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Sino-Tibetan languages
Sino-Tibetan | |
Geographic distribution: |
East Asia |
Linguistic classification: | One of the world's major language families. |
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Ethnologue code: | 17-236 |
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Sino-Tibetan languages
The Sino-Tibetan languages are a family of more than 400 languages spoken in East Asia, Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia, including the Chinese and Tibeto-Burman languages. They are second only to the Indo-European languages in terms of the number of native speakers. The internal classification of the family is debated.
History of the proposal[edit]
During the 18th century, several scholars had noticed parallels between Tibetan and Burmese, both languages with extensive literary traditions. Early in the following century, Brian Houghton Hodgson and others noted that many non-literary languages of the highlands of northeast India and Southeast Asia were also related to these. The name "Tibeto-Burman" was first applied to this group in 1856 by James Richardson Logan, who added Karen in 1858.[1][2] Charles Forbes viewed the family as uniting the Gangetic and Lohitic branches of Max Müller's Turanian, a huge family consisting of all the Eurasian languages except the Semitic, "Aryan" (Indo-European) and Chinese languages.[3]
Studies of the "Indo-Chinese" languages of Southeast Asia from the mid-19th century by Logan and others revealed that they comprised four families: Tibeto-Burman, Tai, Mon–Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian. Julius Klaproth had noted in 1823 that Burmese, Tibetan and Chinese all shared common basic vocabulary but that Thai, Mon, and Vietnamese were quite different.[4][5] In 1858 Logan suggested that Chinese, Tibeto-Burman, Tai, and Mon–Annamese (Mon–Khmer) formed a Chino-Himalaic subgroup of Turanian.[2] Ernst Kuhn divided the Indo-Chinese languages, plus Chinese, into northern and southern groups in 1883, sub-dividing the former into two primary branches:[a]
- Northern Indo-Chinese
- Chinese-Siamese
- Tibeto-Burman
August Conrady called this group Indo-Chinese in his influential 1896 classification, though he had doubts about Karen. Conrady's terminology was widely used, but there was uncertainty regarding his exclusion of Vietnamese. Franz Nikolaus Finck in 1909 placed Karen as a third branch of Chinese-Siamese.[7]
Jean Przyluski introduced the term sino-tibétain as the title of his chapter on the group in Meillet and Cohen's Les langues du monde in 1924.[8] He retained Conrady's two branches of Tibeto-Burman and "Sino-Daic", with Miao–Yao included within Daic (Tai–Kadai). The English translation "Sino-Tibetan" first appeared in a short note by Przyluski and Luce in 1931.[9] The term was adopted by Alfred Kroeber for the UC Berkeley Sino-Tibetan Philology Project, where Robert Shafer worked. Shafer quickly realized that Daic was not Sino-Tibetan, but after meeting Henri Maspero in Paris he left comparative Daic material in the project's publications even though he remained skeptical about a genealogical relationship.[10] Shafer (1941) also rejected the division of the family into Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman branches but instead placed Sinitic on the same level as other branches as working hypotheses:[11]
(For Shafer, the suffix -ic denoted a primary division of the family, whereas the -ish suffix denoted a sub-division of one of those.)
Chinese and Tibeto-Burman[edit]
Paul K. Benedict joined the Berkeley team in 1938, and in 1942 he published his own classification, where he overtly excluded Vietnamese (placing it in Mon–Khmer), Miao–Yao, and Tai–Kadai (placing it in Austro-Tai). He otherwise retained the outlines of Conrady's Indo-Chinese classification except for putting Karen in an intermediate position:[12]
- Sino-Tibetan
- Chinese
- Tibeto-Karen
- Karen
- Tibeto-Burman
Matisoff (1978) abandoned Benedict's Tibeto-Karen hypothesis:
- Sino-Tibetan
- Chinese
- Tibeto-Burman
Most later Western scholars, such as Bradley (1997) and La Polla (2003), have retained Matisoff's two primary branches, though differing in the details of Tibeto-Burman. However, Jacques (2006) notes, "comparative work has never been able to put forth evidence for common innovations to all the Tibeto-Burman languages (the Sino-Tibetan languages to the exclusion of Chinese)"[b] and that "it no longer seems justified to treat Chinese as the first branching of the Sino-Tibetan family,"[c] since the morphological divide between Chinese and Tibeto-Burman has been bridged by recent reconstructions of Old Chinese. Thus a conservative classification of Sino-Tibetan/Tibeto-Burman would posit several dozen small coordinate families and isolates; attempts at subgrouping are either geographic conveniences or hypotheses for further research. Nonetheless, a few internal proposals, such as Tibeto-Kanauri (or Bodish–Himalayish), Sal (or Brahmaputran), and Maha-Kiranti, have wide support. See Tibeto-Burman for contrastive classifications.
Hodgson had in 1849 noted a dichotomy between "pronominalized" (inflecting) languages, stretching across the Himalayas from Himachal Pradesh to eastern Nepal, and "non-pronominalized" (isolating) languages. Konow (1909) explained the pronominalized languages as due to a Munda substratum, with the idea that Indo-Chinese languages were essentially isolating as well as tonal. Maspero later attributed the putative substratum to Indo-Aryan. It was not until Benedict that the inflectional systems of these languages were recognized as (partially) native to the family, and subsequent work has reconstructed such a system for the proto-language.
Status of Tai and Hmong–Mien[edit]
In the past, tone was considered so fundamental to language that tonal typology could be used as the basis for classification. Thus, Vietnamese, Tai–Kadai, and Hmong–Mien (Miao–Yao), all languages with a similar tone system to Chinese, were classified under the Sino-Tibetan tree. In the Western scholarly community, these languages are no longer classified under the Sino-Tibetan tree, with the similarities attributed to borrowings and areal features, especially since Benedict (1972). The exclusionary position of Kuhn and Benedict would be vindicated when André-Georges Haudricourt published on Vietnamese tonogenesis in 1954.
In the Chinese scholarly community, Tai–Kadai (actually Kam–Tai (Zhuang–Dong), which excludes the Kra languages), and Hmong–Mien have commonly been included in the Sino-Tibetan family.[d] Although some Chinese linguists continue to include the Miao–Yao and Kam–Tai families in Sino-Tibetan, this arrangement remains problematic. For example, there is disagreement over whether the entire Tai–Kadai family should be included, since the Chinese cognates that form the basis of the putative relationship are not found in all branches of the family and have not been reconstructed for the family as a whole. In addition, Kam–Tai itself no longer appears to be a valid node within Tai–Kadai.
