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Splashing in the summer Cheng next NAU president TYLER DIXON Daily Egyptian The Arizona Board of Regents has named SIU Chancellor Rita Cheng the next president at Northern Arizona University.

The announcement was made today in a press release from the board. Cheng will be the 16th president in the history of NAU. “I am truly honored to become the next president of Northern Arizona University and to be a part of the rich tradition and culture that has made NAU the university of choice for so many outstanding students and faculty,” Cheng said in an Arizona Board of Regents press release.

SIU President Randy Dunn said Cheng has the skill sets and talents to succeed at NAU. “First of all I want to extend my congratulations to her,” Dunn said.

Dunn said he didn’t know when Cheng’s last day at SIU would be, but he still wants an interim chancellor in place by the start of the academic year.

He said the board would discuss which route it wants to take at the meeting on June 24th. Dunn said the board would have to decide if they want to fast track the appointment of a new chancellor or stay with an interim for an extended period of time.

Cheng will start her presidency at NAU on Aug. 15.

A call to Cheng was not returned at the time of publication.

Tyler Dixon can be reached at tdixon@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 252.

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Boston Robbins, 8, and Keenon Lindsey, 11, both from Carbondale, run through the water fountains Wednesday at Attucks Park. Robbins and Lindsey came with their grandmother to cool off from the hot day.

“This is the first time we’ve been here and it’s fun,” said Lindsey.

Board of Trustees to revisit tabled student fees The SIU Board of Trustees will make a decision on two student fees, both tabled during the May meeting, in a special meeting Tuesday in Edwardsville. President Randy Dunn said the special meeting was called in order to add the student media and athletic fee to bursar bills sent out mid-July, if approved.

Media fee awaits board approval LUKE NOZICKA Daily Egyptian William Freivogel, director of the School of Journalism, said he is optimistic the board will approve the $9 student media fee, which would help fund the university’s student-run newspaper, the Daily Egyptian.

President Randy Dunn said he predicts the board will not table the student media fee, but will provide an “up or down” vote at the meeting.

Freivogel assembled a Daily Egyptian working group, which consists of six outside professionals in the industry, at Dunn’s request after the fee was tabled at the May 9 board meeting. The group was tasked with finding solutions to ensure the 98-yearold publication does not go out of business.

“Immediately after that May meeting [Dunn] received – I think about 100 communications from Daily Egyptian alums who were very concerned about the future of the Daily Egyptian, who were reacting to that #SavetheDE campaign and were alarmed by what the board had done,” Freivogel said. “[Dunn] had me put together this swat team of media professionals and publishers to give [the fee] one more look.”

Freivogel and five members of the working group, three of which were in person and two of which were on the phone, discussed the future of the publication on a conference call June 12 with

Dunn, Dafna Lemish, dean of the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, and six Daily Egyptian faculty and staff.

Dunn said he participated for the first 30 minutes of the call to provide background to the group, answer questions and articulate his support for the publication.

“The DE is not going to disappear during the time that I’m president of SIU,” Dunn said in an interview Wednesday. “But I also said it’s clear the business model for the DE is going to have to evolve. … One of the things I told Bill Freivogel is the fact that I thought it was really important for them to be able to engage in their deliberations without me as the president or the chancellor kind of sitting there.”

The group, after the hour and a half call, recommended new practices to boost revenue and answered remaining questions about the need for a fee that were sent in a report to Dunn and the board.

“I think what [the report] does is it fills the need for some information that the board hadn’t had to this point,” Dunn said. “Particularly in a couple of specific areas – printing and ad pricing – the board had some very appointed questions that they wanted the group to take a look at, and I will say that this swat team, the working group, did not shy away from those and they tackled them and provided their thinking to the board.”

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Athletics fee to be voted on TYLER DIXON Daily Egyptian The SIU athletic department wants to raise its fee from $306 to $315.

“We are certainly understanding of the landscape with tuition rising and the economy,” Mario Moccia, director of athletics, said.

President Randy Dunn said while he does not try to predict how the board will vote, Saluki Athletics has shown it used its available resources well. Dunn said the board needed more information on how Saluki Athletics is dealing with “forever increasing expenditures while revenue is flat.”

Many universities get much of their money from subsidies.

