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The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi women's basketball team will look to snap a current three-game skid, as it matches up with Nicholls on Saturday at 1 p.m. in Thibodaux, La.
• It has been a difficult start to conference play, as the Islanders have dropped four out of their first five meetings. However, after the conclusion of the game against Nicholls the team has faced five of the top six teams in the preseason polls.
• Last time out, A&M – Corpus Christi ran into a team that got hot from downtown, as McNeese shot 52.6 percent from deep after entering the contest with a 26 percent average. The 28-point loss was the biggest of the season after the first seven losses came by a combined total of 43.
• As a team, A&M – Corpus Christi is second in the Southland in three-point percentage, shooting 34.5 percent from behind the arc. Brittany Mbamalu and Jasmine Shaw have recorded a majority of the treys, combining for 87 of the team's 108 made shots from deep. In the last seven games, the duo has accounted for 55 of the teams' 62 threes.
• After averaging 21.5 turnovers in nonconference play, the Islanders have done a much better job of holding on to the ball with just 13.6 turnovers a game in their four Southland games.
• After struggling to find offense last year, senior transfer Jasmine Shaw has become the main offensive threat for the Islanders. Last season, no Islander had more than two 20-point games. Shaw already has five and leads the team with 16.7 points per game.
Each of the eight meetings between the two schools has come in Southland Conference play, with the series record deadlocked at four wins for each side.
Last season marked the first year the two squads played each other twice in a season, with Nicholls winning each game. Prior to that, the Islanders had won the previous two meetings. The same pattern had occurred prior to the last four meetings, as the Islanders took the first two games of the series before losing the next two.
The Colonels enter this game on a similar three-game losing skid after dropping Southland games to Lamar, Sam Houston State and Houston Baptist. However, the Colonels did open up conference play with wins against New Orleans and Southeastern Louisiana to come into this game with a 2-3 record in the Southland. Nicholls was picked to finish third in the conference coming into the season.
Coming into the game, one of the biggest hurdles the Islanders need to overcome is stopping their opponents from behind the arc. They will have to do exactly that against the Colonels, as they are one of the best three-point shooting teams in the conference, ranking first in three-point percentage at 35 percent. The last three games the Islanders have allowed opponents to shoot 52.6, 47.6 and 41.4 percent from deep. Nicholls is also third in the Southland, averaging 7.7 threes a game.
The Colonels also pressure opponents into turning the ball over, as they have a second-best 10.2 steals a game, as well as the best turnover margin at +3.8.
Individually, Nicholls features the conference's most dynamic scorer in the form of Emani White who is averaging a league-best 18.7 points per game. She ranks only behind Mbamalu and Shaw with 2.6 threes a game, and is sixth, shooting 39.4 percent from behind the arc. She also gets after it defensively, as she ranks first in steals per game with 2.6.
The Colonels are a very guard-orientated team, as their leading rebounder, Jenny Nash averages just 5.3 rebounds a game. However, each of the four players who have started each game averages at least four rebounds, as they all crash the boards.
The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi women's basketball team fell to McNeese State 79-51 in Lake Charles, La., on Thursday.
The Islanders (8-8, 1-4 in Southland Conference play) ran into another team that stroked it from behind the three-point line, as the Cowgirls (10-6, 3-2) shot 52.6 percent from deep, compared to the Islanders making just 6-of-16 shots from long range.
Five out of the six threes came from Brittany Mbamalu, as she had a game-high 15 points. With the effort, she also passed Jasmine Shaw for threes made this season, giving her 44 to move her into ninth in threes made in a season for the Islanders.
McNeese's defense did a good job of shutting down the Southland's third leading scorer, as Shaw was limited to four points — her second lowest total of the season.
On the other side, the second-highest scorer in the conference, Allison Baggett, hit three of her five triples en route to a team-high 14 points for the Cowgirls. Three other players from McNeese joined Baggett with double digit scoring performances.
Heading into their two games in Nashville in November, the Islanders had been outrebounded by 27 total boards. However, A&M – Corpus Christi dominated the rebounding stats in its trip to the Volunteer State, outrebounding both Belmont and Tennessee State by 13. The Islanders then finished off the roadtrip by outrebounding Texas State by 19, while also snatching up 23 offensive rebounds compared to the Bobcats' seven.
The Islanders once again cleaned up everything on the boards when they returned home, snatching up 15 more rebounds than UTSA, and then pulled down 11 more than UTPA.
After getting outrebounded for the first time in five games at Texas Southern, the Islanders won the rebound battle against UTA despite losing the game. They then backed it up with 17 more boards than Huston-Tillotson.
The Islanders have had troubles on the boards against Southland foes, getting outrebounded at UCA by 11 and at Oral Roberts by 16. They did bounce back against Northwestern State, though, pulling down five more rebounds than the Lady Demons before the size of both SFA and McNeese got to the squad with the Ladyjacks and Cowgirls each outrebounding the Islanders by 12. However, A&M – Corpus Christi still holds a rebounding margin of +1.5, ranking the Islanders fourth in the conference in that category.
Jasmine Shaw, a senior transfer from Marshall, has tallied five games of 20 or more points this season and is averaging 16.7 points a game. Last season, no Islander had more than two games exceeding 20 points throughout the entire campaign.
In the game against Tennessee State, Shaw struggled from the field, going just 3-of-12 and 1-of-6 from downtown. However, she still made a huge impact on the team, setting a career high in rebounds with 13 — seven offensively — and in assists with nine. She also knocked down seven of her nine free throws to give her 14 points on the night, meaning she came just one assist short of picking up the first triple-double in Islanders' history. For good measure in that game she also hit the game-winning jumper with five seconds left and recorded four steals in the matchup.
She then struggled in her next two games, scoring a total of just seven points, making just three of her 20 attempts from the field, missing all seven of her three-point attempts. However, she bounced back against UTPA with 17 points, going 6-for-9 from the field, including two threes.
Shaw then followed up that performance with an even bigger one, scoring a career-high 28 points against Texas Southern, including seven threes, which tied a school record. Shaw kept rolling heading into the Christmas break, knocking down another five threes and a total of 19 points at UTA. She then added 16 points to go along with five rebounds and five assists against Huston-Tillotson.
In her first two Southland games, Shaw racked up 13 points against the Sugar Bears, followed by 19 points, five rebounds and three assists against Oral Roberts. Then, in her third game in the conference, she exploded for a career-high 29 points, while once again tying the school record with seven threes. She also crashed the boards for 10 rebounds to pick up her second double-double of the season. She then added 19 more against SFA to raise her to the third leading scorer in the conference.
She struggled against McNeese, though, as the Cowgirls held Shaw to just 2-of-six from the field with no threes for just four points — her second lowest total of the season.
Senior Brandi Huff had a breakthrough performance in the matchup against Tennessee State, setting a career high in rebounds while matching her top scoring outing. The Rockport-Fulton native notched her first career double-double, pulling down 11 boards to go along with a team high 15 points. She then matched her career high in rebounds against UTSA, picking up five on offense and six on defense. Against UTPA, she hit double figures in the scoring column for the third time of the season with 12 points. Then at Texas Southern, Huff had seven points and six rebounds and tied career-highs in blocks (2) and steals (2).
