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Mike D'Antoni talks expectations
Sometime on Wednesday, Mike D'Antoni will board a flight from New York to Los Angeles, hobbling on a still-healing knee, and step into one of the most high-profile jobs in professional sports.
His interview for the job was short and to the point, and the expectations are crystal clear: Win now. And win it all.
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"I'm going to do everything I can do to win a championship," D'Antoni said Tuesday afternoon on the "Mason and Ireland" show on ESPNLA 710. "If we're not at least in the hunt, a serious hunt, then I've failed as a head coach. I'm comfortable with that."
Adding to the pressure, the Los Angeles Lakers chose D'Antoni over former coach Phil Jackson, who has won 11 NBA titles, including five with the Lakers. Fans in Los Angeles had been chanting Jackson's name in the two games the Lakers have played since firing Mike Brown last Friday.
It seemed to be Jackson's job to turn down, which of course he never did. The Lakers simply chose D'Antoni as their next coach Sunday night before Jackson had a chance to give them an answer on Monday morning. Sources have told ESPN that he intended to accept the position if negotiations between his agent and the Lakers went well.
Earlier Tuesday, D'Antoni told the New York Daily News that he was "stunned" when the Lakers called and offered him the job, effectively passing on Jackson.
"I was surprised in the sense that it seemed like a natural fit," D'Antoni told "Mason and Ireland." "But you never know what happens, so I'm not here to judge one way or the other. I know he's a great coach. Has been, will be, one of the best if not the best ever."
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Mike D'Antoni finished first or second in the West from 2004-07 with the Suns. He is one of three coaches since 1996-97 to not reach the Finals over a three-year span despite finishing first or second in the conference.
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The Lakers chose D'Antoni, in part, because they felt his up-tempo offense was a better fit for their current roster than Jackson's Triangle offense, a more complicated system to learn.
But can the Lakers' older, less athletic roster run like D'Antoni's infamous "Seven Seconds or Less" teams in Phoenix?
"This is a completely different team," D'Antoni said. "This team will be more skilled, bigger, a little older, much more experienced and our object will be to find the best shot within the 24-second period. We'll push the tempo a little bit. I think the model will be something like 'Showtime.' But that's hard to reach. That was the best probably it's ever been done, but that's kind of how we will evolve things.
"But I think we can run whatever system in that we know the principles we want to run and we'll tweak it to be efficient."
D'Antoni said he would try to "wean (the Lakers) little by little" on his system because the Lakers' roster is filled with players who "know how to play."
"You have great experienced players (who) you wouldn't try to burden them with too much," he said. "Just let 'em play. I'm not coming in and trying to change everything. These guys know how to play."
It helps that Steve Nash probably knows D'Antoni's system better than the man himself.
"We'll have Steve Nash running the offense and he's really good at getting everybody involved the right way," D'Antoni said. "What makes it really exciting is that everybody's at the point in their career where all they want is the championship. Once you have that settled -- and it should be like that everywhere but it isn't -- once you have that settled, it's like, 'OK, let's sit down and figure this out.' And we definitely have the talent to be able to do that."
D'Antoni said he hasn't yet spoken to Nate McMillan, the former Portland Trail Blazers coach, who has been rumored as a potential assistant who would focus on defense with the Lakers, as he did for USA Basketball.
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But he made it clear that was in the works.
"I think we'd be lucky to be able to have someone like him," D'Antoni said of McMillan. "Are you kidding me? He's great. If I would get him, he wouldn't be here long because he's a head coach in this league."
Hiring McMillan would do a lot to soothe fears about D'Antoni's perceived failures at coaching defense. So does humor.
"Some people say, with my name, they call me Antoni and no D," D'Antoni joked. "I tell you what, I'm taking the D out of Dwight (Howard's) name and putting it into mine. That seems to cure a lot of mistakes."
D'Antoni, of course, earned that nickname in New York, where his stint as coach of the Knicks didn't go as planned.
"It was an experience. I've got the wounds to show it. But I'm a big boy. I can handle it," D'Antoni said of his time in New York.
"We did have prior circumstances, no practices, people playing tired or hurt, a brand new team coming together and they want you to win a championship. So that creates a lot of pressure.
"Then you throw on top of that Linsanity and having that as, not a distraction but a great thing, but having to deal with it. It got to a point where I felt the team and the players were served best if I removed a little bit of an obstacle and put some pressure on players to play hard and bring 'em together and they didn't.
