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Published: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 11:00 a.m.
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Super Bowl XLVII had a little bit of everything.
If you wanted excitement, Super Bowl XLVII filled that need. The Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers put on quite a show, as the game went down to the final seconds with the Ravens winning, 34-31.
Super Bowl XLVII also had its fair share of suspense. Trailing 28-6, the 49ers stormed back to climb back into the game and almost pulled off one of the greatest comebacks in NFL history.
It also was a family rivalry, as John Harbaugh (Baltimore) and Jim Harbaugh (San Francisco) became the first set of brothers to meet as head coaches in the Super Bowl.
The game also marked the final game for Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis, who is considered one of the top defensive players of his era. Lewis will retire as a Super Bowl champion and will soon take his place amongst the game's best at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Since it was played in New Orleans, Super Bowl XLVII gave all football fans a little lagniappe on Sunday night — a 33-minute power outage.
Although the power outage was an inconvenience and embarrassment for some, it's not the end of the world and will not hurt the Crescent City's chances of landing another Super Bowl in the near future.
Looking back at everything from the game to all of the fan-related activities. New Orleans hit a home run with Super Bowl XLVII. It showed the world that New Orleans and the rest of southeast Louisiana is doing fine since Hurricane Katrina.
Now that Super Bowl XLVII is officially in the books, it's time to start looking ahead to the 48th installment of the NFL's premier event. Super Bowl XLVIII is scheduled for Feb. 2, 2014, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
That is not a misprint. Super Bowl XLVIII will be played in an outdoor stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. — the home of the New York Giants and New York Jets.
In all likelihood, the conditions will be less than ideal for next year's Super Bowl. In fact, the conditions will be likely deplorable.
It's tough to forecast what the weather will be like a year from now, but using Saturday as a guide since the Super Bowl was one year from that day, it does not look pretty. The temperature was 27 degrees at kickoff with winds 10 mph from the west (wind chill 17 degrees) and light snow.
I'm not sure why NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell decided to bring a Super Bowl to a northern city without a dome, but that's not the type of weather conditions you want a championship game decided in.
Goodell is all about player safety, but there is nothing safe about playing in snow and freezing temperatures.
For a Super Bowl, you want teams playing at the optimum level, but winter weather can definitely impact the outcome of the game.
It would also be an unfair advantage if a dome team (New Orleans Saints) or California team (San Diego Chargers) is forced to play a team accustomed to playing in the snow (such as the Green Bay Packers or New England Patriots).
If you thought power going out in part of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome was bad on Sunday night, imagine the backlash the NFL would get if the Super Bowl is played in the midst of a winter storm.
Since The Weather Channel is now naming winter storms, I am guessing that Winter Storm Goodell will be slamming into the East Coast next year on Super Bowl weekend.
Brent St. Germain is sports editor of The Courier and the Daily Comet. He can be reached at 857-2239 or 448-7600 ext. 2239 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Baseball: Polk State Rallies To Take Down Palm Beach State
Published: Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 7:45 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 7:45 a.m.
WINTER HAVEN | The Polk State College Eagles earned a come-from-behind victory Friday as Palm Beach State College reliever Ryan Church hit three consecutive batters with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth to give the Eagles a 7-6 win.
Trey Norris logged the victory in relief.
Matt Singletary drove in the game-winner. He was the third consecutive batter in the inning to be hit by Church.
Polk is back in action today as it plays host to Daytona State College at 1 p.m.
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OAKLAND -- Never heard of the Sugar Land Skeeters nor the Atlantic League? You're not alone. The Atlantic League is not affiliated with Major League Baseball, and its rosters are populated by has-beens and never-weres, players who can't let go and hope for one more day in the sun.
Scott Kazmir, the A's All-Star left-hander, was one of those.
Now sitting atop a starting rotation for the team with the best record in the big leagues, it was less than 2½ years ago that Kazmir received a call from Gary Gaetti, a former All-Star third baseman for the Minnesota Twins and now the Skeeters' manager.
Stripped of his fastball and bewildered by his sudden fall from success, Kazmir had been released by the Los Angeles Angels and was out of baseball when Gaetti called.
"I knew Scott when I was with the (Tampa Bay) Rays at Triple A (as a batting coach)," Gaetti said. "At that point, he was at the top of his game. I knew his agent (Brian Peters), and I felt our situation was perfect for him. He was local and still in good shape."
Kazmir, who hails from Houston, a few miles from the suburb that the Skeeters call home, resisted Gaetti's overture at first. But he came around.
"It wasn't pretty at the time," Gaetti said. "You could tell his stuff was still there, but he had lost his command. He had to fight through it. We told him he could move at his own pace with us. He didn't have to worry about getting released. We would let him struggle."
Kazmir lost five of his first six decisions. In 14 starts with the Skeeters, he was 3-6 and had a 5.34 ERA. But numbers aren't everything, and those three wins in September 2012 set the stage for what the A's are seeing now.
'Oh, no' to 'Ah-ha'
"It was one of my last starts (against the Long Island Ducks) where I was sitting at 88, 89 (mph) for the entire game," Kazmir said, looking back to Sept. 10, 2012. "I ended up having a left-handed batter up with a man on first base. Later in the count, the runner made a little jerk like he was going to steal second. I stayed back a little longer, and that pitch was like 93. It was kind of that 'Ah-ha' moment. The next three pitches were like 95."
The 'Ah-ha' moment was a long time in coming. Shortly after being released by the Angels, Kazmir was, in his own words, in "panic mode."
"It was, 'I gotta try this now, because that didn't work,' " Kazmir said. "Or something would work one time, and it wouldn't work the next. So maybe that's not it, either. By that time, I was maybe too far gone for the quick fix."
It was time for the slow, sometimes painful fix. Kazmir turned to Ron Wolforth, a one-time minor league pitcher who has become something of a pitching guru with his Texas Baseball Ranch, not located all that far from Kazmir's home in Cypress.
"When Scotty got released, there was kind of an 'all-hands-on-deck' behavior for us here and for his trainer, Lee Fiocchi," Wolforth said. "We wanted to see if there was any pain, to see how he'd recover from throwing segment to throwing segment.
"It was never a case that he wasn't strong physically. But from a lot of other different shapes -- mental, emotional and mechanical -- he was beat up. His game was flawed, and he was really questioning himself."
And he didn't answer questions particularly well. Wolforth suspected there was the possibility of an injury that was at the root of Kazmir's problems, but the pitcher denied being hurt. Over time, however, it came out that Kazmir's troubles had started with a bit of pain he had suffered while pitching for Tampa Bay.
"He'd tweaked a groin, and that changed his movement pattern," Wolforth said. "Slowly but surely things started to unravel for him, small things at first. Then it became a crescendo of things. He was pretty disconnected. What started as a physical thing then became mental, then also emotional. It was a witch's brew of problems.
"I asked him how his arm was. He said, 'My arm is great.' That wasn't the case. It was fatigued, it was tender, it was tight, it took me about nine months, pouring over video of him in high school, him with the Mets, him early with the Rays, him late with the Rays, him with the Angels. Over time you could see he was not the same."
Building strength
To eliminate the groin pain, Kazmir had stopped pushing with his legs to generate power. He and Fiocchi worked on building back his hip, lower body strength and mobility to the point where he was getting the arm action he had in high school.
The radar gun didn't show it. The first time Kazmir tested the gun with his rebuilt arm action, it showed an 83 mph reading. Kazmir let fly "with words that would make a sailor blush," Wolforth said.
"He was grumpy all the time after that. But he didn't quit."
The last few games with Sugar Land showed that Kazmir had mended. He went to Puerto Rico for winter ball and had success, then spent last season in Cleveland, where a strong second half convinced the A's that the left-hander was worth the gamble of a two-year contract.
When he makes his first start of the second half Tuesday against Houston, Kazmir will bring an 11-3 record and 2.38 ERA into the game.
"The past is the past," manager Bob Melvin said. "What our guys saw was someone who was throwing good, throwing hard and wasn't that old (29 when he signed). And he's been a great story, everything that we could have hoped."
An All-Star when he was 22 years old and again at 24, Kazmir has a new appreciation for what he has.
"I came up when I was 20 years old," he said. "I always liked to have fun. At the same time, I tried to respect the job. It's just that now it's on a whole other level. When you get to the big leagues as a kid like I did, it's tough to balance the fun and the job.
