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Resource extraction decisions are not simply about wilderness preservation or development
Nancy Langston
A few days after Christmas, I took the train south from Kiruna, a small mining town 200 kilometers above the Arctic Circle in Sweden. All three train cars were filled with Asian tourists drawn to Kiruna by the promises of shiny brochures: "See the Aurora Borealis in the last pristine wilderness in Europe! Come to Sweden's pure nature!"
I stood at the window and watched the taiga—the boreal forest—slip by through the polar night. The moon rose over stunted spruce and birch trees bent beneath drifts of snow. From inside the warmth of the train, you could imagine the land outside as the frozen Arctic wilderness pictured in the tourist brochures, protected from human influence by bitter cold and distance.
But my partner and I had just spent the week with Sámi hosts on a farm in Puoltsa, a village 27 kilometers from Kiruna along the Kalix River. Even though daytime temperatures rarely rose above –36 degrees Celsius, the landscape that looked so silent from the train buzzed with activity. Wood had to be chopped, guests had to be fetched, reindeer and horses had to be fed supplemental hay, snowmobiles had to be tinkered with. The taiga is anything but pristine wilderness: It is an inhabited landscape where the indigenous Sámi and their reindeer have lived ever since the ice retreated 10,000 years ago. Yet the wilderness perception persists, particularly now when a tourist boom makes it profitable.
Why does a flawed idea of wilderness matter? It renders invisible the Sámi, indigenous people who have lived in what they call Sápmi—northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula of Russia—since the retreat of the glaciers.
For centuries, urban governments have used the idea of the taiga as uninhabited and remote to promote colonization of the north for its resources. Open-pit iron mines proposed for Sámi territory in the ore-rich landscape near Kiruna, Sweden, continue to be justified by similar logic. The Kiruna region contains the largest underground iron ore mine in the world; 90 percent of all iron ore mined in Europe comes from here. From the Swedish government's perspective, mining is inevitable because the world needs iron ore for steel, and the government needs mining profits to fund the social programs integral to Swedish society. But from the Sámi perspective, the proposed mines would make it impossible to continue reindeer herding, ending thousands of years of successful cultural adaptation to the taiga.
As the inland ice retreated from Sápmi some 10,000 years ago, reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) followed the edge of the ice as it retreated northward, and the ancestors of the Sámi people came with them. The anthropologist Piers Vitebsky has argued that without reindeer, human cultures could not have thrived in the boreal forest. Without people, reindeer might not have thrived as well.
Reindeer are well suited to the taiga's frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages. Cold is little problem; the challenge is finding food. Reindeer migration patterns reduce some, but not all, of their vulnerability to food scarcity.
Sámi herders do not just follow the reindeer. They have negotiated complex relationships with the animals, basing an eight-season migration pattern on the reindeer's seasonal cycles. From March until April, the pregnant female reindeer began to move out of lowland forests toward mountain pastures. In April to May, calves are born, and the cows choose spring pastures where snow melts early, allowing them to supplement their lichen diet with leaves, grass and herbs. In June, reindeer select riparian vegetation near marshes and brooks, allowing them to quickly regain weight lost during the long winter. From June to July, when parasitic flies become a problem in the lowlands, reindeer move up into high, windy mountain meadows where they can find relief from both insects and heat. When August comes, reindeer build up fat and muscle to prepare for the winter and begin their migration to lower pastures, where the rutting period commences. During the rut, cows continue to accumulate reserves for the winter, while the bulls use much of their stored body fat and muscle weight, which they need to replenish during the brief autumn season. When the snows deepen in early winter, the reindeer migrate back toward lowland forests where they can dig through the snow cover to reach their main winter food source: ground lichens. From December through March, the coldest season, reindeer graze for lichens and berry plants in the coniferous forests. These migration patterns paid little attention to national borders; to find the best forage, reindeer often crossed from summer pastures in Norway into Sweden and Finland winter territories.
Originally hunters of reindeer rather than herders, the Sámi shifted to herding semi-domesticated reindeer after European incursions into their lands reduced their subsistence resources. In the 9th century, Norse chieftains moved onto Sámi lands and began taxing the Sámi. Records from a chieftain called Ottar, who was in the employ of King Alfred the Great of England, give some sense of the annual taxes demanded from the Sámi: "A man of the highest rank has to contribute the skins of fifteen martens and five reindeer and one bear and forty bushels of feathers and a tunic made of bearskin or otterskin and two ships' cables … made either of whaleskin or of sealskin." Kevin Crossley-Holland also notes that Ottar mentioned that the Sámi had trained reindeer as decoys to bring the wild herds closer for easier hunting, suggesting that a shift in subsistence practices from hunting to herding reindeer had already begun.
Trappers and traders came to Sápmi to capitalize on the growing European market for furs, selling firearms to the Sámi. The Sámi intensified hunting, depleting the boreal forests of fur-bearing animals and reindeer. As subsistence resources dwindled, the Sámi began to domesticate wild reindeer, and by the 17th century, herding of semi-domesticated reindeer had largely replaced hunting of wild reindeer.
The north, in European eyes, seemed empty of people (even though the Sámi provided essential taxes), and that emptiness justified it becoming Sweden's colony for resource extraction—first for furs, then for minerals, timber and energy. In 1542, the Swedish king Gustav Vasa proclaimed that "all permanently uninhabited land belongs to God, Us and the Swedish Crown, and nobody else." In 1635, cabinet minister Carl Bonde wrote to the Swedish statesman Axel Oxenstierna describing silver ore deposits in the north, expressing his belief that the boreal north could become Sweden's own West Indies. The year before, a Sámi man named Peder Olofsson had mentioned to some Swedes that he had found silver ore in Nasafjäll in Pite Lappmark, close to the Norwegian border. Silver revenues might help fund war expenses that burdened the Swedish state, so in 1635, mining began at the Nasafjäll works.
Transport of ore to smelters and then to markets was vital for mining development. The Swedes believed that the Sámi were too weak and lazy to dig ore but were useful for transporting that ore. Sámi were ordered to use their reindeer to carry ore 60 kilometers between the Nasafjäll mine and the smelting works. The Sámi refused, fearing the work would interfere with reindeer herding cycles. Swedish workers described how they forced the Sámi to comply: "We tied them to a couple of timbers, pushed them down into the rapids a few times and then pulled them up to allow the water to run out of their mouths again, so all the people working in the mine were aware of the situation." Contemporary accounts speak of the road "lined with bleached reindeer skeletons long after mining finished." Many Sámi refused what they saw as enslavement and instead fled to Norway, even though the Swedish government sent troops to prevent their escape. Much of their territory near the mine became depopulated.
In 1673, the Swedish king encouraged Swedish citizens from the south to move north and colonize the Sámi area. Few Swedes, however, were interested in moving to a place they saw as remote, barren and inhospitable, even when the king promised relief from military service and taxation. The Swedes who moved into the forest found settled farming nearly impossible in the harsh climate, so they began hunting and fishing on Sámi lands and cutting hay in winter reindeer pastures. The Sámi herding territories and fishing grounds were squeezed by the new immigrants, but when conflicts arose, the Sámis were able to assert their communal property rights in Swedish courts.
