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I would like to create a Facebook fan page for my web startup and need some directions as I have some questioning.
When I go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php I need to choose one of the following options:
- Local Business or Place
- Company, Organization or Institution
- Brand or Product
- Artist, Band or Public Figure
- Entertainment
- Cause or Community
My website will be selling sustainable products, and I hope to turn the website into a "green" brand ultimately.
Q1: Should I choose option [2] or [3]?
A long time ago, when I thought about a brand name for my website, I registered the
vanity URL for that brand under my personal account because I didn't know how else to do it and wanted to reserve the name ASAP before someone else. I now have
http://facebook.com/mybrand pointing to my personal account.
Q2: How can I do to transfer the Vanity URL from my profile page to my company fan page?
Q3: Finally, I would like to know if a minimum of 25 fans is still required to setup a vanity URL for your fan page as I keep seeing contradictory information on the internet: http://allfacebook.com/you-no-longer-need-25-fans-to-get-a-custom-page-url_b58421


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Twitter never ceases to amaze me. In August, my wife and I were enjoying a Saturday clothes shopping trip. I remember we were in JCPenney picking out our new school clothes. (This is an annual pilgrimage for us every August.) At some point during that shopping session, I received a Tweet from Leigh Morris. As I recall, she was asking me about Breakout EDU. When I looked at her Twitter profile and realized she was a teacher in Cape Town, South Africa, I immediately followed her and told her I would love to connect our learning communities together this year. It was a delightful visit via my iPhone Twitter app as I followed my wife around the store. It was easy to tell that Leigh was a passionate teacher, and I was so glad she reached out to me! These are the motivated educators I consistently encounter on Twitter.
Skype Antics
If you have been watching this blog and my social media, you know I love connecting our students and teachers via Skype. Recently, we have been experimenting with Skype Translator using Spanish and Italian. I enjoy opening up our learners' minds to the enormous world waiting for them! There is so much to learn, and Skype connects us to new places and new friends.
Caroline's Request
About two weeks ago, Caroline and one of her friends, both sophomores at LHS, came to me asking if I could help them connect with pen pals in another country. They were working on an EAST project, and the first step was to begin establishing pen pals in distant locations. The fact that their teacher sent them to me for this assistance made me very happy. This shows that some of our faculty know about my Skype library sessions and/ or Twitter personal learning network (PLN). I want to be known as a connector in the building!
During our conversation, I immediately thought of my recent friend in South Africa, Leigh. I sent her a message asking about the possibility of student pen pal connections. She was all for it and within the following week our students were exchanging emails with her students! I offered for them to Skype in the library (if they could work out the time differences since South Africa is 7 hours ahead of us).
The Skype Session
Caroline finally came to me one day to set up a Skype time. We agreed on an open time in the library (I wanted to make sure we could have this session in the library), and she coordinated with her new friend (Megan) in South Africa. The day arrived, and we attempted connecting with Megan. The tries were unsuccessful at first. We continued sending Megan emails to troubleshoot the process. Then Megan's first Skype call to us came through. Caroline answered the call, and the two connected face to face for the first time. From my perspective, it was as if the two had known each other previously. Caroline and Megan talked about similarities and differences of our school cultures during the session. It was wonderful to hear Megan's unique accent, and I am sure it was good for her to hear Caroline's as well. It was a short and meaningful conversation. I can't wait to see what these two international friends do over the course of the school year. Be sure to watch the video (located below) of their first contact.
Caroline's Reflection
"It was really cool talking to Megan, I learned stuff I never had before. I was also surprised about how similar we both were. She and I had been talking 2 to 3 weeks before we Skyped, we have sent around 30 emails back and forth to each other just talking. It was really exciting to talk to her. It felt like we had known each other for a long time, it wasn't awkward at all."
Next Steps
I look forward to their future connections. Also, Caroline's classmate will be arranging a Skype session with her pen pal in South Africa very soon. Perhaps, we can have them share about their connections and forthcoming EAST project on a future blog article.
For me, this was a very powerful moment. I never stepped in to introduce myself because it wasn't about me. It was about two students in different places meeting each other for the first time. I merely helped Caroline connect with Megan using the technology in the library (and using my Twitter PLN). I want to do more of this when possible. It is important to allow students to take charge when appropriate. This is how they learn to be leaders! I have also learned how valuable a global PLN can be. Since I had connected with Leigh via Twitter, this was an easy task.
It is so good that this event happened in the school library. Think about how Caroline views the high school library at Lakeside. Hopefully, she and her friends will see it as a place to make endless connections with information, technology, and people. These adventures are only just beginning!
This is how we used Twitter and Skype to connect to a teenage inventor in Tennessee!
Reflecting on a year of connections in our school library.
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Officials: NC infant mortality rate edges higher
Health officials say North Carolina's infant mortality rate rose slightly in 2011, one year after the state registered its lowest rate ever.
Statistics released by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday showed the mortality rate reached 7.2 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2011, up from the record low rate of 7.0 in 2010.
Since 2008, the infant mortality rate has dropped 12.2 percent from a rate of 8.2 deaths per 1,000 live births.
Also, data collected by the State Center for Health Statistics showed deaths attributed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS, fell to 50 in 2011. That's down from 136 in 2008. DHHS said that represents a 60 percent reduction in SIDS rates and deaths since 1994, when DHHS began the Back to Sleep campaign.


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June 30, 2010, 10:25:31 AM »
Exactly what ranking is considered T1 as opposed to T2?
Is T1 top 50 or top 25? Likewise, if someone could accurately label the ranking necessary to be included in the T2 it would be appreciated. Thanks.
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June 30, 2010, 10:29:14 AM »
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December 21, 2010, 09:43:39 PM »
Why worry about it? It's all baloney anyways. Barpass rate is hardly even a factor in it. Its "how other schools view you" My neighbors wife is hot and most others would agree, but that dosn't change the fact that she's a psycho female dog and if you stick in her you will get an itch that even penacilin can't cure, same bullshitt with these ratings.
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December 22, 2010, 12:50:59 AM »
Bar percentage counts for 2% of a school's ranking. 20% is based on employment, but flipping burgers qualifies as employment for U.S. News. 60% is based on judges from around the country checking a box of Excellent, Very Good, Good, or marginal. Genearlly the people marking these boxes have never heard of the school they are marking. I imagine few San Francisco judges take trips to Nebraska. I also imagine few Nebraska judges make trips to New York or San Francisco, but they do check the box. It is a horrendously bad formula, but it is what it is. In regards to the actual question top 50 schools in U.S. News are tier 1. 50-100 are tier 2. Then there are tier 3 & tier 4. There is numerical category for this just a blanket statement based on god knows what. It is pretty funny to look at how drastically schools drop and rise over a period of 2 years. Nothing changes at the school, but based on this judges checking good or very good regarding a school they never heard of the rank changes drastically.
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December 22, 2010, 07:43:21 AM »
Given all those problems, the rankings still give a general ballpark notion of how schools are viewed relative to eachother. Barpass probably shouldn't be part of ranking at all imho as the point of law school isn't to be a 3-yr barbri course - if anything there's an inverse relationship between bar material covered at a school and bar pass rate - top schools have very high bar pass rates because they attract top students who then study for the bar. Those students would have passed just as easily if they'd skipped law school and gone straight to the bar I think.
