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BUCKNER— Not two minutes in, Oldham County was already looking at a deficit.
After giving up another touchdown, the Colonels regrouped and took a 15-13 lead over visiting Fern Creek with 2:06 left in the game.
That was just enough time for the Tigers, who scored the winning 22-yard field goal with 9.8 seconds left to defeat Oldham County 16-15 on homecoming.
"You can't start that way because it puts you in a hole," coach Matt Brown said. "It didn't kill us, it didn't phase us. We kept fighting the whole game and I'm proud of the kids for doing that. We fought like crazy and just came up short."
It had been a long way back for the Colonels, who faced a 6-0 deficit with 10:23 left in the first quarter and just four plays in. The extra point was blocked, but Fern Creek then turned a fumble by senior Garrett Wilder into another touchdown on just one play, a 30-yard touchdown pass.
Only three minutes into the game, Oldham County already trailed 13-0.
"We had a slow start ourselves," senior tight end Stephen farrow said. "We knew we had more in us than that and we just came out and played what we should actually play after their second score."
The Colonels had their struggles, but they weren't done. Oldham County missed on a fourth down try at Fern Creek's 45-yard line when senior wide receiver Will Funk couldn't handle a pass from junior quarterback Brett Strnad.
The Tigers fumbled three plays into its next drive and the Colonels capitalized with a 12-yard touchdown pass from Strnad to senior wide receiver Kerry Smith to cut the lead to 13-7.
Oldham County recovered another fumble and forced a turnover on downs, but neither team could score in the second quarter.
"We just settled down, had to realize that we could beat these guys," Smith said. "They're kinda big and fast, but we're fast too. We just had to settle down and play ball as a unit, instead of everybody doing their own thing."
Both sides struggled to get much going in the second half as well, with Oldham County punting, turning the ball over on downs twice and throwing an interception. Fern Creek meanwhile, threw two interceptions and turned the ball over.
With 2:06 remaining, the Colonels finally broke through, as Smith took a direct snap out of the wildcat formation and followed his blockers left for a 14-yard touchdown run.
Strnad, also serving as the holder, pulled up on the extra-point snap and hit Farrow in the back of the end zone for the two-point conversion.
But the Tigers didn't need much to get back in the game. After a short, line-drive kickoff, they started at their own 44-yard line and got to the Oldham County five-yard line in seven plays before the winning field goal.
It doesn't get any easier next week for the Colonels, who host Eastern in another district battle. The Eagles moved to 5-2 after a 36-0 win over Ballard tonight.
"We've gotta get over the sting of losing in the last seconds," Brown said. "We fought hard with a 6A football team from Jefferson County and we're right in the thick of the district."
On the road, the Dragons got into a big hole early and couldn't get out.
South Oldham was outgained 489-288 in falling to Cooper 40-21 Friday night. South Oldham is now 1-2 in district play.
The Dragons trailed 20-7 before cutting the deficit to 20-14 in the third quarter. But the Jaguars pulled away in the second half thanks to a 224-yard rushing night by junior Tyler Morris.
Senior Jacob Lamb had the big night for South Oldham, with 10 catches for 143 yards and two touchdowns.
The Dragons are on the road again next week, when they take on district-rival Scott.
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Memphis may finally name city street after King
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – In the more than four decades since the Rev. Martin Luther King was assassinated on the balcony of Memphis' Lorraine Motel, about 900 U.S. cities have named local streets for him. Memphis is not one of them, though there is a stretch of interstate bearing his name.
Now Memphis officials will consider a naming a key downtown street for the civil rights icon after years of inaction that some say reflects a sense of shame and denial in the city where he was cut down.
The proposal to rename nine blocks of Linden Avenue to Dr. Martin Luther King Avenue is expected to pass Thursday when it comes before the Memphis and Shelby County Land Use Control Board. As of Tuesday, the board hadn't received any comments opposing the honor for King, who was killed by assassin James Earl Ray on April 4, 1968.
Berlin Boyd, a former city councilman, came up with the proposal earlier this year while still in office and it easily passed. He predicts it will pass the land use board, with a naming ceremony expected to take place on April 4. The board has final say unless an appeal is filed within 10 days.
The street re-naming is being seen by many Memphians as a symbol that the city is taking steps to heal the wound caused by the assassination.
