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Ferguson Norge AS, part of the Ferguson Group, specialists in the rental of offshore containers, refrigeration/chiller modules, engineering modules and accommodation solutions to the offshore energy sector, has increased its fleet in Norway ahead of this year’s Offshore Technology Days (OTD) exhibition.

Ferguson Norge has invested in a number of new offshore containers and workspace units, which will be available from its bases in Stavanger, Bergen and Kristiansund. The units are accredited to DNV 2.7-1 and also NORSOK R-002, to ensure that specific standards in the Norwegian market are met.

The Group’s Norwegian operation has also added several new Lifting Frames to its fleet. The frames, which are the ideal method for transporting special cargo to and from offshore locations, have been manufactured to full DNV 2.7-3 standards, enabling the lifting frames to lift over 25 tonnes.

Morten Smith, General Manager – Ferguson Norge AS said, “Investing into the expansion and development of our product range is hugely important across the Ferguson Group in order to meet our clients needs, and we pride ourselves in our ability to offer the highest quality, fully accredited modules and units.

“Our clients’ needs are at the heart of our business and we endeavour to provide industry leading products for their global projects. We have experienced growing demand in Norway and the North Sea, which has increased even further following our relocation to a purpose-built office in Stavanger last year. As our clients’ requirements continue to grow, we will continue to expand our product range to meet their needs.”

Delegates at the OTD exhibition will have the opportunity to meet with representatives from Ferguson Norge to learn more about the range of products available, including its range of containers, accommodation and NORSOK-accredited workspace solutions.

Mr Smith continued: “OTD is an ideal opportunity for us to meet with new and existing clients and suppliers and to showcase our new products and equipment features.”

Ferguson Group will be exhibiting at OTD on 23-24 October in Hall B, stand 2905, at the Stavanger Forum, Stavanger, Norway.

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Author Interview ~ T.L. Higley

T.L. Higley is the author of five novels, including the recent Seven Wonders Novels, Shadow of Colossus and City of the Dead.

Shadow of Colossus was recently named a finalist for the Christy Award in the historical category. Tracy is a wife and mother of four, and lives with her family near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Welcome back to Novel Journey! It’s been a couple years since you visited with us. What have you been doing?

I’ve been hard at work on a series I’m really enjoying, the Seven Wonders Novels. The books are each set at one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and are fast-paced, historical suspense.

You published several books since the last time you visited Novel Journey. Has continued success made writing easier, or more difficult?

Perhaps it gets a bit more difficult the more you learn, because you become more critical of your own work. But overall, I’d say that it has gotten easier because I’ve come to trust myself more. My family doesn’t hear “I can’t do this! I can’t do this! I can’t do this!” quite as often. I’ve learned that even on the days when I don’t feel like writing I can push through and do it. I’ve learned that I can meet deadlines that seem impossible. And I’ve learned to intercept the biggest problems in my writing and fix them earlier.

I’m sure you’ve had your share of reviews. What impact did this have on subsequent books?

I’ve been blessed with some wonderful reviews, and these make me feel good for a bit, but I don’t think they really have an impact (for me) on subsequent books. As to whether these good reviews have impacted sales of the books, that’s really difficult to measure. When a review has a negative comment, I try to be open to the criticism. But often the very thing one reader criticizes, another will praise. Overall, it’s probably better to avoid reviews!

Are you a plotter or a SOTP (seat of the pants) writer? Why?

I’m a plotter, for sure. It suits my personality! I’m organized, driven, efficient and not very spontaneous. Don’t I sound fun? I enjoy the time spent outlining my novels, and don’t think I could do it any other way. There are always surprises, of course, when writing the first draft. But for the most part, I know where I’m going from start to finish.

How much marketing do you do? Do you market all of your books at once, or concentrate solely on the newest release?

I’ve done various amounts of marketing over the years, but what I have found to work best is targeting the most influential groups of people (booksellers, reviewers, even the sales reps at the publishing house) to get them excited about the books. And I’ve tried to make my website an interesting place for readers to visit. I do some book-specific marketing as each book is releasing, but generally I try to take advantage of opportunities as they come.

The last time you visited Novel Journey, you said your favorite part of being a writer is research. Higley: “I love to learn, to dive headlong into books and come up gulping for air, with my fists full of new facts.” With your upcoming historical release, is that still true?

Definitely! But since my last interview here, I’ve added a fun component to my research – travel! In the past two years I’ve been to Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Israel and Jordan doing research for the Seven Wonders Novels. My travels have yielded so much information, adventure and a real feel for ancient times and places, and it’s been great fun weaving all of that into these books.

So, tell us a little about your latest release:

City of the Dead came out last month, and is the second of the Seven Wonders Novels. It’s set in ancient Egypt, during the building of the Great Pyramid, and is a murder-mystery that challenges the pyramid’s engineer to stop a serial killer.

How did you come up with this story?

That’s always a hard question to answer. Ideas evolve so gradually, it’s difficult to trace them backward. I’ve always loved ancient history, and I thought the Seven Wonders would be a great way to “take a tour” of ancient times and places. When it came time to write about the Great Pyramid, I found the construction of it so fascinating that I wanted to feature its builder as the main character. After that, I conspired to send some trouble his way, and give him a secret that might destroy the kingdom.

Tell us a little about your main character and how you developed him/her:

Hemiunu (or Hemi as he is called by most) is an actual historical figure. In fact, I’ve walked through his tomb! He was the architect and engineer of one of the oldest man-made structures in the world, and probably the cousin of the Pharaoh for whom he built it. I knew a man such as this would be very logical and rational. What better way to mess with him than to give him a mystery he can’t solve?

What did you enjoy most about writing this book? Least?

I loved immersing myself in ancient Egypt. It’s a fascinating culture, with highly developed religious and cultural systems. They’ve left us so many artifacts to study that we can get a fairly clear picture of their lives.

Probably the hardest part of writing this book was that I’ve never written a book in the first person before. I’ve written male protagonists, but to write in the voice of a man who lived 4500 years ago was challenging. I actually started it in third person, but after several chapters, Hemi’s voice was clearer in my head, and I switched. It was fun, but very different for me.

What does your writing space look like?

I’ve been blessed with my own office space in my home, which is a good thing because when I travel, I keep bringing back lots of stuff! My shelves are getting crammed with bits and pieces of the world.

What would you do with your free time if you weren’t writing?

I would go back to school, get another degree (in history), and perhaps go on to teach at the college level. This is something I’d really love to do at some point, so who knows?

Do you put yourself into your books/characters?

Yes, I suppose there’s always a bit of ourselves somewhere in there, isn’t there? I mentioned earlier that I’m a bit like Hemi – logical, analytical. It was easy for me to imagine a character who finds it hard to take time for relationships like he should.

What message do you hope readers gain from your novel?

I would love for readers to get a sense of the ways in which our Redeeming God has been at work in the lives of all people, throughout the entire drama of human history. His fingerprints are evident in all these ancient cultures, and always He preserved a remnant of faithful ones who would seek out relationship with Him. We are part of this continuum, and He is no less interested in us!

Tell us what we have to look forward to in the future. What new projects are you working on?

The third book in the Seven Wonders Novels, Guardian of the Flame, will release in October of this year. It’s set in Alexandria, Egypt, beside the Lighthouse, and features Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and a cast of fascinating characters getting themselves into trouble. I have really enjoyed writing this one! You can get more information and see the trailer on my website,

Any parting words of advice?