Huff had arguably the biggest game of her tenure with a career-high 21 points to go along with 10 rebounds against Huston-Tillotson for her second double-double of the season. She went 7-of-9 from the field and made all seven of her shots from the charity stripe. Huff also blocked two shots and dished out two assists.
After struggling in the Southland opener, Huff bounced back to score nine points against Oral Roberts. She also set career-highs in the game with three steals and four blocks. Then, against Northwestern State she helped crash the boards with seven rebounds, as well as going a perfect 3-for-3 from the field for six points. She followed that up with nine points against SFA.
Freshman Brittany Mbamalu has made a significant impact on the team, especially with her pinpoint shooting ability from three-point range. With 44 threes this season, she currently ranks ninth in Islanders' history for a single season.
In her first two games, she only saw two minutes of action combined. However, she logged 19 minutes of play against Southern Utah, and hit three threes for nine points, earning herself a spot in the starting rotation.
In her first seven games as a starter, Mbmamlu hit double figures in each outing. She now ranks second in the Southland in three pointers made (2.6 per game, 39 total). Mbamalu also shattered a school record with 18 three-point attempts in the game at UTA with the previous high being 13 — which she had tied in the game at Texas Southern.
Her streak of double figure performances was brought to a halt against Huston-Tillotson where she only had nine points. However, this was only in 16 minutes of play after she suffered an injury in the first half of play. She then got back in double figures with 10 points against UCA in her first conference game.
Mbamalu then posted her ninth and 10th games in double digits with four three pointers against the Lady Demons for 12 points before knocking down five from deep for a game-high 15 points at McNeese.
In each of its first three losses, A&M – Corpus Christi came up just short, losing by an average of just five points. In its loss against Fairfield in the championship game of the Emerald Beach Islanders Classic, the Islanders were just one play away from tying the game up. In the matchup with Southern Utah, the Islanders trailed by just four late in the game before the Thunderbirds pushed the lead back to seven before the final horn sounded.
A&M – Corpus Christi saw a four-point lead against UTSA dwindle away over the final 3:22 of regulation before being outscored 6-1 in overtime to fall 55-50. The Islanders were downed by double-digits for the first time this season in a 75-64 defeat by UTA before losing a four-point game to UCA. It was another close loss in the last two matchups, as the Islanders fell to Northwestern State by six and to SFA by seven to keep their average margin of defeat at six at that time.
However, McNeese played a very solid game against the Islanders en route to a 28-point victory, which was the biggest of the season after the first seven losses came by a combined total of 43.
During the early signing period, the Islanders received National Letters of Intent from Emmeri Archer (Brooklyn, N.Y./ South Shore HS), Daryon Fields (Spring, Texas/St. Pius High School), Ashley James (Highland Village, Texas/Marcus High School) and Jennifer Ramirez (Brooklyn, N.Y./ASA Junior College).
A 5-foot-7 guard, Archer comes to the Islanders as a three-star recruit with a 90 ranking from ESPN. It also ranks her as the 18th player nationally at her position.
Coming from Spring, Texas, Fields will bring some inside presence to the Coastal Bend. The 6-foot-2 post is ranked 42nd in the nation at her position and 309th nationally overall. In her junior year at St. Pius, Fields nearly averaged a double-double with 10 points a game to go along with eight rebounds each time out.
James, a 5-foot-4 point guard from Marcus High School in Flower Mound, Texas. In her junior year, she was named first team all-district and the defensive player of the year in her district. That season, James averaged 10 points, four steals and three assists per game. She has also picked up district MVP and offensive player of the year awards during her high school career.
Ramirez, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., comes to the Island University from ASA Junior College in New York City. Ramirez played her high school basketball at New York City Lab School. In her junior season she averaged 18.8 points, including a 35-point performance in her team's playoff game, as well as 6.5 assists and 6.5 rebounds a game.
With the departure of eight players from last year's squad, the Islanders only have four returners for the 2013-14 season made up of three seniors and one sophomore. The leading scorer out of the bunch was Ashley Darley, who was second on the team in points scored with 7.9 a game. Darley also ranked second on the team in rebounds per game and steals per game last year.
Taryn Gregory also returns for her final season after starting in 20 games last year. She comes into the year ranking fourth in career free-throw percentage with a .764 overall mark her first three years. Brandi Huff rounds out the trio of seniors after ranking third on the team in rebounds a year ago.
The lone sophomore on A&M – Corpus Christi's roster is Ashanti Plummer. The Manhattan, N.Y., native enters play this year after making an impact on the team her freshman year, ranking second on the team in games started with 22 and first in the team in blocks and 11th in the Southland in the same category.
The Islanders enter this season with the top-ranked recruiting class in the Southland after signing 10 newcomers. However, five of them join the Island University with collegiate experience – three at the Division I level.
Two of the transfers have played for coach Royce Chadwick, as Shay Weaver and Jasmine Shaw come to the Island University after playing for him at Marshall. Shaw will look to make an immediate impact, while Weaver will sit out this season because of NCAA transfer rules.
Alissa Campanero will look to get the ball in the hands of shooters as she dished out 4.9 assists per game last season with Odessa College and has experience in Division I after playing her freshman season at Hawaii.
Adebayo played at Eastern Oklahoma State Community College and averaged 16 points and seven rebounds per game, while securing 12 double-doubles, picking up First Team All-Conference, First Team All-Region and Third Team NJCAA All-American honors.
Lexy Harris joins the Islanders after averaging a double-double with Angelina Community College, averaging 12.8 points per game and 10.9 rebounds to go along with 2.1 blocks per game.
Rounding off the highly touted recruiting class are four freshmen. No. 63 in the ESPN Girls Recruiting National Rankings is Camesha Davis who averaged 16 points and 8.5 rebounds at Desoto High School. Another freshman that comes to the Coastal Bend almost averaging a double-double is Doshi Davis who averaged 11 points and 8.3 rebounds as a senior at Memorial High School in Port Arthur, Texas.
A freshman that managed to average a double-double her senior season of high school was Brittany Mbamalu, pulling down 10.1 rebounds a game to go along with 20.8 points. She was also named first team all-district her junior and senior seasons. Looking to help out a team that averaged less than 50 points a game last season is Kassie Jones, who was ranked 10th in Texas in scoring her senior year, averaging 24 points a game.
After finishing last season 3-15 in conference play, the Islanders have been picked by the Southland coaches to finish ninth in the conference, while the SID Poll has A&M – Corpus Christi occupying the 10th spot.
The Islanders will be back home next week, as two Louisiana teams will now come to the Coastal Bend in the form of Southeastern Louisiana and Southland newcomer New Orleans. The game against the Lady Lions will be on Thursday at 5 p.m. in the Dugan Wellness Center, while the game against UNO will be downtown in the American Bank Center with tip scheduled for 4 p.m.


