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Crochet Beret
Lion Brand® Imagine (Old)
Pattern Number: cim-beret
SKILL LEVEL: Easy (Level 2)
SIZE: One Size
9" in diameter (blocked) Fits an average adult head (21-23")
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780-099 Imagine Yarn: Fisherman (discontinued) Natural cream
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Exact gauges is not imporant to this project.
Ch 4.
Sc in 4th ch from hook to form ring.
Sc in rnds until piece measures 3 1/4" from beg.
Inc to 6 sts in last rnd.
Place marker for beg of rnd.
Inc 6 sts evenly spaced.
Repeat last rnd until there are 144 sts.
Dec 6 sts evenly spaced.
Repeat last rnd until 72 sts remain.
Join with slip st, turn work inside out.
With WS facing, work 5 rnds even.
Tie topknot with an overhand knot.
Tack end in place to underside of knot.
Pull beret over 9" dinner plate.
Lightly damp, allow to dry thoroughly.
Weave in ends.
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January 10, 16
Epik Blog
Epik's Next Chapter: The Future of Domain Name Asset Management
- posted by Rob Monster - Sep 18 - 6 Comments
Epik has been a pioneer in the area of developing domain names into income-producing intellectual property assets — a role which continues to this day and which has been chronicled both on this blog and elsewhere. Now that summer has ended, it seems an appropriate time for a review of our continuing efforts to develop tools and solutions that will help customers get more out of their domain name investments. We call this comprehensive platform approach Domain Name Asset Management.
Domain Names Continue To Be An Exciting Asset Class
As the Internet continues to evolve, I grow ever more enthusiastic about the future of the Internet in general, and in Domain Names in particular. The KKR-led deal to acquire GoDaddy, ICANN's planned expansion of gTLDs, and rising Internet penetration rates worldwide all point to the continued relevance and primacy of domain names as the addressing and navigation standard by which we'll navigate the Internet for the foreseeable future. The parallel growth of mobile apps and text messaging, particularly among youth, is symptomatic of an always-on connected culture that has cut the cord and is abandoning mainstream media. Twitter and Facebook should be viewed not as competitive to stand-alone websites but rather as on-ramps for developing new publishers on the web. Just as AOL produced, and subsequently lost, a generation of web content consumers, Facebook has produced a generation of web content producers. Sooner or later, this new generation of web producers will leave the Facebook reservation and explore new ways to develop their online brand identity. Many of these future content producers will choose to publish on their own domains, particularly as the tools for doing so become easier and as the professional services for site development continue to become cheaper.
Epik's Integrated Approach: Acquire, Build, Manage, Sell
Domain Names have a lifecycle. If you understand that lifecycle and its implications, and if you have the right management tools, you can maximize the productive use of that asset. At the 2010 Epik Developer Conference, we proposed four stages of the Domain Lifecycle: Acquire, Build, Manage and Sell. Then as now, that lifecycle drives our development roadmap. Whether you own one domain or ten thousand, Epik will provide the tools and services necessary to simply and cost-effectively maximize the value of those domain names. Managing your domain portfolio will eventually be as easy as trading stocks or ordering a pizza online.
Acquire: Full Service Domain Registrar Services
In July 2011, Epik acquired the registrar operations of Intrust Domains. It should be noted, for those who follow the domain industry closely, that Epik did not acquire Intrust's brokerage and marketing operations, only an accredited registrar, software, customers, and technical personnel. Consolidation of these registrar operations, along with several other strategic moves, has quickly given us critical mass. Today, Epik is a fast-growing and ICANN-accredited registrar serving more than 50,000 customers with domain name management services.
The Intrust acquisition instantly added a high level of competency in domain name registrar management, including domain dropcatching. Additionally, the injection of engineering talent allowed us to expand our overall development capacity, enabling us to accelerate our plans to provide an industry-leading platform for Domain Name Asset Management.
We continue to get stronger as a registrar. Indeed, one unique but vital aspect of the Epik culture is that every member of the Epik team, from the most junior staffer to myself (the CEO) — everyone — is actively involved in our customer support function. While a casual observer might question whether this is an efficient use of management time, we all believe that this daily interaction with our customers and our products is absolutely invaluable. I knew from past experience in building successful businesses, that there is no substitute for (1) knowing the customer, and (2) knowing the product. You can well imagine that if the head of development is personally helping customers deal with a problem area in our system, that the issue gets resolved pronto. The time that the senior management team spends on the front lines each day helps to ensure that we focus our efforts on the areas that most directly impact you, the customer. It is a discipline that we consider critical to our design success, and to providing industry-leading customer satisfaction.
Build: Cost Effective Solutions for Turning Domains into Websites
Unless you plan to just park your domains indefinitely, then you will eventually need to develop your domain name into a site. Epik offers a broad suite of solutions for developers. The common theme of these solutions is that they are cost-effective to build and operate, typically requiring only a one-time setup fee as hosting is included with custom sites. Our all-inclusive approach to development reduces development risk and simplifies budgeting. Equally important is the scalability of these solutions: whether you have one domain or a thousand, you can easily and cost-effectively build and manage your domains at whatever scale you require. Solutions are available for Commerce, Directory, Lead Generation, Job Boards, and Video Hosting, with even more vertical solutions under development.
For those who prefer to build their own solutions, Epik offers competitive solutions for Web and Email hosting with full cPanel access. And for those who lack the development expertise to realize their unique requirements, we also offer Custom Development services.
Manage: Centralized Tracking and Optimization of Your Portfolio
With most registrars, managing a single domain is relatively easy. However, many domain owners own more than one domain. To compound the problem, many of these domains are often spread across more than one registrar, often using multiple hosting providers. Managing domains across multiple registrars, as well as managing multiple websites across multiple hosting providers, can quickly become, well, unmanageable. To solve this problem, Epik allows customers the unique ability to manage all domains across all registrars through one simple interface, effectively creating the virtual consolidation of their domain portfolio. In fact, customers can track all of their domains on Epik, and can even do this at no cost. Free is a pretty good deal.
Epik's integrated approach means that hosting assets associated with a domain can be accessed with one click. Reporting of revenue and traffic are aggregated and reported centrally, including activity from major parking partners that have provided Epik with API-level access. As part of ongoing domain name management, Epik also offers the use of our Parking Optimization services with 100% revenue share paid out to the customer. The result is a consolidated and managed view of all domain-related assets and single-sign-on into the management of any related sites.
Sell: A Better Way to Buy and Sell Domains and Websites
Our patent-pending online marketplace enables customers to instantly buy, sell or lease domains and websites commission-free and even tax-free. In a market where competitors charges between 15% and 30% commission, this represents unmatched value for money.
Domains are delivered instantly to the buyer at time of purchase which avoids the need for a separate escrow process. The marketplace is further enhanced via integration with Sedo MLS and very shortly the Afternic MLS. Buyers of domains and websites have the added advantage of knowing that the traffic and revenue data being asserted by the seller has been independently verified by Epik. Also, if there are related assets such as historical metrics or hosting assets, these elements can in many cases be automatically transferred in the same purchase transaction. In other words, buying and selling entire websites becomes about as simple as buying and selling raw domains.
What else can you expect from Epik?
- Legendary Customer Service – Most domain investors are aware of the deplorable state of customer service in the domain industry. Epik is committed to providing industry-leading service, not just by doing what is expected, but also by doing what is needed, adapting the solution to the unique needs of the individual customer, and sticking with an issue until it is solved even if that means corralling 3rd parties
- Reliability and Ease of Use – Epik's ongoing investment in software development is among the largest in the industry. In fact, Product Development is our single largest category of personnel. Why? For one thing, as much as we delight in providing exemplary customer service, we also believe that a great product is so intuitive and reliable that it rarely needs customer support. After all, when was the last time anyone called Apple or Amazon for help.
- Leadership – During October, I will attend my first ICANN meeting. This is part of a broader commitment from Epik to engage in the dialog around the future of Domain Names as an asset class and the governance of thereof. Moreover, while we have historically focused on .COM and .NET for our own portfolio, we plan on actively embracing selected gTLDs in our capacity as registrar and marketing partner.
In short, the Epik journey continues. Historically, Domain Name Asset Management solutions were available to only the very largest players in the industry. Today, by integrating registrar solutions with portfolio management, and by ensuring that it is scalable, cost effective, and easy to use, Epik is providing all domain investors advanced tools for maximizing the value of the domain name investment.
