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Sept. 4 Menu and Events (Day 9)

I slept in today. Boy was I tired!

A few quick notes before I go all forgetty: I figured out I CAN darken link text (herpaderp), so I ran through the recipe indexes on the site (<– see the green color here? A little too light for many) and made everything darker.

Now you won’t have to go blind in your eyeballs anymore with the bright green. It was like radioactive Hulk words.

Also, I have cleaned the menu up top a little bit. Instead of all of the busy drop-down menu foolishness, see the TAGS section in the sidebar (at right). Need a recipe with Zucchini? Just click the “Zucchini” tab. Need a fun way to use jicama? Choose that tab. Hovering over tabs also gives you a pretty solid idea of what this site has to offer.

I have also moved the CATEGORIES to the side as well! Check there for all of your favorites, from “Less than 5 carbs” to “Humor” to “Tips” to “Sugar-Free” to “Ovo-Lacto Vegetarian”! They’re all there now.

At almost 1,000 posts and 400 recipes, we have a lot more to come so I want to keep the site as tidy and as organized as possible.

I really love this new site design, our Mid-Year Resolution, and my renewed sense of purpose: To work with as many wonderful friends and families as I can to help you to love your food, too.

Now what I had yesterday… First of all, here’s the plan I’m following and here is the introduction post to the Mid-Year Resolution Challenge.

While you look at what I’m doing, be sure to do your thing. I am thrilled to give some ideas, but I’m not the person you should necessarily look to for dieting advice (I’m not a paid nosh-a-titian). I am, however, here with you to cheer you on when you’re so slim you have to run around the shower just to get wet.

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Tuesday, September 4

I ate this:

Breakfast: I slept in and got right to work, so…
Lunch: 1/2 of a Radical veggie omelet and sausage patty + Dr. Zevia Cola
Snack: Diet Coke (hey, I’m being honest here)
Dinner: Spectacular meatloaf recipe I’ll share with you very soon… + green beans + Dr. Zevia

I am going to work more fats and proteins into breakfast, starting today. I forgot how much I like omelets loaded with veggies and some cheese. I also forgot how filling they are. I will save the other half for tomorrow.

Today I Learned:

That I really need that protein-y/high fat breakfast back to kick the weight loss into gear (that French Toast at right? Mmmm).

Sure, I had an amazing first week of weight loss, but I want to keep these metabolic fires burning, baby! As a recipe developer, I tend to eat my latest work, meal after meal, until they are gone. Unfortunately, at the same time, then I miss out on some of my favorite dishes–like three-egg omelets.

I am looking forward to having more fun with eggy/beefy/porky breakfast offerings and will be sure to share those explorations with you, too. It’s fun to have ideas for fun, different omelets, wonderful waffles, marvellous muffins, and perfect pancakes, and all without the guilt.

And when I have a main course or a dessert I feel I have to put first, I’m going to, instead, freeze it for later when I really need the quick meal to keep me going.

What are you enjoying for breakfast?

  1. Kathy Fuller says:

    Hey Jamie…I’m such a dolt, but I have gathered by reading here so much lately, that I should be getting a lot of fat. But I’m not really sure how to increase my fat. I know you’ll have tons of ways to do it, and maybe it’s already listed on this site somewhere. I don’t think I’m getting a lot of fat…probably not even close to what I should be getting.

    • Hi, Kathy! I never judge questions. Ever. Why? Because we were all new once. To add healthy saturated fat, look to things like butter, mayonnaise, coconut oil, olives, cheese, fatty, marbled meats, egg yolks, and bacon. It’s really easy to slip an extra Tbsp of mayo into a salad, or to add a couple of strips of bacon to your meal. I use Hormel uncured and I love it! If you’re not in Atkins induction, you can look to macadamia nuts as an excellent source of fats, too.