"Everything I've been through in the last few years has shaped who I am now. I'm a lot more appreciative and grateful for where I'm at. I'm in a totally different mindset. Sugar Land seems like a long time ago, but it really wasn't."
Scott Kazmir lost 15 games for the Angels in 2010. Two years later, he found himself in independent ball.
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The Thing About Overthinking
There is no rush, there is only now. Tapping into patience.
I haven't written in the past ten days. Writer's block, stuck in a rut, loss of inspiration … you name it. I've come to terms with the fact that my writing usually happens when I write from a place of inspiration and peace, instead of fear and must.
In the past year, something has shifted within me. It is both confusing and wonderful. I cannot put my finger on exactly what is going on, but it seems to be happening in just the right way. One of my favorite quotes is by Arthur Rubinstein: "There are no formulas for living the life you secretly dream about, because if you simply accept and welcome life, it'll reveal itself to you."


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"Those of us who love Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie will now have to make room next to it on our shelves for Joshua Gaylord's winning debut." —Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
"Hummingbirds positively glistens with erudition and insight. Whether writing about prep school girls or the adult men who walk among them, Gaylord's stunning writing elevates his subject matter with equal parts humanity and elegance." —Jonathan Tropper, author of This Is Where I Leave You
In the tradition of Francine Prose's Blue Angel, Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep, and Alan Bennett's The History Boys, Joshua Gaylord's Hummingbirds reveals the intertwining—and darkly surprising—relationships between secretive students and teachers at an all-girls prep school in New York City.
Hummingbirds is a wonderfully compelling novel about the intertwining and darkly surprising relationships at the elite Carmine-Casey School for Girls on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where the rivalries and secrets of teachers and students intersect and eventually collide.
In the world of students, popular Dixie Doyle battles to wrest attention away from Liz Warren, who spends her time writing and directing plays based on the Oresteia. In the world of teachers, Leo Binhammer must now share his territory with Ted Hughes, the new English teacher who threatens Binhammer's status as sole owner of the girls' hearts. Seasons change and tensions mount as the students, longing for entry into the adult world, toy with their premature powers of flirtation. The deceptive innocence of adolescence becomes a trap into which flailing teachers fall, as the line between maturity and youth begins to blur.
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"[A] winning debut . . . Lush language . . . A very grown-up novel about adolescence and the folly of adults, by an impressive new voice in American fiction." — Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"Gaylord has delivered a story that's ripe with acute and wry observations on men and women, competition, sexuality, and secrets." — Library Journal
"The complicated web of loyalties, attraction, competition and camaraderie [in HUMMINGBIRDS] provides much tension as things play out—but not in an expected way. . . . Gaylord's tale of overeducated men and the teenage students who exhibit the finesse and understanding their teachers lack hits all the right notes." — Publishers Weekly
"HUMMINGBIRDS is a sly, charming novel about the students at a Manhattan girls' school and the adults who sometimes remember to teach them. Joshua Gaylord's winning debut." — Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
"Hummingbirds positively glistens with erudition and insight. Whether writing about prep school girls or the adult men who walk among them, Gaylord's stunning writing elevates his subject matter with equal parts humanity and elegance." — Jonathan Tropper, author of This Is Where I Leave You
"Keenly plotted and psychologically acute, this novel thrums with deceptions great and small—what we don't tell each other, and what we won't admit to ourselves." — Ed Park, author of Personal Days
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ALBANY -- Peggy Thomsen was elected mayor on Monday night and Joanne Wile was elected vice mayor as the new City Council got down to business at its first meeting.
Thomsen and Wile were elected by a 5-0 vote. The council then voted to adopt most of a staff recommendation to streamline the city's advisory bodies. However, after extensive debate, the council gave the Social and Economic Justice Committee a reprieve after staff had recommended sunsetting the committee.
The council voted 4-1 to adopt the recommendations with Michael Barnes dissenting. The Social and Economic Justice Committee will be re-examined in a year.
Other changes adopted included modifying the meeting schedules of the Charter Review and Waterfront committees to every other month unless a situation dictates more meetings; increasing the Arts Committee from five to seven members; decreasing the Library Committee from seven to five; and allowing the Board of Education to appoint either a student or an adult to the Sustainability Committee. The board currently appoints a student.
The resolution also requires the city to establish policies and procedures for creating task forces and guidelines for recommendations from advisory bodies to the City Council.
The resolution came out of the city's biannual review of city advisory boards. City Manager Beth Pollard told the council that for a city of its size, Albany has a high number of advisory boards.
However, the focus of most of the testimony was on the Social and Economic Justice Committee, created in 2005. Its meetings have been sparsely attended, according to testimony at the meeting, and one committee member -- Ruth Ganong -- has not attended a meeting in over a year. Further, city staff has been cut and the committee has suffered from not having staff members available at meetings.
Four of the committee's five members spoke to the council on Monday, asking that it be allowed to continue its work. "We think the committee in its current formation is extremely important," Chairwoman Ruth Cashmere said. "We have some membership issues, we will ask the council to appoint another member."
Added committee member Judy Kerr, "I fully support the work of the city manager to streamline and economize city commissions. Face to face communications on social and economic justice issues are possible only when a commission exists or a committee exists. In order for people to have a say we need to have a place where people can come and talk. Without that there is no mechanism for people to talk about social and economic justice issues."
The council agreed that social and economic justice issues are important, but expressed concern about such issues as attendance, staff availability and compliance with the Brown Act. Wile suggested extending the committee for six months and Marge Atkinson then suggested one year with review. Barnes said that the committee should have staff support, otherwise, it shouldn't continue.
"My opinion is we shouldn't staff it and if we don't staff it, we shouldn't do it," he said. "If we extend it, we should do it right."


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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi basketball programs, in conjunction with the cheer and dance squads and pep band, will kick off the 2011-12 season with Islanders Invasion on Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Dugan Wellness Center. The event will tip off approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of the Islanders-Southeastern Louisiana volleyball match, which starts at 1 p.m.
Islanders Invasion, which takes place in conjunction with parents' weekend, will feature introductions to the men's and women's basketball teams as well as the cheer and dance squads. The teams will then both take part in a three-point contest and the event will culminate with the men's team's slam-dunk contest. The event will conclude with a 10-minute scrimmage by each squad.
"It's a great opportunity to kick off the season and get the fans excited about the upcoming year," women's basketball coach Robert Robinson said. "It gives the fans a chance to check out the team for the first time and get excited about the basketball program."
In addition to the happenings on the court, those in the stands will be invited to take part in a number of games and contests and can win prizes at the event. The first 500 students will also be able to pick up their official 2011-12 Blue Crew T-shirts prior to the event.
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Light reflects off the St. Lawrence River just below the town of Prescott and bounces playfully. The first glimpse of the river, no matter the season, is always inspiring and so it was on a picture-perfect day earlier this summer as I made my way to view one of the prettiest little houses I have ever seen.
John and Michèle Harding have salvaged a piece of Prescott history — a small, straight, sturdy stone building dating to the mid-1830s that was on the verge of gentle demise. Located on a corner in the centre of town, two streets up from the river, its distinguished career is well documented in the Leeds & Grenville county archives.
I must admit that my interest in this building is not purely academic, having lusted after this old stone cottage for close to 25 years. I longed for it when it was an ivy-covered summer retreat, yearned for it when it was lonely, alone and in need of comfort and now, well, it is simply glorious.
John and Michèle, now that I've told you my secret, how did it come to pass that you became the very lucky and obviously proud owners of this delightful home?
John: Luckily for us, fate intervened as she so often does. We sold our house in the Glebe and were biding our time in an apartment in New Edinburgh. We wanted something affordable within a reasonable distance of Ottawa.
I spent quite a lot of time searching the Internet for properties and found lots of interesting and charming places, but none that caught our fancy. We really wanted to be by the water so we took a drive down here to Prescott, had lunch at the Red George, a local pub that also has an interesting history by the way, and saw the for sale sign outside this place.
Michèle: It was an intriguing little structure, but looked like a real challenge. It needed lots of work. We knew we were essentially buying four walls, but four walls with great bones, very square and solid, so, we made an offer with two weeks' closing and it was ours.
We really didn't have any idea about the historical significance of the place in the beginning, but we've since done a lot of research and have discovered that this building played an important role in Prescott's past and is still remembered with great affection by our neighbours.