Ready to get started? Click here.
Comments (6)
September 18, 2012, 7:38 pm
Will there be a GTLD exchange? I hope so.
**RWM** Thanks for the suggestion. As of today, customers can buy, sell and lease Epik-registered domains commission free. As we add registrar support for new TLDs, this will of course extend to those new TLDs. The marketplace will evolve in response to market needs. We think the addition of support for leasing and the ability to transact tax-free are both very timely, for example.
September 18, 2012, 8:16 pm
Today, Epik is a fast-growing and ICANN-accredited registrar serving more than 50,000 customers with domain name management services.
Congrats – sounds good! Epik never did anything half-hearted.
** RWM ** Thanks Louise. I learned a good bit from building my previous major startup — GMI, which was acquired by WPP. A key learning was the importance of building for scale. Starting in 1999, GMI grew 100% per year for 7 straight years but by year 7, scaling became much, much harder as the foundational processes got stretched. We had a very dedicated team and can-do culture which made all the difference. The leadership team at Epik thinks a lot about process and architecture so that *if and when* Epik growth becomes exponential, we'll be equipped to manage the growth. Suffice it to say that we are very fortunate to have a talented software development team that is helping to translate that vision and architecture into software that is intuitive and scalable. No easy feat.
September 18, 2012, 10:04 pm
Sounds good. I need to check out the changes!
** RWM ** The best way to get started is by importing domains into the portfolio using this tool:
If you do it while logged in, the domains are added to your existing account and updated. More feature announcements to come.
Jay Lohmann
Twitter: jalohmann
September 19, 2012, 5:12 pm
Glad to see new life breathed back into Epik and looking forward to checking out the updates. Rob and team are a definite asset in their own right to the domain industry.
** RWM ** Thanks Jay. As will be apparent to anyone who logs into an Epik account, we have been quite busy over the past year following the successful integration of registrar operations and onboarding of the expanded development team. Exciting times.
Paul Omego
September 20, 2012, 12:56 pm
Thank you Epik for this new development and info. My major concern has been to develop most of my domains,to develop most to professional site that can be generating revenues and quality leads before selling them off, Because some of these domains are not .com i hope that a good site design/optimization with good seo will make them increase value quickly.
Also to develop some few to authority sites that will last for some time using my dot com domains.
If i have developed sites under Epik development platform and choose to sell the site,how will the site be transferred to the buyer?will the buyer be required to create an account with Epik or what?
Am only trying to be sure that there will be an easy and fast process of moving sites from seller to buyer without forcing the buyer to create account with Epik in case the buyer chooses to use another platform to manage the site.
Another question is will there be an easy process of editing the sites the way i choose to ?
** RWM ** Paul – If you sell an Epik-developed site, the same rights and privileges that you had are transferred to the new owner. Indeed, one of the key things we have been working on at Epik is integrating the Marketplace processes so that when entire websites are sold, all of the associated assets can be transferred in a single transaction: domain, website, transaction data, etc. The fact is that the buyers who have deployable capital are generally not short on capital – they are short on time. The Epik platform is designed to make it about as easy to manage 500 websites as it is to manage 5. That is central to our goals as a platform. If you have ever bought or sold a domain on Flippa or similar sites, you will quickly see why it makes sense to combine Registrar + Cloud Hosting + Site Marketplace into a single integrated solution. And yes, editing of an acquired site is all accessible right from your Epik control panel.
Paul Omego
September 20, 2012, 11:22 pm
Thanks for your response,but am not talking about editing acquired site,am talking about editing of my sites that are developed with your platform.
Another thing is, will i be the one to develop the sites using your platform or will Epik be the one to do the developments and everything to make it live? I hope am not asking too much question.
I already have account with Epik,but i have just uploaded my domains to my account today and waiting for more clearification and what next to do

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Terrence Malick's long-awaited "The Tree of Life," opening today in select cities, is the kind of movie that is designed to be talked about, chewed on, and poured over. It's a movie that demands you grasp at the unknowable, is challenging and gorgeous in some very deep and profound levels and asks big questions about who we are and where we came from, not just on a human level but on a grander, "how does life exist" scale. (On the same token, its complete lack of an identifiable narrative/dramatic structure and emotional aloofness might drive you batty.) Looking into "The Tree of Life" (and beyond), though, you'll find even more tantalizing questions, possibilities, and dead-ends. The fact that most of us are still as intrigued, befuddled, and mystified by the film after we've seen it is a testament to its singular, oddball power. So we now present to you 10 things we've learned about 'Tree of Life' that maybe you never knew. This feature is probably best enjoyed after you've seen the film, but we give proper warning when discussing plot (if that's the right word) specifics.
01. "The Tree of Life" Started Out Life As Something Very, Very Different
During the "lost years" following the grueling production and ultimate success of "Days of Heaven," (which turned into a 20 year stretch), Malick hid out in Paris and worked on a movie tentatively titled "Q." According to a lengthy and in-depth Vanity Fair article that came out right before his poetic war movie "The Thin Red Line" ("The Runaway Genius," August 1998) the film initially included "a prologue, which dramatized the origins of life." Except that the segment "became increasingly elaborate and would ultimately take over the rest of the story." The "origins of life" bit would make the transition to "The Tree of Life," but otherwise, the visualization of the cosmos would have been strikingly different – "Q" featured (again, according to the Vanity Fair piece) a "sleeping god, underwater, dreaming of the origins of the universe, starting with the big bang and moving forward, as florescent fish swam into the deity's nostrils." Um. Okay. The movie got fairly far along, with Malick traveling between Paris and Los Angeles, where he had instilled a small team, mostly comprised of photographers and special effects technicians, until one day, just like the big bang, things just stopped. According to a visual effects supervisor Richard Taylor, "One Monday, Terry never showed up. He didn't call anybody, we couldn't find him… He just stopped."
02. Wait, Tell Me More About "Q"
Okay! According to a January 2006 issue of British film magazine Total Film, in an article hilariously (and appropriately) entitled "Who the Hell is Terrence Malick?" (it's not online unfortunately), Charles Bludhorn, chairman of Gulf + Western (which, at the time of "Days of Heaven," owned Paramount), "took the unprecedented step of establishing a trust fund for Malick: it was worth $1 million, paid out in installments of around $100,000 on the condition that he would bring his next project to Paramount." So what did Malick do with that stipend? He sent cameramen to the Great Barrier Reef to "shoot micro jellyfish," to Mount Edna to shoot volcanoes violently erupting, and Antarctica to see sheets of ice slide off of the polar ice caps. The script was less a script and more "pages of poetry," which he would deliver to the powers that be at Paramount in 30-page increments, until they eventually lost their patience, became frustrated and demanded "a script that starts with page one and at the end says, 'The End.'" While many of the ideas he toyed with in this period would make their ways into "The Tree of Life" (except for the sleepy giant space god), much more recently it was conceived as its own film.
03. Goodbye "Q," Hello "Voyage of Time"
Apparently, the birth of the universe sections of "The Tree of Life" weren't enough for Malick, and rumors began circulating in early 2009 that a parallel project was underway called "The Voyage of Time." Supposedly, around this time, reshoots were taking place for both 'Tree' and 'Voyage' with Nigel Ashcroft, a U.K.-based natural history program producer, sporting a bio (since removed) that claimed he was working on "2 major projects with legendary film director Terrence Malick… As well as producing an extensive natural history segment for his latest feature film, 'The Tree of Life'… they are making an IMAX film entitled 'The Voyage of Time.'"
The bio erroneously made the claim that both would be out in 2009, which was of course, a pipe dream. More recently it was confirmed that Malick shot parts of 'Tree' in IMAX, and that 'Voyage of Time' would have been released simultaneously on IMAX screens alongside 'Tree of Life' in traditional theaters. "It was important not to cannibalize 'Tree of Life,'" producer Bill Pohlad said to website Coming Soon. While 'Voyage' will have Brad Pitt providing the narration, it's still a ways off. Pohlad said among the topics addressed in 'Voyage' were "the first signs of life, bacteria, cellular pioneers, first love, consciousness, the ascent of humanity, life and death and the end of the universe." You know, the little stuff. And while it appears to be more of a straight documentary, the producer was cagey: "It's going to change. There's some new stuff getting shot." It wouldn't surprise us if 'Voyage of Time' is more explicitly tied into 'Tree of Life' than originally thought, and that the spacey stuff is all new footage (or at the very least different footage).
