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ESPN reports that wrestling superstar Kurt Angle got some BP instruction from Pujols today. Angle was invited to Spring Training by David Eckstein, a big wrestling fan who recently managed along with A. J. Pierzynski at a pay-per-view event.
I hadn't thought much about wrestling since I was in junior high until two weeks ago when I attended Lucha Va Voom in LA. It's a biannual spectacle involving Mexican wrestling, comedy, and burlesque that plays to sold out crowds. The burlesque routines involved cirque du soleil antics, hula hoops, and pogo sticks. It's truly an extravaganza beyond Vince McMahon's wildest dreams.
Back in junior high, I was big wrestling fan. My favorite wrestler was "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and I once called in and read a poem I'd written about him when he appeared on a KMOX chat show hosted by Bob Costas. He was promoting Wrestlemania 2, when he boxed Mr. T. Roddy responded to my breathlessly-read love poem with some lewd remark, and Bob stated very sarcastically that he found the poem deeply moving. I still hold a grudge against Costas.
Click here to read my wrestling poems for "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Jesse "The Body" Ventura.
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Tom Haberstroh's take on Ed Davis:
Quick, someone rescue Davis before something bad happens. With players-only meetings and injuries to Andrea Bargnani (elbow) and Kyle Lowry (triceps) plaguing the Raptors, the Toronto squad appears to be a sinking ship -- and 23-year-old Davis doesn't deserve to go down with it. The organization should be building around this kid rather than burying him behind Bargnani's bricklaying campaign.
Now that Bargnani is missing some time with his elbow issue, maybe Toronto will show a least a little more confidence in Davis. Despite playing less than 20 minutes per game so far this season, he's averaging 14.7 points and 12.2 rebounds per 36 minutes (which are Varejao-type numbers). Although Davis might not erupt for 24 points and 12 boards every night the way he did on Wednesday against the Nets, he has showed that he's not just a limited scorer around the rim. Will he continue to shine when Bargnani gets back? If not, let him blossom elsewhere.

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Apple looks to score a second ban on Samsung's Android smartphones, shortly
[Note: Invalidity proceeding is carried out in German court, so this ruling may be struck down.]
Well, we guess it was bound to happen sooner or later -- a court has actually bought Apple, Inc.'s (
) claim to have "invented" the swipe unlock -- and in fact banned a competitor's product based on it.
Not surprisingly, that court happened to be in Germany, which is basically the only European Union country that has
bothered to humor Apple or its Android adversaries
legal war.
Apple holds
a couple of patents
internationally on the swipe unlock:
Apple is the master of unlocking, having received two patents on the simple gesture.
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You can even see late Apple co-founder and CEO Steven P. Jobs bragging about the feature back in 2007:
But there's only one wee problem with Apple's patent and it's
efforts to go "thermonuclear" on Android and "destroy it"
. Apple lifted the feature from a competitor. It did not invent swipe unlock. It was not even the first to sell a product with swipe unlock.
Neonode Inc. (
) in 2005 launched a phone called the N1m, which had a virtually identical unlocking feature, albeit with a different graphic. You dragged the lock and your phone unlocked.
Apple lifted the unlock feature from NeoNode. [Source: FOSS Patents]
Unfortunately for Motorola -- the victim of Apple's successful swipe unlocking suit --
Judge Dr. Peter Guntz was apparently clueless of Apple's legal trolling and the fact that swipe unlock was introduced two years before Apple ever filed for
its patent (
So a point of clarification. As pointed out by
, the judge was not obligated, nor allowed to look at Neonode's prior art, given that Apple did not list it on the patent.
That said, a December
blog asserts that the Judge indeed knew about the Dutch judge's decision to strike down the infringement claim, on grounds of prior art.
In the Netherlands, invalidity can be ruled
an infringement trial. In Germany this proceeds via a separate track [
that German judges can narrow or widen the scope of the patent, and further states that Judge Dr. Peter Guntz chose a broader interpretation for Apple, versus a colleague in a nearly-indentical claim against Samsung:
Mannheim is reluctant to stay patent lawsuits on the grounds of suspected obviousness of a patent over prior art, which would be useful to Apple in this case, but last week, at a hearing on an Apple lawsuit against Samsung, Mannheim-based Judge Andreas Voß appeared inclined to interpret the patent more narrowly than his Munich-based colleague today. Motorola and Samsung have different slide-to-unlock implementations (in fact, each company has at least three implementations all by itself), so the infringement analysis isn't directly comparable, but I heard both courts' views on how to interpret the patent claims and Munich's take is more inclusive.
Further, as the
blog points out, Judge Dr. Guntz could have ordered a stay on the patent trial, until the invalidity trial concluded. While German courts are typically wary of doing this, given the Netherlands ruling and the clear-cut case for prior art, it would seem that this would be fair -- albeit unusual -- path to take.
But Judge Dr. Guntz did not do this.
Again, it's important to get the story precisely right, but in this case the accurate picture is actually worse for Judge Dr. Guntz than our initial impression that he simply did not know about the prior art.
The Judge knew about the prior art, yet purposefully chose not to apply either of the methods at his disposal -- either narrowing Apple's claim (not based on the prior art, mind you, but on the interpretation of the patent itself, as his colleague did)
staying the trial until the invalidity proceedings wrapped up.
In purposefully ruling against Motorola on a violation he knew to be likely invalid, it seems far more unproper and unjust than if his decision had been based on simple innocent ignorance.
And apparently he also didn't realize
how silly it was to claim ownership of a gesture control that would take minutes for an experienced programmer to make.
NeoNode never bothered to patents its invention or sue anybody -- after all, it seemed so obvious.
Neonode actually does own a patent on swipe-to-unlock, it just hasn't sued anybody -- yet. I missed this during my initial search of Google Patents and the USPTO website, but a kind reader sent it my way.
For now two Motorola handsets are permanently banned in Germany. And Apple is also suing Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
), hoping to ban their phones for the same feature.
It appears a fix may prevent an injunction from taking hold. According to
CIO Today
, Motorola
has a fix ready to roll out
, which will replace the infringing feature.
This should buy it the time it needs to invalidate/narrowed Apple's slide to unlock work, which will almost certainly be invalidated or narrowed, assuming the German court gives Motorola and the defendant in the other unlocking lawsuit, Samsung, a fair trial.
