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If you're wondering what to do with leftover turkey, try this open-faced sandwich, the Kentucky Hot Brown.
Make a piece of toast. Layer on it turkey, bacon, and a slice of tomato. Then pour gravy over the top.
I'm told that the traditional version used a Mornay (cheese) sauce instead of gravy, but who wants to cook something else if you're having leftovers?
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The THUMS Islands are a set of four artificial islands in San Pedro Bay off the coast of Long Beach, California. They were built in 1965 to tap into the East Wilmington Oil Field. The landscaping and sound walls were designed to camouflage the operation and reduce noise, and they are the only decorated oil islands in the United States.[1]
After a 1964 court case that gave the state of California mineral rights to the area,[2] the islands were built at an estimated cost of $22 million in 1965,[3][4] the islands were operated by THUMS, a consortium named after the parent companies who bid for the island contract: Texaco, Humble Oil (now Exxon), Union Oil, Mobil Oil, and Shell Oil.[5] The rim of the islands are made of 640,000 tons of boulders from Catalina Island, and the islands were then filled with 3.2 million cubic yards of dredged material from the bay.[2][6] The islands contain significant landscaping, a waterfall, and tall structures concealing the drilling rigs, including one known as The Condo and mistaken for "a ritzy hotel" by those on land.[2][6] The structures are lit in colored lights at night. The aesthetic mitigation cost $10 million at time of construction, and was overseen by theme park architect Joseph Linesch. They were described by a Los Angeles Times writer as "part Disney, part Jetsons, part Swiss Family Robinson".[6]
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The islands and operation were purchased by Occidental Petroleum in 2000.[7]
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She married Robert F. Schmidtberger on June 18, 1960, in Victoria. He preceded her in death April 30, 2007. She was a homemaker. She had lived in Russell since 2001, moving from Greeley, Colo.
She was a member of St. Fidelis Catholic Church and was a volunteer worker on the funeral dinner committee.
Survivors include two brothers, Marvin Kreutzer, Brighton, Colo., and LeRoy Kreutzer and wife, Sandy, Hays; four sisters, Ann Sander, Littleton, Colo., Verla Staab and husband, Roger, and Millie Flax, all of Hays, and Firma Pfannenstiel, WaKeeney; and a sister-in-law, Judy Kreutzer, Russell.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Kenneth Kreutzer; a sister, Alice Nemechek; an infant brother; and an infant sister.
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I love Sudhir Venkatesh but I am starting to fucking hate the Freakonomics blog. Especially when they decide to touch race.
Mixed race people, step right up to be essentialized into neat little patterns of behavior!
In a recent paper I [Steven D. Levitt] co-authored with Roland Fryer, Lisa Kahn, and Jorg Spenkuch, we look at data to try to answer that question. Here is what we find:
1) Mixed-race kids grow up in households that are similar along many dimensions to those in which black children grow up: similar incomes, the father is much less likely to be around than in white households, etc.
2) In terms of academic performance, mixed-race kids fall in between blacks and whites.
3) Mixed-race kids do have one advantage over white and black kids: the mixed-race kids are much more attractive on average.
The really interesting result, though, is the next one.
4) There are some bad adolescent behaviors that whites do more than blacks (like drinking and smoking), and there are other bad adolescent behaviors that blacks do more than whites (watching TV, fighting, getting sexually transmitted diseases). Mixed-race kids manage to be as bad as whites on the white behaviors and as bad as blacks on the black behaviors. Mixed-race kids act out in almost every way measured in the data set.
Holy bucket of stereotypes, Batman! Number three is really killing me though – how the fuck did they measure that? By panel survey? Researchers opinion on hotness? Comparison to a eurocentric beauty standard? (According to the study, the person doing the at home interviews was the sole judge of hotness.)
I was wondering what economic theories they used to get to this point, but surprise – there ain't none!
We try to use economic theory to explain this set of facts. I can't say we are entirely successful. If we had to pick an explanation that best fits the facts, it would be the old sociology model of mixed-race individuals as the "marginal man": not part of either racial group and therefore torn by inner conflict.


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BAYOU SORREL, LA — State Department of Natural Resources' Atchafalaya Basin Program (ABP) and Iberville Parish officials announced the start of construction for improvements to the boat launch at Bayou Sorrel located in the heart of the Atchafalaya Basin.
The total construction cost of the project is $683,000, of which the department contributed $670,000 from the FY 2011 Atchafalaya Basin Annual Plan. The remaining portion of the construction costs and all engineering costs are being funded by Iberville Parish government.
