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Many thanks to the community
Dear Editor:
To the People of Mineral Wells:
Since Jr.'s illness we have been shown so many acts of kindness. We want to thank everyone for all the visits, food, prayers and the monetary gifts. The benefit we know was a lot of hard work, but it was greatly appreciated. You never realize how many friends you have until a tragedy happens. Jr. is getting better as time goes on, but he still has a long recovery ahead. Again, thank you for everything everybody has done.
We love you and are so thankful. God bless you.
The Family of Jr. Gil: Jr., Kelli, Brittany and Kendal
Income tax is the real culprit
Dear Editor:
Congress and President Obama continue to disagree on ways to fix our economy while avoiding the real solution. The Income Tax is the real culprit. It is driving business overseas to avoid its penalizing effects. HR25, The Fair Tax Act, will change that.
Every worker will receive their full paycheck without payroll taxes or income taxes deducted. Every business will not have to pay income tax or report any activities to the IRS. Imagine the effect of a consumption tax that will allow that to happen.
The economy is expected to grow by 10.5% the first year HR25 is enacted. Exports are predicted to grow by 35% the first year. How is that for STIMULUS?
HR25 has been shelved within the House Ways and Means Committee for many years. Dave Camp, the chairman of W&M has indicated they will be considering alternative tax proposals this year. He has assigned committees to study them.
The Income Tax lobby is the largest lobby in Washington DC. Congressional members use it to buy votes and paybacks. It will take a grassroots movement to overcome that. Call your congressperson and demand they support the Fair Tax. See fairtax.org for more information.
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Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has angered major veterans groups by refusing to embrace an offer from Congress to provide advance two-year funding of the entire VA budget as protection in the event of another government shutdown.
While acknowledging that such legislation, which has support in both the House and Senate, would avoid disruption in veterans benefits programs, Shinseki made the point that veterans still would be hurt in a shutdown because many VA programs are inextricably intertwined with other federal agencies.
True enough. But another more basic theme runs through this discussion, one that speaks to a traditional core trait of our national character: basic fairness.
Without question, veterans deserve to be protected from the myriad adverse effects of a government shutdown.
But so do the tens of millions of other Americans who receive government benefits many of whom depend on that assistance for such basic needs as keeping roofs over their heads and food on their tables.
Shutting down the government simply is not an acceptable way to govern and any lawmakers who think it is should not be able to shield themselves from the political consequences by picking and choosing who gets hurt and who doesnt.
Congress must stop the petty squabbling and find common ground for a budget compromise that puts an end to the constant lurching from one paralyzing short-fuse crisis to another.
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The jury's still out on whether there's a modest CEO in the land. But there's at least one very clever CEO: Reed Hastings of Netflix.
In a New York Times op-ed, Hastings argues that President Obama's proposal to limit certain CEO pay is "a terrible idea." Most CEOs probably agree. But instead of the usual bromides about how CEOs are geniuses who deserve every penny they earn, Hastings proposes an alternative: Tax anybody who earns over $1 million – which includes most Fortune 500 CEOs – at 50 percent. Including him.
You can already hear them moaning at the country club. Here's how Hastings answers the well-endowed doubters: "Some will tell you that would reduce the incentive to earn but I don't see that as likely. Besides, half of a giant compensation package is still pretty huge, and most of our motivation is the sheer challenge of the job anyway."
[See 15 companies that might not survive 2009.]
I don't know if Hastings is right – or what office he's running for. But I do know that taking this public stance is an imaginative and shrewd business move. Netflix's customer base may include a few upper-crusters who rush to their keyboards to close their accounts. But Hastings's online video-rental company caters mostly to ordinary middle-class Americans. Hastings is a media darling who has been featured in dozens of articles, and it's easy to see why: His populist preaching hits the right tone, for the right audience, at the right time.
Hastings knows something that a lot of CEOs – especially those on Wall Street – still haven't figured out: These days, it's more important than ever to form an emotional bond with your customer. That was true before Wall Street cratered, because the Internet has enhanced accountability and knocked down barriers between the people at the top of the food chain and the people at the bottom. It's even more true now, as titans like Citigroup and General Motors and Bernie Madoff topple and the little guy gets revenge. Or at least a hearing.
[See how Wall Street continues to doom itself.]
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Academic programs recommend students for Graduate Assistantships. Academic Program Coordinators work closely with other faculty within their department when assigning assistantship duties. A GA can be awarded to a student to work within an academic department as a graduate teaching, research or administrative assistant. It is expected that GA's will primarily assist faculty with scholarly/creative activities or instruction, although there are some administrative GA's housed within academic departments. A GA must have no regular teaching responsibility. Alternatively, a Program Coordinator may assign a student to work outside the department assisting the staff in an administrative or advising office. Supervisors in specific administrative or advising offices are allocated a set number of assistants from the Graduate College. They then review the resumes of potential assistants who were assigned awards by their Coordinators/Directors and contact a qualified student directly to discuss the placement. For both internal and external appointments, resumes are required as part of the Graduate Assistantship Application. Regardless of whether a student is placed within or outside their home department, GAs must be allowed the flexibility to first attend to academics while fulfilling the expectations of their assignments.
In order to receive a Graduate Assistantship, a student must be enrolled for at least 9 graduate credit hours, but no more than 14 graduate credit hours. A student may be awarded an assistantship if enrolled for 15 hours – but no more - if one or more credits are part of a formal lab course, local practicum or local part-time internship. The stipend for a GA assigned to work 20 hours per week is $8,000 for the academic year ($4,000 each semester). A GA assigned to work for 15 hours per semester receives a stipend of $6,000 per academic year ($3,000 each semester). A GA assigned to work for 10 hours per week receives a stipend of $4,000 per academic year ($2,000 each semester).
Note that a GA contract may be awarded for a single semester (Fall or Spring) at the discretion of the Program Coordinator. These awards are uncommon.
All new GAs appointed for the academic year must attend an orientation the day before the start of classes in the Fall. All GA's must be evaluated by their supervisor during the term they work (Fall, Spring, Summer). The contract for a Fall or Spring GA runs from the day before classes begin till the last of day of classes in the term, respectively.
