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Disability Benefits for Pancreatic Cancer
Most patients with a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer will get an automatic approval of disability benefits.
Pancreatic cancer occurs when malignant tumors begin to grow in the cells of the pancreas, an organ located behind the stomach. Cancer of the pancreas is serious and aggressive, and almost always disabling. Almost all patients with pancreatic cancer who apply for Social Security disability benefits are quickly approved.
Symptoms of Pancreatic Cancer
The early stages of pancreatic cancer generally do produce any symptoms. Sometimes, a person does have symptoms, but they are not indicative of pancreatic cancer. When symptoms do arise, they can include:
- fatigue or weakness
- loss of appetite or weight loss
- nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or indigestion
- pain in the abdomen or back
- dark urine or clay colored stool
- jaundice (which is a yellowing of the whites of your eyes or skin), and
- blood clots.
Types of Pancreatic Cancer
There are two different types of cells in the pancreas. There are exocrine cells, which make enzymes that help the body to absorb food and islet cells (also known as endocrine cells) that make hormones called insulin and glucagon, which control the body's blood sugar.
Tumors that form in the exocrine cells are called exocrine tumors. A large percentage of all pancreatic tumors, 95%, are tumors of the exocrine cells. These tumors are most often cancerous, and these cancerous tumors are called carcinomas.
Tumors that form in the islet cells are called islet cell tumors. These tumors are not common, with only 5% of all pancreatic tumors being islet cell tumors. These tumors can be either benign (meaning they are not cancerous) or malignant (cancerous), and they tend to grow more slowly than exocrine tumors.
Prognosis for Pancreatic Cancer
The prognosis for those who are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer is often not good because the cancer is not found until it is in its later stages, due to the lack of symptoms. More than 80% of pancreatic cancer patients have tumors that have spread and cannot be removed fully; the average survival rate for those patients is less than one year. Sadly, 95% of all patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer will not live more than five years. Overall, the average time from diagnosis to death is four to six months.
Qualifying for Social Security Disability
In order to qualify for Social Security or SSI disability benefits, you must meet the requirements of Social Security's disability listings for pancreatic cancer or show that your functional limitations prevent you from being able to work.
Meeting the Disability Listing
Pancreatic cancer has a specific listing in the Social Security "blue book," which outlines diseases that will qualify you for disability benefits if you can show that you meet the criteria set out in the listing. The listing is split into the two types of pancreatic cancers.
- Exocrine carcinoma. Any exocrine carcinoma makes you eligible for disability benefits, whether the carcinoma has spread or is removed in surgery. In order to prove you have an exocrine tumor, you should provide medical records that show the type, extent, and location of the cancer. If you have had surgery, you should include the operative notes and pathology report, if possible.
- Islet cell carcinoma.
This includes all pancreatic cancer that has formed in the islet cells.
You should provide medical records that show the type, extent, and
location of the cancer. Islet cell carcincoma makes you eligible for
disability only if one of the following are true:
- The tumor is inoperable. To be inoperable, there must be no medical value to having the surgery, or it cannot be performed due to your health. Your doctor can make this determination before or after attempts have been made to decrease the size of the tumor through radiation or chemotherapy. Your medical evidence should clearly state the inoperability of the tumor, or
- The tumor is unresectable and the cancer cells are active. A tumor is deemed to be unresectable if surgery was completed, but the tumor was not able to be completely removed. This is common with pancreatic cancer. The cancer in the islet cells must also be active, meaning cancerous cells are still being produced, to meet this listing. You will need to provide records from your surgery, including operative notes that state the tumor was not completely removed.
Functional Limitations
If you have pancreatic cancer, it is very unlikely that you won't meet the disability listing above. However, it is possible for someone with islet cell carcinoma to not meet the disability listing (for instance, a patient with islet cell carcinoma had the tumor fully removed). If you have islet cell carcinoma and you cannot perform the duties of a job, you might qualify for disability because of your limitations. When determining if an individual who doesn't meet a disability listing is able to work, Social Security looks at the individual's functional limitations in the areas of physical and mental abilities.
Physical limitations are the most prevalent for those with pancreatic cancer, though your mental abilities may also be impaired due to fatigue. Severe fatigue from radiation and chemotherapy might limit the amount of physical activity you are able to do. Additionally, if surgery was done, the recovery time from surgery can take several weeks to several months. Physical activity would be substantially limited during your period of recovery.
Mental abilities and limitations focus on your ability to comprehend and complete tasks at work and to get along with others in the work place. Severe fatigue from treatment for pancreatic cancer may affect your ability to complete tasks at work.
If Social Security finds that your functional limitations would limit you from working any type of job for at least one year, you could be approved through a "medical-vocational allowance." For more information, see our section on medical-vocational allowances.
How Long Does Disability Last for Pancreatic Cancer?
Those with pancreatic cancer who qualify for disability benefits will be considered disabled until at least three years from the date of remission. If, after three years, the limitations due to the cancer persist, the lingering effects of the cancer (or treatments) will be considered in determining if you are still disabled.
Compassionate Allowance
Due to the severity of and poor prognosis for pancreatic cancer, Social Security has listed it as an illness that qualifies for Compassionate Allowancetreatment. The Compassionate Allowances program allows individuals to receive benefits in an expedited fashion.
Only pancreatic cancer of the exocrine cells (carcinoma that is not islet cell carcinoma) qualifies for the Compassionate Allowances program. To show that you meet the requirements for the Compassionate Allowance, Social Security recommends you provide, with your disability application, a pathology report that shows a definitive diagnosis for carcinoma of the exocrine cells.
For more information, see our article on the Compassionate Allowance.
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By Richi Jennings. April 1, 2011.
Updated: Literally millions of URLs have been infected with a rampant SQL injection attack. The LizaMoon Windows Stability Center fake anti-virus has even infected the iTunes Music Store... kinda-sorta. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers make like Chicken Licken.
Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to mention Angry Nerds: Best April Fools I've seen so far...
Websense's Patrik Runald claims to have spotted it first:
The LizaMoon mass-injection is a SQL injection attack that inserts the following line into the code of the page:
<script src=hxxp://lizamoon.com/ur.php></script> ... This includes several iTunes URLs. ... The good thing is that iTunes encodes the script tags, which means that the script doesn't execute. ... Good job, Apple.
The script contained simple JavaScript code that redirected the user to a ... Rogue AV site. ... The number of the compromised URLs is still increasing .. more domains started to be involved except for lizamoon.com. ... A Google Search reveals over 1,500,000 URLs that have a link with the same URL structure as the initial attack.
...The Rogue AV software that is installed is called Windows Stability Center. ... [It] displays a warning that there are lots of problems on your PC. ... Very traditional rogue AV scam.
