SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The Sacramento State women's hoops team travels down I-80 and into the Bay Area to take on the San Francisco Dons Friday night at USF. The Hornets are looking to win back-to-back games for the first time this season as they take on a Dons team that is just 1-2 at home this season.
Hannah Friend has scored 25 or more points in each of Sacramento State's last three games. She is averaging 30.3 points per game and is shooting 46.7% (28-60) during that stretch, including 45.9% from three (17-37).
Sophomore forward Kennedy Nicholas scored a career-high 17 points and pulled down a season-high seven rebounds in Sacramento State's win over Antelope Valley. Nicholas was 8-12 from the floor and scored 15 of her 17 points in the second half.
Maranne Johnson made her 238th career three-pointer in the team's last game, pulling her into a tie for most made three-pointers in Sacramento State women's basketball program history. She is tied with former Hornet Alle Moreno (2010-14).
With 33 minutes played in the Hornets' last game, senior guard Maranne Johnson is now averaging 33 minutes per game, highest on the team and the highest of her career. She averaged a career-most 25.0 minutes during the 2016-17 season.
San Francisco is 3-5 coming into Friday night's game, including just 1-2 at home. A Div. I team, the Dons are members of the WCC. Through eight games, San Francisco is averaging 70.1 points per game while allowing 73.8 to opponents.
30: The average margin of victory in Sacramento State's two wins this season: 99-72 over UC Riverside and 95-62 over Antelope Valley.
The University of San Francisco is a Div. I school and a member of the West Coast Conference (WCC). Last season, the Dons wrapped the year by going 18-13, including 1-1 in the WCC Championship Tournament. The No. 4 seed, the Dons defeated Loyola Marymount in convincing fashion, 80-67, before falling to eventual tournament champion and No. 1 seed Gonzaga. This year, the Dons are off to a 3-5 start and are scoring 70.1 points per game while allowing 73.8 to their opponents. San Francisco is led by a pair of seniors, guards Anna Seilund and Michaela Rakova, each of whom are averaging 11.5 points per game. Rakova also leads the team in rebounds with 7.5 while Seilund's 14 made three-pointers are tops on the squad. San Francisco is coming off a tough 72-55 loss on the road at UC Davis in their last game. The Dons shot just 28.6% (20-70) in the losing effort, a far cry from their 41.2% shooting for the season. San Francisco is led by second year head coach Molly Goodenbour.
Friday's game on the road at San Francisco can be seen live online and on mobile devices at the WCC Sports Game Center. Video, audio, and live stats will be available.
Sacramento State improved to 2-6 on the season with a convincing win, 95-62, over the Antelope Valley Pioneers last Wednesday night at the Nest. After an even first quarter, it was all Sacramento State the rest of the way as they outscored the Pioneers 71-38 in the last three quarters. Hannah Friend again led the way for the Hornets, scoring 32 on 11-21 shooting (6-14 from three) while sophomore Kennedy Nicholas had the game of her career, scoring a career-high 17 points and pulling down a season-best seven rebounds in the win.
The Hornets are 5-8 against San Francisco in the Div. I era of Sacramento State women's basketball, including 2-5 on the road. In their last three matchups, San Francisco holds a 2-1 edge, outscoring the Hornets by an average of seven points. One of those games, a Sacramento loss at home, was a tough 95-94 matchup.
With 32 points in Sacramento State's last game, sophomore guard Hannah Friend is now averaging 19.8 points per game. It was her third straight contest with 25 or more points (34, 25, 32) and her seventh in double digits this season. She is averaging 30.1 points per game during this three-game stretch and is shooting 46.7% (28-60) over that time. In those three games, Friend is also shooting 45.9% from beyond the arc. For the season, she is shooting 42.0% overall and a team-best 39.7% from three.
Sophomore Kennedy Nicholas had a career night in Sacramento State's 95-62 win over Antelope Valley. The guard was 8-12 (75%) from the floor, setting career highs in both field goals made and field goals attempted on her way to a career-high 17 points. Nicholas also pulled in seven rebounds, a season-high, in the effort. Previously, Nicholas's career-high for points was seven, set on Dec. 8 of last season at California.
With one made three in Sacramento State's last game, senior guard Maranne Johnson matched the program's all-time record for most career made three pointers with 238. She is currently tied with former Hornet Alle Moreno (2010-14). Johnson holds the single-season record for made three-pointers, making 93 last season and passing the previous record of 86 (Briana Burgos, 2015-16; Hallie Gennett, 2014-15). Johnson and Moreno are the only two Hornets players to break the 200-mark.
