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Among Myra Kraft's other accomplishments were raising funds for Boston College, College of the Holy Cross, the Harvard School of Education, and Harvard Medical School. She was also the national chair for the United Jewish Communities General Assembly.
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Approximately $844,164,000 in aggregate principal amount, or 99%, of the Outstanding Notes were tendered in the applicable exchange offer as of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on August 17, 2012. The extension is intended to allow additional time for holders of the remaining Outstanding Notes to tender their Outstanding Notes in the exchange offer.
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From the desk of ... Jessica Porter director of ALACE. (Go Ask ALACE).
As we enter into our seventh year, it seems like a nice time to reflect on the history of ALACE and some of the changes we have undergone since we began in 1995.For those of you who are unfamiliar with the organization's history, ALACE was founded to expand the Childbirth Educator and Labor Assistant training programs that were originated by Informed Homebirth/Informed Birth and Parenting (IH/IBP).
Rahima Baldwin Dancy, author of Special Delivery, You Are Your Child's First Teacher, and co-author of Pregnant Feelings, founded Informed Homebirth in 1977. She wanted to provide information about birth at home, and at that time there was very little information available for families who made that choice. Rahima developed a series of classes that she recorded on a reel-to-reel tape recorder and made available to expectant parents across North America. These classes became the basis of the original IH Teacher Training program, which was developed in 1978 to prepare teachers to teach homebirth childbirth classes in their own communities.
While most of the early IH teachers came from a homebirth background, they soon found themselves teaching hospital-bound families as well. In 1981 the second name "Informed Birth and Parenting" was added so that expectant parents could more readily identify instructors as having the information they wanted, regardless of where they were giving birth.
In 1983, IH/IBP began a Midwife's Assistant Training program, which provided an introduction to midwifery and skills that helped students secure apprenticeships with practicing midwives. After a few years this program evolved into the Labor Assistant Training program, to support the growing number of women (and a few men) who were turning labor support into a profession in and of itself. In 1993, IH/IBP began its certification program for Labor Assistants.
In 1994, Rahima decided that she wanted to focus her energy on her midwifery practice. I had been working for IH/IBP for a couple of years, and was in the process of moving from Ann Arbor, Michigan to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rahima suggested that instead of looking for a new Director of IH/IBP to replace me, I could form a new organization to continue offering the training programs and serving our members.
And that is how ALACE was born. IH/IBP remains a resource for parents interested in homebirth and Waldorf education, and ALACE continues to offer quality trainings and support for childbirth educators and labor assistants/birth doulas.
ALACE has always shared IH/IBP'S core principles. Our programs continue to reflect our belief that midwifery should be considered the standard of care for normal birth, whether taking place at home, in the hospital, or in birth centers. We also believe strongly that birth should be woman-centered and woman-directed. Women's bodies know how to give birth; our goal is to help women and their caregivers reclaim trust in that knowledge.
While holding on to these and other core philosophies, we have also made some changes in the last six years. We have expanded our focus and our outreach to include women of different backgrounds, particularly women of color. We have also expanded our advertising campaign, and dramatically increased the rate of referrals to our professional members. In 1998, we expanded the format of our Labor Assistant Training workshop, and our three-day workshop continues to receive rave reviews.
ALACE has also made a real commitment to networking and collaborating with other organizations. Here in Massachusetts, we are a part of the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies of Massachusetts coalition, and are active in Partners for Perinatal Health, a statewide coalition that organizes a yearly conference.
Nationally, we have always played an active role in the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS), which is developing a process by which hospitals, birth centers, and homebirth services can apply to be designated as "Mother-Friendly." CIMS has also just finished a wonderful brochure about mother-friendly birth for consumers that we will be making available to ALACE members in the next few months.
For this year, our immediate goals are to update and improve our website, to provide greater support to our members through strengthening our network of regional directors and state coordinators, and to publish an international directory of our members. The website is currently under construction, and over the next few months you should be seeing some exciting changes. And we have been very pleased to welcome some new and very motivated regional directors who are eager to promote ALACE and support our members in their areas.
It has been wonderful to watch ALACE grow over the last several years. I think about the web of ALACE teachers and labor assistants that supports hundreds of thousands of women and their families as they experience pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum. This web is constantly expanding, and our vision here at the central office is that it is this web that will transform cultural views of birth.
As a member of this web, you are an essential part of the organization and this vision. As always, we encourage each of you to contribute to the organization by sending us your ideas, articles for Special Delivery, suggestions for our website, and reports about what you are doing in your own community. We are pleased to be working with each of you to support women and their families.
RELATED ARTICLE: ALACE Web Page.
We are in the process of a major web page overhaul, and want to share the progress with all of our members, as well as ask for your input. Our plans right now are to break the project into three phases. The first phase is to update the information on the current page, change our host server, and get our domain name (alace.org) working again. This stage has already begun, and we now have a new address and hosting site free of banners. If our domain name is not working by the time you receive this copy of Special Delivery, you can reach the ALACE page at http://18.104.22.168.
The second stage will be to expand the resources on the web page for professionals and consumers. We will be adding excerpts from Special Delivery, as well as other articles and resources for parents. For professionals, we will be adding resources and a networking area to help people find support groups in their areas.
The third phase of the project will be to establish an on-line database, so that consumers can get referrals for ALACE Childbirth Educators and Labor Assistants without having to call the office.
