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"Amnesty Day helps the city as far as the court is concerned, helps clean our books of old fines, and it helps residents get a reduction in their fines that they may have," said Hattiesburg Mayor's Assistant John Brown.
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I think some people are just going with their "best-fit" guess, but it really wouldn't work if we take into account those small anomalies. However, the 3D models may distort the work a bit but still...
...I am hoping this is a new Pokemon :D
Its gotta be an already known Pokemon if it can be traded into BW2. I don't even see what this could be an alternate forme of either, though thats possible I guess.
Wonder what other sites are saying about the "Mystery Bird"?
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the body shape would have to have changed completely. pidgeot is shaped like a lemon, this is a pear, and the neck isn't thick enough, and theres other random stuff sticking out of the head that doesn't belong on pidgeot.
they aren't saying anything - people assumed ho-oh or archeops right off the bat and didn't think much of it. i noticed it was weird right away though... and doesn't match archeops or ho-oh at all unless they changed a lot in their design.
It obviously is not Ho-oh, but Archeops is still a possibility. The odd part is that if it is Archeops then its missing some parts, oddly its tail which shouldn't be that hidden.
I am now also starting to see the "hands" that The Outrage was talking about. Archeops has them for example, but not Pidgeot.
N set by smallladyIdeals/Truth
Ugh why do they have to silhouette everything? What the hell is that thing? It reminded me of the Loftwings from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword...but the wings don't fit.
Maybe because it's in 3D, we can't match it to any 2D art?
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the 3D image they showed of ralts for the game was the same as other 3D models (nothing strange or changed)... so we should be technically able to match it up exactly to some angle of previous models... yeah?
Your both right, the feet area is too different and its missing alot of feathers that stick out. Unless its a big redesign or something for the new APP.
Its a mystery then, thought can't be Gen 6 if it can be traded into BW2. Another new forme? But of what?
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I'm telling you that Game Freak is trolling and the original dragon is actually a bird...
goes along with my theory that Archeops is both the ancestor of birds and air born dragons
@sunyshore Could you send Masuda a question about this mystery?
if it is a new pokemon of some kind, he'd have to ignore me or give me some roundabout answer, and either one would indicate it's new and implicate him... i'd feel kind of guilty, he's like my friend ;_; we'll know soon enough. only two more months till the game now. :D
But if is a new Pokémon, then we're supposed to be speculating about it. Surely they don't expect us to think it's an existing Pokémon if it isn't actually one.


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The Most Overrated and Underrated Players at Every Position in the NBA
By Zach Harper ,
We should be clear about this before we get into talking about which players at each position are the most underrated and overrated guys: It is is completely subjective.
I can think a guy is underrated because all I hear, read and consume are fans and pundits talking about how a player isn't really that good. You may think that same player is overrated because the people you encounter on a daily NBA discussion basis always talk him up as being one of the better players.
In instances like that, whose reality is wrong?
There are plenty of times in which the two worlds intersect in a balanced way. We may think Ty Lawson is underrated because not enough people talk about him. It's also possible we find Kendrick Perkins to be overrated because his defense isn't made for the more athletic NBA we watch today, and his offense makes puppies sad.
However, getting people to agree universally on which players are and aren't rated properly is never going to happen. People have biases in favor of their favorite players and against those players they choose to dislike.
Want to see people freak out about how good or bad a player is? Ask them who the top five point guards in the NBA are and what the order is.
My method for determining who is overrated and underrated at each position is going off what I encounter on a daily basis. Through Twitter and my job with ESPN, I end up getting a ton of different opinions on a weekly basis about which players are bad and which players are good. I also hear a lot about which players aren't as good as we think and are much better than we think.
Then I compare them with how I view them within the grand scheme of NBA effectiveness and importance.
Many of you will agree with me and many of you will disagree with me. Let's do this.
Let's get another thing out of the way right up front. Me saying a guy is overrated doesn't necessarily make him bad. You can still be really good and be overrated. You can still be one of the best at your position in the NBA and be overrated.
