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Becoming a Published Writer
You'll jump right in and start writing in this first lesson, but with the permission to write as poorly as you want. This isn't school as you knew it! Today, you'll find out how to enjoy yourself while you write—when you're having fun, that's when the learning starts. You'll learn how to listen to your mind work so you can practice turning your thoughts into words. You'll discover that you're quite a complicated person and why it's all right to think of yourself as a writer.
Breaking In and First Markets
In today's lesson, you'll write even more as you practice writing description and capturing detail. More than that, you'll complete writing experiments that will help you discover what ideas and symbols reside in the things you write about. And you'll practice using description to capture emotion. By the end of the lesson, you'll have enough material to decide what you want to write about. You'll start work on a short, creative piece that you'll finish by the end of the class.
Writing Contests and Credibility
Today, you'll explore the different forms that fiction and creative nonfiction can take. Form is the container that holds your ideas. Creative nonfiction is a new genre that offers you many terrific ways to explore your love of writing. To stimulate your creative side, I've also included a list of some odd forms you might try. You'll find out that you have the option of ignoring the decision about form for now, letting it emerge from your content as you write. It takes courage, but you can do it
Manuscript Mechanics and Formats
Memorizing the major points of view is boring! Instead, you'll spend this lesson writing from each of the points of view, then learning about them afterward. You'll have a lot more fun that way. I'll show you how distance works in creative writing, and why your verb tense can make a big difference. This practice will give you as taste of each point of view option, and help you decide which you want to use in your own creative piece.
Proofreading, Printing, and Submission Logs
In this lesson, you'll get a chance to play by exploring the concept of creativity. You'll find your own creative center and use it to come up with ideas that are better than you expected. You'll try a technique called "galumphing" to create a mini-story. You'll learn to take the attitude of a bricoleur so that you can make something out of nothing. You'll gain the knowledge you need to continually nurture your creative ability.
Copyright, Rights, and Pseudonyms
You'd think the topic of revision would be dull and dry. The exact opposite is true. Revision is one of the most amazing tools a writer can use. Beyond learning the nuts and bolts of revision, you'll learn how revision is a process of discovery. Your creativity will constantly contribute while you evaluate your words using all your abilities. Come along for a bit of revelation.
Mainstream, Subsidy, and Self-Publishing
Here's where you'll learn why it's so easy to write poorly, and you'll discover some good ways to catch yourself when you do. You'll find out why nouns are more powerful than adjectives and why a strong verb outshines a descriptive adverb. Next, we'll examine each step of the communication process and practice making dull sentences interesting. You'll learn a great technique for eliminating clichés and use the depths of your creative ability to write a powerful, original description.
All About Query Letters
Every creative writer can use some tips about the logistics of dialogue. It's not easy to write what characters are thinking, avoid hedging words, use conflict to create interest, describe emotions, and always get your facts right. These techniques aren't typically taught in school, so it's helpful to learn them here. You'll practice fixing choppy sentences, and you'll begin to think about your readers and what they have to do with what you want to write.
Submissions, Offers, and Rejections
It's time to examine how the act of writing teaches you about yourself. You'll take a good look at the voices of your inner critics to see what they're really telling you. You'll discover whose voices you're listening to and write them "Unsent Letters" to tell them what you think about their messages. You'll try a writing exercise called "The Story of My Life" that will help you examine where you've been and where you'd like to go from here. Then you'll practice the "Ultimate Motivation" exercise to figure out what it takes to make your dreams come true.
All About Agents and Contracts
Today, you'll delve into the inner workings of stories. We'll explore the three basic building blocks of a plot. You'll try out several ways to make up a plot and learn how to write endings. We'll discuss the option of writing a story before you know how it ends. It takes courage, but the result can be worth the bumpy ride. You'll explore how to move through time using summaries, scenes, and flashbacks. This lesson will help you understand why even simple stories can intrigue and hold your reader.
Clubs, Conferences, and Writer's Block
All people have a lot in common. We share the same basic story. We're born, we struggle, and in the end, we die. Your job as a writer is to create characters that your readers feel similarities with. In this lesson, you'll practice developing characters and using dialogue. You'll learn how to pay attention to people—what makes them different and what makes them the same. I'll pass on some tips on writing good dialogue, and then you'll conduct an in-depth interview—with yourself!
The Future of Publishing
In our last lesson, we'll talk about the ways you'll inevitably doubt yourself as you write. You'll try out two exploratory writing exercises that will help you develop the trust you need to keep on writing. I'll have you consider the point of view of an alien living five million light years away. Humans have an odd habit of writing down events that may or may not have happened. Why do they like to write? What good does it do? How can they tell good writing from what isn't so good? From this perspective, you'll discover why the pursuit of meaning comes naturally to human beings. You'll get some good advice about steps you can take to continue to improve your writing, as well as explore publishing. In your final assignment, you'll share your short creative piece with me and your fellow students.


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The hunt for new heart drugs is losing momentum as resources are switched to other areas, notably cancer research, where investors get a better bang for their buck.
Cardiologists fear the fight against heart disease could stall as a result, following major advances in recent decades marked by the advent of drugs to lower cholesterol and blood pressure and to prevent dangerous blood clots.
The disparity between advances in cancer and heart medicines is already stark. Since the beginning of 2012, 17 cancer drugs been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, compared with just three for heart disease.
"There is a clear move of R&D from cardiovascular to cancer and other areas," said Michel Komajda, a heart specialist at Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris and a former president of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
Like many of his colleagues gathered at the annual ESC congress this week in Amsterdam, Komajda is worried.
Despite the giant drugmakers' stand touting heart medicines at this week's meeting of some 30,000 doctors, investment in cardiovascular medicine is ebbing—prompting calls for an urgent rebalancing of research priorities.
"There is a view among some that because we have already made a lot of progress in cardiovascular medicine then maybe it doesn't make sense to invest any more," Komajda said. "But there are still some big areas where we need progress, including acute heart failure, which is a growing problem because of an aging population."
To some extent, cardiology is a victim of its own success. By any measure, the global war on heart disease to date has been successful, because of better drugs as well as prevention strategies such as anti-smoking campaigns.
(Read more: E-cigarette sales are smoking hot at 1.7 billion)
In Europe, the death rate from cardiovascular disease has been cut in half over the past 30 years, while the risk of dying within 30 days of a heart attack has been halved in just 20 years.
No. 1 killer
Yet cardiovascular disease remains the No. 1 killer worldwide, and doctors fear a renewed epidemic of problems in 20 to 30 years time as a new generation of overweight and obese youngsters reaches middle age.
"It's a huge concern," said Patrick O'Gara of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, who is also president-elect of the American College of Cardiology. "We need to replenish the fuel that drives the engine."
Many patients remain at risk of clogged arteries, despite taking cholesterol-lowering statins, while heart failure—where the heart fails to pump blood adequately—remains a deadly disease that has seen little progress in treatment in 40 years.
Developing new heart drugs takes particularly heavy spending, with uncertain returns. Further, patent expirations mean many previously profitable heart drugs are now available as cheap generics, reducing drugmakers' revenue.