I understand it was originally a tailor's shop and later a doctor's office. You've really transformed this petite dwelling into an exquisite space, both inside and out. It would be at home in Provence in France, Tuscany in Italy or a flower-filled English village. What was your vision?
Michèle: No real vision initially, it had to be gutted for all the usual insulation, wiring and drywall reasons, but we wanted to keep whatever we could that was retrievable.
We uncovered the interior stone wall that was hidden behind some dark green and maroon floral wallpaper, cleaned and restained the ceiling beams and preserved the wide pine flooring.
The house had been overrun with vines at one time; we saw pictures of it and you could barely see the door.
The vines were gone when we bought, but they had grown into the roof through the eaves — quite destructive.
The original footprint had been enlarged a little, probably in the 1970s when it was the summer home of artist Enid Kearsley and her husband Leonard. That part now holds our updated kitchen and the remodelled bathroom upstairs.
In the beginning, the front part was the workshop and retail outlet for William Dunn. He was a tailor and served as mayor of Prescott for a year or two in the 1870s. I love the way he and his business were described in the town directory: "William Dunn, merchant tailor — a good assortment of cloths, cassimeres, vestings et cetera constantly on hand, ready-made clothing at reasonable prices."
John: The next famous predecessor was Dr. Charles McPherson. We discovered that he had been the youngest graduate of Queen's Medical School and, in time, became the oldest living graduate of Queen's. His mother left the property to Charles and his sister Hattie in 1918. Dr. McPherson was a remarkable man. There are many stories of his dedication — making house calls to deliver babies out in the country by horse and sleigh and, as medical officer of health in 1902, he was responsible for designing and implementing a water purifying system to fight the annual spring outbreak of typhoid in Prescott. I imagine that system or some version of it is still in place today.
He worked every day until he died at age 93; everybody in Prescott over 60 remembers coming to the doctor's house from the time they were children and everyone seems delighted that we've rejuvenated this corner lot.
We were very lucky to discover some great local craftsmen to help with the reconstruction. Grenville Renovation and Flooring did a terrific job with everything. It felt like they really cared about the house and wanted to make it the best it could be. David Ritskes of Works of Iron in Brockville (email@example.com) created all the ironwork — the fence, the original shutter dogs, hinges and window boxes.
You showed me a very special souvenir from days of yore that was dropped off in the middle of your busy renovations.
Michèle: We bought the house in February and before the month was out, I think we knew half the town. Everyone was very friendly, curious, encouraging and helpful … What a great place.
One day a lady came to the door to deliver something she felt needed to be here. It was Dr. McPherson's medical bag. I thought she had got it from the old housekeeper, but it might have been Hattie McPherson. Anyway, we keep all our house information and paraphernalia in that bag. It's a wonderful connection to the past and we feel very fortunate to be the keepers of this historic object for the time being and will pass it on to the future.
Everyone was so interested in the restoration work that after it was finished we held an open house to raise money for the food bank. It was remarkably successful.
The garden is simply lovely, quite magical. You pointed out that the stone for the patio and path was skilfully reclaimed from a pile of rubble and expertly laid by Grenville Renovation and Flooring (613-925-1450).
Michèle: It's a great place to show our metal sculpture and enjoy the outdoors without having to cut the grass. Before we replaced the old garden shed, we rescued the shutters for the front of the house and now the new shed features an old window from upstairs and the original storm door from the front of the house.
Prescott has had a bit of a bumpy ride, but it looks like things are picking up and the future looks a lot brighter.
John: Yes, it has gone through a few difficult years, a lot of local industries were lost and people moved out for work, but lately a grassroots movement seems to have taken hold.
Prescott has become a motivational, impressive town with lots of things going for it. The Shakespearean festival down on the waterfront all summer, concerts by Jeunesse Musicale as part of the Fort Town Concert Association, farmers' markets, all the improvements going on at Fort Wellington — it's just great, we love it.
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The internationally renowned St. Louis Symphony will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, in the Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall, 10th and Main streets in Rolla, on the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus.
The concert is part of university's 2012-13 Campus Performing Arts Series.
Tickets are $38 for adults and $28 for youth 18 years and younger. The first 75 tickets for Missouri S&T students with student ID are free and additional S&T student tickets are $10.
Tickets may be purchased online at leachtheatre.mst.edu or from the Leach Theatre box office, located in the vestibule inside the main entrance to the Leach Theatre, facing 10th Street. Box office hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The Leach Theatre will offer discounted tickets through its Back Row Club one hour prior to the event, should tickets remain for the show. The seats in the last row of the theater will be sold for $10 each prior to the performance.
Founded in 1880, the St. Louis Symphony is the second-oldest orchestra in the country.
This performance is sponsored in part by BOTT Radio and Vincent and Sally Carpenter. Additional funding is provided by the Maxwell C. Weiner Endowment for the Performing Arts.
For more information about the Missouri S&T Campus Performing Arts Series, call the Leach Theatre box office at 573-341-4219.
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- May 6:
- Warriors fire Mark Jackson
- Thompson: Warriors tempt fate by firing Jackson
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- Kawakami: Possible candidates to replace Mark Jackson
- Warriors fire coach Mark Jackson
- Kawakami: Mark Jackson's fate to be determined soon
OAKLAND -- Mark Jackson had just been dismissed but he's the one who put the whole situation in the clearest, sharpest, most immediately pressure-ized terms.
There is no wiggle room for the Warriors now. There is no turning back or fallback excuse.
Now that Warriors management has moved on from Jackson's vibrant three-season tenure, everything rides on the next decision, and particularly on co-owner Joe Lacob and general manager Bob Myers.
Either the Warriors hire a provably better coach, and they win at the highest level, or they will be league-wide embarrassments.
"We accomplished a lot in three years and we should be proud," Jackson told this newspaper in a phone interview Tuesday afternoon. "I wish them nothing but the best.
"But to me, now the pressure's on for them to get a championship. It's not the time for them to be patient any more. This is a championship-caliber team. We were in the playoffs without David (Lee) last year, and we were without (Andrew) Bogut this year.
"When this team is healthy, it is a legit contender. That's something that we're all looking at going forward."
That's putting it plainly and not incorrectly, at this incredibly perilous moment in Warriors history -- after two trips to the playoffs, and now after firing Jackson.
Even Lacob and Myers basically acknowledged the gamble themselves on Tuesday, before Jackson's comments.
The Warriors brass is wagering that it was a bigger part of the franchise turnaround than Jackson was.
Nobody can be sure of this, but Jackson's rift with management forced a decision: Accept him with all his edges or move on and find somebody better.
They moved on, which changes the focus from Jackson's foibles to their own, if things unravel in the coming years.
Lacob and Myers aren't naive here -- they're not denying the stakes. They just believe that the time had come to get past all of Jackson's personality quirks plus some of his coaching limitations.
Now they have to find the right guy for the next stage -- whether that's Steve Kerr, Fred Hoiberg, Kevin Ollie, Stan Van Gundy or whoever else.
Lacob and Myers said the process hasn't yet officially begun, but they know what they want: Somebody who gets along with his bosses and his associates and somebody who runs an offense better than Mark Jackson.
That's the next step, or perhaps the great fall.
"From a personal standpoint," Lacob said in a 30-minute session with three reporters, "having been in the venture capital industry for 30 years and 70 start-ups, 70 companies that have built and grown, it is very rare to see a CEO be the CEO from the start-up all the way to the equivalent of winning a championship ...
"And one could say that ... maybe Mark was the perfect coach at the time three years ago ...
"You have to understand that going forward there may be a different task or a different goal than there was in the last three years."
But there is a lot of risk involved and the next coach will have to deal with all of it.
Stephen Curry, the Warriors' franchise player, has gone out of his way to say that he wanted Jackson to remain and several other players are vociferous Jackson supporters.
Meanwhile, the Warriors won 47 and 51 games in Jackson's final two seasons, which means the new coach will immediately be considered a disappointment if the franchise dips under 50 victories.
It's an incredible amount of baggage to load on anybody -- replace a popular coach at a very emotional time and by the way, you had better win a huge amount right away, including playoff rounds.
"The next coach that comes in, the expectations will probably -- forget from us, but from everybody -- probably will be high," Lacob said. "That's life.