Be careful to listen to God’s call on your heart, on the part of you that knows, really knows, who you are called to be. And then follow. If you know that writing, or any form of communication, is innately part of who you are, then don’t stop! There are myriad ways to communicate truth, and published fiction is only one. The important thing is to be faithful to the call.

Debra E Marvin said...

Wow, your books sound fascinating. What a great period in history. The challenge of writing historicals at this time must be huge. Add to that going first person as your heroes.

I'm impressed and will look for these!

by the way, Driven, organized, efficient and non-spontaneous sounds like a wonderful way to be. ahem!

thanks for sharing!

Elizabeth Ludwig said...

Thank you for visiting Novel Journey today. You have a great message for you readers. I'm honored to be able to help get your message out in this small way.

Sheila Deeth said...

Sounds a fascinating series.

Gina Holmes said...

Love your writing space, Tracy!

Tina said...

Tracy, I'm so embarrassed that I didn't know you were TL Higley. I just assumed you were a guy... ha! That's what I get for stereotyping. Sorry, but congrats on your books and thanks for sharing about your journey. And your writing space is so neat!

Ane Mulligan said...

Sigh ... I love your writing space, too. I used to have an office in the house. It's now a guitar and banjo room for the hubs and youngest adult son. I'm now in a corner of the master bedroom. But it had a great view, so I can't complain. Well ... I do and loudly. So keep this little secret between us, okay?

pat jeanne said...

Tracy, I love historical fiction and was impressed by all the travel and research you did in preparation for your Seven Wonders Series. Your stories sound fascinating. I would love to see all those fascinating sites. Congrats on the Chrsty Finalist award. Pat


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Saturday, October 08, 2011

A Tale of Two Stories

I've been thinking this week about two different styles of storytelling.

A couple of days ago I read ND Wilson's latest book, The Dragon's Tooth. This is a middle-grade action/adventure, which I reviewed on my blog. I hope you'll read the review there and watch the trailer, because this is one of the best books I've read in a long, long time, and I want to get the word out about it. This one is going to be loved by adults as well as kids. It's the first in a five-book series and if it's not made into a major motion picture, I'll be very surprised.

The Dragon's Tooth snagged starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. Wilson has the popular appeal of Eoin Colfer and the sophistication of Jonathan Stroud. A killer combination. ND Wilson is a great storyteller.

A different kind of story

Last weekend I got a different kind of story at the movie theater.  I took my children to see Sherwood Pictures' Courageous. This is a movie marketed to churches. Leaders in churches are invited to preview it. Its goal was to move Christian boys and men to want to be better fathers.

I have a confession: I liked the movie very much and walked out of the theater thanking God for the Sherwood Baptist Church and their willingness to sink so much time and effort into making movies. Oh, yes, I saw the warts. But I wept through the movie because the writer and the actors made me care about the characters. Because they moved me emotionally, I was willing to forgive the shortcomings.

This one isn't getting starred reviews Oscar nominations. One reviewer said there was enough drama in the movie for a whole TV season, and I have to agree. Others have said the Kendrick brothers beat us over the head with their message, and they did.

But they put Christians up on the big screen and I think that's worth something.

Isn't it sad that there are almost no Christians in general market books and movies these days? What's worse is that when they do show up they are often hateful bigots trying to enslave women, stone homosexuals, and abuse children.

Sherwood Pictures is putting Christian men on the big screen and those men aren't burning books or shooting abortion doctors or having sex with boys. They're making a commitment to love their children. They're going to scripture to see how fathers should love.

Our educations are not all equal

My son, after seeing the movie, said he wanted to take his girlfriend to it. He was moved by what he saw. He decided to start working a little harder now at loving scripture, because he wants to be a good father one day.

My son does not have a classical education. He doesn't even have a poor public school education. He's educationally challenged. And I think he's probably not that odd. I think there are more young men in the Xbox camp than in the well-educated camp. The Hogwart's Professor saw a lot in Harry Potter that I never saw, and way, way more than 99% of the children saw, I'm willing to bet. And how good is a message if no one understands the language?

It's not necessary to have an action plan after reading a novel or watching a movie, but there are worse things to take away from fiction.

God's ways are not my ways

Because I'm a Calvinist I tend to like ND Wilson's way of telling a story best. I believe that God can save people without the altar call. I think some Christians---probably the Kendrick brothers---put a little more value on "decision" than I do. I think if the Spirit is working on someone, I don't need to hammer them to make a decision, and I don't think we need to put the gospel into every movie and book. Some stories can sow and some can water. I like to think my books, if I ever find a publisher, might plow the ground. I'm not trying to preach the gospel.

God has called some to preach, though.

I can't say for sure what God has called the Kendrick brothers to do, but I dare not fault them for their movies. My own son benefited from what they are doing. He looks up to committed Christian men---in real life and, now, apparently on the big screen. (Who knew? He'd never seen Christian men in the movies before.) It gives him hope to find Christian men who are not ashamed of the gospel. It gives him courage.

Courage. Oh, yeah. That's what the movie was aiming to do: give my son, and boys like him, courage.

I'm thinking God gives some artists skill to serve those with refined tastes in art, and he gives some skill to reach the less cultured. I thank God for that because the body of Christ is diverse.

What do you think? Must we wait to be very good before we go public with our art? How good is good enough? Does bad Christian art embarrass you? More importantly, does it dishonor God? Have you seen Courageous or read The Dragon's Tooth?

Sally Apokedak loves sappy movies that make her cry, and books that take her to dangerous places full of criminals and spiders and man-eating turtles. She hopes to make readers cry with her own books one day, and her books do have criminals, but she is happy to report that they are completely free of spiders and man-eating turtles. You can find Sally blogging about young adult novels at

Kessie said...

Dragon's Tooth sounds good. Wishlist'd!

Lilly Maytree said...

Sally… I like to think of our writing craft (especially in the Christian market) in the same light as joining the military. People come from all walks in life, some truly gifted, and others you wonder what they were thinking. But by the end of boot camp, they have been "miraculously" turned into soldiers.

We are all on a journey. And while I have seen many flawed attempts at bringing quality Christian entertainment to the world, I have never seen those same artists anything but better the next year, and the next. Some of them have risen to such heights they truly take my breath away. And I agree with you -- I thank God for the ones brave enough to take their light right out into the world, as opposed to just sharing it among ourselves.

Oh, yes, and thank you for introducing me to N.D. Wilson. THE DRAGON'S TOOTH trailer was the best I have ever seen (had to watch it over, again, immediately)… and I can't wait to read the book.

Ane Mulligan said...

I've always said and believed God deserves our very best, not our leftovers or our second best. How good is good enough? When it's the very best we can do and we're offering it as a sacrifice of love back to Him.

Sibella said...

Sally, what a gracious perspective. Thank you.

Based on your recommendation, we'll be hunting down The Dragon's Tooth!

Nicole said...

Really good post, Sally.

sally apokedak said...

I hope you all like The Dragon's Tooth as much as I did. It's a middle-grade boy book, and one of the best in that genre that I've ever read. I'm God if he might be pleased to bring it as much popularity as Twilight and Hunger Games. Or Lightning Thief, since it might not attract all the boy-crazy girls in the world.

Ane and Lilly, thanks for your perspectives. It's true that we are to give our best to God, and at different times that will be of different quality. I pray that God will keep doors closed until he's ready for our work to be seen in public. And then when he sees fit to allow the book or the film to go out, I think all we can do is go forward and trust him to take it to the audience of his choosing and to protect others from errors we've allowed in.

