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The Rise of Nick Ekonomopoulos
*This article appears in the July, 2015 issue of Billiards Digest magazine in the USA.
Written by Ted Lerner
Billiards Digest Feature Writer
Photos by JP Parmentier
He's the gallant Greek with the attention-grabbing six syllable last name. On the pool table, his confident swagger and aggressive style, combined with an eye-popping power stroke and fearless attitude intimidates opponents, and has fans turning heads to watch. Off the table, his low key but pleasant personality has been winning friends around the globe. Greece's Nicos "Nick" Ekonomopoulos has only been on the international pool circuit for three years now, and while he has yet to win a major individual title, outside of a few Euro Tour wins, in his short time in the spotlight, he has more than proved his mettle, including two spectacular performances for the winning Team Europe in the Mosconi Cup in 2012 and 2014. Just prior to the 2014 Mosconi, Ekonomopoulos also grabbed third place in the 2014 US Open and second place in the 2014 World Pool Masters. The 33-year-old clearly has all the tools for big time success and his quickly rising game and profile are drawing the attention of the best in pool.
"He's a crowd pleaser because of the way he plays the game," said fellow Mosconi teammate and good friend Darren Appleton. "The fans really like Nikos. And he gives it 110 percent when he plays. He's a very bulldog type of player, very gritty, very fierce on the table. He looks like he wants to kill somebody when he's playing, but in a nice way. The last couple of years he's definitely one of the top five or six players in Europe. And definitely a top 16 player in the world right now."
"His strong points are really strong, and he has huge potential," said seven time winning Mosconi Cup captain Johan Ruijsink. "He's also a very nice guy that loves life and is intense in almost everything he does."
With his sudden appearance on the big time pool scene, it would be easy to suggest that Ekonomopoulos came out of nowhere. This is only somewhat true. Until he made his international debut at the 2012 World 9-ball Championship in Qatar, Ekonomopoulos was actually very much a part of the pool scene, albeit in a very Greek sort of way.
The Greek's journey to the upper echelons of the pool world technically starts in his native Athens where, as a young athletic teenager in the 1990's, he became enamored with the sport of pool and couldn't stop playing. But his real journey to pool's elite really began many years later with a worldwide financial crisis that engulfed his native land, caused massive hardship, and forced the young man into facing up to some daunting adversity.
Ekonomopoulos was born into a middle class Greek family in Athens, the elder of two kids. His parents separated when he was just four years old. He and his younger sister lived with their mother, who worked for Olympic Airlines. His father ran a contracting company and continued to help provide for the family.
Late to international competition, Ekonomopoulos has quickly risen through the European ranks.
Athletically inclined, Ekonomopoulos excelled in soccer, tennis and even dabbled in kickboxing for several years. He was also attracted to pool. Three-cushion was the most popular game in Greece, but pool was fast gaining in popularity. But kids were not allowed inside pool halls. When Ekonomopoulos was 15, pool became an official sport recognized by the government. It didn't take long before the teenager became hooked.
"There were many pool halls in my area, and we used to go there with friends just to have fun," Ekonomopoulos said. "Nothing special, just for fun. I played a few times, and I liked it. I tried to play better and better. The place I went to was a pool club, and they had a team. And the owner saw that I play good, and he made me a member there so then I could practice for free. So I started to play more and more and more. I really liked the game, and I saw that I was becoming better. After one month, I want to play every day. I didn't want to go to school. I want to finish school and just play pool. At first my parents didn't like it. But I didn't ask them. I just go every day." He watched VHS videos and became fascinated with the likes of Filipino great Francisco Bustamante, who was plying his trade in Germany at the time. He also liked Efren Reyes and Earl Strickland.
"They were like legends to us. Bustamante hits the ball very well. His style was fantastic."
He soon started winning amateur 8-ball tournaments and in one year became Greek Junior champion. He continued to immerse himself in the game, started playing 9-ball. He noticed massive improvements and started racking up Greek national championships in 8-ball, 9-ball and straight pool. In 2000 and 2001 he traveled to Cardiff, Wales, to try and qualify for Matchroom's World Pool Championship. He failed both times, chalking it up to a lack of self-belief.
"There were some Greek players before me who went to the European championships, and they didn't do so well," Ekonomopoulos said. "They lose against Souquet, Ortmann every time. And I thought it was very tough to beat them, that they were God, because they said we have no chance to beat them. So, when I start to play in the qualifiers, I have in my mind that I had no chance.
"Both times, however, he stayed on to watch every match, his first time to see the greats of the game all in one place. The experience spurred him on to want a life in pool. But the wider pool world would have to wait more than 10 years to see the Greek's many talents in action.
In 2004 he bought a pool hall in Athens and business boomed. He continued to practice and play religiously, mostly in Greece, and he went on to win more than 15 Greek national championships in the various disciplines. But the good life at home kept him from thinking beyond his own world. Times were good in Greece, money flowed, and people lived as only the Greeks could live: to the hilt.
"I have the pool hall and in Greece, before the crisis, everyone thinks we are rich and we have party every day," Ekonomopoulus said. "This is the way life was before the crisis. I say to myself, 'You know, the Euro Tour is only $4000 prize money. I don't want to go.' Maybe, also, I didn't believe so much in myself. I didn't like to travel that much. We had a good life in Greece. We were drinking every day. We were gambling. When I was in another country for three or four days, I was bored there." But the good times for Nick, his family and friends, and millions of his countrymen would eventually come to a brutally sudden halt. In 2008 and 2009 the worldwide financial crisis swept from America to Europe. Greece was particularly hard hit, and overnight Greeks and their government went from living the high life to being broke and massively in debt. Millions were thrown out of work. The party was, indeed, over.
Ekonomopoulos could have hit the streets, like many of his countrymen, to protest and complain that the good life had been stolen by corrupt leaders. Instead, he slowly faced up to the reality that no amount of complaining would bring back the good times. It was time to be a man, to grab the proverbial bull by the horns, to seize opportunity where others only saw gloom and doom. "When the crisis came, things got boring," Ekonomopoulos said. "I didn't like the pool hall business anymore, because I was there 15 hours a day. Nobody had money to play, and we were losing money. After more than a year of this, I decided I wanted to do something different in my life. And everybody tell me, 'Why you don't go [play in big tournaments]? You play better than them.' So I decided that I will go for two years. If I can do something, then I will continue. If I don't do anything in two years, then maybe I can't do it. So I want to try it out."
He ventured out in 2011, at 29 years old, traveling around the continent and entering all the Euro Tour events, finishing in the top 20 several times and even placing third in one event. 2012 would be his breakout year. After top-10 finishes in Hungary and Italy, Ekonomopoulos won the Austrian Open.
"I beat many good players, Appleton, [Marcus] Chamat, [Chris] Melling, [Bruno] Muratore, [David] Alcaide," he said. "I was so happy. When I won, it was the best moment in my life. I was crazy. And after I won, Darren [Appleton] came to me and told me, 'You have a chance to go to the Mosconi now.' I asked him, 'How is this possible?' And he explained the system to me. And he told me, 'You must come to Qatar to play in the World 9-Ball Championship.' I told him, 'How was this possible, I don't have spot?' So, I decided to go to Qatar to play in the qualifiers.
True to his fearless demeanor, Ekonomopoulos didn't shirk when faced with what are perhaps the toughest qualifiers in pool. He lost a hill-hill final in the first qualifier, then won in his second try. In the 128 player main event, Ekonomopoulos made it to the final 16, where he battled eventual champion Appleton toe to toe for nearly two hours, losing an epic encounter at the wire, 11-8.
His successes led to his first-ever Mosconi Cup selection, and despite the pressure of being a debutante and playing in front of the raucous crowd in London's York Hall, Ekonomopoulos performed marvelously, winning three of his five matches. In one key early match with Europe trailing, Ekonomopoulos came from behind to beat Shane Van Boening. When asked if he was at all intimidated by the surreal atmosphere in London, Ekonomopoulos offered an answer that spoke of an innate bravado.
"I like the atmosphere so much," he said. "Of course I feel the pressure, but I like it so much that I enjoy playing every shot. I'm afraid to be in the corner alone, because I'm a lazy kind of character. If you put me on a table in the corner where nobody is watching, I can't concentrate so well. I concentrate on the TV table more."
Convinced he was on the right path, Ekonomopoulos finally closed the last chapter of his old life, shutting his Athens pool hall in early 2014. It was move that lifted a tremendous burden off his shoulders. "I'm happy it's closed, because now I don't have stress. So it's one more reason I play better now."
Indeed, 2014 proved to be the Greek's best year yet. After his remarkable runs in the U.S. Open (finishing third) and the World Pool Masters (losing to Van Boening in the final), Ekonomopoulos again made the Mosconi Cup squad. He proved to be Europe's rock, winning four out of five matches, and even taking down Van Boeing in the very last match to secure the Cup. Team captain Ruijsink could only sing the Greek's praises. "In 2012, Nikos was just a rookie, and he showed his potential," Ruijsink said. "He had to learn the specific Mosconi Cup tricks, and he showed his 2012 experience in 2014. He improved heavily on the break and showed great focus. I probably rate his table focus in the category of Darren. On top that, he is a great player to practice with. He hammers the difficult balls and shows no fear, which is hugely important. He lifts everyone up and shows that no situation is lost as long as you are at the table. There's no time to relax when you are playing him."
Appleton, who can be credited with encouraging Ekonomopoulos to test the professional waters, pointed out that the Greek's character as a person is one of the things that makes him so special as a player and a friend.
"He's a good team player, very quiet," the Englishman said. "But he's only very quiet when you don't really know him. If you get to know him, he's a bubbly character. He likes to drink, he's a laid back guy. But he'll watch your back. He's one of those guys. He's knocking on the door with a lot of [high finishes], but hasn't won that big title yet. But if he keeps doing what he's doing, it's just a matter of time."
With his new life fully in gear, Ekonomopoulos plans to stay busy, focusing solely on playing pool the world over. His only regret is that he didn't realize his potential earlier.
"It was a big mistake that only in the last three years did I play internationally," he said, "Looking back, I feel stupid about that." But Ekonomopoulos also takes plenty of satisfaction from knowing he had the fearless foresight and the positive attitude to identify and seize a life-changing opportunity while surrounded by so much misery. The result has left him with a quiet confidence that will undoubtedly see the dashing Greek see plenty more successes in pool in the coming years. "For many Greek people, the crisis is actually a good thing," Ekonomopoulos said. "Because now they think more. Before we didn't think. If I needed money, we played $5,000 per game, then the next game we played for $10,000. Now you can't find $100. So you respect the money, you respect the life, and you try more.
"Now I'm happy about my life. I feel very good about the last three years, because I don't have the experience of the other players. I haven't won a big tournament, but I always finish last 16, last eight, last four, last two. I try to believe that one day I will win a big one. Maybe it will never come. But I will try every tournament, every moment. I believe that I can do it."