John Leyden is shocked. Shocked, I tell you:
The so-called LizaMoon mass-injection attack uses SQL injection trickery to inject a line of malicious code into compromised pages ... as part of an ambitious attack ... designed to redirect surfers to a site pimping rogue anti-virus packages.
...[It] counts as among the most widespread mass-injection attacks on record.
Peter Bright explains:
SQL injection attacks ... exploit badly-written Web applications to directly perform actions against databases. ... The underlying cause is a programmer trusting [user] input ... and passing this input directly into the database. ... The database will run code of the attacker's choosing.
...SQL injections following this pattern appear to have been happening ... for six or more months. ... The file nameur.phpand the style of injection remain consistent. ... Previous efforts were on a much smaller scale, however. ... The attacks originated from IP addresses in eastern Europe and Russia.
It's nice to see Dancho Danchev back blogging:
What's particularly interesting about this campaign, is ... that the used domains are all responding to the same IPs. ... 188.8.131.52 (AS3721); 126.96.36.199 (AS51786); 184.108.40.206 (AS50244).
...The scareware domains have been registered using automatically registered email accounts at Gmail, as a precaution in an attempt to make it harder to expose the campaign by using a single email only.
But Chris Nerney grumbles about the date:
This really had better not be an April Fool's prank or I'm not going to be happy. ... It's the stupidest day of the year, so we should all be on guard.
...The bottom line for users ... is that if they visit one of the sites injected ... they get a scary warning about huge problems on their PC. Fortunately, all that goes away if the ... user pays for a full version of Windows Stability Center! So you've been warned.
Meanwhile, the enigmatic rfirth also waxes topical:
Unfortunately, this isn't an April Fools day joke. It's real.
And Finally...
Angry Nerds: Best April Fools I've seen so far
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Residents of Melrose say unusual things have been happening in their community lately. "Our gas can was taken from our car port," said neighbor Lavonne Mackey.
While details are still being released on an ongoing investigation, the Putnam County Sheriff's deputies have arrested three juveniles along with three adults-- Frederick Martin and a couple by the name of Casey Gaffney and Michael Lavane for burglary, grand theft, and criminal mischief.
"I mean anyone could have walked by and taken it," she added.
The juveniles are all 14 years old and face felony charges. Gaffney and Lavane are parents of one of the juveniles. They are also being charged with child neglect.
"I wouldn't necessarily think that they had to be the people that did it," said Mackey.
Mackey, who has been living in this community for five years, says she knew the family from a distance. "I speak to the children; they've helped me do yard work. We've talked about my puppy dog and so on."
The couple was released on a bond of $3,500 dollars each. I spoke to Lavane off camera and he says that he and his wife had nothing to do with the burglaries and instead blamed it on their kid's friends.
In the home, detectives discovered hundreds of stolen items associated with more than 50 burglaries spanning in four different counties: Alachua, Putnam, Bradford, and Clay.
"Those neighbors have lost something... Buildings have been broken into, like the church. Somebody broke windows in the church. The dry cleaner was broken into. Yeah, the word is out that something was going on," said Mackey.
Many neighbors who wouldn't go on camera for safety reasons tell me there's been a lot of questionable activity in Melrose lately. They tell me that three weeks ago a house burned down, killing an elderly lady. And that Monday morning, a gas station also caught fire leaving only debris and rubble behind.
A statement released by the Putnam County Sheriff says, "I am very proud of everyone involved in solving these cases. However, this investigation is not over. Additional arrests are definitely anticipated."
"I think it's really sad and I am sorry for the children," said Mackey.
Neighbors say dive teams were searching the Santa Fe Lake and Melrose Bay earlier this week. And that this makes them believe that some of the stolen items may have been disposed of in the water.
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You can take specific actions to protect yourself from Internet and email abuse. Please review the suggestions below.
Safeguard Your Password
Protecting your password is the single most important thing you can do to secure your computer account. Most people are careful to protect the PIN numbers for their ATM and credit cards. Your computer account deserves the same level of protection.
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Be aware of phishing messages, which are unsolicited e-mail messages appearing to come from a legitimate company that ask for your login and password and/or other personally identifiable information (PII). A typical phishing e-mail gives you a phony reason, such as a security breach, survey, or contest, to trick you into providing your personal information.
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Do not let anyone, even a trusted friend or family member, use your computer account. Remember that under University policies, the owner of a computer account is responsible for the use of that account.
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Think Twice Before Taking Action
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Report Unusual/Suspicious Activity
Even if you take all precautions, your account may still become involved in an abuse situation. If you begin receiving unusual messages from complete strangers, or if you notice changes to your web pages you don't remember making, or any other suspicious activity, don't hesitate to call the UVa Help Desk or send an email message to the Abuse Team. For more information on reporting possible abuse, be sure to read "How to Report Abuse."
Be Aware of Your Responsibilities
Be aware of your responsibilities within the U.Va. community, especially the information in Responsible Computing: A Handbook for Students or Responsible Computing: A Handbook for Faculty and Staff. You may want to re-take the Responsible Computing Tutorial to ensure that you understand what is expected.
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Men in Black 2 Parents Guide
Men in Black agents aren't allowed to form any personal relationships. How is the world jeopardized when they fail to comply with that dictate? Should a career demand that much commitment and/or sacrifice from an individual?
The Agency took a hands-off approach to dealing with intergalactic affairs outside of the Earth's atmosphere. Similarly on our planet, how much intervention should big countries have in the daily dealings of smaller ones? How does that interaction change the course of events in a country?


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It's official! We have moved to our new District website, now located at acpsd.net. Please take a moment to visit and explore our new online home for updated information on all items related to Aiken County Public Schools.
As a reminder, our individual school web pages will continue to link back to School Fusion (hosted at this site) until the start of the new school year when all school-related pages will make the transition to our new web platform.
Thank you for your continued interest in and support of Aiken County Public Schools, and welcome to acpsd.net! �
Welcome Letter
August 14, 2015
Dear Students and Parents:
First of all, welcome back to school from what was hopefully a refreshing summer break.
Science classes have the primary goal of preparing students for the workplace of the future that has a need for scientifically literate citizens. Activities will center on the use of the scientific method and design processes in the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.)
The 6th grade curriculum focuses on characteristics and responses of plans and animals, Earth�s climate and weather, and electrical and mechanical energy. GT students have several additional extensions in each of these units.
The 8th grade curriculum focuses on forces and motion, waves and their behaviors, Earth�s place in the universe, Earth�s systems and resources, Earth�s structural history, and the diversity of life. We will focus on developing the higher-order thinking skills needed to excel. Additionally, Comprehensive Health Education will be provided in the science classes during the entire 4th quarter. It will be a challenging, fast paced year!