Motorola -- whose acquisition by Google Inc. (
was made official this week
by the European Union -- is likely to appeal the Munich Regional Court's decision to the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court. If it loses -- and if Samsung looses -- Apple could be granted a local monopoly on smartphones, or at least force Android to drop a ubiquitous key feature most customers take for granted today.
The only good news for Motorola is that it's already
scored a ban on the iCloud
, and a ban on the iPad/iPhone that is
set to resume soon too
, after a brief stay. The German court system banned Apple's products after Apple refused to pay Motorola for its 3G patents, claiming they were invalid.
What do you think? Do you think the German justice made the right call?
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Chronic kidney disease is a condition in which the kidneys are not working correctly. It is caused by damage to tiny structures within the kidneys called nephrons. In the early stages, chronic kidney disease does not cause symptoms; therefore, most people don't know they have the condition.
The kidneys are bean-shaped organs located in the lower back just below the rib cage. Each kidney is about the size of a fist. The two kidneys filter blood, catch needed substances, return them to the circulation, and dispose of wastes in the urine. If the kidneys don't filter properly, wastes build up in the blood. The kidneys also maintain the balance of water in the body and release hormones. These hormones keep the bones strong, control blood pressure, and help the body make red blood cells. If your kidneys stop working, your bones may become weak, your blood pressure may increase, and your red blood cell count may decrease.
Chronic kidney disease is a progressive condition. Doctors use stages to describe how serious it is. The stage is based on the glomerular filtration rate (GFR).
The two most common causes of chronic kidney disease are diabetes and hypertension.
- Diabetes type 1 and type 2 occur when the body doesn't process the sugar in the blood well. The amount of sugar in the blood increases. High blood glucose damages the kidneys, the heart, blood vessels, and eyes.
- Hypertension , also known as high blood pressure, occurs when there is high pressure within the arteries of the body. Hypertension damages the kidneys. Chronic kidney disease can also cause hypertension.
Other conditions that can cause chronic kidney disease include:
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- Viruses: hepatitis B , hepatitis C , or HIV
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Tubular interstitial nephritis
Chronic renal failure can cause many complications, including:
- High blood pressure
- Coronary heart disease and heart attacks
- High lipid levels in the blood
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Clara Shih is on a mission to help advisors pull in new clients, build stronger relationships with their current ones and bolster their brands via "social selling" on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
A graduate of Stanford University—who also holds a master's in Internet studies from Oxford University—Shih joined Google and later Salesforce.com, helping create the first generation of Web applications. In 2007, Shih developed the first social business application, Faceforce. Her book, "The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Market, Sell and Innovate," has been featured in The New York Times and is now used as a marketing textbook at Harvard Business School.
In 2009, she and a college buddy, Steve Garrity, founded Hearsay Social, a social media platform designed to help financial services firms embrace what Shih calls "social selling."
Shih achieved all of these accomplishments, mind you, by the ripe old age of 31.
"The way that today's customer—retail and institutional—makes buying decisions is increasingly influenced by online and social media sources," Shih, Hearsay Social's CEO, told Investment Advisor in an interview. Clients' "buying decisions have fundamentally shifted; the way that an advisor 'sells'" must shift as well. Hearsay's "role is to help advisors hone the right 'trigger events'" that their clients tell them about via Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, such as the birth of a child, marriage or pending retirement—all "life events that push people to get financial help" with issues like college planning and wealth transfer, Shih said.
"Clients are sharing these life events, or buying signals, on social media," Shih continued, which creates the perfect "opportunity for advisors to personalize their message based on what's happening in people's lives." Emails, she said, have become an "impersonal" way to reach clients, and "most emails don't get opened."
Shih and Hardeep Walia, CEO of Motif Investing, recently co-wrote in their blog for ThinkAdvisor.com that a survey by Cogent Research of 4,000 investors with more than $100,000 in investable assets found that 34% of the investors used social media to search for financial advice. "More to the point, the survey found that 70% of respondents started using a new advisor, or switched from an existing one, based on information from social media sites," Shih and Walia wrote.
Of course, advisors' regulatory and compliance concerns abound when it comes to social media, but Hearsay is there to help. As Shih and Walia wrote in their blog, while "there are big penalties" for firms and advisors that violate the rules governing issues like fiduciary duty, recommendations and record retention, "we have seen that many advisors are behaving too conservatively with social media—with some eschewing it altogether—because of vague and sometimes baseless fears about regulatory action. But that doesn't mean you should avoid social media entirely. If you do, your current and potential new clients may find someone else with more social media savvy to work with instead."
Hearsay's success is also apparent in the new round of funding the company just received as well as the bevy of new financial services firms that have recently signed up as clients.
The San Francisco-based social media firm recently announced that it has raised an additional $30 million in Series C funding led by existing investors, Sequoia Capital and NEA, bringing its total funding to $51 million.
New companies have also signed on in the past six months as clients, with the most recent being Raymond James and LIMRA. Raymond James, which partnered with Hearsay in July, is now offering Hearsay's platform to its 6,000 advisors, while LIMRA announced recently that Hearsay is its exclusive Elite Strategic Partner, becoming the endorsed social media solution for LIMRA member companies.
Companies that signed on to use Hearsay's platform in the last six months are: Mutual of Omaha, Bank of the West, Nationwide Insurance, Allianz Global Investors, Wunderlich Securities, Modern Woodmen of America, SWBC, RPM Mortgage, Mortgage Master and two Canadian Chartered banks.
Gary Liu, recently hired as VP of marketing as part of Hearsay's executive push, said the companies are now in "various stages" of rolling out Hearsay Social as part of their social sales programs.
What do advisors get from Hearsay's platform? The Hearsay Social platform, as Liu explained, is "a SaaS application that advisors can access via any device to hear and respond to the most relevant things that their customers and prospects are 'saying' on top social networks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google+."
Key features, Liu said, include "Social Signals," a feature that alerts advisors about important events in the lives of the people in their network, so they know the best time to reach out and have the context they need for more meaningful conversations. The content library is another feature, which allows advisors to easily share compliance-approved content and links across their social networks with just a few clicks, keeping them top of mind with customers and prospects while helping them credibly deepen those relationships.