With 19th century industrialism, colonial development of the north's resources exploded, transforming Sámi relations with reindeer and territory once again. Although a series of earlier court decisions had affirmed Sámi property rights, the Swedish state now saw Sámi communal land ownership as an obstacle to exploitation of boreal resources. To justify stripping the Sámi of their property rights, the Swedish government turned to the contemporary science of racial difference. Eugenicists and social Darwinists argued that the Sámi were an inferior race, unable to make adult decisions, so the Swedes would have to decide what would happen on Sámi lands. Swedish policy toward the Sámi was defended with a racist ideology that claimed to have found "scientific verification" of Darwin's theory of natural selection and the survival of the fittest within the human community.
In 1886, Sweden passed the Reindeer Husbandry Act, which reduced Sámi ownership of land and water to mere usufruct rights. The Sámi could no longer own the land; they only retained limited rights to graze, fish and hunt. Those Sámi who did not herd reindeer and instead made their living primarily from fishing lost their land and forest use rights. Only Sámi who met certain ideas of traditional reindeer culture were protected, and only if they remained frozen within static notions of primitiveness.
Sámi communities had traditionally organized themselves along the principle of the siida, which were both territories and governance structures. Rather than individual land ownership, each siida managed its own territory for hunting and fishing. As reindeer migration and herding patterns changed, siida boundaries changed as well. Groups of siidas formed a single Sámi village or samebyar. Individual families owned reindeer, but the complex governance rules within Sámi villages managed pastures and migration routes cooperatively. This was not an open-access commons system; it was a carefully regulated land tenure system that prevented overgrazing in most circumstances. However, like many other traditional land tenure systems, it was vulnerable to political decisions about property that were imposed from outside the region.
In the 1920s, an agreement between the Norwegian and Swedish governments prevented the Sámi in Sweden from grazing their herds over the border into Norway. This, along with mining and timber projects, reduced the pastures available for the Sámi, and overgrazing resulted. The Swedish state believed that overgrazing resulted from the traditional land tenure systems (a "tragedy of the commons"), rather than from undermining those traditional land tenure systems by state policy decisions. The Swedes decided that they needed to rationalize Sámi grazing and ordered massive reduction of herds and herders.
As Sámi lost their property rights, timber harvests increased across Sápmi, further reducing grazing habitat for reindeer. Clear-cutting removed nearly all the older spruce forest, critical habitat for the pendulous lichen that forms important winter food for the reindeer. Modern forestry involved plowing, drainage and soil scarification, which reduced the ground-growing lichens that sustained reindeer during fall and spring. A series of court cases in the 1990s, when forest companies argued that reindeer were damaging replanted trees, further undermined the rights of Sámi to graze their herds in traditional winter forest pastures.
Hydropower development also transformed riparian and aquatic communities across Sápmi. In the 1950s and '60s, Sweden turned to intensive hydroelectric development to fuel modernization of the Swedish postwar society. The government envisioned a system whereby each river that fell to the Baltic would be dammed, the power of the flow fully utilized for the nation's industrial development. The state formed a hydroelectric company, Vattenfall, which set out to rationalize the river systems of the north. Between 1957 and 1961, Vattenfall turned to the Kalix and Torne river system in Sápmi. In what would have been the largest hydro project in Swedish history, the Atlantprojekt, Vattenfall proposed reversing the flow of the rivers, so they would fall westward to the Atlantic Ocean instead of eastward to the Baltic. With an intricate systems of dams, canals and tunnels, half the flow of the rivers would have been diverted into Norway to power an enormous hydroplant. Commercial fishing interests and Sámi reindeer herding villages organized, halting the project. Because of this intervention, the Kalix and Torne river system is one of only four unregulated large rivers remaining in Sweden.
Swedes had long suspected that the north contained some of the richest iron ore deposits in the world, but exploitation could not begin until the transportation problem was solved. In 1903, Sweden completed a railroad running from the Baltic port of Luleå, through the iron ore region of Kiruna, then down to the ice-free port of Narvik on the Norwegian coast. The mining boom at Kiruna was on.
Initially open-pit mines, the Kiruna mines transformed the landscape. Historic photos show that mountaintops were removed to reach the rich ore deposits, a precursor to today's controversial mountain top removal in Appalachia. The work was dangerous, and pollution from the pit and tailings piles was notorious. Sulfates contributed to acidification both of local watersheds and larger regional watersheds. Acids leached toxic heavy metals from rocks where they had been safely locked up, into river systems where they contaminated food chains that eventually included people. Smoke from smelters contained heavy metals such as cadmium and lead, which were captured by lichen and then accumulated in reindeer and the people who ate them. Mine tailings were stacked in enormous terraces, and winds blew toxic dust over reindeer pastures. Sediments washed over spawning beds for anadromous fish.
In the 1960s, the Kiruna mines moved underground, safety records improved, and treatment facilities reduced emissions. Yet the toxic legacies persist. Today, according to Per-Ola Hoffsten and colleagues, "wastes from the Kiruna mine … [continue to] drain into the Kalix River. Mercury pollution causes problems locally in Lake Ala Lombolo in the Kiruna area that drains into the Torne River at Jukkasjarvi via Luossajoki stream. The impacts stem from previous pollution and still causes reduced invertebrate diversity and deformed mouthparts in larval midges living here."
Global markets affect local conditions in Sápmi, remote as the region seems to many people. A global steel boom in recent years has increased Asian demand for iron, and LKAB (the Swedish-owned mining company that operates the Kiruna iron mine) has decided to expand the mine, which means Kiruna's city center must be moved, an enormous logistical undertaking.
Local communities accept the need to move Kiruna, but new open-pit mining proposals in the Kalix River valley have met with more opposition. In 2010, an Australian mining company named Kiruna Iron proposed to create three new open-pit mines in the Kalix River valley. These mines would operate for 10 to 20 years, depending on steel prices; Sweden would agree to collect no royalties or taxes on the profits. The Swedish government approved the proposal, ignoring the fact that the proposed mines lie in the heart of two Sámi reindeer villages.
The Sámi argued that the proposed mines would alter ecological relationships within their territories, making it impossible for reindeer herding to persist. The mines, for example, would likely consume 60 to 70 percent of the spring pasture area and substantial portions of fall pasture. Mining infrastructure would block critical migration routes, and dust from tailing piles would change succession patterns in spring pastures, allowing grass to overtake ground lichen. Autumn pastures would also be reduced, increasing reindeer vulnerability to harsh winter conditions. From the Sámi perspective, "how can 20 years of mining take priority over thousands of years of Sámi culture?"
The Swedish government contends that the Sámi have no rights to exclude competing uses from Sámi territories. From their perspective, industrial development is inevitable and the Sámi must make way for it. If the good ore happens to interrupt a migration route, then move the reindeer somewhere else. Put them in trucks if necessary. If tailings piles eliminate lichen, then feed the reindeer something else. In this view, domesticated reindeer are essentially cogs in a machine, not members of interconnected ecological systems. The logic assumes that sharp boundaries exist between wild and tamed nature. But reindeer disrupt these boundaries, for they are semi-domesticated creatures. The migration paths they choose are negotiations with the reindeer herders, not engineered decisions imposed by technical logic. The food they eat is neither purely natural nor domestic, and the pastures they need cannot simply be replaced.