""It was something that had a place in my heart for some time," Boyd told The Associated Press. "Here is a city where Martin Luther King's blood cries from the streets, and we don't have anything to pay tribute to him."
King came to Memphis to support a sanitation workers strike in 1968 in what became his final act as a civil rights leader. The National Civil Rights Museum is built at the site of the former Lorraine Motel, where King stayed while supporting the sanitation workers. A wreath marks the spot on the balcony where King was shot.
The Rev. James Netters, who marched with King and the sanitation workers as a city councilman, said he proposed naming a street for King in the early 1970s, but the City Council voted to dedicate a stretch of Interstate 240 to him instead.
Supporters say renaming Linden Avenue for King is more significant than the dedication of the interstate because the avenue is in the heart of the city's downtown and residents will have to use the avenue's name to give directions. They also say that new businesses along it — including two hotels set for construction — will use the King address, giving the street more importance and visibility.
Netters, 84, said he does not know why another proposal did not appear before now, a sentiment echoed by many others.
"Memphis can't do enough," Netters said. "Any honor that we dedicate to him is very, very critical."
Kenneth Whalum, a school board member and Memphis native who was 12 years old when King was killed, said no street has been named after King because Memphis has been in a state of denial and depression over the assassination.
"Just as when you lose any loved one, you get depressed," Whalum said. "For the last 43 years we've hoped that the incident didn't happen. We wished it would disappear and go away."
Boyd chose Linden Avenue because he saw a sign with the street's name in a photo taken of a rally led by King. The avenue runs in front of the Clayborn Temple — where King rallied with members of the civil rights movement — and the FedExForum, the arena where the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies play their home games.
It runs parallel to Beale Street, the famous Memphis tourist drag, and is near the offices of the local chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the union that King came to Memphis to defend.
One of the advantages of choosing Linden Avenue is that no businesses will have to change their address with the name change, according to the land use board's report on the street re-naming.
The report, which recommends approval, notes that Linden Avenue is not named after a real person, so no one will be offended that their family name is being stripped from the downtown avenue. The name honors Under the Linden Trees Boulevard, over which the Brandenburg Gate was built in Berlin, Germany.
Should the proposal pass, Memphis would be added to the long list of cities, both big and small, that honor King with a street name. About 75 percent of the roughly 900 cities are found in 10 Southern states, with Georgia leading the way, said Derek Alderman, an East Carolina University geography professor who penned a 2006 study, "Naming Streets for Martin Luther King Jr.: No Easy Road."
Next in line are Texas, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana and Alabama.
Alderman says cities have endured heated debates over naming streets after King: A common dispute centers on whether to select a street that is in a predominantly black neighborhood, or one that cuts across racial boundaries and "embodies the message that King was preaching when he was alive."
Alderman also notes that naming a street after King is an appropriate way to honor him because African-Americans looked to movement and transportation as ways of challenging and changing the racial status quo and creating racial equality. The Underground Railroad, the Freedom Riders and King's protest marches and leadership of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott are good examples, he said in his study.
"Street naming can be a pretty powerful way of honoring somebody when you consider the way streets connect people," Alderman said. "A significant amount of the actual mechanics of protest and the mechanics of carrying out the civil rights movement was actually carried out in street level protests and marches."
Renaming Linden Avenue for King may change the way residents give directions, but it also may help Memphis live down any shame and embarrassment that comes with being the city where King was assassinated.
Boyd said acknowledging King with his own street may be a symbol that Memphis is making strides in eliminating racial tensions and is finally dealing with King's death.
"We have to start embracing the heritage of our city," Boyd said. "Until we understand who we are as a city, we will always be left behind."

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Later, I was bending down to wash my ankles in the shower. My forehead hit a shelf. It didn't hit the shelf hard, but I felt the shock all the way along my neck, right shoulder, right arm, and fingertips. Oh, pain. That'll hurt. Normally, when you bump your body, your body is able to absorb the shock easily, right? Not this body. It was so worn out that even the tiniest shock caused horrible damage. I decided to go for a massage after because I just knew it would be too painful the next day. It's traditional Chinese treatment, where they even do this cupping thing. They put these glass cups on your back, and use a dash of fire to suck out all the oxygen. It creates a vacuum that sucks up your tissue and blood and is supposed to make things better. I have no idea if it works. I now have all these dark spots all over my back and shoulders. But I am glad I got the massage. I am able to move around today, unlike last week after Body Pump, when I could barely move.
