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Big K.R.I.T.'s minute-long "Just Last Week" snippet gets the full treatment as the rapper released the song in its entirety today. Originally featured on his King Remembered In Time mixtape, the track enlists Future for his usually infectiously melodic hook abilities.
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The 1920s and '30s were the original glory days for this city by the sea, a playground for well-to-do holidaymakers. Lincoln was a favorite of that same crowd. Both Miami Beach and Lincoln embraced the modern design zeitgeist, Miami Beach with its many Art Deco buildings and Lincoln with its streamlined Zephyr followed by its instant-classic Continental. In the decades that followed, however, both Miami Beach and Lincoln lost their cachet. Each, in its own way, became a warren of the unglamorous elderly.
Unlike automobiles, which are restyled every few years, buildings usually are stuck with their original design -- and in an area that's economically downtrodden, it's not worth knocking down old buildings to replace them with new ones. Miami Beach was in that preservative limbo for years, until some visionaries realized that its Art Deco buildings had been out of style for so long that they actually were back in.
Most notable among those visionaries was Barbara Capitman, who founded the Miami Design Preservation League. In 1979, the organization was able to establish the Miami Beach Architectural Historic District -- the first twentieth-century district in the National Register of Historic Places. With a new appreciation for the city's architecture, Miami Beach's renaissance began. The transformation has been dramatic. Old buildings have been restored to their original grandeur, and new ones have joined them. An international crowd of beautiful jet-setters has colonized the revitalized Miami Beach and turned it once again into a playground of the fabulous, and those who wish to be.
Today, Lincoln's stewards dream of a similar reinvention for their brand. They would like nothing more than to see Lincoln reestablish the position in the luxury-car pantheon that it held during the first Miami Beach heyday. Unlike Miami Beach, however, Lincoln cannot get there with designs of the past. Yet the brand is hoping for a design-driven renaissance, with dramatic new styling that starts with this car, the 2013 Lincoln MKZ.
"We don't want to look back and dwell on the past," says Lincoln design director Max Wolff -- although he does acknowledge that the MKZ team had Ford designer Moray Callum's '61 Continental in the studio. Wolff contends that the MKZ "is pretty much a clean sheet." Importantly, the MKZ bears no likeness to the car on which it's based, the 2013 Ford Fusion, a vehicle that makes a design statement of its own. All body panels are specific to the MKZ, as is all the glass. Lincoln has been struggling with its so-called split-wing grille, and here the designers seem to have finally gotten it right. The front end is distinctive, as is the rear with its full-width taillights, which will become a Lincoln signature item. The sleek profile makes the Lincoln look longer, and it does indeed stretch an additional 2.4 inches compared with the Ford.
The two sedans share a 112.2-inch wheelbase, and that's not great news for the MKZ. As mid-size sedans go, the Fusion isn't very spacious -- you'll find a roomier back seat in a Honda Accord or a Toyota Camry, to name just two -- and the MKZ is even worse. Compared with the Fusion, the Lincoln loses 1.3 inches of rear-seat legroom and 6.4 cubic feet of passenger volume, and headroom under the sloping roofline is marginal. Our test car was kitted out with Lincoln's biggest wow feature, a full glass roof that opens and slides backward over the rear window, although it further constricts the view to the rear when it does so. Available with the top three trim packages, it's a pricey option at $2995, but it dramatically brightens the cabin.
Also dramatic is the interior architecture, but some functionality is sacrificed to its sleek design. MyLincoln Touch is present, of course, and while it looks great, its drawbacks remain -- chief among them are tiny touch points that require too much concentration to use, unreliable reactions that can have you stabbing at the screen more than once, and novel but fussy slider touch bars in place of knobs for volume and fan speed. The flat-panel buttons for the rest of the climate controls work better, as they're larger and more responsive. The other novel bit is the use of a push-button automatic transmission in place of a shift lever. This bit of future tech first appeared in 1950s Chryslers and Packards, but no matter -- it works just fine and is easy to adapt to. It also allows a cleaner center-console design and opens up more stowage space.
Credit the MKZ's interior design for being distinct from the Fusion's. The seats, too, are different, softer and more comfortable than what you find in a Ford. Given that our test car was a top-spec Preferred trim level, however, the materials -- on the dash, the door panels, the steering wheel -- could have been better. This is not yet a cabin to worry Audi, and yet that's exactly what Lincoln needs.
While Lincoln has broken away from Ford with the car's exterior and interior, there are, of course, shared mechanicals underneath. The MKZ's powertrain choices start where the Fusion's end. Lincoln skips the cheaper car's base 2.5-liter four-cylinder and the 1.6-liter EcoBoost; instead, the Ford's top-spec, 240-hp, 2.0-liter EcoBoost is the Lincoln's base engine. Exclusive to the MKZ is an optional V-6, a 3.7-liter found in other Lincolns, that proffers 300 hp and 277 lb-ft of torque. Both engines are paired with a six-speed automatic transmission and offer the option of all-wheel drive (for $1230).
Like the Fusion, the MKZ is once again available as a hybrid. The hybrid powertrain, which uses a 2.0-liter Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder and a continuously variable transmission, mirrors that of the Fusion, but whereas the Ford rides on low-rolling-resistance rubber, the Lincoln hybrid uses the same Michelin tires as the rest of the MKZ family; for that reason, its EPA numbers are 2 mpg lower, at 45 mpg city and highway -- still enough to claim the top fuel economy of any luxury car.