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Listen for them. Thank them.
People speak of who influenced their lives and so I pondered for myself. and for me it was odd, because it hasn't been people, but I can name scads of books that have made a difference to me. Those of the last century, many older than that, and some of them downright ancient.
Of course, the New Testament marks all Christians. Not so much the Old Testament for they were tales told round the evening fire, and kept alive until the written word came into being. All of the Middle East told and revered The Creation and Ten Commandments, long before Moses went to the mountain for us.
Then, for me, there was Pearl Buck. Oh, that wise woman. Her books were based mostly in China, for her parents were life-time Missionaries there. Buck's characters, however, met and coped with circumstances much the same as all people do, and they marked and taught me. No Therapist could have been better or wiser. At least for me.
Also high on my list was Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Her tales of Florida and its people before Big Money found and bought it, are heart-breakers. The situations in the Scrub Oak are the same as in Murray, Utah, or any other place. People are people where ever found.
I read "Lives of a Bengal Lancer", during an early spiritually critical time of my life. Matching what was happening to me, with the wisdom Francis Yeats Brown found in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in India was a wonder to me. It was a Library Book, so not mine to keep. But much of its wisdom stayed with me, and a month ago I recalled the part it had played in my thinking, bought a copy, and knew again how it had helped me through difficult times. Oh, the wisdom of the printed page. And I mean a well-chosen printed page.
Socrates never wrote a book, but his students did and so his words come to us. Not a bad teacher, either, for Plato was one of his students. 'Google' his name on your computor and read a few of his words. Bless him.
The Murray Library was my teacher, and I still recall the wonderful freedom to prowl and take what books I wanted. I read much that I didn't understand, but years later when I was older and wiser, (wiser?) I remembered what I'd read and remembering, could say, "Oh, now I know what that long ago book meant".
Marvelous. Unseen Helpers give us aid long before we know they even exist. When I began writing seriously, first for the Murray Eagle and Green Sheets, I found that my long years of reading had taught me how to put words together, choosing how to make them flow and tell my thoughts. Reading is the best teacher (influence) there is.
My Dad had no school training beyond elementery classes in Sweden, but he was reading a huge book on the History of China when he died. I wish I'd been smart enough to talk to Dad, but due to his late-in-life marriage, and as I was one of the last children, he was like a grandfather to me, I didn't know we had the same kind of mind until he was gone. What a waste for both of us. I wonder if he ever prowled the books I brought home? He never commented, if he did.
What and who influenced your life? Send a silent Thank You to them, even though they're probably in The Next Room by now, but just maybe they can feel our Thanks and smile back at us. Hope so.