SIU is one of five schools in the country that

reduced subsidies in the last year. The University of Illinois, the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Missouri and South Carolina State University joined SIU, according to a USA Today article.

Moccia said SIU has lowered subsidies three consecutive years.

“You can’t get away from the underlying fact,” Moccia said. “In the FCS, like SIU, we need subsidies to survive.”

A big financial plan for SIU in recent years was Saluki Way. The plans for Saluki Way were presented by then Chancellor Walter Wendler in 2005 with Moccia being named director of athletics in 2006.

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Southern Illinois Edwardsville 80.86%

Chicago State 94.12%

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Former Saluki returns to natural environment KETURAH TANNER Daily Egyptian Since graduating from SIU in 2009, an alumnus has migrated back to southern Illinois to be the new director of the Touch of Nature Environmental Center.

JD Tanner, originally from Sparta, started his new position May 27.

Tanner was previously the director of recreation and adjunct professor at San Juan College in Farmington, N.M. from 2010 to 2013. He also worked as an instructor for the Wilderness Education Association of Seattle.

“The environmental education program brought me here, along with family in the area and the fact that I went to SIU,” Tanner said.

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Tanner earned a bachelor’s degree in recreation with emphasis in outdoor leadership and therapeutic recreation in 2003 from Southeast Missouri State University. He then went on to complete his master’s degree with an emphasis in outdoor recreation administration from SIU in 2009.

Tanner said he has been getting up to speed with the center and how it operates.

“I hope to see more camps and programs expand through the year, not just in the main summer months,” Tanner said.

Tanner has been working with the different staff members at Touch of Nature, as well as other programs on campus to bring in more activities for the center.

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The report states outsourcing printing alone would save the publication roughly $40,000 to $80,000 a year.

Freivogel said the newspaper is no longer charging ad rates initially complained about

by Jason Thomas, publisher of the Carbondale Times. He said the Daily Egyptian will also offer free classified ads to students.

Freivogel said the $9 fee is a fraction of what a small town daily would cost. He said the report does note SIU-Edwardsville has a roughly $7 student fee for its twice per week student-run newspaper, the Alestle.

Several of the 17 potential solutions provided by the group include: considering a subscription for online publication or answering Google Survey questions to view articles, publishing a graduation or back to school edition, holding housing fairs, and selling a university calendar with Daily Egyptian staff photos.

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Alan Teska, the program director for conferences at Touch of Nature, has been working weekly with Tanner on ideas for the center.

“He has good energy and brings lots of experience,” Teska said. “I’m excited with his new ideas for programs and events.”

Touch of Nature has been working with campus programs for hands-on experience for the students. Architecture 242, which is an introduction class to basic materials and components using light wood frame construction, built an amphitheater for the grounds and are planning a grand opening in the fall.

Tanner said the center is also working with forestry classes for controlled burns and tree identification. There is also a

Dunn said while he cannot predict how the board will vote, the Daily Egyptian working group provided a “very thorough report on how the DE can move forward into the future in growing its revenue.”

Freivogel said the student-run newspaper’s future is “cloudy” and will rely on support from the president’s office if the fee is not approved.

At the May meeting, Dunn said he would continue to support the Daily Egyptian through the president’s office as previous SIU President Glenn Poshard did, who gave $55,000 from the president’s office to fund the publication through summer 2013.

“From the standpoint of articulating an argument for the importance of the student media fee as some bridge funding, I think they did a good job in that with their report,” Dunn said. “Given that’s the case, that doesn’t translate into a prediction on how the board will vote, but I do think that working group responded to the job put in front of them very well.”

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trail building class for students to work with a ranger to teach them trail design and maintenance.

“I want to expand the programs that already exist for students,” he said. “We’re more than just a couple of camp grounds.

We offer a lot of opportunities for the campus and the community.”

Teska, along with Tanner, help plan events for the center. Some of these events include weddings, camps and business retreats. Teska is also an SIU alumnus and has been with the Touch of Nature center for 15 years.

Erik Oberg, program coordinator for Underway Adventure Programs, is another staff member that works closely with Tanner. The Underway Adventure Programs offers summer

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Moccia said money brought into the athletic department is split into operational costs and paying off Saluki Way. The remaining cost for Saluki Way is about $9 million but with pledges coming in it could be only have of that, he said.

