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Twenty-five years ago, around the same time that Earvin Johnson was nicknamed "Magic" by a local sportswriter, the high school basketball star from Lansing, Mich., was already envisioning life as a businessman.
Young Earvin, his Converse shoes worn from his long days of practice at the hoop at the Main Street School, would rear back in the big chair behind the desk at his after-school job at Gregory's Janitorial, put on that smile that seemingly spans wall-to-wall, pick up the phone and pretend he was in charge.
"When I caught him doing it, he looked me in the eye and said, 'One day that's going to be me,'" said Greg Eaton, the local businessman who owned the cleaning service.
Odds are that the kid who would go on to lead the Michigan State Spartans to the 1979 NCAA title and the Los Angeles Lakers to five NBA championships couldn't have dreamed of the business empire that he presides over today.
"It was his dream ever since I first met him -- when he was 20 -- to be just like the people who ran the Pepsis and General Motors of the world," said his former agent Lon Rosen. "He was a great basketball player, but I truly believe his legacy will be in the business world."
"I believe that statement to be absolutely true," Johnson said in an e-mail last week.
Magic's winning image took a hit following his Nov. 7, 1991 announcement that he had HIV. But while parts of corporate America soon severed its ties with the former NBA star, Johnson began to put a team together that would in time allow his greatness as a player to be overshadowed by his success in business.
It's certainly not a stretch. Johnson has a $500 million business portfolio, but has his sites set on one day turning it into a billion dollars. He has five 12-screen movie theatres and his 30 Starbucks coffee shops are about to become 50. As the lead investor in the recent acquisition of the Fatburger chain, he hopes to turn 47 West Coast restaurants into 147 throughout the country in five years. He has a stake in the third-largest African-American-owned bank in the country, whose profits have skyrocketed by 40 percent over the past six months. And he is building a $57 million mall in Milwaukee while preparing to sell one in Las Vegas.
"We might have needed Magic the basketball player to get us in the door, but it was Earvin the businessman that did the work," said Ken Lombard, president of Johnson Development Corp., which was founded in 1993. "When he was in control on the court, no one knew how he did some of that. Well, it's really the same thing in the business world."
Success of Johnson's companies aren't entirely founded on his household name. What has made his endeavors work is the niche that he has developed: Convincing companies that have shied away from inner-city communities that there is something to gain by moving into town. Johnson helps position a brand's move into the neighborhood by introducing it as an escape from the rough life on the streets. Or, more blatantly, a place to "laugh, cry and stuff our face with popcorn," as Johnson says in the trailers that appear before every movie at his theatres.
"The lesson is powerful that inner-city communities can support national business -- and they last," Johnson said.
Before Magic, many company executives were afraid to move into these areas because they were worried the area residents would revolt against the fat-cat businessmen trying to drain their already drained dollars. Knowing that Magic was one of 10 children who grew up in a similarly depressed area in Michigan, the invasion is softened.
"It's clearly a black-and-white issue," said Warren Grant, Johnson's longtime financial advisor. "Certain people can't open certain businesses in certain places."
Johnson knew how to make his customers comfortable.
"Right before we opened the first theatre (in 1994), there was a walk-through and he looked at the drink fountain and said, 'Guys, you gotta change it a bit because there are no strawberry drinks," Rosen remembers Johnson saying. "He said 'African-American audiences love fruity drinks,' and he was right."
His two T.G.I. Friday's restaurants might have more fried foods than other Friday's franchises. His Starbucks provide an ethnic favorite like a cobbler or pie.
While Grant says most athletes surround themselves with the wrong people with bad advice, Johnson found the right people with good advice. And he listened to them.
"After he came out of college, this guy was hustling him to buy a bar," said Joel Ferguson, a Lansing real estate developer whom Magic cites as a hero. "But I told him to set up a business like real estate, where you can make money while you sleep, and he eventually did that."
While at Michigan State, Ferguson said he gave Johnson a taste of his first business -- a small share in his television station, WFSL-TV. Ferguson has served on Michigan State's Board of Trustees since 1986.
After Magic was drafted into the NBA, the drive to become a great businessman wasn't reserved for his retirement. Even Magic groupies might be surprised to hear that he spent some of his time in road cities going to business meetings.
"When he would go to a city, he'd say, 'I'm not going to sit around and watch soap operas all day,' " Rosen said. " 'As long as they are flying me around for free, I might as well take advantage of it.' So, he'd meet with Coke executives when they played the Hawks in Atlanta, and Target executives when they played the Timberwolves in Minnesota."
