The talk of the day was about Christmas, or more specifically, Antone Exum's gesture toward three small children in an Orlando Best Buy that made national headlines. I'll have more in tomorrow's News Advance on Exum, but here's the gist of the story. Exum didn't have any plans of giving away his $470 gift card part of the swag from the Russell Athletic Bowl folks before he got to the store.For the quarter under reference, the company achieved a strong growth in orders, up by 61 per cent over the preceding quarter, leading to a backlog of Rs. 6,100 crore, up by 34 per cent against September 2011. The operating profit was lower compared to the preceding quarter, due to low market prices and provisioning of Rs.

The movie version of "The Hunger Games" is generating remarkably good which is to say not at all "Twilight"like reviews. At the Strib, Colin Covert writes: "The muchrepeated motto for teen gladiators of "The Hunger Games" is "