We would really like to have the input of our members as we undertake this project, and encourage you to contact us with your ideas and suggestions. In addition, we are setting up a working committee that will help the office by making suggestions, writing and soliciting content, and working out the logistics of the online referral process. If you are interested in serving on this committee, please contact Jessica at the central office, by phone at (888) 222-5223 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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text: Hi Björn, Björn Lindberg wrote: > First of all, I really appreciate your feedback. it is an interesting > discussion. > Thanks, I still may wonder why you're insisting on your current, inconventional concept, but discussing about its benefits and disadvantages may even widen the limits of my knowledge about firewalling and help me to improve the hint I wrote for BLFS. BTW, did anyone read it? Did it prove at least readable, or even useful? Sorry for the lag, I really had to get somethings done for my study of law... > Henning Rohde wrote: > >> > I agree. The reason I do it this way is because I want to be able to >> > ssh into my internal box from the outside, eg from school. I also want >> > to be able to run X clients through that ssh-tunnel. >> >> Personally I prefer to do this in 2 steps: first log?in?to the router, >> second into the client. > > I agree that's probably safer. I suspect that tunneling X wouldn't work > that way though, especially since the router doesn't even run X. > Hmm, tell me, which way is this tunnel supposed to work: 1) you're sitting at school or 2) you're sitting in front of your box at home? >> OK, that depends on your concept: ... >> The case I've been thinking about is, that you were having two clients >> behind your router: ... >> If you would do this without customizing your scripts >> $IPTABLES -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $EXTDEV -j DNAT --to 192.168.1.1 >> would take precedence before the automatical 'back-route' you refered to, >> because it affects the packet _before_ routing. >> Because of this rule any data coming-in into the external interface of >> your router would be sent to your desktop, your mate might try to start a >> connection to any a website from his laptop, but he would not see any >> image. > > From Rusty's guide to NAT: > > "At each of the points above, when a packet passes we look up what > connection it is associated with. If it's a new connection, we look up > the corresponding chain in the NAT table to see what to do with it. The > answer it gives will apply to all future packets on that connection." > > So, although I haven't tried it, it seems to me that only the first > packet in a connection gets run through the NAT chains. Since the first > packet in those connections would emmanate from their respective boxes > (internal), the whole connection would follow that route. > Please try it, it really would make me astonish if it worked! (It would be sufficient, if you changed the IP-address of your only client to, e.g., 192.168.1.2.) The reason for my doubts is: by that line, the line I've cited last mail, you IMHO either 1) alter one of the decicive parameter the decision where to reNAT it is made on, or, 2) you overwrite that decision, or, 3) you bypass this automatic decision (my favourit explanation). So, please do a try! >> BTW, in one of my previous postings I asked you to verify your concept, >> did it prove to work as you want it to? >> E.g., ssh from school to your internal client, X11-forward, X11-tunnel >> and so on... > > I can ssh to school and back again. I can also start X clients on the > school computer from home, and I can ssh back home again and start an X > client. So I haven't actually tried it in front of a computer at school > yet, but it seems to work. > OK, that's nice, your concept seems to work correctly! >> Do me a please and send me the output of a 'traceroute -v' to your >> internal client, started on some box at school, I'm interested in the >> responses your router and your client send. > > I did this, but it didn't show anything particular, only that my IP > recieved the packet. The router/internal box step wasn't visible. If you > really want this log I can mail it to you. > Thank you very much, I was interested in the "router/internal box step", it it was visible or not. BTW, did you know that your concept is not as inconventional as I once thought it to be: it is commonly used for loadbalancing! So long, Henning -- Unsubscribe: send email to listar at linuxfromscratch.org and put 'unsubscribe blfs-support' in the subject header of the message


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If you love sweet pastels, Scandinavian style and the domestic talent that lies behind the blog Yvestown, then you'll love this home tour because today I am taking you through Yvonne Eijkenduin's beautiful Belgian abode. Hi guys, it's Holly Marder back this month on decor8 with another home that's nothing short of inspirational for my monthly Homes with Heart column. It's fresh, summery and brimming over with heart. Let's go, oh and you can click on any image to enlarge and pin!
Photographer, blogger and author of the book Yvestown in de Keuken, Yvonne and husband Boris have poured their heart and soul over the past 6 years renovating their 1896 home on the Belgian border. Originally a six bedroom family home, the house was built for a family and their next door brewery. More than a century after it was first built, the Dutch couple (the home's third owners) have tackled one section of the property at a time, reviving the home's own original features and creating a space that exudes love, light and Yvonne's feminine sense of style.
Whimsical florals layered upon a fresh white base set the stage for a striking collection of vintage finds as well as contemporary pieces. And though Yvonne can't quite pinpoint the look of her interior to any singular style, she agrees with "Scandinavian Pretty", a description once made of her home by Joanna Copestick, co-author of Decorate, in which Yvonne's home featured. "It's mix 'n' match, blending Scandinavian and English design styles," she says.
The first room in the house for renovating was the kitchen, undergoing a fresh color scheme of crisp white and blue, with hints of red, pink and mint green weaving it's way through accessories and wallpaper. A zinc-topped kitchen island, open shelving and a traditional range hood gives the room a country look and feel, while wooden countertops, simple white cabinetry and clean lines make for a fuss-free, contemporary country kitchen. The fireplace doubles up as storage, where the couple stash cookbooks and mason jars. "I wanted too have a clean kitchen, that wasn't too girly, mixing industrial, antique and modern styles," says Yvonne. The blue door in the kitchen leads to the cheerful guest bathroom, employing a palette of pale blue and white, with charming Portuguese tiling underfoot.
Off the kitchen and in the mud room, a favourite piece adorns a Cath Kidston clad wall, Yvonne's Tala Vegetable Rack which she picked up in an antiques shop on a trip to the UK. The rack is used to store the couple's fruit and vegetables and has become one of their favourite vintage finds. "I love that it is in my favourite fire engine red and it looks so great against the floral wallpaper in our mud room. It's very useful but also very photogenic." Through the mudroom and into the back garden, Yvonne has poured her love of gardening into a thriving space offering fruits, vegetables and flowers in abundance.