In general, its sort of self-perpetuating - the more desirable a school is, the better student's it attracts and the better students it attracts, the better lawyers it produces. Better lawyers make for a better overall reputation and increases the desirability of the school. From my perspective one of the biggest things you purchase when you go to a more competitive school is an, on average, higher quality student body. This makes a big difference wrt networking, learning experience and alumi base. If you are lucky you might also get better professors and a brand name that will make starting your career a lot less work.
Now if anyone can figure out why USNWR cares about number of library books then we'll really make some progress
(my theory is that it creates a barrier to entry for new schools).
Within T1 folks often talk about the T14 which is georgetown and up. These move around a bit, but more or less the T14 are always the same T`14. Whether there's a huge gap between georgetown and whatever school is 15th or not I'm not sure - probably not. Within the T14 the T3 are in their own little group and pretty equivalent wrt opportunities and student body, but very different in culture and feel. The next few - Columbia, NYU and Chicago are also more or less all on the same plane. So while you can't really say with any great confidence that one school is definitely deserving of its exact rank, you can usually say that a group of a few schools are pretty similar and better than another clump.
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December 22, 2010, 11:17:47 AM »
I have no problem ranking the top 25 or so schools. Honestly, what is the difference between Texas Wesleyan & Creighton or Stetson v. Gonzaga. There are elite schools there is no question about that and judges across the nation might have an actual opinion about Georgetown or Yale. I would have no problem with them saying Georgetown is 12th and Yale is second. That is fine because judges/lawyers across the country most likely have actual opinions about the school. I highly doubt many judges/lawyers outside of San Francisco have dealt with GGU. I also doubt many people outside of Florida have dealt with Stetson. There are elite schools, but distinguishing the 82nd and 114th best school makes absolutely no sense.
The NCAA does not go past the top 25, because it does not matter outside of that. University of Idaho could beat San Jose State on any given day and San Jose State could beat University of Idaho on any given day. Even if San Jose State was ranked 53 and Idaho was ranked 82 nobody would be shocked if the 82nd team beat the 53rd.The NCAA realizes how stupid it is to rank past the top 25 so they just don't do it. I like that model because you are either elite or not your not. It would be nice if U.S. News adopted the same model.
It is really sad because idiots like myself nearly move across the country to go to a tier 2 school instead of a tier 4 in the location they want to live in. Thankfully, I had real lawyers talk some sense into me. I do not know if others are so lucky. Employers I imagine have no idea what is tier 2,3,4. It is unlikely anyone in New York has ever heard of GGU. It is unlikely anyone in Miami has heard of Southwestern. So and so on yet people will give up all kinds of things to go to a tier 3 school instead of a tier 4. Since the rating is so bad by the time they are one year in the school might be demoted to tier 4. The tier 4's they turned down could have become tier 3's. It is just so f**ing stupid to rank them past the top 25 maybe 50 schools. Outside of that the schools just go from tier 2 to tier 4 in one year. Michigan, Yale, Harvard, etc stay in the top 25 because those are damn good schools that the people making the rankings are familiar with. They may change a few spots, but they do go not through ups and downs like University of San Francisco. USF in a 3 year span went from 78 to tier 3 to 96th. Nothing changed at the school yet it moved that drastically and that is because I imagine most of the lawyers/judges marking the scan-tron have never dealt with USF and they simply check the good box one year or the very good box the next with absolutely nothing to back up their opinion. Based on some guys checking a box based on nothing people will give up all kinds of scholarship money or move across the country and it is just sad.
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December 22, 2010, 02:07:19 PM »
Its just proof how stupid people fall for marketing. Makes you wonder how people judged lawschools BEFORE a private corporation told them what to think a few years back.......my GOD, an American NOT before told what to do by a commercial? MADNESS!!!!!!!!
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December 22, 2010, 02:20:27 PM »
Hmmmm. Makes me wonder- When did the ranking system start?
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December 24, 2010, 11:27:29 AM »
It started 25 years ago. It was not encouraged by anyone it simply appeared and the formula has no backing. I imagine the legal industry has become worse since that time, because people take this rating so seriously and schools now focus more on trying to please a for-profit unregulated magazine than provide a quality education. Students also think they are entitled to something for going to the 62nd best school instead of the 83rd. It is just a terrible system that does nothing good for anyone accept get U.S. News a healthy profit.
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December 26, 2010, 02:06:50 PM »
So if rankings are based in large part based on the votes of judges, and cooley is spitting out record numbers of lawyers each year flooding the market with them as an increasing percentage of the licensed attorneys and increasing so the standing judges as well, won't the system eventually end up with cooley as #1 simply do to the fact that very soon the vast majority will be cooley grads? The people who cry about wanting to make $160,000 day one tend to be allergic to civil service, cooley grads tend not to have really any other choice according to posters here, so since cooley was created about the same times as the rankings it seems to be all a cooley based conspiracy for global dominance due to a brainwashed society that will buy and/pr kill eachother for whatever $200 shoe a rapping b-ball player wears.
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its been for weeks, I tried to open thread at CHF (chinahistoryforum dot com) but it says database error... anyone know how long this will happened ?
I hopes it wont vanish rtkfrontier way... a lot of interestng project there such as translation of shi ji etc
anyone know any good other forum on pre qin /spring autumn era ?
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- 5 skeins 12 ply cashmere. For this scarf I used Jade Sapphire's amazing 12-ply Cashmere in color "Green Tea". If you'd like to explore other yarns for this project, check out our collection of chunky yarns, you will need 300 yards total to complete the scarf.
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Saturday, November 17, 2012
Just Because It's Set in Stone...
There is a very important lesson that any family historian, and indeed, any researcher, needs to learn, and that is to not trust any single source of information as solid fact, not even a headstone or memorial.
Just because it's set in stone, it doesn't mean it's a stone fact.
Perhaps just to ensure that I do not become overly confident as a researcher, two examples of why any one source of information cannot be trusted completely (including those engraved in stone) has hit home with me in recent weeks. The first example is detailed out in my prior blog post: Solving the Case of the Missing Civil War Soldier, Thor Paulsen Sloan. For quite some time, I could not determine where my Norwegian-American Civil War soldier from Wisconsin was buried. I deduced that his remains were unlikely to be lost, because although he was wounded on the battlefield at Kennesaw Mountain in June 1863, he died as a patient in a Union hospital a few days later. It turns out that the reason I could not initially find the location of his burial plot was because his name and/or his regiment were recorded incorrectly on important sources: the interment record for the relocation of his remains from the Kennesaw Mountain area to the National Cemetery at Marietta, Georgia, and the headstone at his gravesite.
The second recent example was related to me by a presenter at a genealogy workshop I attended earlier this month. Family History Expo is a large genealogy conference held each November in the Seattle area. Eric Stroschein, professional genealogist, was speaking on the subject of genealogical proof standard and the importance of using proper sources and documentation during research. He detailed a story that illustrated why any single fact should not be taken as the gold standard without a reasonable exhaustive search to back it up, using other sources.