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Deval Patrick backtracks on tech tax
Gov. Deval Patrick abruptly changed course Tuesday and said he no longer supports a controversial new tax on computer software services that has triggered a fierce backlash from the state's technology community and spawned numerous attempts to repeal it.
While mostly silent in the weeks since the tax was adopted by the state Legislature, Patrick said Tuesday that after hearing complaints about it directly from technology executives, he concluded the new tax had become "a serious blot.''
"It's time for it to go,'' he said in an interview with the Globe. "I'm persuaded that the impact to our reputation is too problematic. We've worked really, really hard to establish ourselves as innovation hub in the world, and we ought not do anything that compromises that.''
Patrick himself originally proposed the computer software tax back in January to help pay for major improvements to the state's crumbling transportation systems. But it received little notice in the months of debate on Beacon Hill as he and legislative leaders instead wrangled over other issues, such as the gas tax and highway tolls.
One of the technology executives who met with Patrick last week to complain about the tax welcomed the governor's new position.
"He's taking the right position. He sees the reputational problem that Massachusetts faces by targeting the tech industry,'' said Andy Singleton, president of Assembla Inc., a Needham software company. "Almost everyone who has looked closely at this law now realizes it's a bad law. Everyone realizes the tax needs to be repealed. It can't be replaced.
Singleton had among the most vocal members of the technology community over the tax. Within days of its passage, many executives said they had no idea lawmakers were even considering it and complained they felt blindsided by a political establishment that often touts their industry as a cornerstone of the Massachusetts economy.
The measure applies the state's 6.25 percent sales tax to a variety of computer software related services, including such common business practices as modifying off-the-shelf software, configuring programs, and designing or developing websites.
People in technology companies complained that it was so broadly written that it would end up taxing many services that had become key to Massachusetts' economic growth, and would cost businesses far more than the $160 million annually estimated by the state.
With employees at smaller tech startups deploying social media tools to broaden the opposition, a coalition of leaders from large companies, including the heads of Staples Inc. and Boston Scientific Corp., launched a ballot initiative to ask voters to repeal the tax in the 2014 statewide election. Several lawmakers had also filed bills to repeal it.
A turning point in the nascent revolt appeared to come last week, when Patrick and legislative leaders agreed to meet with several technology executives and other business leaders to hear their complaints about the tax. Before the meeting Patrick said he would be in listening mode; afterward he did not comment at all.
Until Tuesday. At an event in Worcester, Patrick said in separate remarks to reporters that "we had a really good meeting last week,'' and that after concluding the tax has become too onerous, "the hard part now is to figure out what to replace it with,'' according to a transcript provided by his office.
Aides said Patrick is not calling for a new broad-based tax to replace the computer software levy.
Seth Gitell, a DeLeo spokesman, declined to comment on Patrick's shift on the tax and referred instead to a joint statement the speaker and Senate President Therese Murray released after Patrick met with business leaders last week.
"We engaged in a very thoughtful and informative discussion with a number of business leaders in today's meeting with Governor Patrick,'' the statement said. "We look forward to continuing these conversations and talking with our members in the House and Senate.''


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• 300g (2 cups) plain flour
• 30g unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small cubes
• 1½ Tbs brown sugar
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 125g unsalted butter, softened
• 220g (1 cup) caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 250g (1 cup) sour cream
• 350g plums, halved and stoned
• 250g blackberries cream, to serve
1. Preheat the oven to 170°C. Lightly grease a 22cm-square cake tin and line with baking paper, letting the paper overhang slightly around the rim to assist with removing the streusel once cooked.
2. To make the topping, place 50g of the flour in a bowl, add the cold cubed butter and rub in until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Mix in the brown sugar and set aside.
3. To make the cake, sift the remaining flour, the baking powder and a pinch of sea salt into a bowl. In a large bowl, cream the softened butter and caster sugar with electric beaters.
4. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Tip in the dry ingredients, alternating with the sour cream, while being careful not to over-mix (some small lumps of flour are okay).
5. Pour the batter into the lined cake tin and scatter over the plums and 150g of the blackberries, then finish with the topping.