In addition to chasing the program record for career made three-pointers, Maranne Johnson is also closing in on the program record for career steals. With five steals in Sacramento State's last game, Johnson now has 265 for her career, just 43 off the program mark of 308 (Fantasia Hilliard, 2011-15). Johnson racked up 87 steals last year and is averaging 83 a season in her career, putting her on pace for 331 in her career.
With their 95-62 win over Antelope Valley at the Nest in Sacramento last Wednesday night, the Hornets are a perfect 1-0 at home this season.
With three straight 25+ point performances, Hannah Friend has raised her points per game to 19.8. Only one player has ever finished a season with 20 points per game or better. Although it is only eight games into the season, Friend's 19.8 would be second-best in program history should the season end today.
After starting the season's first four games on the bench, sophomore point guard Tiara Scott has started four straight games for the Hornets. During that time, she is averaging 33.8 minutes per game and 9.0 points per game. She is dishing out 7.0 assists and committing just 1.5 turnovers per game during that stretch, as well. For the season, her 1.8 assist to turnover ratio is third best in the Big Sky conference while her 4.5 assists/game average is fourth best.
The 2017-18 Hornets squad is one that will be well travelled. The team's first seven games of the season were on the road and 11 of their first 12 will take place away from the Nest. Their season-opening road trip called for four games - three on the east coast, one on the west coast - in a span of just nine days. So far, the Hornets are 0-6 on the road and 1-0 at a neutral site. Last season, Sacramento State was 4-8 on the road and 0-3 at neutral sites.
Immediately following Friday night's game at San Francisco, the Sacramento State women's basketball team will board a flight for Puerto Rico where they will participate in the 2017 Puerto Rico Classic Tournament along with six other teams. The Hornets have two games scheduled during the course of the tournament, one against Miami (FL) and another against Northern Illinois. While there, the team also has community services events planned. The team will not return to Sacramento until next Friday.
Through eight games, the Hornets have five different players who are averaging 25 minutes or more per game: Maranne Johnson (33.), Dana DeGraffenreid (29.9), Hannah Friend (28.3), Tiara Scott (26.4) and Justyce Dawson (25.3). Last season, the team had just one player average 25 or more minutes: Maranne Johnson (25.0).
Sacramento State enters Wednesday's game among the top five in the Big Sky Conference in a number of categories.


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The CVS Health purchase of Aetna for $69 billion is a truly remarkable event, one that further blurs the lines in traditional healthcare. This acquisition is a sign of the times, as giant health conglomerates search for opportunities to capture more market share and grow revenue to sustain the increasing challenges to remain profitable in the current legislative environment. At the same time, consumers continue to expect more personalized access to healthcare and health benefits, convenience, lower prices, and improved healthcare experiences and outcomes.
While the jury is still out if these mega-consolidations will result in cost savings to the consumer, CVS Health patients and Aetna members should expect to eventually "feel the difference" from this acquisition. Some of the more obvious improvements could include improved care coordination, one-stop shopping, and personalized health benefit communications.
In 2018, health marketing leaders will be those who can quickly identify and optimize experiences for the most profitable consumers in any given industry or consumer segment. This is the essence of people-based marketing: using audience data to optimize communication across the market, engaging with addressable audiences, personalizing experiences, and improving real-time cycles to maintain strong relationship affinity.
This acquisition opens the potential to leverage a new world of data that will increase the ability to personalize patient and member health care experiences. For CVS Health, the acquisition will enable them to leverage the healthcare management expertise of a mature insurance giant. This will not be an overnight integration.
This acquisition opens the potential to leverage a new world of data that will increase the ability to personalize patient and member health care experiences.
While it's true that CVS's nearly 10,000 pharmacy locations are becoming stronger as "community health centers," it's not exactly clear how Aetna's marketing assets will be utilized, or how consumers will know how and when to consume the CVS Health or Aetna experience differently following the acquisition. Expect robust co-promotion and data-driven insights, but much work must be done to integrate two traditionally different purchase decisions and utilization experiences. Once the data platforms are integrated, members should have a better experience with their health benefits and CVS/Aetna will maximize reimbursement revenue and profitability.
Upon dissection, it's all about data consolidation, (PII, PHI, retail shopping behavior, etc.,) and digital enablement along the member/patient healthcare continuum. Real insight will occur as the metrics of Rx purchase and distribution, health benefits utilization, diagnosis, adherence, and care outcomes demonstrate the synergies between the two merged platforms.
