Bikes and running

Best Tri Athlon club in central Folrida is Team Oralndo Tri. I was having issues swimming & biking good enough to compete with the other athletes in my age group but Team Orlando Tri helped me. It didn't take that long and I was starting to place in my races. It feels good to Do well in a race.

Steve Jobs is Sick

Its sad to hear that Steve is sick I would not want to wish bad of anyone. So steve feel better. PS apple still sucks

one + one = two

Simmons, Jannace & Stagg
the Devils played a mostly veteran lineup with the exception of John Madden's checking line. As Gordon noted, their system is ingrained by now in the DNA of everyone in that organization. In contrast, he added, "We're all new here. Everything I'm talking about is new to everybody."
The first period was a tough one for the Islanders, who were limited to four shots. A miscommunication between rookie defenseman Jack Hillen and goal.tender Joey MacDonald led to a giveaway in front of the net that gave Zach Parise the Devils' first goal at 14:24 in a short-handed situation. MacDonald (19 saves) was beaten twice to the glove side on the Devils' other goals by Patrik Elias at 5:21 of the second period and by Anssi Salmela at 14:03 of the third.
The main highlight of the evening for Islanders fans were three first-period fights involving enforcers Brandon Sugden, Tim Jackman and Mitch Fritz. Sugden and Fritz won clear decisions, and Jackman was wrestled to the ice.
But that was the sideshow. The important part was the growing pains endured by young forwards Kyle Okposo, Jeff Tambellini and Frans Nielsen. They had their moments, especially Okposo, whose combination of speed and strength holds unmistakable promise. But they totaled only four shots, including two by Okposo, who was stopped on one tough drive down the slot when he went to his backhand.
Gordon said Okposo should have had more shots. "I need to shoot more," Okposo said. "I made some poor decisions with the puck. I was in the slot several times where I didn't shoot. I've got to get that cemented in my brain that I've got to shoot that puck."
It's the only way to score.
Notes"es: Gordon announced goaltender Rick Di.Pietro will work out with the team for the first time since undergoing knee surgery in June in the pregame skate Friday morning before the rematch with the Devils at the Prudential Center.

Alf is my hero

Team president Mark Murphy made this cryptic comment: "We will welcome him back and turn this situation to our advantage."

Not Favre's advantage.
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Their advantage.

Well, look: The double standard by which the Packers and other organizations operate, when it comes to their most valued employees, isn't always fair. In some ways, it stinks. But such is life. And in this situation, a messy one caused by Favre when he prematurely retired in March, the Packers are doing him a disservice.

Favre hasn't earned respect the last few weeks, but the Packers should show him some anyway.

Why? Because he's Brett Favre. Because, in case you forgot, he has done a lot for Green Bay and the Packers. And because they don't have anyone better at quarterback. Until he proves otherwise, or until someone better comes along, Favre still is the company superstar.

The Packers have mishandled this situation a lot worse than Favre did the football against the Giants in the NFC Championship Game. Let's get this straight: He must fight for the quarterback job? Favre never lost the job, and Aaron Rodgers hasn't done anything to win it. Favre is coming off a solid year, NFC title game aside. Rodgers has collected money for nothing. Ask his teammates whom they'd rather have taking snaps. Even better: Ask the rest of the NFL whom they would rather see taking snaps.

By declaring an open competition, the Packers guaranteed themselves a zoo after every practice and every game. Each pass and interception will be doubly scrutinized, and if Rodgers is "declared" the winner, when he throws an interception, chaos surely will follow.

That's not only unfair to Favre, it's unfair to Rodgers. His chance will come soon enough, but not as long as Favre is around.

The Packers should either show Favre the respect he has earned for almost two decades or show him the door, even if that means sending him to Minnesota or Chicago. Anything is acceptable except the status quo, which helps no one, least of all us.

We'd like to see this go away fast, faster than do the Packers and Favre.

Stevejannace

Make no mistake, it is owned by James Dolan and run by Thomas, but until this franchise can find someone strong enough - and talented enough - to take the ball from him, this is Marbury's team.

The controversial point guard had the ball back in his hands and had total control of it and his team in last night's 113-109 win over the Jazz at the Garden. It was a vintage performance by Marbury, who had 28 points, six assists, two steals and even blocked a shot in 36 minutes, 41 seconds.

The Knicks (4-9) won their second straight game after an eight-game losing streak that included Marbury infamously going AWOL on the team in Phoenix when Thomas informed him he'd be going to the bench.

On the surface, it appears Thomas won this battle of wills. He is now getting the most out of his $20-million point guard.

"I thought Marbury was great," Thomas said. "Just from start to finish, he was great."

Thomas, alluding to his public feud with Marbury, said you "don't have to get on him too often, but you do have to remind him sometimes how good he should be."

But before you give credit, look closer. It can be argued that Marbury actually emerged the victor over his coach. Just hear him explain the difference between the past two games, in which he was easily the Knicks' best player, and the previous 11.

"I have the ball more, that's pretty much it," Marbury said. "When I have the ball more and am able to create and make plays, I can get into a nice flow. Coming into this year, I was trying to pick up from last year at the end of the season. But that didn't happen. But, with time, everything will happen."

When asked if his improved play, most notably on defense, was a result of his tete a tete with Thomas, Marbury bristled.

"I mean, that's over with," he said. "We played a really good game tonight."

Zach Randolph had 25 points and 14 rebounds and Jamal Crawford 22 points for the Knicks.

de, a black swastika was spray-painted on a fence outside the Oceanside Jewish Center on Brower Avenue, and another at the nearby Temple Avodah on Oceanside Road. No arrests had been made by late Wednesday.

"Anything that has to do with Nazi symbols is very frightening to Jews," said Leonard Lerner, the center's executive director.

In the winter of 2003, the center and temple were subjected to similar attacks, when harassing calls were made and a swastika was stomped out in the snow.

"Unfortunately, there are various synagogue locations where we've had incidents like this and ... many of these cases go unsolved," Shapiro said.

Erich Gliebe, a chairman for the West Virgina-based National Alliance, said the group believes in white separation, not in spreading hate.

"We are deeply saddened that someone would do this. These acts are senseless," Gliebe said, adding that members live across Long Island, New York City and New York State.

Debra L. Wabnik

Debra L. Wabnik

Two astronauts began a spacewalk Monday to replace equipment on the international space station as NASA worked feverishly to decide whether the shuttle Endeavour's crew would need to repair a gouge on the ship's belly later this week.

A chunk of insulating foam smacked the shuttle during liftoff last week, creating a 3 1/2-inch-long gouge that penetrates all the way through the thermal shielding on the ship's underside.

Teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan and other crew members spent much of Sunday using a laser boom attached to the shuttle's robot arm to create 3-D images of the gash and a few other damaged areas that NASA officials say pose no threat.

Mission managers expect to decide Monday, or Tuesday at the latest, whether to send astronauts out to patch the gouge. Engineers are trying to determine whether the marred area can withstand the searing heat of atmospheric re-entry at flight's end. Actual heating tests will be conducted on similarly damaged samples.

The space shuttle Columbia was destroyed in 2003 when hot atmospheric gases seeped into a hole in its wing and melted the wing from the inside out. A foam strike at liftoff caused the gash.

"We have really prepared for exactly this case, since Columbia," said John Shannon, chairman of the mission management team. "We have spent a lot of money in the program and a lot of time and a lot of people's efforts to be ready to handle exactly this case."