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'Business Journal, you have a problem'
Setting the record straight on Beaumont MRI
In a recent article that appeared in both the Business Journal and The Examiner, we tested a notion that had been offered almost as an article of faith – whenever local doctors got sick, they traveled 90 miles west to Houston for treatment. A billboard erected earlier this year near the intersection of Dowlen Road and Highway 69 proclaims, "Houston … you have a problem," then touts "World Class Surgery. Personal Attention. Right here in Beaumont."
The focus of the article was new specialty health care facilities including Previty Clinic at Baptist Hospital and the recently announced Victory Medical Center. We often solicit opinions from people with inside knowledge of a particular industry. On rare occasions, we agree not to identify them by name to encourage them to speak openly about institutions they might encounter in their business. That was the case with 'Boutique Medicine". Here is a comment that appeared in that story:
"There's no question we have quality health care in Southeast Texas because both hospitals have been recognized nationally – Christus and Baptist," said one observer who closely tracks the local medical scene, and enumerates the points that are important to many patients. "You have a board-certified physician – you definitely want to know that, and there's nothing wrong with asking doctors their clinical outcomes; you can go online and see that now. So you have everything that's necessary here to provide the service in the right atmosphere with the right clinical outcomes."
So far, so good. But the next comment from this unnamed observer proved problematic, as you will see – although it seemed like a minor point at the time:
"Insurance companies are all about saving dollars," said the observer. "If you need an MRI, they may send you over to the MRI place that used to be a movie theater that has a rejuvenated MRI machine that is probably 15 years old and you can get your MRI for half the price. Never mind they can't see a tumor that's in your liver – it's half the price!"
To be fair, this unnamed observer is not directly involved in promoting any particular diagnostic center so the comment did not immediately create concern in our editorial process. But it definitely caught the attention of Dr. L.E. Richey, owner of US Imaging, which has been serving patients and physicians in Texas since 1989. The company owns and operate nine outpatient medical imaging centers in Houston, Sugar Land, Pearland, Beaumont, Bay City and San Antonio.
As it happens, their facility here – Beaumont MRI – is located in an old movie theater on College Street near Gateway Shopping Center. Richey takes sharp exception to the idea that any of his facilities offer substandard care.
"We specialize in taking care of hundreds of thousands of people every year, and we're not in it just to make a buck," said Richey. "The quality of what we do is every bit as competitive in the marketplace. It's like I can have a nice home for $250,000 or you can have another home that costs a million dollars, but in the long run all you do is live in it – and that's what we're doing. We're practicing very effective medicine and taking good care of people, and when somebody says we're not doing quality work, that is very, very offensive – and just plain wrong,"
Richey said you don't have to just take his word for it, and cited this statement from Dr. L. Paul Gerson, a board-certified radiologist in private practice in Houston who spent 30 years as chief of neuroradiology at St. Luke's and Texas Children's Hospitals.
Gerson said he "was surprised at the negative description of Beaumont MRI.
I don't know who their 'local medical observer' is, but I can tell you that his opinion is wrong" and then offered a blunt assessment: "I think that as a 'medical observer' I can judge the quality of MRI studies and I can say that the images produced by Beaumont MRI are perfectly diagnostic. … I can see no justification for their uncalled for and negative portrayal of Beaumont MRI."
On a recent afternoon, Richey drove over from Houston to give the Business Journal a tour of his facility here. The former movie theater has been tastefully converted into a medical imaging center with no traces of the space where audiences once thrilled to the exploits of Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones.
Beaumont MRI offers a service menu that includes digital X-ray, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), MRA, CT scan and ultrasound in a spotless modern facility. During our visit, we observed center administrator Rhonda Rhodes and her staff offering warm, personal service to patients undoubtedly under stress from the health issues that required the diagnostic procedures in the first place. There was nothing "cut-rate" about any aspect of Beaumont MRI and despite the unflattering reference in our previous story, we would be perfectly comfortable with recommending Beaumont MRI to friends and family members.
That is a good thing, because subsequent investigation revealed that a preferred provider for the health insurance policy covering employees and family members at Examiner Corp – parent company of the Business Journal – is Beaumont MRI.
Business Journal editor James Shannon offers a weekly column of business news for readers of The Examiner. For more details, see the editions of the Business journal published monthly in Beaumont, Port Arthur and Greater Orange. Check out the blog at setxbiz.blogspot.com or e-mail james [at] beaumontbusinessjournal [dot] com.


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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
The Nursery
As of yesterday it is finally finished, and I am so happy with how it turned out. We got a late start on this little room mainly just because of all we had been through to get to this point. I had a lot of mixed emotions (mainly anxiety) about actually starting to create a space for our girl because I was still so nervous that something might go wrong. So we slowly pieced things together over the last few months and it is now officially my favorite room in the house.
Aside from being really excited to actually use the space, I adore this room because of all the love and little details that went into creating it. My Mom made the crib bumper by hand, the husband built the bookshelves, the bench, the foot stool and he was the mastermind in charge of the stripes (there might have been some swearing involved with that project). I made the mobile, some of the artwork and the pillows. My Dad cut custom mats for the frames and my Mom also made the curtains. The frames that the bunny pictures are hanging in were actually from the photobooth at our wedding, and the little silver picture frame above the dresser was a gift from when I was born, engraved with my birth statistics. The "love" pillow was a housewarming gift from when we first moved in together and even though you can't see it because her name is still a secret (much to my family's dismay) the ends of the bookshelves are monogrammed with baby's initial, in the same font as our wedding stationery. Even the stuffed pig has a special meaning between Brad and I, dating back to our first Valentine's Day together (in 1999...yikes).
*Edited to add: the paint colors we used were Martha Stewart "Heavy Goose" color matched in Olympic Low-VOC paint, and Olympic Low-VOC "Delicate White."*
I am officially 39 weeks pregnant tomorrow and more excited than ever to meet our girl. The waiting really does start to mess with you a little towards the end but I keep reminding myself to cherish the last few days of having her all to myself. I can't wait to see her face, to get to know her and I absolutely can't wait to be her Mommy...it's been a long time coming. I will be back soon with all the details of her arrival!
And of course, this one is still hanging around. She loves the rug in the nursery because it's soft and there is a window nearby just her height. She planted herself here the entire time I was taking pictures...
7 comments:
- Tara said...
Beautiful! This is such a lovely space which I am sure you will enjoy. All of the pretty and personal details just make it. Very nicely done!
- August 10, 2011 at 8:58 AM
- The Vintage Modern Bride said...
i really love the way it turned out. it's so gorgeous and your baby girl will just love it
- August 10, 2011 at 9:38 AM
- Kates said...
beautiful nursery! I am sure your baby girl will love it!!!
- August 10, 2011 at 9:49 AM
- stephanie michele said...
Hands down one of my most favorite nurseries! I love the detailing - and that frame with all of your birth details - someone gifted that to us when HUT was born. You have amazing taste!
- August 10, 2011 at 11:13 AM
- E @ Oh! Apostrophe said...
Oh it's so beautiful! I really love it. Love that little schnauzer of yours too... ours definitely thought it was his room for awhile, especially at first when our little guy was still sleeping in our room! Can't wait to hear all about her arrival, hang in there these last few days!
- August 10, 2011 at 2:16 PM
- The Real Housewives of Bucks County said...
This is really beautiful. I love the stripes, the clean lines, and all the meaning behind the decor. Best Wishes!
- August 14, 2011 at 4:16 PM
- Terese said...
wow, that's a really calming and beautiful space. i'm sure you will enjoy spending many hours in there! love those uncle goose blocks, too!