Most buyers are expected to choose the 2.0-liter EcoBoost, and that was the engine in the car we drove. It's the significantly more economical option, with EPA ratings of 22 mpg city and 33 mpg on the highway (versus 19/28 mpg for the V-6). Our 2.0-liter was paired with all-wheel drive, which trims 2 mpg from the highway figure.
Granted, we didn't really need all-wheel drive in South Florida -- the sun-kissed beach weather fully lived up to Miami's reputation as a winter haven. The all-wheel-drive system did squelch any torque steer that might have raised its ugly head when we gave the MKZ some stick. Many of those whom we encountered during our time with the car in Miami were surprised to find out that a four-cylinder was under the hood, but the 2.0-liter EcoBoost does a very respectable job of motivating this sedan. Its 270 lb-ft of torque is only 7 lb-ft shy of the optional V-6, and the turbocharger's boost is seamlessly integrated. The 2.0-liter is an excellent example of Ford's EcoBoost technology, but it has one failing, which it shares with most other direct-injected four-cylinders: a gritty, unappealing engine note. In the MKZ, you hear it only in the upper reaches of the tach; otherwise the Lincoln's additional sound deadening (including active noise cancellation) effectively masks the turbo four to the point where, at idle, you can't even hear it running.
Even more so than the powertrains, the Fusion chassis -- one of the best in the mid-size segment -- is an excellent starting point for the MKZ. Overlaid atop this chassis is Lincoln's standard Drive Control system. It offers three modes -- comfort, normal, and sport -- that affect steering effort, dampers, and powertrain. Even in comfort mode, the suspension shows no sign of float, and the electric power steering is not overboosted. At the same time, sport mode isn't at all harsh, which is surprising given the ueberaggressive Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires (rubber this sporty won't be offered from the factory, by the way) wrapped around the stylish nineteen-inch wheels on our test car. There isn't enough difference in the settings to make the MKZ all things to all people, but the chassis is good enough to at least please some new people.
At its low point in the 1970s and early '80s, Miami Beach was the haunt of the elderly and, as we know from Scarface and Miami Vice, cocaine traffickers. The Lincolns of that time -- Town Cars and Continental Marks -- might have been popular with either group. Today, Lincoln is after a very different customer: younger (of course) and wealthier. They're also, in the words of Lincoln's marketing and sales chief, Matt VanDyke, "cultural progressives." That could be one way to describe the people who helped transform Miami Beach, a nexus of artists, gays and lesbians, and fashion trendsetters. Two early events that put the city on their radar were a much-publicized visit to Miami Beach by Andy Warhol in 1980 and, five years later, a Calvin Klein ad shoot at Hotel Breakwater by fashion photographer Bruce Weber.
Today, Miami Beach has been embraced by the world's tastemakers, as evidenced by the crush of people in town for the annual Art Basel art show. Is the MKZ stylish enough to resonate with a fashion-forward, culturally progressive crowd? Well, the people we encountered on Ocean Drive, along the Lincoln Road pedestrian mall, and at the beach were uniformly receptive to the car's look, but we contend that Lincoln needs to up its game still further if it's going to achieve its goals. The MKZ is only a first step. It's the first of four new Lincoln models that are on the way in the next four years -- two others are redesigns/replacements of existing products and a third is an all-new vehicle (expected to be derived from the Ford Escape crossover); there's also talk of a rear-wheel-drive model further down the road. For Lincoln, there's much work to be done. "We have a real journey to rebuild the brand," acknowledges VanDyke. As they know in Miami Beach, the road from faded to fabulous is a long one.

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Forum post of the day: Why did you /gquit {WoW}
May 14th 2009 6:20PM devo_as was talking about FORUMS. Not vent.
he was pointing out that the guy refuses to use the guild forums but is pretty busy posting on the blizzard forums. devo_as didn't say anything about Vent...
Breakfast Topic: So much for Children's Week {WoW}
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Breakfast Topic: So much for Children's Week {WoW}
May 8th 2009 8:30AM I got the easy stuff but skipped the BGs. I don't really care for getting the Violet Proto Drake so anything i am not so comfortable with doing or don't have the patience for I don't bother with. I do wish they would of added some more achievements.
Noblegarden FAQ {WoW}
Apr 25th 2009 9:31PM much better than the past years. All you did was find eggs, gt crap candy and a dress or tux. Most people didn't even bother. Now they add more stuff and achievements so at least it's not a waste. Me and my boyfriend are making a race to see who gets all the achievements first to see if that makes it more exciting.
At least we don't get a silly debuff like heartbreak....
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Apr 19th 2009 1:02PM There was a guy on my server named Nagaplease and blizz made him change his name cause it apparently was offending players since it sounded like a racist thing.
