Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Phillies

Phillies: PHILADELPHIA Chris Carpenter tossed a three-hitter to outpitch old pal Roy Halladay in a duel for the ages and the St. Louis Cardinals edged the Philadelphia Phillies 1-0 Friday night in the deciding Game 5 of their NL playoff series. The wild-card Cardinals scored in the first inning when Rafael Furcal led off with a triple and Skip Schumaker followed with a double. And that was it.Heavily favored Philadelphia never broke through against Carpenter. Ryan Howard grounded out to end the game and hurt his leg coming out of the batter's box – he limped a couple of steps and crumpled to the ground as St. Louis started to celebrate. "It...
 

Ryan Howard

Ryan Howard: ST. LOUIS For as long as he has been in the middle of their lineup, and certainly for as long as he has been at the top of their payroll, Ryan Howard has endured as the Phillies’ most reliable measuring device. When he’s hot, chances are they will be too. And when he wastes a two-game postseason road trip without providing a hit, chances are the Phillies will be drenched only in questions, not champagne. So it was Wednesday as they retreated from Busch Stadium in hopes of salvaging a season Friday night at Citizens Bank Park. Despite a career-long tendency to torment the Cardinals in his hometown, Howard was subdued in Games...
 

Sunday, 9 October 2011

Apple Stock

Apple Stock: True, shares fluctuated throughout Thursday, as the news set in that the company's co-founder had finally lost his long battle with cancer. Yet in dropping a statistically insignificant 0.23 percent to close the day at $377.37, the house that Jobs' built remained relatively unscathed. Apple did fall a further 0.36 percent in immediate after-hours trading to $376.Also read: Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg React to Steve Jobs' Death In all, the fallout could have been much, much worseWhen Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO last summer, Apple shares dropped nearly 3 percent, slashing roughly $10 billion off the company's value. Even...
 

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes: As the sad news of the death of Apple Inc. /quotes/zigman/68270/quotes/nls/aapl AAPL -0.23%  co-founder struck Silicon Valley and the global business world like a lightning bolt, many were remembering encounters with the man who has been described variously as the Thomas Edison of his generation, suffering no fools as he revolutionized three industries. See news of the death of Steve Jobs here. Jobs was famous for his ability to convey enthusiasm for Apple products, both on stage and in interviews with the press, in an easy-to-understand manner, with simple terms and catch phrases like “awesome,” “insanely great” and...
 

Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis: America needs to hit bottom “like an addict” to rebound from its economic woes, according to Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball, The Big Short and other books that have been optioned for movies. “At every level of the society we have been willing to basically sacrifice our long term interests for short term interests,” Lewis told Bloomberg TV’s Tom Keene in an interview Wednesday. “It’s not sustainable and I think what happens is we have to hit bottom first, like an addict.” And where is the bottom, according to Lewis, the darling of Wall Street traders, politicians and writers alike? “It’s some level of unemployment, slow...
 

Herman Cain

Herman Cain: Against all odds, a 65-year-old black pizza mogul is the Republican Party’s latest darling. Herman Cain, former CEO of the Godfather’s Pizza company, is surging in the polls, surpassing Rick Perry to sit neck-and-neck with Mitt Romney atop the GOP presidential field. Odds are that eventually the buzz around Cain will die down, and Romney will emerge victorious to take on Obama in the 2012 general election. But regardless of whether he wins or loses and he’ll probably lose as a black person I’m happy with what Cain has accomplished thus far. I’m happy he’s in the race and speaking his mind, and I think, despite inevitable problems,...
 

Saturday, 8 October 2011

Bay Area News

Bay Area News: shuffled its San Francisco Bay Area market leadership as it seeks to boost efficiencies while growing revenue. The bank’s San Francisco Bay region, now stretching from the Peninsula north to Oregon, will continue to be overseen by Michael Billeci, while Jim Foley’s Greater Bay Area region now includes the South Bay in addition to the East Bay. The new San Francisco Bay region includes 139 branches, about $29 billion in deposits and 2,400 community banking employees. The San Francisco Bay region’s new leadership includes Tracy Curtis, president of the San Francisco market, who was most recently region president for the Mount...
 