A very limited number of GA's is available during the summer, many of which are allocated to such external offices as the Advising Centers. The application process is the same as for the regular academic year, except that Graduate Coordinators do not make assignments. Supervisors of external offices are awarded a set number of assistantship hours. They then review the resumes of potential assistants, contact and discuss their position with them, and make a recommendation to the Graduate College which shall then verify the student's eligibility. Summer Graduate Assistants must be enrolled for at least 6 semester hours (any combination of Maymester, Summer I, II and III). Registration for all 6 hours must be completed prior to the start of Maymester. Summer GAs are paid as a function of whether they work 50 hours (for a total of $750), 100 hours (for a total of $1,500), 150 hours (for a total of $2,250), or 200 hours (for a total of $3,000) based on a schedule that accommodates both the student's course requirements and the needs of the supervisor. Most summer contracts are for Summer I. A student may not work more than 20 hours per week, on average, for a summer assistantship.
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Graduate Assistant (GA) position in the Department of Counselor Education
The Graduate Assistant (GA) position in the Department of Counselor Education consists of providing assistance to faculty/staff and engaging in general office administration activities. Graduate Assistant's works in collaboration with the Department Chair, faculty, and staff to assist in the academic functioning of the department.
Graduate Assistants are professionals, albeit apprentices, in the department. It is the GA's responsibility to become familiar with the policies, procedures, and regulations that pertain to the functioning of the department. Each GA receives an individual assignment within the department to complement his/her academic course load and concentration area.
Graduate Assistants participate in the academic administration that include tasks related to their concentration area (program of study) or that will help them develop skills and experience related to their career direction in counseling. The appointment is primarily a learning experience and helps the student prepare for a professional career in counseling. The GA is given the opportunity to learn the functions of a professional as well as educational management, and research procedures. It is not expected that such an appointment be made to provide routine clerical support.
Graduate Assistants are directly supervised by the Department Chair. The Chair determines the assignment, supervises work, recommends reappointment, and is the primary source of information concerning the details of the assistantship.
A Graduate Assistant must be enrolled in a graduate degree program. Appointments are customarily made to those students who have shown superior aptitude and promise in the discipline of counseling and who appear likely to provide a high quality of service to the Department through their GA activities.
- Works with the Department Chair to assist in the academic, programmatic, and office management of the department
- Provides general assistance to faculty;
- Assists and/or conduct research projects as determined by department faculty
- Supports faculty research by collaborating and entering and analyzing data under faculty supervision;
- Provides library and internet searches/research;
- Provides general administrative assistance;
- Assists in writing, e.g. accreditation and other report writing;
- Helps faculty with course preparation;
- Works collaboratively with other Graduate Assistants;
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By Deanna Kirk
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Corsicana —
Hubert and Amye Dechaume were busy with their jobs at Wal-Mart and parenting two active boys, ages 13 and 10, who both play multiple sports, when life suddenly threw them a curve.
Jordan Dechaume, a fifth grade student at Blooming Grove, woke one morning with a stomach ache, and told his mother it felt like someone punching him. He went outside with his dad and brother to build some fence, but found he couldn't pick up the post hole digger, and doubled over in pain.
"I took him to the emergency room, where they did a couple of tests and ran X-rays on his chest," Amye said. "They said he had acid reflux and sent him home with a prescription for Zantac."
The pain didn't subside, though, and the following Monday Jordan was at Amye's grandmother's house when he began vomiting. Both parents left work and took him to Children's Hospital in Dallas, where more X-rays were done and the prognosis was a pulled muscle in his back.
For two months, Jordan felt horrible and his parents took him to eight different doctors. After many tests, evaluations and referrals to other doctors, Dr. Bob Kingman ran a CT scan, and finally got a diagnosis.
"He saw multiple masses on Jordan's bones," Amye said. "Kingman said it was really weird, but since he didn't know exactly what it was, they sent us back to Children's."
They went straight to Oncology at Children's, and more tests were run, in addition to lots of blood work, and another CT scan, all in the first day. This was in late September.
"They told us his blood work looked really good, but his CT scan showed that he had a form of cancer, but they didn't know what type," she said. "Due to his blood work and how good it looked, they at first thought he had a different kind of cancer that was not as aggressive."
Doctors went in Jordan's back, near his hip, and took a bone marrow sample, which revealed the next day that he has ALL Leukemia, (acute lymphoblastic leukemia). The Dechaumes were told to report to the hospital the next morning for procedures.
"They installed a port right under his rib cage on his side, and also did a spinal tap," Amye said. "That was to make sure there were no leukemia cells anywhere else, that they're just in his bones. They did find out he had several compression fractures going down his back, and his bones were very, very brittle — kind of like the leukemia was eating his bones."
After a four-day stay at the hospital and a blood transfusion, Jordan was doing well and responding to his chemotherapy. He took chemo once weekly for a month, and will now have tests done to see if he's in remission yet. He will continue having chemo once per week for a year, then it will be less frequent, such as once every two weeks, for two to three years as a preventive measure.
Amye's best friend Audra Monger started a Facebook page, Just Luv 4 Jordan, which has been wildly popular and stunned even Jordan. Amye's former Blooming Grove classmate Vicki Barber called immediately, having just been through this battle with Dylan, her son, though a different type of leukemia. They got together and while the boys had a great time laughing and watching movies and cutting up, Vicki filled Amye in on what she can expect at different stages.
There's been a funnel cake fundraiser at a Blooming Grove football game, a pancake breakfast put on by the Blooming Grove Volunteer Fire Department, and a hamburger benefit done by Lonestar Cowboy Church. Grandmother Jamye Putman's aunt and uncle put on a chili supper/auction, and her former boss Dr. Matthew Branch donated a rifle to be auctioned.
Schoolchildren from Dawson Elementary, where the boys formerly attended, as well as Blooming Grove, where they go now, were joined by Mildred Elementary School, where Jamye is the school nurse — to bring their Pennies for Jordan.
"The generosity of children ... the kids at Mildred don't know Jordan," Jamye said. "They give and give of their pennies and dollars and quarters, giving their ice cream money, the little ones are emptying their piggy banks. It is just wonderful to see that.
"You don't realize how good people are until something like this happens ... then you're overwhelmed with all the generosity and kindness. Just wonderful — we're just speechless about it."
Both boys have shown steers at the Navarro County Youth Expo with their 4-H club, older son Brindon Straw plays junior high football and basketball, while Jordan prefers basketball and his passion, baseball.
Jordan has begun to lose his hair, so his dad cut it very short. Hubert has promised to shave his head once Jordan's hair is gone, and Amye went with a very short haircut just this week to show support for her son.