Realms now online after emergency maintenance {WoW}
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The broad plain of the Algarve occupies the whole of Portugal's southern coast, but as recently as thirty years ago the only golf courses on the premises were made of oil and sand. Portugal in the sixties hadn't yet been incorporated into the magic kingdom of late-twentieth-century tourism, and the hoteliers in the Algarve offered golf as mere amusement, a distraction as trifling as quoits or bumper pool for the holiday crowds enjoying what was then the cheapest beach vacation in Europe. The south coast was for the most part unimproved, the long shoreline--approximately 100 miles west to east from Cabo de São Vicente to the Spanish frontier--as empty as the winter horizon. Like the fishing quays at Albufeira and Portimão, the picturesque towns of Lagos and Sagres looked much as they had when they served as fifteenth-century ports of embarkation for the small wooden ships sailing in search of new sea routes to the Indies.
When the scenery began to change in the late sixties, the first rush of land speculation circumvented the nuisance of building and environmental codes. Within a matter of five or six years, so much construction was in progress that the directors of the region's tourist traffic began to worry about destroying the wonders of nature from which they fashioned their postcards and handsome returns on investment. What if the southern coast of Portugal turned into another vulgar ruin?What then?
Fortunately for all concerned, somebody mentioned golf. Golf was a game played by rich people, and if the Algarve could be reconfigured as a golfer's garden of earthly delights (something along the lines of Peter Pan's Neverland or Henry Adams's "banker's Olympus"), maybe the money could be made at the high end of the tourist trade. Sir Henry Cotton, a retired British Open champion, had designed the first of the region's courses at Penina in 1966, supervising its construction while seated on the donkey that he also employed as his caddie. The success of Cotton's enterprise encouraged the authorities to think of the game as a means of aligning environmental concerns with commercial interests, and the golf architects began with the advantages of a warm sun, exotic birds and the same flowering trees--orange, fig, oleander, almond--believed to have bloomed in Eden.
By 2000 they had completed twenty-odd courses. On being given the chance recently to review them, I came first to the question of what constituted a fair measure of judgment. So many golf courses have been set up in so many parts of the world over the last thirty years (advancing different principles of design, different intimations of immortality) that it's hard to know how to rate the several theories of the good, the true and the beautiful. Before leaving New York, I looked through a number of books on the subject. Because most of the Algarve courses had been built by Englishmen, I thought it fair to rely on the authority of Dr. Alister MacKenzie. He published a slim volume in 1920 under the simple title Golf Architecture (reprinted in 1987, with a foreword by Herbert Warren Wind and an afterword by my father). MacKenzie believed in the supremacy of mind over matter and regarded a well-made golf course as "largely a question of the spirit in which the problem is approached. Does the player look upon it from the 'card and pencil' point of view and condemn anything that has disturbed his steady series of threes and fours, or does he approach the question in 'the spirit of adventure' of the true sportsman?"
Taking the doctor's point, I also took his book to Portugal. This proved to be a lucky choice, for on the early-morning plane from London to Faro I found myself seated across the aisle from a British golfer whose home course was the one that MacKenzie had designed at Moortown. The man busied himself with his newspapers during the first two hours of the flight, clearly indicating that he didn't wish to be disturbed.
But when he saw that I was reading MacKenzie's chapter titled "Ideal Holes," he extended me the privilege of his acquaintance. As a general rule, he said, he didn't speak to Americans--too many of them turn out to be the kind of people who talk too much about wedge shots gone missing in a pond --but anybody who knew enough to know MacKenzie clearly could be trusted to bear in silence the misfortune of a dead stymie behind a eucalyptus tree.


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Video Card Configuration Troubleshooting Guide
You want to determine whether the stability issues your AutoCAD® vertical product is experiencing are due to your system's video card or the drivers associated with it.
First, ensure that your Windows® operating system is up to date. For instructions on updating you operating system, refer to solution TS1069997.
Repair the installation of the product by following these steps:
- Exit the product.
- Click Start menu (Windows) > Settings > Control Panel.
- Double-click Add or Remove Programs.
- Select the product and click Change/Remove.
- Select the Reinstall or Repair option.
- Select Repair my <product_name> and then click Next.
Update your Autodesk product with the most recent service pack and all hotfixes that have been published since the last service pack was released (or that explicitly are described as a post-service pack hotfix). Follow these steps:
- Go to the http://www.autodesk.com website.
- Click the Services & Support link.
- Under Product Support, select the product that you want to check for updates.
- Click the Data & Downloads link.
- Click the Updates & Service Packs link.
- Locate your product version and install all the appropriate updates or service packs to update your product.
- Restart your computer.
If there is no improvement in stability after applying these service packs and hotfixes, refer to the following website for a list of the recommended cards and drivers for AutoCAD® products to determine if your video graphics hardware is compatible:
This list is updated to reflect the results of Autodesk Quality Assurance tests. You should always download the recommended drivers directly from this list, as this is the exact configuration tested by Autodesk.
If the same issues persist, disable hardware acceleration for the video card:
For 2006 AutoCAD-based products and earlier versions
- Click Format menu > Options.
- Click the System tab.
- Under Current 3D Graphics Display, click Properties.
- Under Acceleration, select Software.
- Click Apply & Close.
- Click OK.
- Restart the application.
For 2007 AutoCAD-based products and later versions
- On the command line, enter 3dconfig.
- Click Manual Tune.
- Clear the Enable Hardware Acceleration check box.
- Click OK to close each dialog box.
- Restart the application.