"Obviously, it was not an easy decision. It's not something I would want to go through again, but I thought it was the right decision. Mike Woodson is a great coach, he's doing a great job and I wish him all the best except for when we play them."
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Embracing the Contradictions
"And the boys ran about inside her, and she [Rebecca] said, If this is so, then why am I? and she went to seek God. And God said to her 'two nations are in your womb, and two are in your insides, and one nation will be stronger than the other and the older shall serve the younger (26:27)."
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (France, 12th century) notes that Rebecca expected to mother just the Jewish people and have a singleton birth from which would come the Jewish people. Instead two separate entities grew within her, two powers, two forms of kingship.
But what forms of kingships exactly?
Rebbe Nachman of Breslov teaches (Ukraine, 18th century) that "there are two forms of kingship in the world: one that is hidden for our sake, and one that is revealed for the sake of the world."
Esau is called "the man who knows game, the man of the field." While YJacob aakov is called the "simple man who dwelt in the tents." Esau was called the revealed kingship, with billboards and banners, while Jacob is perceived as modest, without complexity, "a simple man." Total opposites. An extrovert and an introvert. One of words, and one of action, one voice, and the other of hands.
But it is Rebekah's vision to bring these two oppositional forces together. And she does so covertly and with implicit intentions. When Jacob, approached Isaac his father, he touched him. His father then states: "the voice is the voice of Jacob, and the hands are the hands of Esau (27:22)." Both sides come together, Rebekah's vision was complete.
At last, Jacob must leave his tent, and learn about the second kind of kingship, the one of the field, the one of subjectivity Jacob must embrace the world of difference. Who did Jacob become? As the verse states "the voice of Jacob with the hands of Esau." This verse teaches us the ability to know when to use our words softly, as if in a tent, but also to know when to scream as if in a field was what made Jacob a worldly and appropriate individual to father the Jewish nation. To have the splendor of multiple realities existing simultaneously.
Very often we are presented with difficulties that are out of our reach. We call them problems. We complain, we sigh, we scoff, and we cry because we believe the problem to be an outside influence, and not something that is a part of me and my experience. When such a struggle surfaces, how do I react, do I embrace the conflict as an opportunity like Rebekah, do I encourage fusion of ideas or perspectives? Or do I run? Do I allow for conflict to remain for always? Do I even try?
And Esau ran toward him and embraced him, and he fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept. (33:4)
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Seeing Double
Diversity is like a pizza pie. When I get my slice of pizza, I may feel as if no one is about to take part in this mouth watering experience, this mushroom-onion slice is mine, and mine alone. But as I finish, pay and make my way towards the door, I notice others, with a slice almost identical to my own. I pause, and I realize I am seeing double. And as I look at the pizza tray behind the closed glass, I take note, at times against my will, that the pizza others eat comes from the same place mine did. My experience is my own but is it also connected to theirs.
Parashat Chayei Sarah, is a portion of doubles and seeming contradictions, distancing and connecting: While Abraham claims his identity as a "resident" during his negotiation process of Sarah's burial plot, he also identifies himself as a "stranger" amongst them. Similarly, Rebecca, our second matriarch, was a righteous woman, who carried the weight of living with "Laban the Deceitful," but was able to remain true to herself. A conflict for some, possible for Rebecca. Finally, Isaac too brings together two things that often are seen as opposite. When he standardizes the afternoon, Mincha prayer, he connects day and night.
We humans have a proclivity for individualism. It helps us determine our own self-image, and define who we are in any situation. We carry this instinct to compartmentalize and differentiate from that which is other than the self. I may share the same pie of pizza with four strangers, but struggle to identify with them and their experience.
As the Torah states in Genesis (23:19): "and after this (the sale of the plot of land) Avraham buried his wife Sarah in the Machpeila cave in the fields, opposite Mamre, Hebron, in the land of Canaan. And the field and the cave transaction became established for Avraham as a burial place." Avraham purchases a cave to preserve the life of Sarah and their legacy together. But also the field which can be planted, allowing him to begin to fulfill the destiny of the Jewish nation in the Land of Israel.
