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While talking to students at Samsel Upper Elementary School on Tuesday, New Jersey's governor, Chris Christie, revealed his favorite sports teams. Those teams included the New York Mets, New York Knicks, New York Rangers and ...
" ... my favorite football team is not the New York Giants, it's not the New York Jets and it's not the Philadelphia Eagles. Get ready now: My favorite football team (is) the Dallas Cowboys -- which, by the way -- is not the smartest thing for the governor of New Jersey to want to be, is a fan of the Dallas Cowboys," Christie said.
For a man with an insurmountable lead in every poll for re-election, we're guessing it's not the dumbest confession of all time either.
Christie explained to the students why he didn't choose to root for one of the local teams when growing up.
"I was a big fan when I was your age," he said. "I was a big fan of Roger Staubach, who was the quarterback for the Cowboys back then. The Giants and the Jets pretty much stunk when I was a kid and my father was a Giants fan. I used to remember watching him when I was eight, nine years old and every Sunday he would watch the Giants and yell at the TV set. I used to think to myself, 'Why would I want to root for a team that makes you angry?'"
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Conversations on the art of creative entrepreneurship with David C. Baker and Blair Enns
David brings up one of Blair's favorite topics: how they keep themselves and their clients from being trapped by requests for proposal.
2Bobs episode 70, "The Only New Business Indicator That Matters"
Blair and David share what they have learned as they have recorded 2Bobs podcast episodes for almost 4 years - what has worked well, what has been …
Blair and David consider the hundreds of firms they have each worked with over the years to identify the characteristics of highest performing firms and what they have seen agency principals do to succeed.
Blair shares some new data (at the time he and David recorded this discussion in January of 2016) that points to the one variable that can predict the likelihood of a prospect hiring your firm.
David wants to know if Blair thinks it's harder for creative firms to find great prospective clients, or great employees, as they unpack how to attract the right candidates using a "lead generation" plan.
Ideas for …
Blair is in the spotlight discussing some bad practices driven by assumptions he's seen his clients make over the past couple decades, a few of which …
Blair interviews David about six employee archetypes which can end up being big hiring mistakes for creative firms.
Blair has another podcast therapy session about "good clients vs. bad clients," as David tries to help him see procurement people as actual human beings who sometimes are just overwhelmed.
Blair has an aversion to the topic of personal branding, so David offers examples of why, when, and how the personal brands he's seen principals …
Blair and David explore the differences they see between consultants and agencies in an effort to understand how the landscape is changing and what …
David admits to making a mistake, as Blair finishes his discussion from a couple episodes back on the eighth pricing model, which he claims "is the highest expression of entrepreneurship there is."
David and Blair address the obsession that many principals have with the size of firms, and the advantages of being either big or small.
Blair is struck by how creative businesses have trouble applying their creativity to their revenue models, so he and David discuss some of the best ways firms can get paid.
David and Blair each share their own perspectives on how chasing comfort has kept them and their clients making the right decisions in both management and sales situations.
2Bobs Episode 2: Say What You Think
Blair wants creative firms to quit viewing in-house resources as the enemy and demonstrates how the arrangements between the two can be mutually beneficial.
2Bobs Episode 2: Say What You Think
David and Blair each share a list of things that they wish agency principals would do more of to take their firms to the next level of success.
Blair and David work on clarifying things by coming up with only six reasons why businesses hire creative firms.
Blair and David share the places they find good ideas that they turn into content, the best of which end up being incorporated into their services.
David finds Blair's thoughts fascinating on how far agencies should service or pursue clients geographically, and whether or not the location of a …
David gives Blair four practical reasons for sales people to hand off new business to the account person before the deal is closed instead of after.
David gets into Blair's head to get his 10 basic negotiating tips that he has worked with clients on over the years.
"10 Negotiating Tips" (with 5 bonus tips)
"Selling in One Lesson," 2Bobs episode 49
After having discussed positioning in multiple previous episodes, David puts together in this one episode the seven most common mistakes firms make …
David asks Blair about using "after action reviews" following sales calls, and the two key questions that should be asked as a part of that …
Blair asks David to make some predictions about the new year, and then they discuss some ways that businesses can prepare for and react to (God forbid) an economic downturn.
BLAIR ENNS: David, predict the …
Blair describes to David how he was able to distill his Win Without Pitching approach into a simple formula:P=db/D
Power = desirability / Desire
After touching on the topic of risk in many other episodes of this podcast, David and Blair finally take a full episode to discuss at length the role …
Blair gets David to admit that he was kind of wrong about open book management being just a fad when he originally wrote about it almost two decades ago, and David offers ways that it can actually benefit both employees …
Blair and David analyze and then look beyond the requests for reassurance potential clients make during the late stage of a sale to address their underlying motivations.
David disagrees with Blair (sort of) on his model for growing existing accounts in the post-AOR era, and then offers his list of 6 ideas on the topic.
The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon and …
Blair remembers what it was like when he was an account person himself, and David shares five ways firms can treat their account people better.
"How to Drive Your Employees Bat Sh*t Crazy" 2Bobs episode
Blair offers seven mindsets that any seller of expertise needs to master so that they can behave like the expert in the sales cycle.
"The Great Convergence Is Upon Us" by Blair Enns
"CRM: The Train Coming At You" by Blair Enns
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"Eight Gauges on Your Agency Dashboard" by David C. Baker
Blair gives David some homework to identify patterns in the principals of creative practices who are successful and have that "je ne sais quoi."
Blair interviews David on what each of the three levels of success in running a creative firm looks like.
2Bobs Episode 39 - "Replacing Presentations With Conversations"
David re-reads the 2nd chapter of Blair's first book, leading to a discussion about how sales people have to choose between either presenting to clients or being present to them.