Challenges to the relationship[edit]
A few scholars, most prominently Christopher Beckwith and Roy Andrew Miller, argue that Chinese is not related to Tibeto-Burman. They point to what they consider an absence of regular sound correspondences, an absence of reconstructable shared morphology, and evidence that much shared lexical material has been borrowed from Chinese into Tibeto-Burman.[13][14][15] In opposition to this view, scholars in favor of the Sino-Tibetan hypothesis, such as W. South Coblin, Graham Thurgood, James Matisoff, and Gong Hwang-cherng, have argued that there are regular correspondences in sounds as well as in grammar.
One of the chief difficulties of applying the comparative method to the Sino-Tibetan languages is the morphological simplicity of many of these languages.
Starostin (1996) proposed that both the Kiranti languages and Chinese are divergent from a "core" Tibeto-Burman of at least Bodish, Lolo–Burmese, Tamangic, Jinghpaw, Kukish, and Karen (other families were not analysed) in a hypothesis called Sino-Kiranti. The proposal takes two forms: that Sinitic and Kiranti are themselves a valid node or that the two are not demonstrably close, so that Sino-Tibetan has three primary branches:
- Sino-Tibetan (version 1)
- Sino-Kiranti
- Tibeto-Burman
- Sino-Tibetan (version 2)
- Chinese
- Kiranti
- Tibeto-Burman
No Sino-Tibetan specialist, however, has accepted Starostin's hypothesis.
Van Driem (2001), like Shafer, rejects a primary split between Chinese and the rest. He calls the entire family "Tibeto-Burman", a name he says has historical primacy,[16] but most other linguists who reject a privileged position for Chinese continue to call the resulting family "Sino-Tibetan". Van Driem has more recently suggested "Trans-Himalayan" as a more neutral alternative name for the family.[17]
Van Driem has proposed several hypotheses, including a demotion of Chinese to part of a Sino-Bodic subgroup:
- Tibeto-Burman
- Western (Baric, Brahmaputran, or Sal)
- Eastern
- Northern (Sino-Bodic)
- North-western (Bodic): Bodish, Kirantic, West Himalayish, Tamangic
- North-eastern (Sinitic)
- Southern
- South-western: Lolo–Burmese, Karenic
- South-eastern: Qiangic, Jiarongic
- Northern (Sino-Bodic)
Van Driem points to two main pieces of evidence establishing a special relationship between Sinitic and Bodic and thus placing Chinese within the Tibeto-Burman family. First, there are a number of parallels between the morphology of Old Chinese and the modern Bodic languages. Second, there is an impressive body of lexical cognates between the Chinese and Bodic languages, represented by the Kirantic language Limbu.[18]
In response, opponents of the Sino-Bodic hypothesis note that the existence of shared lexical material only serves to establish an absolute relationship between two language families, not their relative relationship to one another. While it is true that some of the cognate sets presented by supporters of the Sino-Bodic hypothesis are confined to Chinese and Bodic, many others are found in Tibeto-Burman languages generally and thus do not serve as evidence for a special relationship between Chinese and Bodic.[19]
External classification[edit]
Beyond the traditionally recognized families of Southeast Asia, a number of possible broader relationships have been suggested. One of these is the "Sino-Caucasian" hypothesis of Sergei Starostin, which posits that the Yeniseian languages and North Caucasian languages form a clade with Sino-Tibetan. The Sino-Caucasian hypothesis has been expanded by others to "Dené–Caucasian" to include the Na-Dené languages of North America, Burushaski, Basque and, occasionally, Etruscan. Edward Sapir had commented on a connection between Na-Dené and Sino-Tibetan.[20] (A narrower binary Dené–Yeniseian family has recently been well-received but is not yet conclusively demonstrated.) In contrast, Laurent Sagart (2005) proposes a Sino-Austronesian family relating Sino-Tibetan to the Austronesian languages.
Peoples and languages[edit]
The most numerous of the Sino-Tibetan-speaking peoples are the Han Chinese numbering 1.3 billion people. The Hui (10 million) also speak Chinese but are ethnically distinct. The more numerous of the Tibeto-Burman-speaking peoples are the Burmese (42 million), Yi (Lolo) (7 million), Tibetans (6 million), Karen (5 million), Bhutanese (1.5 million), Manipuris (1.5 million), Naga (1.2 million), Tamang (1.1 million), Chin (1.1 million), Newar (1 million), Bodo (1.5 million), and Kachin (1 million). The Hui people live in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China and in significant populations elsewhere in Northwest China. The Burmese and Bhutanese peoples mostly live in Burma (Myanmar) and Bhutan. Rakhine, Kachin, Karen, Red Karen, and Chin peoples live in the Rakhine, Kachin, Kayin, Kayah, and Chin states of Burma. Tibetans live in the Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai, western Sichuan, Gansu, and northern Yunnan provinces in China and in Ladakh in the Kashmir region of Pakistan and India, while Manipuris, Mizo, Naga, Tripuri, Idu Mishmis, and Garo live in Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, and Meghalaya states of India. Bodo and Karbi live in Assam, India, while Adi, Nishi, Apa Tani, and Galo, calling themselves sons and descendants of Abotani, live in Arunachal Pradesh, India.
The evidence for membership in Sino-Tibetan of several of the groups spoken in Arunachal Pradesh has been questioned (see Tibeto-Burman languages#Other languages).