The living room is the couple's most recent project. Walls were painted a soft creamy colour to add warmth to the large space, while white wooden floors and sporadic pops of pink make for a fresh and feminine space. A penchant for combining furniture styles, and a special sway towards vintage finds, the room effortlessly strikes the balance between the old and the new. Natural weave rugs ground each area and add texture to the space, while the couple's mantle, refurbished with a fresh coat of paint, Cath Kidston wallpaper and a wood burning stove, breaks the space between the living and dining and creates a focal point. The vintage 1920s Ercol chair is a favourite.
"A vintage Ercol chair was on my wishlist for a very long time but I couldn't find one in the Netherlands because they're very British. I kept track of online marketplaces until I found one from a man who was selling his for an absolute steal at just 50 euros." Yvonne had it reupholstered and it has found a permanent home in the couple's living room. "I like the design, it's quite Scandinavian in shape but it's actually a quintessentially British piece. I always like to mix Nordic pieces with English, and it's funny because the chair seems to have both of these qualities."
The newly renovated dining room features a pastel pink painted hutch custom made out of repurposed vintage wood, accented by a spray of vintage plates. "I think plates are a very nice decorating alternative instead of paintings and art. Sometimes you don't want to eat off a pretty plate but would rather hang it on the wall because it's a piece of art." Yvonne has combined both new plates with favourite vintage pieces to modernise an old fashioned concept. The hutch houses a precious collection of vintage china which she has collected over several years. Yvonne began her collection of 1920s Johnson Bros china when they were relatively unpopular and she now has a complete set of what has become a rather valuable collection. "I was recently in the UK and was at a little antique shop that was asking about 15 pounds per plate. I feel as if I have a gold mine in my cabinet now!"
A vibrant acrylic painting in this space makes a striking statement atop a contemporary sideboard, a vignette which offsets the farmhouse farmhouse feel of the rest of the room.
The second living space is where the couple come to relax, read and unwind. The piece of art above the piano is a piece by a close friend of Eijkenduijn's, Dutch artist Auk van Hilten.
Yvonne runs her blog Yvestown from the light and sunny front room, which features a French antique round table and mix of vintage chairs. Some of Yvonne's favourite finds are her vintage Eames Bertoya wire chairs which she found on the Dutch online marketplace, Marktplaats. "I have wanted to buy a pair for quite some time because they are such a lovely design. When I finally found some for sale they were selling them in a set of four so I shared the purchase with a friend and we each kept two," Yvonne explains. "In a way they are not really farmhouse vintage which is a style I like, but they compliment the rest of the pieces. They are still vintage but they have very clean lines and therefore go with a lot of things."
The fire engine red bench is another favourite, the 'Småland' bench by the Swedish designer Yngve Ekstrom, scouted for Yvonne by her blogger pal Caroline from Lille Lykke. "I loved it immediately for it's shape and the bentwood feel and went to pick it up right away for an absolute bargain, much less than it is worth." Yvonne kept it's vibrant red colour to add contrast to a wall of Cath Kidston floral wallpaper. "Every room in my home needs a bit of red to offset all the pastel colours."
Delicate floral wallpapers by Cath Kidston, Eijkenduijn's favorite designer, can be seen throughout the couple's home, bringing each space together to form one harmonious picture derived from a palette of pastels. "I just love her aesthetic, her clever floral patterns for the modern day women," she says. "Cath Kidston is great for mixing and matching, and in combination with a lot of white."
Eijkenduijn owes her interior design success to understanding her own style. "I know my style. I stick to the palette (white, pink, red, blue, green) and style and it just works," she says. "If you have a good concept and it flows, stick to your guns."
So what's Yvonne's secret when it comes to combining vintage pieces with newer items? "If you want to mix modern vintage with antique vintage, you have to make sure the lines are very clean. I don't have a lot of frilly antiques, but I go for the cleaner lines with that Scandinavian feel to them."
So guys! What do you think? I have visited Yvonne's home several times now and never fail to be inspired by her consistent sense of style and all round love of interiors. Ah, and her cooking! Make sure you get your hands on a copy of her book. She has some delicious recipes and fabulous interior inspiration in there too.
Spot anything you love? Feel free to ask about it in the comments section below! - Holly
(photos/text: holly marder with the exception of 1st image by Yvonne Eijkenduijn)
I got a very sweet email submission this morning from Jane Wilder, a photographer in California, who wanted to share news about her Etsy shop. I'm running out in a bit, so I thought to quickly share them with you in case you'd not heard of her before. I really like her cheerful, bright and positive works and can definitely see a few of these in my work studio renovation so maybe I'll have to grab some in the next month or two. Here are some of my favorites from Jane's shop below. I love the sunflowers and the palm against that peach background, oh and the girl facing the pool. Definite faves! Which do you fancy? Here is a link to her shop – enjoy! (images: jane wilder)
I love sharing with you all of the companies that I shop at over here in Europe. I know that it may be frustrating for those of you living stateside who do not have access to buying these products, however I remember when I lived in Boston and read blogs based in Europe – I loved seeing what was going on in foreign markets and also catching what was on trend there. It gave me excellent and interesting decorating ideas that I felt no one else had in my local area. That is why I was living in Boston decorating with European touches since the 90s, I was locked into international magazines that I would buy at Barnes & Noble and then later, I started reading European blogs. This all broadened my view and definitely helped me to not only sharpen my eye for design but also to find my personal style. I'm hoping posts like this, now that I'm living in Europe, do the same for those of you who don't have exposure to the same things in your part of the world. Remember, keep an open mind. You may also find similar products where you live and a post like this can help you see how to put things together a little differently than what magazines are showing where you live. It's fun to try new ideas and to stand out from the pack. At least, I always liked it.