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Here's what we believe to be a real voicemail message from a Floridian phonebanker for Obama. Dude sounds totally wasterrrrrrred.
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A LTHOUGH MTV years ago abandoned music videos for reality shows, its annual Video Music Awards remains a barometer of mainstream pop. This year, Beyoncé leads the field with eight nominations, followed by Eminem and Iggy Azalea with seven each. The show, now in its 30th year, will be broadcast from the Forum in Inglewood, Calif., on Sunday at 9 p.m. and will feature performances by Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Maroon 5. Spontaneous moments in the show have often upstaged the videos. Remember Kanye West interrupting Ms. Swift in 2009 or Miley Cyrus gyrating on Robin Thicke last year? But the five nominees for video of the year (four feature women) each have moments that subtly reveal the musicians' larger artistic identities.
IGGY AZALEA (FEATURING CHARLI XCX) "Fancy"
This clip for the breakthrough single by this Australian rapper recreates several scenes from the 1995 teen comedy "Clueless," including one in which Ms. Azalea wears a red party dress like that made famous by the movie's heroine, Cher Horowitz. She recreates the scene without parody or fresh insight, a fitting visual for an artist who has been roundly criticized for appropriating American rap culture without meaningfully contributing to it. As a side note, the scene in the movie featured the song "Rollin' With My Homies," by Coolio.
MILEY CYRUS "Wrecking Ball"
The moment in the video when Ms. Cyrus first writhed naked atop a wrecking ball was a proclamation of unapologetic glee in her bawdy, new pop persona. The same day she released the single, she danced a provocative duet with Mr. Thicke at the 2013 music awards, a performance that left many viewers wincing.
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"Happy" follows Mr. Williams as he and friends shimmy around Los Angeles; at one point, he struts down a red carpet in an empty ballroom, wearing a bow tie and a tan Mountie hat — a preview of the headgear that he later wore at the Academy Awards. That hat began a thousand memes and reintroduced him as a benevolent, playful figure of modern R&B-pop.
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- Kenyan sensation David Rudisha has won his heat at 800 metres at the Rio Olympics
- Two other Kenyans Alfred Kipketer and Ferguson Rotich also won their heats and now proceed to the semi-final
Kenyans finally announced their arrival at the Rio Olympics after three athletes qualified for the semi-finals scheduled for Saturday, August 13.
Current Olympic and world 800-metre champion David Rudisha won heat 3 beating the likes of Reinhardt van Rensburg from South Africa and Micheal Rimmer.
READ ALSO: EXPOSED: Hidden cameras capture inside Kenya athletes' training camp in Iten… drugs, drugs (video)
Other Kenyans who have qualified from their heat from the 800 metres race held on Friday, August 12 are:Alfred Kipketer and Ferguson Rotich
Ferguson Rotich finished second in heat 2 behind Adam Kszczot of Poland.
Alfred Kipketer won heat 4 beating Andreas Bube of Denmark and Yassine Hathat of Algeria.
READ ALSO: Kenyan boxer shocks the world at Rio Olympics in Brazil
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Absolutely thrilled to have my photography, AND my home featured in the latest Utah Style and Design magazine. Thanks to the fabulous crew at USD for featuring my home. And especially thank you to the editor, Brad Mee for writing such a fabulous article about me and my humble little home!!
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Helping Hands That Really Help
When I was a kid, my mom had a radical hysterectomy. Still not an easy operation today, back in the days before laparoscopy, this surgery required a large incision and weeks of healing — tough to do with two little kids running around.
One of the most distinct memories I have of that time is a of neighbor who came to offer help. My mother tried to demur, but our neighbor was insistent. "I have six kids, so don't waste my time arguing," she said. "I only have an hour, so tell me the one thing that is driving you crazy that you can't ask anyone else to do, and I'll do it."
My mother hesitated, but only briefly before she said: "Bathrooms. My husband doesn't have a clue about how to clean a bathroom."
"Done," said our kind friend. And it was. My mom felt good because she was no longer grossed out by our bathrooms. Our neighbor felt good because she had been truly helpful. And I'm sure my dad was thrilled.
I promise not to go all religious on you, but bear with me while I make a point. A few years ago, our rabbi gave a sermon about gemilut hasadim, or acts of loving kinds, considered one of the three pillars of Judaism. She stated that performing an act of loving kindness was obviously a mitzvah — a good deed — but she went on to argue that was also a mitzvah to give someone the opportunity to do an act of loving kindness.
In other words, asking for help, when appropriate, is the right thing to do.
These two lessons have had a profound impact on how I see my role in the world — both as a giver and a receiver of kind acts. In times of crisis, I believe most people want to help. But asking someone in crisis "How can I help?" can almost be another burden, usually resulting in a freezer full of casseroles (not that there's anything wrong with that).
What I have come to believe is that people are more interested in helping if they know that it will really be helpful. Similarly, people in crisis feel their burden is lessened when they receive help that is meaningful in their situation.
Great. Fabulous. So we should help people, but only if we know it will really help. Unfortunately, that can be easier said than done. And in the case of a long-term or chronic need for help, burnout is often a factor even among the most generous of givers. It's difficult to coordinate a large group of volunteers over the long haul when we all lead such busy lives.
Enter my friend, who is in the middle of her own family crisis. An impossibly busy person, she is someone who knows how to get her ducks in a row and she has tackled this crisis with the energy and determination of a seasoned field marshall. In putting her support system into place, another friend recommended a Website called Lotsa Helping Hands. The first line of their site states: "We created Lotsa Helping Hands to answer the question what can I do to help?"
Lotsa Helping Hands is a free, private online organizational tool that allows individuals in crisis (or a support team) to organize and invite members of their own community to provide the help they need when they need it. It's also a great tool to use when organizing community or school-based events, and can be used to support new parents or relieve caregivers. I certainly wish it had been around when my twins spent five months in the hospital and a year on oxygen.
The website is easy to negotiate and it seems like a pretty simple set-up process. This is one of those ideas where I smack my forehead and wonder: "Now why didn't I think of that."
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text: Refractory Iron-deficiency Anemia and Autoimmune Atrophic Gastritis in Pediatric Age Group: Analysis of 8 Clinical CasesMiguel, Natalina MD; Costa, Emília MD; Santalha, Marta Jr MD; Lima, Rosa MD; Vizcaino, José Ramon MD; Pereira, Fernando MD; Barbot, José MDJournal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology: March 2014 - Volume 36 - Issue 2 - p 134–139 doi: 10.1097/MPH.0000000000000069 Original Articles Abstract Author Information Introduction: Refractory iron-deficiency anemia with no obvious etiology in pediatric age can be a puzzling problem. Screening of iron malabsorption conditions, including autoimmune atrophic gastritis (AAG), is emerging as a priority in the investigational procedure. Materials and Methods: Retrospective analysis of clinical process of children/adolescents with the diagnosis of AAG. Results: Eight patients (aged between 4.7 and 18 years old) were identified. The diagnosis was triggered on the basis of high serum gastrin levels and strong positivity of antiparietal cell antibodies. Upper endoscopy and biopsy revealed atrophic gastritis in all patients, with 2 of them with intestinal metaplasia. Four patients presented with Helicobacter pylori infection object of eradication therapy. After a medium follow-up of 36.6 months, antiparietal cell antibodies and hypergastrinemia did not show evidence of regression. Of the 3 patients who underwent endoscopic reevaluation, a similar anatomo-pathologic pattern was observed in 2 and intestinal metaplasia in 1 patient. Normalization of hematological parameters was achieved, using alternative iron formulas. Conclusions: AAG must be recognized as a pathology affecting pediatric patients. Gastric autoimmune lesion is a chronic process with potential evolution to malignancy. Management guidelines in childhood are not available. Their elaboration is important considering an important risk factor in these age group: a long life expectancy. *Department of Pediatrics, Centro Hospitalar Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real Departments of †Hematology §Pediatric Gastroenterology ∥Pathology, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Oporto ‡Department of Pediatrics, Centro Hospitalar do Alto Ave, Guimarães, Portugal The authors declare no conflict of interest. Reprints: Natalina Miguel, MD, Serviço de Pediatria do Centro Hospitalar Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Avenida da Noruega, 5000-514 Vila Real, Portugal (e-mail: email@example.com). Received August 20, 2012 Accepted October 16, 2013 Copyright © 2014 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.


