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Grady Sizemore has earned just over $23 million in his eight-season career. That's more than you or I might make in eight years in a candle factory or something, but by baseball player standards, that's not at the top of the scale for superstar players. And it wasn't that long ago that Sizemore was a superstar -- one of the dozen or so most covetable players in baseball. FanGraphs has an estimator of what a player's value is based on his Wins Above Replacement, and it estimates that Sizemore has given the Indians just under $120 million in value.
So it's just a little cruel that when Sizemore finally, finally hits free agency, he's on clearance because of slight manufacturing defects. If he were a free agent between 2006 and 2008, he would have received small islands as part of his deal. The team that won the bidding would have airlifted cash and doubloons and emeralds and rubies and foodstuffs to the island, and Sizemore would have just rolled, rolled, rolled around in his newfound wealth.
As is, he'll get a one-year deal.
Which is about right. For three years, Sizemore has been as injury prone as any player in the game, and the microfracture surgery he had on his left knee is somewhat freaky, experimental stuff. It's not like there's a long history of players coming back from the procedure 100%, but that's because there aren't a lot of players who have had the procedure.
But teams will gamble. And all it will take for Sizemore to get a surprising payday are two teams who can't get the 2008 Sizemore out of their heads. Here are the three possibilities for him:
The Paul Molitor
This is the scenario that makes everyone happy. After missing chunks of seasons in his 20s -- and not performing as well when healthy as he did in his early 20s, Molitor built the foundation of a Hall of Fame career in his 30s.
The Barry Larkin
In 19 seasons, Larkin played more than 125 games in eight of them. In the other 11, he was constantly hurt, dinged, and ailing. But he was so danged good when he was healthy, he maintained a substantial amount of value. A team that could get 73 games out of Larkin and 89 out of Pokey Reese was still ahead of the rest of the National League. It was frustrating to see him injured so often, but his Reds were almost always better for having him on the team.
The Kal Daniels
He didn't have quite the career that the above two players did, though it started nicely. In seven seasons, Daniels hit .285/.382/.479, good for an OPS+ of 138. He lead the National League in on-base percentage in 1988 as a 24-year-old. Dude was good. Then his knees melted into a puddle of goo.
If the Daniels scenario doesn't ring a bell, sub in a more recent player. Eric Chavez. Nick Johnson. Nomar Garciaparra. Players with all the talent in the world who couldn't stay on the field.
Interested teams will hope for the first scenario, gambling that Sizemore's latent talent will eventually break through, and that he'll overcome his fragility.
Interested teams might even hope for the Larkin scenario, where Sizemore is a part-time player with a full-time value. When contract offers are made, they might be with 110 games a season in mid.
Interested teams are probably aware that there's about a 90% chance that Sizemore is going to go full Kal Daniels on us.
It's an interesting mix of pie-in-the-sky thinking and cold cynicism with Sizemore. He was just that guy, the one who dazzled the baseball world with his preternatural talent -- the prospect with tools who actually built a freestanding structure with the danged things. The odds of him coming back are low.
Of all the contracts this offseason, the one I'm most interested in isn't the one that Pujols, Fielder, or Reyes will get -- it's the leap of faith that someone will take with Sizemore. One year, $4 million with incentives? Two years, $14 million guaranteed? More? Less? I have no idea. Whoever makes the deal is likely to be disappointed.
But if they have the winning raffle ticket, if it hits and Sizemore is the player of old, he'll be the bargain of the offseason. High risk. High reward. There isn't a player on the market who embodies the risk/reward spectrum quite like Grady Sizemore.


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Disgraced Mass. chemist gets 3 to 5 years in drug lab scandal
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Annie Dookhan sentenced to 3 to 5 years in prison
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BOSTON (AP) - A chemist at a Massachusetts drug lab who admitted faking test results in criminal cases pleaded guilty Friday to obstruction of justice, perjury and tampering with evidence in a scandal that has jeopardized thousands of convictions.
Annie Dookhan pleaded guilty to the charges Friday in Suffolk Superior Court.
She was sentenced to three to five years in prison, followed by two years' probation. She was led away in handcuffs and will begin serving her sentence at a state women's prison immediately.
Her attorney did not comment, and her parents left without speaking to reporters.
Dookhan sent the state's criminal justice system into a tailspin last year when state police shut down the state Department of Public Health lab she worked at after discovering the extent of her misconduct.
Prosecutors said Dookhan admitted "dry labbing," or testing only a fraction of a batch of samples, then listing them all as positive for illegal drugs, to "improve her productivity and burnish her reputation."
Since the lab closed in August 2012, at least 1,100 criminal cases have been dismissed or not prosecuted because of tainted evidence or other fallout from the lab's shutdown.
Prosecutors from state Attorney General Martha Coakley's office recommended a sentence of as many as seven years in prison, while Dookhan's lawyer recommended a sentence of no more than a year. Judge Carol Ball said in a written memo that she would not impose a sentence of more than three to five years if Dookhan decided to change her plea to guilty.
"I believe that that decision, made my the judge, is hers to make. Obviously we make a recommendation that we think is appropriate, we thought five to seven was appropriate. That decision is always going to be in the judge's hands and her's is also above sentencing guidelines," Coakley said.
Dookhan's lawyer, Nicolas Gordon, argued that she made a series of tragic mistakes and that her only motivation was to be "the hardest-working and most prolific and most productive chemist."
"This is not a woman who ever set out to hurt anyone," Gordon argued during a court hearing last month.
Prosecutors, however, said Dookhan's actions had caused "egregious damage" to the criminal justice system and cost the state millions of dollars to assess the damage and mitigate the effect on thousands of people charged with drug offenses during the nine years Dookhan worked at the lab. The court system has been flooded with motions for new trials filed by defendants in drug cases.
