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Cue the dramatic music, because thiiiis --dramatic pause -- is "The Taste."
The first challenge has the chef-mentors in the kitchen with their teams, coaching them through the first comfort food challenge: Make something wonderful with bacon, cheese and eggs.
The best spoon from each quartet will be judged by Gabrielle Hamilton, chef of New York City's Prune and author of "Blood, Bones & Butter." The winner gets Hamilton's help in the team kitchen and immunity in the elimination challenge, when the mentors -- Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Brian Malarkey and Ludo Lefebvre -- do a blind taste test to decide who's going home.
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The chefs offer tips and critiques as their teams work on bacony, cheesy dishes. Bourdain tells his team to "keep flavors simple. Don't make it too pretty."
Food blogger Sarah is racing around, long hair flying as Ludo hollers at her. Her work station looks like -- OK, it sounded like he said Baghdad. It's certainly a debris strewn mess -- and later, it will be a flaming, debris-strewn mess. Just you wait.
The hour quickly ticks down as contestants taste their teammates' food and decisions are made on which spoons to present to guest judge Hamilton.
"It's a group decision and I made it," Malarkey announces, picking Jeff's macaroni and cheese. Nigella's group chooses Lauren's chicken stew, while Bourdain goes with Ninamarie's couscous. Ludo chooses Sarah's mac and cheese and screams, "Plate it! Plate it! PLATE IT!!!!!"
Hamilton anoints Lauren the winner, a pronouncement that makes Lauren shriek with joy, while teammate Diana -- the New York restaurant consultant with the super-sized ego -- snipes, "You want to turn her over and shake her."
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Now the cooks are on their own, cooking up a new round of comfort food, sans ingredient restrictions. There are dishes of every type, from Diana's Korean-inspired bibimbap with a quail egg to Renatta's apple butter crumble. Khristianne has made a seafood chowder with coconut milk, while Uno works on sticky chicken wings under a steady barrage of trash talk from teammate Diana.
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Sarah, the only home cook in a team of professional chefs, has managed to set a paper towel on fire while working on a shrimp and grits dish. Just as a teammate says Sarah likes to play the damsel-in-distress role, she hoists the flaming towel in the air and says, "Oh! I'm on fire. What do I do with it?" The teammate grabs the towel and douses it in the sink. Moments later, Sarah hoists a second flaming paper towel -- and moments later a THIRD. She finally moves the stack of towels away from the gas range. Ahem.
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Khristianne's seafood chowder wins raves as well. Bourdain says, "Comfort food? I want to order a very expensive bottle of wine and crash a Ferrari."
Then it's into-the-chutes time for seven cooks -- the three best and four worst of the bunch. Sarah and Khristianne score high, but Team Bourdain's Diane takes top honors.
"Give me five seconds of gloating," Bourdain tells his fellow judges.
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"Today was a very, very good day to have immunity," Bourdain tells her as she exits weeping.
Backstage, the competitors debate who's going home. As Micah's teammates predict his departure, Khristianne says, "Why do you guys have a smile on your face? You're not a good person." Which makes us love her more.
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Anyone know any good foods to eat but are also healthy???? Thanks
Well vegetables of all sorts. Fruits, and whole food. None of that processed stuff or 'Organic Snacks" which claim to be healthy. Stray away from bread but if you do eat it go for whole wheat. Brown Rice instead of white. Fruit juices aren't the best. It'd be better to eat the actually fruit than the juice.
These are meals that I usually eat on a daily basis:
Breakfast - Oatmeal w/ brown sugar and berries, Fruit Smoothie w/ 1slice of whole wheat toast, Special K cereal (I like the blueberry one ), 2 eggs (boiled, scrambled, fried, etc) w/ some fruit
Lunch - Steamed Broccoli (just that idk why I just like it), creamed corn soup, tomato soup with vegetables, Caesar Salad, Ham,Cheese omelet with chopped vegetables
Dinner - Whole Grain Spaghetti and Meatballs, Brown Rice and salmon, Brown Rice and Chicken Breast, Beans and Chicken/Salmon, Beef Stew, Baked Sweet Potato w/ Chicken/Salmon Note: I like to pair all dinner meals with vegetables.
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Thanks rebound23. I don't really like any vegetables so do you know any good tasting veggies??? The only veggie I like is salad
Good tasting veggies? Well I like all vegetables steamed so try that. If not though you could always just sneak them in you know? Chop up some celery and mix it in a tuna sandwich. Or use dip (healthy dip and in moderation) to add some taste. 1 last resort would be to mix them in with a fruit smoothie. I've never tried it but I guess the fruits are supposed to over power the taste of the veggies. Give it a shot!