"And it's going to take someone who obviously is capable of handling that ...
"I think someone who comes in and is scared of that probably isn't the right person for the job."
But right now, the pressure is on Lacob, Myers, Jerry West, Kirk Lacob and the rest of the Warriors' management team.
They unanimously decided on this Monday night and Tuesday morning, and they unanimously all had some problems with Jackson's style.
This wasn't necessarily just about basketball, Lacob conceded, this was about internal issues, which surely will guide the Warriors during their coaching search.
They didn't know a lot about Jackson when they hired him three years ago -- they will need to know more about the next guy's temperament and working attitude.
That could lead them to TNT broadcaster Steve Kerr, who, like Jackson before his hiring has no coaching experience but who has a long relationship with the Lacob family.
Or Kerr could end up with the Knicks and the Warriors' search will take them down another path.
No matter how this goes, the entire franchise is under scrutiny now and their quest to prove that they didn't just screw up the best thing that has happened in several decades.
Those are the terms, that's the framework of this. Nobody could or did put it better than Mark Jackson, on his way out, of course he did.
Read Tim Kawakami's Talking Points blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami. Contact him at email@example.com.


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The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi women's basketball team will play their final home game of the season Saturday, March 2, when they host Nicholls State on senior night. The Islanders are looking to snap a three-game losing streak. It will be the second meeting between the Colonels and Islanders this season and eighth time in program history. The Islanders are coming off a 72-68 home loss to Southeastern La. on Thursday at the American Bank Center and are looking to bounce back from a 70-53 road loss to the Colonels in January.
The Colonels currently sit in fifth place in the Southland Conference. The Islanders lead the all-time series at 4-3. Nicholls State is coming off two consecutive losses on the road and enters Saturday's game with a 16- 10 record, including an 8-7 record in SLC play while the Islanders are 3-23 and 2-13 in the SLC.
Head Coach Royce Chadwick is in his first year as the Islanders' Head Coach. Chadwick, who spent the previous 11 years at the helm of the Marshall University program, has 563 wins on his collegiate coaching resume.
•The Islanders led by four at the half, but were unable to hold off Southeastern La. in the second half, falling 72-68 Thursday at the American Bank Center.
•The Islanders were paced by three players in double figures with Taryn Gregory, Brandi Huff and Alisa Roberts all contributing.
•Gregory tallied a season-high 13 points and a career-high eight rebounds. Ashanti Plummer had a career night with nine rebounds and nine points.
•The Islanders' bench has outscored 10 of its last 11 opponents. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi outscored the Lady Lions' bench 32-25.
•Jessica Jammer leads the team with 8.3 points per game. She also leads the Islanders in conference play with 9.0 points per game.
•Jammer moved into fifth place in career blocks with 69.
•Coach Chadwick has used 15 different starting lineups this season. On Thursday, he used the starting lineup of Ashanti Plummer, Ashley Darley, Alisa Roberts, Taryn Gregory and Verne'qua Taylor for the first time this season. 10 of the 12 active Islanders have started at least two games this season.
•Imani Dunn, Jessica Jammer, Damequia Montgomery, Alisa Roberts and Verne'qua Taylor will be honored on senior night.
The Colonels and Islanders will meet for the eighth time in program history and second time this season in Southland Conference play. The Islanders lead the all-time series at 4-3.
The last time the Islanders and Colonels met up was on January 24, 2013. Taryn Gregory recorded nine points and three Islanders chipped in eight apiece but it wasn't enough as the Colonels were paced by three players in double figures to lift them to a 7-53 victory at home.
The Colonels have dropped their last two games, but prior to that won four straight. Nicholls State is coming off a 74-60 road loss at Sam Houston State and a 59-57 road loss to Lamar. Prior to that, the Colonels picked up victories against Central Arkansas, Southeastern La., Stephen F. Austin and Northwestern State. Nicholls State is averaging 65.0 points per game behind Alisha Allen's 14.8 points per game and KK Babin's 12.7 points per game. Allen along with Jasmine Scott lead the boards with 5.8 rebounds per game.
The Islanders were picked to finish eighth in the Southland Conference Coaches' Poll after finishing with a 5-11 conference record last season.
Ashley Darley has made starts in 19 of the 25 Islanders' games and is second on the team with 8.2 points per game (30th, SLC) in 19.1 minutes per game. She has chipped in a team-high 39 steals apiece (10th, SLC).
Darling recorded a career-high 29 points vs. Sam Houston State and grabbed 11 rebounds. She posted a game-high 27 points at Oral Roberts, including 9-of-11 from the charity stripe. She scored 11 points and a season-high 12 rebounds vs. Lamar. Prior to that she tallied 17 points at UTPA and grabbed seven rebounds vs. Auburn. She also scored 12 points in both games against Colorado and Auburn in the Omni Hotels Classic. She chipped in four of the Islanders' season-high 18 steals. She led the team with 12 points at Lamar and at Central Arkansas.
Jessica Jammer has powered the Islanders' offense in conference play. She leads the team in scoring with 8.3 per game (28th, SLC) and has registered seven double-figure scoring games this season. She also leads the team in conference play with 9.0 points per game. Jammer leads the Islanders glass with 5.1 rebounds per game, which is good for 20th place in the SLC.
Freshman guard Janae Blount is third on the team with 7.8 points per game and has tallied 5.6 points per game in conference play this season. She leads the team with 29 three pointers.
She has scored eight double-figure scoring games this season. The Washington, D.C. native scored a career-high 21 points vs. Auburn and tied her career-high four three-pointers at the 26th Annual Omni Hotels Classic in Boulder, Colo. to earn a spot on the All-Tournament team.
At Nicholls State, Imani Dunn tallied eight points all in the first half, including 2-for-4 from behind the arc in her third start of the season. Prior to that, the senior made her first season start vs. Oral Roberts and gave the Islanders a spark, scoring the first seven points for the Islanders. She also tied a career-high three from behind the arc in a career-high 32 minutes. At Southeastern La., Dunn tallied six points going 6-for-8 from the charity stripe.
Alisa Roberts is fifth on the team with 5.8 points per game. The senior tallied a season-high 16 points vs. Texas State.
Last season's SLC assist leader Verne'qua Taylor brought back her old ways vs. Texas State with a season-best eight assists and matched it vs. Lamar. She leads the team with 85 assists (3.3 per game, 9th, SLC).
Taryn Gregory recorded a season-high 13 points vs. Southeastern La. and a career-high eight rebounds. At Central Arkansas Gregory sank a free throw with 3.7 seconds remaining in overtime to lift the Islanders to victory. Marquesha Anderson-Sparks has been strong this season from the charity stripe with a .750 percentage (39-of-52). The junior made her first season start at Lamar and started against UCA where she went 7-for-8 from the free throw line.
The Islanders' bench has outscored 10 of its last 11 opponents. The Islanders notched the 32-25 advantage over the Lady Lions. Prior to that, the team tallied a 27-0 bench advantage over the Lady Demons and a 23-17 bench advantage at Oral Roberts. The Islanders posted a 28-4 bench advantage over UCA and a 31-11 bench advantage over McNeese State. The Islanders also outscored Sam Houston State's bench 31-17, Oral Roberts' bench 16-8 and followed it with a 21-13 bench advantage vs. UCA.
Royce Chadwick is the fourth coach in Islanders' history to make his debut on the sidelines. He holds 562 wins on his collegiate coaching resume and seven NCAA Tournament bids. Chadwick is familiar with the Southland Conference after coaching stints at Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston State. Chadwick was named the Southland Coach of the Year in 1997. He has 28 years of experience coaching women's college basketball and four career wins in the NCAA Tournament. Roxanne White joins Chadwick on the sidelines as the Islanders' Associate Head Coach. Darren Brunson also made his Islanders' coaching debut this season as the Islanders Assistant Coach. Geoff Grawn is in his 11th season on the Islanders' staff as an assistant coach.
The Islanders will travel to Northwestern State and SFA next weekend. First up is Northwestern State on Thursday, March 7. Tipoff is slated for 5:30 p.m.


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Thursday night saw Summit's girls' volleyball team struggle, and fall.
In a match against Eagle Valley, the team lost in four sets, 17-25, 15-25, 28-26 and 18-25.