Environmental history cannot tell us whether mining in a particular place should happen—that is a social decision, not a scientific or historical decision. But historical perspectives can remind us that there is nothing natural or inevitable about resource development. Resources are contingent and they change over time. Calling something a resource pulls it out of its intricate social and ecological relationships and isolates it in our gaze. Yet those isolations are illusions. We still live in intimate relationships with larger landscapes, even if we think technology isolates us from ecological constraints. When minerals are dug from the ground, when trees are cut in the forest, when flood waters are diverted, when rivers are dammed, when animals are changed from fellow creatures to livestock resources, we set into motion subtle processes of toxic transformation that have legacies far into the future.
Urban rulers long envisioned the north as a remote hinterland best suited for resource extraction. Yet what environmental history can reveal are the ways that the north is intimately connected to sites of industrial activity by animal migrations, by atmospheric currents, by historic legacies. Mining conflicts in the north are not about preserving wilderness or developing it. Rather, they revolve around what kinds of relationships to natural communities will be supported—and who has the right to decide.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/mining-the-boreal-north/5
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society


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Last year I went out and got loose a few times. Hung out with my friends a few times during the year...
We're gonna do it again this year too and I'll see what happens. I met some new people just by going to a party at my friend's house last year. So God only knows...
a few times is not good enough, at your age you should be out and about looking for new girls to float a line on at LEAST 2 times a week, Fri Sat maybe, if your away at college I'd say at least Thursday Friday Sat...that's whats normal, looking at me, and MMB we probably aren't normal, there was a good while there I was out 6-7 days a week and when I say a good while I mean like 3 years, and when I say out I mean like 2-3 different bars a night....then all my Credit Cards got maxed out :P
I'm not telling you to do what I did, but at least be normal, at least start with 1 night a week, not "a few times" over a year or a summer.
Yo Daven he needs to go out with an eye open even when doing daily things like goin 2 the grocery store, gettting gas, or walking 2 class...... There are girls all over and many of em are single, but youll never know if ya dont talk 2 em
Im always keepin my eye out for a lady that catches my eye no matter where I may be, tru bars are great spots but if homeboy dont drink then its tougher. He's just gotta be on the lookout at all times, and start talking 2 random people and new girls he doesnt know what so ever
BLT, whats the worst thatll happen?? Theyll say 'No'?? Its not like youre gonna get stabbed or Maced....... Well unless you go Mike Tyson on em

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Wet etching
Micronit applies wet etching (HF etching) techniques to create channel structures in glass and silicon. HF is a hydrofluoric acid, commonly used for cleaning metal and etching glass. For the HF etching technique we use masks which make the absolute positioning of the structures accurate within one micrometer. By using a mask, the amount of channels, reservoirs, mixing and reaction chambers is irrelevant for the costs of the process.
Wet etching of glass is an isotropic etching technique. This means that the width of the channels is more than twice the depth of it, and that the corners are rounded. The bottom of the channel stays smooth and optically transparent.
HF etching is an economical solution for fast, flexible, high quality prototyping and volume production (up to 50,000 wafers a year).
A lot of combinations with (other) etching techniques are possible, like double-sided HF etching or one-side powderblasting, one-side HF etching. Besides, it is possible to integrate electrodes in the chips, or to use silicon layers.
DRIE etching
Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE or plasma etching) is a unique technique to create deep, high density and high aspect ratio structures in glass (fused silica) and silicon substrates. Micronit is one of the few companies able to use the DRIE method in glass substrates.
Etching with steep side walls (anisotropic etching) as well as with rounded walls (isotropic etching) in substrates is possible, with depths varying between 1 µm cavities and complete wafer-through holes.
Capabilities of Micronit in DRIE etching are as follows (based on a silicon substrate):
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Re: st: Calculating area under a curve
Re: st: Calculating area under a curve
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I don't dissent. I'll just point out that difference in the areas
under two cumulative distribution curves is equal to the difference in
means of the two groups.
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Nick Cox <email@example.com> wrote:
> It's kind of you to thank us all but you do not distinguish between quite different comments.
> Others can speak for themselves for Steve (Samuels) and I couldn't see why this would be interesting or useful. (Steve's at liberty to dissent if that's not his view.) In effect, you are integrating twice, as -cumul- is clearly numerical integration of the density function, even though not named as such, and you then integrate once more.
> Could you please explain why this is a good idea?
> Nick
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> Padmakumar Sivadasan
> Thank you all (Martin, Philippe, Nick, Steve, Maarten, Bob) for your
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> As suggested, I used -cumul- to calculate the cumulative distributions
> and -integ- to calculate the area under the curve..
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>> Dear All,
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>> distributions at the local level to that at the national level.
>> I understand that I can use the -cumul- function in Stata to calculate
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>> (2) Could someone point me to reference that I can use to read up on
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Savory Marinated Flank Steak RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
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Seven simple ingredients come together in this flavorful marinade that will really perk up easy-to-cook flank steak. Try placing the strips on a salad with your favorite dressing. Lisa Ruehlow - Blaine, Minnesota
Recommended: Top 10 Grilled Steak Recipes
- 3 tablespoons canola oil
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon dried minced garlic
- 1 tablespoon Greek seasoning
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 beef flank steak (1-1/2 pounds)
- In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the first seven ingredients; add the steak. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 6 hours or overnight.
- Drain and discard marinade. Moisten a paper towel with cooking oil; using long-handled tongs, lightly coat the grill rack. Grill steak, covered, over medium heat or broil 4 in. from heat for 6-8 minutes on each side or until steak reaches desired doneness (for medium-rare, a meat thermometer should read 145°; medium, 160°; well-done, 170°).
- To serve, thinly slice across the grain. Yield: 6 servings.
Originally published as Marinated Flank Steak in Simple & Delicious March/April 2009, p55
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Reviewed Mar. 22, 2012
"Ditto to everything that has been said. Delicious!"
Reviewed Sep. 18, 2011
"This was the first time I ever tried flank steak...and I made it for my in-laws! The marinade had a wonderful flavor. Will definitely make again."
Reviewed Sep. 16, 2011
"There are so many great recipes out there that I find I have to be picky in choosing which ones I deem "keepers" or I will be overrun with them. But this one is outstanding and it's a keeper."
Reviewed Jun. 1, 2010
"This is a great marinade that uses everyday staples!"
Reviewed Apr. 28, 2010
"Marinated flank steak is a simple, easy meal to make and one my family does every chance we get. It tastes so good, it's a keeper and definitely going in my recipe box."


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what I am looking for is going up under the countertops, I have about 14 feet of space I can put something under.
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what I am looking for is going up under the countertops, I have about 14 feet of space I can put something under.
"Cubbie" bookcases. I love my Closet Maid fabric drawers.
Kitchen cabinets. Pick out your color, door, hardware, finish. They are not that expensive and you could put a corner unit in the layout. Look for "seconds", check with Habitat restore. With or without a "lazy susan" in the corner cabinet. Furniture is not "cheap" but if it functions for you.....priceless! Anyone re-doing their kitchen?
Work with a designer at home Depot, etc. For no charge, they will draw up your layout, price the cabinets and counter top. Let them know that you are looking for the least expensive options.