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CATEGORIES Drama, Foreign Language, Independent, Romance, Deals, Cannes, Distribution, Newsstand, Movies, CinematicalSony Pictures Classics didn't waste any time hob-nobbin' on la Croisette or catching a 3D showing of Up before buying shelling out some francs for new movies on the opening day of Cannes. SPC snatched up Michael Haneke's latest discomfort-fest The White Ribbon (which is also in competition for the Palme d'Or), as well as the dramatic romance Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky. According to IMDb, The White Ribbon's plot is as follows:
"Strange events happen at a rural school in the north of Germany during the year 1913, which seem to be ritual punishment. Does this affect the school system, and how does the school have an influence on fascism?" Creepy!
The official Cannes site has more information:
"A village in Protestant northern Germany. 1913-1914. On the eve of World War I. The story of the children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the baron, the steward, the pastor, the doctor, the midwife, the tenant farmers. Strange accidents occur and gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual. Who is behind it all?"
Haneke most recently remade his own movie Funny Games in English just in case us dumb Americans didn't fully grasp our own preoccupation with violence and our own culpability in violence just by watching it. Previous films include The Piano Teacher, an adaptation of the book by Elfriede Jelinek starring Isabelle Huppert as a piano teacher who likes to self-harm her hoo-hoo, among other things, and Benny's Video, starring one of the actors from the original version of Funny Games as a teen who films himself shooting a girl with a pig-slaughtering gun.
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Grandma's Marathon is well known for its festival atmosphere before, during and after the race. The crew at Superior Beverages makes sure there are plenty of its products available to quench the thirst of runners, race fans and spectators alike.
The early 21st century saw in the U.S. a demand for diet beer similar to that of the early 1970s, and in 2002 the Michelob line responded with the introduction of Michelob ULTRA, advertised as being low in carbohydrates. Later Michelob ULTRA Amber, a darker, more flavorful beer, was added.
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RESIDENTS in Droitwich have been reminded to check their leaflets or visit Wychavon District Council's website for information on bin collections over Christmas.
The authority's Customer Service Centre at the town's library will be closed from December 24 to December 27 before re-opening on December 28 from 9.30am to 5.30pm.
It will again be closed on December 29, 30 and January 1 although it will be open on New Year's Eve (December 31) between 9.30pm and 3pm. Normal opening hours will resume on January 2.
Customer services manager, Kath Smith, said: "We do our best to provide a reasonable amount of service over the Christmas period but we have an out of hours service for emergency problems such as homelessness which operates all year round.
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Middlesbrough boss Tony Mowbray says this weekend's game against Watford presents a real opportunity for his side in the race for promotion to the Premier League.
Boro go into Saturday's match at the Riverside knowing that a win could put them ten points clear of the Hornets in the Championship table.
Speaking ahead of the clash, Mowbray said: "It would be a huge win for us I think, which would really keep them at arms length and establish a real gap from the play-off positions for us. So it's a big game.
"I don't think of them as six pointers. I just think of them as the next game, another three points, another opportunity to add to our tally to get into the 50s points wise and keep going."
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Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Tuesday took to twitter to condemn the Maoist attack on security forces in Chhattisgarh, which has left 16 people dead including one civilian.
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The number of Maoist-related incidents in Andhra Pradesh has seen a gradual decline over the past five years from 50 offences registered in 2009 to 23 so far this year, according to police.
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Chhattisgarh`s new Director General of Police (DGP) on Sunday said the law and order situation in his State has improved and the Naxalite problem was very much under control.
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In the wake of the 12-day hostage crises that ended after the release of Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh here Friday sought a national policy to deal with such situations.
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Former East Carolina standout Vonta Leach is back with the Baltimore Ravens.
Seven weeks ago Leach was cut by the Ravens after the two sides couldn't restructure a contract. Leach had interest from the likes of the Giants, Chiefs and Dolphins, but failed to get a multi-year contract and came back to Baltimore.
Leach signed a new, two year contract with the Ravens. He paved the way for Ray Rice to gain 1,143 yards last season.
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Nintendo Australia has sent out the latest press release stating that a limited edition gold 3DS XL bundled with the digital copy of Link's latest Legend of Zelda adventure, A Link Between Worlds, will be released on November 23rd. The console is branded with the game's two triforces featured in its light and dark worlds and transforms into a full image when the 3DS XL is opened fully. Nintendo Australia stated that the bundle will be exclusive to EB Games.
17th October 2013 – The month of November is set to be an exciting one for Nintendo fans, with the announcement of a Nintendo 3DS XL console inspired by The Legend of Zelda series. Launching the same day as The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, the new addition is ideal for enjoying Link's new adventure on 23rd November 2013 at a SRP AU$269.95 and available exclusively through EB Games.
With a download code for the game included with this Limited Edition hardware purchase, fans will be able to download the game directly from Nintendo eShop to begin their adventure. For any Zelda fan, the console is instantly recognisable, with the top shell and the inside of the console decked out in an iconic gold colour, and the bottom shell all black, with a Triforce logo emblazoned across each side. When the console is opened therefore, the double Triforce logo of the game is formed!
In The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, which follows on from the story of the 1992 Super NES classic The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, enjoy a whole new adventure in the kingdom of Hyrule where Link can now become a drawing to move along walls, allowing a new dimension when solving the fresh set of puzzles on offer. Other new aspects include greater freedom to tackle the various dungeons in the order you want, while many of the most essential items at Link's disposal will be available early on at a shop run by the character Ravio, who'll let you rent or buy items before embarking on your next dungeon adventure.


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Against my better judgment I accepted the assurance, but when we arrived at 7pm I was told it would be a 45-minute wait for a table. "So, sir, please give me your name and I'll record it, and I'll call you when a table is ready."
So, suddenly, Hugos is taking reservations!
We were advised to go to Hugos bar and have some drinks.
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I think the holidays are the perfect reason to make candy and bake. When else is it perfectly acceptable to go to the grocery store and only buy sugar, corn syrup and coffee? That is exactly what I did yesterday and I am pretty sure I may not go back to the store until after the holidays. Who needs healthy real food over the holidays? I am going to survive on sugar for the rest of 2013!