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When i play with a team i usually pass around the ball, if i do take any shots its probly 2-4 shots ...some ppl wonder y i dnt score. I can score but dnt want to be selfish with the ball. Shud i take more oppertunities to score instead of passing around the ball so much?
Ps I haven't been playing much team bball until now. I think its really hurting my offensive stats now that i dnt score.
One old coach of mine gave me some fantastic advice once, and this was our team code too. " If you're open, shoot. If someone has a better shot than you, pass. If you have a lane, take it. We're a team, we're all good, and no one is the star, therefore no one should have the arrogance to be a ballhog."
This was the first thing he ever told us and I've been abiding by that rule ever since. So to break it down, do what's best for the team, not just you or the people you pass to. For example, if you guys are down 1 with 30 seconds to go and you and some dude on your team have the same shot and can both make it, don't feel like a ballhog to take the shot. But if you're in the same situation but you're covered, the other guy isn't, and you're contimplating passing the ball, you should because it's best for the TEAM!!!!!!
@lezgoheat You took the words right outta my mouth. LOL That's exactly what my coach says to me when I tell him that I don't like to shoot every three I'm open for. He says that I'm being selfish by notshooting when I'm open because I'm giving away an opportunity for my team to score. So basically, any time you have an open, quality shot, take it because another opportunity might not come in that possesion. Hope that helped!
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I hate shooting when i'm open,espesially the shots i know i can't make, but then my coach gets mad at me.
I mean really, do what you can to help your team. It depends on the game.
If your team is making their shots early on, then you know passing to open guys is good. If your having a good day, shoot more.
The best thing you can do is split passing and shooting evenly.
Thnx alot ...I will definately keep this in my head wenever am playing
Thnx 4 all da answers everyone ...appreciate it
Look itz ur boy ddman234 and im jus tellin u that in order for ur offensive shots to take action and practice ur shots each and every day and hit 1000 shots jus to get the flow right with ur shots and jus get ur shot right
Take what the defense gives you. You sound like a PG.
So, just make sure you have a respectable jumper, meaning that if you have space, you can knock it down. And, being a scorer will open up the floor better for your teammates to improve and do well also, so if they're complaining that you're ball hogging, let them know that you feel that you can create a lot of opportunities for them by playing your game.
yh i practice shooting alot .....everytime i got practice I take hundreds of shots .....and spend alot of time at the freethrow line
I actually play both guards but my coach had me playing sg bcuz i was that good at ball handling, but i do got i good jumper ...and its sumtimes underestimated
Ps am a much better ball handler now
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The Mississippi Highway Patrol has issued an AMBER Alert after a 6-year-old was kidnapped from an elementary school.
The Kemper County sheriff said Jashayla Markayia Hopson was kidnapped from Kemper Elementary School Tuesday shortly after noon.
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March 24, 2013
Once again Wood County is gaining statewide attention, except this time it's because of the gambling problem here....
part of the problem is that local government has become idicted to their cut of gambling revnues. The Newell administration has been pro gambling. Most of those who own gambling joints donated to his re-election campaign. There was suppose to be regulations, however, on 7th Street there are two gambling joints right next door to each other...obviously the city looked the other way. Families are the ones who suffer from this addiction.
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Thank you Bob Wise. Maybe if you hadn't been such an immoral cheater then you wouldn't have clogged WV's right down the primrose path to gambling heaven.
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Please explain how Bob Wise's marital infidelity is responsible for worsening gambling problems.
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I agree. Thank you Bob Wise. SC had the good sense to get rid of their gambling machines and we had the bad luck to have them brought here by Bob Wise.
So now we are told the gambling problem is growing. Next, they will tell us water is wet.
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Eyesore disgrace.......
AND the pitiful ordinance isn't even enforced???
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No wonder. There's a gambling joint on every corner of every street in Parkersburg. I'd like to see them all be swallowed by a giant sinkhole.
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machines are not hitting like they were...the state has tightened them up..this will put the paycheck gamblers over the edge..just saying...
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It should be noted that of all our elected officials, only Blair Couch and John Ellem have publicly denounced the proliferation of gambling in our town. Keith Burdette, Bob Newell, the Parkersburg Board of Zoning Appeals, Wayne Dunn, and Steve Gainer all have promoted this blight on our county. Gambling causes domestic violence, poverty, and suicide, and those who vote in favor of it, along with those who operate the establishments, are to blame.
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I would like to see them put in a casino in parkersburg...look at the jobs it would create....
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Dear harryanderson, Any man who would openly cheat on his wife with a coworker and expect the taxpayers to pick up the tab-a tab he has never been expected to repay?-is not capable of making responsible moral decisions.