Some notable comments from advisors on Hearsay's website include one from Amanda Piper, a Raymond James financial advisor with Wagner-Lee in Columbia, Md., who says that while her firm is "fairly active with social media," she has "really enjoyed the flexibility and ease of use of the Hearsay Social platform," in which the firm uses "both the compliance-approved content as well as our own original posts." Said Piper: "The simplicity of posting to all our social networks, monitoring the engagement, and having the ability to respond to it has been great."
James Peregrino, a Farmers Insurance Championship Agent, said that 62% of his business the first year using Hearsay's platform came from Facebook. "Anyone who wants to build a business on Facebook has to work with Hearsay Social."
Shih said Hearsay has broken social selling into four steps. First is "be findable," she said. "It's not acceptable when a client searches for you and you're not there" on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.
Second is to grow your firm and network. Third is to "listen/hear what's going on in your clients' lives, [understand] their life events." Fourth, establish credibility and build your brand. "We view our role as helping [firms] operationalize" that, Shih said.


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MONTPELIER -- Vermont lawmakers left Friday for their weeklong Town Meeting Day break with much work remaining and many questions to be answered about the ultimate shape of the state's finances.
House Speaker Shap Smith said it's not unusual for the first year of the two-year biennium to start slowly, as new lawmakers get their feet on the ground and newly constituted committees get to work.
"The first year of the biennium before Town Meeting is really about making sure your set for all the work that's going to happen after Town Meeting," the Morrisville Democrat said in an interview Friday.
The Senate has dispatched with one marquee issue of the current session, legislation to allow physicians to prescribe lethal doses of medicine to terminally ill patients who request them. The Senate changed the original bill significantly, passing a much shorter version that focused on making doctors and families immune from prosecution and lawsuits when terminally ill patients end their own lives. Smith said the House is unlikely to take the matter up until early April.
Lawmakers traditionally spend the first week in March in their districts, reporting to constituents at Town Meeting, the annual gathering of residents to pass town budgets and attend to other municipal business.
When they return to Montpelier on March 12, they will face several key decisions about how to pay for a growing appetite for state programs while sticking as close as they can to Gov. Peter Shumlin's promise not to raise income or sales taxes.
One of the first orders of business will be for the House Transportation Committee to pass and send to the floor a transportation spending bill that is expected to call for more reliance on a sales tax and less reliance on a per-gallon tax that the state has traditionally used.
Rep. Patrick Brennan, R-Colchester and the chairman of the committee, said the panel is expected to approve a 2 percent sales tax on gasoline that would take effect in June. In July of 2014, the sales tax would go up another 2 cents on a dollar, to 4 percent.
Meanwhile, in fiscal 2015, the cents-per-gallon tax would drop by nearly 6 cents from its current level of 19 cents per gallon. The upshot would be nearly $26 million more in gasoline taxes collected by the state.
The aim is to shore up the state's transportation fund, which has been hurt by a decline in the amount of gasoline sold in Vermont. That's down about 36 million gallons a year since 2006. A failure to raise new revenue would cost the state even more, because it would lack the money to attract federal matching funds for transportation projects.
Meanwhile, Shumlin has proposed raising $17 million from a new tax on currently unregulated and untaxed sales of betting tickets sold at some bars and social clubs. The so-called "break-open tickets" call on betters to rip them open and see if symbols printed on the outside match those on the inside. Legislative fiscal analysts recently concluded the tax would raise only about a third of what Shumlin hopes.
Shumlin had earmarked the money to pay for subsidizing renewable energy projects, insulating leaky homes and helping low-income residents pay for heat. Those initiatives currently appear to lack a source of full funding, though Smith said making up for cuts in federal funding for low-income heating assistance would be the top priority of the three.
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Youth and young adult Catholics throughout the Diocese of Fort Worth expressed their enthusiasm following the March 13 election of Pope Francis. Many are excited, surprised, and anticipating the future as the Church embarks on this new era.
High school senior Kaitlin Hesse from Sacred Heart Parish in Muenster said following the election process was a new and joyful experience. "I am very excited to have a new pope," said Hesse. "I hope that Pope Francis can effectively influence and relate to our society and be a refreshing new leader in our dark times."
High school senior Sarah Miller, also from Sacred Heart, said she appreciates the significance of the papal name former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio chose for himself. "I absolutely love that our new pope chose the name Francis," said Miller. "I was surprised when I realized that he was the first pope to do so, but I am pleased with the decision, considering the joy that St. Francis brought to the Church and to the world."
Joey Sandoval, 31, from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in Keller said he is impressed with Pope Francis' humility and hopes that he will lead the Church to greater holiness. "He's a guy who actually lives what he preaches, and I think that's a great thing," said Sandoval. He expressed a desire for Pope Francis to spread a message of humility so that all of humanity might better understand, "that everything we know and learn comes to us from God."
High school junior and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton parishioner Amelia Arth, who plans to attend World Youth Day in Brazil this summer, said she is very excited and looking forward to being present with Pope Francis as he enters into his new life as leader of the Church with youth from around the world. "We're privileged to be part of his first World Youth Day, especially because he's from [the Americas]," said Arth.
St. Elizabeth adult volunteer Randell Labio also plans to attend World Youth Day. He said Pope Francis' election made him more excited for the event since the Holy Father is from Latin America. Labio expressed his delight that the new pope is from Latin America. Referring to the fact that Pope Francis is the Church's 266th pope, he said "I think my excitement for World Youth Day this year shot up by '266 percent' when I heard that Pope Francis is from Latin America."
"I have this perception that Latin American Catholicism expresses a certain kind of joy as a whole that you don't usually see around here in the United States," he said.
University of North Texas senior Victor Flores, who is of Latino descent is very excited Pope Francis is from Argentina. "I think it's surprising to see a Latin American Pope," said Flores. "It's something that I thought about, but I knew the chances were slim. After he was elected it was a great joy."
St. Maria Goretti parishioner Jacqueline Harvey is a convert to Catholicism and is grateful she had the opportunity to be a part of the historical event. She said this was her first opportunity to experience a papal election since her conversion in 2007, "so it is the first time I actually had a deep emotional and spiritual interest in what was going on," said Harvey. "I wasn't born into the Church, so it meant a lot to me."