The Container Store is awesome but pricey. My dream!
getting ready to head out to Habitat for Humanity pretty soon, then goodwill and actually we have a used office store here. Pretty expensive though.
Have you ever looked in the Good Wood stores? They had a sale going on a few wks ago and everything is real wood, not pressed. So it can take the weight w/o the wood bowing. It may be worth a few extra dollars and if no sale, ask them to call you when they have one. Also, evaluate what you will be storing. If it is for machines, die cutters, etc, you may need a cupboard. When you get done, share some pics for us. Have fun.
I have a set (designed by me) of upper kitchen cabinets and a set of base kitchen cabinets. I have on the only long wall in my new sewing room. The base cabinets hold a 90" countertop. It is long enough to hold most quilt tops to measure for borders. I have my desk on a short wall. It didn't take long to fill them up. I have two large closets opposite of the cabinets to hold my stash and, batting and containers full of scraps, etc. The countertop is perfect height for me, I'm 5'-7". I just bought a roll around cutting table from Joanns. I can scoot it next to the base cabinets. The thickness of the table fits between the bottom of the countertop and upper edges of the drawers and keeps the table totally secure for cutting. I also use the rolling table to sandwich my quilts. We bought the cabinets at a home center. They are oak cabinets with factory finish. Very nice looking and not expensive.
Sewing rooms and how to set them up is a very personal decision. Mine is now perfect for me and how I use it. I'm sure anyone else would not find it perfect for them and how they would use it.
I went to Lowe's and bought some of the Closet Maid shelves and drawer units to put under my countertops. Of course after I did that, I went to Wal-Mart and found 3-drawer dressers and 3 shelf bookcases that would have worked just great for about 1/2 the price.
You can find kitchen cabinets for sale really cheap or even free on Craigslist. Those make wonderful storage for quilters. We took our old cabinets out of the kitchen when we remodeled, and I painted those & DH installed them for me. Bought a long laminate counter from Home Depot, which went on top. Perfect height for me, to cut on, iron on (I have both a regular ironing board & a small one I use on the counter sometimes), and work on projects. DH put mini floodlights on the cabinetry we installed above, so I have tons of light. I love my quilt room and DH really pulled out the stops in making it work for me.....we're coming up to our 40th anniv & I'm very blessed! You can come up with great storage area for very little with some creativity.
We are going home for Christmas and there is a Salvage Yard there that when they tear down houses this Salvage goes in and strips it first. This yard has just about everything there that you can think of. Anyway we are going there while we are in Indy and see what I can find. Already discussed with Dh that I would love a corner base cabinet, couple of drawer units and then a couple of regular cabinets with shelves. They have awesome prices, so hopefully I can find something.
When we closed our back porch in and make it a Sunroom we went there and got our windows. They are 9" long and we put in 3 of them. Awesome price we paid for them too.
That sounds great! I hope you find exactly what you want/need!


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Chris Christie's embrace of Barack Obama was seen as treason by some members of his party.
These are heady times for New Jersey's rotund governor, Chris Christie. This month, a state poll gave him 73 per cent support, suggesting the Republican's pugnacious, loose-cannon style - giving his own party stick while reaching out to Democrats - resonates with voters sick of Washington gridlock.
His image was given a huge fillip by Hurricane Sandy, when Christie publicly embraced Barack Obama, neck-and-neck with Republican challenger Mitt Romney on the eve of the national election, to thank the president for helping the Garden State, reeling from its worst natural disaster in more than a century.
"It's hard to find such a well-liked political figure in this politically rancorous day and age," the poll's executive director Krista Jenkins told the Star-Ledger. All of which is gratifying for a politician facing re-election in this year's state gubernatorial race. But Christie is not just a state player. The keynote speaker at the 2012 Republican National Convention, the governor is regarded as a potential White House candidate.
So far the governor has been coy. Nonetheless, it was notable at the RNC that Christie hardly gave a ringing endorsement to Mitt Romney.
Instead, say critics, Christie shamelessly burnished his image as a man who tells hard truths just like his idol, New Jersey's other boss, Bruce Springsteen.
As Republican candidates slogged through last year' primaries, Politico reported Christie, a "straight-talking, hard-charging, in-your-face guy" who could help lock in working-class votes, was Romney's first choice as a running mate. Christie ended a flirtation with a White House run in October 2011 - "now is not my time", he said, leaving the door tantalisingly open - and endorsed Romney. Talk of a Romney-Christie ticket fell over, maybe because Christie's outsized personality overshadowed Romney. Shrewder minds speculate Christie has his eye on the long game, a presidential run in 2016.
Meanwhile, Christie will seek a second term in this year's New Jersey gubernatorial race. As for long-term plans, his political adviser, Mike DuHaime, says Christie is "taking it one step at a time right now".
The media focus on Christie is arguably less about his future - Senators Marco Rubio and Rand Paul and Congressman Paul Ryan are also GOP presidential prospects - than the future of his dysfunctional party.
According to Politico, polls show 52 per cent approve of Obama's performance, 26 per cent rate the GOP and 9 per cent rate the Tea Party. In hard times Americans want government that delivers. Christie's popularity in New Jersey, which Obama won by 18 points, and ability to work with a Democratic-controlled legislature is a clue to where the Grand Old Party must go if it hopes to crawl out of the ideological hole the Tea Party dug. Christie's common touch helps; fans relish a heated exchange on the New Jersey shore, posted on YouTube, where the icecream-toting governor advances on a man, telling him, "you're a real big shot ... keep walking away".
But DuHaime says Christie's willingness to compromise is crucial. Policies such as tax reform, one of the governor's conservative policy planks, got bipartisan votes says DuHaime. "He has been able to do that only because he's been willing to cross party lines since the day he got elected."
It is a theme the governor pushed in this month's State of the Union speech.
"Now, we've had our fights. We have stuck to our principles. But we have established a governing model for America that shows that, even with heartfelt beliefs, bipartisan compromise is possible. ... Maybe the folks in Washington, in both parties, could learn something from our record here."
DuHaime says his boss is "pragmatic", a quality missing in Washington, where the Tea Party's uncompromising ideology has lead to gridlock. "Can Chris Christie rescue the GOP?" the Washington Post asked as the party's popularity plummets. Not right now. Christie is viewed as a traitor by the party's far right, who blame him for helping Obama over the finish line.
Since then Christie has chided the GOP-controlled House of Representatives for dragging its feet on a $60 billion Sandy aid package, and castigated the National Rifle Association as "reprehensible" for a TV ad that accused Obama of hypocrisy because his family is protected by armed Secret Service agents.
Given Washington's timidity towards the NRA, it was a bold move and far-right zealots blasted Christie. "I think criticising the Second Amendment movement and the over-the-top 'give me my money' stuff, 'I want all $60 billion now or I'll throw a tantrum', I don't think that's going to play well in the Republican primary," Rand Paul sniped on The Laura Ingraham Show.
Nor did it help when Christie said more taxes, anathema to the GOP, may be needed for the Sandy clean-up as "there is no magic money tree".
Alienating powerful lobbies, media pundits and your own party is not the usual election strategy. "Christie has big burdens in seeking the 2016 nomination," says Larry Sabato, director of the Centre for Politics at Virginia University. "It will be a giant surprise if Republicans overlook Christie's boost to Obama at a critical moment, or his moderate positions on abortion, guns, and other things. He has a steep mountain to climb."
