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VOL. 132 | NO. 43 | Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Career Corner

Angela Copeland

Have you ever gotten an email you just want to ignore? Perhaps its from a vendor you work with that wants to tell you about a new product theyre selling. The email provides no immediate value for you. Theres nothing you can do about it right now, and frankly, youre busy. Youre so far up to your eyeballs in reports that you can barely breathe.

Weve all been there. The easiest thing to do is often to ignore the email.

Now, think back to how you landed your last job, or maybe the one before. Chances are good that you found it not by applying online but through a professional contact. Theres a good chance that you previously worked with that person directly or indirectly.

Its extremely common to be recruited by an outside company you do business with either your customer or your supplier. After working with you, a company has a chance to see you up close. They know just how professional you are and how devoted you are to your craft.

But this will only happen if you treat those around you with a certain level of respect. Taking a moment to let someone know youve received their email can mean the world, even if youre not able to fulfill their request.

Im not suggesting that you say yes to everyone. And, Im certainly not suggesting you respond to things that are clearly spam. But do take the time to value those around you even on the days when theyre asking for something rather than offering something.

For example, if someone is asking for a meeting that you would normally be open to but are just too busy to take, send an email letting them know youve received their message and would like to meet but are swamped for the next few weeks. Most everyone understands the concept of being busy at work. Or if a person is asking for your help with something that you really cant do right now due to existing commitments, be honest and up front.

The most difficult scenario is when you dont respond at all. When you ignore an email, it doesnt just tell the person that youre busy. It tells them that theyre not important. It says that youll only respond if youre getting something out of the deal. And it says that you may not be as professional as they thought.

When youve been with one company for a number of years, this can begin to seem normal. You want to be efficient and use your time in the best way. But, sometimes something unexpected can happen. Your company may lay off an entire division. If youve focused all of your attention on internal folks while not nurturing outside relationships, you may struggle more to find something new.

It goes back to the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Angela Copeland, CEO and founder of Copeland Coaching, can be reached at CopelandCoaching.com.

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NEW DELHI: After a rally of more than 8 per cent in the first two months of 2017, voices have become louder on Dalal Street that the benchmark equity indices may touch fresh all-time highs in the coming weeks.

The 30-share BSE Sensex surged 2,186 points, or 8.21 per cent, to 28,812 on February 27 from 26,626 on December 30, 2016.

The momentum may remain positive in the long run, as India could see a rating upgrade in the coming months on account of a slew of reforms by the government, including an ambitious plan to introduce the Goods and Services Tax (GST).

GST is expected to improve tax compliance in the medium term besides removing barriers to investment, particularly for foreign direct investment. It will also improve the ease of doing business.

India is on the right track to see rating upgrades in the coming years, brokerage Nirmal Bang Securities said in a report.

If you are an equity investor or are planning to be one, here are a few golden rules that can help you be in profit on Dalal Street.

Rome was not built in a day This adage perfectly tells the story of investors who bought shares of Eicher Motors in 2010 in anticipation of robust gains. Those who sold the stock in the interim have definitely missed the bus. Eicher Motors is one of the companies that have witnessed tremendous growth in market capitalisation since FY11.

On April 1, 2010, the company commanded a market capitalisation of Rs 1,759 crore, which was 4.52 per cent of Hero MotoCorps total market-cap of Rs 38,897 crore. At present, Eicher Motors market capitalisation is around 104 per cent of that of Hero MotoCorp. The share price of Eicher Motor has surged 3,590 per cent since the beginning of FY10, rising from Rs 659 to Rs 24,333 at the end of Mondays trade. The Hero MotoCorp stock has rallied 62 per cent to Rs 3,168 on February 27 from Rs 1,947 on April 1, 2010.

There are several examples that have created wealth for investors who gave time to their investment. Another example is Symphony, which surged 3,835 per cent to trade at Rs 1,337 on February 27, 2016 from Rs 34 on April 1, 2010.

Three years is the minimum time one should give to a quality stock to grow. If business or industry dynamics looks in favour of a stock, then one can stay invested even longer, said Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons.