So there's this company, Bloomingville, that is based in Denmark but is a huge name in Germany… And I really like many of their products. I don't own many, just a few ceramic cups and two pendant lamps in my hallway, but I'm very pleased with what I do have so I can vouch for their quality and style. In this post, I'm giving you a glimpse of their A/W 2014-15 catalog. You can see more online here. For the upcoming season you'll spot lots of pastel blue and violet, gold, copper, marble, natural wood and shots of gray and black. Not your traditional Autumn/Winter colors in North America, I know, but in Scandinavia and Northern Germany, even in the Netherlands, this palette is much more common since we have less light during the cold months so these colors keep our rooms light and bright as it can feel really heavy and depressing otherwise.
Do you see any products that you're dreaming of? My wish list: Gold skull, marble gemstone candle holders, plywood and blue side tables for my bedroom, rattan seating for my wintergarten and an organic-shaped marble cutting board to serve cheese and some plant pots.
What color schemes are you seeing in interiors where you live? Are pastels big at all?
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Ready to bake some cupcakes with me? Hi everyone this is Jillian with some pretty cupcakes for you to make on Delicious Bites for August. Although I bake regularly, I'm not much of a cake decorator so I turned to the internet for some inspiration. I found lots of pretty images and decided to decorate my cupcakes with petal decorations made from coloured marshmallows. The base is a classic vanilla butter cake recipe and I decided to include some plain flour in the mix to prevent the cakes from peaking too much.The icing is my all time favourite cream cheese icing (frosting) which I whipped for 5 minutes until it was very light and fluffy. I refrigerated the icing for about 20 minutes until it was firm enough to pipe.
I topped each cake with a rosette of the icing then decorated the cakes with a chocolate button and 4 marshmallow petals. The petals are easily made by snipping a marshmallow horizontally and like magic, the marshmallow forms the shape of a petal. You can let your imagination run wild while decorating the cupcakes. I tried out a few designs and combinations using different coloured marshmallows and different coloured chocolate buttons but decided I liked a single colour petal topped with the same coloured chocolate button grouped together en masse. Here's the recipe and instructions for you.
PETAL CUPCAKES (makes 12)
3/4 cup self raising flour
1/4 cup plain flour
100 gm (3 1/2 oz) unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup caster (superfine) sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup milk
30 gm (1 oz) unsalted butter, softened
60 gm (2 oz) cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups sifted icing sugar
1 tablespoons milk
24 coloured marshmallows
Coloured chocolate buttons or Smarties
Line a 12 hole muffin tray with cupcake liners. Preheat a conventional oven to 180C/350F. Sift the self raising flour and the plain flour together into a small bowl and set to one side. In a large bowl cream the butter, caster sugar and vanilla extract until light and creamy. Gradually mix in the beaten egg, adding a tablespoon or so of flour if the mixture starts to curdle. Add the remaining flour and sufficient milk to form a soft cake batter. Spoon tablespoons of the cake batter into the cupcake liners. Bake the cupcakes at 180C/350F for 20-30 minutes or until the cupcakes are golden and cooked when tested with a fine skewer. Allow the cupcakes to cool a little before removing to a wire cake rack. When completely cool decorate or store undecorated in an airtight container. To make the icing, cream the butter, cream cheese and the vanilla extract together in a small bowl until the mixture becomes light and fluffy. Mix in the icing sugar and sufficient milk to make a soft icing. Whip for 5 minutes until the icing becomes very pale and refrigerate until the mixture is firm enough to pipe.
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I think compensatory picks are yet to be decided, but could we stash this info somewhere, Ian? We've got a lot of picks and some holes to fill. Thanks.
What do you think the strategy is going to be for this year's draft? I realize that the only way to know is to be with the team but all the picks give NE some great flexibility. Per prior discussions this is my understanding of the picks coming: 1 - 2 2 - 1 3 - 1 4 - 3 (NE's and Givens/Vinatieri comp choices) 5 - 0 6 - 2 (NE's and Davis comp) 7 - 3 (NE's, Arizona's and comp) While NE cannot trade the comp picks, they can draft a player that the other team wants and trade the rights to that guy. So no pick is set in stone. Anyway, I see three distinct possiblities. I am sure that a combination of all will be used, but I thought it might be interesting to discuss the merits of each. 1) Leverage all of the picks to grab 7-8 guys at the best value. 2) Send a few of the picks off into future drafts 3) Use just about every pick to bring in a bunch of bodies ensuring that at least 7-8 of them are players that have a good chance to contribute. What say you?
Thanks. I thought for sure we had doubles in the 2nd or 3rd. It's hard to trade low picks like that except for futures. I would like a McGinest type olb/de and a corner. No matter who we draft in the top 4, I think ILB/OLB types and safeties and corners for camp competition. I can't see guys with no position ie Mills/Klecko. I'd rather have 4 DBs competing for 2 jobs/special teams.
I don't know if I agree on that. It is fairly common for teams to give a late 4th and 6th to get an early fourth, or leverage a 6th and 7th to move up a handful of spots in the second.
That's true, I wasn't thinking about the moving up part. Still, we moved up for Jackson and it cost us a third. Also, with the advent of comp picks, a lot of teams have a bunch of low picks. Asante was a 4th. Wouldn't it be great if it worked that way? 4th round? We could use another Asante, let's find one.