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My paper in the Review of Keynesian Economics is out. It is a special issue on the relevance of the General Theory 80 years after its publication. My paper is about the New Classical Counter Revolution (NCCR). At first this may seem an odd fit, but I think quite the opposite. If we go back 40 years, macroeconomics as it was then practiced could be justifiably described as being a development of that great work. In contrast students today would not see the General Theory as the foundation of macroeconomics. The change in view is the result of the NCCR.
I also think that many heterodox economists, who tend to read this journal, have failed to come to terms with the NCCR. They are critical of course, but often they fail to address the obvious question: why was the NCCR so successful? Revolutions may be plotted by a small number of individuals to whom you can ascribe (fairly or unfairly) ideological motives, but you also need to account for why the revolution succeeds. Do heterodox economists think that generations of PhD students who continue to ignore their arguments are being forced to do so against their will?
My paper is in part an attempt to begin to answer this question. It argues that the success of the NCCR had little to do with external events (stagflation), or with policy, or indeed with the specific innovations the revolution brought. Instead it was about being seduced by a methodology: the methodology of microfounded models. Where I probably depart from most heterodox economists is that I think macroeconomists were right to be attracted to the methodology, which is a progressive research programme, but the problem was the same as with all seductions: to see only the good and not the bad in their new love.
But my paper is not primarily directed at heterodox economists. I make two claims that should worry mainstream economists. The first is that what masters students are taught, which is that pre-NCCR methods are fatally flawed, is simply wrong. Microfoundations simply replaces one set of flaws with others. The mistake of the NCCR was not in developing DSGE models, but in believing that only these models can provide macroeconomic insight. The pre-NCCR methodology was also progressive, and as developments in UK macro in the 1990s showed, the two methodologies could help each other.
My second claim is that the exclusive focus on a microfoundations methodology seriously compromised the ability of the science to understand the Great Recession. Here I am very specific: mainstream macroeconomics ignored a clear property of the time series for aggregate consumption in the UK and US in a way that pre-NCCR methods would not have done. As a direct result, the importance of the financial sector was largely ignored before the global financial crisis. If pre-NCCR methods had not been trashed by mainstream macroeconomics, the discipline would have been in a far better shape to understand what happened during the Great Recession.
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Bill Hixon, who opened Hixon's Surf Shop in Neptune Beach in 1964, just in time for the surfing craze sweeping the East Coast, died early Thursday at a hospice in Wyndmoor,Pa. He was 68.
He lived outside of Philadelphia and had moved to the Northeast shortly after closing his surf shop in 1990, after 26 years in business. But he wasn't forgotten at the Beaches.
In January, after news of his cancer spread, friends of Mr. Hixon gathered in Jacksonville Beach's American Legion Hall to tell stories about the long-time surf shop owner, a canny businessman who had become a mentor to hundreds of young surfers over the years.
"I know he's humbled and taken aback by all this attention," his son, Jerry Hixon, said that night. "He always told me, 'You do what you do, and after a while it turns out to mean a lot, to a lot of people.' "
The night at the American Legion was simulcast to Hixon's home. He got to watch it live, then watched a replay on DVD a couple of weeks ago with his brother.
"I'm just glad he's no longer in pain and that I got to have him as a father," Jerry Hixon said Friday.
Along with the surf shop, Mr. Hixon taught math at Fletcher High School, got an MBA from the University of Florida, opened several businesses and became a real-estate appraiser. He continued to work as an appraiser after moving to the Northeast as his second wife, Beth, went to seminary to become an Episcopal priest.
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NH's economic recovery trails other New England statesBy DAVE SOLOMON
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November 13. 2013 9:55PM
New Hampshire entered the Great Recession in 2008 with approximately 650,000 non-farm jobs.
By the time the recession ended 18 months later, the state had lost 25,000 of those jobs, and it has been struggling to recover them ever since.
As of August, the number was at 643,000, and it is on pace to hit 650,000 by May of next year, according to the annual forecast of the New England Economic Partnership presented on Wednesday at the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston.
New Hampshire will most likely be the third state in New England to recover the jobs lost in the recession, trailing Massachusetts and Vermont, both of which are already back to pre-recession levels, said economist Dennis Delay.
Delay presented a summary of the partnership's report on New Hampshire in a conference call with reporters.
"Usually we've been the leader in economic growth and job growth among the six New England states, and oftentimes among most of the states on the Eastern seaboard, but that's not the case this time," said Delay, an economist with the New Hampshire Center for Policy Studies in Concord. The unemployment rate in the state is expected to average 5.3 percent this year, 4.5 percent at the end of 2014, and 3.9 percent by the end of 2015. "It will take us a while to get back to that 3.5 percent that we saw in 2007 and 2006," he said. "We won't see that until 2016."
The slow but steady improvement in New Hampshire is in stark contrast to the state's rapid and far more robust recovery from past recessions, when job growth was also marked by population growth, particularly in the southern part of the state.
"A lot of that growth came from high-tech companies from Massachusetts moving up here and expanding," Delay said. "The story is very different now, and that has profound implications for how New Hampshire looks at itself."
The robust economy in the Greater Boston area is once again the shining star in the regional recovery, Delay said, thanks to growth in the financial services, high-technology and health-care sectors. In past years, a growing economy and rising housing prices in the Boston area triggered a boom in Southern New Hampshire, but this time is different.
"Some of what used to be the flight from metropolitan Boston is reversing now," Delay said. "A lot of the towns around metro Boston are growing fairly quickly. There is also significant international migration into Massachusetts. The real estate market in Greater Boston is pretty hot right now."
Boston area professionals are not flocking to Southern New Hampshire as they did in past periods of economic growth, and Delay was at a loss for an explanation. "I wish I had the answer, but I don't," he said.