Young wife and mother of two Vanessa Ciastko, also of St. Maria Goretti, said Pope Francis is a true example of humility and love. "God always knows what his people need, and I am confident He chose this man to lead us for a reason," said Ciastko. "I can't wait to see what is in store for the Church. I hope that having a pope like Francis will help us actively see how Christ wants us to live."
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In the first part of this blog series, "To Justify the Value of Financial Planning to Clients, Consider Saliency," I defined the concept of saliency in the context of financial planning and the fees we charge clients.
In recent years saliency has become a tool that planners use to help direct client focus towards—and to make clients more cognizant of—certain services and benefits the planner provides. For instance, it has become increasingly popular to charge separate fees for financial planning on the basis that "clients value [more] what they pay for." The concept is relatively straightforward: if people are required to pay for the financial planning, they'll pay more attention to it, and value it more.
Yet the research on saliency suggests that in truth, the causal factors may not be so straightforward. Paying for financial planning doesn't necessarily make people value it more, it simply makes the cost of the planning services more salient, which may in turn lead people to consider more carefully the value they're getting for their cost.
In other words, charging more for financial planning actually makes clients question it more (just as they question cash spending over credit card spending and cash tolls over E-Z Pass tolls). To the extent that they question the value they receive for the cost and decide that the value is good, making the cost more salient ultimately makes the value more salient to clients as well. That's the case, however, not because the client literally values more what they pay for; instead it's simply that making the payment more salient and forcing them to think about what they're getting ultimately might make them decide to recognize the value more, too.
Although this may seem like a finely sliced nuance, it's an extremely important one. After all, while charging (more or separately) for planning services may force clients to consider its value, which makes the benefits more salient for those who have positive outcomes, in some cases it may reveal to clients that the benefits they're getting just aren't worth the cost.
In other words, making the costs more salient really ups the ante to ensure that maximum value is delivered; otherwise, charging separately for financial planning may actually make clients try to 'opt out' of it and not pay for it, leading fewer clients to get financial planning, and ultimately making it less valuable for them. Therefore, making the price of financial planning salient when the value proposition is good may be unnecessary, and making it salient when the value is not good enough may make clients utilize it less (just as clients spend less with cash and are more resistant to the cost of cash tolls).
This can also lead to a dangerous spiral. If clients don't value the planning (because there's really not enough value for the cost, or they just don't properly perceive the value, or some other problem), then under the 'clients value what they pay for approach' the planner might try to increase the cost to try to change the perceived value, when in reality what needs to be done is to lower the cost or deliver more value to bring the cost/benefit equation better in line.
Otherwise, the more planners charge for planning, the less clients utilize it, which means they don't value it at all, and the client experience becomes even more focused on the portfolio, since it may be all that's left at that point.
Yet in the end, if charging directly for financial planning is really only helpful in situations where there really is material value being provided, and even then may be an inhibitor (as some clients may second guess the price they're paying even if the value is good), it raises the question: Are there other, and perhaps better, ways to make the value of financial planning more salient than just highlighting the cost?
So what are the alternatives to make the value of financial planning more salient, if not via making the way that clients pay for it more salient?
Option One: Enhance the Deliverables
One option is to try to enhance the deliverables associated with financial planning. Given that so much of what we do as financial planners is to deliver an intangible service (it's hard to quantify and really describe the value of "I give clients peace of mind"), anything that can make planning more tangible will help. Accordingly, I suspect this is one of the primary reasons that we as financial planners still deliver physical financial plans, even though we all collectively acknowledge that virtually no clients ever read them after the plan presentation meeting; it's one of the few tangible deliverables we (still) provide to help justify our cost.
But a written financial plan isn't the only kind of deliverable that can be provided. For instance, mind mapping can be used as a physical financial planning deliverable to visibly show how the planner is getting the client more financially organized. Even the client discovery/data gathering meeting can be turned into a more tangible experience by actually physically going through a client's files for them and delivering a fully sorted personal organizer as a take-home at the end of the meeting.
Option Two: Be More Obvious
Another approach to the issue is to simply take more overt actions to remind clients of the services that you have provided. For instance, I've met several firms that, once a year, will print the preceding years' worth of client activity (associated with any/all staff members of the firm) from their CRM and present it as a document to the client, simply to show the client how much has been done on his/her behalf over the prior 12 months.
Often, clients don't even realize how much "shadow work" happens behind the scenes…at least, until it's presented before their eyes in a clear list! Similarly, another easy way to reinforce the firm's financial planning focus in every meeting is simply to have an agenda where a financial planning check-in, and ongoing financial planning action items, is clearly present on the list as topics for the meeting.
In many cases, clients may fail to appreciate that the conversation with the advisor at the beginning of the meeting may be checking in on financial issues to the planner, but just idle "chit-chat" to the client; if you want clients to value the financial planning work that's being done, including monitoring and check-ins, then help make it top-of-mind for them. That means ensuring you set the appropriate frame and context by having an agenda that clearly articulates it as such.
In fact, arguably almost any regular touch points outside of the portfolio can help to reinforce that the planner does more than just provide investment management services. At the most basic level, there's a long line of research in the field of marketing that shows you can direct someone's attention towards what they should value about your product and service simply by...stating and reinforcing that value proposition!
But the bottom line is simply this: if the ultimate goal is to make clients value your financial planning more, then focus on how to make your financial planning more valuable, and how to make that value more salient to them. Drawing their attention to it by making them more conscious of the cost isn't likely to help, and in fact can backfire. After all, in other industries 'fees' are something that companies assess specifically to discourage behavior by making it more salient. No one assigns 'more value their airplane's cargo hold' because the airline charges baggage fees, nor I suspect does anyone value the flexibility of their bank's checking accounts more because they charge overdraft fees.
Health insurance companies apply fees, copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles with the deliberate intention of making the costs more salient so people will utilize services less and make fewer claims. Is that really the context you want to set when your clients consider your financial planning services?
Ultimately, the ideal should not be to make your financial planning fees more salient, but to minimize the saliency of the costs and maximize the saliency of the value itself. That will reinforce the actual value that's being delivered and the great work you're doing on their behalf, and keep your focus on how to make those services even more valuable in the future.


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The UK government is making a run at the record books, but
not a very positive one. Britain's government, plagued by bureaucratic
fumblings, is setting new records in how many citizens' personal data one
country can manage to lose. Last month there was news of a record setting loss of 25
million citizen's records, which were sent in the mail by CD and
mysteriously vanished. "Catch Me If You Can" criminal legend
Frank Abagnale publicly suggested that someone had purposefully plotted to
steal the data, which included bank records, and succeeded -- due to Britain's
lax security.