Mark Scally, executive associate athletic director for finance, said the finances were stable in 2007 when he was promoted from assistant athletics director.

“We weren’t in financial trouble by any sense but our model was built very heavily on the student fee, and continues to be,” Scally said.

Scally said they were projecting to continue to grow at the pace they had been but certain programs did not do as well as they had hoped.

“I think initially our plan was to continue the way we were, nobody would have foretold the depths that our basketball program would have struggled,” Scally said. “At that time we were Sweet 16 and looking to keep rolling.”

Moccia said the department is being as frugal as possible and they are trying to chase down every dollar that is out there.

“We’re pretty much down to the bone on how we’re operating…” Moccia said. “We’re operating on a pretty thin staff model.”

Currently, Saluki Athletics has three full-time media relations personnel for 18 sports. Moccia said they are basically a one-person shop in compliance and marketing.

camps for kids, learning-throughdoing programs, obstacle course activities and survival skill training.

Oberg and Tanner said they hope to get outdoor expeditions planned and adventure trips for students.

“He seems really level headed and ready to work,” Oberg said. “He comes with great credentials and experience.”

Tanner holds several professional certifications and has worked as a writer and photographer for falcon guides Falcon Guides in Guilford, Conn. Falcon Publishing was started in Helena, Mont., in 1979 and covers a wide range of outdoor activities.

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“Obviously, I think, everyone shares the concern about the fact that if you look at the balance sheet for Saluki Athletics, it continues to get more and more expensive to fund that program even as student fees and ticket sales haven’t been bringing in as much as might have been anticipate,” Dunn said.

Moccia said the cost of everything is getting higher and they still have to pay the tuition of their student athletes.

While ticket sales have been declining in recent years, the department is optimistic with the sell-out crowd for the men’s basketball game against Illinois State in the season finale on Mar. 1.

The athletic department brought in IMG Learfield Ticket Solutions, a commission based company, whose only job is to sell tickets. Scally said they have had tickets for sale for years but they haven’t been selling.

Dunn said he did not ask Saluki Athletics to organize a group of outside professionals to research other revenue generating options like he asked William Freivogel, director of the school of journalism, to do after the student media fee was tabled May 9.

“We did not have an outside group coming in to work on this,” Dunn said. “We just asked staff to pull a group together and provide some of this information that the board didn’t have in May.” Moccia said he understands fees are not easy.

“We understand the difficulties in student fees, that they face, the appearance of it and everything,” Moccia said. “We get it, I mean Mark (Scally) has a kid in college here so he gets it. A lot of people have kids in college here.”

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Making movies, girl style MARISSA NOVEL Daily Egyptian Movie ideas buzzed through the air Wednesday morning as each young filmmaker described her unique approach she would like to bring to the big screen.

Girls Make Movies, a weeklong production camp for high school girls offered by the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, began its fifth year Monday. Women faculty members from the Department of Cinema and Photography and volunteers teach the girls about how to plan, shoot and edit short films while living on campus.

Along with the production of the films and storytelling, the girls can participate in recreational activities such as bowling, swimming and a trip to Little Grassy Lake. Each evening they attend film screenings selected by faculty members followed by a discussion. At the end of the week, the girls invite their families to enjoy a complementary dinner and a screening of their final films.

Professor Sarah Lewison, one of the founders of the camp, said the low enrollment of women in the Department of Cinema and Photography

at SIU inspired her and other faculty members to create the camp specifically with girls in mind.

She said the economy of the region also plays a big role in how the camp was organized in the beginning stages.

“The region is really poor, this is one of the poorest parts of Illinois,” she said. “We just wanted it to be affordable. Anybody can come to it and that’s been really important to us.”

She said a large amount of financial support comes from the Illinois Broadcasting Association.

Lewison said each girl has access to the equipment in the MCMA checkout room as well as the computers in the New Media Center inside the Communications Buildings. She said this gives the girls adequate time to develop their films.

“They shouldn’t have to worry about the production anxieties most people have to contend with once they become full time students,” she said. “Instead, they can work on just really learning the cameras and really kind of figuring out how to translate their creativity and imaginations into a document that speaks to other people.”