- Chinese speaking peoples:
- Han Chinese (people, language)
- Mandarin (language)
- Jin Chinese (language)
- Yue or Cantonese (people, language)
- Xiang or Hunanese (people, language)
- Hakka or Kejia (people, language)
- Gan or Jiangxi (people, language)
- Min (people, language)
- Wu (people, language)
- Tanka (people, no specific language)
- Ngái (people, no specific language)
- Fuzhou Tanka or Kuóh-dà̤
- Hui (people, no specific language)
- San Diu (people, language is archaic Cantonese)
- Han Chinese (people, language)
- Tibeto-Burman speaking peoples:
- Lolo–Burmese languages
- Burmish languages
- Loloish languages
- Naxi (Nakhi) (people, language)
- Bodish languages
- Bodo–Koch languages
- Tani (languages)
- Karen (people, languages)
- Kirat or Kirant (people, language)
- Newar (people, language)
- Kachin–Luic or Kachinic languages
- Meitei or Manipuri (people, language)
- Naga (people, no common language)
- Angami–Pochuri languages
- Angami languages (no article)
- Angami (people, Angami language)
- Mao or Sopvoma (people, Mao language)
- Pochuri languages (no article)
- Angami languages (no article)
- Zeme languages
- Ao (people, languages)
- Poumai (people, language)
- Angami–Pochuri languages
- Kukish languages
- Karbi (people, language)
- Magar (people, language)
- Qiangic languages (Kiangic) or Dzorgai
- Qiang (people, northern language, southern language)
- Pumi (people, language)
- Tangut (extinct) (people, language)
- Rgyalrongic languages
- Mishmi or Deng (people, northern languages, southern languages)
- Lhoba (not a single ethnic group)
- Nungish languages
- Tujia (people, language)
- Kho-Bwa languages
- Lolo–Burmese languages
- Bai (Baip) (people, language)
See also[edit]
- ^ Kuhn (1889): "wir das Tibetisch-Barmanische einerseits, das Chinesisch-Siamesische anderseits als deutlich geschiedene und doch wieder verwandte Gruppen einer einheitlichen Sprachfamilie anzuerkennen haben."[6]
- ^ les travaux de comparatisme n'ont jamais pu mettre en évidence l'existence d'innovations communes à toutes les langues « tibéto-birmanes » (les langues sino-tibétaines à l'exclusion du chinois)
- ^ il ne semble plus justifié de traiter le chinois comme le premier embranchement primaire de la famille sino-tibétaine
- ^ See, for example, the "Sino-Tibetan" (汉藏语系) entry in the Encyclopedia of China, found in the "languages" (语言文字) volume, 1988, and the "linguistics and philology" (語言文字, Yǔyán-Wénzì) volume of the Encyclopedia of China (1988).
- ^ Logan (1856).
- ^ a b Logan (1858).
- ^ Forbes (1878).
- ^ van Driem (2001), p. 334.
- ^ Klaproth (1823), pp. 346, 363–365.
- ^ van Driem (2001), p. 264.
- ^ van Driem (2001), p. 344.
- ^ Sapir (1925).
- ^ Przyluski & Luce (1931).
- ^ van Driem (2001), pp. 343–344.
- ^ Shafer (1966), p. 1.
- ^ Benedict (1972), pp. 2–4.
- ^ Miller (1974).
- ^ Beckwith (1996).
- ^ Beckwith (2002).
- ^ van Driem (2001), p. 383.
- ^ van Driem (2011).
- ^ van Driem (1997).
- ^ Matisoff (2000).
- ^ Shafer (1952).
- Works cited
- Beckwith, Christopher I. (1996), "The Morphological Argument for the Existence of Sino-Tibetan", Pan-Asiatic Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Languages and Linguistics, January 8–10, 1996, Bangkok: Mahidol University at Salaya, pp. 812–826.
- —— (2002), "The Sino-Tibetan problem", in Beckwith, Christopher, Medieval Tibeto-Burman languages, Brill, pp. 113–158, ISBN 978-90-04-12424-0.
- Benedict, Paul K. (1972), Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-08175-7.
- van Driem, George (1997), "Sino-Bodic", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 60 (3): 455–488.
- —— (2001), Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region, Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-12062-4.
- —— (2011), "The Trans-Himalayan phylum and its implications for population prehistory", Communication on Contemporary Anthropology 5: 135–142, doi:10.4236/coca.2011.51020.
- Forbes, Charles James (1878), "On Tibeto-Burman languages", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, New Series X: 210–227, JSTOR 25196796.
- Klaproth, Julius (1823), Asia Polyglotta, Paris: B.A. Shubart.
- Logan, James R. (1856), "The Maruwi of the Baniak Islands", Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia 1 (1): 1–42.
- —— (1858), "The West-Himalaic or Tibetan tribes of Asam, Burma and Pegu", Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia 2 (1): 68–114.
- Matisoff, James A. (2000), "On 'Sino-Bodic' and Other Symptoms of Neosubgroupitis", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 63 (3): 356–369, JSTOR 1559492.
- Miller, Roy Andrew (1974), "Sino-Tibetan: Inspection of a Conspectus", Journal of the American Oriental Society 94 (2): 195–209, JSTOR 600891.
- Przyluski, J.; Luce, G. H. (1931), "The Number 'A Hundred' in Sino-Tibetan", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 6 (3): 667–668, doi:10.1017/S0041977X00093150.
- Sapir, Edward (1925), "Review: Les Langues du Monde", Modern Language Notes 40 (6): 373–375, JSTOR 2914102.
- Shafer, Robert (1952), "Athapaskan and Sino-Tibetan", International Journal of American Linguistics 18 (1): 12–19, JSTOR 1263121.
- —— (1966), Introduction to Sino-Tibetan 1, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, ISBN 978-3-447-01559-2.
- General
- Baxter, William H. (1995). "'A Stronger Affinity ... Than Could Have Been Produced by Accident': A Probabilistic Comparison of Old Chinese and Tibeto-Burman", in William S.-Y. Wang (ed.) The Ancestry of the Chinese Language (Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monographs, 8), Berkeley: Project on Linguistic Analysis, pp. 1–39.
- Coblin, W. South (1986). A Sinologist's Handlist of Sino-Tibetan Lexical Comparisons. Monumenta Serica Monograph Series 18. Nettetal: Steyler Verlag. ISBN 3-87787-208-5.
- van Driem, George (1995). "Black Mountain Conjugational Morphology, Proto-Tibeto-Burman Morphosyntax, and the Linguistic Position of Chinese". Senri Ethnological Studies 41:229-259.
- ——— (2003). "Tibeto-Burman vs. Sino-Tibetan", Werner Winter, Brigitte L. M. Bauer and Georges-Jean Pinault (eds.) Language in time and space: a Festschrift for Werner Winter on the occasion of his 80th birthday, Walter de Gruyter, pp. 101–119. ISBN 978-3-11-017648-3.
- Gong Hwang-cherng (2002). Han Zang yu yanjiu lunwen ji (漢藏語硏究論文集 "Collected papers on Sino-Tibetan linguistics"). Taipei: Academia Sinica. ISBN 957-671-872-4.
- Jacques, Guillaume (2006). "La morphologie du sino-tibétain." In La linguistique comparative en France aujourd'hui, 4 March.
- Matisoff, James A. (2003). Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction (805 pages, 3.2 MB). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-09843-9.
- Nedeljković, Mile (2001). Leksikon naroda sveta, Beograd.
- Sagart, Laurent 2005. "Sino-Tibetan–Austronesian: an updated and improved argument." Laurent Sagart, Roger Blench & Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, eds. The Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics. London: Routledge Curzon, pp. 161–176. ISBN 978-0-415-32242-3.