If the stability issues are still occurring (especially during startup), you can limit the interaction that the product has with the video card during startup to avoid these issues.
Note: The following procedure can only be performed on AutoCAD 2007-based products or later versions.
For example, to modify Architectural Desktop 2007 in this manner
- Create a copy of the shortcut icon used to start Architectural Desktop 2007.
- Select the icon, and then right-click it. On the shortcut menu, click Properties.
- The following string will be in the Target box:
"C:\Program Files\Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2007\acad.exe" /ld "C:\Program Files\Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2007\AecBase50.dbx" /p "Architectural Desktop - Imperial"
- Move to the end of this string and add the following with a space in front of the "/":
/nohardwareThe full entry will now read as follows:
"C:\Program Files\Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2007\acad.exe" /ld "C:\Program Files\Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2007\AecBase50.dbx" /p "Architectural Desktop - Imperial" /nohardware
Note: These file paths are based on the default installation path of the specified product. You will need to modify them if you chose to install to a custom location or are modifying a different product.
If the stability issues persist, start Windows in Diagnostic mode to determine whether other applications are interfering with the AutoCAD-based product. To run Windows in Diagnostic mode, follow the instructions in solution TS1054234.
If the product ran without issue in Diagnostic mode, then the configuration of Windows (including the configuration of the personal OS system or other programs loaded onto it) may be causing conflict with the AutoCAD-based product.
If running the application in Diagnostic mode did not resolve the issue, then you may be experiencing a hardware or operating system issue, and you should consider performing a clean installation of Windows®. To ensure a clean installation of Windows, install Windows directly from the original installation media provided by Microsoft. Avoid using any OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) customized installations or recovery images that may have come with your computer. After you have reinstalled Windows, apply all of the current updates available from http://www.windowsupdate.com.
Install the Autodesk product and the recommended video drivers onto the clean installation of Windows, but do not install any other software. If the Autodesk product continues to experience stability issues, then it is likely that your computer's hardware is causing the problems.


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Inside the centuries-old church of the town San Juan Chamula, shamans kneel on pine branches and murmur pre-Columbian incantations, pour cane liquor over candles lit by villagers with a host of pleas—for health, wealth, even love—and strangle sacrificial chickens.
I'm taking in the scene with Paul Lehman, managing director of Montana-based Austin-Lehman Adventures (ALA), and Carl McLellan, one of the company's guides. We're on a test run for a new itinerary, a trip through remote and sometimes mysterious southern Mexico, home of Mayan sites—including the World Heritage–designated Palenque—colonial-era hill towns such as San Cristóbal de las Casas, and natural attractions like the Sumidero Canyon. The state of Chiapas remains largely unknown to travelers, a terra incognita stigmatized by the Zapatista uprising of the 1990's, and for Lehman, that's exactly its appeal. Adventure outfitters compete furiously to be first on the ground in regions too remote, undeveloped, or dangerous for everyday travelers, and Lehman's company will be the first major player in a state that sees just a tiny fraction of Mexico's foreign visitors. "Everybody does Baja," he says. "One of the reasons we're doing Chiapas is that very few operators are coming here." In this sacred space for Tzotzil-speaking Maya, photography is forbidden and outsiders are barely tolerated—but the church is just the sort of otherworldly, authentic place Lehman has been looking for.
Austin-Lehman's planned seven-day Chiapas itinerary—arrival and overnight in the capital, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, then two nights apiece in San Cristóbal and Palenque, with a final night in Villahermosa in the neighboring state of Tabasco—seemed to make sense on paper, but this run-through is all about real-world details. Lehman brings a critical eye and color-coordinated checklists to every hotel, meal, and activity. What are the best and worst rooms?The largest group a restaurant can seat at one table?The trail conditions of each hike?"I'm pretty demanding," Lehman says. "So if it satisfies me, it'll satisfy our clients, who expect service, quality, and a personal touch—even in the most remote destinations."
On our first morning in Tuxtla, Lehman is not satisfied. Over a buffet breakfast at the hilltop Hotel Camino Real, he discusses ALA's expectations with the guides. According to the pre-trip plan provided by Journey Mexico, then ALA's ground operator, the group should have gone "out on the town for local Chiapaneco fare" the previous night. Instead we ate a fixed-menu dinner at the hotel. "It's very important to Austin-Lehman clients that we do what we say we're going to do—unless we do something better," Lehman says.
After breakfast, we drive 10 miles north to Mirador La Coyota, an overlook clinging to the 3,000-foot walls of Sumidero Canyon. An hour later, a chartered speedboat zips us through the 20-mile-long gorge to view troops of spider monkeys, sunbathing crocodiles, and El Arbol de la Navidad, a misty waterfall. There's too much drive time, Lehman feels, to include both the lookout and the launch; only the boat trip makes the cut.
Lunch in nearby Chiapa de Corzo, a river town of pastel-colored buildings, will definitely remain on the itinerary. Home-style fare of empanadas de cazón (sharklike dogfish) and lemonade with chia seeds is accompanied by a mariachi band that does not, fortunately, play "Guantanamera." The town's main square is distinguished by La Pila, a pavilion with unusual Moorish flourishes, but McLellan recommends pushing on 40 miles to San Cristóbal.
"Its zocalo [town square] definitely has more bang," he says.