So in the spirit of the holidays and all things sugar, you should learn how to make marshmallows. Seriously. They are one of those things that you think can never be homemade but once you try a homemade marshmallow, I promise there will be no going back to the conventional ones from the store. Plus, holiday candy that I like to make and give are those that people would never make for themselves. Everyone can make cookies, everyone can make jam, but candy takes a little more time and shows you care. (Maybe I am just reading into candy too much? ) Either way, this marshmallow recipe is a great place to start. Last week I shared my recipe for salted caramel candies as the perfect gift giving holiday candy and today I am adding my toasted coconut marshmallows to that list.
Once you master the marshmallow base (which is pretty simple, I promise), you can make a million different types of marshmallows. I made toasted coconut marshmallows because I like the crunch against the chewy texture but you could add peppermint instead of the vanilla and dust it with cocoa powder to get a holiday themed treat or even dip the marshmallows in melted chocolate. Once you get the base down, which is really easy, it is just gelatin, water, sugar and corn syrup, you can make any kind of marshmallow you can dream of.
What do you think, are you ready to master marshmallows? You can totally do it.
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- 1 cup light corn syrup
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 7 ounces sweetened shredded coconut, toasted
- Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
Toast the coconut by putting the coconut on a sheet try and into a 250 F oven for about 10 minutes. Keep an eye on the coconut, it can burn easily. Remove once it is light brown.
Combine the gelatin and 1/2 cup of cold water in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment and allow to sit while you make the syrup.
Meanwhile, combine the sugar, corn syrup, salt, and 1/2 cup water in a small saucepan and cook over medium heat until the sugar dissolves. Raise the heat to high and cook until the syrup reaches 240 degrees F on a candy thermometer. Remove from the heat.
With the mixer on low speed, slowly pour the sugar syrup into the dissolved gelatin. Put the mixer on high speed and whip until the mixture is very thick, about 15 minutes. Add the vanilla and mix thoroughly.
Sprinkle half the toasted coconut in an 8 by 12-inch nonmetal pan. Pour in the marshmallow batter and smooth the top of the mixture with damp hands. Sprinkle on the remaining toasted coconut. Allow to dry uncovered at room temperature overnight.
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Michael Card, multiple Dove Award-winning musician and award-winning author of inspirational books, spoke in chapel at Bryan College Monday through Wednesday, March 21-23.
Mr. Card, whose 1983 song "El Shaddai" was named one of the "365 Songs of the Century" by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts, spoke on the theme of Easter in his three chapel programs. In addition, he addressed a Commoner Forum on the topic "The Lost Language of Worship" on Tuesday in the Bryan College Library.
Mr. Card's 2002 book, Scribbling in the Sand, received the Chicago Book Clinic's "Award of Excellence" in the General Self Help category and Publisher's Weekly's Best Religion Book award.
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SPRING HILL, Tenn. - Getting ready for an expected increased in demand for cars, General Motors is expanding operations and going to 24-hour shifts in several of its factories to boost production.
The move means thousands of job opportunities which will be offered first to GM workers at plants that have either shut down or idled, like the one in Spring Hill.
"This is a direct result of the improvement in the marketplace," said Local UAW Chairman Mike Herron. "We feel pretty strong that it's going to open up some opportunities for our team members who would like to do something other than remain here in Spring Hill."
An estimated 2,400 jobs at plants in Kansas, Michigan and Indiana will need to be filled, along with 600 more jobs at parts factories.
GM under its contract with the United Auto Workers will reportedly pay to move auto workers from other cities like Spring Hill, but for many who have made their home in the Mid-State, the choice would be a difficult one.
"We have a lot of team members here who have no interest in that, a lot of people have kids grandkids and their roots are deeply committed to this area but there are some team members that we have also that are very interested in what their opportunities are," said Herron.
The Spring Hill plant is expected to shift into standby mode sometime in November.
The facility will cut down to around 800 workers who will build engines and parts.
Herron continues, "When the average person out there on the street starts feeling like they can spend money again and their jobs are secure and they're very positive about the outlook on the economy, then I think we're going to see the car industry improve."
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Marion Davies outlived the much older Hearst by only ten years. She was not allowed to attend his funeral and was persona non grata among the surviving Hearst family members after that. Initially claiming that Hearst had left most of his estate to her, she was later forced to back down from her claims by California community property laws that favored Millicent and the five Hearst sons. Instead of fighting, Davies meekly yielded millions of dollars for the sum of only one dollar.
Orson Welles died in 1985 at the age of 70. The general consensus among film historians is that he peaked early with the making of Citizen Kane and produced little of any significance after that. For many years he was a favorite guest on talk shows and is best remembered by the present generation for his TV commercials in which he says, "Paul Masson will sell no wine before its time." Ironically, Welles and Hearst only met once, and little was said between them. It was in an elevator in a building in San Francisco where the film was apparently being premiered. Welles offered Hearst some free tickets but the tycoon declined to answer. Welles later stated that if the same person had been Charles Foster Kane instead of Hearst, he would have probably accepted the offer.
In addition to The Cat's Meow, there was another movie about Davies and her relationship with Hearst, this one made for TV. The Hearst and Davies Affair, which aired in 1985, starred Robert Mitchum as Hearst, Virginia Madsen as Davies, and Kimble Hall as Ince.
Charlie Chaplin, after another two decades of scandals, paternity suits, legal troubles, and other unfavorable publicity, finally decided he'd had enough. On June 16, 1943, at the age of 54, he settled down, married 18-year-old Oona O'Neill (daughter of the famous playwright, Eugene O'Neill), and basically dropped out of the Hollywood scene. He and Oona spent most of their long marriage together in Vevey, Switzerland, along the shore of Lake Geneva, raising the eight children they had together. He died there on Christmas Day 1977, widely heralded as an iconic figure in motion picture history.