He speculated that a number of factors are at work. The current population of young adults is much smaller than the population of baby boomers. "There are simply fewer young people," he said, "and they are the ones most likely to be moving and forming households."
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"We had a focus group of young professionals for the Stay, Work and Play organization," said Delay, "and we were surprised at how people in their 20s and 30s are solving the problem of where to live. They are much more cautious about home ownership and are much more concerned about keeping their options open."
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Query -> Is there a system behind the numbering of trains?
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"Rather than feeling rigid, we need to be realistic that things are constantly open to change," said Roots author Alex Haley.
Haley came to the downtown Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne April 12. He spoke about the future of the family and answered reporters' questions earlier in the day.
"Previously hallowed institutions," such as marriage, have undergone change in America, Haley said. Many people are choosing to live together instead of gelling married. Fifty yean ago, the idea of a man and a woman living together without being married would have made people "keel over." Now millions of people are choosing to do that, he said.
But Haley said the change gives farther than just one part of society. "Collectively, society's changing," he said.
It is important to be realistic about changes in American society, Haley said. When the momentum of change starts, "not very much" will stop the change. It is important to weigh the gains and the losses, he said. "Every time you gain something," he said, "you also lose something."
Fifty years ago, the average home in America would contain three generations of individuals. Today, almost a forth of the houses are occupied by single individuals, Haley said.
Family reunions can help strengthen families, Haley said. The reunions have "almost in a psychic way," strengthened the family, he said.
Haley's book Roots, which tells about some of his ancestry, was very popular. Roots was really a story about generations of a family," he said.
People throughout the world could relate to the story because everyone is a member of a family, which has ancestors, he said.
His next book, titled "Henning," is scheduled to be published in February, 1984. The book is about people and events in his small hometown of Henning, Tennessee.
The book will be more than a story about one small town. "All towns tend to have common characteristics. I like to write things which tend to be symbolic (of other things)," Haley said.
A condensed version of "Henning" will he published in next month's Reader's Digest. The second part of the book is not finished yet, he said.
Haley said he tries to be accurate in his stories. "So if I write a novel, though it is fiction, I will guarantee you it will be accurate, just because that gives me the power of fact," he said.
Haley's advice to writers is to "write about what you know most about.
"What we do tends not to look exciting to us, and it isn't that it needs to be all that exciting to make a book. But we tend not to see it the way other people might see it if it were written about properly," Haley said.
Haley said he enjoys traveling to various places throughout the country. "I love to just go here, go there, go around and just kind of touch the different parts of this country. It's—to me—exciting," he said.
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I am scheduled for another u/s in 4 days. After such a devistating diagnosis I am scared to be happy or hopefull again. I am so so thankful for that last u/s. If I would have seen this website earlier I would have never even considered a D&C.
When my doctor told me less than 3 days ago I had a 99.9% chance I was miscarring because she saw nothing but an empty sac I believed her. What a shock that so many women have had similar misdiagnosis. My boyfriend just tells me to keep my faith and that he has thought I was fine all along ;)
I thank you all again for your stories and your hope. I'm going to try to stay positive and believe a little more of what is in my heart rather than what my doctor says. You'r all in my thoughts and prayers.
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5 Easy Measures to Take if Would Like to Have an Edge Over Your Competition for ED SHO Jobs
If you're going to work in Australasia then you do have options if you would like or try something new for a while. You can earn great money as a locum doctor or maybe take a working holiday although the market is very saturated so you need to recognise the different ways to get the advantage that will help you land your dream job.
Options in Australasia include working in the public or private system in either permanent or locum roles. These could be in remote and metro locations although there are significantly more long term locum roles in rural areas. If you did decide to go down this route you would be limited to locum in a different District Health Board (DHB) if you work in New Zealand or a different state if you work in NSW, QLD or WA in Australia. Alternatively you can work in a private hospital where you could earn upwards of double than you might in an equivalent public sector role. Dependant on which opportunity you decide to pursuit you can maximise your potential by joining an agency that operates all over Australia and New Zealand.
1. Understand supply and demand
It can really help to know exactly where the work is and how much you can earn in different ED SHO roles.
2. Make sure the hospitals have what they want
IDoctors are infamous for not keeping on top of their paperwork, so a great habit to drill in early is to simply make sure the correct paperwork is handed in to the right people.
3. Flexibility is key
It's absolutely fine to know what you need from your career but as a junior doctor you can give yourself so much more freedom by being flexible with what jobs and locations you are happy to consider. You may be taken aback by what's available to you.
4. Don't keep your agency in the dark
Your agency is there to help you so the more they know the better. If there are any changes in your plans its best to be prompt when updating your Recruitment Specialist to make sure you are the first choice for your ideal role.
5. Limit yourself to one agency
It may seem illogical to only use one agency but after interviewing countless hospitals we have learned why this is the only feasible option. Something that we have heard time and time again over the last 10 years is that being registered with multiple agencies can reduce your chances of finding the work you want. The hospitals will often dismiss any applications that they receive several times. It's believed that if they aren't loyal to one agency then maybe they can't be trusted. You must ensure that the one agency you do decide on has the resources and relationships to produce the most opportunities for you as a junior doctor.
I am so grateful to Sam Hazledine and the team at MedRecruit. They have made this year absolutely perfect. I am so lucky I have them looking after me and my best interests!"