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After the feathers settle from a successful light goose hunt, liberal bag limits provide hunters with plenty of goose meat and a great opportunity to try new recipes. Using old recipes and new, hunters can combine their late-season shooting skills with their "self-proclaimed" chef skills, to create a goose feast.
Here are a few Ducks Unlimited recommended recipes that will allow hunters to savor the hunt.
4 servings
Slice goose breasts thinly across the "grain" of the meat. Combine half of the olive oil, Worcestershire sauce, garlic salt, and hot pepper sauce in a glass bowl. Add sliced goose, cover and refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours. Heat remaining oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion, peppers and garlic. Cook until onions are medium brown. Remove goose from marinade. Drain well and discard marinade. Add goose and stir-fry for 1 to 2 minutes or until just cooked, but not past medium-rare. Stir in tomato and season to taste with salt, pepper and additional hot sauce. Serve over a bed of Cajun rice.
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August Spies wrote: Bathtub:
First off I live in DC, and IMO blacks have plenty reason to complain here....
however back to the topic... wait what am I supposed to respond to?
NOTHING YOU SAID HAD ANY RELEVANCE to my claim that not everyone in this society has equal opportunity.
We are all mammels? SO!?!? Jews and Germans were both humans, doesnt' mean jews had the same chance to advance in the German army as Aryans did, does it? OF COURSE NOT.
we are all just people? Sure, but that doesn't mean a kid working in a sweatshop in india for 14 cents an hour since he was 8 has the same job opportunities as a middle class white kid.
You dont' believe in black as culture? Okay, already said im not sure I buy that eiither but does that have anything to do with equal opportunity? NOPE.
"but that post was hecka funny. i bet you have a krooshial tilt on your NY yankees hat right now, and your flossin some mecca, and lugz boots. either black or white, "
hecka? Sorry I don't know what Krosshial or mecca refer too. Im actually wearing a thrift store polo shirt, New balances, a trucker hat. Just because I listen to hip hop doesnt' mean I dress like some cash money reject.
Solomon Klepto wrote: There 's only one race that should be allowed to make Hiphop..... The Human Race.... Melburn - Australia
Bathtub wrote: black "culture" will never guide the direction of hip hop. it is actually ,thank the lord, leaving that subculture of black "steez". i hate thugs so much. you are a piece of shit.
how can you say that blacks run the music so called "hiphop". they are a formidable representation in our music, but it isnt "their music" or "their culture"
Notch wrote: Sometimes, when your having difficulty expressing yourself, Its the comment someone else makes that proves your point most effectivly.
Thanks Bathtub.
August Spies wrote:
Im actually wearing a thrift store polo shirt, New balances, a trucker hat. Just because I listen to hip hop doesnt' mean I dress like some cash money reject.
Quote: i have people in my life giving me morals
Quote: get off the fucking band wagon that so many of your colored friends share.


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An elderly Oakland county man is believed to be the state's second victim of the West Nile virus.
Health officials says the man who died Sunday was 90-years-old.
Last week state health officials announced a 65-year-old Ferndale man is believed to have died from the virus.
At least two other people in Michigan, one of them a toddler, are thought to be infected with the virus transmitted by mosquitoes.
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Unlike these Lance Armstrongs here, I get my experience naturally.
Unlike these Lance Armstrongs here, I get my experience naturally.
I almost succumbed to the doping.
I am still pure.
Yo Rev PM me that Wal-Mart code for xp if you aren't going to use it please. I gots these cheeseburgers bro.
Yo Rev PM me that Wal-Mart code for xp if you aren't going to use it please. I gots these nothings bro.
Says the reclaimer on Reach over here
"Let's tell the beaner he needs to spend money that'll scare him away"
I haven't even seen Halo Doritos at any stores here, but then again I never buy Doritos so I don't even know.
Flyover states, bro.
So you can literally go to the store and snap a pic or use your mobile to upload the codes from the Doritios bag right there. One of the codes on the bag I bought had already been used. Luckily I forsaw this and took a pic of two others while I was there to combat my being robbed. So be careful buying the Doritos, your code may already be used like mine was.
You'll sink to any low, holy shit.
I got robbed. I robbed back.
You robbed some innocent folks before you even knew you were robbed. You can't retroactively claim Robin Hood status. You're like my brother that used to say "sorry" right before he'd punch ya. It doesn't work like that.
Not true. I entered mine on my mobile on the way out the store. Said already used, thought about how that could be. Figured it out and went back in to take some pics. Verify before you buy or just ignore the Doritos outright. You can't get jipped with the cans/bottles.
I tried to make it look like I didn't get duped to begin with. But I did have to go back in. Rather than explain to a cashier that I'm some autistic nerd dying for XP and my shit was ganked I just took a couple of pics and left.
But seriously, fuck the Doritos. Who prints shit on the side of a bag anyway?
*EDIT* Out of 4 codes, only one worked.
You're in Texas. When you went back inside they probably just thought you really liked Wal-Mart.
Check the edit. Fuck the Doritos option. Mountain Dew will save me the whole way.


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My personal first set highlight is Ocelot - a laid-back, patient, melodic version that shows off Phish's (particularly Trey's) restrained lead playing. It's no 'He's Gone,' of course, but it's getting there. Bravo! The rest of the first set is fine, as expected, but we'll let Ocelot stand as an indicator of the quality of the playing.
As for Set Two, it's one of those 'Not As Good As _______' sets that's nonetheless exceptionally well played. The Light isn't as darkly illuminating as at the Greek, nor is Meatstick as drawn out as at Merriweather in June, and there's no soaring 'Dave's Energy Guide' jam to close out Fluffhead as in last year's Red Rocks version. Instead, each song offers some nice little turn or filip, from a screaming reprise in 46 Days to a *volcanic* Page solo over Trey's jagged rhythm guitar in Maze (which Trey then matches, thanks in no small part to some extraordinary Mike/Fish work).
The Meatstick > Mango segue is probably the most interesting transition since the return: Trey starts up Mango over a ambient-textured Meatstick jam; Mike joins him, with the other two guys holding back, bringing darkness in at the edges; Fish finally flips to a sprightly hi-hat pattern, leaving only Page in the previous key and feel. Page keeps his own synth weirdness going for more than a minute, during which Trey patiently plays that sugary-sweet Mango line over and over, the clouds slowly parting, and when Page hops over to the acoustic piano it's like a new day altogether. Awesome!
The Fluffhead outro jam, when it comes (twenty minutes later), feels like a continuation of the party energy: Page provides unexpected harmony on 'Fluffballs!' and Trey lets out a roar as he kicks into an ecstatic guitar solo. The playing matches the open sky and easy feeling of the venue, and it's a joy to hear.
The soulful Slave encore is as good as the rest of the show: vintage 2010 Phish stuff, played with an emotional weight and maturity the band could never have mustered even six years ago...