      • Kathy Fuller says:

        Thanks, Jamie!! 🙂

        • You’re welcome! Let me know what you try and like! Also, as an aside, flax seed meal is another winner. Schmear it with cream cheese as a cracker and you’ll add some more fat (and some fiber), too:

          • Kathy Fuller says:

            Thanks, I definitely try this, too. Do you know if WalMart carries the flax seed meal? I’ve never heard of it before. I live in a very tiny town (about 6000 residents), so we don’t have a lot of variety. We do have 2 Super WalMart stores within about 15 minutes in either direction from my house in the neighboring town, and we have Kroger in that town, as well. But mostly, I shop at WalMart.

          • Kathy, I know WalMart at least used to carry Bob’s Red Mill flax seed meal in the baking aisle. They still might! I’d look and see. I have seen flax seed meal at Big Lots too, usually for a really reduced price.

  2. Mary Langerude says:

    Would it work to make a grilled cheese sandwich out of Oopsies? Slather them with butter and put some gooey cheese inside? Plop in fry pan?

    • I have heard of people making oopsies into grilled cheese for sure! I know there’s a panini recipe on my site with oopsies, so I say definitely give them a try! Just be careful that the oopsies don’t overbrown quickly.

  3. I can’t eat egg and bacon dishes for breakfast. I like something sweet with my coffee. So I rely on baked stuff like your brownies, oopsie roll cake, etc. Tonight I will try a pumpkin muffin recipe. Sometimes, in emergency situations (like I ran out of all my baked goodies) I will have an Atkins bar or a Quest bar.

  4. What I enjoyed for breakfast:

    French roast decaf w half and half
    stir-fried pre-roasted green bell peppers & onions with soy chorizo (Jamie and other soy allergic peeps: of course, you can substitute real meat chorizo here, and save yourself a few carbs), 2 jumbo eggs, sprinkled on pepper jack Monterey cheese, kalamata olives.

    fried in copious amount of coconut oil.

    sour cream
    Chinese garlic-chili paste
    homegrown cherry tomatoes

    A word about coconut oil: I made a really serendipitous discovery about frying eggs in very hot coconut oil. As you all likely know, coconut oil has a very high smoke rate. That means you can heat it very hot and it doesn’t burn. I was making eggplant fries the other night ….

    ….eggplant cut into french fry fashion (don’t bother to skin it, you lose all the goodness of vitamins & minerals and yadda yadda)
    dipped in beaten egg
    coated in coconut flour
    fried in 1/2″ of coconut oil, hot hot…

    …and I wanted to use up some unused beaten egg, so I tossed it into the still hot coconut oil, and OHMYGOD OHMYGOD it puffed up liked a little soufflé and became this coconut egg fluff thing, and it was the tastiest thing ever in a million coconut years.

    • That sounds really delicious, Lisa. I love your willingness to give things a shot, not even knowing how they might come out. I will try coconut oil for high smoke point cooking; I have picky eaters who whine about coconut anything, so I have to be a sneaky little boog about it.

      • I did go out many moons ago to find coconut oil. The only way it came was in what appeared to be a jar….like a face cream jar?! That confused me and so, I did not purchase the product and left the store! Is that how it comes? Enlighten me, someone, please! Is it only for frying?? I know nothing about this product!

        • I see coconut oil for use in baking at Trader Joes and I’m sure Whole Foods. It does come in a jar. I get Nutiva brand from Netrition, organic extra virgin. It does have a taste, which I like, but you can buy it without flavor. It is a solid and it a liquid at 76 degrees. So in summer when I keep my house not too cool (saves money) it becomes a liquid just sitting in the pantry. In winter I just put the whole container in the microwave and put it on defrost for 30 seconds at a time to liquify it. Easier to measure that way. Not sure who else sells it, but I’m sure you can do a search online. Hope this helps.

        • Yep, it comes in a jar and even Walmart has an organic brand of coconut oil. Its really good.

          • Oh, thank you for the info on coconut oil! I guess I am a crisco oil girl and olive oil girl…therefore I could not imagine a jar! I will look for it once more.

            It seems that it is favoured in the low carb life!

          • I also like peanut oil for higher-heat cooking.