- August 18, 2011 at 6:29 PM


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Man, if only the upcoming 3DS game based on Adventure Time was some kind of side-scrolling platformer that blends the show's unique art style with pixel graphics and... oh. That's exactly what it is.
Very good, very good.
These tiny shots can be found in this month's Nintendo Power magazine, and while there's only two of them, that's two more screenshots than we had yesterday.
The best part? The article teaser reveals that the biggest inspiration for the game is Zelda II.
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Interest Groups
ALCTS Catalog Form and Function Interest Group
Saturday, June 28, 10:30am-12:00pm, Marriott Anaheim, Platinum Room 6
Charley Pennell, Principal Cataloger for Metadata, NC State University Libraries, Mary Charles Lasater, Authorities Librarian, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, and Cheryl Gowing, Director, Information Mgmt & Systems, University of Miami will share their experiences with implementing new user discovery environments (ENDECA, PRIMO and ENCORE)
Name: ALCTS Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group
Event: Annual discussion and business meeting
Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008
Time: 8:00-10:00 (business meeting from approx. 9:15-10:00)
Place: Disneyland Hotel, North Exhibit Hall, Meeting Room B
The summer meeting of the Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group at ALA Annual will consist of a discussion followed by a business meeting. The topic of the discussion is "IT Support in Cataloging Departments."
In March of this year, Erin Stalberg from NCSU posed some questions on the metadatalibrarians list about the existence of organizational models which combine both metadata competencies and MARC competencies. The questions elicited few answers and much interest. We would like to devote our meeting time to an open discussion of issues such as technical competencies, metadata competencies, workflows which accommodate both Marc and other metadata schemas, and ways in which these skillsets can be brought into our departments and have them support all of our workflows.
The discussion leaders include: Erin Stalberg, Head, Metadata and Cataloging, North Carolina State University Libraries; Myung-Ja ("MJ") Han, Metadata Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamapign; and Christopher Cronin, Head of Digital Resources Cataloging, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries Cataloging & Metadata Services Department.
Louise Ratliff, Chair of NRMIG has posted information on this informal forum to the Metadata Blog (http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php). Comments, questions and concerns about how your organization is blending traditional and new metadata skillsets and workflows are all welcome, and they will be collected and included in the discussion at ALA Annual.
Technical Services Administrators of Medium-Sized Research Libraries Interest Group, 10:30-12:00, June 28, Disney's Paradise Pier, Pacific C
The Technical Services Administrators of Medium-Sized Research Libraries Interest Group will meet from 10:30 AM-12:00 Noon on Saturday, June 28, 2008 in Disney's Paradise Pier, Room Pacific C. Our discussion topic will focus on the 7 Measures of Success as they apply to Technical Services. Small groups will consider each of the 7 measures within their three guiding principles: 1) commitment to purpose (a customer service culture and alignment with mission), 2) commitment to analysis and feedback (data driven strategies and engagement in dialog and ideas), and 3) commitment to action (adaptability and alliance building), as we relate them to real life examples from our work environments. We hope to see you there!
Branding : Claiming the Reader's Mind Space
Monday, June 30, 2008, 8-10 AM, Anaheim Convention Center, Room 213C
Sponsored by the ALCTS Publisher-Vendor-Library Relations (PVLR) Interest Group
In an increasingly competitive environment, publishers, aggregators, consortia, distributors, search engines, and libraries must all seek to maintain and/or increase name recognition among their users. Branding initiatives are expensive, but in terms of continued relevance and commercial success, they are crucial to all entities in the chain. How do these organizations approach the task? Are there ways to cooperate rather than compete? What is the effect of branding on the reader experience? Come hear what publishers, vendors and libraries are saying about this topic in an open forum where the follow-up discussion is sure to be provocative.
Emily Alford, Reference and Technology Librarian, Michigan State University
Evelyn Elias, Director for Wholesaler & Bookstore Sales, Taylor & Francis
Scott Bernier, Senior Director of Marketing, EBSCO Publishing
Jenny Walker, Executive Vice President of Marketing, Credo Reference
J. Michael Williams, Manager of Member Outreach & Communications, SOLINET
Moderator: Beth Bernhardt, Electronic Journals/Document Delivery Librarian, UNC-Greensboro
All are also welcome to attend the PVLR Business Meeting:
Saturday, June 28, 2008, 1:30-3:30, Doubletree Guest Suites, Tuscany A/B
Games and Gaming Member Interest Group
It's the first official meeting of the MIG!
Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Pacific Time
Place: Sheraton Hotel in Plaza A/B
Come chat about all things gaming-related in libraries, and hear about ALA's upcoming initiatives around gaming. Plus, hear the big announcement first (and no, I can't tell you what it is)!
Information Commons Membership Initiative Group
2008 ALA Annual Conference--Anaheim
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Hilton Anaheim, Conference Rm. 14
1. Round robin
2. New developments with information commons
3. Future of Information Commons MIG
4. Other
Join Us. Bring Your Colleagues
Subscribe to ALA's Commons listserv:
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2. Click on "View All Lists"
3. Scroll down to "email@example.com"
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Libraries Foster Civic Engagement Membership Initiative Group
2008 ALA Annual Conference --Anaheim, CA
Sunday, June 29, 2008, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Room Location: Hilton Anaheim, San Clemente
Updates on Library Civic Engagement Activities Around the Country
Topics will include:
Privacy Dialogue
2009 Pre-Conference
Deliberative Dialogue Survey
PLA Pre-Conference in Minneapolis
Civic Engagement Blog--See http://discuss.ala.org/civicengagement/
Join Us. Bring Your Colleagues
Subscribe to ALA's Civic Engagement listserv:http://discuss.ala.org/civicengagement/
1. Go to: http://lists.ala.org/wws
2. Click on "View All Lists"
3. Scroll down to "firstname.lastname@example.com"
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5. Fill in your e-mail address in the box at the top of the screen
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Virtual Communities and Libraries Member Interest Group
Second Life and Beyond: Librarianship in Virtual Worlds
("Virtual Communities & Libraries Exchange" in the official program)
Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008
Time: 4:00-5:30 p.m. Pacific Time
Place: Anaheim Marriott in the Marquis Ballroom NorthEast (Just a hop, skip, and jump from the Anaheim Convention Center -- sorry, no teleporting)
Program Description: Join Joe Sanchez from the University of Texas at Austin, Tina Coleman from ALA, Tom Peters from TAP Info Services, and other speakers for a lively and wide-ranging conversation about the prospects for librarianship and library education in a variety of virtual worlds, including:
- Second Life
- Whyville (a virtual world for tweens)
- Wonderland (a joint project of Sun MicroSystems and the New Media Consortium)
- Qwaq
- Prototerra
- Other virtual worlds too numerous to mention!
- YALSA Student Interest Group Sunday 10:30 AM to Noon in the Hilton's Capistrano Room
Library school students and those that work with them are invited to this meeting to talk about how YALSA can best serve student members.
- Reader's Advisory Interest Group Sunday, 4-5:30 in the Disney's Paradise Pier San Diego Room
The Reader's Advisory Interest Group is for everyone interested in connecting teens with books. Fiction, non-fiction, varying medias, it's all fair game. If you have great ideas, tried and true methods or brand new thoughts, or if you're unsure about how to approach teen RA or you want to learn more about honing this important skill, come meet and discuss! We're just starting out, so be there to sign the petition and help form this group into what you want and need!