A client had hired Stroschein to research a potential family connection with a Confederate soldier who drowned during an early submarine test dive. The name of the lost soul was one of several etched on a memorial erected in dedication to the submarine crew members, who died in the line of duty. The surname of the prospective ancestor was rather unique, and this aided Stroschein while searching among censuses, military records, and other sources. But, although he was able to trace many records for an individual with the same unusual last name, that surname was always connected with a first name different from the one on the memorial. In the end, Stroschein succeeded in proving, through Civil War pension records and other sources, that the first name of the client's ancestor is incorrect on the memorial. Now, that was unexpected.
This possibility makes a genealogy hobbyist feel a little insecure, does it not? To think that information recorded on official documents, or even on solid tributes, such as headstones and memorials, may contain errors perpetuated by careless or hapless record keepers or decision makers upon the deceased individual... for an eternity. But, this is where genealogists can really make a difference. Perhaps it is the excitement of the chase that keeps many of us interested in pursuing family history, but it also has to do with an obsession to set things straight--to weave the various manuscripts, artifacts, and stories into an assemblance that makes sense, and that hopefully, corrects as many errors as possible.
So, as you continue to research, remember to always look for the unexpected, and to conduct as exhaustive a search as possible to answer your genealogical questions. Your ancestors just may be depending on you to set the record straight!
Posted by Chery Kinnick at 5:30 PM
Labels: Civil War, genealogy, research, Thor Paulsen Sloan
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- Lisa / Smallest Leaf said...
So true, Chery. I continue to be surprised by what ends up on gravemarkers. I recently found my great-great-grandmother listed as only "Mother" along with her death date. Not incorrect, but certainly incomplete. I was so glad that I had several other records to confirm her name and other vital information before I came across her gravemarker.
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Overall, the executives who took their medication even sporadically were twice as likely to meet their cholesterol goals. The study finding also questions the prevailing wisdom that income is a primary factor in medication adherence.
University of Michigan researchers studied 1,607 executive level managers at a major financial institution from 1995 to 2004, said Alyssa Schultz, health science research associate at the
U-M School of Kinesiology Health Management Research Center, and one of the study authors.
Researchers wanted to discover the rate of medication adherence, and also what happened to cholesterol levels in executives who did or didn't take statins. Statin drugs lower the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, or the so-called bad cholesterol. Statins are proven effective and are a first-line treatment for lowering cholesterol.
Adherence was defined as taking medication as prescribed at least 80 percent of the time. Overall, statin users were twice as likely to meet the near optimal goal of 130 mg/dL or less, than non-statin users. Among executive who took statins, 70 percent achieved the near-optimal goal and 30 percent achieved the optimal goal of 100 mg/dL or less, compared to 55 percent and 21 percent, respectively, for non-statin users who weren't prescribed the drug
Even executives who took their medication sporadically did much better than the non-statin users, Schultz said. "It seems to show that some medication use is better than none, however adherence is associated with the best outcome of all," she said. The executives who actually did adhere to the statin regimen were significantly more likely to achieve their cholesterol goals than those who took the medication sporadically.
Researchers in this study did not look at reasons why the executives did or didn't follow their doctor's orders, but past research on the topic suggests cost is a factor. However, this study population was predominately white male and more highly educated and compensated than more than the average person.
"Many people think cost is the main reason for medication non-adherence but this doesn't appear true since these people have relatively high salaries," said Schultz.
Using statins could actually save money. Previous research on the effectiveness of statin use in a population at high risk for cardiovascular disease found that a health plan with 210,000 covered lives and 9,336 at-risk employees could yield a $1,735 reduction in costs per treated patient.
So what can employers do? Make sure statins are a covered benefit, said Schultz. Do screening to identify at-risk employees. Partner with health care and pharmacy providers to address reasons for poor medication adherence.
This paper appeared Feb. 24 in Population Health Management. Co-authors include Dee W. Edington and Chin-Yu Chen, both of the HMRC, and Dr. Wayne N. Burton.
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The t1lib-5.0.0 source includes 5 different encoding files under Fonts/enc/. For my text with German umlauts, using IsoLatin1.enc did not work, but PSLatin1.enc did the trick.
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Varanus bitatawa is the third species of monitor lizard to be
recognised by science that belongs to the "Pandan Biawak" group, all of
which are of at least as great a conservation concern as the Komodo
dragon, but receive virtually none of the attention. Pandan Biawak occur
only in lowland dipterocarp forest. The first species (Varanus
olivaceus or Butaan) was discovered in 1845 and not seen alive by a
scientist until the late 1970s. The next species (Varanus mabitang or
Mabitang) was discovered in 2001 and in 2010 Varanus bitatawa (Butikaw
or Bitatawa) was described. Other species of frugivorous monitor lizards
may remain undescribed, but many may have gone extinct without ever
having been recognised.
The first known picture of Varanus bitatawa was taken in 2001 by Ms. Perla Visoro. The animal first came to my attention in 2003 when Merlijn van Weerd showed me pictures of an unusual animal that had been killed for food with a machete. Other pictures from field workers (Jessie Guerrero, M. Roy Duya and Tessa Minter) confirmed that there was a very usual and variably coloured monitor lizard in Sierra Madre that was very similar to Varanus olivaceus. Consequently I visited Sierra Madre as a guest of CVPED and the Mabuwaya Foundation, where we found incontrovertible evidence of a large frugivorous monitor lizard. Thanks to a BP Conservation Award and grants from Chester Zoo (UK) and Dallas Zoo (USA) we worked in cooperation with CVPED and the Mabuwaya Foundation, and engaged Roldan Dugay to investigate the new animal. In 2004 Roldan obtained the first specimen on the new species (PNM 9008 in the Philippine National Museum). However there was no suitable specimen of Varanus olivaceus to compare the new lizard to, and although the new species had very different pattern and coloration, its scalation seemed identical to Varanus olivaceus. We showed the specimen and photographs to various taxonomist experts who differed in their opinion of whether the Sierra Madre animals differed enough from Varanus olivaceus to be a new species. The following year Edmund Leo B. Rico together with Nestor A. Bartolome and Uldarico Carestia found more evidence of the new species elsewhere in Sierra Madre.
On 29 June 2009 Luke Welton, a student at the University of Kansas under the supervision of Dr Rafe Brown, and others collected a specimen of the new lizard in Aurora province, Philippines. This animal is catalogued as PNM 9719 in the Philippine National Museum herpetological collection. On 6 July 2009 Luke Welton and others collected a specimen of Varanus olivaceus from Polillo Island, Quezon province, Philippines. This animal is KU 322187 in the Kansas University Museum herpetological collection. These two specimens were used in the description of Varanus bitatawa published in Biology Letters in April 2010.
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William Oliver. Champion of biodiversity and
its students. So many of us benefited from his advice and expertise.
What a character. RIP.
