text: Posted March 8, 2013 You completely poo on everybody else's Mock drafts and run around talking about LA and Miami on other forums on this site but talk about what somebody else is doing. Really??? How much of a hypocrite are you?? You talk about what others think of me (like I fuging care) but gloss over your own Q rating like you're popular or liked by everybody on here. Let me give you a clue "You're Not Liked on here either". Nobody on here gives you any credibility on you're opinion. So it's best not to care and just use this place as a debate center to pass the time. You nor I are getting paid for our football 101. So why do you care about my credibility? I don't . You also might notice if you weren't (just reading my post) that others (have actually) agree with me and my Opinion. You having Patterson's Cock in your mouth is just as extreme exaggeration as me being a clueless hater because I point out his flaws. So the fact that you were throwing out these "extreme exaggeration" 1st. Must have just flew over your LA douchbag ego. You would Also notice that I don't sit here and defend Richardson as hard as you are Patterson. I won't call you a clueless idiot hater for pointing out his flaws. So are you the Forum Richardson hater now.????No!! You see flaws in his game and pointed it out. Nothing wrong with that. Just because I don't agree with your opinion doesn't mean I have to call you a clueless hater or some other LA douchbag poo you can come up with. How you don't see that as being childish is strange thoe. You do fugging care. This is your life. This is all you do all day. Notice how I didn't respond for 8 hours? Yeah it's called having a job and a lady to tend to. You literally wake up looking for a thread to rip Patterson in, and you don't go to sleep until you are the last comment. What kind of life is that? You're either like a 70 year old man with no family or you're a teenager with no friends to occupy time with. Sad. I'll try to keep this short so I don't have to read another one of your walls of text full of grammar and spelling issues. I do not want Patterson. I do not spend every day obsessing over him. If you can even bring up a comment by me in the last week that shows me doing such a thing, I will send you money via Paypal. Is he a good player? Yes. Does he deserve to be selected that high? Yes. Would I mind if the Panthers looked passed some of his very teachable mistakes and drafted him? Nope. So once again, you are exaggerating. I really wish you would just look at yourself and realize what we all see. NC hick! NC hick! How's your cousins pussy feel? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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New London - The mayor suggested Monday night that the City Council consider sending out one-time supplemental tax bills to raise between $1.6 million and $6.3 million to boost the city's savings account.
Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio told the Finance Committee that the city needs a fund balance replacement plan.
"We'd be out of the state of real financial crisis that we've been in," he said.
The fund balance is the city's savings account. In the early 1990s, the council adopted a policy to keep 8.3 percent of the budget, or about $6 million in a fund balance, or savings account. Municipalities can increase a fund balance in various ways, including saving year-end surpluses and taxing residents.
A healthy fund balance can also help a city get better interest rates when it goes out to borrow money for large projects. Bonding agencies look for trends in a municipality's finances to help determine interest rates.
The city's fund balance is currently at $1.2 million, according the Finance Director Jeffery Smith. But at the close of 2011-12 budget, when the city had to dip into the fund balance to cover a $4.7 million deficit in the budget, it decreased to about $300,000.
Smith said a healthy fund balance also makes it easier to make payroll and pay bills.
"It's very difficult to run an $80 million business without having any money in the bank," Smith told the committee.
The proposed special tax would apply to all property owners. According to Finizio, a one-mill increase would generate about $1.6 million in revenue; a two-mill increase would be about $3.3 million; a three-mill increase would be about $4.7 million; and a four-mill increase would raise nearly $6.3 million.
The proposed tax levy means a resident with $100,000 of assessed value would pay $100 for a one-mill tax and up to $400 for a four-mill tax.
An average single-family home in the city is assessed at $165,900. That property owner could pay $165 to $663 in extra taxes.
The Finance Committee took no action on the mayor's proposal.
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|Yao Ming is considering retirement after
this upcoming season.
Professional athletes have been known for some brazen arrogance. This can be particularly true when returning from a major injury. Witness Tracy McGrady's assertion that he has rehabilitated himself to the point of being a starter again as exhibit #1.
The obvious reasoning is that teams are not likely to sign a player who's going to fall apart before the ink dries on his contract. Beyond that, though, professional athletes require a phenomenal amount of confidence to play at the highest level of their sport. It's the rung between talent and discipline on the giant ladder that separates them from pedestrians like us. Any chip to that confidence is like denting the armor that a warrior wears into battle.