Ince's widow, Nell, never remarried and spent many years after his death as a recluse. The pension Hearst provided for her was wiped out during the Depression and, later in her life she was either a taxi driver or a taxi dancer; the accounts can't seem to agree which one it was. More than likely it was the former, since taxi dancers were generally young and attractive, something Nell Ince wouldn't have been by that time. She died in 1971 at the age of 86.
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The Department of Energy said Friday it would give $564 million in stimulus funding to 19 projects aimed at turning biomass into fuels, chemicals and power.
The grants are hoped to help the federal government meet its aggressive deadline to get 36 billion gallons of biofuel production up and running by 2022 – a goal government and industry analysts have said will be hard to reach (see Feds Propose Controversial Biofuel Mandate, Offer $800M to Boost Production and U.S. Won't Meet Its Own Biofuel Mandate).
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- American Process Inc., of Alpena, Mich., will get $17.9 million to build a plant to make 890,000 gallons of ethanol and 690,000 gallons of potassium acetate from processed wood.
- Amyris Biotechnologies, of Emeryville, Calif. will get $25 million to help build a pilot plant to use its genetically altered yeast to turn sugar from fermented sweet sorghum into hydrocarbons closely resembling diesel fuel, as well as lubricants, polymers and other petrochemicals (see Amyris Pledges $82M to Go Commercial in Brazil).
- Archer Daniels Midland, of Decatur, Ill. will get $24.8 million for a facility to use acid to break down biomass to convert to ethanol or ethyl acrylate.
- Clearfuels Technology, of Commerce City, Colo. will get $23 million for a plant to make woody biomass into diesel and jet fuel using processes from the company and partner Rentech (see Rentech Plans Wood Waste-to-Biofuel, Electricity Plant).
- Enerkem will get $50 million to build a plant in Pontotoc, Miss. to convert municipal wastes into syngas for conversion to biofuels (see Green Light post).
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A NEW scheme has been launched for business leaders who are able to make time for a lunch break.
The Evolution Business Centre, in Northallerton, is holding a series of 'lunch and learn' workshops next year.
They will begin on January 31 with a talk on planning growth and over the next four months will look at marketing on a shoestring, social media and finance.
Centre manager Marie Banks said: "From speaking to business leaders it is clear they want to get together and learn from others' experiences, but they are short of time to do it.
"But everyone stops for a lunch break so we are going to combine that with some bite-sized business briefings on a twice-monthly basis.
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The sessions will take place on January 31, February 14 and 28, March 14 and 28 and April 11 and 25. Each workshop costs £5 and includes lunch.
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Piglet's second adventure in Maimu's house, where he ventures upstairs and finds a dolls house with electric lights. He meets new characters, and finds the house cat as a soft and warm friend.
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Grats on the Mount Jos :D
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The Philadelphia basketball community just lost another special person. Alonzo Lewis, former Darby High and La Salle University basketball standout, died in a car accident on Tuesday night, Feb. 21. Lewis was one of the all-time great players and coaches in the Philadelphia area. He was a trailblazer for so many people who played the game of basketball. Lewis, 77, was a person who certainly made a difference in the lives of youngsters for a long time.
Lewis was a big time player at Darby High. He scored 1,048 points in his career. He was a 6-foot-3 guard who could do it all. He could handle the ball, shoot from the outside, hit the open man, rebound and defend. Lewis was a complete player. There was no question about it.
It was no surprise that a school like La Salle recruited him. The biggest thing was the timing. There weren't many African Americans playing at the five city schools. Jackie Moore, former Overbrook High star, preceded Lewis at La Salle. Moore was a real pioneer. He was the first Black Explorers' player. He was also the first African American to play for the NBA's Philadelphia Warriors.
Lewis played three seasons with the Explorers. He played on La Salle's 1954–55 team, which dropped a 77-63 decision to the University of San Francisco in the NCAA championship. That San Francisco team had Hall of Famer Bill Russell. Lewis scored 1,137 career points while averaging 13.8 points a game during those years. Lewis was inducted into the La Salle College and Big 5 Hall of Fames for his basketball prowess.
"If it were another time, he would have been an NBA player," said Jay Norman, former Temple basketball standout. "He had the size. He had the ability. It was just not the time. You figure he was a year after Hal Lear (ex-Temple star). Lear didn't make it and was a great shooter. Al [Lewis] was bigger. It was just the times. A year after Al, Guy (Rodgers) comes along and had a great career (at Temple). A year makes such a big difference."
Lewis did play in the old Eastern League, which featured some great players like Wally Choice, John Chaney and others. He played against the best. Lewis knew competition would bring out the best in every player.
Lewis and his good friend George Carey from Darby used to take players everywhere to play the game. Charles "Pete" Coleman was a terrific shooting guard for two back-to-back state championship teams at Darby-Colwyn High (1962 and 63). Coleman played with Hal Booker, Sonny Realer, Dave Kennard and Adrian Harmon on those state championship teams that posted a 50-0 record over that two-year period. Lewis had a big impact on Coleman's game.
"He used to come to my house on Saturday morning," Coleman said. "It would be early on Saturday morning. He would get me up and take me up to (Darby) Township to play basketball. He had me playing one-on-one fullcourt. He wanted me to be in shape. Then, he would take me in the city to play at Tustin (Recreation Center, 60th and Lancaster) and Marian Anderson (Recreation Center, 17th and Fitzwater).
"I remember Al and George took us down to (Washington) D.C. to play basketball. We played against Dave Bing down there. He loved basketball. He believed in discipline. He's going to be really missed."
In addition to being a mentor, Lewis was a sensational basketball coach. He coached Geoff Arnold during his scholastic career at Darby Township. Arnold played on some marvelous teams under Lewis' tutelage. He also went on to have a magnificent college basketball career at Saint Joseph's University. He is now an assistant basketball coach with the Hawks.