      • Ivonne carlo says:

        You can try the refined coconut oil for cooking, it doesn’t have the coconut taste that the unrefined does… 🙂

  5. I made bacon wrapped jalapeno chicken bites for lunch and uh…my kids went ape. They were declared a must for the weekly menu. Delish. I got the recipe here ( Please delete the link if you don’t allow them and I’ll post the abridged recipe 🙂

    Question: If you had to choose one induction friendly sweet treat, what would it be? I want “something” but I don’t know what! PB is good 😉 And by induction friendly, I’m more counting the carb grams than avoiding, say, nuts for the first two weeks. TIA!

  6. Ivonne carlo says:

    And today for brekkies I had zuccquini fritters (fried in co and butter), 2 fried eggs with ham and a piece of provolone on top wih a half&half cappuccino. Mmm good! 3 hours later and am still stuffed!

  7. Thank you for all your inspiration Jamie!! This morning I had my coffee with sugar free vanilla creamer, an omelette with a little heavy cream red pepper flakes black pepper Cheddar cheese and pepperoni. And of corse a side of Bacon! Yummy stuff. I love breakfast! I think it the easy meal to make with low carbing 🙂 have a great day……blessings

  8. I have been having a boring protein shake–4 oz heavy cream, 2 tbs coconut oil, 25 grams whey protein, 2 tbs cocoa, a handful of spinach (the cocoa covers the taste) and a little sweetener. Boring. I’m inspired to try the Oopsie French Toast. Yum! I have DaVincis. I buy prewashed spinach at Costco and stuff it in a ziplock bag and freeze it, then break off a chunk. You can’t use frozen spinach b/c it’s not washed.

  9. Hmmm….well….I didn’t have the right pans so I just made lumps. And all I had was bakers chocolate so I had to try to sweeten that up with EZSweetz. Still bitter. I liked the “doughnut”/oopsie but not the glaze….and that’s most likely because I didn’t have the right stuff. Think next time I’ll go for a cheesecake. You have some amazing ones but I need to go look for a simple one 🙂

  10. Thank you thank you thank you for going to post breakfast items with protein and fat in them. I believe that has been my problem with my weight creeping up, reverting back to low fat, but still high proteins. I have added fat into my meals and it seems to be creeping in the right direction this week! So I look forward to new ideas on breakfasts. I fry 2 eggs in coconut oil with some homemade sausage and homemade yogurt every daggone day. It is yummy but a change would be nice. Thank you, Jamie!!!!

  11. Breakfast – most mornings while I’m working I’ll have fresh berries and plain yogurt, like this morning, which I had with some bacon on the side. The other day, though, I made LC waffles from almond flour and they were crispy and sooo good and we had strawberries mashed into a sauce and sweetened with Stevia and some whipped cream on top.

    I’m definitely going to try Lisa’s idea of frying beaten egg in hot coconut oil…sounds interesting!

    I have a version of your lasagna in the oven right now, depending on what was fresh in the garden… made the tomato sauce in my Ninja, just cored the tomatoes and tossed them in!

  12. I’ve been having 2 fried eggs and 3 strips of bacon. That will hold me until mid day then I will have some cheese. Dinner is my downfall, I get really hungry so any help with filling snacks would help me but nuts and hard boiled eggs are boring…….

    • LynnMarie, I totally get you! Dinner is when we’re generally pooped, too! Worst-case, making a super-big omelet and saving the rest for dinner works wonders.

  13. You are such an inspiration! May God Bless you always!

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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

A Leap Forward

A leap year has one extra day and everybody is doing rounds saying - you might as well start something new today. A couple of days back, the little one decide to leap forward with a blog of his own.

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Read it and pass on your opinions.

PS: Edited to add: the little one's blog is now four posts old now :)

Friday, February 17, 2012

I don't know if I have taken up this tag before, it was probably a different version. February looks very empty, so I decided to post it..

Age: Quarter Century this April

Bed Size: 6ft x 3ft

Chores that you hate: House cleaning sessions, washing vessels :-/

Dogs: Thanks! I don’t fancy animals.

Essential start to your day: Piping Hot Filter Kaapi with Milk Bikis. Yes, I roll like that.

Favorite Color: Anything but Browns and Grays.

