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Meeting Notes 2009 08 18
- Moderator: Rubin
- Note taker: Steen
Agenda Items[edit]
- Introduction and Names
- What Noisebridge is about.
- Treasurer's Report
- Very brief primer on Noisebridge consensus process.
What's Going On at Noisebridge[edit]
One short sentence about each of the following:
- PyClass (Monday 6:30PM, 83c)
- Circuit Hacking Mondays (8PM, 83c)
- Machine Learning Wednesdays (8PM, 83c)
- Kite Hacking Thursday (8PM, 83c)
- Science/Engineering Huddle (8PM Fridays, 83c) come early for one-on-one
- Shop Class - Most Fridays @ 8pm, check out the wiki page for details.
- Natural Language Corners
- German Thursdays 7PM 83c, beginners earlier, advanced come later.
- French Wednesday
- Sensebridge Cyborg Group (Sundays)
- OpenEEG Sunday 3pm - 5pm
- Noisebridge CTF
- Go on Sunday 3pm
- Locks! Sunday 3pm
- Spacial Imaging Workshop - Sunday 16th, 7pm
Project Updates[edit]
- 2169 Mission
- Buildout team update
- Floor report and call to action
- Moving Day
Membership Binder[edit]
Consensus Items[edit]
- Vomitorium
Discussion topics[edit]
- Arse Elektronika update
- Gina asks what our plans are for cleaning at the new space.
- Add links to every agenda item up.
- Volunteers to lead the next meeting?


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United States men's national basketball team
|FIBA ranking
|Joined FIBA
|FIBA zone
|FIBA Americas
|National federation
|USA Basketball
|Mike Krzyzewski
|Olympic Games
| Gold: 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1976, 1984, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2012
Silver: 1972‡
Bronze: 1988, 2004
|FIBA World Cup
| Gold: 1954, 1986, 1994, 2010, 2014
Silver: 1950, 1959, 1982
Bronze: 1974, 1990, 1998, 2006
|FIBA Americas Championship
| Gold: 1992, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2007
Silver: 1989
|Pan American Games
| Gold: 1951, 1955, 1959, 1963, 1967, 1975, 1979, 1983
Silver: 1987, 1995, 1999
Bronze: 1991, 2011, 2015
Medal record
The USA Basketball Men's Senior National Team,[1] commonly known as the United States men's national basketball team, represents the United States of America in international men's basketball. The USA is the most successful team in international competition, winning medals in all seventeen Olympic tournaments it has entered, coming away with fourteen golds. Two of its gold medal-winning squads were inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as teams in August 2010—the 1960 team, which featured six Hall of Famers (4 players, 2 coaches), and the 1992 "Dream Team", featuring 14 Hall of Famers (11 players, 3 coaches).[2] The United States is currently ranked first in the FIBA World Rankings.
United States and Argentina are the only two national teams in the FIBA Americas zone that have won the quadruple crown: FIBA World Championship Gold medal, Olympic Gold Medal, FIBA Americas Championship Gold medal and Pan American Gold Medal.
Traditionally composed of amateur players, a 1989 rule change by FIBA allowed USA Basketball to field teams with professional players. The first such team, known as the "Dream Team", won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, being superior in all matches.[3][4][5]
With the introduction of professionals, the team was able to spark a second run of dominance after capturing only a bronze medal in 1988. A team of professional players competed at the 1994 FIBA World Championship, finishing first. In 1996, 2000, 2008, and 2012 the USA again captured gold medals at the Olympics.
Facing increased competition, the USA failed to win a medal at the 2002 FIBA World Championship, finishing sixth. The 2004 Summer Olympic team lost three games on its way to a bronze medal, a record that represented more losses in a single year than the country's Olympic teams had suffered in all previous Olympiads combined.
Determined to put an end to these failures, USA Basketball initiated a long-term project aimed at creating better, more cohesive teams. The USA won its first seven games at the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan before losing against Greece in the semi-finals, ending the competition with the bronze medal. The USA won gold two years later, though, at the 2008 Summer Olympics with a dominant performance. This success was followed up at the 2010 FIBA World Championship, where despite fielding a roster featuring no players from the 2008 Olympic team, the USA did not lose a single game en route to defeating host Turkey for the gold medal. The USA continued this streak of dominance by going undefeated and capturing gold once more at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.
- 1 History
- 1.1 1936–68: Early dominance
- 1.2 1970s–1980s
- 1.3 1990s
- 1.4 2000s
- 1.5 2010s
- 2 Roster
- 3 Competitive record
- 4 Coaches
- 5 Past rosters
- 6 Select Team
- 7 See also
- 8 References
- 9 External links
1936–68: Early dominance
The United States possessed a clear advantage in the early decades of international play (though they were defeated by Argentina in the First FIBA World Championships in 1950). The US men were dominant from the first Olympic tournament to hold basketball, held in Berlin in 1936, going 5–0 to win the gold, and joined by continental neighbors Canada and Mexico on the medal platform. Through the next six tournaments, the United States went undefeated, collecting gold while not losing a single contest in the games held in London, Helsinki, Melbourne, Rome, Tokyo, and Mexico City. Participation in these tournaments were limited to amateurs, but the US teams during this period featured players who would later go on to become superstars in professional basketball, including all-time greats Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, and Jerry Lucas; the latter three competed on the 1960 Rome team often credited as the best U.S. roster until the formation of the 1992 Dream Team.[6]
Alex Groza and Ralph Beard, both briefly NBA stars, made the 1948 squad as Kentucky Wildcats, with 3-time Oklahoma State All-American and 6-time AAU All-American, and Hall of Famer Bob Kurland leading the way. The 1952 team included big man Clyde Lovellette of the University of Kansas, a future Hall of Famer and NBA star, but Kurland once again led the team to victory. The 1956 team was led by San Francisco Dons Bill Russell and K.C. Jones.
The 1960 team included nine future NBA players, including not just Robertson, Lucas and West, but Bob Boozer, Adrian Smith [1966 All Star game MVP], Jay Arnette, Terry Dischinger, Rookie of the Year in 1963, and another Hall of Famer in Walt Bellamy.[7]
1972 Controversy at Munich Olympics
The 1972 Olympic men's basketball gold medal game, marking the first ever loss for the USA in Olympic play, is arguably the most controversial in Olympic history. The United States rode their seven consecutive gold medals and 63–0 Olympic record to Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics. The team won its first eight games in convincing fashion, setting up a final against the Soviet Union.[8]
With three seconds left in the gold medal game, American forward Doug Collins sank two free throws to put the Americans up 50–49. However, the buzzer sounded before Collins' second free throw. Immediately following Collins' free throws, the Soviets inbounded the ball and failed to score. But one official had whistled play to stop with one second remaining after hearing the earlier horn and seeing a disturbance near the scorers table. The Soviets argued that they had requested a timeout before Collins' foul shots. The referees ordered the clock reset to three seconds and the game's final seconds replayed. However, the clock was in the process of being reset when the referees put the ball in play. The horn once again sounded as a length-of-the-court Soviet pass was being released from the inbounding player, the pass missed its mark, and the U.S. again began celebrating.
However, R. William Jones, Secretary General of FIBA, ordered the clock to be reset again at 0:03 and the game replayed from that point. This time, the Soviets' Alexander Belov and the USA's Kevin Joyce and Jim Forbes went up for the pass, and Belov caught the long pass from Ivan Edeshko near the American basket, sending the two Americans sprawling. Belov then laid the ball in for the winning points as the buzzer sounded. Herbert Mols, Resident Manager of the US team with help from MK Summers, President of the US Olympic Basketball Committee, filed an extensive and detailed appeal, protesting the final game result to a five-man Jury of Appeal, which voted down the protest and awarded the gold medals to the Soviet team. The U.S. players voted unanimously to refuse their silver medals, and at least one team member, Kenny Davis, has directed in his will that his heirs are never to accept the medals, even posthumously.[9]
1976–80: Bounce back and boycott
After the controversial loss in Munich, 1976 saw Dean Smith coach the USA to a 7–0 record and its eighth Olympic gold medal in Montreal. The success at this tournament pushed the USA's all-time Olympic record to an impressive 78–1.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan prompted 62 countries, including the United States, to boycott the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.[10]
The 1980 U.S. team, which featured a number of future NBA players, was the youngest American national team ever assembled. This team featured: Mark Aguirre, Rolando Blackman, Sam Bowie, Michael Brooks, Bill Hanzlik, Alton Lister, Rodney McCray, Isiah Thomas, Darnell Valentine, Danny Vranes, Buck Williams and Al Wood.[11] Unable to compete in the Olympics due to the boycott, it instead participated in the "Gold Medal Series", a series of games against NBA all-star teams in various U.S. cities, recording a 5–1 record.[11] It was coached by Dave Gavitt.
