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Every Giants fan knows the tale of Hunter Pence and the fiery speech, which helped spur the team back from the brink of elimination in last year's National League Division Series.
Left out of some renditions is what came just before in Cincinnati – manager Bruce Bochy calling the team together and telling them the Old Testament underdog story of Gideon. That Bochy gathered the Giants for a meeting at all, said reliever Javier Lopez, was notable. "It's not something that he does often," Lopez said.
Bochy, entering his seventh season in San Francisco, found his Hall of Fame candidacy suddenly being weighed after he guided the Giants to their second World Series title in three seasons in 2012. None of the discussion, of course, was originating from him. Bochy, a two-time N.L. Manager of the Year whose 1,454 career victories rank third among active managers, has an understated style that Lopez said resonates with players, especially in pressure situations like the postseason.
"You want a guy that's going to be calm and doesn't panic in those situations," Lopez said. "When Bochy stood in front of us and spoke, it was just, 'This is what we're confronted with, this is how we're going to go about it, try to draw some inspiration, and then leave it at that.' "
That, Lopez said, made it all the more stirring when Pence "took that and absolutely flipped it."
Bochy said his managing style is drawn from men he played for – from Dick Williams, a focus on fundamentals; from Bill Virdon, a "fair but firm" attitude toward players.
"(Virdon) never embarrassed his players, and I try not to," Bochy said. "I try to treat them the way I would want to be treated."
Pence, who arrived midseason via trade last year, said he noticed "a lot of charisma" from Bochy, who can appear stoic and, at times, a little gruff.
"That's what it is," Pence said. "A lot of times in all the chaos of a major-league season, having stability and having that presence, it keeps you level."
For the first time since 2008, somebody other than Tim Lincecum will take the mound for the Giants on Opening Day when they begin the season Monday against the Dodgers in Los Angeles. That honor goes to Matt Cain, who established himself as the staff ace with a 2012 season that included a 16-5 record, a perfect game and starts in the clinchers of all three postseason series.
Otherwise, there's not much different to be found in the Giants' rotation – besides Lincecum's hair.
Madison Bumgarner, whose 16 wins last season were the most by a Giants left-hander since Kirk Rueter did it in 1998, follows Cain, with Lincecum, Barry Zito and Ryan Vogelsong rounding out one of the most reliable staffs in baseball in recent years. Their consistency, in fact, breeds one of their concerns – each made at least 31 starts last season, not counting the playoffs, and will have to maintain his conditioning over the slog of another season.
"Biggest thing is having those guys, the trainers, push us to stay on our stuff," Cain said. "Because it's easy to try to get off of it."
Along with Lincecum's unsettling 2012, the biggest question about the rotation may be what it will look like in a year. Lincecum, who is coming off his worst season as a Giant, and Zito, who's coming off his best, are due to become free agents at the end of 2013.
After one of Zito's early Cactus League outings, Bochy was asked how different the left-hander looked this spring compared to last.
"I wouldn't even know where to begin on that," Bochy said.
A year ago Zito was lost – tinkering with his mechanics and getting hit hard by Cactus League lineups in Arizona. This spring, Bochy said, Zito "came in with the same attitude and delivery that he had last year. He's pitching the same way he did in 2012, and that's all we want."
The Giants have won 14 consecutive Zito starts, including his series-saving outing in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series in St. Louis and his victory over Justin Verlander in the World Series opener.
Zito was 15-8 last season, partly due to run support (4.69 per game, eighth in the N.L.) but also because of a looser, more confident attitude from the 34-year-old, who admittedly let public rancor over his struggles and contract eat at him in the past. Zito also relied more on a cutter to offset his signature looping curveball and trimmed his walk rate (3.42 per nine innings) to its lowest since 2004.
The Giants hold a club option on Zito's contract for 2014. With another season like the last, the left-hander could make that an interesting decision.