Jordan's spirits are fairly good. He knows he has cancer and has to take treatments for a good while, but he looks forward to being well so he can go back to school and play dodgeball. There are things he wants to do, and knows he can't do them for now. Since his disease was diagnosed early, doctors are very optimistic about him returning to full health.
"It has been so overwhelming, the love and support from all the communities — Corsicana, Dawson, Blooming Grove, even Mildred — they've all poured out so much love and support, it's unbelievable," Amye said. "Prayers, love and support — we need that to continue, even if it seems like he's getting better. He is going to be in this battle for several years.
"Please continue to pray for him, and for us."
Friday, Nov. 2: At Dawson home football game, the 4-H will sell BBQ sandwiches, part of the proceeds will go to Jordan.
Saturday, Nov. 3: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Bake Sale at the Tiger Tote in Dawson, all proceeds will go to Jordan.
Saturday, Nov. 10: 6 p.m., Benefit Football Game at Dawson Football Field, Navarro Logos Lobos -vs- Tri-County Trojans, all proceeds will go to Jordan.
Also: Still selling Just Luv 4 Jordan wristbands, and still have a few Team Jordan t-shirts for sale.
On Facebook: Search "Just Luv 4 Jordan" and "like" his page!
Donations: A fund is set up at Prosperity Bank of Blooming Grove, in the name "Jordan Dechaume Fund."


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ST. LOUIS – Three numbers can affect everything from securing a mortgage or loan to how much interest you'll pay when you're approved for a house. And while they're just three numbers – that typically range from 300 (very bad) to 850 (very good) – there's a lot of information and regulations behind them. But don't worry, if a thing or two about your credit score has left you scratching your head, you're not alone.
"Consumers look at their credit report and they're like, 'I don't understand it. I don't know what it means,'" says Gerri Detweiler, director of consumer education for credit.com and host of Talk Credit Radio.
To clear up the confusion, several credit experts spoke at FinCon, a financial conference in St. Louis last week, and debunked misconceptions about credit scores. Here are 10 common things consumers tend to get wrong about their scores.
1. The credit bureaus Experian, TransUnion and Equifax evaluate my credit score. The three bureaus generate credit reports, but they have nothing to do with judging your credit score or advising lenders whether to approve or deny an application. "The credit report does not rate your credit," says Maxine Sweet, Experian's vice president of public education. "It simply lays out the facts of your history." So who determines what your credit score means? Companies such as FICO and VantageScore Solutions evaluate your credit risk level – what lenders use to decide how risky it is to give you a loan – based on your credit report. Separate scoring models have been developed to help businesses predict if a consumer will make payments as agreed, and the credit score is just one factor used in the model.
2. There's only one type of credit score. There are actually many different scores. For example, FICO has several models with varying score ranges. "If you get your FICO score from one lender, that very likely won't be the same score that you would get from another lender, even though they're using the FICO model," Sweet says. Consumers shouldn't focus on the number, she adds. Instead, look at where your score falls on the risk model and what influences that risk. If a lender declines your application or charges you a higher fee because of your risk, it will disclose factors that are negatively impacting your risk, Sweet explains. "Those factors will tell you what behavior you will need to change to change your credit history," she says.
[Read: Do's and Don'ts for Building a Solid Credit History.]
3. When I close a credit card, the age of the card is no longer factored into my credit score. The only way you lose the benefit of a card's age is if a bureau removes the account from a credit report, says John Ulzheimer, credit expert at CreditSesame.com. "As long as it's still on a credit report, the credit scoring system still sees it, still sees how old it is and still considers the age in the scoring metric," he says. Take Ulzheimer's father as an example: He uses a Sears credit card he opened in 1976, which is the oldest account on his credit report. "The assumption is if he were to close that card, he would lose that decades-long history of that card and potentially lower his score. That's not true," Ulzheimer says. However, there is one caveat: The score would be lost after 10 years (see No. 4).
4. A credit card stops aging the day I close it. Even when you close an account, the credit card still ages. For instance, if you close an American Express card today, the card will be one year older a year from now. And as explained above, you won't lose the value of the card's age. "Not only does it still count in your score, but it continues to age," Ulzheimer says. However, a closed account will not remain on your credit report forever. The credit bureaus delete them from credit reports after 10 years, according to Sweet. There's just one exception: "If the account is in a negative status, it will be deleted at seven years because we can only report negative account history for seven years," she says.


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Maura Pennington, Contributor
I write about my lost generation & liberty.
A new year and more clamoring to alter our lives for good. Top ten ways to lose weight, find a soulmate, achieve Nirvana—everyone has an idea of how we should live and how we can accomplish a full and balanced human experience. Many regimes are worth trying, yet some are as deceptively unproductive as rehashed recommendations in women's magazines. The first that comes to mind is the proliferating trend of "going green."
The first recycling bins that hit the block in my childhood were little yellow plastic boxes. After some years, they began to overflow and people got two bins. Now we have a full-sized rolling county-issued garbage can. This is indeed progress.
What is not progress, however, is badgering people into reverting to practices that modern life has made obsolete. No, of course walking will never go out of style, but what is the practicality of taking a bicycle to a grocery store and strapping two heavily-weighted reusable bags to the handle bars? They're heavily weighted because the stores have a bounty of supplies on their shelves and we weren't going to bring ten reusable bags. Why did we bring reusable bags? Because we live in Washington, D.C. and are charged five cents for the convenience of utilizing the store's already-manufactured plastic bags.
This is a nightmare scenario. Just as bad is the one where we are told to grow vegetables on our windowsills. Subsistence farming is not a condition of life in America and there is no need to reintroduce it. Same with the trend of vegetarianism, which is touted as a way to reduce the carbon footprint of our livestock industry. Let's go back to the grocery store on our bicycles. The meat coolers are full. There aren't fewer steaks packaged because it is fashionable to forgo protein. I would like to see a study about the carbon footprint of growing soy, turning it into tofu, packaging it, and shipping it to a Farmer's Market. Everything has a cost, whether to the environment or to the consumer.
It's a never-ending list of inconveniences that the green movement either peer pressures us into accepting into our lives or legislates through an executive branch agency. Yet it's not the only kind of progressive life coaching that pushes us back into a bygone era.
"The rich need to pay their fair share" is a mantra these days. Yet the words fair and share are not straightforward. The vilified robber barons of late 19th and early 20th Century were not burdened by a federal income tax. Extraordinary circumstances, but it yielded extraordinary results. Arts and education benefited greatly from the philanthropy of these individuals. We continue to enjoy the legacy of those families who have established universities and museums, restored cities, and, not to be overlooked, created products and services that continue to improve our lives.