Since 1999 the Butaan Project has been studying the rare, endangered, and unique fruit-eating monitor lizards of the Philippines. Butaan is just one of several races of frugivorous monitor lizards in the Philippines ("Pandan Biawak"), all of which are of at least as great a conservation concern as the Komodo dragon, but receive virtually none of the attention. Pandan Biawak occur only in lowland dipterocarp forest. The first species (Butaan) was discovered in 1845 and not seen alive by a scientist until the late 1970s. The next species (Mabitang) was discovered in 2001. Other species remain undescribed, and some may have gone extinct without ever having been recognised.


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"Intruders," starring Clive Owen as a father whose home and daughter come under attack from a mysterious demon, has finally found a home of its own.
The film, directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo of "28 Weeks Later" fame, has been picked up by Millennium, and will be released April 2012. Here's the synopsis from the press release:
Intruders is a disturbing film in which reality and imagination mingle and overlap. Juan (Izan Corchero) and Mia (Ella Purnell), two children living in different countries, are visited each night by a faceless intruder, a terrifying being who wants to take possession of them.
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We shudder to think what's going on in Clive Owen's personal life that for the second year in a row he's starring in a film in which he plays a father trying desperately to protect his teenage daughter. Last year it was "Trust," where his kid was stalked by a online pervert, and now this... Let's hope Clive gets it worked out.
We loved Fresnadillo's "28 Weeks Later," but watching this we can't help but be reminded of "Dream House," the Daniel Craig/Rachel Weisz thriller that recently tanked. This is probably unfair to "Intruders," but hey, life ain't always fair.


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Why are people continuing to talk Lin vs Davis??????? WTF?
The team is the team. They share pg duties so what's the f'n big deal? Lin will have good games and so will Davis. As long as the team is winning who the F*** CARES
Sorry for the rant but its getting real stupid. Posting an APER per 40 min is just taking shi!t too far. RELAX, they aren't opponents.
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Οk i like baron davis but as a backup.I never seen a player soooo tired in a game.It was like he was playing for 3 days in a row.And he had a lot of bad decisions.
When he comes from the bench for 10-15 min he is better.
Now for the game it was a huge win.And i was very happy to see us win with an excellent defense especially from JR despite the fact that he was shooting bricks.
We need Lin more Davis, its obvious. If you're refusing to see that then you need to let the Lin-hate go.
Who plays is a big part of winning, you just don't randomly hand out minutes and except everything to be okay because we won 5 games. We're still a streaky team and we can't afford any shake ups (too many injuries, Melo's shooting, coach change, system change, etc)
Its established that Lin is our man at PG, if anyone believes Davis is even capable of handling Lin's role they have to be insane or just plain ol' stupid.
You're reaching too far on this Lin-obsession. You don't get rewarded for this I hope you know.
Never seen this much psychotic blind hate on a guy who's only played about 60 games in the NBA since LeBron James...the sad thing is that atleast LeBron haters have solid cold facts. These Lin haters basically come at you with bloodless statements that can be supplemented for any player in the NBA.
If Lin is unable to bring it in the playoffs and in Season 2 where he'll time to work in training camp and an off season then it makes a little more sense to doubt him and declare a PG who's close to retirement and needs an oxygen mask to play 30+ minutes over Lin.
I've doubted Lin harder than anyone in here for reason, I was skeptical about the Lin signing and about him starting.
But everything takes time, especially for a 23 year old PG.
I will not allow ignorance about Lin on this forum, I'm sorry folks. It happen with Marbury a long time ago and you guys knew how I handle that...it was a war, but I'm always looking for the victory.
Οne more thing.I cant understand why Fields starts the game and not Iman.He cant shoot,his drives lately are horrible,he cant defend or even shoot free throws.
APER is Alternate Player Efficiency Rating. It is supposed to be more accurate. Go here to find the latest stats
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Cecilia Beretta is a small, family-run wine estate based near Verona in north-east Italy's Veneto wine region. Set up in the 1980s as a viticultural research centre by prominent local winemaking family Pasqua, Cecilia Beretta...
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The Region Italy | Veneto
The Veneto wine region of Italy - centred around Verona and Lake Garda in the northeastern corner of Italy - stretches from the Po River to the Austrian border. It forms part of the larger Tri-veneto wine region along with its neighbours Friuli Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto...
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Ferran Adrià
Notes on Creativity
Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity begins an international tour at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH, September 26, 2014 - January 18, 2015 followed by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 28 - August 2, 2015; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN, Sept 17, 2015 - January 3, 2016; and Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, The Netherlands, March 20 - June 12, 2016. This exhibition was on view at The Drawing Center January 25 - February 28, 2014
Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the visualization and drawing practices of master chef Ferran Adrià. The exhibition emphasizes the role of drawing in Adrià's quest to understand creativity. His complex body of work positions the medium as both a philosophical tool—used to organize and convey knowledge, meaning, and signification-—as well as a physical object—used to synthesize over twenty years of innovation in the kitchen. As one of the most important avant-garde chefs of the twenty-first century, Adrià pushes culinary boundaries with both knowledge and wit, transforming the art of cooking into an art of food. Hundreds of notebooks have been filled with concepts, ideas, collaged photographs, and loose sketches for new dishes for elBulli. More straightforward creative methods in the form of lists, tables of ingredients, and cooking methods have also been used to synthesize ingredients and conceptualize new ways of cooking. The use of drawing to articulate cuisine as both a product and a concept is indicative of a creative model that is always in flux. Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity charts the origins of this innovator's intellectual and philosophical ideas about gastronomy that have forever changed how we understand food.
Curated by Brett Littman.
Dom Pérignon is the presenting partner of Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity.
Additional support is provided by the Institut Ramon Llull, Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), and Lavazza.
Special thanks to The James New York.
The New York Times review
"If his cooking is close to art, then Mr. Adrià is close enough to being an artist to merit the exuberant, engrossing overview of the graphic side of his work at the Drawing Center."
''Several drawings bring to mind the lists and diagrams frequent to early Conceptual Art. And three elaborate charts enlarged and transferred to walls map the creative, culinary and gastronomical process with the inspirational verve of a Joseph Beuys blackboard.
In contrast, for "Theory of Culinary Evolution," Mr. Adrià uses crayon, paint stick and colored pencil on typing-paper-size sheets to trace the evolution of food from the Big Bang, through the discovery of fire and forward, in 58 colorful, childlike drawings that bring to mind aspects of the work of Joan Snyder and Cy Twombly.''
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The right to romance
Today's Boston Globe has an op ed piece by Paul Abramson "…on how twisted the sexual politics of university life has become." Abramson holds said twistedness is most vividly illustrated by the conflating of sexual harassment and consensual relationships, "…under the rules that increasingly hold sway on many university campuses, both relationships – sleazy sexual harassment and true love by consenting adults – are prohibited". It is these rules "…that ignore the rights and liberties of students, and treat both as if they were children. They also represent an assault on one of the most fundamental rights of conscience: the right to choose our relationships." In his last paragraph he states- "For many students and professors, the university represents virtually their entire social world. This is where they are likely to meet people, and romance is occasionally the result. If we let universities prohibit consenting adults from falling in love, what will be next? Our ultimate freedom lies in our power to make choices, and a university prohibition that suppresses choice tramples the very nature of freedom itself."