So has his party. Christie's moment coincides with a low ebb in the GOP's fortunes. The presidential election left Republicans staring at a stark, and so far unpalatable, truth: Obama won because he was able to mobilise a base - minorities, young people and women - that has recoiled from the far right.
It is a constituency the GOP, reliant on a shrinking base of conservative white males, must capture to remain viable as a national party. Writing in the Weekly Standard this week, editor Bill Kristol said the Republican defeat provided an opportunity "for clear speech and clear proposals".
Kristol was vague about how his party might appeal to America's shifting demographics, which are trending left.
Christie's image as a man who speaks truth may evoke the Mr Smith Goes to Washington chestnut. But his ability to reach across the aisle and hammer out compromise, crucial to democracy, should be a reality check for any Republican with an eye on the White House.
Chris Christie
• Age 50
• Married, four children
• Dubbed "The Boss" by Time magazine. Criticised right-wingers who attacked his appointment of a Muslim to the New Jersey Supreme Court by declaring that he is "tired of dealing with the crazies". Pro-life, but insists he would not use the governorship to "force his views down people's throats".
• Asked by Barbara Walters whether he was too heavy to be president, Christie called the question "ridiculous," touting his 18-hour days responding to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy response as evidence he's up for the job.


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CNN poll: All tied at 49% …
posted at 8:41 am on November 5, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
It's all tied up, CNN reports, with just two days left in the presidential race. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama both get 49%, and tie on every major indicator. And this might be good news for Barack Obama, until they look at the sample (via Twitchy):
It's all tied up, according to a new national poll released two days before the presidential election.
And the CNN/ORC International survey not only indicates a dead heat in the race for the White House, but also on almost every major indicator of President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney that was tested in the poll.
Forty-nine percent of likely voters questioned say they support the president, with an equal amount saying they back the former Massachusetts governor.
The poll is the fourth national non-partisan, live operator survey released Sunday to indicate the battle for the presidency either a dead heat or virtually tied. A Politico/George Washington University survey has it tied at 48%; an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll indicates Obama at 48% and Romney at 47%; and the latest ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll puts Obama at 49% and Romney at 48%.
Only this poll turns out to be bad news for Barack Obama. Why? According to CNN's internals of this likely-voter survey, Obama doesn't come close to tying Romney in one key indicator — independent voters. According to the sample data, Romney leads independents by a whopping twenty-two points, 59/37. How can Romney have a 22-point lead among independents but still only get to a 49-all tie with Obama?
Here's how:
Among those likely voters, 41% described themselves as Democrats, 29% described themselves as Independents, and 30% described themselves as Republicans.
Yes, that's a D/R/I of 41/30/29. In 2008, a big turnout election for Democrats, the D/R/I was 39/32/29, and Obama won independents by eight points. Despite Republicans having a five-point edge in this very poll among those "extremely enthusiastic" about voting, the CNN poll has added four points to the Democrats' advantage in this sample.
Let's also take a look at the gender gap. In 2008, Obama got a +14 in the gender gap, with a +13 among women and a +1 among men. In this poll, Romney wins men by nine (53/44) and Obama wins women by eight (53/45) for a gender gap advantage of +1 for Romney.
So we are expected to believe that since 2008, (a) Obama has lost thirty points in the gap with independents, (b) Obama has lost fifteen points in the gender gap, and (c) Obama is still just four points below his 2008 share of the electorate? Only in a world where 41% of the voters will be Democrats and only 30% Republicans, and that world won't be what we see tomorrow.
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[quote user="JJC7301"]I've got no problem with a DE. I want to keep Osi, but I don't know if it's going to happen. Plus, I want Kiwi to stay at LB.
I'd prefer o-line or secondary with the 1st, but whoever the BPA is, is fine by me. DT wouldn't be bad either because Bernard is so-so, we don't know what Austin is going to be, and Canty is $6 million per year.[/quote]
Yes, I think Kiwi's play has gotten to where he's even better at LB than he is at DE. Plus I don't see anyone we currently have supplanting him at SAM. Maybe Sintim, if he shows something he hasn't yet shown us.


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round 1 - CB - Xavier Rhodes
Big physical CB, fits if the giants want to run more tampa 2.
round 2 - ILB - Arthur Brown
Think he can play inside in a 4-3. Best stack/shed LB in the draft
round 3 - DE - Corey Lemonier
Undersized, but could be a great sub package rusher. But him at DE on passing downs and move Tuck/Kiwi inside.
round 4 - OLB - Sio Moore
Going to be at a minimum a very good ST player, but I think eventually he could play some SAM, could offer some ability as a blitzer as well.
round 5 - DT - Bennie Logan
Think he is the next Barry Cofield
round 6 - TE Michael Williams
Tremendous blocker, potentially could add some weight and move to OT. Could be a great replacement for Pascoe at least
round 7 - K Dustin Hopkins
If Tynes is not brought back need to bring in some kickers to compete for the job.


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Once again I have to plead poverty, and by I, I mean my organization. It may seem trivial to some, but spending $25-30.00 on a "security tool" is unconscionable. For that reason that I had to forgo a lot of very reliable tools, until I found verifier. I had almost given up hope, when finally the right combination of search terms brought me to this amazing tool, found here http://sourceforge.net/projects/verifier/ Verifier works on 63 hashing algorithms including MD5, SHA-1, Ripemd, etc. It is an impressive list. Overall it is a great piece of open source software, but their is one major drawback...it's old. The next version was due out Sept. 6, 2004 but apparently that wasn't to be. I am using it with cautious optimism, hopefully some of you will take the plunge as well.


text: Your baby will need all the iron that she can get now, because the iron stocks in her body at the time of birth have now depleted. In western countries, babies are given iron-fortifed cereal. Though the trend has started in India, there is still no substitute to home-cooked fresh food. Start introducing your baby to various foods, mashed potatoes, boiled radish, mashed peas(make sure they are well boiled and absolutely well mashed). Fruit, vegetable and cereal are all great for her at this time. Sweet potato, carrots, green beans are all a big hit with the little ones. One interesting point to note here is that babies get all their tastes of various foods from breastfeeding, so they are more likely to accept foods that are eaten by the mother often. Whatever you do, introduce foods one at a time, watch out for any allergies that erupt when she eats a particular food. Take the doctor's advice immediately.