Now the UK officials are twiddling their thumbs and awkwardly trying to put a
positive spin on the latest shocking development; they have managed to
lose another 3 million citizens' data.
Britain's bureaucratic system electronically stores records for learner
drivers, including information on their vehicle, name, address, and other
personal information. Much of this information was privately contracted
for storage to a facility in Iowa, in the United States. This facility
revealed to government officials in May that it had lost a single hard disk,
which contained over 3 million records. The UK's Transport Secretary Ruth
Kelly, in turn, sat on this information and did not reveal it to Britain's
Parliament until this week.
She issued a short public apology, referencing fears of possible identity theft
that the victims of this latest bumble may endure, saying, "I apologize
for any uncertainty or concern that these individuals may experience."
Fortunately no banking or credit card info is included in the records, however,
a malicious party could use the information to apply for credit cards and
commit identity theft on a massive scale.
The loss is seen in Britain as another major embarrassment to British Prime
Minister Gordon Brown, and the Labor Party (LP), who are struggling with public
antipathy. The Conservative party is seizing the issue as a further means
to attack the struggling LP and build a lead into coming elections.
Security remains an increasingly hot topic, as everyone from nuclear plant
officials to everyday citizens continue to show a lack of savvy for protecting
themselves online. Between lax
data and network management procedures at government and business
facilities, to users
giving up personal information for an abstract sense of "trust",
the greatest
threat to public and government security is not some malicious hacker, but
the users and officials themselves.
Britain is seeing the catastrophic consequences of this
ignorance, but it is unlikely to be alone as users struggle to separate real
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The analog to digital switch in the U.S. has been a rather confusing and chaotic one. The idea of mandating all stations to instantly cut off analog broadcasts overnight alarmed some, who point out that other countries phased out analog state by state or by province gradually.
The key point of contention was the government's DTV converter coupon program. The program offered those with analog TV sets free coupons for converters which would allow their TVs to receive digital signals. The problem was that the government underestimated the demand for the coupons, and quickly ran out of them. Thus, the bipartisan-backed decision was made to delay the transition from the planned date of February 17 to June 12.
The good news is that the government finally appears to be close to solving the coupon shortage problem, thanks to the new stimulus bill. Government officials say that the coupon waiting list of 4 million households should be cleared in 2 to 3 weeks. This is fortunate as many stations are switching over early, sticking to the original February 17 date. An estimated 10 to 20 million households have older analog sets which cannot receive digital broadcasts without a converter box.
The switch to digital has many benefits including free up air space for public safety official and the improvement of viewing quality. It also netted the government $20B USD in profits from a wireless spectrum auction, and allowed the government to at last offer the much-desired "white-space" spectrum -- gaps between TV channels -- for use.
While many are upset about the switch being delayed, the wait may actually have a positive economic effect by increasing the number of new cable customers. Stanford Washington Research analyst Paul Gallant says that cable companies like Comcast Corp, Time Warner Cable, DirecTV Group, EchoStar Corp, Mediacom Communications, and Charter Communications are using the extra time to encourage more customers to switch to cable packages, one way of preparing for the digital switch.


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Meeting between Presidents of Panama and INTERPOL underlines close police cooperation
PANAMA CITY, Panama – On her first official visit to Panama since her election in 2012, INTERPOL President Mireille Ballestrazzi has met with Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli Berrocal, as well as other senior government and police officials, to discuss international law enforcement collaboration and transnational crime issues.
High on the agenda during INTERPOL President Ballestrazzi's meeting with Panama's President, as well as with Minister of Public Security José Raúl Mulino and Director General of the National Police Julio Molto, were the fight against transnational crime and Panama's active role against drug and weapons trafficking.
In this respect, President Ballestrazzi recognized Panama's vital contribution to Operation Lionfish combating the maritime trafficking of drugs and firearms in Central America and the Caribbean. The INTERPOL-coordinated operation in May and June of this year resulted in the seizure of 15 vessels and nearly 30 tons of illicit drugs, including cocaine, heroin and marijuana, and also led to 142 arrests.
During her mission to Panama City, the INTERPOL President also visited the first Regional Security Operations Center combating organized crime in Central America. It opened in April 2011 under the auspices of the Central American Integration System in Panama.
The Center acts as a focal point against transnational organized crime groups in the region, which are not only responsible for most of the cocaine trafficked into the United States, but also for the high murder rate in the area.
"For more than 50 years, Panama has been a key ally to INTERPOL and the law enforcement community worldwide. An extensive modernization process has made Panama a dynamic actor in the fight against organized crime and criminal groups for the countries in the region and beyond, thus contributing every day to the fight against transnational crime at the international level," said INTERPOL President Ballestrazzi.
Alexis Muñoz, Deputy Director of Panama's Directorate of Judicial Investigation and President Ballestrazzi's Director of Cabinet, Serge Antony, also attended the high-level meeting.
The INTERPOL President's visit to Panama comes ahead of INTERPOL's 82nd General Assembly (21-24 October) in Cartagena, Colombia, where Minister Mulino will speak on global security issues.


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Armour, a doctoral student in physics at the University of Washington is boldly
challenging that certain assertions of the Nobel Prize-winning International Panel on
Climate Change, in their current state, may be flawed. He argues that the UN's suggestion that stopping aerosol
emissions will stop warming is misleading [press release]. These conclusions are
noteworthy, given the controversial state of warming research and
legislation aimed to "stop" global warming.
At issue is various climatology models, collected from published
research, that attempt to simulate the effects of changing global climate
variables. These variables include changing the levels of an "aerosols"
(atmospheric dust) like sea salt or soot from burning fossil fuels; or
greenhouse gases (GHGs) like CO2 or methane. The effects
of these variables are dubbed "forcings" (aerosol forcing, GHG
forcings, solar forcing, etc.). Various forcings sum up to predict a net
climate change and its contributors by approximate percentage.
Models are typically fit to current data, but the narrow range that many
climate variables have been constrained to in the modern era limits them.
They're also limited by how many variables and effects on those variables they
consider. Last, but not least, they're limited by how accurately and
completely we can measure certain variables (e.g. total global aerosol levels).