Rosie Berkman, an SIU alumna, is in her fourth year working with the camp. In previous years she

was a volunteer, but this year she taught a directing workshop.

Berkman said she enjoys seeing the girls’ ideas take form.

“To just make little suggestions and all of a sudden there’s a light bulb that goes off,” she said. “Seeing all that come together is so inspiring and it’s so overwhelming and gratifying at the same time.”

Hannah Tate, a soon to be senior at Carterville High School, is in her second year at the camp.

Last summer, Tate made a documentary style film about her favorite color, pink.

Tate said she might take the same approach this year, but instead shift the theme to cuteness.

She said she is interested in possibly pursuing animation in college but is unsure about which university she will attend.

“I really like that it encompasses all the different things about making movies,” Tate said. “It’s not just teaching you how to use a camera but teaching you how to make stories.”

Marissa Novel can be reached at mnovel@dailyegyptian.com.

Camp Little Giant creates big opportunities STOREY MAYER Daily Egyptian Camp Little Giant has been helping people throughout the area since the 1950s.

Camp Little Giant is a part of Touch of Nature Environmental Center, SIU’s outdoor laboratory and retreat center, and is the first residential camp that solely serves people with disabilities to be acknowledged as part of a University.

It was the first camp in the nation to be recognized by the American Camping Association (ACA) and one of the original developers of the Special Olympics helped found the camp.

Camp Little Giant prides itself that they can accommodate both children and adults ages 8 to 88 with a variety of disabilities.

Vicki Lang is the coordinator of Camp Little Giant and of therapeutic recreation at Touch of Nature.

Lang said the main purpose of the camp is “to give individuals with various types of disabilities an opportunity to experience a camp no different than anyone else would get to.”

“‘Yes, you can do that!’ is our candid here at Camp Little Giant,” Shaina DiLalla, head camp director, said.

The camp is divided into 11 different weeks and each week is designed to focus on a particular age range or specific characteristics of the campers.

There are specialized programs for physical and developmental disabilities, visual and hearing impairments, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, autism, ADD/ ADHD, traumatic brain injuries and special needs individuals.

Located on Little Grassy Lake bordering the Shawnee National Forest, Camp Little Giant is able to offer various beach and water activities, which include supervised swimming, paddleboats and pontoon boat cruises.

The camp also offers other activities such as arts and crafts, nature hikes, music, drama, hayrides, fishing and campfires.

Camp Little Giant has 17 cabins which can each hold up to eight people. This gives the campers a choice whether to reside in the cabins during the night or just stay for the activities during the day.

There are counselors and nurses available 24 hours at Camp Little Giant.

Each of the various faculty works to ensure that the campers have complete supervision and the best time imaginable.

“Many of the campers’ parents say that the second the campers go home they won’t stop saying “I can’t wait to go back next year!’” DiLalla said.

Although Camp Little Giant does teach the campers to make friends, become more aware of their surroundings, build confidence and increase independence therapy is not the particular goal, a worker for Camp Little Giant said.

“The main focus of Camp Little Giant is simply to give the participants an opportunity to come have a great time and vacation no matter what impairs them,” Lang said.

For more information on Camp Little Giant contact Vicki Lang at 818-4531121 ext.231 or at vickl@siu.edu Storey Mayer can be reached at smayer@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 254

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Unlucky gamble with ‘Think Like a Man Too’ RICKY BENTLEY The Fresno Bee The nearly complete lack of laughs in “Think Like a Man Too” is reason enough to suggest that this production filmed in Las Vegas should have stayed in Las Vegas. What makes this waste of talent so much worse is that it’s a sequel to such an endearing and funny film in the 2012 release, “Think Like a Man.” The original offering was a rare cinematic work that touched your heart and the funny bone perfectly.

The sequel trades all of that for a script that’s so uninspired it takes continuous rants by Kevin Hart and a music video stuck in the middle to help fill the gaping comedy voids.

“Think Like a Man Too” brings together the same couples from the original film. This time, instead of focusing on the highs and lows of relationships, the group heads to Las Vegas for the wedding of Michael (Terrence Jenkins) and Candace (Regina Hall). Why Vegas? Who knows? Who cares?