"We lost pretty bad," head coach Liz Hughes-Waddick said. "It was a bad night for them, I think. There were a lot of unforced errors, missed serves. We're not feeling very vindicated."
Eagle Valley beat Summit on Sept. 20 in four sets as well.
The team had 41 attack errors versus 37 kills. Eleven service errors were racked up throughout the night.
On the bright side, the team did pass well, "which is what we've been working on," Hughes-Waddick said. Defense also played relatively well, with Anna Zangari leading with 14 digs and the team tallying 43 digs on the match.
"It wasn't about missing digs," Hughes-Waddick said. "Our defense was OK. It was unforced errors on the offense ... and hitting balls out of bounds."
With Dakota Mendrick leaving the team, freshman Lexi Zangari stepped up as setter. Hughes-Waddick said she did well in the new position, but the rest of the team couldn't put the pieces together against Eagle Valley.
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As the door opens at the Southern Exposure Salon, the first thing to reach its visitor is at least one friendly "hello," often followed by several others. The next are the rich smells of shampoo, lotion and other pampering products. A cozy spot tucked into the Red Mountain Plaza in Dillon, Southern Exposure Salon is full of faces familiar to locals and friendly to new clients, or those just passing through.
Recently, the salon has come under new ownership. In March, Valerie Connelly purchased the salon from previous owners Kim Pytel and Deanna Sheehan. Sheehan is continuing on as a hair stylist at the salon, while Pytel is retiring. Prior to purchasing the salon, Connelly had been doing some marketing for the business. She was also a loyal customer.
"I laugh, I call myself 'The Mascot,'" Connelly said. "I always got my nails done up there; I got my hair done up there for years."
She said she is excited to be a part of the business that she describes "like another family." Customers won't see her out on the floor - she plans to work from the business side, drawing on her background in sales and marketing.
Finding the right step
Connelly is a true-blood, fifth-generation Summit County native and proud of it. She recalls her first job, working at a T-shirt shop, when she was 14 years old. That was her first experience with sales and she's been doing it ever since. Many people know her from her eight-year stint as "the cellphone goddess," a nickname earned while working at the Computer Store.
"This is the place where I'll stay," Connelly said of Summit County. "I've been lucky ... to find something that can keep me happy hopefully for a lot of years to come."
This isn't the first time that Connelly has pondered starting or buying a business, it's just that before now, the timing was never quite right. It's not as if she hasn't been busy recently, however. She just gave birth to her second son, Holton, in January. But she's not one to let anything slow her down. In fact, she welcomed the challenge.
"I needed to have something that I could step into and have something that was ready for me," she said.
It turns out that Southern Exposure Salon was what happened to be ready when she needed it.
"I'm an entrepreneur at heart," Connelly explained, "and it's important to me to have something that ... I can mold and shape and be a part of."
The business has been going well so far, Connelly said. Although she couldn't have predicted exactly how everything would go until she was fully in her new role, she felt she had a pretty good idea and experience hasn't changed any of that too much.
"Now, I'm just trying to learn and listen and keep my eyes and ears open," she said. "I fully believe that you can't sell something if you don't know the product, and in any business you're selling something."
Connelly is adamant that the staff is the main reason that everything has gone smoothly and successfully so far.
"They have an extremely loyal following. Those stylists, those girls make it what it is. Without them it would be nothing," she said. "They're very talented and they all have years and years of experience."
The camaraderie between Connelly, the employees and the customers is easily felt upon entering the salon. Hair stylists chat while they smooth, curl and shape their customers' hair, people walk back and forth between tanning beds, nail stations and hair hood dryers. The air is filled with sounds of conversation.
"All the locals just flock to it because they know they're not going to get a bad experience there," Connelly said. "It's a happy place."
She said she also enjoys the idea of the salon business itself.
"That was kind of my wanting to get into it," she said. "You have a place where people are happy when they leave and they look more beautiful than when they came in. They feel good and that's a great thing. It's always been an industry that I've been interested in, and I have my fair share of people that I know, so I figured, yeah, can't go wrong, right?" She laughed.
While there may be no major changes to the salon right away, Connelly is interested in seeing what she can do improve what's already there.
"You take something and you just try to help it evolve and try to make it better and make it resonate with someone," she said.
An unexpected benefit of being involved with the salon, Connelly has found, is reconnecting with people. In the familiar atmosphere of the salon, it's easy for her to meet and chat with new and old friends, some who still remember her as the cellphone goddess.
"I'm happy to be able to see all the people I know up there. There's so many people that come in that I know and it's so fun," she said. "They're great. I'm happy to be on a new team. I'm happy to be on a new adventure."


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Defebo's Late Pass, Hanbury's Dual Win Highlight Shangri-La II Opener; Clonch and Nurmi also Score Victories
On a hot day of hot competition, Shangri-La II Motor Speedway opened its second year of operation under the ASA Member Track banner Saturday afternoon with Brian Defebo scoring a dramatic victory in the 50-lap Modified feature and Tony Hanbury taking down his second major Sportsman Modified victory in 24 hours. Rick "Cricket" Clonch celebrated his return to full-time racing by sweeping the Street Stock field, while Scott Nurmi was credited with the ASA Late Model honors after apparent winner Tommy Cloce was disqualified at post-race inspection for violating the track gear ratio rule.
Defebo started fifth in the Modified field whch saw 2009 track champion John Markovic take the lead from the pole. A slower car in the outside lane allowed third starting Dean Rypkema and Defebo to move into the top three. Several early cautions slowed the action, eliminating rookies John Ramsey and Scott Conover.
The restart from Conover's accident at lap 14 proved to be the last slowdown of the contest. Defebo rushed past Rypkema at the green flag and began to hound leader Markovic, mostly using the outside groove. Just when it seemed all his rim riding was a bluff to set up an inside pass, Defebo mounted his final attack at the five-to-go sign. On lap 47 he thrust to the high side of Markovic in turn 2, rode side-by-side down the back straight, and cleared Markovic with an outside power move as they swung off turn 4. In the remaining four laps Defebo stretched his , lead to nearly a full second,
Markovic barely held off a charging Rick Zacharias for second, while Daren Scherer and Rusty Smith were a distant fourth and fifth. Jimmy Zacharias, Jim Storace, Andy Walko, Larry Fisher, and Rypkema completed the top ten. Defebo, Storace, and Smith were heat race winners.
Part of the "Concrete Duals" portion of the program saw the Sportsman Modifieds contest twin 20-lap features, with the overall winner decided by combining the finishes of the two segments. Jimmy Zacharias and Tony Hanbury swapped the lead in the opener, with Zacharias emerging on top and Dan Kurzejewski third. In the nightcap Hanbury was overpowering and Zacharias was never able to challenge, winding up fourth behind Tom Shiner and Markovic. In the final rundown, Hanbury's Dean Rypkema-owned mount as victorious over J. Zacharias, Markovic, Shiner, and Kurzejewski. J. Zacharias and R. Zacharias won the heats.
The previous evening, Hanbury had won a race named in memory of his late father, Bob Hanbury, at Chemung Speedrome. Saturday's triumph marked his first victory at the track nearest his Owego home, giving him a satisfying as well as profitable weekend.
No calculation was necessary to figure out that Clonch had won the overall Street Stock honors in their twin 15's. The Cricket, who won the entry-level division title at the original Shangri-La Speedway in 1995 and later raced on the Busch North circuit, went to the front in both segments and took the combined honors over Tom Cundy and Jim Potrzebowski. Cundy and Clonch took their heat races.
A crash entering turn 3 on lap 1 ended the day for contender Travis Fisher in the ASA Late Model race, giving defending ASA Weekly Racing national champion Tommy Cloce a clear run to lead every lap, despite determined pressure from Nurmi in the closing laps. Cloce's perfect day ended in the tech building as he was found to be running a 5.11 rear end gear, outside the 5.00 limit set in the Shangri-La II rulebook. Nurmi, last year's recipient of the hard luck award, was elevated to the win over Ben Reynolds, Jerry Dineen, Joe Brown, and Dan Bellinger. Reynolds and Cloce topped their heats.