Andrew Bynum is arguably the second-best center in the NBA. Some people seem to think it's a lock for him to be right behind Dwight Howard, and some people actually pretend he's better than Dwight Howard, which is completely boggling to minds. Bynum is an extremely good player and one of the better centers in the league, but he's not hands down the second-best center.
Bynum can't be covered one-on-one in the post. He's simply too strong and has too good of a touch around the rim to be handled by one big man. In fact, I've broken down before just how good he can be for Philadelphia if he's used properly.
Bynum is one of the better big men in the league at moving without the ball. He knows how to take up space in the paint and when to get there. He cuts to the basket perfectly and does a great job keeping the ball high when he receives the pass.
It wouldn't shock me if he averaged more than 20 points per game this season.
What would shock me is if he remained as efficient as he's been with the Lakers the last couple years.
Bynum flat-out couldn't handle a double team in Los Angeles. It didn't matter that he was playing with two of the best players in the world at the time either. If the defense threw a double at him in the post, it looked like he'd rather be in the fetal position than post position. You can get by with that deficiency when you're playing with Pau and Kobe, but what happens when you replace them with Evan Turner and Spencer Hawes?
Bynum will still be really good, and maybe Doug Collins can figure out how to break his new big man's timidness in the post when doubles come his way. But there are still a lot of people who tend to believe he's on par with Dwight Howard.
That's pretty overrated in my book.
If you ask me who the second-best center in the NBA is, I'll say Marc Gasol gets the slight nod over Bynum.
There's not really anything Marc can't do on a court. His versatility and lack of needing to dominate the ball to influence a game are reasons I think so highly of him.
The value of a guy who doesn't try to do too much and can seamlessly float in and out of the offense is often underrated. Marc can run the big-man role of the offense out of the post and in the midrange areas of the floor. You can't leave him open around the top of the key because he shot 43.6 percent last season.
This makes it even harder to double the post because you know he'll pick you apart if you leave him. He can drive the ball if you close out too hard on him. He can find the cutter or throw a perfect pass after his teammate re-posts. And considering Rudy Gay and Zach Randolph are two of the best post players at their respective positions, having a big man that complements them so perfectly is a huge weapon for Memphis.
And that's really what makes Gasol so great as a big man in today's NBA. He's a perfect complementary player.
You could probably feature him in an offense and get 20 points per game if you needed to, but that's how you bog down an offense. In today's NBA, help defense schemes are so good that you don't allow offenses to just pound the ball into the post like you could 10 to 20 years ago. Because of that, you need big men who are more versatile.
You need guys who can pass, dribble and knock down a 15-footer. The game has evolved into fewer positional standards, and more finding guys who can do a bit of everything and keep the offense moving.
Gasol was one of four guys in the NBA last year to average at least 14 points, eight rebounds and three assists per game. He's also one of the best defensive centers in the league. He can defend the pick-and-roll, is one of the best perimeter defensive centers and is often in great help position.
Memphis missed Z-Bo for 58 games last season and won at a higher clip than the previous breakout season. Part of that was having Gay back for a full year, but the biggest part of that was Gasol being the anchor everywhere the Grizzlies needed him to be.
Josh Smith is one of the most dynamic help defense players in the NBA.
He can guard small forwards, power forwards and the occasional center, while still providing coverage all over the floor when the ball swings to the other side. Opposing teams can never feel great about a shot getting off cleanly when he's on the court because he uses his long, man-on-stilts strides to cover ground in the blink of an eye before he swats away whatever you've thrown up.
He's lurking in the half court, and you can hear his footsteps in transition. He's the NBA equivalent of the defensive end rushing the quarterback from the blind side. More often than not, he's not going to get to you, but that doesn't mean you don't feel his presence on every play.
My problem with his game is on the offensive end. He just doesn't seem to know how to even approach his potential.
He's in love with a jumper that doesn't fall that often. He needs to know it's not him, it's the jumper. The jumper doesn't love him nearly as much as he loves it and it's become an unhealthy relationship.
Last season, Smith had a true shooting percentage of 49.9 percent—the worst mark of his career. According to HoopData.com, he attempted 6.3 shots from 16 to 23 feet per game. He made just 37 percent on those long two-pointers. Of the players that attempted six or more shots from that distance, only Monta Ellis (38 percent) joined Smith by shooting less than 40 percent.