Required materials include a notebook (spiral with perforated tear out pages is preferred), pencils, and a good attitude. The ability to keep an organized notebook is vital. Homework, class work, vocabulary and lab activities will be kept in the notebook. Keeping an up-to-date notebook is essential to receiving a good grade. Students are required to keep their notebook in journal form. Every page needs to be dated.
Grades are determined as follows:
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Being that Nicks isn't having a stellar season could there be a hometown discount coming? I also have reviewed all the games very carefully this season and it does indeed seems to have lost a step or may not be fully healthy. There is no way in hell he should try to demand more than 6 mil a season.
Some teams this season are still paying close attention to him in the form of bracketing. Maybe with a draft pick and free agent pickups this line could be fixed to allow Eli to really tap the potential of this we core.


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How to remove letters from new car ?
New Chevy, I need to remove the chrome letters from the trunk lid without harming the paint.
Got any ideas that worked for you ?
Thanks !
Are you talking about something that the dealer added to promote his business, like "John Jones Chevrolet"?
I imagine any lettering would be glued on these days....Heat gun, plastic scraper? and lots of care (patience)
Poncho62 seems to have the right idea. I've also heard about using fishing line or dental floss.
I agree with Poncho and the heat gun idea.
Keep that heat gun moving and warming the the first couple of inches, and keep gently "testing" the bond with a plastic razor blade. You don't want to overheat or to concentrate that heat.
It's more about releasing the glue (2-sided emblem tape) than it is about cutting anything.
Once you get the emblems (letters) off, you can use some aerosol adhesive remover to clean up the residue.
It would be nice to have an opinion and advice from some of the autobody pros here on HR to confirm this.
I used a heat gun to lake off the first and last letter from my Mitsubishi years ago. when I was done it said I T S U B I S H. Heat gun worked well but selling dealer was not impressed. ;):mwink::(
Heat gun/dental floss used in a back-and-forth sawing motion. After you get about half way through you might be able to lift up on the freed end to get the rest of it w/o the floss.
Here is a "Basics of Basics" on the subject, Basics Of Basics - Autobodystore
One thing you need to be careful with is when you get it loose and are pulling up on it, you REALLY need to watch that the other end isn't coming back down and hitting the paint. It's riding up on a little piece of foam right, so if you tilt it up pulling it off, the edge of the other end can come down and hit the paint marring it.
I didn't have much success with the floss, but maybe a different brand? One thing that worked pretty good was that plastic banding they put on cardboard boxes, that stuff sawed thru and worked pretty good.
I used piano wire when removing windshields but that would be a chancy thing to try w/paint involved.:sweat:
Good point about the edge contacting the finish. Think a bondo spreader w/a thin edge (or something like that) could be used under the edge of the emblem?
a lot of emblems have little pegs in the back that it in holes on the surface of the trunk. I'm not sure if your vehicle does or not but if it does then you'll be trading your emblems for little 1/8" holes- if you like that sort of thing.
speed holes?
To the OP; call your local collision shop or dealer and ask if they're just adhesive backed. I removed them from a friends Lexus and they were just glued on but you never know. I used the heat gun and monofilament thing. It takes some doing though and is hard to get without marring the surface. Remember these things see 100*+ air temps; and temps below -20 here in upstate NY and usually will outlast the panel they're glued to.
Well if it's an emblem (especially 80's/90's ford ovals on the rear trunk) it's going to have pegs. One-piece emblems (again ford up into the 90's) on the fenders will likely have them too.
Usually if they're single letters or smaller logos, they'll just come off easy with some heat and something to get between the fender and glue, anything larger is likely going to have a hole for alignment. Check out repop panels online, usually the picture will tell you whether it'll have a hole or not.
Lots of emblems have guide pins on them for ease of assembly. Toyota Prius for instance, so just because they are held on with two sided tape does't mean there are holes too.
Dental floss is the safest my friend, with some light heat of course !
Just an update:
I used some of the advice and applied a little heat from a hair dryer. The letters came right off. No problem.
I then used some adhesive remover followed by some wax and that was it.
Thanks to all of you for your suggestions. I knew I could count on you.
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We're looking back at the music month that was, bringing you some great new releases from October. Check out tracks from the latest albums of Big Day Out head-liners; Pearl Jam & Arcade Fire. As well as new music from Katy Perry, Paul McCartney, Moby, Sleigh Bells, New Zealand's David Dallas and more. Enjoy.
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Ode to the Grocery Store1:50 PM
First, let me begin by saying that this is not really an ode. I just like the way the title sounds.
SECOND: I made a pizza last night. And I did more than just open a Red Baron box and set my oven timer for 20 minutes. Granted, I discovered that making my own pizza is really easy, especially when pizza dough and pizza sauce all comes in ready-to-use packaging. But we won't let that ruin the joy that I've acquired from my first Italian pie-making adventure, will we? I think not.
To my surprise, I found shopping for ingredients to be much more of a pain than actually cooking my (say it with me in an Italian voice) pizza pie. Granted, I did decide to run my dinner errands at Wal-Mart, but any grocer should carry green peppers. And more than one package of pepperoni.
Then, we have check-out lines. Now, I'm a proponent of self-scan aisles--in moderation. It's the point where there are six out of fifty-seven lines open, four of them self-scan, backed up into the clothing section to the point where there's a barricade across half of the store, that I start to get irritated. And, of course, no one seems to know how to ring up their own items.
So, I'm standing in line, grumbling under my breath at the old ladies and people on their cell phones who obviously have no regard for humanity because they're taking their sweet time and don't have the common decency to learn how to bag their own bread and shampoo. I'll show them how it's done when I get to the front of the line, I vow, and glide to a register when it's my turn to set a shining example of what a courteous, self-scanning-patron should look like.
Then, like a bad dream, time slows down and everything goes horribly wrong. All bar codes disappear into the folds of inferior packaging, and I wave items all over the scanner, wondering why the computer can't recognize a single thing I swipe over that red light. The electronic produce inventory doesn't know what a zucchini is, so I start pushing random vegetables on-screen so I can just be charged for something and get on with my life. Next, I wrestle with a defective batch of plastic bags as I try desperately to open just one. I mentally promise to shove everything in the same sack if I manage to conquer static electricity, then commend myself for being environmentally-friendly in the process. Fewer bags is better, right?
Meanwhile, a very loud, Russian woman is yelling into her Bluetooth headset, something about . . . eh, I don't know what it's about, because it's in Russian. This happens more often than you might think.
Then, the card swiper. It's easy enough to get used to, particularly if you've grown accustomed to regularly buying food, clothes, etc. in public places . . . you know, things to help ensure your survival. I have yet, however, to meet a card swipe machine that is exactly the same as one in another store. Signature or no signature, credit button or cancel/enter, buttons and screens and digital prompts telling you to get help from the cashier when there's clearly none around. When there is a cashier/moderator available at a self-scan, that's the time when you start to wonder: "Wouldn't this have been a lot faster if you were helping me out from the beginning?"