Thanks, Nicole. :) I appreciate the feedback.

sally apokedak said...

I'm asking God... Not I AM GOD, heh heh

Rebecca LuElla Miller said...

Thanks for this post, Sally. Much to think about here.

I'm thinking some fiction might be easy and enjoyable, such as C. S. Lewis's Narnia books, and still be challenging. To me that's the best kind of book -- one that's accessible and yet deep.

Children may not (probably won't) see the deeper meanings, but if they love the story, they'll re-read it and understand it more and more. It's much the same thing that's true about the Bible.

In other words, stories that are written to be valued for their art probably won't last. They aren't accessible and won't have people re-reading them and understanding more as they mature. They won't be the kinds of books that parents buy for birthday presents or read aloud on family night.

But books that are poorly written won't either.

Now I'm off to read your review. I'll be interested to see what becomes of ND Wilson's career.

sally apokedak said...

Sibella, thanks for commenting. I hope your family enjoys the book.

Becky, yes, I think you're right. What I love about Wilson's books are that they are commercial in that they have plots that move fast, and yet, he writes beautifully and really brings his characters to life. I remember his characters' names a week later. And, how can you forger Cyrus and Antigone? He starts by picking names that you won't forget and then he attaches those name to characters that are fleshed out and lovable.


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Low vitamin E levels linked to greater physical decline

By Stephen Daniells , 23-Jan-2008

Low blood levels of vitamin E are linked to greater physical decline in older people, suggests a new study from Yale University School of Medicine.

The researchers obtained measures for several micronutrients, including folate, vitamins B6, B12, D and E, but only the last vitamin was associated with physical decline for older persons, they report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "The current study provides empirical evidence that a low concentration of vitamin E is associated with subsequent decline in physical function in a population-based sample of older persons living in the community," wrote lead author Benedetta Bartali. "Although the findings from this epidemiological study cannot establish causality, they provide a solid base that low concentration of vitamin E contributes to decline in physical function," she added. Bartali and co-workers recruited 698 community-living people with an average age of 73.7 in Tuscany, Italy. A baseline examination was conducted from November 1998 through May 2000, and the subjects followed for three years. Physical performance was measured using the Short Physical Performance Battery, which included three objective tests of physical function. Over this short time period, the researchers recorded a 1.1 point decline in physical performance, which exceeded the one point level needed to show a decline. The researchers calculated on two determinants of physical decline: low vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) levels among people aged between 70 and 80, and being older than 81. Levels of other micronutrients were not associated with declined levels. "As the major lipid-soluble antioxidant, vitamin E plays a critical role in the defence from oxidative stress by donating electrons and neutralizing free radicals," wrote Bartali. "Low concentrations of vitamin E may affect this neutralization by creating an imbalance between oxidants and antioxidants and, consequently, a highly reactive milieu. "Because molecular oxygen promptly accepts unpaired electrons to form reactive oxygen species, this imbalance may lead to excessive formation of reactive oxygen species and, consequently, to oxidative stress that may cause lipid peroxidation and DNA, muscle, and neuronal damage. "This chain of events may explain, at least in part, our findings on the association between low concentrations of vitamin E and subsequent decline in physical function," she added. The researchers go on to propose three mechanisms which could explain the relationship between low vitamin E levels and the decline in physical function: The increased level of oxidative stress could result in damage to muscle or DNA; there could be an exacerbation of atherosclerosis or other pathologic conditions; and an increase in neurodegenerative disorders. Bartali and co-workers note that the subjects did not take vitamin supplements and added that they did not recommend vitamin E supplements to increase levels. "Approximately 15 to 30 mg/d of dietary alpha-tocopherol [a component of vitamin E] is needed … this amount can be easily reached through diet, from sources such as almonds, tomato sauce, and sunflower seeds among others," stated the researchers. "Clinical trials may be warranted to determine whether optimal concentration of vitamin E reduces functional decline and the onset of disability in older persons with a low concentration of vitamin E," they concluded. There are eight forms of vitamin E: four tocopherols (alpha, beta, gamma, delta) and four tocotrienols (alpha, beta, gamma, delta). Alpha-tocopherol (alpha-Toc) is the main source found in supplements and in the European diet, while gamma-tocopherol (gamma-Toc) is the most common form in the American diet. Source: Journal of the American Medical Association 2008, Volume 299, Issue 3, Pages 308-315 "Serum Micronutrient Concentrations and Decline in Physical Function Among Older Persons" Authors: B. Bartali, E.A. Frongillo, J.M. Guralnik, M.H. Stipanuk, H.G. Allore, A. Cherubini, S. Bandinelli, L. Ferrucci, T.M. Gill

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New Year's guests locked out at Denver Marriott

Posted: January 1, 2012 at 4:49 p.m.

— New Year’s guests at a Denver Marriott were locked out of their rooms when the clock struck midnight and their room keys stopped working.

The 628-room Denver Tech Center Marriott says a room key malfunction kept guests out of their rooms from midnight until about 3 a.m. The hotel’s general manager, Jennifer Atkins, says it wasn’t immediately known whether the malfunction was related to the year change.

KUSA-TV in Denver reports that fights broke out among the locked-out guests and that some revelers got sick in the hallways. Denver police were called to the scene but said no one was seriously hurt. Atkins said she couldn’t confirm reports of fights and vomiting in the hallways.

Atkins says there were no confirmed reports of key card problems at other Marriotts.


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Tales of yesteryear’s legends age well

Posted: January 8, 2013 at 4:17 a.m.

Lynwood “Schoolboy” Rowe was pitching against the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1934 World Series, scarcely a year or so after graduating El Dorado High School.

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Simon back under the Dome as Saskatchewan invades BC Place

Just Like Old Times Geroy

When Geroy Simon was dealt in the off-season, B.C. Lions fans and players alike circled the calendar when Saskatchewan would return to BC Place.

Turns out, the game has more serious implications than just the return of Superman.

After getting out to a blistering hot start, the Roughriders have been in a late season tailspin where they have slipped from first to third in the ultra-competitive CFL West Division. The Riders could seal a place in the post season with a victory over the Lions but more importantly the locale of the West semi-final is still up for grabs.

Each of these two teams is vying for home field advantage.

With QB Travis Lulay further sidelined with his shoulder injury, the BC Lions Offense will once again be in the hands of Thomas DeMarco.  Coming off back to back victories, including a win in Regina, DeMarco will once again be looking to outshine the Green Riders, but in order to do so he must start producing more significant numbers passing.

It’s no shock that the Lions Defence, led by reigning CFL Defensive player of the month LB Adam Bighill, has carried the club the past two weeks and they will need to shine again as Sasky will no doubt be looking to extract revenge.

For the Defense, the game plan is simple: get to the Quarterback.  Attacking Darian Durant and putting him into uncomfortable throwing positions will limit the effectiveness of his dynamic receivers.  Led by Keron Williams and Eric Taylor, the D-Line must provide pressure straight up the middle of the field.

And much like two weeks ago, Dante Marsh, Cord Parks and Josh Bell will need to put a clinic on tackling, shutting down any big gains from Weston Dressler, Chris Getzlaf, and Simon.

Geroy Simon

I’m not afraid to admit it! I hope he takes a TD pass into Geroy’s Corner

But with all the attention on those three, it was Tal Smith who exploded for 10 catches and over 100 yards in the previous contest.