Later in the same portion, we read of Rebecca. Her opening scene points to her enthusiasm and personal responsibility to connect at every moment to HaShem. "She (Rivka) finished giving him drink, she said, I will draw water even for your camels until they have finished drinking." So she hurried and emptied her jug into the trough and kept running to the well to draw water, and she drew for all his camels." The word Rivka (Rebecca) means to link. In addition, the Hebrew letters R.V.K.H are the same letters as H.B.K.R (the morning). And just as her husband linked day to night with twilight, she connected night to day.
As we navigate a world filled with complex paradoxes and certain ambiguity, this portion teaches us we should embrace dualities and reach out to connect with that which is beyond our selves and personal experience. Just as Avraham created a connection through the generations and Rebecca created spiritual connections. We cannot be consumed by our own experiences, whether mundane like eating pizza or grand like loosing loved ones, but rather like our fore-parents we need see our experiences as opportunities to connect.
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A Call for Diversity: The Tower of Babel
While driving down Route 95 on the East Coast, one has the ability to survey hundreds of billboards along the way. They aim to tell the passerby that life without their product is a life that is incomplete. Without that specific phone, insurance plan, TV show or washing machine, one may run the risk of being an outcast, unaffiliated, and simply on the wrong train. All too often, the sole intent of the advertisement company is to draw one away from their current status of living and suggest that uniting with their agenda is the best way to succeed in the world, denying diversity, for the sake of uniformity.
In this week's Torah portion (Genesis 11:1-9) we read about the demands of the nations to create a world of sameness and uniformity: the Tower of Babel.
"And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech… And they said one to another: 'Come, let us build a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth… And the LORD said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; … So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth… Therefore was the name of it called Babel…"
Rabbi Ovadia S'forno (Italy, 16th century) comments that these nations desired to create a world of homogeny because they believed that Man's ability to proliferate as a species (remember we weren't that old yet) would only be possible with universalized speech and thought, hence never causing separation and differences to surface. Surely there have been times where we may strongly relate to these nations' desire for uniformity. By nature, avoiding conflict is one of the basic tenants set out by Anna Freud in her work on defense mechanisms. Granted, placed there in order for us retain our peace of mind, but this was not the intention of our Creator. God did not want us to look the same, speak the same or act the same, and thus the call for diversity caused the tower of exclusivity to crumble.
In the words of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (Germany, 19th century), "Mankind must be scattered, must distribute itself among all the different regions of earth in order that the most divergent and contrary faculties of the human mind may find in nature the needed opportunities of development, in order that experience become full and complete…" We learn here that the Torah does not only welcome diversity, but insists on it. Though we may have been scattered to the far ends of the earth, our ability to create our own borders, languages, and theological premises, has been the gift that allowed for civilization to thrive economically, culturally, and intellectually from Noah until now.
It is our duty as Jews to not only welcome-in the other because it "feels" like the right thing to do, and more so, because God's intentions were never to produce a world of uniformity, but strengthen us to call far and near for a world of diversity.
Shabbat Shalom!
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Amazing and Improbable Transformations for the New Year
Change is an inevitable part of our lives. Most changes, however, happen to us from the outside: we age, we move, the world changes around us regardless of our desires to frame it in a moment. And yet, the most meaningful changes are often those that we set in motion on our own: our voluntary transformations. In the Jewish tradition, the New Year is a time for collective soul-searching and metamorphosis geared towards a positive transformation of ourselves and the world around us.
Central to the liturgy of the New Year is a recurrent Medieval poem which describes God as "a King sitting in a throne of Mercy" (Melekh yoshev 'al kisse Rachamim). But there is something awkward about "a throne of Mercy." Throughout the Bible and Midrash, the idea of a throne is associated with judgment and power. Kings, including the King of King of Kings (God), sit in high and lofty thrones that separate them from the ground. It is from this high and separate place where they dispense justice to the people below. The throne is a symbol of the power possessed by one party and not possessed by the other. Power and judgment seem to depend on differences, on distances and on separation; ideas we seldom associate with mercy, which we imagine thriving in contact and intimacy. As any playground kid knows, forgiveness (mercy´s delicious byproduct) is never really true unless sealed by that handshake or, better yet, a hug. And yet it is incredibly difficult to shake or hug someone who is sitting high above you in a throne.
Thus, the idea of a throne of mercy seems strange, even oxymoronic.