In this case, Kyle Armour says that current models are flawed in that they fail
to consider how high the uncertainty is regarding the amount that aerosols
contribute to climate change.
He says that the aerosols could contribute a lot to climate change, or only a
In the "best case" scenario they would only contribute a little to net
warming, thus they would not be masking the effects of GHG-related warming. If all emissions of aerosols and GHGs stopped (a cessation of
fossil fuel burning, and mammalian
livestock farming, in short) the aerosols would quickly exit the
atmosphere. GHGs would remain for years at elevated levels, but the net
result would be a slight decrease in temperatures by about half a degree
Fahrenheit, given that the aerosols were the chief culprits.
In other words, the current temperature, which is about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit
above pre-Industrial Revolution levels would dip to only 1.0 degrees Fahrenheit
above that base level -- but wouldn't return entirely for many years.
Society can obviously not just instantly cut emissions, Mr. Armour
acknowledges, but he says that such a scenario would offer justification to
emissions cuts.
However, it's also possible that aerosols offer a larger contribution and are masking the effects of GHGs. In this case,
even if emissions stopped, temperatures would continue to rise and likely reach
3.5 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-Industrial Revolution levels, as the GHGs
would persist in the atmosphere. Such a temperature increase would likely
cause some of the more severe predicted climate change effects (though it could
offer benefits
as well).
In other words, Mr. Armour is arguing that uncertainty in the aerosol components of models may lead to the IPCC significantly underestimating the amount of warming that will occur under various scenarios.
Mr. Armour says that keeping this uncertainty in mind is critical and the IPCC
needs to do a better job in doing so in its next report. He states,
"This is not an argument to say we should keep emitting aerosols. It is an
argument that we should be smart in how we stop emitting. And it's a call to
action because we know the warming we are committed to from what we have
emitted already and the longer we keep emitting the worse it gets."
One interesting conclusion of the study not explored by Mr. Armour is the
question of maximum forcing. Clearly historically temperatures rose due to
increased GHGs, but leveled off (reach equilibrium) or reversed as the global system dampened the warming
effects. (In other words the Earth remained habitable, if a bit hotter,
and didn't become some sort of arid, barren
fireball.) This equilibrium may be reached by a number of mechanisms -- radiative heat loss into space/changes in ocean currents/changes in atmospheric water vapor, etc. The question is what is the "maximum" reachable temperature?
If Mr. Armour is correct and we may already be locked in to a large temperature
rise, the question is whether we'll reach this maximum. If so, the
climate change will already be enacted. While this will be unfortunate in
some ways (population would have to shift, growing areas would shift, etc.) and
fortunate in others, humanity would already be forced to adapt to the change.
If indeed a maximum with dampening is destined to be reached, stopping
emissions would do little good (unless we can somehow remove a significant
quantity of GHGs from the atmosphere, which does not seem currently feasible).
Thus the question of whether fossil fuel and farming emissions should be
cut, and if so how much, largely rests on a data set that is largely unknown
and uncertain. Mr. Armour's key conclusion is in noting this, and in
noting that the IPCC needs to do a better job informing policy
makers (politicians) of this uncertainty.
Mr. Armour's work has been published [abstract]
in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.


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San Antonio Federal Credit Union Debuts Solar-Powered ATM
The $3 billion, 248,000-member San Antonio Federal Credit Union used a solar-powered ATM to help promote its loans to help area residents install solar panels.
SACU used the machine at Solar San Antonio, an annual event meant to promote solar technology and solar energy use in San Antonio and South Texas.
The credit union was the first financial institution in the area to offer loans for solar equipment installation, and staff from the credit union used mobile phones and tablet computers to help between 3,500 and 4,000 attendees navigate to loan applications and see the credit union's mobile banking application.
"SACU's contribution to the success of Solar Fest and to the increased adoption of solar in San Antonio is a true public service," said Lanny Sinkin, executive director of Solar San Antonio.
"Their creative approach to helping people finance solar installations on their homes is making solar affordable and accessible to people throughout the city," Sinkin said.
"We are proud to serve our community's lending needs," said Jeff Mouat, SACU's senior manager of direct lending. "SACU looks forward to the evolution of green initiatives, such as those Solar San Antonio and our members want and need."


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Continuity Control Rolls Out Automated Compliance Software
Continuity Control, a New Haven, Conn.-based compliance company, has announced the availability of an automated compliance management system aimed at small and mid-sized credit unions and designed to offer continually updated information about evolving regulations from the NCUA.
"This will reduce the costs and the time involved with compliance," said Andy Greenawalt, Continuity Control CEO.
"It's designed to be the least effort way to stay fully compliant," said Greenawalt, who elaborated that at the company's smaller credit unions clients – in the $15 million in assets range – it typically is the CEO who uses the tool.
"We designed it with the time constraints of the staff in mind," said Greenawalt. "What before would have taken hours usually can be done with our tool in minutes."
Exactly what the software does is track NCUA regulations and then translates changes into deliverables that each credit union has to meet, said Greenawalt.
When a credit union executive has questions about regulations, they also can pick up the phone and call a Regulation Adviser for a one on one conversation. Online chat also is available. Neither involves extra charges, said Greenawalt, who indicated that the platform is priced in accordance with an institution's assets.
Annual fees range from around $10,000 to $25,000, said Greenawalt. Customers range from $15 million in assets up to $250 million.
Continuity Control has 35 customers, he added.
Greenawalt said that the advantage of his automated service versus the compliance officer on call services offered by an increasing number of leagues is that – because his is automated and computer based – he can keep the costs down to a range where smaller credit unions can afford the service.
Catherine Davis, executive vice president at $67 million New Dimensions Federal Credit Union in Waterville, Maine, said that using the tool has let the institution stay compliant without having to add staff. Davis said she personally is the one who most commonly uses the platform inside her credit union.
"It's simplified our compliance. It keeps us on track," said Davis.


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Generations FCU in College Financial Literacy Effort
The $404 million Generations Federal Credit Union in San Antonio has partnered with five local colleges to bring financial education classes to their campuses.
GFCU has identified a growing need for financial education among college students, citing a 2011 study by Experian that revealed San Antonio has the highest rate of credit card debt of any city in the U.S. and some of the lowest credit scores. What's more, other research shows 81% of college students have underestimated by a large margin how long it will take to repay credit cards and other debt.