- Teen Music Interest Group meets 4:00 to 5:30 on Mon. June 30 in the Hyatt's Imperial Room
- Gaming Interest Group meets Sat. June 28 from 1:30 to 3:30 in the Disneyland Hotel's North exhibit hall's meeting room F


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Helloo, everyone. I'm new here! Been looking for a place to post some of my art, get/give criticism, ect. I guess this'll be my little corner, then! <3
Some of these are kind of old ish... The zelda picture is fairly new. I drew these with a bamboo fun pen tablet and photoshop elements 5. :3 I believe theyrein line from oldest to newest, too... I think my style changes a bit over time. ^_^" Well, that's my first update! thanks for checking it out! :3
I didnt really realize right when i posted, but.. if anyone has a problem with the first image's nature (she doesn't appear to be wearing anything, but it's not completely revealing) I wont hesitate to take it down, maybe cut the bottom part off... ^_^"


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US corporate earnings will take centre stage with Apple, Microsoft, IBM and Google among those scheduled to release in the coming days.
So far, about 72 percent of the 67 S&P 500 companies which have reported quarterly results beat analysts' forecasts, according to Bloomberg News.
Results from General Electric and Morgan Stanley were among those that pleased investors on Friday, while shares of Intel copped a beating, reporting sagging sales after the market closed on Thursday.
After a weak start, Wall Street found momentum in the second half of last week that lifted it to five-year highs as the latest signs on earnings and the US economy proved positive, or at least better than expected, while House Republicans said they will agree to a temporary lift in the nation's debt ceiling.
The vote on a three-month extension to the US$16.4 trillion borrowing limit-set to be surpassed sometime from mid-February to early March¸ according to the Treasury Department-will take place on Wednesday.
The debt-ceiling vote is part of a rethink by House Republicans to get Senate Democrats onside with a budget that details spending cuts.
"We are going to pursue strategies that will obligate the Senate to finally join the House in confronting the government's spending problem," Speaker John Boehner said in a statement late last week.
In the past week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1.2 percent, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 0.9 percent, while the Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 0.3 percent. Both Dow and S&P 500 finished the week at their highest level in five years.
And equities seem to be extending their appeal when compared against fixed-income securities.
"From a yield perspective, a lot of stocks still yield a great deal of money and so it is very easy to see why money is pouring into the stock market," Stephen Massocca, managing director at Wedbush Morgan in San Francisco, told Reuters. "You are just not going to see people put a lot of money to work in a 10-year Treasury that yields 1.8 percent."
On Monday, US markets are closed for the Martin Luther King Jr holiday. In Washington on Sunday, President Obama will take the oath of office to mark the official start of his second four-year term.
On the economic front, the coming days will see reports on the housing market-existing home sales on Tuesday, the FHFA house price index on Wednesday and new homes sales on Friday.
Other data include the Chicago Fed national activity index and the Richmond Fed manufacturing index, both due Tuesday, as well as the PMI manufacturing index flash and leading indicators, both due Thursday.
In Europe, the Stoxx 600 Index edged less than 0.1 percent lower last week. The World Bank predicted another contraction for the euro-zone economy this year, while Germany downgraded its expectations for growth of Europe's largest economy in 2013.
Euro zone finance ministers are set to gather for their first meeting of 2013 on Monday with Dutch finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem poised to become president of the Eurogroup.
Policy makers at the Bank of Japan are meeting this week and are expected to announce further measures to halt deflation which may include open-ended asset purchases. In anticipation, the yen last week slid further against both the euro and the greenback.
"Expectations are nearly universal for a shift from a 1 percent to a 2 percent inflation target, including upsized [asset buying] measures," Dan Dorrow, head of research at FX broker Faros Trading in Stamford, Connecticut, told Reuters. "Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe and the political class as a whole have a very compelling need to push BoJ into a regime change and keep it there. The political pressure on the BoJ will not abate."
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IF YORKSHIRE's performance in the first session of this match had been an English essay, it would have been returned with a red line through it and the words: "Must do better".
After choosing to bowl beneath overcast skies, they conceded 132 runs in 29.3 overs, with exactly 100 of those runs coming in boundaries.
That they took three wickets in the process seemed neither here nor there.
Yorkshire were below-par, and the lunchtime score of 132-3 actually flattered them.
Not for nothing, however, are Andrew Gale's men back-to-back champions.
Even the best have their difficult periods, their sticky patches, and Yorkshire hit back in the manner that champion sides invariably do.
Five wickets fell in the second session as Notts tumbled to 238-8 at tea, and the home side were eventually dismissed for 261 before bad light claimed the last 24 overs.
Considering that Notts had been 77-0 after 15 overs, which would have been a creditable start in a 50-over match, the day turned out a darn sight better for Yorkshire than had earlier seemed likely.
Fourteen players in this fixture have international experience (seven on each side), so it was ironic – and not a little pleasing – that two men who have not represented their country shone the brightest on a miserably cold day.
Jack Brooks took 4-74 from 16 overs, recovering well after Gale had hauled him off after his first two overs with the new ball disappeared for 20, and Steven Mullaney top-scored for Notts with 78.
Brooks and Mullaney may lack the box-office appeal of such as Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow, Alex Hales and Stuart Broad, but their value cannot be doubted.
For the umpteenth time, pace bowler Brooks proved his priceless knack for taking wickets after a hitherto quiet start to the season, while opening batsman Mullaney went close to what would have been his third hundred in just four first-class appearances this year.
After draws with Hampshire and Warwickshire in their opening two games, Yorkshire handed a debut to David Willey and welcomed back Root for his first Championship appearance in more than 19 months at the expense of Jack Leaning.
Willey took the new-ball from the Pavilion End, but it was Mullaney and Hales who immediately stamped their authority on proceedings.
Mullaney struck three of Brooks's first five balls to the rope, and Willey struggled to make an impact after replacing the injured Ryan Sidebottom.
Even Steve Patterson was not his usual parsimonious self, the openers raising the fifty stand from 63 balls – Mullaney bringing up the landmark with a pulled six off Brooks.
Mullaney then dished out the same treatment to Liam Plunkett before Brooks took the first wicket with the first ball of his second spell. Hales, having played nicely hitting eight boundaries, misjudged a full-length ball which he drove to Root at short-cover.
In many ways, the innings was typical Hales – some great stuff and some not so great stuff, and it provided little conclusive evidence that he remains the best option as Alastair Cook's opening partner at Test level.
Brooks pounced again when Greg Smith dragged on a wide delivery that took out the middle stump, departing for a 12th-ball duck to leave Notts 89-2.
The session overwhelmingly belonged to Notts, but they lost a third wicket in the final over before lunch when Patterson snared Mullaney. He probably did not have to play at the ball which he edged to first slip, where Alex Lees did well to grab the chance at the second attempt.
Yorkshire bowled a much tighter line after lunch and were rewarded when Riki Wessels drove airily at Plunkett and was smartly caught by Root at second slip.
Notts slipped to 195-5 when Adil Rashid pinned Samit Patel, and to 201-6 when Brooks trapped former Yorkshire batsman Michael Lumb on 49.