Nearly half of his shots (7.9 of his 16.5 per game) come from beyond 15 feet, even though he makes just 34.4 percent of those shots. It's this horrendous shot selection that he insists on settling for that keeps me from thinking he's an elite player at his position.
Also, he's practically useless on offense at the end of games. Look up nearly any breakdown of X amount of minutes (five or fewer) and a score within plus/minus five points, and he's shooting less than 40 percent.
If Smith could figure out how to do more pick-and-roll instead of pick-and-pop, he'd be a devastating offensive weapon. Hopefully, that can change with the ball in Jeff Teague's hands more this year and less in Joe Johnson's mitts. Otherwise, Smith is going to continue to be a one-way player when he thinks he's a two-way guy.
OK, I swear to you I haven't been paid off by the Gasol family.
I just happen to think they're two amazing and under-appreciated basketball players.
There's the idea out there that Pau Gasol is soft, not really that good and he no longer can get the job done. I happen to think all of those statements are nonsense. I'm on record saying I think Pau should be the No. 2 option for the Lakers this coming season.
Some people took that as me thinking he should take the second most shots on the team. That's not the case at all. It means he should be given the decision-making process within the offense the second most of anyone. Whether he decides to shoot the ball or pass it off for a scoring option is up to him. And I trust Pau to make the correct decision with the ball.
Gasol's skills are so vast that there really isn't one way to use him. Often with a big man, people assume you should just pound the ball into the post and get out of the way. But why would you ever limit Pau's game that way?
His post game moving toward the baseline might be better than anybody else in the league. That's mainly because his face-up game is so incredible.
With Pau, you have to defend against his lanky steps toward the lane off the dribble. But you can't back off and give him the jumper. He shoots more than 40 percent from everywhere inside the three-point line—other than the left corner.
Because of this versatility, Pau is able to face-up against defenders, get them off balance and then immediately pivot into a post-up situation and gain the advantage. It's the best way for him to often post-up in the half court because he isn't great at rooting himself into deep post position.
Then you have the passing skills that come with his post-up and face-up games.
But what's really the most underrated part about Pau's game is his defensive ability. He's one of the better big men defenders in the NBA and people don't seem to realize it. He defends the pick-and-roll better than most big guys, and he's an elite defensive player when it comes to guarding the post.
Opponents shot just 36.1 percent against him in the post last season. He challenges shots extremely well. Even though he doesn't block a ton of shots, he's consistent at changing shots to get them over his reach.
I'm not sure I'd necessarily agree if you called him the best power forward in the NBA, but I'd have a hard time coming up with an definitive argument against such a claim.
I'll admit this one is a bit of a stretch, but there really aren't a ton of small forwards that people are more polarized about.
The reason I picked Danny Granger here is because there are people out there who still want him to be involved in their favorite team's offense. And he's really not that good anymore.
Granger used to be a budding star. In fact, he was turning into a walking dagger on the court. He was a guy who couldn't be guarded effectively in the half court. He could bury you on the perimeter, take you into the post or just leave you on an island while he isolated against you.
As Granger has approached the age of 30, he's become less and less effective on offense, and yet he still insists on taking a lot of shots. Most guys hit their prime between 27 and 30 during their NBA careers, but Granger seemed to peak at 25. Since then, it's been a steady decline toward "My god, why is he taking so many bad shots?" territory.
Last season, he had the second worst shooting performance of his career. His true shooting percentage was at 54.2 percent (worst since his rookie year) and his field-goal percentage was a career-low 41.6 percent. What's odd is he's still an effective three-point shooter (38.1 percent).
The reason for his steady decline is he's no longer a threat to beat you at the rim. HoopData had him last season with the second fewest attempts at the rim per game and the lowest percentage made at the rim for his career. You don't have to worry about him blowing by you, so now you can contest his jumpers off the dribble with a lot more aggressiveness.
So how does he remain with a usage rate of more than 25 percent?
That's the question I actually have for head coach Frank Vogel.
Here's the list of guys who shot less than 42 percent from the field while having a usage rate more than 25 percent. How many of those guys do you want heavily involved in your offense outside of Deron Williams and maybe, Lou Williams?