The defensive backs have been feasting on turnovers the last few weeks and will need to provide the same spark and energy for the home crowd.

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But the major “X” factor in the re-match will be Saskatchewan RB Kory Sheets, who didn’t play in round one of this series.  Sheets may be the most electric running back in the league and still tops the standings in rushing yards, even after missing the past few games.

Look for Bighill and LB partner Solomon Elimimian to play spy games on the elusive Sheets.

Offensively, the Lions will still roll out a simple ball control style game plan.  Even as DeMarco becomes more familiar with running the offense I still suspect he won’t have all the pages in the play book open to him.

Like last week, I envision an addition to the workload of Andrew Harris.

Churning the clock and limiting the Time of Possession for the Riders.

That doesn’t mean the Lions O will be stagnant however, we have seen that DeMarco has a big accurate arm and should look to find WR’s Courtney Taylor and Nick Moore in one on one situations with the Riders’ shorter DB’s.

One thing is for sure though, no matter of the outcome, the hero and the star of this game will be Number 81.

The long-time Leo, BC community activist, and the greatest receiver in the history of the CFL.

And I’m not afraid to admit it; I hope he takes a TD pass into Geroy’s Corner, for old time’s sake,  I’d like to see the iconic pose.

Cheers, The Bartender

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Standard Bank to send 8 top performers abroad

Standard Bank will this year send eight top-performing employees to Netherlands, Mauritius and Dubai as part of the bank’s annual Mark of Excellence awards, Chief Financial Officer Temwani Simwaka has said.

Simwaka: Bank employees put extraordinary effort resulting in an improved profitability

Mark of Excellence: Standard Bank workers

Mark of Excellence: Standard Bank workers

Speaking in Blantyre at the launch of a three-day retreat for a combined group of 30 top-performing employees, Simwaka said the eight will travel abroad as the bank’s token of appreciation for their outstanding contributions in the just ended financial year.

“A Mark of Excellence Award is recognition for employees who go beyond the call of duty. These people went out of their way to service customers and also to deliver on the bank’s objectives,” she said.

Simwaka said although 2015 was a tough year, the bank’s employees put extraordinary effort in their work by turning challenges into opportunities, resulting in an improved profitability for the bank.

The bank’s published financial results for the year ended December 31, show that it registered an after tax profit of K13.4 billion, representing a growth by nine percent.

“We believe that banking should have a personal touch, and it’s this touch with makes Standard Bank different from all other bank. Our success is dependent on people, and we invest in them to add a personal touch to the service, hence we have to recognize that,” she said.

This year’s Mark of Excellence awards have been dominated by the Personal and Business Banking (PBB) segment which swept the seven spots leaving only one spot for the Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) business segment.

The winners excelled in respective areas of leadership, teamwork, customer experience, sales and application of brilliant basics. They are Enock Kondowe, Roselyn Thupa, Richard Gusto, Patrick Mwalilino, Israel Chavula, Margaret Chaika, Evance Selemani and Emmauel Banda.

Last year’s Mark of Excellence Award winners went on a luxury cruise to Barcelona, Spain.

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2 thoughts on “Standard Bank to send 8 top performers abroad”

  1. therere says:

    Congrats to you all for this excellent performance,
    Israel and Patrick continue to show what you were doing at Salima branch in those days

  2. chikopa says:

    Kodi Chimwewe Matonga is still working for Standard Bank or this is an old photo?

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Museum Early Closure

The Museum will close early at 6pm on Fri, Jan 20 and reopen at 3pm on Sat, Jan 21.

Harmonize with Dick Tracy

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ca. 1930
Plastic, metal, paper
Overall: 3 1/2 x 5 x 1/2 in. (8.9 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm)
Red rectangular box handheld game with four figures singing, one central older female playing guitar, text: BY PERMISSION OF FAMOUS ARTISTS SYNDICATE AND THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE/ HARMONIZE WITH/ DICK TRACY
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University of Texas officials have cleared the way for outfielder STEPHEN LARKIN to play baseball despite his heart condition.

Larkin, 18 years old, and his parents signed a waiver that releases the school from liability if he should be injured or die as a result of his medical problem, The Austin American-Statesman reported.

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In 2002, Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel in economic science. What made this unusual is that Kahneman is a psychologist. Specifically, he is one-half of a pair of psychologists who, beginning in the early 1970s, set out to dismantle an entity long dear to economic theorists: that arch-rational decision maker known as Homo economicus. The other half of the dismantling duo, Amos Tversky, died in 1996 at the age of 59. Had Tversky lived, he would certainly have shared the Nobel with Kahneman, his longtime collaborator and dear friend.

Human irrationality is Kahneman’s great theme. There are essentially three phases to his career. In the first, he and Tversky did a series of ingenious experiments that revealed twenty or so “cognitive biases” — unconscious errors of reasoning that distort our judgment of the world. Typical of these is the “anchoring effect”: our tendency to be influenced by irrelevant numbers that we happen to be exposed to. (In one experiment, for instance, experienced German judges were inclined to give a shoplifter a longer sentence if they had just rolled a pair of dice loaded to give a high number.) In the second phase, Kahneman and Tversky showed that people making decisions under uncertain conditions do not behave in the way that economic models have traditionally assumed; they do not “maximize utility.” The two then developed an alternative account of decision making, one more faithful to human psychology, which they called “prospect theory.” (It was for this achievement that Kahneman was awarded the Nobel.) In the third phase of his career, mainly after the death of Tversky, Kahneman has delved into “hedonic psychology”: the science of happiness, its nature and its causes. His findings in this area have proved disquieting — and not just because one of the key experiments involved a deliberately prolonged colonoscopy.

“Thinking, Fast and Slow” spans all three of these phases. It is an astonishingly rich book: lucid, profound, full of intellectual surprises and self-help value. It is consistently entertaining and frequently touching, especially when Kahneman is recounting his collaboration with Tversky. (“The pleasure we found in working together made us exceptionally patient; it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.”) So impressive is its vision of flawed human reason that the New York Times columnist David Brooks recently declared that Kahneman and Tversky’s work “will be remembered hundreds of years from now,” and that it is “a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.” They are, Brooks said, “like the Lewis and Clark of the mind.”

Now, this worries me a bit. A leitmotif of this book is overconfidence. All of us, and especially experts, are prone to an exaggerated sense of how well we understand the world — so Kahneman reminds us. Surely, he himself is alert to the perils of overconfidence. Despite all the cognitive biases, fallacies and illusions that he and Tversky (along with other researchers) purport to have discovered in the last few decades, he fights shy of the bold claim that humans are fundamentally irrational.

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Or does he? “Most of us are healthy most of the time, and most of our judgments and actions are appropriate most of the time,” Kahneman writes in his introduction. Yet, just a few pages later, he observes that the work he did with Tversky “challenged” the idea, orthodox among social scientists in the 1970s, that “people are generally rational.” The two psychologists discovered “systematic errors in the thinking of normal people”: errors arising not from the corrupting effects of emotion, but built into our evolved cognitive machinery. Although Kahneman draws only modest policy implications (e.g., contracts should be stated in clearer language), others — perhaps overconfidently? — go much further. Brooks, for example, has argued that Kahneman and Tversky’s work illustrates “the limits of social policy”; in particular, the folly of government action to fight joblessness and turn the economy around.