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Bangkok/Jakarta: An Indonesian woman arrested over the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half-brother, were duped into believing she was taking part in a television show prank, according to police.
The revelation came as police raided an apartment in Kuala Lumpur and arrested a 47-year-old man holding a North Korean passport.
Police said in a statement Ri Jong-chol, born in 1970, was arrested on Friday night in Selangor state. He is the fourth suspect to be arrested in the investigations surrounding the 46-year-old's death at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Monday.
Indonesia's police chief Tito Karnavian said Indonesia had received information from Malaysia the woman, Siti Aisyah, was "just being used" and didn't realise it was an assassination attempt by foreign agents.
He said Ms Siti, 25, from Serang in Indonesia's Banten province, had been paid to participate in a comedy show. She was tricked into thinking she was taking part in Just for Laughs, a popular hidden camera series.
"So one of the females covers the eyes and the other one sprays something," he told reporters in Aceh. "They have done it three to four times [before]. She was given a few dollars for the action."
However he said it was suspected the spray used in the "prank" against Mr Kim contained a dangerous substance.
Malaysian police say Ms Siti and 29-year-old Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong were captured by CCTV cameras at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at the time that Mr Kim was poisoned on Monday. Mr Kim became unwell and died in an ambulance on way to a hospital after telling staff at an airport clinic he'd been poisoned.
Both women and a man police said was Ms Siti's boyfriend have been remanded in custody for a week, pending further investigations.
Ms Siti's mother told Fairfax Media she is a "simple country girl" who had been working in a clothing shop in Batam, an Indonesian island near Singapore.
Indonesian officials say immigration records show her last departure from Indonesia was on February 2 when she travelled from Batam to Johor, a state in southern Malaysia.
Ms Siti's nephew, Iqbal, who goes by just one name, said Ms Siti had also been involved in filmed pranks in Jakarta.
Mr Iqbal said Ms Siti received about 2 to 3 million rupiah ($200 to $300) for each filmed prank, which he added never appeared on TV in Indonesia.
He was quoted in news wire detik苏州夜总会招聘 saying the producer had not allowed her to watch the filmed pranks.
"The producer said: 'Why would you watch it? If you watch it, then it would be useless'," Mr Iqbal said.
Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla has also said Ms Siti had been a victim of some kind of trickery. Detik苏州夜总会招聘 reported he did not believe Ms Siti was a North Korean agent because she stayed in Malaysia and did not escape.
As of Friday night, the Directorate General of Immigration was yet to verify that the passport in the name of Siti Aisyah seized by Malaysian authorities was a real Indonesian passport or if the woman arrested was indeed Ms Siti.
Spokesman Agung Sampurno told Fairfax Media Malaysian police had visited the Indonesian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur on Friday.
"It was to get the original passport of Siti Aisyah verified, to ensure that it is a real Indonesian passport," Mr Agung said.
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"We haven't met her so far," he said. "We have to make sure that the woman is actually Siti Aisyah."
Ms Siti's mother expressed their disbelief over her daughter's arrest on Friday.
"That's impossible, my daughter is a good person," Ms Benah told Fairfax Media in a phone interview.
Ms Siti's former father-in-law, Tjia Liang Kiong, also scoffed at suggestions that Ms Siti was an agent.
"I just laughed … how can she be an agent? She doesn't speak any English and her highest level of education is only junior high school," Mr Kiong told reporters from his home in Tambora, West Jakarta.
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In the latest twist to the bizarre killing, a diplomatic row has broken out between North Korea and Malaysia over Mr Kim's body.
In his first public comments on the assassination, North Korea's ambassador in Kuala Lumpur Kang Chol said his country would "categorically reject" Malaysia's autopsy report and demanded the body be released to North Korean officials immediately.
"The Malaysian side forced the post-mortem without our permission or witnessing," Mr Kang told reporters outside a hospital.
"We will categorically reject the result of the post-mortem."
Mr Kang accused Malaysia of "concealing something" and "colluding with outside forces".
Mr Kang said North Korea rejected a post-mortem "because he is a diplomatic passport holder who is under consular protection of the DPRK (North Korea).
He made no reference to Mr Kim by name.
Malaysia's police chief Khalid Abu Bakar told reporters that rules and procedures must be followed in the case. Malaysia has said the body would not be released until it receives DNA samples from Mr Kim's next of kin.
Results of forensic tests have not been made public.
On Saturday, a senior Malaysian official said a second autopsy will be carried out on Mr Kim's body because the first one was inconclusive. The autopsy was expected to be carried out late Saturday.
South Korea has pointed the finger of blame at North Korea, citing a "standing order" from North Korea's leader.
Celebrations in Pyongyang to mark the birthday of Kim Jong-il, the men's late father, have gone ahead without reference to the death.
Yoji Gomi, a Tokyo-based journalist who wrote a book about Kim Jong-nam, told Associated Press that he opposed his family's rule of the pariah state and wanted economic reforms.
Mr Gomi said Kim Jong-nam appeared nervous when he interviewed him in 2011.
"He must have been aware of the danger, but I believe he still wanted to convey his views to Pyongyang via the media," he said.
"He was sweating all over his body and seemed uncomfortable when he responded to my questions … he was probably worried about the impact of his comments and expressions," he said.
"The thought now gives me a pain in my heart."
North Korean spies have a long history of assassinations and kidnappings in foreign countries.
One 14-year-old Japanese girl was kidnapped to teach Japanese to North Koran spies.
In October 2012, South Korean prosecutors said a North Korean man detained as a spy had admitted involvement in a plot to stage a hit-and-run accident targeting Kim Jong-nam in China in 2010.
The country's Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) has had agents infiltrate Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia for decades, according to Malaysian intelligence officials quoted by The Star Asia News Network. Agents disguise themselves working in jobs like the construction industry and run restaurants, it said.
Malaysia is one of a dwindling number of countries that have close relations with North Korea, which is under global sanctions over its missile launches.
Indonesia's vice-president Jusuf Kalla, told reporters on Friday he was confident Siti was not a North Korean agent, saying if she was she would have disappeared by now.
Police arrested Ms Siti in a Kuala Lumpur hotel early Thursday after being led there by her 26-year-old Malaysian boyfriend.
"Why would she go and stay in a hotel in the same city, so close to the airport," Mr Jusuf was reported as saying by Detik苏州夜总会招聘.
On Monday at the airport one woman stood in front of Mr Kim to distract him while another came from behind and dabbed a handkerchief believed to contain poison in his face.
Images of the women were captured on CCTV cameras.
Mr Kim became unwell and died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital.
Malaysian police are hunting four men believed to be North Korean spies who they believe orchestrated the assassination.
They believe the men are still in Malaysia and authorities have increased security at border exit points.
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Livestats: UCSBgauchos.com
Game No. 27
Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos vs. UC Davis Aggies
at UCSB's Thunderdome
Radio: AM 1290 KZSB in Santa Barbara
On-Line Audio: UCSBgauchos.com
On-Line Video: BigWest.org
Livestats: UCSBgauchos.com
• Tickets Available For Final Home Games
Plenty of tickets remain available for UCSB's final two home games of the 2011-12 season. The Gauchos will play Pacific on Thursday, March 1 and UC Davis on Saturday March 3. Both games tip at 7:00 p.m. To purchase tickets, drop by the Ticket Office in the Intercollegiate Athletics Building on campus, call 805-893-UCSB (8272) or online by clicking here. The Ticket Office is open from 9-4 Monday-Friday.
