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Keith Van Horn started the game instead of Dirk Nowitzki who was resting a shoulder. Finley, Terry, and Howard scored 14 points, Van Horn had 12. Coming off the bench Stackhouse had 18 points along with 2 assists. Shawn Bradley scored a season high 15 points and 6 rebounds in just 16 minutes of play. The Portland Trail Blazers just didn't play well at all as their record with their coach is now 3-20.

The Mavericks did a fantastic job of denying Seattle from their first division title since they won their last one seven years ago. Nowitzki seems to like this Settle building he had scored a career high earlier in his career there, Nowitzki had 31 points, 7 rebounds , and 2 assists. It was amazing to see that Michael Finley was held scoreless for the first time since it happened very early in his career. Terry followed Nowitzki in scoring with 15 points and 8 assists. The M.O.B (Mavericks Off the Bench) came out pretty good outscoring Seattle's bench, with our two fantastic sixth men Van Horn and Stackhouse, who had 12 and 14 points. They will be a factor in the Playoffs.

I had just finished visiting a friend in the hospital and stopped by a burger drive-through for lunch to eat on the way back to work. I ordered the #1 combo (burger, fry, coke) for $4.29. She said "that'll be $4.83, please drive forward."
"$4.83?? For a $4.29 meal?? That's 54 cents tax!? That can't be right," my mind raced. Tax is 8 cents on the dollar in Huntsville, Alabama and for 4 dollars that would be 32 cents plus 1/3 (29) of 8 cents would be 35 cents max.
I'd heard of window workers overcharging drive through customers and skimming the money for themselves. Someone did just that to me at a Hardees couple of years ago.
I didn't have my calculator watch (I lost it a while back) so I got a pen and paper and did the long division since there were 2 cars ahead of me. Let's see ... 483/429 ... over 12 percent tax!? When I got to the window I handed her a 5 and said "what's the sales tax in Huntsville?" She didn't know. I said "$4.83 for a $4.29 meal is 12 percent tax. That can't be right. Can I talk to the manager?" She gave me my change and called the manager.
So the manager comes over. I ask what the sales tax is in Huntsville, and she says 8 percent. I say that I just paid $4.83 for a $4.29 meal and that's over 12 percent sales tax.
She got a funny look on her face and said that maybe the computer had rung it up wrong or had charged me for the biggie size (biggie upgrade was 35 cents - which would be 4.64 plus tax which would put it over $5). She admitted it was supposed to be 4.63, and opened the drawer to give me my extra change.
"HA!" I thought to myself. "Six years engineering school has so heightened my mental mathematical adeptness that I can do percentages in my head and my superior intellect has foiled a feeble attempt by a drive-through worker to overcharge me!"
So what did this mathematical wizard do next? I took the twenty cents she handed me, proud of my staggering genius, and smugly drove off without my food.

Two sisters, one blonde and one brunette, inherit the family ranch. Unfortunately, after just a few years, they are in financial trouble. In order to keep the bank from repossessing the ranch, they need to purchase a bull so that they can breed their own stock. Upon leaving, the brunette tells her sister, "When I get there, if I decide to buy the bull, I'll contact you to drive out after me and haul it home." The brunette arrives at the man's ranch, inspects the bull, and decides she wants to buy it. The man tells her that he will sell it for $599, no less.
After buying him, she drives to the nearest town to send her sister a telegram to tell her the news. She walks into the telegraph office, and says, "I want to send a telegram to my sister telling her that I've bought a bull for our ranch. I need her to hitch the trailer to our pickup truck and drive out here so we can haul it home."
The telegraph operator explains that he'll be glad to help her, then adds, "It's just 99 cents a word."
Well, after paying for the bull, the brunette only has $1 left. She realizes that she'll only be able to send her sister one word.
After thinking for a few minutes, she nods, and says, "I want you to send her the word "comfortable". The telegraph operator shakes his head. "How is she ever going to know that you want her to hitch the trailer to your pickup truck and drive out here to haul that bull back to your ranch if you send her the word, "comfortable?'"
The brunette explains, "My sister's blonde. The word's big. She'll read it slow. - - - -("com-for-da-bul" )

A rather old fashioned lady, always quite delicate and elegant, especially in her language, was planning a weeks holiday in Sydney with her husband, so she wrote to a particular camping ground and asked for a reservation.
She wanted to make sure that the camping ground was fully equipped, but didn't know quite how to ask about the toilet facilities. She just couldn't bring herself to write the word "toilet" in her letter.
After much thought, she finally came up with the old fashioned term "Bathroom closet" but when she wrote it down, she still thought she was being too forward, so she started all over again, rewrote the letter, and referred to the bathroom closet as the B.C.
"Does the camping ground have it's own B.C." is what she wrote.
Well, the camping ground owner wasn't a bit old fashioned, and he just couldn't figure out what the old lady was talking about, so he showed the letter around a few of the campers and the only thing they could come up with was that B.C. stood for Baptist Church, so he wrote the following reply.
Dear Madam,
I regret very much the delay in answering your letter, but I now take the pleasure of informing you that a B.C. is located nine miles north of our camping ground, and is capable of seating 250 people at one time.
I admit that it is quite a distance away if you are in the habit of going regularly but no doubt you will be pleased to know that a great number of campers go there and many take their lunches along and make a day of it. They usually arrive nice and early and stay quite late.
The last time my wife and I went was six years ago, and it was so crowded we had to stand up the whole time we were there. It may interest you to know that there is a special supper planned there to raise money to buy more seats so that everyone will be able to sit in comfort.
I would like to say that it pains me very much not to be able to go more regularly, but it is surely no lack of desire on my part, just that I am so busy most of the time.
As we grow older, it seems to be more of an effort to go, especially in the cold weather. If you decide to come down to our camping ground perhaps I could go with you the first time you go, sit with you and introduce you to all the other folks.
Remember this is a very friendly community