That was a sizable jump and most observers felt that NE overpaid for the move. I am all for finding the next Asante in the 4th. Frankly, I am expecting it. Since BB and Piloi finally got rid of the last remnants of Grier's system (2001), NE has only failed to find a gem once on the second day. 2002 - Green, Givens 2003 - Samuel, Koppen (I suppose TBC but he is still not quite there yet) 2004 - Nada 2005 - Sanders (Possible with Cassel) 2006 - Gost, O'Calaghan Add in Gay and Wirght as UDFAs and NE is sure to get someone who can help immediately on the second day. Just understand that it is highly likely that his name won't immediately arouse you.
Having three fourth round picks is huge - since the first day ends after three rounds. The Front Office can re-evaluate the best remaining players and determine which players slipped and then make sound picks in the 4th round. A lot of times fourth rounders end up better than second or third rounders... I have a feeling the Pats will take what they perceive to be the best "Patriot" style player at every pick... Regardless of whether it addresses the perceived needs of the team (LB/S/WR/CB)... That being said I'd love LaMarr Woodley - he's another McGinest type of guy and grades out as a second/third rounder right now... I have no clue why.
In any case, the known picks are, IIRC, 2-1-1-1-0-1-2; with comps, my personal guess is 2-1-1-2-0-3-3, but I may be (am?) wrong. About a month before in 2006, so I'd expect to find out in late March. I have to look at the numbers, but I think something like 4-6-6-7 is more likely than 4-4-6-7. The only unfortunate thing is that they're all at the end of the fourth round, so I'm not sure what the Pats would have to part with to jump up to grab a guy they really wanted. [Although, typically, at that point, the cost is low enough that they might do it if they felt it was warranted.]
BINGO. I'll echo this all day long and twice on Sundays, since games aren't on any more. Value to the NE Pats franchise (remember, not general value,) is the gottahave. In cases of close evaluations, it's possible immediate need plays its role as a factor in the valuation process. Good reminder, AJ


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Dražen Petrović with the New Jersey Nets. |
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Shooting Guard | |
Personal information | |
Born | Šibenik, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia (now Croatia) |
October 22, 1964
Died | June 7, 1993 Denkendorf, Germany |
(aged 28)
Listed height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
Listed weight | 200 lb (91 kg) |
Career information | |
NBA Draft | 1986 / Round: 3 / Pick: 60th overall |
Selected by the Portland Trail Blazers | |
Pro career | 1979–1993 |
Career history | |
1979–1983 | KK Šibenka (Yugoslavia) |
1984–1988 | KK Cibona (Yugoslavia) |
1988–1989 | Real Madrid (Spain) |
1989–1991 | Portland Trail Blazers |
1991–1993 | New Jersey Nets |
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Points | 4,461 (15.4 ppg) |
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Basketball Hall of Fame as player | |
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Dražen Petrović (pronounced [drǎʒɛn pɛ̌trɔʋit͡ɕ]) (October 22, 1964 – June 7, 1993) was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s before joining the American NBA in 1989. Petrović died in a car accident at the age of 28.
A star on multiple stages, Petrović earned two silver medals and one bronze in Olympic basketball, a gold and a bronze in the FIBA World Championship, a gold and a bronze in the FIBA European Championship, earned six European Player of the Year awards (four Euroscar Awards, and was named Mr. Europa in basketball twice). In 1985 he received the Golden Badge award for best athlete of Yugoslavia.
Seeking a bigger arena after his career start in Europe, Petrović joined the National Basketball Association in 1989 as a member of the Portland Trail Blazers. After playing mostly off the bench that year, Petrović experienced a break-out following a trade to the New Jersey Nets. While starting for the Nets, he became one of the league's best shooting guards.
Petrović is considered the crucial part of the vanguard to the present-day mass influx of European players into the NBA.[1] Petrović's #3 was retired by the Nets in 1993 and in 2002, he was posthumously enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.[2]
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Born in Šibenik, Yugoslavia (today Croatia), Dražen Petrović was the second child of Jovan and Biserka Petrović. His father was born in the village of Zagora, near Trebinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina, of Serb origin.[3][4][5][6][7] His mother was born in Bilica, near Šibenik, of Croat origin.[7] The couple's first child, Aleksandar, would be the first one to tread the basketball path, providing a lead for young Petrović to follow.
He is the second cousin of the Serbian basketball player Dejan Bodiroga.[7][8]
At the age of thirteen, Petrović started playing in the youth selections of the local BC Šibenka; at the age of fifteen he had already made the first team, just as Šibenka earned a place in the national first division. With young Petrović as the star of the team, Šibenka reached the final of the Radivoj Korać Cup twice (1982 and 1983), losing to CSP Limoges both times. In 1983 the 18 year-old Petrović hit two free throws for Šibenka's victory over BC Bosna Sarajevo in the final playoff game of the Yugoslavian club championship, but the title was taken away from Šibenka the next day by the national basketball federation with irregularities in refereeing cited as the reason, and awarded to Bosna after Šibenka refused to show up for the repeat match.[9]
After spending a year serving the mandatory time in the military, Petrović followed his brother's footsteps and moved to BC Cibona Zagreb to form, at that time, the best backcourt duo in Europe. The very first year in Cibona he won both the Yugoslav League championship and the national cup. To top it all off, the 87-78 victory over Real Madrid, to which Petrović contributed with 36 points, brought him and Cibona their first European Cup title. The second came the following year, as Petrović scored 22 points and Cibona defeated BC Žalgiris Kaunas, which starred the legendary Arvydas Sabonis. The same year brought another national cup title for Cibona, seeing Petrović score 46 against the old rival Bosna. In 1987 Petrović earned his third European trophy: a European Cup Winners Cup title against Scavolini Pesaro, whose net he filled with 28 points.[10]
Petrović's scoring average during the four years with Cibona stood at 37.7 points in the Yugoslavian first division and 33.8 in European competitions, with personal one-time bests of 112 and 62 points, respectively.[11] His scoring sheet was often known to show 40, 50, even 60 in a single game; in an 1986 European League game against Limoges, Petrović scored ten 3-pointers, including seven in a row during a first half stretch, for a final tally of 51 points and 10 assists;[12] the same season he scored 45 points and dished out 25 assists against the reigning Italian champions Simac.[13][14] Self-admittedly, Petrović needed new challenges, which Cibona and the Yugoslavian league could not offer. Across the Atlantic, the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA had already used their third round pick on young Petrović in 1986. However, he decided to postpone his departure to the United States and in 1988 signed with Real Madrid instead, for at that time a hefty sum of around US$ 4 million.[15]
The 1988–1989 season saw Petrović wear the colors of the Spanish basketball club Real Madrid Baloncesto. Although the national championship barely escaped them, as they lost to Barcelona in the fifth and decisive game of the final series, Petrović helped Real to the King's Cup title over their Catalonian rivals. Petrović also led the club to victory in the European Cup Winners Cup final against Snaidero Caserta by tying his previous best scoring performance in European competitions (62 points).[15] His first season in the ACB was also his last, but he still holds ACB single performance bests in a final series game in points made (42) and three-pointers made (8).[11]
Motivated by the challenge and pressured by the Portland Trail Blazers, who had drafted him 60th overall back in 1986, Petrović finally stood firm in the decision to try to establish himself in the NBA. He left Spain rather abruptly at the end of the season; the Blazers assisted in buying out his contract with Real (for as much as US$ 1.5 million)[16] and Petrović joined the Blazers for the 1989–1990 season.