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anyone who disagrees with me is either a non gambler or an idiot...I have years of data to back up my comment...believe me LOL
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The only one responsible for the poverty,family abuse,depression,divorce,and criminal activity, all of which are common traits exhibited by the compulsive and addicted gambler, is the gambler himself(herself).
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Guy007.....you must be talking about all the old retired ladies I see gambling...wow...they would not like you at all LOL
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I'm running a December marathon and looking to break 3:30. My best is a 3:38 and half of 137 both this year.
My schedule this year has thrown some curves making it hard to get my long runs in. The schedule I follow has a long run followed by a shorter run of 10-12 miles. To get all my long runs in I would have to do back to back long runs. Like 18 followed by 16 or a 20. Are there a lot of you out there that do that? What does your weekly mileage look like if you do?
Also I run 35-40MPW.
I assume that you mean two long runs a week apart and not one the day after the other. If so, then give it a try. However, if you are not used to weekly long runs then you may want to pick a route on that second week that allows you to cut the run short if you feel it is necessary.
My advice is simple. If your schedule doesn't allow you to train more than 35-40mpw don't race the marathon. Jogging it might be o.k., but you are shooting for a personal best. Your half marathon time says you are capable of beating your goal but the full marathon is not the test you want to cram for. You are likely to suffer a great deal and miss your goal in the process.
I don't think running 36-38 miles on consecutive days (I assume that's what you mean by "back to back") is such a good idea when it's as much as you normally run in a week. I'd make sure that one of the runs is 20-22 and follow it up with the 10-12. That in itself is technically too much considering your overall mileage, but if you must choose...
You ask "are there a lot of you out there who do that?" I've done it a handful of times when I was running my highest milage which would have been 60's - low 70's and it did work out well. During one period I tried running 16 every other day, but after a couple weeks of it my legs were too dead. Fwiw the most I ever averaged for a full year was 52mpw. That inlcuded some months in 40's and others in 60's a. This is one reason why I've only run 7 marathons in 26 years
not enough mileage. When I did run them I was preparedall of them under 3 hours, and they still were very tough. I don't think I could have done back to back runs of apprx 2 hrs during my lower mileage periods.
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I assume that the people who devise these training plans take in to account that people may miss days due to injury/sickness/life getting in the way.
Personally, I am assuming that sticking to the plan is more beneficial than trying to squeeze in missed runs.
Then again I haven't run a marathon yet.
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Thanks for all the advice. I did mean a week btw the long runs. I am thinking of running the long runs and possibly shortening up the week day runs depending on my recovery from the long runs. And only doing this to ensure 2 over 20 miles are completed.
I was in the same situation with no long runs, but plenty of half marathons, best around 138. Was trying to hit 3:30 at Chicago, but legs fell apart around 22-24. Only could get a 3:36.The only thing I could blame was the lack of some long runs.
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Thanks for all the advice. I did mean a week btw the long runs. I am thinking of running the long runs and possibly shortening up the week day runs depending on my recovery from the long runs. And only doing this to ensure 2 over 20 miles are completed.
I hope I didn't come off as too hard nosed. It's just that I see you've set a goal for yourself that you are perfectly capable of reaching, but you are going to take your shot at it before you are ready. Look what's happend already. You've run a marathon in 3:37 and a half-marathon in 1:37. You're half-marathon time is much better. Why is that? Is it that you are just better at the shorter distance? I don't think so. It's just that you've had enough training mileage to run the shorter race but not the longer one. To tell you the truth I don't think your mileage is even enough to run your best half-marathon. I'm sure you can run much faster than you have at both distances if you are ever in a position to train more.
Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox now and wish you luck. Get that 20 in and do your best.
Thank you everyone for posting! I ran 16 on Friday and felt really good. This week I am going to do my regular mileage and do 20 on Friday. After my recovery to the 20 mile run I'll decide about what do to the rest of my schedule. The biggest thing for me is doing these long runs on my own. I still think I can get some long runs in while avoiding injury.
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The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. At the turn of the last century, when Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy. Without explanation, he leaves a bereft Enza behind. Soon, Enza's family faces disaster and she, too, is forced to go to America with her father to secure their future.
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At least a half-dozen patients of surgeons who do not meet the hospital's stringent criteria for access to the $42.7 million Center for Joint Replacement were allowed to recover in the building last week, doctors said. The move comes as state investigators acknowledged that federal officials have joined them in investigating the hospital's practices, which were the subject of a report last month in this newspaper.
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Last month this newspaper highlighted the concerns of excluded doctors and patients who said the policy created a "two-tier" system of care at the public health care district in southern Alameda County.