Before you freak out at this (it's actually probably too late but I'm going to pretend you want my reasoning for this before you react), hear me out on Carmelo Anthony.
I think the negativity thrown at Melo's game has swung too far on the spectrum of what is and isn't reasonable criticism for a player. Is Carmelo a great all-around player who can rival the production and effectiveness of LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Chris Paul and other stars in the NBA?
Absolutely not.
Is Anthony still one of the most effective players in the world?
I say he is.
Melo is a ball-stopper on offense. Last season, he did try to make more of an effort to move the ball and be a distributor. His assist percentage skyrocketed from 15.3 percent in 2010-11 to 21.0 percent in 2011-12. This increased passing effectiveness was accompanied by just a small increase in his turnover percentage (9.4 percent to 10.8 percent).
But Melo is actually at his best when he's a ball-stopper because the focus that opposing defenses have put on him. That is a very underrated aspect in evaluating players today. With a guy like Melo, who can score from anywhere on the court, it puts an extreme amount of pressure on the defense to take away his scoring chances.
He hasn't diminished athletically to where he can't still get to the basket. Yes, he's more likely to take a jumper than he is to attack the basket, but he still attacks the basket quite a bit. And he can score on you in the post, which is probably his most effective way of attacking a defense. You have to key in on him and that allows everyone else to play with more freedom.
For all of the bad press that Melo gets as a selfish basketball player, he doesn't seem to negatively affect his team's offensive production. Two years ago, when Denver traded Melo to New York, everyone lauded the play of the Nuggets after he left because they were the most efficient offense in the league by season's end.
What people fail to remember is they were still the best offense in the NBA when Melo was there that season. Denver had an offensive rating of 109.8 before it traded Anthony, and was at 108.7 after the trade. The Knicks had a 107.8 offensive rating before he arrived and a 109.8 after he got there.
Last season, offense around the league fell, most likely due to the lockout effects. The Knicks had an offensive rating of just 101.4, which was good for 19th in the NBA. But with Melo on the court, they had an offensive rating of 102.5.
If his teams are consistently playing better offensively with him on the court, is he really hurting his team when he's stopping the ball on offense?
He is a poor defender, although he was pretty decent playing power forward last season. He's never going to make you think about Michael Jordan or Larry Bird when you watch him, but to pretend he's a guy that doesn't help his team (like many do) seems to be ignoring the evidence in front of our faces.
Do you realize how few really good shooting guards we have in the NBA right now?
This used to be one of the sexy positions in the league—a position that left us dreaming about flight, dribbling and shooting ability all wrapped into one god-like basketball player. Now, everyone has either become a big point guard or a smaller small forward. There is a dearth of great shooting guards in the league, probably because of the game's evolution.
There are so few good shooting guards that I almost tried to make a case for DeMar DeRozan being the most overrated shooting guard before I realized: One, I don't think people really believe he's that good and two, nobody really even cares about reading things on DeRozan right now.
Eric Gordon made the list simply because he's always injured.
This is a fact that many remember, but there is still a solid contingent that maintains he's one of the elite shooting guards we have in the game.
There's no denying his skills on the hardwood. He's a bulldozer in the half court who ends up being stronger than most bigs at the rim. He can absorb your contact like Shang Tsung taking your soul, and still finish the play before heading to the free-throw line, where he's a career 80 percent shooter.
He's also a legitimate threat at the three-point line. He's a career 37 percent shooter, which means he's effective enough to keep you honest and your defensive slides uncomfortable. You have to close out on Gordon, but you have to be careful in how you do it because he'll blow right by you.
But I probably don't have to tell you how good he is as a player.
The problem is we rarely get to see it. Before the Chris Paul trade, there were Clippers fans furious at the idea of giving up Gordon in the package for CP3. It was giving up too much for "an injury-prone guard."
What's amusing about that line of thinking is since Gordon has been in the league, he had missed more games (50) in three years than Paul had missed (43).
Gordon was the guy missing significant numbers of games over the previous seasons and yet, Paul possessed faulty health because he had a recovering knee injury?