1984 Olympics (Los Angeles)
In response to the American-led boycott of the 1980 games, the Soviet Union led a boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics. The Communist countries of Cuba, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Mongolia, Afghanistan, North Korea, Vietnam, Angola, Ethiopia, and Laos boycotted the 1984 Games, held in Los Angeles.[12]
Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, and Chris Mullin, future members of the '92 Dream Team, made their Olympic debuts. Jordan led the team with 17.1 points per game, and Bob Knight coached the team to an 8–0 record and another Olympic gold.
1988 Olympics (Seoul)
A roster that included future NBA all-stars David Robinson and Mitch Richmond came up short, winning the bronze medal. The American team lost its only game to the Soviets 82–76, then went on to beat Australia 78–49 in the bronze medal game. Dan Majerle led the team in scoring, averaging 14.1 points per game. This was the last time the American Team consisted of only amateur college stars.
The decade started with a semifinal loss to Yugoslavia in the 1990 FIBA World Championship, followed by another semifinal defeat to Puerto Rico in the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana.
1992 Olympics (Barcelona) – The Dream Team
In 1989, FIBA, international basketball's governing body, allowed professional NBA players to participate in the Olympics for the first time. Prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics, only European and South American professionals were allowed to play in the Olympics.
The team assembled by USA Basketball for the tournament in Barcelona in 1992 was one of the most illustrious collections of talent assembled in the history of international sport. Of the twelve players on the team, ten were named in 1996 among the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, the NBA's official list of the 50 greatest players of the league's first 50 years. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird served as co-captains.[13]
Because of this star line-up, the team's games usually featured opposing teams asking for pregame photos and autographs with their U.S. opponents—their idols. The USA team was so much better than the competition that head coach Chuck Daly did not call a single timeout during the tournament.[14] Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen became the first players to win both NBA championship and Olympic gold medal in the same year, having played for the Chicago Bulls.
Regarding drug-testing the athletes, according to USA Basketball spokesman Craig Miller, "Since 1990, all of our teams have been tested in competition. I believe since around 1988 we have also been subject to out-of-competition testing. We have been 100 percent fully compliant with USADA and WADA."[15]
1994 FIBA World Championship (Toronto) – Dream Team II
The United States fielded another team composed of professional players in the 1994 World Championship, held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This was an entirely new roster, as USA Basketball elected to showcase stars who were not present at the 1992 Olympics. Composed primarily of younger NBA players, the team lacked the widespread appeal of its predecessor but nevertheless continued its dominance. Those players were Derrick Coleman, Joe Dumars, Kevin Johnson, Larry Johnson, Shawn Kemp, Dan Majerle, Reggie Miller, Alonzo Mourning, Shaquille O'Neal, Mark Price, Steve Smith and Dominique Wilkins. Coached by Don Nelson of the Golden State Warriors, this team easily captured the gold medal in tournament play.[16] The team was marketed as "Dream Team II".[17][18]
1996 Olympics (Atlanta) – Dream Team III
The third team composed of NBA players participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The star quality of the team was impressive as it featured five members of the original Dream Team (Barkley, Malone, Pippen, Robinson, and Stockton), plus two other members of the NBA 50 Greatest Players list, Hakeem Olajuwon and Shaquille O'Neal. Lenny Wilkens coached the team.
The Americans won another gold medal with an average margin of victory of 31.8 points per game. They captured the gold medal after defeating Yugoslavia 95–69.[19] With Atlanta being home to the Hawks, these games were the first Olympics to take place in a city with an NBA team since the league started allowing its players to compete in the Olympics.
The team was commonly referred to and marketed as "Dream Team III".[20][21]
1998 FIBA World Championship (Athens) – The Dirty Dozen
The 1998 World Championship in Athens, Greece was different from the previous teams, as none of its players were current members of NBA teams. Because of a labor dispute that led to a lockout, no active NBA players were permitted to compete in the tournament. The 12 NBA players picked before the lockout were Tim Duncan, Tim Hardaway, Vin Baker, Gary Payton, Terrell Brandon, Kevin Garnett, Tom Gugliotta, Grant Hill, Allan Houston, Christian Laettner, Glen Rice, and Chris Webber.[22]
The replacement team was composed largely of players from American colleges, the minor-league Continental Basketball Association, or European pro leagues. The unheralded roster captured a bronze medal, considered a solid achievement given its lack of top-notch talent.[23] The team was nicknamed the "Dirty Dozen" for its work ethic and teamwork. Undrafted free agent Brad Miller became a two-time NBA All-Star. Some of the other team members—including Trajan Langdon, Kiwane Garris, David Wood and Michael Hawkins—had brief spells in the NBA. All went on to have careers in Europe, with Langdon being named to the Euroleague's All-Decade Team for the 2000s.
2000 Olympics (Sydney)
During the late 1990s, international basketball began to gather attention as more and more foreign players became stars in the NBA. Therefore, the 2000 U.S. team had the enormous task of proving that American basketball could remain the best in the world. The new team that was assembled again featured NBA players, but this time few of them were considered to be true superstars, as several elite players elected not to participate.
The U.S. team participated in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia and was coached by Rudy Tomjanovich. It won its first two games by lopsided margins, but faced more difficult competition thereafter. A preliminary game against Lithuania, the U.S. team won 85–76, marking the first time a team of professional American players failed to win by double digits. Two games later, in a 106–94 victory over France, Vince Carter pulled off one of the most famous dunks in basketball history, jumping over the 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) French center Frédéric Weis on his way to the basket. (The French media would dub Carter's feat le dunk de la mort—"the dunk of death".)
A shock came in the semifinals when the United States defeated Lithuania by the close score of 85–83. Lithuanian star (and future NBA player, first with the Indiana Pacers and later with the Golden State Warriors) Šarūnas Jasikevičius missed a desperation 3 at the buzzer that would have won the game.
The closeness of the semifinal game was so shocking that NBC took the unusual step of showing the gold medal game live rather than on tape delay. (The game started around 2 p.m. Sydney time on Sunday, October 1, which is late Saturday evening in the USA. NBC originally planned to show the game almost 24 hours later during its Sunday prime time broadcast.) The USA won the gold medal against France in a close game, 85–75. Though the US went undefeated on its way to the gold medal, the team began to lose its aura of invincibility for the first time.[24]
2002 FIBA World Championship (Indianapolis)
The 2002 team competed in the World Championship in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Coached by George Karl, the team finished a surprisingly disappointing sixth in the competition. During the tournament, Argentina defeated the USA in the second preliminary round group stage, thus becoming the first team ever to defeat a USA team composed of NBA players. Yugoslavia knocked out the USA in the quarterfinals, becoming the first team ever to defeat USA team of NBA players in knockout stage. Then Spain repeated the outcome in the 5th place playoff.[25] To a greater degree than in 2000, a number of top NBA players declined to participate, forcing USA Basketball to resort to picking mostly second-tier players. George Karl had a dispute with Paul Pierce, one of the few superstars on the team, which led to Karl benching Pierce, the team's leading scorer, in Team USA's final game. The group has been considered as one of sport's greatest flops, as they failed to produce as previous teams had. The United States lost 3 games in the tournament to countries with current or future NBA stars, like Argentina (led by Manu Ginóbili), Yugoslavia (led by Peja Stojaković and Vlade Divac) and Spain (led by Pau Gasol).
Two NBA superstars, Ray Allen and Jason Kidd, accepted roles to play on the World Championship team, but were unable to play on that team due to injuries. Many other superstars, including Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, and Kevin Garnett, turned down invitations to play in that tournament.