For the past year, physicians who did not meet 24 criteria for participation in the hospital's new Institute for Joint Restoration and Research -- which included quotas for joint replacement surgeries -- were not granted access to the new building. Instead, they and their patients were relocated from the soon-to-be-demolished Whitaker Pavilion to the sixth floor of the main hospital tower with only a hallway to use for physical therapy sessions, risking exposure to infectious patients walking the halls nearby, doctors and patients said.
In an email Wednesday, Dr. John Dearborn, co-medical director of the institute and one of two surgeons that qualified for access, told Newark resident Sumeet Batra that six non-institute patients were welcomed to the building last week, "because the Institute volume that week did not fill the unit. Most weeks the CJR beds are full." Dearborn has acknowledged helping to write the criteria that excluded the other doctors.
Batra, whose mother is scheduled for knee replacement by Dr. Barry Rose on April 22 at Washington Hospital, had emailed Dearborn's medical office Tuesday, asking if there was a reason his mother could not recover in the new building.
Dearborn's email detailed the benefits of his "minimally invasive" surgery techniques and called the differences in facilities "purely cosmetic."
"Conceivably, if the hospital administration felt that the best place for Dr. Rose's patients from an operational standpoint was the CJR, they would make the decision to put his patients there," he said.
The segregated care sparked a discrimination complaint filed with the state on Sept. 4. Since then, federal officials have become involved. Both they and state officials have declined to identify which federal laws were being examined and when federal officials got involved.
Officials did say they are investigating whether the joint center policies comply with federal laws governing hospitals that participate in federal Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Hospital officials said last month they were cooperating with the probe.
"We want to state clearly and for the record, the legal structure for the Institute was created on the advice of qualified legal counsel and designed to meet all applicable legal requirements. ... Any physician who meets the requirements for participation may apply for acceptance," wrote hospital Administrator Kimberly Hartz on March 20. "The legal structure does not constitute an 'illegal kickback' or any other violation of law."
On Thursday, hospital spokeswoman Gisela Hernandez declined a Jan. 28 request for the costs and revenues associated with the operation of the institute, writing in an email that "providing such detailed data would be providing competitive service-line information; the data is a valuable trade secret. ... Our competition would benefit significantly by having access to the detailed revenue and expenditure information that you are requesting."
Ashly McGlone covers San Leandro, San Lorenzo and the Washington Township Health Care District. Contact her at 510-293-2463. Follow her at Twitter.com/AshlyReports.


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This is a fantastic recipe and enough of a reason to purchase the book even if you're not interested in any of the other formulas. I'll be repeating this one often.
Neno's Award—-Rules and Regulations
1. As a dedication for those who love blogging and love to encourage friendships through blogging.
2. To seek the reasons why we all love blogging.
3. Put the award in one post as soon as you receive it.
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5. Answer the award's question by writing the reason why you love blogging.
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My reason for loving blogging? It started out as a way to save my recipes for the future and ended up helping me live and love my life in the present. I've met so many new friends and have been so impressed with the genuine kindness and helpfulness of the food blogging community. Thank you all for your friendship and continued support.


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Delcie Light has been married for 53 years to Bill Light. They have three grown children: Christiane is a V.P. at Universal-NBC in California, Bill is an attorney in Manhattan Beach CA, and Jim lives in Devils Lake and owns and operates Computer Clinic. The Light's enjoy 8 grandchildren.
Delcie earned a B.S. from NDSU and a M.S. from UND. She has taught people from 3-73, but mostly teenagers for 25 years at DLHS.
She enjoys family (including a dog and two cats), home, flowers, watching kids and critters, travel, living in North Dakota with 4 seasons, reading, writing, researching (the wonders of a computer!), and genealogy.
We are very rich people as we have eight healthy grandchildren. When we scan the years of family and friends, we become aware that several of our couple friends have no grand children, and for various reasons of choice or fate, will never have any. Our lives are so enriched by watching our grandchildren grow, that we cannot help but feel sorry for what they miss.
Our son, Bill, and his family arrived July 4th from Manhattan Beach, California. He is an attorney and his wife Glenda, a Senior Vice President at BCBG fashions. They have three children, 15, 13, 11. We have not seen them for two years and suddenly, Wyatt is taller than I, Josie is as tall as I, and Ethan is well on his way to topping grandma.
Our daughter's two kids, Sarah and Tom live in Glendale, California. Chrlisti is a V.P. at Universal Studios, and husband Jim is employed at Home Depot. Their eldest, Sarah, just graduated from high school and will be attending Concordia College in Moorhead. Tom will be a senior this fall. They have spent most summers with us, enjoying fishing and the freedom and safety of North Dakota, and attending International Music Camp.
Jim and wife, Erin, live just two blocks away, so we have had the pleasure of sharing in the lives of Brantley and Olivia since they were born, and with Kayla since she was a little girl.