In his many statements prior to arriving in Portland, Petrović voiced lack of playing time as the only possible obstacle to his success in the NBA;[15][17] in his first season with the Blazers, those concerns were realized. With Portland's starting backcourt of Clyde Drexler and Terry Porter already established, the reigning La Gazzetta dello Sport Euroscar European Player of the Year was reduced to playing 12 minutes per game—minutes collected largely in "garbage time"—allowing him a mere 7.4 points per game.[18] The beginning of the 1990-1991 season brought Petrović's frustration to a climax, as his playing time dropped to 7 minutes a game.[18] At his insistence, 38 games into the season (in 20 of which Petrović didn't see any playing time), a three-way trade with the Denver Nuggets sent him to the New Jersey Nets in exchange for a first-round pick in the following draft.[18][19][20]
On January 23, 1991, Petrović became a member of the New Jersey Nets. Petrović was now a part of a team that featured two of the best young prospects in the league, Kenny Anderson and Derrick Coleman—but a team that had not reached the playoffs since 1986. He immediately responded to increased playing time (20.5 minutes per game), holding a scoring average of 12.6 points per game in 43 games with the Nets. In the 1991–92 season, his first full season with the Nets, Petro, as the Americans had dubbed him, averaged 20.6 points in 36.9 minutes on the floor, nearly leading all NBA guards in field goal percentage (51%). He did not miss a single game; he established himself as the team leader; and he was named team MVP. More significantly, his success translated into team success, as the Nets recorded 14 more wins than the season before and made the playoffs. The following, 1992–93 season, Petrović increased his scoring average (22.3, 11th best that season) and repeated his three-point field goal percentage from the previous season (45%), again nearly leading all guards in field goal percentage (52%). American media honored him with a selection to the All-NBA 3rd Team. However, a failure to receive an invitation to the 1993 All-Star game came as a great disappointment to Petrović; among the top 13 scorers in the NBA that season, he was the only one not invited.[21][22]
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Olympic Games | ||
Bronze | 1984 Los Angeles | Yugoslavia |
Silver | 1988 Seoul | Yugoslavia |
FIBA World Championship | ||
Bronze | 1986 Spain | Yugoslavia |
Gold | 1990 Argentina | Yugoslavia |
FIBA European Championship | ||
Bronze | 1987 Greece | Yugoslavia |
Gold | 1989 Yugoslavia | Yugoslavia |
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Olympic Games | ||
Silver | 1992 Barcelona | Croatia |
Petrović's national team debut came at the age of 15, at the U-18 Balkan Championship in Turkey, where the Yugoslavian junior team won the bronze. The young man regularly played for the Yugoslavian national team in the Balkan Championships, also winning gold with the junior team and silver with the senior team. In 1982 he also brought back the silver from the European Championship for Junior Men in Greece.