Then again, Yao Ming has never been a typical professional athlete. After missing all of last season due to foot surgery (his third in the NBA, fifth overall), Houston Rockets fans have been hyped to see what last year's scrappy team could do with their 7-foot-6 seven-time All-Star center returning to the court. If any fans harbored championship aspirations, however, Yao quickly put those thoughts to rest.
|Yao has been the (strained) face of
Chinese basketball for nearly a decade.
That statement was not nearly as shocking as the one he released last week to Chinese state media. "If the foot injury does not heal next season, I might choose to call it quits."
Yao Ming retire? Can it be possible? The face of Chinese basketball for the last eight years added a poignant remark for his 1.6 billion fans in China and the legions of Chinese diaspora around the world to consider, "I'm 30. As an athlete, I am not the future of China basketball anymore."
Yao Ming Becomes an All-Star, Later Actually Deserves It
It could have been very ugly. Following unprecedented hype from being selected first overall in the 2002 NBA draft (quickly eclipsed by the 2003 hype around some other #1 pick named LeBron James), Yao Ming struggled early in his rookie season. This prompted the infamous promise by TNT analyst Charles Barkley that he would kiss colleague Kenny Smith's ass if Yao ever scored more than 19 points in a game during his rookie season.
Of course, Barkley kissed that ass (ultimately a donkey Kenny rented to save himself the embarrassment) when Yao scored 20 on a perfect 9 for 9 from the field and 2 for 2 from the line on November 17, 2002 against the Shaq-less Lakers. What people generally don't remember is that Yao followed that up four nights later with a whopping 30 points and 16 rebounds against Dallas, then averaged 17 and 10 in December to claim his first Western Conference Rookie of the Month award. That made it official: Yao Ming was not Mengke Bateer or Wang Zhizhi, his Chinese predecessors in the NBA. Yao Ming could play ball.
|No one considers Yao anything but a legitimate
All-Star these days.
As Shaq declined and Yao improved, however, the criticisms about Yao's All-Star selections faded (Shaq moving to the Eastern Conference helped of course). Yao had his first 20/10 season, averaging 22.3 points and 10.2 rebounds, and picked up his second All-NBA third-team selection in 2005-06. Then, in 2006-07, Yao asserted himself as the most dominant center in the league, putting up a line of 25.0 points, 9.4 rebounds, 2.0 assists, and 2.0 blocks on 51.6% shooting from the field and 86.2% from the line.
Yao's Achilles Heel … And Toe, And Foot, And Knee
Anyone who reads Yao Ming's resume will notice two All-NBA second-team and three third-team selections, but no first-team honors. How could someone be the best center in 2006-07 but not make first-team All-NBA? It wasn't due to his often-maligned defense, as the even more defensively criticized Amar'e Stoudemire was first-team that season. No, Yao missed his opportunity that season by missing 34 games due to injury, while Amar'e returned from microfracture knee surgery and played all 82.
Of all the criticisms on Yao's legacy, injuries would be the most unfortunate. After playing an ironman 244 of 246 regular-season games in his first three seasons, Yao has only managed 237 of 410 in his most recent five. When a man stands 7-foot-6, weighs 310 lb, and plays basketball year-round for the NBA and the Chinese national team, his legs and feet will inevitably collapse and crumble.
One may wonder how Yao Ming's career could have unfolded had his life paralleled that of his Houston Rockets predecessor Hakeem Olajuwon, joining the NBA at a time when professional basketball players couldn't compete in international competition and hailing from a country that had no Olympic aspirations in basketball anyway. If Yao had spent every summer healing his injuries and improving his skills, rather than being forced to tax his body in more games for a cannibalistic national program, where would he be? What could he have accomplished? How would we view him?
Futile questions. He didn't get to walk that path, so he had to forge a different type of legacy.
Thank God Yi Jianlian Wasn't the First
As unfair as it is, NBA fans will naturally compare the first Chinese basketball player of any significance to the second Chinese basketball player of any significance. The problem is that the second Chinese basketball player of any significance happens to be not that good so far in his career. Blame Charles Barkley, who pulled an audible on Chinese athletes during Yi's rookie-sophomore game and called him out as being a future star (while conspicuously not giving the same confidence to Kevin Durant). Barkley once again proved he's infallibly entertaining and infallibly wrong. After three seasons, Yi Jianlian holds a 9.6 career scoring average, has been traded twice, and is, by one account, the softest power forward in the league.