DAVID C. BAKER: Blair, we …
There are seven patterns that almost all principals are guilty of. When David and Blair point them out, it leads their clients to say, "you must have hidden cameras in my office!"
Blair leads a discussion on how clients tend to take mental shortcuts in making business decisions, and how we can nudge clients without …
David and Blair compare each other's competitiveness, and then offer some specific ways principals can actually collaborate with their competitors as …
Blair and David come up with descriptive words that help clarify each of the four parts of what David calls the "pantheon" for new business: positioning, lead generation, sales, and pricing.
David and Blair explore the big topic of personality assessment tools that can help firms "get the right people on the bus."
Blair and David dive into a discussion on ownership structures, looking at the results of a survey that David did recently about partnerships.
Listeners on Twitter wanted to know what clients actually want from creative firms, so David makes a list based on his experience of what good clients want, while Blair's reaction is "who cares what clients want... all …
David gets Blair to expound on his statement that "the value conversation is where value pricing theory goes to die," and how crucial that conversation is within the sales framework he lays out in his new book, "Pricing …
David and Blair take a stab at answering the complicated question of what success looks like for each of them personally, as well as what it means for their clients.
Blair and David try to wind each other up by going through a list of phrases they hear from their clients way too often.
David is bothered by the notion of helping people cheat, especially at positioning. So Blair discusses 10 ways firms could succeed even if they …
Expertise, selling, marketing, entrepreneurship, branding, positioning, and consultant. Blair and David do their best to come up with definitions for …
Blair revisits David's new book, "The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth" in front of a live audience in London, who get to ask their own questions.
Blair talks about his new book, "Pricing Creativity: A Guide to Profit Beyond the Billable Hour," and the process it took to write it. David gets him …
David and Blair each share some goals that they have for their clients and themselves for the upcoming year, which turns into somewhat of a therapy session.
Blair and David discuss why, when, and how principals sell their firms, and Blair reveals he is skeptical about selling his own firm.
David picks Blair's brain about new business compensation, and what principals need to consider in finding their firm's place on the spectrum between …
Blair has some questions this week and David has answers. The topic is profit - what it is and the targets firms should be setting.
David offers to help Blair remember all the times he's been wrong over the past couple decades. Then Blair says he'll be happy to reveal all of the places he's wrong now but doesn't even know it yet.
David reveals some of the science behind the extensive research he has done over the past couple decades to develop a key part of his Total Business …
Blair revisits David's new book, interviewing him on the two chapters that cover the important topic of positioning: "Distinguishing Between Vertical and Horizontal Expertise," and "Principles for the Less Exchangeable …
David and Blair discuss a list of words Blair came up with that you should avoid to keep you out of trouble and in control of the buy-sell …
Blair needs a vacation. And David is blown away by how little time principals take off.
David asks Blair to describe his work and his passion for the creative entrepreneurial community, and they discuss how where he lives has such a huge impact on what he does.
The issue of how principals manage their employees continues to pop up for David year after year, and Blair is worried that he might have this problem in his own firm.
Blair restrains himself from going off on a rant about who his clients choose to learn from.
Blair interviews David about who he is and why people should pay attention to what he has to say - if they should at all...
David Baker wrote a book! And Blair asks him about his authoring process, publishing, and the book's topic.
David and Blair list good and bad things that can happen when the principal steps away from their creative firm for a period of time, which is based on David's blog post on the matter.
Blair revisits the first piece of thought leadership he ever wrote, taking a look at why firms may or may not do for themselves what they do for their clients.
Blair questions David on an article he wrote about identifying the risks on either side of the road and navigating a path between both extremes.
Blair does his best to reform David's skepticism of sales, discussing what works well and what fails miserably in the sales process.
What keeps you up at night? Blair interviews David about the five most common fears that he has seen in the consulting work he has done with over 900 …
David and Blair discuss how the nature of entrepreneurship is changing and what the new entrepreneur is facing today.
Do you have trouble talking about money with clients? David makes seven common statements about money and Blair states whether they are true or false and why.
David interviews Blair about the art of effectively communicating with clients and coworkers.
David and Blair make a list of the common mistakes that people make in trying to portray themselves as experts.
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My colleague rightly pointed out that you should stop your belly-aching and pay for your apps. I agree but there's something else you should do - stop buying or downloading apps that are ripping off others.
Games like Threes! don't happen because its developers had a eureka moment, nor is it a fluke. It's a painstaking process, one that requires them to go back to the drawing board, experiencing countless errors and failures before they get it right. It took developers Asher Vollmer and Greg Wohlwend a whole year before Threes! became the phenomenal maths game it is today.
A whole year's of work, and the app costs a mere US$0.99. For a game that keeps you glued to the screen for hours, Vollmer and Wohlwend weren't asking a lot for their creative work.
But in less than a month, they were robbed of their money, and more importantly, their idea. Free clone versions such as 1024 and 2048 began to appear on the App Store and Play Store. Think about it, if you see a US$0.99 Threes! and a free 2048, it's pretty obvious that the free app gets the download.
What's not obvious is that for each download you give to 1024 or 2048, it's one less that pays the bills for the developers of Threes! and doesn't reaffirm the originality of the unbelievable simple yet challenging maths game. Much like movies and music that are downloaded for free illegally when legit options to purchase them exist, you're doing the same to the developers.
Admittedly, this is very telling of how people aren't discerning enough to avoid downloading a app that blatantly rips off a unique concept, just for the sake of saving that US$0.99. I'll admit, I'm stingy when it comes to buying apps or games. But that's very different from downloading an alternative and poor copy. I believe in rewarding developers who come up with insanely great, and at times addictive, games with my precious and limited (true story, there's just too many bills to pay) monthly salary.