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Jessica was aborted against my wishes. And against her mother's. Though we were both in high school, we were committed to caring for our baby. I had dropped out of school and joined the U.S. Infantry so that I could support my child. But while I was off at basic training, my girlfriend's father uncovered our plan, and coerced her into a third trimester abortion. Our child died just a few short weeks before she would have been born an American citizen with the protection of all our laws. She was killed at the Masonic hospital in your city of Chicago, during the tenure of one of your predecessors Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. Her father was a friend of the Cardinal's, and a prominent Chicago Catholic. For years after that, I harbored a potent grudge against Catholics and the Church, whose prelates, politicos and parents I associated with abortion. It might sound irrational to you, but I blamed Cardinal Bernardin. Not him alone, of course. Jessica's death had many fathers. However, as Chicago's spiritual father, wearing for that city the mantle of the apostles, Cardinal Bernardin bore unique responsibility for witnessing in public to the sanctity of life. As you do now.
Christ came to give us life more abundantly, but in Cardinal Bernardin's time (as in ours) major Catholic politicians were serving the cause of death, claiming that they were "personally opposed" to abortion, but wished to leave its victims completely unprotected by the law. Cardinal Bernardin protected such politicians, giving them political cover with his so-called "seamless garment," which stitched together non-negotiable demands of basic human rights — such as an end to legal abortion — with highly debatable policies for promoting the best interests of poor people and immigrants. Bernardin treated unlike, incommensurate issues as if they were all of equal weight. This allowed pro-choice politicians to cherry pick the body of Catholic social teaching — fishing out the parts from which they could profit politically — and pretend that they were faithful Catholics, or at least no more unfaithful than pro-lifers who differed with Bernardin on immigration or Medicare. Nobody's perfect! (Source)
Right on. We need to start speaking up against Bishops like Cupich, a man like much of the "pastoral episcopacy" that is being formed today by Pope Francis and who think that youth unemployment is just as grave as abortion.
This is simply demonic disorientation. Let us not put lip stick on a pig and pretend everything is normal.
Clearly we have a serious problem here which we simply cannot turn a blind eye to. Better to call out misguided bishops, cardinals, and Popes than trying to explain to Jesus that we went along with such nonsense. Really, folks. Do not be deceived or rely on distorted allegiances to any religious leader who does not obey the Gospel of Life.