Such sweeping conclusions, even if they are not endorsed by the author, make me frown. And frowning — as one learns on Page 152 of this book — activates the skeptic within us: what Kahneman calls “System 2.” Just putting on a frown, experiments show, works to reduce overconfidence; it causes us to be more analytical, more vigilant in our thinking; to question stories that we would otherwise unreflectively accept as true because they are facile and coherent. And that is why I frowningly gave this extraordinarily interesting book the most skeptical reading I could.

System 2, in Kahneman’s scheme, is our slow, deliberate, analytical and consciously effortful mode of reasoning about the world. System 1, by contrast, is our fast, automatic, intuitive and largely unconscious mode. It is System 1 that detects hostility in a voice and effortlessly completes the phrase “bread and. . . . ” It is System 2 that swings into action when we have to fill out a tax form or park a car in a narrow space. (As Kahneman and others have found, there is an easy way to tell how engaged a person’s System 2 is during a task: just look into his or her eyes and note how dilated the pupils are.)

More generally, System 1 uses association and metaphor to produce a quick and dirty draft of reality, which System 2 draws on to arrive at explicit beliefs and reasoned choices. System 1 proposes, System 2 disposes. So System 2 would seem to be the boss, right? In principle, yes. But System 2, in addition to being more deliberate and rational, is also lazy. And it tires easily. (The vogue term for this is “ego depletion.”) Too often, instead of slowing things down and analyzing them, System 2 is content to accept the easy but unreliable story about the world that System 1 feeds to it. “Although System 2 believes itself to be where the action is,” Kahneman writes, “the automatic System 1 is the hero of this book.” System 2 is especially quiescent, it seems, when your mood is a happy one.

At this point, the skeptical reader might wonder how seriously to take all this talk of System 1 and System 2. Are they actually a pair of little agents in our head, each with its distinctive personality? Not really, says Kahneman. Rather, they are “useful fictions” — useful because they help explain the quirks of the human mind.

To see how, consider what Kahneman calls the “best-known and most controversial” of the experiments he and Tversky did together: “the Linda problem.” Participants in the experiment were told about an imaginary young woman named Linda, who is single, outspoken and very bright, and who, as a student, was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice. The participants were then asked which was more probable: (1) Linda is a bank teller. Or (2) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement. The overwhelming response was that (2) was more probable; in other words, that given the background information furnished, “feminist bank teller” was more likely than “bank teller.” This is, of course, a blatant violation of the laws of probability. (Every feminist bank teller is a bank teller; adding a detail can only lower the probability.) Yet even among students in Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, who had extensive training in probability, 85 percent flunked the Linda problem. One student, informed that she had committed an elementary logical blunder, responded, “I thought you just asked for my opinion.”

What has gone wrong here? An easy question (how coherent is the narrative?) is substituted for a more difficult one (how probable is it?). And this, according to Kahneman, is the source of many of the biases that infect our thinking. System 1 jumps to an intuitive conclusion based on a “heuristic” — an easy but imperfect way of answering hard questions — and System 2 lazily endorses this heuristic answer without bothering to scrutinize whether it is logical.

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Kahneman describes dozens of such experimentally demonstrated breakdowns in rationality — “base-rate neglect,” “availability cascade,” “the illusion of validity” and so on. The cumulative effect is to make the reader despair for human reason.

Are we really so hopeless? Think again of the Linda problem. Even the great evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould was troubled by it. As an expert in probability he knew the right answer, yet he wrote that “a little homunculus in my head continues to jump up and down, shouting at me — ‘But she can’t just be a bank teller; read the description.’ ” It was Gould’s System 1, Kahneman assures us, that kept shouting the wrong answer at him. But perhaps something more subtle is going on. Our everyday conversation takes place against a rich background of unstated expectations — what linguists call “implicatures.” Such implicatures can seep into psychological experiments. Given the expectations that facilitate our conversation, it may have been quite reasonable for the participants in the experiment to take “Linda is a bank clerk” to imply that she was not in addition a feminist. If so, their answers weren’t really fallacious.

This might seem a minor point. But it applies to several of the biases that Kahneman and Tversky, along with other investigators, purport to have discovered in formal experiments. In more natural settings — when we are detecting cheaters rather than solving logic puzzles; when we are reasoning about things rather than symbols; when we are assessing raw numbers rather than percentages — people are far less likely to make the same errors. So, at least, much subsequent research suggests. Maybe we are not so irrational after all.

Some cognitive biases, of course, are flagrantly exhibited even in the most natural of settings. Take what Kahneman calls the “planning fallacy”: our tendency to overestimate benefits and underestimate costs, and hence foolishly to take on risky projects. In 2002, Americans remodeling their kitchens, for example, expected the job to cost $18,658 on average, but they ended up paying $38,769.

The planning fallacy is “only one of the manifestations of a pervasive optimistic bias,” Kahneman writes, which “may well be the most significant of the cognitive biases.” Now, in one sense, a bias toward optimism is obviously bad, since it generates false beliefs — like the belief that we are in control, and not the playthings of luck. But without this “illusion of control,” would we even be able to get out of bed in the morning? Optimists are more psychologically resilient, have stronger immune systems, and live longer on average than their more reality-based counterparts. Moreover, as Kahneman notes, exaggerated optimism serves to protect both individuals and organizations from the paralyzing effects of another bias, “loss aversion”: our tendency to fear losses more than we value gains. It was exaggerated optimism that John Maynard Keynes had in mind when he talked of the “animal spirits” that drive capitalism.

Even if we could rid ourselves of the biases and illusions identified in this book — and Kahneman, citing his own lack of progress in overcoming them, doubts that we can — it is by no means clear that this would make our lives go better. And that raises a fundamental question: What is the point of rationality? We are, after all, Darwinian survivors. Our everyday reasoning abilities have evolved to cope efficiently with a complex and dynamic environment. They are thus likely to be adaptive in this environment, even if they can be tripped up in the psychologist’s somewhat artificial experiments. Where do the norms of rationality come from, if they are not an idealization of the way humans actually reason in their ordinary lives? As a species, we can no more be pervasively biased in our judgments than we can be pervasively ungrammatical in our use of language — or so critics of research like Kahneman and Tversky’s contend.

Kahneman never grapples philosophically with the nature of rationality. He does, however, supply a fascinating account of what might be taken to be its goal: happiness. What does it mean to be happy? When Kahneman first took up this question, in the mid 1990s, most happiness research relied on asking people how satisfied they were with their life on the whole. But such retrospective assessments depend on memory, which is notoriously unreliable. What if, instead, a person’s actual experience of pleasure or pain could be sampled from moment to moment, and then summed up over time? Kahneman calls this “experienced” well-being, as opposed to the “remembered” well-being that researchers had relied upon. And he found that these two measures of happiness diverge in surprising ways. What makes the “experiencing self” happy is not the same as what makes the “remembering self” happy. In particular, the remembering self does not care about duration — how long a pleasant or unpleasant experience lasts. Rather, it retrospectively rates an experience by the peak level of pain or pleasure in the course of the experience, and by the way the experience ends.

These two quirks of remembered happiness — “duration neglect” and the “peak-end rule” — were strikingly illustrated in one of Kahneman’s more harrowing experiments. Two groups of patients were to undergo painful colonoscopies. The patients in Group A got the normal procedure. So did the patients in Group B, except — without their being told — a few extra minutes of mild discomfort were added after the end of the examination. Which group suffered more? Well, Group B endured all the pain that Group A did, and then some. But since the prolonging of Group B’s colonoscopies meant that the procedure ended less painfully, the patients in this group retrospectively minded it less. (In an earlier research paper though not in this book, Kahneman suggested that the extra discomfort Group B was subjected to in the experiment might be ethically justified if it increased their willingness to come back for a follow-up!)