There hasn't been a bad show all summer; this one would've been an easy highlight in 2009 (and of course we'd've killed to hear this kind of focus and empathy in 2004!). I'm stunned by the quality of Phish's recent playing, and can't wait to hear what comes next. I sometimes miss the prickling pre-millennium darkness of the late 90's, but this music is too energetic and beautiful to get hung up on comparisons to the past. Enjoy this show. Christ knows the musicians did.


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"I'm afraid that I'm going to be broke forever. After my car payment, grad school tuition, rent and groceries, I barely have anything left over to put into savings." —Rebecca, 25, North Carolina
Take action: First, know that this is temporary—your salary will likely go up. But the only way to reduce your money anxiety now is to be in control of your finances, says Manisha Thakor, founder and CEO of MoneyZen Wealth Management in Santa Fe. Step one is to make a budget. "About 50 percent of your paycheck should go to needs, like rent, and 30 percent to wants, like dinners out," Thakor says. The last 20 percent is key: That's what you should put away. If you want to have money, you gotta start saving now. "Living paycheck to paycheck is scary," says Thakor. "Savings give you a cushion." So feel fab about whatever you can stash, even if it's only $20 a month.
#2 Worry: Your Job
"I have a good job—I just don't love the field I'm in. I fear that if I don't make a move soon, I'll be unhappy at work forever, but I'm scared to give up my steady paycheck." —Erin, 24, Chicago
Take action: It's normal when you're starting out to think you're stuck for life in the career you've chosen, but that's not true, Dr. Birndorf says. "You can always change jobs, but first, ask yourself: Do you really not like the industry you're in, or are you just in a crappy low-level position?" If it's the former, make a six-month plan to score a happier gig—research careers, network. This buys you time to make a smart move but also relieves stress, because you're actively seeking what's next. If it's the latter, the answer may be to stick it out, because things will get better. And remember, work is only work: You can do what you love—volunteer, travel—on your own time.
#3 Worry: Your Guy
"I always fall for guys who don't want to get serious, guys I can tell won't be good to me. I'm panicked that if I can't break this pattern, I'll never have a healthy, lasting relationship." —Katherine, 26, New York City
Take action: Let yourself off the hook a little bit—there's no deadline to find Mr. Right. Besides, dating the wrong guys has some benefits—experience, fun, great stories to share with your friends over beers. To break the pattern, though, you need to hash out what's driving it, says Rachel Sussman, a therapist in New York City. Is it the thrill of being with a "bad boy"? Or maybe you're not ready to settle down yet, so you go for dudes you know aren't marriage material. Once you are ready and you understand what you don't want (guys who do x, y and z), it will be easier to find what you do want—and deserve: a smart, fun guy who treats you well. —Additional reporting by Amanda Woerner


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I have some movies that are named in chinese characters. Most of them (but not all) don't show up on my PS3. The weird thing is a few of them do show up. I'm guessing that the ones that do show up use a different character encoding set from the ones that don't show, even though they are all chinese characters. I skimmed through the debug.log and found the following that might be helpful ...
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Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a series of bills Saturday that would have streamlined or reestablished a semblance of the state's disbanded redevelopment agencies.
Brown returned Senate Bill 214, authored by Lois Wolk (D-Davis) to the state legislature unsigned.
The bill would have overhauled the state's infrastructure finance district works, a little-used state tool that utilizes bonds for infrastructure-related projects.
Part of the provision would have removed a two-thirds voter approval required to establish the district and allow city council or county board of supervisors to establish it by resolution. The bill would have also expanded the number of projects financed by a IFD.
"This is the State of California saying we're continuing to take money from local governments," Vice Mayor Jerry Taylor said on the phone Monday.
Brown's veto message for the bill stated that "expanding the scope of infrastructure finance districts is premature" and would derail the cities from focusing on winding down redevelopment.
The same reason was rubber-stamped on Brown's veto message for Assembly Bill 2144.
AB 2144, authored by Assembly Speaker John Perez (D-Los Angeles), also targeted infrastructure finance districts. It had some distinctions from Wolk in that it would reduce the two-thirds voter requirement to 55 percent.
State Bill 1156, authored by state senator Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), was built in part on the structure of traditional RDA agencies, but would have updated it and relabeled the districts Sustainable Communities Investment Authorities.
Brown issued a separate veto message with Steinberg's bill, stating that he would prefer to take a "constructive look at implementing this type of program" after the process redevelopment wound down and state general funds savings were achieved.
"At that time, we will be in a much better position to consider new investment authorities," the veto message stated.
Overall, all three bills would detract from the state's goal of "achieving the General Fund savings assumed in this year's budget."
The League of California Cities had backed the passing of Wolk's bill, SB 214, saying it was the most practical of the three pieces of legislation.
While a far cry from the flexibility that traditional RDAs offered, it would allowed more reasonable options to finance projects for infrastructure projects like fixing roads, maintaining buildings or initiating housing projects.
Taylor expressed some frustration with the bill's veto, saying that voters at the local level had a better sense of what the community needed and more access to their leaders than at the state level.
"They (the voters) would like us to focus on the infrastructure problems and we don't have the tools to do it," Taylor said. "The State of California is not going to come in and fix the southern part of China Lake Boulevard or fix Sunland Street."
Page 2 of 2 - Mayor Pro Tem Chip Holloway said it was a clear indication of the governor's intentions toward RDAs.
"I think the governor's veto only solidifies his resentment towards local government and redevelopment as a whole," Holloway said in an email Monday. "Every day he can score more revenue from local government and former RDA's is one less day he has to face the hard decisions of standing up to the special interest in Sacramento and deal with real structural budget reform."
Holloway was critical of Gov. Brown's decision to veto SB 214.
"His excuses are shallow, and while they may make sense to the average citizen considering the confusion unwinding RDA's has caused, the real problem is job creation," Holloway said.
The state's actions seemed to rob Ridgecrest and other communities of pursuing those options as best they could.
"This legislation could have been a small first step in achieving that goal but that would have required bold leadership, something that doesn't exist in the Capitol these days," Holloway said.
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The perfect companion book to the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series! I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Hidden Enemy is a collection of three action-packed novellas by bestselling author Pittacus Lore! Originally published as the e-novellas Five's Legacy, Return to Paradise, and Five's Betrayal, now, for the first time ever, they are together in one print volume.
Five's Legacy tells the story of Five's early years on Earth when he was just a young teen on the run, discovering his abilities and making the wrong kind of friends.
Return to Paradise picks up in the aftermath of the Mog attack on Ohio and follows Mark James as he struggles between returning to a normal life and helping John Smith and the others.
Five's Betrayal is the exhilarating continuation of Five's story, in which he joins the Mogadorian ranks and must demonstrate his allegiance to them by helping to destroy the other Lorien survivors.
You know the truth about the Mogadorians' invasion of Earth and the Garde who will do anything to defeat them—yet there is still so much to learn. The stories in Hidden Enemy will help you get the answers you seek, but they will not help you stop the coming war. Only the Garde can save our planet.