An old Wild West fort is about to be attacked. The wily old General sends for his trusty Indian Scout.
"Yumti-Bi," he said, "you must use all your thirty years of skill in trying to estimate the sort of army we are up against here."
Yumti-Bi layed down and put his ear to the ground...
"Large Heap - war party," he says, "maybe three hundred braves, four chiefs, two on black horses, two on white stallions. All have warpaint...many many guns. Medicine man also with them."
"Good grief!" exclaims the General, "you can tell all of that just by listening to the ground???"
"No, General," replied the Indian, "I can see under the gate..."

Josh Howard helped lift the Mavs on this game. He was the leading scorer with 23 points and 9 rebounds. Dirk followed with 19, and no it wasn't because he was struggling, it was because his minutes have been limited now since they are heading towards the playoffs. Michael Finley had 17 and Van Horn had 14 off the bench. Once again good win as heading for the playoffs.

The Mavs have now won their third straight with this win. Nowitzki once again leading the way in scoring with 24 points, 5 blocks, 5 assists, and 9 rebounds. This is MVP type of play, and Dirk is an MVP candidate. It is odd to say that their bench outscored our bench, but it happened, the leading scorer was Keith Van Horn with 10 who was followed with Stackhouse. This is a good win for the reason that it helps gain momentum as they were heading into the playoffs.

Absolutely fantastic win! The mavs avoided a sweep winning big. 104-68
This was an absolute confidence lifter. It is pretty amazing to say that our leading scorer came the bench, Keith Van Horn, but then again it is no surprise having such a deep team like we do. This was as I said before a confidence builder as they were heading into the playoffs. So if San Antonio is in our way we can look back to this one on some reference, but for that to happen Tim Duncan needs to be out as he was in this one. He was injured for quiete a while, so that is why the score is 104-68.

It seems that I didn't understand the complete meaning of this book, but I have noticed that if I would have read this earlier in the year my understanding would be a lot more down. I can now say that I have now improved my reading skills since the beginning of the year until now, so I say thanks to Mr. Locke for this.
Now getting to the DJs. Very interesting book, I say this because it is based on Beowulf, yet both books are different in many ways. I saw some themes that that apply to this book like: the pain of isolation. This can be very easily seen throughout the story, Grendel seems to be close to the humans because he seems to be interested in their beliefs and everything else especially with the shaper.
"......It's coming, my brother. Believe it or not. Though you murder the world, turn plains to stone, transmogrify life into I and it, strong searching roots will crack your cave and rain will cleanse it: The world will burn green, sperm build again....." I believe that this part of a speech given by Beowulf is probably the most important one of the whole book.

This was a good bounce back from that tough loss against the Cavaliers.
The Mavericks continue homecourt domminance with 5 straight home wins. Dirk was hurt but later returned. He did manage to gather 21 points, 9 rebounds, and 3 assists. Terry was behind Dirk with 18 points and with and outstanding 13 assists! Dampier also played fantastic with 16 points.

Well this wasn't a good game although the Mavericks had won the game before against the Cavs, the Cavs responded and the Mavs didn't Mavs only shot 35% and how could they even win with Lebron having 37 points, 10 rebounds, and 7 assists. Dirk had 23 points, 7 rebounds, and 3 assists. Too bad Mavs lost they were on a real good winning streak.

Well lets see...Beowulf is one of the most interesting books I've read (I probably say that all the time about every book that I have to do DJs for, but it seems that every six weeks I am introduced to new literature, and well it seems more interesting).This book has all of the neat stuff a book should have like the motifs, symbolysm, themes, and more stuff that a lot of books don't have: the things that a poem does, which are the stuff like rhyming, rhythm, etc. This book basically is a poem. I look at this book and it reminds me more that enough of the Odyssey. I mean thinking about it Odysseus is kind of like Beowulf, they are both the hero, they both rescue something, and they both are (while the other one becomes) kings. Many more things are common to this book, this book really does have lots of influence on literature today.
Monsters is a very interesting motif in this story, I say this because monsters back then weren't really monsters but they were regular people who had birth defects. I think that is reall interesting because what if Grendel is a human being that is called a "monster" simply because of a birth defect, that is too interesting. Symbolism is really interesting in this story the main one that everyone probably notices is the banquet. So far the book is really interesting so lets see how much more can it get.
(I wasn't able to put any quotes from the book for the reason that I do not have my own copy)