"Al was the man who introduced me to Philadelphia basketball," Arnold said. "He took me down to South Philadelphia. He dropped me off with Claude Gross who coaches in the Sonny Hill League. I played for the South Philadelphia team in the Hill League. Al introduced me to so many people over the years. I remember he took us out to Cheyney State when John Chaney was the head coach there. We had a chance to watch Cheyney State practice. His relationship with John Chaney and all the guys in the Eastern League was incredible.
"He used to pile five and six guys in his car and take us to summer league games. He truly cared about the kids. I told a guy about him and the Sonny Hill League. We're able to do the things that we're doing because of Al, Coach Chaney, Claude Gross, Tee Shields, Tony Samartino, James Flint Sr. and Cal Smith. Those guys gave their time for the betterment of us. I'm talking about Bruiser (Flint, Drexel head coach), Monte' Ross (Delaware head basketball coach), Horace Owens (La Salle assistant), Jeff Battle (Wake Forest assistant) and others who are now college basketball coaches."
Lewis coached at Darby Township and Academy Park for several years during the late '70s and '80s. After that, he moved to Chester High where he had a tremendous 10-year coaching career (1985–1995). He posted an impressive 237-67 record. In 1989, he led the Clippers to an amazing 30-2 record and a PIAA state championship. Following his Chester High coaching career, he was later the head coach at Cheyney University. Fred Pickett was an assistant on Lewis' Chester staff and later succeeded him at the head coach there. Pickett will never forget the basketball legacy Lewis developed over the years.
"He has meant so much to the enrichment of the basketball program and the model he put in place," said Pickett, who was the head coach at Chester for 13 years, posting a 331-80 overall record while winning three state championships. "He had so much knowledge. He really cared about the kids. We're looking forward to doing a memorial tribute next Saturday night (at Chester High on March 3 at 1 p.m.). He did everything with the kids in mind. He wanted them to grow. He wanted them to grow as young people. He gave them a lot of exposure."
In addition to coaching, Lewis was a public school teacher. He placed a lot of emphasis on achieving on and off the court. Lewis lived in Chadds Ford with his wife, Kathy, and daughter, Alison. The other survivors include another daughter, Anastasia, along with three grandchildren. The funeral arrangements are not complete at this time.


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End of the world-Postponed
You might have seen the movie "2012", based on the Mayan apocalypse that the world will end at 31 December 2012. There' have been a dramatic change of date of so called Mayan apocalypse. It may be a good news or bad news situation for believers in the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. The good news (atleast for me)the Mayan "Long Count" calendar may not end on Dec. 21, 2012 (and, by extension, the world may not end along with it). The bad news for prophecy believers? If the calendar doesn't end in December 2012, no one knows when it actually will – or if it has already.
A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook "Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World" (Oxbow Books, 2010), argues that the accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years. That would throw the supposed and overhyped 2012 apocalypse off by decades and cast into doubt the dates of historical Mayan events. (The doomsday worries are based on the fact that the Mayan Calendar ends in 2012, much as our year ends on Dec. 31.)
The Mayan calendar was converted to today's Gregorian calendar using a calculation called the GMT constant, named for the last initials of three early Mayanist researchers. Much of the work emphasized dates recovered from colonial documents that were written in the Mayan language in the Latin alphabet, according to the chapter's author, Gerardo Aldana, University of California, Santa Barbara professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies.
Later, the GMT constant was bolstered by American linguist and anthropologist Floyd Lounsbury, who used data in the Dresden Codex Venus Table, a Mayan calendar and almanac that charts dates relative to the movements of Venus.
"He took the position that his work removed the last obstacle to fully accepting the GMT constant," Aldana said in a statement. "Others took his work even further, suggesting that he had proven the GMT constant to be correct."
But according to Aldana, Lounsbury's evidence is far from irrefutable.
"If the Venus Table cannot be used to prove the FMT as Lounsbury suggests, its acceptance depends on the reliability of the corroborating data," he said. That historical data, he said, is less reliable than the Table itself, causing the argument for the GMT constant to fall "like a stack of cards."
Aldana doesn't have any answers as to what the correct calendar conversion might be, preferring to focus on why the current interpretation may be wrong. Looks like end-of-the-world theorists may need to find another ancient calendar on which to pin their apocalyptic hopes.
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Nail Houses
Theses photographs show a typology of almost derelict houses, as well as the still lively neighborhood, in which they are located. These images mainly photographed in the middle of the night, hint that the ruins are still inhabited, according to that one last light that is shimmering through the windows or the doors. The series appreciates the urge for people to hang on to their original homes. "Nail House" is a term for buildings belonging to people in China who refuse to leave their homes to make way for new apartment developments.
Informal Arrangements
Informal Arrangements features the interiors of South African shantytown shacks. These photographs speak of the desire to arrange ones home comfortably using the few means available.
Case Study Homes
Case Study Homes is actually a sketchbook. The collapse of the Lehman Brothers Bank and the paranoia about a second global economic crisis gave these images another dimension.
Having a home means having roots, which is not the same as being rooted to the spot. This is not a project about Germany as homeland per se. Rather, it creates a fixed image of a personalized bit of visual and cultural history.
Paradise Now
Paradise Now presents fragments of naturesome of them mise en scène, others untouched by urban growthon the periphery of the artificially illuminated infrastructure of large Asian cities.
Lost in Transition
In new project, I examine the transformation of urban wastelands, many of them located on the peripheries of cities. The photographs were taken in more than twenty-eight cities and fourteen countries.
In Neon Tigers, I merge the seven Asian cities of Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Jakarta, Singapore, and Shenzhen into a virtual megatropolis.
XXX Holy-Journeys
Over a period of three years, I made several journeys to India, where I visited religious sites and explored the mystique and the soul of the Indian subcontinent.
Rungholt was once believed to be the Northern Atlantis. it was submerged, so noone exactly knew where it was or when it had sunk into the sea, only that this has happened. In 1362, long before climate change became a media darling, a vast storm tide swamped Rungholt, something that could not be verified until the 1930s. There are no photographs of Rungholt but an idea of it.