The 89-mph fastball that Sergio Romo threw past a frozen Miguel Cabrera to seal the World Series was only the flourish on a brilliant postseason by the right-hander, who allowed one run in 10 2/3 innings and got the final out of all three clinchers.
After stepping into the closer's role late last season following Brian Wilson's injury and Santiago Casilla's shakiness, Romo will begin this season getting the majority of the save opportunities. But with his relative newness to the role, the Giants have other options to ensure they aren't overtaxing Romo, whose career high is 62 innings and whose signature pitch, the slider, can be tough on the elbow.
"(The closer) is a guy you get up a lot, and you may score a run, so it may not be a closing situation," Bochy said. "They may come in two, three games in a row. So Sergio's got to understand we may give him a day off when he may not want it, but we've got to take care of him."
Along with Casilla, the Giants could use left-handers Jeremy Affeldt or Lopez to close games when Romo is unavailable. Romo has said he's willing to pitch whenever the Giants need him.
"He'll get tested as a closer for a whole year vs. a month," Bochy said. "But we believe he can handle it."
The Giants' last quest for a repeat was derailed largely by the plate collision that ended Buster Posey's 2011 season. The plan this season is to give Posey about the same amount of time at first base as in 2012, when he returned to hit .336 and win the MVP. Pablo Sandoval has no more hamate bones to break, but an elbow issue cropped up this spring, and he and many Giants are coming off a short offseason for the second time in three years. The mileage can add up, particularly on the rotation, all of whom made at least 31 starts last season. Each starter tailored his offseason throwing accordingly, but keeping an eye on their conditioning and workload throughout the season will be paramount.
Gregor Blanco was key down the stretch last year after Melky Cabrera's drug suspension, batting .291 in September and October and playing great defense in the playoffs. But the Giants had enough doubt about Blanco as their everyday left fielder to re-sign Andres Torres with designs on using a righty-lefty platoon to start the season. Blanco batted .244 last year and had a slightly higher average against left-handers (.248) than right-handers (.242). Torres hit .286 right-handed for the Mets but just .230 overall. Both started slowly in spring, Torres due to an oblique injury. If one distinguishes himself – or struggles mightily – early on, it will be interesting to see how long the platoon strategy lasts.
Perhaps no fall in baseball was more astounding last season than that of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum, who had the highest ERA (5.18) of all qualifying pitchers in the National League and career highs in losses (15), home runs allowed (23) and walks (90). Lincecum showed up this spring with a new haircut and new physique shaped by an offseason workout program meant to restore explosiveness to his delivery. There's life again on his fastball, but this is about results. The Giants may not be able to carry Lincecum again as they did last year, when they often trailed early and leaned on the bullpen in his starts. And Lincecum will be a free agent when the year is up, so the stakes are high.
– Matt Kawahara
2012: 94-68, won World Series
Manager: Bruce Bochy (seventh season)
They're here: OF Andres Torres, RP Chad Gaudin
They're out of there: IF Emmanuel Burriss, OF Melky Cabrera, RP Clay Hensley, IF Aubrey Huff, RP Guillermo Mota, IF Freddy Sanchez, IF Ryan Theriot, C Eli Whiteside, RP Brian Wilson
Projected lineup: CF Angel Pagan (.288, 8 home runs, 56 RBIs, 95 runs, 29 stolen bases), 2B Marco Scutaro (.306, 7, 74, 87 runs with Rockies and Giants), 3B Pablo Sandoval (.283, 12, 63), C Buster Posey (.336, 24, 103), RF Hunter Pence (.253, 24, 104 with Phillies and Giants), 1B Brandon Belt (.275, 7, 56), LF Gregor Blanco (.244, 5, 34), SS Brandon Crawford (.248, 4, 45)
Rotation: RH Matt Cain (16-5, 2.79 ERA, 193 strikeouts), LH Madison Bumgarner (16-11, 3.37, 191), RH Tim Lincecum (10-15, 5.18, 190), LH Barry Zito (15-8, 4.15, 114), RH Ryan Vogelsong (14-9, 3.37, 158)
Key relievers: RH Sergio Romo (4-2, 1.79, 14 saves in 15 opportunities), RH Santiago Casilla (7-6, 2.84, 25 of 31), LH Javier Lopez (3-0, 2.50), LH Jeremy Affeldt (1-2, 2.70)
Outlook: There's no secret to the formula – the Giants will count on their experienced starting rotation and defense to keep them in games and look for the production they got in late 2012 from a lineup anchored by reigning MVP Posey. Scutaro may not hit .362 again, but if Sandoval can stay healthy and Pence returns to his career norms, it would be a boost. Lincecum and Zito both have the added incentive of being in a contract year.