By the way, the second time Yi was traded, it was for Quinton Ross. And New Jersey had to throw in an additional $3 million for Washington to take him. Ouch.
|Why is Yao so much better than I am??
This is not to say that farce never could have happened with Yao, but Yao has demonstrated much more backbone in managing his own career. Before he was drafted, Yao's CBA team, the Shanghai Sharks (which he now owns), also tried to pick Fegan as his agent, but Yao insisted on finding his own representation and did so. In 2003, when the CBA sold Yao's image to Coca-Cola for an ad, Yao, then a Pepsi spokesman, fought the Chinese state-run regime and won. And despite China's authoritarian sports association's rambling criticisms of him, Yao remains one of China's most popular figures and still has the cajones to shoot back his own critiques of their national basketball program.
Finally, Yao clearly wins when it comes to swagger on the court.
What is Yao Ming's legacy?
|Yao and Shaq will always be a chapter in each other's careers.
- He was the first international player ever drafted first overall in the NBA draft.
- He was the key to David Stern's aggressive NBA marketing campaign in China that created 300 million basketball fans.
- He made Charles Barkley kiss Kenny Smith's ass.
- He is great friends with Shaquille O'Neal and was quite possibly the least-offended Asian in this country by Shaq's purported racist comments toward him.
- He was the best offensive center in the NBA from 2005 to 2009. His career free throw percentageof 83.2% is unheard of at that center position.
- His defining game is Game 7 of the 2007 Western Conference First Round against the Utah Jazz. In this series-deciding game, Yao rumbled for 29 points, including 15 in the fourth quarter. On the other hand, he also had no clue how to stop Carlos Boozer, who eviscerated him for 35 points and 14 rebounds in a four-point Jazz victory.
- He rebounded far less than one would expect from someone 7'6". In that crucial game against Utah, he only managed six, and he averages 9.3 over 32 min for his career.
- He has made tireless efforts for charity in China. Buying the crappy Shanghai Sharks franchise that used to employ him must be included as part of that.
- And around the time he became really, really good was the same time he could never seem to stay healthy.
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What's Wrong with Teardowns? Boon to Neighborhoods Doesn't Make Up for Loss of Aesthetics, Some Say
Toomey, Shamus, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Byline: Shamus Toomey Daily Herald Staff Writer
They're often huge, and maybe even a bit out of context with their surroundings. They supplant old, familiar homes and bring construction dust and other headaches to communities seemingly completed years ago.
There are scores of names attached to post-teardown homes, mostly derisive. They're called McMansions, Monster Homes, Bash & Builds, Bigfoots, Trophy Homes and Starter Castles.
But are "teardowns" the problem that some preservation groups and vocal neighbors say they are? Or is the expanding trend of tearing down older homes to build larger ones a clear boon to communities because of the new housing stock, new designs, new tax dollars and new residents brought in?
The answer, according to those on both sides of the issue, is there are no easy answers. It often comes down to the scruples of a builder, the thoughtfulness of village officials who craft restrictions and a case-by-case analysis of the homes torn down and built in their place.
"You have to look at the overall picture: what is a neighborhood? It's people walking around, having a sense of belonging," says Ellen Shubart of the Campaign for Sensible Growth.
"If someone is putting in this large home that has a completely different aspect to it, it may ruin that feeling, make people feel there's not a neighborhood character," she said. "Not to mention that the larger houses often overwhelm the houses next to them and block out light. Or sometimes these buildings leave (neighbors) faced with a blank wall."
Proponents of the trend acknowledge there are builders who don't do enough to respect the neighbors and who shoehorn in homes that just don't fit. But there are plenty of architects and builders who work overtime trying to make neighbors and the village happy because the new residents, after all, have to live alongside their neighbors, local builders say.
The Washington, D.C.-based National Trust for Historic Preservation released a report in July that labeled the teardown trend "an alarming epidemic" that can leave a neighborhood with "a hodgepodge of boxy new mansions and forlorn-looking older homes."
The trust's efforts to tame the trend are focused on preserving homes in historic areas, such as Chicago's North Shore. But the report's co-author, Jim Lindberg, said just because homes in suburbs north and west of Chicago typically aren't as old as those on the North Shore doesn't mean they are not worth saving.
"There are some post-war neighborhoods that are starting to be recognized as historic and that's going to continue," Lindberg said.
And if it's not historic yet, some day it could be, such as the 1950s ranch-home subdivisions. "I think we also have to think ... what part of that area are we going to save so that in year 2070, you can look back and say, 'That was an interesting piece of architecture, and people are still living there,' " Shubart said.