However, it precisely because of this contradictory nature, this image seems to be a perfect metaphor for the time of the High Holidays and the possibilities it encapsulates. The Jewish idea of repentance, teshuvah, is connected to the view of our own free will and our power to create- a power we share exclusively with God. Although we are constrained by limitations set by our physical, social and behavioral surroundings, there is a component in us that is absolutely free and, at any moment, can choose to act in a completely unexpected way. In the same way that a throne does not seem a fitting tool of mercy but rather just the opposite, the power of repentance is such that it can alter the expected shape and function of an object into something that it did not seem it had the power to be.
This wondrous act of transformation is made so much more powerful when it goes viral and the entire Jewish people does it together. That is the true power of the High Holidays: focusing the entire attention and energy of a people into the sole purpose of betterment and transformation. When we, collectively as well as individually, choose to do something unexpected and seek for unity instead of division, for connection instead of hierarchy, for closeness instead of judgment, our true potential as a people and as Jews becomes unlocked.
My personal blessing for these powerful days, pregnant with possibilities, is that we look into those things that we think as unchangeable and set in our lives: our surroundings and ethnicity, our situation and our language. And like the throne of Judgement, see ourselves transformed into an improbable but amazing new people with less hangups, less distance between us and other Jews, between us and our fellow human beings.
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What Do You Call a Questioning Convert? Rabbi.
"Why did you convert?" I have been asked this question many times before, sometimes out of deep interest and sometimes out of polite curiosity. It is a question I am never quite sure how to answer.
It is, after all, a question that does not (and probably should not) have a completely rational, logical answer. Religion is not like algebra; it's not even some sort of complicated spiritual calculus. At the core of it, faith cannot be deduced from a set of rational principles; it requires a leap of the heart.
The problem was that I didn't feel religious, not for a long time. I had spent years envying my friends who were confident in their Christian belief; I only had doubt to console me. And yet, I was also driven by some need, a quiet longing buried deep, like a song I could not quite hear, a desire for something greater than myself. I wanted to pray and feel like it mattered that I did.
Of course, I felt ridiculous for wanting these things; I felt that it was irrational to think I had any concern for God, or that God had any concern for me.
Once when I was small, I left a plastic purse behind in a restaurant. My grandma patiently took me back, and we found the purse still sitting on the floor where I had left it. Happy to have it back, I told her how lucky I was to have found it. She shook her head: "No, God was watching out for you."
My grandma's response sounded reasonable at the time. But as I grew in experience, I slowly came to the realization that God doesn't rearrange his schedule around my convenience. God doesn't even let me choose at which times these things will work out to my advantage. And so I prayed: O God, I wouldn't mind losing now and then, if only I could choose when I win!
When I first started the process of conversion, I really didn't think that I would ever become a Jew. It was inconceivable to me. As a friend of mine once exclaimed when I told her I was converting "you can't become Jewish; that's like saying 'I want to be Italian" — you can't just wake up one day and decide to become Italian." But the truth is, I didn' t just wake up one day and decide to become Jewish. It was a gradual process that took several years.
I would have to say the day I first considered converting to Judaism was the first time I saw a page of the Talmud. I was talking with my boyfriend (now my ex-husband) about my reason for disliking religion (it's one of those conversations college students are bound to have) and I told him that I didn't like the emphasis in religion on having faith in a certain set of beliefs. I felt that my church had not let me have room to doubt or to argue or to disagree. He said that Judaism did not insist on a set of beliefs; in fact, arguing was part of the tradition. I didn't believe him, so he took me down to a bookstore, pulled out one of the volumes of the Talmud (the illustrated gift set, stored next to the presentation bibles). He was quite proud of himself: "See, this here in the middle is the text, and round the sides are the commentary. They're arguing about the meaning of the text." I was immediately intrigued. I could like a people who would write their arguments along the margins of the text.
That day, I started quietly reading about Judaism, hiding the books under my bed. Years later, my husband insisted that I buy just one Jewish book at a time. I was lucky, actually, because I was able to find what I was looking for: a warm religious community at Temple Beth El, and educational opportunities like an Introduction to Judaism, the Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah class, and the weekly Torah study. Maybe my grandma was right after all: God was watching out for me.
The question is sometimes also asked: Could I have found what I was looking for if I had stayed a Christian? The answer probably would have been yes. But it's a moot point now. To paraphrase Robert Frost: I have taken the road less traveled, and for me that has made all the difference. Even so, I recognize that conversion is not the answer for everyone. It is a process a person goes through for their own reasons in their own time. It is, after all, a private choice, probably the most private choice of all. No one can make that decision for you.