• On The Radio
All UC Santa Barbara basketball games are broadcast live in Santa Barbara on AM 1290 KZSB and will stream live online at UCSBgauchos.com and NewsPress.com. Gerry Fall is in his eighth year as the play-by-play voice of the Gauchos. Former Los Angeles Lakers and UCSB star Don Ford handles the color commentary. Santa Barbara News-Press legend Mark Patton gives his brilliant insight during pregame and halftime.
• Gauchos Remain At Home For Final Two Games
UC Santa Barbara will remain at home for its final two games of the 2011-12 regular season. The Gauchos, who played just their second home game in 35 days on Feb. 25 against Cal Poly, will host Pacific on Thursday, Mar. 1 and UC Davis on Saturday, Mar. 3. Both games will tip-off at 7:00 p.m. in the Thunderdome.
• Five Seniors Will Be Saluted Saturday
UCSB will salute its five seniors in a pre-game ceremony prior to Saturday's game against UC Davis. Orlando Johnson, James Nunnally, Jaimé Serna, Greg Somogyi and Christian Peterson will each be playing their final game at the Thunderdome. The ceremony will start at approximately 6:45, about 15 minutes prior to tip-off.
• UCSB Will Be Second Or Third Seed In Big West Tournament
Entering the final weekend of the regular season, UCSB is assured of finishing either second or third in the Big West Conference standings. Long Beach State has wrapped-up the league's regular season championship and the No. 1 seed in the tournament. The Gauchos and Cal State Fullerton are each 10-4 and tied for second-place in the conference standings, they are the only teams that can be seeded No. 2 and No. 3 in the tourney.
• The Gaucho Record
UCSB is 16-9 overall and 10-4 in the Big West Conference, tied with Cal State Fullerton for second-place. The Gauchos won their last game, a 68-60 decision over Cal Poly on Feb. 25, and have now won four of their last five and seven of nine. They have also won two in a row at the Thunderdome and five of their last six.
• UCSB Guaranteed Seventh Straight Winning Record
UCSB's 16-9 record guarantees that the program will post a winning record for the seventh straight year, the longest stretch in school history. Previously, the most consecutive winning seasons was six in a row beginning in 1970-71 and running through the 1975-76. The Gauchos have the longest run of consecutive winning seasons of any Big West Conference school. The next closest is Pacific, which has winning records in its last four seasons.
• Nunnally Ascends Too
Orlando Johnson's ascent up UCSB's all-time scoring list has overshadowed the performance of senior James Nunnally. Nunnally scored 20 points in Saturday's game against Cal Poly and now has 1,570 for his career. He is one of just six players in school history to score more than 1,500 points and needs just 11 to move past Mark Hull and into fifth on the all-time list. With a minimum of three games remaining in the season, it is conceivable that Nunnally could become the fifth player in school history to score 1,600 points and he will threaten Chris Devine's hold on the No. 4 spot with 1,607 points.
• Probable Starters - Quick Fact
F 0 Jaimé Serna - Has attempted just 15 shots in the last four games, a span of 96 minutes.
G 11 T.J. Taylor - Leads the team in assist to turnover ratio at 2.1-to-1.0.
F 15 Alan Williams - 79 of his 151 rebounds are offensive, 52.3%.
G 21 James Nunnally - Averaging 19.0 points and 9.7 rebounds in last three games.
G 33 Orlando Johnson- Has become UCSB's all-time leading scorer with 1,710 points.
• Probable Reserves - Quick Fact
G 1 Nate Garth - Has had three or more assists 11 times and Gauchos have gone 10-1.
F 5 Keegan Hornbuckle- Second on team in steals despite ranking 10th in minutes played.
G 10 Kyle Boswell- Has made 15 of his last 24 three-point attempts, 62.5%.
F 12 Lewis Thomas - Has played in just four of the last 10 games.
F 24 Christian Peterson - Averaged 3.3 rebounds per game in the last three.
C 55 Greg Somogyi - Has 176 career blocked shots, second on UCSB's all-time list.
•Gauchos Surpass Last Year's Big West Win Total
UCSB defeated UC Irvine on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 85-62. The win over the Anteaters moved the Gauchos' record to 9-3 in Big West play and the nine wins surpassed their conference win total of 2011. Now at 10-4, they are well ahead of their 8-8 record of a year ago.
• Williams Coaches 700th Game
UCSB head coach Bob Williams had already hit two milestones this year. On Jan. 2 at Cal Poly, he won the 223rd game of his Gaucho coaching career, breaking Jerry Pimm's previous mark of 222 wins. On Jan. 12 at UC Riverside, he coached his 400th game at UCSB. On Feb. 22 at Long Beach State, he hit another career mark when he coached his 700th game. Prior to arriving in Santa Barbara for the 1998-99 season, Williams coached at Menlo College and UC Davis.
• A Right, A Left, A Right, A Left...
In 2010-11, Orlando Johnson and James Nunnally combined for 1,194 points, the most ever by teammates at UCSB. Johnson and Nunnally also rank No. 5 on that list, combining for 965 points as sophomores in 2009-10. This year, the duo has combined for 876 points and needs just seven to move into the top-10 for the third time. If Johnson and Nunnally maintain their respective scoring averages for the three games they are guaranteed to play, they would score about 106 more points and finish with approximately 990, a figure that would also rank in the top-five in school history. Combined, they have scored 3,035 points during their three years as teammates, by far the most of any Gaucho duo.
• That 70s Show
On Feb. 25, UCSB defeated Cal Poly 68-60. In 25 games this season, the Gauchos have allowed fewer than 70 points 15 times, winning each time. The 15-0 record is in stark contrast to the 1-9 record the team has when it allows 70 or more. They have also allowed exactly 70 points on two occasions, going 1-1 in those games.
• That 80s Show
UCSB scored 85 points in its win at UC Irvine on Feb. 15, it was the fourth highest point total this season. It was also the ninth time the Gauchos have scored 80 points or more in 2011-12. The last time the Gauchos scored at least 80 points in nine or more games was in 1989-90 when they hit the mark 10 times.
• Few, If Any, Close Encounters
In their last game, the Gauchos defeated Cal Poly by a margin of eight points, 68-60. The eight-point margin equaled the smallest margin to decide a UCSB game in the last seven. Three times over that span, all wins, games were decided by eight points. The other four games, two wins and two losses, were decided by double-figures. Overall, the average margin in the last seven, win or lose, was 12.4 points. The average margin in four wins was 10.3 points and the average margin in two losses was 12.5 points. Overall this season, 14 games have been decided by double-digit margins and 11 by fewer than 10.
• In Defense Of The Three-Pointers
In its Feb. 4 loss at Cal State Fullerton, UCSB allowed the Titans to make a blistering 17-of-26 shots from three-point range, 65.4%. The 17 threes tied a Gaucho opponent record and set a Fullerton record. In the four games since, UCSB has significantly shored-up its three-point defense. On Feb. 11 against UC Riverside, the game immediately following the Fullerton game, the Highlanders made 1-of-13 shots from outside the arc, 7.7%, the lowest mark by an opponent this season. Overall, the last five opponents – UCR, UC Irvine, Utah State, Long Beach State and Cal Poly – have combined to make just 24 out of 90 three-point attempts, 26.7% and three of those opponents shot below 30.0%.