Legarrette Blount

Legarrette Blount: The grass-stained uniforms had already been picked up; the pads and equipment were almost entirely packed away. His last teammate took off 20 minutes earlier, but LeGarrette Blount remained. He was in no rush. The Bucs running back still wore a towel as he sat by his locker at 1:07 a.m., with no reason and no desire to move as quickly as he did an hour before on a 35-yard touchdown that gave his team a 24-17 win against the Indianapolis Colts. Was he alone? Well, yes, you could have called it that -- but only if you didn't understand Blount's personal interpretation of loneliness. By that standard, this was nothing more...
 

Waxahachie

Waxahachie: Corsicana  Let’s just call it the next big game of the season. Tigers vs. Waxahachie. The last two undefeated teams standing in District 15-4A. The Tigers have already been here twice this season and three times technically. They played West Mesquite in the district opener on Sept. 9 and in the first of three games against district unbeatens, the Tigers survived 43-35 in what has turned out to be the closest of Corsicana’s first four 15-4A games. The next week the Tigers played Lancaster, which in this column in early September was predicted as the 15-4A runnerups behind the Tigers. Corsicana walloped a Lancaster team that...
 

Amanda Knox

Amanda Knox: THE stunned family of Meredith Kercher last night told of their “shock” and “devastation” after Amanda Knox was sensationally released from prison after an appeal court overturned her murder conviction. Meredith’s heartbroken mum Arline, sister Stephanie and brother John, shook their heads in disbelief and hugged each other for comfort inside the court in Perugia, Italy. And Meredith’s dad, John, said: "How could they ignore the evidence? “There were 47 wounds on Meredith and two knives used. One person couldn’t possibly have done that. “What happens now? Does that mean the police need to look for more killers?” Mr Kercher said...
 

Thursday, 6 October 2011

Tesla Model S

Tesla Model S: Electric car maker Tesla Motors took the wraps off of its electric Model S sedan Betas at a customer event this weekend, allowing interested customers the opportunity to participate in short drives of three of the company’s Model S beta cars. Beta cars are essentially a fully-completed car before the car goes into final production, and you can see the differences in styling between Tesla’s alpha Model S cars (photos here), and this close-to-commercial beta. Tesla’s VP of Worldwide Sales and Experience, George Blankenship, told me that close to 3,000 people attended the Model S Customer event on Saturday night at Tesla’s Fremont...
 

Detroit Lions

Detroit Lions: ALLEN PARK -- A question and answer session with Detroit Lions rookie wide receiver Titus Young. Question: You've come on in the last a couple of weeks. Is there a switch that's been turned on or is it just the opportunity presenting itself and you taking advantage? Answer: I would definitely say it's the opportunity presenting itself and just being prepared for those situations. I feel like everyone pretty much gets a couple of opportunities in life and capitalizing and being really prepared for those opportunities is what really matters, what really counts. So just being prepared, I can definitely say, has been a big thing...
 

Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Andre Johnson

Andre Johnson: Allow me to pause for a minute and pat myself on the back.  It’s rare enough that I go out on a limb once and have it work out, but it looks like I’ll be vindicated on a pair of risky prognostications. First, I picked the Niners to beat the Eagles by a point, without being under the influence of alcohol or any illegal drugs.  (And I almost got the much coveted hole-in-one, guessing that the score would be 25-24.) Second, I picked the Niners to win the NFC West.  They’re currently 3-1.  The Cardinals and Seahawks are 1-3; the Rams are 0-4. I believed in the Niners because I believed that new coach Jim Harbaugh...
 

Nebraska Football

Nebraska Football: Where did it start, all that stupid preseason talk about Nebraska being a freshman contender, and maybe a favorite, for the Big Ten title? And why do some in the sports blabber and blog circle still talk about it as if it weren’t obvious that the Nebraska football team is blessed to be 4-0 and undeservedly lucky to be ranked No. 8 in the country. And the country we’re talking about is America! Get this, from Pete Thamel in today’s New York Times: “If the [Wisconsin] Badgers were playing in Lincoln on Saturday, Nebraska could easily be considered the Big Ten favorite.” The guy must be drinking his cocktails mixed with...
 