The project consists of a launch ramp on the north end, ADA accessible parking area, and a walkway going out to the relocated floating pier. The parish will provide maintenance and upkeep of the facility.
DNR Secretary Stephen Chustz said state and parish officials have worked together for some time on the planning of this project striving to improve citizen accessibility to this popular area of the Atchafalaya River basin. "So many recreational fishermen consider this area of the basin a prime fishing spot and this will improve their ability to utilize the area," Chustz said.
State Rep. Karen St. Germain said, "I am extremely happy to see this project take shape at Bayou Sorrel, it is one of my favorite places to be in a community of people who dearly treasure the resource."
Iberville Parish President Mitchell Ourso, Jr. said the contractor at the site, Cajun Maritime, LLC, has begun laying down the groundwork for the long anticipated improvements for the people of our parish, and many visitors to come and enjoy. "It won't be long now that this community-led project becomes a reality. The parish also plans another construction phase with new features for boaters, fishermen, and families alike to utilize, including new restrooms, a south end ramp, and security lighting," Ourso noted. He said the project is expected to be built within five months and was designed by the SJB Group, LLC of Baton Rouge.


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3M came up with the technology for Post-its in 1968 but it wasn't sold to the masses till 1980. Like that experience, 3M constantly has various products cooking on various burners and brands until one is ready to let loose. The consistent innovation that takes place within its walls is what the company is attempting to rebrand itself with, the site notes.
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Inform Studio incorporated the fallen ash trees killed by the invasive emerald ash borer beetle into its sustainable design for this library branch in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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The new Traverwood Branch Library in Ann Arbor, Mich., uses wood from nearby ash trees killed by the emerald ash borer in a very local lesson about sustainability.
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The massing of the Traverwood Branch Library consists of articulated volumes that form an L-shape on the site. Thin forms allow daylight to penetrate deep into the building and small, vertical windows on the southernmost facade admit light while protecting the building from glare and heat gain.
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Visitors enter the building via a glass-clad lobby on the building's northeast corner. The ash planks harvested from the emerald ash borer-infected trees can be seen on the underside of the soffit over the main door, a prelude to the wood's use throughout the interior. Recessed strip lighting in a staggered pattern calls to mind the pattern of windows on the southern facade and elsewhere in the building.
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Visitors enter the building via a glass-clad lobby on the building's northeast corner. The ash planks harvested from the emerald ash borer-infected trees can be seen on the underside of the soffit over the main door, a prelude to the wood's use throughout the interior. Recessed strip lighting in a staggered pattern calls to mind the pattern of windows on the southern facade and elsewhere in the building.
Wood is the predominant finish in the lobby, making up the floor, walls, under-soffit ceiling, and most of the furniture. In addition to telling a local story and adding to the sustainability agenda, the material is durable and can withstand the high foot traffic, and the variegated color of the planks on the walls will hide the inevitable wear and tear on the building.
Some of the ash trees were stripped of their outer bark, left whole, and used as columns along the curtain wall facing the nature preserve. Operable windows within this wall are controlled by low-voltage actuators to promote natural airflow into the building, and automatic shades (hidden behind ash planks) close to limit heat gain and glare in the reading room during the brightest parts of the day.
The warmth of the ash planks plays against exposed aluminum and glass fenestration. Careful detailing allows the planks in the ceiling to neatly navigate curves and corners, as seen here in the transition space between the stacks and the casual study area.
Technology is omnipresent in the library. Visitors can search for titles at computer terminals at the information desk, and video screens mounted near the entrance display library events and information. Touchdown space for those using their personal computers for work or research is provided in the form of wood tables with inset power management.
In addition to the natural wood columns, a bent-wood screen creates a sculptural point of interest, and serves the practical purpose of setting the reading room off from the stacks. Indirect light fixtures throughout create a diffused glow that provides enough light without straining the eyes of those reading, but during the day, natural light is the primary illumination in the space.
By the time planning began four years ago for the new Traverwood Branch Library in Ann Arbor, Mich., it was tragic but not surprising for the architects at Inform Studio, of nearby Northville, to find dozens of dead ash trees on the proposed building site. Since 2002, some 30 million ash trees in southeastern Michigan have fallen prey to the emerald ash borer, a beetle thought to have boarded a ship or plane from Asia to the Midwest that has since spread to at least 14 states. Its larvae kill trees by eating their inner bark.