Each grandchild is an individual with his/her own talents, successes, foibles, goals, and dreams. This morning I was telling Josie of the history of my family and of Grandpa's family in the US and in ND. This is the purpose of grandparents, isnt it? The transmission of genes, of family stories, of family values? How intersting it is to see the traits and talents transmitted into the future---who inherited the love of animals, the talent for music or writing, the height or body type or hair color, even the temperament or stamina or the way they sit. Son Bill drives like my father did, and Jim sits like my grandfather did and has the same love of trees and wood.
All of our children and their children inherited a sense of Independence. Hah!--some might see the same characteristic as stubborn, I choose to see it as inquiring, as refusing to knuckle under to external demands because they are strong inside. These are descendents of ancestors who came to a new land for religious freedom and for opportunity to make their own way and to think their own thoughts. These are contemporary people with a strong sense of self, of "do-it-yourself" attitudes, of justice. It is genetic or the passing of family lore and values? This Independence Day we celebrate the family that built America in the past, and that will build the future of America--the healthy, independent, intelligent grandchildren.


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Announcing the thirteenth edition of 'The Healing Muse'Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
Deirdre Neilen, PhD, editor of 'The Healing Muse', announces the upcoming publication launch of edition number thirteen! Neilen shares a selection from Upstate's literary journal every Sunday on HealthLink on Air. She edits the annual publication featuring fiction, poetry, essays and visual art focused on themes of medicine, illness, disability and healing.
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OAKLAND -- The Warriors fancy themselves as a capable offensive team. The obvious reason is the number of scorers on their roster.
The guards -- starters Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, and backup Jarrett Jack -- have displayed their shooting ability all season. All-Star power forward David Lee is a proven inside-outside scorer. Rookie forward Harrison Barnes is an ever-improving slasher. Carl Landry gives them inside scoring off the bench.
But the Warriors' scoring prowess is not so much connected to their plentiful offensive options. It's really hinged on their passing.
"Ultimately, we've shown that we're at our best when you see we have 33 field goals and 27 assists," coach Mark Jackson said. "We're sharing the basketball, moving the basketball, making extra plays. We've got five guys on the floor, most of the time, who can score. We're at our best when all of those guys are live weapons."
The data says the Warriors are a good offensive team. The eye test says they struggle against stiff defense. That explains why Golden State ranks eighth in points per game (100.9) and 10th in offensive rating.
And that's while averaging more possessions per 48 minutes than 25 other teams.
How is that? The most obvious answer is their offense gets bogged down with jumpers and one-on-one play.
The Warriors rank 14th in the NBA in assists per game (22.4), and 59.2 percent of their baskets are assisted (17th). Golden State is much easier to guard when teams have to worry about stopping only one player.
"When we're what we're supposed to be doing offensively," Lee says, "that's setting the screens, moving the ball, executing, I think we're one of the most explosive offenses in the league."
The Warriors don't have an A-list star to take over games, though at times Curry has played like one. And Barnes seems to be the only player who can rely on athleticism to get to the rim.
Lee and starting center Andrew Bogut can score out of the post but can't seem to do it consistently against formidable defense. So the Warriors' best chance at consistently high-percentage looks is their ability to find the open man.
Curry, even with his propensity for the intercepted one-hand pass, is lauded by Jackson as an exception passer. Lee and Bogut are arguably the best passing pair of big men in the NBA. And Jack is veteran floor general.
The Warriors are toughest to guard when they can make defenses pay for wrong moves.
"We move the ball pretty well," said Bogut, who is proving to be a master of the in-traffic bounce pass. "When you have Steph and Klay out there, guys are sucked up on them, there's a lot of easy back cuts because guys are scared of them shooting threes. We still have poor spacing sometimes, but we have such good passers we can pick teams apart."
The challenge, however, has been to consistently take advantage of this trait. The Warriors can score with anyone -- when clicking -- but they are hardly the offensive force Golden State is known for being.


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Sixteen months after construction began on the $20 million-plus upgrade of Marietta's wastewater treatment plant, the first phase of the project is winding down and initial work on the second phase is underway.
"Phase 2 has just started, and we're projecting it to be completed by August 2014," said Steve Elliott, wastewater superintendent.
He said the project's initial phase has had no major setbacks and is currently right on schedule, thanks largely to a value engineering process used during design of the first phase.
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Mike Miser, assistant superintendent at Marietta's wastewater treatment plant, looks over some of the construction done during the $4.4 million initial phase of the wastewater plant upgrade project. In the background is the new electrical building and generator that will provide backup power for the facility.
"And a lot of what we're doing in the second phase has resulted from the value engineering study, too," Elliott said. "This was not a useless study-it's helped us very much, and was worth every dollar the city paid for it."