Unfortunately, as Abramson knows, we have let universities take away this choice by at times advocating that students do not have the capacity to consent and therefore "consent" in this context cannot occur. In a perverse manner these universities hold that a consenting relationship is a more serious violation of university norms since it is usually held that sex without consent represents sexual assault or rape which is generally held to be a more serious violation than sexual harassment. Yes, this framework is twisted; such would be fair to characterize it as perverse. Of course, such perversity did not suddenly come out of nowhere; it was a product of decade of a feminist onslaught initiated by Billie Dziech in The Lecherous Professor. Feminist faculty embraced Dziech's book as the sacred text and with most faculty, both male and female, nodding in agreement, university life ran amok being governed by feminist creed. Of course, many of the nodders, particularly the male nodders, nodded out of fear, fear that they could be labeled as one of those lecherous professors. Such is similar to the dynamic of some male heterosexuals who feared that they would be labeled as homosexual so they went along, some times eagerly, with anti-homosexual agendas.
Of course, matters relating to sexuality have been subject to the antics of all sorts of meddlers, people who get a thrill from intruding on the sexual behavior of others. Sexual meddlers represent a wide spectrum of persons from Linda Tripp to J. Edgar Hoover to Larry Craig, and a great deal of damage to others has resulted from their meddling. Abramson holds that in a constitutional democracy citizens should be protected from sexual meddlers. He states:
" If we let universities prohibit consenting adults from falling in love, what will be next? Our ultimate freedom lies in our power to make choices, and a university prohibition that suppresses choice tramples the very nature of freedom itself."
Abramson holds that the attack on consensual relationships can be mitigated by having strict conflict of interest rules, and advises the student who falls in love with a professor remove oneself from the class. Such removal may be easier said than done. I have difficulty envisioning a student appealing to a dean to drop a class because she is in love with her professor; the typical cynical dean would have trouble not believing that this represents another student attempt to get out of a class after deadlines for withdrawal have passed. In any case, if the dean allows the student to drop the class, such would represent favoritism that Abramson and myself wish to avoid. Even more likely the student who appeals in the name of love to be relieved from the class of the beloved would probably find a dean who would be more interested in relieving the beloved of all teaching responsibilities. And if it was the professor who initiated removal of the student from the class, such would, of course, be a flagrant violation of the student's right to be treated as any other student. So I do not find Abramson's advice to be good advice. It would just give more ammunition to administrators who wish to meddle. My advice is the professor and the student not to do anything which would imply directly or indirectly that the university has any authority of any sort over their relationship. Once institutional authority is invited into the relationship, the autonomy of the relationship for the two involved people has gone to hell.
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It can be beautiful. It can be fun. It can cause you all manner of problems. And sometimes it can be so cold it actually hurts.
People have been known to comment that Bluestone, largely because of the architectural style of the lodges I think, has the feel of an Alpine ski resort, and that resemblance was stronger than ever this week, when, like most places in Wales, Bluestone found itself swathed in a thick white blanket.
Operationally, the biggest problem it caused was that it prevented some staff getting into work on time, but with some shrewd redeployment and a typically can-do attitude among the staff who did make it in, it was largely business as usual.
In fact, in some ways, it was even better than usual because we were able to dig out the tubes that we had for Christmas, and provide our guests with a fun (and free) activity that few would have been expecting.
Unfortunately, I didn't get to have go at the tubes, but I did get to spend an enjoyable hour wandering around with a camera. I'd always imagined that Bluestone would look particularly picturesque in the snow, and so it proved, though most of Tuesday's snow had melted away by late afternoon.
Typical isn't it? It arrives in a picturesque flurry, promising fun and excitement, though there's always a little worry at the back of your mind. It turns everything upside down, then, just as you were getting used to it, it's gone and unlikely to be back for a while.
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Something about subarctic temperatures at the end of May seemed to be getting him down. I could relate.
But we soldiered on. Our final stop of day 1 (there was a lot of walking involved in the interim) was to visit Musee de l'Orangerie. Back in 1999 this was one of the top museums that we wanted to visit while in Paris. My mother read to us about Monet's Waterlily's and how they were supposed to be fantastic. Upon arriving in Paris and eventually l'Orangerie we noticed that it seemed pretty deserted. As we walked up the steps to the museum it became obvious we were attempting to visit on a closed day. There was a lone piece of paper tacked to the door (at least this is how I am remembering it in my head) that read something like this:
Dear Patrons:
Musee de l'Orangerie closed about 5 minutes ago for a few renovations. We will re-open again in ten years. Please plan on revisiting in 2009. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
l'Orangerie WAS open this time around. I was thrilled. I was finally going to see those water lily's. I post this next picture just so you can get an idea of Deaner's accouterments that were along for the day.
We stood in a relatively short line to enter the museum. As we edged up towards the metal detector a sudden look of panic crossed Deaner's face and he mumbled that he would "be right back" only to turn around and fight his way backwards through the line and back out the front door. I had no idea what was going on but went thru the metal detector and waited for him. When he caught up to me 10 minutes later and I asked what in the world had happened he responded very nonchalantly "Oh. That. Well, I had a knife in my backpack and I didn't think they would let me bring it in". Huh. Ok. So apparently my husband is that guy who carries a knife around in his backpack. I wasn't aware either. Why did he run back outside? To HIDE his knife in the bushes. Because that is where museum going knife carrying people stash their knives. Knife and flashlight combo stayed home for Disney. Water lily's = super cool.
I was going to combine both Paris days into one post but my bed is calling my name and I'll have to finish day 2 tomorrow. The weather and our moods perked up the second day in Paris so no worries there. I'll leave you with a picture of Evans's favorite part of Day 1.
Riding the train home, of course!


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Financial advisors relying on the classic "4% rule" for their clients' retirement income have a better than even chance of failure, according to newly published research.
Titled "The 4 Percent Rule is Not Safe in a Low-Yield World," the study by Michael Finke, Wade Pfau and David Blanchett argues that advisors make a grave mistake in basing their clients' retirement plans on historical returns that may be an anomaly.
Investment companies often include in their disclosures that "past returns do not guarantee future results," but to the study's co-author, Michael Finke, that's not just rhetoric.
In an interview with AdvisorOne, Finke, who is agnostic on what future returns will be, cites research by Rob Arnott to the effect that demographics have a determining effect on asset demand.
"It's really a demographic storm," says Finke, an AdvisorOne contributor who heads the Personal Financial Planning program at Texas Tech University. "You have the largest cohort of people who are in early retirement, and you also have the emergence of countries that have higher savings rates and are becoming wealthier and wealthier."
The result, he says, is a capital glut that is having a depressing impact on yields in the U.S.
"We're trying to acknowledge what present reality looks like and apply that reality to the retirement income plan," Finke (left) continues. "There's no reason to believe that the market for assets in the 21st century is going to look like the market for assets in the 20th century."
Yet that's exactly what advisors who follow the 4% rule are doing, since that withdrawal rate is only "safe" based on returns seen in the 20th century.
"Most planners take some comfort in knowing that a 4% inflation-adjusted withdrawal rate wouldn't cause a retiree to run out of money in a 30-year retirement," Finke says. "Previous studies that supported the 4% rate used historical yield data that don't look anything like what new retirees are facing today."