Ultimately, this isn't a story that'll shame you into paying for apps. It's about supporting great content and saying no to unscrupulous developers who openly copy and pass off ideas as their own.
READ MORE: The 25 best iPhone and iPad games you can play right now
Think it doesn't matter if the original app was free to begin with? Wrong. Three years ago, NimbleBit's tower simulator Tiny Tower, which was free on iOS and Android, was also ripped off as Dream Heights by game company Zynga.
I'm not a developer, but as a content producer, it's not hard to understand the pain of seeing your work being copied without getting due credit. One could do what NimbleBit's three-man development team did - calling out copycats with a tongue-in-cheek infographic. On your end, do your part, treat clone apps like the plague and stop downloading them.
And if you haven't download Threes! yet, drop everything right now and get it on iOS. It's cheaper than a cup of joe from Starbucks and more effective at keeping you awake with its addictive gameplay.
[Image credit: Nimblebit]
READ MORE: Apps are brilliant, so stop moaning about paying for them


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This edition of the wheel was edited by a team of people from different states in the Upper Midwest. Check out their other projects below:
Mandy Catlette, The Wedge Coop (Minneapolis, MN) - www.wedge.coop
Rob Gardner, Founder of The Local Beet (Chicago, IL) - www.thelocalbeet.com
Michael Geiger, Eastern Market (Detroit, MI) - www.detroiteasternmarket.com
April Morris, Angelic Organics (Caledonia, IL) - www.angelicorganics.com
Barb Perkins, Vermont Valley Community Farm (Blue Mounds, WI) -www.vermontvalley.com
Katie Zukof, Muddy Fork Farm (Bloomington, IN) - www.muddyforkbakery.com
The Upper Midwest Local Foods Wheel illustrates what foods are available in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. This wheel shows that you can eat well by eating locally in the Upper Midwest—even in the winter! Cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Detroit, Milwaukee, Madison, Indianapolis, Des Moines—and all points in between—are richly supplied with local foods by the surrounding agricultural areas, many small lakes, and, of course, the Great Lakes.


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Published Friday February 15, 2013 at 9:00 am
Updated Friday February 15, 2013 at 2:06 pm
State Auditor Suzanne M. Bump today released an audit faulting Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.'s office for failing to properly account for how it spends money seized from defendants in drug cases.
The audit found no specific evidence of misuse of the seized money, but, in a number of cases, auditors couldn't determine who benefited from major expenditures of forfeited funds or determine why expenses such as an ice resurfacing machine or lawn equipment would constitute an authorized law enforcement expense.
The audit report concludes that Mr. Early's current process of accounting for forfeited funds "lacks transparency, and there is no assurance that these funds are expended for their intended purposes."
The state auditors found 30 expenditures from the forfeited funds account totaling $56,196 that lacked adequate supporting documentation, such as the nature of the expense or an explanation of the law enforcement purpose for it. The state audit covered the period from July 1, 2010, through Sept. 30, 2011.
The audit report echoes the findings of a Telegram & Gazette investigation last April that showed Mr. Early had doled out, without any formal grant procedure, tens of thousands of dollars in public money intended to fight substance abuse to buy sports uniforms, spread sand and grass seed on area baseball diamonds, replace backstops, cut up downed trees around athletic fields and even repave a basketball court at an elementary school in one of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods.
Mr. Early issued a written statement this afternoon in which he said accounting and procedural improvements recommended by Ms. Bump's office were being implemented. The district attorney said his forfeited funds spending focus on youth sports would not change.
"The District Attorney believes that an aggressive, pro-active approach to preventing crime is one of the best uses of funds that are confiscated from the drug dealers that are ruining our neighborhoods. The law enforcement purpose for the use of these funds is very clear: it is the prevention of crime," according to Mr. Early's written statement.
The state audit also found that two employees of the District Attorney's office not named in the report failed to pay personal taxes on a fringe benefit, personal use of gasoline credit cards, because the DA's office did not report the benefit as taxable income as required by the Internal Revenue Service.
The DA's office did report personal use of leased GMC Yukon SUVs by Mr. Early and Senior First Assistant District Attorney Daniel J. Bennett as a taxable fringe benefit, but used the wrong accounting method for Mr. Early, according to the audit report. It wasn't clear from the report if the error caused an under or over reporting of Mr. Early's income for tax purposes.
"The vehicles used by the DA and first assistant are used 24 hours a day, seven days a week with their responsibility for showing up at major crime scenes and community outreach events," Mr. Early's statement said. "The DA and first assistant have paid the appropriate taxes on any personal use of the vehicles as required by the IRS and will continue to pay the taxes required on the use of the vehicles."
The vehicle leases, insurance premiums and gas card bills are paid for with seized drug money. Accounting records obtained by the T&G last year showed $16,855 in gasoline charges on the DA's office gas cards in 2011.
"It is admirable that the District Attorneys are able to turn the profits of crime into something positive for the community," Ms. Bump said in a statement issued this morning. "At the same time, all expenditures should be properly accounted for. To assure the public that these funds are handled and expended appropriately, it is important that forfeited funds policies be strengthened."
In addition to pointing out general problems and accounting issues with the forfeited funds account, such as the lack of a written policy governing its use, the audit report specifically notes several cases in which auditors could find no records to explain purchases made with the seized money, including the Bambini ice resurfacing machine now used by the city.
"We also found $368 in rental fees for chainsaws and lawn equipment with no supporting documentation that identified the law enforcement use of these items and $1,428 in food donations to two nonprofit organizations with no documentation to substantiate the reason for these donations," the audit report states.
The audit also highlights $15,200 in payments to a local tree service from the forfeited funds account.
"The documentation supporting the provision of these services consisted of estimates that appeared to identify work planned for local schools or at a nonprofit community center. However, there were no invoices indicating that the work was completed," the report notes.