You know we have been betrayed.
You must discover why.
You must learn the truth.
They have put a plan in motion.
They have infiltrated your government.
They have already turned some of you.
They will do whatever it takes to have your planet.
The battle lines have been drawn.
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7 Tips for Shipping Your Startup Culture Overseas
We've all heard of Google's famous culture and seen pictures of the unique offices they have all over the world – but how do you make sure your startup's culture doesn't get lost by the baggage handlers when you expand overseas? Your culture isn't programmed – it's not even written down anywhere! Your startup's…Read more


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SC Route 11 bridge to close over I-26 for six weeks
Published: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 5:53 p.m.
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A bridge over Interstate 26 is expected to be closed 45 days for crews to repair and raise it.
The S.C. Department of Transportation will close the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway bridge over Interstate 26 in Spartanburg County on March 5 while contractors raise and repair the bridge.
The estimated completion date for the project is April 19. During the closure, motorists will be detoured along I-26. The interstate exit and entrance ramps will remain open. Construction areas and detours will be marked with traffic control signs.
Drivers near the construction zone are should be aware of equipment and crews.
The S.C. Route 11 bridge at Exit 5 in Spartanburg County will close March 5. It's scheduled to reopen April 19 if weather permits.
Project Manager Lindy Hallman with United Contractors said the bridge will be raised to more than 16 feet high. A bridge railing on one side has been damaged and will either be repaired or replaced, he said.
Hallman said after the S.C. Route 11 bridge is closed, crew members will dig out each end of the bridge, disconnect it from the bridge caps and place around six 80 and 100 ton jacks beneath the bridge. Each span will be raised, metal plates placed beneath them and the bridge caps will be extended before concrete is poured. The road will be repaved and the grade increased to match the bridge's new height.
Drivers will be detoured along I-26 during the closure. Westbound traffic will detour to Exit 1 and taking I-26 East to Exit 5, while eastbound traffic will detour to Exit 10 and take I-26 West to Exit 5. Interstate ramps will remain open to right turns and through movements.
Cole Harrison, resident construction engineer with the S.C. Department of Transportation, said about 4,000 people cross the bridge each day. Harrison said there could be alternate traffic patterns during the project, but said lanes won't be closed.
The project includes seven bridges crossing I-26 in Spartanburg County. The S.C. Route 11 bridge is the first slated to be raised. Other bridges include Foster Road, Edwards Road, SC 292, Calvary Road, Clark Road and New Cut Road.
Harrison said only one bridge will be shut down at a time during the project.
Hallman said people can be impatient about detours but said they are necessary to ensure workers and drivers' safety. He asks people to obey construction signs and be patient.
"We will try to get through as quick as we can," Hallman said.
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prolyphic81 wrote: Soul Rebel Project is a reggae band that has offered to play as my backing band. A guitarist, keys player, Left Over Wine's Tugboat plays bass, Left Over Wine's Pilk This Cow The Best Way We Know How on drums and DJ Emoh.
This is my 3rd time playing with them. They're a great bunch of guys, I have a great time and having the band allows me to be more dynamic on stage. All of the songs I am performing will be played out live, should be dope. Some new stuff, some old stuff, some random stuff.


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Tiny Batteries a Rising Risk for Children
Aug. 30, 2012 -- Children and batteries are a dangerous and increasingly common combination, according to a new CDC report. In 1998, while battery-related injuries sent 1,900 children to the emergency room, 4,800 cases were reported in 2010.
Overall, more than 40,000 children were admitted to ERs nationwide between 1997 and 2010. Almost three quarters of them were 4 years old or younger. One in 10 children required hospitalization; 14 of them died.
The CDC singled out button batteries as the most potentially harmful type of battery for young children. These are the round, button-sized batteries often used to power watches, hearing aids, and other small devices. They are easy to swallow and can get stuck in the esophagus, leading to serious injury or death.
Twelve of the 14 deaths were attributed to button batteries; the remaining two deaths also likely involved them.
"This information is consistent with recent reports showing an increase in severe or fatal outcomes with button battery ingestions from 1985 to 2009," write the authors of the report.
The data, primarily from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, were collected and analyzed by the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). That agency, the report states, "is urging the electronics industry and battery manufacturers to develop warnings and industry standards to prevent serious injuries and deaths from button batteries."
Potentially Fatal Complications
Swallowed batteries may pass through the intestines and safely out of the body. However, they often get lodged in the esophagus. When that happens, a buildup of the chemical hydroxide may occur, causing dangerous burns within a couple of hours. Batteries stuck in the throat may also leak alkaline electrolyte, a corrosive chemical.
Even if the battery does not leak, it can cause harm. Direct pressure can cut off blood flow to the area where the battery is stuck, leading to tissue death.
The symptoms of battery ingestion include vomiting, abdominal pain, fever, and diarrhea, as well as difficulty breathing and swallowing. Such symptoms, which can be attributed to numerous causes, make it difficult to diagnose battery ingestion quickly. This is especially true, the report's authors point out, when a child swallows a battery when no one is around to see them do it.
"Another complicating factor arises when incidents are not witnessed or the diagnosis or treatment of battery ingestion is delayed, as it was in at least nine of the 14 fatal cases," the report states. "It is also important to recognize that children might be reluctant or unable to say that they ingested a battery or gave one to a sibling."


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For Middle Managers, Integrity May Not Count for Much
Integrity – the ability to act with authenticity, honesty and trustworthiness – is a crucial character trait for successful top executives.
For middle managers? Not so much.
New research from the Center for Creative Leadership, a coaching and training organization, finds that C-suite leaders who demonstrate integrity also are the ones who perform particularly well, but a few rungs down the corporate ladder, a staffer's level of integrity has little correlation with performance.
The center analyzed data from 246 middle managers and 191 top executives to determine the relative importance of four character strengths: integrity, bravery, perspective and social intelligence, as perceived by their direct reports, peers and board members.
While integrity topped the list for high-level executives, for middle managers it came behind social intelligence as a predictor of good performance.
That's likely because middle managers spend more time navigating both subordinates and their own bosses, and so need to be particularly adept at reading social cues and managing office politics — even more than they need to pay attention to their perceived ethical acumen.
The authors say those findings were "surprising and perhaps a little disconcerting."
That could signal risks for companies where middle managers are moving up the ranks, says William Gentry, a research scientist at CCL and co-author of the white paper. Since integrity has little bearing on performance at lower levels of management, someone who's promoted based on performance may be caught unprepared once they reach the top ranks.
That could explain the ethical failures of some corporate leaders who've made headlines in recent years, the authors say.
Another finding from the CCL study: Executives tend to overrate their own integrity when compared with the ratings assigned by their direct reports. After all, they've been promoted to a company's highest levels; how, they reason, could they get so far with a serious moral deficit? The authors say high-level executives should seek honest feedback about their perceived integrity because a blind spot in that area "could lead to failure, infamy, or worse."