2004 Olympics (Athens)
The close outcome of 2000 and the humiliating results of 2002 prompted a number of NBA superstars to agree to join the team for the FIBA Americas Championship 2003, which the squad was required to participate in to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics. The team easily cruised to a first-place finish, earning it a spot in Athens, Greece the following summer.
However, the dominant team that competed in 2003 could not be kept together. Nine of its 12 players elected not to participate in Athens. The new team consisted of some young NBA stars early in their careers, such as Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony, only Richard Jefferson, Tim Duncan and Allen Iverson were part of the 2003 FIBA Americas San Juan gold medal team. The team was coached by Larry Brown.
After struggles in several exhibition matches, the vulnerability of the 2004 team was confirmed when Puerto Rico defeated them 92–73 in the first game of the Olympic tournament in Athens. The 19 point defeat was the most lopsided loss for the USA in the history of international competition.
After winning close games against Greece and Australia, The USA fell to Lithuania, dropping to 2–2 in the Olympic tournament. Even after an 89–53 win over Angola, the Americans entered the knockout rounds in fourth place due to goal average, the lowest seed of their group. The Americans faced undefeated Spain in their quarterfinal game, winning 102–94.
However, the semifinal match saw the team defeated by Argentina 89–81, ending the United States' hold on the gold medal. The USA did rebound to capture the bronze medal by defeating Lithuania.[26] Still, it marked only the third time that an American team failed to win gold (excluding 1980 Moscow Olympics boycott), and the first time for an American team composed of professionals.
Following the disappointments in 2002 and 2004, USA Basketball appointed Jerry Colangelo to be solely responsible for selecting the team. Colangelo made it clear that he would ask players for a three-year commitment—the 2006 FIBA World Championship and the 2008 Summer Olympics. In the 2006 Worlds, the team was eliminated by Greece (led by the European stars Theodoros Papaloukas , Dimitris Diamantidis and Vassilis Spanoulis), at the semifinal with final score 101-95. The head coach was Duke University's Mike Krzyzewski, with assistants Jim Boeheim, Mike D'Antoni, and Nate McMillan. While some prominent players, such as Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett, stated that they did not plan to play for the team, superstars Dwyane Wade, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James publicly announced their commitment for the 2006 Worlds and the ensuing 2008 Olympics. Wade, James and Carmelo Anthony were named captains of the 2006 USA World Championship Team.
2008 Olympics (Beijing) – The Redeem Team
The United States dominated Group B in pool play, defeating China, Angola, Greece, world champion Spain, and Germany by an average of 32.2 points. After finishing first in their group, the USA earned the right to play the fourth-place finishers in Group A, Australia. The United States soundly defeated Australia 116–85 in the quarterfinal. Next up for the Americans in the semifinals was the 2004 Olympic gold medalist Argentina, led by Manu Ginóbili – the team that had beaten them in the semifinals four years prior. However, Ginóbili was hobbled by an ankle injury and only played sparing minutes in the first half. Behind Carmelo Anthony's 21 points, the USA defeated Argentina 101–81 to reach the gold medal game.[27]
On August 24, the United States defeated Spain 118–107 to capture the Olympic gold medal with the electrifying spark by team U.S.A. leading scorer Dwyane Wade adding 27 points with 4 3's and 100% shooting inside the line. The victory ended an eight-year drought at major international competitions (Olympics & World Championships) with the first win since 2000.
2010 FIBA World Championship (Istanbul) – The B Team
Due to winning gold at the 2008 Olympics, the USA automatically qualified for the World Championships. The USA had not won the FIBA World Championship since 1994. It was initially believed that there would be only 2–3 spots available with most players returning from the 2008 Olympic team.[28] However, by early July 2010, all ten invited players declined to participate, due to injury, free agency, rest, or personal commitments.[29] Due to the roster being filled with 12 new players and the lack of star power, the team was dubbed the "B Team".[30] Also, the coaches were criticized for selecting too many guards, inexperienced players, and the lack of tall players.
However, the team won all five of its preliminary games, four of those by double digits (the exception being the win against Brazil by 2 points). The success continued in the knockout stage with victories by 55, 10 and 15. In the 2010 FIBA World Championship Final, the USA beat host nation Turkey by 17 points and clinched a berth in the 2012 Olympics.[31] Tournament MVP Kevin Durant broke several Team USA scoring records (most points in a tournament-205, most points in a single game-38, and average points per game-22.8). In addition, Lamar Odom became the first player to win the NBA and FIBA World championships in the same year.
Team USA executive director Jerry Colangelo has said he's open to anyone from the 2010 team to play in future tournaments.[29]
2012 Olympics (London)
The US team clinched a berth in the 2012 Olympics in London by winning the 2010 World Championship. The Olympic team lost some players to injuries who might have made the team, and appeared to be short on big men. Their roster featured five players returning from the 2008 Olympic team and five others from the 2010 World Championship team.
The US went undefeated but appeared vulnerable at times in winning five exhibition games. They finished the tournament with a perfect 8–0 record, defeating opponents by an average of 32 points while trailing in the fourth quarter only once. The Americans often played with a small lineup that emphasized speed, quickness, and outside shooting. The team set an Olympic single-game record with 156 points scored against Nigeria in the preliminary round. In a rematch of the 2008 finals, Team USA again narrowly defeated Spain to capture the gold.
This was announced as the final Olympic games for Kobe Bryant.[32] By winning the gold medal, the USA automatically qualified for the 2014 FIBA World Cup.
2014 FIBA World Cup (Spain)
The United States had automatically qualified for the World Cup by virtue of the gold medal won by their 2012 Olympic team. The Americans were widely expected to win the World Cup. The roster was filled with two players returning from the 2012 Olympic team, three from the 2010 FIBA Championship Team, and seven other professional NBA players.The 2014 roster featured four players 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m) or larger, the most of any USA team since Mike Krzyzewski began coaching the team in 2006.The team was also the youngest American team since 1992, when professionals were first allowed on the team; the average player was 24.08 years old, roughly a half-year younger than their 2010 team.
The team advanced to the knockout phase after starting the tournament 5–0 during the group stage. They went undefeated 9–0 in the tournament, winning by an average margin of 33.0 points. The United States was just the third country in World Cup history to repeat as champions. Combined with their 2010 World Championship along with gold by their 2008 and 2012 Olympic teams, they also became the first country in FIBA basketball history to win four consecutive major titles. The United States defeated Serbia in the World Cup Final by 37 points and clinched a berth for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
United States men's national basketball team - 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup roster
Competitive record
A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within the United States
Summer Olympics
FIBA World Cup
FIBA Americas Championship
Pan American Games
Overall the men's national team has compiled a 445-64 (.874) record since they began play in 1936.
Past rosters
Select Team
Players are selected to form the USA Basketball Men's Select Team to scrimmage against the national team.[33][34] The Dream Team in 1992 lost a scrimmage to a select group of college All-Stars, 62–54.[35] In a televised exhibition against the 1996 national team, The New York Times wrote that the Select Team "was outhustling the National Basketball Association stars, outplaying them and nearly outscoring them."[36] The Select Team led by 17 points at halftime before losing 96–90.[36]
|2012 USA Basketball Select Team roster
- Jeremy Lin withdrew from the Select Team due to his status as a free agent.[37] He was replaced by Jrue Holiday.[38]
- Greg Stiemsma withdrew from the Select Team after undergoing a non-surgical process for Plantar Fasciitis.[39]
See also
- USA women's national basketball team
- USA national under-19 basketball team
- USA national under-17 basketball team
- USA women's national under-19 basketball team
- USA women's national under-17 basketball team
- USA national 3x3 team
- ↑ "USA Basketball Men's Senior National Team All-Time Roster". usabasketball.com. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Unknown parameter
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Ron Conway is a Silicon Valley startup's best friend
February 10, 2012: 5:00 AM ET (Fortune)
The prolific angel investor has rarely met an Internet startup he didn't like. When it comes to picking the next big thing, there's a right way and a wrong way. And then there's the Conway.