The T&G reported in April that the no-bid tree-cutting work around athletic fields at Doherty High School, South High Community School and the Jewish Community Center last spring was done by Justin Carlson of Holden, a contributor to Mr. Early's political campaign fund.
Of the $23,733 in payments from the account to Jolin Paving & Excavating of Worcester, whose owner, John R. Jolin, is another political contributor to Mr. Early, the audit report states: "Although this expenditure had adequate documentation and proper authorization, the law enforcement purpose for this expense was unclear."
In Massachusetts, money seized from alleged drug dealers is split evenly between the police department that confiscated it and the district attorney's office that handled the civil forfeiture proceeding in court. State law requires most of the money must be spent on investigations and law enforcement operations, but allows district attorneys the leeway to spend up to 10 percent of their share of forfeited funds on "drug rehabilitation, drug education and other anti-drug or neighborhood crime watch programs which further law enforcement purposes."
A former high school basketball player and well-known youth sports devotee whose children play Little League and Babe Ruth baseball, Mr. Early gave at least $206,000 to athletic teams in two years, according to accounting records obtained by the newspaper under the state's Public Records Law.
Those records showed a spending pattern dating back at least three years in which Mr. Early has spent money on youth sports in the city on an almost weekly basis in amounts ranging from a couple hundred dollars to tens of thousands.
In an interview at the time, Mr. Early defended his spending of public money on youth sports as a way of preventing crime by giving children something to do after school under the supervision of responsible adults.
The audit report takes no position on whether the sports spending is a legitimate law enforcement use of the seized money but urges Mr. Early to implement written policies governing the use of the money and to tighten accounting procedures to track its use.
In the part of the report that allows the subject of the audit to respond to the findings, the DA's office said it has now established a committee to review community requests for grants from forfeited funds. Mr. Early will approve or deny the requests forwarded to him by the committee.
"Documentation for all items and services received will be required," the office pledged.


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The man who helped John Edwards out of a tricky situation during his presidential campaign, moving in with a pregnant staffer who was linked romantically to the candidate, is ready to tell the whole story.
Andrew Young, the longtime friend and aide of John Edwards, is shopping a tell-all book to New York publishers, according to The Daily Beast. Last week, Young submitted a 20-page proposal and began a round of visits to New York publishers. According to his proposal, represented by agent David McCormick at McCormick Williams, the book would chronicle his longstanding friendship with the Edwards family and the strange role he played in the 2008 scandal that thwarted the politician's Presidential bid.
Young will presumably use the book deal to dish about his relations with Rielle Hunter, the woman who had an affair with John Edwards during the 2008 campaign for president and subsequently had a baby. Under pressure, Edwards admitted to having an affair with Hunter but denies paternity. When the baby was born, no father was listed on the birth certificate, and Hunter's initial threats to submit baby Frances for a paternity test were quickly dropped.
In return for an undisclosed sum, Young said the baby was his and moved to Santa Barbara, Calif., taking in the then-pregnant Hunter to live with him, his wife and and their three children. It was later revealed that the move was bankrolled by Edwards' campaign chairman, Fred Baron.
In the book proposal, Young details the fallout when the details of the arrangement went public and decribes how he feels betrayed by the once-friendly Edwards family.
There have been no takers for Young's book as of yet. But one editor estimates the book could bring up to $1 million.


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When I was a kid I was not what you would call "a fan" of horror movies. Even the lamest episodes of Are You Afraid of The Dark? would give me nightmares. But then I watched Mary Lambert's adaptation of Stephen King's Pet Sematary and some how everything changed. I suddenly began to take pleasure all of the scares instead of letting them haunt me at night and while I'm not what you would consider a horror junkie today, it was the movie that helped me appreciate what the genre had to offer. So naturally it's getting remade.
The LA Times is reporting that Matthew Greenberg, writer of the Stephen King adaptation 1408, is about to turn in his script for a new take on the story. While many of you may dread this idea, Paramount seems to be quite excited about the prospect, and, according to an unnamed source, has already put out calls to find a "high-level director" for the project. In the first film, a father distraught by the death of his son decides to bury him in a pet cemetery that brings the dead back to life. When they're brought back, however, they aren't quite themselves...
If the producers go to the grave of Fred Gwynne, dig him up, reanimate him with their own haunted pet cemetery, sit him down at a table and get him to say "Sometimes dead is better" then I will give this movie the official Eric Eisenberg Is Okay With This stamp of approval. Short of that, this project needs to have its Adam's Apple ripped out by a four year old.


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Sporting Kansas City 1, New York Red Bulls 1 | MLS Match Recap
KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Early on, it looked as though Thierry Henry's 100th start for the New York Red Bulls would be the beginning of a forgettable – even regrettable – night for his club.
But after withstanding an early offensive flurry from Sporting Kansas City and falling behind even before the 10-minute mark, both Henry and the Red Bulls made something decent of Tuesday night's match. Henry assisted on Bradley Wright-Phillips' league-leading 11th goal early in the second half, and the Red Bulls left Sporting Park with a 1-1 draw.
It broke a three-match losing streak for New York (3-5-6), while Sporting – who led after nine minutes on Toni Dovale's first MLS goal – are 5-4-4 and on a four-match winless streak after their second straight draw.
They did get Aurelien Collin back from a two-match absence due to a hamstring strain, though, and the big central defender's aerial presence and open-field tackling ability likely helped Sporting take the point.
Sporting attacked out of the gate and could have been up 3-0 after five minutes but for two big defensive plays and a blast that just missed by inches.