Last year, he played in just nine games. Part of this was due to injury and I'm sure part of it was due to letting the young guys play to see who belonged next year. Regardless, it was another year of Gordon missing a big number of games, while we wondered what it would be like if he stayed on the court.
Hopefully this year, we'll finally get to see that and put him in the class with the few remaining elite shooting guards.
Some day, we're going to look back at Manu Ginobili's career, look at his overall numbers and there will be people who wonder why we thought he was so special.
This kind of drives me insane.
His career averages of 15 points, 4 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game aren't anything to truly marvel at. His career shooting percentages of 45.2 percent from the field, 37.3 percent from the three-point line and 83.5 percent from the charity stripe are very good, but nothing otherworldly.
And really, it's all because he's been the perfect example of why the Spurs system works better than almost any other organization year in and year out. Manu is willing to sacrifice his own personal glory for the betterment of the team.
When you think about it from his perspective, he has nothing to gain by being selfish and wanting to be the star in the NBA. If he becomes a superstar in the NBA by logging more minutes and demanding the ball more, he gains a few more fans while probably ruining the system. Considering he's a God in his home country and will never have to buy another Argentinian meal the rest of his life, he's perfectly comfortable playing the role of complementary assassin.
I always knew Manu was one of the better players in the league during the 2006 and 2007 seasons, but it wasn't until I saw Kobe Bryant on Inside the NBA during the 2007 Playoffs that I recognized how truly special Ginobili is. Kobe was brilliantly breaking down various aspects of Manu's game and doing so with such delight and enjoyment. He talked about how unorthodox and brilliant Manu's ability was to get free for shots.
When you have Kobe in his prime marveling at how good a player is, that guy is truly one of the elite.
Fast forward to 2012 and Manu hasn't really fallen off that much, despite being 34 years old. He went through some injuries last year, but it didn't stop him from putting up ridiculous shooting percentages of 52.6/41.3/87.1 when he was on the court.
When you push his production out to per 36-minute numbers, he averaged 20 points, 6.9 assists and 5.3 rebounds per game. Only LeBron James put up per 36 minutes numbers similar to Ginobili.
Yes, Manu is getting older and he isn't dominating the ball when he's on the court, but he makes everybody on his team a lot better. The Spurs operated with an absurd 118.0 points per 100 possessions last season when Manu was playing.
He's still one of the best weapons in the league and he leaves opponents wondering if that last move that sliced them up was legal or not. It was legal and it was spectacular.
Rajon Rondo is one of the most overrated players in the league, primarily because the Boston Celtics fan base seems to be so vast and loud on whichever medium they're using to talk about their favorite team.
Celtics fans are everywhere and they love to defend their players. The problem with this is because we've become such a "shout over the next guy and take your point to the extreme" society, you have a lot of Celtics fans claiming Rondo is the best point guard in the NBA.
There isn't a single thing Rondo can do that Chris Paul can't do, and do at the same level. Both are bothersome and effective defenders at the point-guard position. Both are two of the best passers in the NBA who can turn almost anyone into an offensive weapon. Both players can break down a defender with ease.
But Rondo does struggle shooting the ball at a high volume and he can't make free throws. You don't say that about Chris Paul.
Rondo is incredibly dynamic on the court and is a great weapon, even though he's often passing up scoring opportunities to get others involved. He could stand to be a bigger weapon scoring the ball because it will probably keep defenses honest.
You don't want the ball anywhere near his massive hands at the end of games because he might go to the free-throw line, which has to scare you a bit as his fan.
Rondo greatly benefited by going through his growing NBA years with three Hall of Fame players flanking him on both sides of the ball. It accelerated his growth in terms of being an effective NBA player and catapulted him into the limelight.
Just because he's a triple-double machine doesn't mean he's the best point guard in the NBA. He has big flaws in his game that still need to be addressed.
For being such a great distributor, his team still was 24th (98.9) in the NBA in offensive rating last season, and not even a top 15 offensive team when he was on the court (101.5).
Because Celtics fans can reach so far with their voice and make it so loud, he's really become the most overrated point guard in the NBA.
Which leads us to...
Rajon Rondo is also the most underrated point guard in the NBA.