Builders in the area insist the majority of homes being torn down in the suburbs would be saved if they were worth saving. Both Shubart and Lindberg acknowledge some teardowns are acceptable and worthwhile.
"In any neighborhood, there will be properties that are not well-maintained, and the best use of the property would be a new home," Lindberg said.
The teardown trend is nothing new, but it has picked up steam in the past 10 years as incomes have swelled and commutes have worsened. So-called "in-fill" development of interior suburbs, proponents argue, allows people to build their dream homes in established neighborhoods with mature trees, good schools, nearby downtowns and commutes far shorter than those in outer, developing communities.
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BOULDER, Colo. — In the days right after floodwaters rushed through the Rocky Mountain foothills, the helicopter crews that lifted stranded people to safety were greeted like heroes. Nearly a week later, they are often being waved away by stubborn mountain residents who refuse to abandon their homes.
Caleb Liesveld hiked several miles into tiny Pinewood Springs, midway between Longmont and Estes Park, to try to convince his parents to leave. His mother relented, but his father refused. The elder Liesveld was determined to use heavy equipment from the family's granite quarry to resurrect an old stagecoach road that would let residents get vehicles in and out.
"He wants to be productive, and I don't think he'd really know what to do with himself off the mountain," Caleb Liesveld said Tuesday.
In nearby Lyons, a number of residents were working together to clean rotting food out of abandoned restaurant refrigerators.
"We are a community. We all want to stay here and help," Molly Morton, who also declined rescuers' advice to leave or face months of isolation, said Tuesday in a phone interview.
Morton, 44, lives with her boyfriend on a hill overlooking Lyons. They have well water and a septic field, and Monday night she got her power back, allowing her to restart her cleaning business.
Several residents of Lyons moved up the hill to camp on her property in tents, bringing suitcases and coolers filled with as much food as they could salvage from refrigerators and freezers. One of the men had been given house keys by many people who did evacuate, and he had been going around to empty refrigerators and freezers to throw away food before it spoils. He's also been on the lookout for anyone who might try to take advantage of all those empty houses.
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The pace of rescues was beginning to taper off. Crews were shifting from emergency airlifts to more systematic searches of flooded areas. Green tags and flags, bold enough to be seen from the air, were being used to mark properties that had already been checked.
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Does achieving an intensive versus usual blood pressure level prevent stroke?
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DOI: 10.1002/ana.22496
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Annals of Neurology
Volume 71, Issue 1, pages 133–140, January 2012
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Lee, M., Saver, J. L., Hong, K.-S., Hao, Q. and Ovbiagele, B. (2012), Does achieving an intensive versus usual blood pressure level prevent stroke?. Ann Neurol., 71: 133–140. doi: 10.1002/ana.22496
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- Issue online: 24 JAN 2012
- Version of Record online: 27 JUL 2011
- Accepted manuscript online: 2 JUN 2011 07:34AM EST
- Manuscript Accepted: 27 MAY 2011
- Manuscript Revised: 13 MAY 2011
- Manuscript Received: 23 MAR 2011
The purpose of this study was to compare the impact of achieving tight versus usual systolic blood pressure (SBP) control on stroke prevention through meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
We searched PubMed and bibliographies of recent review articles. Relative risk with 95% confidence interval was used as a measure of the association between an active treatment group with achieved SBP <130mmHg versus a comparator group with achieved SBP 130 to 139mmHg, and risk of stroke after pooling data across trials.
The search identified 11 studies with 42,572 participants and 794 stroke events. The final SBPs, weighted for trial size, were a mean of 126.5mmHg in the intensive treatment arms and 132.6mmHg in the conventional arms (mean SBP reduction, 6.1mmHg). Achieving a tight SBP level was associated with a lower stroke risk (relative risk, 0.80; 95% confidence interval, 0.70–0.92; p < 0.01) and a lower risk of major vascular events (0.91; 0.86–0.96; p < 0.001). In subgroup analyses, subjects with risk factors but no established cardiovascular disease showed substantial reduction of future stroke risk with tight control (0.49; 0.34–0.69), but those with established cardiovascular disease at entry did not experience stroke risk reduction with tight control (0.92; 0.83–1.03).