FORTUNE -- The rooftop deck of Ron Conway's San Francisco apartment building is packed with a random and seemingly incongruous assortment of tech A-listers, celebrities, and sports stars snacking on hors d'oeuvres and sipping fine wines. Conway, Silicon Valley's most prolific startup investor, has graciously opened his tony Pacific Heights pad, which has sweeping views of the Golden Gate, to let about 150 of his closest friends get a good look at the Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy's aerobatics team, which are in town for the weekend.
During the October party, Conway buttonholes a number of his guests to help with his latest project: a music video to promote the election campaign of Ed Lee, San Francisco's tech-friendly mayor. One by one, Conway pulls aside the likes of Marissa Mayer, the Google exec; Biz Stone, a Twitter co-founder; Jed York, the owner of the 49ers; and Brian Wilson, the San Francisco Giants pitcher. On a quiet comer of the deck, each of them performs a few hip-hop moves for the camera while lip-syncing to the refrain of MC Hammer's "Too Legit to Quit" for a remake of the rapper's 1991 hit. (The video ended up featuring cameos from other Conway pals, including Will.i. am, of the Black Eyed Peas, Ronnie Lott, the 49ers legend, and, of course, Hammer, a longtime friend.) The whole affair is classic Conway: mixing work and play, pulling together connections from the worlds of Internet investing, celebrity, philanthropy, and now politics to push his agenda. The video quickly went viral, and Lee handily defeated his rivals in the mayoral election.
At first glance, Conway is the last person you'd expect to find around this kind of high-wattage circle. In the crowd of hoodie-wearing twentysomething entrepreneurs and flashy stars that he often hangs out with, Conway is easy to spot He's the 60-year-old guy with an ample girth, a full head of snow-white hair, khakis, and a crisply pressed shirt that might have come from the Brooks Brothers catalogue. Yet Conway sits at the intersection of these worlds, connecting people and steering money, talent, and ideas to companies in a pugnacious style that seems almost a throwback. "I call him the human router," says Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, who now runs a high-profile venture capital firm and sits on the boards of HP (HPQ), eBay (EBAY), and Facebook.
Conway may not be a brand name outside of tech circles, but in the startup-fueled economy of the Bay Area, he's a ubiquitous character with an outsize personality who is often called the godfather of Silicon Valley. It's a moniker he's earned, in part, by investing relatively small sums in more than 600 Internet companies since the mid-1990s. Hundreds went bust, but there are a few you might have heard of. In the first Internet boom, he bet on PayPal and Google (GOOG). In the social media frenzy that is fueling the tech world nowadays, Conway has invested in Groupon (GRPN), Twitter, Square, Dropbox, and Airbnb -- and those are just the companies whose valuations top $1 billion apiece. Others, like AdMob, Mint, and Zappos, have already sold for nine-figure sums. If startup investing is his day job, nurturing startups and their founders is his religion. Conway crisscrosses the Valley -- and the country, often visiting New York's Silicon Alley -- to pitch in for his companies, helping them recruit, fix a management problem, or close a round of financing.
In the process, he's been known to tussle with anyone he perceives as getting in the way, including other investors or powerful journalists like the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg. Many entrepreneurs love him for it. And many more depend on him because he willingly grants them access to what is widely believed to be the most prodigious Rolodex in Silicon Valley, an über-contact list that captures every sector of the tech ecosystem, from venture capitalists to corporate lawyers, recruiters, public relations handlers, journalists, and corporate execs (translation: potential acquirers). The list includes top names from the worlds of banking, media, telecommunications, advertising, retailing and politics. And celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher and Will.i.am are now also part of Conway's circle after he let them in on one of his investment funds, or opened doors for them in the Valley, or donated large sums to their favorite charities. "There isn't anyone he doesn't know," says Ben Rosen, a legendary technology investor and longtime chairman of Compaq Computer, who invested alongside Conway in the 1990s. "He was the Facebook of the industry before there was a Facebook."
Conway's membership on the Valley's A-list was not preordained. As a so-called angel investor, who typically invests from $50,000 to $200,000 when a startup is still embryonic, he was often seen as playing second fiddle to deep-pocket venture capitalists. His scattershot approach to investing was often ridiculed for its apparent lack of rigor. And the dotcom bust left him badly bruised. But tech startups are once again driving Silicon Valley, and Conway is back on top. The clearest indication of his influence: He has attracted scores of imitators, professional investors who have become known as "super angels" and who have elbowed out venture capitalists in many hot deals. And even some venture funds, like Google's venture capital arm, now follow the investment model pioneered by Conway.
"He made angel investing important, he made it popular, and he made it okay," says his friend Bill Campbell, who is known in the Valley as "Coach." "The Valley would be very different without Ron Conway."
Ron Conway's firm, SV Angel, is a lean operation. Although it is on its third fund, has made more than 300 investments in Internet startups, and currently has 200 active companies in its portfolio, it has no offices, a rudimentary web page, and only a bare-bones staff. Conway is the biggest investor in the fund and holds the title of special partner, but officially he has no operational role. (The funds are managed by David Lee, a former business development executive at Google.) But not much happens at SV Angel without Conway.
While SV Angel takes no board seats, you would not describe Conway and Co. as passive investors. Conway says he offers a mix of mentoring, strategic advice, business development, fundraising, and help with M&A -- pretty much what most early-stage investors promise. But for young entrepreneurs, Conway's contribution takes a tangible form early on. Shortly after being admitted to the Conway clan, they receive a spreadsheet. It's called the SV Angel "partner list." In a tiny font, it stretches to 18 pages and includes the names of more than 1,300 well-placed individuals in the world of business. Tech companies are well represented, of course. There are nearly 50 Googlers on the list -- including Larry Page and Sergey Brin -- as well as top brass from Microsoft (MSFT) and the chief executives of Intel (INTC), Motorola (MMI), Salesforce.com (CRM), and Twitter.
The partner list stands out as much for its breadth and eclectic mix of personalities as it does for its sheer size. Sir Martin Sorrell, who heads advertising giant WPP Group, is on it, as are the CEO of Wells Fargo (WFC) and the chairman of the Washington Post Co. (WPO), not to mention top execs from the Oprah Winfrey Network and Safewayn (SWY). A Conway investment comes with the promise of a handful of introductions, if needed, to anyone on the list The spreadsheet has a powerful effect, especially on the ambitious young talent that typically gets admitted to Conway's network. "I opened the spreadsheet, as a 22-year-old trying to build this business," says Dan Greenberg, the CEO of Sharethrough, a startup company that distributes video content online. "I was floored."
Conway makes it clear to his brood of entrepreneurs that he will dispense help only when needed, at what he calls "inflection points." At those critical moments in a startup's life Conway responds quickly -- and so do those in his network. There was the time when a top executive at Tellme Networks, a telecommunications startup, e-mailed Conway in desperation at 11 p.m., as a business deal with Verizon (VZ) was falling apart. Two minutes later, Conway's reply came, in all caps: "AM ON IT." By the next morning Conway had arranged a meeting with the Verizon president, which led to a nine-figure contract with Tellme. Microsoft eventually bought Tellme for $800 million.
Plenty of investors open doors for their companies, but part of what makes Conway so effective is that he's on all the time. He has no hobbies other than philanthropy, and his social life revolves around the Valley's conference, party, and charity fundraiser circuits. Those events are just opportunities to work his Rolodex. Back in 2009, for instance, while attending a fundraiser for College Track, a nonprofit founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, the wife of Steve Jobs, he took aside Twitter's Stone and introduced him to Scott Forstall, Apple's mobile software chief. It was the beginning of a corporate friendship that led to the integration of Twitter and the iPhone and the iPad. "The relationship with Apple was a huge, huge deal for us," says Stone, who has since left Twitter.
Conway's Rolodex isn't strictly for business -- at least not in the conventional sense. Stone says it was not atypical for Conway to call him at Twitter in the middle of the day to announce he was coming over with Kanye West or Will.i.am, just as a treat for employees. (Stone came to refer to the coterie of business types and celebrities that often accompany Conway as the Rontourage.) Conway has helped to get the children of entrepreneurs into elite Bay Area private schools where he is a donor. When Conway learned that the father of Evan Williams, another Twitter co-founder, was diagnosed with an illness, Conway put him in touch with the top specialist in that field at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, where he is a major donor and fundraiser. Quips Stone: "He's an angel investor and a health plan and social-event planner all in one."