Next Saturday Shangri-La II Motor Speedway presents its "Mothers' Day Delight" for Modifieds, ASA Late Models, Sportman Modifieds, and Street Stocks.
|Mighty Modifieds
50 Laps
|ASA Late Models
30 Laps
Lap Leaders:
Lap Leaders:
|1. Brian Defebo
2. John Markovic
3. Rick Zacharias
4. Daren Scherer
5. Rusty Smith
6. Jimmy Zacharias
7. Jim Storace
8. Andy Walko
9. Larry Fisher
10. Dean Rypkema
11. Bryon Chew
12. Ken Canestrari
13. Chris Zacharias
14. Scott Conover
15. Danielle Buchek
16. TJ Zacharias
17. Dave Silvernail
18. John Ramsey
19. Matt Clemens
20. Doug Reaume
|1. Scott Nurmi
2. Ben Reynolds
3. Jerry Dineen
4. Joe Brown
5. Dan Bellinger
6. Tim Barone
7. Jim Lamoreaux
8. Joe Beretta
9. Travis Fisher
DQ Tommy Cloce
|Street Stocks
twin 15-lap combined finish
|Sportsman Modifieds
Twin 20 Lap Combined Finish
Cundy, Clonch
J. Zacharias, R. Zacharias
1. Cricket Clonch
|1. Tony Hanbury
2. Jimmy Zacharias
3. John Markovic
4. Tom Shiner
5. Dan Kurzejewski
6. Brian Sherwood
7. Dave Jackson
8. Vern Johnson
9. David Sedlak
10. Justin Shiner
11. Rick Zacharias
12. Russ Brown
13. TJ Zacharias
14. Glenn Lippolis.


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In Their Own Words – A Tale of Two Cities: Trials and Tribulations
This "In Their Own Words" essay is written by Kate Marts, an adult who has Asperger Syndrome.
Living with Asperger Syndrome and peripheral neuropathy isn't easy; however, I somehow naturally deal with it. When I was eight years old, I was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). At that time, "Asperger Syndrome" was not even translated into English; as a result my diagnosis was ADHD. Post treatment, I was the social kid who was a bit awkward functioning wise who had a love for people. I was an innocent 10 year old just like every other kid; however the fact that I had ALL would back me up in life time and time again. How my life would play out the next 20 years, no one could ever fathom.
I found out what it's like to be a fighter at a young age. I didn't like treatment but I understood it was keeping me alive. The chemotherapy left me with lasting side effects later in life. By age 10, I was a full blown fighter. More so than when I was diagnosed. I had fought two years of treatment, and stares from other kids; I attempted to remain a member of my sports teams (softball and tennis), and changed schools from public to private. I also became impulsive and was a walking chatterbox. I was so hyper I don't know how my teachers managed to keep me in my desk. I look back and it seems like I was born to get knocked around in the ring.
I spent most of my childhood playing in the neighborhood, chasing bugs and snakes, and hitting home runs. One could never know what I had been through. Not even the savviest doctors throughout my life could pick up on any lasting effects. I rolled through junior high and high school still not letting an ounce of what happened in my childhood faze me, despite the fact that I had very few friends who were loyal to me. After junior high, we moved to eastern Nassau County, Long Island and shortly after, more "social" symptoms started to show. I became more awkward and random, in addition to the fact I just didn't quite get how to socialize with teenagers. To make matters more difficult, my motor skills started to deteriorate, thus I forgot how to play sports. Sports kept me out of trouble. I hung out with the mischievous kids who were your typical 90's teens. We got into trouble but never anything significant. When the millennium came and it was time for me to graduate high school, I wasn't even excited.
Years passed after high school. Life had completely changed. My social symptoms were getting worse and I was beginning to get sensory symptoms that would paralyze me. I had a million bad habits to ease the sensory issues and restlessness. All the while, I had no idea what was going on. I was unable to finish my classes and subsequently had to fold my endeavors in college. I returned home to Long Island after spending a few years in Providence. I spent some time working at the Huntington Townhouse before landing a job as a CSR in an insurance agency. It was my lucky break. I learned how to use the traits I had from having Asperger Syndrome to my advantage. High attention to detail was very important in the type of position I held. Sadly, I was only able to work there for a year due to my father's retirement. New York was too expensive to live on my own; against my desires I moved to Georgia for a bit until I finally decided to return to New York a few months later.
My job, a CSR in a small insurance agency, lasted six months. The stock and housing markets crashed, both of which my industry depended on. I searched for a new job but ultimately failed. My symptoms from Asperger Syndrome were worsening, in addition to the fact that I started getting electric shocks. My whole body was attacking me and I couldn't communicate to anyone what was wrong. I landed in a hospital for two weeks with exhaustion, and ultimately moved back to Georgia upon discharge. I lived on for another year. I finally got a "break" – one of my legs I had broken in New York the year before suddenly became paralyzed. I had a strange case with spasticity and tremors in addition to everything else. As a result I had to be patient. After two years of social symptoms accompanied with sensory symptoms and neuropathic pain, I finally had answers I had been searching for, for so long. That November I was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. In addition to the fact, I was diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy a year to the date my leg became paralyzed.
I'm fortunate enough that the fighter in me never left; she just became dormant in a disease that I nearly lost my life to. I even learned a few things along the way while living in New York. The first thing I learned was from "A Bronx Tale" – "The saddest thing in the world is wasted talent." The next thing I picked up is the tenacity that New Yorkers' have. We never give up and we give everything our all. Sounds like a famous New Yorker who just passed recently, George Steinbrenner. The third thing I learned, from a former boss,was to be realistic. The final thing I naturally picked up on – everything happens for a rhyme or reason and often things fall into place.
I realize now a combination of a few things kept me alive, my trials in New York and my tribulations in Atlanta. With that, my personality kept me going all these years. Today, I am far from the person I was two years ago. I could barely keep my head up straight and was going through daily episodes. I take a cocktail of meds that relax my muscles for my peripheral neuropathy. With hard work I was able to reverse most of the symptoms from both conditions.
I still have more challenges than most to overcome; however, I am proud to say I am a tale of two cities.
"In Their Own Words" is a series within the Autism Speaks blog which shares the voices of people who have autism, as well as their loved ones. If you have a story you wish to share about your personal experience with autism, please send it to firstname.lastname@example.com. Autism Speaks reserves the right to edit contributions for space, style and content. Because of the volume of submissions, not all can be published on the site.
August 5, 2010 at 2:15 pm
katie , i think you are an amazing person. to go through all that and still smile is unbelievable. you give the rest of us hope and faith. thank you for your strong words!!!!
August 6, 2010 at 11:43 am
Wow! That's all I can say…. and even your words exude the energy that is part of your personality and personal story. Thank you so much for being a fighter! You inspire many and I will take this story and share it…May you always stay this way…
August 6, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Reading your story made my day. Was feeling really bad as I have neuropathy in both my feet. I manage to do most things I want to do but am always in terrible pain. Most people don't know it as it is not something I usually announce but just continue my going-ons I do with retirement. So you are an inspiration today – hope you have some relief. Thank you
August 7, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Thank you all for the kind words and encouragement. I am the author of the article. It is people like yourselves that are part of the equation that keeps me going. Good luck to you all in your endeavors and I wish a happy life to you.


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The Hannibal Fire Department was called to 1243 Church St. at approximately 12:53 p.m. Sunday, June 16, where a fire was reported in a two-story wood frame home occupied by Krigina Abbey. The property is owned by Triple R Plus LLC, according to the fire department.
The fire department provided the following details. All three fire stations responded to the fire, taking eight firefighters. Upon arrival, fire crews experienced heavy fire and smoke coming from building.
The incident commander was notified by the occupant that all residents were out of the structure.
Fire crews conducted a search of the residence and made an offensive interior fire attack. They had the fire under control within 15 minutes.
The fire chief and three additional firefighters also were called, giving the fire crew 12 personnel. Fire crews were on scene approximately three hours conducting fire overhaul and investigation.
Fire investigators with the Hannibal Fire Department and the Missouri State Fire Marshall's office conducted a fire investigation. The fire was being listed accidental on Sunday.
The Hannibal Fire Department was assisted the Hannibal Police Department, Marion County Ambulance District, Hannibal Building Inspectors office, Hannibal Board of Public Works, Missouri State Fire Marshall's office and The American Red Cross.
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While much of BC has been dry, some waterfowl are staging in the northern Interior. It has also been relatively dry in the territories, but many broods are being observed. Broods are also abundant in the Prairie provinces. Alberta is lusher than usual, low evaporation rates are compensating for below-normal rainfall in Saskatchewan and loss of nests was lower than expected in Manitoba. Throughout the Eastern Region, wetlands conditions are good, as are the prospects for the fall flight.