04. Malick Pitched "The Tree of Life" To Producer Bill Pohlad While He Was Working on "Che" (Yes, That "Che")
Pohlad, who most will remember as the idealistic leading force behind Apparition, a distribution outfit born from his River Road Entertainment production company (they produced "Into the Wild" and "Brokeback Mountain" among others) that shuttered recently, was pitched the idea of "The Tree of Life" while Malick was working on "Che." Yes, the "Che" that would go on to become Steven Soderbergh's magnum opus/the bane of his existence. In a 2009 interview with Variety, Pohlad said "he pitched me an idea that I thought was crazy, and it turned out to be 'Tree of Life,' which we're doing together now." (Apparition was always scheduled to release 'Tree of Life' before it imploded.)
More recently Pohlad described Malick's script for "Che" to The Wrap as a "daunting project, and Terry's script for 'Che' was not an easy read, or a typical read." In an incredibly rare public appearance at the 2007 Rome Film Festival where Malick forbade interviewers from videotaping, recording, or even asking questions about his films (he was there to talk about "his favorite Italian films" instead), he hinted at his past as a reporter for The New Yorker. "Yes," Malick said. "I was sent to Bolivia to do a piece on Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, but frankly I did not understand what was going on." That might explain why the "Che" project ultimately passed on to Soderbergh, and while we love what Soderbergh did with the difficult and embattled political figure, we can't help but feel like Malick's version would have been, well, revolutionary, though god knows if it would have retained any political ideas at all.
05. The Original Cast Was Very Different
Any movie that has as long a gestation period as "The Tree of Life" (particularly if you fold in the years spent on "Q") is going to go through some changes. One of the bigger changes had to do with the cast, which according to a 2006 Bombay Times report (riffing on material printed that we believe started in the Hollywood Reporter the year before), it was originally going to star none other than Mel Gibson and Colin Farrell. The Farrell report makes sense, as the Irish star reportedly got along well with the prickly Malick on the set of their historical drama, "The New World," while the Gibson report seems fishier (even though the article describes the two as "close friends"). For one, the Bombay Times reports that Shailendra Singh was co-producing the movie, which you won't find in the press notes or on the film's IMDb page (maybe they were thinking of associate producer Sandhya Shardanand?). Then there's the fact that the article repeatedly misspells Malick's name. What the actors would have been shooting in India is something of a mystery too (Singh, quoted, said "15% of the film" would shoot there) – having seen the film, we can only imagine that he would have been grabbing images for the elliptical finale, in which folds of time and space wrinkle together, visualized by, well, we won't ruin that here.
But a recently published Total Film article says that at one point "Q" was "set in the Middle East during World War I" and that, in the Farrell/Gibson configuration, "Indian production company Percept Picture Company would finance the film, which would be mostly shot in India." So maybe that Bombay Times report wasn't complete fiction, though it sounds like a rather different version of the movie that eventually hit screens, and not just because the cast changed.
06. The Pitt Role Was Concretely Cast With a Different Actor
This much is a certainty: Heath Ledger was originally supposed to play the role of Jack, the domineering patriarch at the center of "The Tree of Life," a role that would later go to Brad Pitt (who had already signed on as a co-producer, probably much to the movie's benefit). In an interview with Stephen Schaefer from December 2007, Ledger laid out his future plays: he would start shooting "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" with Terry Gilliam soon (which would ultimately be his last film), followed closely by 'Tree of Life' (backed up by a Hollywood Reporter note that Ledger and Sean Penn would star). But it wasn't Ledger's untimely death that would lead to his lack of involvement in 'Tree of Life,' but rather the star's exhaustion – after working on so many movies back-to-back (this was right after his grueling shoot on Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight," we need to keep in mind), he just wasn't up to it (plus "he pulled out at the time for family reasons," Pitt said). But he wasn't the only actor unsure of himself.
During the Cannes press conference for 'Tree of Life,' Pitt admitted that he was a little concerned about taking on the role initially. Still, good sense won out. "I was a little hesitant about playing the oppressive father, but I felt the story was so important and for me it was really about the kids' journey," he said, adding: "And I think about everything I do now, my kids are going to see when they grow up, and (I think) about how they are going to feel. They know me as a dad and I hope they'll just think I'm a pretty damn good actor."
07. This Is Malick's Most Revealingly Autobiographical Film to Date
All of Terrence Malick's films, it can be argued, are deeply personal works – displaying a clear frame of mind and an array of personal, philosophical, and political fixations. But none of them are explicitly autobiographical – "Badlands" is essentially a crime movie, based loosely on the spree killings of Charles Starkweather; "Days of Heaven" and "The New World" are historical epics (dissimilar, for sure, but easily categorized); and "The Thin Red Line" is, on its most rudimentary level, a war movie. "The Tree of Life," however, sees Malick tapping into the real life pain of his childhood and upbringing. We should probably issue a spoiler warning now, if you don't want to know plot specifics or if you'd like to keep the mythical figure of Terrence Malick as some illusory demigod unchallenged. There are many superficial similarities – Terry's father was an oil geologist, while the Pitt character can be seen toiling away on blueprints of unspecified origin; Terry was the oldest of three boys, who was, like the Jack character in 'Tree of Life' (played in the grown-up scenes by Sean Penn), deeply devoted to his mother. (According to the pre-'Thin Red Line' Vanity Fair piece, which contains a fair amount of this biographical detail, he wouldn't let her read the script to "The Thin Red Line" for years because he was worried she would be offended by the amount of swearing.)
But digging deeper, you see the real parallels between Malick's upbringing and the story of 'Tree of Life' – Terry had a tempestuous relationship with his father, who adored taking photos (which, one can guess, has led to his complete aversion to being photographed). Chris, the middle Malick brother, had been involved in a car crash which left his wife dead and Chris badly injured, which seems to be dreamily dramatized in the film in a sequence when some neighborhood boys are setting off fireworks. More telling: Larry, the youngest brother, was a guitar phenomenon who went to Spain to study with a master guitarist and who later broke his own hands when upset about his lack of proficiency. When Malick's father went to Spain to check on Larry, he returned with Larry's body. The brother had committed suicide, and Terry felt, according to the Vanity Fair piece, "a heavy burden of irrational guilt." The death of one of the brothers (the guitar-playing artistic one) is at the center of 'Tree of Life,' or at least one of its branches, and in a lot of ways is the impetus for much of the film's ruminations – both cosmic and domestic. (Coupled with Terry's love since childhood of spirituality and religion. He can quote the bible freely.) What the Vanity Fair piece reveals, also, is that Malick seems to have grown up to be a man very much like his father – rigid, compulsive, unwavering, temperamental and occasionally cruel. He seems to be working through some of his issues, from inside "The Tree of Life" out, even though he repeatedly told his partner at the time (Michele Morette, they separated for good in 1998): "I want my personal life to be completely separate from the movies." Except when the movie is his personal life.
08. Yes, Malick Did Appear At Cannes After All... Quietly
While a Malick-free press conference gave us some dynamite quotes from both Brad Pitt ("[Terry] sees himself as building a house, he doesn't want to focus on selling the real estate") and a wonderfully snippy producer Dede Gardner (who leveled some potent zings at uncooperative moderator Henri Behar) he was not, as it turned out, absent from the festival (where "The Tree of Life" would ultimately take top honors). Luminous 'Tree' star Jessica Chastain told USA Today that, "I looked over and in walked Terry. The festival of course knew, but it was a last minute thing." Cameras reportedly darted towards the ground to avoid capturing the press shy Malick, and Playlist Cannes writer Kevin Jagernauth also scored a brief glimpse at him with his own eyes -- unfortunately no photo was snapped. So while he might not have shown up for the press conference, he was at the festival and here's photographic evidence.
09. No Matter How Weird You Think "The Tree of Life" Is, His Next One Is Going to Be Weirder
The cinematic syntax that Malick has been developing since his debut "Badlands" -- emphasizing moments and emotional clarity over narrative coherence and concrete story beats -- seems to have reached its pinnacle with "The Tree of Life" with its occasionally stirring, occasionally alienating structure that has a small town drama interspersed with moments that document the formation of life as we know it, as well as an overlay of spirituality in which memory, and the barriers of the past, present and future, crumble and fade. In other words: it's not "The Hangover Part II." "I'm very proud of the film, and I think it's am important film and I want as many people as possible to see it. But I would also tell my friends who aren't big film buffs or film aficionados that this isn't a normal movie," producer Bill Pohlad said recently. "But it's a powerful movie, and a moving movie."