He noted the city has realized some major savings on the project due to the value engineering study, including about $3 million on replacement of two anaerobic digester tanks at the facility that were part of a major equipment failure at the plant in January 2010.
"Those tanks will be changed to aerobic digestion, which is a huge savings over replacing them with another anaerobic system," Elliott said, adding that the aerobic waste digestion process does not create the methane gas that blew the lid off of one of the anaerobic tanks during the 2010 equipment failure.
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Costs for the Marietta wastewater treatment plant upgrade:
First phase: $4.4 million. Original engineer's estimate: $6.25 million.
Second phase: $5.88 million. Original engineer's estimate: $6.32 million.
Third phase (estimated cost): $10 million.
Current total estimated cost: $20.2 million
Source: City of Marietta
Aerobic digestion of waste makes use of oxygen in the process while anaerobic digestion does not include oxygen but gives off methane.
A major part of the project's $4.4 million first phase was an upgrade of electrical power needed to operate the wastewater plant. A new electrical building has been constructed at the western end of the treatment plant property which is located along East Eighth Street.
"The electrical upgrade includes a new backup power generator," Elliott said. "But we're also keeping our old unit which is still in good condition, and there will be a third generator installed as part of the third phase of this project."
He said a large canopy erected at the front of the electrical building and generator will house a new ultraviolet light system to disinfect treated water before it is discharged into the Ohio River.
Clarifier tank pumps, as well as pumps designed to prevent river water from entering the wastewater treatment system during periods of high water have also been installed during the first phase.
"We've added extra space for equipment we know will be needed in the future to remove phosphorus from the water before it goes back into the river, too" Elliott said, noting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to eventually mandate phosphorus removal at all wastewater plants that discharge into river systems.
In addition he said plans for the project have focused on attempting to keep all of the new facilities out of the 100-year flood plain.
"I think it's all proceeded very smoothly so far," Elliott said of the first phase.
The $5.88 million second phase construction is being done by PAE Associates of Brookville.
Tht second phase will address all of the plant's solids handling systems, including improvements to the sludge dewatering process, which should greatly reduce offensive odors that plagued the neighborhood around the wastewater facility following the January 2010 plant failure.
Responding to complaints from businesses, including restaurants and motels in the area, Marietta City Council approved the temporary use of an odor-reducing chemical that's injected during the sludge dewatering process.
Elliott said the chemical injection has worked quite well, and there have been few complaints about the odor since that process began in mid-2012.
"But during the last week or so we did have a problem when the company we contract with to haul away the sludge had to have their truck repaired," he said. "That delayed getting rid of the sludge for a week. We continued injecting the odor-control chemical during the sludge processing, but the chemical only lasts up to 72 hours, so there was some noticeable odor during that time."
Elliott said the sludge hauler's vehicle has been repaired and the material is being removed from the site again.
He said the chemical odor-reduction process is continuing, although some adjustment of the amount of product injected will be required as spring and summer return.
"With the onset of warmer weather we'll have to increase the feed rates for the chemical, which may take a little time to make that adjustment," Elliott said.
Once the entire project is completed the new plant upgrades are designed to last another 20 years.
Marietta Councilman Mike McCauley, D-2nd Ward, said the city council has budgeted $11 million this year and another $11 million for 2014 toward the wastewater treatment plant project.
As the $20 million project moves into its second phase, city engineer Joe Tucker is headed to San Diego, Calif., to give a special presentation related to the project during the American Public Works Association Conference on Sustainability May 15.
"We've titled the presentation 'Making Financial and Environmental Sustainability the Focus for Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvements,'" Tucker said.
He hopes the presentation will be of some help to other city engineers who may be planning the renovation of their own wastewater plants.
"The upgrades we're making on our plant will represent the largest capital improvement this city has made in the last 25 to 30 years, and it's a complicated effort," Tucker said. "So it took quite a bit of work to put this presentation together, but hopefully it will help other engineers from smaller cities who are faced with a similar situation."
He worked on the presentation with Dale Kocarek, engineer with Stantec Consulting Service, Inc. of Columbus, which is providing design and engineering services for the wastewater project.
"We'll talk about the intergovernmental agreement between the city and county which saved Washington County more than $3 million over having to build a new wastewater treatment facility in Devola," Tucker said.
"By 2017 we're estimating the Marietta plant's flows will increase by 11.7 percent, which will also provide additional revenue to help pay off the 20-year loan for the facility improvements," he said.
For the first two phases of the plant upgrade project the city will also save on loan interest, thanks to two wetlands projects the city council has agreed to help sponsor through the Coastal Wetlands Planning Protection and Restoration Act.
Tucker said the reduction in interest represents a total savings of nearly $120,000 over the 20-year term of the city's loan to cover the wastewater plant project.