Gold or Silver: Gold!! I bought gold for a whopping 50k to only keep it in a safe locker in Amma’s Bank. Oh, btw, I like Diamonds and Precious stones better :D

Height: 5 feet 3 inches,

Instruments that you play: If playing around with spoons and plates count – yes I’m a musician!

Job Title: Supposedly so-called Business Analyst – if you know me, you know what I call it.

Kids: None!

Live: Born in Bombay, lived the first few years in Bangalore and then it’s been Chennai ever since

Music: Anything, as long as it doesn’t hurt my ears.

Nicknames: Parents call me Sandhu, Otherwise its Sandy.

Obsessive Compulsion: Too many :P

Pet peeves: I hate waiting, basically very impatient and unsolicited advice pisses me off

Quote: "I’m a born Yo-Yo, the harder you push me down; the faster I’ll bounce back”

Right or left Handed: Right Handed

Siblings: A 19yr old who gives me life saving gyaan

Travel Destinations: Would love to travel the world! Food Journalism was a dream job sometime back :P

Unacceptable: Disrespect, being criticized for no reason and putting me down.

Vegetable(s) you hate: Not too many..

What makes you run late: It's not what, it's who. Amma!! :D

X-Rays you have had: Teeth and teeth and teeth, knees, knees and knees

Yummy food that you make: According to family and friends – anything that I dish out is Yummy! :D

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Sunday, June 03, 2007

Haliburton Finds New Ways to Fudge the Bottom Line

'Mutant Commandos.'
A new wrinkle has been unocovered in the recent story about the U.S. military putting amputees back on active duty, and even back into combat. The Pentagon has just been announced that the return of amputees to active duty is only the beginning. A new form of "Super Soldier" is being created and tested for military applications. The super soldier is a mutant hybrid nicknamed the "Mutant Commandos."

The new soldiers are much smaller than the standard soldiers of today, and thus need fewer requirements to carry out their duties. Officials at Haliburton are proud of their new prototypes, who they say that the company will be able to save battlefield deployment costs on food, shelter and transportation costs.

Detractors of the program point out that the mutants are barely human, and are ill equipped to fight in battle. Pentagon officials poo-poo the idea that the mutants are less than human.

"Why, they are at least as human as Dick Cheney!" Said one official. "Everybody know that Dick Cheney is a human, right?" Reports of the vice-president being a human are still being compiled as of this date.

If we can get them to the battlefield and save money for the company, then I just don't see what the problem is," Said a Haliburton spokesman. "I mean, what's good for the company is good for America. Am I right or am I right?"

'Mutant Commandos.'

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At Sun Jun 03, 06:55:00 PM, Blogger angry ballerina said...

I need to stop reading shit like this, least I break something.

At Sun Jun 03, 08:08:00 PM, Anonymous Jess Wundrun said...

Dr. Zaius, I think the Onion needs you. And if not for copy then definately for teh photoshopping.

At Mon Jun 04, 02:41:00 AM, Blogger Dr. Zaius said...

Angry Ballerina: Hmm... I hope that I didn't offend.

Jess Wundrun: Ha! you said 'teh'! :o) Suddenly I feel hip! Thank you for yor kind words.

At Mon Jun 04, 05:20:00 AM, Blogger Jon the Intergalactic Gladiator said...

I don't see what everyone's upset about. You go to war with the Army you've got, not with the one you wish you had.

At Mon Jun 04, 08:53:00 AM, Anonymous Tengrain said...

Dr. Z -

I suspect fraud. I mean how would these mutants salute?

Oh. Never mind.

At Mon Jun 04, 10:23:00 AM, Blogger DCup said...

Will the evil never cease?

At Mon Jun 04, 01:53:00 PM, Blogger Dr. Zaius said...

Jon the Intergalactic Gladiator: That's right! And with an attitude like that, you can go far in this man's army.

Tengrain: Both the Pentagon and Haliburton have guaranteed this programs. Surely you trust them! (I cannot believe that you had the self-control to not make one of your f*sting joke!)

DCup: We can only hope.

At Mon Jun 04, 03:30:00 PM, Blogger Becca said...