Dont depend on stock trading for daily need Market experts say a big no to first-time or novice investors who are planning to totally depend on stock trading to meet their day-to-day needs. This is not going to work, as the pressure of your daily requirement is going to take precedence over the fundamental principle of stock investment, which is that you cannot make the market dance to your tune. Its always the other way around. Expect the market to always go the other way when you need it to behave in a particular manner.

Your risk profile is of paramount importance Dont invest in stocks beyond your capacity. You should always check your risk appetite before putting money in equity. Your risk profile is dependent on your day-to-day requirements, number of dependants and your age. Proper financial planning can help you to check your risk profile. There are online tools that can help you check and understand your risk profile, Rego said.

Also, there are some thumb rules like the 100 minus age formula, which can tell you how much risk can you take in equities. Going with that rule, if your age is 35, you can allocate 65 per cent of funds into equities. In case of a conservative investor, the rule can be changed to 80 minus age.

Dont trade with borrowed funds Market experts believe the domestic market is highly volatile, so investing borrowed money in equity is not a wise idea. However, some professionals at certain point do go for leverage when they are bullish on market conditions and when they understand a business cycle.

Booking profit is important Many people do not understand the selling part. It is not possible to get the right price all the time for your holdings. Broadly, the right time to book profit is when the overall dynamics of the industry and a company does not look in favour of the stock. If you want to be a disciplined investor, you should set a target and exit when it is achieved, Rego said.

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Five golden rules to always be in profit when you invest in equities - Economic Times

"This instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody's life cause it kinda' gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect, violence invites violence." - Meryl Streep

People mimic each other in society. That's how trends happen. That's how fashion occurs. And that's what creates culture. When children grow up among kindness, they are more likely to be kind. When they are abused, they are more likely to abuse. When permission is given to hate or disrespect, hate can bubble up and find new life.

Dr. Philip Zimbardo saw how easily hate and abuse can take shape when, in 1971, he conducted a social psychology experiment at Stanford University called the Stanford Prison Experiment. Student volunteers were randomly assigned to be either a prison guard or prisoner. They were authorized by the professor to assume their respective roles. After a few days in the experiment, the guards became mean and abusive, and the prisoners became docile and fearful. Good people turned bad.

I encountered hate in America in 1995 when the anti-bullying and kindness program my wife and I co-founded, Project Love, did an all-day "Power of Kindness" workshop for a high school in rural Ohio. The following day, I returned a call to my pager. The number I called had a white supremacist recording that said, "We are going to kill all the Jews and Blacks that are ruining our country, grind them up and use their remains as fertilizer."

Being Jewish, my wife and I were shaken but not deterred from our mission to instill positive values in young people. I recognized the truth of the old saying that, "You can curse the darkness or light a candle." I wanted to curse, but we chose instead to "light candles" and saw the power of kindness -- unleashed in 500+ schools that we have worked with -- transform bystanders into active kindness ambassadors, bullies and gang members into forces for good, and schools into communities of civility and respect.

We also have seen troubled schools in which pressured teachers using harsh discipline failed to increase achievement and where meanness, bullying and gang activity even increased. I knew then what I have witnessed hundreds of times since: that meanness increases meanness and kindness increases kindness. Both unleash chain reactions.

These same chain reactions are taking shape currently in America. There is a country that fears immigrants, and one that welcomes them. One that has punched and insulted Sikhs and other turban-bearing Americans who look different and foreign, and the other that relishes diversity and expansive opportunity. One that last week toppled almost 200 gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis and called-in bomb threats to 64 Jewish Community Centers across the country, and the American-Muslim community that raised more than $100,000 in a few days to repair the cemetery's damage. The Muslim community didn't have to do that; they weren't culprits in this incident. But, despite having seeing meanness against them, they chose kindness and the Golden Rule.

The Golden Rule is not a lofty missive. Its premise is fundamental to order. In his book, "Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference", Malcolm Gladwell describes a tipping point as "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point. The book offers insight into the phenomenon of sociological changes that color our daily lives. Gladwell states: "Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread like viruses do. Kindness or meanness? Both forces take on lives of their own.