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redeye is such a buzz kill lol.
you're enamored with the idea of "rebuilding" as if it guarantees you anything. the knicks could blow it up and rebuild for the next 5 years and end up in the same position they are now if not worse. the league is riddled with examples of teams that have been "rebuilding" for years with nothing to show for it.
the cavs drafted lebron and got nothing out of it.
it's not just you, a lot of people love the idea of having a team full of young, unproven draft picks because they represent possibility. with that said how many teams have won championships that built through the draft? the thunder hit on lotto pick after lotto pick and have nothing to show for it. they're capped out now just like we are.
the spurs are the only team i can think of that won championships by building through the draft and a lot of their success was because they in a sense got lucky by landing duncan, drafting parker late in the first and ginobli late in the second. i doubt their model of success will ever be repeated.
i view this knicks team as good enough to win a championship if a lot of things fall in place. if bargs and stat are both healthy and playing well for the playoffs, along with melo, jr, chandler, and the role players being healthy and playing well at the right time, along with maybe some luck as far as injuries to other teams.
i genuinely feel like we matched up better with the heat and spurs than the pacers last year.
if the knicks have a little luck and avoid some of the tougher stylistic matchups (bulls, indy) along with being healthy and playing well together at the right time, i think they can make a run and possibly win it all.
the only teams i'm willing to concede will have a better record than us in the east are the heat and the bulls... not even sure about the bulls either because it depends on how rose plays when he comes back.
my whole outlook is to simply enjoy the knicks for the fact that they are a competitive team. it wasn't that long ago we were a joke of a team that couldn't even go .500 in the east. if they don't win a chip with this core i won't be depressed about it. 2 years from now the team will have a lot of flexibility and options to rebuild through free agency.
i still see the future of the team with a positive outlook. we're in a lot better position than a lot of teams in the league.


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Does anyone have a suggestion of a book series that would keep my attention half as well as ASOIAF?
Colleen McCullogh's Masters of Rome series
I really, really don't want to hijack this thread, but I need a new book series to read. Finished my ASOIAF reread a month ago and read Abraham Lincoln Vampier Hunter after. It just couldn't grasp me anywhere close to ASOIAF. I've already read the Dunk & Egg tales. Does anyone have a suggestion of a book series that would keep my attention half as well as ASOIAF?
Thanks a lot for all of the suggestions. I'm glad you pointed out the slow start to the Malazan books, because that is what prompted my reread of ASOIAF. I was about 150 pages in, lost and bored. I think I may try Scott Lynch.
Seriously, Dany is definitely one of the most disappointing characters to me because she has soooooooooooooooo much potential and has just been incessantly lingering and bitching. I almost hoped her period was the bloody flux and that her arse was Dothraki grass at that point.
I'm pretty sure Mance was still playing music for the lords in the great hall at the time.
Wait...what? Mance was the singer..? How did I miss that?
Your false king lied, and so did you. You told the world you burned the King-Beyond-the-Wall. Instead you sent him to Winterfell to steal my bride from me.
I will have my bride back. If you want Mance Rayder back, come and get him. I have him in a cage for all the north to see, proof of your lies. The cage is cold, but I have made him a warm cloak from the skins of the six whores who came with him to Winterfell.
Firstly, Wow! Just Wow! I read this whole thread over a few days and it is all I could ever hope for. Almost all of the theories are well thought out with the exception of a few (R+L isn't J, come on!!). It has prompted me to re-read SOS.
Solid post, but how can you deny Jon's parentage?
The only other documented time that Ned forsook his honor was when he confessed to a crime he did not commit and for the sake of who?
An innocent family member
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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I just made this quilt yesterday. It was a quick and easy quilt to make. Loved how simple it was.
Be a girl with a mind, a women with attitude and a lady with class.
Just cute as can be, great job and thank you for sharing
Have a Blessed day
Great job!
Wayne & Gabriele, the married quilters.
Vicki Mc in SC
Oh yes... that is way too far off the beaten track for us. LOL. I've been googling quilt shops in the Easley and Greenville area. There are a few that look interesting for sure!
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~Scott Adams
I love your baby quilt! The fabric is sew adorable. It's perfect.
City girl with a country heart!
Very nice Baby quilt.
Another Phyllis
This life is the only one you get - enjoy it before you lose it.
Great quilt!!!


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While "working" one day we came across this awesome Government Liquidation Web site where you can buy surplus stuff from military bases all over the nation. Government Liquidation (www.govliquidation.com) is run by a contractor that gets government stuff and sells it to the public in online auctions. These auctions are run similarly to the well-known eBay auctions, where there is a set amount of time for bidding, usually about two days, and at the end of that time the highest bidder wins. The cool thing is that not only can you buy all types of day-to-day military stuff like boots, desks, and tools, but you can also buy complete vehicles, and you can find them at various military bases all across the country.
Now don't expect to get a Hummer or a tank, as these are not usually sold to the public, but you can get deals on 2 1/2-and 5-ton trucks, vans, various Jeeps, and even 1-ton trucks like the one we got. Can you believe that we came home with an '86 1-ton Chevy 4x4 with a Dana 60 front axle and a TH400 automatic transmission for under $2,500? And within a week we had a built wheeling rig that can also take us to work every day.
The secret to the auctions is searching out the listed lots, if possible visiting a nearby auction site to inspect the vehicle or lot before the auction starts. We have seen huge trucks go for much less than used Hondas, with the added bonus that they come in many different shades of olive drab or camouflage. In addition to vehicles, you can also find vehicle parts like axles that have been sitting in crates in some military warehouse for years, or tools like drill presses, mills, or lathes used on some base that are now being decommissioned and put up for public sale. Follow along as you see the start of our army truck project. Also, the reader with the coolest name for our new project will get some 4-Wheel & Off-Road paraphernalia to decorate his or her truck or footlocker.
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Issa to Hillary: Why did State refuse requests to bolster Benghazi security?
posted at 12:01 pm on October 2, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
The Right Scoop calls this a "bombshell," which may underestimate the impact of the question posed by House Oversight Chair Darrell Issa to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Despite the CNN discovery of the late Ambassador Chris Stevens' journal in which Stevens outlined his fears of terrorist attacks, the Obama administration has told the media that Stevens didn't push those security issues with the State Department. According to the letter Issa sent today to Clinton, that may be yet another untruth pushed by the White House:
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee leaders today sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking why requests for more protection were denied to the U.S. mission in Libya by Washington officials prior to the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. The denials came after repeated attacks and security threats to U.S. personnel.
"Based on information provided to the Committee by individuals with direct knowledge of events in Libya, the attack that claimed the ambassador's life was the latest in a long line of attacks on Western diplomats and officials in Libya in the months leading up to September 11, 2012. It was clearly never, as Administration officials once insisted, the result of a popular protest," the committee's chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and subcommittee chairman, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, write. "In addition, multiple U.S. federal government officials have confirmed to the Committee that, prior to the September 11 attack, the U.S. mission in Libya made repeated requests for increased security in Benghazi. The mission in Libya, however, was denied these resources by officials in Washington."
The letter outlines 13 security threats over the six months prior to the attack.
"Put together, these events indicated a clear pattern of security threats that could only be reasonably interpreted to justify increased security for U.S. personnel and facilities in Benghazi," the chairmen write.
It was just two days ago that the Washington Post reported that Stevens didn't seem concerned about security, despite what Stevens wrote in his own journal:
But if Stevens was deeply worried about deteriorating security, as CNN has reported he wrote in an entry in his journal, he kept quiet, said the Libyan friend who was with him the day before the attack.
"We didn't talk about attacks," the friend said. "He would have never come on the anniversary of September 11th if he had had any concerns."