"These savings may seem small when compared to the overall cost of the project, but when taken altogether, they can represent a significant reduction in cost," he said.
Tucker said he also met with many engineers from other communities that have upgraded their wastewater systems to learn what has or has not worked for their facilities, then applied that information to the design for the Marietta project.
He said his message to fellow engineers during the American Public Works session in San Diego will be that such savings opportunities don't just materialize.
"You have to actively look for those opportunities and become aware of them," Tucker said. "Thomas Edison said 'Opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work."
He emphasized his expenses for the San Diego trip are being covered by the state board of the American Public Works Association of which he is a member-and not by the city of Marietta.


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Gloria J. Schlittenhart, 70, of Devils Lake, N.D., passed away on Saturday morning, December 15, 2012 at Mercy Hospital, Devils Lake.� Funeral services for Gloria will be held on Saturday, December 22 at 1 p.m. at the Gilbertson Funeral Home Chapel, Devils Lake with Rev. Jamie Desai officiating.� Friends may call at the Gilbertson Funeral Home on Saturday from 10 a.m. until time of service.� Gilbertson Funeral Home, Devils Lake, is in charge of arrangements.
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Twelve cooks remain in the game as episode five of Anthony Bourdain's "The Taste" gets underway tonight. Brian Malarkey seems to have overindulged on the caffeine front; he can't stop jumping up and down during the intro. Bourdain is gleefully counting how many cooks remain, because his team is still at full glory.
This week's episode is all about Le Sandwich, whether it be a club sandwich, a PBJ or a "good old-fashioned salad sandwich, be it tuna, chicken or whatever," Nigella Lawson tells the cooks. And since no one eats sandwiches off spoons, this time they will place their teeny tiny sandwiches on teeny tiny plates for guest judges Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi, chef-owners of New York City's Torrisi Italian Specialties, to taste blind.
The sandwich club
Down to just two cooks, Nigella's team is working in an atmosphere of cozy, nurturing warmth. Ludo is unleashing a storm of mostly bleeped commentary. Bourdain is mellow and laidback, tasting sandwiches and saying, "This is totally delicious. And Malarkey seems to have downed a couple more espressos in the minute and a half between the intro and kitchen time.
Khristianne is working on a chicken-curry sandwich with sambal olek and apricot jam. "More! More pungent!" Malarkey crows. "
The clocks tick down, plates are prepped and team decisions are made: The judges will taste sandwiches from Diane (a pulled pork club with some Mexican influences), Huda (tangy chicken salad), Khristianne (chicken curry) and -- much to everyone else's consternation -- Gregg (seared tuna).
"We're all very hopeful," Nigella says. "It's just whether I allow myself the audacity of hope."
Sorry, Nigella, but Gregg wins immunity again. Ludo is ecstatic and their team gets the help of the two guest mentors in the elimination challenge.
Elimination challenge
Sarah tells the guest mentors that she's doing a fried oyster riff on a taco. "Does a taco count as a sandwich?" Torrisi asks, worried. Both mentors will continue to worry over this point for next half hour.
"You know what? I'm just going to take a risk. It's protein between carbs," Sarah says.
We catch a glimpse of Diane's past, as she talks about her destructive marriage, the poverty that followed, and her resolve to never go back to that level of misery. The brash, trash-talking ice queen sheds a tear and we find our hearts melting a little bit.
Backstage, Bourdain, Nigella, Ludo and Malarkey hang out and chat. The contestants are certainly feeling confident, Bourdain says. "We're going to be so confident and we're going to go wfffft," Ludo says, mimicking a crash-and-burn.
It's judging time and the sandwiches include everything from a triple pork cubano (Adam) to a riff on bao (Uno), pork belly-chicken liver mousse (Khristianne) and a very garlicky Mediterranean lamb on naan from Lauren.
"Love this!" Malarkey and Bourdain says after the first bite of Lauren's sandwich.
"I hope you don't need to kiss somebody after you eat that," Ludo says.
"This is the sort of sandwich that I would reconsider my social plans so that I might enjoy more of this," Bourdain says.
The contestants wait anxiously for the verdict and the chute-verdict. "It's like 'Hunger Games'," Uno says.
Chutes of shame and glory
When the chutes open, seven cooks stand exposed, including the top three -- Lauren, Ninamarie for her beef carpaccio and fried green tomato sandwich, and Jeff for his top-ranked hot beef sandwich with bacon mayonnaise. Mmm, bacon mayonnaise.
The four worst: Gregg, who has immunity but whose curried lamb on naan was panned by the judges; Mia for a lamb and eggplant sandwich on homemade, burned flatbread; Diane (noooo!) for a too-bready pork banh mi; and Huda for her very undercooked chicken pesto.