Early in a design process focused on sustainability, the library's architects at Inform realized the dead trees' wood could become part of the library itself. It worked: The ash trees were used to make interior flooring, wall panels, ceilings and, conspicuously, a row of expressive columns along a bank of windows facing south into a nature preserve, their naked, sealed surfaces visibly scarred in rune-like patterns by chewing borers. "A happy accident"—and a guiding one, says Cory Lavigne, the firm's design director.
Under the direction of artisan woodworker John Yarema, based nearby in Troy, Mich., the team employed draft horses to help move the ash logs, which were cut by hand, and began a yearlong process of air-drying the wood in Yarema's shop. Such an intensely local material would add to the design's ecology-minded strategies.
Those strategies start with an L-shaped footprint for the 16,776-square-foot building, pushed to the street edges of the four-acre site to avoid intruding on the surrounding woods. Parking beneath the building, plus the city's permission to have 29 cars park on the street, reduced the city's parking requirement to only 26 paved spots on the site. Cost-cutting sacrificed a green roof, but a rain garden, planted with sedges, slows down and helps filter stormwater runoff that percolates into a nearby retention pond.
Inside the library, narrow floor plates allow the sun to light the warm, ash-lined reading areas. The massing also promotes passive ventilation through operable windows activated by low-voltage actuators, which tie back to the mechanical systems. Window blinds on south- and west-facing façades are controlled by daylight sensors to cut unwanted glare.
The Traverwood library is the third new branch built by the Ann Arbor District Library under its current director, Josie Parker, who wanted a sustainable building design but didn't initially expect, before the ash-tree epiphany, how poignant the results would be. People, not least children, may see the logs and ask what damaged them. The answer points back to a constant consumer demand for cheap imported goods in a global economy, which has hurt places like Michigan well before the emerald ash borer arrived.
The architects at Inform followed the U.S. Green Building Council's playbook closely but didn't apply for LEED status because, quite simply, the money on certification could be used in the building itself. "In our community, it isn't necessary to pursue LEED to have a project validated and supported," Parker says. "What's important in Ann Arbor is that we do the right thing by our community."
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Project Traverwood Branch Library, Ann Arbor, Mich. Client Ann Arbor District Library Architect Inform Studio, Northville, Mich.—Kenneth Van Tine (technical design principal); Gina Van Tine (marketing, managing principal); Michael Guthrie (design principal); Cory Lavigne (design director, project architect); Andrew Mannion, Lindsay Cooper, Amy Baker, Jason Roberts, Elizabeth Huck, Melissa Alexander (project team) Associate Architect VPS Architecture Mechanical/Electrical Durkin & Villalta Partners Landscape Grissim Metz Andriese Associates Structural Robert Darvas Associates Construction Manager O'Neal Construction Ash Wood Contractor Yarema Creative Hardwood Flooring Size 16,776 square feet
24-Volt Motorized Window Actuator System Clear Line clearlineinc.com When the outside temperature and humidity are right, this actuator system opens the library's operable windows to allow passive ventilation and cooling. Each window has its own actuator, which ties into the building's thermostat. The actuators require a plus or minus 10-degree differential from the desired temperature to open or close windows.
OpenLight Roller Shades Creative Windows creativewindows.hdwfg.com/sb.cn The library's south- and west-facing glazed façades have automatic shades that descend or rise to one of four positions—fully up, 30 percent down, 60 percent down, and fully down— when light reaches specified levels. OpenLight LTSEN-INT-V2 sun sensors, mounted on mullions, trigger the shades' response. The sensors can be programmed to delay the response by 10 to 60 minutes, so that passing clouds or driveway lights don't trigger the system needlessly.
Stormwater Management Chambers StormTech stormtech.com Even after minimizing the library's surface parking, Inform needed to anticipate excess stormwater and keep this potentially polluted runoff from quickly overwhelming a nearby retention pond. Three StormTech collection chambers lie underground below a rain garden, where water initially collects. The chambers help filter water and release it gradually into the retention pond.
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quote:if it aint broke, dont fix it...just fine tune what you already have as your base
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quote:Sorry, invisible would have been a better word. Offensively, at least.
quote:bosh was great banging with duncan.
quote:bosh was great banging with duncan
quote:their base is not old as frick...their role players are
quote:hardly, birdman did much better against duncan.
quote:but they need someone coupled with the birdman to come off the bench to guard the likes of hibbert, duncan, etc
quote:hardly, birdman did much better against duncan. bosh was a liability most of the series.