Miraculously, after five minutes of arguing with the computer and wondering how I actually got to the point where my receipt rolls out of the machine, I grab my things and go. No goodbye from store employees, and only a 80-percent confidence level as to whether or not I correctly paid for everything I'm leaving with. But if an automated voice thanks me and I have a lady pushing me out of the way with her cart to be next in line, I'm going to assume that I'm done. Adios, supercenter. Time to dodge all the bad parking-lot-drivers and go home.
And that . . . is how I made pizza.


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Originally posted on Celtics Town | Last updated 12/5/12
Figuring out Jeff Green is a daunting task.ŌĆ£When they put me in some box as a saint/I never was, itŌĆÖs the false prophet that never came/And well they think that everything that I written has all been fakeŌĆØ-Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, ŌĆ£Starting OverŌĆØWriting stories of any kind can be an arduous task. Whether the story is fiction, non-fiction, feature or blog, the writer is always writing for an audience. That audience is a challenge because the audience expects narrative, and the best narratives always have a resolution. Resolution doesnŌĆÖt have to have one singular emotion (not every great story has a happy ending), but we expect an ending.The problem with writing about sports, or really any ongoing true story, is that there really is no resolution. In the song that I quoted above, Macklemore raps about how difficult it is to be held up as an alcoholic who got sober. As he points out in the song, getting sober is a process and any process involves mistakes and slip-ups. It isnŌĆÖt going to go perfectly. But thatŌĆÖs not the narrative that most people want to see. What they WANT to see is Macklemore choosing to become sober and achieving that goal because it fits more neatly into their idea of how the story should end. But MacklemoreŌĆÖs story doesnŌĆÖt end. It just keeps going, and his REAL narrative keeps growing right along with it.MacklemoreŌĆÖs narrative is a good thing to keep in mind when thinking about Jeff Green and his early season play for the Celtics so far.┬ĀWe have spent a lot of time and energy analyzing Jeff Green so far this season here at Celtics Town, but considering his importance to this team and the enormous contract he signed this summer, perhaps we can be excused in doing so.And frankly, of all the confounding Celtics players, none have been more confounding than Green. After struggling out of the gate, he interspersed a few good games with his bad ones, finally lining up two consecutive good games for the first time this season on back-to-back nights against Portland and Milwaukee. So what do we make of Jeff Green? And exactly how encouraged should we be by his performance this weekend?ThereŌĆÖs no easy answer, and there might not be until the end of the season, because narrative doesnŌĆÖt resolve itself immediately. But there are positives and negatives that can perhaps help us put GreenŌĆÖs performance so far in the right context.The Positives1. His spot-up jumpers (and 3-point attempts) have been on point. Green is averaging 1.1 points per possession on spot-up opportunities, and heŌĆÖs shooting just under 50% from the field. But even more encouraging than either of these stats is GreenŌĆÖs 3-point shooting. HeŌĆÖs 8-20 for 40% from 3-point range on spot-ups which is considerably better than we were expecting from him preseason. His 3-point percentage (9-27, 33.3%) looks pretty mediocre, but that includes four half-court heaves at the end of the quarter, something most NBA players choose to pass up because (guess what?) it messes with your 3-point percentage. Take away those heaves, and he is at just under 40% for the season overall. So GreenŌĆÖs 3-point shooting has been a very pleasant surprise so far.2. He has been attacking the basket. Ever since he smashed all over Al Jefferson, Green has been attacking the basket harder. ItŌĆÖs difficult to show statistically, but Green seems to be more aggressively and more assertively, looking to finish around the rim since that dunk. IŌĆÖm playing sports psychologist here (not my area of expertise), but Green has been gradually gaining confidence as the season progresses. It seems possible that a dunk like that might have accelerated the growth in confidence quite a bit, doesnŌĆÖt it?The In-Between1. He learns from his mistakes on defense.On the first play in this video, Green badly overcommits to MillsapŌĆÖs left, allowing the versatile forward to drive to his right and score over a charging Sullinger (who once again showed his utter lack of lateral quickness). In the next play, which occurred mere minutes later, Green is faced with a similar situation, charging out after Millsap on the perimeter. But this time, he stutters his feet in time to stop directly in front of Millsap, who puts the ball on the floor and forces up a difficult runner.Is this a positive or a negative? ItŌĆÖs hard to say. One would like to say that itŌĆÖs great that Green learns from his mistakes, but one would ALSO like to say that by this point in his career, Green would have figured out not to overcommit to a Paul Millsap-type player behind the 3-point line in the first place.More Jekyll and Hyde from Green: he is susceptible to pump fakes, but he plays decent defense against driving players even though his lateral quickness is pretty limited. One of his defensive strengths is his anticipation: he does a good job of getting in the way and bumping driving players off their desired path using just his chest (the second play in the video above isnŌĆÖt a perfect illustration, but it is a good one). Then he uses his long arms to contest shots. Green doesnŌĆÖt average many blocks per game (just 0.9 per 36 minutes), but he definitely alters some perimeter attempts.2.┬ĀGreenŌĆÖs post-up opportunities.┬ĀTake away GreenŌĆÖs post-up opportunities against Portland and Milwaukee, and he is shooting just 20% in post-up opportunities for the season. Going 4-4 in post-ups against the Trail Blazers and the Bucks has certainly helped his post-up stats, but itŌĆÖs also a very small sample size, so itŌĆÖs hard to draw any kind of real conclusion from them.However, there are caveats here as well, this time positive. Although he has missed a fair amount of shots, he has looked considerably more comfortable as the year progresses, actively and aggressively calling for the ball in the post and attacking smaller defenders when he gets it. Green utilizes his length pretty well and has done a very good job of sealing his defender in front of him on several attempts this season, most notably against Milwaukee when Doron Lamb was forced to guard him on two possessions. Several times this season, he┬Āhas forced teams to use the weakside post defender to double on him and as Green gets used to absorbing a double team (and as his teammates get used to adjusting to this defensive scheme), look for his assists out of the post to go up.The Negatives1. Bad defensive rebounding. We knew Green was a mediocre rebounder before the season, but the fact that we saw it coming doesnŌĆÖt make his numbers any easier to stomach. Green has played 31% of BostonŌĆÖs minutes at small forward┬Āand 12% of BostonŌĆÖs minutes at power forward. This means that Green, as a combo forward, SHOULD be sharing some of the rebounding load. He doesnŌĆÖt. His rebound percentage, 7.8% of the available rebounds, puts him just above Rashard Lewis (7.6%) and Marvin Williams (7.7%), which is far from the company the Celtics would like him to be keeping.The worst part is that Green COULD be a good rebounder. Really, anybody with long arms, good height and a decent vertical leap (three characteristics Green possesses) could be a good rebounder with good timing and anticipation, and a solid work ethic. It would be foolish to question GreenŌĆÖs work ethic (the man had heart surgery last season), but his timing and anticipation are questionable at best. The Celtics desperately need Green to be productive as they are allowing him 21.6 minutes per game off the bench, and that production includes rebounding.3. Inconsistency. This is the obvious one. At times, Green has looked like a legitimate threat off the bench, and it has happened just frequently enough to indicate that his good performances arenŌĆÖt flukes (ask Utah, OKC, Portland and Milwaukee). On the other hand, itŌĆÖs unspeakably frustrating to have Green score 17 points against Oklahoma City on 6-11 shooting only to go 0-9 against Orlando in the very next game.The problem with analyzing basketball players is that they are people and as such, they are extremely complicated. No player figures themselves out and plays better consistently in every single game for the rest of their career. But Green has shown signs of improvement, and if he can make production like we saw against Portland and Milwaukee the norm, he will be a lot closer to being worth the enormous, potentially cumbersome contract he signed this summer.Better yet: WeŌĆÖll be one step closer to the happy resolution that everybody loves.Follow Tom on Twitter: @Tom_NBA.