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NAPA -- From a farmer of thousands of North Coast acres of winegrapes to producers of Napa Valley's most prestigious wine brands to a broker of industry mergers and acquisitions, the speaker lineup for the Business Journal's Impact Napa conference later this month includes major figures in Napa County's wine industry.
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The Aug. 30 morning conference will include a look at the forces pushing and pulling on the finances of grape growers, vintners and consumers by Chris Thornberg of Beacon Economics, which has offices in San Rafael and Los Angeles. Following the forecast will be a panel consisting of Bart Araujo of Araujo Estate Wines just east of Calistoga, Andy Beckstoffer of Rutherford-based Beckstoffer Vineyards, Jayson Pahlmeyer of Pahlmeyer Winery in St. Helena and Mario Zepponi of Santa Rosa-based Zepponi & Company.
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Coming from a family of California ranchers, Mr. Araujo moved from a career in homebuilding to wine crafting in 1990. That's when he and his wife, Daphne, purchased the 38-acre Eisele Vineyard, which had supplied grapes for acclaimed vintages from Ridge Vineyards, Conn Creek and Joseph Phelps over the previous two decades. Top wine critic Robert Parker Jr. featured Araujo Estate as a "reference-point winery" for terroir-driven Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon and syrah wine in his 2005 book The World's Greatest Wine Estates.
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BOBINO'S, NAMED AFTER the last nightclub in which Josephine Baker performed, is exceedingly pretty. Bathed in soft golden light with a few red accents, it is the perfect place for dimly lit romantic dinners, evening reflection, and confessions. Servers swish by in immaculate aprons, golden artichokes hang from the ceiling on gilded ribbons, and glass vases filled with pussy willows and yellow roses rest on each table. But for all the delicacy and perfection, there remains an air of casualness necessary for any good wine bar.
The wine list is large enough to provide variety and small enough to keep dilettantes like myself from getting muddled. When pressed to recommend a glass of white wine, our waiter chose the least expensive on the list, bringing us a crisp, buttery Domaine De Coussergues Sauvignon Blanc ('95, Languedoc, France, $3.95/glass, $19.95); it was excellent. On the high end of the price scale, if you're curious, is a $36.95 bottle of Kenwood "Jack London" Merlot, '94, Sonoma, California.
The menu, created by chef J.P. Samuelson, changes weekly, always offering a small selection of tapas, soups and salads, entrees, and desserts. Tapas at $1 each seem like a cheap way to go, but be warned: think tiny taste, not extensive joy ride. We tried both offerings on the menu, the first being a sweet potato cake topped with a sliver of salmon on top of a few baby greens treated with extra virgin olive oil, the second being some very tiny and very rare slabs of roasted leg of lamb served on silver dollar polenta biscuits dribbled over with a sweet mustard crème fraîche. So tasty that you grumble that the moment came and went so quickly.
If delicate snacking is not your idea of fun, skip ahead to entrees, which are as hearty and filling as can be. No vegetarian options were on the menu the evening we were visiting, but we were told that all the vegetarian fixings from other entrees could be whipped into its own meal without a problem. This week that meant an artfully arranged plate of organic wheatberries (which taste exactly like you'd imagine) treated with spices, creamy mashed potatoes, whole cloves of garlic and Minnesota winter ragoût lush with squash and tomatoes.
I would have been envious had it not been for the ribeye steak staring at me. Sliced on a bed of yukon mashed potatoes, it was a divine cut of meat, cut easily with a single draw of my butter knife. Along with a pile of fresh chopped persimmon, a small pool of homemade apple sauce, and the Santa Alicia merlot demi-glace ($15.95), it was a magnificent plate of food. My other friend dearly enjoyed a plate of British Columbia Pacific salmon, a swirl of flavors served with the aforementioned ragoût ($14.95).
I usually pass over dessert with the self-righteous phrase "I'm full." But this evening was different. Maybe it was our waiter's amiable sincerity, maybe it was the mood set by the bounteous meal, but whatever the cause, the result was that we ordered all three desserts on the dessert tray. Luckily sparring was held to a minimum, as we each quickly found a favorite. For me, it was the Indian pudding ($4.50), a mushy sort of bread pudding riddled with cinnamon and nutmeg, made with corn meal over a graham cracker crust and swirled with caramel and a light honey-tasting cream sauce. My two friends in turn were happy with the chocolate mocha flourless torte ($4.50), embellished with homemade whipped cream and fresh raspberries, and a dense custard with a caramel topping ($4.50). Neither trace nor crumb was left on our dessert plates.