While we can't go back to a taxless society, if we are indeed going to send us back an age as some progressives see fit, then we can question the need to attack top earners. These are the entrepreneurs and investors who continue to create wealth that enables our consumer culture. Christmas is a season of giving, but it's also a season of buying. The items this go-round would have stunned even a person living just a few years ago. I can't imagine what people before the now humiliated incandescent lightbulb would have thought.
Progressives have their hand in education too. Before the 1950s, the federal government did not play a large role in the school system of the United States. In December, Obama met with university authorities to outline his ideas for controlling an education that is neither compulsory nor economically reasonable for everyone. His administration proposes to dole out federal grants based on student achievement. This might be possible with Kindergarteners who either learn the alphabet or don't, but how does the Secretary of Education propose to determine if the person taking notes and asking questions in The Psychology of Post-Revolutionary French Adolescents is a higher-achiever than the person sitting at the back of the lecture hall in Macroeconomics?
Obama and his colleagues also believe they can insist on eliminating college drop-outs when some college drop-outs have turned out to be the greatest Americans. Another Obama idea—performance-based scholarships. Now, that's really going back an era, back when some students performed better than others because they weren't mandated to all achieve together.
Encouraging a debt-inducing and occasionally superfluous higher education is not progress. It's more reminiscent of an Oxford degree a century ago when high-born gentlemen wore gowns and discussed theology. What's needed is an employable education, which many students in America are already realizing they need to get. Most likely this is not going to come with a $50,000/year price tag.
Quick note. Riding your bike to the grocery store is awesome, liberating, freeing, healthy, and…if we design our communities correctly, safe and appealing. It does take policies to create those friendly environments, but calling them liberal or conservative seems arbitrary. Governments are already building roads. Stripping bike lanes on them doesn't increase or decrease the size of government. Bikes are non-partisan.
You can go ahead and ride your bike around and claim that it's "freeing". I prefer to get my exercise in a different way and I don't think government policies should force me, or anyone else, to follow your ambiguous regimen of a 'balanced and healthy lifestyle'. If riding a bike is truly 'awesome' (as you put it) then feel free to ride any number of miles, in any weather, any temperature, carrying anything; but don't get mad at me when I drive by you while your freezing, tired, chafing, and overall utterly depressed, and I point and laugh at you. Go ahead and ride your Serotta bike, wear all the tights you want, and walk around in your clip in shoes; but don't force government policies on me when I prefer to drive two miles to a grocery store in an Audi R8. Good luck with the chafing!
Ms. Pennington,
I do not see how you can write a blog that, at least initially, is about grocery bags and the shift from one-time-use plastic bags to reusable bags without discussing why that transition is being make. Single-use plastic grocery bags are a major environmental problem. They represent the second largest source of trash along beaches and in the ocean (after cigarette butts).
Now, when you wrote:"What is not progress, however, is badgering people into reverting to practices that modern life has made obsolete. No, of course walking will never go out of style, but what is the practicality of taking a bicycle to a grocery store and strapping two heavily-weighted reusable bags to the handle bars?" you never provided an answer, even a wrong one. It is as if the concept simply arrived one day like a change in the weather without explanation or reason.
So now there is a question cost-benefit analysis, is the cost (the inconvenience) of reusable bags less than the benefits (reduced pollution). This debate has already been concluded in many areas and will be concluded in others, in most, the benefits outweigh the costs. Perhaps you do not agree with this but that is how it was done. However you do your readers a disservice by presenting the argument in a simplistic, one-sided, and uninformative fashion.
Ms. Maura Pennington,
You wrote:"The thing about cost-benefit analysis is that it should be made by the consumer, not by a government coercing us into a behavior by taxation."
However this exactly to role of government, its purpose is to allow certain things to occur and not allow other things to occur. It is government's task to decide that certain things are favored and others not and taxes are just one tool that they have to do that. Taking an absurdly extreme example, government outlaws murder and spends tax payer money to prevent its occurrence. Disincentivizing the use of plastic bags through a nickel fee is the same concept, if vastly less extreme in implication.
Now you may not agree with this particular application of how government power but it is hardly contrary to the concept of good government.
You wrote:"Good government is a curious phrase. A good government secures our rights."
The law is about balancing rights, no right is absolute. You believe that you have the right to use single use plastic grocery bags. Others believe that they have the right to live in world free of trash, including, or especially, single use plastic bags. If both of these rights exist, how are they to be balanced? In some cities, this balancing is done by imposing a 5 cent fee.
This is the role of government, to resolve conflicts between the rights of different groups in a democratic fashion.
You wrote:"It does not stand over my shoulder in the grocery store and whisper in my ear, 'Maura, everyone wants you to say no to the plastic bag. Just say no!'"
Why not? I says "Maura you have to drive your car less than 35 mph on this street but less than 20 mph on that street and 65 mph on open highways." If you fail to obey the government in this case, you will receive a substantial fine, much more than the five cents.
Do you not have the right to drive your automobile in the speed and direction that you desire? Yes, no doubt. However others have the right not have other crash the cars into them and their cars. To balance these competing rights, traffic rules are created and enforced.
This is what government does.
Surely reusing a plastic bag is the correct thing to do – that cannot be disputed. So where does the issue, of someone trying to force you to do it, come in? You exercise your personal choice anyway, so it should be based on your own moral judgement and not upon a reaction to current policy or tax hikes.
If you are talking about extreme adjustments in lifestyle in order to meet sustainability requirements (growing your own produce, going back to the 'dark' ages) then of course it seems an insurmountable problem. Sustainability can work by giving a little, instead of carrying on like the greedy little piggies we are in the western world.
True, people might be jumping to irrational conclusions about climate change, but this is just as likely as them jumping to the correct one. If you are waiting for an undisputable burden of proof, you will be waiting for a very long time indeed. A very small proportion of scientific theories have such a burden of proof, especially when a problem is so complex.
I would enjoy hearing your proposals to address the problem of sustainability.
Enjoying your column.


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At last night's North Tonawanda Common Council meeting, a city resident asked about the proposal to share Paul J. Drof, head of the city's water and wastewater superintendent, with the Niagara Falls Water Board.