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Video produces fun – and wins – on the volleyball court for Blazers
November 4, 2013
By Mike Killeen
You're a coach of a highly ranked team, and suddenly your team - while still winning - isn't having any fun and feeling pressure to win.
To break them out of their lethargy, you could:
A. Work them hard in practice;
B. Critique them by watching game films, or;
C. Make a team video.
The choice of College of Saint Benedict volleyball coach Nicole Hess? Try "C," making a video.
"Ever since that point in time - and hopefully this trend continues - we look so much more relaxed and we're having fun," said Hess, whose team finished the regular season 24-2 overall and ranked No. 7 in the most recent AVCA Division III volleyball poll. The Blazers begin the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference playoffs Tuesday, Nov. 5 against Hamline at Claire Lynch Hall.
Let's backtrack a little bit. On Oct. 2, the Blazers suffered a three-set loss to defending Division III national champion St. Thomas. Even though four wins followed in the next week - three at a tournament in Winona, Minn., and a conference victory over Bethel Oct. 9 - something wasn't right.
"I think if you would have asked anybody how we felt after that (Bethel) game, we were happy we got a win, but it just wasn't fun. You could really see the pressure," Hess said. "When my group is playing well, they are so much fun to watch. They bring a lot of emotion to the game, and they are jumping around and having fun.
"It was bugging me, and it was bugging our coaching staff," Hess said. "We - my assistant coaches and I - had conversations about what we wanted to do. We talked about it for a long time and then came up with this plan."
Their plan was to create a video based on a "hashtag" comedy skit night-late TV host Jimmy Fallon did with singer Justin Timberlake. After briefly watching a bit of video from the Bethel match where the coaching staff told the Blazers to concentrate on their body language and posture, they showed them the Fallon-Timberlake video and told the Blazers they had 30 minutes to come up with their own script.
"I think from a record standpoint, we probably would be very similar to where we are now. But I know that our players are enjoying it a whole lot more and I know our coaching staff is enjoying it a whole lot more," Hess said.
Since that loss to St. Thomas, the Blazers have won 10 games in a row. Included in that streak was a three-set win over Gustavus Oct. 19 - Hess' 150th career win since becoming a college head coach. She spent six seasons as head coach at St. Catherine University (2003-09) before coming to CSB for the 2010 season.
Hess was asked what she took away from the milestone.
"I think the first thing is it brings me back to when I started coaching at St. Kate's," Hess said. "I won a total of nine matches in the first three years, so to be sitting here now at 150 wins, I'm pretty proud of that, because at the time, I wasn't sure I was going to hit 20, let alone 100 or 150."
Hess, who was a four-year All-MIAC player at St. Olaf College, graduated in 2002. She then spent a year as an assistant coach at St. Thomas before taking the job at St. Kate's as a 23-year-old, coaching players she had competed against only two seasons earlier.
"That was an interesting year," Hess said. "You see people write letters to their younger selves. Back then, I thought it would be the easiest thing in the world. You just show up, teach them how to play volleyball and off you go. There were some things that were very enjoyable, but It was humbling and trying as well.
"The thing with coaching is that sometimes you have to go through some of those things to really figure it out, and I learned so much about myself - especially those first three years - than I have probably in most my life. I still have a lot to learn."
She's also thankful for her husband, Paul. "We were married right after college, and he endured those three-win seasons right along with me," Hess said. "We have three kids, and he brings them to everything. So I definitely would not be able to be in this profession without that."


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Chin Up, Morgan Stanley Tech Bankers, Gorman Still Loves You
Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman still loves his technology banker team.
The head of the investment bank that brought you Facebook's IPO, said on CNBC this morning he "couldn't be prouder of our technology team."
That team, led by banker Michael Grimes, has come under fire for the pricing of the second-biggest U.S. IPO of all time and the handling of a revenue warning that came only days before the group decided to boost both the size and price of the deal.
The bank paid a $5 million fine, without admitting or denying wrongdoing, over allegations from a Massachusetts regulator that the team, including Grimes, attempted to circumvent rules that govern bankers talking to analysts.
Gorman said that the IPO's issues, including the errors at Nasdaq that delayed the stock's open last May, were "as bazaar as the calls the stock would go to $80 that first day."
Facebook shares, in case anyone has forgotten, priced at $38 and ended the first day at just $38.23, ending in the black largely thanks to Morgan Stanley's team buying shares to support it.