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11 Things You Didn't Know About Scott Conant
by Joseph Erdos in Shows, April 1st, 2013You've seen them judge the competition, battle for the title of All-Stars champion and compete in a friendly game with colleagues on After Hours, but there's a lot you don't know about the judges of Chopped. Here's your chance to get to know the nine people behind the Chopping Block.
Scott Conant is well known for his Italian restaurant, Scarpetta, in New York City. In 2010 he opened additional locations in Toronto, Beverly Hills and Las Vegas. Many people know Scott as the finicky judge who hates onions on Chopped, but there's more to this chef than meets the eye. Besides cooking professionally, Scott loves to cook with his 3-year-old daughter. If given the choice, he'd rather eat his mom's cooking over a fancy meal for his last supper. Find out more about Scott in his Q&A below.
What's your Achilles' heel ingredient, one that you hate to work with or encounter in someone else's dish?
Scott Conant: Pretension. One time, people gave me a bunch of mood boards and wanted me to create a menu based on a series of pictures. I have no patience for that.
What dish or ingredient will we never catch you eating?
SC: Durian, insects, rodents.
What was your most memorable meal? What, where, who? Details, please.
SC: Meadowood in St. Helena, Calif. The balance of flavors, the creativity, the soulfulness, the service, the execution — all of it was perfect. Within its perfection, it was an emotional experience.
What's your guilty pleasure food?
SC: Skippy Reduced Fat, Super Chunk Peanut Butter.
Is there one dish that you always order out and never make at home?
SC: Octopus. I love a delicious octopus.
What kitchen tool can't you live without?
SC: Hand-held blender.
If you weren't in food, what career would you like to have tried?
SC: I would have been a baseball player when I was younger and now be so rich I wouldn't have to work anymore.
What's your favorite "food city" to visit?
SC: Tokyo. Best food top to bottom that I've ever had.
What's your favorite late-night snack?
SC: Popcorn with sea salt and popped in extra virgin olive oil.
What's one must-have at your last supper?
SC: My mother's sausage and peppers.
Who's your favorite person to cook with?
SC: My 3-year-old daughter.
Rapid fire: Think fast!
Ketchup or mustard? Mustard
Chocolate or vanilla? Chocolate
Coffee or tea? Coffee
Burger or hot dog? Burger
Cream cheese or butter? Cream cheese
Soda or water? Water
Sprinkles or jimmies? Jimmies
Get to Know the Rest of the Judges:
Aarón Sánchez
Alex Guarnaschelli
Amanda Freitag
Chris Santos
Geoffrey Zakarian
Maneet Chauhan
Marc Murphy
Marcus Samuelsson
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i want to see Scott star in an episode of Naked Chopped. I want to see what he could do with sausage and meatballs!
He is definitely handsome ladies. I appeciate his cander and his honesty. What I would like to know is why he has never done Iron Chef?
He is definitely handsome ladies. I appeciate his cander and his honesty. What I would like to know is why he has never done Iron Chef?
Scott, you keep me watching the show just to get to look at you. I like the hair however I don't know from one episode to the next how it's gonna look. Guess I will just take you any way I can get you. You're hot.
Scott is one of the most attractive men I've ever seen! If I can help it I do not miss an episode of Chopped. Your an excellent chef and did I mention your hot?!
Know it all! He is very cocky, such n expert on Italian food! Yeah right!
Also, it was fixed he won Chopped judges. His food stunk! I knew his buds would make him win from the get go, sorry I even watched it!
he eats off his knife!!!!!
horrific table manners on national television !!!!!!!!! -
For someone that has been on the other side of the table (cooking on chopped) he should know how difficult
some dishes are, but he cuts no one any slack, like is to damn special. -
Scott's awesome.I went to Scarpetta NYC ….the food was amazing! A great looking guy who can cook !!lucky wife !keep on cooking Scott ..can't wait to visit your restaurant again …yummmmmm B-)


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It may seem bold that Lisa and David Wodrich started Lemon Tree Mediterranean Grill with the economy in the initial stages of growth, but then they made their first restaurant — Third Coast Spice Café — a success during the recession.
So opening on Dec. 4 during the holiday season was rough, but the Porter residents saw their chance when the Chesterton building that once held a Subway shop opened up.
"I saw the 'for lease' sign and just stopped and called Lisa," David said.
That decisive thinking made them restaurateurs after he worked as an upscale chef across the country and she as a wholesale baker.
"Life is short, and you have to do what you want to do," Lisa said. "You don't grow if you don't jump."
People will see similarities (including shared employees) between Third Coast and Lemon Tree: both cook from scratch using Wodrich recipes with as fresh and natural ingredients as possible.
Because their son Ethan, 10, has egg allergies and daughter Abby, 7, received a transplanted kidney from David, the Wodrichs make sure they have gluten-free and vegan options for customers who have special diets and may not normally eat out.
"It's not health food necessarily, but it's healthful food," she said.
Where Third Coast is a breakfast, sandwich and fusion place where the menu has evolved since July 2008 to beat the recession, Lemon Tree's Mediterranean menu includes beef kabob, chicken shawarma, falafel and grilled veggies.
"I wanted to do something that was quick, good food," David said.