When Johnson traveled with his All-Star team abroad, he insisted on meeting political leaders in the Philippines, Denmark and Turkey.
While still playing, he bought into a Pepsi distributorship on the East Coast and a sports memorabilia store in Los Angeles. He also founded a T-shirt company, which made Johnson -- despite the fact that he reportedly made $9 million a year in endorsements at his height -- realize how he could profit from himself.
"He wore his own shirt when they won the championship in 1988 and he got some other guys to wear it, too," Rosen said. "The next day, he sold 150,000 of those things."
Six years later, when he opened his first theatre, he broke down while giving his speech to his employees.
Although his Starbucks and Friday's don't have neon signs that scream Magic's involvement, customers will know when they walk in. A picture with Starbucks chairman and SuperSonics owner Howard Schultz is in each Johnson-owned store. Although Starbucks aren't franchised, Johnson and Schultz formed a unique joint venture 2 ½ years ago.
"He had a deep sense of compassion and sensibility for the inner-city and what he wanted to do," Schultz said. "That hit an emotional cord with me. And when the cameras are off and there's no publicity to be had, I've seen him do things that demonstrate a heartfelt commitment to the community. He's willing to make unpaid appearances for us in the inner-city at the drop of a hat."
When the Fatburger deal was announced on Oct. 2, Jheryl Busby, the former Motown Records president and Johnson's bank partner, said he "saw the magic of Magic firsthand." Business, he said, increased in his four franchises by 15 percent that day.
His connections are invaluable, too. Although Fatburger has yet to have its first board meeting under the new ownership, one of the ideas being bandied is to grant territorial franchise rights to NBA players in the regions in which they play. Allen Iverson, for example, could own the Fatburgers of Philadelphia. Busby said a New Jersey Nets player might not have first dibs, as rap singer Queen Latifah already has inquired about that state's regional rights.
Like any successful businessman, Johnson has business ideas that have fizzled. Four years ago, he had planned to start his own sports management company, but he was discouraged by parents who demanded money for their children's signing bonus. Urbanmagic.com, an Internet portal targeted to African-Americans, was scheduled to debut last year never quite got off the ground amid the dot-com plunge. And Magic's most-public failure came in 1998 with "The Magic Hour," a late-night talk show on Fox that lasted two months.
"The show was a tremendous learning experience for him," Lombard said. "He found out that he didn't fit the mold (for late-night television). Just like for all the deals we might do, there may be a situation where we don't fit the people we are talking to."
Although Magic has the attitude that he is helping to bring valued services to the underserved inner-city, he is not without his detractors. It seems some people have a problem with the handsome profit he's been earning.
"Magic is a carpetbagger," NFL Hall of Famer Jim Brown said in an ESPN Classic interview. "He's working with Sony and the profits don't go to the inner city, so you have three ushers in the city, but you don't share the profits and you don't create producers."
Countered Eaton: "What do you want him to do? Lose money?"
To be fair, Johnson may be alienating the African-American public despite his exploits. In 1992, only 5 percent of African-Americans thought negatively of Johnson, according to Marketing Evaluation's Q-Rating popularity survey. But by the end of 1998 -- the last time Johnson was measured -- 20 percent of the African-American population in the United States thought of Magic in a negative light.
One wrong Johnson is determined to make right is following though with his bid to become an owner of an NBA team. In 1994, Johnson had a 10 percent stake in an ownership group that raised $125 million, but lost out on its bid for the Toronto Raptors.
"(NBA commissioner) David Stern said he should have had a corporate partner like a brewery or a bank and we had this sense the whole time that the owners preferred entrepreneurs," Grant said.
Magic currently owns a 5 percent stake in the Los Angeles Lakers and 15 percent of the Dayton Dragons, the Cincinnati Reds' Class A affiliate. But he said last week that he still "badly" wants to become a majority owner of an NBA team.
"If the right deal comes along and it's good timing, it will happen," Lombard said. "It would obviously be his absolute dream to own the Lakers, but he realizes that (owner) Dr. Buss has children. As he reviews the opportunities, if the right one came along, he would certainly consider it."
"Magic's got that smile and great attitude," said Mark Mastrov, chairman of 24-Hour Fitness, which opened a Magic facility in Richmond, Calif., three months ago. "But when you peel that back, there's a monster under there that works every goddamn day because he's hungry to be the best at everything."