Igor Juliao made a long run into the box and chipped goalkeeper Luis Robles in the second minute, only to see Chris Duvall clear the ball off the line. Ibrahim Sekagya made another goalmouth clearance of Sal Zizzo's header in the fifth minute, and Benny Feilhaber drove a close-range free kick off the underside of the crossbar later in the fifth.
Dovale wouldn't be denied on Sporting's next big chance, though. He took Feilhaber's through ball in traffic, worked his way to a spot just outside the top of the penalty arc and unleashed a left-footed shot that curled into the lower left corner of Luis Robles' goal.
After that, though, Sporting wouldn't get off another shot on goal until Robles saved Dovale's blast toward the upper-right corner in the 79th. That was also the last save Robles had to make, as Kansas City didn't put another attempt on frame.
The confetti cannons did go off in the 25th minute, but prematurely; Kevin Ellis put the ball in the net from close range but was whistled for a foul on Robles that created the opportunity.
Five minutes after the break, it was even. Wright-Phillips made a run to take Henry's through ball, drove on goal and put his shot just under 'keeper Eric Kronberg.
Kronberg came up big on a pair of challenging shots not long after the hour mark to keep things even, though. He dived to his right to parry Peguy Luyindula's low drive out for a corner in the 66th minute, then controlled Henry's dipping try from outside the area after the restart.
Sporting continue their tightly packed May schedule on Saturday at D.C. United, while the Red Bulls are off until they visit New England on June 8.
Steve Brisendine covers Sporting Kansas City for MLSsoccer.com.
MLSsoccer.com Men of the Match
|What We Saw
|Toni Dovale
|The Barcelona Academy product netted his first MLS goal and could have had another in late action
|Bradley Wright-Phillips
|BWP's magical season continues as his partnership with Henry is proving to be a match made in heaven
|Luis Robles
|The Red Bulls 'keeper saved a point after several stellar saves late


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How many more majors can Mickelson win?
GULLANE, Scotland — On Monday morning Phil Mickelson began the first full day of his reign as the "champion golfer of the year," the moniker bestowed on the winner of the British Open.
His victory at Muirfield was his fifth major crown, giving him titles in three of the four majors, one shy of the career Grand Slam.
The question to ask now of the 43-year-old Mickelson: How many more majors can you win?
BRITISH OPEN:Mickelson comes from behind
Mickelson is only a putt or two, maybe a bounce or two, from being the reigning U.S. and British Open champ. Last month at Merion in Ardmore, Pa., Mickelson had at least a share of the lead after the first three rounds of the U.S. Open, before faltering in the final round and finishing a heartbreaking second for a record sixth time.
TIGER WOODS:The major drought continues
Give Mickelson this: He's resilient.
"He looks forward," Mickelson's longtime caddie Jim "Bones" Mackay said.
"You have to be resilient in this game because losing is such a big part of it. And after losing the U.S. Open, it could have easily gone south," Mickelson said. "But I looked at it and thought I was playing really good golf. I had been playing some of the best in my career."
BRENNAN:Phil separates himself from Tiger
Remember how amazed everyone was when Jack Nicklaus, at age 46, won the 1986 Masters for his 18th and final major? Seems so long ago now. The last three British Opens have been won by players in their 40s (Darren Clarke, Ernie Els, Mickelson).
Players are competitive longer, and they are competitive younger.
Majors these days always seem wide open. Since Tiger Woods stopped winning them in bunches — his last title came at the 2008 U.S. Open — there have been 21 major championships. Only three players in that stretch have won more than one:
•Padraig Harrington, 2008 British Open and PGA Championship.
•Rory McIlroy, 2011 U.S. Open, 2012 PGA.
•Mickelson, 2010 Masters, 2013 British Open.
Harrington, 41, has rarely challenged since changing his swing following his run of three major titles in just more than a year. McIlroy is in a slump, but the 24-year-old is too good not to break out of it soon. Next year if not this.
And Mickelson, who has won three times worldwide this year, climbed back to No. 2 in the rankings and clearly plans to continue to be a threat going forward.
There is plenty of talent out there who will challenge: Justin Rose, Adam Scott, Lee Westwood, Luke Donald, Henrik Stenson, Martin Kaymer, Hunter Mahan. Jordan Spieth, at 19, might be a couple of years away yet, but he was near the top of the leaderboard midway through the British Open. And players worldwide seem to be getting more and more talented, and younger and younger.
But consistently challenging at major championships is no easy feat.
Westwood has eight top-threes since 2008 but has never closed the deal. Luke Donald rose to No. 1 in the rankings but hasn't been able to finish No. 1 on the leaderboard at a major. Kaymer, Bubba Watson, Keegan Bradley and Webb Simpson are major champions, but they have not shown they can be consistent threats.
Rose, one month after his breakthrough, missed the cut at Muirfield.
Scott showed Mickelson-like resiliency by winning the Masters this year after his epic collapse last year at the British Open (bogeys in the final four holes to lose to Ernie Els). He has been in the mix a bunch recently, and despite another stretch of bogey-bogey-bogey-bogey after taking the lead in the British Open, he doesn't seem likely to go away.
Woods has been close during his five-year drought, but he has faded away too often on the weekends. The intimidating presence of the past doesn't seem so intimidating anymore ... at least as long as his putter fails on major weekends.
Mickelson took a while to earn his first major title — he began his major career 0-for-42 — but then he got hot, winning a major in three consecutive years.
But after his epic collapse at the 2006 U.S. Open, it took a while to get back on the board — his next win came at the 2010 Masters.
It took another three years to get back in the winner's circle, but this latest scintillating victory came one month after the most recent heartbreak.
There's that resiliency again.
That's one reason Mackay expects many more victories in the years ahead.
"How many people are going to build a practice facility in his yard post-40? He wants it ... He works real hard and he wants it," Mackay said, explaining why the tears came so easily. "He really, really wants it."