As with colonoscopies, so too with life. It is the remembering self that calls the shots, not the experiencing self. Kahneman cites research showing, for example, that a college student’s decision whether or not to repeat a spring-break vacation is determined by the peak-end rule applied to the previous vacation, not by how fun (or miserable) it actually was moment by moment. The remembering self exercises a sort of “tyranny” over the voiceless experiencing self. “Odd as it may seem,” Kahneman writes, “I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.”

Kahneman’s conclusion, radical as it sounds, may not go far enough. There may be no experiencing self at all. Brain-scanning experiments by Rafael Malach and his colleagues at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, for instance, have shown that when subjects are absorbed in an experience, like watching the “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” the parts of the brain associated with self-consciousness are not merely quiet, they’re actually shut down (“inhibited”) by the rest of the brain. The self seems simply to disappear. Then who exactly is enjoying the film? And why should such egoless pleasures enter into the decision calculus of the remembering self?

Clearly, much remains to be done in hedonic psychology. But Kahneman’s conceptual innovations have laid the foundation for many of the empirical findings he reports in this book: that while French mothers spend less time with their children than American mothers, they enjoy it more; that headaches are hedonically harder on the poor; that women who live alone seem to enjoy the same level of well-being as women who live with a mate; and that a household income of about $75,000 in high-cost areas of the country is sufficient to maximize happiness. Policy makers interested in lowering the misery index of society will find much to ponder here.

By the time I got to the end of “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” my skeptical frown had long since given way to a grin of intellectual satisfaction. Appraising the book by the peak-end rule, I overconfidently urge everyone to buy and read it. But for those who are merely interested in Kahneman’s takeaway on the Malcolm Gladwell question it is this: If you’ve had 10,000 hours of training in a predictable, rapid-feedback environment — chess, firefighting, anesthesiology — then blink. In all other cases, think.

By Daniel Kahneman

499 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $30

Correction: December 18, 2011

A review on Nov. 27 about “Thinking, Fast and Slow” erroneously attributed a distinction to the book’s author, Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel in economic science in 2002. His being a psychologist was indeed unusual but did not make his award “unique in the history of the prize.” Another psychologist, Herbert A. Simon, won the award in 1978. (Simon, a polymath and interdisciplinarian, was also an economist, a political scientist and a sociologist.)

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On October 21, just a few days away, the first brief will be filed with the appellate court in the Sleepy Lagoon case - as a result of which 17 Mexican-American boys were convicted and are now serving sentences as high as life imprisonment.

It would be appropriate at this time to review the case, to consider again the kind of trial that was had. And when you have finished — ask yourself, Would you be satisfied with such a trial? Could you feel that justice had been done you under the same circumstances?

The trial itself was preceded by mass arrests of Mexican-American youngsters — mass arrests reminiscent of Nazi methods. It was enough to the police in those first few days of August 1942 that a boy or girl was of Mexican descent. Knowledge of or connection with the alleged murder of Jose Diaz was not a prerequisite to arrest.

Brutal third degree methods were used to take statements - some of them from 12- and 13-year-old girls. There were beatings and threats... until the police got the kind of statements they wanted.

The racist, anti-Mexican tone for the conduct of the Sleepy Lagoon trial was

set with the report of Edward Duran-Ayres to the Grand Jury after the indictment. This vicious, Hitler-like document states that the only basis to work from is the "biological basis", that Mexicans have a total disregard for the value of human life and compares Mexicans with bloodthirsty wildcats. That was the kind of "evidence" upon which the boys were tried and convicted.

The jury which was selected had not one person on it who was a Mexican or was of Mexican descent.

Presiding was Judge Charles W. Fricke. His anti-Mexican feeling was very clearly demonstrated in a case several years ago in which he convicted and sentenced five Mexican boys to 250 years in prison each on charges of rape. The first court to which an appeal was taken not only reversed Judge Fricke's decision, but made pointed comment on his obvious prejudice. Throughout the Sleepy Lagoon trial Judge Fricke made comment of a deprecatory nature which could have no bearing upon the guilt or innocence or the defendants, but which must have served to influence the jury to feel that the boys on trial were not even worthy of a dignified hearing in court. Not only did he make slurring remarks about the defendants, but his comments about the defense attorneys were also extremely caustic. Most important, however, from a legal point of view, is the fact that over one hundred times during the course of the trial Judge

ruled on legal technicalities in one way for the prosecution and in precisely the same legal point he would rule differently for the defense.

Though they were being tried on a most serious charge, the effect of which might affect the rest of their lives, the defendants were never allowed to sit with their own counsel during the trial. The excuse given that there was not enough room in the court. The prosecution, on the other hand, conferred constantly with its witnesses.

In order to make the boys appear as disreputable as possible, Deputy District Attorney Shoemaker gave orders to the Jailer that they were not to be given haircuts or allowed change of clothing. It was two months after their arrest, one month after the trial began, that this order was rescinded - and then only after a delegation headed by defense attorney Shibley called upon the Jailer.

In his plea to the jury, the District Attorney said that there was a "smidgen of truth" in the statement of a police officer that all Mexicans are cowards and Mexicans don't fight fair.

The entire proceedings in the Sleepy Lagoon case were a vile slander of the Mexican people. At any time this would be revolting to all democratic-minded people. Today, when Mexico and the United states are allied in a war

against that very sort of ideology, it is not only dangerous, it is treason!

From a legal aspect there is ample basis for a reversal of the convictions which were obtained in such an obnoxious manner. After careful study of the 6032-page record, Mr. Ben Margolis, the attorney who is handling the appeal, has stated that nowhere in the testimony is there evidence that any of the 17 is guilty of murder.

The Mexican people cannot disassociate themselves from the Sleepy Lagoon case, for with the conviction of 17 Mexican-American boys on a purely anti-Mexican basis the right of any Mexican or Mexican-American to a fair hearing in court is in jeopardy.

Manuel Reyes, serving a sentence of from 5 years to life imprisonment wrote from San Quentin: "..glad to know they are letting people know that there is prejudice against the Mexicans, and how the police treated us when we were arrested. We were treated like if we were German spies or Japs. They didn't figure we are Americans just like everybody else that is born in this country."

The support of the Mexican Colony for the appeal of the Sleepy Lagoon case will be a demonstration that they, along with other right-minded people of this nation, will not tolerate the racist nonsense of Duran-Ayres, will not tolerate that a minority should be subjected to such an indecent trial, that they speak out against discrimination. Support of the Sleepy Lagoon case will mean a demand that the blot upon the Mexican Community be removed!

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My name is Evan Richardson (Oak Park and River Forest High School Class of 2010). My stepfather, David Stevens, coached basketball at OPRF from 1983-2010. He has been suffering from cancer (chondrosarcoma and desmoid tumors) for over 20 years. The cost of chemotherapy, radiation, experimental treatment, pain management and insurance bills have left our family in financial ruin.

I have decided to set up a GoFundMe account on his behalf and was wondering what information I would need to submit to spread the word throughout the Oak Park-River Forest area. The website is www.gofundme.com/coachstevensmedicalfund with a goal of raising $5,000 or more. I set up the account on Aug. 17 and have already raised a little over $1,000.