GFCU will teach dozens of financial education classes to hundreds of students at Palo Alto College, San Antonio College, St. Philip's College, Northeast Lakeview College, and Northwest Vista College. The classes will include lessons in budgeting, money management, credit reports and paying back student loans, among other topics.
In partnership with each college's financial aid office, students will be enrolled for a chance to win a weekly financial award for attending financial education classes throughout the month of April, which is National Financial Literacy Month. For example, the Palo Alto College Financial Aid Department is giving away 80 awards of $250 throughout the month for a total of $20,000.
"Between work, school and family, students lead very busy lives and often times their finances are not a high priority until it's too late," said David Rodriguez, GFCU financial education advocate. "By partnering with all the colleges and by offering an award, it encourages students to attend; and when they do, we can provide those messages of financial responsibility that will help them stay on a strong financial path."
The credit union has recently received the National Desjardins Youth Financial Education Award. GFCU's "No Suckers Here" program has been recognized for teaching students the importance and value of financial literacy in an engaging and entertaining environment. The credit union's Student Life Team works with individual schools and administrators to determine the financial needs of their student body and then develops a financial education program tailored to those needs.


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I'd actually like a Fields/Gay tandem with Ross off the bench. Fields is defensive minded, much like Allen is in Memphis
Jose, Ed Davis for Rudy Gay: 100% behind it
Jose, ED, 2nd round pick for Gay: 95% (because what have we ever gotten out of a 2nd round pick)
Jose, ED, 1st round pick for Gay: very tepid 50%
Gay is a positive improvement to the team, but I can't stress enough that this team still needs to retain first round picks so we can continue building. Gay is good but he is not a final piece.
I know you're not a big fan of Calderon but I don't understand why Memphis isn't taking him on. He's expiring so why would it matter? Let him come off the bench and spell Conley when he's tired. Also, how do the salaries work exactly?
Ed Davis: 2.2m
Rudy Gay: 16.4m
Even if you add a third team, doesn't the salary have to be a bit closer? Are we missing some (perhaps unimportant) names here?
your pal,
You know with all this up roar about dont trade Davis dont trade Davis couldnt we just resign him next year? or after next season? he is a team option 4th year isnt he? or is that not allowed trading away a player and then picking them back up?
Oh one other thing.. I don't know anything about Darrell Arthur but I came across an excerpt about him from a Memphis paper:
Darrell Arthur missed all last season with an Achilles injury and then missed the start of this season with a more minor leg injury. Upon his return, it's taken him a few weeks to improve his conditioning and timing back to something resembling his pre-injury form. But in recent weeks he's shown why many — myself included, not to mention new Grizzlies exec John Hollinger — thought he was the team's best reserve player and one of the league's better back-up forwards before the injury. Arthur's minutes and production are both up in January — his rebounding rate up, his turnover rate down, his jumper starting to fall more.
Arthur's surface stats don't look like much — 7 points, 3 rebounds a game — but watch him closely and you'll regularly see Arthur make impactful defensive plays that don't register in the box score: Blowing up pick-and-rolls. Switching onto and containing perimeter ballhandlers. Cutting off drives and setting up teammates' steals. Racing down in transition to disrupt a fastbreak.
This month, with the injury to Pondexter, we've seen Arthur add to his resume by playing a more than passable small forward. Prior to Monday night's debacle, the Grizzlies had outscored opponents by nine points in 43 minutes with Arthur on the wing. Against the Clippers, with most of the team in the tank, Arthur fared a little better than most, and did while guarding five different players — Caron Butler, Matt Barnes, Grant Hill, Lamar Odom, and Blake Griffin — over the course of the game.
Arthur was the star of that dramatic win over the Spurs, with his best all-around game since facing the sames Spurs, pre-injury, in the playoffs two seasons prior. Arthur made a series of big plays in the fourth quarter and overtime in that game: Defensive rebounds, mid-range jumpers, winning a tip against Hall of Famer Tim Duncan, and sprinting out for a transition dunk that sealed the game in the final seconds.
But his best moment was easy to overlook. In the final sequence of the game, after Rudy Gay made a pull-up jumper for the go-ahead basket, the Spurs had a chance to tie or take the lead. They ran a high pick-and-roll between point guard Tony Parker and Duncan, their two best players. And Arthur contained it: Switching onto Parker and pushing him outside his shooting range, recovering back to Duncan to deny a pass, and then jumping back out on Parker to contest the fadeaway jumper that was left to take. Three key defensive plays in a matter of seconds to preserve Gay's big shot and set-up Arthur's own dunk at the other end.
your pal,
Anyone else really intrigued by a possible Lowry/Gay reunion? With them reportedly being such close friends, it could be the motivation they both need to lift their games.
I still have absolutely no idea why any Raps fans would want Rudy Gay. I don't understand what you believe he adds to the team that we don't already have, other than an extra 2 inches and a max contract at SF. He's not a go-to scorer, he's not a great defender, his shooting stroke is deceptively smooth (because it actually doesn't go in a lot), he attacks the basket LESS than Demar....sigh....he brings nothing other than a name that for some reason has Raps fans thinking he's worth something he's not. I know Memphis has cap considerations, but really, if a 6'8" (I've read sometimes that he might actually be closer to 6'9 or 6'10) SF is supposedly an all-star and worth his contract, why would a great team WITH NO OTHER GOOD WING PLAYERS be so willing to part with him? If he were a franchise player, they would change every other position before considering trading him, but they know he's by far the most expendable and least important to what they do....
And make no mistake about it....nobody is claiming he's worth his contract (just like Joe Johnson). But Gay is a multi-skilled player who instantly improves this roster, and is still young enough to be considered part of the "core" going forward.
Bosh and Jack: absolutely great friends who played together for us. Didn't elevate either's game and didn't help team chemistry.
Jose and Garbo: also great friends who played together for us. Likely their friendship didn't really influence each other's game or help team chemistry. BUT, the team was quite successful as a team with them. WHY? Because they're pros who would bring the same attitude if they had to play with their mortal enemy.