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More important, what happened to the iTunes WTKA podcast? It's been dead for months! It's much easier to stream this on my phone |
3 years 39 weeks ago | Mind blown |
Lloyd...Brady... |
3 years 39 weeks ago | "Don't" |
You spelled "always" wrong |
3 years 39 weeks ago | Another book |
Funny, he reminds me of "The puppy who lost his way." |
3 years 50 weeks ago | Why the |
My favorite part is when Hoke says "why the f...hell did you stop?" |
4 years 5 weeks ago | We have been after his |
We have been after his services for a Wile. |
4 years 8 weeks ago | Why Les wouldn't be terrible |
Funny how 3 years later and we all are dreading the candidate we were once begging for.
Is he ideal for me? No. Do I think he's a 20 year coach for us? No. But no one is these days, and I think he can restore us back to prominence and them maybe JH will be sick of the NFL and come home? (I can dream) |
4 years 14 weeks ago | Les Miles |
Les Miles |
4 years 14 weeks ago | Yellow hat dude |
who's the guy in the yellow hat in the RR video? He's ALWAYS on TV and I have no clue what he does. |
4 years 27 weeks ago | They aren't strangers. They |
They aren't strangers. They met on the internet. |
4 years 28 weeks ago | Better MB song |
Still nothing will top being up in Oregon when Michigan played there and having the Oregon MB play "Move Bitch, get out the way" over and over again during the game. |
4 years 37 weeks ago | Also, anyone know of a place |
Also, anyone know of a place to download the game (ie torrent)? HD would be preferred! My dad was there and was on TV and wants to get a screen cap to frame. |
4 years 45 weeks ago | Slingbox |
Do you have family in Michigan? (or good friends) If so, get a slingbox and put it in their house. I live in California, but have my slingbox at my dad's house in Michigan. It's attached to a cable box in his house and sends his entire digital cable package to my computer over the internet. I can login to it and watch any channel! It's great because it gives you ALL detroit sports, not just the Tigers, and it's a one time fee! Plus, you can use it on most phones (iPhone, Android, etc) |
5 years 3 weeks ago | easiest classes |
I'd second the earlier vote for Psychology peer counseling. You literally sit in a room and talk about how to give advice, then give said advice to people. The easiest "real" class I took was Sports and Society. There were no tests. Your grade was based on a term paper that you could rewrite as many times as you wanted. So you'd turn it in, get a B, then rewrite it from there and get an A-, etc. If you did the paper at the beginning of the semester, you could just keep reworking it with the prof. grading it until you get an A. |
5 years 6 weeks ago | +1 for Broom of the System. |
+1 for Broom of the System. Amazing book! One of my favorites of all time. |


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It's Llama Llama's first day of preschool! And Llama Llama's mama makes sure he's ready. They meet the teachers. See the other children. Look at all the books and games. But then it's time for Mama to leave. And suddenly Llama Llama isn't so excited anymore. Will Mama Llama come back?
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Members try to keep animosity at bay and get on with business.
The Friday plotting, planning, and career-risking become serious in January, one year after the fight began and only eight weeks before the public vote. Committee members still express a grudging admiration for the way Ken Jenne manipulated the Broward legislative delegation to recommend the referendum to the state legislature. Florida's lawmakers then agreed to put a referendum on the county ballot.
"I can't prove it, but I think Jenne helped author the referendum; I completely believe that," says Klenet, a fast-talking veteran lobbyist. "Jenne's been after this for his entire career, and the language reads like he wrote it."
The proposal Jenne wants voters to accept is breathtaking in the scope of powers and privileges it assigns to a strong mayor. A Broward mayor would earn $131,000 per year for "part-time" work. He or she would have the freedom to pursue outside income -- in Jenne's case that would allow him to practice law and also to hire lawyers of his choosing for the costly legal work done each year by consultants to the county attorney's office. In the minds of his critics, that would be an obvious conflict of interest mandated by a Jenne-authored law.
A strong mayor, Jenne-style, would also be able to hand out contracts for as much as $100,000 without seeking the approval of county commissioners and hire and fire at will most of the 700 or so key administrators in the county, and in theory all 7000 county employees (although many are protected by unions).
If a strong mayor decided to veto actions of the commission, a two-thirds majority of the seven commissioners would be required to kill the veto.
"That means," says Dan Lewis, "that Jenne could control the commission with only three votes, and he'd have those, at least."
Three votes if there are seven commissioners. But control of the commission would take four votes if there are nine commissioners elected from single-member districts in 2002, which is a part of the strong-mayor proposal. Voters also will have the option of creating nine commissioners who take office after the November election, with no strong mayor. That alternative is being proposed by the county commission and is set to appear on the March ballot.