- Starostin, Sergei, and I. I. Pejrosom (1996). A Comparative Dictionary of Five Sino-Tibetan Languages Melbourne University Press.
- Thurgood, Graham and Randy J. LaPolla (eds.) (2003). The Sino-Tibetan Languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-7007-1129-5.
External links[edit]
- James Matisoff, Tibeto-Burman languages and their subgrouping -
- The Genetic Position of Chinese, by Guillaume Jacques
- MultiTree, The Linguist List MultiTree Project: Sino-Tibetan Family Trees


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Market Snapshot for December 22, 2011 (1:31 a.m. ET, Dec. 27):
Closing Prices: DOW 12,294.00 (+124.35, +1.02%), S&P 500 1,265.33 (+11.33, +0.9%), NASDAQ 2,618.64 (+19.19, +0.74%), Nikkei 225 8,440.56 (-38.78, -0.46%), DAX 5,878.93 (+26.75, +0.46%), FTSE 5,512.70 (+55.73, +1.02%)
Markets Teeter on the Edge of a Positive Year
This year has been a rather uneventful one for the broad market. Most of it has been spent in a trading range with the indices constantly flirting with positive and negative territory. While the first half of the year was spent mainly in the black with retests of the zone of the year's lows, the selloff in late July and the start of August shifted the balance of power to the bears and the tables turned. Ever since, the market has been struggling to recover and finish the year in the black. And it may still succeed.
Dow Jones Industrial Average (Figure 1)
This past week was a light one for trade as market participants began to dwindle thanks to the approaching holiday, but it was nevertheless a positive one as market players appeared to be entering the end of the year in good spirits despite the angst they experienced. Or perhaps they just wanted to give things a little boost to be able to show at least some gain on their books. Either way, the week ended higher by 3.6% for the Dow Jones Ind. Average ($DJI), 3.74% for the S&P 500 ($SPX), and 2.48% for the Nasdaq Composite ($COMPX). All 10 of the S&P's industry groups were positive. For the year-to-date, the Dow is up 6.19%, the S&P 500 is up 0.61%, and the Nasdaq is down 1.29%, and the Russell 2000 is down 4.59%. In other markets: crude oil is up 9.08%, gold is up 12.99%, the U.S. Dollar Index is up 1.2%, and the 10-year Treasury is down 38.58% year-to-date.
S&P 500 (Figure 2)
Friday's Index Wrap-up
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJI) ended the day on Friday with a gain of 61.91 points, or 0.51%, and closed at 12,169.65. Twenty-eight of the Dow's thirty index components ended the session in the black. The strongest were Bank of America (BAC) (+2.38%), Disney (DIS) (+2.03%), and Cisco Systems (CSCO) (+1.88%). The two losers were Alcoa (AA) (-0.56%) and Boeing (BA) (-0.43%).
The S&P 500 ($SPX) finished the session with a gain of 10.28 points, or 0.83%, and closed at 1,254.00. The strongest individual percentage performers in the index were TripAdvisor (TRIP) (+6.07%), Walgreen Co. (WAG) (+4.19%), and International Game Tech. (IGT) (+3.70%). The weakest were Mead Johnson Nutrition (MJN) (-5.05%), MetroPCS Communications (PCS) (-2.97%), and LSI Corp. (LSI) (-2.48%).
The Nasdaq Composite ($COMPX) ended the session higher by 21.48 points, or 0.83%, on Friday and it closed at 2,599.45. The top index components in the Nasdaq-100 ($NDX) were Fossil Inc. (FOSL) (+3.58%), Expedia Inc. (EXPE) (+3.05%), and Applied Materials (AMAT) (+2.75%). The weakest were CTrip (CTRP) (-2.85%), Netflix (NFLX) (-1.65%), and Marvell Tech. (-1.19%).
Nasdaq Composite (Figure 3)
This shortened trading week will be even lighter than last with volume not returning in full force until the new year. There is very little on the docket data-wise to stir things up. Today brings with it the Case-Shiller 20-city Home Price Index for October and December's Consumer Confidence report. Also out this week are the National Realtors' pending-home-sales report on Thursday and the Chicago Purchasing Managers Index report for December on Friday.
The market is currently dealing with resistance from the earlier highs this year and a slow-down in momentum as that level approached has put a damper on last week's rally. It will make it more difficult to push sharply to higher highs out of the daily trading range that the market has been stuck in over the past several months, but the market will be hesitant to give up its meager gains. The market does tend to hold support and resistance levels and technical patterns extremely well when volume is on the light side, and while the session ahead of a holiday is pretty tame, market moves are often amplified in light-volume trade.
Unless otherwise stated, the index action described in this article relates to the E-mini futures contracts for the respective indices. Actual index action may differ slightly in terms of pattern formation, although the market bias will remain the same.
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Circle K, a global community service organization sponsored by Kiwanis International, provides service for the Lake Forest community and the Chicagoland area.
Collage is a Lake Forest College literary magazine which celebrates cultural diversity through written expression in all languages.
Colleges Against Cancer
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College Liberals
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College Republicans
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Commuter Students
The Commuter Student Organization (CSO) is a student-led group that supports for the needs of students who commute to campus.
Delta Chi
The Delta Chi Fraternity will develop in its members a commitment to life-long learning and personal growth by complementing the educational mission of our host institutions.
Delta Delta Delta
The Delta Delta Delta sorority aims to establish a bond of friendship, develop a stronger and more womanly character, broaden the moral and intellectual life, and assist its members in every possible way.
Delta Gamma
Delta Gamma offers to women of all ages a rich heritage based on principles of personal integrity, personal responsibility and intellectual honesty.
Equestrian Club
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Eukaryon is an undergraduate research journal at Lake Forest College that publishes the very best of life science scholarship conducted by Lake Forest students.
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Financial Intelligence Assoc.
Forester Friends
Formerly know as Best Buddies, Forester Friends is a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships and integrated employment.
French Club
The French Club promotes a better understanding of French culture through active participation in a number of cultural activities either on campus or in the greater Chicago area.
Future Health Professionals
Future Health Professionals is a student-run organization for all students interested in all areas of the Health Professions.
Garrick Players
The Garrick Players are a completely student-run theater troupe who strive to produce shows that use experimental concepts and provocative subjects as a means for creating exciting experiences for their audiences.
Habitat for Humanity
The goal of our campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity is to spread the name of Habitat for Humanity and everything that it stands for.