As soon as the setting moves from the southern California locale of the original movie to the Las Vegas strip, the

sequel immediately turns into a cheap “Hangover” knockoff.

One of the biggest mistakes is that the men and women head in separate directions for bachelor and bachelorette parties. What made the original film so good was watching the interplay of these couples. Their rocky road to romance was a journey worth taking, especially the efforts by the characters played by Michael Ealy and Taraji P. Henson to connect.

That’s all been replaced by uninspired antics. Watching Hart dance in his underwear or pick a fight in jail has all the humor of losing your life savings at blackjack.

Hart’s not alone at dragging this movie into a dismal mess. Jenifer Lewis plays the mother of the groom who obviously doesn’t think the bride is good enough for her son and makes every attempt to spoil the wedding and the bachelorette party. This kind of overbearing mother might have worked on a ‘70s sitcom, but in the 21st century it just plays mean.

Sequels generally disappoint.

Rarely do they fail this completely, especially when both movies are the work of the same director (in this

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case, Tim Story) and writers (Keith Merryman and David A. Newman).

It’s as if they had never seen the first movie and just decided to use only enough energy to cobble together an unoriginal and disappointing tale.

The first film was so good any director looking to make a romantic comedy should watch it to understand the right way to handle the genre. Directors should watch “Think Like a Man Too” to see all of the pitfalls that can derail a sequel.

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Digital savant: Internet outrage engine shows no sign of slowing OMAR L. GALLAGA Austin American-Statesman Sometimes I think that if social media were someone we were collectively dating or were married to, that it would be time to talk about a breakup.

For all the joy it can bring us (instantaneous communication; funny cat photos; live commentary on important San Antonio Spurs games), social media pushes our buttons. I can’t think of anything in so-called real life that so consistently enrages and annoys, encouraging people I know to expose the worst parts of their personality.

Cranky people online are not new. I’ve probably been one of them since, say, the late 1990s.

But, at least for people who spend a lot of time online, the ubiquity of social media — Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, dozens of others some interact with every day — has allowed us to fall into a comfort zone of pure id. We react to things when they happen as they happen, and our guard is down; we’re apt to pile on to commentary about breaking news or to join an online mob when someone is exposed as saying something racist or

when they simply make a mistake.

That part worries me. We’re quick to outrage, slow to apologize or even go back and acknowledge when we’ve overreacted.

Sometimes, the outrage is warranted. When Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was revealed to have some very outdated ideas about race, NBA players and millions of others took to Twitter to express anger and disbelief. Some tweets were eloquent, others much less so.

But even when being offended is warranted, there’s a piling on magnified

by Twitter’s echo-chamber effect. It becomes a game of hashtag bloodsport, each person trying to top everyone else with the cleverest, most succinct take on that day’s drama. The person who gets retweeted most wins, even if it’s preaching to the choir. There’s a new category of news story you can find, even on mainstream sites, “The Best Twitter Reactions to ...” — an easy-to-build kind of aggregation that rewards the funniest or most impassioned posts.

Of course, having the reaction that stands out most can also lead to trouble.

Lean too far into the outrage and you

could end up offending others. It’s a line that comedians have had to be increasingly aware of even as they try to skate as close to the edge of acceptable for the sake of humor.

Jenny Johnson, a popular Houston writer who has found fame on Twitter, gained notoriety for a Twitter feud she had with singer Chris Brown in 2012.

The exchange got so heated Brown deleted his Twitter account. In March, Johnson appeared on a South by Southwest Interactive panel with other Twitter comics, discussing the perks and perils of Twitter comedy. But a few months later, Johnson herself caught a wave of Twitter protest for tweets about Kim Kardashian, accused by some of leaning too much on racial humor.

Johnson’s unapologetic response? A string of tweets about race.

The more well-known someone is, the more likely it is that everything they post online will be scrutinized and reacted to unfavorably. Actors Alec Baldwin and Shia LeBeouf, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, artist Kanye West and singer Rihanna all seem to have love/hate relationships with the instant-reaction culture of social media, engaging in

angry debates or provoking fans when they’re not deleting accounts or ducking bad press generated from what they post.

Celebrities aren’t the only targets, though. A lowly intern mistakenly posting on a company’s social media account is just as likely to create a firestorm.