I saw this dynamic take shape this past weekend with my friend, an immigrant who has achieved the American Dream, albeit amidst receiving bumps, bruises, disrespect and bullying as a middle manager in the workplace. He voted for Donald Trump because he feels ignored and wants to change the system. When I pointed out to him that -- although some change is needed -- the henchmen of change, like gangs on the streets of our cities, are bearing and breeding meanness, racism, nativism and anti-semitism, he said that he didn't care. "You can't change an entire system by being nice and respectful. This is a war. We have to rip down the entire system to succeed," he said. He isn't a white supremacist, racist or anti-semite. He's just been sucked in by the destructive force of meanness.

The aggressive language toward immigrants and the media, the mania of deportations, the scapegoating of immigrants, coupled with fear of Americans being denied jobs, pile up in our nation's discourse to give license to fringe groups that otherwise would remain mostly hidden beneath the surface. Others like my friend see meanness as necessary to ripping apart the system they feel has dissed them. Why should they be nice if others aren't nice to them? Despite their reasons, both the fringe groups and people like my friend are awkward partners who believe that their end justifies meanness and sometimes hate.

Still others -- I count some friends and many politicians in this category -- choose to stand on the sidelines, ignoring hateful messages and emerging meanness because they want to enact their agenda, no matter how it is achieved. The meanness doesn't affect them, so it's easy to ignore. How wrong they are. They don't realize that, as America turns meaner, our country's culture will change, some of our core values will erode, and the boomerang will come back to hit them, as well. The tipping point in Nazi Germany started with good people standing by and doing nothing.

Ian Grillot, the American who risked his life and was wounded confronting a gunman in the recent hate shooting of two Indian engineers in Kansas City said, "I was just doing what anyone should have done for another human being. It's not about where he's from or his ethnicity. We're all humans, so I just felt I did what was naturally right to do."

Grillot represents the goodness and positivity that have defined America since our founding, but there are negative forces that will change this. I have no doubt that our nation is currently at a tipping point that has the potential to result in long-lasting and even dire consequences. Will you have the courage to stand up for kindness, hope and generosity? Or will you succumb to the national virus of meanness, incivility and fear.

Muszynski is Founder of Purple America, a national initiative of Values-in-Action Foundation to re-focus the American conversation to a civil, productive and respectful dialogue around our shared values. To see America's shared values and get involved, go to http://www.PurpleAmerica.us. Project Love is a school-based character-development program of Values-in-Action Foundation. To see information about Project Love school programming, go to http://www.projectlove.org.

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Statesman Journal 1:02 p.m. PT Feb. 27, 2017

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For those who want to throw the law-abiding illegal immigrants out of our country, please sit down with your mama and have her teach you the Golden Rule.

Who do you know who would work in our farm fields and harvest the food you and I eat to feed, clothe and house their family for minimum wage after they have withheld city, county, state and federal taxes and FICA from their check and then refuse to give them a drivers license? Could you do this without some form of subsistence?

After trying to feed, clothe and house their family, how could they ever afford hundreds of dollars for a green card and travel expenses to Portland or all the fees and other expenses for citizenship for them and each member of their family in order to make all of them legal citizens? Why cant these problems be resolved?

How would you like to be thrown in jail and then be deported for just trying to give your family a better life?

If our forefathers had treated our immigrating ancestors the way some of you want to treat these Mexican families, you might not be here.

Tom Gates

Salem

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We were sitting in front of the fireplace, relaxing in the warm glow, each reading some light material, almost dozing. Outside our den windows, the sun had retreated and swept away the last beautiful tones of a lingering sunset. Suddenly the serene darkness was interrupted by the sound of raindrops on our roof.

In unison, Sammie and I raised our heads from the books in which we had been engrossed and looked at each other. First to speak, she addressed me with a simple question. Is that rain? she asked quietly.

After a slight pause in the conversation a chance to make a decision of whether to drag myself from the comfort of my chair, force myself to take the half-dozen steps across the room, turn on the back porch light, peer through the glass at the drops of water bouncing off the deck or not I answered.

Just a minute, Hon. I dug into my pocket. Let me check the Weather Channel App on my phone and Ill see what its doing.