Hillel is the organization with a foundation for jewish life on campus. We focus on the social and cultural aspects of Judaism while hosting educational and social events on campus.
Interfaith Center
Since 1976 the Interfaith Center at Lake Forest College has been serving as the umbrella organization for all religous groups and activities on campus.
International Dance Club
The International Dance Club promotes unity and understanding of culture through learning, performing, and teaching different dances from cultures around the world.
International Student Organization
The International Student Organization of Lake Forest College promotes worldwide integration and awareness of different cultures.
This club brings together students who are interested in business and have an entrepreneurial spirit. Activities include speakers, trips, and various projects.
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Alpha Theta was founded in 1870 as the first Greek-letter fraternity for women.Our purpose is to support members to learn, grow, and excel, and our core values are personal excellence, friendship/sisterhood, scholarship, service, and leadership.
Lambda Chi Alpha
The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity serves as a co-curricular experience to complement higher education by providing young men with opportunities for academic achievement, leadership development, and lifelong friendships.
Latinos Unidos
Latinos Unidos is Lake Forest College's Hispanic cultural organization and is a niche for those who are both interested and take part in Latino culture.
The League for Environmental Awareness and Protection (LEAP) is an on-campus organization committed to progressing the campus' level of environmental friendliness and awareness to new heights.
Mock Trial
Collegiate Mock Trial allows for students to read, take part in, and understand the procedures of an actual trial.
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This organization allows students to experience international politics through political discussion and practice. Model UN usually attends the annual student government conference.
Muslim Student Association
The Muslim Student Association aspires to bring about a better understanding of Islam as a religion.
Nu Rho Psi
Nu Rho Psi is the national honor society in neuroscience. It first organized in the spring of 2012 to recognize students who have acheived excellence in scholarship, particularly in neuroscience.
Panhellenic Council is the governing body of the four national/international sororities with chapters on campus at Lake Forest College.
PRIDE is dedicated to enhancing the atmosphere of diversity by affirming the dignity and worth of all members of our community, regardless of real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identification.
Psi Chi
Psi Chi is the National Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in psychology-based scholarship.
The Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society sponsors activities designed to promote a greater understanding and appreciation of chemistry.
Students for Non-Alcoholic Programming connects students who are interested in planning and attending alcohol-free activities on campus.
Society of Physics Students
Society of Physics Students is a national physics organization linking physics students from all over.
Students Taking Action Now, Darfur (STAND) is a student anti-genocide coalition of over 600 high school and college chapters dedicated to putting an end to genocide, specifically in Darfur, Sudan.
Stentor (newspaper)
The Stentor, the College newspaper, was first published during the 1886-87 academic year and continues to serve as the students' weekly journal.
Student Alumni Association
The Student Alumni Association assists the Office of Alumni Programs in providing and maintaining a link between current students and alumni through structured programs and social activities.
Students Educating Students
Students Educating Students (SES) strives to give our diverse population of students the ability to educate fellow students about their culture and the concerns that come with it.
Students for Women's Awareness Network (SWAN) aims to provide Lake Forest College students access to informative programs, speakers, and activities related to a variety of women's issues.
Synapse develops co-educational and extracurricular programs in neuroscience, providing students with access to experts in the field, outreach programs, and a variety of educational opportunities.
TRU (The Real You)
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First printed in 1935, Tusitala is Lake Forest College's premier literary magazine.
The mission of UAN-ASBMB at Lake Forest College is to assist in the development of programs in biochemistry and molecular biology.
United Black Association
United Black Association (UBA) is a student organization that focuses on African-American culture.
Umoja is a student organization that focuses on promoting awareness and a cultural perspective of the African continent.
United Asia
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WMXM Radio
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Temporary architecture, reuse of materials, community building and simple buildings are the themes of the 2nd annual Sustainable Habitat Challenge micro-architecture workshop, to be held at the CPSA building at CPIT on 2 and 3 May.
Christchurch builders, designers, architects, engineers and community members will discuss ideas, deliver presentations and facilitate workshops at the event, which brings together some ideas for the city's community-led regeneration.
Presenters including Mark Fielding, Juliet Arnott, Joshua Durrant, Jessica Halliday and Claire Benge will ask pertinent questions such as: What is permanent in our post-earthquake city? Using examples such as the cardboard cathedral and the convention centre – how long will Christchurch's buildings serve us and how can international examples inspire us?
In San Francisco, for example, the Palace of Fine Arts was built in 1915 as a temporary building for the Panama-Pacific Exposition and still stands today as an icon of the city. As 2012 Pritzker architecture prizewinner Wang Shu has said, "People cherish their culture through recycling".
The demolition of red stickered housing and CBD buildings does not mean the wholesale eradication of Christchurch's history or culture, but how can we reuse and recycle materials to incorporate local memories and fuse the past with the present?
Entry by sliding scale koha, and is free for students and young people. To attend simply register at micro-architecture.shac.org.nz or phone Tim Bishop on 021 705 346. CPD points available.
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ASIA: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela -- AHRC salutes a great man, embraces his Legacy
Statement : The Asian Human Rights Commission joins all people across the world to salute Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela of South Africa, who passed away at the age of 95 yesterday. In the person of Nelson Mandela the world can proudly celebrate a towering personality, whose life has universal relevance for all times to come. His life and struggles have always focused on the greatest of ideals that any human being could aspire to: equality, freedom, dignity, truth, and – above all – love for all. And all of these qualities are centered in the greatest of the ideals of human rights. Read More...
PAKISTAN: A lawyer working for missing persons and a student were abducted and there are reports about military operations in two districts of Balochistan
Master Mehrab Baloch (17), was abducted by the security forces and plain clothed persons in Quetta.
Urgent Appeal Case : The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a lawyer who was contesting cases of missing persons in the Balochistan High Court and a Baloch child were abducted by security forces and people in pain clothed. There are reports from different websites that the persons in military uniforms and plain clothes conducted an operation in Dera Bugti and Naseerabad districts of Balochistan, killing 11 persons and destroying several houses. Abductions and extrajudicial killings in Balochistan have increased suddenly since the Supreme Court has accelerated the hearing of the cases concerning missing persons. Read More...