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JERUSALEM — An apparent arson attack Friday on the offices of leading Israeli soccer club Beitar Jerusalem has put a spotlight on longstanding concerns over growing anti-Arab racism among the nation's soccer fans.
The fire, which destroyed historic trophies and mementos, comes after the team broke with its unofficial tradition and signed two Muslim players from Chechnya, enraging its most xenophobic fan-base that has a history of chanting anti-Islam slurs at games.
The incident drew immediate rebukes and promises of a crackdown by authorities ahead of a charged home game against an Arab team that will likely be the debut match for one of the new Muslim players.
Beitar has long tried to contain a tightly knit fan group called "La Familia" whose behavior has had the team docked points and forced it to play before empty stadiums. The group is routinely abusive toward opposing players, taunting them with racist and anti-Arab chants.
Arabs, who make up about 20 percent of Israel's population, now star on the Israeli national team and on every first division team besides Beitar. Some of the league's top goal scorers are Arabs and one team, Bnei Sakhnin, is entirely Arab.
But only after the signing of the Chechnyans did a full-fledged confrontation erupt between the Beitar fans and team management. At the first game after the move, fans unfurled large banners with racist undertones, such as one that read "Beitar pure forever."
When the team refused to back down, the fans turned abusive and began cursing and spitting at players and management. Fearing for the safety of its newest arrivals from Chechnya, Beitar was forced to assign bodyguards to Zaur Sadayev, a 23-year-old forward, and Gabriel Kadiev, a 19-year-old defender, who were both brought over from FC Terek Grozny.
Players who stood up for their teammates were booed and threatened.
"I played in Holland and if I was greeted the way they have been greeted here I can't imagine the outrage there would have been in Israel," said defender Haim Megrelashvili.
With limited tools at his disposal, Head Coach Eli Cohen called on the state to intervene. "This is not just a problem of Beitar Jerusalem anymore," he said.
A day after four of the club's fans were charged with anti-Muslim chanting and police announced they would begin deploying undercover units at upcoming Beitar games, the team's training facility was firebombed in an early morning attack.
Following Friday's attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, himself a Beitar fan, issued a strongly worded condemnation denouncing those opposing integration at Beitar.
"Such behavior is shameful. We cannot accept such racist behavior. The Jewish people, who suffered from boycotts and ostracism, must be a light unto the nations," he said in a statement.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the attack left extensive damage to the team's administrative offices. Walls were charred, as were team trophies, soccer cleats, retired uniforms, championship photos and more. No arrests have been made yet, but Rosenfeld said police suspected the attack was linked to the signing of the new players and pledged police would use "every legal means in order to prevent the continual racism, which is basically destroying the club."
Last week, hundreds of police patrolled a game between Beitar and a second division team from the Israeli Arab town of Umm al-Fahm. No major incidents were reported, and 12 fans from both sides were banned from the game. Police are planning heavy deployment next week when Beitar hosts Bnei Sakhnin.
Team spokesman Asaf Shaked said those who targeted the room that served as a type of team museum knew exactly what was in it.
"You can't put a price on the damage done. We are talking about things that have historical and emotional value," he said. "They (the arsonists) are like terrorists who go after what hurts most and that is what they did."
"La Familia," which is estimated to include between 200-300 members, had previously enjoyed a cult-like status among the team's larger fan base. Shaked hoped that would now change.
"Now people know how dangerous they are," he said. "Maybe this horrific incident will mark a turning point."
Beitar Jerusalem — which has won six league championships and seven cup titles in its 77-year history — is one of the powerhouses of Israeli soccer and has a legendary following that includes several Israeli prime ministers.
The team has historically been strongly aligned with Israel's nationalist right wing and its name, Beitar, comes from the Zionist youth movement that is linked to the ruling Likud Party.
The team and its fans have since been a steady source of support for Likud politics and a string of politicians have served as team chairman. Prime ministers with Likud roots — from Ariel Sharon to Ehud Olmert to Netanyahu — have called themselves fans and made pilgrimages to the club's Teddy Stadium.
But as the Likud Party has become mainstream after years in government, many of Beitar's die-hard fans have gone more extreme.
Beitar's battles are similar to those European clubs have had with their fans. But while in Europe the racism is mostly directed toward blacks and immigrants, in Israel it is toward Arabs and Muslims.
"La Familia" was created in 2005, and it quickly became the team's loudest and most visible supporters. The fans routinely wave huge flags of the outlawed racist Kach party and chant "death to Arabs" and other racist slogans toward Arab players.
The club has been penalized numerous times for the behavior that has included booing during a moment of silence for slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, singing songs deriding Islam's Prophet Muhammad and physically assaulting Arab maintenance workers in stadiums.
Their behavior has blossomed into a national embarrassment and drawn a cascade of condemnations from Israel's president, Jerusalem's mayor and other officials. Olmert recently said he would no longer attend games because of them.
For years, the club's Russian- Israeli owner Arkady Gaydamak refrained from intervening. In fact, he backed the group financially, glowed in their adoration and refused to sign an Arab player for fear of angering them.
After a failed attempt to run for Jerusalem mayor, Gaydamak fled the country in 2008 amid financial scandals in Israel and Europe. Since then, he has drastically cut funding to the team and tried to sell it several times.
Shlomi Barzel, the sports editor of Haaretz newspaper and a lifelong Beitar fan, said the signing of the Chechens came "out of the blue" and was likely an effort by Gaydamak to pursue his business interests in Chechnya.
Ironically, though, he said the move could mark a historic shift in the relationship between the team and its wayward fan base, exposing them as a paper tiger and ushering in a new era as the team attempts to become a mainstay in the European ranks.