Conway goes out of his way to burnish his reputation as guardian angel to entrepreneurs, frequently recounting stories of newbies he's taken under his wing -- like the time he dissuaded Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky from taking money from a large investor he won't name in favor of a smaller deal led by Andreessen's firm. (Conway convinced Chesky it would be better for the company in the long run.) In turn it is not hard to find entrepreneurs indebted to Conway. "I don't know where I would be professionally without his help," says Napster founder Shawn Fanning, who had Conway invest in all five companies he started. The lovefest, of course, is good for business: It helps Conway's investments and, in turn, it drives more deals for hot startups his way.
But in recent years, some of Conway's boisterous crusades on behalf of entrepreneurs have begun to wear thin in some corners of the Valley. In 2010, for instance, Conway railed against a group of angel investors who had met to discuss rising valuations and other issues. Conway, who was not at the meeting, saw the confab as anti-entrepreneur and lashed out. "The world of startups would be a better place if you spent less time complaining about deal structures, terms, VCs, and valuations etc and the cars you drive, and just helped entreprenuers [sic] build their companies," he wrote in an e-mail that was widely leaked. He accused the group of lacking integrity and singled out Dave McClure, a rival super-angel, for "unprofessional classless writings." The incident, which the tech blogs dubbed Angel-Gate, caused plenty of bruised feelings, though it was quickly forgotten. And even many of those who came under withering criticism continue to do business with Conway. "I've seen Ron be a hard-ass at times, but overall he is a pretty friendly guy," says McClure.
Privately, Conway talks of "slapping down" investors far more powerful than he is, and admits that many of the Valley's most prestigious players find him overly meddlesome at times. "I couldn't care less who is mad at me as long as the entrepreneur comes out ahead," he says. Many of those who do business with him acknowledge that friction is not uncommon. Sequoia Capital, for instance, has worked with Conway for nearly 20 years. Their relationship is "good 90% of the time," says veteran partner Doug Leone. "Ten percent of the time it is less than good."
Conway's frequent outbursts -- and his grudges -- are not just aimed at other investors. After Mark Zuckerberg appeared to be close to a meltdown during an on-stage interview at the AllThingsD technology conference in 2010, Conway chewed out one of the interviewers, columnist Mossberg, in a series of e-mail exchanges that Mossberg read to Fortune. In a withering missive Conway essentially accused Mossberg of bullying Zuckerberg and demanded a public apology. Yet Zuckerberg himself later thanked Mossberg in an e-mail for a "good interview," and other top Facebook officials told Mossberg they were grateful that he had handled the situation professionally. "Your tirade is not only insulting, it makes you look like an ass," Mossberg replied to Conway. Conway wrote back: "We are all entitled to our opinions. I'm sticking with entrepreneur."
Conway does little to hide his mercurial side. Two years ago, at one of his well-attended Christmas parties in San Francisco, he had asked Will.i.am to speak about philanthropy. But when the rapper went on stage to speak, the crowd of hundreds paid no attention and continued to socialize. A visibly flustered Conway grabbed the microphone and began berating his guests. Says Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com and a close friend: "It was quite the spectacle."
Ron Conway landed in the tech industry by happenstance. He was raised in the Bay Area at a time when much of Silicon Valley was still covered in orchards. Born in 1951, Conway was the sixth child, tied with his twin brother, in an Irish Catholic family of 12, six boys and six girls. He attended Catholic schools, first in San Francisco and later in upscale Atherton, a few miles north of Palo Alto. His father was a senior executive at American President Lines, the shipping giant. Conway was an average student who, upon graduating high school, went to community college and later transferred to San Jose State University, where he earned a degree in political science.
After graduating, he landed a job at National Semiconductor, where he rose quickly through the ranks. In 1979, he left to join the team that founded Altos Computer Systems, a pioneering maker of microcomputers, as vice president of sales. When Altos went public in 1982, Conway became a multimillionaire. He left in 1985, but Altos faltered, and its founder and chairman persuaded Conway to return as CEO three years later. In 1990, he sold Altos to Acer, a Taiwanese computer maker, cementing his personal fortune. "Technically, I never had to work after Altos," says Conway.
He threw himself into philanthropic causes like the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford. He also bought a majority stake in Personal Training Systems, a computer-training company, which he sold a few years later. By 1994 he had discovered his true passion, as he began his angel investing career, first teaming up with Ben Rosen. "We decided we were only going to invest in this thing called the Internet," Conway says. "It's the most significant decision I made in investing."
Conway and Rosen invested in a couple dozen startups, syndicating deals with other investors. By 1998, when the Internet frenzy was going full tilt and Conway was doing one deal every month, he decided to create a fund so he could make larger investments. Angel Investors I raised $30 million in 1998, and a subsequent fund the next year raised $150 million. Through his time at Altos and National Semi, Conway was already hyperconnected in the computer industry, which ruled the Valley in the 1980s. He tapped into the younger Internet generation by courting the newly minted millionaires from Amazon (AMZN), eBay, and Yahoo (YHOO) to invest in the funds. They, in turn, would help Conway find the best startup deals.
The Angel Investors funds offered something many well-heeled individuals outside the Valley desperately wanted: the ability to get in on the ground floor in hot Internet investments. Conway milked that to make inroads into the world of celebrity. Through a friend at Intel, Conway met a Los Angeles agent for Shaquille O'Neal, and that's how Shaq became an investor. The agent shared an office with a money manager for Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that's how he became an investor. Conway enlisted Henry Kissinger through a business associate of Rosen's.
Conway worked tirelessly to stay on top of as many promising deals as he could. He spent hours on the Valley's clogged freeways, almost always on the phone, and often taking notes as he drove. This worried his wife, Gayle, so much that she paid their eldest son, Ronny, to drive Conway around when he was home from UCLA during the summer. (His three sons, all UCLA graduates, now work in Conway's universe: Ronny at Andreessen Horowitz; Danny at Airtime, a company started by Fanning and Sean Parker that Conway helped to finance; and Topher at SV Angel.)
Despite his prolific Internet investing, Conway was never much of a techie himself. During the dotcom boom, he would print every e-mail he received, scribble a few notes on it, and hand it back to his administrative assistant, who would respond for him. At home, he would use a fax machine to send the annotated e-mails back. "The fax machine was the most important thing in our household," says Danny Conway. Conway once took his fax machine to the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas so he could stay in touch with people.
Now Conway appears to be on e-mail around the clock. Everyone in the Valley, it seems, has received his boisterous notes, with sections in all caps. But Conway hardly ever uses the services of the companies he invests in. His accounts on Facebook and Twitter are dormant, and he doesn't check in on Foursquare. "I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet," he says. "I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don't necessarily like or use."
The dotcom bubble didn't end well for Conway, as company after company was shuttered. For his marquee investors, it could have been worse -- much worse -- were it not for three winning bets that pulled his funds out of the red: AskJeeves, PayPal, and, more important, Google. The bust put a temporary end to Conway's investing. But by 2004 he had begun writing checks to startups again.
Conway's investment strategy has often been derided as "spray and pray." Finding people who criticize Conway openly, however, is not easy. Most venture capitalists know that at some point Conway is bound to send a deal their way and don't want to cross him. But privately many are willing to pan him. "The venture business should be about making choices," says a prominent venture capitalist. "If you pick 100 random startups, you are bound to get a few hits." At best, the venture capitalist says, Conway has an "index fund" of startups, and such funds tend to have worse returns than well-focused choices.
Conway and his team readily admit that SV Angel is something of an index fund of Internet startups -- but, oh, what an index it is! And they reject the notion that they do no due diligence. "The people who say 'spray and pray' don't understand our business and our business model," says Lee. "They have no idea what they are talking about." Lee and Conway say there is a method to what some consider the madness of SV Angel, which invests at the rate of about one startup a week. It reviews only pitches that come through referrals from trusted sources, and for every company it bankrolls, it turns down another 29. (Lee and Conway insist this is evidence of their due diligence.) Yet beyond that, the rigor of their approach is difficult to discern. Conway and Lee never do more than back-of-the-envelope market analyses or financial projections, and technical due diligence is kept to a minimum. A single-page handout prepared for entrepreneurs includes fuzzy criteria like "great team," saying the entrepreneurs are decisive and passionate.