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Ever since we heard Kelela on Teengirl Fantasy's Tracer cut EFX, we've been waiting for her to show off her musical chops in the solo game. Well the wait is over, because the L.A.-based singer has released her debut mixtape, Cut 4 Me, today.
The mixtape is 13 tracks that, if you've never heard Kelela before, should give you a pretty good idea of what she's capable of. Cut 4 Me has Kelela working with wavy basslines (Floor Show), vocal-driven, minimal-percussion tracks (Cherry Coffee) and stuttering seductions (Go All Night). Not only that, but it features production credits from Bok Bok, Girl Unit, Nguzunguzu, Kingdom and more. You can stream all of Cut 4 Me below, or download it here.


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SMELLIE SNIFFS THE BREEZE: Smellsianism's future
Article – BusinessDesk
Oct. 13 (BusinessDesk) – It's a mark of branding success when a business reporter's rejection of a life-time's adherence to "the free market" provokes a frisson of shock and surprise down here in what's laughingly referred to as the Wellington …
SMELLIE SNIFFS THE BREEZE: What future for Smellsianism?
By Pattrick Smellie
Oct. 13 (BusinessDesk) – It's a mark of branding success when a business reporter's rejection of a life-time's adherence to "the free market" provokes a frisson of shock and surprise down here in what's laughingly referred to as the Wellington "beltway".
The conversion of commentator Bernard Hickey to a new-found enthusiasm for currency controls, trade protectionism, restrictions on foreign direct investment, the abandonment of inflation as the sole focus of monetary policy, and various other crimes against economic orthodoxy has done just that.
Likening his road to Damascus experience to a priest who's stopped believing in God, Hickey's recent "mea culpa" for supporting the economic liberalisation of the last three decades carries a tinge of the zealot reserved for penitents in the afterglow of a baptismal dunking.
As a high priest myself of the economic cult of Smellsianism, and fearing a collective rush for the Kool-Aid, a moment's reflection on this wholesale rejection of the forces that threaten to lift billions of people in the developing world out of grinding poverty might be worthwhile.
For a start, there never has been and never was a "free market" any more than there was a free lunch. If there was either, all the American bankers who contributed to the global financial crisis would be in jail now, and New Zealand would be the richest country in the world.
For all the rhetorical love of words like "unfettered" and "cut-throat" when applied to normal commercial activity, the fact is that the economies that have succeeded best in the past 50 years are not marked so much by economic freedom as by the rule of law and stable politics.
The rule of law has, albeit imperfectly, been the process by which markets have been regulated, and the election of politicians has been the way those laws got made.
What Hickey fears now – and I agree with him on this – is that the forces unleashed by the global financial crisis could replicate the conditions that gave succour to the rise of the extremist politics that underpinned both WWII and the Cold War.
Extremes of wealth and poverty, and the destruction of wealth by the Great Depression, were a politically toxic sludge that took the world 60 years to cope with, at the cost of tens of millions of lives.
That period only ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the emergence of communist China as a would-be capitalist economy – both of which are events of the last 30 years. Since then, even with the recent Western world gorging unsustainably on debt, living standards in the West have exploded. Just ask a teenager to live without a cellphone.
And in less than 20 years, China has created so much wealth and opportunity that even ancient Central Asian cities like Kashgar – a remote backwater on the old Silk Route – are targeted for Guangzhou-style makeovers.
The result will probably be architecturally hideous and ethnically dislocating. But it will also deliver clean running water, constant electricity, rail and road connections and previously unimaginable economic opportunity for this and future generations of Kashgaris. Western tourists looking for photogenic poverty, however, will be disappointed.
In other words, the market failure that Hickey laments is a failure that has occurred only in the parts of the world that were already successful.
It's undeniable that the prospect of years of de-leveraging and low growth in the developed world is painful and worrying if you happen to live in the developed world.
To suggest, however, that it's time to retreat to the castle – or perhaps in New Zealand's case, the leaky home – is an extreme reaction.
Of course, there may be nothing wrong politically with a small, overly indebted nation with bugger-all clout in the wider world deciding to indulge in a bout of economic nationalism – as long as we're clear-eyed about that as well. If enough people want it, stable politics will make it happen.
Look at it this way: which of these two nations has been more successful economically, socially, culturally, and environmentally over the last 50 years: the United States or North Korea?
Neither has a "free market", but one is certainly freer than the other. The country that let its people find their own way, and made them responsible for their own triumphs as well as their mistakes, is unmistakably still more successful, vibrant and far less likely to come apart at the seams.
Indeed, it's only as American politics turns on itself, repeatedly paralysing administrations and forcing ever more generous and unaffordable pork-barrelling and bail-outs, that the U.S. model is threatened. As the threat rises, so the greenback falls.
Meanwhile, for all the talk of currency wars and the reluctance of China to let the yuan appreciate, the fact is that market economics is what's driving China's new wealth and, as sure as eggs, a time will come soon when China wants its currency to be strong.
After all, a strong currency lets you buy anything you want from anywhere you want, and a billion Chinese with improving living standards need a lot of stuff.
Faced with this new reality, in which the East is suddenly winning and the West is suddenly losing, the temptation is to cut off our noses to spite our faces, especially because these economic trends strike at our highly developed Western sense of cultural supremacy and entitlement.
But it's an illusion, especially in a country like New Zealand that could fall off the map and no one would notice, to suggest that constructing walls based on economic nationalism would improve economic outcomes. It might feel like shelter to some, but it would be a prison of our own making.
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Bernard Hickey, 13. October 2010, 14:49
Cheers. I'm not quite calling for a return to Muldoonism and you're right that the market never was free.