The Project Eden explores the boundaries between picture taking and pictures making. Shot at the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa in December 2010 I look at the relationship between believe and science.
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With an emphasis on cross-cultural communication and social behavior, members will gain a newfound respect and knowledge not only of the similarities that bind cultures (and individuals) together, but also the factors which make them unique and distinguishable from one another. In an increasingly multi-cultural world where cross-cultural dialogue has become the norm, a proper understanding of the similarities and differences between cultures, and between individuals, has become increasingly necessary not only to avoid conflict, but also to foster friendships and relationships.
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Recently I was approached in Denver and was asked where I would watch my Kansas City Chiefs games, and I determined many people have this same problem in cities around the country. So I want to propose we make a list of Kansas City Chiefs bars. So if you know of bars in major cities that are exclusively Kansas City Chiefs bars or atleast Kansas City Chiefs-friendly. List them here:
Gibby's, 1555 South Havana, Aurora, CO 80012. They have all the Direct TV sports packages and lots of TVs. The food is very tasty and it's a good time especially since the Broncos don't play until 2:15 p.m.
Blake Street Tavern, 2401 Blake Street, Denver, CO 80205 (303) 675-0505
BQ's, 16961 E Quincy Ave, Aurora, CO 80015 (303) 693-1915
www.Bargating.com usually lists sports bars where to watch your favorite team, but has none listed as a Kansas City Chiefs bar.


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LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) - The team set up to review Lansing Board of Water and Light's handling of the December outages is getting right to work. The all volunteer panel met early Thursday morning to discuss some keys to focus on.
Committee leader Mike McDaniel says he's going to make every second count. "With every crisis there's an opportunity," McDaniel said.
An opportunity for this review team to figure out where Board of Water and Light made mistakes and how they think the utility should fix them.
"Did they train their employees, was their emergency plan up to date," McDaniel said.
McDaniel and the board says that starts with asking the company a series of questions and finding the facts.
"If the board had better situational awareness in terms of the number of customers without power, their response may have been different," one member said. The committee says that includes review everything from communication with customers to the cleanup process.
"What efforts have been made to access and have tree trimming and do we need a different policy relative for tree trimming, " said committee member Bill Long.
Committee member Darnell Earley says their review should even look at how Board of Water and Light operated before the December outages.
"We're talking about a regional utility here and at some point there has probably been some form of review of that and I'd like to see that," Earley said.
The team also plans to compare bwl's response time to other utilities.
It's a complex process that McDaniel says will come from experts and the public's help.
"I think that there will be some suggestions that we haven't heard yet, we haven't considered, we're the community reps, so we want to hear from the community and I know collectively will come up with the right solutions," McDaniel said.
The review teams plans to present those to the public and Board of Water and light March 31st.
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ALEXANDRIA, La. – On Monday, Eric Moran, president and CEO of Aces Baseball, released the following statement regarding the future of the team and petitioning support from the community for Bringhurst Field:
"The Alexandria Aces and Bringhurst Field need your help along with the central Louisiana community. Due to the city's recent actions, Aces' fans and Bringhurst Field supporters must show their commitment to Bringhurst Field and the Aces, if they want positives to come from the recent city decision to close Bringhurst Field down after the Aces' season for future developments/decisions.
The final two home games for the Aces for the 2012 TCL Season:
These last two games may be the last two Aces' games that will be played at Bringhurst Field, as you know it today. We are asking all of central Louisiana to show your support of the Aces and Bringhurst Field to help make the city's decision to keep Bringhurst Field open for future events.
I appreciate all the support that the local media provides for the Aces and our organization would like to thank you all for your help and support to make the Aces successful."


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The wheels are really coming off now - of course, if the vehicle in question turns out to be a "Scooter", it really doesn't take more than one before it becomes an issue. Still, a guilty verdict in the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is a clear sign that the end, or something very much like it, is near for the Pinhead regime.
Dennis Collins, a juror on the case, said he was intrigued when defense lawyer Theodore Wells raised the idea the Libby was being made a scapegoat for White House political strategist Karl Rove. "There was a tremendous amount of sympathy for Mister Libby on the jury. It was said a number of times, 'What are we doing with this guy here? Where's Rove? Where are these other guys?'" Collins said. "I'm not saying we didn't think Mister Libby was guilty of the things we found him guilty of. It seemed like he was, as Mister Wells put it, he was the fall guy." And Mister Wells, defender of poor Scooter, suggested the only way he would lose the case was if they allowed their feelings about the Iraq war and the Bush administration to influence their decision. In the end, a jury decided that there was a difference between having a bad memory and lying. And Scooter was on the wrong end of that equation.
Here's something to ponder: Libby could face up to twenty-five years in prison when sentenced June 5, but federal sentencing guidelines will probably prescribe far less, perhaps one to three years. In other words, about two years - just about the same amount of time we have left with Pinhead. The clock continues to tick.
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That Libby juror asked the right question: where's Karl?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDaRFf7Cd6M From Talkleft, LMAO. With apologies to Eminem. (How often do you get to say that)?
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Our backyard party at Kelly's house got buck-wild in seconds flat! Those amateur sluts stripped ass naked and got down licking each other's cracks and pussies. They took turns sharing our cocks and moaned so loud we had to finish our foursome inside!
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The amateur sluts in this clip barely needed any encouragement to act on all their filthy fantasies in the party bus. Chloe gave Zoey a raunchy lap dance, then ate her pussy, before taking turns wetting down the dicks of their two lucky guy-friends.
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Lexi Davis and Brooke Wylde were getting too crazy for the St Patty's day party, so they decided to make their own fun. They got the party started with a public BJ, and then brought it back home so their dudes could fuck those amateur sluts right!
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - HBO and James Gandolfini's managers say the actor famous for his role in "The Sopranos" has died in Italy.
The cable channel, and managers Mark Armstrong and Nancy Sanders, say the 51-year-old Gandolfini died Wednesday while on holiday in Rome.