Klenet claims that Jenne's friends in the Florida legislature, where he spent almost 20 years, helped create the strong-mayor referendum without much public debate. "Those who wanted this saw an opportunity," he says. "They had a young legislative delegation from Broward."
And they had Democratic senators Jim Scott and Skip Campbell. "The Tripp-Scott law firm here, Norman Tripp and Sen. Jim Scott, lost a huge income from Broward's biggest business, the Alamo Rent-a-Car. All of a sudden that business was sold to Wayne Huizenga, and Tripp-Scott was without any business." At that point, says Klenet, the sheriff bailed out the firm by hiring it to do legal work for his office, securing Scott's obligation to him.
"Then Scott puts forward a bill to the Broward delegation that had to have been written by Jenne and company. So the deal had to have been, Campbell will muscle through Jenne, and Jenne will help Campbell be [Florida] attorney general, which he has wanted for some time."
Campbell strongly denies that version of events. "As far as Jim Scott and me doing something like that, it didn't happen," he says. "They can say what they want, but that's pure fiction." Campbell admits, however, that he has not counted out the idea of becoming attorney general.
Klenet, watching the legislative action the day it happened, says he was stunned by the quickness with which the Broward delegation secured a referendum that could radically alter the 26-year-old Broward County charter.
"I'm sitting there, and all of a sudden I realize what's happening. So I call to [Sen.] Howard Foreman and [Rep.] Steve Effman, who were behind this thing, and I say, 'What are you guys doing out there?'"
Foreman, a Pembroke Pines Democrat, and Sunrise Democrat Effman assured him "it's no big deal," he recalls. "And Sen. Campbell assures me we'll put all the amendments on the next bill next year -- term limits and so on. What promise is there of that, though? So they go through this, and there's really no debate. Only a few members of the public showed up to discuss it, which means it was advertised quietly. Then they pass the bill, and guess what happens? The first thing that happens is Skip adjourns the meeting." Creating a coup for Jenne, in Klenet's view.
Campbell laughs off that version, insisting that the meeting proceeded fairly, by due process. "Klenet would lose a lot of money if the county had a strong mayor, because he wants the county as a client. That's why he's doing this. His reputation is that of a weasel."
Both sides agree, however, that Jenne has long sought to lead Broward as its mayor.
Although it took him years to act on that urge, he had the mayoral job in mind even when he helped fashion the original Broward County charter in 1974, say those who have known him longest. That charter called for seven commissioners and a county manager, not a mayor. And it ended fair representation in the county, Bucknam contends, because the county's commissioners were to be elected at large rather than from the districts where they lived. "That allowed a huge influx of liberals from the northeast to take over the county," Bucknam says.


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Posted 06/22/2014 07:09:28 EDT
I also think we need to go the rookie route. Draft the best player available. Then develop talent and make a move for a free agent in a year or 2 when we have something to offer in trade. I like Rondo more »
Posted 04/20/2014 07:42:55 EDT
I would use the space to take another expiring contract and some more draft picks. Someone like Stat from the knicks and maybe have them throw in Shumpert and a pick. If we get Hayward we will just en more »
Posted 03/01/2014 07:46:54 EST
This hard to say but I hope he helps the Lakers finish with a better record then us.
more »Posted 02/19/2014 07:49:48 EST
Why would we want to give up draft picks for a 2 month rental when we really want to improve our young core while losing to improve our draft position. We can try to get him as a free agent in the sum more »
Posted 02/08/2014 11:28:21 EST
We could throw in Bayless and I think we have a trade exemption still. The problem will be not going over the cap and I think we can do better thatn that for Humphries.
more »Posted 02/08/2014 11:01:17 EST
Fiercy and Mployee8 you are both knowledgeable about basketball and provide us with updates on all matters with the Celtics. What I would like is for one of you to be the bigger person and stop all th more »
Posted 01/20/2014 11:12:12 EST
Have you been watching Perk the last 2 years. Green might be inconsistent but Perk is bad all of the time!!! In response to Petey62's comment: We would be set at the PG, PF and C positions for years t more »
Posted 01/08/2014 06:36:39 EST
The only way we trade Wallace is package him with picks or someone like Rondo. We should just buy him out and suffer the cap hit for a few more years.