The only slight damper in the evening was the bill of $90, which, once you add a decent tip brings you choking on the sum of $118. Of course, we DID completely indulge ourselves with dessert, wine, and appetizers. But nearly $40 per person in this neck of the woods feels a bit out of character, and coming so soon after our annual spate of holiday spending, one can really feel the pinch. Miserly thoughts aside, Bobino's is a winning effort in all other respects. Trudging along the snow-filled pathway to my house, it seemed that my feet were crunching more heavily than I'd ever noticed before. Were my footfalls more apparent because the extraordinary meal and two glasses of wine I had at Bobino's made me more reflective and sensitive of my surroundings? Or perhaps the meal merely made me physically heavier. Fortunately there was no one around to offer an opinion.
CARNIVAL VICTIM: If you fancy yourself too fashion-conscious to pin on a button, consider this: From now through the end of the 11th Annual Winter Carnival (which, in case you didn't already know, runs from Friday through February 2), Starbucks customers wearing a Winter Carnival button will receive a free cup of short-drip coffee every time they stop at Starbucks. The button is also valid for a $2 discount off any pound of Starbucks's special Winter Carnival Yukon blend.
CRAB TREAT: You have until March 1 to stop in at the Pickled Parrot (26 N. 5th St., Mpls.; 332-0673) for a hefty stone crab, flown in daily from Joe's Stone Crabs in Florida. Treat yourself to a crab that is so splendiferous you might get full before finishing it. Imagine your frostbitten fingers dipping a hunk of crab meat into melted butter (or some of Joe's mustard sauce), squeezing some lemon over it, and popping it into your cranky mouth. You are completely entitled to such niceties after enduring this hideously nasty cold spell. The meal also includes a grilled and stuffed tomato and a side of creamed spinach. And if you're stuck inside for a day or two with nothing but a couple of boxes of frozen spinach and time on your hands, try making a big dish of Joe's creamed spinach on your own.
Joe's Creamed Spinach
* 2 10-oz. boxes frozen chopped spinach, thawed
* 1 1/2 c. light cream
(or 3/4 c. each heavy cream
and milk)
* 1 tsp. salt
* 1/4 tsp. nutmeg, or to taste
* 2 Tbsp. unsalted butter
* 2 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
Gently squeeze the spinach, discarding excess water. Place it in a non-aluminum saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring constantly, for five minutes, until spinach begins to become tender, but is still bright green.
Add the cream, salt, and nutmeg and simmer for five minutes, until the cream has bubbled and reduced slightly. Meanwhile, melt the butter in a small skillet; add the flour and cook over low heat, stirring, for three or four minutes, until opaque. Stir this roux into the spinach mixture. Simmer for four or five minutes longer, until creamy and smooth but still bright green. Correct the seasonings and serve hot. Serves four.
WINO'S PARADISE: For those of you looking for fast-paced mingling opportunities, here's one to knock your socks off. The Vintage Wine Bar and Restaurant (579 Selby Ave., St. Paul; 222-7000) is holding a special pre-Valentine's Day Wine tasting in conjunction with City Pages Matches. Allow your new conquest/conquestee to see you with the aid of candlelight in their eyes and a glass of wine in their bellies. Experts from the Vintage will introduce you to six types of wine as well as some snacks (can't be more specific than that, but I imagine that they will be delicious). The cost of this event is $20. A small price to pay if you end up with a date for Valentine's Day.
CALLING ALL COWS: Tired of dreary old cakes, cookies and chocolates? How about some ice cream? Minnesota's own Kemps is dishing up its new Wind Chill Factor Ice Cream, the first-ever Official Ice Cream of the St. Paul Winter Carnival. As you indulge yourself with this almond-flavored ice cream with white chocolate chunks and crunchy white chocolate-covered pretzel pieces, you will also be helpful to your neighbors in need: 10 cents from every half-gallon of Wind Chill Factor Ice Cream sold will be donated to the Minnesota Food Bank network. Don't wait too long though; the ice cream (joining Bear Tracks, Chocolate Moose, and North Shore S'More as a Kemps Special Editions flavor) will be available across Minnesota only through March 1997.