But why do we react so strongly to these things, becoming what the New York Post once called in a headline, “The Internet outrage factory?” What sets us off?

Andrew Dillon, dean of the University of Texas School of Information, said research shows that during all that time we spend staring at screens, more effort is required to achieve the same comprehension as getting our information from paper. And separately, online it feels like we’re engaging in an online conversation, rarely pausing to reflect for deeper meaning before we weigh in. “Not only does this increase the speed of response, but it tends to suppress careful consideration and deep discussion, leading often to decontextualized commentary and a breakdown in shared understanding,” Dillon said.

This becomes troubling when you consider how much of what’s posted online, even from reliable sources, can be

out of context or simply wrong. Late last year, when a New Jersey waitress posted that customers refused to tip her because she was gay, the Internet exploded in outrage, decrying her mistreatment. It turned out she made up the incident and was later fired from her job.

The actor James Franco earlier this year was accused of inappropriate flirting with a 17-year-old via the photo social network Instagram. It didn’t take long for news of the lechery to spread, but even today, it’s unclear if the incident wasn’t just an elaborate piece of performance art for a fictional Franco film character.

The Internet is rarely what it seems.

We get catfished. We fall victim to clever marketing tricks. We pass on bad information because it’s there and we want to be first, to show that we’re in the know. But anger and outrage don’t really bottle back up well, especially when the target of the scorn turns out to be innocent.

But it’s also possible that the alternative is worse. At least we have channels where anyone’s voice can carry further than ever before, where collective speech is easy to corral into something useful, or at least something that can be acknowledged.

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Aries — Today is a 6 — Decrease financial risk to avoid danger.

Choose for family. If it goes against the grain, turn it down.

Forgive miscommunications, and ignore gossip. Your energy grows.

Cancer — Today is an 8 — Discuss how to manage new work.

Move quickly to avoid mistakes.

Delegate to your team. Angels guide your efforts. Make improvements at home. Make decisions together.

Libra — Today is a 7 — The action’s behind the scenes. You can’t do everything. Work with partners for best results. Write news releases, and issue statements after tomorrow. Be receptive to input fom your team.

Capricorn — Today is a 7 — Things don’t work as expected.

Avoid travel and transportation.

Hold your temper and delegate obligations so you can focus. If you don’t know what to say, stay quiet.

Taurus — Today is a 7 — Oblige another’s demands without spending a fortune. Listen, learn, and stick up for your point of view.

A fruitful opportunity arises. Don’t think of how it’s supposed to go.

Leo — Today is an 8 — Leave your money in the bank and find clever, inexpensive promotional ideas.

Talk is cheap. New developments change the assignment. You’d rather play than work; get outside.

Scorpio —Today is a 7 —Verify data and let problems sort themselves out. Don’t share details with friends who don’t need to know. Handle administrative paperwork and update plans. Up family holdings.

Aquarius — Today is a 7 — Slow, certain steps make progress.

Keep practicing. Ignore criticism for now. Avoid risky propositions and nebulous business. Money’s tight, so stick with reliable clients.

Gemini —Today is a 7 — Intention works better than argument.

Let go of your opinion, and aim for results. Reschedule lowerpriority objectives to focus on an urgency. Talk over your concerns.

Virgo — Today is an 8 — Don’t buy gifts for loved ones yet; meditate first. Up the organizational level to avoid losing important information.

Let go of a preconception. Use energy for work and health.

Sagittarius — Today is an 8 — Modifications may be required.

Grow your influence (and savings) with prudence. A discussion about money could get unpleasant.

Read contracts thoroughly.

Pisces — Today is a 7 — Try not to blow off responsibilities.

Duty calls. Decrease stress with short, frequent nature breaks.

Let your partner do the talking.

Meditation and reliable clients.

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Spurs are unstoppable if team remains intact

BEN BOLCH Los Angeles Times S A N A N TO N I O — Sorry to disappoint you, but the 2014-15 NBA season is over.

Spare us the pretense of training camp, the regular season and the playoffs if the San Antonio Spurs return intact after dissecting the world’s second-best team like a chilled, dripping laboratory frog.