Although conditions have recently begun to moderate, the Coast has been warm and very dry, with Vancouver receiving its first-ever rain-free month in July. Early crops (e.g., berries) are now finished, fresh veggies abound and later crops, such as corn, are ripening fast. The first cover crops for wintering waterfowl will be in the ground soon, though the dry weather may hinder their establishment. Despite the lack of rainfall, habitat conditions remain good due to their strong start this spring. Local broods are maturing, and prospects for the fall flight look average.
In the northern Interior, dry conditions have prevailed since late June — even breaking records in many areas. Environment Canada's seasonal forecast calls for warmer-than-normal temperatures through the remainder of the summer. Wetlands and uplands are starting to show the effects of six weeks of limited rain. Some waterfowl are staging, and the fall flight is expected to be average.
Rainfall has also been limited in the southern Interior since June. Habitat conditions are starting to decline, but still remain good due to a robust spring. Prospects for the fall flight are average.
The southeast Interior has escaped the dry conditions of the rest of the Interior, and precipitation continues to be above normal.
Since April 1, the Peace region has experienced 115-150 percent of normal precipitation, and the past month has been particularly wet. Wetlands have maintained above-normal levels, and wet conditions have delayed the harvest of many food crops. Prospects for the fall flight are very good due to presumed high brood production, retention of high wetland/lake levels and abundant upland crop availability.
Above-average temperatures have resulted in a few forest fires in central areas. Near Whitehorse, rivers and lakes remain in very good condition thanks to high runoff from winter snow. The remainder of the territory has good habitat conditions. Many broods have been observed for multiple species, including bufflehead, ring-necked duck and scaup.
It has been an unusually hot and dry summer, especially over the last month. Water levels are starting to decline in some areas, and fire danger is high as a result. However, many broods are being observed and most are expected to fledge soon; they will be working their way south before we know it.
Northeastern BC
Rainfall has been above average over the last two months. The moisture was welcome since the area was drier than normal over the preceding months. However, wetland habitat conditions remain in fair condition for much of the region.
Above-normal rainfall has created favourable conditions for many areas. However, some pockets in the extreme northeast have only received about 50 per cent of their average moisture over the last month or so. Many early-hatched broods are now fledged, while broods for re-nesters and late-nesting species (e.g., scaup) are still very young.
Average temperatures and above-normal rain-fall have helped maintain good conditions. Broods are abundant on many wetlands throughout the region.
The region is experiencing two extremes. Southwest areas (e.g., near the Pas) have received above-average rain this summer, which is supporting very good habitat conditions. Conversely, precipitation has been well below average in northeast areas, where wetlands are only in fair condition. Nest success appears to have been good for mallards, wigeons and ring-necked ducks.
In July, precipitation totals were above average in the southern Prairie, and average to slightly below average in the northern Prairie, Aspen Parkland, Boreal Transitions Zone (BTZ) and Peace Parkland. All areas have experienced localized, heavy rain events associated with thunderstorms. For example, parts of Edmonton received 30-40 mm of rain over 1-2 hours on August 11. There Parkhas also been some damaging hail. July temperatures were average to slightly cooler than usual.
In the southern Prairie, habitat conditions are rated as good to very good. Areas north of Medicine Hat, which have not been as wet over the summer, are rated as fair. In the northern Prairie, conditions remain good to very good.
Very good conditions also extend into the western Aspen Parkland. It has been drier in the eastern and central Aspen Parkland, although recent rains have alleviated farmers' concerns.
In the Boreal Transition Zone (BTZ) and Peace Parkland, conditions remain good to very good. In the Peace Parkland, most semi-permanent and permanent wetlands are still flooded past the cattail area, while many seasonal ponds are still holding water.
Throughout the province, the landscape is looking lush for this time of year. The Prairie remains green, and grass growth has been excellent this year. In areas of the Aspen Parkland, cattle are having a hard time keeping up with the grass growth. In the Peace Parkland, grass is tall, lush and greener than ever.
With wetlands being in favourable condition across the province, it looks like duckling survival has been good. Brood sizes appear to be larger than when wetlands are not as plentiful and high. Local Canada geese are starting to form larger groups, and goslings are close to fully feathered. Fall flight prospects remain positive.
Despite below-average pre-cipitation this summer, wetland conditions remain good to excellent because of lower-than-usual evaporation rates resulting from cool temperatures and a lack of high winds.
Areas that have received isolated, heavy rains still have full temporary wetlands and sheet water in the fields. Throughout the province, permanent and semi-permanent basins are in excellent condition and are providing prime habitat for brood-rearing ducks. Production appears to be excellent, and field staff are reporting outstanding brood numbers.
Haying operations are now finishing up, which is behind the average schedule. Crops are also slightly behind schedule, but harvest should begin in the coming weeks.
Temperatures have been near normal to slightly below normal, and precipitation continues to be frequent and widespread. These conditions have maintained habitat throughout southwest areas, where Parkland wetlands are in excellent condition. Most northern ranges of the Parklands have received average to above-average rain, while the Killarney pothole regions and the southern portion of the Virden landscape have received well-above-average amounts.
Broods are being observed frequently. Some initial broods of early-arriving species have fledged, while younger broods of later-nesting and renesting birds are readily observed.
Mortality due to haying, which was expected to be abnormally high, was lessoned due to frequent rain events that delayed producers and allowed additional nests to hatch. Crop harvest is not expected to be as early as in 2012, and will be extended as crop readiness is highly variable due todelayed spring seeding activities.
Most species common to the province are well represented in duck brood observations by staff. Resident Canada goose populations also appear to be growing.
The summer continued to be far cooler and wetter compared to last summer's record-breaking conditions. Since July, temperatures have been cooler than normal, while precipitation has been higher than normal, except in the south (Middlesex and Lambton Counties) and east. Regular, and sometimes abundant, precipitation has resulted in brood-rearing wetlands retaining water.
Lakes Superior, St. Clair, Erie and Ontario remain fairly close to long-term levels, and are predicted to remain near normal over the next several months. Lake Michigan and Georgian Bay remain nearly 40 cm below the long-term average but are predicted to recover slightly over the next two months. Negative impacts to wetland areas on Georgian Bay continue due to this prolonged period of low water.
Wetlands continue to remain in good condition overall. Waterfowl brood numbers and sizes reflect this, as development chronology has been normal through the end of the brood-rearing period.
July and August temperatures have been slightly higher than normal or close to normal across the province. In mid July, the Montreal region experienced a six-day heat wave — the longest since 1999 — that was punctuated by violent storms of unusually strong winds of over 100 km/hr. In northern Quebec, forest fires have been more frequent than usual.
July precipitation was generally 30 per cent higher than average, except in the Québec City area (normal) and Lower St. Lawrence region (100 per cent above normal). Since the beginning of August, precipitation has been close to normal throughout province.
The average St. Lawrence level has remained normal for this time of year. Wetland operating levels range from normal to slightly lower than normal, but available waterfowl habitat remains good.
Average to above-average numbers of broods have been observed, and the prospects for the fall flight should be good. Conditions for Bylot Island indicate that snow goose production should be better than last year but lower than the long-term average.
It has been a relatively warm summer, with variable water conditions due to localized rain events. Water levels have been below normal in Prince Edward Island, below normal to normal in Nova Scotia, and normal to above normal in New Brunswick. Environment Canada is predicting above-normal temperatures and normal precipitation for most areas, although parts of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia may be wetter.
Plenty of waterfowl broods are being observed on the landscape. Broods of many species — particularly American black ducks, mallards and Canada geese — have fledged.
Despite variable water levels, wetlands are still providing good waterfowl habitat and are not at risk of becoming too dry. Based on long-term weather forecasts, moisture should continue to be replenished into the fall.
Find more information about DU Canada or more habitat reports from Ducks Unlimited Canada.


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D-Link, the industry pioneer in wireless networking, introduces the DWL-G122 Wireless USB Adapter, part of the AirPlus G family of 802.11g wireless networking devices.
Using the DWL-G122 Wireless USB Adapter, you can now enable 802.11g wireless connectivity for your PC using the convenience and speed of a USB 2.0 interface.