The trouble is our policymakers have acted as if it was free and set our monetary policy framework accordingly.
Now that the tide has gone out and its clear that the big investment banks driving the global capital markets were essentially corrupt and are now bankrupt people are beginning to realise that dropping your pants to the world is not a good policy.
I'm suggesting we be a bit more hard nosed about our policy around capital controls. Brazil, India, Thailand, South Korea and Ukraine have all announced capital controls or currency invterventions in recent weeks to protect themselves from the desperation of the competitive devaluations in America, Japan, China and Europe.
Things are different now. I reckon we should acknowledge that.
Here's a few suggestions that aren't too radical and are in effect already being considered.
Berend de Boer, 15. October 2010, 19:38
Sorry Bernard, "Brazil, India, Thailand, South Korea and Ukraine" are probably not the examples we want to imitate.
And "not quite calling for a return to Muldoonism"? You wrote Marx was right!
The failure happened in the most regulated part of the market and instead of letting them fail, all we got was crony capitalism: incredible amounts of taxpayers money were pumped into institutions that could have gone bankrupt without anyone much noticing.
Look at how much this has already cost NZ.
And this was not free, taxpayers were forced to pay.
In a truly free market, this would not have happened.
James, 16. October 2010, 16:41
We have never had a free market….not here in NZ or anywhere else in the world….at least not for a long time. A real "free market" is just free people interacting and trading values without the threat or actual use of force being involved….The states only role is that of rights protection by objectively running the police,law courts and a military…nothing else.There is no coercive taxation…all funding of a ( now ) far smaller,constitutionally limited state is done by voluntary donation and a user pays fee structure.
There is no drug prohibition,no laws against any kind of consentual sex or other consentual interaction and there is a total seperation of the State from the economy. Hickey maybe needs to aquaint himslef with true free market Capitalism before he commits to the long failed dogma of central planning.
Get back to me when a real free market arrives….until then we will just have to wallow on under this over governed, stagnant, mixed economy.


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DC's Holiday Wine Mall is taking place this coming weekend! A great opportunity to get all the wine gifts you need for the holidays!
DC's Holiday Wine Mall is taking place this coming weekend! A great opportunity to get all the wine gifts you need for the holidays!
While decorating Warren's tree last night with his parents, we decided to have to some nibbles and wine. Warren selected the 2009 Cabernet Franc from Gray Ghost and the 2009 Chardonnay from Chrysalis.
From the 2009 Cabernet Franc from Gray Ghost we noted a light garnet color, bramble berry and cherry on the nose, cherry and spice in the mouth, and a nice smooth finish. The 2009 Chardonnay from Chrysalis presented pear, apple and some cedar on the nose, was light and crisp with apple flavors in the mouth, and some creaminess at the end. Both paired well with light fair of cold cuts, white cheeses, baguette and crackers. The wines and nibbles were a great way to start the holiday season and made trimming Warren's tree even more fun.
After we visited Breaux Vineyards last Sunday, we headed to Sunset Hills to taste the wines. This was the first time Warren's parents have visited Sunset Hills. We were lucky to be visiting them on their two year anniversary weekend.
Sunset Hills currently only has two whites available for tasting. We were disappointed to find out so many of their wines were sold out. We were hoping to try the viognier but that just wasn't to be. However, we did taste two chardonnays. Here are my impressions:
2009 Chardonnay-peach, fruity, round mouth feel, my kind of chard, easy to drink, patio sipper, this one gets my gold star.
2009 Reserve Chardonnay-oak, butter nose, Warren's kind of chardonnay, more complex, Warren's gold star.
After the two chardonnays, we moved on to the reds. There were four to taste. Here are my notes:
2008 Cabernet Franc-raspberry nose, pepper, paired with pepperoni and cheese, more of a pizza wine, this one got my gold star for the reds.
2008 Cabernet Franc Reserve-earthy nose, dark fruit, higher percentage of cab franc, 84%, more herbal notes, mocha, Warren's gold star.
2008 Cabernet Sauvignon-herb on the nose, cherry, plum, cedar, black pepper, 9% cab franc, a little young, can lay down a few years.
2008 Petit Verdot – 25% cab sauv, chocolate nose, medium bodied (the tasting notes say this is a monster red), blueberry, cherry, earthy qualities.
After our tasting we selected the 2008 Cabernet Franc to have with some lunch items. We chose several items from the Lite Fare menu to have for lunch with the cab franc. Before leaving we saw this wonderful sunset. It certainly explains the name of the winery. How lucky we were to see it! Next time you find yourself visiting Sunset Hills, tell them Virginia Wine Time sent you!
Happy Thanksgiving! Today Warren made the thanksgiving meal for me, my mom, and his parents. Everything was delicious of course and we had a wonderful time visiting with everyone. Normally we would post about what wines to serve for Thanksgiving. This time however, we're posting after the fact and posting about the wines we did have for Thanksgiving. It was mostly a Gray Ghost Thanksgiving this year.
We began with a butternut squash soup and had the 2009 Gewurztraminer from Gray Ghost. After the soup Warren served a harvest salad with the 2008 Barrel Fermented Chardonnay from Fox Meadow. The main course consisted of turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cornbread dressing, cranberry sauces (both kinds), green beans, and cornbread. We had the 2009 Cabernet Franc from Gray Ghost. For desert we had Warren's mother's pecan pie and the 2009 Adieu from Gray Ghost. All the wines paired perfectly with the meal. What Virginia wines did you have for Thanksgiving?
Warren's parents are in town for Thanksgiving so we decided to take them to a few wineries in Loudoun County on Sunday. I also needed to pick up my Cellar Club selection at Breaux Vineyards so we stopped there first. We always have a great time at Breaux. Our favorite tasting associates Bruce and Silvia, were at the tasting bar and Bruce conducted our tasting. We also ran into our wine friends Susan and Stacy.
Since we visit Breaux on a regular basis there usually isn't anything new for us to taste but this time there was a new cab franc and several barrel samples to try. After sampling all the regulars, we go to the 2006 Marquis De Lafayette. It was released about two months ago. It's 100% Cabernet Franc and we noted dark plums, raspberry, pepper, and spice. It has a smooth ending as well. We thought this one would be perfect with turkey on Thanksgiving. While at the tasting bar we were also able to taste the 2009 Viognier. We really enjoyed the floral and honeysuckle notes on this one. There is so little left that it's not even on the tasting menu. If you want a bottle you need to get to the tasting room soon. The 2009 Viognier received one of our gold stars!