It's the sandwich place they wanted to have, and "this is my favorite kind of food," said Lisa, who once worked for a Turkish restaurant in Michigan City.
They opened about a tenth of a mile away from Third Coast because they have roots in it — she grew up in Chesterton and he, a Porter town councilman, in Valparaiso — and because they believe in the Duneland community that has supported them since 2008.
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With Timothy McVeigh's trial set for March 31 and Terry Nichols's even further away, tempers and stress levels in the press room are increasing in direct proportion to the delays. Without much real news to report, the reporters instead are turning on each other.
When it was announced last February that the bombing trial would be held in Denver, members of the media pledged to cooperate with one another on such sticky issues as finding office space, doling out parking spots and arranging for satellite transmissions.
The newspaper groups were the first to organize into a coalition, says Joe McGowan, the Associated Press's veteran Denver bureau chief. McGowan became the print media's designated mouthpiece, and aggressive NBC-TV newsguy Roger O'Neil was put in charge of the broadcast group--by virtue, some say, of his ability to intimidate just about anybody.
When the print and broadcast groups merged late last spring to form an umbrella coalition, the idea was that each paper, radio station and television station would pay to belong to the pool. The "dues" collected would help pay the cost of legal aid, telephones and the like. Newspapers and radio stations pitched in $500 apiece to join the pool, McGowan says; television folks paid about twice that. Additional funds were collected as needed.
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- Posted by gardener_sandy z7 VA (My Page) on Wed, Nov 1, 06 at 0:40
The mushrooms the fruiting parts of fungi growing on some organic matter underground such as decaying roots from trees or shrubs in the area or wood chips that have been tilled under. They are one of nature's ways of "recycling" the OM into a form that plants can use. You can remove the mushrooms and put them in your compost pile or leave them alone if they don't bother you. They go away quickly. Large ones can smell pretty bad when they start to decay so if they're in an area you frequent often you might want to compost them. |
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I had Blepharoplasty 4 days ago, and my stitches came out on the second day. Is that bad? Everything looks sealed tight, but I wanted to make sure nothing is wrong.
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It is important for you to let your surgeon know that the sutures came out. However, if everything looks okay, then you should be fine. We often take our sutures out after three days for blepharoplasty patients anyway - so, I would not be worried. Enjoy your new eyes!
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Some surgeons don't use stitches but use a topical glue. Some have stitches under the skin holding tissues in place. But usually stitches placed through the skin that need to be removed are best removed earlier rather than later especially if there is little intrinsic tension on the wound that should be the case in most blepharoplasty surgeries. The body forms its own "glue" that keeps "tensionless" incisions closed and the longer you leave stitches in the skin, the more like you are to have the "railroad track" type of stitch markings. I often take stitches out by day 1-3. Bottom line is, if it hasn't fallen apart by now, don't worry, you have the best of both worlds: adequate healing and miminal stitch marks.
Thanks for the question. As always these are great questions to ask your surgeon. There is no one who will understand more about the details of the procedure you received than the surgeon who did it.
Timing of suture removal can be important in terms of healing and minimizing scar formation. In my San Francisco area practice I use a combination of a "running subcuticular" suture that tends to minimize scarring instead of the more familiar "running stitch". And even with this technique I still usually remove my sutures at day 4.
Ask your surgeon - but sounds like you're on your way to a great result.
I hope this helps.
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This should not be a problem unless undue stress is placed on the wound and it opens up. Some surgeons use fast dissolving sutures and some use topical adhesive. Just me sure to inform your surgeon.
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How long eyelid stitches should remain depend on location of the stitches. I generally remove upper eyelid sutures in three to five days and lower eyelid sutures in five to seven days. If the stitches are in the upper eyelid and they came out after one or two days, generally that is not a problem. It sounds like that you have had no problems with the stitches coming out after two days. I would not worry about it.
As long as the incision line is intact you are fine. But it is fragile and you could rub it apart accidentally so be sure to leave the area absolutely alone and go have your doctor check you.
It sounds like you had a running subcuticular suture and you accidently pulled it out. You must be very careful not to fully separate your incision. The skin of the eyelids is quite thin and since there is litte tension on it you may be okay. Avoid rubbing your eyes until you can be seen again.
Blepharoplasty is a delicate surgical procedure, and the incisions are closed with delicate sutures. Most commonly, the ends of the sutures are held down to the skin at the nasal bridge and at the corner of the eyes with Steri-Strips or paper tape, until the stitches are removed by the surgeon in 5 days or so.
If the sutures come out prematurely, nothing needs to be done as long as the suture line of the incision stays closed. Take care not to rub or wash the eyelids forcefully for a few weeks. If the incision opens up, you may require re-suturing, or application of a tissue glue to hold the skin closure during the initial healing phase.
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I want to try natural method of deleting bugs(caterpillars and slugs) from my garden. I want to attract birds to my garden.