Looking ahead, traditional health insurers will continue to be challenged as a commodity, struggling to differentiate while they pursue simple, more transparent products and services. Vertical integration, like this combination of CVS Health's care system with Aetna's health benefits system, has given other organizations, like Kaiser, a leg up on competition, as it enables greater opportunities for care coordination, experience personalization and concierge-like interaction. We won't be surprised to see more like it as these health industry segments converge to maintain profitability and remain relevant in the daily life of consumers. In the meantime, other insurance providers should consider how to expand their role in healthcare management with new and personalized services. Leveraging data to develop true audience insights at a more personal level can change the relationship-marketing paradigm, a result we expect to see when these two powerful brands come together in this ground-breaking acquisition of giants.


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I just realized that my article, "Global Perspective on Regional Collaboration" has remained the most read and commented blog on the Web site of the The 2030 Group, a business group promoting regional collaboration among jurisdictions to solve the biggest issues such as transportation, affordable housing and supply of quality workforce.
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Have you ever wondered what the future holds for Montgomery County, a community of one million people among the best educated in the world with unrivaled bio-health research assets? Join community members and County leaders for a discussion about the exciting vision to transform our County into a global destination for innovation and your role in making that vision a reality.
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If you live in Maryland, you probably know that our primary election is on April 3, much earlier than previous years. Chances are, you have received multiple mailings from both your local Board of Elections and from candidates, especially if you live in the new Congressional District 6, where it's a serious contest in both the primary and general elections.
Local elections can be confusing as relatively few people pay attention to local politics, especially for the largely-immigrant Asian community, which does not have deep local ties to really know the issues or the candidates. In spite of greater efforts by the party establishments and campaigns to reach out to our community and greater overall participation from our community in recent years as voters, donors, volunteers or organizers, or even candidates, a host of challenges remain in our election participation.
In Maryland, most of the elections are decided by the primary race, especially in the heavily minority jurisdictions where Asians congregate, such as Montgomery, Howard, Prince George's and Baltimore city.
parties means this phenomenon is unlikely to change in the near future – unless we change the policy to allow independents to vote for party candidates.
The small number of active participants in election activities leads to over-taxing of community leaders and connectors, who are being asked by a growing number of organizations and campaigns to open our wallets and rolodexes to support various candidates and party campaigns. It can be exhausting and expensive for a very frugal community that still brings lunch to work to save money and does not always understand why so much money is needed for elections.
It is one thing to reach out for money and votes; quite another for advice and understanding. So far, we have been mostly playing a cheerleading or supporting role. Very rarely do campaigns or parties take the time to learn about our communities' dynamics, interests and priorities, or to get our advice on critical issues.
So we mostly cast our votes based on name recognition, campaign rhetoric or personal relationship rather than real issues that matter to us. Until the parties and the campaigns learn to engage our communities on a continuous basis and better yet, to cultivate true leadership in the Asian community, we will continue to see what I call the "eagle effect"—organizations or individuals swooping down to seek our support when needed then disappearing into thin air.
Finally, the national debate on illegal immigration has made Latinos synonymous with immigration. Often times, it is assumed that all immigrants support pro-immigrant legislations such as the Dream Act, which would allow those who were brought to this country illegally as children enjoy in-state college tuition if they graduate from Maryland's high schools.
The fact is, the Asian community is highly divided on this issue as they were in 2009 when Montgomery County started reporting individuals charged with violent crimes to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a couple of high profile killings committed by undocumented residents.
A community made of largely swing voters is fair game for any party wanting to earn our trust and votes. The fact that most Asians vote for Democrats has more to do with the lack of serious outreach from the Republican Party and the perception that Democrats are more minority-friendly, than with where the parties stand on issues.
With immigrants and our families, including our American-born children, making up an increasingly larger share of almost every community in the region, it is time the political parties integrate multicultural (and multilingual if necessary) outreach into their psyche and strategy for their own long-term benefits. No matter who we support, our core values of family cohesiveness (lowest divorce rate among all racial groups), education (highest educational attainment), and personal responsibility (highest savings rate) don't change.
The fact that Maryland is the only state in the country with three Indian Americans in its state legislature, in addition to a Chinese American and a Filipino American, is sure progress. True social integration can take generations, but let's not waste any generation, foreign-or American- born.
The article was originally published in Asian Fortune's April edition.
Rockville, MD – Lily Qi is no stranger to change. The Shanghai native has lived in West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, and now Maryland. Over the years, Qi has served as head of multicultural affairs at American University, Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at the DC Economic Partnership, spokesperson for the DC Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking, and Community Liaison for the Asian, Middle East and Near Eastern populations in Montgomery County, Maryland. But whether she was disciplining college students or drafting press releases, there's one thing that's held constant – Qi loves making connections.