The fact that Fox Searchlight is releasing this on Memorial Day weekend, usually a place reserved for Tom Cruise vehicles and superhero sequels, is a bold move that will leave many audiences bewildered. But apparently, to paraphrase the song, you ain't seen nothing yet. Malick's next movie, which is still untitled but has been speculatively called "The Burial," stars Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Rachel Weisz, Javier Bardem, Olga Kurylenko and Barry Pepper, and early descriptions of the plot had it as a small town drama (Bardem plays a priest – we only know this based on on-set photography). The Los Angeles Times movie blog 24 Frames, however, in a piece about "The Voyage of Time," states that Malick's next narrative feature could be even stranger than 'Tree of Life.' They cite a source that claims the new film is "even more experimental than 'Tree of Life.'" Of course, "experimental" is one of those catchall phrases that could mean many different things to different people (we could describe "Speed Racer" as experimental, for crying out loud), and as always, we'll have to wait and see. Maybe the jumbled outrageousness of 'Tree of Life' isn't the zenith of his stylistic obsessions; maybe it's the beginning of something newer and even more out-there.
10. No One Really Seems To Know How Much 'Tree of Life' Actually Cost (Or They Aren't Saying)
It's pretty common for studios to release, sometimes grudgingly, at least ballpark estimates for how much their big movies cost ($200 million, for instance, for this latest "Pirates of the Caribbean," is the official studio number while most have it closer to $250 million), while nobody has even thrown out a number for "The Tree of Life." Just thinking about how much it could have cost is sort of amazing – it's been in post-production for approximately three years, with four credited editors (including Malick mainstay Billy Weber) and a fifth cited on IMDb with reshoots that took place intermittently during that time. Malick dragged Douglas Trumbull, a visual effects pioneer who helped Stanley Kubrick realize "2001: A Space Odyssey" back in 1969, out of retirement to work on the space sequences, which are almost wholly computer-generated and last for what seems like the better part of an hour and include fully-rendered dinosaur characters. Malick shot on IMAX, 65 mm and 35 mm and relocated the massive tree that sits in Pitt's backyard from a neighboring town. Nothing about "The Tree of Life" is "little" or easily manageable, and while we're fairly certain no one has consistently worked on the film since its embryonic "Q" days (except, of course, for Malick), there have been teams of people who have drifted in and out of the production in the years since. And while it's no secret that Malick takes advantage of people that want to assist him (particularly young film student-types in Austin just looking to say they worked on a Terrence Malick movie), he still has to pay someone. If we took a random guess, we'd put the budget at around $30 million, although we can't lock down anybody to comment officially. What's even more astounding, when you think about "The Tree of Life" from a budgetary standpoint, is that while you might see the familiar 20th Century Fox/Searchlight logo when the film begins, Fox is just the distributor – budget-wise, it was cobbled together from a small pack of independent production companies (even if Pohlad claims to have known that Malick was going to take over two years to edit). Investing in Malick, it seems, is like investing in art. And sometimes that art costs lots and lots of money.
11. So How Long Did 'Tree Of Life' Actually Take To Make?
Development aside, according to Brad Pitt, the film started in "the spring of 2008." "[It was] after I did 'Burn After Reading' and before 'Inglourious Basterds.' I remember that Angie was pregnant then [with the twins she gave birth to in July 2008] and we were trying to think of names for our kids, and now they're almost three," he told Time Magazine. And yes, as noted from our "Q" sections, it's a film that's been being worked on for some shape or another for over 30 years. "There's this mystique around the film, because this is the movie Terry took his hiatus on. It's gone through many incarnations since, but he started shooting [some of the Cosmos footage] then," Pitt said.
12. Malick's Process Is "Imperfection" According To The Film's Star Who Has Seen The Film In Many Versions That You Never Will
"Someone called Terry a perfectionist, and I said no, he's an imperfectionist; he's trying to mess it up. He sets up a scene and then "torpedoes" it — that's his word," Pitt said. "Say, if the parents are arguing inside the house, he'll send one of the kids in and see how we handle it. Instead of doing little rewrites of scenes to be shot on a certain day, Terry would get up in the morning, and meditate, and write his thoughts about the day's work. And we got handed these four pages, single-spaced, and they'd be these stream-of-consciousness ideas that we would incorporate into the day's work."
People drool about the 5-hour cut of "The Thin Red Line," which no on will ever see, because it wasn't ever meant to be seen; these were just various stages where the film was shown so the editors and filmmakers could decide what to cut. Well, let the legends live on because there were (naturally) longer versions of "The Tree of Life," but according to Pitt, you're not really missing much. "I've seen the film in its four-hour incarnation, then three-and-a-half, two-forty-five, back to three-thirty, and now at two-and-a-quarter. In essence, it's the same."
This feature could go on and on all day, and hell, who knows, maybe one day we'll revisit it when more stories surface.
"The Tree of Life" his New York and L.A. today on four screens, but it will be expanding soon and will eventually hit wide release on July 8th. This is our first in a series of Did You Knows about Terrence Malick films, so keep an eye out next week, building up until July 8. Here's the full roll-out plan for the film. See when it hits your city.


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God bless Milton Garden Club
After 14 years of successful Milton garden tours this is my first year of non-participation due to a stroke in June.
These members are more than just petal pushers. The thoughtfulness that has been showered upon me is incredible. Cards, phone calls and offers to weed my garden is overwhelming.
God Bless the Milton Garden Club.
Carole Somers


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they are to have a chance of repeating their exploits of 2010 when current coach Oscar Tabarez steered the 1950 champions to their first semi-finals appearance in 40 years.
After their win against England, spirits are high in the 'Celeste' camp.
"I have a group who are used to resisting pressure and who react to it in a good way," said Tabarez.
"The pressure was worse against England, or do you think that we'd gone shopping?"
But Tabarez, who spent spells with AC Milan and Cagliari in the 1990s, acknowledges the challenge the Azzurri pose.
"They've been world champions four times and we have a lot of respect for them. It will be a tough challenge for us but I believe we'll have our chances," said the 67-year-old.
Italy have had barely three days to digest defeat to Costa Rica, recuperate spent forces and get in the right frame of mind.
It is only a year since last the two sides met in the Confederations Cup, drawing 2-2 in the match for third place before Italy won 3-2 in a penalty shoot-out.
"It's going to be an especially challenging match. We played them last year in the Confederations Cup and after we played well for 35 minutes, they took over," said Prandelli.


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I have written this many times before; the Indians are a streaky team. They are as volatile as the stock market. They can win 18 of 22 and can lose 10 of 12 right after. The bats can club 12 homers in six games and follow that up by going homerless for five.
The sky is not falling. This is just what this team is. They get hot. They get cold. Unfortunately, during this difficult portion of the schedule, they aren't playing their best baseball. The bullpen issues aside, the Indians aren't coming through with the clutch hits all of a sudden either. Oh, and defensive mistakes are starting to pop up at inopportune times.
Take last night's game for example. Terry Francona's club was in desperate need for a win. Yet despite being in the game into the seventh inning, the Tribe was just 2-12 with runners in scoring position. One of those hits was Michael Brantley's eighth inning RBI single with the Indians down by six.
How did we get there?
Zach McAllister got the start for the Indians and from the first inning, he was having real command issues with his fastball. When that happens, its obviously not a good sign. Shin-Soo Choo, who has played like an All-Star this season, kept his hot bat going this series with a leadoff double. Zack Cozart, who seems to be laying down a bunt every time he is up, placed one in front of McAllister, who couldn't get a good grip on the ball. Cozart was safe with a single. Joey Votto drove in Choo with an RBI single and advanced to second on a wild pitch. McAllister looked like he may get out of it no worse for the wear, but with two outs Xavier Paul blooped a single, bringing home two more runs.
The thing I like most about The Zach Attack is the way he battles through, even when he isn't on his game. Into the sixth inning, the Reds were putting men on base seemingly every inning, and each and every time, McAllister came through unscathed.
In the third Cozart doubled and Votto walked to open the frame, but neither would advance. In the fourth Devin Mesoraco and Choo both singled, but were stranded as Cozart flew out. In the fifth, Votto singled and Phillips was hit by a pitch with nobody out. The bases were loaded with two outs on a Paul infield single, but McAllister got out of another jam as Mesoraco lined out to right.