BANGLADESH: UN intervention needed urgently for saving ordinary people's lives and liberties
Open Letter : The Asian Human Rights Commission is writing to you on the eve of your third visit to Bangladesh, a country plunged into deep political and constitutional crisis. Tomorrow, on December 6, 2013, after your arrival in the capital city of Dhaka, in Bangladesh, you will definitely see many burned skeletons of vehicles left by the side of the streets and avenues. The brutalities that the ordinary people are forced to suffer every day in recent months could be seen and heard from countless innocent victims screaming in hospitals, often without adequate treatment facilities. Dozens of people have been killed by attacks on public transport in the last few weeks. Crude handmade bombs, petrol bombs and other explosives are being regularly used to cause burn injuries and deaths of human beings across the country, including in the capital city. The police, paramilitary forces and other law-enforcing agencies are randomly opening fire pointing guns toward the protestors who belong to the opposition. Endless political violence reigns all over Bangladesh at the moment of your travel in Dhaka, which is literally disconnected from the rest of the country, by political blockades. Read More...
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Formats: | 15 DVD, Blu-ray |
Starring: | Jonah Hill, Max Records, Sam Rockwell, Ari Graynor |
Director: | David Gordon Green |
Genre: | Comedy |
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Rental release: | 11 Jun 2012 |
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Absolute stunner. Not since Adventures in Babysitting has this under exploited genre seen such a classic.
OK, its not subtle and its often downright rude but I defy you not to laugh at some of the plot tales experienced here. If you have ever rooted for the under dog, been overtaken by events or just had bad things occur when you are trying to do the right thing, this will appeal to you.
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Not a good film at all... don't bother!
By snash123 (71 reviews) , 19 Oct 2013I must say this film wasn't at all funny. Jonah Hill is a very talented actor but even he couldn't make this film funny as hard as he tried. The characters were very plastic and not at all convincing in their roles and the storyline really is a flashback to the 80's films involving babysitters and their exploits over the night - i. e. its already be done and best left alone and forgotten as just not funny!- Was this review helpful to you?
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By manonfireuk (407 reviews) from Liverpool , 28 May 2013The basic storyline reminded me of a really naff family movie from the 80's I watched as a kid called Adventures in Babysitting only this one is some what funnier and ruder. In terms of comedy value, this sits midway between the director's worst and best. It's a lot funnier than Your Highness (which was not funny at all!) but nowhere near as funny as Pineapple Express which is one of my favourite comedies from recent years. It provides enough laughs to keep you entertained but not one that is worht going back to.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Free Diving w/week stay, Beach, Canoeing, Tiki bar/sun deck in Islamorada
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When you rent from us for 1 WEEK or more, we will take you out diving with us on ONE of our tropical fish collecting expections. There is no charge for diving the first day out. There is no guarantee we will be able to take you out (especially in the winter) if the weather is bad and seas are over 5'. Hookah diving is how we dive. Its the same as tank diving. But with surface supplied air to a dive regulator. We use 4 150' air lines to put 4 divers down at a time. No certification needed. Its very easy and will be an experience you will never forget. Only 4 people can dive at a time.
NEW.........We now have a private roof top Tiki Bar, BBQ area and private roof top sun deck for you to use. Also a 60' hanging rope bridge.
This rental is at MM 92.5 in Tavernier. Just 5-10 miles N. of Islamorada. We list different areas because we have 2 rentals and want to get the best coverage in the area for them.
You can see or other rentals by changing only your listing number in your browser to one of these numbers. 34154 or 51863
No other hidden charges. 2 night min. stay. No maid service. If theres a hurricane all deposits will be returned. We are trying to keep away from cleaning fees. So far most people leave it in pretty nice shape before leaving. If possible............Please help out a little before you leave.
We are in a quiet neighborhood at MM 93 ocean side in Tavernier (Harry Harris Park) 1.5 miles from US1. 750 feet from the ocean. Not on the water. The apartment has a full kitchen, with a refrigerator, 2 Queen Beds, AC in each bedroom, sleeper sofa, Microwave oven, stove and oven, Large BBQ grill, coffee pot and all utensils. There is a large full bathroom. There is a 37" LCD and DVD with extended cable in the living room. Also free high speed Internet access. Washer and dryer. There is a Koi pond outside the front door of the apartment. The apartment is downstairs We have many live marine tropical fish that are stored for here public aquariums around the world. We are collectors of these fish. You can see our business site at TomsCaribbeanDOTcom. You will get to see beautiful live Caribbean tropical fish any time you would like to visit them.We are suppliers to pet shops and public aqauriums.
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There is a large OCEANSIDE park with 2 baseball fields, the best boat ramp in the area, basketball court, outside showers, a swimming area, kids play area, BBQ grills and picnic tables and one of the only public sandy beaches in the upper Keys. Spend a beautiful sunny day at the beach and walk back to your apartment. Our swimming area (saltwater pool) is located at the park and is a protected saltwater swimming area. Park hours are 8:00 AM to sunset.
We also have a canoe free to use and a great canoeing area less than a block away.
We are close to the main land but yet far enough away to be in the Keys without having to drive for hours to get here. 70 Min from Miami airport and the Everglades. 90 miles from Key West. Right in the middle of everything.
activities and attractions in Islamorada The Florida Keys
Snorkeling.............a great ocean park less than a 5 min walk from your front door
Lots of great restaurants close by with great sunsets
Theater of the sea where you can watch Dolphin shows
Also 3 different places you can sign up to swim with the Dolphins
Sun cruse casino boat
You can see the original African Queen boat.
Pennekamp Park
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Anything you want to do on the water we have here
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This downstairs apartment is 140.00 a night, 840.00 a week.
Monthly rate is 2520
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Check out this video on Champions Tour star Michael Allen, who was interviewed by Jane Pauley for a feature on NBC's Today Show.
John Swantek interviews the three-time Champions Tour winner as he prepares for the Pacific Links Hawai'i Championship.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Born in nearby San Mateo, Michael Allen was 7 years old when he made his first visit to the Olympic Club to see the 1966 U.S. Open. He was 14 when his family joined the club. He estimates that he's played 2,000 rounds here, along with countless practice hours -- "many, many hours sweating on, even in this cold temperature," he recalls.
So imagine the feeling for the 53-year-old Champions Tour veteran this week. For the first time in his career, he will tee it up in a major at his home course, numerous friends and family on the other side of the ropes. There may not be a dry eye in the gallery.
"It's going to be one of the greatest moments of my life," Allen said Tuesday.
The oldest player in the 156-man field this week, Allen qualified by claiming one of the seven available spots in sectional qualifying held nearby at Lake Merced and TPC at Harding Park. It's the first time he has played in the U.S. Open since becoming a Champions Tour member in 2009.
Allen has won twice on the Champions Tour this year and ranks third in Charles Schwab Cup points. But even though no player in the field has more experience playing this course than he does, Allen doesn't put much stock in his ability to be a contender on Sunday.