"This 'La Familia' gang of bigots tried to flex their muscles and thought they were going to scare someone," he said. "The players and the vast majority of fans rejected them and the club didn't bend. This has turned them into even more outcasts than they were before."


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Teeing Off in Hawaiiby Kuki, Cruisemates Cruise Director | July 15, 2004
Within the relatively small land masses of the Hawaiian Islands, there are probably as many quality golf courses per square mile as almost anywhere on earth.
All the major cruise lines offer golfing shore excursions on their Hawaii cruises, but on this trip we chose to do some research beforehand and decide which golf courses to play, rather than leaving the selection to the cruise line.
Of course, booking these golf outings as cruise line shore excursions offers some comfort level. The line provides ground transportation to and from the golf courses, and the excursions are escorted by a golf professional.
Our itinerary aboard Royal Caribbean's Serenade of the Seas included Honolulu, Kauai, Maui (with an overnight and 2 days), Hilo, Kona, and then on to Vancouver.
We decided to spend a few days in Honolulu pre-cruise, considering the long flying time to get there. After a day to recover from the long flight, we booked our first round of golf at the Ko'olau Golf Club (www.koolaugolfclub.com; rates including cart are $130 per person, though discounts may be available).
I had played this course four years earlier, and was very interested in revisiting what bills itself as "the most challenging golf course in the world." This golf course is built into a mountainside near the north shore of Oahu, about a 30-minute drive from Waikiki Beach.
The last time I played this course it was in pristine condition, and even though it lived up to its billing of being a mighty challenge, it was fun to play, even if just for the scenery and its high degree of difficulty. Unfortunately, on this visit we found the course to be less well maintained, almost to a point of neglect. The golf course may be suffering from lack of financial support from its current owners. Too bad, because we had enjoyed our previous experience here so much.
Fortunately, the next day we found a golf course gem: Turtle Bay Golf Club, also on the north shore, about an hour's drive from Waikiki Beach. This is a part of the Turtle Bay Resort, and has two 18-hole championship courses to pick from. We played the Palmer Course, designed by Arnold Palmer (www.turtlebayresort.com/palmercourse.cfm; rates including cart are $160 per person).
In sharp contrast to Ko'olau, the Palmer course at Turtle Bay was a golfer's joy. The lush green fairways welcomed us from the road as we approached. On most golf courses, one might find one or two "signature holes" whose layout and design will awe and inspire avid golfers. On the Palmer Course at Turtle Bay, at least half the 18 holes would qualify as "signature holes" anywhere. The fairways were like plush carpet, manicured to perfection, and most of the greens were large and inviting. The course features wide fairways, and if you can avoid the many sand traps, even the casual golfer can enjoy the challenge and the magnificent scenery.
In Kauai we pre-booked to play the Kauai Lagoons Kiele Course at the Marriott Resort (rates including cart are $170 per person). The ship docks in Kauai, and Marriott offers a free shuttle to the resort, which is only a few minutes from the pier. Here I recommend trying to book an early tee time; you can finish before lunch, and spend the rest of the day visiting more of the sights or finding a beautiful beach to relax on. One of the men in our foursome still had time to do a helicopter excursion in the afternoon.
The Kiele Course at the Marriott presents a picture post card image of what one would dream of when thinking about golfing in Paradise. Everything here is impeccable, from the service at the bag drop, to greens that looked like they had been hand-cut with scissors.
The ocean is in view from most of the holes, and on several you'll get the feeling you have hit the ball over it to reach the green. This is another truly enjoyable course to play, and you can use the majestic ocean views as an excuse if you're not playing well.
The ship is at anchor off of Maui, and it's necessary to tender passengers in, so if you're golfing here you have to allow some extra time to deal with that. There is also a 15-minute shuttle ride to get to the all car rental locations. The ship overnights in Maui, and tenders run on a fairly continuous schedule. As a result, it's easier to plan your golf for Day Two in Maui.
For Day One, we booked to play at Wailea Golf Club (rates including cart are $175 per person). Wailea Golf Club is home to the Wendy's Seniors Skin Game. There are three 18-hole courses here. We played the Blue Course, and though it didn't have the majestic scenery of the Kauai Lagoons, it was fun to play. The course maintenance is excellent, and the surroundings tropical.
This is a true "resort course" -- challenging, but forgiving enough to allow one to relax and enjoy a leisurely round of golf.
The only drawback to playing Wailea while on a cruise is the travel time. We left the ship at 8 a.m. and didn't get back to the pier until 4 p.m., leaving no time to do anything but return to the ship.
In Lahaina there are several parking lots within a block or two of the tender pier where you can leave your rental car overnight for $15.
On Day Two in Maui we had the pleasure of playing at the Kaanapali Golf Club (www.kaanapali-golf.com; rates including cart are $130 per person). The Kaanapali Golf Club is about a 10-minute drive from Lahaina; after picking up our rental car at the nearby parking lot, we were able to tee off at 8:30 a.m.
There are two courses at Kaanapali -- the Tournament North Course and the Resort South Course. We played the Resort South Course, and enjoyed each of many swings. The course is beautifully maintained, with a layout forgiving enough to enjoy, yet challenging enough for every level of golfer. The course is lined with a wide variety of native flowers and tall Norfolk Pines, which come into play on several holes. The golf carts here have GPS systems that provide data on yardage to the hole, which we found very helpful.
Our round went smoothly, and we were able to finish in three and a half hours. Then we drove across the road and met our wives and friends at Whaler's Village for lunch, followed by an afternoon on the beach. This was probably a golfer's idea of a perfect day -- a round of golf on a great course, food and drink, and an afternoon on the beach.