In the discussion (click below for full audio), Christiana Street resident Walt Yaro asks the questions, as part of the public comment portion near the end of the meeting. City Attorney Shawn P. Nickerson answers the question about the Walmart lawsuit status. What follows is an exchange between Yaro and Mayor Robert G. Ortt about the proposal.
In his comments, Ortt says Drof approached the city about the matter and supports the idea.
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The search for a UCLA student whose car was found parked near a trailhead in Pacific Palisades has been called off for the night, but it will resume Thursday at 6:30 a.m., said Sgt. Jose Mireles of the Los Angeles Police Department.
David John Goeser's white Toyota Corolla was found in a parking lot near Los Liones Drive and Sunset Boulevard, hours after LAPD announced the 22-year-old student was missing, said Karen Rayner of the LAPD Media Relations Department. The parking lot is near a trailhead for Los Liones Canyon.
Goeser was last seen by his roommates Sunday morning in his Westwood apartment in the 1000 block of Roebling Avenue.
Helicopters circled the area Wednesday evening as officers from LAPD and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department began to search for Goeser. Two "trail/cadaver" dogs were on the scene Wednesday night, Mireles said.
A vehicle will be stationed in the parking lot through the night, Mireles said.
According to City News Service, Goeser is under a doctor's care and requires medication. When family members went to Goeser's apartment to check on him, they found his cellphone, ID and credit cards. They had not heard from him for a week. Mark Goeser, David's father, told KTLA it is "very concerning" that his son left his belongings at his apartment. Mark Goeser also told KTLA his son has been out of touch in recent months and has suffered from depression.
A Facebook page entitled "Find David Goeser" was created Wednesday.
Goeser is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds. He has brown hair, brown eyes and a fair complexion. Goeser is an honors student majoring in English.
Anyone with knowledge of his whereabouts is asked to call the Los Angeles Police Department's missing persons unit at (213) 996-1800.
This article was compiled with information from City News Service.
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated Goeser's height. The story has been updated to reflect his correct height.


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Traffic on the Highway 51-29 West overpass was halted briefly Sunday afternoon. This after a pickup truck rolled over in the southbound lane of the highway, near the exit for Bridge Street in Wausau.
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Many people know very little about this week's feature creature, but should. The great blue skimmer, a dragonfly, is very beneficial (all dragonflies are) because of what it eats — the blood-sucking mosquito. I am grateful for this. I really do not like mosquitos, but they love me. The great blue skimmer is born in water and lives most of its life as a nymph underwater. As a nymph it eats a lot of mosquito larvae — another bonus. As an adult, which fly from May to September, as well as mosquitos, it also eats bees, flies, ants and other small insects.
The great blue skimmer male is powder blue with very blue eyes. The female is similar, but its body is mottled with reddish-brown on its body. Both have dark outlining on the tips of the wings. The great blue skimmer in the photo above is a male. They are very fast and can fly as fast as a race horse can run. They stay close to sources of water such as creeks, ponds and lakes.


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Granite City Man Sentenced for Role in Large Cocaine Distribution Organization
A Granite City man, who was indicted along with twenty-five other individuals and charged with being a member of a large cocaine distribution organization, has been sentenced to prison, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Jaime Tadeo Hernandez, 36, of Granite City, Illinois, who entered a plea of guilty on September 22, 2011, to one count of Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine, was sentenced on February 3, 2012, to 120 months (ten years) in federal prison, followed by a term of five years of supervised release. Hernandez was also ordered to pay a special assessment of $100. Hernandez was also ordered to forfeit $231,000 to the United States.
While twenty-five of Hernandez's co-conspirators have also entered pleas of guilty, one individual who was charged in the same indictment is currently awaiting trial, which is scheduled to begin on March 12, 2012. He is presumed to be innocent of all charges and is entitled to a fair trial at which the Government must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Evidence in support of the indictment was obtained in an investigation which was conducted under the auspices of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF). The OCDETF initiative is designed to bring federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and resources together to identify, target and dismantle large national and international drug trafficking organizations. Participating agencies include the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Homeland Security Investigations (ICE HSI), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), U.S. Marshal Service, the Granite City Police Department, Fairmont City Police 1One co-conspirator pled guilty to an Information, and thus was not indicted. Department, Collinsville Police Department, Fairview Heights Police Department, Caseyville Police Department, Pontoon Beach Police Department, Park Hills (Missouri) Police Department, the St. Clair County Sheriff's Department, and the Illinois State Police. This case is assigned to Assistant United States Attorney Randy G. Massey.


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Salty is turning 3 years old this year and he is personally inviting you to his birthday party!
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December 9, 2012
Arthur B. Ray
Arthur B. Ray, 82, lifelong resident of Niagara Falls, passed away on December 7, 2012, at Mt. St. Mary's Hospital. Born on October 13, 1930, Arthur was the first child born to Marjorie (Shackelford) and Walter Ray. After Marjorie's passing Walter married Hattie Golden.
Arthur attended local schools including Niagara Falls High School, where he was a member of the drama club and also ran track. As a teen, Arthur was responsible for business matters at carnivals that his father ran in the area. He maintained his interest in business and later graduated with an an accounting degree from Niagara County Community College.
Arthur was formerly employed by Carborundum Company as a foreman. Arthur had many business ventures. In the early 1960s, he and his then partner established the accounting firm, Palmore and Ray. Later in 1972 he opened the accounting firm A.B. Ray & Associates, where he continued to work along with his daughters until his illness.
Arthur was the first African American to serve on the Niagara Falls Board of Education during the 1960s and early 1970s. Always active in civic affairs, Arthur was a member of the Deacons Fellowship of Niagara, Gideons International, Electric City Lodge #49, Rotary International and the Black Pioneers among other organizations. He was a longtime member of Emmanuel Baptist Church, where he served as Deacon. He enjoyed cooking and especially enjoyed his family and his friends.
Surviving is his wife of 60 years, Constance (Nicholson) Ray; five children, Arthur B. (Gladys) Ray, Jr., Donna Ray, Robin Ray, Sandra Ray and Heather (Kevin) Ray Cottrell; mother, Hattie Hobbs; one brother, Louis (Muriel) Ray; one sister, Christina Hobbs; eleven grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren; and several relatives. He was predeceased by two sons, Daniel and Jonathan Ray; brothers, Robert, Felix, Walter Jr. and Reginald; two sisters, Jane and Ester.