more »Posted 01/01/2014 10:09:42 EST
We probably won't have a chance at #18 for a few years. We will need to clear up cap space which may not be complete until we rid our selves of Gerald Wallace. I like Green and Rondo but if we can tra more »
Posted 11/30/2013 08:54:52 EST
Your right about that. To bad because the Nets pick is looking pretty good right now. Glad the Celtics were able to beat Atlanta but looks like that pick will be in the late teens or early 20's
more »Posted 11/21/2013 06:42:03 EST
I wouldn't make that trade unless they will take back Gerald Wallace. Wouldn't we have more salary next year? I think we can get rid of Lee in a better way then we won't be over the cap next year. Als more »
Posted 11/12/2013 09:12:39 EST
Beating Orlando 2 times and Utah and a lucky win against Miami does not make us a 4th seed just like when we lost the first 4 games makes us the worse team. I like that we are competitive but I see us more »
Posted 10/31/2013 07:53:29 EDT
He's also saying everytime the nets lose it improves our other pick. It's hard to believe that Philly won but even Miami can lose on a back to back after an emotionally win against Chicago and gettin more »
Posted 10/25/2013 01:26:11 EDT
Let's give Jeff Green some time as he has just returned from heart surgery last season and now has to adapt to a completely different set of players. If he's going nowhere at the trade deadline then more »
Posted 06/26/2013 08:57:26 EDT
Perk would keep us in the lottery but isn't that what we want. I would push for picks in 2014 and 2015 to make our lottery chances even higher. I would trade Rondo also if we let Garnett and Pierce go more »
Posted 06/26/2013 08:53:59 EDT
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In response to SFBostonFan's comment: In response to Fierce34's comment: In response to Iceman4's comment: I agree, Bledsoe although a good player does not have a good outside shot or passes the more »
Posted 06/16/2013 02:29:32 EDT
In response to DaCeltics' comment: In response to gman101019's comment: Bledsoe is widely considered one of the best backup pg's in the league and judging by how terrible our pg play was after r more »
Posted 06/12/2013 07:22:02 EDT
Rondo may not be a great shooter but he is still able to penetrate, get 10+ assists and shoot at 50% along with being a pretty good rebounder. Rondo may not be perfect but he is a pretty good PG.
more »Posted 06/09/2013 09:12:11 EDT
In response to red2004sox's comment: If the dump Beasley with Gortat, then they get less quality on a trade, which would be just in the Celtics wheel house. No one wants Beasley but if you want Lee more »
Posted 05/10/2013 08:54:42 EDT
I would only get Perk if we can get him cheap. Isn't he a free agent after this season? OKC will probably do a sign and trade or just release him. If Celtics are rebuilding no point in getting Perk. K more »
Posted 05/10/2013 08:27:52 EDT
In response to DaCeltics' comment: That means that whatever happens with Pierce Garnett and Doc it has to be something THEY like. We already messed up by insulting Ray Allen. Lets not compound that mi more »
Posted 05/07/2013 07:40:54 EDT
Having Perk and Rondo on the same team on offense would be a major liability. Neither can make FT and Perk can't create his own shot or even handle most passes. He is only a backup center at best and more »
Posted 05/03/2013 09:34:20 EDT
One thing that is rarely mentioned is the fact that how we treat our players does have an impact on who will be willing to come here and possible come at a discount. I think we need to be fair to Pier more »
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Celebrate Independence Day with classic American recipes from chef Suvir Saran. His deviled eggs incorporate cumin, curry leaves, and cilantro, and his other appetizerchickpea-and-potato phyllo cupsoffers a twist on chaat papri, a popular snack sold by Indian street vendors. Saran's coleslaw comes alive courtesy of mint, ginger, lime, and roasted peanuts. And, heavens, his fried chicken! It's marinated overnight in a buttermilk brine aromatic with garam masala, coriander, ginger, and cayenne.


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NEW research from the US shows that loneliness is worse for your health than obesity and nearly as bad as lifelong smoking. Meanwhile we have ever more people living alone, especially in old age.
Alone, of course, doesn't automatically mean lonely, but it doesn't make things easy. It's not helped by the way in which families now scatter all over the world, split, re-form and lose contact. Talking to your Australian grandchildren by Skype is brilliant, but not the same as having them bursting noisily through the back door every week. So we have to try harder.
If we want a healthy old age, it seems we'd better have a sociable one too. And if we want a sociable old age, we all need to be making friends long before that.
We all probably have an image of the lonely widow, or widower, neglected by their family, uninvited by anyone. It's when charities and meals on wheel deliverers can do a useful job – and no coincidence that many charity volunteers are also of pension age and keeping themselves busy and useful usually, therefore, happy.
Any muscle not used soon packs up. The friendship muscle is the same. By the nature of things, our friendship circle gets smaller as we get older, so we have to work harder.