Of course I was at least half kidding in an attempt to entertain my wife, who seemed to be getting a bit bored with her book. On the other hand, I was only half kidding. I knew we were getting precipitation in the Fairmount hood, but before we began our discussion of the weather, I thought it might be wise to check the weather app for the forecast. The current temperature, the expected overnight low, predictions for hourly conditions over the next forty-eight hours, projections for the next fifteen days, and maybe even what those same projections were for the cities where all of our relatives reside.

Could I get you to participate in a very unscientific experiment with me? Take a simple survey. One question. If youd like to be a part of this study email your answer to me at the address below. Heres the question: Do you believe we the people have become too dependent on our technical device? (Emphasis is on the word Too.) Please send your response ASAP so I can tally the results. I will be watching my phone for your Yes or No by email.

Seriously nowdo you ever see people sitting together in a restaurant, texting instead of carrying on a conversation? Maybe theyre checking their email, watching the news or a ballgame, or playing a game? Perhaps they are texting the person sitting across the table.

How many times have you seen someone texting or watching a movie while they drive? Scary, huh? Have you ever done any of the above? Honestly! Okay! I have done some of those things, but I have never texted while driving. Maybe Ive read a text while sitting at a red light, but I didnt send a text and I always put my phone down when the impolite driver behind me blew his horn impatiently.

Here are a couple of thoughts for you while you prepare to take the survey:

First, the Golden Rule says, Do to others as you would have them do to you. (NIV)

Second, humans can predict the weather, but we cant control it. Matthew 5:45 tells us that God sends sunshine on the good and evil alike and He causes it to rain on the righteous as well as the unrighteous. And in John 3:8 we find these words, The wind blows where it wishes and you hear it, but you cant tell where it comes from or where its going. (Prognosticate means to offer an educated guess.)

As the weather goes, I must agree with Mark Twain (or maybe it was Charles Dudley Warner), when he said, Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

As far as the Golden Rule goes, our world would be a better place if we would just do it!

We talk about the weather more than we discuss the Golden Rule. Just remember: you cant do anything about the weather, but you can do something about the way you treat other peoplewhether on an electronic device, driving or just living in general!

Steve Playl is chaplain at Bristol Regional Medical Center. He may be contacted at playlsr@yahoo.com.

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Measuring life by the Golden Rule ... not a cellphone app - Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)

People early on learn the Golden Rule, essentially to treat others (regardless of differences) as you wish to be treated. This idea is found in many faiths as well. For example, love and compassion, not hatred and coldness, are a key part of Jesus' teachings as well as part of other religions.

The political campaigns and outcome of the Nov. 8 election have served as a wake-up call for many and emphasized the need for people to recommit themselves to the Golden Rule. There is now a widespread realization that there are increased threats, including violence, to vulnerable populations, especially minorities, immigrants, gays, poor people and the disabled in this country. It is great that so many people today are engaging in the effort to support the vulnerable who have been suffering for decades or longer.

However, it's not just individual and group acts of discrimination that are of concern. Vulnerable groups have long been targeted by biased policies and by systemic racism. Examples include the abuse of blacks during the Jim Crow period and the theft of properties and internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

From colonial time, and especially in hard economic times, the rich and powerful used the idea of divide and conquer to keep the overwhelming majority of people from coming together to challenge the power of the few. Unfortunately, this approach is still effective. Hatred against and fear of minorities (including immigrants) is stoked by scapegoating them for the recurring economic hardships and for crimes. Until we understand how we are being manipulated to protect the interests of the 1 percent, we won't achieve an economic system meet the needs of the people and the race to the bottom will continue.

Martin Luther King Jr. said: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Therefore we also have to consider our treatment of peoples in other nations. For example, we have allowed and often encouraged our government to use extreme violence against people who were different from us, especially when we coveted their lands and/or resources. We tended to view the other as inferior, even less than human, and therefore we seemed to think that we could violate the Golden Rule as well as international and human rights laws.

The genocide against Native Americans is a horrific example of our violations. Our government and population acted shamefully against Native Americans, including breaking most treaties negotiated with them. Unfortunately, the treatment of the Sioux water protectors at Standing Rock demonstrates that we have made little progress in following the Golden Rule toward these fellow humans.