The family will receive friends at Emmanuel Baptist Church, 3118 Hyde Park Blvd., Niagara Falls, NY on Tuesday, December 11, 2012, from 2:00-4:00 PM and at New Hope Baptist Church, 1122 Buffalo Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY on December 11, 2012, from 5:00-8:00 PM. A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, December 12th, at 11:00 AM at the New Hope Baptist Church. Arrangements entrusted to Williamson Funeral Home.
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Mitchell Zuckoff is a professor of journalism at Boston University. He is the author of Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II. His previous books are: Robert Altman: The Oral Biography, one of Amazon.com's "Best Books of 2009"; Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend, a New York Times Editors' Choice book; and Choosing Naia: A Family's Journey, which received the Christopher Award and was named a Massachusetts Honor Book. He is co-author of Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award.
Zuckoff's magazine work has appeared in The New Yorker, Fortune, and other national and regional publications. He is a former special projects reporter for The Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative reporting. He received the Distinguished Writing Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Livingston Award for International Reporting, the Heywood Broun Award, and the Associated Press Managing Editors' Public Service Award, among other national honors. He lives outside Boston.
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A wildly productive final two drives salvaged a 10-all tie for the West All-Stars Wednesday night in the 66th annual N.C. Coaches Association East-West All-Star Football game.
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The game itself will not top the list of top memories for the local East All-Star girls' basketball stars. That's what an 82-62 loss in the annual N.C. Coaches Association All-Star Game will produce, but the week itself was a great finale for three Triangle-area players and two coaches...
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2014 Southern Metro Swimming Association Championships: Top Finishers in Each Event
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2009: Named to the Horizon League's Fall Academic Honor Roll.
2008: Played in 46 games as a sophomore, making 43 starts for Valpo ... named to the Horizon League All-Tournament Team after hitting .522 in the five games ... hit .295 on the season with 51 hits ... drove in four runs in the season opener at Austin Peay on February 23 ... went 4-for-5 with three runs batted in against Wright State in the Horizon League Tournament on May 23 ... also had four-hit games against Indiana (March 2) and Butler (April 25) ... scored three times in the Butler game as well ... had a 10-game hitting streak from April 9 through May 3 ... named to the Horizon League's Fall and Spring Academic Honor Rolls ... voted to the Horizon League All-Academic Team.
2007: Appeared in seven games for the Crusaders, drawing three starting assignments ... made first collegiate appearance in a pinch-hitting role at Illinois State on March 20 ... made first start and registered first collegiate hit in game two of a doubleheader at Indiana State on March 31 ... had a pinch-hit single against Purdue on May 16 ... named to the Mid-Continent Conference All-Academic Team.
Prep: A four-year letterwinner for the Spartans ... led Lakeview to the Division II state championship as a senior ... a two-time All-Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference selection ... earned All-District honors as a sophomore and junior ... named to the All-City Team twice ... team captain as a junior and senior ... led Spartans to three conference titles and four district crowns ... named to the All-District Academic Team as a junior and senior ... a member of National Honor Society ... also played basketball and football.
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I write about people who build businesses.
Warren Buffett this morning rightly scolds the whiny. Complaints about the possibility of higher taxes next year border on idiotic. The savviest investors will put money to work.
Buffett asks you to imagine a scenario: A smart investor presents an idea. Perhaps it's Buffett himself suggesting you also buy JPMorgan Chase or Party City or whatever. Will you really demur—and pass up such an opportunity because of those increased levies? Only the foolish would.
"Let's forget about the rich and ultrarich going on strike and stuffing their ample funds under their mattresses if — gasp — capital gains rates and ordinary income rates are increased," Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, writes in a New York Times op-ed. "The ultrarich, including me, will forever pursue investment opportunities"
For argument's sake, assume you ignore Buffett. (Shame on you!) You'll go where? To the benchmark 10-year Treasury? Yield there has barely crept above the historic lows recorded earlier this year. Junk bonds? Those yields also sit at mind-thumping lows. No, perhaps you'll pour it into a certificate of deposit. Enjoy your 1% interest. That won't even beat inflation.
It's paid to follow Buffett's lead. Or to put your money directly with him: Shares of Berkshire Hathaway are up more than 80% in the past decade. The S&P 500, meanwhile, has gained 50%. Take the cue again.
Brace yourself, too. Higher taxes seem almost a certainty. The United States needs additional revenue to make its debt more manageable. Some sort of compromise between Democrats and Republicans will require some tax hikes. Right now, barring any Congressional action, the Bush Tax Cuts will expire in January. This will send tax on bond interest to 44.6% from 35%; on capital gains to 25% from 15% and on dividends to 44.6% from 15%. While these figures may change somewhat, as the two sides reach a deal, it's hard to imagine that they'll stay unchanged.
Indeed, the key to solving the fiscal cliff is the sacrifice of sacred cows. For Republicans, that means higher taxes. For Democrats, that means government-spending cuts. The loudest bleating will come from the parties' periphery. Here, as Buffet notes, stands Grover Norquist, champion of a fond (and very far-fetched) dream.
Moreover, to help complete FORBES' latest Investment Guide, I polled some of the best money managers on their outlook (and stock picks) next year. To a man, no one advised going to cash because of higher taxes. A few urged caution, but that stems from a cautious take on this aging bull market.
How much do the tax increases worry Tony Gleason, manager of the Neuberger Berman Equity Income Fund? "A little bit. It's hard to claim that taxes going up are going to be a positive." True, no one likes higher taxes. Alternatives appear bleak, though. "Zero interest rates mean that dividends are really the only source of income in the investment environment right now. We're definitely focused on dividends, and the ability to grow dividends. It's an environment of little income." He holds positions in stocks with juicy payouts, like Johnson & Johnson (a 3.51% yield), Philip Morris (a 3.76% yield) and Cisco Systems (a 2.97% yield). Each security there pays nearly double the benchmark T-bill.
Don Yacktman, one of the best investors since 2008, who runs two eponymous funds, echoes this sentiment. "PepsiCo and Procter & Gamble are like AAA bonds, and the world is not rewarding you enough to go to actual AA or A bonds," he says. Pepsi delivers a 3.1% yield, and P&G shells out 3.2%. Yacktman actively searches for companies that put to cash to use: "Buying back stock. Paying a dividend. That's more effective than just sitting on it." What's best for corporations, here, will probably prove prudent for investors, too.
There's a wide company of bright minds who agree with Buffett: Pity the whiny. Then, start looking for the next opportunity.