Indeed, according to his study, Monte Carlo simulations based on historic returns for a 30-year retirement give a 4% withdrawal rate a failure rate of just 6%, which many advisors consider reasonably safe.
"What many don't realize is that portfolio returns during the first years of retirement have a disproportionate impact on failure rates," Finke continues. "We estimated what would happen if bond yields, and equity returns corrected for a low-yield risk-free rate of return, persisted in the future."
The researchers' study notes William Bengen, the planner who originated the 4% rule, based his calculations on average real bond returns of 2.6% and average real stock returns of 8.6%. But bond yields as of January 2013 are 4% less than their historical average.
The Tipping Point
Based on current low yields, the study's authors find that "if we calibrate bond returns to the January 2013 real yields offered on 5-year TIPS, while maintaining the historical equity premium, the failure rate jumps to a whopping 57%," concluding that "the 4% rule cannot be treated as a safe initial withdrawal rate in today's low-interest-rate environment."
In other words, advisors must take into account that the real return on risk-free (i.e., TIPS) investments is negative today. Finke thus reiterates the key finding of the study: "Using current TIPS rates, which are the most accurate current inflation-adjusted bond yield, we find that failure rates rise beyond 50% using the 4% rule."
To advisors who would challenge this argument on the assumption that today's low rates will eventually climb higher, Finke and his co-authors looked at portfolio failure rates under scenarios in which bond yields returned to their historical average.
"Even if rates go back up in 5 years, retirees are still facing an 18% failure rate," or three times the rate Bengen thought acceptable. "If they go back up after 10 years, the failure rate rises to 32%. The bottom line is that the current low-yield environment is a retirement income game changer. And hoping that things will get better eventually is a risky strategy.
"By relying on 20th century market returns which we may never see again," Finke continues, "we're giving people a false sense of security."
While knocking the fixed-withdrawal rate retirement income strategy, Finke did not offer any more enthusiasm for the so-called bucket approach often seen by advisors as an alternative to systematic withdrawals.
"Buckets is an investment-based strategy, so it is in line with that failure rate methodology, which I think we need to rethink," he says.
"It's perhaps overly simplistic and perhaps doesn't take advantage of all the products an advisor has available to maximize spending and minimize the risk of failure.
"The problem with the traditional investment-based approach," Finke continues, "is you have a pot of money and you want to withdraw a chunk of money from that pot of money and you're afraid of that pot of money disappearing.
"It's relatively easy to get rid of that risk, but in many cases advisors haven't been attracted to instruments that would allow them to get rid of that risk because the yields are very low."
Giving Annuities Another Look
Those instruments are deferred and immediate annuities, but advisors stuck in the past on historical returns may be reluctant to recommend them to their clients. Compared with historical yields, even the best annuities don't seem competitive, Finke says.
"You can either create a retirement income using investments, or you can annuitize, which may seem relatively unattractive if you expect investment returns to be in the future what they have been in the past," he says.
"Our purpose isn't to depress people. It's to help them understand the risk of overestimating the returns within a retirement portfolio."
So what's an advisor to do?
"You need to start with having a more conservative approach to estimating retirement income," Finke counsels. "That means if people want the same level of retirement income they will need to work a little bit longer and perhaps readjust their expectations about lifestyle during retirement. There's nothing you can do to change the market—you have to accept the market as it is.
"I think an advisor has to think more carefully about constructing a retirement income portfolio that includes safeguards to prevent disaster if a client runs out of money."
While deferred and immediate annuity products provide longevity protection and higher yield (compared to bonds), Finke acknowledges that that they reduce liquidity, which raises the problem of a potential future health shock.
"You either need to maintain more access to cash in the form of a lump sum you can always withdraw from if you need it or, if you annuitize, you make sure you can protect yourself by buying long-term care coverage," he says.
"The best approach," he concludes, "takes all of these potential risks and consumption aspects into account."
Check out Michael Finke's stories on AdvisorOne and these other stories on Annuities:
Annuities 2020: Will the Future of VAs Look Like Their Past?
Demographic Nightmare: Boomer Retirement Disaster Looms Ahead
Check out Rethinking Annuities, a Special Report landing page at AdvisorOne.


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sorry not funny this one…
A few years ago if I was in Ireland I would have died.
I would have never went on to have Rex. My daughter would be raised without a mother.
My husband would be a widower.
When I was about 16 weeks pregnant when I miscarried. The woman in Ireland who died had miscarried at 17 weeks. The first couple of days I didn't feel that different physically. Emotionally I was a wreck. The baby to be was a little girl. They had said she was healthy. I had made a long list of names. We had told my stepchildren about her.
Guided by denial and bad advice I didn't immediately get a D and C. Instead I hemorrhaged in the Ferry Building in San Francisco, in a hotel, in Napa. I wore 3 adult diapers on the flight back home, after my doctor screamed at me to come home, that were soaked with blood. I went into a very painful labor.
I was rushed to the ER. I have NEVER felt that kind of pain. I was screaming, "please help me, please help me." as I was put under. I woke up hours later still screaming for help, but soon realized the absence of pain in my body. The absence of the fetus that was going to be my second daughter. I didn't mourn her at that moment, I was so happy to be free of pain and alive. I was hooked up to a packet of blood. I had lost so much blood I was getting transfusions ( thank you nameless people who donated your blood).
I was very weak. People needed to help me with Vivien. I was also starting to get very emotional about having lost the baby.
the video I did about the aftermath back in '08
However, I was alive. I lived and because of that Rex lived.
IF I was in Ireland I could have died, or any of the backward countries who put religion, politics, and all the rest disguised misogyny BEFORE the health of a women.
IF you have not yet read the story of this woman who died in Ireland, please do so now. This is a human rights issue. The media is making me CRAZY. They say she was denied an "abortion". That is a political term for dilation and curattage. She had had a miscarriage. The doctors refused to do a D and C. This lovely woman could have been like me. She could have lived. She could have gone on to have a healthy pregnancy.
I'm so glad I live in America. I'm so glad that we have an awareness of not letting religion dominate our laws. Have the Anti Choice brigade made inroads to limit reproductive freedom here like in Kansas? Yes, sadly they have. It's up to us to make sure that it doesn't go further.
A doctor should do what he needs to do in order to save his patient. Not to please a deity.


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Twitter Quotient
I just noticed that Peter Forret launced a new goodie. This new goodie calculates the Twitter Quotient for a Twitter user. The Google Quotient of a person is the number of hits found by Google. The Twitter Quotient consists of three indicators: babble index, popularity index and usefulness index. Have a look at the screenshots below.
My Twitter Quotient (below) is rather low, compared to the Twitter Quotient of Marco Derksen from the Netherlands (from marketingfacts.nl). If you want to know your Twitter Quotient, give the Twitter Quotient Calculator a try at web.forret.com/tools/twitter-tq.asp.
Nice done Peter.


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http://mmajunkie.com Shane Carwin (12-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) and Roy Nelson (17-7 MMA, 4-3 UFC) don't like each other – that much is clear.