The mutant soldiers look like Krang from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Whose not for a whole army of mutant brain soldiers running around battlefields with guns?

At Tue Jun 05, 06:21:00 AM, Blogger Dr. Zaius said...

Hey, if it's good for Haliburton, I guess it must be good for the country - right?

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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Flash Flag from Flash Rebirth as illustrated by Ethan Van Sciver 2011

A flag on top of the dome of the Flash Museum features a flash flag.  It has red background with the Flash insignia in the upper right hand corner.  Red flags are usually not so American Patriotic, but only if it has the Flash icon upon it, it seems rightfully to chant USA, USA, USA!  Besides the Flash Flag, the livery colours of the Flash can be seen on streamer pennants of red and yellow.

This scene was taken from Flash Rebirth 2009 and wonderfully illustrated with exquisite detail by Ethan Van Sciver and a nacho supreme story written by Geoff Johns about the amazing return of the Heroic Flash - Barry Allen - who 'died' in 1985.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Glendale Music School Banner - The Jackson Five and Carol Burnett

A banner from the Glendale Music School can be seen in a short comedy sketch featuring Carol Brunett and the Jackson 5. It has a white background and funky Fleur-De-Li's like symbol.  In this video the classroom banners have been reversed so they face the camera the correct way, so they can be read.

During age of television or one way media, things were different but not so different.  Classroom shenanigans and smart mouthing has been around since before TV and radio, but back then their were harsh consequences for being a showboat.

But when teachers are able to turn up and expand previously unreachable minds, the Earth will certainly feel like it's moving.

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Metropolitan Police Department Flag from - 21 Jump Street 2012

The seminal high school undercover classic television show 21 Jump Street was reboot in an epic comedic post grad high school film, 21 Jump Street 2012.  Sometimes the universe puts together two unlikely heroes.  In this case two men who missed out on their prom are fatefully given a second chance to prom while saving the day.   This movie is part high school drama and part cop show.  In a weird way it is a social commentary on high school life with all its pluses and minuses.  It takes all the judgemental icky suburban social ugliness and turns it upside down with giggles and jokes.

The flag of the Metropolitan Police can be seen in several scenes.  It is composed of the city logo with a blue background.  Here Ice Cube stars as the chief of the undercover 21 Jump Street Team.  The police building is in an abandoned Korean-American Church, as you can see the stain glass window in the background and a left over cross behind Captain Dickinson.  The movie gives an uplifting message with hope that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and things can work out, but often in a way you would never have expected.

Hoppy Easter

Friday, April 18, 2014

Flags from Get Low, A True Tall Tale - 2010

Get Low is an old fashioned yarn with a certain kind of charm, in a similar steady pace and tone to Driving Miss Daisy.  It is serious cinema that addresses the issues of guilt, forgiveness, and redemption.  It gets preachy without being all that preachy, it simply lets the story tell itself.

If you can't stand to sit though this movie, then you need eat at the kiddie table, and shouldn't be bossing anybody around.

A well put together film that packed with nutritious themes.  In another scene the patriotic bunting can be seen on the stage.  The US Flag can be seen in the corner store window.

Carrying guilt effects one and in a serendipitous way connects us to others in ways that only the mysterious chords of history yet to come can unravel and understand.

Have an Extra Good Friday this Friday!

Sunday, April 13, 2014

US Flag in Inception 2010

 The US flag just barley slips in the 2010 seminal movie about dreams.  As the hero enters customs at Los Angeles International Airport, the bottom half of the US flag can be seen - the bottom four stripes.

Dominick, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, gets clearance from a multinational corporate conglomerate to reenter the United States after inserting an idea into anther persons dream, which is termed 'inception' in this film.
The architect of the key inception dream world is Ariadne played by Ellen Paige.  When Ariadne passes through customs the badge of the combined US Customs Homeland Security badge can be seen.

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Flags in Dirty Dancing 1987

Before the occlusion of Dancing with the Stars on the Imagination of the American Public, there was Dirty Dancing twirling in from 1987.  It was the classic retro movie of the early 1960s created in the 1980s.   The soundtrack successfully blended the early sixties with the later eighties dance pop.