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1. You've ever been fined for riding with your head sticking out your car's sun roof.
2. Your wife complains because the kitchen junk drawer is full of MILES keys and heater parts.

3. You giggle when your hunting buddies talk about the awesome stopping power of the . 308 Winchester.

4. You named your son Roger.

5. You drive a '59 Caddy because you like "the feel of a lot of American iron. "

6. You announce "On the way!" before you break wind.

7. Instead of meeting you at the door with a cold beer after work, your wife meets you with a can of degreaser and orders to strip before you touch the furniture.
8. After returning from the field it takes you a while to get used to food without the "diesel smoked" flavor.

9. After sex you make your wife wipe down the breech.

10. When you go duck hunting you give your dog the command "ducks! left duck!"

11. You've ever refered to a infantryman as a crunchie.

12. When buying a new car you make the salesman lay out the BII.

13. During intercourse you announce "On the way. "

14. You refer to General Patton as Him.

15. You consider cheating on your wife Permissive TDY.

16. You refer to the Gulf War as "The big one of 91. "

17. You think of ground troops as a speed bump.

18. You think bad sex may just be a boresight problem.

19. You consider a sand table exercise as a middle east deployment.

20. You consider a hasty defense just aiming the gun.

21. When working on your car you fill out a DA 2404.

22. A pillow is nice, but a CVC is better.

23. You think 19Kilo should be 19Sweep.

24. You wish your POV had Tac Idle.

25. You get mad when NOMEX is refered to as the tanker suit.

26. You volunteer to fuel up a car.

27. You have a BBQ and invite all three of your friends.

28. You rank monster trucks between a Bradley and a M1 tank.

29. You carry a tanker bar in your POV.

30. You think hot spots are targets, not clubs.

31. You wish Suburbans weren't so expensive.

32. Before your son/daughter can use your car they must complete a request for dispatch.

33. You think PT means Persona Training.

34. You always set 4 places at the dinner table.

35. You don't buy gas for your car, instead you "top off"

36. Your kids call the sandbox "NTC".

37. Your older kids call the youngest one "Cherry".

38. When your family gets together you call them "Slice Elements".

39. Your dog's name is Sabot.


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Johannesburg - Angola's government must account for a staggering $32bn missing from state coffers in a country where most suffer immense poverty despite the nation's massive oil wealth, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.The revelation comes the same week that Angola announced yet another huge offshore oil find and after deals were signed on Tuesday with seven major oil companies to drill there.New York-based Human Rights Watch said the missing money was identified by the International Monetary Fund in a December report and is believed to be linked to Angola's state oil company Sonangol.It includes $7.1bn transferred into escrow accounts overseas and $24.9bn that appear as "an unexplained discrepancy in government accounts".The IMF said the money disappeared between 2007 and 2010 from Angola, Africa's second-largest oil producer after Nigeria, and amounts to 25% of the country's gross domestic product.CorruptionHuman Rights Watch previously had identified more than $4bn in oil revenues that went missing from Angolan government accounts between 1997 and 2002. That money never was recovered.Telephone calls from South Africa and Portugal did not go through on Wednesday to the office of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, his spokesperson Mario Jorge or to the press office of the state oil company Sonangol.In the past, Angola's Finance Ministry has denied that the southern African country has a major corruption and embezzlement problem.Transparency International, the coalition that fights corruption, ranked Angola in the top 20 most corrupt countries in the world this year.The missing money was found as a result of reforms that were instituted among the conditions for an IMF loan of $1.4bn - a paltry amount compared to the massive discrepancy."Angola's government has taken credit for improving transparency over its oil revenues and auditing the state oil company," said Arvind Ganesan, business and human rights director at Human Rights Watch. "But the disappearance of $32bn raises serious questions about its efforts and underscores the need for public accountability."Poverty lineAngop, the state news agency, on Wednesday quoted Sonangol CEO Manuel Vicente as saying that the latest find in Angola's Kwanza Basin seabed means the country is "entering a new era" in the oil market.Norway's Statoil company compared the latest discovery to one off Brazil that has yielded major amounts of the high-quality light oil that is most prized.Statoil's senior vice president for exploration, Erling Vagnes, described it as "some of the best unexplored acreage left on the planet".More than half of Angola's population lives below the international poverty line, child and maternal deaths are among the highest in the world and 30% of children are malnourished, according to the UN Children's Fund. Healthcare is limited or nonexistent in many rural areas.The country still is recovering from a 27-year-long civil war that ended in 2002. Even today, only 77% of children attend primary school and just 21% attend high school, according to a US State Department report that cited long lists of human rights abuses.Dos Santos has ruled the country since 1979 and appears intent on retaining power through constitutional reforms in 2010 that abolished direct presidential elections. Instead, the president will be the head of the political party that garners the most votes, and dos Santos' party has a stranglehold on power.
It's an autocratically ruled African country….what do you expect!
The leaders live large whilst their own people starve. Sound familiar ANC?
Check the long time serving president's bank account, and probably his mate's, Bob Mugab....... it'll but somewhere in south-east Asia.
Its not just the leaders - most of that money is in China. China has exploited Angola to the extreme and nothing was done about it. They are helping themselves to the natural resources there as well. Why can't the United Nations stop the Chinese rape of Africa ?
one day, when this all comes crashing down, it will be these fat, greedy men, who will die first.
I don't think these guys know how much they steal. They think $32 Bil is $32 k. I don't think it crosses their mind that they, their children and grand children will never use up all the money. It all boils down to GREED!!
Problem is Oneant, they have crashed down years ago and are struggling to get up on one knee. There is nothing to crash. From Angola look east or north and see if you can find a thriving democracy. Well, perhaps if you sell arms or illegal diamonds. Can you hear the bells that are ringing for all of us in SA when we look and the corrupt ANC. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee!
News 24, So what is News?
Every African State has Billions of Dollars Missing due to Corruption.
Prove me Wrong. SA too is well on course.
I Rest My Case.
Was zoomer not there?
What's new in Africa? That is why the leaders hang on - to steal with impunity with the connivance of countries offering secret accounts. This Dos Santos is the new Mobutu of Zaire whose personal wealth was reputedly close to to the debt of the country.
Mobuto Sese Seku is nothing in front of Dos Santos. I blame the stupid people who have been brain-washed to keep these people in power. Dos Santos distributes t-shirts and wheel-barrows to the people during elections, and they seriously think he is doing a world of good for them. A bunch of fools.
The amount probably not much different in SA as either been stolen, corruption committed and wasteful spending, all tax payers money, the money is running out, the people have more poverty.
Viva la Africa!!!!
Copy cats, you guys also suck.
Ha, sounds like our goverment where R32bn disappeared
Hush... Everytime I hear those words in private talks, people Hush immediately.
Did you hear them too?
Rumors say that just the rich people know all about it.
Just do a G00GLE search for "BlueGoldHunt" all one word and click the first site that comes up.
Is that all you have found??
This is just a drop in the ocean.
Aaaaag that is nothing! come to SA then you will see corruption
These oil countries are a law unto themselves.
African Economic 'Freedom' ....
Zuma visited his 'comrade ' just recently. 'Funny' how he is attracted to these people (Gadaffi, Mugabe etc). Like a fly to sh..t.....
Must be "The African Way" that JZ was talking about yesterday!!
This is a revolting state of affairs! Words fail me.