According to Issa's sources, though, the US embassy in Libya had become very worried about security — and for good reason. Far from just one or two attacks in the months prior to the sacking of the consulate in Benghazi that have been reported by the media, Issa outlines a string of incidents starting in April that demonstrated a deterioration in the security situation in Libya, and particularly in Benghazi. They include RPG attacks on a Red Cross office one kilometer from the American consulate, harassment of American diplomatic personnel by militia, the abduction and beating of the deputy commander of the local Libyan security force for the US Embassy in Tripoli, the attempted carjacking of a vehicle with American diplomatic plates, and more.
Furthermore, terrorists had posted pictures of Ambassador Stevens going for a routine morning jog and threatening to abduct or kill him. The Libyan security guards in the Benghazi consulate had been receiving warnings for weeks before the attack to quit, as an attack was planned for the facility. According to Issa, the embassy asked for heightened security for their diplomatic missions — and got nothing but static in response.
Issa wants a hearing on this matter on October 10th. Don't be surprised if Hillary stonewalls for at least another four weeks.
Update: The US has pulled all of its personnel out of Benghazi now — which means there won't be an FBI investigation of the "crime scene":
The Obama administration has withdrawn all official government personnel from Benghazi, the Libyan city where the country's revolution was born and where the U.S. ambassador was killed last month, U.S. officials and local residents said Monday.
The State Department said that it has pulled its personnel from Benghazi and that any diplomatic outreach to Libya's second-largest city is being done remotely. The U.S. post where Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died in an attack by militants has been closed.
The Atlantic Wire says so much for the FBI probe:
The State Department has officially removed all government personnel from the Libyan city of Benghazi, closing the consulate building and possibly ending any chance of an on-site investigation of the attack there.
Does this mean the White House will start giving some straight answers? Don't hold your breath.
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Discussion in 'January 2013' started by roscoe36, Oct 29, 2012.
Lawrence Frank did it! He gave Drummond a quick rest in the 2nd Q and then he subbed back in to play with Monroe. That wasn't so hard. He then topped it off by having Knight out on the on the court with him. (Drummond did practically have to lay down on the court to taken out but still.....) It's a sad day when teams have to resort to gimmicks like playing their 3 best/young players together. This was easily Frank's best game of the year.
18/18/1/2/1 in 27 minutes. 9 offensive boards. 9/15 FG. I feel like SVG, but there really isn't much to say about that. Incredible performance. The guy is an absolute monster. His minutes definitely need to be managed a bit better, but still, when given the time on the floor this guy is a machine. On a side note, that is the worst garbage time experimental lineup that I have ever seen. Shamefully bad.
Pistons fall 4.5 games behind the Celtics...because they played Stuckey In other meaningless stats Bucks had 19 pts at the end of one and 91 at the end of 3. Drummond 18-18 Max, Stuckey, Daye and Bynum combined 3 for 21 shooting JJ took 9 shots in 8 minutes English took 1 shot during that same time frame Bucks hit 11 threes to our 2 ...or hows this, Jennings hit 5 threes to our two...all in the third qtr Daye was blocked 3 times Pistons 20 turnovers probably led to 35 Bucks points Update records to show Pistons now 0-22 when trailing after 3, and 17-28 when trailing after 4.......
Ouch! Poor defensive effort caused by even poorer offense. That tends to happen when the PG's and SG's on your team are as bad and inexperienced as ours are.
Gee, who would have thunk it. Our bench was horrid. Me. A backcourt of Bynum and Stuckey again resulted in something resembling the three stooges, only one missing. Between Stuckey and Bynum, they can run nothing. The guys in with them are worthless - even Drummond with his 18-18 was the same minus 21 as Bynum. Speaking of Drummond, without his constant putbacks, our sub unit would have ended up over minus 30 for the game. We got absolutely nothing from our bench. Why? Coach long ago made the decision to entrench Bynum back into the rotation. Remember, we were just fine before Bynum came back into the rotation. Even if it was Washington, hey, we beat that team 100-68 - without Bynum until 4th quarter garbage minutes. There is no need for him on the team, except as an emergency point guard. All he does, as used now, is take the ball out of Stuckey's hands, making Stuckey very ineffective. Further, instead of having that 3rd strong outside shooter in, you got a shooting guard in who can't shoot. That is what you get when you try to replace Singler with Stuckey. Not good. One more time - what made our bench really click? The combo of all of Daye, CV, and Singler giving the 2nd unit outside scoring punch. By forcing Bynum into the rotation, you lose that magic. Of note - Bynum, with Stuckey sitting, got to play with the unit of Bynum, Singler, Daye, CV, and Drummond. They put up a 16-0 run last game. So this game - no such unit. Worse, in a total blowout, this coach did not have the wherewithall to change the unit in the 2nd half. Thats fireable, imo. We came out strong, up 15. But when our starters came in - I know some of you will hate me saying this, but Bynum messes up the organization of the team so fierce, it is hard for the starters to recover from his mess. That is my observation. Repeatedly during this season. Of note, we did end the first half with a few minutes of Drummond paired with Monroe, with otherwise our starters back in. We were back on our heals, so you can't say too much about this three minutes. Not great, but I would sure like to see this unit with Tay replaced by Daye. Which would give us two outside shooters for the unit. PS Tay looked awful tired. As the schedule has heated back up, the idea of Tay continuing to be a starter has looked a lot less of a good idea.
That 12 minute stretch in the middle of the game when we took Stuckey out was really rough. -23 in 12 min. Tough to recover from that. He stabilized things when he came back in, but it just wasn't enough. Frank is a funny guy making us watch 5 minutes of Henson/ Dalembert vs Daye/ Jerebko.
If not for Drummond, this year would have been a disappointment. But with Drummond, it is not hard to look down the road... They played faster and the Pistons did not cope well with the pace. The team has continually gotten on these droughts and the one constant is that there is no floor leader and or a go to guy who can stem the tide. I still think that a pass-first point guard in the draft and or a scorer is needed. Let Knight develop on his own time and find his way. The organization needs to come up with a floor leader by next year to allow Drummond and Monroe to have an impact. The more we see of the veterans on this team again, the more it looks like they are not the guys to move forward with the organization.
Drummond lost his effectiveness on D when he was winded. I thought it was a little foolish to drag him into the 4th quarter in this one with a game tomorrow night that will be physical. But once he was dragged into it, I was hoping for a 20/20 game in less than 30 min. That would have been a unique accomplishment.
I don't want to draft another guard. Dumars has a habit of drafting combo's and they suck. I want a floor leading passer. And screw drafting them. Dumars should be on the phone to Boston right now trying to get a deal for an injured Rondo. Or Vazquez. Holiday. Calderon. Whoever can pass the basketball and make the team run right.
Generally speaking the Pistons lost tonight because of some BS, one-timey type things and not some terminal weakness they have. I don't feel that MIL is that much better than the Pistons. Their guards are better and more explosive, but the Pistons should win up front. They didn't tonight. Drummond played as many minutes as Kyle Singler!!! He went for 18 and 18 yet still made a ton of mistakes. Aside from giving a crap and his athaleticism he's a pretty poor defender all in all. It has only been a few games, but I like the cut of Kenny English's gib. He can play. Stuckey is killing me, but I'll live with it if Frank can keep playing Monroe, Drummond and Knight together. (I'm giddy.) I would root for a team that had those 3 playing the most with some combination of Bynum, Singler, Tay, Daye, CG, Max and English rounding things out to make the playoffs. I love it when Drummond catches the ball out past the free throw line and tries to score via a double clutch layup. So far he only has the million dollar moves.