Gorman, when asked about Facebook's recent recovery to back above $30, reiterated Friday what he'd said before about it being a "great company" and said he expects it to keep recovering. And he stood by his team.
"They are world class," Gorman said. "They are the real deal and I'd use them every time."


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Please remember these important points:
- When you arrive at the shelter, give your name and address to the registration desk so you can be located when necessary. If you leave the shelter, please sign out at the registration desk.
- Shelters have a community environment that consists of a large number of people. It is important to be considerate and cooperative. Follow the instructions of the shelter management staff. Volunteer your services whenever possible. It will make the time go faster for you.
- Do not bring pets to shelters. The only exceptions are dogs for the visually impaired. You may need to make other arrangements for your pets in advance to assure their proper care.
- Be cheerful about the situation and your attitude will help the morale of the entire group. Rumors can spread quickly at a shelter and are usually very disruptive. Listen to official information only.
- You may experience a shortage or rationing of food and other important items in the early stages of a shelter. Be patient. If this occurs it will be temporary.
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- Life-sustaining medications (i.e., seizure, blood pressure, heart medications, insulin, ostomy dressings, etc.) to last through the disaster and recovery period. There may be no phone service and pharmacies may close. Plan with your physician for emergency prescription refills.
- Bottled water (for taking medications, sterile procedures, for drinking to prevent bladder infections, etc.).
- Rehabilitative aids (eyeglasses, cane, brace, splints, cushions, etc.).
- Extra clothes, medic-alert bracelet.
- Blanket or sleeping bag and warm clothing.
- A battery-operated radio.
- A battery-operated flashlight.
- Extra batteries for flashlight and radio.
- Canned food and opener.
- Provisions for guide or hearing dogs. Remember regular pets are not allowed in the shelters.
- For the deaf or hearing impaired: Use TTY's to obtain emergency information or turn on the TV for a captioned newscast. Remember to keep extra batteries for TTY'S.
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The Brooklyn Nets can scrub hard, but the Jersey won't come off
Mere hours after the New Jersey Nets' final Garden State home game last week, the team made a thorough and final disappearance from Newark's Prudential Center.
The lockers were cleared, cleaned and otherwise anonymized, and the banners commemorating a long-ago A.B.A. Championship and the two Eastern Conference titles last decade and the various retired numbers came down from the rafters. When the New Jersey Devils showed up for their morning skate the next day, every last trace of the Nets had vanished.
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But the Nets were gone in every way that mattered long before that last home game, which turned out to be another in a long line of desultory, short-handed losses, and a well-attended wake that was alternately peevish and sentimental in the finest Jersey fashion.
Through two changes of ownership, three changes of naming rights for their two different home courts, the Nets had spent the better part of the last decade going about getting gone. Owner Bruce Ratner—who bought the team to anchor his proposed Atlantic Yards real estate development, not to challenge for Eastern Conference championships—slashed payroll and quickly had a zombified, money-losing team on his hands. C.E.O. Brett Yormark created a game experience that was suffocatingly sponsored, leveraged and brand-identified—revenue had to come from somewhere, after all—and resoundingly anonymous.
The words "New Jersey" were scrubbed from the team's jerseys, and from everything else having to do with the team. The manic game experience could have arrived in shrink-wrap from Orlando or Phoenix. The sponsors shifted by the season, a faceless parade of corporate partners "presenting" this or that halftime show or T-shirt toss or senior dance team.
Imagine a distracted, mostly disingenuous "it's not you, it's me" speech that drags on for nearly a decade at ear-splitting volume, interrupted only by canned crowd noise, the airy poompf of a T-shirt cannon and one 13-point loss after another, and it's easy to understand why the prevailing mood at the last game in New Jersey was one of faintly nostalgic exhaustion.
The organization, too, seemed resigned: There was barely any merchandise for sale, and what little there was had been marked down. Bathrooms on the mezzanine were without paper towels even before tip-off. Even the few jeers directed at Jay-Z, a minority owner and resident Brooklyn-credibility totem, felt half-hearted.
The organization made some acknowledgement of Nets history—past players delivered video messages and others were on hand to receive their applause in person at halftime. The dance team welcomed back alumnae from the past decade, and nearly 40 past and present Nets Dancers did their choreographed thing to "Proud Mary" during the second quarter. But it was impossible to escape the sense that the Nets were more than ready to go. Two hours after the game, Nets.com's front page switched over to a black screen with #HelloBrooklyn on it.