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Because you are hell-bent on the President's "income redistribution obsession," I'd like to point you to a few different articles.
First, income-redistribution is a fact; however, it's going from the bottom to the top. It is a fact-based notion that the top 10%, top 1%, and top .1% have ALL been getting wealthier, while the bottom 80% have been getting poorer. http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
Second, let's say you're right. Let's say the President doesn't care about anything except promoting some ideology based on taking wealth from the top and distributing it equally to the poor (in some kind of modern-day, presidential Robin Hood-esque manner, I'm sure). Let's get beyond that, and actually look at facts.
First, let's allow fellow Forbes-contributor Len Burman explain who actually benefits from low capital gain taxes:
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has combined and presented excerpts of recent studies on, specifically, how capital gains affect the economy:
Business Week tackled this problem in a more nonpartisan way:
Here, Robert Lenzer presents the case that the growth of income inequality over the past decade (or wealth concentration at the top, or the rich get richer, or job creators make more money without creating more jobs, or whatever you want to call it) is due to the reduction of capital gains taxes:
A quite insightful Washington Post article makes the case that even though low rates is possibly preferable, necessary tax reform is better–and the realities of politics may make historic low capital gains taxes impossible:
Finally, studies dating to 1996 show that "… dispute the claim that lower capital gains tax rate would have large beneficial effects on output, growth, or entrepreneurial activity in the US economy."
Even if we accepted everything you've written … there remains the hard reality that the proposed tax increases on "the wealthy" aren't even four (4) percent of the deficit. That's it.
A kind description of this is: a joke. An embarrassment.
Leadership? MIA.
So next up, take everything "the wealthy" receive in income. How far will that get you? Still not enough and you can only do that once.
I'll repeat: if you want to tax "the wealthy" some more because it's good demagoguery and you can get away with it (politically that is): fine. Just don't pretend you're making any serious progress in balancing the budget.
While you may be right about "tax rates" when taken by itself, the real revenue decline started with the Bush tax cuts. Restore the pre-Bush rates on dividend and cap gains on that same group and you get a very different picture than you depict. It's way more than 4% from the research I did. Please provide reference links to back up your claims to the contrary.
To your point about spending I completely agree with you. Spending rose steadily at a sharp rate rate since 9/11. A 91% increase on defense was one the largest: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/06/federal-spending-by-the-numbers-2010
It really jumped with the Bush/Obama stimulus and bank bailouts. I don't think it would have mattered which party was in power when but the fact is the republicans of the "deficits don't matter" Bush era started this. This is where the republicans lost me. Tax and spend is crazy but cut and spend is crazier.
So tell me where exactly would you start cutting? Across the board or just the talking point areas that affect you the least personally? Tough question isn't it? I don't have an answer for it either BTW though I would think a balanced approach is better than just whacking SS or Medicare.
The point is both revenue increases and spending decreases need to occur to get us on a balanced track since it was the exact opposite that got us in the mess to begin with.
As for growth the Bush era "growth" was a debt fueled bubble that was unsustainable obviously. We all need to look to our elders (guys like Buffett) to understand real sustainable long term growth and quit acting like day traders that really think Gordon Gecko was right. Not saying you do mind you… but that is the unfortunate mindset that seems to have taken over IMO.
Where to cut? It's never easy but I've said roll back to Bush administration levels, i.e. PRE "stimulus".
One way or another, there's close to $1 trillion to cut and all it does is take us back to 4 years earlier when everyone was howling about GWB's fiscal profligacy. This is not, repeat NOT, austerity!
Not sure about your tax revenue projections.
But maybe we're talking about different things?
Irrespective I hope the point has been made that there isn't enough to be taken in new taxes on "the wealthy" to balance the budget. If you said the entire deficit in the Bush years was from the tax cuts (it's not … watch that spending again) even that is a long way from the $1.3 TRILLION deficit today. Do remember the Bush tax cuts weren't just for "the wealthy". Otherwise it would make no sense to maintain them for taxpayers with incomes below $250K, no?
Uh huh. Because it's absolutely "civil" to call "whiners" anyone who objects to increased robbery of what is theirs by right. Was Jefferson also a "whiner" by writing the Declaration of Independence?
I see several comments about cutting government spending to reduce the deficit. Sadly, that math doesn't work any better than Obama's ideology-driven but economically-flawed proposal to raise taxes. The total US government spending is about $3.6 trillion with a deficit of about $1.4 trillion. The only way to reduce spending by that amount is to eliminate all defense spending and social security entitlements – but I suspect that might be a bit drastic.
Economic growth is the only way to way to solve the problem and the reality is Obama has exacerbated the problem by creating massive uncertainty that hinders corporate investment. Economic policy is unclear and tax policy has been a total Obama failure spanning the unknown and fours years of threats to raise taxes.
As a response, corporations have hoarded cash to defend themselves against the next recession. Estimates are that the Fortune 500 sits on $3 trillion of cash. How about an initiative to (a) get that money pulled back into the US; (b) and an incentive to put it to use expanding their companies, creating growth and jobs??


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Name: Abigail Ruths
School: Shikellamy High
Parents: Colleen and David Ruths
Hometown: Northumberland
My talent or hobby: Singing. Choral music, soprano II
Among the leadership positions I have held: Choir treasurer, band secretary, ski club secretary
Among my special achievements and awards: Pennsylvania Music Educators Association district, regional and all-state chorus; National Association for Music Education All-Eastern Honors Chorus
How I have given back to the community: I raised $1,046 for charity: water (a nonprofit organization that builds wells for people in other countries without clean water) by pledging all my birthday money. My money went to help the people of Rwanda. I sing in the community with the high school choir.
My plans upon graduation: Attend Penn State University or University of California at Los Angeles, continue to medical school (possibly in California), then join the Navy Medical Corps. Would like to live overseas.
Why I was selected as a Young American: Academic standing, leadership qualities, kindness, diligence
What you should know about me: I love to travel. I've been to New Zealand, Australia, the Canadian Rockies and nearly 45 states. I also play guitar, and soprano, alto and tenor saxophone.


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Last week during the primary voting, I realized there was something missing. Women.
OK, there were women on the ballot, but there were a heck of a lot more men. This got me wondering about who exactly was passing federal laws on my behalf. People like me?
As it turns out, the decision-makers aren't much like me at all.
Despite the fact that we ladies constitute more than 50 percent of the U.S. population, we only comprise 17 percent of Congress.