The two went at it Thursday via Twitter, with Nelson inviting Carwin to set up a pay-per-view sparring session and Carwin bashing Nelson's possible coaches on "The Ultimate Fighter 16."
Then, almost as soon as it began, both fighters deleted from their accounts almost any trace of the skirmish.
From the announcement that the two would serve as coaches on "The Ultimate Fighter 16," which begins filming next month and debuts in September on FX, Carwin and Nelson took shots at each other. Carwin called Nelson a "keyboard warrior" who cowardly talked trash to him, and Nelson said Carwin made him feel "icky."
The comments were good copy, as were those on Twitter, and neither fighter could be blamed for trying to hype a reality show that saw sagging ratings in its previous season.
Carwin, though, said he's serious about his dislike for Nelson.
"It's a guy that I look forward to fighting," he told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) shortly before he and Nelson engaged online. "I don't like him, and I know he doesn't care for me, so it makes for an easy fight and some motivation."
Nelson was unavailable for comment. On Twitter, he ratcheted things up a notch by implying Carwin was using steroids.
"Why wait [until] December we can see if we can get on @ufc 151," Nelson wrote. "Is this enough time to cycle off?"
Carwin, in turn, attacked a name Nelson mentioned as potential for his coaching staff on "TUF 16," former steroid dealer turned anti-doping advocate Victor Conte, calling him a "convicted criminal."
Nelson explained that Conte was not a possible coach, but a guest.
Conte went to jail for money laundering and conspiracy to distribute steroids in connection with the BALCO scandal that rocked professional baseball. Angle was arrested four times for driving while intoxicated and twice convicted.
In 2010, Carwin and another athlete mentioned by Nelson as a possible coach, former Olympian and WWE wrestler Kurt Angle, turned up on a list of customers of a pharmacist convicted in federal court of conspiracy to distribute steroids. Neither were charged with a crime.
When Nelson referenced the list to jab at Carwin, Carwin, of course, pointed out that Angle was also on the list.
The finale for "The Ultimate Fighter 16" is set for December, though Carwin, who will return to action after more a year and a half on the sidelines due to injury, said a date has not been set for his fight with Nelson.
Nevertheless, more fuel has been added to fire between them. If Twitter is any indication, they are likely to clash when the cameras roll.
For more on "The Ultimate Fighter 16" and The Ultimate Fighter 16 Finale, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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The Society for Human Resource Management's (SHRM) 2011 Employee Benefits report found that 31 percent of organizations offer rewards or bonuses to employees who complete certain health and wellness activities. Some organizations offer health care discounts to employees for participating in health-related assessments or programs.
Other results from SHRM's research include:
• 14 percent provided health care premium discounts to employees for getting an annual health risk assessment.
• 12 percent provided a discount to employees for not using tobacco products.
• 11 percent offered discounts to employees for participating in a wellness program.
• 7 percent provided health care premium discounts to employees for participating in a weight-loss program.
However, some companies have begun to use disincentives in which employees pay more for their health insurance premiums if they do not incorporate physical activity into their lives or participate in wellness programs that they need. Instituting disincentives could be viewed as a harsh strategy, but for some employees who resist changing their unhealthy behaviors, it may actually work.


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Jeff Cox
April 2, 2012
Runaway government debts have triggered uncontrolled money printing that in turn will lead to inflation that will decimate portfolios, according to the latest forecast from "Dr. Doom" Marc Faber.
Investors, particularly those in the "well-to-do" category, could lose about half their total wealth in the next few years as the consequences pile up from global government debt problems, Faber, the author of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report, said on CNBC.
Efforts to stem the debt problems have seen the Federal Reserve expand its balance sheet to nearly $3 trillion and other central banks implement aggressive liquidity programs as well, which Faber sees producing devastating inflation as well as other consequences.
"Somewhere down the line we will have a massive wealth destruction that usually happens either through very high inflation or through social unrest or through war or credit market collapse," he said. "Maybe all of it will happen, but at different times."
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I capped off an NBA Day in Turkey by buying 'Happiness on a T-shirt' from the Adidas NBA Store in Istanbul. The shirt features all the principles from the 2011 Mavs squad that bested the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals. Redemption, justice and purpose were buzzwords that exemplified this team of castoffs, underdogs and veterans.
The champion Dallas team as represented on this shirt proves that "Dreams can come true, if you believe".
Mark Cuban (Owner)
11th Season
Outspoken billionaire gets the final word by changing his tact
Mark Cuban Gets His RedemptionRick Carlisle (Coach)
Cuban has been committed to the Mavericks from the moment he bought them, and for the first time he didn't goad the opposing team, didn't harass officials, and gave his players the chance to make a statement on the hardwood.
9th Season, 3rd team
Rick Carlisle once a Pacers' castoff, now a champion
At one point or another in most of our lives, we get hosed by management. We get a raw deal, maybe from new managers who want to reinvent the wheel... Which brings me to Rick Carlisle
17th Season, 3rd team
Came short in the NBA finals twice, reuniting with the team that drafted him
Jason Kidd: On being 38 and winning a title, turning point in Heat series
KIDD: Man, it's a dream come true. It's not real right now, because just the battles against the Heat and understanding the journey, it's been a long journey for 17 years.
Dirk Nowitzki (PF)
13th Season, 1st team
Despite excruciating lows, Dirk remained loyal as the face of the Mavs
'Who Knows If My Way Is the Right One?'
NOWITZKI: At the beginning I was condescended to and laughed at. "The nice boy from Germany will never make it," people said. Still, I never gave up. Now, I have been celebrated by 250,000 people in Dallas at the championship parade. That was an unbelievably intense feeling. I trembled.
Peja Stojaković (SF)
13th Season, 5th team
Playing what would be his final season, Peja was part of the early wave of international All-Stars
Peja Stojakovic to retire after 13 years
"I also want to thank the Dallas Mavericks for believing in me this past season and for giving me the chance to end my NBA career with a championship."
Jason Terry (SG)
12th Season, 2 team
Along with Dirk, the only holdover from the 2006 Mavs squad that collapsed against the Wade powered Heat team
Jason Terry erases bitterness, keeps ink
"Jet had to take all that criticism," said owner Mark Cuban... "The media was killing him: 'He can't perform in the playoffs. He's not clutch in the playoffs. He's too this, he's too that.'
"He shoved it up everybody's ass
Marion, Shawn (SF)
11th Season, 4th team
Chandler, Tyson (C)
9th Season, 4th team
Butler, Caron (SF)
8th Season, 4th team
Once pivotal members of their former teams (Phoenix, New Orleans, Washington respectively) these stars took on lesser roles to bring the Mavs to the promised land
Shawn Marion: 'We had the ultimate swag'
"It was a great team championship," Marion said. "I can't say enough about how everybody contributed. Everybody did something special for this team. That's why it was so special for us. We was hot. We were feeling each other. We just had the ultimate swag.
DeShawn Stevenson (SG)
10th Season, 4th team
Jose Juan Barea (PG)
5th Season, 1st team
Brian Cardinal (C), Ian Mahinmi (C), Brendan Haywood (PF), Dominique Jones(SF), Corey Brewer (SF), Rodrigue Beaubois(PG)


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SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A Mormon bishop armed with a Samurai sword came to the defense of his neighbor on Tuesday in a Salt Lake City suburb by helping to chase away a man who had accosted the woman, police said.
