Zach LaVine led five Bulls in double figures and Chicago led wire to wire for the first time this season in a 104-88 Martin Luther King Jr. Day matinee win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. LaVine scored 25 points and Bobby Portis added 15 off the bench Monday as the Bulls beat the Cavs for the third time this season. Lauri Markkanen had 13 points and eight rebounds, Kris Dunn added 13 points and nine assists and Jabari Parker scored 10 points for Chicago, which snapped a 10-game losing streak. Cleveland was led by rookie Collin Sexton, who scored 18 points. Ante Zizic scored points and Jordan Clarkson added 12 off the bench. READ: Giannis and Kostas Antetokounmpo connect in Milwaukee The Cavs are 1-9 in their past 10 games. In a battle of the two teams with the worst records in the NBA, it was the Bulls who came out clicking. They scored the first seven points as the Cavs didn't score for the first four-plus minutes. Sexton finally got Cleveland on the board with a 3-point jumper. But … [Read more...] about News NBA: Bulls spread scoring around to sink Cavs
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Vanguard ratchets up index-fund price battle
By Dawn Lim The Wall Street Journal Mon., Nov. 19, 2018 Vanguard Group is lowering the minimum amounts customers need to invest to get cheaper prices on more than three dozen of its index funds. The $5.3 trillion (U.S.) indexing giant’s move is the latest salvo in Vanguard’s push to lure investors from rivals at a time asset managers are under pressure to slash the costs of funds. Starting Monday, the firm is lowering the minimums for admiral shares—a share class that costs less than regular investor classes—to $3,000 from $10,000 for 38 index mutual funds. The funds make up the majority of Vanguard’s index funds that are available to individual investors and include some of the industry’s largest stock and bond index funds. Vanguard became the world’s second largest asset manager by launching some of the cheapest funds in the industry. That strategy has since been copied by many of its peers. Now the Malvern, Pa.,-based firm … [Read more...] about Vanguard ratchets up index-fund price battle
This region of New Zealand is the Southern Hemisphere’s take on Yellowstone
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By M.L. Lyke The Washington Post Thu., May 24, 2018 I’d been warned about the stink. It hit me the instant I stepped off the plane in Rotorua: a mix of bad egg and warm sewer gas that has earned this city on New Zealand’s North Island the nickname “Sulphur City” — or, less kindly, “Rotten-Rua.” I sucked in a deep breath and smiled. That subterranean scent meant I would soon be soaking in curative hot springs, smothering my body in primeval goo and exploring a land of burping mud pots, prismatic pools, boiling rivers and shooting geysers. The Rotorua region, one of the world’s most geothermally active areas, is the Southern Hemisphere’s take on Yellowstone — minus bison, bears and backed-up crowds. Gases and steam hiss out of everywhere: In pastures, in backyards, in the middle of the city’s huffing lakeside park, where visitors find free thermal foot baths and cautionary danger signs. Modern-day … [Read more...] about This region of New Zealand is the Southern Hemisphere’s take on Yellowstone
Fear is your friend – ‘Winds of Change’ TEDx UWCT
by Darren Scherbain Who am I to share my story? I’m nothing but an ex-snowblower, who can still wrestle with that voice that says it’s so much easier to sit down and fit in then it is to stand in your strength and expose your raw nakedness. Life and the race course do not respect past results. All those Ironman finishers’ t-shirts stuffed in the closet and the yearly recovery chips stashed in my desk; doesn’t mean that I’m immune to self doubt and fear. The Finish Line isn’t a magical line in the sand that exonerates me from being anymore human. It’s so much easier to sit down and fit in. Fitting in is not security. You didn’t think you were the only one with the voice of fear and self doubt? We human beings are funny creatures. Why is it that our fears can get the absolute best of us? It’s not the fear, but the chaos I create in my mind that accompanies the fear. My mind does a fantastic job of taking liberty with the … [Read more...] about Fear is your friend – ‘Winds of Change’ TEDx UWCT
Wizards hold off revamped Cavs, Sixers edge out Bulls
LOS ANGELES: The Cleveland Cavaliers returned from the NBA All-Star break with a thud Thursday (Friday in Manila), falling 110-103 to the Washington Wizards despite 32 points from LeBron James. The Cavs had not lost since trading half a dozen players and receiving four at the February 8 trade deadline, winning four straight heading into the All-Star break. James, who earned his third All-Star Most Valuable Player award on Sunday in his 14th straight start in the mid-season exhibition, connected on 13 of 18 shots from the floor, pulled down nine rebounds and handed out eight assists. He became the seventh player in NBA history with 11,000 career baskets, scoring Cleveland’s last 14 points in defeat. “We got some really, really good looks,” James said. “We played hard. I think the legs, being off for nine days kind of got to us, especially after the first quarter.” The Cavs had led by 12 in the second period, but they finished just eight-of-35 from … [Read more...] about Wizards hold off revamped Cavs, Sixers edge out Bulls