In a statement, HBO called the actor a great talent and a gentle and loving person.
Gandolfini played conflicted mob boss Tony Soprano in the groundbreaking HBO series that aired from 1999 to 2007.
His film credits included "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Killing Them Softly," and he appeared in the Broadway production "God of Carnage."
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So my truck, 91 Silverado....was wired so that both Lo and High beams burn when you are on high (from factory, Lo's would shut off).
The Fog Lamps that were installed, were setup so they burn constantly.....
Well here in VA. this is a no-no.
You can only have 4 Lamps burning, so if the Highs come on, then the Fog Lamps have to turn off.
How do I rewire this thing so it will shut off the Fog Lamps when Highs are on?
I was thinking if I could wire the Fog Lamps to the old Lo beam circuit then that would correct the problem...so when Highs are turned on, the Lo Beam circuit would cut off......
Would this work and how do I do it?
Another thing of note.
Since they rig'd this to run both lamps, there is a dual relay system setup.
So one relay powers the Hi and Lo beams, then this relay feeds constant power to the relay that the Fog Lamps hang off of.
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This is my first Elis album. Quite honestly this is one of the more refreshing metal albums I've picked up recently. Last purchases being Epica's Design Your Universe, Krypteria's Liberatio and In In Medias Res, as well as Avantasia's The Scarecrow.
This album features some pretty darn amazing vocals and some of the most interesting song craft I've heard in some time. I'm reminded strongly of Sirenia's more recent albums with solid vocals, and some heavy and creative guitar work.
More of a metal romp than the symphonic heavy Epica genre so if you're after more full symphony metal this isn't your strongest candidate. All in all a great album to pick up for the collection.


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UPDATE (8:45 p.m. ET): NASA has announced that they have successfully adjusted Odyssey's orbital location — using a 6-second thruster burn — to be in a better position to provide prompt confirmation of the Aug. 6 landing of the Curiosity rover.
ORIGINAL: Hoping to take a little of the anxiety out of the risky Mars Science Laboratory landing, NASA is attempting to coax its planned real-time communications relay into better position to monitor the entire seven-minute descent and touchdown on Aug. 6, officials said Tuesday.
NASA had been counting on its Mars Odyssey spacecraft to provide key real-time telemetry data from a newly arriving sister probe, nicknamed Curiosity.
But a maneuvering system glitch last month left Odyssey in a different orbit than expected, possibly leaving NASA in the blind for several hours about whether Curiosity's landing was successful or not.
To land the one-ton rover, engineers designed an exotic rocket-powered aerial platform to fly to the landing site and gently lower the robot to the ground. The system can't be fully tested on Earth, which has different gravity and atmosphere.
Curiosity is to spend two years exploring Gale Crater, located near the Martian equator, to see if it has or ever had the ingredients and environments to support life.
Mars Odyssey's position won't directly impact the landing, just the time it takes for NASA to learn Curiosity's fate.
Two other Mars orbiters, as well as the Earth-based Deep Space Network will be tuning in to monitor Curiosity's descent and landing, but only Odyssey would be able to convey the data real-time and for the full duration of the descent and landing.
NASA public affairs officers say they expect to know later today if Odyssey's move was successful.
Image: Computer-generated image of daybreak at Gale Crater, the destination of NASA's Mars Science Lab. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech


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Navy ports of Southeastern Virginia and other military towns across the country bustle with activity when ships leave for deployments overseas. Piers are continually lined with children and spouses waving their farewells as the ships pull away on their six-month missions.
But what happens to the children when mommy or daddy leaves on a Navy cruise? Michelle Kelley, an associate professor of psychology at Old Dominion University, has just finished a unique study looking at those issues.
Kelley's research reveals that children of deployed mothers experience higher levels of sadness and anxiety and exhibited higher levels of behavioral problems than children with non-deployed Navy mothers.
Kelley says that while there is a good amount of documentation on what happens to both parent and child when fathers deploy -- she herself did a study on fathers deploying during the Gulf War -- there is virtually no research on the impact when mothers deploy.
This is an issue of importance as women continue to fill the military ranks and increase in numbers aboard deploying vessels. Kelley's research has studied women from virtually every ship with mixed-gender crews in the Norfolk area that deployed during the last three years, including the aircraft carriers Theodore Roosevelt and the John C. Stennis, the destroyers Hayler, Barry, Laboon and Briscoe, the cruiser Vella Gulf, the salvage ship Grasp, the amphibious assault ship Wasp and the dock landing ship Tortuga.
Today, there are more than 50,000 women sailors, 40 percent of whom have children and 2,500 of whom are single mothers. For deploying mothers, issues include missing developmental milestones; dealing with negative child behaviors before, during and after deployment; the quality of child care during her absence; and feelings of guilt about deployments.
In addition to discussing her findings and some of the problems, anxieties and difficulties these children encounter, Kelley highlights warning signals and offers suggestions and solutions for military parents.
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Spokane Police Department Press Release:
Police responded to a report of a stabbing at around 6:00 on Sunday morning at
a four-plex at 2000 N. Lincoln. One resident was having a loud party and
another resident and his wife confronted in an effort to get them to quiet
down. An apparent guest of the party house stabbed the wife/victim twice and
fled. When patrol arrived, they were unable to contact anyone at the party
address and believe it likely that not only the guests fled, but the residents.
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investigation by Ofc. Cole, K. Gately, & Coleman, they were able to develop
information that lead to the arrest of Shanda F. White 5/4/92 for 1st
assault at about 3:30 Sunday afternoon. The investigation also
revealed that the stabbing victim's husband (Shane B. Holestine 5/10/85) was
directly involved in helping White hide from police; the investigation showed
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CHICAGO, Ill. -- The wife of Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. says it's up to his doctors to say when Jackson will return to work.
Jackson has been missing from Washington since early June.
On Thursday, Sandi Jackson confirmed that her husband is at the Mayo Clinic.