The fire bombings of several German and Japanese cities and the use of nuclear weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed our almost total disregard for civilian lives. By its bombing of cities, the U.S. followed the lead of the enemies and of Britain in committing atrocious war crimes.

According to J. Robert Oppenheimer, even before the approval of the use of the atomic bomb, Secretary of War Henry Stimson expressed dismay at the "appalling" lack of conscience and compassion ushered in by the war. Stimson stated that he was disturbed by the "complacency, the indifference, and the silence with which we greeted the mass bombings in Europe, and, above all, Japan." This indifference likely was also found in the populations of Germany, Japan and Britain.

More recently, the U.S. committed horrendous crimes in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia as well as in the Middle East, starting in Iraq. The illegal and immoral attack on Iraq has played a major role in creating the disaster spreading throughout the Middle East. We, the U.S. public, have generally shown a lack of compassion for the victims of our crimes.

If we are ever to live up to the Golden Rule, all people must realize that the "others" are fellow human beings with equally valuable lives.

Ron Forthofer is a retired professor of biostatistics who lives in Longmont.

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More than three decades ago, an unlikely confluence of regional influences mushrooms, the Wyeths, and a passel of crooks redefined a Kennett Square residents career path.

Hercules Herc Avello, who marked his 30th anniversary with the Chester County Sheriffs Office last month, said he expected to follow his fathers footsteps into the mushroom industry. From the age of 10, he had performed a variety of odd jobs, ranging from washing to picking, at ACA Mushrooms, his fathers company.

Born and raised in Kennett Square with a brother and a sister, Avello joined the Future Business Leaders of America Club at Kennett High, and he recalled being the only male in his typing class. He selected it because he figured it would serve him well in the mushroom industry as well as at the Poolside Deli, a family store next to the YMCA that was run by his mother.

I thought that was my path, Avello said. Then, a couple of incidents made him reconsider his vocation.

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Avello said his father had a heart attack in the late 1970s at the young age of 47, an experience that necessitated some major lifestyle changes. As his father struggled to rebound, another setback occurred. Avello, who was 19 at the time, remembered coming home one day from work and finding his parents distraught as police officers and detectives combed their home.

The family had fallen prey to a brazen burglary ring that made national headlines in 1982. Among its victims: Andrew Wyeth. Fortunately for the artist, the thieves, who included a mushroom grower from Avondale, were not particularly skilled at fencing stolen paintings. By early 1983, a massive FBI investigation resulted in five indictments.

But repercussions from the crime continued for his family, Avello said. His father, who had been targeted for his coin collection, decided to sell the mushroom business. By then, his sons brush with law enforcement had left an indelible, positive impact. I remember being really impressed with the job they did, Avello said, adding that he wanted to emulate them.

Avello learned that the Chester County Prison had an opening. So he took a job there, and he enrolled in the Municipal Police Academy at Delaware County Community College. A year and a half later, a position opened in the Chester County Sheriffs Office.

By then, he was married and starting a family, which now includes his lovely wife Kathy, a son, a daughter and a granddaughter, and the regular schedule appealed to him. So he changed gears on Jan. 5, 1987. A bonus: He started working with gun permits, a position he has continued.

I grew up hunting, Avello said. So I was very comfortable in that role. It really seemed to be my calling. He even got to utilize those typing skills.

But it wasnt until seven years ago that Avello fully appreciated the wisdom of his career choice. He was playing ice hockey with colleagues from the Sheriffs Office at Ice Line in West Goshen Township when genetics caused history to repeat itself. At age 46, Avello experienced a heart attack.

He credits county resources and the fast action by deputies and West Goshen police with saving his life.

Were really fortunate to live in a county that ensures that first-responders have the tools they need, he said, explaining that a defibrillator was in the police car. He said a recent Valentines Day demonstration of hands-only CPR by the county commissioners reinforced their continuing commitment to citizens health.

Avello said he hoped to replicate the recovery of his father, who went on to enjoy more than 3 decades. In the meantime, Avello still finds great satisfaction in assisting people with gun permits.

A lot has changed, he said, ranging from the disappearance of typewriters to the countys significant growth.