Mia tries to argue that her bread wasn't burned -- "Mine was black," Nigella says -- and that Lauren's was burned too.
When all's said and done, two cooks are going home: Mia and Huda. The latter exits gracefully, saying, "I don't fault them for their decision. I'd have sent me home too."
Diane tells the camera her near-ouster has "lit a fire -- you have no idea."
Now we're down to 10. Nigella has just one remaining cook on her team, and three cooks will get sent home next week in a challenge that involves blood, guts and testicles. Sounds offal.
Get the recipes: Find winning recipes from "The Taste" -- including Gregg Drusinky's Five-Spice Crusted Short Rib with Eggplant, which won last week's Alamos malbec-pairing challenge -- at www.MercuryNews.com/food-wine.


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Ralph Hylind's 5th grade class from Camel's Hump Middle School has been studying the Winooski River Basin in class this fall. Earlier this month, they hiked Mt. Philo to get a birds-eye view of the basin and on this day they stepped aboard UVM's boat the Melosira to get up close with Lake Champlain. Erin De Vries, Coordinator for Watershed Alliance, leads the kids through data collection similar to what state and university biologists are collecting on the Lake. Conservation Correspondent Bridget Butler joined them to see what they learned.
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- Apr 1:
- Record Powerball jackpot claimed; $425 million ticket bought on sandwich run
- Feb 20:
- Powerball: Milpitas store bucks long odds, basks in afterglow of issuing $425 million jackpot, winner remains a mystery
- Feb 19:
- Milpitas: $425 million lottery ticket sold at Dixon Landing gas station
- Powerball winning numbers, Feb. 19
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- Powerball jackpot: 5 things to know
- May 18:
- Powerball: California's lucky lottery outlets include 7-Elevens, Bay Area stores
The California Lottery presented the check to Parmeet Singh, whose family owns Dixon Landing Chevron in Milpitas, a city about 10 miles north of San Jose that bills itself as The Gateway to The Silicon Valley. In California, retailers who sell winning jackpot tickets receive a share of the prize money up to $1 million, according to lottery officials.
The family-run gas station is just off Highway 880, with an attached carwash and Subway sandwich shop.
"I didn't believe it," Singh said. "I ran outside and yelled, 'Oh, my God!'"
Singh said his father, Kulwinder Singh, owns the store but was en route to India and wasn't expected to hear about the $1 million prize until after he landed in New Delhi around 11 a.m. PST Thursday and called the family. He had given his son his cellphone before leaving to avoid any business headaches that might come up during his absence, Singh said.
He planned to tease his dad before breaking the news.
"'Hey dad, what would you do if you had $1 million?'" he said he would ask him.
His parents are humble people, he said, so he didn't expect them to splurge on anything. The family would likely reinvest the money in their chain of eight gas stations, he said.
Singh and employees at the store did not know who the winner could be, though he hoped it was one of the store's regular customers.
The winner has up to a year to come forward and claim the prize and could opt for a lump sum payment of $242.2 million, according to state lottery officials. They advised the person with the winning ticket to immediately sign it and consult an attorney, accountant or financial planner.
The winning numbers—1, 17, 35, 49, 54 and a Powerball of 34—were drawn on Wednesday. Only one ticket matched all the winning numbers, Powerball officials said.
The $425 million jackpot was the sixth largest jackpot in U.S. history and the fourth largest Powerball jackpot, state lottery officials said.
A ticket for the nation's second-largest lottery prize was also purchased in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mona Sanders, a California Lottery official who came to the Singh's gas station, said she was very excited to have two major winners in her district in slightly more than two months.
"I was like, 'What? Again? Not me,'" Sanders said. "When I found out the winner was again in my district, I was so surprised."
The nation's biggest lottery prize was a $656 million dollar Mega Millions jackpot in 2012. The biggest Powerball jackpot was a $590.5 million last May.
Wednesday's drawing also saw 17 tickets match enough numbers to win $1 million, and one ticket won a $2 million prize, according to a statement from Rose J. Hudson, chair of the Powerball Game Group and president of the Louisiana Lottery.
Changes to top lottery games have created bigger jackpots in shorter periods of time. More than half of the top 10 prizes in U.S. lottery history have occurred since 2012, according to statistics provided by the Multi-State Lottery Association.
Powerball's game changes in January 2012 included an increase in ticket price from $1 to $2. Starting jackpots went from $20 million to $40 million, and pots increased by more money with each roll. Mega Millions also went through a revamp that included decreasing the odds of winning the top prize to 1 in about 259 million.
Powerball is played in 43 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The odds of matching all six numbers are 1 in about 175 million.
Thanawala reported from San Francisco.