– Matt Kawahara


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Can free access to the Internet enhance the lives of people in poor communities? An experimental system in East Austin, Texas, is showing the way.
Timika Mitchell was living in the Salvation Army shelter in Austin, Tex., when she developed her first home page on the World Wide Web. A homeless person with an Internet home page may seem to represent a scrambling of priorities. But for Mitchell-an unmarried mother of two-her home page is a source of pride and, she hopes, an entry point into the high-tech economy. Thanks in part to her abilities to create on the Web, this tall, talkative, self-directed young African-American woman landed a job with Time Warner, moved into her own apartment-and created a second Web page, where she plans to publish her poetry.
Austin boasts one of the highest per capita rates of Internet use in the world and has recently been cited as the nation's fastest growing job market. On the west side of town lies one of the world's leading high-tech centers, with major semiconductor manufacturing firms, a booming new media industry, and tens of thousands of computer professionals. But Mitchell lives in East Austin-a poverty zone segregated from the rest of Austin by an interstate highway. In her neighborhood, known as the 11th and 12th Streets Corridor, the median annual income is $6,000 per year. The area suffers from high unemployment, poor schools, drugs, gangs, and violence.
Computers are still clearly beyond the means of most such low-income citizens, and will be for many years, even if prices decline significantly. WebTV, a new service recently acquired by Microsoft, provides access to the Web and e-mail over TV sets, but its access fee of about $30 per month is too high for most poor families, as is the $200 box required to use it. When Newt Gingrich briefly posed the idea of tax credits for poor people who buy computers, he was widely ridiculed and quickly dropped the idea. ("Let Them Eat Laptops," one headline read.) Such a scheme would be hugely expensive; Michael Kinsley noted in the New Yorker that subsidizing poor Americans' purchases of $1,000 computers would cost the U.S. Treasury $40 billion.
The disparities in access to the Internet in the United States are well documented. Computers are present in almost half of urban households with incomes over $35,000 per year, according to a survey last year by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. By contrast, only 8 percent of households with incomes less than $10,000 have a computer. Most of the Internet users in low-income brackets are students, who typically have connections through their schools. In Austin and other high-tech communities, the disparity in computer ownership between rich and poor is even more pronounced.
But communities and leaders throughout the United States are beginning to come to grips with the growing gap between the poor and the affluent in their access to information technology. Since most well-paying jobs now demand computer skills and a rising number require familiarity with the Internet, consensus is growing that access to the Internet is as important a part of civic life as parks, public transit, libraries, and cultural centers. In a dramatic testament to this point of view, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates recently announced that he will donate $200 million to U.S. public libraries to expand such facilities.
One way to bridge the gulf between computer haves and have-nots is to provide Internet connections through publicly accessible terminals. In this spirit, for the past three years we have been exploring how to bring the Internet and computer skills to the low-income, largely minority community of East Austin. An operation called Austin Free-Net installed and maintains public access computers throughout the city. In cooperation with the nonprofit Austin Learning Academy, teachers and volunteers are striving to link the Internet to the real-world experiences of Americans whose circumstances and backgrounds differ substantially from the typical Internet-using population. We're finding that community-based computer networking, accessible through public-access terminals, is a cost-effective way to introduce information technologies to low-income neighborhoods and to engage their citizens in using them.