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U.S. stocks finished higher for the sixth session in seven as investors positioned themselves for a major jobs report and a season of corporate earnings, shrugging off negative signals from the U.S. services sector, China and the European debt crisis.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished with a gain of 56.15 points, or 0.4%, to 12626.02, while the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index edged up 1.34 points, or 0.1%, to 1339.22. The Nasdaq Composite was higher by 8.25 points, or 0.3%, at 2834.02.
The modest gain, which put the Dow at a nearly two-month high, came despit news that saw Moody's Investors Service cut Portugal's credit rating to "junk" status. Meantime, China's central bank lifted its benchmark deposit and lending rates by 0.25 percentage point, its third rate increase this year and its fifth increase in the latest round of tightening.
European markets stumbled, with the Stoxx Europe 600 index posting its first loss in eight sessions. Financial stocks stumbled in the U.S. after Portuguese and Spanish banks slumped on the Moody's downgrade of Portugal. Bank of America BAC 0.77 % led the Dow's laggards, falling 26 cents, or 2.4%, to $10.74 a share. J.P. Morgan Chase JPM 0.55 % fell 47 cents, or 1.2%, to 40.56 and Wells Fargo shed 30 cents, or 1.1%, to 28.12.
"Until there's resolution about how these debt issues are going to be unwound, banks will be facing head winds," said Michael Yoshikami, chief executive and chief investment strategist at YCMNET Advisors in San Francisco. "There are renewed concerns that with the housing market not improving, there'll be a global spillover in writeoffs that the European banks are going to have to take that will affect all global banks."
On the economic front, the Institute of Supply Management's purchasing manager's index for the non-manufacturing sector declined in June to 53.3, from 54.6 in May and below the 54.0 predicted by economists. The service sector is growing modestly with continued hiring and rising price pressures. The report comes in the wake of a better-than-expected June ISM report on manufacturing.
Investors will be looking ahead, however, to key readings on the labor market later this week. The data parade starts with Automatic Data Processing's jobs survey and initial weekly claims for jobless benefits on Thursday and will be capped by the government's monthly employment report on Friday. Second-quarter corporate earnings season is slated to begin next Monday, when Alcoa AA -0.28 % reports.
"People are willing to look past Europe, and the China rate hike was largely expected—this is really about people setting up for earnings," said Michael Marrale, managing director and head of sales trading for RBC Capital Markets. "Despite the macroeconomic fears, companies are going to deliver profits, and stocks are relatively inexpensive coming into a season that's going to be okay."
Crude-oil futures edged lower to $96.65 a barrel. Gold futures gained 1.1% to settle at $1,528.70 an ounce. The U.S. dollar gained strongly against the euro, but lost ground to the yen. Treasurys gained, pushing the yield on the benchmark 10-year note down to 3.097%.
In corporate news, a group including Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is in exclusive talks to buy Citigroup's C 0.39 % consumer-lending business, formerly known as CitiFinancial. Citigroup shares fell 56 cents, or 1.3%, to 42.01.
Walgreen gained 65 cents, or 1.5%, to 43.38 after same-store sales at the drugstore chain rose 4.8% in June, well above analysts' estimates.
Shares of News Corp., owner of The Wall Street Journal, fell 66 cents, or 3.6%, to 17.47 after British Prime Minister David Cameron told Parliament the U.K. will launch one or more independent investigations into issues around the hacking of mobile-phone voice mails by employees of News Corp.'s News of the World newspaper.
Separately, Walt Disney's DIS -0.31 % chief executive officer said Disney, News Corp. and Comcast Corp.'s NBC Universal were "committed to selling" video-streaming site Hulu LLC. Disney fell 40 cents, or 1%, to 39.57 and Comcast dropped 48 cents, or 1.9%, to 25.49.
Tesoro gained 95 cents, or 4.1%, to 24.10 after Barclays Capital upgraded its rating on the oil refiner, saying its restructuring will help it outperform its peers over the next few years.
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Following are typical developmental milestones in children with normal hearing. Babies and young children with hearing loss may not achieve these milestones:
0 to 3 months The child blinks, startles, moves with loud noises, and quiets down at the sound of the parent's voice.
4 to 6 months The child turns his or her head to the side toward voices or other noises, and makes musical sounds ("ooh," "ah"). The child appears to listen and then responds as if having a conversation.