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For the third year running, we've compiled tracks from some of our favorite emerging artists and we're giving them to you for free. We've got tracks from NYC's Rubblebucket, War On Drugs side project Nightlands, Seattle chamber folk group Hey Marseilles, and 8 other hand picked tracks.You can download the Unzipped Compilation Volume 3 by heading to our Facebook page.
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At 1:13 a.m. Monday, deputies arrested John Thomas Lyman, 27, on charges of D.U.I. and refusal to submit to alcohol and drug testing. Lyman was released after posting a total $1,500 bond.
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At 5:38 p.m. Monday, deputies arrested Cody Eugene Phillips, 21, on a District Court warrant for burglary and theft of services. Phillips was held pending a total $5,000 bond.
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NEW: For a prettier blog interface, see the Wordpress version!
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- Five lessons learned from last week 16:42
- Settled in and ready to watch my birthday video 18:13
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1. Imported comments into Wordpress
Setting up Wordpress for a labmate's blog took less than five minutes (as advertised), and importing the RSS feed from MSN spaces was a breeze. Grabbing the comments was another matter, though, and my Perl is embarrassingly rusty now. I ended up piping the individual blog pages to a command-line Perl script that spit out SQL code.
コンピュータがこの会社に導入されつつあります。 Computers are being introduced into this company.
2. Five lessons learned from last week
- Research groups are good. The lively exchange of ideas will inspire and support me, and besides, group meetings often have food. It's worth postponing my individual interest in personal information management if I can't find other people who are working on the same area.
- I'm good at networking and relating to people quickly. I'm still a little shy, but I'm starting to be good at remembering names and faces, and people here don't mind helping someone get settled in.
- A personal organizer makes me feel more on top of things. If I can find a ring-bound paper organizer with the same structure as my current planner, I'll switch to it. I really appreciate having weekly and daily goals, and might prepare my own templates if I can't find an organizer that normally does that.
- I can write 800 words easily once I get going. I prefer writing in one go instead of filling out an outline because the former feels more like writing e-mail to someone, and I can get pretty long-winded in e-mail.
- My writing style seems to be matter-of-fact and conversational. Dominique thinks I've found my voice.
近年では、電子コンピュータがますます重要になってきた。 In recent years electronic computers have become increasingly important.
3. Settled in and ready to watch my birthday video
For my birthday and send-off party, a bunch of my friends got together and made a video that I could bring with me to Canada. I haven't watched it yet. I thought I shouldn't do it while I was still settling in, while I still wasn't quite sure that this was a good idea.
I'm going to watch it later. I think I've gotten the rhythm of things and I've found little sources of joy here.
I can't wait to see what they've come up with. =)
ここのパソコンはシステムを変えることができないので何もできない。 Because the personal computer here cannot change the system, anything cannot be done.
I'd love to hear about any questions, comments, suggestions or links that you might have. Your comments will not be posted on this website immediately, but will be e-mailed to me first. You can use this form to get in touch with me, or e-mail me at [email protected] .


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Top-selling holiday gifts: A timeline
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End of an era at Canaan Fair Speedway
A pair of tracks located at the Canaan Fairgrounds, about 15 miles from Lebanon, N.H., ran their final traditional night-race events on Friday and Saturday, marking an ending to an era of grassroots racing in the Connecticut River Valley.
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Hilsenrath Analysis: Fed Likely to Continue Taper, Consider Changing Forward Guidance
There is likely enough good news in Friday's jobs report to keep the Federal Reserve on track to scale back its monthly bond buying by another $10 billion to $55 billion at its March 18-19 policy meeting.
Fed officials have made clear in the past few weeks that their bar to veering from this course is high. It's a point that New York Fed President William Dudley emphasized in an interview with The Wall Street Journal Thursday. He said his "threshold is pretty high" to altering the plan. Moreover, Mr. Dudley, Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen and other Fed officials believe economic data have been soft in recent months largely because of bad weather. Employment in the retail industry, for example, has now fallen for two straight months. Against that backdrop, a 175,000 increase in payrolls in February probably looks encouraging. Mr. Dudley said he believed the economy is growing at an annual rate below 2% in the first quarter because of bad weather, but is likely to expand at a 3% rate in the spring.
A more challenging question for the Fed at its next meeting is whether to change its forward guidance on the likely future course of interest rates. The Fed has said it won't even consider raising rates until the jobless rate gets to 6.5% and will likely wait well past that point. Mr. Dudley said Thursday he thought the Fed should revise the guidance with the jobless rate so close to 6.5%. It was 6.6% in January. With Friday's report that it rose to 6.7% in February, that takes a little pressure off officials to change their guidance right away. Still, Mr. Dudley said he believed March was the right time to strike new chords on the interest rate outlook.
"My personal opinion is 6 ½% is not providing a lot of value right now in terms of our communications," Mr. Dudley said. "So my personal view is this is probably a reasonable time to revamp the statement to take out that 6 ½% threshold because it's not really providing any great value. I'd rather do it before I reached that threshold."
To be clear, Mr. Dudley remains strongly supportive of Fed efforts to spur stronger growth and bring down unemployment. He said Thursday he was comfortable with the market's view the Fed wouldn't start raising short-term interest rates until mid- to late-2015. But he and other Fed officials believe the central bank needs to find new ways to assess labor market conditions and talk about its rate plans.
Mr. Dudley emphasized what he and other officials call "qualitative guidance." They will focus on "a broad set of labor market conditions" rather than just the unemployment rate to assess how much slack there is in the economy and how much inflation pressure is building. The guidance, in other words, is going to get more vague and consequently less certain. Investors will need to triangulate where the Fed is going, not just by looking at the official unemployment rate, but at other indicators such as wages and measures of labor market underutilization. The Fed's own interest rate projections, laid out quarterly in its Summary of Economic Projections, could become increasingly important indicators, as will officials' public statements.
Some alternative measures of the labor market are showing notable improvement which could get the Fed's attention in the days ahead. Wages of nonsupervisory workers in February were up 2.5% from a year ago, their largest 12-month increase since July 2010. That could be a sign that slack in the labor market is diminishing. It's hard to say for sure because other wage and compensation data remain soft. But Torsten Slok, a Deutsche Bank economist, called the wage gain the most important development in the jobs report.
"Once this starts to trend up then we are in the phase of an expansion," Mr. Slok said in an interview. "When you start the uptrend in wages you have historically always seen consumer prices go up."
Other signs in the report point to underlying improvement in the job market. The number of people working part-time who want full-time work has declined two months in a row.
A broad measure of unemployment – which includes part-time workers who want to work more and also people who are available for work but stopped looking – dropped to 12.6% in February, its lowest level since November 2008.
Mr. Slok said these indicators could put pressure on the Fed to move rates higher sooner than market participants expect. Mr. Dudley, in his Wall Street Journal interview, said the economy is still burdened by heavy headwinds to economic growth. Even after it does start raising rates, he said, it isn't likely to move them up much.