However, if you look at the facts, the country would be better off if women were in charge:
Women have smarticle particles: More women hold degrees in higher education than men and graduate from high school than men.
We have good genes: Over the age of 85, women outlive men 2 to 1. Maybe that's why Medicare covers Viagra.
We're responsible: 4 percent more women vote than men. We just keep voting for men.
As I dug into my research, I learned Congress is even less like me than I thought. While only 1 percent of the US population is a millionaire, almost half of the members of Congress are (47 percent).
During a recession, while most of us were digging change out of their sofas to buy groceries (they're too big to shake out), the net worth of our Congressmen actually increased 25 percent (since 2008).
Speaking of money, we ladies take an additional hit. For every dollar a man earns, women still only earn 77 cents, a disappointing statistic if we consider 59 percent of the workforce age 16 and over is female.
An additional gender "tax" is waged on women who can pay up to 50 percent more for health insurance than men. One reason for the penalty is related to the one thing women are decidedly much better at than men: giving birth.
I admit I didn't realize how much more women paid for health insurance. This fact is coming to light as the disproportionately gendered Supreme Court weighs in on the constitutionality of the Affordable Health Care Act.
Millionaire Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi promised us that we'd have to "pass the bill to know what is in it," and I guess that has come to pass and disturbing details are coming to light.
Sadly, I've been so busy having babies, earning 77 percent of my value, working four jobs and digging for snack money in my sofa I didn't even realize that I had become so expensive. There was that time my husband told me that if he dropped me from his company's health plan the insurance bill for our family of four would be cut in half. That should have been a clue.
Nobody seems to know what is in that health care bill, but I hope I can still get my annual exam as recommended by my doctor. That's not a decision I'd trust to even a well-trained actuary.
I hope as we learn to cut costs women aren't further penalized for the one thing we can control: our health.
Let's just hope the path to reform doesn't come with too many shortcuts. Like this one (click it).


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Bucks' John Henson learns to go with flow
Denver - John Henson's playing time can fluctuate quite a bit from game to game.
A look at the last five games tells the tale.
The Bucks rookie did not play against Golden State on Jan. 26, then played 25 minutes at Detroit in the following game and helped the Bucks beat the Pistons (11 points, six rebounds).
He played just 8 minutes against Chicago in a Bucks' home loss, then did not play at all in New York on Friday in a 96-86 Bucks loss.
But he had nine points and five rebounds in 13 minutes in the Bucks' 107-98 victory over Orlando on Saturday.
"John from game to game is kind of a wild-card player," Bucks coach Jim Boylan said Monday. "He can come out and really have an impact on the game with his scoring ability around the basket."
Luc Richard Mbah a Moute played primarily at the 4 spot (power forward) last season but is starting at small forward this season with Ersan Ilyasova, Henson and Ekpe Udoh getting minutes at the 4 position.
"As a rookie you've got to be ready for things like that," Henson said of his unpredictable minutes. "Hopefully I can show them I can be there on a consistent basis, and I think I'm doing that."
Henson said he has never played in Denver before but is looking forward to going against the Nuggets on Tuesday night.
Denver has won six in a row and is 20-3 on its home court.
"I don't buy into the altitude thing," Boylan said of playing in the Mile High City. "You go out there and play. If we need to shorten our rotations because guys get a little winded or whatever, but you adjust to it.
"They move the ball well. They've got a lot of guys with triple-threat skills; they can shoot, pass and dribble. They play together as a team very nicely, an unselfish team, and they play an up-tempo style as Denver always seems to do. And they put a lot of of pressure on your defense."
Boylan said the Bucks would be without Marquis Daniels for the opener of the two-game trip due to a family matter.
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Thank God we made the coaching move in time. Otherwise, we would not have the clear rotations and rookie development focus that we have today.
Brevin, is Denver physical?
If we want more Henson, then clear away the logjam
I remember calling for Moute to be mostly a small forward. Are we happy with that?Hide replies
As long as Ersan scores, they can live with Moute @ small forward. Then, Dunleavy can play with the others.
If only the Bucks brass would be gutsy...
Dalembert/Sanders at C
Henson at PF
Ersan at SF
The other two stay where they are.
This would/could create offense (and, yes, some defense too). This would also elminate, or at least diminish the need for Ellis and Jennings to take most of the shots. This would also create spacing. This would also create inside offensive capabilities. Simple..., at least the way I see it.
How much worse could Ersan be defensively at the 3 compared to how he is manhandled at the 4...?
There are a lot of 3's that would eat Ersan alive.
Versus how many 4's already eat him alive.
I would like the team to at least try it for a number of games. Maybe 10 games or so...
John is a Wild Card player because his Coach is too stupid to play him regular minutes!Every time he plays,he's productive which is more than we can say about some of the guys who get his minutes!He needs to play to reach his ridiculously high potential!I'm so sick of the sorry excuses as to why this kid doesn't play every game!In New York,when he didn't play at all,Chandler and Melo had their way with us!It was too important to play Larry Sanders 32 minutes after missing time while being sick!Even fans at home know that Melo struggles against length but the guy on our team with the most length(who happens to play the same position as Melo)can't even get into the game!This is a PRIME EXAMPLE of why Jim Boylan is a career assistant!He just doesn't know how to delegate minutes!When a starter is playing awful(no matter who it is),the coach needs to recognize this and sub accordingly.Not this guy!(Boylan)He stay with struggling players too long even though he has the weapons at his disposal to put in there in place of the struggling player!Our future is not Monta Ellis or Bah a Moute!It's Jennings,Sanders,Harris,Udoh,and yes,Henson!These are the kids that need to play until they get it!I'm sick of losing games because our Head Coach is in over his head!Mr. Boylan,since I have no choice but to put up with your incompetence,Please start playing Henson,Gooden,and Dalembert more so we can put a run together and do something special in the Playoffs!I know Hammond has got to make a deadline trade to balance our roster!We have too many capable big men and not enough backcourt help!If we could find a way to trade Gooden or Dalembert but not both!We could compete with Chicago and Indiana!We need 1 of those guys to play regular minutes along with Henson!Either one of those guys can get us a talented guard!There are plenty of teams in the NBA that lack size!Miami would love to have Dlalembert and Mike Miller would be awesome to see with Mike D. at the 3 point line with the Bucks!!Hide replies
I agree with you about Henson.
"Henson" was the easiest word to find...