I bought some bird feed and what next? Where should I put it so they "see" it and come? Should I buy special equipment to use to put the feed on? Sorry for my naive question - I am new to all this;-)) Any advice would be greatly appreciated! |
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Bird seed attracts rodents. Stinky mice, and rodents that big birds eat along with pretty birds. Bird seed is a waste of money. That pretty bird you've named has been picked off for food by the national bandit. Peace man. |
- Posted by mudflapper Z8 PNW OR (My Page) on Tue, Dec 1, 09 at 0:15
My brother, put's out about 20# of bird food a month. he also plants about two acres of sunflower seed and other seed plants. I was at my brothers having a BBQ, but the bugs were getting the better of us; when a big flock of birds started flying around... and next thing you know, no bugs. He also has several apple trees, which he never sprays, with only very minor damage on the fruit. HUM! |
I'm smelling stinkin rodents that invade my space with a hand full of naked little baby mice surviving on bird seed. |
- Posted by gardengal48 PNW zone 8 (My Page) on Tue, Dec 1, 09 at 11:41
Gosh, there's an amazing amount of negativity emanating from you muddydogs.....chill!! Birdseed doesn't attract any more rodents than does any manner of other urban garden attractions -- and quite a bit less if you use the 'no-waste' seed mixes. These should be offered in some sort of feeder, store bought or homemade. Place the feeder high enough so that the birds feel comfortable and so that neighboring cats can't pounce. And somewhere close to a roosting and/or nesting site - a large shrub or small tree, preferably evergreen. You may need to protect the seed from squirrels - they tend to be the biggest raiders of bird feeders - but there are various appliances or squirrel baffles sold for this purpose, also 'squirrel-proof' feeders. Also, make sure you have a water source, equally well placed. And hanging suet is a real treat for most birds. I only put out feeders in winter when other food sources become scarce. The trick to attracting birds year round is to provide both a secure habitat and a variety of food sources. And avoid any chemical pesticides. Don't be too diligent in your garden clean up. Leaving old seedheads in place and a leaf mulch will ensure that even in winter the birds will visit and "clean" your garden for you. The National Audubon Society provides a great source of info on creating a backyard habitat. And most local societies sponsor a certification process for creating a backyard wildlife habitat. Birds are a gardener's best friends :-) |
Here is a link that might be useful: Creating a backyard bird habitat
- Posted by hallerlake 8 (My Page) on Tue, Dec 1, 09 at 15:05
If all you put out is seed, you will mostly attract seed eating birds. If you want to attract bug eating birds, put out suet. Some birds, like chickadees, go both ways, but the hard core bug eaters will only touch suet. There are suet mixes with seeds and fruit which make everybody happy. I haven't had much luck with the suet that contains dried bugs. |
Plant locally native trees and shrubs. |
- Posted by natalija_gardener (My Page) on Tue, Dec 1, 09 at 17:01
Thank a lot for your input! Can you please reccomend the best places(and best prices) for getting the feeder's(in wich I can put suet and which is protected from squarrels)? |
- Posted by hallerlake 8 (My Page) on Tue, Dec 1, 09 at 19:11
Suet comes in cakes. There are metal cages available to put the suet in. You will want to put the feeder away from anything the squirrels can jump from to the feeder. You will want to get a baffle to keep the squirrels from climbing down or up to the feeder (depending on whether you have it hanging or on a pole). Suet and feeders are readily available at hardware stores and nurseries. I got mine at Wild Birds Umlimited. They may not be the cheapest place to go, but they are handy for me. Try to hang the feeder somewhere you can see it. It's cheep entertainment. |
The main places I see wharf rats feeding during the day are berrying shrubs, fruit trees like apple and fig trees - and bird feeders. Eastern gray squirrels are guaranteed to be a nuisance at feeders unless you have a carefully and effectively planned setup. If they can get inside a feeder or otherwise situated so they are able to sit in or near the food supply, they will go right through it. Be sure to price bird seed before spending any time and money on feeders and associated gear. |
natalija, if you are interested in attracting birds, another element you might consider is water. Even with a natural drainage/creek in the canyon just a block below us, the bird baths are a big draw and not just in summer but all year round. It doesn't have to be expensive or especially ornamental other than to meet your own decorating taste. One 'bath' my elderly neighbor has under a large rhododendron next to my fence is a large plastic pot saucer elevated on a tomato cage...everything from chickadees/finches to larger robins/jays right up to the crows use it, often noisily and happily. Downside to that is she is rinsing and refilling it often, sometimes more than once a day :) |
- Posted by cascadians Oregon City, 8 (My Page) on Wed, Dec 2, 09 at 14:26
We have 29 bird stations around our house: feeders, water features, etc plus over 300 trees and seasonal creeks. To get rid of slugs the possum is most valuable. Otherwise it's going out in the middle of the night with a headlamp on and picking them off into a triple plastic bagged garbage receptacle. Repeat repeat etc. We have a variety of bird feeders and they are all recycled plastic for durability and easy cleaning. Look great, forest green. Got them from Backyard Bird Shop. Use premium blacksunflower, no waste, suet, and thistle. Lots of birds. And hawks to eat the birds. Birds eat the suet all year. In the summer use no melt. Birds watch other birds pecking away at the suet so give it a try and become converts. Juncos like to eat off the ground so platform feeders are good for them. Lately I've been sprinkling seed on the concrete bridges in yard and they're most happy like that. Have a flock of mountain chickadees that live in yard, flocks of flickers and blue jays that visit every day, and lots of songbirds. In the winter the squirrels amuse us with their antics. No point trying to get them out, just enjoy. Wildlife attracts other wildlife and soon it's a zoo out there. Water is essential. Creeks, pond, bubblers, fountain, birdbaths. And yet the blue jays prefer the water that collects in the porch swing cover. We planted trees and bushes that birds like. They eat the blueberries, crabapples, figs, cherries, holly berries (robins), soon acorns and hazelnuts, and lots and lots of bugs. Whole flocks of bushtits come several times per day and eat bugs off the trees. Rats and mice are drawn by water and bird seed. But here the neighborhood cats patrol the yard so vermin no longer a problem. |