Said Francona about his starter: "He was struggling with his fastball command and he pitched behind in the count more than he has. The first inning was a tough inning. Saying that, he made a 2-0 pitch — a really good pitch — that got fought off [by Paul] for that base hit that drove in two. After that, [McAllister] dodged traffic for every inning it seemed like. But he never gave in and he competed his [butt] off and gave us a chance."
All of what Tito said is true. The problem was the offense couldn't get anything going against Mat Latos. It wasn't until the fifth that the Tribe got on the board. With one out, Drew Stubbs singled and stole second. After McAllister struck out, Michael Bourn came through with a two-out RBI single.
SIDE NOTE – I despise the NL rules in interleague play. It is absolutely ridiculous to have AL pitchers be forced to bat. AL teams are constructed in a completely different way. It is a complete disadvantage for them. Having two sets of rules for the AL and NL is at this point a relic. Imagine if the AFC was allowed to return kickoffs while the NFC started each offensive series after a score at the 20 yard line. Ridiculous, right?
We entered the seventh inning with the Reds leading 3-1. With one out, pinch hitter Ryan Raburn worked Latos for a walk. Latos then walked Bourn on four pitches, prompting manager Dusty Baker to call for lefty Manny Parra. The Indians had their best shot to get this game tied with Jason Kipnis and Asdrubal Cabrera due up.
Kipnis swung at Parra's first two pitches – both balls – and missed. He then looked at strike three. Baker emerged from the dugout again and called for righty Sam LeCure, who struck out Cabrera with relative ease. It was the second consecutive inning the Tribe had two one with one out and didn't push a run across.
Things would escalate quickly after the seventh inning stretch. With Bryan Shaw now on to pitch, Phillips got things started with an infield single. An out later, Paul singled moving Phillips to third. Mesoraco then tapped a dribbler in front of the plate. Carlos Santana, who has really looked bad behind the plate lately, took a bad route to the ball, picked it up, and fired it widely to first, allowing Phillips to score.
"[Santana] jumped out after it really aggressively like he's supposed to," Francona said, "and it spun backwards. And then he kind of got in no-man's land. Once we threw it away, that ends up being a big inning."
Jack Hannahan, a fan favorite in Cleveland the past two seasons, laced and RBI single to center – his second hit of the night. Pinch hitter Derrick Robinson kept the line moving with another RBI single of his own. That was it for Shaw, who had his worst outing of the season. The Reds added a sixth run in the inning on a Cozart RBI single off of Scott Barnes.
It was not the Indians night….again.
McAllister said after the game that there is no panic in this team, despite the losing streak. "This is a completely different team from last year," McAllister said. "There's a completely different attitude. This is an exciting team. We've lost some and it's been a rough stretch, but it's exciting right now. I think everybody out there is encouraged with the way we're playing."
There was also some other business to tend to in this one. Someone on the Reds was going to get hit in retaliation for closer Aroldis Chapman throwing a 100 MPH fastball at the head of Nick Swisher. With first base open in the fifth, McAllister hit Phillips in the side with a 2-0 pitch.
"You know that it's retaliation because they have to stand up for their player," said Latos, the winning pitcher. "Price (pitching coach Bryan Price) came up to me and basically said, 'Look, we feel what happened Monday, they were protecting their player today.' It is what it is. You take it in stride. We got a W. We're even. We're Switzerland I guess. We'll let it go."
The Tribe has now lost seven of eight and return home for a two-game set with these same Cincinnati Reds. Despite the fact that they have lost five straight, the Tribe is still just two and a half games back of first place Detroit. Justin Masterson (7-3, 3.20 ERA) looks to stop the bleeding as he takes the hill for the Indians. Veteran Bronson Arroyo (5-4, 3.39 ERA) goes for the Reds.
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Running Down a Dream
To all those who read this,
Sitting in SFO with an unanticipated two hour flight delay gives me the rather fortuitous (for the circumstances, at least) opportunity to reflect on what has to be one of the bigger thrills of my adult life.
In some ways, being a draftnik has been a part of me as long as being a sports fan. It takes a unique place in the sporting world as it combines a transition in talent with a transition in terms of a person's career. Even the biggest college players are making a jump to whatever professional league they enter, likely the first time they have ever made meaningful money playing sports (unless they went to U$C, of course). While many people ignore this component of the process, I have always found it to be incredibly interesting because of all the changes it can mean for these young men. The pressures of going to school and maintaining a social life while playing sports at a high-level are hard to overstate yet pale in comparison to the amount of work it takes to thrive in the best leagues in the world from a physical standpoint.
The other fun part of the draft is that it combines research, analysis, and prediction in a way that stands out. While there are no clear-cut answers most of the time, draft pieces hold relevance and interest for an incredibly long time after the fact because it often takes a while to find out the "right" answer should one exist. Furthermore, there can be gaps in terms of both information and interpretation of that information and reasonable minds can differ in more ways than are present in normal sports discussions. Think about the MLB draft for a second- even big money teams have used completely different philosophies and thrived with similar resources because there are a variety of methods that can work. While that point holds, there are also some who succeed more than others and learning from evaluation mistakes takes on a different light in the draft because the same players never come by again. You have to attempt to apply those learned components on individuals who may or may not fit that box. The uncertainty makes drafts continually interesting and challenging.
For all of these reasons and many more, I gravitated to drafts at a pretty young age. Despite not watching a ton of basketball as a child, I used to take the limited amount of March Madness available to a kid in the late 90's and try to figure out which guys would be stars and which ones would be duds. Doing that for years in both hoops and football also gives someone bizarre allegiances since the pride in being right on a player sometimes trumps lower-level personal biases. As an example, I have spent years rooting for Danny Granger and Russell Westbrook because each was a player I touted for eons and thus have an emotional stake in their fights however frivolous it may be.
That fascination for drafts only kicked into a higher gear when college started. The reams of hand-written pages got replaced by pages of typing along with more complicated rankings and analysis. The rise of draft content on the Internet and competent internet message boards also forced everyone to step up their game and learn from those around them in a brand new way. Writing draft previews, reviews, and season predictions actually served as the only sportswriting I did for nearly ten years.
As I was starting law school, two of my good friends from college let me know that they were starting a blog and that I was welcome to do any writing for it that worked. It felt like a logical method to blow of the intellectual steam law school inevitably generates (you can see this from the amount of law students and lawyers that engage in sportswriting). From the start, the draft was my passion and it eventually became the place where my relationship with RealGM began and one of the important places it continues to this day.
In many ways, the trip to cover the NBA Draft marks both an accomplishment of one of my biggest dreams and someone to check off the bucket list that I never anticipated fulfilling, much less this quickly and in this capacity. It is both humbling and gratifying to see the effort and time it has taken and consider how many other worthy people have never had the opportunities that have been presented to me over the last few years. That leads to my predominant emotion being appreciation for all those who have made this possible. Instead of naming specific people and this contributions, I will say this: the people who were integral in getting here know who they are and should remember that they have my eternal thanks and appreciation for doing so. If they want public recognition for that role, they can ask me and it will be given.
Even with that, two specific people get some mention here. Rahim and Derrek started Vegan Fish Tacos and brought me into the fold nearly immediately and offered encouragement before anyone other than the three of us and our college friends had any idea what we were doing. Without their push, support, and input, none of this ever would have happened. Guys, you likely will never know how pivotal a role you played in any and all of my writing success. So if anything bad happens, that means it is your fault. Everyone else: thanks so much- you know who you are.
Whether this ends up being a stepping stone to something bigger or a blip on an otherwise uneventful path, everyone who made it this far had a reason to or plenty of free time- my key demographics. Thanks for being a part of this run and here's to hundreds more stories and pieces to come.
Happy drafting,
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Stat of the Month: Stars win Championships Edition
Since one year after the award was first awarded in 1956, only five teams have ever won an NBA Championship without a player who won or would win a regular-season MVP award.
Those teams:
1975 Golden State Warriors- Ric Barry got close, but never won one
1979 Seattle SuperSonics (RIP)- Dennis Johnson was the Finals MVP, and I can't recall him ever getting heavy consideration
1989/1990 Detroit Pistons- Isiah never won one.
2004 Detroit Pistons- There's still a little time, but I sincerely doubt it.
That's forty-eight out of fifty-three NBA Championship teams and 48/50 for non-Pistons champions.