That was, as it turned out, a tease for the Nets-logo reveal on Monday. The first #HelloBrooklyn billboard, gnomic in the classic viral style, went up in Manhattan on the morning after the last home game, and read "Of Course It's Personal;" it was presumably not directed at the fans who had turned out in Newark the night before. Across from Madison Square Garden, on what would seem to qualify as enemy turf, the Nets hung a banner reading "First Home Game Since 1957." The campaign—for the hearts and minds and season-ticket dollars of fans variously priced out, bummed out or otherwise not in on what the Knicks were selling—was on.
But on Twitter—which would, after all, seem to be a hashtag's natural environment—traffic was notably slower. By lunchtime on Monday, the #HelloBrooklyn video on the team's website—"Your streets pulse to your own beat. Your people are your charm."—had all of 23 Facebook likes. But these things take time. Leaving New Jersey and starting over in New York City, aiming for bigger things—"Nets finally get their life together and move out of New Jersey at age 35," as blogger D.J. Gallo had it—isn't easy.
I'd know, because I, like my middle-school Nets-game buddies from Jersey who joined me in paying $10 (after "convenience charges") on StubHub for our $50 seats at that last game, had done it, too.
The Nets will not bring much to Brooklyn, besides novelty and hope: The current team is lousy almost by design, stripped to ease the so-far-futile pursuit of high-end free agents. The idea was to pair point guard Deron Williams, a dynamic playmaker acquired in a blockbuster deal late last season, with disgruntled Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard.
That deal didn't happen. Howard has an injured back and a new reputation as one of the N.B.A.'s foremost and most grandiose ego-monsters, and Williams is reportedly eager to leave the organization for less-dysfunctional climes, seemingly heedless of the fact that the Nets new arena is a short walk from both the Brooklyn Museum and Al Di La. Without Williams or Howard, it's no exaggeration to say that the Nets could be the N.B.A.'s worst team when they tip off in Brooklyn next year.
Of course, the Barclays Center—the Nets' taxpayer-aided new arena, looming like a crashed U.F.O. over brownstone Brooklyn and above the old Atlantic Yards—is not exactly a Craigslist share off the Morgan stop on the L Train. There is that viral billboard campaign and all that Yormark marketing, and there is the chance that the team could snag a franchise-defining star in the N.B.A. Draft lottery. But mostly the Nets arrive in Brooklyn as naked and helpless as any hopeful, hopeless New Jersey emigrant.
During their 35 seasons in New Jersey, the Nets were intermittently good, usually bad and occasionally mind-bendingly awful. Always, though, they belonged. In a half-empty arena at the center of a traffic jam without end, before crowds that were only ever tentatively optimistic, the Nets reflected a benighted, fighting truth about New Jersey.
Now, they will, like so many of us who crossed the Hudson, look to remake themselves in Brooklyn, to shed the little-town blues that a famous New Jersey migrant gloat-sings about at the end of every Yankees home win. Unlike the rest of us, they will have no home to go back to on the other side of the river.
It would be nice to wish them luck, I suppose. But New Jersey people—even those of us who have tentatively made it here, and love the place—have a thing about forgetting where we come from, and a special scorn for the sort of self-exile who instantly calls himself a New Yorker. We hear the accent, and the lie in it. Everyone else can, too. It's a hard one to shake.


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How will 2007 be remembered in the science history books? The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the IPCC put climate change in the spotlight this year. In biological research, the discovery that it may be possible to convert skin cells into cells having many of the properties of stem cells made headlines. And while the space shuttle program continued to limp along close to Earth, robotic probes continue to send back impressive finds about the other planets in our solar system.
Join Ira and guests for a look back at the top science stories of the year -- and call in with your favorites. What big stories managed to slip under the radar of the media?


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Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans
As scientists ponder whether the Internet is turning our brains to mush, technology and labor scholar Simon Head worries about the role ofcomputer business systems operating largely without notice from the public. These computer and software systems, often called enterprise systems, drive the decision-making apparatuses of large companies — and not necessarily with the workers' best interests as a priority.