What we witnessed in these Finals was not just championship basketball, but Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,� Monet’s “Woman with a Parasol.�

And some people try to pass off soccer as the beautiful game. “They played the best basketball I’ve ever seen,� Miami Heat forward-center Chris Bosh said Sunday night in what qualified as an understatement after San Antonio’s seriesclinching 104-87 rout in Game 5.

The Spurs’ dominance could be seen in the numbers and every other measure of greatness. They outscored Miami, the twotime defending champion, by 70 points over five games, a Finals record. They made 52.76 percent of their shots, also a record. And they won 12 playoff games by 15 or more points, a single-season record.

Add it up and you’ve got a team that can’t be

stopped, provided Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili come back for one more season and the supporting cast continues its slow, hospitable takeover. “That is the beauty of the team that we’ve had this year,� Duncan said. “We’ve had 10, 12 guys with the ability to step in and make a difference.�

Finals most valuable player Kawhi Leonard did it with his defense, rebounding and assertiveness on offense despite zero plays being called for him. Boris Diaw did it with his passing and his court savvy. Patty Mills did it with his fearlessness and his knockdown three-point shooting.

Even the Spurs were in awe of what they were doing. “Sometimes I felt like saying, ‘Wow, this is sweet,’� Ginobili said. “It was really fun to play like this. It was really fun to watch when I was on the bench. I think we played a really high level. We shared the ball maybe as never before. Seeing how involved and how important everybody that was part of the team felt made it even more special.�

Leonard’s award was all the more impressive considering he was a nonfactor for the series’ first two games. Afterward, Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich told Leonard to forget about the pedigree of his more established teammates. “’The hell with Tony, the hell with Manu,

you play the game,’� Popovich said, recalling the conversation. “’You are the man. You’re part of the engine that makes us go.’�

The 22-year-old Leonard was more than part of the equation, soaring to dunk a Mills miss in Game 4 and rising for the threepointer midway through the second quarter that put the Spurs ahead to stay in Game 5.

He averaged 23.7 points per game over the final three games of the series. “It just feels like a dream to me,� Leonard said after hugging his mother and breaking into a rare smile as his teammates playfully smacked him all over his body upon the MVP announcement.

Defending Leonard must have seemed frightening to the Heat with his wingspan of a 7-footer and hands bigger than anyone on Mount Olympus.

The Spurs qualify as the great American success story precisely because they have players who hail from Australia, France, Argentina, Brazil, Canada and Italy in addition to the United States.

Credit Popovich, General Manager R.C. Buford and owner Peter Holt in addition to the team’s foreign legion. “The guys have character,� Popovich said. “They play the game the way we ask them to play it. They don’t get too excited

if they’re doing well, and they don’t get too down if things are going badly. They just try to execute.�

Spurs fans quickly snapped up T-shirts reading “NOT 1-NOT 2-NOT 3-NOT 4-BUT 5 CHAMPIONSHIPS� after the silver-and-black confetti fell from the rafters Sunday, the phrase lampooning the presumptuous title counting of Miami’s LeBron James upon his arrival in South Beach in the summer of 2010.

It wasn’t as much a dig on James as a boast about the Spurs’ achievements thanks to Duncan, Parker, Ginobili and their largely underappreciated understudies. “We’re a true team,� Parker said, “and everybody contributes.�

Even their kids. When Duncan ascended the podium in the interview room after winning his fifth championship, he was accompanied by his children. Asked what they thought of their father, daughter Sydney said, “I think he did awesome and he tried his best.�

Son Draven needed a bit more prompting, with Duncan telling him to say “something nice about me.�

Said Draven: “I like his hat.�

It was a championship souvenir Duncan will get to wear again a year from now, as long as he sticks around.

At 11, Lucy Li is the youngest player in US Women’s Open CHIP ALEXANDER The News & Observer PI N E H U R S T, N .C. — If Lucy Li handles Pinehurst No. 2 and the U.S. Women’s Open with the ease she handled a press conference Tuesday, she should be fine.

Forget that Li is 11 years old and the youngest player ever to qualify for the Women’s Open. On Tuesday, she answered questions from a room of adults with confidence and candor that belied her age.

She wasn’t wide-eyed or edgy in any way. She gave some thoughtful answers, some surprising answers.