After our regular tasting we moved on to the barrel samples. We were able to taste samples of the 2008 cab franc, the 2008 malbec, the 2008 syrah, the 2008 petit verdot, and the 2007 nebbiolo. We're not sure if these barrels will be blended to make other wines or if they will become stand alone wines. It's too early to tell. However, we did enjoy the 2008 cab franc. It's really fruity right now with hints of jam and spice. We think this one will turn out to be really nice. We decided to award a good star to this one. We look forward to tasting it in the bottle.
After tasting all the wonderful wines and chatting it up with Bruce and Silvia and Susan and Stacy, Warren opted to enjoy a glass of the 2008 Barrel Select Chardonnay and his dad selected the 2004 Merlot to enjoy on the patio. If you stop at Breaux anytime soon, tell them Virginia Wine Time sent you!
Virginia Wine Bloggers Unite to Promote DC's Wine Country – the Wines of Loudoun County
Virginia wine bloggers – Frank from DrinkWhatYouLike.com, Va Wine Diva & Grape Envy Guy from SwirlSipSnark.com, and Paul & Warren from VirginiaWineTime.com – along with the Virginia Wine Board and Loudoun County wineries will host the first ever TasteLive! event dedicated to showcasing the wines of Loudoun County, VA.
TasteLive! is the world's premiere online wine and beer tasting community that leverages the increasingly powerful social media tools of Twitter, Facebook, Posterous, and other services to create a community that brings together consumers, bloggers, press, suppliers, and winemakers from across the world to taste and discuss wine virtually.
On Thursday, December 9, the wines of Loudoun County will take center stage in a TasteLive! virtual wine tasting dedicated to showcasing the wines of DC's Wine Country – Loudoun County. Wine bloggers and wine enthusiasts throughout the US will come together online at 8pm Eastern Time to taste & tweet about the wines of Loudoun County. This event will serve as an introduction to Virginia wine for several participants and is a prelude to the 2011 Wine Bloggers Conference which will be held in Charlottesville, VA in July.
Located just 25 miles from Washington, DC, Loudoun County – referred to as DC's Wine Country – is home to 27 wineries and tasting rooms organized into four clusters sprinkled throughout bucolic countryside.
This tasting features wines from five different Loudoun County wineries, and winemakers from each will be joining in the virtual discussion. The five featured Loudoun wineries and wines are:
Notaviva Vineyards
2009 Ottantotto Viognier
Part of the Loudoun Heights cluster, Notaviva Vineyards is one of Loudoun's newest wineries. Husband and wife team Stephen and Shannon Mackey were brought together by their love of music, which is expressed further through their wines. Notaviva is from the Italian nota – music note and viva – with life. In keeping with their love of music and wine, each Notaviva flagship wine is named after musical terms to represent the emotions they inspire.
Follow Notaviva on Twitter: @Notaviva
Tarara Winery
2009 Nevaeh White
Part of the Potomac wine cluster, Tarara Winery is a terroir-driven winery crafting artisanal, hand crafted wines to best showcase their vineyards through single vineyard blends capturing the essence of the unique sites and classic varietals around Virginia.
Follow Tarara on Twitter: @TararaWinery
Breaux Vineyards
2007 Cabernet Franc Reserve
Part of the Loudoun Heights cluster, Breaux Vineyards overlooks the beautiful valley between the Blue Ridge and Short Hill Mountains. The 404-acre Breaux estate has over 100 acres planted in 18 different grape varieties. Be sure to check out the Breaux Vineyards introduction video at VisitLoudoun.org.
Follow Breaux Vineyards on Twitter: @BreauxVineyards
8 Chains North
2008 Furnace Mountain Red Reserve
8 Chains North Winery, located in Waterford, Virginia, showcases handcrafted wines made from Loudoun County grapes. 'At 8 Chains North we spend 8 intense months in our vineyards on the Potomac River and in the Short Hill Mountains of Loudoun County, allowing us to draw out the very best of every vintage.'
Follow 8 Chains North on Twitter: @8ChainsNorth
North Gate Vineyard
2008 Petit Verdot
North Gate Vineyard is situated in on approximately 26 acres in the northwest part of Loudoun County, Virginia. Nestled against the eastern base of the Short Hill mountains (foothills to the Blue Ridge), North Gate Vineyard produces high quality wine grapes for its own set of wines as well as other wineries in Virginia. Husband and wife team Mark and Vicki Fedor have been growing grapes since 2002 and have been part of the winemaking scene in Loudoun since 2003.
Follow North Gate on Twitter: @NorthGateWines
We're sure many of you are fans of Loudoun County wine, these wineries, and even these specific wines, so we hope that you'll join us for this tasting. A major benefit of a virtual wine tasting is that everyone can become a participant.
You can tweet along (or follow the tweet stream if you're shy). You can do this by logging into the TasteLive! Platform or following the twitter stream for the hashtag #vawine through your favorite twitter platform (e.g., TweetDeck). If you don't tweet, you can also follow the twitter stream by searching on the hashtag #vawine from the twitter home page since you do not need to have a twitter account to look at tweets.
Please join us; this would be a great time to gather your wine friends and celebrate the wines of Loudoun County. After all, how often do you have the opportunity to chat about wines with both the winemakers and some of your favorite bloggers all at the same time?
To help celebrate the news from earlier this week we are having some bubbles from Afton Mountain Vineyards. Yum!
Our last spate of winery visits found us at Fox Meadow Vineyards. We realized that our previous visit was sometime in the late fall or early winter of last year, so we were well over due for a tasting. With taste buds at the ready, we made our way to the tasting room to sample the latest pours at Fox Meadow Vineyards.
Fox Meadow Vineyards was quite abuzz with activity upon our arrival on a Saturday afternoon. I'm sure the seasonal temperatures, colors and nice wines had something to do with it. Of the white wines that we sampled, Paul favored the 2008 Oak Chardonnay aged for ten months in both French and American oak barrels. He appreciated the fruity nose with pear and pineapple notes with some honeysuckle to boot; pear flavors and a toasty finish made for a classic Chardonnay. My own favorite was the sneak sample of the yet-to-be released Reserve Chardonnay which was aged for 20 months in French oak barrels. This heavier-bodied Chardonnay exhibited fruit characteristics of pear and roasted pineapple with a toasted nut finish and a creamy mouth feel. Spicier foods might pair well with the Freezeland white, a sweeter, fruity wine; of course, we think of our friend Michael Tyler when we sample these wines, and we dutifully place the initials, MT, next to this selection.
Of the red wines, the unanimous favorite was the 2007 Renard Rouge. A complex meritage-style blend, it presented brambleberries and plums on the nose with additional earthy and spicy elements. Nice tannins make for a food-friendly wine if steaks are on the menu. The 2007 Renard Rouge won gold at the Governor's Cup, and it is an example of the excellent reds that constitute the class of '07 in Virginia. Those who are in search of a lighter-bodied red may prefer the 2007 Cabernet Franc with its raspberry and spice characteristics.