University students know the truth of this. The first few weeks of the first term are spent desperately making friends, any friends. Great move.
Even if you find you have nothing in common, at the very least it gives you a springboard to meet more people whom you might like.
What's good in our 20s is good in our 50s, 60s and 70s too. Some of those friends might be the same too.
We're always being told to save for a comfortable old age, to eat sensibly and exercise for a healthy old age. Now it seems we have to start making friends early to ensure a sociable old age.
Add it to the list. And tell your friends.
IHAVE turned into a gypsy, a lost soul wandering the countryside, not with a red spotted hanky looking for shelter, but with my laptop, just looking for some free wi-fi.
Once upon a time you asked your neighbours for a cup of sugar. Now you're after an internet connection.
Such is progress.
Our home phone line went down.
Luckily, I thought, we have two phone lines and one was still working.
Until BT tested the dodgy line – and managed to put the working one out of action too. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
Of course, when you try to contact them you never deal with a real person to whom you can actually explain something, just an automated machine. At least that means you can shout a lot, which I do.
A number of our neighbours' phones are down as well. And the shop's. We're into the fourth day of being cut off from the world. And no we can't use our mobiles – because there's no signal in this end of the village. No public phone box either.
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
Still, a recorded message on the BT fault line says they are working to repair lines in the Edinburgh area. Very cheering.
The wi-fi at Scotch Corner Moto services isn't working. The wi-fi at Scotch Corner Hotel is working v-er- y slowly. It takes two cups of coffee to send three columns across.
I toy briefly with the idea of a carrier pigeon. Or a little man with a cleft stick. Or even paying £500 to join the golf club where the internet connection is said to be dazzlingly quick.
Finally, I landed in the Manor House at West Auckland. Free wi-fi and plenty of help from the cheerful waiter, Ben W, who turns out to be a computer expert and rescues everything. I am eternally grateful.
BT engineers are due any day now.
They say they're going to let me know when they're coming.
I'd love to know how.
THE good news, as I now spend half my time there sitting in a lay by using my mobile phone, is that workmen have finally cleared the rubbish away from Scotch Corner roundabout. They've been there three days. On the first morning I counted about 15 bags of rubbish and they'd barely started.
The main offenders are the wagon drivers who park up there overnight instead of going to the lorry park.
The new clean scene won't last – but it's a great improvement while it does.
CAMILLA'S doing all right these days, isn't she? Out recently with the Queen and the Duchess of Cambridge – two tricky relationships, daughterin- law and mother-in-law all together – and all looking very jolly. Then this week, on a visit to Denmark, seeming thrilled to bits to be on the set of The Killing.
Actress Sofie Grabol gave her one of those Sarah Lund Faroe Islands woolly jumpers.
We look forward to seeing it on the balcony at Buckingham Palace.
How much?
SIGN of old age: when it was announced that a first class stamp was going up to 60p, I found myself squawking "But that's 12 shillings!
For a stamp!"
Translating into shillings? – definitely time for the bus pass.
Posh shopping
I ORDERED a present from a posh shop in Paris. It arrived apparently addressed to "L'impeccable Sharon Griffiths"
L'impeccable? Certainly beats Miss, Mrs or Ms....
All washed-up
AMONG the reasons that Alan and Susan Rae's marriage fell apart was that Alan, yes Alan, used the washing machine too often.
This is unreasonable behaviour?
There are those of us whose husbands have never ever used the washing machine at all.
That's much more likely grounds for divorce.
Dear Sharon,
THE Duchess of Cambridge is doing a fantastic job and that is the main thing. We should be very proud she is part of our Royal Family. She would be criticised if she were to be spend, spend
spending all the time. I dare say there are quite a few people who have shared clothes with their mother because of their income. No big issue.
She still looked good in it.
Don't let's be too critical.
Brenda Crooks, Spennymoor
Dear Sharon,
DENNIS Waterman says his ex-wife wasn't a beaten wife, only that he hit her(!), but what would have happened if she hadn't had the courage to walk out on him as soon as she did?
Many women, often because they have children and no way of supporting them or nowhere to go, are unable to leave. The longer they stay, the harder it gets and the more frightened they become of their husbands or of what would happen if they attempted to leave. Even if they are physically able to walk out, they are often psychological prisoners of the man beating them.
The intricacies of relationships are never easy to unravel but I hope the widespread condemnation of Dennis Waterman by people such as yourself might give more battered women some of the courage that Rula Lenska showed.