Thirty years ago, Avello said that he knew about five percent of the people who came into the office. Back then, the office processed 30 to 50 permits a month; that number now runs from 250 to 300. The increase hasnt slowed the process, though, since technology enables background checks to be done almost instantly.

Avello said he believes the Sheriffs Office is a special place to work. When I hear people say the boss is only as good as the people below, I have to disagree, said Avello. That hasnt been my experience: I work hard because of Sheriff (Carolyn Bunny) Welsh. She sets the tone.

Part of the office philosophy mirrors his own, Avello said.

I was always taught to treat people the way you want to be treated, and that seems to work well here, he concluded.

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From mushroom picker to deputy sheriff: Herc Avello relishes golden rule - Daily Local News

The world of B2B selling is changing, fast. And if your team doesnt keep up, you wont just lose opportunities you stand to lose your entire business.

Outbound selling relies too heavily on outdated tactics, like telling customers what they need instead of listening to what they tell you. In fact, Forrester predicts that one million US B2B salespeople will lose their job to self-service eCommerce by 2020 if these tactics dont change.

A big part of the reason why outbound selling is losing its effectiveness is because B2B buyers are turning to websites, social media, their own networks and other research channels before reaching out to a salesperson. They come fully armed with knowledge especially the knowledge of what their problems are.

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This means that your salespeople wont find any footing by telling prospects how great your product is. Instead, they need to focus their efforts on explaining how your product can solve a prospects problems.

Social selling makes this possible, as it enables salespeople to build relationships with buyers via the channels they prefer. It also acts as a fantastic research tool, as salespeople can explore public posts on networks like LinkedIn and Twitter to see what issues their prospect has recently been facing.

For example, lets say you are targeting CMOs at medium-sized businesses. Outbound tactics would have your sales team cold calling them from a list, and reading a sales-pitch script that praises the many amazing features your product has to offer. They might be able to generalize a problem that CMO might be facing like low conversion rates, for instance but they cant know for sure that thats even an issue for them. Within a few seconds, the prospect knows that the salesperson theyre talking to doesnt have a clue about their particular situation, and politely hangs up the phone.

Social selling changes all aspects of the above scenario, from the channel of outreach to the script used to sell. Rather than cold calling, your salesperson develops a relationship with the prospect using social media. She has shared their content on Twitter a few times, and connected via a mutual acquaintance on LinkedIn. When she gets the CMO on the phone, she brings up his social profiles and sees that he has recently been talking about struggling to build solid communication channels between sales and marketing internally. So rather than talk about the product, she talks about his problem: sales-marketing alignment. She asks pointed questions about the struggles he faces, and only when the time is right mentions that her product has helped past customers address this very problem. He is impressed, and asks to see a demo.

By following the golden rule of social selling, solving your customers problem, you and your sales team will not only make more sales, you will develop better relationships with customers who will be more loyal, and more likely to recommend you to others in their network.

Tapajyoti Das (Tukan) is the co-founder of LeadSift. LeadSift is a social intelligence platform to help brands identify, understand and reach in-market consumers with the right message at the right time.At LeadSift, he is the hacker, hustler and the dreamer where he is working with histeam to make social Viewfullprofile

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SALYERSVILLE Johnson Central punched its ticket to the 15th Region Tournament on Tuesday night with a 77-61 win over Paintsville in the opening round of the 57th District Tournament at the Magoffin County Fieldhouse.

The Golden Eagles, who won their 11th straight game, will play the winner of Sheldon Clark and Magoffin County on Friday for the district championship. The title game will mark the seventh straight for Central, which has won four district crowns since 2011 and is looking to win its fourth in five years.

Its a shame that either Sheldon Clark or Magoffin County will not be playing in the regional tournament, said Johnson Central coach Tommy McKenzie. Either one of those teams are good enough to win the regional tournament.

Centrals pressure defense set the tone early on. Paintsville turnovers quickly turned into easy transition baskets.

For a night that we didnt particularly shoot the ball well, we were fortunate to get some fast-break baskets, added McKenzie. Central (24-6)finished 39 percent from the floor on 26-of-67 shooting. It wasnt pretty, but it was a win.