Featuring the latest in wireless technology, the DWL-G122 delivers incredibly fast performance and industry-wide compatibility.
By adhering to the 802.11g wireless standard, the DWL-G122 is capable of streaming video and transferring large files across a wireless network.
The DWL-G122 Wireless USB Adapter includes an easy-to-use configuration that discovers available wireless networks wherever you go. The utility can also create detailed connectivity profiles to save your most frequently used networks. You can also enable support for WPA and 802.1x, for better data encryption and user authentication.
The DWL-G122 is a Wireless USB 2.0 adapter that installs quickly and easily into any desktop or laptop PC with an available USB port. You can simply plug in the DWL-G122 to enjoy the freedom of wireless networking. When used with other D-Link AirPlus G products in their default configuration, the DWL-G122 automatically discovers and connects to the wireless network.
Like all other D-Link wireless adapters, the DWL-G122 Wireless USB Adapter can be used in peer-to-peer mode (ad-hoc) to directly connect to other 802.11b/g wirelessly enabled computers for direct file sharing, or in client mode (infrastructure) to connect with wireless access points or routers.
- Device Type
- Network adapter
- Form Factor
- External
- Interface (Bus) Type
- Hi-Speed USB
- Dimensions (WxDxH)
- 2.3 cm x 7.5 mm x 0.6 cm
- Data Link Protocol
- IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
- Data Transfer Rate
- 54 Mbps
- Frequency Band
- 2.4 GHz
- Compliant Standards
- IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.1x, Wi-Fi CERTIFIED
- System Requirements
- Microsoft Certification
- Device Type
- Network adapter
- Form Factor
- External
- Interface (Bus) Type
- Hi-Speed USB
- Width
- 2.3 cm
- Depth
- 7.5 mm
- Height
- 0.6 cm
- Connectivity Technology
- Wireless
- Data Link Protocol
- IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
- Spread Spectrum Method
- Data Transfer Rate
- 54 Mbps
- Line Coding Format
- Frequency Band
- 2.4 GHz
- Max Range Indoors
- 100 m
- Max Range Open Space
- 400 m
- Status Indicators
- Link activity, power, link OK
- Compliant Standards
- IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.1x, Wi-Fi CERTIFIED
- Antenna
- Internal integrated
- Directivity
- Omni-directional
Expansion / Connectivity
- Connections
- 1 x Hi-Speed USB - 4 PIN USB Type A
- Cables Included
- 1 x USB extension cable ( external ) - 1.5 m
- Encryption Algorithm
- 128-bit WEP, 64-bit WEP, TKIP, WPA, WPA2
- Certified for Windows Vista
- Certified for Windows Vista software and devices have undergone compatibility tests for ease-of-use, better performance and enhanced security.
- Compliant Standards
- FCC Class B certified, CE, FCC Part 15
Software / System Requirements
- Software Included
- Drivers & Utilities
- OS Required
- Microsoft Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP
Environmental Parameters
- Min Operating Temperature
- Max Operating Temperature
Customer reviews
Write a review for the D-Link AirPlus G 802.11g Wireless LAN USB Adapter here!
Why Pay More
Reviewed by oddjob. Review Posted 22/08/2009
Does exactly what is says on the box. Easy to install (be sure to load the D-Link driver before plug and play gets involved.) Good value for money. Good performance. Picked up my router signal through two 18 inch walls!
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Great Value
Reviewed by Les. Review Posted 29/03/2008
Absolutely brilliant piece of kit for the price .... it does exactly what it says on the box.
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- Ease of use
- Value for money
Compact, portable, easy to install and it works!
Reviewed by Anonymous Review Posted 11/09/2005
This is a breeze to install. It came bundled with a wireless ADSL modem/router/firewall (DSL-G604T) so I didn't actually pay the full price for it. The accompanying CD installed drivers on WinXP without trouble. It's currently working on a PC that's about 25ft away from the router, with two old walls between, and signal strength is strong to very strong in its present location. Recommended.
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- Value for money
Works on a Mac!
Reviewed by Rory Hackett. Review Posted 07/02/2006
This adaptor even works on macs - unlike loads of the competition. This card works perfectly on OSX 10.4 and is a must more cost effective way of getting wireless on an older mac than buying one of those internal airport cards that are about £75 on eBay! I really recommend these adaptors and i've found them to be really reliable so far!
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- Ease of use
- Value for money
Using 2
Reviewed by Regs. Review Posted 29/06/2006
I have two of these running on 2 PC's in my attic, one gaming machine and one printer sever, data storage desktop. My 604T is on the grouns floor of the house which is a very old terrace, I have great connection and never had any problems with dropped connections at all.
Great piece of kit, I do especially like the USB stands to allow your antenna to be positioned as effectively as possible. Absolute doddle to set up.
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- Ease of use
- Value for money
Good range
Reviewed by James. Review Posted 16/02/2007
Nice and cheap and has a very good range. Easy to install but easier to use if you just let windows do it for you.
The signal did tend to drop occasionally, but that could be due to many things.
The long USB cord allowed the device to be move around to get the best signal.
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- Ease of use
- Value for money
Easy Peasy
Reviewed by Anonymous Review Posted 15/09/2005
Easy to start up and use, connected first time. But I couldn't get the utility programme to run as it said it should in the manual; even after downloading and installing the updated software from DLink. However, it works and that's the main thing.
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- Ease of use
- Value for money
Not Good Range
Reviewed by Gary Pittaway. Review Posted 10/01/2009
A nice little easy wireless fix but don't be fooled by the 100 metres to 400 metres distance claim. I placed this in a computer 25 metres from the house and the signal was terrible constantly dropping out and losing the network completely.
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- Ease of use
- Value for money
Easy but slow to connect
Reviewed by Anonymous Review Posted 27/05/2006
I had no problems with the software at all. Installed software first then added the device - easy.
Only problems I have found is that it seems slow to connect when starting up but this is certainly not the only wireless device to have this trouble. I never have any problems with it after it has made it's first connection...
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- Ease of use
- Value for money
I'd keep looking...
Reviewed by Anonymous Review Posted 03/01/2006
Pretty much the cheapest one around, but I guess you get what you pay for! I bought 4,for different computers and have had lots of trouble with them. The software on the CD doesn't appear to do anything apart from crash ocasionally. The card is much more stable if you ignore the instruction to install the software first, just plug it in and let windows find the driver on the CD for itself. When it works it is great, but sometimes won't connect at all. Also had to send one back which stopped working (and BT want to charge me 7.95 +VAT for the privilege!?!?!
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- Value for money
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LEGO Shop Home Themes Star Wars™ Jedi™ Scout Fighter
Jedi™ Scout Fighter
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Protect the Holocrons with Jek-14™ and the Jedi™ Scout Fighter with dual cockpit/escape pod, spring-loaded shooters and rotating cannon.
Keep the Holocrons safe from the dark side in the Jedi™ Scout Fighter!
Protect the vital Holocrons from the dark side with Jek-14™ and his streamlined Jedi™ Scout Fighter. Lift the rear hatch to stash the containers of Holocrons and lightsabers. Place clone trooper Jek-14™ and his co-pilot in the dual cockpit that opens two ways, with the Astromech Droid™ positioned behind. Unleash its awesome armory, including 2 spring-loaded shooters and an elevating and rotating cannon at the rear. Recreate thrilling scenes from LEGO® Star Wars™: The Yoda Chronicles animated specials. And if the action gets too hot to handle, detach the cockpit to turn it into an escape pod, but guard those Holocrons with your life!
- Includes 2 minifigures with assorted weapons: Jek-14™ and Ithorian™ Jedi Master™, plus an Astromech Droid™ and RA-7 Protocol Droid™
- Features detachable dual cockpit/escape pod, 2 spring-loaded shooters, 2 wing shooters, 4 movable wing flaps, elevating and rotating cannon, rear storage compartment with opening hatch, containers, Holocrons and thermal detonators
- Weapons include a blue lightsaber and a green lightsaber
- Never-before-seen LEGO® Star Wars model!
- Open the rear hatch and store the precious Holocrons
- Fire the spring-loaded shooters
- Elevate and rotate the hidden rear cannon
- Detach the dual cockpit to transform it into an escape pod
- Recreate exciting scenes from LEGO® Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles animated series
- Measures over 3" (8cm) high, 14" (36cm) long and 9" (25cm) wide
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