CHOCOLATE LUST MURDER: Well, hopefully none will be committed, but if one needed a source of inspiration he/she could attend Chocolate Fest '97, being held on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the St. Paul Radisson ($2.50-$5; 11 E. Kellogg Blvd., 832-5517). One of the 1997 St. Paul Winter Carnival events, "A Wonderland in Chocolate," will be replete with demonstrations, sampling, activities for the family, and a chocolate competition between some of the Twin Cities's most talented chefs, with winners to be announced at noon. The day continues with an evening dinner, "A Romance in Chocolate," hosted by KSTP-AM radio dynamo Barbara Carlson. For $200 per couple you and Barb will be feasting on a five-course dinner, each course prepared with chocolate. Live entertainment and dancing will follow, so you get a slight chance to redeem your waistline. Before you get outraged by the ticket price, be calmed: all funds raised during Chocolate Fest '97 will allow the Muscular Dystrophy Association to continue providing services at no cost to over 1,500 children and adults, as well as helping to fund research at the University of Minnesota.
If you have any hesitation about attending the Winter Carnival, tell that hesitation to go jump in a frozen lake. On January 24, during a ceremony in downtown St. Paul, King Boreas and his Snow Queen will host a royal tasting of the ice cream. An ice carver will be on hand to sculpt a four-foot long Kemps Cow out of a 400-pound block of ice using nothing but the grit of passion and a chain saw. Then fire god Vulcanus Rex and his compatriots will drive along Wabasha on their Royal Chariot to do battle with King Boreas in an attempt to abduct his royal ice cream. Needless to say, this frosty melodrama is not to be missed.
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BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad issued a presidential decree on Tuesday ordering the establishment of diplomatic relations between Syria and Lebanon and announcing the opening of an embassy-level diplomatic mission in Beirut, according to the official Syrian Arab News Agency. Presidential Decree Number 358 declared that "diplomatic relations are established between the Syrian Arab Republic and the Lebanese Republic" and "a diplomatic mission of embassy level is created in the capital of the Lebanese Republic."
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem (R) and his Lebanese counterpart Fawzi Saloukh exchange documents after signing an agreement to open diplomatic ties between the two countries in Damascus October 15, 2008. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri
Following the announcement, Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh told The Daily Star that he would visit Damascus on Wednesday to finalize the agreement.
"Tomorrow I will be in Damascus to meet with my colleague [Syrian Foreign] Minister Walid Moallem," he said, adding that the purpose of the trip was "to finalize the necessary measures to establish diplomatic relations between the two countries" and discuss issues of bilateral, regional and international importance.
Salloukh said a joint communique would be issued Wednesday, according to the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
"My visit will be a crown to the excellent relations between the two countries," he said.
Lebanese Premier Fouad Siniora called the establishment of diplomatic ties "a historic step, a further step to bolster Lebanon's sovereignty and independence," and added: "This is a step that Lebanon and the Lebanese have always supported."
Lebanese President Michel Sleiman said in a statement from the Presidential Palace that he hoped the decree would facilitate a restoration of Lebanon and Syria's unique relationship.
In a landmark visit to Syria in August, Sleiman and Assad agreed to formalize diplomatic relations between the two countries and exchange ambassadors for the first time in 60 years.
A number of high-level diplomatic meetings in recent months have added to speculation that Lebanon and Syria would exchange ambassadors by year's end and that ties between Syria and the West may be thawing.
Last month, Syria hosted a four-way summit with France, Turkey and Qatar in which relations with Lebanon featured prominently. And, in a highly touted tete-a-tete, Moallem met with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in late September at the opening of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
U.S. President George W. Bush called on Monday for the creation of diplomatic ties between Lebanon and Syria after meeting with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi in Washington.
"We discussed the need for Syria to respect Lebanon's sovereignty, to cease its support for terror, and to open full diplomatic ties with Lebanon's elected government," he said after his meeting with the Italian leader.
Assad's decree came a day after Bush's comments.
On Tuesday, however, U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack welcomed the development as "a positive step" but noted that important tasks remain, such as defining the countries' borders.
Tensions between Syria and Lebanon escalated in September following two bombings in Tripoli and one in Damascus, and the deployment of 10,000 Syrian troops to the Lebanese-Syrian border in what was called an effort to combat smuggling.
The deployment, along with statements from Assad decrying the alleged growth of Islamic extremism in Tripoli, stoked fears in Lebanon of a potential Syrian incursion in the north, although both governments and a number of political analysts dismissed the prospect.
Assad's decree and Wednesday's meeting between Moallem and Salloukh might well defuse tensions between the neighbors, particularly within the anti-Syrian March 14 alliance.