The Austin Free-Net is part of a nationwide movement, known as "community networks." More than 200 such networks are running in the United States, according to Douglas Schuler, author of New Community Networks: Wired for Change. Some community networks receive modest grants from local governments or, in a few instances, from the federal government. These efforts are shoestring operations, often staffed by volunteers and using donated equipment and telephone lines.


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Claudia Saucedo scored two goals and had two assists to help lead the 9th-ranked William Carey Lady Crusaders to an 8-1 win over the University of Houston-Victoria Jaguars on Friday.
The eight goals tied a UHV record set last season when the Jaguars fell 8-0 to St. Mary's University.
The Lady Crusaders opened up a 3-0 halftime lead and dominated the second half with a 5-1 goal edge after out shooting the Jaguars 16-4 in the final 45 minutes. WCU held a 24-4 shot edge, includ9ing a 14-3 advantage in shots on goal.
UHV's first shot came in the 58th minute when Emily Lupton's shot sailed wide. The Jaguars first big scoring opportunities came in the 68th and 69th minutes but shots by Caroline Carvajal and Sheilat Akapo were turned back on saves by WCU's Natalie Saunders.
Jennifer Olle finally broke up the shutout in the 81st minute scoring off an assist from Megan Huerta to cut the Lady Crusaders' lead to 6-1.
WCU would add another goal in the 85th minute and finished off the scoring as time expired.
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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL:Salye Coles resigns as Lake View volleyball coach
Search under way for replacement
SAN ANGELO, Texas - Lake View High School head volleyball coach Salye Coles has submitted her resignation after a four-year stint at the school.
Coles had an overall record of 36-118 at Lake View, including an 8-30 overall mark and an 0-10 record in District 4-4A this past season.
Her best season was in 2010 when she led the Maidens to the playoffs with an overall record of 13-28.
In 2009, Lake View lost to Big Spring in a fourth-place play-in game to determine the final playoff spot when the Maidens were in 8-4A. The Maidens came within one victory of reaching the playoffs in 2011.
Before coming to Lake View, Coles coached at Class 1A Sterling City, where she was named the All-West Texas Coach of the Year in 2008.
San Angelo Independent School District Athletic Director Jim Slaughter says the process for hiring Coles' replacement has begun.
"We're interested in anyone that we feel has a quality background for volleyball coaching," Slaughter said. "(For) coach Coles, unfortunately it was kind of a family situation where she was going to move and try to find a job closer to her family.
"We're hating that we're losing her, but at the same time, it's an opportunity for us to try to find as good a possible coach as we can for Lake View volleyball."
Slaughter is hoping to fill the position as soon as possible.
"With the oil field conditions and everything, we want to try to get somebody in here and somebody we can talk to while the price of housing is still where you can afford to come to San Angelo," Slaughter said. "Right now, in Midland and Odessa, if they lose coaches, they're hard to replace because the housing is so tough.
"We're wanting to move fast enough that we get somebody an opportunity to come in here and hopefully have a great background for volleyball."
Slaughter says he hasn't set a deadline for applications yet.
"That (resignation) kind of happened right before spring break, so I haven't gotten with human resources yet and we have not put down a specific date at this time," Slaughter said. "But we'll be doing that before this week is over with."
Slaughter acknowledged that District 4-4A, with the likes of Frenship, Hereford, Lubbock High, Lubbock Monterey, and Plainview is one of the elite districts in 4A.
"I think just because of the toughness of the district, it will cause a good quality of coaches that will apply," Slaughter said. "Whoever applies for that job had better be ready for a tough situation when it comes to competing in that district."
Three Lake View players — Amanda Ramage, Taylor Moore and Tierra Coverson — received second-team honors on the 2012 All-District 4-4A volleyball team.
Coles, who also coaches the Lake View girls golf team, could not be reached for comment for this story.
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You know the old adage "The customer is always right."
Guess what?
Sometime they're not.