• UCSB Breaks Blocked Shot Record
UCSB blocked four shots in its Feb. 25 win over Cal Poly and has blocked 134 on the season, a new school record. The previous record of 133 was set in 2010-11. Senior Greg Somogyi, who ranks second in school history with 176 blocks, leads the way this year with 40, the 10th most ever. Somogyi, however, is getting plenty of help from freshman Alan Williams who has 34 swats, including 27 in Big West games. Orlando Johnson (22) and Jaimé Serna (23) are also in double-figures. Somogyi, Williams and Serna have each blocked at least five shots in a game this season.
•Johnson Makes His Points
Orlando Johnson, who was included on the John R. Wooden Award Midseason Top-25 List that was released last month, scored 16 points in UCSB's win over Cal Poly on Saturday and in the process became the school's all-time leading scorer. Johnson needed just three points against the Mustangs to exceed Alex Harris' total of 1,696 points. He now has 1,710 points and is the only player in school history to eclipse 1,700 points, doing so in just three seasons as a Gaucho. Johnson is now averaging 19.8 points, 6.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game. He leads the team in scoring and assists and should become the first player since 2004-05 to lead the way in those categories. The 496 points Johnson has scored this season are the 10th most in school history and he is within four points of becoming the first UCSB player every to score 500 points or more in three seasons. He has scored 20 or more points in three of the last four games and five of the last seven. In the last seven games, he has averaged 21.5 points per game. In the last four games, he has made 29-of-51 shots from the field, 56.9%, and 10-of-20 from three-point range, 50.0%. On Feb. 15 at UC Irvine, Johnson scored 25 points and added 10 rebounds for his fifth double-double of the season, his first since Dec. 16 at Washington. He has led the Gauchos in scoring in 10 of the last 13 games and 16 times this season. He has scored 20 or more 16 times and 25 or more six times. Johnson has scored in double-figures 24 times in 25 games and 85 times in 87 games during his career. He's scored 20 or more a record 45 times at UCSB. The Seaside, Calif., native tallied a season-high 36 points to go with 10 rebounds in Santa Barbara's double-overtime loss to nationally-ranked UNLV on Nov. 30. The 36 points were his second highest total ever. In addition to UNLV, Washington and UC Irvine, he's had double-doubles against Portland (26 points and 12 rebounds) and Westmont College (20 points and 12 rebounds). If the 383 points that Johnson scored as a freshman at Loyola Marymount are factored in, he has now tallied 2,093 in his collegiate career. Also, he leads the team in three-point baskets with 51 and has 163 in his career, tied for seventh in school history. In the last six games, Johnson has made 14 out of 28 three-point attempts, 50.0%.
• The Flying Nunnally
James Nunnally scored 20 points and had six rebounds in the Gauchos' Feb. 25 win over Cal Poly. He was coming off of consecutive double-doubles. On Feb. 22 at Long Beach State, he had 13 points and a season-high 12 rebounds and one game earlier, at Utah State, he had 24 points and 11 rebounds. Nunnally remains second on the team in scoring at 15.2 points per game and he leads the team in rebounding at 6.4 per game. He has been in double-figures 23 times in 25 games this season and has scored 20 or more six times, including two of the last three games. In the last three, he has averaged 19 points and 9.7 rebounds per game while shooting 52.5% overall, 50.0% from three-point range and a perfect 100.0% from the free throw line. Also, by scoring 20 in the last game, Nunnally has moved his career point total to 1,570, sixth in school history. He needs 11 to move into fifth all-time. He has had five or more rebounds 20 times this season and now has 609 boards in his career, 10th all-time. He needs just four to move into ninth-place. Nunnally is also acting the part of playmaker these days, averaging 2.4 assists per game. He has passed off for two or more 19 times, including 17 of the last 18. Finally, he had made two or more three-point baskets in five of the last eight games and 10 times this season. Nunnally now has 37 threes on the year. In his career, he has 167 three-pointers and ranks sixth on UCSB's career list.
• A DisSERNAble Difference
Jaimé Serna scored nine points and had five rebounds in the Gauchos' win over Cal Poly on Feb. 25. The nine points were one more than he had scored in the two previous games. In four games since scoring 19 points on Feb. 11 vs. UC Riverside, Serna has totaled 21 points, 5.2 per game. In those four games, he attempted a mere 15 shots in 96 minutes. Overall, he is averaging 8.9 points per game, third on the team, and 4.8 rebounds per outing, fourth on the team. In the last weekend of January, he had, arguably, the best regular season weekend of his career. On Jan. 26 at UC Davis, Serna scored 18 points and did so by making 9-of-10 shots, his best shooting performance as a Gaucho and the best by any UCSB player since Mike Vukovich was a perfect 12-for-12 in a win at Pacific on Feb. 3, 2001. On Jan. 28 at Pacific, he scored 15 points and collected a career-high 12 rebounds for his second double-double of the season. For his efforts, he was named Big West Player of the Week, a career first. Serna is also third on the team in blocks with 23 and now has 79 in his career, eighth in school history. Serna continues to lead the team in field goal percentage at 64.0 and in his career, he has made 315 out of 559 shots, 56.4%, the third highest mark in school history. Also, he now has 847 career points.
• The "Other" Williams
Freshman forward Alan Williams had nine points, nine rebounds and two blocked shots in the Feb. 25 win over Cal Poly. He made 4-of-9 shots and his only free throw attempt. Williams has had nine rebounds in consecutive games and is now averaging 6.3 per game, second on the team. He is fourth in scoring at 6.5 per game. In 14 Big West games, Williams is averaging 9.1 points, 8.2 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game. He had a career-high 19 points on Feb. 2 at Cal State Northridge. Williams has started the last 14 games and he's paid big dividends, averaging 9.0 points and 8.0 boards over that span. He has two double-doubles on the season. On Jan. 2 at Cal Poly, he came off the bench to scored 13 points and grab 10 rebounds and on Jan. 26 at UC Davis, he had 14 points and 12 boards. Overall, he has scored in double-figures five times and he has had 10 or more rebounds four times, all since the start of league play. Additionally, he has nine rebounds in four other games and five or more in 16 out of his 24 appearances. Williams is the only player on the team with more offensive rebounds (79) than defensive rebounds (72). Williams has blocked five shots twice this season, tying Greg Somogyi's freshman record Overall, he now has 34 blocked shots on the season, third on UCSB's all-time freshman list and he is within five of Doug Muse's record of 39. Williams currently has 151 rebounds on the season, fourth most by a freshman in school history.
• Who's The Bos?
Guard Kyle Boswell had nine points in 19 minutes off the bench against Cal Poly on Feb. 25. In the previous game, he scored 11 in a game at Long Beach State. On Feb. 15 at UC Irvine, Boswell had a career best 19 points, making 7-of-10 shots from the field and 5-of-8 from outside the three-point arc. The five three-pointers were also a personal best and the most by a Gaucho player this season. In the last four games, Boswell has averaged 11 points per game and he is now averaging 7.7 per game overall, fourth on the team. He's scored 10 or more points seven times this season. Boswell is second on the team in three-point field goals with 45 and he is tops in three-point percentage at 43.7%. In the last eight games, he has made 21 out of his 38 three-point attempts, 55.3%, and in the last five he is 15-of-24, 62.5%. Boswell has made at least two three-point baskets in seven of the last nine, eight of the last 11 and 14 times overall. He has hit at least one three-pointer in 19 straight and 24 times in 25 games.