"He was depressed, plus he was extremely exhausted. And, he was mal-absorbed from not getting enough nutrients. I have every confidence in the doctors at Mayo, that they will come up with the right combination of medications," said Sandi Jackson.
She said her husband has no addiction issues and that some of his problems are tied to his stomach surgery, a duodenal switch, done several years ago. He had been suffering from stomach ailments for close to eight years.


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Homemade Stuffing with Roasted Chestnuts, Peaches and Sundried Cherries
1 large onion chopped fine
5 ribs celery chopped fine
2# butter
Sautee Onion, Celery and butter until translucent
Combine the above with 4 loaves Italian Bread cubed
5 Cups Chicken Stock
3 Cups Roasted Chestnuts
3 Cups Peaches
1 1/2C Sundried Cherries
1/2C Brown Sugar
2TBLS Sage
2TBLS Poultry Seasoning
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Baked on 325 Degrees for approximately 1 hour.
Homemade Cranberry Sauce with Orange Zest
4 bags Fresh Cranberries
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4 Cups Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice
Zest from above 4 Orange
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4 Cups Water
Combine cranberries, sugar, Fresh Orange Juice, Zest, Orange Juice and Water in Pot and cook over medium heat for approximately 1 hour until cranberries are broken down. Add Jell-O to pot after approx. 45 min of cooking and mix well.
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Mt Hutt 'all systems go' for 40th season opening
Immaculately groomed slopes and a genuinely warm welcome await avid skiers and snowboarders.....
Queenstown's Coronet Peak ski area first to open in Australasia
Queenstown's Coronet Peak ski area today (June 8) celebrated in style as the first Australasian ski field to open for winter....
Coronet Peak first ski area in Australasia to open on Saturday
Queenstown is officially open for winter as the 2013 season kicks off at Coronet Peak on Saturday (June 8).
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort: # 1 Snow in the Rockies Opened 4,139', Top to Bottom Today.
Ski Areas Go Out With A Bang!
Season extension and half price passes
Second Gondola Accesses World's Highest Ski Area (24-May-11)
A new gondola has been installed at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in China...
A new gondola has been installed at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in China, the world's highest
ski area. It's the second gondola to be installed at the site by Leitner, who completed the original lift in 1999. The new gondola runs using the same support towers as the original lift up to its top station at 4506m. Unusually however the new cabins, which are eight passenger rather than the six passenger originals, runs below the old lift on a separate, lower cable. The old lift remains in service for occasional use when needed. It has 50% greater capacity than the old gondola – up from 800 to 1200 people per hour.
Originally Jade Dragon did not offer snow sports, but with the subsequent growth in popularity of skiing in China, a small surface lift was installed at the top of the gondola allowing people to ski at the top of the gondola. Ski writer Jimmy Petterson also skied down the mountain when researching his book, 'Skiing Around The World', but this is not encouraged by the Chinese authorities and Jimmy reports it is not possible to ski the full vertical anyway. The snow area at the top is known as 'Glacier Park Yulong Snowy Mountain.'
As well as being the world's highest ski area, Jade Dragon was previously the world's highest gondola lift too. However in 2008 Doppelmayr built a higher gondola with eight passenger cabins which reaches 4,843m above sea level to access The Aba Great Glacier in Sichuan province, about six hours driving time from regional capital Chengdu, also in China. But there is not reported to be any snow sports here.
The former world's-highest-ski-area at Chacaltaya in Bolivia (5221m), South America is reported to have been closed for several years after the previously permanent snowfield on which it was based melted away due to climate change.


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Michael's Seafood helps Ashley High School and is Bringing "Theme Night" Back Sept 3rd
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Shelly McGowan present's Ashley High School Coach with a check after the Save the Track Night.
Monday September 3rd, 2012 Michael's Seafood will be brining their theme night menus back to the table! On Mondays enjoy "Prime Rib Night." Get their juicy slow roasted prime rib in your choice of petite, queen or king cuts. Also on Monday nights select bottles of wine will be featured half off their regular price.
On Tuesdays join Michael's for All You Can Eat Snow Crab Legs and you can wash it down with half priced select margaritas. Wednesdays are 50% off night at Michael's. All dinner specials are 50% off and so are select "Michael's House Favorite Drinks". Michaels knows how hard everyone on the Island works in so they are aiming reward us all with their "Local Appreciation Night," on Thursdays. Come on in and enjoy half price appetizers, half price miller lites and half price wines, all because Michael's loves their locals. Friday nights are $10 Nights at Michael's as they offer all of the their dinner specials for just $10 and also $10 buckets of domestic beer. Get your weekend started right at Michael's. Join Michael's on Saturdays for all the college football you can handle and take advantage of their $5 Burger menu from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Also on Saturdays Michael's offers great Chef's choice dinner specials and Bartender's choice drink specials. On Sundays come to Michael's to watch your favorite NFL games and enjoy the $1 beer specials and the $3.50 Bloody Mary's to help you recover. Also on Sundays Michael's will be offering 50 cent wings from opening until 4:00 p.m. in many tantalizing flavors and they will offer a $10 "Homestyle Dinner Special."
Michael's Seafood isn't just great place for food, their community involvement is unsurpassed donating to many organizations in the area. Recently the restaurant held a benefit night for Ashley High School's track with a portion of the evenings proceeds going directly to the rejuvenation of the track.
You can find Michael's Seafood Restaurant and Catering located at 1206 North Lake Park Boulevard. You can stop by for lunch, dinner, or a personal catering consultation 7 days a week between the hours of 11:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. If you would like to inquire about Michael's menu or order take-out you can give them a call directly at 910-458-7761. If you would like to view a copy of their menu or learn more about the restaurant you can visit their website at www.michaelscfood.com. You can also find Michael's Seafood Restaurant on Facebook. Become their Facebook friend and get regular updates on news, events, and specials happening all year long at Michael's Seafood Restaurant in Carolina Beach.