Last year, SV Angel did something that caused even more tongues to wag: It teamed up with Andreessen and Yuri Milner, the Russian investor who holds large stakes in Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, and Zynga (ZNGA), to invest in every startup that is accepted to the Y Combinator program, a biannual accelerator for startups. That's an additional 120 startups or so per year, for which Conway essentially outsources due diligence to Paul Graham, who runs Y Combinator. "Y Combinator is the Harvard of accelerators," Conway says. Successful startups like Loopt, Airbnb, and Dropbox are all Y Combinator alumni.
Conway won't disclose the returns of his funds. But the clearest indication that the investment model he pioneered may work is that it is now widely emulated. "The lay of the land has changed more and more toward lots of small checks," says McClure, who runs 500 Startups, an incubator and seed-investment fund -- one of many that makes small bets on dozens of companies, or more. McClure credits him with being a "forefather of the movement."
Andreessen, who is an investor in Conway's funds, says the SV Angel portfolio is likely to be among the top-performing seed-investment funds in the Valley. (In classic Valley fashion, Conway, in turn, is an investor in Andreessen Horowitz.) "If someone were to outperform him in seed investing, it is because they got in on the next Facebook and he hadn't," Andreessen says. Conway's strategy may not be scientific, but it recently got one very important endorsement. The venture arm of Google has started spreading its early-stage investments widely.
Conway, of course, cares about his returns. But he also relishes being in the game and playing a central role in a network of financiers, celebrities, politicians, and of course, bright, aspiring tech moguls. "Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me," he says. "That's the best thing ever." That affinity for founders -- and his willingness to go all out to help them -- may ultimately be what separates mere "spray and pray" from the Conway way.
This article is from the February 27, 2012 issue of Fortune.


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A running discussion on the Cincinnati Reds and everything else in the baseball universe.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Zach Stewart Blowing Everyone Away
In the Reds organization, one the brightest lights of the 2009 season is Zach Stewart.
Stewart was drafted out of Texas Tech, where he worked primarily as a closer, but did log some time as the team's Friday night starter. When they drafted him, it seemed likely that the Reds envisioned him as a polished reliever who could move quickly up the ladder. Even if that's the role they envisioned for Stewart, they still put him in the starting rotation to start the season. It could be a sign that the Reds view him as a starter or it could be nothing more than a development strategy.
Many organizations decide to use all of their best pitching prospects as starting pitchers, even if some ultimately project as being relievers. This is a player development strategy that allows the prospect to work long outings, develop additional pitches for their arsenal, and get regular work between starts. The main advantage is the last one, as prospects who work as relievers are unable to get consistent work in between appearances as they never know when they will be called on to pitch in the game. Regardless of the reason why he's in the rotation, now that he's there he may never relinquish the role.
Stewart went to high-A Sarasota to start the season where he was truly overpowering. In 42.1 innings and 7 starts, Stewart posted a 2.13 ERA with a 32/8 K/BB ratio, 2.42 GB/FB ratio, and a 1.30 WHIP. He still features a nasty fastball and a hard biting slider, but as a starter he is working on a third pitch: his change-up. His slider always had plus potential, but early reports on it have been very strong. The other obvious plus in his early season performance is just how many ground balls he is inducing. His fastball has good sinking action to it and hitters are beating the ball into the ground, which is a big plus considering that he'll soon be pitching in the launching pad that is Great American Ballpark.
His stellar early season performance for Sarasota recently earned him a promotion to double-A Carolina. He quickly proved that he brought his success with him, as he has yet to allow a run in his first two starts. In 11.0 innings, Stewart has a 0.00 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, 10/2 K/BB, and a 3.20 GB/FB ratio. Even though the jump from high-A to double-A is often considered the most difficult jump in the professional ranks, Stewart was clearly unfazed.
Stewart made a start tonight which was notable in two respects: 1) He didn't allow a run and 2) he only pitched 4.0 innings. It's unclear why Stewart worked in only 4.0 innings, as he threw 7 in his double-A debut and was cruising tonight, so hopeful it's not an injury. I still worry that he may be a bit of a heightened injury due to his power stuff and pitching mechanics.
Here are a couple of photos of Stewart pitching for Sarasota (courtesy of Jim Donten) which were taken on April 22, 2009 when Stewart faced the Charlotte Stone Crabs.
In the photo on the right, you can see that Stewart's plant foot is on the ground, but his pitching arm is not yet up in throwing position. A general rule of thumb is that the pitching arm should be up in throwing position when the stride is completed. Here, the arm seems to be a bit late, which could add additional stress to the arm. If the body isn't completely in sync, then the arm may have to carry more of the stress generated by the already unnatural act that is pitching. Hopefully, this isn't something that will hinder Stewart, but it does seem like his arm is still slightly lagging behind in his delivery.
So far, Stewart's 2009 season has been an unqualified success. Given the lack of impact pitching prospects in the system, it's rather obvious that Stewart should be given every opportunity to prove his ability to handle a starting role. The Reds will likely select a pitcher in the 1st round of the upcoming draft, but for now Stewart is running neck and neck with J.C. Sulbaran for the title of best pitching prospect in the system.
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- AnonymousAugust 1, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Sure glad the Jays got him, he should be a great starter fairly soon.ReplyDelete
Hey Anon,ReplyDelete
He's a good pitching prospect. I'm sure you guys will enjoy having him in the system. He's got good stuff and heavy groundball tendencies. I think his ultimate ceiling is that of a #2 starter, but I'm not convinced he'll reach it. I don't think he has the strikeout rate to be a #1 starter.
He had a tremendous season for the Reds, but the Reds are still trying to stretch him out for starting duty. They switched him back to the bullpen when they promoted him to triple-A, as they want to limit his innings on the year.
Anyway, I'm sure you guys will enjoy Stewart. I'm excited to be done with Edwin and I'm looking forward to having a legitimate 3b at the hot corner.


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The 1995 Freedom to Farm Act gave producers the option to plant what they believed to be their most competitive crops and still participate in the farm program. That choice tenet still underlies today's farm bill legislation and when comparing the five year period just before its enactment to the last five years, there are clear cut winners and losers in terms of crops and acreage says University of Illinois Farm Management Specialist Gary Schnitkey.
"What we saw is a movement toward soybeans and corn; soybeans gained 14 million acres from the early period to 2005-2009," Schnitkey said. "Corn gained nine million so those two crops were the only crops that gained in acres, hay and rice were stable, but the big losers were wheat, barley and grain sorghum."
To evaluate acreage changes, data detailing acres harvested in the United States by year were obtained from the National Agricultural Statistical Service. Data were collected for all crops with over one million acres harvested in 2008. There were thirteen of them: soybeans, corn for grain, hay, rice, wheat, barley, grain sorghum, corn for silage, cotton, peanuts, dry edible beans, potatoes, and sugarbeets. Acres harvested were averaged for the years 1990 through 1994, the years preceding the passage of the 1995 Farm Bill, and 2005 through 2009.
Between the early 1990s and late 2000s, soybeans were the crop with the largest acreage increase. It averaged 58.2 million acres harvested in the early 90's, increasing to 72.2 million acres in the late 2000's. It's an increase of about 25%. Corn also had a sizable increase of 9.4 million acres, or a 14% increase from one period to the other. Wheat had the largest reduction from 62.8 million acres to 50.7 million acres, down 19%.
The data, says Schnitkey, show the largest increases in corn and soybean acreage were concentrated in the Great Plains and the greater Corn Belt.
"The state that gained the most in corn and soybean acres was North Dakota gaining four million acres," Schnitkey said. "Other big gainers were Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas."


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Who among us doesn't spend a lot of time backtracking on our trail of hunting and fishing memories? I certainly do, and so does V. Paul Reynolds.
It was a real pleasure recently to backtrack through Paul's memories, in his new book Backtrack, published this year by Islandport Press. Paul's tracks can be found all across Maine, in his jobs as general manager of the Bangor Daily News, spokesman for Maine's Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and editor and publisher of Northwoods Sporting Journal.