• Tall Tales
Greg Somogyi played tied a season-low with just six minutes played on Feb. 25 against Cal Poly. One of the reasons his minutes were down was that he got hit in the mouth and needed stitches at halftime. In three games prior to the Cal Poly game, Somogyi averaged 15.7 minutes per game. Overall, he is averaging 3.2 points and 3.6 rebounds per game. He leads the team in blocked shots with 40. On Jan. 21, Somogyi made 5-of-6 shots and scored a season-high 10 points against Long Beach State. On Feb. 15 at UC Irvine, he had one of his best all-around games with six points, six rebounds and four blocked shots. On Jan. 19 vs. Cal State Northridge, he had a career-high 10 rebounds. Somogyi has had at least one blocked shot in 17 games and two or more 10 times. He recorded a season-high six swats on Nov. 26 vs. San Diego State, two shy of his school record. He has 176 blocks in his career, second all-time.
• Taylor Made
Freshman T.J. Taylor has started the last nine games for UCSB, the first starts of his career, and the team has gone 7-2. On Saturday against Cal Poly, Taylor scored two points on a pair of free throws. He is averaging 3.2 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game, but he has scored just two points in the last three games. Taylor has three or more assists eight times and had a high of six on Nov. 11 vs. Chapman. He has 47 assists and a mere 22 turnovers, a 2.1-to-1.0 assist to turnover ratio, best on the team. Also, his 16 three-point baskets rank fourth on the team.
Senior Christian Peterson played 18 minutes and was scoreless against Cal Poly, but he did have three rebounds. On Feb. 18, at Utah State, he had his best game of the season. Against the Aggies, Peterson played 21 minutes, easily the most since he also went 21 at San Diego on Dec. 13, and he tied his career-high with eight points, making all three of his field goal attempts. He also grabbed four rebounds, his highest total since he collected six at Washington on Dec. 16. Peterson has 10 boards in his last three games. In the last five games, he has totaled 79 minutes. In five games prior to that, Peterson played just 24 total minutes.
• The World According To Garth
Nate Garth played 15 minutes in Saturday's game against Cal Poly. He made his only three-point attempt against the Mustangs and had three points to go with four assists. While he is averaging 16.8 minutes per game on the year, Garth has averaged 19 per game in the last four. On Feb. 15 at UC Irvine, he played 22 minutes and had nine points and tied his season-high with six assists. Garth has now had three or more assists 11 times on the year and the Gauchos are 10-1 in those games. His other six-assist game came on Nov. 22 vs. Portland. The nine points at Irvine were three shy of his season-high of 12 set at Cal Poly on Jan. 2 when he was 3-for-3 from three-point range.
• Buckle-Up
Sophomore Keegan Hornbuckle played just one minutes in the win over Cal Poly and has now played just seven in the last two games and 18 in the last three. He is scoreless in each of the last three games. While he is averaging 3.8 points and 1.7 rebounds per game overall, Hornbuckle has scored just 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in the last 10 games. He had a season-high 14 points on Jan. 14 against UC Irvine. Despite ranking 10th on the team in minutes played, he is second with 18 steals.


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ByJeff Elder
San Francisco will tax the "Google buses," a little bit, anyway.
The luxury buses cruise the sometimes cozy streets of San Francisco's neighborhoods, picking up and dropping off commuting techies. They've become symbols of the growing resentment around gentrification and rising rents in the Bay Area. Many companies in Silicon Valley to the south pay for the bus service, but the derisive nickname "Google buses" has stuck.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced an 18-month pilot program Monday to charge the shuttle companies fees based on the number of stops they make in city bus zones. The shuttle companies would be charged $1 per stop, which the mayor's office estimates will bring in approximately $1.6 million in total revenue for the entire pilot. That total is intentionally limited: State law limits such fees to the cost of providing a service or policy. So all of the fees will go into policing the program.
The city and Silicon Valley companies including Google, Apple and Facebook, have been pulling the plan together, but recent protests brought more urgency. The city transportation authority must also approve the plan.
Only participating buses could use 200 designated city bus stops and would also have to abide by rules, such as yielding to city buses and making more room for other vehicles. According to the city, the shuttles pick up provide more than 35,000 commuters a day in San Francisco.
San Francisco's rents are among the highest in the nation, and many of the neighborhoods most desirable to young techies have seen huge rent increases. In response, protesters have latched upon the buses as symbols, bashing them, sometimes literally, as piñatas at protests. Last month a window of one of the buses was broken in an Oakland protest. In San Francisco, a protest turned theatrical as an affordable housing protester posed as a techie commuter and berated a crowd of protesters gathered around a bus.
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Sunday Sweets: Hope Springs Eternal
Many of you know Cakegirls from the show Amazing Wedding Cakes, or from Food Network cake challenges. Sisters Brenda and Mary and their staff have a reputation for fantastic, modern cake art, like this:
Many of you also know that on the morning of March 29th, the Cakegirls bakery tragically burned to the ground. Fortunately no one was hurt, but they did lose everything - and their staff is jobless until they can rebuild.
I have no doubt that Cakegirls will be back, bigger and better than ever, before too long. In the meantime, though, since their website gallery is currently down, here are a few of their lovelies I had on file:buy a Cakegirls t-shirt. The proceeds will help all of the employees stay afloat until the bakery can rebuild.
But wait, I have more!
Read on a for a sweet story.
This next cake is by Jane, of Cakes Come True and Truffles, Too in Cincinnati. Jane has no idea I'm writing this today, or even that I write a blog (much less this one! [evil snicker]), but I recently had an encounter with her I'd like to share.
First, some quick background: For the past 9 months or so, I've been following the story of junior Wreckie Jacob Taylor, a courageous 9-year-old who battled brain cancer with a big smile, right up until the day he earned his wings. On the tearful day when we learned Jacob was gone, I read that the funeral reception would be serving food, and naturally thought of sending some sweets over.
Since this was in another state, I scrambled to find a local baker. I found Jane's website, and John called her. Miraculously, she agreed to make and deliver three cakes with less than 24 hours notice. Amazing, right?
Ah, but there's more...
About a week later, John and I got a card from Jane. In it, she told us she was so touched by Jacob's story that she'd decided to take all of the money we paid her and donate it- in his memory - to The Cure Starts Now, an organization working to cure pediatric brain cancer.
Now, if you're like me, then sometimes you get convinced that pretty much everyone on the planet sucks. (Or at the very least, everyone on the internet. Heh.) Some days you think everyone is just too self-absorbed to care. But sometimes, on those days, someone like Jane will come along, and give you a little hope. She didn't know us, or Jacob, and she had a regular 9-5 job in addition to her bakery business, but she still went above and beyond for us and for Jacob's family. So Jane, you rock. Thank you.
Well, that's my sweet story. Stay tuned for our regularly scheduled sarcasm.
- Similar Sweets: Cute-Tastic!


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Why 809? Because that's the number of votes Cake Wrecks received over at the Blogger's Choice Awards. That's right, Wrecks fans, WE WON!!
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