There were a few giggles. But she came off pretty polished, which could be an indication of how she might deal with the test that is the Women’s Open, and on an unrelenting course that is No. 2.

Li was asked if she had ever been intimidated on a golf course. “No. I just don’t care that much,� she said, causing laughter in the interview room.

Anything about playing in the Women’s Open make her nervous? “Not really,� she said.

In the 16-minute media session, Li talked of Donald Ross courses, her favorite sports, favorite subjects in school, favorite golfer, favorite foods.

There even was a question about the last two books she has read. “I love Rick Riordan, so I read all of his books,� she quickly replied. “And I like reading Sherlock Holmes, too.�

Li is listed at 5 feet 2 inches, which may be generous. Michelle Wie, one of the LPGA’s biggest names, said she was introduced Sunday afternoon to Li, saying her first impression was: “She looks so darn cute.�

Wie said she hoped Li would feel comfortable enough to ask

questions of the other players. “We’re not scary, we won’t bite,�

Wie said. ‘The real deal’ It’s not as if Li was issued an invitation to the U.S Women’s Open by the U.S. Golf Association – the way Beverly Klass competed in the 1967 Women’s Open at age 10.

In the USGA sectional qualifier at Half Moon Bay, Calif., Li finished at even-par 142 and was the medalist by eight shots. “She’s the real deal,� said Bryan Bush, a local Pinehurst caddie who will carry Li’s bag this week.

Li, from Redwood Shores, Calif., got in nine holes Tuesday at No. 2. One of her playing partners was Beatriz Recari of Spain, an LPGA Tour pro and European Solheim Cup member last year. “I think she’s fearless. I think she’s going to do well,� Recari said. “There were a lot of people out there watching and clapping and she seemed completely calm. It’s good to see youngsters aren’t afraid to compete at the highest level. “She’s shorter than everybody else, but she hit it pretty solid. It’s a long course, but I don’t think she’s afraid of hitting woods into the greens.�

Stacy Lewis, the top-ranked women’s player in the world, said she first noticed Li on the practice range Tuesday, adding, “How little she was and the pigtails kind of caught me off-guard.�

Nor was Lewis that convinced that an 11-year-old playing in the Women’s Open was such a good thing. “I’m not a big fan of it,� Lewis said. “She qualified, so we can’t say anything about that. You qualify for an Open, it’s a great thing. But I just like to see kids be successful at every level before they come out here.�

It was only when she talked about celebrating birthdays at a Dave & Buster’s and then watching a movie that she sounded like a sixth grader.

And the high-pitched giggles.

Those were a giveaway, too.

Golf Knowledge While Webb Simpson is Li’s favorite golfer, she said she was “inspired� by Erik Compton, the PGA Tour pro who has had two heart transplants. In one of the best story lines of the U.S. Open, Compton tied for second place with Rickie Fowler behind champion Martin Kaymer of Germany. “He’s such a nice guy and his story is so impressive,� Li said of Compton.

Bush, Li’s caddie, has lived in Pinehurst since 1982. He was recommended to Li’s parents,

Her decision to play Lewis said it would be wise for Li to play in more events such as the U.S. Women’s Amateur before competing against seasoned LPGA professionals. Li qualified for the U.S. Women’s Am last year _ the youngest to do it _ and was the youngest to reach the match-play portion during the 2013 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links event. “I just like to see kids learn how to win before they come get beat up out here,� Lewis said.

Li said it was her decision, not her parents’, to attempt to qualify for the Women’s Open this year. “Because it’s 36 holes and I didn’t care if I qualified or not,� she said. “I just wanted to go for the experience.�

Doesn’t sound like an 11-year-old.

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Bush, 38, said he was stunned to learn of Lucy’s golf knowledge. She had read books about Ross, who designed and built the No. 2 course, as well as such famous golf architects such as Alister MacKenzie, who designed Augusta National Golf Club. “I was kind of blown away, really,�

Bush said. “She knew how Ross built the (No. 2) greens. The key phrase for us to always remember, she said, was ‘Ross built the green to repel balls, not to receive them’ and that you need to hit the right spots.�

Li received a lot of exposure on the Sunday before this year’s Masters, winning her age division in the inaugural Drive, Chip and Putt Championship at Augusta National. The Golf Channel

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