Paintsville lost for the 11th straight time. Its a building process for Tigers coach Landon Slone, who led Paintsville (8-20) to its last 57th District title in 2008. That was the last time the Tigers played in the 15th Region Tournament.

Weve got a solid core of players, said Slone. The Tigers starting five included an eighth-grader, two freshmen, a sophomore and a senior.

Im proud of our players, and theyre going to write a new chapter in the history of our great program in time,he said.

Freshman Seth Williams had a game-high 26 points to lead the Tigers.

Johnson Central, which forced a running clock for most of the second half, had four players in double figures. Senior Cole Crace had 17 points. Senior Mason Blair followed with 12. He was issued a technical foul in the second quarter. Senior Austin Davis and sophomore Jacob Rice each finished with 10.

PAINTSVILLE 13 5 16 14 61

J. CENTRAL 28 21 15 13 77

Paintsville (61) Trent Vanover 0(2) 0-0 6; Seth Williams 4(5) 3-4 26; James Allen 0 2-2 2; Mason Moore 2(1) 2-4 9; Braxton Tharp 1 2-2 4; Ethan Hensley 1 0-0 2; Michael Prater 1(1) 2-2 5; Brandon Richmond 2 1-2 5; Ryan Moore 1 0-0 2. Totals: 11(9) 11-18 61.

Johnson Central (77) Leon Moshefy 2 2-4 6; Austin Davis 1(2) 2-2 10; Cole Crace 2(3) 4-4 17; Mason Blair 2(2) 2-3 12; Jacob Rice 2(2) 0-0 10; Caleb Price 1 0-0 2; Dalton Collins 1 1-2 3; Blake Delong 2 0-0 4; Gabe Ferrell 0(1) 0-2 3; Isaiah May 0 3-4 3; Jarrett Blair 1(1) 0-0 5; Cory VanHoose 1 0-2 2. Totals: 15(11) 16-23 77.

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The Golden Rule Lightkeepers Awards a partnership between the United Way and The Daily News along with the City of Jacksonvilles Fabric of Our Community Award will be presented at this years luncheon on Friday

Excellence will be recognized this week at a luncheon to honor community volunteers.

The Golden Rule Lightkeepers Awards a partnership between the United Way and The Daily News along with the City of Jacksonvilles Fabric of Our Community Award will be presented at this years luncheon on Friday at noon at the Courtyard by Marriott in Jacksonville.

The awards are something United Way Volunteer Onslow Director Shelly Kieweg said highlight the accomplishments of local volunteers.

When we recognize excellence, we acknowledge volunteer efforts that go above and beyond, which in turn makes them feel proud of their own accomplishments and want to continue to volunteer for us, Kieweg said. Volunteers are priceless. They are the backbone and add value to nonprofit organizations.

For recipients to qualify for an award, they must be a volunteer in a capacity that helps the community and be nominated as Lightkeepers, from which the Golden Rule winners are also selected, by an individual or a community agency, Kieweg said. Golden Rule Award winners will then be nominated for the N.C. Governors Volunteer Service Award.

The Fabric of our Community Awards new this year will recognize community members who through a lifetime of work, have helped achieve higher civic education, improved the civic infrastructure of our community or performed efforts to advance citizenship, citizen participation and encouragement of our community.

For Kieweg, the experience of watching volunteers receive these awards is truly moving. Its something she said makes the staffs hearts happy.

Most volunteers dont volunteer for recognition, she said. They volunteer because they are giving back to their community, and that is what matters most. To see their faces when they are being recognized is priceless.

Kieweg said that while no award can match the satisfaction a volunteer can receive from serving a neighbor in need, the event is the least they can do. She encouraged the public to nominate individuals who do much to make the community better. To nominate a volunteer, visit JDNews.com/UnsungHeroes to fill out a nomination form.

The luncheon, catered by The Flame, is open to the public. Those who wish to attend can RSVP at UWOnslow.org. Tickets, which are $15 each, can be paid for online or at the door.

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United Way to present Golden Rule-Lightkeepers, Fabric of our Community Awards - Jacksonville Daily News