It doesn't matter whether you sell cupcakes, or you're trying to recruit members for your church, attracting (and keeping) the right customers is more important than pleasing a small group of complainers.
Before you start sputtering about poor customer service, hear me out. I hate bad service as much as anyone, probably more since I'm in the business of improving it.
But that doesn't mean you need to rework your whole operational model for the people who complain.
The question every leader needs to ask themselves is this: Do I want to improve life for my best customers? Or do I want to spend my time responding to the needs of my worst customers?
If you only listen to the loudest voices, you wind up becoming very reactive to a small, not representative group of unhappy people.
On the flip side, when you improve life for your best customers, you elevate your position in the market.
Here's why: customers who are in bad circumstances themselves tend to complain more. They're under lots of pressure and they pass it on to you.
It happens in the business to business market, and it also happens in the consumer market. The one time customer comes in with all the complaints, but the loyal bigger volume customer is the one who doesn't say anything.
How do you stay in front of the complaining curve?
Below are three tips to help you improve service for your best customers. Word of warning, these are counter intuitive to the way most people think.
But I promise you, they work.
- Do double time on the biggies.
For every minute you spend listening to complaints from a small customer, double that time and ask questions of your big customers. What are their goals and how do they plan to get there? Make a list of your top 10 customers and come up with at least five ways you can help them get better.
- Don't let today's circumstances dominate your thinking.
Customers will tell you what they need today, but you want to be thinking about how you can improve their lives in the future. Five years ago, nobody said, "I need to watch a movie on my phone." Nobody said they wanted a wedding cake made out of cupcakes either. But now both are must have items, it's all the rage.
Marketing guru Seth Godin says, "Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win."
If you only respond to what people say they want today, you'll become a commodity. But if you will think about how you can make their lives or businesses better in the future, you'll differentiate yourself.
- Don't confuse value with price
The reason customers say they want a lower price is because you haven't demonstrated that your value is any different from anyone else's. For example, if all you do is provide a tax return, that's a commodity. But if you provide valuable financial advice that helps them be more successful, that's something altogether different. Focus on value, not price.
Customers are a gift, and we want to be grateful to all the customers who do business with us. But the ones we want to pay the most attention to are the ones who are going to help us grow.
Business strategist Lisa Earle McLeod specializes in sales force and leadership development. She is author of "The Triangle of Truth," a Washington Post Top 5 Business Book.
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1/28/11 Congressman Diane Black's NEW Official Portrait
U.S. Rep. Diane Black defeated Lou Ann Zelenik the 6th House District, while U.S. Sen. Bob Corker cruised to an easy win over a field of Republicans with approximately 90 percent of the vote.
Black led Zelenik 29,875 to 13,954 with most of the returns in. Zelenik conceded to Black shortly at 8:30 p.m.
Meanwhile, state Rep. Debra Maggart, the House Republican Caucus chair, trailed challenger Courtney Rogers in the 45th House District 2,806 votes to 1,985 votes with 32 of 36 precincts reported. But problems with tallying early votes meant that more than 6,300 ballots still had not been counted.
U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais was up 16,556 to 4,914 over Shannon Kelley, a Rutherford County pilot, in the 4th House District. U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleishmann (14,484 votes) led ice cream magnate Scottie Mayfield (11,587) and political consultant Weston Wamp (9,506) in the 3rd House District.
Corker already had 173,898 votes in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate. Zach Poskevich was second with 9,901 votes, and Fred R. Anderson was third with 6,884 votes.
Mark Clayton led the Democratic field in the Senate primary with 21,715 votes. Gary Gene Davis was second with 11,790 votes and party favorite Park Overall was third with 9,876 votes.
Clayton, who according to his campaign website lives near Nashville with his dog Saint, works for Public Advocate USA, a self-described conservative lobbying group based in Washington D.C.
On his website, Clayton calls himself a constitutionalist and a Committed Christian and a Proud Patriot. He previously ran for the Democratic nomination in 2008 against U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander.