Made by IBM, Oracle and a few other giants, the systems guide day-to-day operations and provide data for strategic decisions. They can provide efficient guidelines for manufacturing and sparkling logistics for shipping goods.
But in the service sector, Head says, overreliance on business systems comes with a cost. He recalls phoning Microsoft with a computer problem. The call center employee clearly had flexibility


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Q&A: "The old rules don't apply" in Mexico energy sector
On Dec. 20, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto signed constitutional reforms into law to open Mexico's energy sector to private investment.
The reforms will allow international companies for the first time in decades to share in the risks and rewards of oil and gas production. Mexican lawmakers hope the reforms will attract much needed capital investment. FuelFix.com asked Houston-based attorney, Carlos Sole, a partner at Baker Botts, about what the reforms mean. Edited excerpts follow.
Q: What part of the energy do your clients think is the most important?
A: There are two fundamental elements of the reform that capture the interests of exploration and production companies. The first is allowing companies to book the reserves for the value of the contracts for accounting purposes. The other fundamental reform is allowing companies to enter into contracts and agreements and to get paid in the actual production produced. This is important because you can take that production and you can trade it, you can sell it, and you control its ultimate destination and the ultimate price, versus having the production, and worrying about the price that Pemex is going to pay you.
Q: Which countries are Mexican leaders looking to in trying to open up Mexico's industry?
A: Mexican government officials have cited the experience of Brazil, Colombia and Norway, which have all had state control of their resources and have liberalized them while still retaining state participation. What is unique about Mexico is how unique it was in being so closed off. For deep-water plays, the geology is very similar to what you see on the U.S. side of the Gulf of Mexico. Technical experts said it has the same geological characteristics as the U.S. side of the shale for onshore plays. But while there are several thousand wells on the U.S. side of the Gulf, there are currently only a dozen or so on the Mexican side.
Pemex has put out statistics that to fully capture their reserves, they will need about $60 billion of investment, while their own budget is $27 billion.
Q: What will be the biggest challenges for the next system?
A: Up until now, Pemex has been the monopoly and dictated the rules. But with the new legislation, you are stepping into a new environment and the old rules don't apply. The Ministry of Financial will be responsible for economic terms. The National Hydrocarbon Agency will be responsible for the actual bidding processes. The Ministry of Energy is the entity that will provide the technical support. These are three distinct agencies that will need to be coordinated.
Q: What will the reforms mean for Houston?
A: For Houston companies in the oil and gas sector — be they upstream, midstream or downstream — there is going to be a new market next door and it is going to create economic opportunities. The technological advances that Houston has developed — its expertise on how and where to look for oil and natural gas plays — can now be used in Mexico.
Q: How will safety concerns affect decisions on whether to invest in Mexico?
A: Safety is a risk factor in northern Mexico, and the violence that folks see is in places along the border. For the shale plays in northern Mexico, there is a recognition that you need the appropriate safety. Some companies may look at some of the security risks and say, no thank you. But the situation is not as dramatic as it was a few years ago, and all the folks we are advising are folks who are interested in the space. For companies that don't shy away, there are plenty of opportunities. It is the cost of doing business in some of these places where the energy industry operates — in Colombia, Nigeria, Iraq and other parts of Africa that have safety issues. There are certain emerging markets where that is a factor, and folks have developed their strategies accordingly.
Q: The reform also includes opening up the power sector to private investment, allowing private generation to compete for the first and for private retailers. This has been called one of the most fundamental changes of the Mexican energy reform. What challenges do you foresee here?
A: The Federal Electricity Commission has been state-owned but will now be thrown into the open market. They plan to create an independent system operator, but there is the potential for a very chaotic landscape, where lots of changes are going on, but no one knows for sure what they will be. They have conceptualized what they want to do but there is little in terms of the actual details, explaining how you get from A to B. Some are expressing skepticism about their ability to pull this off smoothly, to create a new wholesale power generation market, because it could be difficult to make so many fundamental changes in such a short period of time.


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The Budweiser Donkey?
Who doesn't love the Budweiser Clydesdales? They are pretty hard not to love. These beautiful animals are a symbol of strength and tradition. They were first introduced in 1933 to celebrate the repeal of the Prohibition. The first team of Budweiser Clydesdales carried the first case of post-prohibition beer from the Budweiser brewery in St. Louis to Pestalozzi Street in St. Louis.