7 to 12 months The child turns his or her head in any direction toward sounds, babbles ("ba," "ga," "bababa," "lalala," etc.), and says "mama," "dada" (though not specific to mom or dad).
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19 to 24 months The child points to body parts when asked, puts two words together ("want cookie," "no bed"). Half of the child's words are understood by strangers.
25 to 36 months The child uses three- to five-word sentences. Three-quarters of the child's words are understood by strangers.
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General Electric Co. plans to open a locomotive plant employing more than 500 people in Fort Worth, Texas, the hometown of Warren Buffett's Burlington Northern Santa Fe, as demand rises for railroad shipments.
GE Transportation will invest as much as $96 million at the first U.S. factory outside its Erie, Pennsylvania, base in more than a century. That hiring and 250 new jobs in Erie will push the unit's global workforce to about 10,000 employees, said Lorenzo Simonelli, the business's chief executive officer.
"Since April, we've announced hiring nearly 1,000 employees," Simonelli said today in a telephone interview. "North America we feel good about, but we also feel good about emerging markets. We see a good runway ahead."
Expanding into Texas gives GE Transportation a manufacturing base in the state with the most railroad route miles in the U.S. Texas is served chiefly by Union Pacific Corp., whose Union Pacific Railroad is the nation's biggest by sales, and Burlington Northern, owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
The state of Texas is committing $4.2 million in incentives for the plant, which has the potential to hire as many as 275 more positions after the initial 500 by 2012, Fairfield, Connecticut-based GE said in a statement today.
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The Texas factory will be able to make freight and passenger locomotives as GE Transportation lobbies for new Amtrak and high-speed passenger-rail contracts, as well as other vehicles used in industries like mining, Simonelli said. Union Pacific operates about 8,000 locomotives, and Burlington Northern has about 6,000, according to their websites.
GE Transportation settled on the Texas location after reviewing options that included existing company factories in Massachusetts, Simonelli said.
"What it came down to really was the aspects of the facility itself, which allows for flexibility," Simonelli said. Connections to existing rail lines also played a role in the decision, he said.
GE is reworking an existing building and expanding it to almost double the facility's size to about 900,000 square feet, said Michelle Frith, an outside spokeswoman for the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce.
"As a major transportation hub, North Texas is the perfect location for GE Transportation's new locomotive manufacturing facility," Texas State Senator Jane Nelson said in a statement released by Governor Rick Perry's office.
Demand for freight shipments in North America is improving as the U.S. economy recovers, Simonelli said. From outside the U.S., GE Transportation has logged orders in the past two years from markets such as China, Kazakhstan, South Africa and Brazil.
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U.S. rail volumes excluding grain and coal shipments rose 7.9 percent to 4.6 million carloads in the quarter ended March 31, according to data compiled by the Association of American Railroads in Washington. It was the second-highest increase in a first quarter, after last year's 9.3 percent advance.
Locomotive demand is climbing, too. GE Transportation's first-quarter backlog was about $4.1 billion, 40 percent more than a year earlier, GE Chief Financial Officer Keith Sherin said in an April 21 conference call. First-quarter orders for rail cars, which GE doesn't make, rose to the highest since 1997.
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FLAT ROCK -- Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site will celebrate Sandburg's birth and explore the history of St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 5. The program will revisit Sandburg's funeral service that was held there on July 24, 1967.
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Never Say Sever
Why Judge Vinson struck down ObamaCare's whole kaboodle.
Roger Vinson wasn't the first federal judge to rule that ObamaCare's "individual mandate" was unconstitutional, and there's a good chance he won't be the last. If the Supreme Court were to uphold ObamaCare, it would mark a radical expansion of congressional power. The court would have to find that Congress's authority "to regulate Commerce . . . among the several States" is so vast as to permit the enactment of laws forcing individuals to transact business with private companies.
The court has expanded congressional power before, of course, most notably in upholding various New Deal programs. It has also expanded individual rights in constitutionally dubious ways. But in almost all such cases, it was, or at least seemed to be, going with the political grain. Even Roe v. Wade, the most controversial decision of the 20th century, was consistent with the then-extant trend toward liberalization of state abortion laws.
By contrast, in upholding ObamaCare, the Supreme Court would be validating an unprecedented congressional power grab while upholding a law so at odds with the popular will that, to borrow the words of The New Republic's Jonathan Cohn, "there was something fundamentally illegitimate about the process that produced it."