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John Hollinger and the perils of fatally flawed analysis
Let me clear this up off the bat: I am a big Hollinger fan (for the most part). That said, I have had some more serious problems with his work as he has upped his column load- it appears that he seems to be writing more "You see this and think _____, but that's not right"
Today brought another one of those columns, with the subject being the Miami Heat's potential addition of Carlos Boozer or Lamar Odom. John proceeds to go through why those players would not be substantial upgrades for the team. However, he either deliberately or accidentally (I'm not one to state motive) falls in the trap of misusing his data to make his point.
In the piece, he compares both men's production to Michael Beasley, the #2 pick in last year's draft. Ignoring the fact that Hollinger's PER essentially ignores defense, he relies on it to show that there is no meaningful difference between Boozer and Beasley and that the Beasley actually outperformed Odom. Unfortunately, Hollinger commits one of the fatal flaws while crafting his argument: false choice. He chooses to create a situation where the minutes that Boozer and Odom are taking come from Beasley when the fact of the matter is that they would come from other players. Not surprisingly, the players who Boozer and/or Odom would actually be taking the minutes from were far less productive than the three players analyzed for the piece.
Assuming that the only two positions in play are Small Forward and Power Forward (even though Boozer would inevitably play some C considering Miami's depth there is deplorable), there still are 96 minutes to divvy up to different players. The players who played those minutes this year and finished the season with the team were:
Michael Beasley (24.8 MPG @ 17.28 PER)
Udonis Haslem (34.1 MPG @ 13.10 PER)
Jamario Moon (25.9 MPG @ 13.35 PER)
James Jones (15.8 MPG @ 8.43 PER)
Yakhouba Diawara (13.5 MPG @ 6.4 PER)
Dorrell Wright (12.2 MPG @ 3.77 PER)
Those are the players that Odom and Boozer are replacing in real life. In fact, since Beasley absolutely would not be a part of a Boozer trade, it would be more logical to consider his minutes more "locked in" than the others, especially coupled with the fact that he was also the most productive of the group and has the most long-term potential.
Even if you give Beasley the 31 MPG he played in April of last season, there are still 65 minutes to be had for other SF/PF players, and Lamar Odom and Carlos Boozer are dramatically more productive than the rest of the Heat roster, particularly those still around since Jamario Moon left for the Cavs.
While all of the analysis is flawed, the most jarring (with the exception of his idea that Boston would trade Rajon Rondo for Michael Beasley with KG, Sheed, and Perkins on roster) is Hollinger's piece towards Lamar Odom. Despite Hollinger's classification of Odom as a PF, he would play a vast majority of his minutes at SF for Miami, a fact that John mentions. Looking objectively at where Lamar's Minutes would come from, the most likely culprits are out-of-town Jamario Moon and Dorell Wright. Incidentally, Lamar's typical 38 minutes per game (I'm understating his 5-year average to be nice to Hollinger and to account for his slightly older age) exactly connects with taking these minutes away from those two players.
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Lamar Odom (38 MPG @ 16.6 PER)
Jamario Moon (25.9 MPG @ 13.35 PER) + Dorrell Wright (12.2 MPG @ 3.77 PER)
Balancing out the PER's for those two players for the minutes they played gives a PER of 10.28 . The upgrade from their combined 10.28 PER to 16.6 is the equivalent of going from Chris Bosh to Jason Maxiell. If you switch Dorrell Wright to Diawara (more favorable to Hollinger), the difference is 5.63, the margin between Kevin Durant and Grant Hill.
For Boozer, the best man to use for the comparison is Udonis Haslem, since any trade for Boozer would almost definitely have to include him and they play the same position. Of course, it is worth noting that giving Boozer Haslem's minutes would also necessitate a move of Boozer to C or Beasley to SF for part of the time (31 MPG + > the 48 MPG at Power Forward), so feel free to discount the #'s slightly. The difference in PER from Boozer to Haslem is 4.18, which is less than the margin between Nene and Andrea Bargnani or David West and Nick Collison.
When you use the players who would actually lose minutes instead of the steady guy who will get his minutes regardless of what personnel changes Miami makes, you see the true value in pursuing Boozer and Odom.
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Vegan Fish Tacos First 2009 NBA Mock Draft and Draft Board
To those of you who are used to the format, welcome back.
For those who are not familiar with how I do draft work, here's a short synopsis: I do two distinct mock drafts, one of which is the Predictions mock and the other which is what I would do if I were the GM of each team. For this time, I have not put in trades on either mock, but they will be in soon. After that, I have my 67 player deep Draft Board, which is a semi-exhaustive list of draft-eligible players. This year, that list includes a ton of guys who are eligible but declined to enter, so it gives a sort of prospective on who to keep an eye on and where those guys would stand.
At the outset, I'd like to note how bad of a draft we have this year. Below the Draft Board, I have included for the first time my tier rankings, which basically group players based on how good I think they will be in their prime. The most jarring part is that there is a total of one Tier 1 draft-eligible player (Rubio) and a very, very small number of Tier 2 guys. The number of fringe starters and rotation players is not horrendously off of the average draft, but the top being so weak pushes those players much higher this time. A good basic rule is that outside of the top few picks, moving everyone down 8 slots would put them where they would go in an above-average year.
Predictions Mock (no trades projected this time):
- LA Clippers– Blake Griffin, PF, Oklahoma. No surprises here. I don't doubt that the Clippers are listening to offers, but I doubt they actually move the pick.
- Memphis Grizzlies– Hasheem Thabeet, C, UConn. My take is that they see Rubio's threat as credible (mostly because it is) and take the guy that is #2 on their board, which apparently is Mr. Thabeet.
- OKC Thunder– James Harden, SG, Arizona State. A much better fit between Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant, plus he still keeps the possibility alive of trading for Tyson Chandler, which is a serious possibility.
- Sacramento Kings– Ricky Rubio, PG, Spain. There would be no happier fanbase, and it has a serious likelihood of happening if Memphis passes (which I think they will). What Sacto needs to watch out for is being jumped by Minnesota, Golden State, or the Knicks, especially since Sam Presti has no problem accumulating assets coupled with the knowledge that neither the Kings nor the Wizards would realistically take Harden.
- Washington Bullets– Jordan Hill, PF, Arizona. The likely BPA on their board also makes sense if they are considering moving Antawn Jamison, as has been heavily rumored.
- Minnesota Timberwolves– Jrue Holliday, PG/SG, UCLA. An incredibly hard pick to project at this time, but they end up settling on Jrue because he is a good fit next to Randy Foye as a primary ballhandler with size. Honestly, there are about 5 guys who would not remotely surprise me at this pick, so we'll have to wait and see.
- Golden State Warriors– Brandon Jennings, PG, Italy. If he is around, it would be genuinely shocking to see the Warriors go in any other direction should they have the pick.
- New York Knicks– Stephen Curry, PG/SG, Davidson. There is ZERO chance that if Curry is around he falls past the Knicks. He is a solid fit off the bench for next season and as a starter once the 2010 class gets sorted out.
- Toronto Raptors– Tyreke Evans, SG/PG, Memphis. A pretty solid fit, though there is the possibility of DeJuan Blair if the Bosh situation clears itself up before draft day.
- Milwaukee Bucks– DeJuan Blair, PF, Pitt. If they are losing Charlie V (and signs indicate that they will), Blair is a natural fit next to Bogut. Obviously, PG is a possibility here, but I see them going after a more established PG like Kirk Hinrich over a rookie who is a little ways away.
- New Jersey Nets– Austin Daye, SF/PF, Gonzaga. Gives the Nets even more length on the perimeter and a guy who they can work along slowly as the rest of the team comes together.
- Charlotte Bobcats– Gerald Henderson, SG, Duke. If it were any other team, I'd have DeMar DeRozan here, but Charlotte has shown a penchant for taking guys like Henderson both under the Jordan regime and during the rest of Bob Johnson's tenure with the team.
- Indiana Pacers– Earl Clark, PF/SF, Louisville. Considering the wealth of talent already on the Indiana roster, a flexibile guy like Clark who would be perfect in Obie's system makes a great deal of sense. Don't rule out a backcourt player here, but I think they like Ford and Rush enough to not rock the boat with another lotto pick.
- Phoenix Suns– DeMar DeRozan, SG, U$C. Because he'd be a great fit for their team and an absolute (perceived) bargain at this point.
