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khou.com Posted on November 12, 2010 at 5:20 PM HOUSTON - New Cougars head coach James Dickey is well aware of what the 2009-2010 edition of UH basketball did. He's also knows the 2010-2011 version will be a lot different. "They had Aubrey and they had Kelvin," said Dickey. "Those are two pretty dang good cards and we don't have that" What they do feature is a group that is hungry for more of that March Madness. "We take a different approach every day and we come in a try to have a focus point of the day," said guard Adam Brown. "That's what we try to do as a team to try and help us get back to the NCAA tournament." But the road won't be easy. UH will be missing more than forty points from last year's offense, but the guys know their new coach has them in the right direction. "He is a great coach and we are really confident in him," said center Maurice McNeil. "We'll be good as long as we buy into what he wants us to do." "We have to rely on defense, taking better care of the ball, execution and we have got to be ready to play (every night)." UH opens the season on Friday at home against Nicholls State.
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| Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:57 PM PST Published: Friday, November 05, 2010, 3:08 PM Updated: Thursday, November 11, 2010, 3:02 PMCLEVELAND, Ohio -- Nicole McGee is a bike-riding, worm-composting, chicken-raising, clothes-swapping contrast to big-mortgage-two-SUVs-in-the-driveway consumers. She's not at all like those who work long weeks to make a lot of money to buy all the things they think they need. Not that she has anything against people who choose a fancier lifestyle. It's just that a productive life in her old house on a brick street on the near West Side suits her style. The 30-year-old lives a life of reuse and sustainability, extending the concept to the jewelry and decorative objects she makes from found stuff. Check out the jewelry she makes from beads she found alongside a Cleveland street. And some groomsmen just loved the boutonnieres she made from vinyl floor samples. Ditto the floor-sample floral centerpieces she created for the five-state chain of Aladdin's Eatery restaurants. She found the samples at ZeroLandfill, a Cleveland organization that recycles materials such as paint chips and upholstery fabric squares by offering them free to artists and teachers. "The idea of reducing consumption is one I feel strongly about -- which is a dichotomy since as an artist I'm essentially repeating the same model by selling my stuff," said McGee. But she's talked with others who consider her work to be a way for people to reconsider waste and to celebrate resourcefulness and reuse. That's why a friend gave McGee her grandmother's lifetime collection of beads, because "I know you'll do something with them." And why the artist biked past an old drawer full of beads lying on a curb and promised herself she'd stop if it were still there when she rode by again. Thus was born her "Train Avenue Collection" of necklaces and earrings, a story she loves to tell the people who buy them. Jewelry made from reused objects has stories. New items do not, McGee said. Her work space is the wide hallway between the kitchen and living room of her double on Pear Avenue. (She and her husband, Matthew, rent the bottom half.) It is room enough for a table, a stool, the punch press her dad found for her secondhand, and an organized clutter of strings of plastic bottlenecks she weaves into colorful plaques and broken necklaces she will rework. Perched here and there are vinyl floor-sample centerpieces like the ones the people from the company that makes Johnsonite flooring saw in an Aladdin's and said, "Hey, that's our product!" From that, McGee got a big order for necklaces and key chains made from vinyl tiles for the company to distribute as little gifts to interior designers. (Her jewelry generally ranges in price from $30 to $80.) The jewelry maker also raises thousands of red wiggler worms in two vermicomposting bins in her basement. They eat the banana peels she saves by the dozen in the freezer. "My husband, Matthew, is the most patient creature in the universe" about the recycling and composting, she said. They met in high school in Franklin, Pa., their hometown. She and Matthew share one car. Living close to the West 65th Street RTA station is handy -- part of the appeal of living in the Detroit-Superior neighborhood's pedestrian-friendly EcoVillage, Cleveland's sustainable living project that promotes green housing and urban farming. "I think a big part of living sustainably is to reduce our own consumption," said McGee, who organizes clothing swaps with friends to replenish her wardrobe and recommends reading "Your Money or Your Life" (Penguin) by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez, and "Voluntary Simplicity" (Quill) by Duane Elgin for instruction on the subject. "Of course, we all need to buy things," said McGee, who belongs to an egg co-op. (The eggs are provided by some Rhode Island Reds housed in a coop a few doors down from her house.) "When it's a purchase other than food, I try to consider it for as long as possible before I buy," said McGee. "This helps me make a wise choice and also is a good reminder of what a privilege it is that I can easily buy optional things for myself." She would rather spend $100 on a pair of shoes that will last a decade rather than $20 on a pair that will wear out in a year. Though it makes perfect sense to her how art and community activism meld, it might be surprising to some that McGee came to Cleveland in 2003 to be a community organizer at Merrick House, the Tremont neighborhood center and settlement house. She now volunteers as a member of its board. In May, McGee finished her master's degree in sociology at Cleveland State University. Her thesis has a reuse theme; its title is "Perfectly Good, the Value of Used Over New." She makes notecards from doodles on reused paper, cutouts from cereal boxes or snips from the paper tablecloth used at a family reunion. "I just keep bringing in all kinds of trash," McGee said. Like wire hangers pitched by the dry cleaner that went out of business. They will become stems for the fat roses she makes from newspaper. "I like to think of myself as an alternative florist," said McGee, who also makes decorative bowls by putting old vinyl records in the oven. She and other artists who make environmentally minded art and gifts will offer their wares Thursdays through Sundays from Thursday, Nov. 18, through Sunday, Dec. 19, at Pop-Up Gift Shop, a temporary shop at 2242 Euclid Ave., at Trinity Commons next to Ten Thousand Villages. (Fittingly, the shop will take over a vacant storefront.) Stop in and ask her about one of her pieces. She'll be happy to tell you its story. 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