The foregoing is not a prediction as to how the high court will rule. Think of it instead as an explanation, offered in advance, for the justices' actions if they do the right thing.
Where Vinson did break new ground in his ruling yesterday in Florida v. HHS was in holding that the entire kaboodle, every word of ObamaCare's thousands of pages, cannot withstand constitutional scrutiny because the individual mandate is unconstitutional. This has to do with a somewhat technical legal question known as severability. Vinson's ruling discusses it at length, but here's a brief primer.
The version of ObamaCare that became law did not include a "severability clause"--language directing that if one part of the law is struck down in court, the rest of it remains law. The absence of such a clause does not necessarily mean that the entire law is void if a part of it is; it is up to judges to work that out.
Assuming a judge finds the individual mandate unconstitutional, there are three approaches he could take: First, he could strike down the entire law, as Vinson did. Second, he could treat the unconstitutional provision as severable, as Judge Henry Hudson did last month in the Virginia case, striking down the mandate, allowing the rest of the law to stand, and leaving it to the political branches of government to sort out the implications.
The trouble with the Hudson approach, Vinson argues, is that "the defendants"--that is, the federal government, as represented by the Obama administration--"have conceded that the Act's health insurance reforms cannot survive without the individual mandate, which is extremely significant because the various insurance provisions, in turn, are the very heart of the Act itself."
The third approach would be a sort of middle ground: striking down the individual mandate and the provisions of the law that depend on it--such as the requirement that insurance companies sell policies to individuals with "pre-existing conditions"--while leaving intact those portions of the law that can stand on their own.
Perhaps the most powerful passage in Vinson's ruling is his explanation of why he regards the third approach as unworkable:
In the final analysis, this Act has been analogized to a finely crafted watch, and that seems to fit. It has approximately 450 separate pieces, but one essential piece (the individual mandate) is defective and must be removed. It cannot function as originally designed. There are simply too many moving parts in the Act and too many provisions dependent (directly and indirectly) on the individual mandate and other health insurance provisions--which, as noted, were the chief engines that drove the entire legislative effort--for me to try and dissect out the proper from the improper, and the able-to-stand-alone from the unable-to-stand-alone.
Such a quasi-legislative undertaking would be particularly inappropriate in light of the fact that any statute that might conceivably be left over after this analysis is complete would plainly not serve Congress' main purpose and primary objective in passing the Act. The statute is, after all, called "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," not "The Abstinence Education and Bone Marrow Density Testing Act." The Act, like a defectively designed watch, needs to be redesigned and reconstructed by the watchmaker.
Congressional Democrats insisted that their "reform" was "comprehensive," and Judge Vinson's ruling respects both that intention and the Constitution's limits on congressional power. ObamaCare defenders will call him a judicial activist. That is bunk. His ruling is the very model of judicial restraint.
'Oh Man, We Made a Mistake'
The Missoulian, daily newspaper of Montana's second city, weighs in this morning with a story on the Missoula Community Theater story, which we brought to national attention in our Friday column.
The paper very kindly acknowledges our role in the story, noting that "political bloggers around the country quickly followed Taranto's lead," though reporter Joe Nickell makes an error at our expense: "Taranto argued that the Palin reference was an example--though he did not name others--of widespread hate speech in the arts world." In fact, we did name others.
The Missoulian has some background on the operetta and the creative process that led to the inclusion of the offending lyrics:
The onslaught left [director] Curt Olds deeply shaken on Monday. The Butte native and University of Montana graduate said he never anticipated that the Palin reference would spark anything more than laughter.
"It's pretty much required that you update those lyrics, and so that's what we did--as I've done every time I've done this show in the past," said Olds, who has performed the role of Ko-Ko in more than a dozen professional productions around the country. "It's part of doing 'The Mikado,' that you make those references relevant to modern times."
Also included in Olds' amended list of targets for execution, as sung in the Missoula production: people who drink expensive frappuccinos from Starbucks; Missoula drivers who don't understand how to navigate roundabouts; members of the audience; and the oboist in the orchestra.
Palin was the only modern person mentioned by name in the song. . . .
"Sarah Palin was in there because she goes beyond politics; she's one of the most well-known human beings in this country," said Olds. "I have no ill feelings about her at all; I included her because she's a well-known celebrity, and that's in keeping with the spirit of the song. . . . I've never heard a word of complaint or any type of letter coming out of including her in the song (in the past)."