The Rondo discussion is actually probably the most ridiculous argument we have in the "NBA lexicon" outside of rings determining how good a player is.
It could be because Celtics fans are so adamant and loud in favor of Rondo that the discourse swung too far the other way. Or maybe it's because Rondo is so under appreciated by fans around the NBA who don't love the Celtics that it caused Boston fans to rise up and scream to the heavens proclaiming Rondo's greatness.
It's the classic case of "Which made you want to bang your head against the wall first: The chicken or the egg?"
The argument I just relayed against Rondo is certainly valid on some level. And yet, it completely ignores many tenets of basketball who also root themselves into the importance of what happens on the court.
Rondo is arguably the best defensive point guard in the NBA. Others vying for the title are Chris Paul, Mike Conley and Kyle Lowry. If you want to call Avery Bradley more of a point guard than an undersized shooting guard, then it would be him. But Rondo is certainly in the discussion.
Some people would argue that point guard defense doesn't have a big effect on the game, but I disagree with that a lot.
Rondo gambles an incredible amount on the defensive end because he is quick enough to recover and long enough to really bother opposing lead guards. But because he's such a nuisance on the defensive end, it causes initiators to be more cautious with protecting the ball. When that happens, you have a defender harassing the dribbler, moving them farther out toward the half-court line and making longer passes to initiate the offense.
That most likely leads to shots later in the shot clock because the offensive sets take longer to get into. Doesn't that sound like something you'd want your defense to do? Harass the ball and make them shoot later into the clock?
Yes, the Celtics are better defensively when Rondo's on the bench. Overall, they're the second best team in the league defensively with a 95.5 rating, and that rises to 96.4 when he's on the court. By the way, a defensive rating of 96.4 is still good for second in the NBA. So they lose zero ground in the league rankings defensively when he's on the court.
Offensively, he's not a great shooter but he's also not a guy who takes a lot of shots. He knows his limitations on offense and doesn't try to do anything he thinks is a bad idea. Over the last two years, he's shot 40 percent from 16 to 23 feet. He just doesn't take many of those shots because he's more of a quality over quantity type of player.
The argument that he's only good because of his teammates also needs to end. KG isn't even close to the offensive player he was in Minnesota. Ray Allen was a shell of his former self last year and Paul Pierce isn't exactly a greatly efficient scorer anymore. Rondo may have been helped in his development because of the Hall of Fame players he teamed up with, but that has nothing to do with him playing at a high level as those guys significantly decline.
There are people out there who think it's ridiculous to have Rondo in the top five point guards conversation. Maybe it's a response to those Celtics fans who think he's the best. Maybe it's not.
For every argument against Rondo, there seems to be a completely divergent set of standards that pump up his standing in the league.
For all of these reasons, Rondo manages to be the most overrated and underrated point guard at the same time.
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My husband is in the military, and when he is away from home, it's hard to come up with meals just for myself. After finding I had some leftover items from making lasagna, I came up with this recipe. —Jennifer Juday, Copperas Cove, Texas
- 3 lasagna noodles
- 3/4 cup ricotta cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon minced chives
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
- 24 slices pepperoni
- 3 slices Swiss cheese, cut into thirds
- 1 cup meatless spaghetti sauce
- 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- Cook noodles according to package directions; drain. Combine the ricotta cheese, chives, oregano and basil; spread 1/4 cup over each noodle to within 1/2 in. of edges. Top with pepperoni and Swiss cheese; carefully roll up.
- Place seam side down in a greased shallow 1-qt. baking dish; top with spaghetti sauce. Cover and bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until bubbly.
- Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Let stand for 5 minutes before serving. Yield: 3 servings.
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Very good! This was simple to prepare and both my husband and I liked it very much.
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Simple and very good. It's great just the way that it is but the next time I will make 4 of them so I can use up the full 8 oz container of ricotta cheese. I'll increase the rest of the ingredients accordingly. I might also add some browned ground sausage and use pizza sauce rather then the spaghetti sauce.
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These are so easy and yummy!!!!! Will make this again!