"Who has a chance to beat me?" he asked. "Oh yeah, everybody in the field."
That's why you get the sense that just teeing off on Thursday is all that matters. Anything else would be gravy.
"It's probably going to be the first time I'm going to be extremely nervous teeing off," Allen said. "It's just going to be fulfilling for me, a life-long dream. ...
"I always loved playing in this championship but to play here is what makes this so extremely special for me. I've grown up here."
If Sam Snead's longtime record as the oldest TOUR winner is to be broken, it is likely to happen at the Mayakoba Golf Classic.
There's just something about El Camaleon that brings out the best in players around or over 50 years of age.
Fred Funk won the Mayakoba Golf Classic at age 50 in 2007, and 53-year-old John Cook finished only three shots behind winner Johnson Wagner in 2011. Both Funk and Cook were back in 2012 -- Funk made the cut; Cook didn't.
But all eyes at Mayakoba are on Michael Allen, who turned 53 just last month. Allen has played over 300 times on the PGA TOUR without winning, although he does have three second-place finishes, most recently in 2010 at the Viking Classic.
Even at his age, winning on the PGA TOUR is something Allen wants to accomplish before its too late. And this week's Mayakoba Golf Classic is his best shot at doing that.
Allen is working on one of the best rounds on Saturday at El Camaleon. He bogeyed the par-4 15th to drop four shots back, but he's still 4 under on the day on a good day for scoring in Mexico.
Should Allen go low and win on Sunday, he would best Snead's record by a few months:
Player | Age | Tournament |
Sam Snead | 52 years, 10 months | 1965 Greater Greensboro Open |
Art Wall | 51 years, 7 months | 1975 Greater Milwaukee Open |
Jim Barnes | 51 years, 3 months | 1937 Long Island Open |
John Barnum | 51 years, 1 month | 1962 Cajun Classic |
Fred Funk | 50 years, 8 months | 2007 Mayakoba Golf Classic |
By John Schwarb, PGATOUR.COM
If you're reading this and haven't finished (or started) shopping for the golfer in your life, you know you're under the gun. Fortunately there's help online, from the good ( our holiday gift guide) to the very, very bad.
For what not to buy, check out the "10 stupidest golf gifts" from Golfdigest.com. To sum it up – goofy headcovers aren't so cool anymore, scoring computers shouldn't replace scorecards, loud pants are best left to John Daly and "adjustable club" doesn't mean one club that changes into other clubs.
Running out of time is no excuse for the bad golf gift.
PERRY'S MOVE: Kenny Perry, a first-time winner on the Champions Tour in 2011, will return in 2012 with a new equipment deal. The longtime TaylorMade player is switching to Adams Golf, playing Speedline woods and Idea hybrids and irons.
Other prominent Adams players on the Champions Tour include Michael Allen and former Schwab Cup
WEDGE GAME: The personalization aftermarket for wedges is turning into big business. It's not enough anymore to choose a loft and a metal finish, not with multicolored paintfills and shaftbands plus engraved initials and even entire names. Cleveland is the latest to join the party, with its mycustomwedge.com website. (You can tinker with different designs without purchasing.)
Titleist and wedge designer Bob Vokey have been in the customization business for a while at vokey.com, and makes its new SM4 wedges available for personalization in January. New engravings (pictured) are among the customization options.
A 15TH CLUB?: Titleist had some fun with its TOUR pros, asking what they would put in their bag if a 15th club was allowed. Check out the video here. Some opted for wedges, some for hybrids. What would you want?
By John Schwarb, PGATOUR.COM
SAN FRANCISCO – A little more than two months ago, Jay Don Blake was a Champions Tour journeyman.
Now he's a multiple-event winner.
Blake won the Charles Schwab Cup Championship Sunday, the first to win the Tour's season finale in his first appearance since Mark McNulty in 2004. He took a two-shot lead into the final round and never relinquished it, winning by two over Michael Allen, Mark Calcavecchia, Jay Haas and Loren Roberts.
Add that to his win five starts ago at the Songdo IBD Championship in Korea, where he won a four-man playoff, and Blake ends 2011 as one of four multiple winners on Tour, joining Schwab Cup winner Tom Lehman, John Cook and Fred Couples.
"How can you pass up having a chance to play on the Champions Tour?" said Blake, who rose to fourth in Schwab Cup points and will take $200,000 from that prize pool in addition to his $440,000 share of the winner's purse from TPC Harding Park. "I wanted to be healthy and ready if I could play out here and perform like I was able to play."
Blake, 53, won once on the PGA TOUR, in 1991 at Torrey Pines. He cut his PGA TOUR career short of age 50 due to back pain, and for three years worked on stretching and tweaking enough to give the Champions Tour a shot.
He pieced together schedules with his partial status, qualifying for some events and relying on sponsor's exemptions at times. What he never lost was his drive and, just as importantly, a silky putting stroke.
"He's always been a great putter his whole life," Allen said. "When we played in college, he was a great putter, and that's been his game.
"You go out to dinner with someone, you want to go out to dinner with a good putter, because they're always happy."
Blake isn't the type for overt displays of emotion, happy or not, but the satisfaction was clear on his face late Sunday afternoon, especially with some 20 family members and friends around to share in his win. The next stop will be the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai, a winners-only event.
An event for Jay Don Blake.
"I just kept knocking at the door and I felt like sometime down the road it was going to happen," he said.
It's now wide open.
By John Schwarb, PGATOUR.COM
SAN FRANCISCO – Mark Calcavecchia turned the Schwab Cup race into an exciting battle Sunday afternoon, one that required watching several players other than him.
But in the end it was a result he's all too familiar with – second.
At the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, Calcavecchia needed to win or finish no worse than two-way tie for second to steal the Cup from Tom Lehman, the points leader since the second tournament of the season.
He started the final round in a tie for sixth, but on a windy day at TPC Harding Park he made a late run with a 2-under 69.
When Calcavecchia birdied the 15th hole and Jay Haas bogeyed the 13th, there was a three-way tie for second. Minutes later, Loren Roberts made it a four-way tie at 6 under with a birdie at 15. (Jay Don Blake was well in front, so winning the event wasn't a possibility.)
Haas and Roberts continued to pour in pars, Haas making a solid save off a bad drive at 15, Roberts saving par on the par-3 17th after missing the green.
Calcavecchia's key moment was on 18, when he hit a great drive and only had 134 yards left to the par-4. He was in between a wedge and 9-iron in switching winds, and his 9-iron ended up pin high but well right of the hole.