- Posted by hallerlake 8 (My Page) on Wed, Dec 2, 09 at 19:46
I have always found a baffle sufficient to keep the rats and squirrels at bay. Nothing will attract more birds in the summer than water. During our winter frozen spells, water will attract birds, too. You can use plastic pot saucers. Just dump out the ice and add fresh water periodically. |
- Posted by flowerpowereverett z8wa (My Page) on Thu, Dec 3, 09 at 22:20
Where are you located? You might consider putting up a hummingbird feeder if you are in the PNW, many of us have overwintering Anna's Hummingbirds, which also eat a fair amount of insects. I totally agree with planting native trees and shrubs to attract birds naturally. Offering suet is a good way to attract chickadees, nuthatch and woodpeckers and if you're lucky an overwintering Yellow-rumped or Townsend's Warbler. The rub is that by doing this, you will very likely also attract European Starlings and English House Sparrows, both capable of dominating and emptying your suet and seed feeders. Starlings particularly like suet and once a few of them find the feeder, more will soon join them. An "upside down" feeder will slow them down a bit as only one or 2 can feed and yes, they are fully capable of hanging upside down, rather like an oversized noisy hummingbird;-) Nyjer Thistle can be offered in a feeder with slots small enough for small birds such as chickadees,Pine Siskin and American Goldfinch(they also eat bugs during the summer season) I would recommend hanging all bird feeders a minimum of 6 feet off the ground to protect against an outdoor cat ambush. Offering water in the form of a drip or mister and a birdbath will also attract many species not likely to eat at your feeders. Good luck to you. |
- Posted by dottyinduncan z8b coastal BC (My Page) on Thu, Dec 3, 09 at 22:28
I have a really large pot on my patio, with a large japanese maple in it. In the wintertime, I hang a suet cage feeder in it and it is amazing how many birds are attracted to it. Today, there were downy woodpeckers, juncos, chickadees, flickers, towees and a purple finch eating from it. There was also a brown sparrow-type bird but I don't know the exact variety. We have had squirrels eating from the feeder but not often and if we have had rats, I haven't seen them. We have done this for at least 10 years. Good luck with your bird feeder project. |
Wharf rats are particularly interested in sweet fruits, ones seen raiding bird feeders apparently are eating seeds also. Seed spilled on the ground becomes accessible to Norway rats. Birds often push small seeds aside in order to get at sunflowers seeds, it has been suggested to buy those only. |
In the past I had a problem with those darn squirrels eating all the bird seed in a matter of hours. When I saw a squirrel proof feeder at a local store, I was disappointed by the high price around $100. Then I found a very affordable squirrel proof feeder for under $20 at a big box store. I bought it and filled to the top. The seed lasted nearly a month with all kinds of birds (sparrows, buntings, chickadees, towhees, finches etc and recently northern flickers) feeding on it at all times of day. The squirrels have tried to get at the seed with no luck and give up. |
As someone said much earlier in this post, insect-eating birds don't go for birdseed, except for the chickadees. For insect-eating birds, you want a birdbath, and suet. Many more birds will use the birdbath than either suet or birdseed. You will want a shallow birdbath with a rough inner surface, your classic concrete birdbath. Birds won't go in water that's more than a couple inches deep, and they want a rough surface so they don't slip. These are not the easiest to maintain - I've seen birdbaths on the market that are deep and smooth and people think they're better because they won't have to fill them so often, and they'll be easier to clean, but the birds won't touch them. I get birds at my birdbath year round, even when it's been raining for weeks. Robins, jays, towhees, finches, sparrows, warblers, chickadees, bushtits, juncos, you name it. Place it a few feet from shrubbery or a tree, so they can see any cats coming and dive for cover. I love watching them, especially in late summer when the new fledgling birds are learning how to use the birdbath. For suet feeding I have what's called a 'crow cage' from Wild Birds Unlimited. It only allows smaller birds to get to the suet. Means the towhees and woodpeckers can't get it either, but it's necessary to keep the crows and starlings off. I have the suet cage itself suspended about an inch from the bottom of the cage so the flickers can hang from the bottom and reach the suet. The starlings can just barely do that too, but it's hard enough for them that they rarely do so. Ask to see their suet cage setups that keep the starlings off, and you'll see what I mean. I also take down the suet when the starlings are nesting, usually April, and don't put it back up again until they're done in summer. To minimize seed waste I buy straight black oil sunflower seed. It's more expensive than the mixes, but the birds toss out much of what's in the mixes. |
- Posted by obi_wan_kenobi (My Page) on Sun, Dec 6, 09 at 15:35
Water feature. That's the way to super-charge the landscape with bird visitors. We found that small trees for landing perches, and seed feeders brought birds. But the water feature virtually tripled the number of birds. Even without a feeder. |
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