Despite all of that, his has been a life lived outdoors. More than 50 great memories and moments, presented in these stories of his outdoor adventures, will entertain, inform, and inspire you – perhaps to write your own book of memories, perhaps to just get outside that day to hunt or fish. Or just maybe you will head to the kitchen to make Diane's beerburger soup. Yummy!
Approaching my 65th birthday, I paid close attention to Tree Stands for Seniors. Good advice, Paul!
So many names, places, and events flow through the book that are familiar to me, and I enjoyed every one, from stories about Bud Leavitt to fishing the Magalloway River. But Paul's stories about his adventures outside Maine, especially his Colorado elk hunts and his fishing expeditions in Labrador, were my favorites.
Friends and family are found on many of Paul's backtracks, especially his wife Diane. From deer camp and green drakes and tips and recipes, to outdoor calamities and astonishing success in the field, it's all here.
I've read the book once already, and I plan to take it with me to read Paul's deer hunting stories again in my deer stand in November. Perhaps some of his success will rub off!


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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
day #2: tree to sky moment & learning to pay attention
the second mindful video. this is from a walk along the fields and forest here.
a different kind of attention
really enjoying the videos - and the way the format makes me more attentive. walking along the path, i looked for possible views to film, and was glad to find this spot, at this moment of light shining through.
a reflection on format: for photos, the movement isn't the key to taking the picture. for film, it is: either the outside movement, or the movement of the camera. and of course, there's the element of sound. like in my first video, the one from yesterday, with the church bells 8 a.m. moment. today is quieter, and more about details. the change of contrast / lightness is induced by the camera automatic, but then, our eyes do the same when looking from darker to lighter views, i realized after watching it again: we are constantly adjusting. just like we adjust our attention / focus constantly.
more than 200 moments
after uploading my video yesterday, it was beautiful to see how more and more moments went online - in the course of the day, over 200 came together at How to begin. small stone Day One.
the last one on the first page touched me especially:
There is only treelight and candlelight and
a wet torrent teeming over the roof above.
As I sit in this semi-silence, I wish for sleep,
and I think, Day One... and how fitting it is,
that it has all begun with the washing rain.
And George Eliot echoes in my head,
"It's never too late to be what you might have been."
- RosyRevolver
this is water & paying attention
and a quote: 2 years ago, i read David Foster Wallace's thought-provoking commencement speach at New Year morning: "This is Water". which now turned into a kind of returning read for the day. included below is a quote that connect to the idea of mindful moments: to pay attention to the small moments that make life, and to be more conscious of the everyday:
"But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.
Not that that mystical stuff is necessarily true. The only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're gonna try to see it. This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.
Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship."
( here's the full essay online: This is Water )
seen from that angle, january will be about worshipping small and moving / fleeting moments
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Among the petition's signatories were 17 winners of the Israel Prize and other leding intellectuals and artists.
"We are here to welcome the expected announcement of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel, according to the borders of our independence, fixed during the 1949 armistice," the petition reads.
The Israeli so-called 'Leftists' are welcoming the expected Palestinian State as long as the Palestinians stay behind the wall and do not exercise their right of return. The Israeli humanists basically endorse the Palestinian diplomatic initiative so they can keep dwelling on Palestinian land forever. I am not impressed at all.
"The complete end of the occupation is an essential condition of the liberation of the two peoples," the petition says. Someone should remind the Israeli 'doves' that the whole of Israel is located on historic Palestine.
I would actually expect the Israeli so-called 'Left' to be far more radical, to stand up and say, enough is enough, we are now calling all Palestinians to return to their homes, villages, cities, fields and orchards. Such a declaration would prove for the first time that the Israeli so-called 'Left' has internalised the real meaning of peace and harmony.
Don't hold your breath, this is not going to happen soon.
What we saw in Tel Aviv today is an exercise in Jewish identity politics. A few so-called 'Leftists' engaged in a superficial self-loving pseudo ethical Hasbara campaign.


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Yo gary! Hope your having a great weekend bud!
Take care!
Excellent photo!! A true Death Hag indeed!!
Hi Gary
gaaaaaaaaaary! hi! how are ya? i got some recent pics of buddy's grave, as well as the graves of his mom dad and sister. i shall be posting them in the buddy thread. <3
Tombstone is pretty good for frozen pizza anyway...I am still rolling my eyeballs back in my head...
Frozen Tombstone cooked on the Pizzaz! Yum!
Hehehe.. That picture is very GROSS! BTW...I think I will go eat some pizza...
Thanks for the add Gary!
excuse you for not being my friend on here! lol. jk. hope you're doing well! xoxoxoxo
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The Texas Zephyr was a train that ran the Denver to Ft Worth Route. (Museum of the American Railroad in Dallas Texas)
The Lincoln Zepher was a beauty of a car built back in the early 30's
I was talking with an AfriGeneas chatter friend Seventies Soulchild who is travelling to Mississippi for a reunion and to do some research. My thoughts went back to the day I found anotherZepher to add to my tree.
One summer in the late seventies, I went to Dallas Texas to visit my brother Richard. I had the chance to get in touch with my uncle Harry who came to the house, picked me up and took me back to his house to spend the day.
I loved talking to Uncle Harry because he always filled me in on family goings on. I did not grow up around my paternal family but always had the thirst for knowledge about the who, what, when where and whys.
Uncle Harry had this booklet that someone had given him that detailed the story of a celebration at the Fanthrop Inn. The name of the booklet was Fanthrop Days. I wish I had made a copy to take home with me. Years later after Uncle Harry passed away I inquired but no one seemed to know where it was or had ever recalled seeing it.
Henry Fanthrop was the proprietor of the Inn which was also a stagecoach stop for weary travellers and is now an historical site in Grimes County Texas.
Uncle Harry believed that Fanthrop should have been the name that we may have carried because of the association with the Inn. After all he said, it was in the days of slavery. He told me that his great grandfather used to take care of and doctor on the horses.
I automatically thought he was talking about James "Jake" Daviss because he ended up becoming a doctor after attending Meharry in 1891.
Many years later did it hit home who he was referring to.
While Uncle Harry was talking he told me that there another child who was sold off in Mississippi and that after freedom his great grandfather had a chance to go get her and bring her home to Grimes County. Uncle Harry mentioned also that this daughter had fell for this man from Mississippi, married and went back with him to his home state, but eventually came back to Grimes County Texas with their children.
Here I go with my assuming self that we were still talking the Daviss line so I looked and looked and looked for this estranged Daviss sister to no avail.
One night while I was searching the Texas Death Records one by one for Grimes County I ran across this name. I smiled rather melancholy because it was my mothers first name. My mother was named Zepher and she was just that,a cool gentle breeze and My heart of hearts.
As I clicked on the link and started to read,the name that caught my eye was
J.P. Daviss, Navasota Texas, my grandfather!! He was the informant on this death certificate.
My first thought was that since he was a minister he was perhaps helping someone with the heartbreaking chore of filling out the form.
Reading further was the name Lydia Zepher, daughter of Louis Cooper!!!.
Uncle Harry was right, there was another daughter. This daughter was not a Daviss but a Cooper. Louis Cooper was the father of Sallie White Cooper Conway my Uncle Harry's grandmother and his great great grandfather.
This is a picture of Sallie Conway and her husband James Conway in Navasota. I always chuckle when I see this picture because those yard birds look like they don't have a care in the world or either they figure there was no use in running when someone came near them.
Her birth date was 1851 according to the Death Certificate. So Uncle Harry was right again about her being born in slavery.
Lydia was buried in Millican Texas in Brazos County so I went searching for her and her Mississippi Husband.
Bingo there was Isham and Liddy in the 1900 census. They were married March 24,1892 in Bryan Texas.
(To get a bigger view and browse the entire page click on census)
Here they are again still living in Brazos County in 1910
This 1930 census tells me that hubby Isham is still alive when the enumerator came around but on her Death Certificate she is a widow. I am looking desperately for his record.
