Garnett, Rondo to start in NBA All-Star Game

For one night, the bitter rivals will be transformed into members of the same starting lineup.

Kevin Garnett, who was involved in a testy incident with Carmelo Anthony on Jan. 7, will be alongside the New York Knicks forward in the Eastern Conference frontcourt.

Rajon Rondo, who has a history with Dwyane Wade, will line up next to the Miami Heat guard in the backcourt.

The pair of Celtics learned on Thursday night they are headed to Houston for the 62nd NBA All-Star Game on Feb. 17 after being voted onto the team as starters.

Garnett, who was chosen for the 15th time, finished third behind LeBron James and Anthony in the frontcourt while Rondo, a first-time starter making his fourth trip to the All-Star Game, was the second-leading vote-getter behind Wade at the guard position.

After not being selected last season, the 36-year-old Garnett is returning to the league?s mid-winter showcase event as he received 553,222 votes, beating out Chris Bosh of the Heat by 25,208 votes.

Garnett and Anthony did a lot of trash talking during the Celtics? visit to Madison Square Garden earlier this month and both received technical fouls. When the game was over, Anthony went to the Celtics? locker room and later the team bus looking for Garnett.

Anthony received a one-game suspension from the NBA. Garnett said he would have no problem with Anthony or any other adversary as an all-star teammate.

?You have time to plan for it ? and when you come there, it?s to come together as a conference and actually have guys into it, enjoy it,?? said Garnett., whose Celtics host the Chicago Bulls tonight. ?It takes a back seat to all the competitive juices.

?Obviously, after the game, you kind of turn it back on. But other than that, you set aside all the things that go on during the 82 (games in the regular season) and come in and try to enjoy each other for three or four days.??

Rondo was called for a flagrant foul on Wade during the closing minutes of the Heat?s opening-night win over the Celtics on Oct. 30.

Wade drove past Rondo and was headed to the basket when he was grabbed around the neck by the point guard. Wade later called it a ?punk play.??

During the 2011 playoffs, Rondo suffered a dislocated elbow when he was sent to the floor by Wade.

Asked before practice on Thursday afternoon if he would socialize with Eastern Conference teammates like Wade or Anthony, Rondo said, ?Why would I?

?I don?t do much socializing. If I make it, I hope one of my home boys makes it, Josh Smith. If he makes it and KG makes it, we?ll all (get together). I don?t try to be friends with anyone outside my team.??

Rondo, who leads the NBA in assists and received the seventh-highest vote total in the league with 924,180, was aided in his starting berth by the absence of Derrick Rose on the ballot this season. The Bulls guard has not played after injuring a knee during the playoffs last spring.

Jared Sullinger should be joining Rondo and Garnett in Houston as he will likely be chosen to play in the Rising Stars Challenge that consists of rookies and second-year players.

Paul Pierce, who has been selected to the All-Star team in 10 of the last 11 years, will learn next Thursday if he will be going as a reserve. Pierce finished sixth in the frontcourt behind James, Anthony, Garnett, Bosh and Tyson Chandler.

The starters for the Western Conference will be Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard of the Lakers, Chris Paul and Blake Griffin of the Clippers and Kevin Durant of the Thunder.

Source: http://www.tauntongazette.com/sports/x1671800877/Garnett-Rondo-to-start-in-NBA-All-Star-Game

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One Direction loving life in Japan, put snaps of adventures on Twitter and Instagram

ABOVE: One Direction were mobbed by snappers at the photocall

ABOVE: One Direction star Harry Styles shared this stunning snap of the view from his hotel room on Twitter

ABOVE: One Direction star Niall Horan was spotted by the paps sticking his tongue out while meeting fans

SEEMS like the boys are feeling right at home there.

One Direction stars Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik have been welcomed with open arms on their first ever trip to Japan.

The 1D stars posted a snap of them receiving a HUGE bunch of flowers from a woman dressed in a Japanese Kimono on Twitter.

[ Related article: One Direction's airport security in full force as hundreds of Japanese fans greet them ]

The snap, which was posted on the official 1D Instagram account in the early hours of today, had the caption: "Kon nichi wa Japan."

For those who don't know, that means good afternoon...which we discovered after a bit of Googling.

The What Makes You Beautiful singers were arrived in Japan yesterday, amd seem to be loving life in the country.

Niall wrote on his Twitter: "japan! This place is so cool! Can't wait for next few days ! Gona be fun!"

[ Related article: Taylor Swift collects her People's Choice Award, leaves the stage to a One Direction song ]

And the Irish heart throb, who was spotted by the paps sticking his tongue out while meeting fans, revealed he is enjoying tasting Japanese grub.

He tweeted: "Amazing sashimi we had yesterday! Incredible !"

Harry, 18, tweeted a jaw-dropping snap which showed the stunning the view from his hotel room.

He posted the snap of Instagram, along with the caption: "Sooooo Hi Japan!"

As we're stuck in cold, snowy London it's hard not to feel a tid bit jealous...

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Video: Best Way to Play the Markets Now

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e Customer Reviews Part of Your Marketing Strategy in 2013 | Small ...

Richard McMunn is a leading career and recruitment specialist and founder of How2become.

2013 promises to be a competitive year for businesses, especially when people are looking hard at the money they spend on goods and services. Having a good business marketing strategy is essential when it comes to gaining and retaining customers, and one area that is sometimes overlooked, is including customer reviews as part of that strategy.

Many consumers are searching for customer reviews before they commit to buy a product or a service, and they like to read them from a variety of sources. Whether a business is a manufacturer, a retailer or a service provider, good customer reviews can be an excellent way of drawing in additional customers. A genuine, positive customer review has a weight that other marketing efforts simply cannot match, and shows that other people in their position consider their money to have been well spent.