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For Santa Rosa Symphony:

… the orchestra hired Jesse Barrett of San Francisco to fill an oboe/English horn vacancy. Barrett resides in San Francisco and plays with the Merced Symphony, the Reno Chamber Orchestra and Symphony Napa Valley.

Minnesota Orchestra:

Joseph Peters (BM, 2009, oboe, student of John Snow) was recently named principal oboist of the Minnesota Orchestra. He is currently principal oboist of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.

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All-Star Game Notebook

HOUSTON The first half of the season has been pretty drama-free for the Clippers, but the looming NBA trade deadline could cause issues for the team as it prepares to challenge for the NBA title.

Saturday morning, a report from Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski and Marc Spears said the Clippers and Boston Celtics were discussing a deal to send Eric Bledsoe and DeAndre Jordan to Boston for Kevin Garnett. It's the second time this season a report has linked the Clippers to the 36-year old veteran.

During a media session Saturday morning, Garnett said he would not waive his no-trade clause.

“If it's up to me,” Garnett said, “I will live and die green all day.”

Chris Paul and Blake Griffin spoke highly of Garnett without saying the team should or shouldn't trade for him.

“The way he competes as a player, he's very, very serious as a competitor. His level of professionalism is off the charts,” Griffin said. “I've heard that every game he's an intense guy to be around, and that's tough to do. To play as many games as he's played, to still have that level of intensity every single game is tough to do.

“That's something I really admire.”

Griffin said any trade would change team chemistry, something Clippers players and coaches have touted all season.

With the trade deadline at noon Thursday, the Clippers know they'll hear names mentioned in plenty of rumors.

“You can't keep it from getting in (to the locker room). Guys find out on their own; you hear stuff about yourself. It's just one of those things where it's a level of professionalism guys have,” Griffin said. “You understand that it's a business, and you still have to go out and play. You don't want to put your teammates in a bad position because you're mentally not there.”

Paul said he thinks the Clippers locker room is capable of handling trade rumors.

“I think our locker room is mature enough to understand that comes with it,” Paul said.

“We don't have any rookies on our team. Guys understand the business of this league and how it goes. I don't think it'll affect anybody.”

Griffin said he thinks the Clippers already are in a position to win a championship.

“I think we need to be better,” he said. “But I think talent-wise, we have the talent to be a championship contender.”

Bledsoe falls short

Bledsoe had the tricks, but he couldn't quite pull it off.

Bledsoe missed a between-the-legs, 360-degree dunk for his first attempt, eventually scoring a 37 after tapping the ball off the backboard before making a reverse dunk in the Slam Dunk Contest.

Bledsoe knew the misses cost him.

“I've made that dunk plenty of times,” Bledsoe said. “I just tried to dunk it too hard.”

Bledsoe's second dunk, though, got the crowd into it. Bledsoe tossed the ball, caught it and spun 180 degrees while making a two-handed windmill slam.

The second dunk scored a perfect 50.

“This is my first dunk contest,” Bledsoe said. “To get a 50 in it is a great feeling.”

“Hopefully, if that time presented itself, I'd think about it,” he said. “This has been a great experience for me, just being here this weekend.”

Toronto's Terrence Ross won the contest, beating Utah's Jeremy Evans, the defending champion.

As part of a new conference-vs.-conference format, Paul captained the Western Conference to a victory over Dwyane Wade and the East in the Skills Challenge. The West compiled 140 points throughout all events. The East scored 125. …

Second-year Cleveland guard Kyrie Irving defeated San Antonio forward Matt Bonner in the final of the Three-Point Contest. …

Miami forward Chris Bosh led a team to a victory in the Shooting Stars Challenge to start the night. …

Commissioner David Stern said he didn't meet with Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson during All-Star Weekend to discuss the Kings' plans on moving to Seattle. Stern said the Kings still had a chance of staying in Sacramento, but he “doesn't have a vote.” ...

Stern also said he expects HGH testing to be in place by the start of the 2013-14 season. …

Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver, who takes over for Stern next year, said he expects the 2015 All-Star Game to be played in New York or Brooklyn.

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TBN special to celebrate the life of Crouch

Trinity Broadcasting Network will air a recorded television special in one week to celebrate the life of its founder and president, Paul Crouch, according to an announcement on the network's Facebook page.

The television special will air at 7 and 11 p.m. Sunday and 2 p.m. Dec. 9 on all TBN outlets.

Crouch's death, following a decade-long fight with degenerative heart disease, was announced by the network Saturday. He was 79 years old.

There will be no public memorial service “following Dr. Crouch's personal wishes,” according to the Facebook post.

Crouch started Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world's largest Christian network, with his wife, Jan, in Costa Mesa in 1973, the TBN website says.

TBN offers 24 hours of commercial-free programming meant to appeal to Protestant, Catholic and Messianic Jewish denominations, according to its website.

Crouch and his wife hosted the network's lead program, “Praise the Lord,” for several years. The two-hour segments aired live.

The network's headquarters in Costa Mesa – a 65,000-square-foot building opened in 1998 with a studio, bookstore and theater, and an executive suite for Crouch – is iconic for its bright lights that illuminate I-405 at night.

A video tribute to Crouch was posted on the network's website Saturday.

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SACRAMENTO Attorneys for the California High-Speed Rail Authority argued Friday that Central Valley residents who sued the state over its bullet train plan have no grounds to stop the project, despite a judge's ruling that the state violated the promises made to voters in a 2008 ballot proposition.

Instead, it would be up to the state Legislature to step in if lawmakers believed the $68 billion funding plan does not comply with Proposition 1A, which authorized $10 billion in high-speed rail bonds, Deputy Attorney General Michele Inan said.

“The taxpayers are represented through the legislative process,” Inan told Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny.

Kenny ruled in August that the rail authority “abused its discretion by approving a funding plan that did not comply with the requirements of the law.” He further said it had failed to identify “sources of funds that were more than merely theoretically possible.”

Still, Inan argued that since the Legislature approved spending the money to get started, only the Legislature can undo it or ask for an updated funding plan.

The 2008 proposition required the rail authority to specify the source of the funding for the first operable segment of the rail line and have all the necessary environmental clearances in place. Kenny said earlier that the agency did not comply with either of those mandates, but Prop. 1A appears to leave it up to lawmakers to decide if the plan warrants funding.

Friday's hearing was held for the judge to consider what penalty, if any, to impose for the authority's failure to comply with the ballot initiative in its initial funding plan. The authority argues that the judge's ruling was based on an old funding plan that has since been revised.

Attorneys for affected landowners who are suing the state have asked Kenny to rescind construction contracts, including a $1 billion deal signed this fall, or prevent the state from spending any more bond money.

Inan said the state is not spending any bond money now, relying instead on about $3.2 billion in federal money.

But those are matching funds that will require the state to spend an equal amount eventually, said attorney Stuart Flashman, representing the plaintiffs.

“Where is the money?” he asked. “If they're not using the bond funds, what other funds are they using? What other funds are they promising the feds they are using? There aren't any.”

Lead plaintiff John Tos, a Hanford farmer, said plans have changed so many times that voters should have another chance to review it.

“Now that it's beyond conceptual, now we know the facts, where it's going to go, what it's going to cost, the destruction that it's going to do ... we need to let the voters vote on this again,” he said.