I am not sure if her nephew, my grandfather, went and got her to live out her days with him and my grandmother Gertrude Sims Daviss. The address on the certificate said near Piedmont and that was where my grandparents lived. I do know now that the puzzle was solved about the oral history that was told to me.
The only puzzle now was why the death certificate had a blank for the mother. My next chore was to find Lydia.link her to Mary White Cooper, Louis's Cooper's wife and my 2nd great grandmother.
I have only been able to find Mary Cooper in the 1880 census so I went back to study it over again.
Several doors down is a Lydia age 27 married to a Parham. I found an index where Robert and Liddy Cooper were married on August 30,1875. (I also found an indication that Robert had also married again after several years so it was not through death.) so I am sure this Lydia is the same person who is on the death certificate and also the same person who married Isham Zepher.
You never know how oral history plays in your plans and what route it will have you go. Its a good thing I eventually went down the right road after playing the assumption game in my head. I don't want to say that Uncle Harry wasn't clear because he could have told me the right great grand in the first place. From now on I need to carry a good pen,listen with a good ear and ask the right questions.


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I spent some time writing this up for the NYC distribution list ([email protected]) and I posted it to the Burning Man Tribe on Tribe.net so I figured I'd edit it some more and cross-post one more time for more to enjoy.
I received all the money I asked for in my grant for the Bike With 2 Brains for Burning Man 2005 and I'm listed on the 2005 Funded Art Installations. I don't mean to sound like I'm bragging (although I must admit that I giggle every time I see my name on that page) but I keep getting requests from people asking to see my grant application so they can "see what a successful application looks like." I've been reluctant to hand it over because it lists the exact dollar amounts and I really don't think it'll do much good to look at it as it's not obvious what's important and what's not. So here's my advice ...
In general, have a rough plan for how the whole project will come together. At least know what you expect to be looking at when it's all done on the Playa and what it will be like to touch/see/experience it. You get grant money by having a solid plan from going from nothing to having a completed project. You don't just swagger into the BMorg offices, show your artist badge, and say you have an idea at which point they give you, say, $5,000, and then you go out and make something. Not to be so mocking, I think a lot of people think grants are based exclusively on how good their idea is -- as far as I know, they are based on a number of factors including how good their idea is, but to a large degree on how much planning they have already done.
Think of it this way: pretend you're going to do this project no matter what and figure out what it's going to be, how you're going to build it, what it's going to be made of, what's on the inside and outside, who is going to do what, how long is it going to take, and what things you can sacrifice if you run out of time. This is the kind of stuff that goes in the application.
Here's some other suggestions:
- On the grant application page, they ask you to answer specific questions ("Your proposal must include the following:"). Set them up as headings in your application.
- Fill out everything honestly and completely. This is a business proposal, not a stylish resume, but it's also for Burning Man. I got a little creative at times -- for instance, this is how I introduced the section about "Pertinence to the 2005 Theme:"
In other words, know your audience. I probably wouldn't have tried to be clever the same way if I was writing to a bunch of stuffy art investors. Since I was writing to Burners, I figured I could be a little creative, but I also knew I was asking for real money, so I was mostly straightforward with just a little wit. Remember: your mileage may vary.Very few art projects can completely capture the Burning Man theme. For 2005, the theme of 'Psyche: the Conscious, the Subconscious and the Unconscious' is tangentially related to 'The Bike With 2 Brains.' To demonstrate this, I will attempt to use the theme terms in context as much as I can in the following paragraphs.
- Explain your project like you know it in your head -- don't try to "save a surprise" for the grant staff to experience when they get to the Playa. That is, if your project's scale is designed to instill fear in the viewer because it is important that their emotional state is tense when they enter, then just say that. Don't guard the underlying ideas -- just explain how you think it will affect people and why. Assume they can keep a secret about it -- if you're that worried, throw in a bit of that creativity or just beg them not to tell anybody becuase it's supposed to be a surprise.
- Create and supply scale architectural drawings. Use Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software if you have to (I used CADintosh from Lemke Software, GmbH; it's a $30 CAD package for the Mac.) If you haven't used CAD before, it will seem very strange -- zooming, for instance, is done with the scroll wheel on the mouse. If that seems like too much trouble, or for simple drawings, you can get away with a line-art package like Adobe Illustrator or just the drawing tools in Microsoft Word. Prove that you have thought through the structure and how it will survive in the Playa environment (i.e. wind, rain, yahoos, no-MOOP, clean-up.)
- Figure out your budget. Use real prices and cite your sources. "$500 for lumber" is bad, "644 ft 2x4 material at $2.50 per 12ft board = 54 boards + 1 board scrap for $137.50 from Home Depot" is better. Avoid rounding off -- rounding up the $137.50 lumber example to $200 or $150 isn't such a good idea although $138 is probably fine. Use those round numbers for estimates. If you're going to have to buy stuff new, price it out at average market price -- sometimes you'll get a great deal, and sometimes you'll have to suck-it-up and pay more. I got soaked on the paint job which cost ten times more than what I expected because I didn't get a proper estimate beforehand.
And for the love of the Spaghetti Monster and all that is Noodly, don't start from some arbitrary number and work backwards. You may have an idea in your head -- figuring your project might cost a total of $2,000 or something -- but just start from the little numbers of all the parts and add it up to whatever it ends up being. Don't lie about the money to try and skim a little for yourself.
- Note your contingencies. What if your first-choice for transportation falls through? Will you be bringing your own welder and generator to make repairs? Will you be making duplicates of fragile parts or a more durable/less aesthetic replacement?
If you're prone to worrying like I am, this can drive you absolutely mad. Don't worry too much, but if you do think of something (or people ask) then jot those things down and at least do a little planning for some of the most likely and/or most disastrous ones.
Conveniently, the nightmare where you're assembling your project and you realize you forgot to wear any clothes isn't really an issue.
- In general, more detail is better.
If you make it look like your project is already underway -- that you've done enough research, you're creating models and mock-ups, and you can answer specific questions about how you're going to finish -- your chances are way better. If you have a pie-in-the-sky idea that you need $50,000 for and you've got no idea how to complete it, your chances are worse.


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Date: 3/5/2012; 59 minutes
New digital technologies that are transforming the conduct of science create challenges regarding access, ownership, quality, and validation of data. Katherine Kantardjieff, the dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at CSU San Marcos, addresses technical, social and ethical implications of conducting science in the information age. This lecture is part of the Henrietta Lacks series sponsored by the Center for Ethics in Science and Technology in San Diego. (#23212)
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Lampard hints at Chelsea exit
Chelsea star Frank Lampard has indicated that this season may be his last for the English giants, in comments likely to fuel speculation about a possible move to China.
England international midfielder, Frank Lampard, who has been at Chelsea since 2001, has been linked since March with a move to the Chinese Super League and last month Guizhou Renhe confirmed they were in talks with him.
His contract is due to expire in June and following his side's 3-1 win over Monterrey on Thursday to reach the Club World Cup final in Japan, Lampard said he has yet to be approached by Chelsea with an extension, Kyodo reported.
"There have been no talks... about an extension," Lampard said.
"The ball is in Chelsea's court. I'm a Chelsea player as simple as that."
"I've had a great, great time here," he said, but added: "Maybe things don't last forever."
Lampard has been recovering from injury and came on as a substitute in the 63rd minute against Monterrey. The 34-year-old said he felt he could compete at the highest level for a while yet.
"I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character. I will keep trying to do that, whatever the circumstances.
"I can't predict anything but I feel like I have two or three years at least in me at the top level," Lampard told the Japanese agency.
"It is not for me to decide on this one. It's up to the club. Whatever happens, I have had a great time at Chelsea. I am determined to play a few more years and see what pans out in the near future."
China has become an attractive destination for football stars approaching the end of their careers and Lampard's future may lie in the Chinese Super League where former teammates Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka ply their trade.
In November Renhe deputy board chairman Yang Xiaoyu told AFP that the club was "in contact with Lampard but so far nothing has been settled".
The 2013-14 Chinese Super League season begins in March with Renhe also due to compete in the AFC Champions League for the first time.
Ivory Coast striker Drogba and former France international Anelka play for Shanghai Shenhua on contracts said to be worth $300,000 a week.
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