Before focusing on customer reviews though, it is essential to have the basics in place. The main factors here are an honest appraisal of the goods or services that are being provided. Are they good quality? Good value for money? Is the customer service of the highest standard? Are problems dealt with easily and efficiently? Once the answer to these questions is yes, you can focus on gaining customer reviews in places that will do the most good.

For retailers who sell through third parties such as Amazon or eBay, customer reviews have been a part of life for a long time. People who buy through these sites are encouraged to leave a review of their experience as a part of the buying experience. There are, however, a large number of other sites where reviews of products and services can be made, including price comparison sites and Google itself.

Asking customers to leave a review is sometimes a tricky subject. No one wants to appear pushy, as the review left may be the opposite of what you want! One idea is to follow up each sale with an email thanking a customer for their business, and then perhaps including a link to a website where a review can be left. If a customer leaves a review there, it has many benefits beyond just the review itself. It also means that the email is a genuine one and that the customer has become connected. Placing this email address in a newsletter database can be one way of ensuring further business from them. You might even want to offer them a discount coupon off their next purchase.

The benefits of customer reviews as part of a business marketing strategy do not end there, though. Once a positive review is online, the full force of the internet in the form of social media can be brought into play, and the review can be tweeted and placed on Facebook in order to gain more exposure. Some people have even used reviews as part of a YouTube campaign, and lifting segments of positive reviews and placing them in adverts has been common place for years.

Using customer reviews as part of a business marketing strategy makes a great deal of sense and is only limited by the inventiveness with which it is applied. It can be used as an opportunity not only to promote a business, but also as a way of gaining genuine customer feedback; thus helping companies to streamline and improve their goods and services on offer.

Richard McMunn is the director and founder of How2become the UK?s leading career and recruitment specialist. For the last 7 years How2become has helped applicants prepare for and pass recruitment processes and assessment centres in order to secure their dream job. You can also find How2become on Google Plus.

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'Superomniphobic' material shrugs off oil, blood, acid and more

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Devin Coldewey , NBC News

Even the nicest water-resistant materials, from synthetics to waxed canvas, can be ruined by certain liquids?that soak right in while rain and coffee?roll off. Scientists at the University of Michigan have created a surface that repels not just everyday fluids but exotic and dangerous ones.

The "superomniphobic" material works by reducing the amount of surface that's exposed to any given liquid it encounters, meaning that that liquid's surface tension (which keeps its together in a droplet or stream) remains intact.

A series of short videos accompanies the?article in the Journal of the?American Chemical Society, demonstrating the various ways in which liquid refuses to interact with the superomniphobic surface. Droplets bounce and roll across the surface, streams richochet off, and hydrochloric acid has no corrosive effect. Even "non-Newtonian" fluids like blood and shampoo, famously difficult to stop from soaking and staining, have been tamed.

Anish Tuteja, lead researcher on the project, and his colleagues have been working on similar omniphobic surfaces?for over five years, but this one is the best by far, he told NBC News.

"On the first generations, the droplets were leaving something behind," he said ? a problem around hazardous materials that could cause trouble later by evaporating or falling off. Not any more.

Yet it can't be totally impermeable. "It's a very, very porous coating ? porous to anything that's gas-based, but not to anything liquid." That means ordinary air and water vapor can pass through ? helpful when you don't want your clothing to stifle you.

The researchers achieved this balance by allowing much of the coating to be air ? in fact, between 95 and 98 percent of its?surface area. Up close, it appears like a loosely woven mat. Look closer, and the fibers begin to appear spiky.

When a droplet of water comes into contact with the surface, it's basically balanced on the tips of those spikes, with vast spaces of air in between. They don't overcome?the liquid's?surface tension, meaning the droplet keeps its shape and bounces or rolls along.

The spaces are big enough to allow air to breathe through, but small enough that neither oil, water, or acid will have enough contact to soak through. It's like a tennis ball on a net ? the net is light enough to see through, but the ball will bounce right off. If the spaces were much bigger, the ball would go through, and if they were much smaller, you wouldn't be able to see.

The work's not done, Tuteja said. Although he has "three or four" parties?interested in this type of material, not least of which is the military (which partially funded the research), there are still improvements to be made.?

"We definitely need to improve the mechanical durability, increasing the number of washing cycles, and so on," he said. A rather pedestrian concern for a leader in the field, but it's what needs to be done to get the superomniphobic material out of the lab and onto our coats and shoes.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBCNews Digital. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/superomniphobic-material-shrugs-oil-blood-acid-more-1B8002723

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Family Escapes Fire At Sacramento Home ? CBS Sacramento

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ? Smoke detectors are being credited with waking a sleeping family to a fire at their Sacramento home.

It was around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday when smoke detectors started going off at the home on Arbor Crest and Kelton ways.

The family managed to get out of the home as flames and smoke filled the garage. Firefighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to the rest of the home.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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Review of print24 Online on Demand from 16 January 2013

Thought I would try this printing company after finding themonline. First thing that attracted me was their prices, they are cheaper than any other company I found for the product I needed - double sided full colour flyers, a second reason was the fact that delivery was included in the price. I chose the right company, the whole experience from start to finish was right. The online ordering process was easy to use -?straightforward - and there were further savings if you upgraded your product, for example expedited delivery for less. I uploaded the files after I had paid and then received a series of emails confirming the order, confirming receipt of the data, approving the workability of the files (the files must be in CMYK mode) and then finally?a?tracking number to follow the progress of the delivery.?I took a chance with this company wihout any referrals unsure as to what I was going to receive in terms of quality, they are a litho printing company I figured the print would be good. I received the goods 4 DAYS before I was supposed to, the print job is excellent and the paper feels expensive; basically the things that are important in translating interest into sales.????

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