Drum's defensive lapses are just visible because he's trying to guard the entire opposition. Also, he clearly gets exhausted and loses some of his edge. Give him an ounce of help and let his NBA body form and he'll be one of the top 3 defenders in the league. He blocks shots, is smart on help, challenges every dunk/ layup, takes charges wisely, boards in a crowd, steals the ball at a crazy rate, avoids getting in foul trouble, and even closes out on shooters when necessary. When he's rested, he's already top tier on D.
Chandler is 30 years old now. 19 y/o Tyson (2nd overall pick) vs Drummond [per 36] Stat: TC/ AD Pts: 11.3/ 13.2 Reb: 8.9/ 13.2 Stl: 0.7/ 1.6 Blk: 2.4/ 2.9 Tov: 2.6/ 1.5 PF: 4.6/ 3.8 FG%: .497/ .607 In Tyson's whole career, he has never hit Drum's rebound, steal, or block rates. He hit his scoring rate once, in his second season, and never again. His FG% drastically improved, but didn't exceed Drum's until his 6th season. And the guy I'm comparing Drummond to is an all-star this year and last year's DPOY. Not exactly a lightweight... except Drummond does edge him out by about 70 lbs. I don't mind the comparison to Chandler because they are both super opportunistic on offense, but Drummond really has freaky potential... like all-star next year and for the next 10.
Chandler got his game amazingly boosted since Turkey 2010.
Just to make this clear, Drummond entered the game five minutes in, and did not play the last 6 minutes or so. He played all the minutes he did in a compressed time span. If he were starting, he could have easily played even more minutes, and gotten enough rest here and there.
WOW...I got home to watch this abomination of a replay. While I like Singler's potential ability to knock down shots and stretch the defense, his defense is ridiculously nonexistent. He is remarkably BAD on D. Again to the surprise of no one, Coach Tiny Tot finds a way to get Stuckey damn near 30 MINUTES on the floor...AGAIN. This is unbelievable and smells a lot like Carlisle/Curry all over again. I swear, having 401-Tay and Maxiell is like having two fishing buoys on the floor. They're bobbing and weaving with the current as though there's action going on, but they are accomplishing nothing over the course of 48 minutes. I think 401-Tay and Freight Train have the same shooting coach. I am currently wondering how many shots DO you have to miss to not be considered for playing time. JJ gets 8 mins and STILL shoots a higher percentage in Stuckey. They gave Daye 3 years to make a shot. People complain about CV...but, at least for his $8Mil, I can rely on him to get hot more than once a month. Stuckey is still playing near starter minutes and he hasn't helped this team since LAST January. As always, I love my team, but this is ridiculous. I love listening to George and Greg talking about this team having a chance to make the playoffs now that Rondo is hurt. GTFOH...A) This team isn't going anywhere near the playoffs right now...and B) If you are relying on an injury to another team's best player to get you into the playoffs, you've already lost. Drummond = BEAST ...it will take the sting off of just simply waiting for this season to be over.
Welcome back KK.
LOL @ Coach Tiny Tot.
I would liken Dayes offence to menopause, he has hot flashes but then they subside and he just looks old and broken. Stuckey needs to go, wether its dnp's or a trade...he is doing no good on the floor and it doesnt matter who he is out there with.
"Tiny Tot" makes up for having to read this thread about that horrid, embarrassing game. The roster of guys who should be kicked to the curb is too long to list. I did start thinking about Stuckey a bit while watching guys a half step above d league taking the Pistons apart. You're a guy who at least for a while was an up and comer, but you're coming off the bench behind a rookie and a rookie and a half, and losing minutes to perhaps the most inconsistent backup guard in the league, one who doesn't even come up to here at Disneyland. Your coach doesn't like you and what might be your only contract is being frittered away. It's mega tough to walk away from the only job you're ever had, but Stuck needs to go down the hall and tell Joe to pull the trigger and send him somewhere else, anywhere else. Status quo is not going to work and getting out is the only chance he has of salvaging some kind of career.
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- 1 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth
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- 2 tablespoons capers, drained
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- 2 teaspoons minced fresh thyme
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journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
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Having said all that, doesn't mean I think it's good practise, I wouldn't do it myself. I just referenced a thread about it that's all.
I'm no expert on treatment free nor claim to be. What I do know has been learned from my own treatment free bees, and whatever I've been able to learn from the Treatment Free forum, which to be honest, is precious little. Because nobody on the treatment free forum actually knows much about it, the general vibe is "I don't know how it works and don't want to, just let bees be bees, just do it". Success is defined as not loosing every bee you've got. Not a view I could subscribe to.
I've also read Dee Lusby, which is good in that she delves into things in much greater detail than anyone on the Treatment Free forum. She has a lot of theories and hypothesis, which make interesting reading. But nobody else has been able to replicate what she has done commercially despite many trying. So I have to wonder if it's also about her bees, and her environment.
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Yes well, as nobody seems to know, I'll have to go with you, Ace.
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Just a few rambling observations. Tetracycline is commonly used in many if not most commercial operations and has been for at least 40 years. I'm not saying that is good just stating what I know to be true. During my years in beekeeping I have seen less and less afb. Not sure when we had our last case of it, at least 3 years maybe considerably longer and such was not the case decades ago. I can't explain this, is it possible that the same hygienic behavior that is being bred into bees might be the reason. Or put another way, is it possible that hygienic behavior might trump resistance. I know Charles Mraz was working on this angle a long time ago I even bought some of his queens. Thoughts anyone?
I have yet to see AFB here. Back in the '70's I used to see some. Had to burn hives back then. I use no antibiotics and hope I never have to.
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In our county in Massachusetts, which is in the middle of the state and goes all to the north and south borders, we have almost no AFB....we also don't have a lot of large beekeepers, but we do have pollination bees come in and through the state.
In 1976, I've been told there was about 40% AFB rate. A new bee inspector burned hives almost daily, and kept it up....until our recent funding issues in the state, he has been an inspector ever since. He ruthlessly tracks down the source of any infection...usually only 1 or less incidents in a year...most beekeepers here couldn't identify it unless it was really obvious.
We don't have manditory burning...it can be controlled with TM and Tylan (I don't believe Tylan is approved for prophlactic use anywhere in the states...but folks openly use it that way). Most folks around here don't treat with TM propholactically anymore (best I can tell). We also have an irradiation program in the state, so used or infected equipment (even comb) can be reused. I don't think all the surrounding states and counties do as well in this regard. Best I can tell, we have it good here in regards to AFB, and it is essentially because of one person. If all government employees were that effective at what they are supposed to do, I'd be keeping bees on Mars by now.
If I recall correctly the original wording on the Tylan label was that it was "for the cure of American Foulbrood". For the cure? I have not read the label, but I sure hope it doesn't say that anymore.
It sounds like your Inspector was given the freedom to do his job.
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In nature, it comes from robbing an infected hive that has been weakened or died from the disease. So there was a balance. But with modern beekeeping it is transferred by beekeepers. We have a lot of hives all next to each other, and we transfer equipment between hives. This tips the balance in favor of the disease, so we also have to take pro-active measures to control the disease.
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