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Steady Growth Leads To Expansion Of Superior Linen's Muskogee Plant
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TULSA, Okla. – Superior Linen Service Inc.'s laundry business, incorporated in 1984 with 20 employees, has steadily grown over the years to encompass three facilities, 350 employees and state-of-the art machinery. Serving 4,000 business customers, Superior Linen washes 600,000 pounds of linen a week and more than 1 million napkins monthly.
The family-run business which began in 1954 was started by Irving Waldman, grandfather of Doug Waldman, Superior Linen's current president. And through the years – much has changed. To accommodate accounts which were pushing plant production to its limit, a $2 million, 10,000-square-foot expansion was added to the Muskogee, Okla. plant.Unlike the company's Tulsa and Springdale, Ark. plants, which chiefly launder a handful of small local healthcare accounts and hospitality linens – napkins, tablecloths and garments for restaurants and country clubs, the Muskogee facility solely services 80 healthcare facilities in four states -- Oklahoma, Western Arkansas, Southern Missouri and Southern Kansas.
"In 1997 we had the same three plants we have now, but prior to that we were doing our large healthcare accounts at whatever of our three plants was closest geographically to that account," said Doug Waldman, president. "Then in '97 we moved all the accounts to the one facility. The tradeoff was higher distribution costs but the benefit was the focus at the plant. In the healthcare market, the focus of the plant was more important than the higher distribution costs."
When additional accounts put the Muskogee facility over where Waldman wanted to be as a single tunnel plant – expansion was the solution. Originally a one-tunnel plant, the expansion allowed Muskogee to create a duplicate set of its original wash, dry and finish production lines, whose main components are a 12 module Milnor tunnel washer, five Milnor 335 pound gas fired dryers, a Jensen 3 roll steam-heated flatwork ironer with a Constellation sheet folder and a Braun blanket folder.
"I don't want to run machinery more than basically 12 hours a day because I want at least as much down time as up time to give us a safety margin," said Waldman. "With the extra equipment, we have a reliability factor [in timely production] in case one line goes down."
Additional benefits have been realized, says Jim Owens, general manager at the Muskogee plant. Before the expansion, yearly production was approximately 11-million pounds in two shifts. Current annual projections are 15- million pounds on one shift and still only tapping 85 to 90 percent of possible production capacity. In addition, energy savings have been realized.
"With the rising cost of gas, electricity and water, we now operate this building 32 hours less per week than we did in the past," says Owens. "Previous production required five days per week with two full shifts and the current schedule runs one shift six days per week." The plant employs 103 people including supervisors.
"The biggest challenge facing us when we decided to expand was the meshing of the two shifts," said Owens, adding that the people adapted well due to a philosophy of the teamwork concept at Superior Linen. "Together, everyone achieves more."
In total, the plant launders linens and related healthcare items for 80 properties including two hospitals which account for 27 percent of total yearly production. Additional new equipment purchased at the time of the expansion includes a Milnor 125 pound washer and 135 pound gas-fired dryer, Jensen Logic sheet feeder, and one Jensen small piece folder.
Equipment already in the plant was a Uniwash 125-pound washer, a 120-pound Ajax steam-heated dryer, an American 8-roll steam heated ironer, a Chicago Edge sheet feeder and folder, a Chicago small piece folder, a Braun small piece folder, a Western Automation steam tunnel, two Norman and four Superior lift tables, three Speedcheck roll-up tables, a Norman cart dump, and Saniwash cart washer.
With the addition of the second tunnel washer, the increase in water demand propelled Superior Linen to add a water holding and distribution tank and pumps, supplied by Thermal Engineering of Arizona, so that city water pressure was no longer an issue to supply the tunnel washers. The plant is environmentally conscious - using a Kemco heat recovery system to recycle the final rinse water in both tunnel washers for initial rinse of soiled linen.
"Based on our history of growth and other potential accounts that are in our four state market, including OPLs that are considering closing, competitor accounts, and new hospitals that are being built, we think the risk to go ahead and expand the plant was the right thing to do," said Waldman
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(left) Steve Allman ran into bad luck during his Budweiser American Short Tracker heat race. He would recover to finish seventh in the feature later that night.
(right)Even the young drivers came out to compete on a cool night in the Popeye's Mini-Grand Prix.
(left) Johnny Zellinga won the FIRA/Rascal Outlaw Challenge.