I don't think there is a better mascot out there. But what would you think if the Budweiser carriage was pulled by a team of donkeys? Would that scream proud American beer to you? I have a hard time believing that you would get quite the same feeling of majesty and strength if you saw a team of six donkeys pulling around a red Budweiser carriage.
Still, don't you think that a donkey deserves a chance at least? A chance to be more? A chance to dream and maybe even a chance to see that dream come true? What if a donkey was a Budweiser donkey? You might be surprised at what you think about a Budweiser donkey after you see this.
Joy Larson is a mother of four boys, graduate of The University of Montana, animal lover and writer.


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OTTAWA - Shimon Peres thanked Stephen Harper for his staunch support of Israel, and Canada for its 60 years of friendship as the Israeli president began a full state visit Monday.
"I sense that Canada is always positive, never indifferent, never neutral," Peres said during his official welcome by the Governor General at Rideau Hall.
The Nobel laureate has been a fixture in Israeli politics since 1959, serving in 12 cabinets and twice as prime minister. He is currently the country's head of state — a largely ceremonial role — but remains an influential figure and a perceived leavening voice to hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The president's five-day trip to Canada began as Netanyahu called an early national election amid talk of an "existential threat" to Israel from Iran's nuclear program.
Peres has expressed reservations about a pre-emptive strike against Iran, and his language on arriving in Canada was that of the diplomat who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for his work with Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin on the Oslo Accords.
"Canada offers a new beginning, building bridges and closing gaps," Peres, who turns 89 in August, said at Rideau Hall.
"Israel, which is a start-up nation, breathes your air with real thirst."
Escorted up the Rideau Hall drive in brilliant spring sunshine by four mounted RCMP officers, Peres reviewed a 100-strong honour guard under a booming 21-gun military salute.
He's to plant an Eastern White Pine — known by the Iroquois as the Tree of Peace — on the vice-regal grounds Tuesday.
On Parliament Hill, the Israeli president was greeted by the prime minister in the rotunda of the Hall of Honour, and the two then moved to Harper's office for what he called a "chat."
While the camera shutters clattered, Peres called Canada "an extraordinary friend" before praising Harper personally.
"Your remarks about Israel are outstanding. It really moved our hearts of our people," Pere said.
It was not clear specifically what Peres was referring to, but he arrives in Ottawa just days after Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird told a Jewish audience that "Israel has no greater friend in the world today than Canada."
Indeed, the Conservative government has drawn considerable criticism for dropping Canada's traditional, self-styled "honest broker" role that supported both Palestinian and Israeli ambitions in the region.
Peres drew no distinction in his public remarks about Canada's past and current positions. He harkened back to his first visit to Canada 60 years ago and "the deep friendship that has existed between our peoples from our first day of independence."
"Since then I carry in my heart the feeling that Canada is a continent of friendliness, displaying support and care," said Peres.
A readout from the Prime Minister's Office following Harper's private tete-at-tete stated he and Peres "discussed the uncertain security environment and the importance of diplomacy as the primary instrument for peace and security."
The president appears likely to get more friendly hearings during his Canadian tour.
He met interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae later Monday.
"The Liberal party remains committed to a secure and democratic Israel, a stable and democratic Palestinian state and to the ultimate goal of peace in the region," Rae said in a release.
"We believe that direct negotiations are the only way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to build peace in the region.
"President Peres and I have met several times since my first visit to Israel in 1979, and I have always found him to be a person of great experience, wisdom and candour. I look forward to continued frank and productive exchanges today and in the future."
New Democrat Thomas Mulcair, the leader of the official Opposition, meets with Peres on Tuesday.
Both Mulcair and Rae are among the most staunchly pro-Israel leaders of their respective parties — if not the most — in many years.
Peres, whose tour includes stops in Ontario and Quebec, is the second high-profile Israeli politician to visit Canada in recent weeks, following Netanyahu's brief stop in Ottawa in March.
Netanyahu came looking for support for the idea of a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear program, which is feared to be building nuclear weapons.
But Harper, despite echoing Netanyahu's concerns about Iran's intentions, expressed the desire for a peaceful solution.
Peres has repeatedly spoken of the need for an international, diplomatic solution and has openly questioned whether a pre-emptive strike would do anything more than delay Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons by a couple of years.
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