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I would like some help with a few functional issues
I am using Qcad R 3.0 and win 7 64
I have set the viewports to 4:Left. I adjust the size of the viewports, when I close QCad and reopen the viewpots have been reset to the default half width and 1 third height.
I did find a similar question in the bug tracker by Clive, saying that this happened on one of the RCs but was working on ver 3.0
I am using 3.0 now, but I still have RC5 (Trial)available in a different location and the window seems to open with the viewport at the last saved setting
2.Options tool
I use QCad on 2 screens, 1 for the drawing in progress, and the other for tools. The problem is the options tool re-docks if I close and reopen the drawing
3.Tile window
QCad 2 had the option to "Tile" the drawings under the Window drop down menu. Is this function still available somewhere
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AUSTIN (January 9, 2013)--Gov. Rick Perry is making no promises that Texas lawmakers will roll back any of the deep state spending cuts imposed during past economic downswings, not even $5.4 billion sliced from public school funding.
The governor says the state has no obligation to restore funding levels reduced in 2011, even as a stronger economy has given the state Legislature more money to work with as it reconvenes this week.
Perry had breakfast Wednesday with Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus and all three spoke of unity, promising to make cutting taxes a priority, but Dewhurst then broke ranks somewhat and promised that more funding would go to public education.
Straus has already promised to increase funding to schools enough to cover enrollment growth, requiring an extra $2 billion.
Perry said Wednesday it's too early in the new session to pinpoint how the Texas Legislature might find tax relief and Dewhurst also declined to mention specifics, but said everything from the business tax to property taxes was on the table.
The state's top Republicans defend the timing of tax-cut talk by pointing to a healthy state revenue forecast announced this week.
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The ARS Floriculture and Nursery Research Initiative funds research – conducted by ARS and university scientists – of importance to the floral and horticultural industry that is strongly focused on addressing and solving the industry's issues and needs. ARS works closely with representatives of the American Nursery and Landscape Association and the Society of American Florists in setting the research priorities and goals of this Initiative. A list of current research projects funded by the Floriculture and Nursery Research Initiative is here, along with the most recent annual reports.
ARS and university researchers supported by the Initiative met in Raleigh, North Carolina, in March 2003, and again in Portland, Oregon, in June 2006, to report on the progress of their research, and to meet and network with other researchers and stakeholders in the ornamental industry. The research presentations made at each of these workshops are available here.


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FoxSports.com baseball analyst and author of Winners: How Good Baseball Teams Become Great Ones, Dayn Perry brings us Reggie Jackson in all his glory—a thrilling, in-depth biography of the controversial New York Yankee slugger. A monumental sports story filled with such stellar baseball names as George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Thurman Munson, and Bucky Dent, Reggie Jackson is the first to cover the entire career of the colorful, outspoken athlete whom The Sporting News listed as one of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players of all time.
An outspoken iconoclast whose disregard for convention made him as many enemies as friends among the colorful characters of the game, Reggie Jackson was a cantankerous upstart full of swagger with a fearsome talent to match. The Baseball Hall of Famer earned the name "Mr. October" for the crucial clutch hitting that led his teams to the World Series six times and won him two series MVP awards. But most people don't really know the man behind the bat—a great athlete struggling to find his place in the world, at home, and in the sport that made him a star.
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Lafayette native Bryce Pinkham is a dreamer.
On Dec. 3, at San Francisco's Club Fugazi, he and his co-conspirators will launch an all-out attack on intolerance with "Broadway Against Bullying," a holiday cabaret.
On the heels of success in Broadway's "GHOST The Musical," television's "The Good Wife" and in a benefit performance with Anne Hathaway at New York City's Public Theater, Pinkham is hot to hit the stage in the Bay Area.
"A friend of a friend asked me to participate," Pinkham said in a phone interview from New York. "Not only is 'No Bully' a good cause, I love the idea of coming home for a day."
No Bully, the nonprofit started in 2003 by Bay Area educators, lawyers and psychologists, looks beyond punishments or classroom discussions for solutions to harassment and violence in schools.
Pinkham says growing up in the Bay Area taught him the power of service, the potency of theater and the persistence to turn his pie-in-the-sky aspirations into near-perfect reality. He doesn't recall being harassed, but many of his contemporaries were less fortunate.
"The fact that it's a topic for discussion is encouraging. It wasn't brought up when I was in high school. I know homophobia and prejudice were there and there was bullying, but I didn't get the worst of it."
Active in sports and Scouts, armed with what he calls "reckless creativity," Pinkham is grateful he had opportunities to steer his voracious appetite for exploration into positive outlets.
"Travel was important and there was enough money to have a healthy choice of options," Pinkham says. "I always knew I was growing up in a special place."
One family trip resulted in Pinkham and his father, David, appearing together onstage in a Diablo Valley College production of "The Music Man."
"I was nine. I had to miss tech rehearsals because of a long-planned family vacation," Pinkham recalls. "My dad came in to tell the director, who said, 'OK ... and do you act?' Long story short, my dad ended up with me in the first musical I did."
Although his father stage-managed and -- after his son graduated in 2001 -- directed many of the school's musicals, Pinkham says his dad "stepped aside" from coaching him. Still, there were unspoken lessons: a play is aptly named and should be fun; discipline means drilling lines but also knowing when to stop.
Asked if he found anything missing from his training when he hit Broadway, Pinkham says, "I wish I had done more dance, because it helps put you into your body. And piano lessons would have been good."
Propelled by the experiences he has had ("I performed with movie stars one night, but the feeling I got from a vet at a hospital the next day -- who looked me in the eye and thanked me -- doesn't even compare"), Pinkham and Lucas Caleb Rooney have founded a charity, Zara Aina. Professional theater artists will work with street children in Madagascar, using drama to inspire courage, confidence and concrete educational results.
"I'm thinking I'll sing 'What You Call a Dream' at the benefit," Pinkham says. "The opening chords are like lights turning on in a baseball stadium. '(Sings) It's in the ninth and the score is four to three, A man on first and a man at bat and that man at bat is me ...'"
The final lines -- "my dad is there and it's what you'd call a dream" -- are sure to ring true, when a hometown boy, a proud papa and an audience use their gifts to unite against a common foe and celebrate community.


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OAKLAND -- Warriors veteran big man Jermaine O'Neal called any talk of firing coach Mark Jackson "ridiculous" and "unfair" before offering a vote of confidence unique to his own NBA career.
O'Neal is considering retirement, and if the 35-year-old were to decide to play next season, he said it would be because of Jackson and that the team he would choose would be the Warriors.
"It's a couple reasons why I will come back," O'Neal said Saturday. "This fan base, this organization is first class, and obviously my teammates are great, as well.
"But the No. 1 reason that I will come back and play another year is because of Coach Jackson. I'm absolutely, 100 percent positive about that. He makes it easy to come in this gym every day, and there's not a lot of coaches that do that."
O'Neal, whom Jackson noted was "underpaid" and "a steal" while playing on a $2 million, one-year contract, said he would choose Golden State despite the distance from family because Jackson has shown just how much he cares about his players.