Friendship is nice....but really, it makes no difference. I find it hilarious when people use it a reason to acquire a player. Is it helpful to have a team where everyone is friendly? Yes, of course. Obviously you don't want your players to hate each other, and you want them to like each other enough. But there's also no guarantee that it helps really elevate any one player's game, or the team as a whole.
Again, I'm not really concerned about losing people from the locker room either. Even is Jose and Ed are their friends, it doesn't mean shit will fall apart. Basically what I'm saying is it should contribute 0% to the decision making process.
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Anyone have any word on how Linas is progressing, will be be seeing him soon?
Anyone have any word on how Linas is progressing, will be be seeing him soon?
Butler's made him completely expendable, look for him to play a bunch of minutes right before the trade deadline then sent out for a 2017 second rounder
Not really what you were looking for, sorry
Butler is the superior defender, but Kleiza is the superior offensive threat (inside/outside J, creating his own shot, post-up game, etc.). Kleiza's also represents a Lithuanian comfort zone for when Valanciunas arrives next year. Kleiza's younger than Butler too, but is coming back from major knee surgery.
Butler's in his contract year at $1.2 million, while Kleiza is signed until 2014 with $13.8 million still owed.
Pros and cons to both guys. It won't be an easy decision for Colangelo. And who knows, maybe even J.Johnson draws the short straw...
Kleiza is a beast, hes got size and toughness and the offense to back it up, but the consistency is the biggest question mark.
So to summarize, you'd rather have a guy that's inconsistent offensively and doesn't defend over a solid defender and consistent shooter on your bench? Just checking.
I just wanted to know his progress, not debate his abilities or role with the team...that being said. We did not see a healthy Kleiza when he was playing last year and nobody knows how he will play if he comes back feeling better. We can all acknowledge the improvement in Bargnani's defensive awareness, can Linas not make the same progress?
Klieza gives us a low post option from the SF position as well as decent rebounding, toughness, and although streaky, he can make the 3 ball as well. I am unsure why some are so ready to write the guy off, look what a healthy Calderon is doing so far this year....
Certainly moreso than Kleiza
Your joking right? Healthy Kleiza>>>Butler
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Edit: Where is this doesn't defend idea coming from? He was our best player defending opposing PF's 1-1 last year, where he struggled was guarding quicker SF's and getting lost on switches. He wasn't passive like Bargnani, or completely lost like Derozan. We need a scorer in the block right now, and he'd be ideal if he were healthy.
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-"You cant run from me. I mean, my heart dont bleed Kool-Aid."
-"I aint no diva! I dont have no blond hair, red hair. Im Reggie Evans.
This is a bit off topic for this thread but continuing on the discussion of Butler vs Kleiza, I checked basketball-reference.com for their stats, and I found it very interesting to see how close Butler is from Kleiza with respect to their career stats:
609 254 23.9 3.2 8.0 .401 1.3 3.5 .361 0.9 1.1 .752 0.4 2.2 2.6 0.9 0.4 0.6 0.7 1.6 8.5
340 59 19.9 3.1 6.9 .447 0.9 2.7 .336 1.5 2.1 .752 1.0 2.6 3.6 0.8 0.4 0.2 1.0 2.1 8.6
I'd say Kleiza has the edge over FG% but Butler has the edge over 3FG%.
In the 'defense' department.. Kleiza has a career DRating of 110. While Butler has a career DRating of 109.
Since Butler is cheaper, I think he'd be the better person to have (but that's a moot point since we have them both). Long term I don't think it really matters as I'd prefer not to have either of them.
And Kleiza is 7 years younger than Butler...
-"You cant run from me. I mean, my heart dont bleed Kool-Aid."
-"I aint no diva! I dont have no blond hair, red hair. Im Reggie Evans.
On offence, Kleiza (when consistent) is better then Butler IMO, but Butler has only played 5 games with the Raps, and after last night, it may be that he has found his rhythm. Something that really impressed me about Butler is he does not shy away from taking the big shot. Though I doubt it, if Butler can be a guy to give us a little scoring tap at the end of games and take the big shots, Butler has my vote.
On Defence, many interesting things were said. Ceez said he does not defend. While that is not true (Kleiza showed he was capable of defending) I do not think Kleiza will do well with Dwane Casey defence. As we have seen, that is not a factor with Butler, and imo he is doing very well on D. This link at http://www.sportsoverdose.com/nba-players/linas-kleiza says that Kleiza is hoping to return mid January. If that is true, with the shortened season and lack of practice, I find it hard to believe that Kleiza will be able to grasp this defence, and I think he will become a liability.
With Butler's contract, and the fact that we can just trust him more then Kleiza right now, I would say Butler is better then Kleiza. All my opinion.
Hope I helped ya out WJF.
Oh and just to address the people who said that Butler is not a consistent shooter, or that statistically Kleiza is a better shooter, that is all wrong. Kleiza shot 63% from the FT in Toronto, and less then .300 behind the three point line, while Butler has made almost a name for shooting threes. Even watching the NBA.com recap for the game yesterday, one of the things they said was, and I quote,
"Rasual Butler! He has been known to take a three."
"Yes he has."
I agree that he will struggle to find his place on Casey's Offense/Defense, but there is something else to consider. Kleiza is a 6"8 PF who was relegated to shooting 3's in Denver, so we figured he could shoot 3's for us here in Toronto. The fact is he was a post-up PF at Missouri and was a PF in Europe where he dominated for a year. He has the most refined post-up game on the Raptors, the best since Bosh. However, he is only 6'8, his shooting last year was below his historical average and injuries were a significant factor.
Look, he is 7 years younger than Butler and I think yesterday against the Knicks was the first game where he score more than 1 FG. He is by far a better wing defender than Kleiza and has been shooting threes for much longer. The fact is Kleiza can rebound, shoot, and post-up is only 26 so I expect his shooting to improve. He's stronger than Amir and Davis so he'd be a good choice to defend physical power forwards.
-"You cant run from me. I mean, my heart dont bleed Kool-Aid."
-"I aint no diva! I dont have no blond hair, red hair. Im Reggie Evans.
Only one thing is going to settle whether Kleiza is going to be a key piece or whther he is going to be waived: how he plays when he comes back. Considering both his limited NB role in Denver and the uncertainties surounding his recovery, I think it's pretty pointless to try and guess what to expect. We just have to wait and see.
Yeah but what about the thread? Do someone knows something about his condition, when will he come back, etc.?
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