So, to answer the question, why did I convert: I converted to Judaism because it provided me a way to answer the longing that I felt. Or to put it more poetically: I changed my name to Israel because I was wrestling with God.
If you're exploring conversion or know people who are, we recommend Anita Diamant's Choosing a Jewish Life: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for the Family and Friends.
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Psalms for the Philippines
Oklahoma City, where I live, has an amazing Jewish community. And, unfortunately, this amazing Jewish community is an expert in dealing with disaster. From the Oklahoma City bombing to the relentless wave of deadly tornadoes that have hit the area, Okie Jews (as we proudly call ourselves) respond with generosity, gumption, and optimism. So when this week our rabbi told us that two relatives of members of the community were in the affected area of Typhoon Haiyan, the community sprung into action. Donations were requested, support for the concerned families was arranged and we decided to help with our prayers by reciting the entire book of Psalms in the coming month (5 Psalms a day covers it all).
In Jewish tradition, whenever disaster strikes it is customary to accompany our physical response together with a spiritual response: prayer, action, and tzedakah (charitable deeds) are the Jewish response to tragedy. Traditionally, prayer come from the book of Psalms with its evocative language of raw humanity and hope has been a preferred tool to raise our awareness of the suffering of those affected but also to inspire us to compassion and proactivity.
As part of my work with Be'chol Lashon, I teach Torah online to Spanish speaking Jews and Spanish speakers interested in Judaism. Inspired by the Okie response, that night I invited my Spanish language learning community on Facebook to join us in the recitation of Psalms for the victims.
"Why are you doing this?" some wanted to know. The answers came from the students themselves. A student from Honduras recalled the help they had received when Hurricane Mitch hit this country. A student from Colombia emphasized the responsibility he felt as a human being with any kind of human suffering. A Mexican student quoted the words of Hillel "If I am only for myself, what am I?" The support was overwhelming. Scores of people volunteered to connect with my brick and mortar community in Oklahoma to reach out in prayer and action for a community halfway across the world.
These feelings of altruism and generosity are not new but what is surprising is the way in which living in a wired world has expanded the breadth of the planet´s capacity for empathy. In this world where no longer are we separated by six degrees (latest studies calculate it at four and plummeting) of separation. A synagogue in Oklahoma might be the vehicle for scores of Latin-Americans to connect with a tragedy halfway around the world and to do so in unmistakably Jewish ways. Tehilim are being said, and donations are being gathered by total strangers for total strangers. For all of its downsides, our global village has allowed the highest forms of tzedakah (in which both the donor and the recipient do so anonymously) to break the barriers of the pushke and the local synagogue and go global.
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Stadio Via del Mare is a multi-purpose stadium in Lecce, Italy. It is mostly used for football matches and is the home of U.S. Lecce. The stadium was built in 1966 and holds 40,670.[2] It takes its name from the street leading to the sea.
Built by Costantino Rozzi, the Via del Mare was inaugurated on September 11, 1966 during a friendly between U.S. Lecce and Spartak Moscow. The stadium replaced the old Stadio Carlo Pranzo, which was named after a young fatality of World War I from Lecce. On October 2 of that year, the first match between teams from Italy was played with Lecce beating local rivals Taranto 1-0. In 1967 Lecce played a friendly match against famous Pelé's Santos here.
The initial capacity was 16,000 spectators. In 1976, the capacity was increased to 20,500 seats. With the historic first promotion of Lecce to Serie A in 1985 the stadium was almost completely rebuilt and capacity greatly increased to 55,000. Both the Curva Nord, now the terrace of the organized fan groups led by the Ultrà Lecce, and Curva Sud, where Gioventù are based were rebuilt. The tribuna and Distinti were also upgraded and then, to ensure that all seats were numbered, capacity was reduced to the current 40,670 seats.
The seats are colored red and yellow (the colours of U.S. Lecce) and on the Tribuna Est is an inscription of "U.S. Lecce". After this almost total renovation, the stadium in Lecce, along with the Stadio Friuli in Udine, was the only stadium ready for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. However the venue allocated to the Puglia region went to the Stadio San Nicola in Bari, which caused some controversy.