A self-declared cultural broker, Qi is now drawing upon all her past experiences as the newly appointed Director of Special Projects in the Montgomery County Executive's Office. Looking around at her new office, which is full of relics from the past – a mug from American University, where she earned her MBA, a porcelain cup from China, and photo from her days as a community liaison – Qi says that she feels like this is a reward for all the years that have passed.
But her path was not easy. Like any immigrant, Qi found her first couple of years in the United States extremely difficult. She not only had to learn English, but also the cultural idioms that are not written in any grammar textbook.
Qi says that Asian Americans have just as much responsibility to fight stereotypes as do mainstream figures. She says that it is up to Asian Americans to show the greater public that they are above stereotypes.
Perhaps it is because of her immigrant experiences that Qi became a strong community activist.
"I don't want to feel like a guest. I am a U.S. citizen. I want to be plugged in…in order to feel more grounded," Qi said.
This desire propelled her into her latest position. When Qi heard about a new project to convert an old farm on Muddy Branch Road into a Life Sciences complex, Qi recognized it as a project that Asian Americans should rally behind – and she made it her mission to make sure they do. She took to the streets to encourage Asian American residents to pressure their elected officials to vote for the project.
"This is why they came here in the first place," Qi said. "My point is not to teach them about what to say but they have to care," Although the project received very strong opposition by those concerned about pollution and transit problems, by the time the County Council took a vote, every council member was for the project.
Qi's single minded tenacity is not lost on those who work with her.
Qi's support of the life sciences center fell right in line with the county's own development strategy and in 2011, she was appointed by County Executive Isiah Leggett as Special Projects Manager. Her special project? The life sciences project which is now dubbed as the Great Seneca Science Corridor.
Her vision is to make the area the number destination for science and health research. "No one has the FDA. No one has NIH. No one has NIST. It would be a shame for us to sit on all our assets and not benefit the world," Qi said.
As Manager of Special Projects, Qi is poised to oversee radical change in the area. For example, Qi facilitated a deal between the Chinese pharmaceutical company, Tianshili and Johns Hopkins. Tianshili will be the first traditional medicine company approved by the United States FDA.
Many in the Asian American community appreciate Qi's efforts to engage the immigrant community in local affairs. Qi is a rare face, as a Chinese born activist and who rose in ranks not through science or technology but by her sheer ability to communicate in her second language.
"If you go to any majority activity that is not an ethnic activity, you will have to look closely to see any Asian Americans. It's not proportional to our presence here, which is 12-13% of the population. If we are not there, there will be a misconception about whether or not we are really interested in being part of the community," said Michael Lin, former President of the Organization of Chinese Americans. Lin worked with Qi while she was President of the DC Chapter. Lin says that her presence continues to bring unique perspectives to the community as a whole and pushing reluctant immigrants into participating in their new home country.
"If a vacancy comes up, I'd encourage her to run for elected office," Lin said. And although he was laughing, if there's one thing that's certain when it comes to Lily Qi, it's that change is always in the air.
After three and half years serving as the Asian and Middle Eastern Liaison of Montgomery County, Maryland, I was appointed this past summer by County Executive Ike Leggett as Special Projects Manager to work on several Countywide initiatives including biohealth industry growth strategy and international partnerships.
Being a community liaison was tremendous amount of hard work, requiring, but I was infinitely enriched by that experience and consider that one of the best jobs I have ever held. I connected with many different communities and learned about their cultures and religions in ways I would have never thoughtful possible. If you are passionate about people and cultures, I highly recommend that you consider applying.
A good listener who can bring people together to work towards the common goal and understand each ethnic community's unique needs as well as identifying common issues and opportunities.
Most importantly, this person has to be an effective and strategic connector that introduces and recommends community leaders and community resources to the larger community that is eager to learn about and connect with the many different communities.
The Community Outreach Manager job (IRC 7120) was posted on November 1. Applications are due by Friday, November 18 (see link below) with a start date projected to be January 2, 2012. This is a merit-based position with benefits that will expire on December 31, 2014. Continued employment in this position beyond December 31, 2014 is contingent upon action by the County Executive elected in November of 2014. The position is one of three full-time positions working as a team under the supervision of the director of the Office of Community Partnerships within the newly established Community Engagement Cluster.
The three major areas of responsibility are: (1) community outreach and engagement with the County's Asian populations; (2) community outreach and engagement with the County's Middle Eastern populations; and (3) leadership role promoting and ensuring compliance with County, State, and Federal language access policies and procedures.
Bilingual applicants in Asian and Middle Eastern languages are encouraged to apply. Minimum qualifications include: Bachelor's Degree in Public or Business Administration or related fields and extensive (seven years) professional administrative experience in the areas of public relations or program management in community outreach or public policy.