- Detroit Pistons– Terrance Williams, SG, Louisville. Williams screams "Dumars player" to me: he's great defensively and is flexible enough to do a lot of different things as he retools their roster.
- Chicago Bulls– Jeff Teague, PG/SG, Wake Forest. The Bulls replace Ben Gordon with a younger, cheaper version.
- Philadelphia 76ers– Jonny Flynn, PG, Syracuse. Another big value pick, and a guy who can help the Sixers in both the short term and the long term.
- Minnesota Timberwolves (via Miami)– Chase Buddinger, SG/SF, Arizona. With the Point Guard situation under control thanks to Holliday and Telfair, the next logical spots for the T-Wolves are a shot-blocking C or a swingman. Since the C pile is effectively empty, Buddinger becomes a logical choice.
- Atlanta Hawks– Ty Lawson, PG, North Carolina. Oh man, this would lead to one of the most entertaining teams in the entire NBA. Lawson's stock appears to be dropping, and with the PG's sliding a little bit, Atlanta gets their backup who they can groom to take the reins.
- Utah Jazz– Eric Maynor, PG, Virginia Commonwealth. The Jazz finally get a bona fide backup for Deron Williams.
- New Orleans Hornets– BJ Mullens, C/PF, Ohio State. If they keep the pick, the Hornets HAVE to take some size to back up Chandler and West and to cover when they get hurt.
- Dallas Mavericks– James Johnson, SF/PF, Wake Forest. Mark Cuban gets the man who might be the heir apparent to Josh Howard from Josh's alma mater.
- Sacramento Kings (via Houston)– Tyler Hansbrough, PF, North Carolina. With the PG spot locked down, Sacto gets a big man who can get some minutes for them.
- Portland Trailblazers– Gani Lawal, PF, Georgia Tech. With the PG's sort of at an awkward place for Portland, they take a good little PF that can become an immediate part of their rotation.
- OKC Thunder (via San Antonio)– Nick Calathes, SG/PG, Florida. Sam Presti clearly has no issue taking guys who are going to be abroad for a few years, and their roster flexibility allows them to get a guy who will be just nasty in a few years.
- Chicago Bulls (via Denver thru OKC)– Derrick Brown, PF, Xavier. The Bulls need big man depth, and Brown is probably the best option at this juncture.
- Memphis Grizzlies (via Orlando)– DaJuan Summers, SF, Georgetown. There is always the distinct possibility they take a PG here, but I see them as the frontrunners for guys like Sergio Rodriguez, so Summers makes sense as a Chris Wallace pick here.
- Minnesota Timberwolves (via Boston)– Victor Claver, PF/SF, Spain. The T-Wolves are adding enough new pieces as it is, so they can either keep Claver in Europe for a year or just bite the bullet and dump a 2010 expiring to bring him over now.
- LA Lakers– Sergio Llull, PG/SG, Spain. Seems like an awfully good fit in the Triangle for a team that needs productive PG play like nobody's business.
- Cleveland Cavaliers– Sam Young, SF, Pitt. The BPA just happens to be the swingman that the Fightin' Lebrons need.
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I was having trouble falling asleep, so I looked this up:
The last time a team other than the Pistons won an NBA Championship without having a player who had previously won a regular season MVP award was the 1981 Celtics, and they just happened to have four future Hall of Famers (one of whom later won three MVP's) in their starting lineup in the form of Larry Bird, Robert Parish, Kevin McHale, and Tiny Archibald.
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A frustrating thing about relying on counting stats to assess a player's value is that it's impossible to count things that don't happen. Yes, perhaps you can watch enough of a player to tell if he is good at not doing bad things, but realistically it is tough. How many people watch a player score a basket and say, "that was a really good job at not committing a turnover." It doesn't happen.
For this reason, John Wall was considered a viable player of the year candidate two years ago despite a prodigious turnover rate. Likewise, Kendall Marshall was anointed the best point guard in a America before the season despite a turnover problem. And of course both Wall and Marshall are great players, but it does seem like their tendency to commit turnovers went unnoticed.
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Enterprise Data Center Redundancy: Best Practices
Written by Boris Tulman // April 5, 2011 // Data Center // No comments
To begin, a reminder: Many companies do not need three nines of uptime or complete redundancy. Many companies will be perfectly content with restoring from backup when things go awry or dealing with a few hours of downtime every year; the cost of having downtime isn't outweighed by the cost of maintaining redundancy.
For others, however, it's mission-critical to have as much uptime as possible. Data centers in particular need to be on top of their game when it comes to redundancy; often, they process so much data (and much of it very time-sensitive) that to have more than an hour or so of collective downtime a year is unacceptable (in fact, it's not unheard of for data centers to shoot for six nines of uptime).
So how do you go about redundancy? Check out some of the best practices below for ways to have that crucial uptime!
1. Plan Out Your Needs From the Beginning
Too often data centers will try and add in redundancy after the fact; if you're a data center, long-term planning and meticulous attention to detail will be much easier and more efficient than later rehauling (and often, the rehauling may prove difficult or impossible). Does the space you're looking at have the potential to be cooled easily, or is it a nightmarish heat trap? Does it have space for you to grow, expanding not only your servers but redundant units as well? Is the cabling installed efficiently and tidily, or are there breaks, gaps, or odd design decisions? These are all things the potential data center has to consider, and is perhaps one of if not the most important best practices on this list.
2. Power
Too many data center operators are so concerned with their server and networking systems that they neglect the most critical part of the data center: Power. Make sure that you will always have power no matter what! Your servers should have two hot-swappable PSUs, your UPSes should be chained together in case one of them fails, and you should have generators on-site to kick in the moment power is gone. You should also have more than one and preferably several independent power suppliers linked to different substations in the event power blacks out in one of them. While this measure may seem extraordinary, it is not uncommon for large data centers to have five or more dedicated electrical feeds to as many different substations! Power is the core of all your services and it cannot be underestimated or ignored.
3. Internet Access/Networking
Much in the same vein as the power, a data center is only as effective as the data it's serving throughout the world. Don't trust one fiber line to deliver all your networking needs; spread out among a few and have the appropriate equipment installed to make sure that there's uninterrupted service. Like your power needs, don't just trust one or two outside lines; five or more should be installed, lending redundancy to your data center as well as spare bandwidth for unexpected loads.
Don't just protect your outside line, though; make sure that every piece of switching and routing equipment has a backup to ensure that data doesn't get hindered if a switch or router fails. At no point should data fail to route properly across your network due to faulty hardware. This applies also to server NICs, which should be duplicated in case one NIC fails (or, worst-case scenario, have a backup wireless connection).
4. Maintain Your Redundancy
Redundancy is not a set-it-and-forget-it deal. With good redundancy comes constant vigilance: always make sure that the backup hardware you have in place is actually working. It's easy to forget that backup switch or PSU that you put it until the primary one fails; it's another thing altogether to remember to maintain even the most obscure link in the chain. Make sure things are working, and have a schedule set up to test, replace, and reconfigure redundant services when necessary: when it comes time for them to perform, you'll be very glad you did.
5. 2N Redundancy
What we've been describing so far is N+1 redundancy; that is, have one component more than required for operation, and when one of these components goes down the backup can take its place seamlessly. There are, however, situations where N+1 redundancy is insufficient; for example, an appliance that requires 2 PSUs to power it. N+1 dictates that there should be 3 PSUs in the server, but in the event 2 PSUs fail the server will cease to function. In this case, you would need four PSUs to ensure redundancy if the original components fail, or "2N" redundancy (also called N+N). While 2N redundancy is optimal for maximum uptime, it can also be prohibitively expensive and difficult to keep in place rigorously; before opting for 2N redundancy, make sure you have the budget and organizational framework in place to attempt such an undertaking for your own data center.
And there are some best practices for enterprise data centers; following those will lay a very good groundwork for your future exploits in data center redundancy. Note, however, that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to this idea. While these best practices are certainly something to take seriously, each and every IT professional must tailor their redundancy plans to the budget, needs, and operational capacity of their individual institutions!


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Stark difference: Kampung Baru lies in the shadow of towering skyscrapers.
PLANS for a joint-development project for Kampung Baru have brought a spark of hope to
Malay Agricultural Settlement (MAS) honorary secretary Shamsuri Suradi said he was organising a meeting with Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), the Kampung Baru Development Corporation (PKB) and Titiwangsa MP Datuk Johari Ghani this month to discuss the long-awaited development of the Malay village.