"I had the right distance but I never swung at it. Wind just got it," Calcavecchia said. "If I had to do it again I'd hit a hard wedge and take my chances. I would have hit a better shot, put it that way."
He two-putted to post 6 under, and Roberts did the same from the next group. Calcavecchia couldn't afford another finisher at that number, but local favorite Michael Allen hit a chip close at 18 that nearly went in for birdie. In or out, Calcavecchia's fate was sealed.
He finished second in points, 74 behind Lehman.
"It's kind of the story of my whole career, I've had a lot of seconds in my day and a lot of close calls," said Calcavecchia, who had 13 wins on the PGA TOUR and 27 seconds. On the Champions Tour, he has one win and four seconds.
"It could have been a lot better but on the other hand I had a great year. Just rattled off more top-10s than anybody."
True – Calcavecchia had 15 top-10s to Lehman's 12, in one more tournament. But second place Sunday was just too crowded of a place for his Schwab Cup hopes.
SAN FRANCISCO – Tom Lehman survived a game effort from Mark Calcavecchia to win the Schwab Cup while Jay Don Blake won the Charles Schwab Cup Championship Sunday.
Blake won for the second time in two months on the Champions Tour, shooting a final-round 71 at TPC Harding Park to win by two shots.
In the season-long points race, Lehman finished T18 in the finale to open the door for Calcavecchia. But Calc needed a win or a two-way tie for second, and there turned out to be a four-way tie for second with Calc, Loren Roberts, Michael Allen and Jay Haas.
By John Schwarb, PGATOUR.COM
SAN FRANCISCO – Michael Allen has a chance to exorcise a pair of demons Sunday at a course that's familiar and friendly to him.
Allen, a native of nearby San Mateo whose history at TPC Harding Park dates to his junior golf days, sits two shots back of leader Jay Don Blake at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship. He's 6 under par after a third consecutive 69 and is tied with Jay Haas and David Frost.
A year ago at the Champions Tour season finale he led going into Sunday after a third-round course-record 61, but John Cook shot 67 in the final round to Allen's 70.
That was Allen's last runner-up finish on Tour. This year his best effort has been a pair of T3s, extending a winless drought that stretches to 2009.
Allen won his very first Tour start that year, at the Senior PGA Championship, but the second win has proved elusive.
"Getting a win is kind of big in that we all come out here to play to win. In the end, that's why we're here," Allen said. "When you finally win, you kind of remember that you know how to do it."
Allen never won in 366 PGA TOUR starts, and he's chasing Blake, who won once in 497 TOUR starts. Blake's win came in 1991 and he went 20 years before winning again, in September at the Songdo IBD Championship.
"Jay Don, like I have been doing, he's been a journeyman out here playing for a long time," Allen said. "To me, when I go out now, I have fun with it. (Sunday's) going to be a fun day no matter what."
The fun will be enhanced by a vocal gallery that has followed him all week, family and friends from the area and from Arizona, where he now lives.
"I feel like I'm very comfortable in this area, hopefully that vibe will carry through and I can get some good mojo out there tomorrow," Allen said.


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Prostate Cancer's Prognosis
New therapies exist, but men still face a tough call: get treated now, or wait
By the time Jim Hurley, 54, learned last year that he had early-stage prostate cancer, the disease had already killed his father and struck two brothers. With that family history, the plaster artisan from Springfield, N.J., wasn't about to take chances. For two months, he pored over scientific studies, books, and websites about the cancer. He discussed his situation with doctors, his brothers, and other survivors. A surgeon recommended surgery. A radiation oncologist advocated a form of radiation therapy. But Hurley, concerned that either could leave him impotent or incontinent, settled on a novel technique that attacks cancer with sound waves. He had to drop $23,500 and fly to Toronto to get treated with high-intensity focused ultrasound, or HIFU. (Health officials in Canada and Mexico permit the procedure, but U.S. regulators haven't made a decision on it.) So far, he's pleased with the results.
Hurley may be in the vanguard of a new generation of prostate cancer patients, who are seizing on novel medical options in order to confront the disease without sacrificing quality of life. "Prostate cancer can totally decimate your masculinity," says Jim Kiefert, chairman of the executive committee of Us TOO International, a prostate cancer support and education group, and a survivor of the disease. "For every treatment, you run the risk of impotence and incontinence." To minimize the chances of such problems, some patients are now opting for high-tech therapies such as HIFU and robot-assisted surgery. Others are choosing to forgo curative treatment, instead taking a calculated gamble that they can hold out against the disease.
For some men, trying to hold out is an option because the cancer often isn't lethal. About 1 in 6 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point, but only about 1 in 35 men will die of it, according to the American Cancer Society. Other men never suffer symptoms: Between 30 and 40 percent of men who die of causes unrelated to cancer turn out to harbor undiagnosed—and effectively harmless—prostate tumors, autopsy results show.
In a study published in May 2005, more than 90 percent of men with low-grade tumors—those with a so-called Gleason score of less than 5—had not died of prostate cancer within 20 years of diagnosis, despite going untreated. "Because prostate cancer usually grows so slowly, many tiny cancers probably do not need treatment," says study coauthor Peter Albertsen of the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington. "These are the men who should consider active surveillance." That treatment strategy, also sometimes called watchful waiting, involves close monitoring of the tumor and a treatment intervention if troubling signs emerge.
Some experts argue that watchful waiting is too often overlooked. "All the evidence points to the fact that many men get treatment they don't need," says Laurence Klotz, chief of urology at Sunnybrook Health Science Centre in Toronto.
Nevertheless, plenty of patients fall into a gray area in which surgery or radiation therapy is potentially lifesaving. A Scandinavian study published the same month found that 8.6 percent of patients who received surgery died from prostate cancer within 10 years, compared with 14.4 percent of those who pursued watchful waiting. (Death rates for men diagnosed today may be lower than those in published studies because screening methods have improved.) A 2006 trial also observed a higher death rate among men who went untreated. "Not all cases of prostate cancer are created equal," says Yu-Ning Wong, a medical oncologist at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. "Patients with more aggressive [tumors] are at a higher risk of developing metastatic disease and really should strongly consider treatment."


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It is interesting that the day after Republican leadership tried to make it easier for Ohioans to carry guns into public places, 20 children were gunned down in a Connecticut elementary school ("Senate votes to loosen gun limits," Dispatch article, Friday).
I forgot. Elementary-school children don't send money to our dearly beloved legislators, the National Rifle Association does. Silly me.
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