March 14-aligned Progressive Socialist Party head Walid Jumblatt told the BBC Tuesday that the presidential decree was a positive development that could play a role in Lebanese-Syrian reconciliation.
He suggested that the decree stemmed, in some way, from French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to Syria last month.
Assad's decree was also applauded by a Lebanese Christian leader who has been a longtime critic of Syria's role in Lebanon. Speaking during a visit to Cairo, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea expressed hope that diplomatic ties "will be the start of other needed steps, especially that concern the missing and detained Lebanese in Syria's prisons and most importantly the demarcation of borders."
"I think this is an important development," Osama Safa, head of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, told The Daily Star. By the end of the year there will likely be ambassadors in each capital, he added.
But Safa said that it remains to be seen what the agenda of a Syrian embassy in Lebanon will be, or how "the [Syrian] attitude to Lebanon will change."
A Syrian embassy in Beirut could be an outpost of Syrian policy or a genuine diplomatic station "worthy of a sovereign nation," he said. Safa contended that "actual change" meant "you no longer use troops on the border to send a message."
He cited the importance of the Moallem-Rice meeting in New York, but added that Assad has his own timeline.
Fadia Kiwan, political science department chair at Saint Joseph's University, also saw the decree as an important development. "We have to normalize relations between Lebanon and Syria," she said.
She noted a change of tone following the arrest of a terrorist cell in Tripoli this week. Rather than implicating Syria in attacks on Lebanon, she said, Lebanese security forces asked for Syria's assistance in patrolling the border and combating terrorism.
"It means they are no longer accusing Syria of perpetrating [attacks] in Lebanon," she said.
She also spoke of a policy change in the West vis-a-vis Syria, spearheaded by France's new Middle East strategy.
She suggested that on a visit to the U.S. two years ago, Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun recognized that U.S. officials were looking for "behavioral change [in Syria], not regime change."
This change of tack, she added, establishes Syria "as a potential arbiter" in a number of disputes, including the Palestinian political divide between Fatah and Hamas.
Syria withdrew its troops from Lebanon in 2005 after the assassination of former Lebanese Premier Rafik Hariri and a series of large demonstrations in Beirut, ending three decades of military domination.
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Gold may advance for the first time in three days as Greece's ratings downgrade raised concern that the European sovereign-debt crisis will linger, boosting demand for the metal as an alternative asset.
Spot bullion gained as much as 0.3 percent to $1,365.95 an ounce and traded little changed at $1,362.32 an ounce at 4:38 p.m. in Seoul. The price dropped 0.6 percent last week, the second straight weekly decline. The February-delivery contract in New York was little changed at $1,361.40 an ounce.
"The Greece downgrade is helping gold," said Hwang Il Doo, a senior trader at Korea Exchange Bank Futures Co. in Seoul. "Uncertainties around the region are boosting the metal, helping it emerge from weakness since the start of the year."
Greece on Jan. 14 had its credit rating cut to junk by Fitch Ratings, following similar downgrades at Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's. European finance ministers meet this week to discuss the crisis.
Gold gained 30 percent last year, advancing to a record $1,431.25 an ounce, as the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund bailed out Greece and Ireland.
Bullion is likely to reach $1,500 per ounce in the first quarter and may then retreat if the market expects central banks to end quantitative easing, according to Dong Tao, economist at Credit Suisse Group AG. Prices may climb to more than $2,000 in the next five to 10 years as inflation enters a new era, he said on Jan. 15.
Indian Demand
Gold demand in India, the biggest consumer, is "very good" as high prices fail to deter buyers, according to Rajesh Exports Ltd., the nation's largest jewelry maker and exporter.
Dennis Gartman, an economist and the editor of the Suffolk, Virginia-based Gartman Letter, said gold was "toppy" and advised clients to reduce their positions by half. Last week, he recommended cutting holdings of gold and silver by a third.
Gold assets in exchange-traded products dropped 6.5 metric tons to 2,077.81 tons as of Jan. 14, the lowest level since Sept. 15, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from 10 providers. Silver holdings were unchanged at 14,943.60 tons as of Jan. 14, data from four providers show.
Silver for immediate delivery lost 0.6 percent to $28.31 an ounce, reversing an earlier gain of as much as 0.7 percent. The metal dropped 0.7 percent last week.
Cash platinum gained 0.2 percent to $1,815.50 an ounce after rising 4.6 percent last week. Immediate-delivery palladium dropped 0.4 percent lower at $793.50 an ounce after jumping 6 percent last week.


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