A coming of Age Movie in more ways than one, not just for girls but reflective as well for society.  The cultural shift in America from the 1961 to 1969, has never been matched on any magnitude before.
Dirty Dancing addressed serious issues of the heart, family relationships, class structure, and dancing with a distinguished sparkle.  More than just a sermon, it was a second movement to Foot Loose Philosophy, with a dramatic and fairytale charm.

Unique vexillological items of interest include the plastic putting flags of Kellerman's Mountain House retreat, that use the K emblem.  The US flag also appears on the porch workers residence.  The US flag can be seen behind Patrick Swayze's head as he gets into a scuffle with an egoic, mean spirited college boy.

Starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, it falls into the Some Where Over the Rainbow Class of movies that include the like of The Wizard of Oz, Back to the Future, Titanic, and Star Wars.  And done with less industrial magic and more with good old fashioned authentic butter and bread theatrical A+ acting.


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Monday, October 3, 2016

Car Door Greek Flag from My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2002

In 2002 My Big Fat Greek Wedding made a comforting splash in America.  As with any ethnic group in the USA, many Greeks love to display their flag.  The design is fatefully similar to the US flag, having a canton on a field of stripes.  But the field of stripes are blue and white.  In the canton is a white cross. You can also see the US flag hanging properly near the front porch.

The heroine, Nia Vardalos, of the movie comes out of her shell and exposes some of the insecurities of growing up Greek in America.  America has base root love affair with Greece via the study of classics and college social societies.  And every classroom in America dedicates it's classroom time to the Ancient Greeks. The Ancient Irish, English, Scottish, Germans, French, Sub-Sahran Africans, and Native American civilizations hardly get a fraction of classroom time as compared to the Greeks.  Nonetheless Greek civilization is way cool, and remember to eat more Gyros.

Note Gyros are properly pronounced with a hard G as in Greek!  "Ghee-Row"  not "Jai-Row!"  Although "Jai-Row" rolls off the tongue easier.  Most Greeks don't seem to care, it's the non-Greek armchair experts who make an issue of Gyros, who probably don't even know the Greek, or Jreek, Alphabet.

Greece is at the cultural nexus of the Old Word mixed up with elements of Asian, African, and European culture.  Interestingly Greece has a small part of her national territory East of Asia and South of Africa.  Thus Greece is only European Nation that can see all sides of the Old World Rubric.  Greece can look Westward at the East, Eastward to Europe, South at Africa, and North to Africa.

Like many Asian nations, the Greeks have their own private alphabet.  For example the hallmark of an Asian family group is to maintain a unique alphabet: Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Khmer, Sanskrit, Bengali, Nepalese, Mongolian, Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Burmese, and Hebrew.  European nations have borrowed the Latin Alphabet or Cyrillic Alphabet.  There is no original English, German, Spanish, French, Romanian, or Scottish alphabet.  Imagine going to colleges in America and finding fraterneties and sororities with three letter Hangul, Katakana, Arabic, Hebrew, or Sanskrit letters?

In any case My Big Fat Greek-Uruguay Wedding 3- Greeks Down Under in America would be a classic culture clash fun filled original movie. Since Uriguay's flag is the Fraternal Twin of Greece: both flags have 9 horizontal stripes of counter point colours of blue and white; and cross points in the canton.

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Glover ends post-US Open golf title drought

Lucas Glover beat Jonathan Byrd at the first playoff hole to capture his first US PGA Tour title since his triumph at the 2009 US Open.

Charlotte: Lucas Glover beat Jonathan Byrd at the first playoff hole to capture his first US PGA Tour title since his triumph at the 2009 US Open.

Glover capped his three-under final-round 69 at Quail Hollow with three straight pars for a 15-under total of 273.

He watched as Byrd drained a 15-foot birdie putt at the last hole of regulation to complete a 72 for 273 and force the playoff.

They returned to 18 for the playoff, where Byrd had to chip from the hazard and made bogey.

Glover could win with two putts from 25 feet and left the first one four feet short. He made that to claim his third career title, one that hadn`t seemed likely coming into the week after he missed the cut in his last three events.