The paper also quotes Michael McGill, executive director of the theater's parent corporation;
"In retrospect, we made a mistake," he said. "Anybody that gets singled out in such a way as that, whether it might be (President Barack) Obama or Palin or whomever [sic], it's inappropriate. I take full responsibility for that."
McGill's quotation points to the double standard that is the real problem here: Can anyone imagine that Curt Olds, or just about any other theater director, would find it funny or appropriate to include a reference to the beheading of President Obama?
Leland Yee: Cry-Baby or Real Victim?
Several readers took exception to our endorsement of a crank-caller's description of Leland Yee, a California state senator, as a cry-baby. The call was described in an Associated Press story which also reported, with no further details, that "Yee said he received racist death threats."
Now we have some further details. Don't ask why, but we tuned into MSNBC's "The Mr. Ed Show" last night, and horse Ed Schultz played a recording of what he described as a "threat" that had been left on the voice mail of one of Yee's offices. Here is the transcript that appeared on the screen (redactions are MSNBC's):
I saw on the news that you want people to boycott Rush Limbaugh because he made a joke or something about a Chinaman or something. That president or whatever that deal's name is from China, you know that Chinese president that was here, can go f--- himself, he should go burn in hell, I hope he has a heart attack, that g------ Chinaman.
"Chinaman" is a slur, so we will allow that this message is racist. But it is not a threat. There is a difference between saying "I am going to kill you" and "I hope you die." More important, the caller's insults and ill wishes are directed not at Yee but at Hu Jintao, the ruler of communist China.
Yee construes this message as a threat against him? It's as if a man told a woman, "I hope Kate Middleton gets married," and the woman replied, "Yes, I'll marry you."
And Homer nods: Contrary to our item yesterday (since corrected), Yee was not born in America. According to his state legislative bio, he is a native of China and immigrated to the U.S. at age 3.
Treksters Dissent
Several readers took issue with our reference to M5 in a headline yesterday and argued that we should have referred to Nomad instead. Both are out-of-control computers in original "Star Trek" episodes: M5 is from "The Ultimate Computer" and Nomad from "The Changeling."
It sounds as though our readers are right that Nomad fits the bill better. The out-of-control computer was a recurring theme in the original "Star Trek," which is amusing, since computers don't actually behave this way, though rigid-minded people sometimes do. Anyway, we guess we're just not enough of a Trekster to get this stuff right always.
Out on a Limb
- "Omar Sharif Says Egypt's Future Is a Concern"--headline, Associated Press, Jan. 31
- "Local Egyptians Say Their Native Country's Future Is Uncertain"--headline, WKYC-TV website (Cleveland), Jan. 31
- "U.S. Aid to Egypt Depends on Events"--headline, Voice of America website, Jan. 31
We Blame Global Warming
"New Chairlift Completes Ski Bowl, Gore Connection"--headline, McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, Jan. 30
The Latest Installment in the 'Left Behind' Series
"Left Unprepared for ObamaCare Ruling"--headline, Washington Post website, Jan. 31
Somebody Alert Chuck Schumer
"Michigan School District Allows Sikh Students to Wear Religious Dagger to School"--headline, FoxNews.com, Feb. 1
They're Appealing to the NL Argh B
"Pirates Can't Get Overtime Benefit"--headline, Pryor (Okla.) Daily Times, Jan. 31
Questions Nobody Is Asking
- "Jon Huntsman Quits Ambassador Post; Is He Mulling Presidential Run?"--headline, PoliticsDaily.com, Jan. 31
- "Egypt Protests: Did Jimmy Carter Just Throw Obama Under the Bus?"--headline, Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 31
- "Corvino: Are Those Gay Doritos Ads Funny?"--headline, 365gay.com, Jan. 28
Shark Jumps Chef--Now That Would Be News
"Chef Ramsay Jumps Shark"--headline, New York Post, Jan. 31
We Hate the Egyptians--Now That Would Be an Editorial
"EDITORIAL: The Egyptians Hate Us"--headline, Washington Times, Feb. 1
Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control
- "Organic Panic: Obama Administration Green Lights Mutant Alfalfa"--headline, ABCNews.com, Jan. 31
- "The Patent Process Run Amok"--headline, Defining Ideas, Feb. 1
News of the Tautological
- "Autopsy: Man Pulled From Tempe Lake Likely Drowned"--headline, KTVK-TV website (Phoenix), Jan. 31
- "Beer Goggles Really DO Make the Opposite Sex More Attractive"--headline, Daily Mail (London), Jan. 31
- "Illegal Immigrants: Here to Stay"--headline, Washington Post website, Feb. 1
News You Can Use
"How Not to Think About Egypt"--headline, PowerLineBlog.com, Jan. 31
Bottom Stories of the Day
- "Romney Still Undecided on Presidential 2012 Race"--headline, Associated Press, Feb. 1
- "Microsoft Warning Over Browser Security Flaw"--headline, BBC website, Jan. 31
- "Rep. Wasserman Schultz to Write a Book"--headline, TheHill.com, Jan. 31
First Amendment Remedies
Columnist Dennis Prager issues a stirring call to arms against logophobic left-liberals:
If you love liberty, you must target the left and put its totalitarian tendencies in your cross hairs. We must shoot down political correctness and wage a crusade for truth and liberty. All those ladies and gentlemen who cherish personal and societal freedom must fight like great Indian chiefs, braving secondhand smoke if need be, in affirming a masculinity that has been under relentless attack. And yes, we must even endure the taunts of our foes and, at the appropriate time of the year, wish fellow Americans a "Merry Christmas."