We tendered from the ship at anchor in Kona, and all the major car rental companies had shuttles available to their airport locations. For our golf day in Kona, we chose the Waikola Golf Club's Kings' Course. Waikola also offers the championship Beach Course (www.waikoloagolf.com; rates including cart are $165-$175 per person).
The Kings' Course is quite different from any other course in the world. The fairways on almost every hole are lined on each side with mounds and mounds of black lava rock, making for beautiful visual contrasts to the brilliant green fairways and rolling putting greens. The day we played, the course was in almost perfect condition; it provided one of our most enjoyable rounds of the cruise, until the trade wind picked up a bit and drove our scores up with it.
Once again our round went quickly, and we had time to enjoy a leisurely lunch in the comfortable club house before heading back to return our rental car, and shuttle back to the ship.
Of the six courses we played, I would love to play all of them, except Ko'olau, again! Ko'olau would be on my list because it is so difficult and so different, if only they would improve its condition. My personal favorites, which I highly recommend to any avid golfer, are Kauai Lagoons on Kauai, Kaanapali on Maui, and Turtle Bay on Oahu.
And by the way, on the sea days after you leave the islands, there's always the mini-golf onboard the ship.


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Oh why hello there, Kotaku. You've survived Hump Day I see. That wasn't supposed to happen... we don't have a contingency plan for this. No one was supposed to survive hump day.
Hmm, well. Guess we'll have to improvise...
Let's start with an open thread. Go ahead and dive on in, talk about whatever you wanna talk about. Here are some things you could maybe talk about:
- 5 roles for overweight Val Kilmer - I do think he's great, husky or no. Have you seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang?
- Noel Murray says we should stop using the phrase "White people problems" - This is a really good piece and I agree with it.
- Oh, boy. David Simon is blogging - I'm gonna be reading this.
- Lindy West writes an excellent dating manifesto - "Look to your left. Look to your right. Regular people in the house!" Ha.
- The Scale of the Universe - This? Is freaking amazing.
- A Chronicle tribute to Lloyd LaCuesta - If you live in the SF Bay Area, you have doubtless seen this dude on TV. My sister and I have a whole narrative we've invented for his life, but the real story is so, so much better.
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The friction in a spherical plain bearing or rod end depends primarily on the sliding contact surface combination, the load and the sliding velocity. Because there are so many influencing factors that are not mutually independent, it is not possible to quote exact values for the coefficient of friction. Under laboratory conditions, however, it is possible to record the coefficient of friction for different sliding contact surface combinations. The friction during the running-in phase is higher than the value recorded during the subsequent test period. Guideline values for the coefficient of friction μ will be found in table 1. They have been determined in laboratory trials.
The coefficient of friction for maintenance-free steel/PTFE fabric and steel/PTFE sintered bronze sliding contact surface combinations decrease with increasing specific load. At a constant specific load, friction is reduced to the given minimum value as soon as the transfer of PTFE from the sliding layer to the opposing steel surface is complete. The frictional moment for a spherical plain bearing or rod end can be calculated using
M = 0,5 μ P dm
M = 0,5 μ P dm
|frictional moment [Nm]
|coefficient of friction (table 1)
|equivalent dynamic bearing load [kN]
|mean bearing diameter [mm]
|inner ring sphere diameter [mm]
After the bearing has been in operation for an extended period of time, negative influences (contamination, inadequate lubrication) may cause the bearing to approach or exceed the maximum values for the coefficient of friction listed in the table. Bearings are susceptible to this phenomenon even under light loads and especially under harsh operating conditions. In applications where friction is particularly important, SKF recommends determining the power ratings by using the maximum values for the coefficient of friction that are listed in table 1. For bearings operating under conditions of mixed or dry friction, there may be slight differences between adhesive and sliding friction. Experience has shown that it is not possible to eliminate stick-slip entirely and that it most frequently occurs when support elements lack adequate stiffness. In most applications, however, the effects are negligible.


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Where to Put Your Smart Home's Networking Hardware
When you're making a smart home network, it's best to create a dedicated room for your networking equipment — a central wiring closet just like those in modern offices and other commercial buildings. The ideal wiring closet would have the following design features:
On the main floor of the house.
Near an outside wall for easy interconnection to incoming service feeds.
Above an accessible part of the basement (if you have a basement).
Adequate lighting, ventilation, and climate protection (not in the garage, in other words).
Electronic gear generates heat, so if you live south of the Arctic Circle, it's a good idea to have air-conditioning vents in the wiring closet.
Adequate AC power-line receptacles to power devices such as video amplifiers, Ethernet hubs, and VoIP phone systems.
Such a closet needn't be too large — something between a standard coat closet and a small walk-in closet. A lot of your gear will go in a wall-mounted structured wiring system — what most manufacturers call the panel. Some, however, might go on shelving or in a rack. A typical rack has a 2-by-2-foot footprint.
Of course, the vast majority of home builders or remodelers don't have the luxury of adding this kind of dedicated space for a network wiring closet. In these cases, some other part of the house has to do double duty as your wiring closet. Here are some locations to consider:
The utility room or laundry room: The biggest disadvantage of this location is the potential for high humidity, so make sure your clothes dryer is well ventilated to the outdoors. (And take steps to keep all the dryer lint from building up on your equipment!)
A protected garage: The potential for dust and extreme temperatures may make this location less than optimal for some homes.
The basement: A basement can be a good location because it's easy to run wires through a drop ceiling, but keep in mind that basements can be both dusty and damp.
A weather-protected outdoor closet: This location is a last resort, but it could be acceptable if you live in a mild climate. However, don't put any active electronics, such as Ethernet hubs or phone systems, out here.
The natural enemies of electrical and electronic equipment are moisture, dust, and temperature extremes, so locations that may work for someone in Florida or California may not make sense for those in North Dakota or Arizona.