During the first day of the Serie B 2007-08 championship, the press room of the stadium was named after the local journalist Sergio Vantaggiato, who died in tragic circumstances in August 2007. The plaque was presented by his son, Martino, in the presence of various local authorities, the management of U.S. Lecce and some journalists of different newspapers.
On November 1, 2007, during a regular training session, lightning struck the ground and killed Antonio De Giorgi, an U.S. Lecce equipment manager.
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The stadium hosted a speech by Pope John Paul II in 1991.
Coordinates: 40°21′55″N 18°12′32″E / 40.36528°N 18.20889°E


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Rajoy, welcomed by a standing ovation, hugs and kisses from fellow party members, said he would announce his government after he is sworn in.
"I know that things are going to be difficult, but I am keen, I have hope and determination to take Spain forward," he told reporters as he left parliament.
Government ministers will formally take office on Thursday and will hold a first cabinet meeting the next day.Rajoy comes into office facing urgent pressure to fix the nation's economy, which has left five million people out of work. There are warnings that a fresh recession is looming.The 56-year-old conservative leader has vowed to create jobs, clean up banks and reassure investors over the country's finances.Public deficit cuts
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Love this Image so pristine and clear… B/W tones are such a compliment to the lighting…. Sepia Looks good as well but I am banking on B/W winning this poll…
I agree with you… the sepia one is totally different and intended to be more like an illustration. This black and white was the first version…. and i loved it!
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My kind of image..the tones in the b/w are beautiful
Beautiful in both versions!
Escellent work, your lighting and tones are just right!
Very lovely. Each treatment lends a different feeling and I find both the sepia and the black and white equally appealing.
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Can I use a 14/3 extension cord with a 16/3 wired microwave???
We have almost finished a kitchen reno.
My old kitchen had an OTR Advantium Microwave which I could not part with but also did not want to use as OTR.
We pulled the unit and have it on a cart and sometime soon my DB(my contractor) will be building a box for it to be
covered by for aesthics. A dedicated outlet was installed at the location BUT after putting the micro in place the cord didn't reach; we never thought to measure the length of it.
For now I am able to plug into the outlet that is in a recessed niche that is for my TV but this is above the microwave so will not work once the box is built, besides being unsightly.
My DB say he would just rewire it but I figured I'd see about a heavy duty extension cord instead. I found one that says it is for AC's but it is 14/3 wired and the micro is 16/3 wire.
Will this be ok?
It is always ok to use bigger wire, which is indicated by a smaller guage number (isn't the world logical?). I.e., the #14 extension cord is bigger than #16 and so is more capable of carrying the current drawn by a load.
The load (microwave) basically draws as much as it needs regardless of the wire, and too small a wire size would overheat. The circuit breaker should trip if the load tries to draw too much. Manufacturers are allowed to use #16 when they design and test equipment to make sure it is safe, so it is ok if they installed #16 coming out of the microwave The smallest wire allowed to be put in house walls is #14, in order to avoid overheating with maximum loads on a 15 amp circuit breaker.
It is a good idea to use heavy extension cords when they are needed for temporary situations. Code prohibits "permanent" use of extension cords in place of fixed wiring.
Thanks billhart; knew that someone would point out the "permanent" thing.
Will see about him wiring it for a permanent fix but in the mean time will use the extension so we lose the add'l hideous cord running up the wall(the situation will still be hideous since the top of the microwave is unfinished but that will be done...).
Wasn't sure which was "larger", thought it was the way you described but wanted to be 100%.
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Why would Kurt Cobain chose the date of Howard Hughes death of April 5th in Texas for the day he would leave the public life in 1994?
It was Kurt who told me about Chris Blackwell, the man who proclaimed me his enemy, Chris' mother having an affair with the James Bond author Ian Fleming, the Blackwell family who owned Crosse & Blackwell, and Albert R. Broccoli who was mentored by Howard Hughes.
I learned much about Hughes, his contributions in aviation, his work in the film industry and about acquiring the luxury steam yacht the Rover from British shipping magnate Lord Inchcape. He renamed the yacht the Southern Cross.
It was during these conversations I made up the song which I requested be recorded by Crosby, Stills and Nash, due to Def Leppard borrowing the lyrics "It's better to burn out than fade away" from Neil Young who has a long relationship with Crosby Stills and Nash. In 1994, Kurt would also use those lyrics of Neil Young in what is considered his "suicide note" addressed to Boddah.
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