Then, and only then, will we be able to vanquish lies, defeat the foes of liberty, and once again be able to proudly sing a national anthem that affirms that "the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there."
Let us wage this battle with determination and resolve, so that we may prevail in the war without having to resort to Second Amendment remedies.
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NEW YORK -- Sometimes, it doesn't matter how many times a coach tells a team to play unselfishly and to look for each other by moving the basketball on offense.
Sometimes, the players need to hear it from their peers for the harsh reality to click.
That's where Damon Stoudamire and Will Bynum come into play for this Arizona team. Stoudamire, the oft-troubled Portland Trail Blazer, put in a call to his cousin Salim earlier Tuesday to discuss his alma mater and its selfish play of late. Salim Stoudamire took the same call from Bynum, the former guard who split on Arizona a year ago to transfer to Georgia Tech, where he'll be eligible next week.
Salim Stoudamire said both guards watched the Wildcats lose to Florida 78-77 in Springfield, Mass. on Nov. 28, and then win by a point in Saint Louis, 68-67, on Saturday.
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They listened. And they did as they were told. They played their most unselfish game to date and ran away from Texas for most of the game before holding off the Longhorns' late rally for a much-needed 91-83 victory.
"When other guys tell you that you're being selfish, you take that into consideration," said Arizona sophomore forward Andre Iguodala, who finished with his first career triple-double -- 13 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists. Iguodala had no idea he had a triple-double until after the game, when he reacted with a "Wow!" before he quickly credited his teammates.
"Salim got us together before the game and made sure we all heard what those guys were saying about us," Iguodala said.
Salim Stoudamire said he gathered the players to relay the messages. It's not as though he doesn't have a Hall of Fame coach to give the team a lecture every day. But, for whatever reason, the words of wisdom from peers carried weight.
Arizona had been looking for some sort of guidance the past few weeks after losing Isaiah Fox to a season-ending knee injury. That injury was supposed to decimate the Wildcats' frontcourt. Not quite.
Iguodala was sensational as a driving, slashing small forward and resident power player -- 6-foot-4 Hassan Adams -- scored 30 and grabbed 10 rebounds. The Wildcats are hardly frontcourt-challenged when the athletic Iguodala and Adams pair up to help out Channing Frye (15 points) like that on a given night.
The Texas coaching staff talked about the mismatches Adams presents, considering he's a power player at 6-4. But Adams is unlike any forward in the country. He can play any position on the floor and play it well.
"I'm just a player," Adams said of his own game.
"He's a matchup problem, that's for sure," Texas coach Rick Barnes said.
Barnes thought he had some issues for Arizona with senior point guard Royal Ivey back in New York. But he was admittedly a bit askew for this homecoming. Ivey was 3-of-15 from the field, and committed four turnovers, which seemed to cancel out his five steals.
"Royal has to slow down," Barnes said. "He was trying to do too much. The same thing for Brandon (Mouton, who was 3-for-16)."
Texas didn't expect its seniors to flop Tuesday night. In fact, the only player who was assertive and played, well, like Adams and Iguodala, was freshman P.J. Tucker. Tucker, who is easily one of the top 10 freshmen in the country, was 7-of-9 for 16 points with 14 boards, including 10 on the offensive backboard.