Sumner County has not released its early voting numbers yet. Sumner County Administrator of Elections Lori Atchley told a Gallatin News Examiner reporter at the Sumner County Elections Office that there was a tally problem with early voting results and those numbers would be reported last.
In the state Senate, incumbent Doug Overbey led challenger Scott Hughes to 4,541 in the 2nd Senate District, despite strong tea party backing.
Former Rep. Susan Lynn led current Rep. Linda Elam to 958 in the 57th House District.
Republican Steven Dickerson will likely face-off with Democratic Phillip North for the senate seat in the 20th District, according to early returns.


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ASUS Eee PC 900 US Launch
ASUS today broke out of its normal schedule to firm up the US launch schedule for the Eee PC 900. The 8.9-inch update to the design will ship on May 12th and will come in the same trim levels as its international counterparts. Every updated Eee will come with 1GB of memory, an unspecified Intel processor (initially believed to be the Celeron M), and a 1.3-megapixel camera. The company will ship both a Windows XP version with 12GB of storage and a version using the original Linux OS with 20GB of storage. Variants should also be available in black or white.
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Brad returned to Principia in 2010 on a five-year grant as The Harding Mott II Distinguished Professor of the History of the Christian Science Movement at Principia College, teaching courses on the life of Mary Baker Eddy and the history of the Christian Science movement. A sizable portion of his time is dedicated to research and talks on Christian Science history, both on and off campus.
Prior to returning to Principia, Brad taught at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, and was actively employed as a freelance entrepreneur and in management in the nonprofit sector. He is also an award-winning game designer (his most recent game is Pursuit of Glory, a simulation of World War One in the Balkans and Near East).


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The Youth Off The Streets scholarship program celebrates the gifts and strengths of young people from the Australian community who exhibit determination and potential but who lack the personal support networks and resources that will allow them to fulfill that potential. Scholarships are provided of $5,000 each to pursue further education, training or development so that they may realise their dreams for a positive future.
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Good News for Smokers Who Want to Quit but Feel Hopelessly Addicted to Smoking.
Even if you have already tried unsuccessfully to Stop Smoking with other methods…Please… Do NOT despair.
I Can Help You Now!
I'm Dr. Ronda. I have created a Highly successful Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy program that addresses the root causes for Smoking as well as its habitual symptoms and cravings. My smoking cessation methods do not require will power, nor will you need useless aids, gimmicks, or substitutes in order to quit.
In fact, approximately 75% of my patients who have entered my smoking cessation program tell me that they have already tried the Patch, Nicotine Gum, prescription medicines, acupuncture, will power and other quit smoking methods which have a very low rate of success. Some patients have spent as much as $1500 on a variety of methods to end their harmful habit, but were still smoking by the time they came to see me. The other techniques had failed because the deep-rooted unconscious cause for the habitual behavior was not properly addressed.
Here's What Makes My Stop Smoking Program Different from the others:
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The beauty of Hypnosis Therapy…and in particular the way it is used in my clinical practice…is the ability to target the root cause responsible for the feeling of deprivation. The Positive Hypnotic Suggestions in my Program remove Your need and desire to smoke or to have a dependency on a pacifier.
Giving your subconscious mind Powerful suggestions…while addressing the Root Cause of the addiction…eliminates much of the misery and depression that many smokers have gone through using other methods. For the first time in your life, your mind will begin to 'see' and 'feel' yourself as a NON-Smoker!
In addition, most Stop Smoking programs do not address the serious issue of nicotine, tar, and other Toxic poisons that remain in your body after Quitting Smoking. Without the proper care and treatment, poisonous Toxins from smoking could take up to 12 weeks to eliminate from your body. I will show you my clinically proven Detox Method that is easy to do at home. It is safe and Highly effective and will cleanse your body from the toxins within 72 hours.
Smokers Quit Now – Call (916) 922-3100
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Consultations are free and there is no obligation.