| Dealer's choice for Smith
Bill Smith is not afraid to trade Johan Santana. Nor is he afraid to hold on to him for as long as possible. The Minnesota Twins rookie general manager with Portsmouth, N.H., roots has been through a few rebuilding programs in his 22 years in the organization, and though he is new to the job of general manager, there's a good chance that neither Mr. Epstein, Mr. Minaya, nor Mr. Cashman is going to snooker this Winnacunnet High grad. Smith has played it close to the vest with the Santana trade talks. He realizes he has the most valuable commodity in baseball in a two-time Cy Young Award winner, still only 29 years old. While he fully acknowledges that he's more of a baseball administrator than a scout or judge of talent, what he's heard from the Mets, Yankees, and Red Sox so far doesn't compel him to trade.
Black Hills Corporation Reports Third Quarter 2007 Results, Announces ...
Black Hills Corporation Reports Third Quarter 2007 Results, Announces Increase in the Quarterly Dividend and Provides 2008 Earnings Guidance RAPID CITY, S.D., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Black Hills Corporation (NYSE: BKH) today announced financial results for the third quarter of 2007. For the three months ended September 30, 2007, net income was $17.5 million, or $0.46 per share, compared to $22.3 million, or $0.66 per share for the same period ended September 30, 2006. Income from continuing operations for the three months ended September 30, 2007 was $17.6 million, or $0.46 per share, compared to $22.2 million, or $0.66 per share, reported for the same period in 2006. For the nine months ended September 30, 2007, net income was $75.0 million, or $2.02 per share, compared to $60.2 million, or $1.80 per share for the same period ended September 30, 2006.
Campaigns scramble for support in Nevada's new caucus territory
LAS VEGAS — The fight for top-billing in Saturday's Nevada Democratic presidential caucus has become much like its model in Iowa: an hour-by-hour test of who has the best organization. But unlike Iowa, Nevada never really has done this before, and not on the scale an early caucus date requires. No one knows for sure what the best organization should look like in a state with two major population centers and vast stretches of desert in between. .
What's Happening for Jan. 19
The Goldminers ball will be Saturday, Jan. 19 with music by Jim Halsey and the Nighthawks from 7:30-11 p.m. at the Ehmann Home, 1480 Lincoln St. Tickets are $40 couples, $25 singles and include: two drink tickets and hors' d'oeuvres. No host bar. Dress like a miner, gambler, saloon girl or a mule. Prizes for best costume. Sponsored by Butte County Historical Society. FFA Dinner The 6th Annual FFA Scholarship and Leadership Steak and Crab Dinner "fund-raiser" is Jan. 19, at the Oroville Municipal Auditorium, 6 p.m. Buy tickets early. There is a silent auction, raffle and gun raffle. Tickets are $30 and available at D & J Feed in Oroville. This event sold out last year. Sponsored by the Las Plumas FFA at Las Plumas High School Agriculture Advisory Committee. Fund raising magic show The Kent Family Magic Circus will be performing a fund raising stage show filled with illusions, juggling, bullwhip tricks, fire-eating, side-show stunts and mind-reading on Jan.
Warner’s plan thwarted by Caribbean protests
HAVING GOT his own way for so long in the Caribbean, it appears the little guys have come out fighting against Fifa vice-president Jack Warner. The Sunday Herald reported last week how Warner had instructed the tiny Antigua and Barbuda football association to hand over nearly £100,000 to meet undocumented expenses to discredited former official Chet Greene. They were given until last Thursday to pay or they would be expelled from Fifa. However, Merv Richards - the president of the local association and brother of cricketer Viv - has called on Fifa to intervene and investigate and Antigua and Barbuda have been given a stay of execution. .
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Otis Federal Credit Union: As strong as its members
In April of 1954, Otis (Division) Federal Credit Union was formed to provide financial services to paper mill workers in Jay, Maine. It was started with 11 members and $55 dollars in assets. By the time of their first annual meeting in January of 1955, membership had grown to 261 members and $9,000 in assets. According to the recently rediscovered minutes of that first meeting, the treasurer was to be paid $250 over the course of the year for expenses and salary and the board of directors had the discretion to cut that amount if needed.
Coalition hopes to bridge gaps between refugees, natives
The group is hoping to open a dialogue with members of the Somali community and get them organized so they can reach out to the rest of Bedford County, develop leadership and participate in the community more effectively. TIRRC is made up of a coalition of immigrants, refugees and their American-based supporters who work to "improve the rights and the public's perception of Tennessee's rapidly growing foreign-born population." Among participants in the meeting were David Lubell, director of TIRRC; Ahmed Dahir, civil liberties organizer for the group; Catalina Nieto, public awareness coordinator for TIRRC; Imam Haji Yousuf, the spiritual leader of the Somali Muslim community in Shelbyville; and Salaad A. Nur, outreach coordinator with the Somali Community Center of Nashville.
Running on autopilot
The hottest new products in the 401(k) universe are known as a "targeted maturity funds," which essentially allow investors to put their portfolio management on autopilot for years to come. Also known as "target date funds," these accounts are essentially funds of funds -- managed funds that hold an entire portfolio of mutual funds allocated based on the investor's age. As the investor gets closer to retirement, the portfolio is adjusted and rebalanced automatically to a more age-appropriate asset allocation. But managing the account is not the only effortless part of the process for some 401(k) target maturity fund investors. Thanks to some new rules from Congress, even the enrollment process for targeted maturity funds can be handled without any involvement by the investor.
EDITOR’S MAILBAG
I do not receive housing assistance or welfare.Everything I have, I worked for. Without my van, I can't take my daughter to school and I can't drive to work. If there was a medical emergency with my children, how would I get them to a doctor?I work as a certified nurse's aide for a staffing agency. I am required to travel to various towns to earn a living. If I can't drive to work, how will I pay my rent and utility bills? I can't even purchase a new vehicle until I receive my tax refund. I won't even be getting paid for working this week because my timecard is in my van. My daughter's car seats were in my van. Some of their favorite travel toys are in my van. I am living an absolute nightmare.Do car thieves even realize the hardship they cause people when they steal? Do they realize that stealing is illegal? Why would any sane person risk jail time over a 1994 Plymouth Voyager with a broken radio and bad transmission? I just can't grasp what would make a person do something so stupid.
'High School Musical 2' takes its blockbuster status seriously
This takes place amid songs, dancing, cute clothes and cutting loose during a summer when all his school's Wildcats work together at a scenic desert country club.
That moral-of-the-story springs from a discovery by Disney's "HSM"-meisters after the original became a blockbuster sensation. Their "Grease"- for-a-new-generation turned out to have a substantial impact on high school culture they hadn't anticipated from the simple tale of a hotshot basketball player who decides to try out for, yes, his high school musical.
Surprising response
"We just set out to do a fun story," scripter Peter Barsocchini said at the press tour, "but the feedback we're getting is it's having an influence of being inclusive, rather than exclusive, between athletes and drama kids." When the movie's athletes sang and danced with their round balls, it made such "artsy" activity seem, well, macho.
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