The 1984 Summer Olympics were Petrović's first competition of a grand scale with the senior national team, and the bronze medal won in Los Angeles that summer became his first Olympic trophy. Third place was also earned at the World Championship in 1986, remembered for the last minute thriller in the semi-final game against the Soviet Union. From the European Championship in 1987 Petrović again returned with bronze, as Yugoslavia lost to the hosts and gold medalists Greece. The University Games, held in Zagreb in 1987, saw the Yugoslavian squad with Petrović win the gold. In the 1988 Summer Olympics Yugoslavia with Petrović earned 2nd place, as they lost once more to the Soviet powerhouse.[10]
An excellent club season with Real Madrid was topped by Petrović's 1989 accomplishment with the national team: at the Eurobasket in Zagreb the young Yugoslavian team went all the way, defeating Greece more than comfortably in the championship game. Petrović was the tournament's second leading scorer and most valuable player. The very next year, the summer in between the two most frustrating seasons of his professional career, as he struggled for playing time with the Trail Blazers, Petrović was again making history with the national team, as Yugoslavia became world champions, beating the Soviet Union for the gold in Buenos Aires.[23]
The 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona marked the first summer olympiad featuring the independent Croatia, and Petrović was the leader of the Croatian national basketball team at the Olympic basketball tournament. Losing only to the American Dream Team in round-robin play, a strong and inspired Croatian team emerged victorious from the semi-final against the revamped Soviet team thanks to clutch free throws executed by Petrović, and faced off against the Americans for the gold. Urged on by Petrović's competitiveness and confidence,[1] the Croatians fared well in the first ten minutes of the game, taking a 25-23 lead on a Franjo Arapović dunk and the subsequent free throw.[24] As the game progressed, however, the now-legendary team composed of NBA stars proved too tough for Croatia: the Americans won 117-85, sending Petrović, the game's leading scorer with 24 points, and his teammates home with silver medals.[1][25]
In the period during which Petrović played for the Croatian national team (from 1992 to 1993), he appeared in 40 games and scored 1002 points. His highest point tally came against Estonia on May 31, 1993 (48 points).[26]
In the summer of 1993, after his best NBA season and the Nets' first-round elimination by the Cleveland Cavaliers, Petrović traveled to Poland, where the Croatian national team was playing a qualification tournament for the 1993 Eurobasket. He was contemplating departure from the Nets, disappointed with tension between himself and, to his belief, envious teammates, as well as the fact that the Nets had not yet extended his contract. He told American reporters that the lack of recognition in the league had him also considering leaving the NBA completely and playing club basketball in Greece; there were at least two Greek clubs ready to offer Petrović three-year contracts worth US$7.5 million.[20] It was rumored that Petrović verbally agreed on terms with Panathinaikos BC; these rumors gave rise to the story of PAO's owner, Pavlos Giannakopoulos, allegedly offering the Nets' star a signed contract with blank salary terms, which became a part of Petrović's legend. Petrović decided to skip the connection flight back to Zagreb and drive with his girlfriend back to Croatia.
Petrović died as a passenger in a car involved in a traffic accident on the rain-drenched Autobahn 9 when a semi truck cut the car he was travelling in off at Denkendorf, near Ingolstadt, in the German state of Bavaria, at approximately 17:20 on June 7, 1993, four and a half months before his 29th birthday.
According to the report of the Ingolstadt police, that afternoon a truck broke through the Autobahn median; the truck driver was trying to avoid a collision with a personal vehicle in his own lane and lost control of the truck, crashing through the median barrier and finally coming to a stop blocking all three lanes of traffic in the opposite direction (Munich). It was seconds later that the VW Golf carrying a sleeping Petrović in the passenger seat crashed into the truck, killing only him, and leaving the driver - Klara Szalantzy, a German model and female basketball player with whom Petrović was romantically involved - and Hilal Edebal, a female Turkish basketball player, with grave injuries.[20][27] It was established that visibility on the road was very poor and that Petrović was not buckled with a seatbelt.[1]
Petrović's tomb 45°50′22″N 15°59′00″E / 45.83947°N 15.98328°E at Mirogoj Cemetery had instantly become a sanctuary for his compatriots. The Cibona stadium was renamed the Dražen Petrović Basketball Hall on October 4, 1993, and the city of Zagreb dedicated a square in his name. The Nets retired his number 3 jersey on November 11, 1993. Since 1994, the MVP award at the McDonald's Championship has borne the name Drazen Petrovic Trophy. On April 29, 1995, a statue commemorating Petrović's significance to the world of sports was erected in front of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, thus making him only the second athlete to receive this honor. On July 9, 2001, having defeated Patrick Rafter to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon, Croatian tennis player Goran Ivanišević dedicated the win to his late friend Petrović;[28] Ivanišević wore Petrović's Nets jersey amidst the 100,000 strong crowd celebrating his victory in Split.[1] Petrović was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2006, the 13th anniversary of Petrović's death was marked with the opening of the Dražen Petrović Memorial Center in Zagreb, a grand temple dedicated to Petrović's person and achievements, with ten themed galleries of multimedia content outlining his entire career. In 2007, he was enshrined in the FIBA Hall of Fame.[29]
The 2010 documentary Once Brothers (part of the ESPN 30 for 30 series) portrays the achievements of the Yugoslavia national basketball team in the late 1980s and early 1990s and how the Yugoslav Wars tore the team apart. It explores Petrović's broken friendship with Serbian/Yugoslav player Vlade Divac. During the 2012 Three Point Shootout, New Jersey Nets guard Anthony Morrow wore Petrović's jersey to honor him.