Anne Palmer, Durham.


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Design for a Living World: Sip Bombay and Save the Planet
Ami Vitale |
Fisherman from the Kokhanok village catches salmon on the south shore of Iliamna Lake on the Alaska Peninsula. |
The products we use on the daily impact us more than we think, so the Nature Conservancy has decided to address these issues through a unique exhibit, Design for a Living World, set to premiere at the Coral Gables Museum on July 26.
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Small disks made from Salmon leather to be used in Isaac Mizrahi's piece. |
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Salmon leather dress by fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi |
"This is the first time we're bringing a complete exhibit to our institution.... It's great for the museum, the downtown business district, and the community," museum director of operations, Christine Rupp, said of the project.
Since its world premiere at New York's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the exhibit has traveled to the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix and the Field Museum in Chicago, bringing in more than 70,000 visitors.
After six months packed away in a warehouse, the exhibit finally found a worthy niche in the Gables. "They wanted to bring it to Miami given our museum has a focus on architecture, design, and sustainability, they loved the fit," Rupp said.
Photo taken a Cooper-Hewitt by Erika Nortemann |
Bamboo furniture by Ezri Tarazi |
A cocktail reception will be held opening night, featuring the Bombay Sapphire World Experiential, including hors d'oeuvres and an open bar.
Come out for an evening of organic art where designers and consumers display their best efforts to re-shape our economy and global conservation principles by deliberately incorporating sustainable materials that support, instead of diminish, natural surroundings.
Design for a Living World takes place at the Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, Thursday July 26 at 7 p.m. and runs through October 26, 2012. For tickets call 305-603-8067.
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Benefits Trends for 2013: What You Need to Know
CHICAGO ( TheStreet) -- Employee benefit packages vary as much as the companies offering them. But any small business that wants to attract and retain productive workers needs to be familiar with the most common benefit trends. Offer nothing but a bare-bones package and you may have trouble filling job openings with qualified candidates; offering up too many extras may be financially unsustainable over the long run.
Over the past few years, the general trend in benefits was to squeeze out any and all possible savings. But as fears of another recession have lifted, companies across the country are gradually re-investing in their human capital.
Recently, the Society for Human Resource Management published its 2013 HR Benchmarks Trendbook, which gives an overview of how U.S. companies are spending on benefits while highlighting impending changes in the human-resources landscape. While some of the content is geared toward large corporations (such as the section on relocation services), much of the information can be used by small businesses to determine if they are competitive as employers.
Here are the top four human-resources-related issues to keep an eye on in the year ahead:
1. SalariesFor the average U.S. company, salaries make up about 40% of operating expenses, regardless of the size of the business. The average compensation for private-sector employees was $30 per hour last year; benefits other than salary accounted for 30% of the total. But the biggest trend in compensation isn't reflected in such averages. More and more companies are moving toward differentiation rather than set salary scales, with how much an employee makes directly tied to their productivity. Now that many businesses are easing off the salary freezes common in 2009 and 2010, the question of who gets a raise and how much is being debated carefully. According to the report, companies that are upping salaries gave a meager 1% to low-performing employees last year. By contrast, above-average performers were rewarded with raises of 4-5%.
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Tornadoes - April 2013
NCDC transitioned to the nClimDiv dataset on Thursday, March 13, 2014. This was coincident with the release of the February 2014 monthly monitoring report. For details on this transition, please visit our public FTP site and our U.S. Climate Divisional Database site.
According to data from the Storm Prediction Center, during April, there were 83 preliminary tornado reports. This is well below the 1991-2010 average of 155 for the month, and marked the slowest April in terms of tornadoes since 1992. The last April with fewer than 100 tornadoes was in 1993. April is typically one of the more active tornado months, with annual tornado activity peaking in May and June. The below-average tornado activity during March and April has contributed to a below-average tornado count for the year-to-date period. For January-April, 114 tornadoes have been confirmed with 101 tornado reports still pending for March and April. The 1991-2010 average tornado count for January-April is 300.
On April 11th, a storm system moving through the Southeast spawned several tornadoes in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The most destructive tornado from the outbreak, an EF-3, tracked 68 miles across Kemper and Noxubee Counties in Mississippi and ended in Pickens County, Alabama. The tornado had estimated maximum winds of 145 mph and a path width of three-quarters of a mile. In the wake of the tornado, thousands of trees were uprooted and numerous homes and businesses were destroyed. There was one fatality reported in Kemper County and at least nine additional injuries.


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- Dining Table: 38" diam., 29"H
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