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Four-star athlete Jaason Lewis commits

Four-star athlete Jaason Lewis committed to UCLA this morning, becoming the third commitment in UCLA's already-budding 2015 recruiting class.

At 6-foot-2, 233 pounds, Lewis' size makes him one of the more versatile players on UCLA's radar for 2015. Lewis is capable of playing both wide receiver and running back and also played safety and linebacker as a Virginia high school standout. If he sticks with his UCLA commitment, expect him to play running back in the Bruins' system.

As the 19th-rated athlete in the nation, according to, Lewis joins 2015 No. 1 tight end Alize Jones and three-star linebacker Victor Alexander as the first three members of UCLA's next class.

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Baylor Bears vs Gonzaga Bulldogs Odds

No. 13 Gonzaga will get back in action following their holiday break on Friday night as they play host to the Baylor Bears in a college hoops betting matchup at the McCarthey Athletic Center.

The Bulldogs and Bears last met back in December 2010, when Gonzaga pulled out a 68-64 road win as a 7.5-point underdog at the sportsbooks. Their previous meeting was in November 2006, when Gonzaga won but didn't cover in a 78-69 home victory.

Supporters of the Bears have watched them go 8-3 and 3-4 ATS on the year, while the Bulldogs are at 11-1 and 6-4 ATS. In totals betting, the Bulldogs are 4-4, while the Bears have a 3-3 mark.

View Baylor vs Gonzaga Odds and Stats.

Betting Line:
Gonzaga opened as 9-point favorites in this college basketball tilt over at 5Dimes but the number may be on the move. Watch for the opening total as well at BetOnline.

Power Rankings / Prediction:
This game matches up the No. 28 (Bulldogs) and the No. 58 (Bears) teams in the league, according to our current NCAAB power rank. A 92-82 result in favor of the Bulldogs has been projected by the scores prediction engine.

How They Match Up:
When it comes to rebounds, the visiting Bears rank No. 99 in NCAA Division 1 with 37.2 per game. That compares with Gonzaga’s No. 47 ranking in that category. The story is different when it comes to three-point shooting where Gonzaga is college basketball's No. 185-ranked team at 6.1 per game, while the Bears rate No. 111 with 6.7 per game.

Defensively, Baylor features the nation's No. 81-rated defense on the road, allowing 64.5 points per game. Gonzaga, meanwhile, comes in at No. 40 nationally in scoring at home.

Last time out for Baylor, they were a 79-64 winner as they battled BYU at home. They covered in the match as a 7-point favorite. The Bears got 16 points from Pierre Jackson as Baylor ran past BYU 79-64 on Friday at Ferrell Center.

Gonzaga was a 74-52 winner in their most recent outing at home against Campbell. Gonzaga cruised to victory on Wednesday, running Campbell out of the gym and running up a 74-52 score at McCarthey Athletic Center.

Baylor Bears Trends:
When playing on Friday are 5-5
Before playing Texas are 6-4
After playing BYU are 1-0
After a win are 6-4

Gonzaga Bulldogs Trends:
When playing on Friday are 10-0
Before playing Oklahoma State are 4-0
After a win are 9-1

A few Bears at Bulldogs trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Baylor's last 7 games on the road
Baylor is 13-5 SU in its last 18 games on the road
Baylor is 3-7 ATS in its last 10 games on the road
Gonzaga is 24-1 SU in its last 25 games at home
Gonzaga is 11-1 SU in its last 12 games

Next up:
Baylor home to Texas, Saturday, January 5
Gonzaga at Oklahoma State, Monday, December 31


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Monarchs Tie VCU In Men's Soccer, 2-2

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Release: October 20, 2001
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NORFOLK, VA-The Old Dominion men's soccer team and Virginia Commonwealth battled to a 2-2 draw this evening. The Monarchs are now 7-4-1, 2-0-1 CAA. VCU's record is now 6-5-2, 1-0-1 CAA.

Both sides drew blood early in the game, as ODU's Chad Denton (Va. Beach, VA) found the back of the Ram net off passes from Michael Tooley (Richmond, VA) and Attila Vendegh (Bratislava, Slovakia) for a one goal lead at the 3:26 mark.

The Rams found the equalizer just one minute later, however, as forward Matthew Delicate headed in a long cross from teammate Roman Otten to tie the game 1-1.

The Rams struck again just moments after intermission, when Randy Ugarte maneuvered to the top of the box and sent in a shot high to the far post, beating Monarch goalie Chad Calderone (Rockville Centre, NY).

Trailing 2-1, the Monarchs finally regained their tempo in the final 25 minutes of play and tied the game with a Vendegh goal at 83:57. With his back to VCU goalie Steve Ankiel, Vendegh flicked the ball backwards over the keeper and outraced him to the loose ball, putting in his 14th goal of the year.

Old Dominion controlled play throughout much of the overtime sessions, but couldn't find a game-winner. VCU had two chances to score in the waning moments with a breakaway and a short-range direct kick, but Calderone proved cool under pressure and preserved the tie.

ODU held a 15-13 edge in shots and a 9-8 advantage in corners. Both goalies finished with eight saves.

The Monarchs will return to action on Wednesday, when they travel to Chapel Hill to take on the Tar Heels.

VCU 1-1-0-0=2
ODU 1-1-0-0=2

Scoring Summary
3:26 Chad Denton (ODU) from Michael Tooley and Attila Vendegh
4:52 Matthew Delicate (VCU) from Roman Otten
48:36 Randy Ugarte (VCU)
83:57 Attila Vendegh (ODU)

Shots: VCU-13, ODU-15

Corners: VCU-8, ODU-9

Saves: VCU-8 (Ankiel), ODU-8 (Calderone)

Fouls: VCU-22, ODU-17

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Attempt to become the most feared gunslinger in the land by defeating all those who stand in your way. GunBlood pits your reflexes against nine computer opponents in one-on-one gun fights and includes four bonus rounds. High scores are tabulated according to accuracy, speed, and your life remaining after each round.

At the start of each level, the player and computer opponent each start with 6 shots. If both players are alive and no shots are remaining, the match will end in a draw to be re-played.

During each of the four bonus rounds, the goal is to hit the target objects and NOT the assistant. There is a different bonus round after every two rounds of gun battles.

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1) Select 'Start Game' and choose a character from the character select screen.

2) Begin the round by placing your cursor over your gun barrel located at the lower left-hand corner of the game screen.

3) The cursor must remain over the barrel during the countdown or the game will become paused.

4) When the countdown reaches 'FIRE', aim with the mouse and shoot by clicking the mouse button.

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Thursday, September 22, 2011

WRTV Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Keeping Georgia Street Name

WRTV has an online poll on whether to change the Georgia Street name.  The results thus far:

Yes    42 votes,  4%
Maybe (depends on the name)  111 votes, 11%
No   844 votes, 85%

While such an on-line poll is not scientific, I do think it measures the depth and intensity of the opposition to the street name change.  I appreciate the fact that they fixed it so a person can't vote more than once from a single computer.  (Unless you clear the cookies, of course.)

I'm sure though the Mayor Ballard will do what he is told to do by Indianapolis Downtown, Inc. and other insiders, so I expect his position supporting the name change won't be affected by the overwhelming public opposition to the idea.

In a previous blog article discussing the resolution sponsored by Councilor Angela Mansfield against the name change, I failed to mention that Libertarian Councilor Ed Coleman is a co-sponsor.  Thank you Angela and Ed for sticking up for common sense.

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