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A great travel photograph will make a viewer want to pack their bags and head out the door.
That's the consensus of the panel of three judges for The Oregonian's 2007 Travel Photo Contest, which kicks off today.
Grand prize is a vacation for two --round-trip airfare from Portland and seven nights, including meals, in a private cabana at St. George's Caye Lodge off the coast of Belize.
First-place winners in the contest's three categories will receive a $600 vacation at either Sunriver, Salishan or Tu Tu' Tun resorts in Oregon or Skamania Lodge in Washington.
Second-place winners will receive a $300 getaway to one of those four resorts.
Third place winners will receive a $200 gift certificate to Pro Photo Supply.
The three categories are A Sense of Place and People of the World (which includes photos taken anywhere outside Oregon or Washington) and the Pacific Northwest (photos taken in Oregon or Washington only).
Deadline to enter is Friday, Feb. 16. Winning entries will be published on Sunday, March 25.
For complete contest rules and entry form, visit the newspaper Web site.
And the judges are. . .
Judging the contest this year are Susan Seubert and Mark Downey, both Portland-based photographers, and Mike Davis, photo editor for The Oregonian's feature sections.
"A great travel photograph begins with stellar content, color, light and composition," said Seubert, 36, who carved out a freelance career in photography after attending the Pacific Northwest College of Art. "Then it makes you want to go to that place and be there at that moment in time."
Seubert's numerous clients include National Geographic Traveler, Travel+Leisure, World Traveler and The New York Times. Seubert, who mixes travel photography with portrait, gardening and artistic conceptual work, won the Life Magazine Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Cover of the Year for a 1999 Garden Design cover.
Besides making you want to go the place, a great travel photograph should make you want to look around, adds Downey, 47, who owns Lucid Images Gallery in Northeast Portland, where his work from 20 years circling the globe as a travel photographer is showcased.
"It's a matter of combining evocative and informational elements to incite the viewer to want to explore the area you are portraying," said Downey, who was named the 2004 Travel Photographer of the Year by the Society of American Travel Writers. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, including National Geographic, Islands and Conde Nast Traveler, and he has published photo books of Myanmar and the Philippines.
To create great images of people you encounter while traveling, Davis suggests thinking beyond the person.
"A great photo of people should have a backdrop," said Davis, 50, a former picture editor for the White House and National Geographic. "It should convey a sense of who the people are and how they are connected to the place."
Davis was twice named Picture Editor of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association, and also has earned the association's highest honor, the Sprague Award, given to a photojournalist who advances the profession by conduct, initiative, leadership and skill.


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WHAT is it with the Conservatives and pensioners?
They had a go at pensions, their accommodation, their health care, now it seems they are honing in on their pastimes.
I recently joined a bowls club in Northumberland Park. The same Northumberland Park that has been given a few million pounds Lottery grant.
Despite this (or possibly because of it) the council intend to double the yearly rent for the use and upkeep of the green.
If this goes to pass, I have been informed that because of the cost the club may have to be disbanded.
Maybe the pensioner members are an easy target, but I can only speak for myself, as one of the floating voters who switched to Tory at the last election, I will be monitoring the actions (or lack of) in this matter.
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