"P.J. Tucker didn't have a hard time getting the ball because he wants the ball," Barnes said.
Barnes later lamented that he has to get Tucker more time, which means his 20 minutes likely will come at a starter's expense -- like, say, Brad Buckman (0 for 5 on FGs, 2 points) or even senior James Thomas (eight points in 17 minutes of largely ineffective play).
"I was trying to do too much," Ivey said of his game. "I've got to get into the lane easier. I was pressing too much."
Ivey and Texas are glad they'll have another chance to redeem themselves in New York when they come back to play Duke on Dec. 20.
Providence's next chance to show the nation it is a legit team will also come against Texas, but not until Jan. 5 in Providence as part of ESPN's first Big Monday.
But, the Friars took advantage of one of their only two ESPN appearances. Junior guard Ryan Gomes said the team looked at the Illinois game as even more important after losing Saturday at Rhode Island. Providence knew the window to create a lasting impression to the nation was closing.
Gomes proved he's among the nation's best frontline players with 24 points in a 70-51 victory over Illinois. Even more impressive than Gomes' play and Marcus Douthit's six blocks was the Friars' zone.
Providence didn't use it much two years ago when it had John Linehan's on-the-ball defense. Linehan, a Big East defensive player of the year, hawked defenders like no other point guard. But the past two seasons, Jim Boeheim-disciple Tim Welsh put it in play. Welsh recruited the way Boeheim did, with long, agile, athletic wings and forwards such as Gomes, Douthit and Rob Sanders to make the zone extremely impressive.
The Illini said they couldn't find the gaps in the zone, and they did look lost. Illinois guard Deron Williams went as far as to say the Illini quit as the game got out of hand. That strong statement wasn't a total shock to the staff because the coaches felt as though the team didn't do as good a job respecting Providence. Illinois coach Bruce Weber said the Illini weren't buying his words about how good Providence was after he told them Mercer and Arkansas were worthy opponents before Illinois blew them both out.
But the Illini were believers in the postgame after Providence's activity, and aggressive play after being down 12-0, left Illinois stunned.
When asked how teams can figure out the zone, Providence guard Donnie McGrath said he wouldn't say. He said he's not about to give away the secret. Welsh said beating his zone is the same as trying to break down Syracuse's. That means making shots (Illinois was 2-of-15 on 3s), getting second shots (Illinois had only 12 second-chance points) and making sure teams attack it by driving against it (the Illini kept launching shots from the perimeter).
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I am using a image logo with my blog title. Can somebody please tell me the best way to centre the blog title, logo and navigation menu bar please.
I want it like the Fluxipress authors website.
I am using a image logo with my blog title. Can somebody please tell me the best way to centre the blog title, logo and navigation menu bar please.
I want it like the Fluxipress authors website.
In your header...add a break tag after the image...

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Then modify the style sheet to center the elements in the H1 tag...
No! Do not edit the theme itself. First create a child theme for your changes. Or install a custom CSS plugin.
Thanks assurewd,
and esmi, I am using a child theme.
I'm thinking of using a custom CSS plugin as my child theme (style.css) isn't updating! However, .php files are!
I should probably create a new thread for this though.
There is no child theme visible on your site here:
WPyogi appreciate your input. I do have a child theme http://www.adamleeblythe.co.uk/wp-content/themes/fluxipress-child/style.css
I don't understand as I have made changes to header.php (in my child theme) and can see the changes.
Have you activated it? It's not what I see on your site.
Yes it's definitely activated. I've used child themes before i can't think why this is not working?!
The child theme issue has been resolved, as stated in the other thread.
Centering the title and adding a logo might still be a bit tricky. The #block-title must leave space for the menu button on small screens (just resize your browser to less than 800px width). I guess there's no easy way to center and not collide at some point, sorry.
I have managed to centre my title and custom logo using:
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display: block;
font-size: 4rem;
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font-size: 0.425em;
text-align: center;
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The only problem I'm having now is the rollover transition when you rollover #header and the text 'Home' is revealed. It's a nice touch but it's not what I want for my website. It looks to me there is some inline styling involved where can I find it to change it?
The simple transitioned rollover on your demo fluxipress website save the gummy bears is awesome. I want my header like this!
Thanks again.
add this to your child theme css:
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