With our tasting completed. we shared a glass of the 2008 Oak Chardonnay while out on the deck to enjoy a nice fall afternoon. We plan to return to Fox Meadow, but readers may want to visit even sooner. Be sure to mention that Virginia Wine Time sent you.
Hurray for Virginia Wine Time!! Paul and I just learned that we will be awarded a Certificate of Accomplishment from Virginia's First Lady, Maureen McDonnell. We will receive this official recognition at an award's luncheon on December 2, 2010.
We'll take this opportunity to pat ourselves on the back. Our mission has always been to promote the Virginia wine industry, and our original philosophy was that every winery makes at least one good bottle of wine. Five years later, we can report that many Virginia wineries produce more that one good bottle of wine, and several wineries now craft excellent wines across the board.
We've had a blast visiting at least 113 wineries, and along the way we've met passionate winemakers, vineyard managers, bloggers, and tasters. This award acknowledges that our efforts have been productive, and we plan to keep sipping and writing away!
Planning to visit Virginia wineries any time soon? Please mention that the award-winning Virginia Wine Time sent you!
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once again, with full interest, i am reading your awesome travel diary..
just one thing i would like to correct in this entry is: at the time of the crusades, anatolia was mainly under control of suljuks of rum, (anadolu selcuklulari diyoz ya hani) with a significantly minor area reigned by greeks to the west..
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Took a bus from the main station to Homs. Took 2 hours as opposed to the 3 that Lonely Planet had suggested. The bus system in Syria is exactly the same as that in Turkey. The buses and the stations are of the same high quality. I paid 150 Syrian pounds for the ride.
Because today is Saturday, there was no bus ride to Crac des Chevaliers, a medieval castle between Homs and Lattakia. Therefore, I had to make a deal with a cab driver. He took me there in 1 hour, waited for 3 and brought me to my hotel for 1,800 Syrian pounds, with tips. I should have told him that tips were included in the 1,650 that we had agreed on
Syria has some stunning fortresses. Although they were built around the same time (11th Century) Chevaliers was even more impressive that the Citadel of Aleppo. There was a whole medieval city inside it. I spent quite a bit of time on top of the command tower imagining that I was the ruler of all the visible lands.
Why doesn't Turkey have such fortresses? I guess the main dfifference is having been subject to the Crusades. Modern-day Turkey was under Byzantine rule at the time. In addition, the main target of the Crusades was this region, not Anatolia.
Had lunch at Restaurant des Chevaliers right across from the main entrance. Chicken, fries, salad and Lebanese beer were all good. 350 Syrian pounds.
Moved into a non-Lonely Planet hotel. Can't even remember the name. It is more spacious than my room in al-Salam and the toilet has a seat. A rip off: 1,000 pounds.
Walked around Homs in the second part of the day. It seems to be cleaner and better organized than Aleppo. The city doesnt't feel like a labyrinth at all.
I walked into the most luxurious internet cafe ever. Face the museum; take the road to its right and keep walking for 5 minutes. It will be on your right.
The average car on the streets of Aleppo and Homs is newer than that in Tehran.
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framing for drywall
Just a 2 by 4 framing question. I'm building a closet downstaits with an existing wall. Where I am placing the closet, the existing wall depth is already about 18 inches deep. Short version is I have to add a wall section that will come straight out about 1 foot ending at a corner then go right about 1 foot where the closet door would start. It seems to me these two 1 foor walls are going to take alot of 2 by 4's. I need to triple up the 2 by 4 on one corner so I can attached the drywall on the inside later properly.
It seems to me I'm going to have alot of 2 by 4's for two short sections of wall?
Yep, there are no real shortcuts when you need to do it right the first time. I spent a lot of time looking at new homes under construction to get a grasp of what worked and how to do it correctly. Anything less and you are just asking for problems down the road. You can put three short 2x4s between two full length studs to get the right spacing for inside and outside corners.
I do want to do it right the first time. I've gotten very picky doing jobs around the house. never thought of the idea of using short 2by 4's to get the spacing right.
Good use for the short ends.
I more question. Living in the great white north, the wood I'll be buying would of been kept outside. Would I be better off leaving the wood outside and only bringing it inside when I want to cut and install. I have concerns it might warp when its thawing out
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Here are the two standard ways of doing that.
The smaller one (left) is for corners and for free-standing wall endings (to keep them rigid).
The larger one (right) is for "T" intersections of walls.
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As builders get cheaper and cheaper, and try to squeeze every dime and every minute of production till they squeak, many walls now get built like this......
The intersecting plates are held short the distance (thickness) of the drywall... and the final stud is left out till the main wall is drywalled (only shown partially drywalled here for clarity)... then that last stud is screwed into place from the back side of the drywall.
A royal PITA to me, but some guys are actually doing this sort of thing everywhere they can figure out how to install one or two less studs.
yeah and the trim guy is screaming
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It's nothing more than an old metal stud framing trick. But it should never be done with wood.
Also, a great number of framers are now making the corners like I showed in the first drawing as simply two studs nailed together, lengthwise, in an "L" shape. No blocks to install, but it barely gives you 3/4" of nailer on each side of the wall if you get DOUBLY cheap and try to use the same technique on "T" intersections. And some guys do, I'm sure.
The "L" shape is shown below. That blue stud is installed in the normal position... you just can't see it in this view.
Heres a picture of my closet in progress. It is already 16 inches deep. Its a supporting wall in the basement/ I have to add about 12 inches so I will extend the wall out. Of course I'll remove 3 1/2 inches of drywall and add a 12 inch wall out.
As for bringing in the wood from the cold, yes, I would.
If it's gonna warp, twist or bow then it's better to do it before you frame with it. Use what's straight otherwise you could see cracks and nail pops later. Do it right the first time. :yes:
Good Luck :thumbsup:
Just a followup guys. Didn't know the 2 by 4's were so cheap. I didn't use any short cuts, I ended up nailing three together on one side for the corner. And on the other side I used a extra 2 by 4. Its alot easier to install a extra one now before the drywall is isntalled rather then after. (grin)
I have the drywall up and just gave the first coat of primer tonight, looks great.
Thanks for the help
I hope its not for clothes on hangers
You need 24" for that
Oh yeah, 2x4's are nicely priced because they're used so often.
Glad it worked out for you. Just like a little pinprick - not too bad.
wire is good for clothes because of air circulation. I like it in clothes closets
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Discussion in 'Lifted & Offroad Suspension' started by al96chev, Feb 12, 2010.
96 k1500 pickup...
36.5x14 tires on 15x10 wheels with a 6.5" dick cepek lift?
Your thread title,
That's what she said!!!!
I'm sorry man, I know. I don't even have an answer for you, lol.
DAMN i was totally gonna post the same thing!
:neutral: great responses guys
i dont know about the dick stuff... LOL
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