The 37-year-old suspect, Grant Eggertsen, later turned himself in to authorities and was booked into jail on suspicion of robbery, burglary, trespassing and stalking, said local police spokesman Lieutenant Justin Hoyal.
The Samurai sword-wielding Mormon bishop, Kent Hendrix, 47, said his son alerted him on Tuesday morning that a woman neighbor was in trouble outside Hendrix's home in the Salt Lake City suburb of East Millcreek.
Eggertsen had approached the woman as she exited her home, Hoyal said. He grabbed her house keys and tried to get into the house, police said.
The woman ran away, screaming for help, and several neighbors responded to her plea, Hoyal said.
Hendrix, who teaches martial arts, grabbed the 29-inch (74-cm) carbon steel Samurai sword he keeps next to his bed and ran to the woman's aid. He said that when he came face to face with the suspect, the man stopped in his tracks.
"He was kind of taken aback to have this sword drawn on him and he jumped back," said Hendrix, who is a bishop in charge of his local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congregation.
"He said, 'I'm leaving,' and turned and ran, so I ran after him. I didn't want him to get away anonymously," Hendrix said.
The man then fled in his car, Hendrix said.
Hoyal confirmed that Hendrix used the Samurai sword to come to the defense of his neighbor.
Eggertsen and the woman, who has not been identified, had previously worked at the same company, Hoyal said. Their professional relationship had turned sour and the woman had obtained a protective order against the man, he said.
The woman suffered only minor injuries, Hoyal said.
Eggertsen was in jail on bail of $555 and could not be reached for comment. It was unclear if he has an attorney.
Hendrix called the incident an "interfaith effort" to apprehend the suspect, saying that Catholic and Protestant neighbors were also involved.
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GREENCASTLE, Ind. - All week the Little Giants repeated, "They got it and we want it." Wabash won a defensive struggle to bring back the Monon Bell to the Crawfordsville campus with a nail-biting 17-14 win over DePauw.
The Little Giants take a 52-51-9 lead in the all time series and will enter next Saturday's NCAA Div. III playoffs at 10-0 and as a No. 1 seed in the Midwest region. Be sure to click here to read up on Wabash's first round playoff opponent, Albion.
A packed Blackstock Stadium rocked throughout Saturday afternoon as both team's defenses dominated early play. The Little Giants turned the tide with two second-half scores and shut down DePauw on its final possession. (See game photo album for lots of action shots.)
"It's not that we ever take it for granted but it's a more of a special feeling when you haven't had it for year," running back Chris Ogden said. "It's tough and the memory of them taking it from our field stayed with us for the whole year. We felt this was our destiny and our game to win."
Ogden provided the first big spark. The Tigers had taken a 7-3 halftime lead on Jeremiah Mark's 1-yard score. Late in the third period, the Little Giants marched 62 yards on six plays to go up 10-7.
We had been trying to run the ball up inside and we ran down field on them pretty well," Ogden said. "We got to the goal line and they tightened up. We tried a play action pass, then on fourth down we decided to attack on the perimeter. We ran a little option play and they committed to the run, Russ made a great pitch, and I was home free. I think they were looking for the pass, especially out of the shotgun."
The back breaker for the hosts came midway through the final period. Quarterback Russ Harbaugh (photo below left) didn't have a day on par with his first nine games, but made a key call at the right time hitting Kyle Piazza (in photo right) with a 37-yard TD pass. Piazza got great downfield blocking from his fellow receivers.
"That was like the only good check I made all day," said Harbaugh, who finished 15-27-1 for 178 yards. "They had two defenders over our three receivers, so any time we see that we like to check to our bubble. Kyle is an athlete and he just took it into the house."
Wabash coach Chris Creighton said Harbaugh has done a great job of calling audibles all year. "They made it tough on us today to see what we wanted to do. A lot of that is credit to DePauw. That TD pass — I had nothing to with that. He checked to that and it was a perfect call and ended up being a touchdown. Russ is a winner and got it done for us."
But the Tigers weren't done yet. They answered the Wabash score by marching downfield in just 1:51 and scoring on a 21-yard pass from Ross Wiethoff to Chase Johnason.
Geoff Walker then had one of the game's biggest plays. The junior took the ensuing kickoff and returned it 47 yards to give the Little Giants breathing room.
Following a pooch kick by Little Giant Chad Finley, the Tigers had one more possession but the Little Giant defense held them to claim the Monon Bell. Frank Knez had a key sack of Wiethoff to force a fourth-and-23 pass that fell incomplete.
"Our defense has been nothing short of sensational all year long and they came up big today," Creighton said. "Our staff and our players knew we had a good plan. We played an offense that's tough and those guys can run the football. Ross (Wiethoff) is just an incredible athlete. He makes things happen and he was making things happen against good football players.
"Our offense is going to need to return the favor in the playoffs because we didn't keep our end of bargain."
The tense contest was played in front of a sold-out crowd of 8,000 that spent most of the final quarter on its feet.
"This one by far was the most nerve wracking game we've had," said defensive back Billy King. "It's a little easier to be out on the field because you can get out of control, but the fans were probably going crazy. They have a great defense and their offense moved the ball well. They started passing and throwing the ball deep but we prevailed."
Sophomore Adrian Pynenberg dominated much of the line play from his linebacker's position. He had 9 solo and 11 total tackles.
"The guys played really hard and played really well," said defensive coordinator Neal Neathery. "I'm really happy how we played against the run. I know we wish it was a little better; we're a little greedy."
Greedy indeed; the Little Giants held DePauw to 77 yards. The Tigers normally average 242 yards a game. Aaron Selby had five tackles and one for a loss (photo right).
The stats reflected the competitive nature of the game. Wabash had 79 to DePauw's 77 yards on the ground. The Little Giants gained 178 through the air to DePauw's 174.
The even play, hard hitting, huge crowd, and intense atmosphere made for the usual crazy Bell game atmosphere.
Freshman defensive back Chad Peterman had a couple of big plays breaking up passes.
"This was rather exciting," the freshman said with an understated smile. "It was a whole different atmosphere than I'm used to playing in. It was a lot better than I even expected or dreamed of."
QUICK HITTERS ---Russ Harbaugh's 178 yards give him 2,964 yards for the season, topping the Wabash
record of 2,954 set by Jake Knott '03 in the 2002 season. Knott's previous record came in 13 games, including three playoff games, while Harbaugh's new single season record came in ten games.
--- Today's win marks the first time in 21 years the Bell has been exchanged in back-to-back years. The last time came in 1983 and 1984. DePauw captured the Bell with a 16-10 win in 1983, only to see the Little Giants reclaim the Bell with a 41-26 win in 1984.
--- Wabash trailed at halftime for the first time this season. It's the second time the Little Giants have rallied from a third quarter deficit to win. Wabash trailed Wittenberg 20-14 before defeating the Tigers 26-20.
Photos by Jim Amidon
Homepage: Kyle Piazza dives for the endzone. His 37-yard reception from Russ Harbaugh was the winning score.