Deadline is November 18, 2011.
As Montgomery County Executive's Special Projects Manager overseeing several priority initiatives including the biotech and biohealth growth strategies and international relations, especially with Asian countries, Lily Qi has unique perspectives to share on Montgomery County's growth and development. Among those are how recent population shifts in the County have created demand for smart growth and transit-oriented development. She will share specific plans on several initiatives, including the two life science centers (the Great Seneca Science Corridor Master Plan and the East County Science Center Master Plan), a new countywide public transit system, and opportunities for the County's diverse communities to be part of this vision.
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I chose "Welcome" as the title of my first post, but really, there are many titles that would have worked just as well: 欢迎, ترحيب, Bienvenidos, स्वागत. This is, after all, a blog about connecting across cultures and communities. I will be posting some of my musings on culture, including my monthly columns on Asian Fortune magazine, as well as on happenings in my community. I will also do my best to post stories and findings about integration at both the individual and community levels. Hopefully, this website will contribute to more welcoming attitudes towards our differences.


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Of ambassadors, war, peace and politics
ROME (SE): Pope Francis has put together two seemingly disconnected issues in the past weeks.
He has agreed to accredit the least approved of any ambassador the United States of America (US) has ever offered to the Holy See and chosen the Sicily-Rome American War Memorial Cemetery near Rome, a memorial to some 7,861 US military service personnel who died during World War II, as the site for his Mass for the Faithful Departed on All Souls Day.
The nomination in May of Callista Gingrich by Donald Trump, proved to be the most unpopular ever.
In seeking approval from the Senate, she could only muster 70 of the 100 votes, leaving her with an approval rating far lower than even the first ambassador nominated by Ronald Reagan in 1984 when formal relations were first tied between the two states, William Wilson, who garnered 87.
The other eight ambassadors the US has sent to the Vatican have all been approved unanimously.
While the pope has agreed to accredit the former cathedral choirgirl and congressional staff member, a report posted on UCAN proposes that it is because he wants to engage Trump and not isolate him from the Vatican or the Church and, even though he had good reason to refuse the nomination, as it did not wash so well with the US Senate, he has taken her on.
However, in a reversal of the old saying, her greatest asset is probably her husband, Newt Gingrich, a former president of the Senate and well-known scallywag around Washington, who gets on well with Trump.
No doubt the charm of the former choirgirl will serve as a diplomatic foil to the more scurrilous politicking of her husband, who may well have been Trump's preferred choice, but is probably too well known in Washington to get through a Senate scrutiny.
However, accepting Gingrich is not the only thing the pope is doing to engage the US president.
Politically, the Mass at the cemetery paid off, with the US embassy in Rome welcoming the gesture warmly and the Stars and Stripes hailing it as the first visit of a pope to an American war cemetery overseas.
It quoted a foreign cemeteries official, David Americo, as saying, "This parallels the agency's mission to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice."
But Pope Francis had another message in mind.
At his November 2 Mass celebrated among the white monuments to thousands of American soldiers, he made an impassioned plea for an end to all war, saying that the thousands of white headstones remembering the many young people who died in World War II should stand as a call for peace, an end to war and useless massacres.
In addressing the 13,000 or so people who had gathered for the Mass, he described war as a self-destructive act that squelches the embers of hope in so many thousands of young lives.
"All of us, today," he said in his unscripted reflection, "we are gathered here in hope. Each one of us in his own heart can repeat Job's words, which we heard in the first reading, 'I know that my redeemer lives and at last he will stand upon the earth'."
On a day when the Church tells us that it is a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, Pope Francis laid flowers at the simple white crosses marking the memorials of some who had fallen, as well as those honouring some 3,095 who remain missing in action.
But the pope said that as we pray for those who have fallen, we must say no more to all war, especially at this time when the world is already at war and preparing to intensify its aggression in more and more dangerous ways.
He asked, "How often in history, when men think of making war, they are convinced of bringing a new world, they are convinced that they are making a spring. It ends in winter, ugly, cruel, a reign of terror, of death."
He quoted the reflection of the woman looking at the ruins of Hiroshima in 1945 as saying, "Men do everything to declare and make war and, in the end, they destroy themselves."
Pope Francis then reflected that she, along with many others, would have had sons, a husband or loved ones who perished in the war and while they may have been hailed as the heroes of the homeland, she is only left with the tears that humanity must not forget.
His closing words, "And may the Lord give us the grace to weep."
As he was leaving the cemetery, Pope Francis wrote in the visitors' book, "This is the fruit of war; hate, death, vendetta. Forgive us Lord."
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