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We welcome NBA superstar Baron Davis, who shares his insights into the transition from sports to business. Baron shares his journey growing up in South Central LA and how he leveraged the advice from mentors and fellow athletes to help build a lasting legacy beyond his NBA days. Baron's story is not just about sports, it's about leveraging his athletic career into a second act in business, and how he was able to navigate the business landscape with the same agility he used on the court, and mentoring the next generation to do the same.

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A much better showing overall for the Mavericks, but the Celtics still took care of game 2 even with a rough 3-point shooting night. After looking at the film there was actually alot to take away from this game and going forward to Dallas for games 3 & 4. I will be mentioning some of the strategy I broke down in game 1 - if you want to see that breakdown before this here is the link:

Brunswick County Library and Robeson County Library will be migrating into NC Cardinal this year. Tuesday, January 23rd at 2:00 PM (virtual) Evergreen Reports 101: Deep Dive into Templates The second session in NC Cardinal’s report training series will take a closer look at creating templates from scratch. We will cover operators and transforms in more detail, and discuss best practices for selecting sources, linking tables, and creating filters. Register here

A Johnston County educator is accusing businessman DeVan Barbour of pursuing an extramarital affair with her, dealing a blow to a leading Republican contender in the 13th Congressional District who has made family values central to his campaign. In her first public interview describing the alleged advances, middle school teacher Angela McLeod Barbour (no relation to DeVan Barbour) told Anderson Alerts that the congressional hopeful repeatedly propositioned her for sex one night in 2021 by making calls over the phone, Snapchat and FaceTime.

Mike Magnotti is host of “Street Talk and Other Stuff” on the NCWLife Channel in North Central Washington, and in his most recent episode he called out Grace City Church for bringing in Art Azurdia to be a faculty member of The Vector Academy. The Vector Academy is GCC’s nine-month unaccredited academy, meant to be an alternative to college, that will “prepare the next generation of church leaders,” according to GCC marketing materials.

Sometime in early 2022, I made contact with a writer named Alexander Ferrick. Ferrick’s Amazon author page was full of interesting biographical information. Ferrick was born in Boston, Massachusetts in the summer of 1996. He had moved around a bit. California, Arkansas, and was now attending college full time in Oxford, Mississippi. Ferrick is a self published author. His niche isn’t really my bag but I decided to pick up his latest title, an interesting fantasy novel named ‘‘Demonslayer’ with the hopes of reading the book and emailing the author, regaling him with my vast knowledge of his works.

Pour one out for Ned’s Starlite Lounge on North May, folks. The Shadid family announced the five-year-old restaurant and pub was closed for good via social media on Tuesday, joining a recent spate of closing in the 405 diningscape. The family made the announcement on social media yesterday. They all hurt, but this one means the local standard for onion rings has immediately dropped. The Starlite served great burgers because of course it did.

Before I was floored by two weeks of Covid in early July, we had my mother-in-law Esther and her nurse Shorna over for dinner most Sundays. Esther is having a difficult time, as her memory dims into dementia. A few weeks ago, she had a memory blast: Do you remember when you took me to see Neil Diamond and you wrote about me at the show? I certainly did. It was a hot August night, 1992.