Offering up an example, the business-minded O'Neal said Jackson allowed him to miss practice Tuesday so he could go to Mountain View to attend Y Combinator's Demo Day, which features startup companies making presentations.
O'Neal also appreciated how Jackson has been mindful of putting too much of a physical burden on him because of his age and experience.
With Andrew Bogut going down with a pelvic contusion in Friday's win against Memphis, O'Neal's presence in the lineup could be needed once again for Sunday's game against New York as the Warriors look to close out a playoff berth with 10 games left.
"To me, it's one of the most unfair things that I've seen in a long time," O'Neal said. "And it truly is a team that's 18 games over .500. Eighteen. And we're talking about firing a coach with 10, 11 games left?
"Here's the facts. To everybody that's negative out there, you may not ever see this again. I know that firsthand because I've been in the position. It may take 10 years to be back in that position, so do you want to accept us with open arms and continue to show the support?"
Jackson faced scrutiny earlier this week after the reassignment of assistant coach Brian Scalabrine. Told of O'Neal's support, Jackson reiterated his most important purpose in coaching was to impact lives in a positive way.
"People don't want to hear it, but it is what it is," Jackson said. "I think the wins follow when you do that."
Bogut was scheduled Saturday to undergo an MRI, with the result expected to be revealed Sunday.
"He's still hurting," Jackson said. "Watching the edit of it, it was a severe blow he took, so he's still in plenty of pain this morning."
Against the Knicks, the Warriors could be missing their top two rebounders as David Lee remains questionable due to a strained right hamstring. The Warriors are 3-1 this season with neither Bogut nor Lee in the lineup.
"You take any team in this league and you take away their starting power forward and center, they're not going to be the same team," Jackson said. "With us, standard line. No excuses."


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Sally Poole is the owner of Poole Communications, with offices in Hannibal, Marshall and Poplar Bluff, Missouri. She is very involved in Hannibal and Quincy, IL., with memberships in the Chamber of Commerce, Hannibal Arts Council, Affordable Community Education, Lions Club and Rotary. She has helped in the fund-raising campaign to build a Hannibal campus for Moberly Area Community College. Currently she is helping to start the Hannibal Chamber Business Development Committee.
Here are my thoughts on business and our economy in the Midwest.
The first thought is that our media is working harder and harder to "make" stories happen – the more sensational the better. I believe that some of our problems are being trumped up to make a lively sound bite.
The second thought is that I'm glad I work in the Midwest. Having been born and raised in Seattle, and working in advertising agencies on the East coast, I've experienced the highs and lows that are felt on the coasts that are not felt in the heartland. The business climate in the Midwest is more insulated and stays more stable.
Finally, every business has a slow time at some point in the year – that is the natural cycle. Instead of wringing my hands and worrying about what to do (yeah, I admit, I used to do that), I like to take that opportunity to move my business forward in some way. Whether it is refining my internal systems, installing better software, or ramping up sales and networking. I think a slow time is the perfect time to jump ahead and be positioned for greater growth when business picks up again… and it will pick up again.


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Seib & Wessel: What We're Reading Tuesday
By Gerald F. Seib and David Wessel
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Russell Moore, the new public face of the Southern Baptist Convention, is taking the powerful group off the front lines of the fight over social issues, saying it's time to tone down the rhetoric and pull back from the political fray after what he calls a "visceral recoil" among younger evangelicals to the culture wars. [WSJ]
By trying to show he's taking charge of the problems with the Obamacare rollout, President Barack Obama may not be helping his administration's cause, writes John Dickerson (@jdickerson). The technical problems lie in a zone "where his talent for politics and persuasion are less useful and may even make matters worse. Putting a good spin on things only sets expectations that can then be dashed by reality." [Slate]
The GOP cannot let the crisis of the Obamacare website go to waste, writes Mona Charen (@mcharen). In coming months, the party must focus on drafting a coherent alternative to the president's health care law. [National Review]
Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) gives possible reasons for the administration's lack of transparency regarding the federal health exchange: "Their process is so screwed up that they don't have the data, which would be embarrassing. Or they have the data – and it's embarrassing." The president should be more than "frustrated," he writes. [National Journal]
The Third Way centrist think tank offers a plan under which colleges can offer a $10,000 bachelor's degree, including steps such as reducing the money spent on administrators and perks for students and making greater use of new technologies in teaching. [Third Way]
George Washington University uses an applicant's financial need in making decisions about accepting or wait-listing students in its final round of admissions, apparently contradicting its claim to have a need-blind admissions policy. [GW Hatchet]
Americans are moving far less often than in the past, and when they do migrate it is typically no longer from places with low wages to places with higher wages; it's the reverse. Tim Noah (@TimothyNoah1) says that helps explain why, since the 1970s, income inequality has gone up and upward mobility has stagnated or gone down. [Washington Monthly]
The EU may soon see the rise of its own tea party, writes Gideon Rachman (@gideonrachman). Fueled by a struggling economy and resentment of the EU's remote governance, anti-establishment forces are on the rise, he says — and as the U.S. budget battle proved, they don't need majority support to make a difference. [Financial Times]
What We're Writing
Shutdown's Biggest Toll: Less Confident Consumers: In Capital Journal, Jerry Seib writes that Washington brinkmanship played a big role in the plunge of an index tracking Americans' outlook on the economy. It's time for lawmakers to do something about that, he writes.
Sign of the Times
Minor milestones we've spotted:
The 17 countries that share the euro ran annual budget deficits equal to 3.7% of their GDP in 2012, down from 4.2% in 2011 and 6.2% in 2010. The stock of government debt was 90.6%. [Eurostat]
Some 56% of Americans think the Affordable Care Act website's problems are part of a larger problem with the law's implementation, compared to 40% who think the site's issues are an isolated incident, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll. [Washington Post]
In 2009, among those who had started college six years earlier, 69% had borrowed $10,000 or less; 2% had borrowed $75,000 or more. [Hamilton Project]
From January through August, China's prosecutors filed over 22,617 corruption cases involving 30,938 people, up 3.6% from same period last year. [China Scope]
Americans, on average, say they expect to spend $786 on Christmas gifts this year, similar to their 2012 and 2011 estimates. This points to modest growth in holiday retail sales just shy of 4%. [Gallup]
Since 2000, one million more people have moved to Texas from other states than have left. In 2012, total migration to Texas from the other 49 states in the union was 106,000, according to the Census Bureau. [Time]
Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. decreased by 3.8% in 2012, reaching their lowest level since 1994. [EIA]
Eleven percent of Internet users (representing 9% of American adults) have used an online dating site. [Pew Research Center]
The U.S. white-tailed deer population is somewhere between 30 million and 45 million, up from about 350,000 in 1900. But 85% of the venison sold at U.S. restaurants and meat counters is from New Zealand. [WSJ]
For critical perspectives on politics and the economy from Jerry Seib & David Wessel, visit Seib & Wessel and follow them on Twitter @GeraldFSeib and @davidmwessel.