In the past, many attempts by the Government to develop the area had failed and Shamsuri blamed this on differing objectives.
"The government has a plan for Kampung Baru and the newly-formed PKB is supportive of this.
"However, we were not happy with the proposals in the past because they were not in our favour.
"Kampung Baru land was given to MAS in the 1900s so that Malays from various parts of the city could live in one area.
"Back then, the initial objective was to group the Malays together and encourage agriculture, which came naturally as a source of income; take part in the administration and learn English to boost economic opportunities.
"However, despite being located close to Sungai Kelang, agriculture never took off as the machinery brought by the British did not suit the conditions here.
"Every family that moved in was given a plot of land of not more than one acre each and asked to build their own homes. For a source of income, they were asked to build two-storey homes, where the owner lived upstairs and rented out the lower floor.
"Back then, it was a simple life.
"Now, the surrounding areas have developed so much," he said.
Shamsuri said Kampung Baru welcomes development but stressed the main objective of MAS should remain.
"No one shuns development. I understand that DBKL and PKB are in the midst of planning too, just like us.
"However, any plan needs the approval of all stakeholders. Therefore, I do not see how planning separately will work out.
"Together, we can plan the future of this area. It is time for a new Kampung Baru," he added.
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A new species of dinosaurs thought to be related to the Brachiosaurus has been discovered after palaeontologists recovered fossilised heads in a quarry in Utah.
Palaeontologists from Bingham Young University (BYU) found four heads – two still intact – from juvenile Abydosaurus mcintoshi at Dinosaur National Monument in eastern Utah. The skulls provide clues about how the animals ate their food.
"They didn't chew their food; they just grabbed it and swallowed it," said Brooks Britt, palaeontologist at BYU, "The skulls are only about one two-hundredth of total body volume and don't have an elaborate chewing system."
All sauropods – like the Brachiosaurus and Abydosaurus – ate plants and continually replaced their teeth throughout their lives. They exhibited a variety of tooth shapes in the Jurassic Period, but by the end of the dinosaur age, all sauropods had developed narrow, pencil-like teeth. The Abydosaurus' teeth are somewhere in between, indicating a trend toward smaller teeth and more rapid tooth replacement.
The find is quite unusual – complete skills have been recovered for only eight of more than 120 known varieties of sauropod.
"Their heads are built lighter than mammal skulls because they sit way out at the end of very long necks," Britt said, "Instead of thick bones fused together, sauropod skulls are made of thin bones bound together by soft tissue. Usually it falls apart quickly after death and disintegrates."
Abydosaurus mcintoshi was named after American palaeontologist Jack McIntosh, who debunked the myth of the Brontosaurus, exposing it as a mixed-up skeleton of an Apatosaurus body and a Camarasaurus skull.
Abydosaurus comes from Abydos – the Greek name for a city along the Nile River which was the burial place of a head and neck of the Egyptian god of life death and fertility. Sauros is the Greek word for lizard.
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Even then David Ogilvy was "old school." The first I would read of Ogilvy a dog-eared paperback with yellowed pages. And my mentor (who came be a good friend as well) would often remark at how self-compromising too many approaches to the ultimately measurable impact that marketing portended has become, fallen prey to the insistence of influential but inexperienced (if they'd ever come to care) twenty-somethings that wiz-bang must be pursued at all costs.
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Their 2011 counterparts doubtless won't make it past the title-roll on this splendid archive video of David Ogilvy; thus, their arrogance will assure them fates as obscure as my peers of three decades past, having modeled themselves after the likes of television's Darren Stephens.
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Very good read on our running backs, especially Bass.
Happier times: Depth in backfield gives Cyclones reason for hope
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AMES, Iowa J.J. Bass insists he cannot walk on water.
Running for first downs and breaking free for touchdowns, however, might be a more reasonable request of the recent and much-heralded addition to Iowa States crowded field of running backs.
Everywhere I look, theres competition, but thats a good thing, Bass said Saturday when the Cyclones hosted their annual media day.
I want guys pushing me and I want to push other guys. Thats good for all of us.
First-year Iowa State coach Gene Chizik is counting on that.
Juniors Jason Scales and Jason Harris fill the top two spots on the depth chart at running back for ISU, but Bass took the practice field for the first time last Wednesday with an eye on the top spot.
Bass was ranked as the second-best junior college running back in the nation last fall. He rushed for more than 1,200 yards and 13 touchdowns and caught 20 passes including two for scores while helping El Camino win the California state junior college championship.
The 6-foot-1, 210-pound back from Altamonte Springs, Fla., brings glossy credentials to an Iowa State program looking to jumpstart a rushing attack that ranked 99th among the nations 117 Division I-A programs last fall, averaging 101.8 yards a game on the ground.
I think J.J. Bass is a good football player, but I cant tell you how good hell be for us this fall, Chizik said. Like a lot of our new guys, hes just learning our offense, and hes trying to figure out how he can contribute to our football team.
Hes not alone.
Iowa State returns 10 position players four starters on offense and six on defense from a 4-8 team.
The combination of a sluggish offense and porous defense led to dismissal of Dan McCarney as the Cyclones coach last November.
Bass already had Iowa State on his radar before ISU director of athletics Jamie Pollard made Chizik, who shared defensive coordinator duties at Texas defensive, his choice to rejuvenate the Cyclones program.
I already was liking what I was hearing from Iowa State before the coaching change, Bass said. I liked the school. I liked the idea of playing in the Big 12. I liked the playing time that they said was out there.
After McCarney left, Bass considered his options and he took a long look at Oregon State before reaffirming his original thoughts to sign with the Cyclones.
When I first heard from coach Chizik, we had good conversations and it only made me feel certain that Iowa State was the right place, Bass said. After talking with him, there was no doubt in my mind.
Bass aims to work his way into the starting lineup.
Handed a new playbook and part of a new team that is adjusting to new philosophies and new schemes, Bass said he has plenty of work to do as the Cyclones work toward their Aug. 30 opener against Kent State.
Theres no time to waste so lets just get at it, he said. Thats the approach I have to take.
Chizik sees a lot of that as he surveys his team.
We have a lot of new juco guys here this year and its a challenge for them because their clock is running, he said. They have to hit the ground running and a lot of them are spending a lot of late nights trying to learn the system and the terminology and get up to speed.
Count Bass among those players.
I dont have a lot of time to rest, he said. I feel blessed to be here and the hunger I have right now is to get on the field as fast as I can to help our team. Thats why Im working my tail off every day in practice.
Hes not alone.
Scales, a West Des Moines Valley grad, rushed for 176 yards on 56 carries last season for the Cyclones after sitting out 2005 with an injury.
Like Bass, Harris is from Florida. Recruited as a tailback, he spent last season as a cornerback before returning to offense during practices last spring.
Scales and Harris are coming along well and theyve retained what they learned last spring, which is encouraging, Chizik said. The thing I like most about both of them and about Bass as well is that they want to be the starting tailback at Iowa State.
Scales considers the competition to be healthy.
Ideally, thats what you want, Scales said. In the end, the coaches will decide who plays and who starts, but you want somebody out there making you better every day and we have that type of competition here.
That pleases Chizik, who considers a strong rushing attack to be the foundation of his offense.
We will run the football, period, Chizik said. That is where it will start for us and everybody on our team understands that. Who will be carrying it? We dont know that yet, but we will run the football.
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6-1, 210.... sounds like a solid frame, kinda like Chris Brown at CU a few years ago.... let's hope he's just as effective, especially against the pinkskirts in lincoln!
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
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"We will run the football, period," Chizik said. "That is where it will start for us and everybody on our team understands that. Who will be carrying it? We don't know that yet, but we will run the football."
I think this football team will do just about whatever Chizik says. If that were to include dressing up in tu-tu's and performing a dance routine at midnight inside JTS - I doubt many players would object - fearing the wrath of Chizik.
Lets hope his firm hold on the running game and the team produces a pile of yards and a host of wins.
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I think this football team will do just about whatever Chizik says. If that were to include dressing up in tu-tu's and performing a dance routine at midnight inside JTS - I doubt many players would object - fearing the wrath of Chizik.
Lets hope his firm hold on the running game and the team produces a pile of yards and a host of wins.
I know what you mean, I loved it when I read about how during spring practices he even had the offense and defense have their helmets on one side or the other while stretching. This guy demands absolute respect and I can't wait to see what he can do
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