(right) Tim Melvin (55) holds off BJ Sparkman (70) to take home his first Budweiser American Short Tracker Feature win.
(left) Tim Melvin, winner of the Budweiser American Short Tracker Feature.
(right) Ron Morris (3B) and Rick Nielsen (27) battle for position during the NASCAR All-American Sportsman feature.
(left) Chris Gantz, winner of the NASCAR All-American Sportsman feature.
(right) Ryan Carlson (17) uses the inside line to get past Bob Kahler (7) en route to the Stanley Steemer NASCAR Late Model feature win.
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Summerís Child begins with a prologue recounting the disappearance of Mara Jameson from her seaside Connecticut hometown.† Newspaper photos accompanying the story showed Mara to be a radiantly beautiful, happy young woman who was eagerly expecting her first child.† Although her husband was questioned, he was never charged with any foul play and the case remained a mystery.† Nine years later, two individuals remain deeply affected by Maraís disappearance Ė her grandmother Maeve, who raised her after the death of Maraís parents, and Patrick Murphy, a retired police detective whose obsession with the case destroyed his marriage.† †
The scene then switches to Cape Hawk, Nova Scotia, where Lily Malone lives with her daughter Rose.† Lily is the owner of a needlepoint store and much beloved by her friends, the Nanouk Girls, who rally around Lily in her devotion to Rose, born with a serious heart defect.† Lily also accepts the help, begrudgingly, of Liam Neill, an oceanographer whose involvement with the two Malones helped bring him out of the isolation heís endured since a tragedy destroyed his family and left him permanently maimed.† When Lily meets Marisa, the mother of Roseís new best friend Jessica, she realizes that the two women have a shared, heartbreaking experience in common. †She tries to convince Marisa that she can trust the other Nanouks to protect her and Jessica.† But then Roseís health problems become critical, and Lily realizes just how much she has come to depend on Liam.† She will have to trust him with the secrets about her past, which is finally about to catch up with them all, even the newest Nanouk Girl.† †
As always, Riceís stories are well-written and fast-moving, making a 400 page novel a quick, page-turning read.† Her belief in the power of sisterhood, wherever it is found, is commendable, she eagerly conveys her love of nature, and the touch of whimsical fantasy she includes is enchanting.† †
But after reviewing the numerous Luanne Rice books Iíve read in the past seven years, I was struck by how much her style has changed.† Earlier in her career, her characters were multi-layered and complex.† Their actions were sometimes misguided but few of them were completely evil, and there were few clear heroes and villains.† The violent murder/suicide that started Firefly Beach was the impulsive but not malicious act of a desperate man.† The hockey-playing protagonist of Summer Light could be difficult and emotionally unavailable at times, but ultimately he proved to be heroic.† †
Contrast those examples to Summer Lightís villain, who kicks puppies and runs Internet cons while masturbating to porno websites.† Or the bookís hero, whose silent devotion to the heroine has never wavered for the past nine years.† Riceís writing contains little sophistication these days, Light reads like Lifetime movie in the making, complete with copious tear jerking moments courtesy of a sick, noble, wise-beyond-her-years child.† †
Summerís Child ends with many plot issues unresolved, but fear not, its sequel, Summer of Roses, is not far behind.† Unfortunately the sequel is being released in† hardcover, so if you want the complete story of the Mara Jameson saga you will have to shell out more than thirty bucks for the two books.† I suspect the decision to lure the reader in with a paperback and then switch to hardcover was made by the publisher, not the author, but it is still a bit on the sleazy side.† Consider yourself warned. †
Summerís Child isnít the weakest novel Luanne Rice has written, but itís far from her best.† Now that Bantam is re-releasing some of her older books (including long out of print gems such as Home Fires and Stone Heart), the contrast between her earlier and later styles is even more glaringly obvious.† If you want standard Womenís Fiction, check out her work after 2002.† If you want less predictable, less sugarcoated work, stick with the earlier Rice.† †
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Andralamusya - I love this particular offering for it's boldness with the source material- and from researching a bit more on the topic, I think you did a fantastic job converting the figure of Hel in a sensitive yet imaginative way.
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