"I`m elated," Glover said. "Any time you win, you`re pleased. It means you beat everybody. You did what you set out to do on Thursday morning when the bell rang.”

"Against this field and on this golf course and in a tournament of this magnitude, I`m thrilled."

South African Rory Sabbatini fired a final-round 65 for sole possession of third place on 274.

American Bill Haas carded a 70 for 275 and was followed by Kevin Na who shot a 71 for 276.

Glover, who started the last round three shots off Byrd`s overnight lead, moved atop the board with a 30-foot eagle putt at the par-five 10th.
A bogey at 12 was followed by a birdie at 13 -- then came another bogey and another birdie before his closing pars on Quail Hollow`s dangerous finishing holes.

At the final hole in regulation he was left off the tee and in the gallery. He was granted relief, but as he set up for the shot his ball rolled down the hill.

Glover got it over the green, chipped to seven feet and made it for par.

Byrd, knowing he needed a birdie to force the playoff, hit his approach to 15 feet and made it.

On a day that saw five players move atop the leaderboard, Byrd`s momentum had evaporated with back-to-back bogeys at eight and nine, two of his four bogeys on the day.

"I`m a little disappointed just because you`re here to win," Byrd said. "You love to compete, especially when you get in a playoff. You birdie the last, you feel like, `Hey, this is just going to work out.`”

"If I couldn`t win, I couldn`t pick anybody else I`d want to win other than Lucas, so I`m very happy for him."

Ireland`s Padraig Harrington wasn`t in contention, but he made news after his round was completed when he was informed that someone thought he had teed his ball ahead of the markers on the 13th tee box.

Harrington and playing partner Phil Mickelson went out to the tee, watched replays and decided there was no way to tell for sure.

While Harrington characteristically takes a penalty if he feels there`s a chance he did something wrong, he was certain this time he hadn`t.
"There`s just no way," he told a rules official on the 13th.

"If somebody asked me, I would have sworn I was six inches behind the marker," said Harrington, who had re-teed once to move the ball back before hitting on the par-three.

His 68 stood and he tied with Mickelson (69) for ninth place, five shots off the lead.

Harrington said he was comfortable with his decision, but added he`d be "falling off the back of the tee" in future to avoid any hint of confusion.

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Five tech predictions Deloitte won’t make for 2011

Five tech predictions Deloitte won't make for 2011

IBM just made its tech predictions for 2015. Big Blue’s teasing us with talk about its holographic mobile phone. Its battery will recharge on fairy dust. Back in 2006, IBM predicted instant vocal translation, but we’re still a long way off having this feature in our daily life.

On January 19, 2011 in Montreal, Deloitte will be back with its technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) predictions. What I like about this company ‚Äî besides that it’s an excellent customer ‚Äî is that they manage to guess every year which technologies will dominate in the following 12 months. They have a success rate over 70%. I can tell you, it’s much more difficult than to make predictions for periods from 5 to 20 years.

The same kind of paradox arises with startups. On the one side, those who predict a radical change in consumer habits in the short term can catch the imagination of venture capitalists who perk up and invest millions all at once in marketing so that the service reaches a critical mass to generate potential profitability.

To develop my social TV startup, Seevibes, I admit being part of the other, more conservative camp that begins by seducing the market this year to have the means to revolutionize it within three years. This pragmatic approach is less sexy, but as with Deloitte’s TMT predictions, I prefer basing my work on more credible results.

My prediction for 2011: startups must be more Cash-Cash than Bling-Bling. Let’s get back together in a year and see who was right.

Fair Interview with Jacob Glick from Google Canada

Two weeks ago, the HEC Montreal organized an event on IT, with stands and conferences. Jacob Glick, Google‘s Canada Policy Counsel, took 2 minutes to talk about copyright & innovation on the Canadian Internet. Jack was kind and politically correct. To fully understand his point of view, you have to take a look at his article on “What is a “balanced approach” to copyright reform?“. This is making a reference to the recent controversy about the restriction of some Canadian Internet provider and their bandwith use (P2P & Co.), which is likely to have an impact on the economic development of the country.