Gay City

Gay City: While two New York town clerks resigned their jobs rather than violate their religious beliefs by signing marriage licenses for gay and lesbian couples, a third town clerk who also claims to have religious objections to gay marriage will hire a temporary deputy clerk to process marriage licenses in her office and keep her job in an upstate town. “Most towns this size have a deputy in the budget,” Rose Marie Belforti, the Ledyard town clerk, said at a September 12 town meeting. “They have a line item for the salary of a deputy. I do not. I do all the work myself and I rarely hire a deputy.” Belforti was quoted in the Citizen, a newspaper...
 

Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Lesbian

Lesbian: Thomas Lobel, who calls himself Tammy, is undergoing controversial hormone-blocking treatment in Berkeley, California, to stop him going through puberty as a boy. His lesbian mothers, who adopted him aged two, said they had been criticised by friends and family, but insisted they had not forced their son to become a girl. Debra Lobel and Pauline Moreno said one of the first things Thomas told them when he learnt sign language at three, because of a speech impediment, was, "I am a girl".Tammy, now 11, wears dresses and effectively lives as a girl. Ms Moreno and Ms Lobel said their son, who they claimed was depressed at a younger age...
 

Stacey Dash

Stacey Dash: Stacey Dash isn't one of TV's "Single Ladies" anymore, but she's finally a single lady in real life, thanks to a judge's decision to sign off on her divorce from Emmanuel Xuereb. The 45-year-old actress -- who took her "Clueless" diva Dionne from film to TV in the '90s, and recently decided to walk away from VH1's Atlanta-based "Ladies" -- had filed for divorce from Xuereb in January 2010. She obtained a restraining order at the same time, alleging that over the two years they were married Xuereb had repeatedly hit her in the face, head and body. The split was official last week, TMZ said Friday. "I have to be back in L.A. with...
 

Anwar Al Awlaki

Anwar Al Awlaki: When President Obama addressed the nation about the death of high-profile al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki Anwar al-Awlaki today, he said the drone strike that took out the U.S.-born radical removed the man who "took the lead in planning and directing efforts to murder innocent Americans." While al-Awlaki was not the trigger-man in any of the 19 terror operations to which he is linked, U.S. officials and terror experts said that his hand was visible in all of them -- whether by simply pushing the attackers over the violent edge or by personally guiding them through operations. "There's no question that Anwar al-Awlaki...
 

Sunday, 2 October 2011

Martyn

Martyn: But having scored his first in City colours at Doncaster in midweek, and partnered Fryatt for the first time at the Tigers, Waghorn is confident more goals will follow. "Sooner or later a team is going to see what we can do and hopefully it's not too far round the corner," Waghorn told the Mail. "Matty and I have a good understanding of how we both like to play. We can both go behind, we can both come short, we are both comfortable on the ball, so it looks promising. "We bonded before at Leicester, where we played well, but it's going to take a bit of time for us to click again here." City's last goal double in the league came back...
 

Pawpaw

Pawpaw: Current 2012 GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum apologized Thursday night for a misunderstanding that led the former senator to publicly call for a ban on pawpaw, a mango-like fruit that grows along the banks of the Potomac and across large swaths of Southern, Southeastern and Midwest states. The fruit was popular throughout the 1700s and 1800s, but has only recently been rediscovered and commercialized. And because food scientists have found an abundance of nutrients in the pawpaw and a high antioxidant count, demand for the produce has been high. The fruit, slightly testicular in appearance, is also referred to as a Hoosier...
 

Holly Madison

Holly Madison: Holly Madison, reality star of “Holly’s World” is insuring her “money makers.” According to Ace Show Biz, 31-year-old Madison is insuring her 34DD breasts for a cool million—She’s taken out a $1 million insurance policy on her breasts with Lloyd’s of London insurance company. She recently told People, ”I’ve heard about people getting bodyparts insured and I thought, why not? Because if anything happened to my boobs, I’d be out for a few months and I’d probably be out a million dollars.” “I thought I’d cover my assets,” she added. ”I think it’s kind of funny. I think they’re getting the credit they deserve. They’re my primary...