the front of www.sfgate.com and that our corporate bosses in New York read that. And I didn't even use the curse word, I was just retweeting it. So I gotta be careful.
I'm a big General Manger fan, so I have to ask you about Brian Sabean. What is he like to deal with and overall, what can you tell us about him?
The first thing you have to understand from a reporter's perspective is that he comes from the Yankees and the Yankees are a very paranoid organization. The front office is just filled with paranoia. So that's how he kind of "grew up". He only trusts very few people in the organization and really, not very many reporters at all. I've had a relationship with Brian that has ranged from, on one end, respectful, not friendly but respectful, and on the other end, volatile. He has a terrible temper, he's quick to snap and anybody who's ever worked for him would tell you that. He's very loyal, however, and the people who he trusts would tell you there's probably no better boss to work for.
But you can ask a question sometimes and you'll think it's a fair question but he'll just start screaming at you. When the Giants signed Renteria, I wrote my story and I quoted an unnamed executive in the National League that said that last year or the year before, when he played for the Braves, he looked like he was a hundred years old. Sabean didn't call me or talk to me, didn't tell me anything about it, but then he didn't talk to me at all for about four months. He just wouldn't return my calls.
Then last Spring Training- I don't know if you remember this- but right early in Spring Training, Brian Wilson hurt his back and while he was rehabbing, he jetted off to LA for the weekend to be with Charlie Sheen, who was in the middle of his "Tiger Blood" and "winning" thing. I saw Sabean upstairs in the office at Scottsdale Stadium, so I said to him, "Hey, do you have a reaction to Brian Wilson going off to Charlie Sheen?" and he just went off on me saying, "How can you f*****g ask me that? You're just trying to bait me and get me to say something bad about him." I said, "Look, this is a rehabbing player with a back injury and he's getting on a plane and going and doing this and that." So you know, he screamed at me and I don't usually scream back, but I held my own and then that was it. We had our thing and then the next day we were fine.
Interesting stuff! I think General Managers often come across as pretty bland in the press, so it's fascinating to hear what Sabean is like, a little bit more.
They're not bland people, they just come off bland because they don't want to tip their hands a lot.
On a different topic, have you seen the Moneyball movie and if so, what were your thoughts about it?
Having read the book, my first thought was that they really did focus very narrowly on one part of the book. I mean, I thought the best part of the book was the stuff about the draft and they couldn't really address that in the movie, because they had to make a hero and a villain. I know Art Howe and he's not the idiot that they portrayed him to be. The narcissism of Billy Beane is how he is and I know Grady Fuson, too- he's the scout- but I wasn't on the inside, so I don't know if his relationship with Billy was really as disrespectful as it seemed to be at the beginning of the movie.
My thought on Moneyball the book was that Michael Lewis sort of got the Stockholm Syndrome, after being embedded with Billy Beane for a while and he drank the Kool-Aid. I'm mixing metaphors here, but the whole, "There's only one way to do it and this is the right way and any other way is the wrong way," came across in the movie.
I thought the movie was very entertaining, I thought it was a good snapshot of one part of the book and a period of time in the Oakland A's, but I don't think it was groundbreaking by any means.
I don't know how much you've worked with Billy Beane, but I'd love to hear about him as well.
Well, Billy's a player. There are some people who never stop being players and he also has a temper. I don't usually see it because I don't interact with him on a daily basis like Susan Slusser [A's beat writer for the Chronicle] does, for instance, but I've heard from Susan that he can have a temper. A lot of the personality traits in the movie are like Billy- he's always stuffing food in his mouth and he does like to work out in the locker room while the game is going on.
I think he's a heck of a General Manager. I think he's a really funny guy, but I do think he still thinks of himself as one of the 25 guys in the locker room, more than one of the suits in the front office.
Come back tomorrow for part two of the interview, in which we discuss predictions and anti-predictions, Bud Selig (obsession of mine, yes), Fan Fest and Spring Training pro tips and much more.


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