" | It's hard for you to imagine here in America, because you have so many great players, but we are a country of four million; without him, basketball takes three steps back. | " |
" | You know, there is a saying that we have about JFK, John F. Kennedy - "You know, Johnny, we never got to know you." And I kind of feel that way about Dražen. I felt that the whole year that I was with him went by too fast and I really never got to know him the way I would have liked to. | " |
" | Dražen and I were very good friends. I was one of those people who welcomed him to Portland when he came from Europe. We talked about his family a lot in his restaurant, and he enjoyed his friends and he enjoyed the game of basketball. I really respect him because he worked very, very hard. Each and every day in practice he would be the first guy to come and the last guy to leave the gym. So anybody with that kind of dedication...you have to have a lot of respect for him. | " |
" | Dražen Petrović was an extraordinary young man, and a true pioneer in the global sports of basketball. I know that a lasting part of his athletic legacy will be that he paved the way for other international players to compete successfully in the NBA. His contributions to the sport of basketball were enormous. We are all proud of the fact we knew him. | " |
" | It was a thrill to play against Dražen. Every time we competed, he competed with an aggressive attitude. He wasn't nervous; he came at me as hard as I came at him. So, we've had some great battles in the past and unfortunately, they were short battles. | " |
Year | Competition | Achievement | Club |
1982 | Korać Cup | Finalist | BC Šibenka |
1983 | Korać Cup | Finalist | BC Šibenka |
1985 | European Champions Cup | Winner | BC Cibona |
1985 | Yugoslavian Championship | Winner | BC Cibona |
1985 | Yugoslavian Cup | Winner | BC Cibona |
1986 | European Champions Cup | Winner | BC Cibona |
1986 | Yugoslavian Championship | Finalist | BC Cibona |
1986 | Yugoslavian Cup | Winner | BC Cibona |
1987 | European Cup Winners Cup | Winner | BC Cibona |
1988 | Yugoslavian Cup | Winner | BC Cibona |
1988 | Korać Cup | Finalist | BC Cibona |
1989 | Spanish Cup | Winner | Real Madrid |
1989 | Spanish Championship | Finalist | Real Madrid |
1989 | European Cup Winners Cup | Winner | Real Madrid |
1990 | NBA Playoffs | Finalist | Portland Trail Blazers |
Year | Event | Host | Placement | Country |
1980 | Balkan Championship for Junior Men | Istanbul, Turkey | 3rd | SFR Yugoslavia |
1981 | Balkan Championship for Cadets | Thessaloniki, Greece | 1st | SFR Yugoslavia |
1982 | Balkan Championship for Junior Men | Patras, Greece | 1st | SFR Yugoslavia |
1982 | European Championship for Junior Men | Dimitrovgrad and Haskovo, Bulgaria | 2nd | SFR Yugoslavia |
1983 | University Games | Edmonton, Canada | 2nd | SFR Yugoslavia |
1984 | Balkan Championship | Athens, Greece | 2nd | SFR Yugoslavia |
1984 | Olympic Games | Los Angeles, United States | 3rd | SFR Yugoslavia |
1986 | World Championship | Madrid, Spain | 3rd | SFR Yugoslavia |
1987 | University Games | Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia | 1st | SFR Yugoslavia |
1987 | Eurobasket | Athens, Greece | 3rd | SFR Yugoslavia |
1988 | Olympic Games | Seoul, South Korea | 2nd | SFR Yugoslavia |
1989 | Eurobasket | Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia | 1st | SFR Yugoslavia |
1990 | World Championship | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1st | SFR Yugoslavia |
1992 | Olympic Games | Barcelona, Spain | 2nd | Croatia |
A museum named "The Dražen Petrović Memorial Center" was founded in his honor, and constitutes a co-operative effort led by the Dražen Petrović Foundation in conjunction with the Croatian government, the city of Zagreb and the Croatian Museum of Sports. The memorial center idea originated from Petrović's parents, Biserka and Jole Petrovic, and was supported with the contributions of Croatian architects Andrija Rusan and Niksa Bilic. All of the articles presented in the center have been collected and categorized by the Croatian Museum of Sports. The organization and operations of the center have been provided by the Dražen Petrović Foundation, which is led by Petrović's family. The Center contains his No. 3 New Jersey Nets jersey and the watch that stopped when he died in a car crash. The center features 1,000 memorabilia items and a video of his basketball highlights.[33]
The official opening of the museum was held on June 7, 2006, while the official opening of the center to the public began at the end of December 2006. The square on which the center is operated upon has been renamed to Plaza Dražen Petrović in his honor.[34]
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Now, all of a sudden, a competitor shows up. And, hey, he's aiming for the top slot!
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Could be anything really. We run over 30 campaigns and every now and then our ads do not show when you want to demo it to someone while there are no budget issues at all.
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What I think might help longterm is to get your CTR high and keep your max bid as high as you're willing to pay. That way you'll be paying less all the time, but any new competition has to start off paying skyhigh prices to knock you off - and that can get discouraging. Obviously, don't set your max CPC higher than is profitable.
So it is ok for him to put his bid up to the max that he wants, even if he has a high CTR... Because google only makes you pay 1 cent above them right?
When dealing with search engines, don't forget that you are not dealing with one computer. You are dealing with hundreds or thousands of them, all over the planet. Every time you request a page, you may end up connected to a different server, and that server may or may not have been updated. These updates are usually fast, but they are certainly not simultaneous.
Whether looking at natural search results, PageRank, or Adwords placement, you may never get the same server twice.
For natural search placement and PageRank checking, there is a work-around using the Windows hosts file to define a fixed IP address for www.google.com and toolbarqueries.google.com, but I don't see a way to do that for the Adwords ads, since they are apparently included from an internal network. Also, it may not always be an advantage to be looking at the same server all of the time.
This does not explain though why ads that have been running for a long time and are not changed at all also do not appear from time to time. Somtimes this is due to language and region setting and the Google flavor you are using but more often than not this is not a factor.
This happened to our site. I set the daily budget to what AdWords suggested but my ads wouldn't show every time.
I called AdWords and they suggested I double the daily recommended budget... I did that and have never had a problem. Seems their daily budget calculator is broke.
I have a CTR of about 4,5% over all campaigns. For certain keywords there are constant CTR's of 10-20%, for very few ones even up to 50%. There's even one keyword with a CTR of 100%, but since it was only viewd and clicked ONCE this hardly counts :-)
I had never had any competition in that area, so there's for sure room to improve. For the moment I have decided to leave the CPC alone and instead try the approach with rotating ads. I'm reluctant to change TWO paramters at the same time... or what do you think?
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The default is on which means that adwords will automatically favor ads (when you have multiple running) that have the highest CTR.
This may be what you want but if you care about (and measure) ROI you want all ads to be rotated evenly (and hence the option is off), so you can compare ad performance rather than just CTR.
So it depends on what you want I guess. Does that make sense?
I don't think it is broken. The suggested daily budget is based on a CTR of 2%. If your CTR is higher than 2%, you should proportionally increase the daily budget. For example, if your CTR is 4%, the daily budget should be twice the suggested daily budget.


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